HTTP Live Streaming, also known as HLS, is the most common format used today for streaming video. If you're building a video streaming application today, you should probably use HLS. Apple created the HLS standard in 2009, and it is the required streaming format for iOS devices. Since then, Android has added support, as have most other platforms.
HLS is popular for a number of reasons.
HLS can play almost anywhere. There are freely available HLS players on every major platform: web, mobile, and TV.
Apple requires HLS if you want to stream to iOS devices. Because you have to use it anyway, many publishers have decided to use it everywhere.
HLS is relatively simple. It uses common, existing video formats (MP4 or TS, along with codecs like H.264 and AAC), plus an ugly but human-readable text format (m3u).
It works over HTTP, so you don't need to run special servers (unlike old-school RTMP or the newer WebRTC protocol). This makes it much easier to scale with HLS than with another protocol.
There are three parts to any HLS stream.
First is a master manifest. This is a playlist that lists the different sizes and types available for a single video. A typical master manifest will list 3-7 individual renditions - for example, a 480p rendition, a 720p rendition, and a 1080p rendition. The master manifest is passed into an HLS video player, allowing the player to make its own decisions about what rendition gets played.
The master manifest lists multiple media manifests. Each media manifest represents a different rendition of video - a unique resolution, bitrate, and codec combination. For example, one media manifest describes 1080p video at 5 Mbps, while another describes 720p video at 3 Mbps.
These media manifests are also playlists, but instead of listing other manifests, they list URLs to short segments of video. Most often, these segments are between 2 and 10 seconds long, and packaged in the MPEG-TS format, though fragmented MP4 is supported in newer versions of the HLS spec. The reason these files are segmented (or fragmented) is so that a video player can easily switch between renditions in the middle of playback - for example, if bandwidth gets better or worse.
So if you want to stream video using HLS, you need to do three things.
Create the HLS media (segments and manifests). You can do this using an API service like Mux Video or Zencoder, or you can do it by hand with a tool like ffmpeg or Handbrake.
Host the files. Put them on a HTTP server and put a CDN in front.
Load the master manifest in an HLS-compatible player. For example, pass the master manifest - skiing.m3u8 - to an HLS-compatible player, like HLS.js or Video.js.
Pretty much everywhere in 2018.
Web: Every major browser, either using a HTML5 video player like Video.js or HLS.js, or via native playback support in Safari.
TVs: Roku, Apple TV, Xbox, Amazon Fire TV, PS4, Samsung, LG, etc.
Where does it not play?
Web: Internet Explorer 10 and earlier (0.1% market share at the time of writing).
The easiest way to get up and running with HLS video is using a service like Mux Video. After you've signed up for a free account, submit your first video via API (e.g. using curl or a tool like Postman or Insomnia).
Mux Video will encode and package the video to HLS. Note the playback_id - you'll use that in the next step when you actually want to stream the video.
You can also use ffmpeg or another transcoding service to encode your video to HLS.
If you aren't using Mux Video, after creating the HLS stream, upload the m3u8 manifests and TS/fMP4 media files to an HTTP storage platform, and configure a CDN to deliver the media segments. You can use a CDN to deliver your manifests as well, but this can be tricky if you're streaming live video, since the live manifests are updated continuously as the live stream progresses.
To play HLS video in an Android application, see Google's ExoPlayer project. While Android's native Media Player supports HLS out of the box, this support depends on the version of Android, and can be buggy depending on software and hardware combinations. As such, Google created ExoPlayer to standardize support for HLS within Android.
ExoPlayer has sample applications that should help in streaming HLS included in their Github repo. When it comes to creating your media source, pass a Mux Playback URL to the HlsMediaSource.Factory.createMediaSource(uri) call.
Playback of HLS in a web browser is a little bit nuanced. Safari, for instance, supports HLS natively. However, other browsers do not support HLS out of the box, and require the use of a player utilizing Media Source Extensions to support HLS. You can read more about some of the available players in Mux's HLS Playback Support guide.
Follow the instructions for the selected player to load a video. Just be sure to use a Mux Playback URL when loading the source. For instance, see Web Video Playback for an example using HLS.js.
If you don't want to use HLS today, you have one good alternative and a few bad alternatives.
Progressive MP4 is easy to implement but doesn't perform as well in terms of Quality of Experience (as measured by a QoE tool like Mux Data. Just create an MP4 file and let the player download it progressively via range requests. The upside here is simplicity; the downside is that players can't adapt automatically to network conditions. This means viewers with high bandwidth will get lower quality video than they should, while viewers with low (or variable) bandwidth will see rebuffering.
RTMP is pretty much only used as an ingest format today and not a playback format. It's still an acceptable way to stream a live event up to Twitch or Livestream (or Mux Video), but it's no longer used for streaming out of services like these for a number of reasons (including cost, scalability, and the death of Flash).
MPEG-DASH (or just "DASH") is the real alternative to HLS. DASH is conceptually similar to HLS, but uses XML as a manifest format instead of the text-based m3u format. DASH has some advantages over HLS, as well as some disadvantages. Look for a future guide that goes into this in more detail.


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Lestards est une commune française située dans le département de la Corrèze en région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Géographie

Localisation

Commune du Massif central située sur le plateau de Millevaches dans les Monédières et dans le parc naturel régional de Millevaches en Limousin. Elle arrosée par le ruisseau d'Alembre, un petit affluent de la Vézère. Le bourg est situé à  d'altitude et son célèbre col de Lestards se situe à  d'altitude

Climat
Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat de montagne », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du même type de climat dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Pour ce type de climat, la température décroît rapidement en fonction de l'altitude. On observe une nébulosité minimale en hiver et maximale en été. Les vents et les précipitations varient notablement selon le lieu.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent à la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-après.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Bugeat », sur la commune de Bugeat, mise en service en 1996 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Brive », sur la commune de Brive-la-Gaillarde,  mise en service en 1987 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000, à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Lestards est une commune rurale. Elle fait en effet partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
La commune est en outre hors attraction des villes.

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des forêts et milieux semi-naturels (56,9 % en 2018), néanmoins en diminution par rapport à 1990 (64,4 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (46,6 %), prairies (35,2 %), milieux à végétation arbustive et/ou herbacée (10,3 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (7,8 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Risques majeurs
Le territoire de la commune de Lestards est vulnérable à différents aléas naturels : météorologiques (tempête, orage, neige, grand froid, canicule ou sécheresse) et séisme (sismicité très faible). Il est également exposé à un risque technologique, la rupture d'un barrage, et à un risque particulier : le risque de radon. Un site publié par le BRGM permet d'évaluer simplement et rapidement les risques d'un bien localisé soit par son adresse soit par le numéro de sa parcelle.

