Nymph fishing is a classic method of fly fishing. With nymphs in the water year round, it is a safe bet to fish a nymph or two when the dry fly action is not happening. The double nymph rig is an effective way of presenting more than one food option to trout. This also allows you target different sections of the water column. There are many variations of how to rig for nymphing and many variables that go into nymphing a particular section of water. This is an easy and effective way to rig a double nymph setup. Keep in mind, if you are getting snagged a lot or your flies are bouncing off the bottom too much you may have too much weight n or are fishing too deep.
Attach Indicator to leader at the proper depth for where you are fishing. If unknown, set depth around 5 feet to get started. Adjust to proper depth once known.
Add a 12-16-inch fluorocarbon tippet section to the end of the leader utilizing a surgeon's knot or blood knot. This will give you a "stopper knot" to secure split shot above your anchor fly.
Note Split shot may not always be used. Adding a stopper knot when you are using additional weight will keep your split shot from sliding down onto your fly.
Use a clinch knot to attach anchor fly (top fly) to fluorocarbon tippet section.
As seen is Fig.1 the second fly is attached by a piece of tippet to the bend of the hook on the anchor fly. To secure the fly to the bend of the hook, you can do a clinch knot with a section of tippet. Bend the piece of tippet around the bend of the hook and begin your clinch knot. The end of tippet not connected to the bend of the hook is where your second fly will be attached.
As seen in Fig. 2 the second fly is attached by a piece of tippet tied into the eye of the anchor fly. To secure the second fly, utilize a clinch knot to the eye of the anchor fly. This will cause your anchor fly to present perpendicular to the water column. The end of tippet not attached to the eye of the hook is where your second fly will be attached.
Attach your dropper fly with a clinch knot. Keep in mind this section should be about 12-16 inches.


