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TEN ARTISTS NOT TO MISS AT WHAT THE FESTIVAL!? 2015 VIA STYLSS
The 4th Annual WHAT THE FESTIVAL!? is coming up this June here in Oregon & STYLSS affiliates have selected Ten of the artists we would recommend you add to your MUST SEE list. Besides having an epic pool party and toting the West Coast's largest disco ball, this year's WTF line-up is stacked full of new faces along with a diverse handful of some of our favorites.
GREAT DANE:
"It goes without saying, Dane Morris aka Great Dane is a must see this year at WTF. Signed on with the endless talent at, Team Supreme, his latest self-titled album "Great Dane" dropped just about a month ago and if you haven't heard it i'm not sure what you've been listening too, it's packed start to finish with low-end heavy slappers for the likes of any age group. It's a mover, and just easy to listen and vibe to. Mastered by the legendary Daddy Kev, the lead single entitled "DVNE" creeps forward and knocks you on your ass with no choice but to sluggishly bob your head and laugh. It's fucking humungous.
As a fan and a friend, I can say from experience his live sets are not only fun to watch and listen to but an inspiration to performers alike. With an hour straight of All Original content there's bound to be something for anyone & everyone including you. Don't sleep on this young beat slayer, it's rare in these times to meet talent who manages to keep their humility. Great Dane is the type of artist worth your support, so make your way out." -EASTGHOST
https://soundcloud.com/grrrreatdane
EPROM:
"A very familiar name in the west coast electronic music scene, EPROM made his mark in the Bay Area and recently transplanted to the Pacific Northwest. Your always bound to hear something new during his performances, dipping into dark sensibilities while remaining goal driven and taking the listener to place beyond the present." -HEW
https://soundcloud.com/eprom
ANNA LUNOE:
"Anna Lunoe who is more than just a DJ/singer/songwriter/producer has seem to blow up from no where over the past year, but that's only from years of hard work. Coming from Australia she transplanted her self into a vulnerable new environment in the United States – – which she has since conquered." -WOKR
https://soundcloud.com/anna-lunoe
MACHINEDRUM (Vapor City Live):
"Machinedrum's Vapor City Live is easily one of the best electronic live performances I've seen in a while. Whether you're a fan of Machinedrum's prolific and diverse banging production or a fan of live music in general, Vapor City Live is a journey is not to be missed and the visuals are on point" -QUARRY
https://soundcloud.com/machinedrum
BARISONE:
"An active member of the Portland music scene, Barisone gets around. Teaming up with local talent and promoters such as Bubblin, We Got This, Fak Wednesdays and pretty much any prominent scene in stumptown. Known for his great selection in club edits and his ability to cater to a crowd. Don't miss him." -HEW
https://soundcloud.com/barisone
TOKIMONSTA:
"It's crazy to think that TOKiMONSTAs debut album "midnight menu" came out five years ago. Breaking through the LA beat scene and onto a global scale, she has grown to develop a sound all her own. Her production has matured and shaped over the years and has a live set you don't want to miss." -WOKR
https://soundcloud.com/tokimonsta
INSIGHTFUL:
"When first listening in on 'insightful's now two year old single, "Ugliful" off his Soulection debut EP, "the shy lanterns glow", from the other room I heard an unmatched and introspective sound of deeply personal, creative music and a cold turn for a better world of hip-hop. It was clear then how far the sound had come in it's short, vivacious life. After viewing the official video for the song, I knew this was an artist to study and watch closely throughout the next few years and he has yet to disappoint. Hailing from the bay area, Insightful transcends far beyond the "Oakland Sound" with his recent full-length release "All That Is Left Is Right". Keeping his roots in the ethereal drones and ambient textures that make his sound truly his own, he explores his production even further with tracks like "The Loyalist" featuring Miles Bonny on trumpet and the slightly more upbeat, club-ready anthem, "Moth Mother". This is an act sure to inspire and stand apart from any others of the weekend. I highly recommend coming through." -EASTGHOST
https://soundcloud.com/insightfulone
JUSTIN MARTIN:
"A member and co-founder of the San Francisco based house label Dirtybird. Justin Martin has been djing and producing music heavily over the years while traveling and performing at shows and festivals across the states. He has been acknowledged by FACT Magazine and Resident Advisor as a key player in both the funky and ghetto flavors of house music." -HEW
https://soundcloud.com/justin-martin-music
ELLIE HERRING:
"Ellie Herring has been on a steady incline, with three releases already behind her, and one more soon to follow. Based out of Lexington, Kentucky, the artist is well-supported in the small yet fruitful electronic scene that exists. Herring makes her way to the Pacific Northwest with pure intentions, only stopping to play a few shows and hand selected festivals; be sure not to miss her at WTF. With the slew of remixes she's been up to, it's sure to provide flowing energy."
-JENLILUK
https://soundcloud.com/ellieh
QUARRY:
"Emerging from the Portland music scene, QUARRY stands out as a pioneer of the unseen & the untold, giving birth to the all encompassing global art movement that is STYLSS. An artist always pushing the envelope and a proponent of giving listeners what they 'need' rather than what they 'want'. QUARRY has been making huge strides artistically in the last year. His sets consist of all original productions, an ambient live experience sure to shake the foundations of popular music. It's a guaranteed spectacle to those who have yet to break through, and a refreshing breath of creativity for those who have.
–EASTGHOST
https://soundcloud.com/QUARRY
The fourth annual What The Festival takes place June 19th – 22nd, 100 miles East of Portland, OR in Wolf Run Rach, OR.
For more information, full line-up, to buy tickets, please visit http://whatthefestival.com
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In this course, we look at the history of copyright law in Britain and the US, and we explore the ways that copyright has both responded to new media and driven art and entertainment. How, for example, is a new medium (printed books, photography, recorded music, film and the internet) defined in relation to existing media? How does the law accommodate shifting ideas and circumstances of authorship? What are the limits of fair use (US) and fair dealing (UK)? And how have writers, artists, engineers and creative industries responded to various changes in copyright law? A major focus of the course is the lessons of history for the current copyright debates over such issues as file sharing, the public domain and new technologies. Making use of our surroundings, we visit the locations where copyright began and was first practiced in eighteenth-century London..


