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Startup Kayhan Space Is Working To Keep Satellites Safer From Space Junk
by Maija Ehlinger October 6, 2020
Just in case you didn't have enough to worry about in 2020, Earth's orbit has a countless number of human-made objects that could collide with one of over 8,000 satellites orbiting Earth.
Sure, space debris may seem like a far off thing to stress about, but for the team behind Kayhan Space, preventing such collisions is essential to keep our GPS, defense systems, telecommunications and even our food systems intact here on Earth. (The New Yorker has an in-depth look at the issue here).
"Every aspect of our daily life depends on space," Kayhan Space's Atlanta-based co-founder Araz Feyzi told Hypepotamus. "People think Earth's orbit is an unlimited resource. They think it's space and it's unlimited. It's not. It's a finite resource, and the orbit around Earth is only a couple hundred of kilometers just above Earth."
According to Feyzi, space is really a "congested and contested" place, as over 1,000 satellites have been launched into orbit in the last year alone from government agencies and independent companies like Space-X and Amazon Kuiper.
In any given week, one satellite operator could deal with up to 100 collision warnings, meaning these workers are spending most of their time dodging trash and not actually executing the mission at hand.
And tracking space junk is big business, as US Air Force's Space Surveillance Network is currently tracking 20,000-30,000 objects in orbit — including broken satellites and orbital debris — traveling at close to 20,000 miles per hour. Any object over 10 centimeters in diameter is tracked as it could cause serious damage to a necessary satellite.
To combat the seemingly exponential number of satellites in orbit and the growing amount of space junk, Feyzi and his high school friend and Colorado-based CEO Siamak Hesar started Kayhan Space as a collision detection warning and avoidance guidance for satellite operators.
Using APIs and their connections with the Air Force's existing network, satellite operators and customers are able to integrate notifications about what is going on in space, and the potential of high-risk crashes, right through Slack and other work messaging platforms.
Fresh off completing Techstars Allied Space Accelerator, Kayhan Space has announced it has closed a $600,000 pre-seed funding round, led by Atlanta-based Overline.
"There continues to be exponential growth in space traffic. In fact, the upcoming launch of several mega-constellations is projected to increase the number of operational satellites by more than tenfold over the next decade," said Hesar in a statement about the funding.
The team plans to use the capital to expand the team to 11 people.
Prior to starting Kayhan Space, Hesar worked at University of Colorado Boulder and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, where he helped create the data assessment tracking system for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Feyzi worked in the Atlanta startup community as CEO and co-founder of Syfer.
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Epicenter (or epicentre, as it's spelled outside the U.S.) originally referred to the point of the earth's surface above the center of an earthquake. Extending from this definition, the word has also come to refer to the center of any negative or dangerous event. This newer sense of epicenter is useful, as there are few alternatives that carry the same meaning.
But the word is perhaps overextended when writers do away with the negative connotations and use epicenter as merely a synonym of center. In such cases, there's no reason not to use center. Trying to confine epicenter to its old use might be a losing battle, though, as the word is now very common in the new use.
Agree completely; "epicenter" is rarely used in the sense of earthquake or other negative event. More syllables does not make for clarity. Also, why "commentator" instead of "commenter"?


I am a designer, artist, and typically, ask more questions than people care to answer.
In my design, I look to create the clearest communication that fits the purpose of the project. The design should speak to and create an engaging experience for the audience in a visually delightful way.
In my art, I try and understand that which I don't. There are so many unanswered questions about the world we live in: why things are the way they are, how'd we get here, and how we relate to each other.
"VERY LITTLE OF THIS IS, HOWEVER, AT ALL COMPREHENSIBLE TO ANYONE BELOW THE LEVEL OF ADVANCED GOD."


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Canon ImageFormula DR-C125 review
Fast, high-quality sheet-fed desktop scanners don't have to be eye wateringly expensive as Simon Handby finds out with Canon's latest model.
by: Simon Handby
1. Canon ImageFormula DR-C125 review
Canon's new ImageFormula DR-C125 is an A4 document scanner designed for the desktop of anyone who needs regularly to capture multiple-page documents. With a dedicated host PC, it would also be at home serving low-volume demands in a workgroup. It has a remarkably small footprint that's no bigger than a typical VoIP desk phone, achieved with what Canon says is a unique vertical 'J' paper path.
Sheet-fed scanners don't come all that much cheaper than the DR-C125, but the new ImageFormula's specifications are better than you might expect at the price. It's a duplex colour device with a 600dpi optical resolution, ultrasonic sensors for detecting when more than one sheet has been fed into the scanner (known as ultrasonic double-feed detection) and a reasonable 1,500-page daily duty cycle plenty for the intended application. It's rapid, too, with a claimed 25 page-per-minute and 50 image-per-minute maximum speed.
Canon has clearly worked hard to make the DR-C125 as easy as possible to share desk space with.
Canon has clearly worked hard to make the DR-C125 as easy as possible to share desk space with. The upright design includes clips for tidying up excess cable lengths, and the shallow footprint means it can sit unobtrusively behind other items on a desk although the extending paper guides atop the input tray mean that you can't quite place it flush against a wall or partition at the back.
Depending which font you're thinking of, we'd say that the scanner's paper path is more 'U' than 'J' shaped. Sheets are pulled through a conventional input and pass through a 180-degree turn with a radius of about an inch before being deposited in the output tray, which lies parallel to the input. There's a flip-switch to enable a straight path for special media, but the 60-degree tray angle means that this is only truly straight when the scanner is placed at the very front edge of a surface, allowing paper to fall to the floor.
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Loes is part of the Centre for Young People and Family. It provides information and advice on parenting and growing up. The website has lots of tips that are useful if you are raising children. There are also blogs by other parents, parenting courses, interesting links and leaflets. Loes is an important partner of the Enschede Municipal Health Service Youth Healthcare Section.