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Christians Fear Civilian Casualties in Burma
Posted on December 10, 2010 by particularkev
Junta targets ethnic minority states as civil war looms.
CHIANG MAI, Thailand, December 8 (CDN) — Civilians in two ethnic minority states with large Christian populations fear their lives will be in danger as skirmishes between rebels and a Burmese junta bent on instilling Buddhist nationalism threaten to escalate into war.
"It is likely that the military junta will carry out a military offensive against ethnic armed groups now that the elections are over," Nang Mya Naddy, ethnic program coordinator of the Democratic Voice of Burma radio program, told Compass.
Christians fear that full-scale civil war in Burma (also known as Myanmar) could result in either ethnic cleansing or total subjugation of minorities. Persecution of Christians in Burma is part of a wider campaign against ethnic minority tribes to create a uniform society in which the only accepted religion is Buddhism, according to the British daily Telegraph, citing a 2007 government memo circulated in Karen state giving instructions on how to drive Christians out of the state.
Independent media reports suggest that the possibility of a major clash between ethnic armies and government troops is highest in Kachin and Karen states. Burma's ethnic minorities, who inhabit states along Burma's border with Thailand, China and India, have been demanding independence or autonomy for decades.
There are an estimated 1.2 million people in Kachin state, of which around 1 million are Christian. About 40 percent of the 3.5 million people in Karen state are estimated to be Christian. The Burmese junta, dominated by an ethnic Burman Buddhist majority, also seems to be preparing for war in the predominantly Buddhist state of Shan.
The junta has blocked trade links and deployed troops in Karen state, where the Karen National Liberation Army has not been offered a truce.
"The refugees from Burma continue to flow into neighboring Thailand as fighting fails to die down in Karen state between Burmese government troops and breakaway forces of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army [DKBA]," reported The Irrawaddy, a Chiang Mai, Thailand-based publication covering Burma and Southeast Asia. "The latest military action was reported early on Monday [Dec. 6] from Myawaddy Township, where the Metta Linn Myaing village was shelled by junta troops. More than a dozen artillery shells hit the area of the village, according to local sources."
Around 1,200 refugees are living at a border patrol police base in Mahawan area in Tak Province's Mae Sot district in Thailand, a Thai official told The Irrawaddy.
"Sadly, so far neither side in the recent fighting has shown much regard for the civilians caught in the crossfire," Elaine Pearson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, told The Irrawaddy. "The situation in Karen state was further complicated when the Karen National Union (KNU) entered into the conflict in support of the DKBA breakaway forces."
David Takapaw, vice chairman of the KNU, told The Irrawaddy, "We will not stop fighting if they [the Burmese army] insist on trying to deploy in our area."
The junta perceives all Christians in ethnic minority states as insurgents, according to the pro-democracy Free Burma Rangers (FBR) relief aid group. The Burmese Army attacked a Christian village in Karen state four months ago, according to the FBR, and on July 23 burned all houses and the state's largest church in Tha Dah Der village.
Saber-Rattling
To intensify its battle for control in ethnic minority states after its Nov. 7 election victory, the Burmese army has blocked sea and land routes to Karen and Kachin states, increased deployment of troops in areas controlled by rebel groups and transported ammunition in large quantities.
In 2008, Burma's government ordered all armed groups under ceasefires to meld into the Border Guard Forces. Many rebel groups have refused to comply.
Although the election – the first in the last two decades – was held last month and the government released pro-democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, it is becoming clearer daily that the junta is in no mood to address grievances of the country's ethnic minorities.
While rights groups around the world are calling for national reconciliation, the Burmese junta, whose proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party, is likely to have a majority in parliament, is preparing for a military fight with ethnic minority rebels.
"The recent purchase by the State Peace and Development Council [SPDC] of 24 Russian military helicopters, as well as the establishment of new helicopter bases near the Salween River, suggests that the Tatmadaw, the name for the Burmese military, is gearing up for a 'military solution' to the ethnic issue," noted an opinion piece in The Irrawaddy on Nov. 29.
One of the military's main targets is the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).
The KIA has had a ceasefire agreement with the Burmese government since 1994, but "it has recently been broken, and we are waiting to see what will happen next – if we can reconcile or not," a leader of the Kachin Women's Association Thailand identified only as Shirley told Compass. "The KIA wants reconciliation with the SPDC [State Peace and Development Council, Burma's junta-controlled regime], but the government hasn't allowed Kachin political groups to participate in politics or in the recent election."
Indirect negotiations for peace are underway now, she said, adding that she was unsure if the Kachin will be attacked or not. "The KIA is ready to fight back," she said.
Media reports indicate that the likelihood of the Burmese regime attacking is greater than chances of it seeking reconciliation.
Kachin State
"The threat to the Kachin Independence Organization [KIO, armed wing of the KIA] has increased manifold with the Burmese military junta dispatching significant quantity of arms to Kachin state, northern Burma," reported the independent online Kachin News Group (KNG).
The military has also ordered the KIO to close down all its branch liaison offices in northern Burma. Only the main liaison office in Kachin's capital, Myitkyina, has been allowed to function, KNG added.
In addition, the junta has provided arms training to workers of an agriculture company it supports, Yuzana Co., "in preparation for civil war with the Kachin Independence Organization," the news group reported. In October, the military provided "60 Chinese-made M-22 assault rifles, copies of the Russian AK-47" to Yuzana workers in the Hugawng Valley, according to KNG.
The Rangoon-based Yuzana Co. came to the Hugawng Valley in 2006 and "grabbed up about 400,000 acres from the ethnic Kachin people with assistance from the local Burmese military and administrative authorities," KNG reported. "Since 2006, the company has transported thousands of Burman ethnics from southern Burma to the Hugawng Valley every year."
Mizzima, a New-Delhi based news organization, reported that the KIO has urged businessmen in the northern Burma stronghold of Laiza to leave, given the high probability of military conflict. A KIO spokesperson told Mizzima that "fighting was likely to break out soon."
KNG also reported on Dec. 2 that Burma's military junta "has a secret mission" to spread HIV in Kachin state as part of an ethnic cleansing effort. "Beginning 1990, the junta has systematically dispatched HIV-infected sex workers from the Thai-Burma border to Kachin state, especially to the Hpakant jade mining city," it reported.
Shirley of the Kachin Women's Association Thailand said she was not sure if "ethnic cleansing" was the goal of the Burmese army, but that the junta did want to spread AIDS as well as sell drugs to the Kachin people.
"The SPDC does not allow the expansion of churches and took over church land in certain areas," she said. "The construction of new churches is not allowed, and the Kachin people have to ask permission to organize religious meetings, which is a detriment to community-building activities since the church is the foundation for the community, with 85 percent of the population being Christians."
Emulate Sri Lanka?
Christians also fear that the Burmese regime may emulate the Sri Lankan government's recent war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Rights groups say thousands of civilians were killed in Sri Lanka before its government claimed victory over the areas controlled by the Tamil Tigers.
But Htet Aung, election specialist for The Irrawaddy, told Compass that while the Burmese regime may use Sri Lanka's military strategy, "the nature of armed conflicts and their historical contexts are different."
"While Sri Lankan's government faced LTTE alone, the junta is now facing several armed ethnic groups," Aung said. "The junta, unlike Sri Lanka's present government, is facing a strong democratic leadership by Aung San Suu Kyi."
Tensions in ethnic states are far greater than has been reported, sources said. Shirley added that there are only a few channels of communication in Kachin state, and the suffering of civilians there often goes unreported.
The Burmese regime projects that close to 70 percent of the country's population is ethnic Burman. Ethnic minorities dispute the claim, saying the figure is inflated to make a case for Burman Buddhist nationalism.
The new constitution, which will come into force with the first session of parliament, was passed through a referendum in May 2008 that was allegedly rigged. It provides for religious freedom but also empowers the military to curb it under various pretexts.
Article 34 states, "Every citizen is equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right to freely profess and practice religion subject to public order, morality or health and to the other provisions of this Constitution." Article 360 (a), however, says this freedom "shall not include any economic, financial, political or other secular activities that may be associated with religious practice," apparently to bar religious groups from any lobbying or advocacy.
Further, Article 360 (b) goes on to say that the freedom "shall not debar the Union from enacting law for the purpose of public welfare and reform."
Adds Article 364: "The abuse of religion for political purposes is forbidden. Moreover, any act which is intended or is likely to promote feelings of hatred, enmity or discord between racial or religious communities or sects is contrary to this Constitution. A law may be promulgated to punish such activity."
Furthermore, Article 382 empowers "the Defense Forces personnel or members of the armed forces responsible to carry out peace and security" to "restrict or revoke" fundamental rights.
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BURMA: REPORT DOCUMENTS ABUSE OF CHIN CHRISTIANS
Posted on February 21, 2009 by particularkev
Human Rights Watch shows systematic, officially sanctioned religious freedom violations.
DUBLIN, February 20 (Compass Direct News) – A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released in January details serious and ongoing abuses against the Chin people, a minority group in Burma's northwest who claim to be 90 percent Christian.
HRW's research echoes a 2004 report by the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) that described targeted abuse of Christians in Chin state, with the Burmese army subjecting pastors and church members to forced labor, arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and sometimes death.
While religious oppression is extreme in Chin state, restrictions also apply elsewhere in Burma, also known as Myanmar. Most recently, officials in January forced the closure of more than 100 churches in Rangoon and ordered owners of apartment buildings and conference facilities not to rent their properties to religious groups.
Based on interviews with Chin refugees in India and Malaysia between 2003 and 2008, HRW's report describes how an increasing number of army battalions stationed in Chin state since 1988 have inflicted forced labor and arbitrary fines on the Chin people, as well as bullied them away from Christianity toward Buddhism.
"When we meet the army, we are shaking," a Chin refugee pastor told HRW. "Whatever they want is law."
The HRW report, entitled "We Are Like Forgotten People," notes that soldiers frequently forced Christians to donate finances and labor to pagoda construction projects in areas where there were few or no Buddhist residents.
They also occasionally forced Christians to worship in Buddhist pagodas. One Chin pastor described how Burmese soldiers brought him to a pagoda and prodded him with their guns, commanding him to pray as a Buddhist.
"They said that this is a Buddhist country and that I should not practice Christianity," he told HRW.
The military forced village headmen to present "volunteers" for military training or army construction projects and secured "donations" such as food or finance for army battalions. Soldiers severely beat or detained headmen if a village failed to meet quotas, seizing livestock or property in retribution.
Pastors often faced similar treatment, particularly if church members were accused – often without proof – of involvement with the Chin National Front insurgency group. HRW listed arrest, detention and torture as methods used against those accused of being part of the Chin National Front, based across the border in northeast India. Torture included beatings with sticks or guns and electric shocks via metal clips attached to high-voltage batteries. Such measures were also used to crush dissent against army policies such as failure to pay extortionate and arbitrary fees.
The military government promoted Buddhism over all other religions in Chin state through threats and inducements, destroying churches and other religious symbols, and restricting the printing and importing of Bibles and other Christian literature, HRW reported.
A judge in 1999 sentenced one man from Falam township to three years in prison for bringing Chin language Bibles into Burma, contravening Burma's 1965 Censor Law. Authorities also burned 16,000 copies of Chin and other ethnic language Bibles brought into neighboring Sagaing Division, another Chin majority area, in 2000.
'Campaign of Ethnocide'
CHRO's 2004 report, "Religious Persecution: A Campaign of Ethnocide Against Chin Christians in Burma," explained that Christianity had become inseparable from Chin culture following the arrival of American Baptist missionaries in 1899.
The report, based on information gathered in Chin state, gave numerous examples of the destruction of churches and crosses, the burning of Bibles and restrictions on other religious publications and activities between 1993 and 2004 – including the extrajudicial killings of four Chin Christians in 1993.
Burmese authorities routinely denied permission for the construction of new churches and required permits for large church gatherings, although lengthy bureaucratic processes meant that most of these gatherings were eventually postponed or cancelled.
A September 2008 U.S. Department of State report confirmed that Chin state authorities have not granted permission to build a new church since 2003.
As recently as last November, a government official ordered residents of Tayawaddy village in neighboring Sagaing Division to destroy the foundations of a new church building erected by members of a Chin Christian student fellowship. A report in the Chinland Guardian claimed villagers were subsequently ordered not to rent their homes to Chin students or the homes would be destroyed.
Enticement to Convert
CHRO's report gave clear evidence of government support for coerced conversions. For example, the government offered free secular education to several children from impoverished families, only to place them as novice monks in Buddhist monasteries in Rangoon.
The Ministry of Religious Affairs has also sent Buddhist monks to villages and towns throughout Chin state under the Hill Regions Buddhist Mission program, one of several Buddhist missionary initiatives highlighted on the ministry's website. Chin residents who spoke to CHRO likened these monks to "military intelligence" operatives who worked in partnership with Burmese soldiers to control the Chin people.
According to one Chin resident, "Anyone who doesn't abide by the monks' orders is reported to the State Peace and Development Council [Burmese government officials] and punished by the army."
Another Chin man from Matupi township attended a government-sponsored "social welfare" training session only to discover that it was a propaganda session led by a Buddhist monk.
"In the training we were taught the 17 facts of how to attack and disfigure Christians," he explained.
The 17-point method encouraged converts to criticize Christian ways of life as corrupting culture in Burma, to point out weaknesses in Christianity, and to attack Christians by both violent and non-violent means.
"We were promised that 1,200 kyats per month [US$190] would be provided to those families who became Buddhist," the training participant added. That amount of money is significant in the Burmese economy.
The instructor also ensured participants that they would be exempt from "portering" and other forms of forced labor and compulsory "donations" if they converted, and that the government would provide education for their children.
"I became a Buddhist because of such privileges rather than because I think Buddhism is better than Christianity," the Chin participant told CHRO.
Religious Policy Elsewhere
According to CHRO, both the Burmese army and the monks are pursuing an unofficial government policy summed up in three words; "Amyo, Batha, Thathana," which translates as "One race, one language, one religion" – or Burman, Burmese and Buddhist.
This policy was exemplified by the forced closure in January of more than 100 churches in the capital, Rangoon.
Officials on Jan. 5 invited pastors from more than 100 Rangoon churches to a meeting where they were ordered to sign documents pledging to cease operation of their churches or face imprisonment. About 50 pastors attended, according to Burmese news agency Mizzima.
A CHRO spokesman told Compass yesterday that a significant number of these churches were ethnic rather than majority Burman churches.
In mid-January, officials ordered several other major Rangoon churches to close, including Wather Hope Church, Emmanuel Church and an Assemblies of God Church. (See Compass Direct News, "Burma Clamps Down on Christians," Jan. 21.)
Officials from the Ministry of Religious Affairs in January summoned the owners of buildings where churches met and ordered them not to rent their properties to religious groups, according to another local online news source, the Democratic Voice of Burma.
In the late 1990s, Burma stopped issuing permits for land purchase or the construction of new churches in Rangoon and elsewhere, leading many Burmese Christians to conduct services in rented apartments or office buildings.
The church closure orders may simply be an extension of Burma's existing religious policies, which elevate Buddhism in an effort to solidify national identity. The country's population is 82 percent Buddhist, 9 percent Christian and 4 percent Muslim, with traditional ethnic, Chinese and Hindu religions accounting for the rest.
In a 2007 report describing religious persecution throughout Burma, including Chin state, Christian Solidarity Worldwide cited the "Program to Destroy the Christian Religion in Burma," a 17-point document that had circulated widely in Rangoon. Allegedly authorized by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the program's first point declared that, "There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practiced."
The Ministry of Religious Affairs subsequently pressured religious organizations to publicly condemn CSW's report and deny all claims of religious discrimination in Burma.
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BURMA: AUTHORITIES CLAMP DOWN ON CHRISTIANS
Posted on January 23, 2009 by particularkev
Churches ordered to cease services, stop meeting in 'unauthorized' venues.
DUBLIN, January 21 (Compass Direct News) – Burmese authorities last week increased restrictions on Christian activity in the capital city of Rangoon and surrounding areas, including the closure of several churches, Compass sources confirmed yesterday.
Orders issued on Jan. 5 had already forced many Christians meeting in residential homes or apartments to cease gathering for worship. Officials last week ordered several major Rangoon churches, including Wather Hope Church, Emmanuel Church and the Assemblies of God Church, to cease holding services and continued enforcing the Jan. 5 ban on meetings held in unauthorized facilities.
In the late 1990s authorities stopped issuing permits for land purchase or the construction of new churches, leading many Burmese Christians to conduct services in rented apartments or office buildings, according to the Burmese news agency Mizzima.
The Kyauktada Township Peace and Development Council on Jan. 5 invited pastors from more than 100 Rangoon churches to a meeting where they were told to sign documents pledging to cease operation of their churches. About 50 pastors attended, according to Mizzima.
The documents threatened punishment, including potential jail terms and the sealing of church facilities, for pastors who refused to obey the closure orders.
Another local online news source, the Democratic Voice of Burma, claimed officials from the Ministry of Religious Affairs had summoned the owners of buildings where churches met and ordered them not to rent their properties to religious groups.
Mizzima quoted an unnamed Burmese Christian who claimed that 80 percent of churches in Rangoon were affected by the order.
History of Religious Repression
Some local Christians and international observers say the crackdown is related to Christian involvement in relief efforts for the victims of Cyclone Nargis, which hit Burma in May 2008.
Despite widespread devastation and loss of life, Burma's reclusive government initially banned foreign aid but finally accepted it on condition that Burmese officials would distribute it. Christians, however, had responded immediately to the crisis, gathering relief supplies and transporting them to the Irrawaddy Delta region. Police or army officials stopped some groups, but many were allowed to proceed. At least one such group told Compass that officials likely feared the conversion of Buddhists who accepted aid from Christians.
The military junta ruling Burma promotes Buddhism at the expense of other minority religions, according to Paul A. Marshall's 2008 Religious Freedom in the World. The country's population is 82 percent Buddhist, 9 percent Christian and 4 percent Muslim, with traditional ethnic, Chinese and Hindu religions accounting for the rest.
The church closure orders may simply be an extension of Burma's existing religious policies, which elevate Buddhism in an effort to solidify national identity. Burma ranks high on lists of religious and human rights violators at several watch organizations, including the U.S. State Department, Human Rights Watch, Freedom House and Open Doors.
Documents declaring the government's intention to "stamp out" Christianity have circulated for some time. Rights organization Christian Solidarity Worldwide drew attention to one such document in a 2007 report entitled, "Carrying the Cross: The military regime's campaign of restriction, discrimination and persecution against Christians in Burma." The report summarized a 17-point document allegedly produced by an organization affiliated with the Ministry of Religious Affairs entitled, "Program to Destroy the Christian Religion in Burma."
The first point in this document declared that, "There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practiced."
A military dictatorship has ruled Burma since 1962. Following the takeover, the government renamed Burma as the Union of Myanmar and the capital city as Yangon, but many news agencies and government bodies continue to use the original names. When elections were held in 1988, with the opposing National League for Democracy clearly in the majority, the generals rejected the popular vote and used brute military force to cement their power throughout Burma. A similar show of force met hundreds of Buddhist monks who initiated mass anti-government protest rallies on the streets of Rangoon in September 2007.
While almost all Burmese citizens suffer under the regime, Christians are often singled out for specific attack or repression because of their perceived connections with the West.
Reports from various mission groups suggest Christianity is flourishing under the regime, but believers must be creative with their worship – particularly in rural areas. In reports confirmed by Compass, Christians in one state began photocopying Bibles to overcome restrictions on religious publications. Others baptized new Christians during the annual water festival, where citizens douse each other with buckets of water, ceremonially washing away the "sins" of the past year.
Heightened Security, Control
Rangoon residents say a much heavier security presence has been evident in the city since early January, when political activists began distributing anti-government leaflets, The Irrawaddy newspaper reported on Jan. 13. The leaflet drops may have contributed to the current crackdown on church gatherings, as generals suspect all organized groups of having a political agenda.
At a graduation of military students in Rangoon on Jan. 9, Vice-Senior Gen. Maung Aye, who is commander-in-chief of the army and deputy commander-in-chief of Defense Services, warned students to steadfastly uphold the country's "Three Main National Causes" to prevent "recurrences of past bitter experiences." The causes were listed as non-disintegration of the Union of Myanmar, non-disintegration of national solidarity and perpetuation of sovereignty.
The New Light of Myanmar, a government newspaper, reported the general as saying that, "You will have learned bitter lessons from a number of world events, in which certain States have become weaker … owing to external intervention in their conflicts."
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At Milelli's, making our customers happy with unparalleled car repair and service is what makes us happy as well. We're proud to work on your Acura! It's a modern marvel and a major investment, so we'll take care of it like the rare and wonderful thing it is.
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package org.chocosolver.checked;