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£1.1 Billion Investment by UK MOD in Future Military Flying Training
The new Fixed Wing flying training system will provide modern training aircraft as well as up-to-date ground based training devices such as simulators and classroom learning for aircrew across the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps.
A £1.1 billion contract has been placed with Ascent Flight Training to design, deliver and manage the Fixed Wing training service until 2033 and is expected to provide roughly 200 jobs across the UK, particularly at the key training bases.
Minister of State for Defence Procurement Philip Dunne said:
"This is fantastic news for the future of our military aircrew, providing them with a modern training system which will equip them to deliver on the front line.
"With our strong commitment to air power as part of the Strategic Defence and Security Review and our investment of £178 billion in equipment over the next 10 years, this contract is further proof of our commitment to invest in the UK's defence capabilities for the future, ensuring that we continue to be a world leader in military flying training."
The contract, which will cover provision of Elementary Flying Training, Basic Flying Training and Multi-Engine Pilot Training, will deliver through a single prime contractor, ensuring coherent delivery of the training system.
Air Marshal Sir Baz North, the Senior Responsible Owner for UKMFTS, added:
"The UK MFTS Fixed Wind Contract provides enhanced synthetic and live flying training for the UK's military aircrew out to 2033. The service employs modern, adaptable and sustainable systems which exploit the advantages of the simulated environment to prepare our aircrew to meet the challenges of future combat operations."
Air Vice-Marshal Sue Gray, Director of Combat Air at the MOD's Defence Equipment & Support said:
"This contract will replace legacy fleets of aircraft with new, modern platforms that better replicate the aircraft used by front line operational squadrons.
"Up-to-date training methods will also be developed to ensure that students are able to progress to operational training more efficiently and provide value for money."
Multi-Engine Pilot Training will be in place from mid-2018 and Basic Flying Training element up and running by early 2019.
Ascent, selected as the MOD's flying training partner in 2008, will be required to deliver the instruction, infrastructure and support required to provide flying training across the three Armed Services until 2033.

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Mack Mid-Liner
Mack Mid-Liner in They Crawl, Movie, 2001
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Is the subject vehicle Mack?
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Yes, a Midliner.
Is orign USA correct? Where it was developed, built as first? It's from the model-line, assembled under a plenty of different names (Iveco, Volvo, Magirus Deutz, Renault, etc.? Saviem, too?
IIRC it was originally a Renault Midliner. From Wikipedia: From 1975 on, Saviem also had been a member in the Club of Four, a cooperation between four European truck producers (Saviem, Volvo, DAF and Magirus-Deutz, which soon after became a part of Iveco) for the production of medium-sized trucks. The truck models resulting from this cooperation would be produced by Saviem and later Renault even until 2001 and also be sold on the North American market as Mack Mid-Liner.


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Do you have the next BIG idea in business?
Ready to compete for $10,000 in prize money?
The New Venture Startup Competition (NVC) cultivates the entrepreneurial spirit in students at the University of the Incarnate Word. The 13-week competition, held each fall semester, allows students to develop a business model from idea to actualization. The winners take home $10,000 in prize money for their startup business. Second prize is $2,000.
Teams will cultivate their innovative ideas with help from mentors in the San Antonio business community and through several workshops held throughout the competition.
The New Venture Startup Competition is open to all UIW students – undergraduate and graduate – regardless of major or program of study. In fact, cross-disciplinary teams are encouraged. Students can only participate in teams of 2-5 people. Individual submissions are not allowed.
Students are restricted to participation on a single team to avoid conflicts of interest between business ideas and lack of commitment to one particular business idea.
The list of team members registered at the start of the competition may not be modified during the competition. If a team member is dismissed from or voluntarily quits the team and the remaining team comprises less than two members, that team is no longer be eligible to participate, and will be dropped from the competition.
The proposed business idea must be wholly owned by the participating students for the duration of the competition, and may not infringe upon the copyright or other intellectual property right of any third party.
Prior UIW Business Plan Competition award winners are not eligible to enter the same business plan or a spin-off of that plan.
Teams or team members that have received a previous prize or funds from UIW can compete as long as their business idea submission to the New Venture Competition is completely different from their prior Business Plan Competition submissions.
The final determination of eligibility is made by competition administrators.
Each team can submit only one business idea.
Proposed ventures must be projected to be financially profitable, be lawful and create jobs. The proposed venture must complement the mission of the H-E-B School of Business and Administration, as well as the University of the Incarnate Word.
All entries must be the original work of the students and free from any claim of copyright, patent or other restriction. The business idea should not be in violation of any intellectual property rights.
This competition will accept only ideas for new and independent ventures in the seed and startup stages.
Submission of proposals to acquire an established company to improve its management, or ideas to create a hedge fund or any other type of venture capital fund will be rejected.
Participants who make it to Phase 2 of the competition are required to participate in all the activities associated with the competition.
Participants should respect community values, such as honesty and integrity. The administrators of the NVC reserve the right to remove students who enter business plans for ventures or proposed ventures that are offensive, illegal, and/or that are inconsistent with the values of UIW.
Plagiarism of ideas will result in disqualification.
Each team will be assigned a mentor to serve as a professional source of feedback and advice throughout the competition. Mentors are local business leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals in their respective fields.
The mentor relationship is vital to the success of each team. Each mentor will share a practical point of view on the team's business idea based on his or her experience and knowledge. Each team will be assigned a mentor by competition administrators based on the expertise of each mentor as it relates to a team's business idea.
The New Venture Startup Competition is divided in two phases, with teams needing to perform well at several checkpoints to continue in the competition.
Phase 1 begins September 12 after teams are notified that their idea has been accepted. Once an idea is accepted, teams are mandated to participate in a series of workshops where students will learn design thinking skills including brainstorming, team skills, networking and business model innovation skills.
Also in Phase 1, a mentor will be assigned to each team to provide professional feedback throughout the competition.
Each team will submit the final version of their Business Model Canvas by October 26.
On the same day, teams will participate in a Trade Fair to showcase their business model prototypes, product samples and/or description of services. This activity is to support the Business Model information and get feedback from those in attendance. Students should be present to describe and explain products and services.
Phase 1 finalizes with the announcement of the teams that will advance to Phase 2. This announcement should be made on November 2.
Is the business model viable, feasible, fundable and likely to succeed?
Is the idea creative and innovative?
Is the plan complete and does it have sufficient analysis?
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The teams chosen to move forward to Phase 2 will begin putting together their Business Project in the online UIW Adventurees Platform. A series of workshops will be offered to introduce teams to the platform and to give details of the content required for the final evaluation.
November 30 is the deadline to complete all the information required in the UIW Adventurees Platform.
Teams will make a final 12-minute presentation to the judges on December 7. Judges will then have 5-6 minutes to pose questions to the teams. After all presentations, the winners of the 2018 New Venture Startup Competition will be announced.
Judging Criteria for Phase 2 – The panel of judges will be comprised of San Antonio-area entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and investment bankers.
The judges will respect the confidentiality of each team's business plan.
Judges agree not to initiate a professional relationship with teams during the competition.
Participants are not allowed to contact the finalist judges, and judges are not allowed to contact any participants during the course of the competition. Any such behavior will result in the disqualification of the participant and his/her team.
Registration for the fall 2018 New Venture Startup Competition is open August 20 - September 7.
The deadline to register is Friday, September 7, 2018.
The faculty administrators for the New Venture Startup Competition are Dr. Adesegun Oyedele and Dr. Jose Moreno. The event is co-hosted by the H-E-B School of Business & Administration and the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization, UIW chapter.