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Q: MOSFET N channel power switch: high side doesn't work and low side would need multiple MOSFETs I'm experimenting with a MOSFET that controls power to another component so that I can remove all current from it when it's not in use and save power. In regards to that, this question is awesome: Switching DC with MOSFET: p-Channel or n-Channel; Low Side Load or High Side Load?
But I'm running into some snags when it comes to practical use.
First approach:

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
I was able to switch this off fine, but when it was on, I was only getting half voltage out. Turns out I was using an N channel MOSFET wrong, and it's not good as a high side switch like this.
Ideas to fix:
I could move the MOSFET to GND of the LED array with a 100 ohm resistor on the gate. I believe this would allow it to act like a switch in the manner that I really want. However, the addressable LEDs still draw a decent amount of power when their GND is disconnected! It seems the return path goes down the CLK and DAT lines. This is not a problem when VCC is disconnected. This means I would need three MOSFETS, one for each of CLK, DAT and GND, driven by one pin.
I could use a P-Channel on the high side, but to turn it off I need to supply voltage. When turned off, I want to be conserving power with the micro controller in a super low power mode . In that state wasting current holding the MOSFET closed seems wasteful, and I'm not the micro controller could do that in sleep mode.
Both those options seem kind of inelegant. What I seem to need is a simple 4 pin component (VCC, GND, GATE, OUTPUT) that can connect VCC and OUTPUT when I pull GATE high. Does such a thing exist?
What do you think is my best bet for making this work with the fewest/simplest components?

A: Holding the P-channel MOSFET closed (gate at 5V) will use hardly any power. It is basically the same as holding an N-channel MOSFET gate at 0V.
(See http://www.vishay.com/docs/91076/91076.pdf for a p-channel version of the IRF530 - same gate-source leakage current of +-100nA max)
To prevent powering the LED array via CLK or DAT you will need to either drive them low or set them to high-impedence when the MOSFET is off. Since CLK and DAT are both outputs, simply driving low is fine.
Note: This does not apply to your circuit here, but for inputs you can use a tristate buffer like the 74LVC1T45 or similar to prevent powering via signal pins... See FTDI (FT232RL) powers itself through RX/TX lines for the solution I used.
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Alternative solution with existing parts
Actually, you could just move the N-channel MOSFET to the low side and drive CLK and DAT to 5V when you want to turn the LEDs off and go to sleep. That would address the problem in your first idea.

A: you can use an LT1157. Refer to the datasheet for the driving section. I used it for a similar application where my uC had to control the Vcc pin for a 5v@1A device.

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AG L Lynch wants cities to stop prosecuting minorities for low level crime or face federal sanctions. ????
I wonder what the American version of Bastille day will be called? There should be plenty of lamp posts and overpasses around Washington DC to decorate with politicians and bureaucrats swinging in the wind!
They answered it for me (see bold) what I and most folks have known fer years.......load of horse manure, making excuses for criminal behavior.
"A strongly worded "guidance" letter, written by her civil rights team, warns that a local court policy of enforcing warrants for failure to pay court fines and fees can have an adverse "disparate impact" on African-Americans, who are fined and/or arrested for outstanding warrants at "disproportionate" rates versus whites.
Federal data also show that blacks tend to break both felony and misdemeanor laws at a disproportionate rate. Even if applied evenly across all races and in neutral, color-blind fashion, such policies could be found by Justice to be discriminatory.
"In court systems receiving federal funds, these practices may also violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when they unnecessarily impose disparate harm on the basis of race," the nine-page letters states.
It's a slippery slope to clemency for criminals, large and small.
This is the same dubious legal threat the administration is using to force the nation's public schools to back off suspending unruly — even violent — black students, and to force cops to avoid stopping, frisking and arresting minority offenders.
I just got a call from an old college buddy who's planning to visit today. He called yesterday evening and told me he and his wife were in Athens GEORGIA, asking which exit off I-65 to take. Now, Athens Georgia is northeast of Atlanta, about 200 miles from us! They were actually in Wambli's favorite place where he's never been, Athens Alabama! They should be here in a few minutes!
Let's see...she want's to have LE leave minorities alone for minor offenses, then says if anyone utters a Muslim slur those people are to be prosecuted to the fullest. Words from the mouth of the two-headed rattlesnake!
If by "now" you mean 7 and a half years ago...then I concur.
Don't forget she/they wanted to prosecute climate change deniers.
or whoever - just hurry the day!


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Vienna Gay Pride Claims Marriage Equality in Austria
Vienna Gay Pride is Austria's biggest gay pride party and has featured a big Rainbow Parade on the Saturday along the Vienna Ringstrasse.
It has been followed by the "Pride Party", a number of different parties held at some of the city's gay bars and clubs.
The highlight of Vienna Pride was the Rainbow Parade yesterday. This year marks the twentieth time that the event has been held. The motto "Sichtbar 2015" is a clear reference to the first motto back in 1996 ("Sichtbar 96").
Tractors, motorbikes, horse-drawn carriages and around 100,000 people will set off on their march against the normal direction of traffic, a visible sign against discrimination and for tolerance and equality.
With the Eurovision win by Austrian singer Conchita is 2013, Vienna has raised its gay profile, and so can expect Gay Pride Vienna to join the ranks of Europe's biggest gay pride festivals.
Willkommen in Regenbogen Pride in Wien


