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Stardrone is a new arcade puzzle game for the PS4 that works exclusively with PlayStation VR. Using a PlayStation Move controller, you fire a ship off into one of 60 different levels and utilizes switches to manipulate its trajectory.
With little control over the ship, you’ll need to plan your shots carefully and react quickly. Should you jump and try out this flashy arcade game for PSVR? Let’s find out.
A Simple and Satisfying Premise
Stardrone doesn’t have any story or explanation behind the sixty levels it provides. The game places you on a level select menu and sends you on your way. It’s a very streamlined arcade experience that gets you into the action quickly.
PlayStation VR is the only option for playing Stardrone, which limits the potential reach of this fun arcade title. Now, many people will look at this and assume that such an arcade game doesn’t need to be in VR.
I would argue against that. I think Stardrone could have benefited from a standard TV mode, but I don’t think it should trade that option for VR. In fact, I thought the VR implementation here was excellent. The 3D view of the levels made it a lot easier to strategize and implement your actions quickly.
If the game was on a TV screen, it would need to pan quickly across the large levels to keep up with the intense movement of your ship. In VR, you simply follow the ship naturally with your gaze and make adjustments using your Move controller.
This feels incredibly natural to me, and I think that same level of intuition would be hard to replicate on a standard screen. The camera could be pulled out and left static, but again, that would rob the game of its dynamic and vibrant levels.
With the VR argument out of the way, let’s find out how the gameplay fares across the wide spread of levels in Stardrone.
A Gameplay Loop That Rewards Planning and Quick Reflexes
Stardrone’s gameplay mixes up the objective for its levels, but the mechanics remain largely the same. Using a PlayStation Move controller, you fire your ship off in a chosen direction. Physics how it drifts through open space, but a variety of obstacles and mechanics will help you influence where it goes.
Gravity switches can be triggered by pointing at them and pulling the trigger. This will pull your ship into the object’s orbit. A carefully timed release will send it flying away in the direction you choose.
Boost arrows give you speed, while solid walls and clusters of crystals can slow you down. Depending on the level, you may also need to dodge items like bombs or other enemies that will destroy you after several hits.
Examining the level in detail before you begin is smart, along with honing your reflexes to quickly act when you can by hitting a switch to pull the ship in and direct it. Objectives range from making it through the level, to lighting up all the colored stars, to activating turrets that take out enemies.
There are some harsh difficulty spikes spread throughout the levels, but for the modest asking price, Stardrone offers plenty of arcade content. It may not take up hours of your time in a single setting, but it does make for a refreshing and streamlined arcade experience.
Beautiful Color and a Catchy Soundtrack
Stardrone is a beautiful game in PlayStation VR. The neon colors pop inside of the headset, while the smooth frame rate tackles even the most chaotic moments when ease. The soundtrack is a standout element as well.
The electronic beats of the soundtrack, especially when you finish a level, are incredibly catchy. In the end, I enjoyed my time with Stardrone. The gameplay is simple and addicting, while the VR implementation works great, and the price is incredibly fair at $7.99.
A TV option would have been nice, but I don’t regret playing this fun little arcade title in VR for a second.
Final Score: 7.5/10
A copy of Stardrone was provided to PS4 Experts for review purposes. Played using PSVR on a PS4 Pro
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- Battle of Lepanto (1571)
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Lepanto
caption=The Battle of Lepanto "artist unknown"
partof=the Fifth Turkish-Venetian War and the
date=7 October 1571
Gulf of Patras, Ionian Sea
result=Decisive Holy League victory
flag|Venice|name=Republic of Venice
1,815 guns total (est.)
750 guns total (est.)
casualties1=8,000 dead or wounded
12 galleys lost
casualties2=15,000 dead, wounded or captured, [Geoffrey Parker, "The Military Revolution", p. 88]
137 ships captured
50 ships sunk
galley slaves freed
The Battle of Lepanto (Greek: Ναύπακτος, "Naupaktos", pron. "Náfpaktos"; colloquial Greek: Έπαχτος, "Épahtos"; _tr. İnebahtı) took place on 7 October 1571 when a
galleyfleet of the Holy League, a coalition of the Republic of Venice, the Papacy (under Pope Pius V), Spain(including Naples, Sicilyand Sardinia), the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights Hospitallerand others, decisively defeated the main fleet of Ottoman war galleys.
The five-hour battle was fought at the northern edge of the
Gulf of Patras, off western Greece, where the Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina. [Luggis, Telemachus: "Sunday, 7 October 1571" pp. 19-23 Epsilon Istorica, "Eleftherotypia", 9 November 2000. See also Chasiotis, Ioannis "The signing of 'Sacra Liga Antiturca' and the naval battle of Lepanto (7 October 1571)", "Istoria tou Ellinikou Ethnous". Ekdotiki Athinon, vol. 10, Athens, 1974 ] Victory gave the Holy League temporary control over the Mediterranean, protected Rome from invasion, and prevented the Ottomans from advancing into Europe. This last major naval battlefought solely between rowing vessels was one of history's most decisive, inasmuch as "after Lepanto the pendulum swung back the other way and the wealth began to flow from East to West, a pattern that continues to this day", as well "as a 'crucial turning point in the ongoing conflict between the Middle East and Europe, which has not yet completely been resolved.". [Serpil Atamaz Hazar, “Review of "Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam",” "The Historian" 70.1 (Spring 2008): 163.]
Battle of Lepanto order of battlefor a detailed list of ships and commanders involved in the battle."
The Holy League's fleet consisted of 206
galleys and 6 galleasses (large converted merchant galleys which carried substantial artillery) and was ably commanded by Don Juan de Austria, the illegitimate son of Emperor Charles V and half brother of King Philip II of Spain. Vessels had been contributed by the various Christian states: 109 galleys and 6 galleasses from Venice, 80 galleys from Spain and Naples/Sicily, 12 Tuscan galleys hired by the Papal States, 3 galleys each from Genoa, Malta, and Savoy, and some privately owned galleys. All members of the alliance viewed the Turkish navy as a significant threat, both to the security of maritime trade in the Mediterranean Seaand to the security of continental Europe itself. The various Christian contingents met the main force, that of Venice (under Venier), in July and August 1571 at Messina, Sicily. Don Juan de Austriaarrived on 23 August.
This fleet of the Christian alliance was manned by 12,920 sailors. In addition, it carried almost 28,000 fighting troops: 10,000 Spanish regular infantry of excellent quality, 7,000 German and 6,000 Italian
mercenary, and 5,000 Venetian soldiers. Also, Venetian oarsmen were mainly free citizens and were able to bear arms adding to the fighting power of their ship, whereas slaves and convicts were used to row many of the galleys in other Holy League squadrons. The Turkish fleet's galleys were also rowed by slaves, many of them Christians that had been captured in previous conquests and engagements. [John F. Guilmartin, "Gunpowder and Galleys", p. 222-25] Free oarsmen were generally acknowledged to be superior by all combatants, but were gradually replaced in all galley fleets (including those of Venice from 1549) during the 16th century by cheaper slaves, convicts and prisoners-of-war owing to rapidly rising costs. [The first regularly sanctioned use of convicts as oarsmen on Venetian galleys did not occur until 1549. re Tenenti, "Cristoforo da Canal", pp. 83, 85. See Tenenti, "Piracy and the Decline of Venice" (Berkeley, 1967), pp. 124-25, for Cristoforo da Canal's comments on the tactical effectiveness of free oarsmen c. 1587 though he was mainly concerned with their higher cost. Ismail Uzuncarsili, "Osmanli Devletenin Merkez ve Bahriye Teskilati" (Ankara, 1948), p. 482, cites a squadron of 41 Ottoman galleys in 1556 of which the flagship and two others were rowed by Azabs, salaried volunteer light infantrymen, three were rowed by slaves, and the remaining 36 were rowed by salaried mercenary Greek oarsmen.]
The Ottoman galleys were manned by 13,000 sailors and 34,000 soldiers. Ali Pasha (Turkish: "
Kaptan-ı DeryaAli Paşa"), supported by the corsairs Chulouk Beyof Alexandriaand Uluj Ali(Ulich Ali), commanded an Ottoman force of 222 war galleys, 56 galliots, and some smaller vessels. The Turks had skilled and experienced crews of sailors, but were somewhat deficient in their elite corps of Janissaries.
An important and arguably decisive advantage for the Christians was their numerical superiority in guns and cannons aboard their ships. It is estimated the Christians had 1,815 guns, while the Turks had only 750 with insufficient ammunition. [Geoffrey Parker, "The Military Revolution", p. 88] The Christians also embarked arguably more advanced
arquebusiers and musketeers, while the Ottomans trusted in their highly skilled but in the end inferior composite bowmen.
The Christian fleet formed up in four divisions in a North-South line. At the northern end, closest to the coast, was the Left Division of 53 galleys, mainly Venetian, led by
Agostino Barbarigo, with Marco Queriniand Antonio da Canalein support. The Centre Division consisted of 62 galleys under Don Juan de Austriahimself in his "Real", along with Sebastiano Venier, later Doge of Venice, and Marcantonio Colonna. The Right Division to the south consisted of another 53 galleys under the Genoese Giovanni Andrea Doria, great-nephew of the famous Andrea Doria. Two galleasses, which had side-mounted cannon, were positioned in front of each main division, for the purpose, according to Miguel de Cervantes(who served on the galleass "Marquesa" during the battle), of preventing the Turks from sneaking in small boats and sapping, sabotaging or boarding the Christian vessels. A Reserve Division was stationed behind (that is, to the west of) the main fleet, to lend support wherever it might be needed. This reserve division consisted of 38 galleys - 30 behind the Centre Division commanded by Álvaro de Bazán, and four behind each wing. A scouting group was formed, from two Right Wing and six Reserve Division galleys. As the Christian fleet was slowly turning around Point Scropha, Doria's Right Division, at the off-shore side, was delayed at the start of the battle and the Right's galleasses did not get into position.
The Turkish fleet consisted of 54 galleys and 2 galliots on its Right under Chulouk Bey, 61 galleys and 32 galliots in the Centre under Ali Pasha in the "Sultana", and about 63 galleys and 30 galliots in the South off-shore under
Uluj Ali. A small reserve existed of 8 galleys, 22 galliots and 64 fustas, behind the Centre body. Ali Pasha is supposed to have told his Christian galley-slaves: "If I win the battle, I promise you your liberty. If the day is yours, then God has given it to you."
"Battle of Lepanto" by
Paolo Veronese. Oil on canvas]
The Left and Centre galleasses had been towed half a mile ahead of the Christian line, and were able to sink two Turkish galleys, and damage some more, before the Turkish fleet left them behind. Their attacks also disrupted the Ottoman formations. As the battle started, Doria found that Uluj Ali's galleys extended further to the south than his own, and so headed south to avoid being out-flanked. This meant he was even later coming into action. He ended up being outmanœuvered by Uluj Ali, who turned back and attacked the southern end of the Centre Division, taking advantage of the big gap that Doria had left. When the battle started, the Turks mistook the Galeasses to be merchant supply vessels and set out to attack them. This proved to be disastrous, the galeasses, with their many guns, alone were said to have sunk up to 70 Turkish galleys.
In the north, Chulouk Bey had managed to get between the shore and the Christian North Division, with six galleys in an outflanking move, and initially the Christian fleet suffered. Barbarigo was killed by an arrow, but the Venetians, turning to face the threat, held their line. The return of a galleass saved the Christian North Division. The Christian Centre also held the line with the help of the Reserve, after taking a great deal of damage, and caused great damage to the Muslim Centre. In the south, off-shore side, Doria was engaged in a melee with Uluj Ali's ships, taking the worse part. Meanwhile Uluj Ali himself commanded 16 galleys in a fast attack on the Christian Centre, taking six galleys - amongst them the Maltese "Capitana", killing all but three men on board. Its commander, Pietro Giustiniani, Prior of the Order of St. John, was severely wounded by five arrows, but was found alive in his cabin. The intervention of the Spaniards
Álvaro de Bazánand Juan de Cardonawith the reserve turned the battle, both in the Centre and in Doria's South Wing.
Uluj Ali was forced to flee with 16 galleys and 24 galliots, abandoning all but one of his captures. During the course of the battle, the Ottoman Commander's ship was boarded and the Spanish
tercios from 3 galleys and the Turkish janissaries from seven galleys fought on the deck of the "Sultana". Twice the Spanish were repelled with great loss, but at the third attempt, with reinforcements from Álvaro de Bazán's galley, they prevailed. Müezzenzade Ali Pasha was killed and beheaded, against the wishes of Don Juan. However, when his head was displayed on a pike from the Spanish flagship, it contributed greatly to the destruction of Turkish morale. Even after the battle had clearly turned against the Turks, groups of Janissaries still kept fighting with all they had. It is said that at some point the Janissaries ran out of weapons and started throwing oranges and lemons at their Christian adversaries, leading to awkward scenes of laughter among the general misery of battle. [Geoffrey Parker, "The Military Revolution", p. 88]
The battle concluded around 4 pm. The Turkish fleet suffered the loss of about 210 ships -- of which 117 galleys, 10 galliots and three fustas were captured and in good enough condition for the Christians to keep. On the Christian side 20 galleys were destroyed and 30 were damaged so seriously that they had to be scuttled. One Venetian galley was the only prize kept by the Turks; all others were abandoned by them and recaptured.
Uluj Ali, who had captured the flagship of the Maltese Knights, succeeded in extricating most of his ships from the battle when defeat was certain. Although he had cut the tow on the Maltese flagship in order to get away, he sailed to Constantinople, gathering up other Ottoman ships along the way and finally arriving there with 87 vessels. He presented the huge Maltese flag to Sultan Selim who thereupon bestowed upon him the honorary title of "kιlιç" (Sword); Uluj thus became known as Kιlιç Ali Pasha.
The Holy League had suffered around 7,500 soldiers, sailors and rowers dead, but freed about as many Christian prisoners. Turkish casualties were around 25,000, and at least 3,500 were captured.
The engagement was a crushing defeat for the Ottomans, who had not lost a major naval battle since the fifteenth century. To half of Christendom, this event encouraged hope for the downfall of "the Turk", whom they regarded as the "Sempiternal Enemy of the Christian". Indeed, the Empire lost all but 30 of its ships and as many as 30,000 men, and some Western historians have held it to be the most decisive naval battle anywhere on the globe since the
Battle of Actiumof 31 BC.
Despite the significant victory, however, the Holy League's disunity prevented the victors from capitalizing on their triumph. Plans to seize the
Dardanellesas a step towards recovering Constantinoplefor Christendom, were ruined by bickering amongst the allies. With a massive effort, the Ottoman Empire rebuilt its navy and imitated the successful Venetian galeasses. By 1572, more than 150 galleys and 8 galleasses had been built, adding eight of the largest capital ships ever seen in the Mediterranean.J. Norwich, "A History of Venice", 490] Within six months a new fleet of 250 ships (including 8 galleasses) was able to reassert Ottoman naval supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean.L. Kinross, "The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire", 272] On 7 March 1573 the Venetians thus recognized by treaty the Ottoman possession of Cyprus, which had fallen to the Turks under Piyale Pashaon 3 August 1571, just two months before Lepanto, and remained Turkish for the next three centuries, and that summer the Ottoman navy ravaged the geographically vulnerable coasts of Sicily and southern Italy. A Turkish Grand Vizier famously said "In wresting Cyprus from you we deprived you of an arm; in defeating our fleet you have only shaved our beard. An arm when cut off cannot grow again; but a shorn beard will grow all the better for the razor."
Despite their claims however, the Ottoman's losses proved in fact of strategic importance. While the ships were relatively easily replaced, it proved much harder to man them, since so many experienced sailors, oarsmen and soldiers had been lost. Especially critical was the loss of most of the Empire's
composite bowmen, which, far beyond ship rams and early firearms, were the Ottoman's main embarked weapon. Historian John Keegannotes that the losses in this highly specialised class of warrior were irreplaceable in a generation, and in fact represented "the death of a living tradition" for the Ottomans."A History Of Warfare" - Keegan, John, Vintage, 1993] In the end a large number of convicts also had to be used to replace the Christian slaves that had escaped.Fact|date=July 2008
In 1574 the Ottomans retook the strategic city of
Tunisfrom the Spanish supported Hafsiddynasty, that had been re-installed when Don Juan's forces reconquered the city from the Ottomans the year before. With their long-standing alliance with the French coming into play they were able to resume naval activity in the western Mediterranean. In 1579 the capture of Fez completed Ottoman conquests in Moroccothat had begun under Süleyman the Magnificent. The establishment of Ottoman suzeraintyover the area placed the entire coast of the Mediterranean from the Straits of Gibraltarto Greece(with the exceptions of the Spanish controlled trading city of Oranand strategic settlements such as Melillaand Ceuta) – under Ottoman authority. However the loss of so many of its experienced sailors at Lepanto sapped the fighting effectiveness of the Ottoman navy, a fact underlined by their minimizing confrontations with Christian navies in the years immediately after. Historian Paul K. Davis said:
"This Turkish defeat stopped Turkey's expansion into the Mediterranean, thus maintaining western dominance, and confidence grew in the west that Turks, previously unstoppable, could be beaten."Davis, Paul K. "100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present"]
Thus, this victory for the Holy League was historically important not only because the Turks lost 80 ships sunk and 130 captured by the Allies, and 30,000 men killed (not including 12,000 Christian galley slaves who were freed) while allied losses were only 7,500 men and 17 galleys - but because the victory heralded the end of Turkish supremacy in the Mediterranean. [ [http://www.trivia-library.com/b/famous-battles-in-history-the-turks-and-christians-at-lepanto.htm] ]
The Holy League credited the victory to the
Virgin Mary, whose intercessionwith God they had implored for victory through the use of the Rosary. Andrea Doria had kept a copy of the miraculous image of our Our Lady of Guadalupegiven to him by King Philip II of Spainin his ship's state room. [cite book|last=Badde|first=Paul|title=Maria von Guadalupe. Wie das Erscheinen der Jungfrau Weltgeschichte schrieb|id=ISBN 3548605613] Pius V instituted a new Catholic feast day of Our Lady of Victoryto commemorate the battle, which is now celebrated by the Catholic Churchas the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. [ [http://www.udayton.edu/mary/questions/yq/yq103.html Answers to Recent Questions ] ]
Depictions in art and culture
The significance of Lepanto has inspired artists in various fields. There are many pictorial representations of the battle, including two in the
Doge's Palacein Venice: by Paolo Veronese(above) in the "Sala del Collegio" and by Andrea Vicentinoon the walls of the "Sala dello Scrutinio", which replaced Tintoretto's "Victory of Lepanto", destroyed by fire in 1577. Titian's "Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto", using the battle as a background, hangs in the Prado in Madrid. The picture at the top of this article is the work of an unknown artist.
The American abstract painter
Cy Twomblyrefers with 12 big pictures ('Lepanto', 2001) to the battle, one of his main works.
The English author
G. K. Chestertonwrote a poem , first published in 1911 and republished many times since. It provides a series of poetic visions of the major characters in the battle, particularly the leader of the Christian forces, Don Juan of Austria ( John of Austria). It closes with verses linking Miguel de Cervantes, who fought in the battle, with the "lean and foolish knight" he would later immortalize in " Don Quixote".
The Italian author
Emilio Salgarireferences the Battle of Lepanto in his novel " Il Leone di Damasco" published in 1910.
The Battle of Lepanto also inspired the name of a common anti-Turkey opening used by Italian and Austrian players in the board game Diplomacy. A successful
Lepanto openingleaves Turkey effectively crippled and with almost no options left in the game. At the same time, a failed Lepanto can result in a serious loss of momentum for the allied forces.
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*Chesterton, G. K. "Lepanto with Explanatory Notes and Commentary", Dale Ahlquist, ed. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2003). ISBN 1-58617-030-9
*Cook, M.A. (ed.), "A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730", Cambridge University Press, 1976; ISBN 0-521-20891-2
*Currey, E. Hamilton, "Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean", John Murrey, 1910
*Hanson, Victor D. "Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power", Anchor Books, 2001. Published in the UK as "Why the West has Won", Faber and Faber, 2001. ISBN 0-571-21640-4. Includes a chapter about the battle of Lepanto
*Hess, Andrew C. "The Battle of Lepanto and Its Place in Mediterranean History", "Past and Present", No. 57. (Nov., 1972), pp. 53–73
*Stevens, William Oliver. "A History of Sea Power" New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942
*"Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles", third revision by George Bruce, 1979
*Warner, Oliver "Great Sea Battles" (1968) has "Lepanto 1571" as its opening chapter. ISBN 0-89673-100-6
*"The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume I - The Renaissance 1493-1520", edited by G. R. Potter, Cambridge University Press 1964
* [http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2007/0703fea2.asp The Battle that Saved the Christian West]
* [http://jloughnan.tripod.com/lepanto.htm Overview of the battle]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040703063753/http://www.angelfire.com/ga4/guilmartin.com/Lepanto.html "The Tactics of the Battle of Lepanto Clarified: The Impact of Social, Economic, and Political Factors on Sixteenth Century Galley Warfare"] - Very detailed background and description by John F. Guilmartin
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ga4/guilmartin.com/CEHD.html Lepanto: The Battle that Saved Christendom?] - Prepared for the Centre d'Études d'Histoire de la Défense Conference by John F. Guilmartin, Jr
* [http://www.lepanto.org "Lepanto cultural center]
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Saturday, September 16, 2017
Obstacles that impede the soulful path
Two of our three biggest obstacles along the path of life are our beliefs and attitudes. Our beliefs are tied to our value system, which is ingrained into our consciousness by our upbringing and experiences. What we value in life tells a lot about what we believe, who we are and where we are going.
An attitude is the feeling we have regarding our beliefs. Through our attitudes we defend our values by engaging in selective perception. This is the ability to disregard anything that challenges what we believe. Although it is important to have a value system it is necessary to be open to the values of others if you are to Soul Walk. One of our biggest challenges is to be nonjudgmental, tolerant and compassionate, as well as open toward others who may have opposing views
If we hold too firmly to our attitudes and beliefs they can get tainted with deception, greed, anger and pride. An attitude is how you feel about something. A belief is what you value. If you believe that the greatest value is kindness than your attitude will reflect honesty, generosity, love and humility. What does this have to do with yoga? Yoga is about removing the obstacles that prevent us from finding happiness, joy and peace. Yoga reminds us to be honest, generous, loving and humble Let’s get started…
Two of our biggest obstacles along the path of life are our beliefs and attitudes. Beliefs are tied to what we value and our attitudes are feelings about what we believe. Believe in the value of nonjudgement, tolerance and compassion and your attitude towards all of life will be respectful and benevolent.