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Çankaya Futbol Kulübü, formerly Ankara Adliyespor, is a football club located in Ankara, Turkey. The team currently competes in the TFF Third League.

The club was promoted to the TFF Third League after 2012–13 season.

League participations
TFF Third League: 2013–
Amateur League: 1993–2013

Stadium
Currently the team plays at the 4,200 capacity Ankara Ostim Stadyumu.

Current squad

References

External links
Official website
Çankaya FK on TFF.org

TFF Third League clubs
Football clubs in Turkey
Association football clubs established in 1993
1993 establishments in Turkey
Football clubs in Ankara

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Q: An Issue with methods, am I missing something? -> The method foo in this type/class is not applicable for the arguments () I would like to print a number in the main() method which is the result returned from method foo(). What should I do? Am I missing something?
I'm just exercising programming by making different pseudo-codes into an actual thing or well, functional...
This is the whole program, that I'm working on:
public class programB {

     /* PSEUDO CODE:
     *
     * foo(A)
       n ← A.length
       x ← A[1]
       for i ← 2 to n do
       if A[i] > x then
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       return x
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    int array [] = {3,4,1,2,5};

    static int foo(int[] array){
        int n = 5;
        int x = array[1];

        for(int i = 2; i <= n; i++){
            if(array[i] > x){
                x = array[i];
            }
        }
        return x;
    }

    public static void main(String[] arguments){
        foo();
    }
}

This is the error, that I'm getting:

Error: The method foo(int[]) in the type programB is not applicable for the arguments ()

Something about the method's arguments not being applicable...
Can someone please help me out here?

A: make your array static
static int array [] = {3,4,1,2,5};

call it in the main method.
public static void main(String[] arguments){
        foo(array);
    }

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Home Scholarships Reckitt – Fight for Access Scholarship 2022 (Fully Funded to One...
Reckitt – Fight for Access Scholarship 2022 (Fully Funded to One Young World Summit 2022 in Tokyo,Japan)
Application Deadline: December 20th 2021
Reckitt exists to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner and healthier world. We fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment a right and not a privilege. We are living in extraordinary times. Our Social Impact work has never been more important. Improving access to health, hygiene and nutrition has never been more urgent. With an emphasis on women and girls, Reckitt's social impact investment focusses on areas where we can make the most impact and where we identify the greatest unmet needs. These priorities are:
Clean Water, Hygiene and Sanitation
Sexual Rights & Equality
Reckitt knows that these challenges can't be tackled alone and seeks partnerships in all areas to create greater scale and sustainable impact through collaboration. Recognising that young leaders are essential partners in its mission, Reckitt is pleased to support this scholarship to enable outstanding young leaders to participate in the One Young World Summit 2022. Scholars will be an integral part of Reckitt's delegation alongside Reckitt's future leaders from across the business. In addition to participating the Summit, scholars will gain access to exclusive Reckitt sessions and form connections with peers and senior leaders from the company.
Scholars will receive
Access to the One Young World Summit 2022 in Tokyo
Hotel accommodation between 16 and 19 (inclusive) May, 2022
The cost of travel to and from Tokyo (flights in economy)
Catering which includes breakfast, lunch and dinner
Ground transportation between Summit venues
Access to bespoke Reckitt programming around the businesses participation in the Summit including pre-Summit onboarding calls, a Reckitt buddy from the company's internal delegation and a post-Summit feedback session.
Reckitt are looking for young leaders who meet the following criteria;
Aged 18 – 30*.
Have a demonstrable track record for leadership and innovation
Demonstrated impact in one or more of Reckitt's priority areas for social investment namely:
Clean Water, Hygiene and Sanitation.
Sexual Rights & Equality.
Maternal & Child Health.
Candidates will ideally lead or occupy managerial roles in not-for-profits/ social enterprises/campaigns or initiatives with a social purpose focussed on one of the above impact areas.
Candidates must demonstrate willingness to fully engage with other Reckitt delegates and additional Reckitt programming around the Summit.
The Reckitt Programme
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Attending online calls arranged in the months leading up to the Summit
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Engage with and be present every day of the Summit including additional activities arranged exclusively for Reckitt delegates.
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Tesco's executive director of corporate and legal affairs Lucy Neville Rolfe will be giving an insight into the supermarket's corporate social responsibility strategy (CSR) at British Baker's Baking Industry Summit, to be held in London on 27 November.
In an industry where food is baked, packaged, distributed, sold and thrown away daily, the chain of efficiency in bakery and food-to-go sectors is a continual challenge. Via real-life examples and advice, the summit will illustrate how business can benefit from implementing an effective, sustainable CSR strategy.Also confirmed is Huw Edwards, commercial director - central buying, bakery and cafés at Asda.Other speakers include leading figures from supermarkets, bakery suppliers, plant baking and bakery businesses, such as Greggs and Bells of Lazonby, as well as waste and packaging experts, such as Andrew Parry, food waste minimisation manager at WRAP.For bookings & enquiries, please contact conference co-ordinator Helen Law on 01293 846587 or email helen.law@ william-reed.co.uk. Further information is also available at [http://www.bakingsummit.co.uk].


