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69-644: As of 2021, the Rubicon Research Repository is no longer available online. In 2002, divers Brian Armstrong , Gene Hobbs , and James Wagner formed the first board of directors for the Rubicon Foundation. The Rubicon Research Repository ( RRR ) was the foundation's premier project that started in 2006. The RRR was an online database of environmental physiology reports, including both hyperbaric and hypobaric medicine, as well as other environmental physiology topics. As of 2021

138-492: A Canadian version of H2 soon after. On October 21, 2014, Corus Entertainment reached an agreement to acquire Canadian French -language rights to History programming for its own channel, Historia . On March 9, 2015, the network was relaunched under History's logo and branding, although the network still carries the Historia name. Historia was previously owned as a joint venture between Shaw and Astral Media , which made it

207-409: A human resources concentration. While in college, Hobbs began volunteering at the F.G. Hall Hyperbaric Laboratory at Duke University Medical Center. Hobbs became a Certified Hyperbaric Technologist in 1997. He was awarded credentials as a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator in 2015. Hobbs earned an MBA with a concentration in healthcare from Fayetteville State University in 2020. Hobbs

276-562: A "Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites" list. In 2017, a History Channel documentary, Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence , proposed that a photograph in the National Archives of Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands was actually a picture of a captured Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan . The picture showed a Caucasian male on a dock who appeared to look like Noonan and a woman sitting on the dock, but facing away from

345-538: A course for UNC undergraduate students to participate in simulation activities throughout the health system. Hobbs authored a book chapter on the role of a simulation operations specialist in research that was published in 2016. In 2017, the UNC Anesthesia team including Hobbs was awarded the "First Place Research Abstract at the 17th Annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare ". He received

414-953: A major rebrand for the first time since February 16, 2008. The logo still kept the golden letter 'H' that had been used since its launch in 1995. Programming on the History Channel has covered a wide range of historical periods and topics, while similar themed topics are often organized into themed weeks or daily marathons. Subjects include warfare , inventions , aviation , mechanical and civil engineering , technology , science , nature , artists , composers , authors , mythical creatures , monsters , unidentified flying objects , conspiracy theories , aliens , religious beliefs , disaster scenarios, apocalyptic "after man" scenarios, survival scenarios, alternate history , dinosaurs , doomsday , organized crime , secret societies , and 2012 superstitions. Occasionally, some programs compare contemporary culture and technology with that of

483-485: A member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society diving committee that shapes guidance related to diving medical safety. Education in hyperbaric medicine related topics via inter-institutional simulations has allowed Hobbs to tie his passion for diving with his career in medical training. Hobbs has made significant regular contributions to Misplaced Pages's scuba diving articles, particularly to their referencing. He

552-431: A partnership with British Sky Broadcasting , following on November 1, 1995. Its original format focused entirely on historical series and specials . During the 1990s, the History Channel was jokingly referred to as "The Hitler Channel" for its extensive coverage of World War II . Since then, much of its military-themed programming has been shifted to its sister network Military History . A&E Networks considered

621-427: A phenomenon he termed "the History Channel effect". Stoddard also claimed that the History Channel did not contribute to this phenomenon alone, but rather, it was caused by the misperception that documentaries are "objective sources of history". In 2011, Forbes staffer Alex Knapp wrote, "The History Channel shouldn't run stuff like this 'ancient astronaut' nonsense." Forbes contributor Brad Lockwood criticized

690-516: A planned quarterly magazine. While in October, the History Channel and MSG Network teamed up to produce several short-form sports history programs. A&E launched History International as a spin-off from the History Channel in November 1998. On February 16, 2008, a new logo was launched on the U.S. network as part of a rebranding effort. While the trademark "H" was kept, the triangle shape on

759-747: A plaque recognizing his "contributions and service" to the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and Simulation Operations and Technology Section in 2018. Hobbs left his simulation director role in 2017 to take on a role as business manager for the UNC Health Care Department of Neurosurgery . In addition to the day-to-day operations of the Department of Neurosurgery, Hobbs serves on a committee providing oversight their educational laboratory focused primarily on cadaveric and task oriented simulation training. He also began blogging in