Montpelier, Vt. — The Vermont Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released the 2019 Report Card for Vermont's Infrastructure, giving nine categories of infrastructure an overall grade of "C." The report assigned the following grades: aviation (C-), bridges (C+), dams (C), drinking water (C-), energy (B-), roads (C+), solid waste (B-), stormwater (D+) and wastewater (D+). A "C" is the same overall grade the state received in the 2014 Report Card for Vermont's Infrastructure.
Energy earned one of the highest grades of a "B-." As a result of a statewide energy modernization plan deployed in 2012, Vermont's energy grid is in fairly good condition. This effort included installing smart meters throughout the state, upgrading and installing new automation controls and expanding the fiber optic backbone connecting the state's substations. Although the state's energy grid is stable, Vermont still depends on energy imports from neighboring states, particularly for fossil fuels and natural gas. Vermont is committed to a goal of 90 percent renewable energy by 2050 across all energy uses, with no coal or nuclear power plants and insignificant amounts of petroleum energy production.
The stormwater and wastewater categories both earned the lowest grades in the Report Card, each taking home a "D+." This is the state's first year grading stormwater, and wastewater is up from a "D" in 2014. Vermont's many rural communities lack sufficient stormwater utilities, full-time town managers and public works directors with capacity to plan for and manage stormwater infrastructure needs. Additionally, Vermont's stormwater system is facing an investment gap of $1.24 billion over the next 20 years. However, Vermont is improving in this area by placing emphasis on installing Green Stormwater Infrastructure and utilizing Low Impact Development techniques where possible. Wastewater systems in the state require upgrades, particularly in areas where a wastewater overflow is possible and could threaten public safety. Thankfully, the funding gap for wastewater infrastructure needs is decreasing due to the effects of Vermont's Clean Water Act; however, a 2017 Act 73 report found a five-year total wastewater funding gap of $18 million.
Notably, Vermont's bridges, up to a "C+" from "C" in 2014, and roads, up to a "C+" from a "C-," saw improvements since the 2014 Report Card. In recent years, Vermont has significantly reduced the number of structurally deficient bridges. Today, despite a shortfall in funding, approximately five percent of bridges are structurally deficient, compared with 9.6 percent in 2012. The state's bridges, however, continue to age, with the average age of 57 years old, which is much higher than the national average of 43 years. Contrarily, roads improved due to prioritization of maintenance from the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans). The percentage of miles in good and fair condition has grown in recent years, and the state sees little congestion. However, funding is required to keep this trend in check. Future needs are significant, as the state currently only has two thirds of the funding it needs to keep roads in a state of good repair.
In addition to data and analysis, the Report Card offers six solutions to address the state's infrastructure needs. Recommendations include increasing resiliency in infrastructure to prepare for increasingly severe storms and to support emergency response, as well as balancing the needs of urban and rural communities in the mostly rural state. The Report Card also suggests finding sustainable, local funding sources because the state currently relies heavily on federal funding.
The Report Card for Vermont's Infrastructure was created as a public service to citizens and policymakers to inform them of the infrastructure needs in the state. Civil engineers used their expertise and school report card letter grades to condense complicated data into an easy-to-understand analysis of Vermont's infrastructure network.
ASCE State Infrastructure Report Cards are modeled after the national Infrastructure Report Card (www.infrastructurereportcard.org), which gave America's infrastructure a grade of "D+" in 2017.
A full copy of the 2019 Report Card for Vermont's Infrastructure is available at www.InfrastructureReportCard.org/Vermont.


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that photo of tom and wilf is so sweet!
Pete and I met when we were at university in Cheltenham :) great literary and jazz festivals, the races and as Jane George said, the car boots!
These are beautiful pictures of a lovely family. So many different ages and stages together!


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Looking for 2017 Barbasol Championship picks, either for betting or fantasy golf games like DraftKings, FanDuel, Yahoo, Golf Channel or the PGA Tour?
We have your 2017 Barbasol Championship rankings and expert picks, as we do each week of the PGA Tour season.
The Barbasol Championship is the opposite-field event played against The Open Championship, with the Grand National on the RTJ Trail in Auburn, Ala., hosting the event. The players in the field range from those struggling on the PGA Tour to long-time veterans who are ineligible for the year's third major.
1. Chad Campbell - The Texan is playing the best PGA Tour golf in the field. He's got a pair of top-10 starts in recent memory, at Memphis and Greenbrier, where you gotta go low.
2. Jim Furyk - Furyk is back in the top 26 in his last two starts after a stunning run of six consecutive missed cuts.
3. Trey Mullinax - Mullinax went to Alabama, so he knows the course, and he has a top-nine finish at the U.S. Open, which is certainly of consequence, and a T-19 at the Deere is good.
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5. Chesson Hadley - Chessie is arguably the hottest player in the field that is playing any tour. He won at Peak 'n Peek, and he did well at the Deere last week.
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I love the last part – while they are making memories, we are remembering ours. Problem is that some of those we can remember, we should forget.
I loved this,so true. Yep I still say icebox. My grandkids go what??


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He is Britain's only stand-up comedian for children: a sort of Billy Connolly for the under 10s! Edinburgh and UK Tours aside, James has performed his unique stand up for children all over the world including runs at the New Victory on Broadway NYC, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Just for Laughs in Montreal, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, The Adelaide Fringe, The Perth Literary Festival, The Southbank Imagine Festival and The Hay Festival.
Age 6+. Imagine you're a sausage. You are in a frying pan, happily sizzling away with other, like-minded sausages. Then one of them starts to tell you about tomato ketchup. You refuse to believe your friend's stories but later you find yourself being dipped head first into that tangy, tomatoey joy. And then you realise that yes - ketchup is true. Watching James Campbell is a bit like that. But there aren't any sausages involved. Or ketchup.


The Vance Residence carried the modern lines of the contemporary kitchen through to the lighting with the clean minimal look of the square aperture "Hole in the Ceiling" fixtures. The 8″ aperture fixtures were used for general lighting and can easily be dimmed to fetch that midnight snack. The cast GRG (Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum) portion of the fixture blends with the ceiling, while the metal fixture housing attaches above.
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With a number of Planet Platforms customers meeting these very criteria it was important that we changed our approach.
Transporting large manufactured and assembled platforms is costly simply due to their physical size. The idea was revolutionary, yet simplistic in its form. Why not supply the items flat-packed? Not exactly IKEA but along those lines.
To aid Planet Platforms customers in the reassembly of their flat-packed stagings all technical manuals are produced using the Inventor® Publisher Software. Working on the same model as the CAD Team the Publisher software helps produce build manuals, which can be supplied in various formats. In addition to the conventional printed form the manuals can be published to the Cloud that can be read on smart phones and tablet devices.