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A pair of boxed silver bullets from Joe Johnston’s 2010 fantasy horror film, The Wolfman.
Brought back to his family’s estate to investigate the death of his brother, Shakespearean actor Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro) finds himself bitten by a werewolf. Suffering fits and terrible dreams he eventually recovers, but it’s not long before the darkness within him is unleashed.
This bullet and others like it can be seen during the later scenes of the movie when Detective Abberline (Hugo Weaving) and his assistant follow the Wolfman in a carriage back to Dartmoor, equipped with silver bullets to take down the supernatural beast.
Made from metal, the two bullets 455 calibre casings are made from brass with silver coloured tips and display engraved text on the underside reading ‘M&S, 455 MK II’. The bullets come housed inside a distressed brown box made from thin MDF with silver coloured designs on every corner.
The bullets exhibit minor scratches and the set displays minor wear from production use, but the bullets and box remain in overall excellent condition.
Materials: Ferrous Metals, Wood.
Item size - 3.15" x 2.76" x 1.57" (8cm x 7cm x 4cm)
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In this paper we will discuss about the business deal made by Volkswagen AG (VW). In March 2008, VW disclosed its plans to acquire Scania AB, a Swedish truck manufacturer. The deal amount would reach upto 4.37 million US dollars.
VW wanted to expand their heavy truck business in several countries like Brazil and Russia. Moreover, the company aimed to grow rapidly through this deal to face the challenges from some big names in the truck industry, like, AB Volvo, Daimler AG.
In 2008, VW, Volkswagen AG, an international brand portal providing several informations about vehicles, announced that it would own Scania AB, a truck manufacturer of Sweden. The whole business deal would be worth 4.37 billion dollars.
Objectives of the Deal:
The Volkswagen AG wanted to consolidate its position in the global truck industry.
Through the deal, VW aimed to grow quickly so that it could challenge the other big guns like, AB Volvo, Daimler AG etc.
The deal could advance the chances of merger between VW and MAN AG. However, VW held almost 30% stake in MAN AG.
VW wanted to spread its heavy truck business in some big developing countries like Brazil, China, Russia.
VW would capture 68.6% shares in Scania AB.
Volkswagen was ready to purchase Scania AB’s stake from the Investor AB that had been controlled by the Wallenberg Foundations and the Wallenberg family of Sweden.
Wallenberg Foundations would receive gain 994 million euros from this deal.
The Swedish investor, Investor AB, would receive almost 2.85 billion dollars or 17.6 billion Swedish kronor from this deal.