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The Telegraph this week reported that council leaders are paying out over �0 million to fund an army of 3,500 workers to tackle climate change. Despite continuing disputes within the scientific community over the causes of global warming, how profound its effects may be and even its very existence, a nationwide investigation has revealed massive spending on new local authority staff with job titles such as "carbon reduction advisors" and "climate change managers".
Using figures obtained from 25 councils across England and Wales, the Taxpayers' Alliance calculated that councils on average now employ eight people to work on green issues. If that figure were repeated across all 442 councils in the UK, the total number of council staff employed to deal with the environmental agenda would be 3,494. The average salary paid to such staff was �,283, suggesting a total expenditure by councils across the UK of �2 million.
News of the spending comes as many local authorities face criticism for axing weekly rubbish collections and reducing long-term care for the elderly. Help the Aged recently warned it was "deeply worried" about councils slashing the number of people eligible for carers in their homes and underinvestment in residential care. Last year while Harrow Primary Care Trust funded care for 826 old people, Derby City only managed to find the cash for seven.
Since 1997/98, the average council tax bill has almost doubled from �4 to �078. This money obviously isn't being spent on care for the elderly or proper refuse collection, so one must assume it's all going on global warming gauleiters. In Tower Hamlets, the capital's poorest local authority and among the nation's worst for recycling, 58 employees have job titles or job descriptions that contain "climate change" or "global warming". In Hull, the city council has 30 staff working on environmentally friendly policies. In Nottingham, 22 staff are employed to deal with issues around global warming, in addition to 70 volunteer "green champions".
Matthew Sinclair, policy analyst at Taxpayers' Alliance, said "Town halls are spending more and more of our money so they can just say they are doing something on climate change. It is an expensive and futile gesture when China is building a coal power station every ten days."
The GOS isn't the least bit surprised at this news. As he has observed before in these pages, one of the strongest and most pervasive motivations at work in any large organisation is the "bigger desk syndrome". By and large, the more people they're in charge of, the more money officials earn. If you can create more and more tasks for your department to do, you need more and more people to do them. The more people you have in your department, the bigger your desk, the more sumptuous your office and the more generous your salary. Global Warming, the multiplicity of its tasks limited only by the imagination, is a wonderful opportunity for council officials worried about their pensions, and yet another chance for them to prove their superiority to us ordinary mortals by not providing us with the services we thought we wanted (silly us!).
And guess who pays the price for all these free-loaders?
What makes it all the more galling is that the argument against man-made Global Warming is gaining strength day by day. As John Ray of Greenie-Watch says, "Seeing that we are all made of carbon, the time will come when people will look back on the carbon phobia of the early 21st century as too incredible to be believed."
On the Australian news website recently, Tim Blair had this to say �
Last month Australians endured our coldest June since 1950. Imagine that; all those trillions of tonnes of evil carbon we've horked up into the atmosphere over six decades of rampant industrialisation, and we're still getting the same icy weather we got during the Cold War.
Not that June should be presented as evidence that global warming isn't happening, or that we're causing it. Relying on such a tiny sample would be unscientific and wrong, even if it involves an entire freakin' continent's weather patterns throughout the course of a whole month, for Christ's sake. No such foolishness will be indulged in here.
Sadly, those who believe in global warming - and who would compel us also to believe - aren't similarly constrained. A few hot days are all they ever need to get the global warming bandwagon rolling; evidently it's solar powered. Here, for example, is an Australian Associated Press report on May's weather, which in places was a little warmer than usual:
"Climate change gave much of Australia's drought-stricken east coast its warmest May on record, weather experts say. 'Global warming and an absence of significant cold changes had driven temperatures well above the monthly average', said meteorologist Matt Pearce. According to Mr Pearce, May's temperatures were 'yet another sign of the widespread climate change that we are seeing unfold across the globe'."
If that's the case, shouldn't June's cold weather - coldest since 1950, remember - be a sign that widespread climate change isn't unfolding across the globe? We're using the same data here; one month's weather. And, in fact, the June sample is Australia-wide while May only highlights the east coast. Fear the dawn of a great "coldening"!
While Australia freezes, it's kinda hot in California. Again, local toastiness is evidence of global warming; one San Francisco Chronicle writer this week referred glibly to their "global-warming-heated summer". What phenomenon was responsible for previous summers?
In Britain, the Independent's environment editor, Michael McCarthy, forecast in April "The possibility is growing that Britain in 2007 may experience a summer of unheard-of high temperatures, with the thermometer even reaching 40C, or 104F, a level never recorded in history. This would be quite outside all historical experience, but entirely consistent with predictions of climate change."
As Wimbledon watchers would be aware, what with the rainiest tournament since Jimmy Connors defeated John McEnroe in 1982, those unheard-of high temperatures remain unheard-of. Someone might conclude, therefore, that the not-hot summer is not entirely consistent with predictions of climate change.
But climate change is like Michael Moore's tracksuit - it can fit anyone. In 2005, Greenpeace rep Steven Guilbeault helpfully explained: "Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that's what we're dealing with." What we're dealing with, apparently, is weather.
What will the weather be like 100 years from now? Don't ask Britain's Guardian, which, like the Independent, is full of Warmin' Normans whose warm warnings never come true. "It could be time to say goodbye to defining features of British life," the paper claimed a few months ago, "like rainy picnics and cloudy sunbathing . . ." Other defining features of British life - screaming, inaccurate nonsense from the Guardian, for example - will never be farewelled. Cue wet Wimbledon, the coldest day for Test match cricket (7.4C) in English history, and this BBC online headline: "Where has the UK's summer gone?"
Maybe it migrated to Australia, like Augustus Owsley Stanley III, the American LSD enthusiast and manufacturer. Possibly influenced by his product, Owsley moved to outback Queensland about twenty years ago, reportedly convinced that imminent global warming would cause - in the tradition of warm meaning cold - the whole Northern Hemisphere to be covered with ice. Owsley, now 72, is still in Queensland, and likely not a little confused. Things didn't exactly turn out as predicted. While his former Californian haunts melt due to "global warming", this year Queensland has gone frosty. Townsville's June was its coldest since 1940; June 24 saw the coldest Brisbane morning on record.
Think of these little factoids the next time your read a report linking a hot day or month or year to global warming. And, if you run into this Owsley bloke, please ask him to quit adding things to environmentalists' water supplies.
The aforementioned John Ray is an Australian university professor who runs a number of excellent websites. For those of us who aren't expecting imminently to fry or flood but prefer their weather forecasts to contain a certain amount of old-fashioned common sense, GreenieWatch makes entertaining reading.
Here are one or two of his bon-ner mots �
• Against the long history of huge temperature variation in the earth's climate (ice ages etc.), the 0.6 of one degree average rise reported for the entire 20th century by the United Nations (a rise so small that you would not be able to detect such a difference personally without instruments) shows in fact that the 20th century was a time of exceptional temperature stability.
• The Holy Grail for most scientists is not truth but research grants. And the global warming scare has produced a huge downpour of money for research. Any mystery why so many scientists claim some belief in global warming?
• I am not a global warming skeptic nor am I a global warming denier. I am a global warming atheist. I don't believe one bit of it. That the earth's climate changes is undeniable. Only ignoramuses believe that climate stability is normal. But I see NO evidence to say that mankind has had anything to do with any of the changes observed - and much evidence against that claim.
• The "precautionary principle" is a favourite Greenie idea - but isn't that what George Bush was doing when he invaded Iraq? Wasn't that a precaution against Saddam getting or having any WMDs? So Greenies all agree with the Iraq intervention? If not, why not?
• There is an "ascetic instinct" (or perhaps a "survivalist instinct") in many people that causes them to delight in going without material comforts. Monasteries and nunneries were once full of such people - with the Byzantine stylites perhaps the most striking example. Many Greenies (other than Al Gore and his Hollywood pals) have that instinct too but in the absence of strong orthodox religious commitments they have to convince themselves that the world NEEDS them to live in an ascetic way. So their personal emotional needs lead them to press on us all a delusional belief that the planet needs "saving".
For many people, global warming seems to have taken the place of "The Jews" - a convenient but false explanation for any disliked event. Professor Brignell at Spiked Online is eloquent on the subject. Notice particularly the incredible list at the foot of the page, of things that are "causing" or "proving" global warming.
And here is an interesting expos� of the way greenies distort statistical data to prove their point.
Rainfall chart. It's obvious - we're all going to drown