Risques naturels

Le retrait-gonflement des sols argileux est susceptible d'engendrer des dommages importants aux bâtiments en cas d'alternance de périodes de sécheresse et de pluie. Aucune partie du territoire de la commune n'est en aléa moyen ou fort (26,8 % au niveau départemental et 48,5 % au niveau national). Sur les  dénombrés sur la commune en 2019,  aucun n'est en aléa moyen ou fort, à comparer aux 36 % au niveau départemental et 54 % au niveau national. Une cartographie de l'exposition du territoire national au retrait gonflement des sols argileux est disponible sur le site du BRGM.

Par ailleurs, afin de mieux appréhender le risque d'affaissement de terrain, l'inventaire national des cavités souterraines permet de localiser celles situées sur la commune.

La commune a été reconnue en état de catastrophe naturelle au titre des dommages causés par les inondations et coulées de boue survenues en 1982 et 1999. Concernant les mouvements de terrains, la commune a été reconnue en état de catastrophe naturelle au titre des dommages causés par des mouvements de terrain en 1999.

Risques technologiques
La commune est en outre située en aval du barrage de Monceaux la Virolle, un ouvrage de classe A situé dans le Cantal et disposant d'une retenue de  de mètres cubes. À ce titre elle est susceptible d'être touchée par l'onde de submersion consécutive à la rupture de cet ouvrage.

Risque particulier
Dans plusieurs parties du territoire national, le radon, accumulé dans certains logements ou autres locaux, peut constituer une source significative d'exposition de la population aux rayonnements ionisants. Certaines communes du département sont concernées par le risque radon à un niveau plus ou moins élevé. Selon la classification de 2018, la commune de Lestards est classée en zone 3, à savoir zone à potentiel radon significatif.

Politique et administration

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Démographie

Histoire

Dans le Pouillé de 1315, la paroisse de Lestards est citée dans la liste de l'archiprêtré de La Porcherie, entre la paroisse de Veix et celle de Pradines.

En 1742, apparaît sur une carte du diocèse, le site Notre Dame de la Bussière. Cette chapelle, comptée également dans l'archiprêtré de La Porcherie, est rattachée à l'évêque de Limoges.

En 1770, les archives indiquent que messire François Dulcem, marquis de Boisse, vicomte de Treignac, s'oppose à maître Jean de Gains, prêtre et vicaire perpétuel de la paroisse de Lestards, pour la vente du fief et de la commanderie.

En 1808, sur une liste des paroisses de Corrèze, Lestards est considérée comme une commune réunie à Murat.

A la fin du XIXe, à l'occasion du développement des écoles primaires en milieu rural, l'étendue de la commune de Lestards devient un sujet de préoccupation important et l'enjeu de débats  entre les habitants du sud de la commune, qui avaient la légitimité du chef-lieu, et ceux du Nord, autour des villages de La Bussière et Coissac, dont les effectifs de population l'emportaient sur ceux du chef-lieu.

L'ordre hospitalier de Saint-Antoine et les Hospitaliers

Vers 1300, une commanderie de l'ordre de Saint-Antoine-de-Viennois est installée à Lestards.

Par l'arrêt de 1766, le roi Louis XV réunit la commission des réguliers dont les travaux ont été fortement influencés par l'archevêque de Toulouse, Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne, et futur ministre de Louis XVI. Cette commission condamne par l'édit de 1766 les ordres dont le nombre de religieux par maison n'excédait pas vingt personnes. L'abbaye de Saint-Antoine et les commanderies durent céder leurs biens à l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem.

Héraldique

Lieux et monuments

 Église Saint-Martial, construite vers la fin du  ou le début du  et modifiée au , inscrite sur l'inventaire supplémentaire des Monuments historiques le  et classée Monument historique le . C'est aujourd'hui la seule église de France à être couverte en chaume (paille de seigle). D'ailleurs, elle a été mise à l'honneur en  grâce à l'émission d'un timbre philatélique national et d'une médaille souvenir frappée par la monnaie de Paris.

Patrimoine campanaire
La commune est membre de l'Association Campanaire Limousine (voir : www.clocheslimousines.fr).
Elle dispose de cloches dans les bâtiments suivants :
 Église Saint Martial (nombre : 2)
 Chapelle Notre-Dame-de la Bussière  (nombre : 1)

Personnalités liées à la commune

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de la Corrèze
 Liste des anciennes communes de la Corrèze
 Communauté de communes Vézère-Monédières-Millesources
 Liste des monuments historiques de la Corrèze

Liens externes

 Lestards sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

Notes et références

Notes et cartes
 Notes

 Cartes

Références

Commune en Corrèze
Commune dans l'arrondissement de Tulle
Commune dans la communauté de communes Vézère-Monédières-Millesources
Commune abritant une commanderie de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem en France

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1. Since the commission of the crime against Berta Cáceres and Gustavo Castro, on March 2, 2016, we are party to an investigative and judicial process as a private prosecutor. The team of attorneys that represents the victims has repeatedly and insistently requested access to the investigation of the crime. We have contributed information and we have requested that actions be taken against: intellectual authors, companies, national and international banks that finance hydro- electric projects related to threats, harassment and the murder of Berta Cáceres, especially the DESA Company that is the beneficiary of the Gualcarque River concession.
2. The Public Ministry and the courts of the republic deliberately and illegally continue to deny access to basic information regarding the investigation of the crime. Since the initial hearing on May 6, 2016 and those that followed on different dates, we have requested the information that forms the basis for the opinion on the content and intervention of the personal telephones related to the crime. The Court ordered that this information be provided however, as of this dates, the information has been denied.
3. We have requested the Public Ministry, among other things, to provide us with the results of the analysis of the evidence found during the searches and inspections of the DESA Company offices and the homes of several of those charged. We have also asked the Public Ministry to explain why various documents were not confiscated as well as other information that was found in the offices of the company related to the concession of the Gualcarque River. We have also asked them to explain why they have limited our right to participate in the searches and to exercise the role that corresponds to us in these actions. As of this date, we have received no response.
4. The preliminary hearing on April 19, 2017, at which various human rights organizations and representative of the diplomatic corps accredited in Honduras were present as observers, was suspended because the court and the Public Ministry recognized that they had not complied with the obligation to provide information to the victims so that their team of lawyers could support the charges against the accused. The same court determined that on April 28, 2017 the information would be provided and that the preliminary hearing would continue on May 24th. We have been diligent in offering to pay the costs for accessing the information (photocopies, transfer of instruments and equipment), however, as of this date, neither the court nor the Public Ministry has fulfilled their duty to provide the information. Therefore, we denounce these delaying tactics that generate more impunity.
5. In this context of institutional abuse and impunity, we fulfill our duty to inform that we are impotent before the abuses of these institutions, re-victimized and increasingly alarmed at the enormous power of the economic-criminal groups that ordered the assassination of Berta Cáceres. It would seem, that for now, there is no force capable of breaking the pact of institutional impunity that protects that intellectual authors of this crime.
6. Nevertheless, we reconfirm our commitment to exhaust all possible means to that those responsible for this crime do not remain unpunished. We also commit to demand justice against the functionaries that today, in different ways, by action and by omission, attempt to guarantee impunity for the criminal structure that ordered the killing of Berta Cáceres.
To the national and international community, we request active solidarity in the demand for justice for this crime.
No more impunity. Justice for Berta now.