import org.chocosolver.graphsolver.GraphModel;
import org.chocosolver.graphsolver.search.strategy.GraphStrategy;
import org.chocosolver.graphsolver.variables.DirectedGraphVar;
import org.chocosolver.solver.Solver;
import org.chocosolver.util.objects.graphs.DirectedGraph;
import org.chocosolver.util.objects.setDataStructures.SetType;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;

public class ArborescenceTest {

	private static SetType graphTypeEnv = SetType.BIPARTITESET;
	private static SetType graphTypeKer = SetType.BIPARTITESET;

	public static Solver model(int n, int seed, boolean gac) {
		final GraphModel m = new GraphModel();
		DirectedGraph GLB = new DirectedGraph(m,n,graphTypeKer,false);
		DirectedGraph GUB = new DirectedGraph(m,n,graphTypeEnv,false);
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			for (int j = 1; j < n; j++) {
				GUB.addArc(i, j);
			}
		}
		GLB.addNode(0);
		final DirectedGraphVar g = m.digraphVar("G", GLB, GUB);
		int[] preds = new int[n];
		for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
			preds[i] = 1;
		}
		preds[0] = 0;
		System.out.println("%%%%%%%%%");
		if(gac) {
			m.directedTree(g, 0).post();
		}else{
			m.directedForest(g).post();
			int[] indeg = new int[n];
			for(int i=0;i<n;i++) {
				indeg[i] = 1;
			}
			indeg[0] = 0;
			m.minInDegrees(g, indeg).post();
		}
		m.nbNodes(g, m.intVar("nbNodes", n / 3, n)).post();
		m.getSolver().setSearch(new GraphStrategy(g, seed));
		m.getSolver().limitSolution(100);
		while(m.getSolver().solve());
		return m.getSolver();
	}

