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rare beef fillet, pickled radishes and a beetroot and potato rosti all bought together with the warmth of Indian spices.
Trim any sinew from the fillet and cut length-ways into 4 even size pieces.
Toast off half of the dry spices in a pan and then using a pestle and mortar grind them to a powder.
Season the fillet strips with half of the powdered spices and the salt and pepper, wrap the fillets in cling film and leave to marinade for at least an hour.
Bring the potatoes to a boil in a large pan, cook for 6 or 7 minutes, remove from the water and allow to cool.
Peel the beetroot, reserve the skin. Grate the beetroot and squeeze out any excess water.
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De seed the chilli and cut into very fine strips, peel the daikon and then using the same peeler make long strips of daikon. Add the daikon and radish to the pickle mix and leave for 5 minutes, remove and allow to dry out.
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Heat a large frying pan, when hot add a splash of oil, add the fillets and cook while turning for around 4 minutes, in the last 2 minutes cooking add the butter and spoon this over the fillet, remove the fillet and allow to rest before carving.
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Place the rosti in the center of a plate, carve the fillet into pieces and place a few on top of the rosti,pour a little of the infused jus over, top with the pickled radish and chilli, then the coriander cress before serving.


Hindi hit Queen is being remade in southern languages and Manjima Mohan of Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada fame is part of its Malayalam version.
"Super privileged to be part of this prestigious project 'Zam Zam'. Will do my best to do justice to the role," she said.
Earlier this week, the Tamil and Telugu versions of 'Queen' were launched. The Tamil version, which has been titled Paris Paris, stars Kajal Aggarwal in the lead.
Queen is a 2014 Indian comedy-drama film written and directed by Vikas Bahl and produced by Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, and Madhu Mantena.


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Would she be crushed in its path, left damaged incomplete?
Should they ever reach the top, then what? how would it be?
Views from a summit, at rest.
slack, relaxed, gazing at distant horizons?
a stable place to lean her back?
Some are crushed by them.
Will the shoots, leaves, growth, verdure of spring and summer shield and protect them?
Some of these trees have just been brutally pollarded.
Mutilated knucklebones gesturing obscenely into the sky.


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Just 24 hours after Urban Meyer announced he'll be stepping down as Ohio State head coach after the Rose Bowl, the Buckeyes' 2020 recruiting class is now down two verbal pledges.
On Tuesday, 4-star 2020 safety Lejond Cavazos decommitted from Ohio State, which was obviously a major blow to the program.
Fast forward to Wednesday morning, and 4-star offensive tackle Jake Wray has joined Cavazos in opening up his recruitment.
Wray, out of Marietta High School in Georgia, is ranked the No. 14 offensive tackle in the country for his class and the No. 93 player overall.
Throughout his recruitment, he's racked up more than 20 offers, with Ohio State, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Michigan and many more putting a scholarship on the table.
In his decommitment post, Wray said his verbal to OSU was contingent with Meyer staying with the program. Now that he'll be moving on at the end of the season, it changed everything for the 6-5, 290-pounder.
Don't expect Wray to be the last player to decommit from Ohio State, as the bombshell Meyer news is clearly having a negative impact out on the recruiting trail.
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Protecting India's migrants
April 24, 2013 12:48 am | Updated November 17, 2021 01:58 am IST
Human trafficking for labour exploitation is a global concern. In West Asia and the Gulf Cooperation Council region, it is a particular worry given the scale of labour migration and the prevalence of opaque and exploitative regulatory systems. A new report on forced labour and human trafficking in the Middle East, based on research sponsored by the International Labour Organisation, attempts to quantify the scale of the problem. Not surprisingly, it makes for some disturbing reading. The report puts the estimated number of victims of forced labour in the region at 6,00,000. These numbers have a huge resonance for India, which accounts for a significant chunk of the labour force there. What emerges is the close relationship between human trafficking and labour migration, and how failures in labour migration governance systems are allowing trafficking to persist. In the region's capital-rich economies, the rapid development of infrastructure has relied on the use of short-term labour immigration. An estimated 14 million migrant workers, originating mostly in Asia and Africa, were in the GCC states between 1975 and 2010.
In order to manage the influx, many countries in the region rely on kafala , or the sponsorship system, that creates an unequal power dynamic between employer and worker as it determines the latter's terms of residence and employment. Today, this system governs the lives of most of the migrant workers, who cannot leave their employers. Thus, loopholes and deficits in labour law coverage reinforce underlying vulnerabilities. Even where legal redress is provided for under national law, and human trafficking is criminalised and punishable, there have been few prosecutions. In such a context, there is first of all a clear case to regulate and control the role of recruiting agencies that very often overlook the interests of migrants while pursuing their own agendas. The Gulf states need to get more serious about implementing labour protection measures, and giving all expatriate workers a better deal in wages, housing, and health. The 2008 Abu Dhabi Declaration was an acknowledgment of the issues that had piled up. It outlined a collaborative action plan to give a fair deal to workers. However, the recommendations that emerged, including that effective actions be initiated to root out illegal recruitment, and that more transparent policies and practices of recruitment and employment be promoted, remain largely a mirage. India should weave in these concerns while firming up the provisions of its new emigration bill and signing any new bilateral agreements with countries of the region.
