Amnesty launches human rights learning app to equip next generation of activists - World - ReliefWeb

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Amnesty International has launched Amnesty Academy, a free human rights learning app which aims to educate the next generation of human rights defenders on a host of topics including freedom of expression, digital security, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Learners around the world will be able to access courses ranging from 15 minutes to 15 hours in over 20 languages, including Urdu, Bangla, Hungarian, Korean, Russian, Thai, Czech and Turkish. All courses can be downloaded within the app, which is available on iOS and Android devices, allowing for offline learning.

“This app has been designed to empower and encourage everyone everywhere to learn about human rights. Sharing knowledge is a vital way to help us stand up for our own and for each other’s rights, and to struggle for justice and equality all over the world,” said Julie Verhaar, Amnesty International’s Acting Secretary General.

Among Amnesty Academy’s key features is a flexible self-paced approach to learning, allowing users to start courses as and when it suits them. Learners who complete some of the longer courses will be awarded an official certificate signed by Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

The courses available on Amnesty Academy have been developed and fine-tuned over the past three years as part of Amnesty International’s human rights learning website. They have now been optimized for mobile use, making human rights learning more accessible than ever.

“Human rights education is the foundation of Amnesty’s work. Our overall goal is to ensure that people worldwide know and can claim their human rights. The Amnesty Academy app brings us closer to this goal by providing a simple and accessible platform for millions of people to access quality human rights education,” said Krittika Vishwanath, Head of Human Rights Education at Amnesty International.

Amnesty Academy will be regularly updated to accommodate learning in many more languages and with new course offerings in the months and years to come.

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Anoka baker Maddie Carlos to appear on Food Network baking competition - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Fans of baking competitions won’t be surprised to see Maddie Carlos of Anoka on Sunday’s season premiere of “Holiday Wars.” It’s her fifth appearance on the Food Network in as many years.

Neither will fans of her popular Coon Rapids bakery, Something Sweet by Maddie Lu, where she’s been baking custom cakes, cupcakes and macarons since 2015. (Her second location, Macarons by Maddie Lu, opened at the Mall of America in 2017.)

We caught up with Carlos before the “Holiday Wars” premiere to talk about the show and what’s she baking up next.

Her Food Network résumé: For her first appearance, on “Holiday Baking Championship” in 2016, producers approached Carlos after seeing her work on an Instagram post. The show aired just months after her bakery opened. Since then, she’s been on “Santa’s Big Baking Blizzard” and won “The Big Bake” and “Winner Cake All” competitions.

The “Holiday Wars” setup: Carlos is part of a team of four, three cake artists and a sugar/chocolate professional, that was selected by the network. “We only had a couple of days to really get to know our teammates and our skill sets,” she said. The sugar/chocolate artist came on board last — “That was a little stressful.”

Christmas in August: “Holiday Wars” was filmed in August, and the pace was quicker than most shows because of the pandemic, Carlos said. “It was a quick turnaround, but everything was prolonged because of the pandemic and safety precautions.”

Quick thinking: “Everything happens really fast,” she said. The theme for the first episode was Holiday Parade; contestants had to create a holiday scene and bring it to life — in cake form. “It’s hard to do because you have a vision and want to stay on the right track,” Carlos said. “The thing I’m asked the most is ‘When the clock says X amount of time, is it really that much time?’ Yes. When they say go, it means go.”

Competition advantages: Although she’s never filmed in the same spot twice, Carlos said her previous experience does give her an edge. “I have a better idea of how fast the time goes, and have learned to not bite off more than you can chew,” she said. “You always want to do the best you can do, of course, but it’s easy to lose track of time.”

Good for business: “The Food Network shows impact your business whether you do well or not,” Carlos said. The show draws in customers — she gets a lot of “Oh, I saw you on the Food Network show!” comments — but her favorite part is the kids. “When little kids come in to meet me they think I’m this TV star, but I really don’t see it that way,” she said.

The COVID effect: Carlos has always banked on corporate events and weddings, but like many businesses switched gears during the pandemic. “I really pushed my social media to its limits,” she said. She had to lay off most of her staff at the Coon Rapids location — “For awhile it was just me and my mom,” she said — but things are now getting back to normal. She also started offering cookie decorating kits and hot chocolate bombs. She also has something you can’t bake: community support. “There’s no way they’re going to let anything happened to us,” she said.

Bestsellers: The hot chocolate bombs ($5) have been a hit, and sales of cupcakes and macarons have remained strong.

Speaking of macarons: “People come from far and wide to get those macarons,” Carlos said. Last week alone she made 16,000 of them.

What’s next: This week Carlos will open a pop-up at Miller Hill Mall in Duluth, where she’ll sell cupcakes, macarons and hot chocolate bombs.

To watch: The second season of “Holiday Wars” airs Sundays at 7 p.m. on the Food Network.