	@Test(groups = "10s")
	public static void smallTrees() {
		int s = 0;
		for (int n = 3; n < 8; n++) {
			System.out.println("Test n=" + n + ", with seed=" + s);
			Solver good = model(n, s, true);
			assertEquals(good.getMeasures().getFailCount(), 0);
			assertTrue(good.getMeasures().getSolutionCount() > 0);
			Solver slow = model(n, s, false);
			assertEquals(good.getMeasures().getSolutionCount(), slow.getMeasures().getSolutionCount());
		}
	}

	@Test(groups = "10s")
	public static void bigTrees() {
		int s = 0;
		int n = 60;
		System.out.println("Test n=" + n + ", with seed=" + s);
		Solver good = model(n, s, true);
		assertEquals(good.getMeasures().getFailCount(), 0);
		assertTrue(good.getMeasures().getSolutionCount() > 0);
		Solver slow = model(n, s, false);
		assertEquals(good.getMeasures().getSolutionCount(), slow.getMeasures().getSolutionCount());
	}

	@Test(groups = "1m")
	public static void testAllDataStructure() {
		for (SetType ge : new SetType[]{SetType.BIPARTITESET,SetType.LINKED_LIST,SetType.BITSET}) {
			graphTypeEnv = ge;
			graphTypeKer = ge;
            System.out.println("env:" + ge + " ker :" + ge);
			smallTrees();
		}
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Chatting with hosts Dan Levy and Julia Chan about baking and season two.
The cast and crew of The Great Canadian Baking Show are preparing to film the second season finale when we visited them this summer on set—which, at first glance, is exactly as serene and idyllic as it seems on TV IRL. There was just one problem: it's one of the hottest days of the year (up to that point) and it was only going to get hotter. And if you're a baker, or have ever watched one of these shows, you know that baking and hot weather can equal disaster (think: lots of melting).
We talked to the duo about what to expect from season two of the feel-good show, which premieres on September 19, and if they've learned anything about baking themselves.
What's new for season two?
Julia Chan: This season is everything that we hoped you loved in the first, just bigger, brighter and bolder.
You're both also actors. Is it challenging to go between that and hosting?
DL: I came from MTV, so my career started in hosting television. It's a very difficult job to be yourself authentically on television, especially from an acting background, where your job is to be someone else. The key is to hosting and connecting with an audience is just to forget about all the things that acting teaches you. Julia had the bigger learning curve and has done such a great job.
JC: I mean, I'm not going to lie: when Dan [asked me to do the show with him], I was a little bit nervous. To be yourself is a whole other skill, and to be yourself in a way that is hyper present was a challenge.
Part of your job as hosts is to talk to the contestants while they're baking. Does that ever get awkward?
JC: There are definitely moments when a producer is beckoning me to go in and visit a baker who I know does not want me to visit them. But we've developed skills and we go in and try to lighten to mood or just cheer them on.
Have you learned anything about baking from doing the show?
DL: I've learned a ton. I don't cook—no one wants me to make them dinner. Does it make me want to bake? No. Does it make me want to eat? Yes.
JC: It makes me want to bake! I actually had this moment yesterday on set where I thought, "I think it's time to move on to cake." Would you eat my cake?
DL: I'll eat any cake.
Dan, why doesn't it make you want even try?
DL: I don't have the patience for baking. It's very precise and I don't like the idea of missing a step and realizing it's going to be a complete nightmare. I would rather just go to a store and buy a cake then try to make it myself, have it inevitably turn out badly and then regret the wasted time. Not to sound like a fatalist, but it's just not in me. I have clumsy hands.
JC: Well, we're a match made in heaven.
DL: You can bake, I can eat.
The Great Canadian Baking Show airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on CBC.


Food allergies have significant deleterious effects on family economics, social interactions, school and work attendance, and health-related quality of life. However, currently licensed treatments target only the symptoms of reactions and anaphylaxis, not the allergies themselves. Food allergies are heterogeneous in terms of both their underlying pathophysiology (eg, mediated via both IgE and non-IgE immunologic pathways) and their clinic manifestations (ranging from mild rashes to life-threatening anaphylaxis). The literature on food allergies lacks a clear consensus regarding the most effective diagnostic and management approaches to even the most common conditions. Under contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and in support of ongoing work to produce clinical practice guidelines, the authors reviewed the available evidence on the prevalence, diagnosis, management, and prevention of food allergies. This review presents their findings for the most common allergenic foods: cow's milk, hen's egg, peanut or tree nut, and shellfish or fish, which account for more than 50% of all allergies to food.
The research described in this report was prepared for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and performed under the auspices of RAND Health.
Chafen, Jennifer J. Schneider, Sydne Newberry, Marc Riedl, Dena M. Bravata, Margaret A. Maglione, Marika Booth, Vandana Sundaram, Neil M. Paige, Ali Towfigh, Benjamin J. Hulley, and Paul G. Shekelle, Prevalence, Natural History, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Food Allergy: A Systematic Review of the Evidence. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2010. https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR757-1.html.


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text:
import m5
import runfs
import base64
import tempfile
import argparse
import sys
import os

from amd import AmdGPUOptions
from common import Options
from common import GPUTLBOptions
from ruby import Ruby

rodinia_runscript = '''\
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/rocm/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export HSA_ENABLE_SDMA=0
dmesg -n3
dd if=/root/roms/vega10.rom of=/dev/mem bs=1k seek=768 count=128
if [ ! -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/dkms/amdgpu.ko ]; then
    echo "ERROR: Missing DKMS package for kernel `uname -r`. Exiting gem5."
    /sbin/m5 exit
fi
modprobe -v amdgpu ip_block_mask=0xff ppfeaturemask=0 dpm=0 audio=0
echo "Running {}"
cd /home/gem5/HIP-Examples/rodinia_3.0/hip/{}/
make clean
make
make test
/sbin/m5 exit
'''

def addRodiniaOptions(parser):
    parser.add_argument("-a", "--app", default=None,
                        choices=['b+tree',
                                 'backprop',
                                 'bfs',
                                 'cfd',
                                 'dwt2d',
                                 'gaussian',
                                 'heartwall',
                                 'hotspot',
                                 'hybridsort',
                                 'kmeans',
                                 'lavaMD',
                                 'leukocyte',
                                 'lud',
                                 'myocyte',
                                 'nn',
                                 'nw',
                                 'particlefilter',
                                 'pathfinder',
                                 'srad',
                                 'streamcluster'],
                        help="GPU application to run")
    parser.add_argument("-o", "--opts", default="",
                        help="GPU application arguments")

if __name__ == "__m5_main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    runfs.addRunFSOptions(parser)
    Options.addCommonOptions(parser)
    AmdGPUOptions.addAmdGPUOptions(parser)
    Ruby.define_options(parser)
    GPUTLBOptions.tlb_options(parser)
    addRodiniaOptions(parser)

