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How The Lego Movie Breaks the World
Posted on February 19, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson
In a sense, my 9 year old wrote the screenplay for The Lego Movie. Not the actual script, of course. Nicolas is in grade 4, and is still working on his cursive. But the main theme of this brilliant film emerges out of his practice, out of his daily life, out of the normal way he plays.
I first noticed it just before Christmas. Nicolas decided to make a nativity scene on his Lego table. He has enjoyed the Brick Testament, so I was looking forward to the project. In the end he produced a monstrosity of mixed worlds, a mosaic of universes crowded around a Lego manger. Attending the promised child were Lego construction workers, various kinds of animals from every toy universe imaginable, action figure pirates, medieval knights in full colours on horseback, and at least one Star Wars figurine with light sabre in hand. If he was a little younger, no doubt Thomas the Tank Engine would have circled the Christ child with his manically happy grin.
When his masterpiece was complete, I stared in amazement. How could he mix all these worlds? There is a droid standing next to a McDonald's toy? What has Batman to do with Lego City? What has Medieval Europe to do with the Intergalactic Star Fleet? Rebels indeed.
It wasn't until I took Nicolas to The Lego Movie that it all came together for me. He has been desperate to see this film, and was crushed when it was sold out on Saturday. We got tickets for Sunday, and by the time the opening credits rolled, he was fixed on the screen. In just a few days since its release, the movie has become a schoolyard legend. Without seeing the trailer, Nicolas spoke the punch lines in time with the animated heroes on the giant screen. It was then I realized it:
This was Nicolas' movie. And I am Lord Business.
If you haven't seen the film, that probably doesn't make sense. President Business is the bureaucratic bad guy, a suit-wearing super-villain who goes insane when people mess with the pristine order of Lego kits. He wants all Lego to be super neat, precisely as set out in the instruction booklet, placed meticulously in its own world. For President Business, it is an abomination that Lego City should mix with Middle Earth or Ninjago Lego. And he declares war on the "Master Builders," a group of Lego misfits that find their inner creativity by using the Lego to build anything they can imagine.
It is a deadly mix, and a monstrous melange of alternate worlds. The Master Builders include figures like an incredibly annoying Green Lantern, Batman with an identity crisis, Morgan Freeman as a creepy blind prophet, a flying Abraham Lincoln, a bipolar Liam Neeson, a weird unicorn kitty unikitty, and that freelancing Spaceman Lego figurine from the 80s, complete with cracked helmet. And as one of the characters say in the "Behind the Bricks" featurette, the "cool part is, all these different Lego worlds come together."
I don't think that's cool. Which is why I am Lord Business.
I like worlds to be neat, tidy, and in their own place. I mean, imagine if aliens invaded Avonlea and convinced Anne of Green Gables to run for Darth Vader's position in the Empire after he wimped out. Or imagine if our friendly neighbourhood Spiderman rescued Aslan from the White Witch's grasp, or Peter Rabbit spoke to Frodo while he slept fitfully. It would be a mess, and people should stay in their own worlds. I mean, come on!
Okay, okay. I'm being President Business again.
But you must see what I mean, right? Universes should stay where they belong. The first rule of creating a speculative world is that it has to be tight, consistent, a universe that obeys laws the author prescribes. As J.K. Rowling said, "the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head." All the details "bubbled up" in her imagination largely intact and she created a tight world where magic folk live on the threshold of the Muggle world. This is how a world should be built.
The Lego Movie breaks all those rules. And that's the point—that's the plotline, actually. The movie emerges out of the imagination of a child playing with Lego, so it is full of alternate universes crashing together. The beauty of the film is in its deconstruction of all the rules of world-building. It's what makes it a brilliant film.
So, will President Business be won over in the end? I'll leave it to the reader to find out. But in watching my son, I have learned a great deal about how worlds work. I still don't think that universes should leak—they should still follow an inner logic, streambeds that allow the story to flow through to the end of its course. But I wonder how much we could learn as writers in watching children play. Who knows? This might be the next frontier in world building.
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Are you familiar with Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books? He creates a whimsical alternate England that abuts a literary world where characters mingle within the "Book World." I enjoy them for their dry, witty humor. They're not everyone's cup of tea, but I highly recommend them.
Brenton Dickieson says:
Very fun. I'll have to look it up.
L. Palmer says:
The Lego Movie is yet another example of the post-modern mish-mash a lot of pop culture has become. On one hand, I think it is a lot of fun. On the other hand, it can be a populated mess, especially if we don't know everything. There are some stories and shows which rely on the pop-culture inter-pollination – Once Upon A Time, The Avengers and Marvel franchise from Disney, Community (a small show on NBC), and more.
Sometimes, though, it's nice to just have Peter Rabbit live in Peter Rabbit's world.
Thanks for the comment Lavender Palmer. I too like the homeliness of Peter, or the childish adventure of Wind in the Willows, or the good ole days when Superman did his own work.
But I do love all the shows you mention. I don't know Once Upon a Time, actually, but know the idea. Community is a spoof, so that's expected. But I think those are all good because they are "good"–they are well done on their own right.
There were references in Lego Movie I didn't get. BUt I was there for most of it, with a hint of nostalgia.
mrwootton says:
Fascinating. Now I kind of want to see it.
It's definitely worth it!
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Excuse the fat woman. But look at Elly go.
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Hear, hear! Thank you folks for your outstanding generosity - you're all Superstars!
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She goes from lovely to beautiful and her loving character is now coming out. Stood with her head in my lap whilst I typed this.
Elly has done so well in your care Jenny. What stars the pair of you are. Especially like the pic of her waiting to get out into the garden. Such a beautiful face.
Elly visited Pishiobury Park this morning with Mim, Sofi, Megan, Seamus, Erin, Murphy & Benjy.
I'm delighted to report that Elly continues to go from strength to strength.
Nice to see Elly out enjoying herself with pals and what's more...all glossy coated and with her smashing blue collar and tassle. Couldn't be more happy for you and Jenny and the brave grey girl....no matter what the future holds Elly is having a good time now.
I picked up the lab report from Barney today. Elly has aggressive neoplasm. At least we now know what to look for and how long she has. Approximately 12 months.
At the moment she is going from strength to strength so let's hope that all the medicines and supplements we are giving and the change of diet will slow down the spread.
She has had her vaccinations this week and like a good girl didn't murmour. She goes back in two weeks for the follow-up and my vet will give her a going over again. There is one suspect lump that we need to monitor.
We won't be putting Elly through any chemo as we want her to enjoy the health that she has got for however long she can.
If it hadn't been for all of you she wouldn't have been here now and enjoyed yet another walk to Clayton Hills.
Elly will have the best EVER 12 months.
Further evidence that the lovely Elly has been given a new lease of life, however short that may prove to be.
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They sure are - their resilience in overcoming all sorts of trauma & past ill-treatment is amazing, & Elly is a wonderful example of this trait.
I think we are going to have to get her insured Laurie. She thinks she is a born again puppy at the mo. We meet a regular walker who adopts old greyhounds. he has four oldies at the mo. One of them has taken a shine to Elly. Today they ran off in the woods and out the other end. Elly came back dragging herself along with a big smile on her face. He came a little bit behind smiling also.
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LAKEWOOD, N.J. – The Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) softball team (20-26) received two late go-ahead hits by junior Breck Urban as the Rams won a pair of games to stay alive in the CACC Tournament on Friday. Jefferson defeated Caldwell, 4-2 before outlasting Nyack, 1-0 in 10 innings.
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GAME ONE – W, 4-2 vs. Caldwell
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The game remained tied until the seventh. With two outs, senior Erin Maher singled through the right side. Heno followed with a base hit and went to second on an error to put runners at second and third. After a walk loaded the bases, Urban came through with a clutch two-run single up the middle to give Jefferson a 4-2 lead.
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- Madison Heno: 1-for-4, 2 R
- Winnai Hoyt: 1-for-3, BB, R
- Breck Urban: 1-for-4, 2 RBI
- Stephanie Pepper: 2-for-4, RBI
- Katelyn Stys: 1-for-3, 2B
- Naomi Stas: 5.0 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 9 K
GAME TWO – W, 1-0 (10 inn.) vs. Nyack
The contest was a duel of pitching and defense. Both teams had multiple opportunities throughout the game to push a run across but timely pitching and sound defensive plays kept the game scoreless.
The Warriors turned two double plays to get out of jams. Stas induced groundouts back to herself to strand runners at third base. The Rams had an opportunity in the seventh when Maher tripled with two outs but a foul out ended the threat. Jefferson had another chance in the ninth with runners at first and third but a pop up kept the Rams off the board.
In the 10th, Hoyt drew a one-out walk and went to second on a wild pitch. Urban then came up big again, sending a base hit to center field. The Nyack centerfielder made a strong throw to the plate but Hoyt was able to avoid the tag and put Jefferson in front.
Stas retired the Warriors in order in the bottom half to clinch the win and send the Rams to Championship Saturday. The senior was brilliant, tossing a complete game shutout and allowing just six hits. She walked only one while striking out six. Stas threw 129 pitches with an impressive 91 for strikes.
- Breck Urban: 1-for-5, RBI
- Naomi Stas: 3-for-4, 10.0 IP, 0 R, 6 H, 1 BB, 6 K
- Dallas Urban: 2-for-4