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Dr. MLK Jr. Day of Service to be celebrated virtually on Monday
Hannah Amell·
Last year's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day concluded with an in-person celebration in the Lawrewnce Memorial Chapel. This year's celebration will be virtual.
Photo by Sarah Navy
Several virtual events are happening this Monday, Jan. 18, as a part of Lawrence's celebration of the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service (MLK Day). Students and staff are encouraged to use their day without classes to engage in meaningful service and conversation that honors and advances Dr. King's pivotal work as an activist for American civil rights.
The day begins with a community discussion on "Heavy: An American Memoir" by Kiese Laymon for those who have read the book. Laymon is a part of Lawrence's 2021 Convocation Series and will be giving his speech "The Radical Possibility and Democratic Necessity of Navel Gazing" on Jan. 28.
This year's other events are unique in that they were proposed and organized by students and student organizations on campus. In previous years, service opportunities and events were chosen solely by the Center for Community Engagement and Social Change (CCE). This year, the CCE asked students to offer their own proposals for what events they wanted to see, resulting in the 2021 lineup of service opportunities and events.
The Disability Working Group is holding an event led by senior Alexandra Chand in which participants will learn how to advocate for disability rights-related legislation via communication with local and federal officials. On MLK Day, participants will write scripts for emails and calls that they can then send to elected officials at a follow-up event in Feb.
Senior Kye Harris is leading an event on anti-racist strategies that students can use to find solutions to combat discrimination. Harris is an economics and ethnic studies double major and was asked on behalf of the Department of Ethnic Studies to create a proposal for MLK Day this year. The event will comprise of a discussion of anti-racist strategies and collective brainstorming for actions that students as individuals, as well as institutions, can take to combat racial discrimination.
"I feel like a lot of people can feel powerless, and a lot of these issues we're trying to combat are large — and not just large but so systemic that they can feel impossible to eliminate," Harris said. She went on to describe what she hopes participants will take away from the event, "However, I do think that there are things that all of us can do. There are things that all of us have in our toolbox that can help mitigate all these problems that we're facing. I hope to really inspire people to take action because that's the whole purpose of the MLK Day of Service."
The final student-proposed event on Monday is Music For All's concert in partnership with Riverview Gardens. Music For All has held free concerts at Riverview Gardens in past years and will present this year's MLK Day concert virtually via Zoom and Facebook Live. Lawrence students and professors will perform pre-recorded music written by Black and Brown composers.
"Music For All is about trying to bring Lawrence students to Appleton, to share our music and to have dialogue with [the Appleton] audience," said junior Jacob Dikelsky, who is hosting the event on MLK Day. Any students interested in performing in later concerts with Music For All can contact Dikelsky, Professor of Music Michael Mizrahi or Associate Professor of Music Erin Lesser for more information.
Finally, the day will end with Lawrence's MLK Day 2021 keynote speaker Dr. Betinna Love, Ph.D. Love is an educator, activist, author and advocate for Abolitionist Teaching, which calls for improvement and accountability in the American education system. Love's speech "Abolitionist Life: Resistance, Creativity, Hip Hop Civics Ed, Intersectionality and Black Joy" will be paired with a musical performance by Griot B entitled "Agitate: A Story Through Song."
Information on how to register for the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service events can be found at www.lawrence.edu/students/volunteer/MLK2021
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Young Explorers Eugénie Guillaume and Alizée Cugney gatherd Young Explorers from all around Europe for an exciting meeting in Paris.
As soon as everyone arrived on Friday evening, we left on a long night walk, to discover the city and see some of Paris's main attractions.
After a breakfast at midday, we went through some projects presentations, in particular the Serbia Project. These projects are a real opportunity to raise awareness amongst the youth in Serbia and to promote a sustainable message. Having this reunion lead us to talk about important topics such as the Pangaea Association, the Pangaea grant and the project selected … We also talked about how to improve our position in order to reach more and more people. We think that our aim is to inspire people by showing the projects done, to exchange ideas for new/upcoming projects, and to get people involved in them. I think this conversation was a great start and we need this kind of reunion so that everyone can express themselves and we can think more about the future.
After this reunion, some young explorers went to discover the Chateau de Versailles and the others rested and prepared themselves for the tough and long night ahead.
After lunch and some French wine testing it was time to explore the Paris' underground.
At the beginning the young explorers were asking lots of questions about the catacombs of Paris. We met our guide late in the evening and after a walk in tunnels and in wastelands in the city, we went to explore the underground of Paris by entering through a small hole in the ground.
What an exploration! We experienced every sensation: warm, cold, wet, dirt, sleep, excitement, loss… It's incredible to walk in these quarries that were made during the Middle Age, to meet people having their dinner there, listening to music. That was the discovery of another world that is 30m under the city, of new people, of new sensations and of the feeling that we had to trust and follow our guide because he was the only one who knew the path.
When you start the walk 11:00 PM and surface at 6 AM, you feel more alive than ever, hearing the life of the city, feeling the fresh air of the early morning and having one only thought: coming back soon!