    # Parse now so we can override options
    args = parser.parse_args()

    # Create temp script to run application
    if args.app is None:
        print("No application given. Use %s -a <app>" % sys.argv[0])
        sys.exit(1)
    elif args.kernel is None:
        print("No kernel path given. Use %s --kernel <vmlinux>" % sys.argv[0])
        sys.exit(1)
    elif args.disk_image is None:
        print("No disk path given. Use %s --disk-image <linux>" % sys.argv[0])
        sys.exit(1)
    elif args.gpu_mmio_trace is None:
        print("No MMIO trace path. Use %s --gpu-mmio-trace <path>"
                % sys.argv[0])
        sys.exit(1)

    _, tempRunscript = tempfile.mkstemp()
    with open(tempRunscript, 'w') as b64file:
        runscriptStr = rodinia_runscript.format(args.app, args.app)
        b64file.write(runscriptStr)

    if args.second_disk == None:
        args.second_disk = args.disk_image

    # Defaults for Vega10
    args.ruby = True
    args.cpu_type = 'X86KvmCPU'
    args.num_cpus = 1
    args.mem_size = '3GB'
    args.dgpu = True
    args.dgpu_mem_size = '16GB'
    args.dgpu_start = '0GB'
    args.checkpoint_restore = 0
    args.disjoint = True
    args.timing_gpu = True
    args.script = tempRunscript
    args.dgpu_xor_low_bit = 0

    print(args.disk_image)

    # Run gem5
    runfs.runGpuFSSystem(args)


text:
class Booklet < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :author, :back_cover, :page_1, :page_10, :page_11, :page_12, :page_13, :page_14, :page_2, :page_3, :page_4, :page_5, :page_6, :page_7, :page_8, :page_9, :title, :cover_img, :img_1, :img_2, :img_3, :img_4, :img_5, :img_6, :img_7, :img_8, :img_9, :img_10, :img_11, :img_12, :img_13, :img_14, :back_cover_img

  has_attached_file :cover_img,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_1,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_2,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_3,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_4,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_5,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_6,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_7,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_8,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_9,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_10,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_11,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_12,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_13,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :img_14,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"

  has_attached_file :back_cover_img,
                    :url  => "/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension",
                    :path => ":rails_root/public/assets/booklets/:id/:basename.:extension"
end


text:
Who is the top paid bank CEO in India?
Chaudhry received a total remuneration of Rs 7.63 crore in FY22, including Rs 89 lakh was variable pay.
Sumant Kathpalia, MD and CEO, Indusind Bank was the second-highest paid MD & CEO, with Rs 7.3 crore remuneration in FY22.
Amitabh Chaudhry of Axis Bank was the highest paid managing director and chief executive officer among bankers in fiscal 2022, according to reports.
Sandeep Bakhshi, MD and CEO of ICICI Bank, received a remuneration of Rs 7.08 crore in FY22. Bakhshi had voluntarily relinquished his remuneration in FY21 due to the pandemic.
Sashidhar Jagdishan, MD and CEO of HDFC Bank, received a remuneration of Rs 6.51 crore. FY22 was the first full year of the HDFC Bank CEO, who took charge in October 2020.
Top paid executive
The highest paid bank executive for FY22 was Kaizad Bharucha, executive director of HDFC Bank, emerged the highest earning banker for 2021-22 (FY22).
Bharucha, who oversees wholesale banking at HDFC Bank, received Rs 10.64 crore remuneration in FY22, mainly due to Rs 4.46 crore as performance bonus. The bonus was earned between 2017-18 and 2020-21, the bonus payout was partly paid in FY22, according to a report.
PSU banks' pay lags
State Bank of India Chairman Dinesh Khara took home Rs 34.42 lakh in annual salary in FY22, which is much lower than the pay of his private sector bank peers.
However, Khara's salary is 13.4 per cent higher than the compensation given to his predecessor Rajnish Kumar in the previous year, the lender's latest annual report disclosed.
For the fiscal year 2021-22, Khara was paid Rs 27 lakh in basic pay and Rs 7,42,500 as dearness allowance. Of the total Rs 38.12 lakh he earned in FY21, Rs 4 lakh was in form of incentives.
In comparison, Canara Bank managing director and chief executive L V Prabhakar received Rs 36.89 lakh salary in FY22, while Bank of Baroda paid a compensation of Rs 40.46 lakh to its managing director and chief executive Sanjiv Chadha during the year.
Former SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar's total remuneration stood at Rs 30.34 lakh, of which Rs 14.04 lakh was against leave encashment paid on retirement in October 2020.
amitabh chaudhry of axis bank