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Qualcomm Atheros - компания-разработчик полупроводниковых микросхем для сетевых коммуникаций, частично — беспроводных чипсетов.

Atheros Communications, Inc. была основана в 1998 году экспертами в обработке сигналов из Стэнфордского университета, Калифорнийского университета в Беркли и частного бизнеса, она стала публичной компанией в 2004 году. Нынешним президентом и генеральным директором является Крэйг Барретт ().

5 января 2011 года было объявлено, что Qualcomm Incorporated согласилась поглотить компанию Atheros Communications, Inc. за оценочную стоимость в 3,5 млрд долларов США. Покупка была завершена 24 мая 2011 года, и Atheros стала подразделением Qualcomm, получив имя Qualcomm Atheros.

Чипсеты Atheros для стандарта IEEE 802.11 используются более чем 30 различными производителями беспроводных устройств, включая MikroTik, D-Link, Compex, Netgear, TP-Link и TRENDnet.

Atheros и сообщество свободного ПО
В сообществе свободного программного обеспечения продукция Atheros известна закрытостью технической документации, не позволяющей разработчикам свободного программного обеспечения создавать открытые драйверы для беспроводных устройств Atheros без применения обратной разработки. В результате этого открытая поддержка для аппаратуры Atheros была довольно ограниченной. Однако существует несколько полностью свободных драйверов, созданных с использованием обратной разработки. Например, Рейк Флётер () исследовал модуль HAL драйвера ath из FreeBSD, и добавил полностью свободный драйвер устройств Atheros для OpenBSD. В дополнение к этому Ник Коссифидис (), участвующий в проекте MadWiFi, основываясь на работе Флётера, начал ветку madwifi-old-openhal в феврале 2006 г., чтобы создать свободный драйвер для Linux. Коссифидис провел более глубокое исследование в целях добавления поддержки большинства чипов ar5k и внес несколько улучшений в код. Его код стал драйвером для чипов Atheros ath5k, который теперь включен в ядро Linux.

Компания была неоднократно упомянута в песнях OpenBSD, повествующих о непрерывных работах по открытию несвободных устройств.

В июле 2008 г. компания Atheros решила сменить политику, наняла двух ключевых разработчиков Linux: Луиса Родригеса () и Йоуни Малинена (), выпустивших открытые драйверы для работы устройств 802.11n в Linux.. Atheros также опубликовала часть исходного кода их бинарного HAL под лицензией ISC в целях помощи сообществу в добавлении поддержки чипов Atheros 802.11a/802.11b/802.11g. Компания стала принимать активное участие в разработке драйвера ath9k для Linux, с поддержкой всех нынешних 802.11n чипсетов..

Приобретения
В 2006 г. Atheros Communications поглотила компанию ZyDAS Technology из Синьчжу (Тайвань), специализирующуюся на USB WLAN. Из сотрудников поглощенной компании была сформирована основа штата Тайваньского центра разработки Atheros.

В конце 2006 г. Atheros купила компанию Attansic Technology (Тайвань), производившую чипы Ethernet, добавив проводные коммуникации в свой портфель и расширив штат в Азии.

В конце 2007 г. Atheros приобрела компанию u-Nav Microelectronics из Ирвайна (Калифорния), производившую чипы GPS.