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Volume 7, Chapter 10
Translator: Manga0205
At around the time that the Earth Dragon that Eric's group was riding on was running around Arkverm, Vermudol and Ykslaas were facing each other with a table in between them in a room of the Demon King Castle.
「……It's about the time they should be riding the Earth Dragon, huh.」
「I suppose. That Prince, the plan was for him to stay over tonight and go back tomorrow, right?」
What was placed on top of the table was a Demon King Army War Game board. It wasn't that they were playing around, but were examining the pieces for Ykslaas's group that were planned to be added soon.
Originally, Ykslaas led her four knights and entered the Dark Continent as an enemy, but it was confirmed that they were just used by the God of Life Philia, and they were now in a cooperative relationship with Vermudol.
There were many times where she would verbally refuse work, but she would perform the work seriously in the end, and was extraordinarily excellent.
「That's right. Ichika has already finished the preparations for dinner, and it will be completed with just Marin doing the finishing touches.」
「That girl, isn't she the most capable one of the group? Krim specializes in cleaning and indoor maintenance, and Lemon……she can do anything fairly well, but she isn't really quite there yet. And speaking of that point……let's see. Marin, I feel like I'm looking at Ichika in a different color. Well……they're different in various ways when you take a good look, but even so.」
Vermudol unconsciously imagined Ichika in different colors.
A red Ichika, a blue Ichika, and a yellow Ichika.
If black Ichika were to be added, let alone the Demon King Castle, they might do the jobs of the entire Zadark Kingdom at twice the speed.
「……Hey, what are you thinking about. I couldn't be that you were thinking about increasing the number of Ichikas, could you?」
「Yeah, I thought of that.」
「Stop it. It would be hell if that woman were to increase in number.」
While making a wry smile at Ykslaas, who said "that thought gives me shivers" and made the gesture of hugging her body with both hands, Vermudol dropped his gaze onto the surface of the board.
「……Well, that wouldn't happen. It's impossible after all.」
「Impossible?」
That's right, even for Vermudol, it was impossible for him to create another Ichika.
Through the 『Sacrifice's Rebirth』 that was imposed on her by the Goddess of Life Philia, Ichika had repeatedly gone through lives over and over again.
It was similar to how Ykslaas was killed many times and was reset each time due to Philia's 『Sacrifice's Cage』, but it was conclusively different.
Due to the inheritance technical skills that she had coincidentally been born with, Ichika repeatedly became a different person many times while still being herself.
Before long, she became self-aware that she would become yet another person when she died, and struggled against that fate──but she died despite that, and became a different person. Without being able to even forget her previous lives.
Whether she believed, betrayed, got betrayed, or casted away everything and tried to run away, the promised death chased after her. She fell into despair, and had faith that light would be even within that──but evenso, she learned of the truth of what had lied beyond her death.
What was created from all of that, was the current Ichika.
Even if he were to reproduce just her form, that wouldn't be Ichika.
「Even if their appearance and personality were similar, they would be different people. That's all there is to it.」
「……Well, that's true. Ah, do I gain total control with this?」
Seeing where Ykslaas had moved her piece, Vermudol groaned with a "muu".
Certainly, she had gained total control──a rule in the game where the opponent was driven to a situation where they no longer had any hands to play.
「Certainly, I have no hands to play. It's my loss.」
「Uーn. Either I'm strong, or our pieces are strong, which one do you think it is?」
After Ykslaas picked up the piece of Olred, her subordinate, from the board, she started to spin it around. It had taken the form of a question, but it was the same as implicitly saying that Vermudol was weak.
「Well, I don't know which one it is, but you are strong.」
「Well, that's true. I don't play this with Krim and the others just for show after all.」
Hearing Ykslaas say that sounding like it was her strong point, Vermudol reflexively opened his eyes wide.
「What was that……You, before we started playing, you said that it wasn't like you played this all that much……!」
「Yes, that's right. When compared to Fainell, that is. Did you know? That Fainell, she was the victor of the Zadark Kingdom's coordinated tournament, you know?」
「Wait, I don't know anything about that sort of event.」
Hearing the name of an event that he was hearing for the first time, Vermudol ended up having a serious look on his face.
He knew that this game had spread even more than he had expected, but he didn't know that it had spread to the point of creating such a tournament. Since Vermudol didn't recognize it, he was certain that it wasn't a nationally sponsored event, but if he himself were to become estranged from what was going on within the country, that in itself was a problem.
「Well, neither Ichika, Nino, nor Rokuna had any interest in it. Isn't it natural that it wouldn't reach your ears? Ah, but Sancreed was the runner-up, wasn't he. I thought that it wouldn't be strange if you heard it from him though.」
「……No, the last time I met with him, we had talked about the Goblin Poetic Dialogue Collection.」
「Wait, what is that. I'm more interested in that story. I don't know anything about that sort of book, you know?」
Ignoring Ykslaas's words, Vermudol breathed a sigh.
He was able to understand the reason why Sancreed didn't talk about it. He had merely determined that Vermudol probably didn't have any interest. Since Vermudol actually didn't have that much of an interest, that determination was correct, but.
「……I've discovered a point about myself that needs improvement in an unexpected location. I never thought that the narrowness of my hobbies would be connected to the narrowness of my perceptions just like that.」
「Hey, more important than that, tell me about that book you mentioned earlier.」
「It's a book that had a limited sale in the West. I'll lend it to you next time……but, come to think of it, there was also the book problem, wasn't there.」
It was also Rokuna's wish, but it seemed that the publication of books were being performed quite frequently within the Zadark Kingdom. Nowadays, it had become one of the refined pleasures.
In contrast with how mankind would create books as 「records」 of things such as legends and research, the Mazoku had positioned it as 「pleasure」, but by some chance, there was the possibility that they would be popular as souvenirs from now on.
If the books that were expensive goods in their own country could be bought cheaply, putting the contents aside, there wouldn't just be a few people that would buy it as a conversation starter or just out of curiosity.
If they were like that, bought it, and found the book that they read to be interesting, the culture of using books for pleasure would spread to mankind as well, and there was no mistake that things like books and paper would be regarded highly as exported goods from now on.
No, that wasn't all. Via books, the fact that Mazoku aren't villainous opponents like the ones sung in the legends should be communicated to mankind as well. If that were to happen, that might become one effective means of building peace.
「You're making quite the difficult face there. What are you thinking?」