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Elon Musk Scraps New 'Official' Label for High-Profile Accounts Hours After Launch
Twitter on Wednesday unveiled — and then almost immediately scrapped — a new grey "official" label for some high-profile accounts as Elon Musk struggles to revamp the influential platform following his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3.6 lakh crore) buyout.
"I just killed it," Musk tweeted just hours after the new tag was added to government accounts as well as those of big companies and major media outlets.
"Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn't," the world's richest man added to explain the U-turn.
The sudden change of heart will invite further scrutiny of Musk's plans for Twitter a week after he laid off thousands of workers and drew a massive drop in spending from advertisers, who are wary of the site's direction.
The botched rollout came ahead of the hotly anticipated introduction of a revamped subscription model in which the site's famed blue checkmark would be made available for a fee of $7.99 (roughly Rs. 650), though Musk has also said the price would be adjusted by country.
The blue tick has been a mark of an account's authenticity and doubts emerged that public figures or media outlets would pay for it. The official grey tag was seen by observers as a workaround to solve that problem.
The launch of the new official label began on Wednesday and was on the accounts of companies such as Apple or BMW and public ones such as the White House and major media outlets.
But only a few hours later, it was gone for many of them.
Accounts belonging to Agence France-Presse, BBC News, Pope Francis or the controversial rapper Kanye West that had received the "official" badge, saw the mention disappear.
'A lot of work'
Esther Crawford, an executive who announced the grey tick idea on Tuesday, insisted that the official label was still going to be part of the relaunch, but that "we are just focusing on government and commercial entities to begin with."
During a panel for advertisers broadcast on Twitter, Musk exercised some damage control, admitting that a lot of work lay ahead to get the site to the place he wished to reach.
"We've got a lot to do on the software side. I can't emphasize that enough," he said.
Musk took control of Twitter after a drawn-out back-and-forth legal battle in which the mercurial tycoon tried to renege on a deal that many believe he overpaid for.
It emerged on Tuesday that Musk sold $4 billion (roughly Rs. 32,600 crore) worth of shares in Tesla to help pay for a transaction in which he took on billions of dollars in debt.
The $7.99 subscription idea is seen as one way to overcome the loss in advertisers since Musk took over the company.
Twitter last week fired half of its 7,500 employees, which Musk said was necessary as the company was losing $4 million (roughly Rs. 32.6 crore) a day.
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The Aftermath brings together three enormously attractive leading stars who usually tempt me to see them on a big or small screen. But the only reason to consider seeing their surprisingly unappealing romantic triangle is the period context that hasn't been seen in films.
The Allies' destruction of Berlin during World War II was in features almost immediately, such as in Fred Zinnemann's The Search (1948). George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) brought Kurt Vonnegut's witnessing of the Allies' firebombing of Dresden to American audiences. Director James Kent fills the screen with archival, then effective CGI footage, and then production design, of what happened to Hamburg over a week in July 1943: the firestorm U.S. and British military called "Operation Gomorrah" that killed 42,600 civilians, wounding 37,000, and destroying 6,200 acres.
The rubble and the homeless, hungry population are under British supervision in September 1946, when the film opens. As an American announces in Rhidian Brook's novel and in his co-written script about how the Allies divided western Germany: "The French get the wine, we get the view and you guys get the ruins." Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) is on a train with compartment-mates who are reading out the firm and patronizing instructions from the British Control Commission against fraternization with the German population.
Like Brook's grandparents, whose experience inspired his writing, Rachael and her husband Colonel Lewis Morgan (Jason Clarke) have been assigned a grand house, with servants, in an aristocratic-looking, untouched residential neighborhood along the Elbe River. But quite unlike the other British staff living in requisitioned properties, Lewis invites their home's owners, architect Stephan Lubert (Alexander Skarsgård) and his teenage daughter Freda (Flora Thiemann), to remain by living in the attic.
Rachael is skittish; she retains antagonism to the former enemy whose bombs killed her young son back in England. The Luberts are similarly troubled, not just by the new layout, but because their wife and mother died in the Allied bombing. Well-meaning Lewis is uncomfortable because he's barely spent time with his aloof wife while he was rising up the ranks to hero during the war; he only briefly took leave for their son's funeral, and takes little time off now, to her continuing resentment. Unsuspensefully, the bereaved mother and the widower inevitably fall into each other's comforting arms.
The millions killed in the war are irrelevant to these oblivious two harboring only their personal griefs. Jews, or even the Holocaust, are only glancingly acknowledged when Lewis's uncouth colleague in the Intelligence Branch, Major Keith Burnam (Martin Compston), throws small photographs of piles of skeletal bodies to those Germans he's interrogating for de-Nazification certification, including Herr Lubert. Did the Brits not follow the American pattern of using Jewish soldiers fluent in Yiddish to help with translations in these interactions?
Rebellious Freda still looks like a loyal "Deutscher Mädel" with her long, blondish braids, and acts like it when she skips school to join the desperate women and feral children cleaning up rubble in exchange for necessities from the British authorities. She falls for the charismatic young Albert (Jannik Schümann) who is training a gang of Nazi youth in the catacombs to be guerrilla fighters. These resistance "Wehrwolf" saboteurs and snipers have not been seen seriously much in films, though the "88" tattoo has gained attention today for its current white supremacist popularity. Her information about the British administrator who took over her home makes her quite attractive to him, and even without the more extended focus on these lost youth in the book, their relationship has the sense of danger missing elsewhere in the film.
As the adult couples don't generate any heat during that winter in Hamburg, the audience can't help but notice all kinds of things that don't really add up. Rachael's suspicion that a blank space on the wall probably had a required Hitler portrait is just an argument promoting sexual tension in the film, but in the book is more sensitively solved with the revelation of Frau Lubert's portrait now removed to the attic. Stephan insists that his house was in the unapproved Modern style with so-called "Degenerate Art" – but the house only has one such item, a Mies van der Rohe chair. He explains that this large house is due to his late wife's wealth, and that it was her shipbuilding family who were Nazis, not him. Both in the book and film, I find it not credible that he could get clients from their class without being a party member himself.
Too bad the film doesn't make as clear as the book that Lewis is doing worthy work than just this fraternization, even as he has to carry out the Allies' short-term vengeful policy of German de-industrialization. As Rachael arrived with very little luggage, it was curious how she could be dressed more and more beautifully, culminating in a stunning evening gown (kudos to costume designer Bojana Nikitovic). Rachael is seen briefly putting together an elegant black dress on a sewing machine, but where did she get such fine fabric? While Stephan speaks German to his daughter and household staff, how is that in both the film and the book he speaks English flawlessly? With the change in the ending from the book, Freda's acquiescence to her father's affair makes no sense.


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We still don't know. Gosh, ultrasound on Monday went horribly. Don't get me wrong, baby is healthy and perfect! I've just been in a horrible mood for the last while and I was reaally looking forward to finding out baby's gender. They kept me on the table for waaaayyy too long and the tech didn't know what she was doing. New system or something like that. So by the time she went and got someone else to confirm her suspicions on the gender, baby was fed up, turned around and sat on its feet. Mind you it was pretty darn cute to see my baby sitting like that but I was fed up, sore and discouraged by this point.
So gender reveal has been postponed to I don't know when.
I have been looking into 3D ultrasounds and talking to people about their experiences to find out gender like that instead. So far I've only gotten positive feedback but my fiancé isn't too keen on the idea. In his mind we shouldn't bother the baby if we don't have to and there hasn't been many studies to show the effects of it. I was upset by this at first, and after I had taken the decision and made an appointment, he exclaimed to me that he was starting to like the idea of not knowing. He said there's a reason that the baby doesn't want us to know. To me, baby is just being stubborn like it's father.
So I'm still conflicted and going back and forth between knowing and not knowing. I hate the feeling of not being prepared and I am that horrible person that hates surprises! I have a couple days to think about it and I'm hoping my mood will change by then. Everything is annoying me.
Craving: Desserts. Any and all kinds. COFFEE. I hate coffee.
Dislikes: still not able to eat meat. God how I miss pizza.
Movements: starting to kick harder but still only for my pleasure.
Sleeping: lots of hours but weird dreams so still tired at all times.
What else should I be tracking weekly? Anybody have experiences with 3D ultrasounds?


This workshop will alert you to the spiritual battle that surrounds families and children and show you from Scripture and personal experience how�through intercession and spiritual warfare�you can close spiritual doors to the enemy in your own family and household.
Why do some persistent prayers for the children in our lives seemingly go unanswered? One reason may be �doors� that have been opened to the enemy through ongoing personal sin, generational patterns, or a family�s past lifestyles. Arlyn Lawrence is a contributing editor to Pray! and the co-author of Prayer Saturated Kids.


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package com.woorea.openstack.quantum.api;

import com.woorea.openstack.base.client.Entity;
import com.woorea.openstack.base.client.HttpMethod;
import com.woorea.openstack.base.client.OpenStackClient;
import com.woorea.openstack.base.client.OpenStackRequest;
import com.woorea.openstack.quantum.model.Router;
import com.woorea.openstack.quantum.model.RouterForAddInterface;
import com.woorea.openstack.quantum.model.RouterForCreate;
import com.woorea.openstack.quantum.model.RouterInterface;
import com.woorea.openstack.quantum.model.Routers;

public class RoutersResource {

		private final OpenStackClient CLIENT;

		public RoutersResource(OpenStackClient client) {
			CLIENT = client;
		}

		public List list() {
			return new List();
		}

		public Create create(RouterForCreate router){
			return new Create(router);
		}

		public Delete delete(String netId){
			return new Delete(netId);
		}

		public Show show(String netId){
			return new Show(netId);
		}

		public class List extends OpenStackRequest<Routers> {

			public List() {
			    super(CLIENT, HttpMethod.GET, "routers", null, Routers.class);
			}
		}

		public class Query extends OpenStackRequest<Routers> {

			public Query(Router router) {
				//super(network);
//				target = target.path("v2.0").path("networks");
//				target = queryParam(target);
//				return target.request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).get(Networks.class);
			}
		}
		public class Create extends OpenStackRequest<Router> {

			public Create(RouterForCreate router){
			    super(CLIENT, HttpMethod.POST, "routers", Entity.json(router), Router.class);
			}
		}

		public class Show extends OpenStackRequest<Router> {

			public Show(String id) {
			    super(CLIENT, HttpMethod.GET, buildPath("routers/", id), null, Router.class);
			}
		}

		public class Delete extends OpenStackRequest<Void> {

			public Delete(String id){
			    super(CLIENT, HttpMethod.DELETE, buildPath("routers/", id), null, Void.class);
			}
		}
		public Attach addInterface(RouterForAddInterface interfaceToAdd){
			return new Attach(interfaceToAdd);
		}
		public class Attach extends OpenStackRequest<RouterInterface> {

			public Attach(RouterForAddInterface interfaceToAdd){
			    super(CLIENT, HttpMethod.PUT, buildPath("routers/",interfaceToAdd.getRouterId(),"/add_router_interface"), Entity.json(interfaceToAdd),RouterInterface.class);
			}

		}
		public Detach deleteInterface(RouterForAddInterface interfaceRouter) {
			return new Detach(interfaceRouter);
		}

		public class Detach extends OpenStackRequest<RouterInterface> {

		public Detach(RouterForAddInterface interfaceToAdd) {
			super(CLIENT, HttpMethod.PUT, buildPath("routers/",
					interfaceToAdd.getRouterId(), "/remove_router_interface"),
					Entity.json(interfaceToAdd), RouterInterface.class);
		}

	}

}


Exploring the county of Donegal in Ireland along the Wild Atlantic Way - the ultimate road trip!
At 601 metres (1,972 ft), it has some of the highest sea cliffs on the island of Ireland. Although less famous than the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Slieve League's cliffs reach almost three times higher.