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828-652: A sister to History; Corus purchased the network in 2013. On April 1, 2016, Corus Entertainment merged with Shaw Media, and as a result, now holds the Canadian English and French-language rights to History programming. The British version launched in November 1995, and arrived in Ireland on November 1, 1999. The UK channel is a joint venture with Sky UK and was renamed Sky History on May 27, 2020, incorporating content from Sky Documentaries and Sky Nature . The German version launched on November 14, 2004, and

897-418: A young field involved development of resources for the program, curriculum development, and establishing the role he would provide within this new field. In 2007, Hobbs was part of the development team for a first person video game called 3DiTeams out of a collaboration between Duke University Medical Center and Virtual Heroes, Inc. and used for medical education and team training . The project

966-500: Is Warner Bros. Discovery's American Heroes Channel , formerly the Military Channel. Military History was launched on January 5, 2005 after demand for more military history programs. Beginning on March 27, 2004, a military-history programming block started on now defunct network History International as a prologue. The launch was an open preview, or soft launch, as no cable operators were signed up. Dan Davids, president of

1035-545: Is an American technical diver and founding board member of the non-profit Rubicon Foundation . Hobbs has served as medical officer for the Woodville Karst Plain Project since 2004 and was named the 2010 Divers Alert Network / Rolex Diver of the year. Hobbs was a hyperbaric technologist and simulation coordinator at Duke Medical Center before taking a position as the Director of Simulation for

1104-600: Is being preserved by the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama . This project carried Explorers Club flag number 103. In 2010, Rubicon started Project Pink Tank with a goal to improve the knowledge available to breast cancer survivors about their engagement in scuba diving. The methods applied for this project will also affect further diving medical research. Gene Hobbs Eugene Weston Hobbs II , known as Gene Hobbs (born November 28, 1973)

1173-687: Is one area in which he has continued to specialize. In 2016, their team collaboration with North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine was recognized by the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) and Association for Prevention Teaching and Research when the team's One Health case submission was selected in a national competition. Hobbs advocates for the use of standardized patients to portray other team members or having other clinicians as faculty if interprofessional learners are not an option. In addition to his role in graduate medical education, Hobbs also created

1242-521: Is operated by The History Channel Germany GmbH & Co. KG, a joint venture between A+E Networks and NBC Universal Global Networks Germany . The Italian version was launched on July 31, 2003, as a joint venture of A&E Networks and Fox International Channels Italy ; then it became a sole venture of A&E Networks in 2012. The History Channel is available in Spain and Portugal though cable, satellite, and IPTV platforms, as well as streaming media under

1311-676: The American Civil Liberties Union 's website on the "Origins of Christmas" and by the Comedy Central series The Daily Show . Daily Show host Jon Stewart responded the next day by stating it was their fault for trusting the History Channel and satirized a clip from the History Channel about UFOs and Nazis by stating, "The next thing you know we'll all find out the Nazis did not employ alien technology in their quest for world domination." The History Channel

1380-535: The History Channel , is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks , a joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company 's General Entertainment Content Division. The network was originally focused on history-based, social/science documentaries as well as the news. During the late 2000s, the History Channel pivoted into reality television programming. In addition to this change in format,

1449-806: The National Underwater Accident Data Center at the University of Rhode Island diving accident and fatality reports spanning 1970 to 1989; workshops sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Scientific Diving Program; the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society Journal spanning 1971 to 2005; as well as many theses about diving and hyperbaric medicine. The collection also holds journals, abstracts, and workshops from

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1518-460: The Society for Human Resource Management Blog in 2017 and concentrates his posts on simulation, workplace safety , and workforce accommodations . In 2002, Hobbs joined with divers Brian Armstrong and James Wagner in the formation of the Rubicon Foundation to further diving education, research and conservation efforts. The first major project Rubicon started was the Rubicon Research Repository created to aggregate often hard to find literature in

1587-958: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society such as: Undersea Biomedical Research which spans 1974 to 1992; Journal of Hyperbaric Medicine spanning 1986 to 1992; Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal started in 1993 to current was started to combine the previous journal content into one location; Annual Scientific Meeting Abstracts starting 1974 to current; as well as many of the scientific workshop proceedings. Also available are technical reports from organizations that include: Defence R&D Canada ; US Office of Naval Research ; Royal Australian Navy School of Underwater Medicine ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; US Navy Experimental Diving Unit ; US Naval Medical Research Institute ; US Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory ; as well as US Brooks Air Force Base and The Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. Other publications they have made electronic that are not currently included in

