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Sir Arthur Clarke Award

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This article is about the award for space achievement. For the science fiction writing award, see Arthur C. Clarke Award. Sir Arthur Clarke Awards 2006 The Sir Arthur Clarke Award is a British award given annually since 2005 in recognition of notable contributions to space exploration, particularly British achievements. Nominations for the awards are made by members of the public, with shortlists drawn up by a panel of judges, who also choose the winner. Sir Arthur Clarke chose a special award independently of the public nominations, prior to his death on 18 March 2008. Contents 1 History 2 2018 3 2017 4 2016 5 2015 6 2014 7 2013 8 2012 9 2011 10 2010 11 2009 12 2008 13 2007 14 2006 15 2005 16 See also 17 References 18 External links History Founded in 2005, the idea for the awards was proposed by Dave Wright to Jerry Stone, who then suggested they be named after Sir Arthur Clarke. Once pe

Air International

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AIR International AIR International magazine, December 1999 issue Editor Mark Ayton Categories Aviation magazines Frequency Monthly Circulation 9,754 Jan-Dec 2016 First issue June 1971 Company Key Publishing Country United Kingdom Based in Stamford, Lincolnshire Language English Website http://www.airinternational.com/ ISSN 0306-5634 AIR International is a British aviation magazine covering current defence aerospace and civil aviation topics. [1] It has been in publication since 1971 and is currently published by Key Publishing Ltd. History and profile The magazine was first published in June 1971 with the name Air Enthusiast . [1] In January 1974 its title was changed to Air Enthusiast International and finally to Air International in July 1974. [1] Air International is published by Key Publishing Limited. [1] The magazine has its headquarters in Stamford, Lincolnshire. [1] Sister publications include Air Force

Only Gnome Wayland works

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0 I'm a bit confused on what happened to my debian strech the other day, and how come that I can only use Gnome Wayland to access my display manager, to be clear if I choose Gnome I've got Login Loop triggered. Simple inspection of my graphic card gives me this output. ➜ ~ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b) ➜ ~ find /dev -group video /dev/video1 /dev/video0 find: ‘/dev/vboxusb’: Permission denied /dev/fb0 /dev/dri/card0 /dev/dri/renderD128 ➜ ~ glxinfo | grep -i vendor server glx vendor string: SGI client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center (0x8086) OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center Now inspecting /var/log/Xorg.0.log will