What do Lil Wayne, Vinny Guadagnino and dirty-old-man jokes all have in common? Well, not much. But that doesn’t stop the famous rapper from swinging by the former “Jersey Shore” star’s Staten Island home–where he still lives with his mother–to talk shop, take a leak and chow down on a home-cooked meal in this trailer for “The Show with Vinny.”
Soon enough, Vin will host his own MTV series “where celebrities come to keep it real,” he says in the video below. It’s also where his family, most notably his unfiltered Uncle Nino, make off-color comments that rival the inappropriateness of Al Roker’s recent shart confession. “I’m 10 percent black… all in one place though,” Nino shares with Wayne over a nice side dish of broccoli rabe. There’s no such thing as TMI in this big Italian household.
Pass the Grappa and watch the trailer, y’all. You’ve never before seen a man so thrilled to show his guest to the bathroom.
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Creativity is the active ingredient of faith,
the catalyst that converts dreams to plans.
Visit Thunderclap and click a social link to support the book via Twitter, Facebook, or both. Get the word out to your friends and followers and ask them to do the same. All supported messages will publish simultaneously on June 2 at 9:00a EST. Help Think Like a Five Year Old to go viral!
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While creativity is about you working,
it’s also about God working the spiritual work of recreation in you.
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You must get used to recognizing the idea and capturing it
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As an image or representation of God, when we create,
we reflect the character of God and the glory of God.
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Len Wilson is an author, speaker, and advocate for creativity in faith and life. He is known for his pioneering work in visual storytelling and has consulted with organizations and ministries across the country. Len is the author or co-author of ten books, has been featured in dozens of articles for major religious periodicals, and has acquired leadership books for Abingdon Press, a division of the United Methodist Publishing House. He currently serves as Creative Director at Peachtree, a large church in Atlanta, Georgia. Follow Len at lenwilson.us or on Twitter at @Len_Wilson.
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My passion is to foster personal and congregational creativity, to guide great ideas to sustainable innovation and change, and to help the church communicate the gospel more effectively through a culture of creativity and storytelling.
Innovation that leads to growth and vitality can happen in a variety of settings: strategic thinking, leadership, worship and arts, communication, mission, discipleship, and more. But the foundation is the same. A key to vitality is to move yourself and others from consumption, where we are conformed to patterns of decline, to creativity, where we are transformed by our God-given impulse and calling to make things new.
I am passionate about helping your church discover how creative thinking can increase congregational vitality. Contact me for workshop ideas and details.