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Dr. Scott Atlas, White House Coronavirus Task Force adviser, apologizes for interview with Russian propaganda network - CNN

In his apology, Atlas claimed he was unaware RT was a registered foreign agent.

RT is owned by Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti and subsidiary RT America is registered with the US Justice Department as an agent of the Russian government. The Kremlin uses RT to spread English-language propaganda to American audiences, and was part of Russia's election meddling in 2016, according to a 2017 report from the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Twitter labeled a video from the Russian-state controlled broadcaster RT as election misinformation on Thursday. YouTube videos posted by RT carry the disclaimer: "RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government."

Earlier this year, an internal intelligence bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security said Russia was amplifying disinformation about mail-in voting as part of a broader effort "to undermine public trust in the electoral process."

In its filing to register as a foreign agent, RT's production company in the United States said its role is to "inform, not influence" and "are not aimed to primarily benefit any foreign government or political party."

A senior White House official told CNN Sunday that Atlas did not have clearance from the Trump administration for his interview with RT. The official said Atlas "did it on his own without approval by the White House." Senior aides raised concerns internally after Atlas appeared on RT, the source said. RT said the interview was done from the White House property.

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In the 27-minute interview on Saturday, Atlas made a series of dubious claims. For example, Atlas misrepresented the effectiveness of masks, suggested that lockdowns kill people and discouraged testing of asymptomatic people. He also dismissed forecasts from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine that forecasts 399,000 coronavirus deaths in the US by February 1 under current conditions.

"The IHME model is really sort -- it's absurd to start looking at this model at this point," Atlas said. "At this point in time anybody who's even focusing on models has not learned from the past."

In July, the IHME model predicted 208,255 Americans would have died from coronavirus by Nov. 1. In fact, according to Johns Hopkins University, 230,566 people have died as of Nov. 1.

Atlas is a radiologist and who has no expertise in infectious diseases or epidemiology.

Atlas' history of controversy

In October, Twitter removed a tweet from Atlas that sought to undermine the importance of wearing a face mask, because Atlas' tweet was in violation of the its Covid-19 Misleading Information Policy, a spokesman for the company told CNN. The tweet said, "Masks work? NO" followed by a series of falsehoods about the science behind the effectiveness of masks in combating the pandemic.

He also encouraged officials to limit Covid-19 testing mainly to people experiencing symptoms. And on August 31, Atlas and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urged public health officials in several Florida cities to focus less on universal testing and more on opening the economy and schools.

Trump has relied on Atlas for advice on handling the coronavirus. But Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's leading infectious disease expert, has criticized Atlas, a neuroradiologist and Trump's hand-picked coronavirus adviser, for his lack of expertise.

"I have real problems with that guy," Fauci said in an interview with the Washington Post Friday. "He's a smart guy who's talking about things that I believe he doesn't have any real insight or knowledge or experience in. He keeps talking about things that when you dissect it out and parse it out, it doesn't make any sense."

Atlas responded to Fauci on Twitter, tweeting on Saturday night: #Insecurity #EmbarrassingHimself #Exposed #CantThrowABall #NoTimeForPolitics.

-- CNN's Jim Acosta contributed to this report.

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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Will Let You Equip the Spider-Verse Suit’s Animation to Other Suits as Well - GamingBolt

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Insomniac and Sony recently unveiled an obvious match made in heaven when they confirmed that the Spidey suit from the excellent film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse would be available in the upcoming game, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. 

One of the best things about the suit that has caught the eye of many is how Insomniac have adopted the animation style of the movie, animating the suit on the 2s to achieve a lower frame rate for the suit itself than the rest of the game. The developer has now also confirmed that the same animation style can be equipped to every other suit in the game as well- or if you don’t fancy it and just want to use the suit without the animation style, you can simply unequip it as well.

Recently, extensive gameplay footage showing combat and swinging with the suit was recently released- check it out through here.

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales is out for the PS5 and PS4 on November 12. Its reviews will reportedly begin going live on November 6.

Recently, a leak showed the incredibly fast loading times of the game. Check it out through here.

The Vibe the Verse suit mod allows you to mimic the frequency of another Earth (ie animate on the 2s), and you can unequip it, or equip it to the other suits in the game as well! https://t.co/EjcNfx9XLx

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Networks line up election law experts for vote coverage - Federal News Network

NEW YORK (AP) — Television networks are adding experts in election law to their election night coverage teams so they’re prepared to explain legal challenges or irregularities that may come up during the vote.

Veteran attorney Ben Ginsberg, who represented George W. Bush when the 2000 presidential race was decided in the Supreme Court, has joined CNN for this purpose. CBS News hired David Becker, founder of the Center for Election Innovation & Research.

ABC and NBC have made similar arrangements, although some of those experts will have more offscreen roles.

“If the country is going to war, you want an admiral or general to help you figure out what is going on,” said David Bohrman, executive producer of CBS’ coverage.