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El Pillsbury Doughboy, popularmente llamado Poppy Fresco (Poppin' Fresh en inglés), es un logotipo y a su vez la mascota de la empresa de dulces y repostería Pillsbury Company. Fue creado por Leo Burnett. En Hispanoamérica también es conocido como 'Masin'.

Características
Poppy Fresco consiste en un muñequito, aparentemente hecho de masa para donuts/galletas. Lleva un gorro de cocinero con el logotipo oficial de Pillsbury Company en la parte de abajo. Es algo gordito, y ese hecho le ha dado su toque de diversión a sus múltiples anuncios, incluyendo algunas veces la acción de soltar una flatulencia cuando se ríe demasiado por las cosquillas que le hacen. También esto ha dado lugar a muchas parodias en webs y animaciones de Internet.

La idea de esta mascota, es un "personajillo pequeño y agradabable, gordito, con una cara amistosa y un gorrito de cocinero". Esa es la clave del marketing y éxito de la empresa (o al menos lo fue en su época estrella), al igual que incita a que el personaje "hace los productos de la empresa, y por ello son deliciosos". La figura de Poppy Fresco es también usada para otras propagandas de dulces, así como por aparecer en algunos anuncios e imágenes de promoción, además de diversas parodias.

Se hicieron muñecos de Poppy Fresco para comercializar, como una forma de merchandising de la empresa.

Familia Pillsbury
Aparte de los muñecos del propio Poppy Fresco, también se creó una familia ficticia del mismo, comercializando muñecos también como marketing:

 Poppie Fresh (Mrs. Poppin' Fresh, Pillsbury Doughgirl) (esposa)
 GrandPopper y GrandMommer (abuelos)
 Biscuit (gato mascota)
 Flapjack (perro mascota)

Referencias culturales
 En el episodio "Team Homer" (español: Equipo Homer) de la temporada 7 de la serie de animación de Los Simpsons, hay una escena en la que Homer va a pedirle dinero para su equipo de bolos al Sr. Burns, el cual por los efectos secundarios de un tranquilizante alucina que se trata de Poppy Fresco en lugar de Homer. Más tarde, Burns, junto a su secretario Smithers, intentan recordar qué empleado de la planta nuclear le pidió el dinero, y para ello usan a un modelo tridimensional de Poppy Fresco en un ordenador, para compararlo con todos sus empleados de manera digital. Primero usan a un empleado cualquiera y entonces no coincide, pero después lo prueban con Homer (que es un poco gordo), y a continuación indica una probabilidad de 99%.
 En otro episodio de Los Simpsons, Apu contrata a un piloto profesional para que dibuje en el cielo con el humo de su avioneta un mensaje romántico para su amada Manjula. Entonces, Homer, junto con el oficial Wiggum, el director Skinner, Flanders y Moe, deciden impedir que el piloto contratado logre entregar a tiempo ese mensaje romántico escrito en el cielo, con tal de evitar así que al verlo también sus propias esposas o parejas les reprochen a ellos mismos que no les hayan hecho a ellas ningún regalo romántico similar e igual de elaborado. Homer consigue despistar al piloto para que el mensaje no aparezca completo, y da lugar a que muestre solamente "I Love You" (español: Yo te amo), acompañado de lo que al final parece similar a un muñeco de un ángel gordito. A causa de esto, las esposas y parejas de los personajes nombrados anteriormente piensan que el mensaje es para ellas, y en concreto la esposa del oficial Wiggum exclama "¡Poppie Fresh!" al ver la última parte borrosa (y piensa que el mensaje ha sido enviado por su marido, debido a que así es como él la llama cariñosamente, ya que es un poco gordita). 'Poppie Fresh' es la esposa de Poppy Fresco dentro la línea de muñecos de merchandising relacionada.