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If you’re an enthusiast of the indie singer-song writer/folk type, chances are you’ve heard of Joe Pug. He’s got the spirit of Bob Dylan with his poetic lyrics, tinny instruments and hearty harmonica routine (but he’s got a much prettier voice…sorry Bob) and he’s made a name for himself in the genre since the release of his first EP, Nation of Heat in 2008. He’s also a regular visitor to Urbana’s Canopy Club, his most recent show back in February, which he absolutely ROCKED.
Pug’s newest album, The Great Despiser, doesn’t disappoint. Beginning the album is “Hymn #76,” a song with a title reminiscent of a few of his older tracks (Hymns #35 and #101). It’s nice and slow paced with purely bass and guitar accompaniment. The lyrics are piercingly poetic; he sings, “To meet me is to dare into the darkness / If you are devoted to a dream,” and “To love me is to sit upon the mountain / Every step is harder than the last.”
As the album progresses, Pug deviates from this slow, soft, folk ballad trend and starts to delve into his more country and rock-sound. “The Great Despiser”, the song giving the album its name, was not my personal favorite of the set—-it is twangy and honestly kind of cheesy in production. During the instrumental breaks, I initially felt I could have just as easily have been listening to a CMT hit, but in the end, Pug’s lyrics and soul made the song worth listening to.
He gets back to what he’s known for—the driving, but folky tune—with the track “Ours”, which encompasses some pretty cool harmonies and tasteful layering of instruments, creating one of the more innovative sounds heard on the record.
Pug proceeds interweaving genres, slow and fast, throughout the rest of the album; he includes some shades of Old Time Music with the addition of a fiddler in “The Servant’s Aces”, and a more rocky, even Beatles-y feel in “Neither Do I Need a Witness”.
Honestly, I had to listen to the album a few times to get a true handle on it. I was confused, because individually all of the songs were well produced and cohesive. But when all strung together, with the variety of sounds and genres represented, the tracks formed a strangely diverse tapestry that I did not at first understand.
On my third listen, I grasped what I was listening to—the conglomerations provided in The Great Despiser tell a story lyrically, but musically, too. It represents the plethora of sides of Pug’s musical self in each song, truly fulfilling each of these sides.
The last track, “Deep Dark Wells”, is still echoing in my ears (perhaps because I’m listening to it as I write this). Pug sings, “as long as you’re not finished, you can start all over again.” And it’s funny, because when that song comes to an end, my iTunes graciously starts the album from the beginning again for me, with “Hymn #76”, and it circles together really beautifully. So I hope you give it a listen. And if you like it, when you’re finished, you can, in Pug’s words, “start all over again.”
Rating: W — P — G
Key Tracks: “Hymn #76”, “Ours”, and “Deep Dark Wells”
RIYL: Blitzen Trapper, Bob Dylan, and Delta Spirit
Check out : “The Great Despiser”


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Who’s been to Lobo’s Coffee Roasters it’s such an amazing new coffee shop with great drinks to sip on and yummy pastries!
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Posted by Jessie T on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 4:22pm.
Did I do these right? Can someone let me know if I did them correctly? I had someone help me with the problems but know I want to make sure their the right answers?
1. Methane burns in oxygen according to the following equation:
CH4 + 2O2 ----> CO2 + 2H2O
What is the mass of CO2 produced when 3.4 grams O2 reacts according to the above reaction?
After doing the calculations I got 2.3g, is that correct? Did I do that right?
2. Determine the number of moles of MgO that form from the reaction of 4.4 moles of O2 in the following unbalanced reaction:
Mg + O2 ----> MgO
The balanced equation I get is:
2Mg + O2 ----> 2MgO
a. 1.1 moles
b. 4.4 moles
c. 17.6 moles
d. 2.2 moles
e. 8.8 moles
What I get after doing the calculations is d. 2.2 moles, is that correct? Did I do that right?
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10 May The eleventh edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will begin at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai and the first match of the season will be. Provides IPL T20 match schedule. There are no matches for the selected filter. Note: The VIVO IPL schedule is subject to change. IST: Indian Standard Time. 30 Mar Get IPL match schedule list, play off, fixtures and upcoming matches. Complete chart or time table for IPL season 11 with dates, timings.
24 Apr Cricket News: Indian Premier League (IPL), the world's most prestigious and cash-rich Twenty20 tournament, is back again with its 11th edition. 25 Apr Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) Upcoming Match Schedule - Find a list of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) Upcoming Match Schedule in IPL Season with. 25 Apr Mumbai Indians (MI) Upcoming Match Schedule - Find a list of Mumbai Indians ( MI) Upcoming Match Schedule in IPL Season with full list.
18 Apr You can get IPL Schedule Full List Time Table and other details here. The 11th season of Indian Premier League will see 51 matches be. In cricket, a captain is a player who leads the team and has additional roles and responsibilities. The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional league for Twenty20 in at least one IPL match. The list is initially organised by the number of matches as a captain and if the numbers are tied, the list is sorted by last name . The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a domestic, annual Twenty20 cricket tournament in India, The team that wins the final match is crowned the Indian Premier League champion. Altogether, thirteen teams have played in the past ten seasons. 5 May Chennai Super Kings (CSK) IPL Schedule: Full list, fixtures, match time, tickets, venue and where to watch - All you need to know about. 7 Apr Delhi Daredevils (DD) IPL schedule: Full list, fixtures, match time, tickets, venue and where to watch - All you need to know about Delhi.
8 May Rajasthan Royals (RR) IPL schedule: Full list, fixtures, match time, tickets, venue and where to watch - All you need to know about. 3 May Kolkata Knight Riders will play the first match of IPL against Royal Challengers Bangalore on April 8. KKR will play 14 matches- 7 at. 7 Apr IPL time table, schedule, song, date, teams, squads, venues, list of matches ; all you need to know. IPL The 11th edition of the Indian. 2 days ago In last night's IPL Eliminator match Kolkata beat the Rajasthan Royals by 25 runs at the Eden Gardens with man-of-the-match Andre Russell.