Becker, former director of the elections program at Pew Charitable Trusts who also worked in the Justice Department, said he sees the CBS role as an extension of his efforts to educate the public about voting issues.

Becker said it’s inevitable there will be Election Day incidents such as polling sites where technology breaks down or people who try to intimidate voters, but he expects these will be isolated and it will be his job to explain that.

“This is going to be the most secure election that we’ve ever had,” he said.

A flurry of court decisions during the week before Tuesday’s election on challenges to rules in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina on how long votes can be counted, with the expectation of more to come, illustrates the need for expertise.

Besides Ginsberg, New York University constitutional law professor Richard Pildes is also doing work for CNN. He appeared on the network last week to discuss the ruling barring Wisconsin from counting ballots that arrive after Election Day.

Pildes, who said he has been encouraging people to vote in person wherever possible, said he worried about an “explosive situation” if days drag on without a winner being declared in the presidential race.

“It will be better if we can get a result sooner rather than later,” he said. “I think everyone recognizes that.”

NBC News has hired a firm that specializes in election law for advice and to provide lawyers who can appear on the air if they need to, said division president Noah Oppenheim. Like many news organizations, NBC assembled a team that has been specifically covering election integrity issues, with investigative reporter Cynthia McFadden playing a big role.

“It’s not an expertise that we have had to build from scratch, but we certainly are focused on it this cycle,” Oppenheim said.

The ABC News experts will work offscreen to brief network correspondents and anchors on the issue. Marc Burstein, the network’s top elections producer, said ABC believes it’s best for viewers to see faces they’re familiar with.

Fox News is relying on its in-house team of legal analysts, said Alan Komissaroff, senior vice president of news and politics.

“We would be negligent if we didn’t have someone with the expertise available to us if we need it,” Bohrman said.

To a certain extent, CBS’ Becker see bolstering public confidence in the nation’s elections system as part of his job. He said he knows many elections officials across the country and that “by and large, these are people that want as many people to vote with confidence and security as possible.”

He said he doubts Russia or any other nation has the ability to disrupt the nation’s voting systems to any large degree because there will be a paper trail for nearly 95 percent of the votes that are cast.

He’s more concerned about the spread of disinformation sowing doubt about the election.

“No matter what happens, a portion of the public will not believe in the result,” Becker said. “Part of our job is to make sure that this portion of the population is as small as possible.”

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Statewide network a game-changer for drones in North Dakota - Grand Forks Herald

It’s a network of infrastructure that will bring about the age of operating unmanned aerial vehicles beyond the visual line of sight, long considered to be the crucial next step in UAS development and commercialization. The network will first be rolled out in Williams and McKenzie counties, in the western part of the state, and routine flight operations are set to happen in the spring. Flom made the announcement while attending the virtual UAS Summit held on Wednesday and Thursday.

“Vantis marks a new phase in technology and development,” Flom said. “No other state has devoted the resources North Dakota has to create this infrastructure – basically an interstate road system for UAS – to open up unlimited applications. Every aspect of it is truly first of its kind. People will want to take advantage of the unprecedented opportunities it allows.”

The network comes about from a $33 million funding package passed by the Legislature in 2018. Of that, $28 million is for remote infrastructure -- sensors and command and control radios -- and the data network to link the system together. Another $3 million is for a mission and network operation center at the Grand Sky UAS business park west of Grand Forks. From there, the entire network, those two western counties at first, can be monitored to make sure each component is functioning. The remainder of the funding is for the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, for further network development and support.

When Vantis is operational, multiple users will be able to log on and send their drones on remote missions. It will be available for commercial use, such as retail deliveries, but the state will be able to make use of it as well, for road inspections, search and rescue and law enforcement operations. Near-term commercial uses include inspecting utility and oil and gas lines, which is one reason why the network will be rolled out in the western heart of the state, in the oil patch.

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Without Vantis, companies wanting to fly BVLOS would need to install a network of towers, radars and sensors, making it unaffordable. It’s a situation Flom likens to first having to build a road to reach an existing destination.

“There is no such thing as infrastructure in place for UAS,” Flom told the Herald. “The main value of all this is one network, one set of infrastructure. The state of North Dakota is making this large investment, and then others will be able to use it, just like what we do on a road, just like what we do on manned aviation, we all end up at the same airports.”

Aviation infrastructure companies L3Harris Technologies and Thales USA have been selected to build out key site infrastructure in Williams and McKenzie counties, and Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies Company, will provide systems engineering and integrations services, as well. But that doesn’t mean new control towers will pop up in those counties, and then across the state. Flom said he wants to mount the equipment on towers owned by the North Dakota Department of Transportation and other vertical structures.

“I don't want to build anything new, there's enough towers already around the state,” he said.

After a period of testing and monitoring for safety and scalability, Vantis will expand, but it won’t radiate out from its western starting point. Pockets of the network will appear throughout the state before, ultimately, covering it.

“We're going to go where the users are,” he said.

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