В конце 2009 г. Atheros поглотила публичную компанию Intellon Corporation. С данным приобретением компания Atheros улучшила и расширила свой портфель сетевых технологий, включив технологию связи по ЛЭП, разработанную в Intellon.

В августе 2010 Atheros купила расположенную в Китае Opulan Technology. Это приобретение добавило технологию широкополосного доступа Ethernet PON к все более разнообразному портфелю сетевых технологий Atheros, а также значительно поддержало присутствие в Шанхае.

В январе 2011 компания Qualcomm вступила в Material Definitive Agreement с целью приобретения Atheros по цене 45 долларов США за акцию. Данное соглашение подлежало утверждению акционерами и другими органами надзора. В мае 2011 Qualcomm закончила приобретение Atheros Communications за 3,1 млрд долларов. Atheros теперь является дочерней компанией Qualcomm под именем Qualcomm Atheros.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Atheros Madwifi support in Linux - historical
 Atheros-supported ath9k 802.11n chipset support
 Community-driven legacy Atheros chipset support in Linux

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TVU, 22 September 2016 – The University officially launched the 9th Vietnamese – Hungarian Conference on Agricultural Research for Sustainable Development with the participation of more than 200 Vietnamese and international scientists in field of agriculture.
The conference invited five keynote speakers to present research projects on various topics ranging from ideas for genetic conservation such as Gene rescue programme to protect local farm animal breeds and ecotypes in the Carpathian basin: "The gene ring" – "A gengyuru" (by Prof. Dr. Szalay István, Director of Research Centre for Farm Animal GeneConservation, Hungary), Genetic conservation of Viet Nam animals (by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Duc, Subeditor of Journal of Animal Husbandry Sciences and Technics, Vietnam.) to climate change adaption in agriculture such asSmart agriculture adapting climate change (by Dr. Nguyen Thanh My, President and CEO of RYNAN AgriFoods, Vietnam), Developing Aquaculture climate change(by Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Phuong, Vice rector of Can Tho University, Vietnam) and Regional linkage and adapting climate change (by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Sanh, Director of Mekong Delta Development Research Institute, Can Tho University, Vietnam).


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UAFS Police to Accept Food for Fines
The University of Arkansas – Fort Smith Police Department is in the giving spirit this holiday season, launching their third annual Food For Fines program this week.
Through Dec. 6, anyone with an outstanding parking citation from the UAFS Parking Office can have a ticket of $25 waived by donating 10 canned goods or non-perishable food items to the office. The program allows forgiveness of one outstanding parking ticket per individual.
The UPD will also be accepting donations from generous students, faculty and staff looking for a way to give – even if they do not have a ticket.
During the initial year of the Food For Fines program, the department delivered the donated food to Antioch for Youth and Family's foodbank. The second year the food was donated to Grand Avenue Baptist Churchand campus ministry Reach, who in turn gave to their Helping Hands Food program. This year, the department will split the donations between Helping Hands and the Lion Pride Pantry.
Over the first two years of the program UPD has collected more than 2,000 pounds of food.
Donations may be brought to the Parking Office in the Smith Pendergraft Campus Center or University Police Department office at the 51st Annex at 425 North 51st Street. Parking Office hours are 8 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The University Police Department office at the 51stAnnex is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.