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The E7515B UXM 5G Wireless Test Set from Keysight is 5G Network Emulation Solution to test 5G devices. Supporting the latest 3GPP Release 15 and beyond, the UXM 5G enables users to establish a 5G call with a device under test (DUT) in different 5G NR deployment modes (non-stand alone (NSA) and stand-alone (SA) and frequency bands (FR1 and FR2) and perform signaling test in terms of device RF characteristics, protocol compliance and functional key performance indicators. It also supports LTE and C-V2X signaling formats.
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Ana Castillo’s epistolary novella contains a series of loosely connected, fictionalized letters to Alicia from protagonist Teresa. At the beginning of the text, Castillo includes a table of contents that instructs the reader to choose one of several orders in which to read the letters based on his or her preference, whether the reader is a conformist, a cynic, or quixotic. Because each letter is self-contained, Castillo also suggests reading them haphazardly.
In Letter One, Teresa writes to Alicia to discuss the plan for who will drive the two girlfriends from Los Angeles to Mexico. Teresa suggests several relatives, including her Tia Filomena, Tio Cino, and cousin Ignacio. Teresa also wanders, reflecting on her family’s obsession with marriages, especially her failed one that has left her a divorcee at thirty years old.
Letter Two is a free verse poem to Alicia on her thirtieth birthday, which reflects on how the two women won’t have to tolerate less-than-stellar men any more.
Letter Three is a longer piece about the summer when Alicia and Teresa first met as exchange students at an arts college in Mexico City. The two women struck up an intense friendship despite their differences in personality and circumstance. Teresa describes how the relationship became tumultuous because of the passionate love they shared, based on a desire to see the other become the best version of herself.
The next letter is a brief note explaining why Teresa stopped attending church after a priest probed her to confess sexual sins she had not yet committed at the age of eighteen.
In Letter Five, Teresa remembers the time Alicia told her about Alicia’s gypsy grandmother—and how Alicia’s family rejected the gypsies in their lineage in favor of American ideals.
Letter Six is about the end of Alicia’s love affair with Adan, an Indian hotel manager in Acapulco who hid his wife and children from her when she remained in Mexico after the summer she and Teresa met.
Letter Seven discusses Alicia’s letter that she received from Adan many years later, while dating an unreliable addict named Rodney in New York. The theme of the letter is how women are expected to revolve their lives around their husbands, relinquishing their female friendships.
Letter Eight continues the theme from the previous one, recalling Teresa’s last few days with Alicia in New York before Teresa reunites with her estranged husband in California. In the next letter, Teresa explains how a series of failed business ventures and disrespect from her husband, Libra, spurred her to leave him for good.
Letter Ten is a free flowing poetic piece about the summer of 1976 in San Francisco when Teresa, Alicia, and another childhood friend were caught up in the social movements of the time.
Letters Eleven and Twelve deal explicitly with sexuality. In the latter, Teresa recalls the night Alicia discovered her lifelong lover, Rodney, with another woman after returning to their apartment in New York at the end of the San Francisco summer. This letter also introduces the theme of race, since Rodney is black and Alicia is white.
Letter Thirteen dives into a meditation on race, beginning with Teresa’s admission that she hated white women because society prizes them. Her experiences led her to initially loathe Alicia, until she realized that many of her assumptions were wrong.
Letter Fifteen picks up where the previous one left off, with Teresa describing all the ways Alicia is physically beautiful, despite her self-consciousness.
Letter Sixteen underscores Teresa’s identity as a free spirit, and the moment when she and Alicia first began conspiring to return to Mexico.
Letters Seventeen and Eighteen present two encounters that Teresa and Alicia has in Mexico with men. Men always seem to be interested in Teresa, though she always rejects them. In contrast, Alicia is so desperate for male attention that she is indiscriminate in seeking it from anyone. Teresa feels guilty about this discrepancy between them.
Letter Nineteen discusses the proposal from Sergio Sarmosa, a rich entrepreneur whom Teresa considers marrying out of desire for security. She hints that his attention toward her was less than genuine, though she doesn’t provide details.
Letters Twenty and Twenty-One describes the dangers the two friends faced during their travels in Mexico after a military coup d’etat changes the environment seemingly overnight.
In Letters Twenty-Two through Twenty-Four, Teresa addresses Alicia’s near-assault in Babylonia in between two anecdotes in which the travelers encountered an evil spirit in the haunted house of two polite yet forward engineers. The next letter details another dilemma the pair encountered as they left Babylonia for Mexico City, after they agreed to take a free ride from two lecherous older businessmen. When they return to Mexico City unscathed thanks to crafty lies, Teresa receives a telegram from Sergio breaking off their relationship—an even that is discussed in Letter Twenty-Six.
Letter Twenty-Seven is about Teresa’s metaphorical dream of Mexico and its good and bad aspects.
Letters Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine are about Teresa’s intensely passionate affair with Alexis Vallidolid, a virtuoso flamenco guitarist and Alicia’s Spanish cousin, who moved back with Teresa to Chicago for a time.
Letter Thirty briefly discusses Alicia’s return to art school, and her vows of celibacy that she soon breaks after finding a new roommate when El Gallo returned home.
Letter Thirty-One describes the heart-rending pain Teresa felt after ending a pregnancy at three months. Alexis had asked her to have an abortion, which triggers the brutal end of their relationship. The following letter is Teresa’s reflection on how she allowed a man to demean and control her. Letter Thirty-Three continues this reflective mood, as Teresa writes a poem from Alexis’ perspective after she bumps into him at a nightclub many years after their breakup.
In the next letter, Teresa provides commentary on Alicia’s first solo art showing, revealing how distant their friendship has become over the years.
Letters Thirty-Four and Thirty-Five deal with the subject of children and family. While Teresa now plans on raising her son in Mexico, Alicia is childless because the abortion she underwent at age seventeen also included sterilization—which Alicia did not fully understand or consent to at the time.
Letters Thirty-Six through Thirty-Eight further explore the breakdown of Teresa and Alicia’s friendship, which the former attributes to the suffocating influence that Abdel held over Alicia’s mood.
In the penultimate letter, Teresa explains how her estranged husband became the father of her son Vittorio—and how Alicia stepped up to be his godmother.
The final letter of the book recalls the ordinary day on which Alicia returns to her apartment in New York to discover Abdel had shot himself in their kitchen.
The letters are in non-chronological order and provide a collage of a lifelong friendship that has provided each woman with so much that helped her discover herself.

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As any salon or barbershop knows, business rates are an unfair and outdated tax on ‘bricks and mortar’ businesses. The fact that online retailers pay so little in business rates just rubs salon into the wound. Against a backdrop of rising labour costs and falling consumer confidence, high street retailers pay over £7bn in business rates each year, whereas online companies pay only £457m between them.
Salons and barbershops feel they are penalised for having high street and town centre properties, which are no longer the desirable, prime locations they once were. While the number of barbershops and beauty salons are on the rise, the disappearance of so many household names from the high street means footfall in town centres has dropped by 17% over the last 10 years.
But the Chancellor has ruled out the fundamental reform to business rates that the NHBF has long been calling for. In a letter to MPs he said there was “no consensus on an alternative base” for calculating rates bills but he did acknowledge that the government needs “to find a better way of taxing the digital economy”.
Philip Hammond said he would not examine the issue of business rates until he has considered reforms to other corporate taxes. The chair of the Treasury Select Committee, Nicky Morgan, announced that business rates would come under further scrutiny ahead of the autumn budget inquiry, saying the committee was “increasingly concerned with the financial burden that business rates are placing on high street businesses.”
In its response to a recent inquiry by the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee on high streets and town centres in 2030, the NHBF once again called for action on business rates after survey findings revealed that 42% of members had seen their business rates increase following last year’s revaluation.
NHBF chief executive, Hilary Hall said, “Salons and barbershops are the backbone of the high street. We risk losing their strong community presence because of so many rising costs, including business rates. We urge the government to come up with a business tax system which is fair to both ‘bricks and mortar’ premises and online retailers.”