「It's a simple story. For now, I was just thinking that trying out putting several books in the room that Prince Eric is planned to stay in would be amusing.」
「Heeh?」
Vermudol displayed a sneer to Yklsaas who was making deeply interested-looking face.
「That prince, maybe because he's young as a Sylphid, he looks to me like his way of thinking is flexible. I don't know what kind of guys the other princes are like, but depending on the situation, there's the possibility that he might become closer to us than Sarigan.」
「By Sarigan, you mean King Sarigan, right? That's the pitiful king who, after having his Imperial Guard unit erased by you, had his Life Seed tampered with, right?」
「That's wrong. I told you didn't I, that I merely erased his prejudices.」
「That's just your opinion. Probably, if we were in mankind's territory, I think it would be called brainwashing, you know?」
Vermudol made a bitter face at Ykslaas who was chuckling.
Since the danger of that was there, he could only talk about that matter to a limited number of people.
Even if he were to say that that wasn't the case, as long as there were a large number of people that believed that it was brainwashing, it would be made out to be brainwashing.
「I don't know what kinds of books you plan on putting in there, but it would be best if you didn't go with those argumentative books that you like. Those would surely have people accuse you of planning on making his way of thinking closer to the Mazoku, a form of brainwashing, you know?」
「I wouldn't do something like that. I was planning on going with more lighthearted books.」
「Your lighthearted isn't lighthearted, you know. Try saying the title of the book that you sent me last time.」
Being told that, Vermudol recalled the title of book that he had lent to Ykslaas recently.
If he recalled correctly, it was The Secret Story of Sauce Development……wasn't it?
The grilled skewer sauce that had completely become the standard of the Zadark Kingdom nowadays. It should have been an ambitious work that depicted the anguish and hard work of the grilled skewer shopkeepers in the days up until its development was reached.
「That was lighthearted and interesting, wasn't it.」
「And just how is a book that casually lines up expressions that only cooks would be able to understand lighthearted? A lighthearted book is a book that can be read even without special knowledge, you know?」
Vermudol looked up at the ceiling as if reflecting on Ykslaas's words……then slowly returned his gaze to Ykslaas.
「……But, wouldn't the fun of understanding it decrease like that?」
「I was saying that the need to work hard to understand is what's heavy though. It's fine, I'll be the one to choose the books. It's fine if you just carry them there.」
If that is what Ykslaas, who had infiltrated mankind's territory for a long time, says, then it was probably best to follow it.
After concluding that, Vermudol nodded and accepted it.
「Come to think of it, what about the ones other than Prince Eric's group? Although we've treated them like ordinary people, they're nobles, right?」
「Nn……let's see, they're probably going to head to the inn after a bit more time right now. There shouldn't be any problems with them.」
「Is that so, well, that's fine though. So, what should we do about our pieces? Is the testing done with this?」
Being told that, Vermudol once again dropped his gaze onto the game board. And then, after doing a bit of thinking, he slowly rearranged the pieces on the board.
「……Let's have one more match. Some sort of point that needs improvement might come up.」
「That's true. But, I need to choose the books that will be placed in Prince Eric's room. How about doing it with those girls?」
When Vermudol turned his gaze to the direction that Ykslaas was pointing to, he saw that the door to the room was opened up a bit.
The ones peeking through the gap were Krim and Nino. ……No, after looking closely, Lemon, who was crouching on the floor, was also peeking at him.
[Illustration] 「……You all, have you finished your work?」
「Since Nino is excellent, it's all done perfectly. Since Marin has completely taken control of the kitchen, there is no longer anything else to do.」
「That's right. It's already nice and sparkly no matter where you go, do having no other choice, everyone went to the underground Great Library to put it in order, but.」
「……Rokuna-sama said "you're so annoying, get out"……and we were chased out. It was, Krim's fault.」
Being able to easily imagine the scene that Lemon described, Vermudol pressed down on the area between his eyebrows.
「Ahー……I've got it. Who's doing the checking?」
「Gordy and Nino did it. That's why it's perfect.」
Although they were normally called things like being a slacker or clumsy, both Nino and Gordy were excellent.
Nino would be able to do Ichika-level work if she felt like it, and Gordy had a perfectionist part to her when it came to work. With those two tag-teaming, and moreover since Nino said that it was 「perfect」, there wasn't a problem. Nino would absolutely never lie after all.
「……Got it. In that case, Krim, you will prepare the dining room under Marin's instructions, and Lemon, you will support her.」
「'Kaーy!」
「Understood, Demon King-sama.」
After seeing the two off as they ran off, Vermudol turned his gaze to the remaining Nino.
「So, Nino, you'll……let's see.」
Relaxing his expression a bit, Vermudol tapped the table with a *kon*.
「You will do a final check of the new game pieces with me. The plan is to move them to production tomorrow, so I'll be counting on you.」
「Un, leave it to Nino.」
Ykslaas quickly gave up her seat to Nino who tried to sit opposite of Vermudol while looking delighted.
「Well then, I'm going to choose the books. Make sure that you properly clean up once you're done, okay?」
「Yeah, I know. Nino, check on the movements of the new pieces.」
Nino read the instructions for the new pieces, then raised her head and nodded.
「Un, it's fine. If it's with the decisive battle of brief duration rules and the new pieces, it's possible for Nino to gain total control on the seventh turn.」
「……Hou, you sure do know how to talk. If you really can do that, let's see. Shall I pat your head or something?」
「Got it. Nino, will get super serious.」
──After this.
It goes without saying that the test play of the Demon King Army War Game between Nino and Vermudol had ended with Nino gaining a victory on precisely the seventh turn.
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I love how Ichika is literally the standard for anything and everything good
Hello! The illustration is kinda off. It leads me to previous illustration of Volume 7 Chapter 4 but you can see the next illustration from there. Just a small error i just wanna let you guys know.
also thanks for the chapter
manga0205
Whoops, sorry about that. It has been fixed. Thanks for mentioning it.
Mikss
The link to the picture links to wrong picture (the previous one with Luuty and Fainell)
I think that Nino lies a lot: about her being perfect or beatuifull or hard working.
Thanks for chapter
actually she is indeed beautiful
perfect and Hard Working… yeah… if she's feel like it, like Vermudol said, if Nino working, she's can do Ichika-level of works, it just she's really a spoiled maid who only working if Vermudol ask for it.
Ahhh the totem door. I have yet to see that in real life. It's only in anime that I see that. Must be super rare!
A random passerby
Pats are op. They will do anything for pats
Setsuna86
I think that Krim's, Marin's and Lemon's personalities are some of Ichika's personalities in some of her past lifes.
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Boeing and Embraer Solidify Commercial Aircraft Tie-Up