Enlaces externos
 Anuncio televisivo de Pillsbury Doughboy (1982)
 Otro anuncio
 Otro anuncio (1972)
 Web oficial de Pillsbury Company

Campañas publicitarias
Cocineros ficticios
Humanoides ficticios

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In France, as occurs across the rest of Europe, all major building work (improvements, renovation and new build) is guaranteed in law for ten years against defects.
This does not mean that all work is guaranteed for ten years, but that in the first year there is a comprehensive guarantee, and in later years a guarantee against structural defects.
In order to back up the guarantee all builders and other building professionals (notably architects) in France are required to take out ten year building insurance, called assurance décennale.
However, not all do so and enforcement of the rule is weak. The legal obligation of a 'responsabilité décennale' is not the same as an 'assurance décennale'.
In the absence of an insurance policy the ten-year guarantee is frequently difficult to enforce.
There are also abuses, with some builders undertaking work not covered by their guarantee, or providing clients with details of a policy that may well have expired.
It is also too easy to get caught out by a builder claiming their standard public liability insurance (assurance responsabilité civile professionnelle) as their ten-year insurance policy, when it is nothing of the sort.
So in order to reduce abuses and bolster the protection offered to consumers building professionals are now required to produce to their clients a declaration of their insurance cover, with a number of minimum information requirements.
This declaration is called a modèle d'attestation d'assurance de responsabilité décennale and must be attached to estimates and invoices provided to the client.
Any later contract between the client and the building professional that conflicts with the information provided in the declaration would be considered void.
The requirement also has implications for property buyers and sellers, for the declaration must also be annexed to the deed of sale of a property with an unexpired ten-year guarantee.
The obligation applies from 1st July 2016, for all building contracts commencing after this date.
One significant omission from the template is that there is no requirement for the building professional to stipulate that they are up-to-date with their insurance premium payments, which may require that the client seeks confirmation from the insurer.
As much as the declaration is a significant step forward in this matter, neither is it a panacea, for even though there may be an insurance policy in place insurers not infrequently contest a claim made on a policy.
One solution is for a client to take out their own ten-year building defects policy, called assurance dommages-ouvrage, which effectively acts as an insurance policy against the failure of the builder's insurer to pay out! The policy can also cover abandonment of the site by the contractor.
For a major project the cost of such a policy is around several thousand euros, so it is not a decision that can be taken lightly.
An alternative solution might simply be to ensure that you select with great care the building professional who is going to undertake the project and/or to arrange professional supervision of the works.


I'm waiting for your call..
I was at Gaydon today and in the conversation we were having BMWCC GB have to make decision in the next week or so if the Snetterton event is going to go ahead. if we want the track day stuff to continue we need to start booking in advance rather than at the last possible moment.
I may be talking to people who already know about what goes on if so I apologise but for those who do not know I am going to put up some general posts on both this and the Silverstone threads.
First the track days do not need a modified car. As long as the car will pass a MOT on the day that you go on track you will probably be OK. I did break a spring but I drove home the 380 miles without a problem.
My first track day was Cadwell park and my second was Croft on both of them I was so nervous before but they were both well run and at no time was I out of touch with what I needed to do. Nick makes sure they have special session for the novices where the track day specialists are off the track so that we are a little more relaxed about the guys catching us up.
What you do is when you start into a corner that corner is yours till you are out of it, then you indicate and the let the faster cars go before you get to the next corner.
Some people have said that they need to do work on there car before they sign up for a track day! if you would feel comfortable to get in your car and drive to a show say 200 miles away then that should mean that your car is fine for the track. I know the track day guys do special stuff BUT (and it is a big but) they are doing something very different to us as they know the lines etc. the first thing I found out was that everything I thought I knew was not relevant. Now that nicely leads me onto that there are Instructors there that we get to book some time with and that is included in the price.
All the guys, even the track day specialists, want us along because they know they need the numbers for the days to stay available. they are all so welcoming as well I have made some real friends much like at Zroadster.org except that the track days is very much a face to face things with the Guys and Gals.
Now, mentioning Gals. On the BMWCCGB trackday postings for my first track day I said that I was worried and A lady called Nick posted that I should not worry as she was worried as well on her first track day and a few years later she won the track day star award! As It turns out Nick is a great character and really know what she wants so has just got rid of a 1M as she didn't like it and the number of people that are saying they would have bought it off her is surprising but she now has a M3 Dakar special.
I could go on for ages but come on lets get a group from here going I would love to meet up at the hotel the night before with a load of my friends and combine both my group of friends.
If you have question please post and if I do not know I will get answers for you either post your question or PM me.
I am hoping to get a group coming from Devon (both members and non members) but will co-ordinate a group from here as well if you want. please let me know. I hope to confirm numbers from Devon by the end of this week or maybe next week if I can't get it done this week.
I forgot to say about insurance because people think it is a real problem. It s not. What happens is not as complicated as people think!
First the track covers damage you cause to the track so you do not have to worry!
Second if you spin and cause damage (which has not happened at a BMWCCGB meet, from what I have been told) then you are responsible for your car and if you hot someone they are responsible for theirs.
Third there is a statement that track day insurance is hard to get, it is not. If you contact competition cars you can get the day covered to whatever the value is for your car. In my case I asked for a quote for black for the track and I said value was £3000 the quote I got was £75 for the day. In fact I have not bothered and the other guys that I have spoken to at the events don't bother either. (one point of interest though, is that I contacted Competition cars recently because of "tweaking" the car. My insurance has gone DOWN by £70 AND I can modify it in any way I like as long as I do not increase the BHP above 250 HP. oh and if I do I will just have too pay a higher premium and I have 8000 miles a year on my policy for Blue and 6000 miles for Black for the track. Oh and I get 5 track days a year thrown in for free I just have to tell then 2 working days before the track day!
Just to add that this one is a go I am going to Snetterton on the 7th with lack for the track signed up for the special deal price and got it.
It would be great to see some ot,.her friendly faces.
I have already sold 49 places which leaves just 21 places remaining.
If you want one of those last places please call the office on 01225 709009 and book your slot.