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Huron-Wendat Nation Consultation and Accommodation Protocol
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Huron-Wendat Nation Consultation and Accommodation Protocol Agreement
The Huron-Wendat Nation
The government of Canada,
as represented by the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada ("Canada")
Hereinafter collectively referred to as the "parties"
Whereas the Constitution Act, 1982 recognizes and confirms Aboriginal and treaty rights;
Whereas the Crown has a constitutional obligation to consult and, where appropriate, accommodate Aboriginal communities when it contemplates any conduct that may adversely impact established or potential Aboriginal or Treaty rights, or related interests;
Whereas the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed in 1990 in Sioui the existence and the validity of the 1760 Huron-British Treaty;
Whereas Canada recognizes the existence of a relationship based on the 1760 Huron-British Treaty with the Huron-Wendat Nation;
Whereas the Supreme Court of Canada determined the Sioui decision that the parties contemplated that the rights guaranteed by the treaty could be exercised over the entire territory frequented by the Hurons in 1760 so long as the carrying out of the customs and rites was not incompatible with the particular use made by the Crown of this territory. This interpretation reconciles the Hurons' need to protect the exercise of their customs and the British conquerors' desire for expansion;
Whereas the Huron-Wendat Nation asserts that the 1760 Huron-British Treaty rights apply over the territory called Nionwentsïo, of which it has filed a map in the Federal Court of Canada (Application for Judicial Review T-699-09, map included in Grand Chief Konrad Sioui's affidavit dated September 9, 2011), the most recent version of which was submitted to Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC);
Whereas the Huron-Wendat Nation asserts that it has a profound cultural and spiritual attachment to the Nionwentsïo;
Whereas Canada and the Huron-Wendat Nation wish to establish a clear and effective process that they can follow in order to comply with the constitutional obligation to consult and, if applicable, accommodate pursuant to section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
The parties agree as follows:
- This Agreement sets out a consultation and accommodation process with the Huron-Wendat Nation that may be used whenever Canada contemplates conduct that may affect the 1760 Huron-British Treaty rights and related interests on the Canadian portion of the Nionwentsïo.
- The parties intend to make the process established under this Agreement the preferred approach to meet their mutual obligations with respect to consultation and accommodation.
- This protocol does not constitute a commitment of the parties to sign an agreement or hold consultations on a particular decision, activity or subject.
- The Nionwentsïo Office was established, constituted by and reports to the Council of the Huron-Wendat Nation.
- The Nionwentsïo Office shall act as a coordinator and conduit between the members of the Huron-Wendat Nation, the Council, the proponents and Canada for the receipt, transmission and assessment of information pertaining to the consultation and accommodation process. It shall subsequently recommend actions to the Council with a view to protecting and promoting the rights and interests of the Nation and its current and future members.
- The Nionwentsïo Office favours a partnership approach with Canada and the proponents concerned for the purposes of minimizing the adverse impacts of contemplated conduct on the rights and interests of the Nation and optimizing economic benefits for the Huron-Wendat Nation minimizing adverse impacts, and optimizing socio-economic benefits for the Huron-Wendat Nation.
- The Nionwentsïo Office may inform Canada in writing of any conduct on which the Huron-Wendat wants to be consulted.
Participation of Canada
- Canada participates in the consultation and accommodation process conducted under this Agreement through the federal departments and agencies responsible for the contemplated conduct.
- Federal departments and agencies shall adopt a coordinated approach to consultation and, where appropriate, accommodation in order to promote the effectiveness and efficiency of the process.
- Where appropriate, Canada shall use existing mechanisms and processes, such as the environmental assessment and regulatory approval processes (e.g. agencies, boards, private sector and provincial government).
- Federal departments and agencies will present the Nionwentsïo Office with a list of consultation activities they plan to undertake with the Huron-Wendat Nation during each fiscal year.
Preliminary Stage of the Consultation and Accommodation Process
- When Canada contemplates a particular conduct on the Canadian portion of Nionwentsïo that may have an adverse impact on the 1760 Huron-British Treaty rights and related interests of the Huron-Wendat Nation, it shall inform the Nionwentsïo Office.
- The Nionwentsïo Office may request information from Canada with respect to any contemplated conduct on the Canadian portion of Nionwentsïo in order to determine whether the conduct may have adverse impact, including negative cumulative effects, on 1760 Huron-British Treaty rights and related interests.
- The Nionwentsïo Office shall review the information provided concerning the contemplated conduct and shall notify Canada:
- that consultation is not required and that the Huron-Wendat Nation will not oppose the contemplated conduct; or
- that the contemplated conduct may have adverse impact, including cumulative effects, on 1760 Huron-British Treaty rights and related interests for reasons that the Nionwentsïo Office shall set out, and that the Huron-Wendat Nation wants to be consulted
- of its perspective regarding the scope of the consultation process and the appropriate accommodation for the circumstances.
- Canada shall determine, where appropriate, the scope of the consultation and accommodation process based on its preliminary assessment of the strength of the assertions of rights by the Huron-Wendat Nation, taking into account the 1760 Huron-British Treaty rights and the anticipated scope of adverse impact on 1760 Huron-British Treaty rights and related interests.
Consultation and Accommodation Process
- Where Canada wishes to initiate consultation under this Agreement, it shall provide notification in writing to the Nionwentsïo Office that on the record consultation, is intended in regards to a particular contemplated conduct.
- Canada shall provide to the Nionwentsïo Office relevant and available information with respect to the contemplated conduct, including a list of other First Nations to be consulted with respect to the contemplated conduct, and a reasonable period of time to determine whether the conduct may have adverse impact, including cumulative effects, on 1760 Huron-British Treaty rights and related interests and, if so, the extent of such impact.
- The Nionwentsïo Office shall, within a reasonable period of time:
- assess the information provided by Canada;
- explain to Canada the nature and scope of the 1760 Huron-British Treaty rights and related interests on which the contemplated conduct may have adverse impact, including any cumulative effects;
- specify the effect and extent of the adverse impact of the contemplated conduct by Canada on the1760 Huron-British Treaty rights and related interests of the Huron-Wendat Nation;
- propose, where appropriate, accommodation measures to reconcile the rights and interests of each party.
- Canada shall consider the information communicated by the Nionwentsïo Office.
- If necessary, the parties shall work together in order to implement appropriate accommodation measures to eliminate or reduce, where appropriate, any adverse impact of the contemplated conduct. If the parties agree that it is impossible to eliminate or significantly reduce the adverse impact of the contemplated conduct, the Crown shall determine whether compensation, monetary or non-monetary, could be provided to the Huron-Wendat Nation. The Crown may also rely on that such compensation provided by the proponent concerned.
- Canada shall respond to the information communicated to it by the Nionwentsïo Office and explain how that information will be taken into consideration in the decision-making process relating to the contemplated conduct.
- Canada notes that other First Nations assert that they have Aboriginal and Treaty rights over Nionwentsïo. When Canada consults more than one First Nation, it is of the opinion that it must take into consideration the information that it is given by all these First Nations.
- The consultation and accommodation process under this Agreement does not constitute a commitment by any party to undertake consultation or to reach an agreement in respect of any particular conduct.
- Nothing in this Agreement is intended to alter any statutory or regulatory requirements to which Canada is subject.
- The consultation and accommodation process under this Agreement is optional and does not prevent the parties from participating in consultations independent of the consultation and accommodation process under this Agreement.
- This Agreement is not subject to settlement privilege and may be tendered as evidence in a court of law or other legal proceeding.
- Consultation conducted pursuant to this Agreement is not subject to settlement privilege, and evidence respecting consultation activities may be tendered as evidence in a court of law or other legal proceeding.
- Nothing in this Agreement is intended to:
- alter or define the constitutional duty to consulter and, where applicable, accommodate;
- prevent the Huron-Wendat Nation from relying on any common law or statutory right they may have respecting the duty to consult and, where applicable, accommodate;
- represent the views of, or be interpreted as admissions by, any of the parties with respect to the nature and scope of the duty to consult;
- prevent the Huron-Wendat Nation from seeking in a court of law or other legal proceeding enforcement of the constitutional duty of the Crown to consult and, where appropriate, accommodate;
- recognize, deny, create, extinguish, abrogate, derogate from or define any right, including a1760 Huron-British treaty right recognized or confirmed by section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, that the Huron-Wendat Nation may have.
- Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement, either party may, at any time, terminate by written notice any consultation and accommodation process conducted pursuant to this Agreement.
- Titles and headings in this Agreement are solely for informational purposes and ease of reference, and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of its provisions.
- This Agreement is not confidential and may be made public.
- In respect of any consultation conducted pursuant to this Agreement, records and information may be provided to the parties to the consultation and accommodation process and received by them in confidence. In each case where information is intended to be provided, received and held in confidence, the party providing the information shall so notify the other parties. The parties involved in the consultation and accommodation process shall determine whether the records or information in question should be provided, received and held in confidence. Any records or information that the parties agree to treat confidentially shall be identified as having been provided and received confidentially and shall not be disclosed, unless required by law or by a court. The records and information may, however, circulate freely within the Council of the Huron-Wendat Nation and between federal departments and agencies for the purposes of consultation activities.
- Nothing in the preceding section is intended to prevent any party from tendering records or information as evidence in a court of law or other legal proceeding if the record or information is relevant to an issue of whether the constitutional duty to consult was or was not met or fulfilled through a consultation conducted pursuant to this Agreement.
Parties may proceed without prejudice
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EUREKA, Mo. – A Eureka homeowner says the city messes up the apron of her driveway.
There was a city street project where the City of Eureka paved the street and the aprons of the driveways on the street, except Tina Driver’s. So at her house, half the apron was new, and the other half was old. A large crack formed where the two sides met, and water seeped in.
Driver said she did all she could to get city hall to fix the problem it created.
“Two-thirds of my driveway has the new apron, and the other third does not, so it’s still raised up and cracking,” she said. “I’m kind of aggravated that they are not returning my phone calls at the street department. I’ve left three messages. I haven’t gotten any emails back. I think it’s pretty rude because we do pay our taxes, and at least they could respond.”
FOX 2 contacted Mayor Sean Flower, who promised to immediately look into this deal, and he did.
“I think we had some work that was done a long time ago by the city that wasn’t quite done correctly,” Flower said.
Sure enough, he quickly dispatched crews to fix the problem.
“Once we figured out that the work wasn’t done properly, quick meeting, and then we did the work properly afterward and got it fixed,” Flower said.
Driver said she was happy about the changes.
“I think it’s much better. I’m glad they came out and did what they said they were going to do,” she said. “They didn’t get going at all. I had no response until you were involved.”