July 6, 2018 - by Forecast International
by Richard Pettibone, Aerospace & Defense Companies Analyst, Forecast International.
Image: Embraer
The times they are a-changin'.
In a move that has altered the commercial aircraft OEM landscape, Airbus has announced a tie-up with Bombardier. As a counter, Boeing is moving to join with Embraer. A teaming between Boeing and Embraer will allow the two firms to better compete against the CSeries, which has been the focus of several trade disputes in both Brazil and the U.S.
As the process moves ahead, the two firms recently signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding to establish the partnership. This MoU lays the foundation for the formation of a new commercial aircraft entity, majority owned by Boeing, with the military aircraft programs, and possibly the Executive Aviation segment, remaining under Embraer. Under the terms of the agreement, Boeing will hold an 80 percent ownership stake in the joint venture and Embraer will own the remaining 20 percent stake. The transaction values 100 percent of Embraer's commercial aircraft operations at $4.75 billion, and contemplates a value of $3.8 billion for Boeing's 80 percent ownership stake in the joint venture. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2019 pending Boeing's due diligence and the necessary approvals.
In addition, both companies plan to create another joint venture later on to promote and develop new markets and applications for defense products and services, especially the KC-390 multi-mission aircraft, based on jointly-identified opportunities.
A new Boeing/Embraer venture would make a solid match, as it would round out Boeing's aircraft offerings. There is very little competitive overlap between the two product lines, consisting only of some indirect competition between the E195-E2 and the 737 MAX 7. The combination would also provide Boeing with an immediate and extensive presence in the business jet market, an arena in which the U.S. company currently competes only at the top end with corporate-configured 737s. More importantly, the tie-up would also enable a comprehensive and broad-based attack on the Bombardier/Airbus CSeries, with the E190-E2 and E195-E2 challenging the CS100 version, and the 737 MAX 7 and 737 MAX 8 battling the CS300.
While sales did bounce back in 2016, Embraer continues to face some headwinds. Low aircraft prices in the pre-owned market along with cheap oil could pose difficulties in the company's efforts to increase sales.
After stalling in 2015, the business jet market shifted into reverse in 2016 and 2017. Reduced oil revenues and serious economic slowdowns in emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, and Russia have adversely affected demand for such aircraft. Now, due to continuing improvement in global economic conditions, moderately increasing oil prices, and a return in force of U.S. buyers to this portion of the market, demand is expected to rise beginning in 2018.
Thanks to earlier development efforts, Embraer is well diversified in this market, holding a presence in seven of the eight business jet market segments as defined by Forecast International. The company's business jet line now covers each market segment – from the very light jet (VLJ) class through the large-cabin category, and includes a product in the corporate-configured airliner class. This positioning is helpful in the current business climate, as a strong showing in one sector can help offset lower results in another.
In the regional aircraft segment, the market is stabilizing following several years of erratic swings in yearly production. While the market has been flat of late, the long-term outlook is more bullish as new models enter production and service. Key to this drive was the 2012 liberalization of scope clauses in pilot contracts with U.S. mainline carriers. The newly liberalized scope clauses allowed regional airline partners of the major carriers to operate greater numbers of 76-seat regional jets.
In response, regional aircraft have grown larger. Embraer's E-Jets series – which includes the large-passenger-capacity 190 and 195 – continues to be popular. In an effort to capitalize on the need for fuel efficiency, Embraer has launched the E2 series, a family of comprehensively upgraded versions of its E-Jets regional jets. The E2 aircraft feature new engines (the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G) and landing gear, and possibly a new wing. Such a move follows the very successful trend set by Airbus and Boeing when they introduced new fuel-efficient, re-engined designs in their respective A320neo and 737 MAX models.
One area that Embraer is looking to expand is its maintenance, repair and overhaul sector. The company organized a new services division in 2017 that consolidates the service capabilities that had been spread throughout its different business units. The new Global Services and Support sector is now the focus of all commercial, executive, and defense-related MRO offerings. With aftermarket support being a key revenue generator, the new operation should be able to grow thanks to an expanded portfolio and reduced operational redundancies. With 2,000 Embraer aircraft in service around the world, the company is aiming to capture a larger share of the services aftermarket than it has in the past.
In its third market, defense and security, Embraer is facing some challenges due to economic issues in Brazil. The company's new KC-390 military tanker/transport has been impacted by a governmental fiscal crisis in Brazil that stemmed from the country's deep economic recession. The company postponed certification of its new transport aircraft until the second half of 2017, and service entry was delayed until the first half of 2018. The aircraft's entry into service had previously been targeted for late 2016.
Despite the delay, Embraer has secured letters of intent for 32 KC-390s from its five partner nations. The company has begun the process of converting these commitments into firm orders. At least initially, Embraer intends to build about 10 KC-390s per year.
In 2015, Saab and Embraer signed an agreement that established a partnership for joint management of the F‑X2 project for the Brazilian Air Force. The agreement concluded more than a year of negotiations since Brazil selected the Gripen NG fighter for the contract in December 2013. Under the manufacturing plan for the Gripen NG – named the F-39 in Brazil – Embraer will receive a significant technology transfer package from Saab. The company will also be actively involved in finalizing the single-seat F-39 aircraft's design and will develop with Saab the two-seat F-39 variant in Brazil. A production line is currently being set up at Embraer's Gavião Peixoto industrial facility. Deliveries of the 36 Brazilian Air Force Gripen NGs are scheduled to begin in 2019 and to be completed in 2024. Approximately 10-15 of the aircraft are to be assembled in Brazil by Embraer. Looking ahead, Argentina has expressed interest in possibly buying Embraer-built versions of the aircraft.
Finally, Embraer has been actively expanding its global footprint with facilities in key countries around the world. Currently, its global footprint includes its home in Brazil as well as operations in the U.S., Mexico, and Portugal. These facilities include not only pilot training and service centers but also business jet manufacturing operations. For example, in the U.S. (Melbourne, Florida), the company assembles Phenom 100 and 300 aircraft (and recently added the Legacy 450 and 500), while in Portugal, the Évora facility manufactures wings. Such geographic dispersion helps protect the company from single-currency fluctuations. Perhaps more importantly, this diversity changes the mindset that Embraer is simply "a Brazilian company," and reinforces its position as an international aerospace firm.