Mama Earth is very loving and gets along with everyone. She had three babies on Earth Day, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. She also loves to sleep in the bed with her person. Mama Earth is also a talker when you are giving her love.
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Drawing the line in clinical treatment of companion animals: recommendations from an ethics working party
Herwig Grimm Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Alessandra Bergadano Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F Hoffmann La Roche, Basel, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Gabrielle C Musk Animal Care Services, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Klaus Otto Central Laboratory Animal Facility, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Polly M Taylor Taylor Monroe, Ely, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Juliet Clare Duncan Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, Scotland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
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Grimm, H., Bergadano, A., Musk, GC., Otto, K., Taylor, PM., Duncan, JC.
(2018) Drawing the line in clinical treatment of companion animals: recommendations from an ethics working party
Veterinary Record 182, 664.
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/**
 * \addtogroup platform
 * @{ */

/**
 * \defgroup SeedEye Contiki SEEDEYE Platform
 *
 * @{
 */

/**
 * \file   contiki-seedeye-main.c
 * \brief  Main program for the SEEDEYE port.
 * \author Giovanni Pellerano <giovanni.pellerano@evilaliv3.org>
 * \date   2012-03-21
 */

#include <contiki.h>
#include <clock.h>
#include <lib/random.h>
#include <dev/leds.h>
#include "dev/button-sensor.h"
#include "dev/battery-sensor.h"
#include <dev/watchdog.h>

#include <pic32.h>
#include <pic32_clock.h>

#include <debug-uart.h>

#include <init-net.h>

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#define DEBUG 1
#if DEBUG
#include <stdio.h>
#define PRINTF(...) printf(__VA_ARGS__)
#else
#define PRINTF(...)
#endif

#if UIP_CONF_ROUTER
#ifndef UIP_ROUTER_MODULE
#ifdef UIP_CONF_ROUTER_MODULE
#define UIP_ROUTER_MODULE UIP_CONF_ROUTER_MODULE
#else /* UIP_CONF_ROUTER_MODULE */
#define UIP_ROUTER_MODULE rimeroute
#endif /* UIP_CONF_ROUTER_MODULE */
#endif /* UIP_ROUTER_MODULE */
extern const struct uip_router UIP_ROUTER_MODULE;
#endif /* UIP_CONF_ROUTER */

SENSORS(&button_sensor);

/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
static void
print_processes(struct process *const processes[])
{
  PRINTF("Starting:\n");

  while(*processes != NULL) {
    PRINTF(" '%s'\n", (*processes)->name);
    processes++;
  }

  PRINTF("\n");
}
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  int32_t r;

  /* Initalizing main hardware */
  pic32_init();
  watchdog_init();
  leds_init();

  clock_init();

  dbg_setup_uart(UART_DEBUG_BAUDRATE);

  PRINTF("Initialising Node: %d\n", SEEDEYE_ID);

  PRINTF("CPU Clock: %uMhz\n", pic32_clock_get_system_clock() / 1000000);
  PRINTF("Peripheral Clock: %uMhz\n", pic32_clock_get_peripheral_clock() / 1000000);

  random_init(SEEDEYE_ID);

  process_init();
  process_start(&etimer_process, NULL);
  ctimer_init();
  rtimer_init();

  energest_init();
  ENERGEST_ON(ENERGEST_TYPE_CPU);

  process_start(&sensors_process, NULL);
  SENSORS_ACTIVATE(battery_sensor);

  leds_on(LEDS_RED);

  /* Inizialize Network! */

  init_net(SEEDEYE_ID);

  leds_on(LEDS_RED);

  /* Starting autostarting process */
  print_processes(autostart_processes);
  autostart_start(autostart_processes);

  PRINTF("Processes running\n");

  leds_off(LEDS_ALL);

  watchdog_start();

  /*
   * This is the scheduler loop.
   */
  while(1) {

    do {
      /* Reset watchdog. */
      watchdog_periodic();
      r = process_run();
    } while(r > 0);

    ENERGEST_SWITCH(ENERGEST_TYPE_CPU, ENERGEST_TYPE_LPM);

    watchdog_stop();
    asm volatile("wait");
    watchdog_start();

    ENERGEST_SWITCH(ENERGEST_TYPE_LPM, ENERGEST_TYPE_CPU);

  }

  return 0;
}
/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

/** @} */
/** @} */

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Country Songwriter Dominique Pruitt Shares New Single
Los Angeles-based cosmic country singer-songwriter Dominique Pruitt has shared a new single at The Boot. The release marks her first in five years, and comes ahead of a batch of new music currently in the works. The Boot praised the song's production as «retro and jangly». A music video is also in the works, with a release date still to be determined.


constant dps and big bursts.
sabotage charge+3contingency charges+15 energy regained by shooting them.
Here is my Build. For a Bomb Specialist. I will say I chose to go with Shrap Bomb instead of Incendiary Bomb since they do basically the same.
This is my OPS spec if anyone has anything to add or change feel free to comment.