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Early voters head to polls in droves for GA Senate runoff
(NewsNation) — Georgia voters continued to turn out in droves Wednesday, pushing the total number of ballots casts in the Senate runoff past 1 million just three days into early voting.
It's the second runoff in as many years for the state that last year sent two Democrats to the Senate, which gave the party a trifecta of power in Washington. Though Democrats have already retained control of the Senate, the Georgia contest will determine if it is a 50- or 51-seat majority.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said roughly 250,000 voters went to the polls across the state Wednesday, following two days that each saw more than 300,000 people cast ballots. Combined with absentee ballots that have been received, more than 1 million votes have been cast in the runoff.
"We're having tremendous turnout," Raffensperger said Wednesday on "CUOMO."
Though the state is setting records for its turnout, it comes in a condensed time period. Legislation overhauling the state's election system last year cut in half the runoff calendar.
Single-day turnout numbers have been boosted as a result. Monday's total of 301,545 was the largest early voting day in the state's history, but it also came with lines that were hours long, The New York Times reported.
Because the early voting period is condensed, it's unlikely this year's numbers will surpass the 3.1 million early voters who turned out in last year's runoff, which Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won. Warnock is now defending his seat against Republican Herschel Walker.
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In addition to shortening the runoff period, the 2021 legislation also limited voting by mail and scaled back the number of drop boxes available. Republicans argued it was about election security and administration, while Democrats contended it would lead to voter suppression.
Election security became a major focus of this year's midterms, and Raffensperger said at the end of the day, the runoff will be a fair and honest election.
"We make sure that our county election directors are making sure they do their work … and they're doing remarkably well," Raffensperger said. "Everyone's vote is secure."
Claims of malfeasance and election rigging have increased since 2020, when former President Donald Trump refused to accept defeat. The issue was especially prominent in Arizona, where Cochise County voted to delay the certification of the 2022 election, missing a Monday deadline mandated by state law.
It took more than a week for Maricopa County, the most populous county, to tabulate results, which allowed conspiracies to brew. More than 275,000 early voters dropped off their ballots on Election Day, which all then had to be signature-verified before they could be counted.
Raffensperger said if states can craft laws that allow for faster counting, it will build trust in the system.
"That gives voters confidence in the process," Raffensperger said. "We're making sure we have honest and fair elections and we report those results quickly."
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1. Freezing water pump: a device that drives water to circulate in a frozen water loop. We know that the end of the air conditioning room (such as the fan coil, air handling unit, etc.) needs the cold water provided by the chiller. But freezing water doesn't flow naturally because of resistance. This requires the pump to drive the freezing water to cycle to achieve the purpose of heat exchange.
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WHY IS EGYPT AN ATTRACTIVE LOCATION FOR MULTINATIONAL ICT COMPANIES?
Egypt's successful efforts to carve a niche as a regional hub for technology and innovation, and attract multinational ICT companies are explored by four key industry players in interviews they gave recently to Oxford Business Group's online broadcasting channel, Global Platform.
Alexandre Froment-Curtil, CEO, Vodafone Egypt; Frances Woodworth, Deputy Site Leader, Orange Business Services Egypt; Reem Asaad, CEO, Raya Contact Centre; and Ahmed Osama, Innovation Manager, Dell Technologies Centre of Excellence, discussed a wide range of topical issues, including the country's competitive advantages and the diversification underway within the local ICT sector.
A national drive to support Egypt's young population by equipping them with the qualifications and skills they need to participate in the industry's development met with approval from the executives interviewed. "We're seeing lots of great talent that comes out of universities, bringing plenty of innovative mindsets," Osama said. "It's not just in artificial intelligence and the latest technologies, but it's even in the traditional way of doing business." Woodworth agreed, noting the growing contribution that Egypt's increasing youthful workforce was making to the industry. "When we look at the labour market, the resource pool, each year more than one half million [technical] professionals are introduced into the job market," she said. "What's also very helpful is the engagement of the government in supporting multinational companies."
Froment-Curtil told viewers that the country's young, tech-savvy population also provided businesses with a promising consumer base. "Vodafone has been present in Egypt for the last 20 years," he said. "So obviously it is a place where we believe that our investment makes sense across the world. But also, fundamentally, it has a young dynamic population full of energy and that's brilliant for a digital world." "Today we have about 6700 employees dedicated to serving the rest of the world in two main activities. The first is everything that has to do with contact centres. Serving markets like Germany, the UK and Italy. The second activity is actually a technology activity. We host here Vodafone's worldwide centre of excellence on technology". Vodafone Egypt CEO added.
"Things such as RPA (robotics process automation) are being done out of Egypt for the rest of the world. Smart cities are being designed, built and operated here in Egypt for the rest of Europe, so many activities where you can see that it's really the technical hub happening in Egypt.", Froment-Curtil told OBG. Egypt's strategic location, which enables it to act as a hub for EMEA region, along with the government support, and the role ITIDA plays as an executive IT arm and one-stop-shop for investment attraction and support, was also noted by the business leaders.
Asaad informed viewers that from the 110 clients being serviced locally, close to 80% are based offshore. "We can scale all the languages you can imagine out of Egypt," she said. "I can service my clients with 25 languages: German; English; Dutch; Polish; and Zulu."
Marc-Andre de Blois, OBG's Director of PR and Video Content, said it was clear that the executives interviewed had high hopes for Egypt's ICT industry.
"Egypt's ease of doing business and prime global positioning has long been a draw for investors," he said. "Our video shows that the decision to focus on education and training, and increase government support for the sector, is delivering the desired results."
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Dirty Dozen Brass Band:
Celebrating over 40 years since their founding in 1977, New Orleans-based Dirty Dozen Brass Band has taken the traditional foundation of brass band music and incorporated it into a blend of genres including Bebop Jazz, Funk and R&B/Soul. This unique sound, described by the band as a 'musical gumbo,' has allowed the Dirty Dozen to tour across 5 continents and more than 30 countries, record 12 studio albums and collaborate with a range of artists from Modest Mouse to Widespread Panic to Norah Jones. Forty-plus years later, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a world famous music machine whose name is synonymous with genre-bending romps and high-octane performances.
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Vanessa Collier:
Blues Music Magazine proclaims, "Vanessa Collier is a fresh face who comes to the blues stage carrying her reed instruments, a dual degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, a major label debut, almost two years of touring with Joe Louis Walker, and a mature musical vision…Collier commands center stage with her vocals, soloing, and stage presence." Midwest Record exclaims, "This bluesy singing sax player knows how to bring the slinking funk to her captivating, award winning sound that has echoes in young Bonnie Raitt/Maria Muldaur vocal sounds…Killer stuff on every level, this sounds like one of the reasons you first became a music fan. Killer stuff." and AXS.Com declares that she "might as well go ahead and add another shelf to her trophy case because clearly, she's going to need it. With a voice that often recalls that of blues-rock stalwart Bonnie Raitt, Collier turns up the heat…"
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Hermès opens a new iconic flagship store address in Landmark Prince's, located in Central, Hong Kong recently. The new store offers a retail space of 9,167 sq. ft spreading over three storeys from the ground floor to the first floor of the mall including a mezzanine. The spacious store enables Hermès to demonstrate fully the rich variety of its sixteen metiers, while making a strong statement of expansion and unwavering confidence in the market.
Designed and created by the Parisian agency RDAI under the artistic direction of Denis Montel, as for all Hermès stores worldwide, the remarkable new store features a striking three-dimensional vertical façade inspired by the traditional bamboo scaffolding with contemporary interpretation, which allows ample natural light to brighten up the whole store.
With the main entrance on Ice House Street and the second entrance on Des Voeux Road, the corner is dedicated to a giant window on two levels, revealing a new installation from French artists Zim & Zou.
As one enters the new store through the main entrance, past the 3-storey high ceiling foyer and the welcoming bamboo staircase, one will be warmly greeted by the signature scarves and silk collections, with perfume and fashion jewellery embracing on both sides. The second entrance opens up the space to the men's universe, with leather to the left and ready-to-wear to the right, facing the dedicated shoes area.
Walking up the stairs to the mezzanine floor, one will find the comprehensive collection for the women's universe and the jewellery accessories & watches department, with a versatile VIP room "L'ecrin" for jewellery.
Filled with natural light through the façade, the space on the first floor is entirely dedicated to the Maison universe, a perfect setting for the Art de Vivre collections.
At Hermès, aspiration for perfection, passion for the future and respect for the past are inextricably linked. Since 1837, six generations of enterprising and passionate artisans have devoted themselves to creating objects of the highest quality. From its beginnings as harness-makers to the rich medley of collections offered today, its founding values remain the same – creative freedom, fine craftsmanship, innovation and excellence. A family owned company, Hermès is managed by Chief Executive Officer, Axel Dumas under the creative direction of Pierre-Alexis Dumas, both sixth-generation family members.


