He was a former member of the Whitehead Institute, and the founding director of the Broad Institute. He was co-chair of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is a 1987 MacArthur Fellow.
On January 15, 2021 Lander was nominated to be Director of Office of Science and Technology Policy by then President-elect Joe Biden. Biden also upgraded the office to cabinet-level office. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 28, 2021.
Carlos Armando Biebrich
Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres (19 November 1939 – 14 January 2021) was a Mexican lawyer and politician. He was a member the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Sonora from 1973 to 1975. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1967 to 1970.
Armando Biebrich died on 14 January 2021 in Hermosillo, Sonora from COVID-19 at the age of 81.
Cliff Burvill
Cliff Burvill (26 March 1937 – 14 January 2021) was an Australian cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales.
Burvill died on 14 January 2021 after a fall at a bicycle track in Byron Bay, New South Wales at the age of 83.
Boris Grachevsky
Boris Grachevsky (Russian: "Борис Юрьевич Грачевский"; March 18, 1949 – January 14, 2021) was a Russian movie director, screenwriter, and actor. He was artistic director of the children's television show and magazine "Yeralash". Grachevsky was born in Moscow, Russia.
Grachevsky died on January 14, 2021 in Moscow from COVID-19, aged 71.
Melanio Asensio
Melanio Asensio Montes (18 May 1936 – 15 January 2021) was a Spanish sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Asensio was born in Bimenes, Spain.
Asensio died on 15 January 2021 at the age of 84.
Vicente Cantatore
Vicente Cantatore (6 October 1935 – 15 January 2021) was an Argentine-Chilean football player and manager. He was born in Rosario, Argentina. His playing career lasted from 1955 to 1970. His managing career lasted from 1980 to 2001.
He played for Talleres de Córdoba, Tigre, San Lorenzo, Rangers de Talca, Santiago Wanderers and Deportes Concepción.
He managed the Chilean national team, Real Valladolid and Sevilla.
Cantatore died on 15 January 2021 in Valladolid, Spain at the age of 85.
Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead
Michael Norman Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead (9 October 1920 – January 2021) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1960 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1992. He was a member of the National Liberal, before becoming a Conservative. He was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
From 1973 to 1979, he was a Member of the European Parliament.
Shaw turned 100 in October 2020. He died three months later in January 2021.
Siegfried Pank
Siegfried Pank (born 24 March 1936) is a German cellist and viol player. He was a member of the Gewandhausorchester in Leipzig from 1962 to 1980. He also performed with the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum.
He lectured cello and viol at the Musikhochschule Leipzig from 1984, as professor from 1988 to 2001. He helped start the International Telemann Association in 1991.
Plank was born in Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt.
Key Largo
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PogChamp
PogChamp is an emote that is used on the streaming platform Twitch. It is used to express excitement, joy or shock. The image shows the streamer Ryan "Gootecks" Gutierrez with a surprised expression. The original emoticon originates from a video that was uploaded to YouTube on November 26, 2010, which shows behind-the-scenes recordings that were posted on Gutierrez's YouTube channel "Cross Counter TV" The PogChamp emote was added to Twitch's list of global emotes starting from 2012. However, the original emote was later removed by Twitch in January 2021, after Gutierrez posted on his Twitter page about supporting the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. Since January 8, 2021, a different person is shown as the face of PogChamp every 24 hours.
Since February 12, 2021, the original KomodoHype emote now replaces the PogChamp emote. This now means that there are now two duplicated versions of the KomodoHype emote.
Alexis Kennedy
Alexis Kennedy (born 1972) is a British video game developer and writer. He makes independent or 'indie' games. This means his games are not made by big companies, but small groups of people. He made the small games company Failbetter Games in 2009, and was its CEO until 2016. In 2017, he made a new company called Weather Factory. Kennedy's games are known for being different to most video games. He refers to them as "weird" and "experimental", meaning they have new ideas and work differently to other games.
In 2009, Kennedy made a game called "Fallen London". "Fallen London" is set in a world where Victorian England was different to the real world. In the game, the city of London was taken down under the ground by strange bats and put in an underground world called the Neath, where it is always nighttime. "Fallen London" has been called a horror game. It has also been compared to Romanticism, a style of art from the 19th century about feelings, imagination, and freedom.
"Fallen London" is a browser game. This means people play it in their web browser, rather than downloading it on their computer or buying it from a store. In 2009, browser games were very popular. Many people played them on Facebook. In 2020, in a quote from his book "Sex, Lies, and Videogames" (which was not yet published), Kennedy said the game was meant to be a different kind of game like them. He wanted to do something different, but still be a browser game.
Many people liked "Fallen London". Gaming journalists, people whose job it is to write about video games, gave it good reviews. Some of them liked it so much they gave it awards.
Because so many people liked "Fallen London", Kennedy and his company Failbetter Games decided to make a new game set in the Neath. The new game would be a normal video game that people download or buy from stores, not a browser game. The game, "Sunless Sea", came out in 2015.
"Sunless Sea" is set in the Unterzee, the name for the ocean in the Neath. The player plays a sea captain who sails (called 'zailing' in the game) the Unterzee. They might 'zail' to make money, to become famous, or for more personal reasons, such as in memory of their dead father. "Sunless Sea" is a computer role-playing game, but it also has some parts from other kinds of games. For instance, it has the roguelike traits that you need to make a new character if you die, and you need to keep track of your food and fuel.
Like "Fallen London", "Sunless Sea" was very well liked. It got the last ever perfect 10/10 rating from the video game magazine "Eurogamer". It also sold many copies. In 2018, Kennedy said it had sold 350,000 copies.
In 2016, Kennedy decided to leave Failbetter Games, the company he made "Fallen London" and "Sunless Sea" with. He made a new company, Weather Factory, to make new games. These games were not set in the Neath. However, they still had a lot in common with his old games.
The first game Weather Factory made was called "Cultist Simulator". It came out in 2018. The player character in "Cultist Simulator" is someone who studies the occult, which is secret spiritual ideas about the way the world works. They want to make a cult of followers who can help them become more powerful. They need to do this while making sure they do not die, go to prison, or go insane.