1656-606: The University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics. As of 2018, Hobbs is the business manager for the UNC Health Care Department of Neurosurgery . Hobbs was born on November 28, 1973, in Fayetteville, North Carolina , where he attended Terry Sanford High School and graduated in 1992. He then attended the North Carolina State University (NCSU) where he majored in business management with

1725-514: The DAN mission". Later that year, Hobbs began diving a rebreather having completed his training with Gregg Stanton. The B-25c Mitchell bomber was ditched on 4 April 1943 and remained 45 metres (148 ft) below the surface of Lake Murray (South Carolina) for 60 years. The recovery effort was headed by Dr. Robert Seigler and supervised by Gary Larkins of the Air Pirates. Hobbs participated in

1794-729: The English-language version. History Television launched in 1997 and was not initially related to its then similarly named American counterpart. During History Television's first several years of operation, despite sharing a similar programming focus, it rarely, if ever, acquired programming from the American channel. The phrase "Not available in Canada" was used heavily during The History Channel's early years in promotional ads on American channels that were imported to Canadian pay television providers, particularly A&E. Beginning in

1863-663: The History Channel in Singapore , Hong Kong , Thailand , the Philippines , Malaysia , Indonesia , Vietnam , and Brunei in the second and third quarters of 2007, and in Taiwan and China by the end of the year. Some other Asian countries, such as Kuwait , Israel , and Japan , have their own versions of the network. On September 1, 2008, History Channel Asia was officially launched in Singapore and Hong Kong followed by

1932-546: The History Channel USA, planned to push for digital basic level cable carriage. Its initial programming library drew from A&E and History's programs. The channel's initial prime time shows were under an umbrella banner of “Battle History”, which consisted of five documentary miniseries featuring each of the US military services. In the second quarter of 2005, the channel had its hard launch. Like its parent channel,

2001-790: The History Channel are available, in various forms, in India, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. The company indicated that plans for a history channel were in the works in 1993, it purchased the Lou Reda Productions documentary library and long-term rights for the Hearst Entertainment documentaries archive. The History Channel was launched on January 1, 1995, initially owned by A&E Television Networks. With its UK counterpart,

2070-601: The History Channel to be the driver in international expansion due to a lack of international rights to A&E international co-productions. As expected, the History Channel led A&E's overseas expansion in Brazil with TVA (April 1996), the Nordic and Baltic regions with Modern Times Group (1997), and in Canada (1997). The History Channel expanded in 1998 into tours of US landmarks with Mayflower Tours having an affiliated website (historytravel.com), History Channel Traveler , and

2139-555: The Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center and they were married at Anse Chastanet in October 2004. In 2009, Hobbs and his wife lost their son Andrew who was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia after thirty days. Their second son was born in 2011. They currently reside in Pittsboro, North Carolina . History (U.S. TV channel) History (stylized in all caps ), formerly and commonly known as

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2208-876: The Philippines. The South Korean version of History Channel was launched on September 22, 2017, replacing the Southeast version that was previously transmitted. After the launch, A+E networks Korea launched an original series program called History in the Bottle (말술클럽). The Latin American version was launched in 2001. It is owned by A&E and controlled in the region by Ole Distribution . It airs US programming, translated to Spanish or Portuguese or in English with Spanish or Portuguese subtitles. Also, it develops some Latin American programming in Spanish. The channel

2277-553: The RRR are some UHMS's Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences and the Hyperbaric Oxygen Review journal which was published from 1980 to 1985. The Rubicon Review was a Yahoo! Group with periodic updates of literature in environmental physiology. The project started in 2007 with the goal of helping researchers stay up-to-date with the most current information however it was ended in 2010 due to technical issues with

2346-632: The Rubicon Research Repository is no longer available online. The RRR contains workshops and annual meeting proceedings from the American Academy of Underwater Sciences ; Divers Alert Network 's workshops and Report on decompression illness , diving fatalities, and Project Dive Exploration publications spanning from 1988 to 2007; some of the Diving Science And Technology Corp / Professional Association of Diving Instructors symposia and technical reports; many of