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RaceJoy introduces a real-time progress board as part of its Race Day Monitoring System, continuing to provide the new technology breakthroughs for race organizers. Race organizers and timers can now use RaceJoy to monitor the progress of individuals and relay teams as they complete milestones or exchange points on the course in a grid view. Races can also use this to project a leader board to a large screen at the race site to showcase participants using RaceJoy’s live tracking.
Recently, the Peak to Brew Relay, the Northeast’s longest most scenic overnight team relay race at 220+ miles, used RaceJoy’s new progress board to monitor the progress of relay teams as shown above. This is especially helpful to see which teams have completed segments along the course. RaceJoy’s progress board can be filtered and sorted to focus in on specific milestones on the course. It can also be exported into an Excel spreadsheet for further analysis of the data.
To use the progress board, go to your race monitoring page from your RaceJoy access page, select Course Actions, then Progress Board.
Play to see how to view your leaderboard and export the data:
The progress board is one of many features RaceJoy offers events to help manage race day. Another recently introduced feature RaceJoy offers is the ability to issue off-course alerts to participants in audio format. This feature is especially helpful for trail races and ultra-distance races and relays. The Peak to Brew Relay activated this feature and it was especially helpful for participants during this challenging course and helped keep participants on course as shown below.
Interested in offering RaceJoy? Contact us at email@example.com. Check out our website or go to your RunSignUp dashboard to enable. Please note that we require a minimum two-week lead time prior to the event and an official, electronic version of the course (KML/GPX file preferred).


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Linked Data is about enabling computers to search structured information about “things” over the web. The linking methodology is based on the following Semantic Web principles:
1) Things are uniquely identified using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
2) Use HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) URIs, to make those things accessible by computer programs.
3) The knowledge of things is expressed using the W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) and queried via SPARQL.
For the sixth Interoperability Day organized by the French forum of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in 2012, the Lyon metropolis created a first sample of CityGML data in order to test its integration within different market tools. The program of this experiment is described at: http://www.forumogcfrance.org/journee-interoperabilite/archives-2012/programme-77/
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Earlier this month, Steve Liang, chair of the OGC SensorThings Standards Working Group (SWG) received an email from someone planning to implement the candidate SensorThings API on top of the OpenIoT platform. She wanted to get answers to these questions about SensorThings before coding:
Back in 2000, the OGC Members determined that the W3C XLink recommendation was well suited to the requirements for GML 2.0 as well as other OGC standards. However, at that time, W3C did not have a XLink schema. Therefore, the OGC Members decided to define an OGC XLink schema that was based on the W3C XLink recommendation. This XLink schema is now used in numerous OGC standards (See below).
Geospatial Data has always been Big Data. Now Big Data Analytics for geospatial data is available to allow users to analyze massive volumes of geospatial data. Petabyte archives for remotely sensed geodata were being planned in the 1980s, and growth has met expectations. Add to this the ever increasing volume and reliability of real time sensor observations, the need for high performance, big data analytics for modeling and simulation of geospatially enabled content is greater than ever. In the
It was a great personal pleasure for me to attend the the 98th OGC Technical Committee Meeting earlier this month at the World Bank in Washington, DC. The venue, attendees and scope of important work made me immensely proud of the organization that I have served for more than 21 years.
The OGC is participating this week in ATIEC, the 2012 Air Transportation Information Exchange Conference. The conference is focused on achieving global harmonization through collaboration. It runs from Aug 28 to Aug 30, 2012.

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Hospitality venues reopening for outdoor service on 12 April will be allowed to take payment inside if needed, it has been confirmed.
Pubs and restaurants must ensure customers comply with social distancing rules. This includes steps such as having people queue at a safe distance and bringing payment machines to customers wherever possible.
Government guidance updated on 8 April states: "As a last resort, venues that serve alcohol can take payment indoors."
UKHospitality had been discussing the issue with government following concerns over a lack of clarity in the reopening guidance. Chief executive Kate Nicholls tweeted on 6 April: "Following further meetings with Govt's today, we have had confirmation that indoor payment will now be allowed where card payment cannot be processed at table as previously required. Pragmatism!"
Outdoor areas of hospitality can reopen next Monday, including for takeaway alcohol, but with a number of restrictions.
Any premises serving alcohol must offer table service only, though customers are allowed to use indoor toilets.
Updated test and trace rules mean all customers aged 16 and over will be required to provide contact details or check-in by using the NHS app or scanning a QR code.

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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WMBB) — Bay County Tourist Development council members are extending their financial support to Gulf Coast Jam for another three years.
The TDC partnered with the annual country music festival again, agreeing to pay $375,000 for the event every year for the next three years.
Executive Producer Rendy Lovelady said the festival’s partnership with Visit Panama City Beach has been special since the beginning.
“The first year we came to town, literally they stepped off in faith and gave us seed money to actually start a festival,” he said. “Ten years later, it’s changed the relationship from being a seed event to where we’re actually partners in marketing the festival along with the beach.”
Lovelady said 2022’s festival was a successful one. He said the biggest highlights include 80,000 people attending in four days and announcing 2023’s headliner, Morgan Wallen.
VIP tickets have already started to sell out for next year’s event.
“[The TDC board members] have to believe in where they send their money, and I think that makes a big difference, and I think they’ve seen us grow up,” Lovelady said. “They’ve seen us be responsible, so to speak.”
The board voted unanimously to continue the partnership at the monthly meeting on Tuesday morning.
“Gulf Coast Jam would not be Gulf Coast Jam without Panama City Beach… It’s one and the same,” Lovelady said. “So getting a three-year commitment is just, it’s humbling because ten years later, you just never know what people think. Having the same financial commitment, it’s exciting. Looking forward to the next year and the next three years.”
Lovelady also confirmed Gulf Coast Jam has made the permanent move from Labor Day weekend to the first weekend in June.


Noel Whelan has been left raving after Brighton manager Graham Potter confirmed that Ben White would remain with Leeds United until the end of the season.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider assistant editor Russell Edge, the former Leeds striker insists it is “fantastic to hear” that the centre-back will see out the campaign at Elland Road after all the uncertainty in the Championship.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, Potter confirmed that all of the players out on loan, including White, will remain at their current clubs until their respective seasons are completed.
Graham Potter confirms Brighton defender Ben White will finish the season with Championship leaders Leeds, where the defender has been outstanding on loan. Knockaert will remain at Fulham. #lufc #bhafc
— Ben Fisher (@benfisherj) June 11, 2020
White has been a mainstay on loan at Leeds, establishing himself as a crucial part of the club’s push for promotion.
With speculation over Jean-Kevin Augustin’s fitness ahead of the Championship return, Whelan admits the update on White is the good news the Whites need.
Whelan told Football Insider: “It’s fantastic news – when you’ve got a little bit of bad news on one side (Augustin’s injury), Ben White staying for the nine games is fantastic to hear from Brighton.
“It’s great that the player can finish what he started with Leeds United. A massive boost because that just means the partnership can remain the same with Cooper and White together.
“It’s been fantastic all season so that’s a huge plus for Marcelo Bielsa and the team itself to have him available. He wouldn’t want to miss out on these nine, he wants to see out these with Leeds United and it’s great that we’ve got him.”
White, who spent last season on loan at League One Peterborough, has started and played every single minute of Leeds’ 37 Championship games this season.
He has featured just twice for Brighton’s senior side since coming through the youth ranks on the south coast.
In other Leeds United news, Alex Bruce has named the “biggest obstacle” to the Whites being promoted this year.


Of all the places one might rob in Rome, H&M may not seem like an obvious choice. Perhaps that is why it worked for one robber, who, dressed as a security guard, forced an H&M employee to fork over 60 thousand euros (about $83,000) at the store on Monday morning. The store, located on Rome's popular Via del Corso, was opened less than two months ago.
H&M confirmed the robbery in an e-mail to Fashionista, noting that no one was injured and an investigation is underway. "We activated immediately the internal procedures to assist our employees with a psychologist, if needed," a spokesperson wrote.
WWD says that the Zara store located on the same street was also robbed in October, though the story appears not to have been picked up by English-language press.


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Investment returns assumptions are declining among US public pension funds, a February 16 Moody’s Investors Service report noted. At a time when pension investment volatility is high, governments are making higher pension contributions as a result of lowered assumed discount rates, as exemplified by the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) among others.
Public pension returns expectations fall as volatility remains constant
It is a difficult realization to make. The model upon which you based projections has, it turns out, a faulty assumption. In a world with negative interest rates and upside-down economic policy, who could have predicted that interest rates – upon which many pension fund investors depend – would be so low or non-existent.
In the case of public pension funds, this means estimates for returns that drive retirements of government workers need to be adjusted.
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"Out Of Control" Off-Duty Cop "Acting Insanely" Pulls Gun During Altercation At Football GameChris | InformationLiberation
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A witness to an altercation involving an off-duty Montgomery County, Maryland police officer was too afraid to publicly tell what she saw because she "fears retribution" from an "out of control" police officer who was "acting insanely" when he pulled a gun on men he got in a fight with after brushing one of them with his car.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (WUSA) --- University of Maryland police are investigating the actions of an off-duty Montgomery County police officer who is accused of drawing his gun on two men with whom he was having a parking lot altercation during the University of Maryland-University of Connecticut football game here Saturday afternoon.Watch the video report:
Montgomery County Police made headlines recently for beating up a renowned photographer, they claimed he "threw himself" to the ground and "smashed himself" against their police cruiser. They then staked out his house to intimidate him.
Chris runs the website InformationLiberation.com, you can read more of his writings here. Follow infolib on twitter here.