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KINIGUIDE | Land tussles involving natives have been a perennial flashpoint in Sabah despite the existence of explicit protections in the law.
As the Sept 26 state polls loom, land rights is once again a hot-button issue.
This was especially true when caretaker Sabah Chief Minister Shafie Apdal continued to present land titles after the July 30 dissolution of the state legislative assembly before the proclamation of an election on Aug 17.
In this instalment of KiniGuide, Malaysiakini explains types of land titles available to Sabah natives and why it is a political matter.
This article was written in consultation with Galus Ahtoi, a land rights programme coordinator with Penampang-based NGO Pacos Trust.
The 2012 book Native Customary Rights by lawyers Nasser Hamid and Ram Singh was also referenced.
Do native Sabahans have unique land rights in the state?
States and territories have jurisdiction over land matters, and in Sabah, these matters are governed by the state government using the Sabah Land Ordinance 1930 (SLO).
A piece of legislation inherited from the British colonial occupation, the SLO lays out specific procedures for natives and non-natives to either apply or claim for land.
Native claims to land will be the focus of this KiniGuide.
Who is considered a Sabah native?
A native is a person whose parents are or were both members of a people indigenous to Sabah. Also considered a native is a person who resides in Sabah, lives as a member of a native community and has at least one parent or ancestor who is a native.
This is according to Section 2 of the Interpretation (Definition of Native) Ordinance 1952.
Under the same section, a native is further defined as any person who resides in Sabah and is a member of the Suluk, Kagayan, Simunul, Sibutu or Ubian people; or of a people indigenous to Sarawak or Brunei. The person must have lived as and been a member of a native community for three consecutive years preceding the date of their claim.
The native status is also extended to Sabah residents who are a member of a people indigenous to Indonesia, the Sulu islands (Philippines), Peninsular Malaysia or Singapore. For these claimants, they must have lived as and been a member of a native community for five continuous years preceding the date of their claim.
For the latter two conditions, the claimant must have "borne a good character" throughout the respective period and prove their stay in Sabah was not restricted under the Immigration Act 1959/63.
Native status claims are decided by the Native Court.
So what unique rights does a Sabah native have?
Sabah natives can claim rights to land under Native Customary Rights (NCR).
Section 15 of the SLO lists seven conditions that can be used to substantiate NCR claims:
Land possessed by customary tenure
Land planted with fruit trees where the number of trees amounts to more than 50 per hectare
Isolated fruit trees and sago, rattan or other plants of economic value that the claimant can prove were planted, maintained and regularly enjoyed as personal property
Grazing land that the claimant agrees to keep is stocked with sufficient number of cattle or horses to keep down undergrowth
Land cultivated or built on within three years
Burial grounds or shrines
Usual rights of way for people and animals from rivers, roads and houses to any or all of the above.
"Customary tenure" is defined by Section 65 of the SLO as lawful possession of land by natives either by continuous occupation or cultivation for three or more consecutive years; or by a title.
Natives can also make claims to land under NCR based on common law.
And what land titles can natives claim under NCR?
For one, a Native Title (NT) can be claimed.
An NT is a specific, mapped out land title awarded to an individual. It gives the owner a native legal, permanent, perpetual and inheritable ownership of the land.
An NT must be registered with the NT Register or Field Register, as per Section 67 of the SLO.
NT land can only be traded among natives. Non-natives are not allowed to purchase NT land unless the state government gives specific permission under Section 17 of the SLO.
NT claims are made with the Land and Survey Department (Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur or JTU). Parked under the Chief Minister's Department, the department is responsible for issuing NT deeds.
So why is this a political issue?
NTs have historically taken many years to be processed by the JTU as they require detailed land surveys. Ahtoi said it was not uncommon for natives to wait decades for their title deeds, pointing to a lack of political will and budget for these surveys except when elections draw near.
The Communal Titles (CT) was mooted by previous administrations as a swift solution. The conditions for such titles are found under Section 76 of the SLO.
Unlike the NT, a CT is not specifically demarcated and the natives do not receive individual title deeds. The deeds are often given to the title chief and natives are "beneficiaries" and not owners of the land.
CTs are not handled by the JTU but are instead issued by the Chief Minister's Office.
However, Ahtoi's experience with communities on the ground found serious abuse of the CT system, often resulting in natives being disenfranchised from their land.
Ahtoi had cases where the list of beneficiaries for CT land included the names of those not from the local community.
After a 2009 amendment to Section 76 of the SLO allowed the state government to "plan" CTs, he began receiving complaints that villages that did not apply for a CT were found to have one.
Their surrounding lands were then entered into joint-venture agreements with commercial entities and exploited for timber and plantations without informed consent.
According to Ahtoi, the CT system provided a loophole for the usual detailed logging licence application process to be bypassed.
Are there any examples?
Kampung Bigor in the southwestern district of Nabawan is an example of how misunderstandings over CT land have caused conflicts between native communities and the state government.
Back in 2013, the Murut villagers were offered RM2,000 by a developer to sign a joint-venture agreement to develop their communal land. Ahtoi claimed the natives did not understand the English-language agreement when they signed it and accepted the money.
The natives were later shocked when the developer began clearing the community's paddy fields, fruit trees and rubber plantations. The community would later engage in altercations with the developer, involving the police and arrests on several occasions.
But what about NCR?
Ahtoi opined that many were unaware of their rights, and said this was partly due to how the SLO had yet to be translated from English to Malay, the common language for most natives.
He also claimed the Land and Survey Department was often procedurally "opposed" to recognising NCR claims to land despite explicit provisions in the SLO as well as court judgements upholding NCR.
Pacos has since campaigned for Section 76 of the SLO to be amended to stop future state governments from misusing and exploiting CTs.
Didn't the Warisan state government promise to stop issuing CTs?
Yes, and the promise was part of their 14th general election (GE14) manifesto.
Shafie began presenting NTs to natives in 2019 and ramped up such presentations just before the Sabah snap election dates were announced.
To Ahtoi, Shafie's recent NT blitz was proof that the Land and Survey Department could significantly speed up its processing time for NT claims if it wanted to.
He pointed to how former BN chief minister Musa Aman had similarly handed out 1,000 NTs to natives several days before GE14.
The Warisan government has been presenting NTs since last May. According to the Chief Minister's Office, a total of 10,686 NTs would have been presented by the middle of next week.
"Another 16,000 lots which are still being processed… are expected to be resolved in three years. CTs have been abolished as promised in the Warisan manifesto," said the Chief Minister's Office in a statement to Malaysiakini.
Nevertheless, Ahtoi applauded the move and hoped NT deeds would continue to be presented to qualified claimants during non-election times.
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The University of Notre Dame has taken its green efforts to new heights. The school is touting what it calls the largest green roof in Indiana. The more than 79,000 square-foot installation sits on top of the Joyce Center, home to the Fighting Irish Athletics Department and the Purcell Pavilion arena.
The project marks the fifth and largest green roof Notre Dame has installed on campus, including three buildings around the football stadium. The others are at the Morris Inn, Corbett Family Hall, Duncan Student Center and O'Neill Hall.
Senior Director of Sustainability and Continuous Improvement Carol Mullaney says putting living vegetation planted on rooftops helps buildings conserve energy and water. She says it helps eliminate stormwater runoff and provides insulation for the buildings, decreasing the heating and cooling needed. In addition, the installations protect the roofs from sunlight, meaning they last longer.
Notre Dame partnered with Michigan-based LiveRoof to design and grow the greenscape, which was then installed by Midland Engineering Co. in South Bend. The installation includes more than 32,000 trays of plants, consisting of 25 plant species. It also features a rooftop irrigation system.
The green roofs are part of an ambitious goal the school set in 2005: reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030, and 83 percent by 2050. Mullaney says the school is trending ahead of those goals thanks to a system-wide focus on sustainability.
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We create and produce new work providing opportunities for young singers to work alongside established professionals - and working closely with superb instrumentalists.
We have enjoyed an ongoing partnership with Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, with whom we first produced The Lovely Ladies (2010) and The Mad Duchess (2011). Since then public performances have included the Buxton Festival in 2011 (The Lovely Ladies) and Claxton Opera in September 2012 (The Mad Duchess), which was followed by a concert performance at 22 Mansfield Street, London in November 2012.
A new mini-opera, The Death of Hook, was premiered at The Well Theatre, Moffat, in March 2019.
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Rabbi Moshe Al-Shech, in commenting upon Isaiah 53, says: "God comes in the Scriptures to make known how far the merits of those who bear the chastisement of their generation extends: and He brings proof from KING MESSIAH, Who bears the sins of the Children of Israel, and behold His reward is with Him."
Yalkut-Shimeoni on Isaiah 60: the whole paragraph 499, both Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 are applied to the MESSIAH.
On "Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows" (Isaiah 53:4). Zohar comments: "When Israel was in the Holy Land, they had their sufferings and their afflictions removed from them by their prayers and sacrifices; but now Messiah removes them from the children of the world." [Sanhedrin 98b Targum Jonathan on Isaiah 53:10 / Yalkut Shimeoni: Is. 53:13.
Why is NOT this Isaiah Chapter 53 read in synagogue today?