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Nora Belrose
Another Attempt to Change the World By Writing Things
In Defense of Electoralism
On July 14, 2018 July 15, 2018 By norabelroseIn Political Strategy
Just last month, the Democratic Socialists of America made national headlines by securing its first seat in Congress with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory over Joe Crowley in New York's 14th congressional district. Ocasio-Cortez refused all corporate campaign contributions and ran on a robust social-democratic platform that included Medicare for All, tuition-free college education, and a federal job guarantee. As a result of this victory, DSA's membership has ballooned to over 45,000 members over the last three weeks.
Ocasio-Cortez isn't alone. Over the last year, DSA has enjoyed unprecedented electoral successes, with 15 DSA members elected to public office in the 2017 elections. These electoral victories have substantially boosted the profile of democratic socialist politics- so much so that New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon has started describing herself as a democratic socialist! The vital lesson to draw from these victories is that electoral politics is an essential terrain of struggle, and that we need to focus our energies on it much more heavily going forward.
Movements vs. electoral politics: a false dichotomy
There are many in the socialist movement, however, who want to resist the conclusion that we ought to devote more of our resources to electoral politics. These activists tend to argue that "movement building" and "grassroots organizing" are the only true drivers of social change, and that electoral politics can only play a secondary role:
"If we want meaningful social change, or even basic progressive reforms, the electoral road leads us into a strategic cul-de-sac. Instead of better politicians, we need popular power — independent, self-managed and combative social movements capable of posing a credible threat to capitalism, the state, white supremacy and patriarchy."
The Lure of Elections: From Political Power to Popular Power
This view, however, depends on an overly abstract and nebulous conception of what it means to build an effective social movement. "Movements" change nothing in and of themselves. For a movement to be effective, it must be organized around concrete demands on specific institutions. These demands inspire working people to get involved in the movement, and they serve as a concrete measure of the progress that a movement has made.
The failure of the Occupy Wall Street movement demonstrated the crucial need for demands. When movements lack concrete demands, they tend to quickly fizzle out without achieving much of anything. Regular people do not have patience for movements that don't promise any material improvements in their lives.
Where does power lie?
Movements can target a wide range of institutions, but the most obvious target for working-class demands is the capitalist state. The state is the only institution in society with the ability to collect taxes, print money, and enforce laws. The entire capitalist system is at the mercy of the state for its continued existence, so if we can change state policy, we can force capitalists to do our bidding. It's no surprise that nearly all of the concrete demands that socialists are fighting for today, like Medicare for All, tuition-free college, and a $15/hour minimum wage, are demands on the state. And in our society, the easiest way to change state policy is to win elections.
In addition to the state, working people can also make demands directly on employers. This is what the trade union movement has always been about: demanding higher wages, better working conditions, and more job security directly from the bosses. Historically, organized labor formed the organizational and financial backbone of working-class and socialist movements. But it's important to recognize that after a decades-long decline in membership, organized labor is now a shadow of its former self. While it should be possible to modestly strengthen organized labor in the medium term, we cannot expect it to return to the strength it enjoyed in the 1950s. The transition to a service-based economy has fundamentally disempowered labor in the workplace, and the rising tide of automation will ensure that this trend continues into the future. Ironically, the one thing that could restore the labor movement to its former glory would be a dramatic change in state policy favoring unions. Indeed, it was the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935, which gave legal rights to labor unions for the first time, that precipitated the first major spike in union membership in the US.
Those who are uncomfortable engaging with state power often argue for a third strategy for socialist organizing: "building the new society in the shell of the old." This anarchist concept involves building alternative institutions like worker cooperatives, mutual aid networks, or neighborhood councils, in an effort to prepare the groundwork for an entirely new social system at some point in the future. But while alternative institutions can often be helpful, they are severely limited as a strategy for social change. Merely demonstrating alternatives to the status quo does not build the power needed to transform society in the face of an increasingly powerful state machine. Socialists need to win state power, not make futile attempts to fight the state from below.
Building a movement to win state power
Given the limitations of other tactics, building the capacity of the Left to win elections is the single most important thing socialists should be working on. Socialist, labor, and progressive organizations should run candidates for office on platforms centered around universal social programs and class-based grievances. Whenever possible these candidates should publicly identify themselves as "democratic socialists," even if they don't explicitly advocate for public ownership of the means of production. At this stage, it is more important to popularize and destigmatize the idea of "democratic socialism" than it is to fill it with clear anti-capitalist content.
We should strive to aggressively primary any incumbent Democrat who does not enthusiastically endorse a robust social democratic program. The Tea Party has been very successful at pushing the Republican Party far to the right, largely through the threat of primary challenges to sitting Republicans. There is no reason we can't do the same to the Democrats. It's not even necessary for all of our primary challenges to succeed- as long as we can make credible threats to kick Democratic politicians out of office, incumbents will be forced to support social democratic demands.
None of this will happen on its own, of course. While the Tea Party was able to rely on the generous funding of billionaires to bankroll its primary campaigns, the Left will have to get much more creative. In order to consistently win thousands of primaries and general elections across the country, year after year, we will need to build a powerful network of civil society organizations, ideally federated together into a single coalition. Organizations like DSA, Our Revolution, and Brand New Congress can play a key role, alongside progressive labor unions and other left-wing groups at the local and regional levels.
Because of the long-term decline of organized labor, we can no longer rely on unions to be the primary source of funding for socialist electoral campaigns. But the good news is that the Internet is making big money much less important. Fewer and fewer voters are watching TV ads— by far the largest expense for traditional campaigns— and social media has opened the door to mass fundraising and outreach. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was able to unseat an incumbent who outraised her 10 to 1, because she was able to effectively leverage social media and an army of volunteers. And when socialists like Ocasio-Cortez get into office, we can enact laws that will tip the scales in favor of the Left, such as public campaign financing and automatic voter registration.
The endgame
The success of Tea Party-style primary challenges in shaping state policy should tell us something about how the state functions in capitalist society. The state is not a tool directly wielded by the capitalist class to further its immediate interests, as many orthodox Marxists have argued. Elected officials and other state actors enjoy much more autonomy than this- but their decisions are constrained, pulled and prodded by the myriad social forces that threaten the state's order, and the careers of the politicians who run it.
As we build our power inside the state, the need for a socialist transformation of society will gradually become apparent. With each successive social-democratic reform, capitalists will feel more and more uneasy. Eventually, the state will face a collapse in "business confidence" wherein employers begin to disinvest, fleeing the country to seek refuge somewhere more friendly to business interests. When business confidence collapses, this places a nearly irresistible pressure on the state to retreat from its socialist agenda. Elected officials face a choice between familiar, stable capitalism, and a highly uncertain leap into the dark, where social unrest and economic collapse seem to lurk. They also fear that voters will blame them for the economic chaos, and vote them out of office. We have seen this story play out time and time again: Portugal in 1974, France in the early 1980s, and Greece in 2015.
The history of the socialist movement tells us that capitalism can only be ended in conjunction with a severe legitimacy crisis, wherein both the state and the general population become convinced that the uncertain leap into socialism is a more viable path to an acceptable social order than maintaining the capitalist status quo. Such a severe legitimacy crisis has never occurred in a developed capitalist country- but we can be sure that the steady encroachment of automation, which will leave hundreds of millions jobless, will create one. In the meantime, our job as socialists is to build our capacities to win elections, pushing the boundaries of social democracy while preparing for the moment later this century when society will be ready to leap into the bright socialist future that awaits us.
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With those warm summer days approaching, there is nothing better then waking up to a nice big bowl of cool over night oats to help get you through the day.
Place oats, coconut, cacao and cinnamon in a medium sized bowl.
Add combined Rice Malt Syrup, Milk and coconut yoghurt and combine well with a spoon. Cover and place in fridge overnight.
When you are ready to serve, add strawberries, banana and coconut to your bowl. Pour over Milk and drizzle with COCO².