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Professor Samuel Moyn, professor of law and history at Harvard University, May 2015
With the support of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), the Eighteenth Century Centre was delighted to welcome Samuel Moyn. During his visiting fellowship, he collaborated with the human rights network project ('Rights, Duties and the Politics of Obligation: Economic and Social Rights in History') as well as taking part in a workshop on 'Writing the History of Socio-Economic Rights', giving a keynote address 'Croesus' World: Human Rights and the Age of Inequality', having a Q&A session for postgraduate students and meeting IAS Early Career Fellows.
Professor Gillian Russell (Australian National University)- visting IAS Fellow for Thursday 6-9 March 2012,, sponsored by the C18th Centre with the following sessions:
'Botany Bay Theatricals: Theatre History and the Imagining of Australia, 1796-2011', public lecture, 6 March.
'Revolutionary Drama', Colloquium for Warwick staff, PhD students and postdocs in the Wolfson Research Exchange, 8 March.
'Romantic Public Cultures' workshop, 9 March.
Professor Steven C A Pincus (Chair, Council on European Studies, Department of History, Yale University, USA) was an IAS Visiting Fellow for a week in February 2011. During his time at Warwick he gave a public lecture on the theme of the 'Origins of the British Empire', a seminar on 'Party Politics, Political Economy and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century', and participated in a workshop about 'Political Economy and Empire'. co-organised with the Trading Eurasia project.
Professor Charles Withers (Professor of Historical Geography, University of Edinburgh), sponsored by Professor Karen O'Brien (English). Professor Withers visited from 3rd to 14th May 2010 with a programme of events, including:
7th May 2010, 'Spaces of Knowledge-Making in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries', a workshop at Compton Verney open to all Warwick arts, humanities and sociology postgraduates and postdocs featuring sessions led by Professor Withers, Dr Renaud Morieux (University of Lille), Dr Clare Anderson (Warwick), Dr Rosemarie Dias.
13th May 2010, public lecture entitled 'Writing Exploration: Travels into Print c.1780-1850'
Professor Margaret Jacob (distinguished Professor of History, UCLA), sponsored by Professor Jackie Labbe (English). Professor Jacob visited from 28th February to 8th March 2010 with a programme of events and workshops affiliated to this and other research centres.
In June 2007, Professor Ann Smart Martin from the University of Wisconsin visited the Centre to lead a seminar in order to expand the Centre's expertise in the field of material culture. Professor Martin works in the interdisciplinary mode of material culture analysis. Her current research focuses on how ideas of craft practice and aesthetics can be joined with ideas of consumerism, luxury, and pleasure to look at decorative arts objects in the world of goods.
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Arias Sends Friend & Fellow Classmate to D.C.
The new administration of U.S President Barack Obama has brought the mantra of "change" to Washington, D.C. But Costa Rica has been bringing change to the U.S. capital as well, naming a new ambassador to the United States who assumed his charge this week.
Luis Diego Escalante, Costa Rica's new ambassador to the United States, is a former classmate and longtime friend of President Oscar Arias, who helped found and served as president of the CR-USA Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to sustainable development in Costa Rica and cooperation with the U.S. Escalante, 65, was economy, industry and commercial minister, as well as foreign trade minister and president of the Costa Rican Tourism Board during the first Arias presidency (1986-1990). He also was president of the Coffee Institute of Costa Rica (ICAFE) and has been actively involved with business and conservation organizations such as the National Competitiveness Council and Arias' initiative, Peace With Nature.
In an interview with The Tico Times this week, his first since Arias named him ambassador, Escalante said the Obama administration presented a "beautiful opportunity" for strengthened ties between the two nations.
TT: First, perhaps not all our readers understand this ambassador replacement process. How long will your term last? Do you know if you will remain in Washington after the presidential election in Costa Rica next year?
LDE: Not really. In reality, the ambassador in Washington is precisely one of the (most important) tools of the president. The president has the absolute right to place and remove at any moment the ambassador in Washington. With President Arias leaving and a new president arriving, obviously there may be a new ambassador named. That's the rule.
What encourages you the most about the relationship looking forward? I think maybe the most encouraging is to hear the message that there is the desire to find consensus and to listen to countries.
What was your reaction when you heard that you would be ambassador? Naturally I was aware, of the possibility of my nomination, so I was ready and prepared. But the official news came in a totally unexpected way.
What would you say the biggest strengths are in the relationship between Costa Rica and the United States?