We all know people that seem to be miserable at all times. "Negative Nancy's" can be difficult to get along with. The air becomes thick around them and you find yourself becoming more tense and just overall aggravated.
They don't want to talk to you directly, so they wait until you leave the room and slip that passive Post-It note on your desk. I am certain that Post-It notes encourage the "Crabby Roads" of the World behavior. Maybe I'll just not order anymore and make people talk to one another!
These same people are so stubborn that they won't even attend a free meal. They don't want to be caught socializing with each other because they might have a good time if they participated in the conversations around the table. Do you really think that some people want to be miserable? Who wants to be miserable? or is it they just want others to be as miserable as them? Doesn't being miserable require more energy?
It appears there is always at least one in every office. Many conversations have been around the water coolers warning you that Crabby is in "one of their moods." People, life is too short to be miserable! Encourage one another not to be brought down by negative thoughts or surroundings. Don't give into the miserable behavior! Negative Nancy can meet Positive Patsy and maybe, just maybe, it will start rubbing off. Yep, I'm convinced, hide those freakin' Post-It Notes!


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"Karma's a Bitch Challenge Peru."
There is a hot new meme out there and, make no mistake, it is insanely good. It's the sort of thing where, if Vine still existed, it would be the hot new thing on Vine. It started in China, and I'm not sure if there's an official name for it, but...
There is a hot new meme out there and, make no mistake, it is insanely good. It's the sort of thing where, if Vine still existed, it would be the hot new thing on Vine. It started in China, and I'm not sure if there's an official name for it, but let's just call it the "Karma's a Bitch Challenge." PODCAST GOSSIP NEWS ASHAWO Welcome on BOARD VROOM VROOM


The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum celebrates the opening of its new exhibit Wives and Daughters: Keepers of the Light. The opening reception will include a lecture by Willard Thompson about the women who tended the lights on the California coast from 1856 to the start of the 20th century. One was a socialite and another a successful naturalist; One an admiral's daughter and another a helpless eye witness to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. And one –Julia F. Williams – stayed steadfastly at her post protecting ships coming and going from Santa Barbara for 40 years while the town transitioned from a small enclave of adobe houses to a thriving Victorian American City. Thompson is a member of the Museum's board of directors and the author of Keepers of the Light, The History of the Point Conception Lighthouse and other books.
Willard Thompson is an award-winning writer, lecturer and historian living in Montecito, California with his wife Jo. His two novels of historical fiction, Dream Helper and Delfina's Gold, are part of his Chronicles of California trilogy. The Independent Publishers 2009 Book Awards selected Dream Helper for a gold medal as the best fiction in the Western/Pacific Region.
He also wrote the Noticias, Montecito Adobes and the Settlers who Built Them, for the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Other published non-fiction include: Walter Vail — Empire Builder; The Last Cattle Drive; Dividing the Waters; and Running the Big Ditch, an account of a commercial raft running the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
Thompson is currently president of the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. He is a native of Manhasset, New York and a graduate of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.