2415-531: The Strange podcast, released January 4, 2019, Radford reminded listeners that in excess of 18 months had passed without an apology or explanation from the History Channel as to "how their research went so horribly wrong." Military History is a niche spin-off from the History channel that features reruns of programs about the history of the military and significant combat events. The channel's main competitor

2484-497: The United States, while receiving criticism over the series' nonhistorical nature . US Senator Chuck Grassley is a critic of the channel and its lack of historical or educational programming, showing particular disdain for the latter two programs. Professor Jeremy Stoddard, in his article published in 2010, raised the concern that the productions of the network presented value-laden perspectives which may mislead audiences,

2553-601: The Way to the Emmys: An Amelia Earhart Special (Non) Mystery Post-Mortem", critiquing the network's lack of professionalism, Radford said: "Given that the photograph's provenance was established and thus the key premise of the show discredited in about half an hour of Google searching, it will be interesting to see what world class expertise... the History Channel will bring to their reinvestigation of Earhart's disappearance." On episode 82 of his Squaring

2622-515: The Yahoo service. The B-25c Mitchell bomber was ditched on 4 April 1943 and remained 45 metres (148 ft) below the surface of Lake Murray (South Carolina) for 60 years. The recovery effort was headed by Dr. Robert Seigler and supervised by Gary Larkins of the Air Pirates. Rubicon Foundation divers participated in the recovery effort in 2005. The project was documented by the History Channel and televised on their show Mega Movers . The plane

2691-537: The brand Canal de Historia. The History Channel Iberia is a joint venture between A+E Networks and AMC Networks International Iberia . The Dutch version launched on May 1, 2007. This version is distributed by A&E Networks Benelux. In January 2008, History HD was launched in the Netherlands. It is available on cable providers Telenet and Ziggo . It is also available on the IPTV service KPN . A Polish version

2760-415: The camera, who was judged to have a physique and haircut resembling Earhart's. The documentary theorizes that the photo was taken after Earhart and Noonan crashed at Mili Atoll . The documentary also said that physical evidence recovered from Mili matches pieces that could have fallen off an Electra during a crash or subsequent overland move to a barge. The Lost Evidence proposed that a Japanese ship seen in

2829-421: The channel creators about the events portrayed in the channel's programs. However, in recent years the network has been criticized for having a bias towards US history . Another former sister network, History International , more extensively covered history outside the US until 2011, when it was re-branded as H2 and started broadcasting more material that had to do with US history. Stanley Kutner criticized

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2898-536: The channel dropped the word "Channel" from its name on March 20, 2008. Its carriage is limited to expanded tier and add-on pay-TV packages as a niche offering, and it is one of the few mainstream American cable channels in English still carried only in standard definition. Military History features programs that focus on historical battles and wars, as well as programs that profile key individuals such as generals, soldiers and spies. It also airs documentaries and series that provide insight into how these wars were fought and

2967-648: The channel is scheduled separately from the UK version. The History Channel started its operations in India in late 2003 with 21st Century Fox 's STAR TV as its sales partner, managed by National Geographic until November 21, 2008. The History Channel India closed down on November 21, 2008. In 2011, History was granted permission to relaunch services in India. A joint venture of A&E Networks and TV18 relaunched History TV18 in India in eight languages in 2014. A joint venture of AETN and Astro All Asia Networks launched

3036-502: The channel would undergo another rebranding, this time by Joseph Kiely. The slogan of this rebranding was "Make Your Mark". The logo was slightly changed, but retained the golden letter 'H' that had become synonymous with the channel. The "History 100" documentary initiative was announced in March 2018 that would produce 100 documentaries covering major events and notable figures from last 100 years. On December 7, 2021, History received

3105-715: The channel's addition of "programs devoted to monsters, aliens, and conspiracies", attributing a perceived intent of boosting ratings to the network's decision to focus on pseudoarchaeology instead of documented facts. Knapp refers readers to the Bad Archaeology website's founder Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews who comments, "I find it incredible and frightening that a worldwide distributed television channel ...can broadcast such rubbish as Ancient Aliens ." Archaeologist Kenneth Feder , author of Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology , called