ohhhk. I am seriously bursting at the seams.
With joy, I mean. With joy. Granola joy and dog joy.
#1 – The dog. We have a dog! We have had our puppy for almost a week now, and she's not really a puppy, she's an medium-old-ish dog from a rescue, but I am set on calling her a puppy for at least our first month together. She deserves it AKA we want it AKA who even cares tho because we are so totally in love with her.
A few nights ago we took her to the dog park and it was like heaven on earth for her. But actually, also for us, because we got so much laughter and joy out of seeing her jump in mud puddles, run wild through the sand, and chase her new friends like Jesus the hooded-vest-wearing Chihuahua. I thought it would take us at least a few months to become "those dog people" but oh no, my friends. Two hours into our new life with the pup and we are THERE.
#2 – This chocolate granola. It's too obvious, but I still have to say it anyways: it's so good like seriously need more nowwwwww even though I just ate some before I sat down to write this post.
It has a nice healthy base of oats, almonds, and unsweetened coconut flakes, and then things start to get a tiny bit desserty, if you can handle that, with the addition of cocoa powder and maple syrup and coconut oil and chocolate chips melted all up into the clusters. And then? Everything gets sprinkled with that crunchy turbinado sugar and flakes of sea salt.
And then it's lunchtime and you're a food blogger with leftover recipes filling your fridge but the only thing you can think of for lunch is fistfuls of granola straight out of the jar. I don't even know, okay? Just… leave me alone.
Actually though, I'm not even exaggerating when I say that as of this morning, I've now eaten The Ultimate Chocolate Granola as 4 of my last 7 meals. It's not like I'm proud of myself, eating those crunchy chocolate clusters with chocolate chips all day, it's just that I feel I need to be upfront with you about my deep-seated love for things with crunchy sugar and sea salt exteriors.
If you're like me and you love those kinds of textural, salty-sweet things, this is your granola.
The Ultimate Chocolate Granola with almonds, oats, coconut flakes, chocolate chips, topped with crunchy sugar and sea salt.
Make: Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Toss the oats, almonds, coconut, cocoa, salt, and 1/3 cup of the sugar in a large bowl. Whisk the melted coconut oil, maple syrup, and vanilla together. Set aside. Pour the liquids over the dry ingredients and stir to combine. Spread the granola into two large jelly roll pans in an even layer.
Store: Let the granola stand for 1-2 hours. Gently scoop the granola into jars or an airtight container for storing. The advantage of doing this when the chocolate chips are still soft (at the 1-2 hour mark) is that it makes for great texture once it cools – the chocolate chips will sort of melt their way into the clusters and harden within each individual granola cluster. SO GOOD. You can also leave the granola out overnight or for several hours until the chocolate chips are fully cooled and hardened if you want to preserve the shape of the individual chocolate chip pieces in the granola.
The coarse sea salt and sugar combination is very important for the overall taste and texture of this granola in my opinion, so try to use that crunchy turbinado sugar and coarse sea salt rather than swapping them for other ingredients.
Gentle handling of the granola is key for preserving the clusters. When you remove it from the oven, don't stir it. If it's not over browning during baking, don't stir it. The more you can leave it alone, the more it will cluster.
Note: For anyone who might be watching their weight or looking for guidelines with portion control, I find it really helpful to divide this recipe into four jars and then just mentally remind myself that each jar is 4 servings. I don't measure each time I eat it, but I do try to keep an eye on how much I'm eating based on that rule of thumb. And if I end up eating one jar as three servings instead of four… oh well. Happy times.
A heads up: tomorrow I'm going to do a proper post to introduce our fur baby. (UPDATE: here it is.) I'm sort of INSANELY EXCITED to share her with you, and she's wagging her tail next to me right now so I think that means she's ready for her debut as a Blog Dog.
Until then: MORE CHOCOLATE GRANOLA, extra sea salt and crunchy sugar. Please and thank you!
There's just something about homemade granola…no matter what else is in the fridge, it always calls out to me from the pantry, so haha, I 100% understand eating it for every meal!! In LOVE with this chocolatey sea salt version!! Can't wait to try!
Hahah thanks Mom! This was an even better version of the one I sent with Steph!
I love that you made chocolate and salt healthier. Great tip on the portion control, too, btw.
Congrats on your new fur baby. If it makes you feel better, our dog is almost 10 years old and we still affectionately call her "pup".
OMG I NEED THIS NOW! Also, more puppy pictures pleaseeee! This is just making me so happy.
I want to see a picture of the puppy!!!! And our pup is 1.5 and I still call him my puppy…so you do you, girl!
Also, have you ever tried cacao nibs? I put them in my smoothies to make them taste like chocolate and they are a power food so it's a total win. I never thought to put it in granola until now, but I think I might try it! Thanks for the inspiration!
Yes! I have! Those would be perfect in this!
Can't wait to see pictures of your puppy!!
Oh wow. I'm already a big granola fan and have a recipe I totally love, but I do NOT know why I never thought to make it chocolate! Everything's better in a chocolate version 🙂 Must try this asap.
Looks amazing but I was hoping to see puppy pictures! We call all our dogs pups or puppies and the youngest one is 7! Congrats on the new addition to your family. Now show us some pics!
LOVE how incredibly amazing this looks. The sea salt and turbinado sugar?! Yes yes YES.
Waiting until tomorrrrrowwwww!! Can't wait to meet your new fur ball!! And this granola will certainly do for now. YUM!
I plugged the ingredients into My Fitness Pal. It didn't change the carbs much but did lower the calories. Portion control here I come, cause I'm totally making this! Found a recipe for homemade Kind bars the other day, so may combine the two recipes and see what happens! Thanks for such great suggestions!
Granola is one of the worst things to have in my house! I cannot stop eating it! Loving this combination, and what a coincidence that my next batch of granola is going to be a "ferrero" one with cacao, hazelnuts and dark chocolate =P Have a great day! or night…?
Dumpling Love, would you please share the recipe for this: "my next batch of granola is going to be a "ferrero" one with cacao, hazelnuts and dark chocolate "?
I could easily see making this granola – we love chocolate! When do we get to see a photo of your 'puppy'?
So many delicious flavors in this granola!
Oh wow Lindsay, this sounds fantastic! I'm more of a savoury cook than a baker, but there's just something about granola making that's super therapeutic and relaxing. I'm pretty sure I'd be bursting at the seams (both with regard to joy and my need for stretchy pants!) with a jar of this in the house. So excited to 'meet' the fur baby!
I agree! I love making granola now even more than I love baking the traditional stuff.
Puppies and chocolate… life doesn't get any better than that 😀 And this granola looks dangerous. Like… it wouldn't even last a few days in my house kind of dangerous.
Yeahhh. More like hours for us.
This would also make an amazing dessert parfait I'm sure!
Oh my lord, I saw the title and fell in love. Nice to met Sage too in your other post.
Thanks Bintu! Sage says hi back!