Beautiful and cozy cabled sweater, worked seamlessly from top down.
At the beginning, the upper body is worked back and forth until the neckline shaping is complete, then joined in the round. The body is worked in the round with increases on both sides to create a slight A-shape and the hem is shaped with short rows. The collar is worked last. The cable pattern is both charted and written and the pattern includes a photo tutorial for German short rows.
Bust circumference of the finished sweater: 30 ½ (35, 39, 42 ½, 47, 50 ½)" / 78 (89, 99, 108, 119, 128) cm.
To fit bust 28 (32, 36, 40, 44, 48)" / 71 (81, 91, 102, 112, 122) cm.
The sweater is designed to be worn with approximately 2 ½ – 3" / 6 – 8 cm of positive ease.


At British Red Cross, we've been writing our international strategy at the same time as the Strategy 2030 consultations have been taking place, so we've been able to benefit from the S2030 horizon scanning of external trends, and from the reflections on how we're going to work together as a network of National Societies over the coming years. The 'how' has been critical to us in our planning, because while our ambitions are big, we know that alone we are small, and our success depends on our ability to form great partnerships with sister NS, to participate in great coalitions of NS working towards a common aim, and to find the best ways to engage with the IFRC Secretariat and ICRC. Only if we get those partnerships right, can we really make a difference to people in crisis.
So, while our strategy rightly focuses on big, external humanitarian issues of hunger, migration and conflict, underneath that lies an attempt to anticipate how internal shifts within the International RCRC Movement, particularly within our Federation, will influence our work. Here's a stab at predicting nine internal trends that will force us to adapt in how we collaborate as a network in the coming years.
Bilateralism will reach its peak and NS will get better at working as a Federation, but we'll function more like a network than a multilateral organisation. Two drivers will push this forward. The first is internal pressures to confront the duplication of assets and resources amongst NS in their international work, the second will be large grant opportunities that require coalitions of partners. In response to both these pressures, NS will learn to align systems and structures and form teams for long term programming. These will be agile, fit-for-purpose models of collaboration that may or may not involve the Secretariat, but will involve a broader range of NS from around the world than has been the case in previous decades. Most internationally funded programming and partnership between NS will take place in this space in the next ten years.
NS will still need a pooled coordination/delivery mechanism for major emergencies. NS will continue therefore to turn to the IFRC Secretariat for strategic coordination and management of global tools. These global tools will become less western-centric and many will be outsourced to the stronger NS from Africa and Asia. It will make sense for NS to support the IFRC Secretariat to deliver in disaster management, but investment will be half-hearted unless some form of operational governance is introduced that involves those NS and donors that are financial stakeholders in Emergency Appeals. The absence of such a mechanism will give NS too little confidence that they can hold any pooled mechanism to account. If an operational governance is introduced, we could see a breakthrough in collective commitment.
The NS paying the highest statutory fees will claim they are getting 'the worst deal ever' and will demand a 'really great deal'. Ok, they might not phrase it quite that way, but we will see a change. Many of the big barame payers were happy to contribute in previous decades because the IFRC Secretariat was the pooled delivery system through which they did their international business. That hasn't been the case for over ten years now. So, populism around us may seep into NS and make them less tolerant of annual contributions for a vague, international good without a clear return on investment. NS will push harder for the IFRC plan and budget to focus on core business that serves NS interests and for the bareme to reflect global wealth distribution rather than willingness to pay.
The number of donor NS and government donors will continue to grow and diversify, shifting power and influence south and east. The first 100 years of the IFRC was disproportionately influenced by a small number of NS, most of whom were from western Europe and north America. That power dynamic already looks different and will continue to do so. Coordination in emergency response will involve a much broader range of actors who will play by different rules. We will see more politicised aid and more 'gesture' aid of trucks and planes of unsolicited goods. A whole new discourse will need to take place to bring alignment and good practice amongst a more diverse group than was the case in previous decades. Overtime, as international operations have a boarder range of NS stakeholders, Geneva may look less appealing as an HQ. The decentralisation of the Secretariat may take another step and begin to look more like a network of thematic reference centres hosted by NS, with a smaller Geneva base.
Institutional donors, stimulated by the co-chairing of the IFRC's Donor Advisory Group, will push for clarity on the role of the IFRC Secretariat, and these discussions will be genuinely helpful for the Movement. On the eve of Strategy 2030, even those donors who have gone as far as to commit unearmarked budget support to the IFRC, would probably struggle to explain whether they are funding a Red-OCHA, a pooled delivery mechanism for NS or an operational, international, humanitarian organisation providing services to people in crisis. Given how old the IFRC is, that confusion may seem surprising, but it's less surprising when we consider that NS don't agree on these definitions either, and thereby place a range of often conflicting expectations on the Secretariat. The co-chairing of the DAG by government donors from 2019 will force these conversations into the open and both NS and the IFRC Secretariat will come out stronger thanks to that clarity.
Donors will piece together a holistic picture of the International RCRC Movement in protracted crises and they will refuse to fund multiple Movement actors in the same context. The existence of parallel ICRC, IFRC, PNS and NS logistics, HR, admin, back-office functions etc, all in one capital, supported by the same NS and governments, will be called out at last. We shall start seeing field level mergers and shared systems in order to create more efficiency. IFRC NSD functions will be seconded into ICRC delegations in protracted crises. Everyone will be unhappy at first, but the optics of it will be much better, and it will become second nature overtime. This field level alignment will nudge forward conversations about merging IFRC and ICRC, but NS will be too reluctant to let go of a NS-governed Federation for a full merger to take place.
Low levels of risk tolerance amongst donors will slow down investment in localisation but localisation will pick up pace anyway. It will remain hard to use humanitarian funds to invest in building institutions and the risk aversion of the major, western donors will keep intermediary PNS and IFRC offices in business, but more NS will exert independence anyway thanks to strong leadership and government backing. The assigned leadership roles given by host governments to SARCS and PMI will set precedents for other countries and international aid will become more demand led. But NS around the world will still want the benefits of international investment, and those NS that do make the effort to pass international due diligence processes and high donor compliance standards, will end up on top.
The most progress will be made by those who master the art of having the right conversations: As a Federation of NS, we are not good at strategic convening. We tend to opt for maximum participation and end up with too many people in the room to do serious business. Where this practice continues, we will remain frustrated and divided. But where we thoughtfully convene small numbers of critical decision makers and stakeholders for open and honest construction of shared problem analysis and collective solutions, then we will enjoy breakthroughs in collective action. The Secretariat will struggle to convene like this for fear of excluding people, but where such diplomatic space is designed well, is where the most progress in collective action will be made.
The IFRC will survive and thrive. There still may be black swans out there that will shake the whole thing up, but my guess is, even as the world changes around us, the model of a global network of NS with a Secretariat function to link it all together, will prove to be resilient. Some NS will do well over the next ten years and some will fail, but ones that fall won't sink the network. The richer NS may choose to invest in the Secretariat as a shared delivery model for humanitarian outcomes, they may not, and while that decision may shape the size of the Secretariat, it won't change the fact that the shared learning, the solidarity, the mutual aid, the belonging to a global family, the platforms for humanitarian diplomacy and even for personal ambition, will continue to be valued. Providing we are open to pragmatic adaptation in response to the sort of trends outlined above, the IFRC will survive and thrive because it offers the combination of local and global humanitarian action that the world needs. It was, after all, a great idea a hundred years ago, and it still is.