3174-508: The channel's hosting the ancient astronaut theory "execrable bullshit". In his book 2012: It's Not the End of the World , Peter Lemesurier describes the channel's Nostradamus series, in which he was invited to participate, as "largely fiction" and "lurid nonsense". He also lists numerous allusions made in its films to the alleged Mayan "end of the world" and the "rare" galactic alignment that

3243-429: The diving medical community and divers. Dr. Simon Mitchell has recognized Hobbs "alongside Dick Clarke as CHTs who have made spectacular contributions to the field". As a result of his work with the Rubicon Research Repository, Hobbs was named the 2010 Divers Alert Network/ Rolex Diver of the year. This was the 22nd time this award has been presented to someone that has "contributed significantly to dive safety or

3312-518: The faculty at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine as Director of Simulation and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics. His role at UNC has involved patient safety projects as well as development of unique educational opportunities. The quality improvement and patient safety initiatives include simulations for health system wide TeamSTEPPS and Code Sepsis projects as well as more specific work with postpartum hemorrhage and trauma . Work with interprofessional teams

3381-587: The fields of diving and hyperbaric medicine. This included scanning creation of metadata for many documents that were not indexed in any database as well as negotiation of copyright permissions with the organizations to make these items available to the public. Hobbs received a "Special Achievement Award" from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society for his creation of the Rubicon Research Repository in June 2005. This work has continued and grown in their effort to create greater communication and collaboration between

3450-493: The late 2000s, several History (US) shows were acquired for Canadian broadcast on History Television. On May 30, 2012, then-parent company Shaw Media announced that it would rebrand History Channel as a Canadian version of the US History channel in the fall of 2012, through a licensing agreement with A+E Networks. History Television would be relaunched on August 12, 2012, with another Shaw-owned specialty channel relaunched as

3519-420: The left acts as a play button for animation and flyouts during commercials and shows. On March 20, 2008, as part of that same rebranding effort, the History Channel dropped "The" and "Channel" from its name to become simply "History". In 2012, half of A&E would be purchased by The Walt Disney Company and the other half by Hearst Communications , also putting History under their joint ownership. In 2015,

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3588-436: The lives of those who served in them. Its programming library draws from A&E and History's program libraries with an emphasis on World War II . History en Español is an American Spanish-language pay television channel. The network launched on June 24, 2004 as a counterpart to History focusing mainly on Hispanic America and world history. The network shows original programming, as well as Spanish-dubbed programs from

3657-578: The lowest of its ratings, noting that its own research showed that both the Senate and the House had only convened once in those 67 years on a Christmas Day. It noted that because one in seven Christmases falls on a Sunday (when Congress does not meet to allow members to attend church), the claim is "ridiculous". The claim had first been broadcast on the History Channel program Christmas Unwrapped – The History of Christmas before being subsequently picked up by

3726-460: The network for the series The Men Who Killed Kennedy in 2003. Kutner was one of three historians commissioned to review the documentary, which the channel disavowed and never aired again. Programs such as Modern Marvels have been praised for their presentation of detailed information in an entertaining format. Some of the network's series, including Ice Road Truckers , Ax Men , and Pawn Stars , garnered increased viewership ratings in

3795-477: The network has been criticized by many scientists, historians, and skeptics for broadcasting pseudo-documentaries and pseudoscientific , unsubstantiated, sensational investigative programming. As of November 2023 , History is available to approximately 63,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2011 peak of 99,000,000 households. International localized versions of

3864-613: The past. The channel's programming would expand into scripted dramas with the premiere Vikings in 2013. Initially, the network received mixed reviews. In an article from the American Historical Association released about a year into the channel's lifespan, the channel's historical consultant Libby Haight O' Connell noted that professional historians have been enlisted to work on the channel's programs and many letters have come in from viewers both pointing out historical errors and opening up discussion with

3933-639: The photograph was the Koshu Maru , a Japanese military ship. The Lost Evidence was soon discredited after Japanese blogger Kota Yamano found the original source of the photograph in the archives in the National Diet Library Digital Collection. The original source of the photo was a Japanese travel guide published in October 1935, implying that the photograph was taken in 1935 or before, thus it would be unrelated to Earhart and Noonan's 1937 disappearance. Additionally,