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Thomas Burnett
Married, with roommates: why my wife and I choose to live in a group house
By Thomas Burnett Nov 17, 2015, 8:40am EST
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When I got married four years ago, many people said to me, "Finally you can escape the nuisance of living with roommates and enjoy some peace, quiet, and privacy with your wife!"
I don't blame them for assuming Alyson and I would live alone. This is the pattern in America today, as David Roberts laid out in a recent Vox piece: "When we marry and start a family, we are pushed, by custom, policy, and expectation, to move into our own houses." Roommates are for college kids and single people on a budget; married people live by themselves.
But we didn't want to take that path. As single people, both of us enjoyed living with others, and while it wasn't always easy it led to many enduring friendships. So we decided to move into the basement of a group house after we got married. It worked out splendidly. We ate meals with our housemates on a regular basis, hosted parties together, and shared the chores. The only real downside was a lack of sunlight in our subterranean dwelling. We deemed the social experiment a success.
Living in a group house wasn't a phase to grow out of but a lifestyle choice that valued people over privacy
Once we saved up enough money to buy a house of our own in Washington, DC's Petworth neighborhood, we deliberately chose a place in which we would always have room for housemates, even if we had kids in the future. As soon as we closed on our house, our first purchase was a long dining room table that could accommodate our group dinners.
For us, living in a group house was not a phase to grow out of but a lifestyle choice that valued people over privacy. Sure, we lose certain freedoms — we can't walk around the kitchen naked, for instance — but what we get in return is many lighthearted conversations, laughter, and an opportunity to get to know people on a deep level. As Roberts wrote in his essay, "The key ingredient for the formation of friendships is repeated spontaneous contact." In a city where we have to plan coffee dates with people two weeks in advance, a group house can readily foster spontaneity.
In addition, I think these living arrangements enhance rather than detract from our marriage. Living with others, we don't put pressure on each other to be our only conversation partner. Without that burden, we are free to enjoy each other's company rather than depending on it to satisfy all of our social needs.
How living abroad taught me to love having roommates
When I was growing up, I never would have guessed that as a married man, I'd be living with housemates. Raised in Chicago and Memphis, I was accustomed to people living with their nuclear families and, when they grew up, moving out and moving on.
More on friendships and housing
How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult
Then I spent the summer after my junior year of high school living with a host family in Madrid, where everything was different. Many young adults still lived with their parents (and seemed to enjoy it), single people lived with friends in shared apartments, and all of them ate meals together at home. It blew my mind, and I returned to the United States as a different person. I realized that people were the greatest treasure in the world. I became more outgoing, more adventurous, and more willing to put myself in unusual situations.
After leaving my parents' home to start college, my first experience of shared housing in America came in the form of residential housing on the campus of Rice University in Houston. While it was not bad, sharing a bedroom wasn't ideal — my roommate's motorcycle alarm would go off early every Tuesday and Thursday morning for his 8 am class — "Vroom, vroom, vroom, hit the road! Vroom, vroom..."
Moving into a three-bedroom house off-campus for my last two years of college was a breath of fresh air. Having a room to myself was delightful, of course, but it was surprising how much I also came to love our kitchen and dining room. Once my mom bought me the cookbook Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen, I was off to the races.
Being off campus was a great escape from the gossip-infested dorms, but instead of isolating me from people, I found that our house greatly enhanced my social life. In my experience, cute girls rarely turned down an opportunity for a home-cooked meal, and my roommates and I loved exploring the city of Houston. Best of all was joining the Urban Animals, a rollerblading group that skated on weeknights from bar to bar all over the city (this was the 1990s after all). My roommates and I were half the age of all the other Animals, but we were fully embraced by this motley crew of doctors, dentists, and potheads.
Cruising through the perfectly smooth concrete cityscape after all the suburbanites had gone to bed, I became a part of a cohesive community of nonconformists, and it made me realize that being a happy, fulfilled adult did not require me to adhere to what my peers considered "normal."
Moving to Innsbruck, Austria, after graduation gave me another opportunity to see how housing works in other countries. Upon arriving, I searched the university classified ads for rooms and found that a popular alternative to campus housing was a Wohngemeinschaft (German for "living community"). I moved into an apartment with three Austrians and a young French woman.
By sitting with them and their friends at the dinner table every night, I quickly became enmeshed in the social life of a lively European town. It was particularly helpful in learning Austrian alpine dialect, Tirolerisch, and I learned an essential rule: Never pronounce Austrian words like a German.
What makes group living truly special
Upon returning to the United States for graduate school in California, I discovered that Berkeley was full of "group houses" that felt similar to the Wohngemeinschaften of German-speaking Europe. I settled into a North Berkeley bungalow with three other PhD students, including an economist, a political scientist, and a bioengineer. We shared our meals, our chores, and our magazines — the economist got the Economist, the bioengineer got Science, and I got Sports Illustrated.
My housemates and I unconsciously trained one another to be better partners for our future spouses
Just like in Houston and Innsbruck, cooking for housemates and friends was a central feature of our group house identity. In each city, of course, one had to make adjustments to the local culture, and in Berkeley it meant buying a new cookbook, Recipes for a Small Planet: The Art and Science of High Protein Vegetarian Cookery.
Though shared housing was becoming the norm for me, one conversation made me realize that it was a truly special lifestyle. After three semesters of living with me, my bioengineering housemate got married and moved a few blocks away. His wife later confided to me, "Tom, thanks for training my husband." We both laughed, but after further reflection, I realized that it was true. By creating a regular cooking rotation, developing a chore schedule, and having plenty of opportunities for conflict resolution, my housemates and I unconsciously trained one another to be better partners for our future spouses. It was many years before I got married myself, but this conversation stuck with me.
There's a difference between splitting rent and enjoying life together
After moving to Washington, DC, to start my professional career, I found plenty of people who lived in shared housing, but with one major difference — hardly anyone in DC cooked! My first three years I lived in a large row house in a neighborhood called Mount Pleasant with six other people, and five of us shared one refrigerator and a narrow galley kitchen. Though we had more people in our house than burners on our stove, we rarely bumped into each other in the kitchen. Though I still cooked meals regularly and invited friends and housemates to join me, rarely did anyone reciprocate. Instead, most socializing took place outside our home at happy hours, restaurants, and bars. It was still fun, but it had a more frenetic feel to it. Conversations were animated but less sustained as we divided our attention between finding seats, placing our orders, and splitting the bill.
Comparing this situation to what I had experienced in Houston, Berlin, Innsbruck, and Berkeley, I observed a wide spectrum of shared housing arrangements. It's one thing to split the rent and another thing to enjoy life together. Sharing utility bills is different from sharing meals. Am I cooking at home just to stay within my food budget or to deepen my relationships? Is my primary motivation for living with housemates just to save money or to foster community? Would I be willing to sacrifice some individual privacy in exchange for developing a shared social identity? People answer these questions quite differently, and it doesn't take much time of living with others in order to learn what they value most.
The author serving dinner for his roommates (Thomas Burnett)
What it's like to be a roommate and a landlord
Of all my group living experiences, buying a house and inviting people to live in it with us has been the most ambitious. The configuration of the house we bought was ideal for group living. There were three upstairs bedrooms with two full bathrooms, so Alyson and I had one to ourselves, and two upstairs housemates could share the other bathroom. The first floor had a large kitchen, living room, and guest bathroom, which made it ideal for hosting dinner parties. The finished basement had a bedroom, a sizable living area, and a full bathroom, so it could easily accommodate another couple. Now that we had our dream house just a block away from the Metro, we invited four people to move in with us — two singles and a couple.
More on friendship
What breaking up with my best friend taught me about male friendship
How did it turn out? We approached the situation with high-minded ideals, but we quickly discovered the challenges of day-to-day reality. During our first year there wasn't a kitchen in the basement, so all six of us used the first-floor kitchen. Though the space was large enough to accommodate us, the sheer volume of cooking overwhelmed our cleaning schedule.
Almost every night before going to bed, I cleaned all the crumbs off the counters and wiped off the stove, regardless of whether I was the one who'd cooked. Alyson emptied the dishwasher and cleaned the floors far more than anyone else, and after a few months, we were both exhausted — it felt like we were running a bed and breakfast. To compound the difficulties, one housemate wanted to sublet her room each time she traveled for work, and I felt like our house was becoming a hostel rather than a home.
The first year was a humbling, exhausting experience. Though we were perfectly accustomed to being a married couple living with other housemates, we were still first-time homeowners and first-time landlords.
We learned that there is a power dynamic between landlords and tenants that can't be ignored even if you are friends. When there were disputes, we couldn't settle them with a purely democratic process because we had unequal investments in the house and different short-term/long-term perspectives.