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Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka?, also known as Fireworks, is a 2017 film produced by Studio Shaft. It is based on a 1993 live-action TV episode of the same name. The reception has been mixed, with many criticisms of the 3DCG (3D computer graphics) and the confusing plotline. Personally, as a Shaft fan, I enjoyed the show, and I believe there is much more to appreciate in Shaft shows then most people realize. In this article, I briefly recap the story, followed by a quick review of the show, and then I make a deep exploration into an interesting aspect of the time-traveling in the show, which most viewers of the show fail to recognize.
Brief Recap
To briefly recap the story, Nazuna finds the time-traveling sphere at the beginning of the movie. After a swimming race between Norimichi, Yuusuke and Nazuna, Nazuna asks Yuusuke out for the fireworks festival later that night. Yuusuke stood her up, and Norimichi runs into her instead. Norimichi finds out that Nazuna wants to leave her home, but at this point, Nazuna's mother turns up to drag her back home. After seeing the struggle which Nazuna puts up, Norimichi gets emotionally charged and throws the time-traveling sphere, inadvertently reversing time back to the swimming race.
In this new timeline, Norimichi gets asked out by Nazuna instead. Norimichi eventually ends up with Nazuna at the train station. Here, Nazuna's mother and her mother's boyfriend show up to retrieve Nazuna. Norimichi tries to fight back to no avail. Left alone, he leaves the train station, and bumps into his friends, joining them to go to the observatory to watch the fireworks. As the fireworks start, Norimichi sees that the fireworks were flat, and recalls the previous timelines, and realizes that it is possible to change the timeline once again. He throws the time-traveling sphere, wishing that he and Nazuna would have gotten on the train. Time reverses once again, and this time, the two of them manage to get on the train.
At this point, there is a dialogue scene where we learn about Nazuna's family background and her plans to leave home. The show goes into a insert song with trippy visuals to match. As the insert song ends, the train passes Norimichi's friends and the car Nazuna's mother is in, with the two parties catching them in sight. This leads to a chase scene to the next station, and then all the way to the top of the lighthouse. Yuusuke charges at them, accidentally knocking them off the lighthouse. While falling, Norimichi throws the time-traveling sphere, wishing that they weren't caught by either parties.
In the fourth timeline, they avoid the train windows and hid themselves. In addition, the train diverts to an alternate track towards the sea, and they end up in an alternate reality town. The time-traveling sphere was discovered by a drunk fireworks technician, who launches the sphere into the sky and shatters it. The many shards of the sphere, reflecting the many possibilities of reality within them, fall from the sky, as the characters catch glimpses of their alternate timelines. In the final scene, the homeroom teacher calls for attendance, and both Norimichi and Nazuna are absent.
One often criticism of the show is of the visuals, especially of the times where 3DCG was used. I like to think that it is a cost-cutting measure to use 3DCG, and where it looks decent enough, and used for unimportant scenes, I don't have any objections to it.
I do agree that the scene where it cuts away to the princess in a fantasy glass tower world looked out of place and was pretty insane. But the same insanity also gave rise to unimaginably awesome fireworks animation.
Insane?
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Insanely awesome!
Other than the visuals, Studio Shaft is also strong in their storytelling, where they often insert deeper meanings that are not easily understood when watched the first time round. This show is no exception, and when I watched it in theater, there was a gasp of surprise from the audience when the show ended. This was due to the lack of a clear conclusion as the movie cuts to the credits. The audience is left to figure out how the story ended and what conclusions to draw from it.
Exploration of the time-traveling in the show
Besides the unclear conclusion, there is definitely more to the show than meets the eye, and we shall examine one aspect which I found particularly intriguing: the uses of the time-traveling sphere.
How many instances of time-traveling occurred during the events in the show? By a simple count, Norimichi time-traveled the first time to bring Nazuna to the train station, the second time to get on the train, and the final third time to divert the train to the alternate reality town.
Level 1: Watching the show and recognizing the 3 instances of time-travel
Were there only 3 instances of time-travel during the events of the show?
To go deeper before answering that, let's consider another question: In the first timeline, why did Yuusuke not want to go on a date with Nazuna? We can tell from many instances during the show that Yuusuke had feelings for Nazuna: he repeatedly declared his interest in Nazuna, and in the second and third timelines he got angry whenever he sees Norimichi with Nazuna, finally in the last timeline, when he sees his potential reality of going on a date with Nazuna, he was so moved that he declared his love for Nazuna outright. This doesn't add up with the events of the first timeline, where he found all sorts of excuses to avoid meeting Nazuna. How do we resolve this apparent contradiction?
Let's consider for a moment, what if Yuusuke did go on a date with Nazuna? It logically follows that Nazuna would try to escape with Yuusuke. Then, Nazuna's mother would stop her, and we've seen from Norimichi's efforts through his timelines, that most of her/Yusuke's attempts would result in failures and tears. What if Yuusuke, in contrast with Norimichi, decided to give up after some tries? Then, for his final timeline, Yuusuke, being discouraged from his failed attempts, would naturally try to avoid meeting Nazuna, so as not to trigger a bad ending for the two of them. His wish would be so that he would not meet up with Nazuna.