It should be noted that, though the Santa María Ostula community has organized itself to exercise its own forms of justice and self-defense, it has experienced harassment and attacks since 2009, when communards recovered approximately 1,300 hectares. It has also seen the consequences of mass-deforestation due to the operations of transnational corporations during 2012-2013.
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How academic groupthink is trying to silence a Harvard astrophysicist who claims an alien spacecraft visited our solar system
By Brian McGleenon, a journalist who has worked for Fuji Television, The Daily Express, The Independent, KBS and Pear Video.
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Astronomers may have detected the space craft of an alien civilization, claims a top scientist. But the public are being denied further tantalizing discoveries due to the narrow-minded thinking that pervades academia.
In October 2017, an unusually thin, elongated object was detected by astronomers. It was like nothing seen before and even accelerated as it left our solar system. It was named 'Oumuamua, and its many abnormalities, such as its constantly fluctuating brightness, caused problems for scientists. Indeed, because it did not fit the normal conventions of a space object, one academic admitted to Professor Avi Loeb that they "wished it had never existed".
But the chair of Harvard University's astronomy department was excited about the strangeness of 'Oumuamua, inspired by its anomalies and intrigued by the fact it was the first interstellar object that had been detected passing through our solar system. After studying the data, he announced "the high likelihood that 'Oumuamua was of artificial origin".
This caused a sensation in the scientific community, because established thought abhors being "taken out of its comfort zone", according to Professor Loeb. And now he's set to antagonize that community further, with the publication of his book on the 'Oumuamua phenomenon, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth at the end of January.
However, he has a simple response to those who deny potential new breakthroughs for fear of upending established conventions. "Reality is the one thing that never goes away, even if you ignore it," he says.
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Speaking to RT from his office at Harvard, Professor Loeb is keen to put forward his theory that "we are probably nothing special, and there were many technological civilizations like ours throughout cosmic history".
For this reason, he argues that there must be a focus on funding for "technological signatures of extra-terrestrial civilizations". Among the things that could be searched for, he says, are "mega-structures, industrial pollution, and relics of spacecraft". And it's the last of these he believes may have drifted through our solar system in October 2017 – a claim that has caused many in the scientific community to close ranks against him.
He suggests there are more such discoveries to come, but many will be denied to us because "people will be ridiculed and ideas never pursued", describing any consideration of intelligent life beyond earth as being a serious "taboo in the astronomy community". to the extent that younger scientists even shy away from specific lines of inquiry.
In the case of 'Oumuamua, there's no denying that there are perplexing elements. Scientists remain baffled over how it accelerated out of our solar system at an unusual angle. Professor Loeb believes this was due to it being "pushed by sunlight reflecting off its surface" because it was "moving too fast to be bound to the sun".
He thinks that its abnormal shape acted like "a sail on a boat because, in the vacuum of space, a large, thin object can be accelerated by sunlight". And he wonders if 'Oumuamua had an advanced "sun-sail" that an extra-terrestrial civilization could use to travel through space. This outlandish idea was shut down by the academic establishment from the get-go.
So far, the consensus reached to explain the extra push that 'Oumuamua displayed as it broke free of the sun's gravitational hold was that it was a comet accelerating due to its melting water vapour, as expelling thrusts a rocket forward. The only problem with this theory – and it's a glaringly obvious one – is that no tail of water vapour was ever detected coming off 'Oumuamua.
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In September last year, another space object showed acceleration without having a comet-like water vapour tail. Astronomers were again perplexed, and after running the data of its trajectory through a super-computer it was found to be "artificial in construction". The object was subsequently found to be the empty hull of a discarded rocket booster from earth.
The thin hollow shape was collecting solar rays and being accelerated, just as Professor Loeb had suggested was the cause of 'Oumuamua's unconventional movements. This adds to the mystery of 'Oumuamua. As Professor Loeb explained, "It could not have been of human construction because of the particular way it passed through the solar system, faster than any rocket we could launch." But he goes on to admit that, to fully validate 'Oumuamua is of artificial origin, "we need more data".
This is where that extra funding could come into play. Professor Loeb advises that academia should begin the kind of "blue-sky research" seen in the commercial sector in companies such as Apple, SpaceX, and Amazon. He sees "conservatism in academia", telling me that projects that tackle alien intelligence rarely get public funding, but rely on investment by interested private individuals. One such initiative is the Breakthrough Listen project at the University of Berkeley's SETI (Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence). Breakthrough Listen is funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, and is the most comprehensive search for alien signals to date.
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The mainstream consensus in searching for extra-terrestrial life is to look for signs of oxygen. However, Professor Loeb disputes this, saying it will lead to inconclusive results, "as oxygen could be produced by natural processes". Instead, he advises searching for industrial pollution on other planets, the rationale being that complex molecules, such as CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), "cannot be produced naturally".
As things stand, the debate around 'Oumuamua continues. Extra-terrestrial life hunters at SETI have supported Professor Loeb's suggestion there was a possibility that 'Oumuamua was "an alien artefact." However, scientists from Queen's University Belfast have come to the conclusion it was an asteroid.
They told Nature its thin elongated shape is due to it rupturing from a planet in its "violent past". Professor Alan Fitzsimmons commented: "This was our first close encounter with a large object from another star system and, while we expected to find such an object at some point, the science community is still debating its exact nature.
"We found that we do not need to assume it is artificial as speculated by some; everything we see points to a natural origin. But that doesn't detract from the wondrous nature of being visited by a piece of another solar system."
Professor Loeb is steadfast in his belief, though, arguing that discoveries in any branch of science can happen only when people are open-minded and willing to take risks.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
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Watercolor paintings are amazing especially when you are not into watercolor painting, just looking at them make you feel awed. Many people avoid using watercolors as a medium as they think of it as a difficult medium but trust me it is fun to use watercolors! There are great watercolor artists out there and we cannot compete with them, but we can at least learn what they are good at and follow their techniques to see how skilful we can become by following them.
Below is a watercolor painting tutorials collection for beginners as well as those who love watercolor as a medium. This will quench your thirst for some amazing watercolor painting techniques, tricks and tips. Whatever you do, never lose hope, it may be a bit hard to understand the medium in the beginning, but once you get your hold on it, you will love it.