For the over 15 years, Richard has authored Forecast International's Defense & Aerospace Companies series, Volume I (North America) and Volume II (International) services. The two books provide detailed outlines and analyses of major aerospace and defense contractors.
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An Ice Age for Indian Scholarship
By KR Desk on 12:02 am February 15, 2014 No Comment
BY APOORVANAND
These are lonely times for scholarship in India. TheShiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti( SBAS) has claimed yet another scalp in the form of the withdrawal of Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus: An Alternative History by its publishers Penguin, India. The author, while 'angry and disappointed' by this decision has said that she can understand the plight of her publishers who were fighting a criminal case and not a civil suit. It had serious implications for their physical safety. Fellow scholars and academics are upset and angry that the publishers have caved in.
The question we need to ask ourselves, however, is about our own role in this whole affair. There were not too many voices of protest when the same SBAS forced the Calicut University to remove a poem by an unknown poet from an English language textbook, alleging that the poet was a 'terrorist.' Its editors felt compelled to apologize as they were threatened with a probe into their possible involvement in a conspiracy network to jeopardize national security.
Or, why did not we move the Supreme Court against the removal of the legendry essay 'Three Hundred Ramayanas' by the University of Delhi in an act of abject surrender before the same Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti? Did we even know that the same organization succeeded in getting 75 paragraphs removed or changed from textbooks of different levels published by the NCERT?
My senior colleague Krishna Kumar recalls that as the director of the NCERT, he had to fight no less than ten cases lodged by Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti in different courts against the textbooks authored by scholars like RomilaThapar, Bipan Chandra, Satish Chandra and others. The SBA had objected to the depiction of certain religious figures and events. There was anger that Meera was depicted as a 'wandering' figure. Is not wandering a pejorative term? In the files of the NCERT, you'll find scores of representations from this body demanding amendment and deletion of portions it finds objectionable from the Hindu or 'National' point of view.
The SBAS keeps combing books to look for 'pollutants', which a careless eye might miss. Five years back they wrote to the NCERT drawing its attention to an exercise in a lesson on an Indian artist. The students were asked to visit their nearest art gallery or go to internet to see art works by artists like S H Raza or M F Husain to appreciate the lesson in a better way. The SBA found it unacceptable as the students, through the internet might reach the 'blasphemous' painting of Hindu Gods and Goddesses by Husain which would damage their 'soft adolescent' minds. The NCERT refused to entertain the organization's request.
Aggrieved, they filed an FIR against the director and other officials of the NCERT. They also moved the CBSE with a similar plea. The CBSE got scared and prepared an advisory asking its schools to ignore this specific exercise. A long and tortuous argument took place in the committee on the far reaching implication of this seemingly innocuous move. That the CBSE could finally be persuaded not to go ahead with this move should console us, as a year later, the NCERT officials themselves dropped this exercise silently to avoid further irritation and law suits.
The SBA had also moved the courts demanding the scrapping of the National Curriculum Framework, 2005 as they claimed that Prof Yash Pal, the eminent scientist, who had steered the process, was unfit for the task as he had nothing to do with school education.
The same SBA petitioned the NCERT to remove several lessons from its Hindi textbooks as they were allegedly offensive to religious and nationalist feelings. It actually resulted in replacement of the questioned texts by 'safe' ones.
We have not forgotten the compromise the Oxford University Press had reached with the SBAS promising it not to publish the 'controversial' book by AK Ramanujan and also the earlier withdrawal of the book on Shivaji by James Lain.
One has to realise the damage such acts do to the intellectual fabric of our society. You have to sit in a meeting of a textbook committee to fathom the depth to which we have fallen. The kind of self-censorship these committees exercise is unimaginable. For example, a Sanskrit textbook committee feels that students should not be told that Pandita Ramabai had converted to Christianity or that hers was a court-marriage and these facts are removed from a lesson on her.
Pankaj Mishra , while reviewing Wendy Doniger's book in 2009, had warned that its publication was bound to unleash a Hindu fury.Even before the publication of this book, she had faced angry attack by hurt Hindus during a talk at a university in London. Ashok Malik, writing in 2010 had said that the book was being subjected to a systematic attack,not only from the SBA but other oversensitive Hindus. The compromise into which Penguin has been forced is not sudden and should not shock us. It is only a culmination of a long-drawn, relentless assault on scholarship by the SBA and its affiliates.
We should know that the Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti is not a loony, isolated body, but is part of the larger Rashtriya Swamsevak Sangh, that its chief, Dina Nath Batra is an important functionary of Vidya Bharti, again one of the many branches of the RSS. In short, what it is doing is part of a larger political agenda and it will not relent until we surrender all our intellectual faculties before it. What we are faced with is the real danger of an ice-age for scholarship in India.
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Punycode is a method added to the Domain Name System (DNS) in order to support non-ASCII characters within a web URL. For example, the Swiss bookstore bücher.ch would have an ASCII URL of xn—bcher-kva.ch which renders the non-ASCII umlaut ü. So, attackers can use non-ASCII characters to fool end-users into clicking URLs that look legitimate, but substitute similarly-shaped letters from different alphabets to spoof the site.
A recent example was captured by Avanan in Germany. A company's users were sent an email, pretending to be a tracking update from FedEx, with a link. Office 365 anti-phishing tools interpreted the ASCII version as a link that took them to a benign web server in Berlin. When users clicked on the link, however, their desktop browser interpreted the link as its Punycode equivalent, which led to a malicious server in Belfast instead.
The user sees a fake Office 365 login page, where they are asked to put in their credentials. Once the Office 365 usernames and passwords have been compromised, the hackers can run amok, installing malware, sending emails to other users in the victim's address book, accessing the user's OneDrive account to download files, or steal company secrets or other customer information, such as customer SSNs, credit card numbers, email addresses and so on.