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The government will soon come out with a policy on strategic sectors and simultaneously kick into motion a process of complete privatisation for companies in the non-strategic sectors.
Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj said on Tuesday (July 21) that guidelines on the privatisation of the public sector companies would be out soon.
This is the first time since 1956 that the government has said it will not have state-owned companies in the non-strategic sector — and that the number in the strategic sectors too, would be reduced.
Banking, insurance, defence, and energy are likely to be part of the strategic sector list.
Details and context
Announcing the Atmanirbhar Bharat economic support package in May, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said that the proposed policy would notify the list of strategic sectors requiring the presence of at least one state-owned company along with the private sector.
In all other sectors, the government plans to privatise public sector enterprises, depending upon feasibility. The number of enterprises in strategic sectors will be only one to four, and others would be privatised/merged/brought under a holding company structure.
Finance Ministry officials have indicated that the policy will put out a “general framework” — and that specific decisions on which company is to be privatised, merged, or put under a holding company structure, would be taken later on.
This is expected to be a long-term process rather than a one-time move on the privatisation of companies. After inter-ministerial consultations to finalise strategic sectors, the policy will be put up before approval of the Union Cabinet.
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Will it help privatisation?
The government has already set in motion privatisation plans for large PSU companies BPCL, Air India, Container Corporation of India, and Shipping Corporation of India.
Budget 2020-21 had announced plans to sell part of the Centre’s stake in Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) through an initial public offer (IPO), and the sale of equity in IDBI Bank to private, retail and institutional investors.
The emphasis on privatisation could see companies in chemicals and infrastructure space being privatised, while the government has stated its intent to reduce the number of state-owned banks. This could see some smaller banks being privatised in due course.
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A holding company structure could also be used to house equity of smaller banks in one entity. The government has shifted its focus to having a few very large banks under its fold, and a decision regarding the smaller banks is expected after the policy is unveiled.

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Updates to County Trash Plan Brings Discounts to Seniors
Starting in January, about 15,000 seniors in unincorporated Gwinnett will get a 15 percent discount on trash service, and property owners with valid vacant structure or boarding up permits will be exempt from paying solid waste collection fees.
The senior discount applies to seniors 65 or older with an annual income below $10,000 who have filed a senior homestead exemption, called an L3A, as well as those with incomes up to $25,000 who qualify for a senior school exemption, or L5A. Disabled people with an L5A exemption also will qualify for the discount.
The law defines a vacant structure as unoccupied with no utility usage for 60 days, unfinished when the building permit expired, or being held subject to foreclosure proceedings. Vacant structure permits are valid for one year and are renewable.


THE SMARTER TOGETHER TEAM FROM MUNICH PRESENTS EARLY PROJECT RESULTS AND MEASURES
Smarter Together team members from Munich attended the world’s leading digital trade fair CeBIT in Hannover in March. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, opened CeBIT 2017, held from March 20-24. The German cities of Cologne, Munich and Hamburg presented their innovations at a joint stand of ‘Smart City Forum’.
These three German cities had successfully applied for HORIZON 2020, the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation funding projects such as Smarter Together. At CeBIT, Smarter Together (Munich, Lyon, and Vienna) presented next to Grow Smarter (Cologne, Barcelona, and Stockholm) and mySMARTLife (Hamburg, Helsinki, and Nantes).
The German experts introduced some early results of the Smarter Together project and the measures they are developing in the fields of energy, mobility, IT technology and participation – all addressing the smart city of the future. Digitalisation is a key factor of success for all city applications and crucial for meeting the challenges ahead for modern communities.
The Munich team showcased their street lamps with smart lighting sensors, solutions for providing public wireless connections and adaptive illumination technologies. Together with team members from reTHINK – a project also funded by HORIZON 2020 – they presented the prototype of a mobile app for organising and supporting municipal communities.
CeBIT visitors and experts showed great interest in smart city topics. The international members of different EU projects were delighted to connect and exchange experiences. Additionally, CeBIT provided valuable opportunities to network with visitors from politics, industry and other administrations.


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Award winning gospel singer, Owen Mwatia popularly known as Daddy Owen landed in trouble with a section of his fans after he used a caption where he referred himself as the brains in the family and his wife Farida Wambui as the beauty.
Fans accuse Daddy Owen of belittling wife after using ‘She's the Beauty and I am the Brains’ caption on photo
“Unamaanisha brain mnatumia zako?
“BEAUTY and BRAINS She's the Beauty and I am the Brains. #beautyandbrains” read his caption.
A section of his followers came out to accuse the singer of belittling his wife since he made it look as if she was all beauty and no brains. Others assumed he meant to say “she’s the beauty and I am the beast instead of she's the beauty and I am the brains.
“Unamaanisha brain mnatumia zako😂😂” read one of the comments.
In defense, the vanity hit maker said that his wife was strong and intelligent and that she understood what he meant by the caption.
"she's a strong and intelligent woman. She knows what I mean😂" read Owens response.
Top 20 earners in Kenya
This comes a few days after the Jumapili singer was listed as the 12th most paid artiste by Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK).
He thanked his fans and all the people who have been supporting his music and urged the upcoming singers to shun away from publicity stunts just to be relevant.
"Thankful to see my name among the Top Earners in the Kenyan Music Scene, Glory to Jesus. 🙏🙏🙏 I want to thank you all as my fans for the support, Media and all the people working so hard to make sure artists achieve thr dream. To Mzee Kassanga I know it is not easy but I believe with your wisdom we have started the 1st step. To all upcoming Gospel Ministers, u don't need drama, shenanigans, sideshows, trending and all to spread the Gospel, just do true Gospel songs with substance and will be timeless. I may not be having New songs or trending but substance in Ministry is Key. Worship the LORD in Truth and in Spirit 🙏" shared the singer.
Here are some of the comments;
willisraburu So umeita bibi fala? Hahahahaha just kidding bro looking great 💯
mercykaruru Unamaanisha brain munatumia zako😂😂
bush_i.m She is beauty with brains....you could be the BEAST from the EAST ...
2mbili Broo unamaanisha hana buruwein, ama unataka ku cause pwein
_nepeita 😂😂😂Si vyema
rozana_diamor Mungu nifundishe kunyamaza the caption though😂
joy____arungah You're the head and she's beauty and brains😁....sidhani ye ni tail 😂🔥
pebblesderoh Hapana !!inakuaga beauty and the beast😅😅
temysimmons You mean “Beauty and Beast”??🤔🤔🤔😂😂😂... lots of love tho.
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Clive Cussler grew up in Alhambra, California, and attended Pasadena City College before joining the Air Force. He went on to a successful advertising career, winning many national honours for his copywriting.
Now a full time bestselling author, he has explored the deserts of the American South-West in search of lost gold-mines, dived in isolated lakes in the Rocky Mountains looking for missing aircraft and hunted under the sea for shipwrecks of historic significance, discovering and identifying more than sixty. Like his famous hero Dirk Pitt (r), he is an avid enthusiast of classic cars.
Clive Cussler divides his time between Denver, Colorado and Paradise Valley, Arizona.
Craig Dirgo, who has co-authored the two SEA HUNTERS books with Cussler, is the son of an Air Force colonel and spent his early years on military airfields in the United States and England. A high school kid who liked to hang around Cussler's car collection he became Special Projects director on numerous NUMA expeditions since 1987 and now serves as a trustee.
Successful big American, ‘boys-own’ authors, obviously chasing the mega-bucks and with insufficient time in a year to write more than one, possibly two books, have spawned a new genre. I call it the franchise thriller. Tom Clancy started the trend by writing outlines and farming the graft out to various folk, so we had Tom Clancy’s Powerplay by Jerome Preisler and such. They are good fun but not in the same league as the genuine article. Now Clive Cussler jumps on the bandwagon again so this is not Dirk Pitt, it’s Juan Cabrillo in the first of the Oregan Files series but it’s equally fast and furious improbable stuff, just what you need for pure escapism. Comparisons: Tom Clancy, Stephen Coonts, Chris Ryan.Similar this month: Kyle Mills, Gerald Seymour.


Mrs. Putri Arumsari submitted her paper on “Cost Estimation using Ministerial Regulation of Public Work No. 11/2013 in Construction Projects” in ICEED (International Conference on Eco Engineering Development) held in Yogyakarta, 14-15th November 2017.This paper investigated the difference of the total project cost estimation using the Ministerial Regulation of Public Work No. 11/2013 against the total project cost estimation calculated by the contractor. 2 projects were analyzed in this research.
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Multicore X33-12i is a no-clean, resin free and halide free liquid flux for surfaces with poor solderability.
Maximum process window and sustained activity – without resin
High speed soldering on conventional leaded and SMD
components – no bridges or icicles
Good through-hole penetration
No cleaning – reduces costs
Compatible with resin and OSP based surface preservatives
Easy to applicate as foam, spray or wave methods