With this hypothesis, the pieces of the puzzle start to fall into place perfectly. In the first timeline we see, Yuusuke avoided meeting with Nazuna, firstly, by volunteering to go to the lighthouse to check out the fireworks and encouraging their group of friends to do so to, and secondly, getting Norimichi to tell Nazuna that he wouldn't be joining her. In addition to that, when his group of friends suggested going to the clinic together to pick up Norimichi, Yuusuke is noticeably reluctant as well, since that would mean that they might bump into Nazuna at the clinic. These facts are coherent with the theory that Yuusuke, despite being interested in Nazuna, had bad experiences when having chosen to meet Nazuna in previous timelines, and hence he goes out of his way to avoid her. The time he traveled back to, would then be somewhere shortly after winning the swimming race, and before he hurriedly agreed to go to the lighthouse during the classroom scene.
(First) Yuusuke hurriedly volunteering to go catch the fireworks at the lighthouse, instead of meeting Nazuna. (Second) Yuusuke, unhappy with the group going to his family's clinic to meet up with Norimichi.
If we go back in time further, when Norimichi and Yuusuke first entered the swimming pool area and noticed Nazuna, Yuusuke excused himself to the toilet with a strange excuse. This could possibly signify that Yuusuke also time traveled to this point in one of the iterations. One can only wonder what could have happen if Yuusuke didn't excuse himself at that time.
On top of Yuusuke using the time-travel device, we still have one more character to consider, who had the time-travel device for a significant duration. Nazuna could also have time traveled. One obvious time is when she joined in the swimming race, it is possible that she did not do so the first time round, and had to face her mother alone when trying to leave home. After a failure, she could have decided that she needed help, and joining the swimming race was her way to get one of the boys to help her.
Level 2: Realizing that the time-traveling sphere was used for a greater number of times in the movie then we were shown
In my opinion, expounding a moral of the story within a show adds value to the story-telling experience. In time-traveling stories where the protagonist revises his decisions with the power of time-travel to make progressively better ones, a moral of the story is hard to come up with because we don't have access to such powers to do the same thing in real life.
In this show however, other elements of the story come into play that generates a moral of the story which we can think about. Near the end of the show when the time-traveling sphere shatters into pieces, the characters see their alternate realities reflected in the shards. Yuusuke sees a vision of his alternate reality date with Nazuna, which strengthens his resolve to go after her. Norimichi sees himself with Nazuna in Tokyo, and subsequently jumps into the ocean to join her. We can surmise that the moral of the story is that there are many possibilities in life, and it is up to us to take action to build the reality that we want.
We know that multiple characters had access to the use of the time-traveling sphere, in particular Yuusuke. And from the discussion earlier, we know that Yuusuke had used the time-traveling sphere before Norimichi did. However, Yuusuke had given up prematurely, and this led to Norimichi's eventual success. This may be telling us that when we are given an opportunity, we should not easily give up even in the face of difficulty, because success goes to the person who has both opportunity and the resolve to go to the end with it. If we give up the opportunity, we might regret it one day, when even if you had the resolve, you would no longer have the opportunity.
Furthermore, there's also a meta-moral that's being portrayed. The animators chose to only show Norimichi's viewpoint, and only him time-traveling. The viewer has to read between the lines and study the details to discover that the other characters had also used the time-traveling sphere. There is a saying, "History is written by the winners". History often favors the people who succeed, and the many others who failed to achieve the goal are lost to obscurity. Yuusuke might have made multiple attempts in escaping with Nazuna, but none of those were portrayed in the movie. The moral of the story seems to be further encouraging us to persevere with our efforts until we reach our goals, because if we don't succeed, then none of our efforts matter.
Level 3: Understanding the morals and the meta-morals of the story
I enjoy studio Shaft's shows because of the layered messages that they often embed within their productions, and Uchiage Hanabi is no exception. There are definitely still more points to explore:
In the ending, during the classroom roll-call, Nazuna's name was left out, as she transferred out. Norimichi's name was called out, but he was not present. We don't see reactions from his friends. Does this mean that Norimichi managed to leave the town with Nazuna?
We were shown glimpses of Nazuna's foster father, where he died in a shipwreck while holding the time-traveling sphere. Did he also time-traveled? How did he end up dead?
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1 comment for "Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka?"
Zhayorwn
Very nice theory and observations.


>> a non-built-in echo (using the $0 --fallback-echo comes to mind).
> elaborate on this a bit?
ltconfig.in to see how it works.
>> fail in case the command line gets too long.
shell built-in, so you must take this possibility into account.
> $LD was set to CC.
name of the linker, not of the compiler.
> add several object files to an existing archive properly?
>     to add objects to an archive for most supported archivers?
tell libtool whether incremental archiving is possible or not.
of static libraries, where supported.
> be out of order?


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package GameStates;

import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.SpriteBatch;

/**
 *
 * @author dgpc
 */
public abstract class GameState
{

    //IMPORTANT. MAKE SURE EVERY SUBCLASS OF THIS HAS A "private void init()"
    //METHOD.    put all initialization of non-passed in values inside of it
    protected GameStateManager gsm;

    protected SpriteBatch s;

    public GameState(GameStateManager gsm, SpriteBatch s)
    {
        this.gsm = gsm;
        this.s = s;
    }

    //call when entering state
    public abstract void enter();

    //call when exiting state
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    //put all updating game logic in here
    public abstract void update();

    //put all drawing of game inside here
    public abstract void draw();
}


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