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He explained to Catholic News Service that the "sensitivity of the issue and all its repercussions" make it difficult to properly convey the Catholic Church's position on the designation.
"Unfortunately (the decision) can't be put in the abstract," he said.
Archbishop Franco said because of the "concrete situations" between Israel and the Palestinian territories, the "political implications" of such a decision cannot be overlooked.
The Franciscans are the Catholic partner in maintaining the Status Quo, a 19th-century agreement that regulates jurisdiction of and access to key Christian sites — including the Church of the Nativity — in the Holy Land for Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian communities.
Archbishop Franco told CNS he wanted to understand what role UNESCO would take in overseeing the revered site.
The archbishop said the three churches sent a letter to UNESCO stating their position prior to the June 27 vote.
Meanwhile, Palestinians celebrated the UNESCO decision while Israel denounced it as biased.
"The Palestinian people are celebrating this decision as a moment of national pride and affirmation of their rich and unique cultural heritage," said Hanan Ashrawi, who heads the Palestine Liberation Organization's Department of Culture and Information in a June 30 statement.
The designation was met with disappointment by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the United States.


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From Aadhaar Enabled Entry to Biometric Boarding, Kempegowda to Become India's 1st Smart Airport
By Jovita Aranha
From Aadhaar-enabled entry to biometric boarding systems, the rationale behind the move is to transform it into the country's first smart airport.
Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport is all set to become India's first fully Aadhaar-enabled airport soon.
While the project is expected to kickstart on March 30, 2018, the stipulated timeline for the completion of the project is currently December 2018! Starting off with Kempegowda, all the other domestic airlines will be roped in after three months, reported The Economic Times.
All passengers boarding international flights will be able to benefit from the new entry system by October 2018.
The Aadhaar-enabled entry and biometric e-boarding system are expected to quicken the process of confirmation and validation of personal identity for airport passengers.
It will enable authorities at the airport to completion of verification in under five seconds at every checkpoint until the boarding gate, bringing down the current 25 minutes of screening to under 10 minutes.
Speaking to the publication, a spokesperson expressed, "With real-time authentication of passengers, entry using biometric readers can enhance security, speed up clearance and alleviate delays at the airport."
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The move will help eliminate the complete need for passengers to display their IDs and boarding pass at various checkpoints at the airport, thus making the airport journey smooth and stress-free.
Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) executive director and president Hari Marar told the Times of India, "A key driver to creating an airport-of-the-future is to embrace technologies that simplify, streamline and enhance travel processes. And as we continue to see exponential growth in passenger traffic, there's an urgency to implement systems that allow quicker transit time, ensuring the smooth ingress and egress of passengers."
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I like to keep my toes out as long as possible and dread the return of socks and boots. This year, I'm especially loathe to give up these black sandals my mother bought me. I think of them as my "1940's Housewife"sandals.
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Drones are finding their way into every profession and are widely being used around the world. However, some places still lack basic necessities and the concept of drone has not yet reached there. Villages and tribes in Africa are some of those remote places where civilization and urbanisation has just started to make its mark. A teenager from Taranaki decided to help the South Pacific Islands or the Solomon Islands using drones. Paul Short, aged 17, is using a drone aircraft to help people in Torah, a remote village in the Islands, get a new water system.
Paul is a teenage businessman from Taranaki and his drone is changing the way people live in Torah. This remote village has 300 people but only seven taps for all of them. Each tap fills a bucket in 3-4 minutes. This water supply was put in place by the New Zealand Army about 40 years ago, using galvanized steel pipes. He describes this system as very slow which takes up most of the time of the inhabitants.
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"It's amazing it's lasted as long as it has, but the water system is in huge disrepair and is breaking down all the time. The pipe has been patched up with duct tape in places." Paul said as he explained the poor state of the supply line. The young drone enthusiast started his business GoDrone NZ in 2014. He creates a 3D map of the village using his drone. This 3D map is an essential part in understanding the existing water lines and how to improve them. "You fly a drone in a grid pattern over the whole area, which is about 1 kilometre by 1km, and take about 1000 photos per square km. You put them all together and produce a 3D scan of the landscape that you can then use to plot where the water pipes are going to go and you can pull all your elevations and angles." the teen said breaking down the process involved. After he collects all the images and forms a 3D map, he passes those images on to the water expert, Alastair Hodgkinson, who accompanied him on his trip to the village.
A shot of the 3D mapping Paul Short did to help map out a water system for the village.
The village of Torah is an extremely remote area and to get there is a challenging task. Paul and his team landed on a small airstrip, remanent from the WWII, to get to the island. Short says that he's been doing drone aid work for quite some time now. He also does aerial photography, videography, 3D mapping and he has also done drone repairs in New Zealand. Despite the harsh challenges faced by him, Paul is using drones to innovate the Solomon Islands one village at a time.
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If you are looking for an Online Games Example, then you've come to the right place. Here you'll learn about Multiplayer Online Games, Virtual Worlds, End User License Agreements, Health risks, and more. Having read this article, you're well-equipped to choose an Online Games Example for your business. There are many benefits of playing online games. In fact, many people prefer them over real-world ones. After all, what's so bad about playing online games?
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A massively multiplayer online game is a type of online video game that involves hundreds or even thousands of players. They typically feature a persistent virtual world that is constantly changing and allowing multiple players to participate at the same time. A massively multiplayer game is usually played on a computer, but some may be played on a gaming console such as PlayStation or Xbox. Many of these games involve fantasy worlds and correspond with particular places or locations.
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Regardless of whether you play games online or not, you should familiarize yourself with the End User License Agreements (EULAs) for these types of games. These agreements state the conditions under which individuals are granted the right to use computer games. Interested individuals should read them thoroughly and accept them if they plan to download, install, create an account in the game, or gain access to it through other means. The EULAs take the continuous development of information technologies into consideration.
What is the EULA? An EULA is a legal document that establishes the terms and conditions of the use of software or other products. Many games contain an EULA within the manual or while installing the game. Some games require the user to accept it online or in the game before they can continue using the product. While this is not always the case, it is common for games to require acceptance of an EULA before they can be used.
The health risks of playing online games are numerous, but there is one risk that is more prevalent than others. Despite the low number, video gaming is linked to obesity in approximately 1% of its users. Obesity, in turn, is linked to heart conditions and even heart disease. One professional gamer who quit the game due to health problems is Jian Zihao, a professional League of Legends player. His health problems were exacerbated by his sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy diet.
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The reality is that having a business is not only investing money but also time, effort, days thinking about the perfect idea and a lot of planning, the idea of all of that going to waste for neglecting getting small business insurance coverage or worst, for plain ignorance is Ludacris. Now, I am going to help you clarify the basics of insurance policy for small business then you can take a moment and weigh the importance of those, and all the headache insurance can save you.
Nowadays we live in a litigious-happy society. Sometimes even paying attention to the slightest details and no matter how careful you as a small business owner are, there is always a chance for your business to be sued. As an owner you could lose everything if a court rules against you, the losses can go as far as your personal possessions. Hence the importance for every business owner to have a Small Business Liability Insurance.
A General Liability policy covers a grand variety of claims. Think about your General liability coverage as the baseline of the complete full coverage and risk management of your new business.
Bodily Injury: that means an individual that suffers an injury for which you will be legally liable.
Property Damage: when you cause someone else's property damage while you were operating your business.
Personal Injury: when your business is sued for libel or slander or your business falsely advertises.
Rental Property Damage: when you or any employee welcome to a location rented by you cause any damage in said property.
Medical Expenses: when reasonable expenses paid for bodily injury caused by an accident, no matter of fault.
General liability insurance guards your business on daily operations and daily risks.
Commercial property insurance is fairly common insurance in the small business insurance policy world, but it's not a cookie cutter one. Coverage rates may vary from business to business depending on the nature of it, the business income, the number of properties, the number of employees and the valuation of assets.
Commercial property coverage insures business against losses due to certain covered events, like fires, theft, vandalism, and natural disasters. Business owners thanks to this insurance coverage can protect their valuable assets, like building either leased or owned, tools, equipment, machinery, even inventory. A small business insurance quote may vary from 700$ to 1100$ per year in a premium policy.
Besides the fact that Worker's Compensation is mandatory in the majority of the states, this policy will provide benefits to the employees who become injured or ill on the job. Worker's compensation insurance will deliver the safety that even when an ill-fated terrible event of a personnel demise due to a work-related grievance or illness, the benefits of this policy will be granted to his or her family.
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A Commercial Auto Insurance is a liability and physical damage protection for vehicles, necessary when those vehicles are used for business purposes. Most people think wrongly that having personal car insurance will cover for all the little "mistakes" on the road, but sadly they encounter a big NO when placing a claim for using their car on a business endeavor and having an accident on the road. Something important to remember is that personal car insurance does not cover vehicles used for business, hence the importance of commercial auto insurance.
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Always making sure that your personal liability is covered by a small business insurance policy, neglecting this may cost you everything you have been working so hard on.


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