As homeowners, we were also more protective of our house in general. With six of us, there was more wear and tear, more accidents, and more frustrating moments. If something broke, I had to fix it or replace it. The housemates' rent more than offset monetary costs, but I also invested a lot of time that I could not get back.
Some problems were relatively easy to fix. To accommodate everyone's bicycles, I built a large bike rack on the wall and installed rubber flooring near the back door. To decrease the volume of kitchen traffic and crumb proliferation, we installed a kitchen in the basement so that only four people used the main kitchen, not six. And to resolve the carousel of people living with us, we stipulated in future leases that subletting was not permitted.
Nevertheless, some challenges will always remain. We have experimented with several different chore schedules in order to spread responsibilities equitably. We've had some housemate turnover, partly due to the transience of DC residents and partly due to incompatible personalities. Over the past three years, Alyson and I have devised a highly specific Craigslist housing post in order to fully convey our group house identity so that no one is caught by surprise when they move in. Here's an excerpt from our post:
Alyson and I are intellectually curious, environmentally conscious, bicycle-riding professionals. We enjoy cooking with our housemates, sitting on the front porch, participating in our neighborhood church, and exploring DC's many cultural activities, especially theater performances. We are looking for a housemate with the following characteristics:
1. Enthusiastic about eating meals together regularly and hosting brunches for our neighbors
2. Environmentally conscious and committed to energy and water conservation
3. Eager to keep the kitchen clean and tidy
Shared housing makes us feel more fulfilled
Though there are some ongoing frustrations, the joys of group house living certainly outweigh the sorrows. With our current housemates, we have dinner together once a week and rotate the cooking duties. Regardless of who prepares the food or what's on the menu, it's one of the highlights of my week. Eating home-cooked meals with friends has a powerful effect that I've never experienced in any other context.
It is no surprise to me that religious communities have traditionally lived together and eaten their meals together. Judeo-Christian scripture describes the inception of the kingdom of God as a huge feast or wedding banquet. Jewish and Muslim communities practice regular cycles of fasting and feasting together. Many Christians commemorate the legacy of Jesus by sharing wine and bread every week.
Whether or not one is spiritually inclined, everyone can enjoy the magic of communal meals in group houses, which extend across every culture and era of history. Living together in a community can be rewarding, but it may not satisfy everyone — in my experience, it requires us to dispense with an unhealthy obsession with privacy, personal space, and hyper-individualism.
There are other ways, too, of fostering and maintaining adult friendships even if you're not ready to move into a group house. David Roberts's article described how people are moving to walkable communities, which foster regular contact with neighbors, and other people, particularly in Germany, are building multi-unit housing that includes shared space for kids to play and adults to hang out together.
Living together requires us to dispense with an unhealthy obsession with privacy, personal space, and hyper-individualism
While I applaud these new developments and hope they become more common, I also think there are plenty of low-tech solutions that don't require changing existing infrastructure. One friend of mine recruited other couples to move into her rent-controlled apartment building, and another friend has encouraged four different families to buy homes within one block of her. Another family was feeling socially isolated as new parents, so they started a weekly front porch cocktail party at their house. On Friday nights after their infant went to sleep, their friends would come over to sip drinks and enjoy grown-up conversations.
In a fragmented society with little social intimacy after people leave college, shared housing is a viable alternative that shapes us in positive ways that we might not expect. Group houses challenge my wife and me to engage in conflict resolution rather than avoidance. They encourage us to be respectful and considerate of each other rather than belittle and marginalize. Though we aren't always best friends with the people we live with, it provides us with the spontaneous social contact that we need to thrive. In light of this, it's worth rethinking whether shared housing is just a stepping stone or a personally fulfilling destination.
Thomas Burnett works in communications at the National Academy of Sciences. He has degrees in history of science and philosophy from University of California Berkeley and Rice University.
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Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said the Pakistanis violated the 2003 ceasefire in Machil sector, starting at 10.45 a.m.
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Here is my small unit for Q2, I had to cut it short because of time issues and other problems with it. Biggest one is that its not very cohesive visually and I feel it is not what I wanted it to be. There are some extra textures in there that was not used because the last map was never finished (probably I won't finish it). Still, I hope someone out there gets a few enjoyable moments/nostalgic trips out of these small maps Next I would like to experiment more with merging indoor and outdoor areas in more interesting ways, but for now I'll take a break from this.
Hey Giftmacher!.. best wishes and a Happy New Year..
Excellent work, Giftmacher! I loved it! You have recreated the feel and atmosphere of Quake II so well that I was reminded why I love the game in the first place. The sewer theme is one of my favorites and I really adored the way the four levels looked in this unit. Good use of sound ambience as well, something that a lot of designers forget about.
Also, amazing brush work and clever use of entities! Challenging on hard difficulty too - I had to quick load a fair number of times.
Could you provide a guide or screenshots for all the secrets in Crash Site, by the way? I missed four of them (one per each level) and I'm curious to see where they were placed.
After the water level rises after when press the button in this room, the water still remains in its original position. That is, you basically swim in thin air because the water texture remains where it is. I don't know if this bug is because of the client I'm using (R1Q2) but I wanted to let you know regardless.
Glad you liked it Marine and thank you for the kind words, and yes that is a bug. It works fine in my Q2 mapping client but not in my regular Q2 folder, I'll see what I can do!
The final secret in crash4 is a bit unnecessary, there were suppose to be a 5th map though.
The water that doesn't move sounds like transparent water. This is a long known bug in Quake2's renderer- transparent surfaces can't move. I fixed this in my v3.24 patch (GL renderer only) and in KMQuake2. I think Quake2Evolved and Quake2Max also fix this, and other more recent engines should, too. R1Q2/R1GL doesn't fix any of these old rendering bugs.
I haven't had a chance to play this unit yet, but I should get to it soon.
Ah yes, I probably have your patch applied in my mapping folder but not in my regular Q2 folder.
Hey man, nice maps (unit). I enjoyed it quite a bit. My only gripe is the lackof ammo especially on the first map and on harder difficulty above medium. I found myself running out of ammo sometimes.
But other than that they're great maps. I liked how I had to backtrack a few times.
Is the file still up? I'm going to try it when I get the time.
Hi, Giftmacher! Finally got time to play this latest maps and yours was next. As usual, and even though i know you moved from Quake 2, made some demos as feedback for you on normal skill.
Just in case you come back to mapping, i'll comment a bit more: the unit is good and more important, enjoyable, more considering it is your first unit. It is a pity you couldn't make it on the same level on visuals as your DM maps due to the editor, but the gameplay makes up for it.
- There is several areas were the lighting is deficient and had to use the blaster to light up, even though the place was lit already.
- It doesn't give notifications on the log for several of the minor sub-objectives, like in Id maps.
- It would be nice if there was more connections between maps, as it is one of the selling points of this game.
- Even thought it is balanced with more armour and health packs than usual, i still don't like the extra difficulty, on normal difficulty, that comes from some of your setups, and some can be considered unfair. Would work better with less Gladiators on the first maps, as their RG is quite unforgiving when placed on tighter parts without big weapons or good cover.
- About the first map, the ambush before the laser trap and the laser trap itself its hard to even survive on the first try. I suppose that you expected the people to jump past the lava and harmlessly shoot them to death, but with a Guard in front and that hazard, only the mapper would think that in that situation so quickly. Also it would be nice to repopulate a bit the way after taking down the forcefield. There is also some kind of invisible wall my grenades explode on when i try to kill the Gunners on the room with the rising water.
- On the second map, i tried to find the way forward and even found some secrets on the way, but couldn't realize how to go through till i cheated to see how the layout went after each barrier. Looks like you expected people to strafe jump for the button and open the way to deactivate the lasers that way, but most people that play SP don't know how to do trick jumps, so you could have added func_walls to make the jump easier for at least easy and probably normal difficulty too and leave the trick jumping for hard. After that, having to jump down so much height isn't a good idea, as unavoidable damage is almost never a good idea and it could be fixed easily with some steps or a ladder which would have made more sense in that situation.
- On the third, at the very first lift, there is below it what it seems a big clip brush which looks bad, as if the player can get stuck down there you just needed to add and slope in one side and it wold solve the problem easier. Apart from that, there is only praises for this map.
- On the fourth: The medic at the very beginning does have not a single one to heal or revive, making the poor one a bit useless. The ambush with the Icarus group is a bit unfair and only possible to survive with a good amount of health and armour, making a better option getting damage from drowning than facing them on that room, as you can see in the demo. It would be way better if you made some way to go to the other side of the boxes after grabbing the data disk, and that would too save the player from the damage of having to fall down that high as the button for the lift is impossible to activate.
I'll be waiting eagerly for the day you come back. Good work!