4002-644: The recovery effort with divers from Association of Underwater Explorers (AUE), the Rubicon Foundation, and Woodville Karst Plain Project in 2005. The project was documented by the History Channel and televised on their show Mega Movers . The plane is being preserved by the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama . Hobbs teamed up with Keith Gault of the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit to apply probabilistic models developed by Dr Wayne Gerth to

4071-485: The researcher who discovered the photo also identified the ship in the right of the photo as another ship called Koshu seized by Allied Japanese forces in World War I and not the Koshu Maru . Researcher Ben Radford performed a detailed analysis of the mistakes made by The History Channel in building their documentary on bad photographic evidence. In his Skeptical Inquirer article "A Funny Thing Happened on

4140-723: The testing of Hobbs' prototype and subsequent marketing of the Remote Emergency Oxygen Delivery System (REMO2) by the Divers Alert Network (DAN) from January 1999 – August 2001. This product was introduced at the Med-Trade convention and named the 1999 "Med-Trade new product of the year" however problems with manufacturing capability ended the project. Hobbs participated in other projects related to aging divers, breath-hold diving, and extra-vehicular activity . Hobbs serves as

4209-458: The understanding of problems facing the technical diving population. This project is ongoing and included various breathing gases and decompression styles. In 2010, Rubicon started Project Pink Tank with a goal to improve the knowledge available to breast cancer survivors about their engagement in scuba diving. The methods applied for this project will also influence further diving medical research. Hobbs met his wife Becky while working in

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4278-537: Was also singled out in a post for Smithsonian magazine. Science writer Riley Black took issue with the show Ancient Aliens for postulating the "idea that aliens caused the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs ." The online magazine Cracked also lampooned the channel for its strange definition of history. Cracked singled out the programs UFO Hunters and Ancient Aliens as being the very definition of non-history by presenting pseudoscience and pseudohistory . In 2015, skeptic Brian Dunning listed it at #2 on

4347-494: Was certified in scuba diving by H. Larry Brown at NCSU in 1993. Following this first class, he began assisting the diving classes while continuing his diving education. Hobbs was certified as a cave diver and NAUI instructor in 1997. At the Duke F.G. Hall Lab in 1997, Hobbs worked on a project to evaluate emergency oxygen rebreathers for use in the delivery of first aid oxygen to diving accident victims. This work culminated in

4416-630: Was joint author of a 2009 article advocating participation in Misplaced Pages as a means of increasing awareness of diving medicine. Hobbs has served as medical officer for the Woodville Karst Plain Project since 2004. From this position, he has supported the medical communication and logistics for the team's divers. Hobbs began working as the Medical Simulation Coordinator for Duke University Medical Center 's Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center in 2001. Here his role in

4485-477: Was later moved to the Swedish TV8 channel and continued broadcasting there until November 2004. When History channel announced their own 24-hour pan-European channel, Viasat launched its own history-oriented channel, Viasat History , in the Nordic region, but with no original programming. On February 1, 2007, the History Channel returned to Sweden and also Denmark, Norway, Finland when the pan-European version

4554-597: Was launched as a standalone channel on the Canal Digital satellite platform and later through cable operator Com hem. The History Channel launched on February 1, 2007, on the Canal Digital DTH satellite package for viewers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The channel is being launched by The History Channel UK, A&E's joint venture with BSkyB. Although it broadcasts in English with local subtitles,

4623-518: Was launched on April 9, 2008. It is available on cable providers Aster, Dialog, Toya, and UPC Polska , and also through satellite television (with its HD version carried on the n platform since June 1, 2012) and an SD version on Cyfra+ (since November 2, 2009). A Scandinavian version was first launched in September 1997, broadcasting for three and later four hours a day on the analogue Viasat platform. Initially time-sharing with TV1000 Cinema, it

4692-538: Was supposed by John Major Jenkins to accompany it in 2012 , while Jenkins himself has described Decoding the Past as "45 minutes of unabashed doomsday hype and the worst kind of inane sensationalism ." In December 2011, Politifact gave the History Channel's claim that the United States Congress stayed open on Christmas Day for most of its first 67 years of existence a "pants on fire" rating,

4761-404: Was unveiled to the general public in a workshop entitled "3DiTeams – Team Training in a Virtual Interactive Environment" hosted by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California , on October 16, 2007. Their team has continued to develop and test new training and assessment methods for healthcare providers and research personnel. In 2014, Hobbs joined

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