Eight years and many a fine speech—but perhaps more impressively, never a stupid remark—take that, Republicans. We used to handicap poor Dubya whenever he made a speech. Bill had a good run—until the end when he started debating the definition of 'is'—and lying some, which is its own kind of stupid. Before Bill we had Reagan and Bush—theirs was a kind of dazed-bully kind of stupid. But President Obama is an intellectual—he's used to having to talk down to people without 'talking down' to them—but he's always been more the knowledgeable guy you look up to than the guy you want to drink beer with. I'll never understand the 'drink beer with' BS.
You may want to feel good towards your candidate for president—but you have to feel that they are more knowledgeable than Joe Schmoe from the local bar. I mean—even Dubya was a college grad—he wasn't stupid stupid, just stupid for a president. It's a hard job—you can't have no idiot at the switch in there.
Which brings me to my favorite part of Obama's final State of the Union Address—when he called out Trump and Cruz for their anti-American rhetoric of hate and division, saying we should reject all politics that target people by race or religion. That was good. I also enjoyed when he pointed out that America is too strong to be threatened in any real way by ISIL or Al-Qaeda—that citizens may be under threat from random craziness, but the country as a whole should deal with that without jumping the shark about national security. It's refreshing to hear a politician tell us not to be afraid, isn't it?
I'll tell you why the healots have gotten out of hand—progressives have progressed—they learned that progressive programs are more subtle than a catch-phrase. The world's complexity demands thought and patience—and we have to be sturdy in our grasp of change. Change without thought breeds chaos—catch-phrases work on the emotions, not on governance. The divide between good politics and good governance widens every day—it has always created a paradox, but now the ubiquity of media makes a monster of campaigning, completely overshadowing the whole idea of good government. So, while thoughtful politicians must be ever more careful of statements they know will be picked apart by nitpickers, the hucksters can shout their vitriol to the rafters without fear of an answering shout from their more serious rivals—people handicapped by their insistence on thinking before speaking.
I understand that people like Trump have to be covered by the media while they are running for president—but I hope we can enjoy a moratorium on idiots after the election is over (assuming we don't elect one). I've heard enough from Trump to last me—and if I never hear him again it'll be too soon. On the other hand, President Obama's cool will be sorely missed—it's hard being an egghead—and there's something reassuring about having one in office. I felt like, even if the rest of the country is going crazy, at least the president gets it—I'll miss that—I truly believe it's better to have some brains in the executive office.
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WASHINGTON — Monkeypox cases are slowly increasing throughout the United States, though public health officials said Thursday they have the tools needed to diagnose, treat and contain the virus that's mostly spread by skin-to-skin contact.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said during a briefing that there are now nine diagnosed cases in seven states, a slight increase from earlier in the week. Not all of the cases are travel related, leading officials to presume that community spread is now taking place.
As of Wednesday the CDC had confirmed monkeypox cases in California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Utah, Virginia and Washington state.
The cases so far, Walensky said, have presented in gay and bisexual men within the United States, but she cautioned that disease transmission is "not contained within social networks, and the risk of exposure is not limited to any one particular group."
"While some groups may have a greater chance of exposure right now, infectious diseases do not care about state or international borders," she said.
The Virginia case, however, was diagnosed in a woman, according to the Virginia Department of Health. The CDC later clarified to Virginia Mercury that officials misspoke during their briefing and that the Virginia patient is in fact female.
CDC officials said earlier this week that they'd confirmed one case in a Massachusetts man and were waiting on lab results to confirm what officials expected was one case in Florida, one in New York City and two in Utah.
More cases likely
White House Pandemic Office coordinator Raj Panjabi said during the Thursday briefing that officials are explaining the signs and symptoms of monkeypox to doctors and hoping that everyday citizens will begin to learn about the virus as well.
"All to say, we shouldn't be surprised to see more cases reported in the U.S. in the upcoming days. It's actually a sign that Americans are remaining vigilant and health care providers and public health workers are doing their job," he said.
Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the CDC's Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, said the federal government is currently doing the test that specifically diagnoses monkeypox, though she said officials are exploring ways to ship the monkeypox-specific testing out to the local laboratories.
McQuiston later emphasized that the orthopox tests that local laboratories are using to diagnose patents are "sufficient for managing patient care and contact tracing and all of those things."
"So the monkeypox test is an additional speciation level, but it's not necessary for patient care," McQuiston continued.
Those local laboratories throughout the country have the capacity to perform nearly 7,000 tests weekly for orthopoxvirus, the genus of viruses that includes monkeypox, according to Walensky.
Monkeypox has an incubation period of one to two weeks, though it can take up to 21 days for symptoms to develop in people who have contracted the virus.
People with monkeypox typically begin to notice a fever, a rash and lesions with other symptoms similar to the flu.
McQuiston said Thursday "that monkeypox is really a skin-to-skin contact transmitted event."
"If you have an active lesion on a part of the body, and that comes in contact with someone else's body, that's how monkeypox is spread and transmitted," she said.
While monkeypox can sometimes spread through sexual contact, McQuiston said she didn't want to "give a false sense of assurance that a condom alone would be enough to prevent monkeypox virus transmission, because the rashes that some of the people are presenting with ended up being fairly widespread."
Public health officials, McQuiston said, don't expect that people can transmit monkeypox while they are pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic, though she said officials believe those are valid research questions they "would like to explore more as this outbreak unfolds, so that we have the best answers possible."
Vaccines approved
There are two vaccines approved to treat smallpox that could be used as preventive treatments for monkeypox, ACAM2000 and Jynneos. There are also two antiviral drugs approved for smallpox that could possibly be used in monkeypox patients.
Walensky said the "CDC has mechanisms in place to move these products around the country so that they can be used for prevention or treatment for people who may benefit, wherever they may be."
The CDC, she said, is "already mobilizing vaccines to states with reported cases" of monkeypox.
Walensky also sought to differentiate monkeypox from COVID-19, saying it's "not a new or an unknown disease."
"CDC has been preparing for monkeypox for decades," she said. "We have the resources we need right now to respond and we know how to respond."
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package v1alpha1

import (
	"context"
	"time"

	v1alpha1 "github.com/kubernetes-sigs/service-catalog/pkg/apis/settings/v1alpha1"
	scheme "github.com/kubernetes-sigs/service-catalog/pkg/client/clientset_generated/clientset/scheme"
	v1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
	types "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/types"
	watch "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/watch"
	rest "k8s.io/client-go/rest"
)

// PodPresetsGetter has a method to return a PodPresetInterface.
// A group's client should implement this interface.
type PodPresetsGetter interface {
	PodPresets(namespace string) PodPresetInterface
}

// PodPresetInterface has methods to work with PodPreset resources.
type PodPresetInterface interface {
	Create(ctx context.Context, podPreset *v1alpha1.PodPreset, opts v1.CreateOptions) (*v1alpha1.PodPreset, error)
	Update(ctx context.Context, podPreset *v1alpha1.PodPreset, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (*v1alpha1.PodPreset, error)
	Delete(ctx context.Context, name string, opts v1.DeleteOptions) error
	DeleteCollection(ctx context.Context, opts v1.DeleteOptions, listOpts v1.ListOptions) error
	Get(ctx context.Context, name string, opts v1.GetOptions) (*v1alpha1.PodPreset, error)
	List(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (*v1alpha1.PodPresetList, error)
	Watch(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error)
	Patch(ctx context.Context, name string, pt types.PatchType, data []byte, opts v1.PatchOptions, subresources ...string) (result *v1alpha1.PodPreset, err error)
	PodPresetExpansion
}

// podPresets implements PodPresetInterface
type podPresets struct {
	client rest.Interface
	ns     string
}

// newPodPresets returns a PodPresets
func newPodPresets(c *SettingsV1alpha1Client, namespace string) *podPresets {
	return &podPresets{
		client: c.RESTClient(),
		ns:     namespace,
	}
}

// Get takes name of the podPreset, and returns the corresponding podPreset object, and an error if there is any.
func (c *podPresets) Get(ctx context.Context, name string, options v1.GetOptions) (result *v1alpha1.PodPreset, err error) {
	result = &v1alpha1.PodPreset{}
	err = c.client.Get().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("podpresets").
		Name(name).
		VersionedParams(&options, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// List takes label and field selectors, and returns the list of PodPresets that match those selectors.
func (c *podPresets) List(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (result *v1alpha1.PodPresetList, err error) {
	var timeout time.Duration
	if opts.TimeoutSeconds != nil {
		timeout = time.Duration(*opts.TimeoutSeconds) * time.Second
	}
	result = &v1alpha1.PodPresetList{}
	err = c.client.Get().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("podpresets").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Timeout(timeout).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// Watch returns a watch.Interface that watches the requested podPresets.
func (c *podPresets) Watch(ctx context.Context, opts v1.ListOptions) (watch.Interface, error) {
	var timeout time.Duration
	if opts.TimeoutSeconds != nil {
		timeout = time.Duration(*opts.TimeoutSeconds) * time.Second
	}
	opts.Watch = true
	return c.client.Get().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("podpresets").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Timeout(timeout).
		Watch(ctx)
}

// Create takes the representation of a podPreset and creates it.  Returns the server's representation of the podPreset, and an error, if there is any.
func (c *podPresets) Create(ctx context.Context, podPreset *v1alpha1.PodPreset, opts v1.CreateOptions) (result *v1alpha1.PodPreset, err error) {
	result = &v1alpha1.PodPreset{}
	err = c.client.Post().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("podpresets").
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(podPreset).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// Update takes the representation of a podPreset and updates it. Returns the server's representation of the podPreset, and an error, if there is any.
func (c *podPresets) Update(ctx context.Context, podPreset *v1alpha1.PodPreset, opts v1.UpdateOptions) (result *v1alpha1.PodPreset, err error) {
	result = &v1alpha1.PodPreset{}
	err = c.client.Put().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("podpresets").
		Name(podPreset.Name).
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(podPreset).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}

// Delete takes name of the podPreset and deletes it. Returns an error if one occurs.
func (c *podPresets) Delete(ctx context.Context, name string, opts v1.DeleteOptions) error {
	return c.client.Delete().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("podpresets").
		Name(name).
		Body(&opts).
		Do(ctx).
		Error()
}

// DeleteCollection deletes a collection of objects.
func (c *podPresets) DeleteCollection(ctx context.Context, opts v1.DeleteOptions, listOpts v1.ListOptions) error {
	var timeout time.Duration
	if listOpts.TimeoutSeconds != nil {
		timeout = time.Duration(*listOpts.TimeoutSeconds) * time.Second
	}
	return c.client.Delete().
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("podpresets").
		VersionedParams(&listOpts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Timeout(timeout).
		Body(&opts).
		Do(ctx).
		Error()
}

// Patch applies the patch and returns the patched podPreset.
func (c *podPresets) Patch(ctx context.Context, name string, pt types.PatchType, data []byte, opts v1.PatchOptions, subresources ...string) (result *v1alpha1.PodPreset, err error) {
	result = &v1alpha1.PodPreset{}
	err = c.client.Patch(pt).
		Namespace(c.ns).
		Resource("podpresets").
		Name(name).
		SubResource(subresources...).
		VersionedParams(&opts, scheme.ParameterCodec).
		Body(data).
		Do(ctx).
		Into(result)
	return
}


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No, the Bible says that you will make your way prosperous when you hagah God's Word. So speak forth verses in the areas that you want to see breakthroughs and you will have good success.


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