(The) recent history of cooperation, the recent history in trade, the recent history in tourism, they are all areas that indicate there is that joint possibility. Now I think that our country, even though we are small in size, we have been productive and big in ideas in many areas. … I think that we have been visionary in the way we have managed our public health (care system). Because if there is anything that people need, and would do anything to have, it would be health care.
They should watch, pay attention, to what we're doing. … We still have some problems, big problems and smaller problems, to resolve. Our urban planning is very delayed, public transport is very delayed. … Urban planning, I would say, is one of the things we have to work on. We should (also) try to sell our progress in the area of the environmental conservation.
What challenges lie ahead as you forge new relations between the two countries? Security, for example, is a major issue in the United States and in Costa Rica, as well as for the rest of the countries in the area. And I'm sure that we should (work) for a more active Merida program.
Because those rivers of (illegal drug trafficking) are going north and south, and south and north, and east and west, it's hard to think that this is an isolated issue. We have to take a regional approach to that, and include not only (government officials), we have to include the communities involved … all of the countries in Central America and the area, from Colombia to the United States.
In this country in particular, lately … a big concern of the government … is the amount of (drug) traffic that we're having on land now. Because, although you could see it as a tremendous success that we have captured (more drugs), it looks like we're doing a good job – but no, it looks like we have a bigger problem.
So will you not necessarily only work with other Central American countries? Will you work with other countries that may see the world the same as Costa Rica does, that may be in Asia or Europe, for example?
I think Costa Rica has and must continue to work closely with all the Central American countries, definitely. … Now, Mexico and Colombia … have to be close partners in anything we say and do. … (We are) trying to develop further trade treaties with the European community. … President Arias is very good at trying to talk to people, listen to people.
You mentioned trade. As someone who supported the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the U.S. (CAFTA), how can you make trade work for both Costa Rica and the United States?
We should concentrate in how we can help smaller businesses to develop. … We in (the government of) Costa Rica have to be very sure that we do help people with our (export policies), particularly those people who have great ideas, little money and few marketing possibilities to develop, establish joint ventures with other smaller businesses in the United States in order to promote trade.
You mean make sure that small businesses don't get lost among the bigger multinational companies?
Exactly. The success of the United States, though the years, has been small enterprise. And small enterprise eventually becomes bigger enterprise, from a garage in California to the top of the world.
Last question: If President Obama asked for your advice, what one U.S. policy would you suggest he change? Why?
On behalf of the Costa Rican government, to try to look more deeply and try to learn about the Costa Rican success stories that we have in many areas.


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The Danish Safer Internet Centre exists to promote a safer and better use of the internet and mobile technologies among children and young people.
The Media Council for Children and Young People (MCDK) has acted as awareness centre in Denmark since 2004 and before that as the Danish SAFT partner from 2002 to 2004. In this period, MCDK has established itself as an important resource and knowledge centre for children and youth's use of the internet, computer games and mobile devices with a clear mandate in Denmark to educate on such issues.
Besides serving as a coordinator for the Safer Internet Centre Denmark (SIC DK), the key objective of the awareness centre (MCDK) is to establish partnerships with stakeholders (e.g. industry, NGO's, educational institutions), advocate the youth perspectives in national and international forums, and to devise events, dialogue campaigns and tools to empower and raise awareness among children and youth, professionals, parents and the public in general.
Furthermore, MCDK is the coordinator of the annual Safer Internet Day (SID) campaign in Denmark.
The Centre for Digital Youth Care is a registered non-profit non-governmental organisation, and is one of Denmark's leading organisations for online counselling aimed at young people. Since 2004, we have worked to create, provide and guarantee professional help through digital media for vulnerable people. We are associated with YMCA's social work in an effort to strengthen the socio-educational initiatives regarding vulnerable children and young people in Denmark. Our focal point is our online youth counselling, Cyberhus, which implements approximately 8,000 consultative interactions with vulnerable young people each year.
Save the Children organisations operate in more than 120 other countries, and Red Barnet/Save the Children Denmark has worked for the benefit of children for more than 70 years. Save the Children Denmark is a democratic organisation of committed volunteers organised into 65 local branches. We save children's lives. We protect and strengthen them. We fight for their rights. We work to prevent violence and sexual abuse of children. As part of our child protection programme we deliver anti-bullying projects and safety awareness for children in the online world. We run a hotline against child abusive online content and through our helpline SletDet (Delete-It) we offer help to young people who have experienced online sexual harassment.
The Safer Internet Centre Denmark (SIC DK) recognises the fact that children and youth's perspectives are of key importance to a successful awareness-raising campaign and for developing educational resources. In 2016, SIC DK set up the SoMe Youth Panel - a panel of youth ambassadors aged 13-17 years, who represent different demographic groups. The aim is to create (public) debate on children and young people's online behaviour to achieve higher awareness among children and young people on the need for critical thinking of their own digital behaviour, and to provide recommendations on how parents and adults in general can engage in and contribute positively to children and young people's life with digital media. Efforts are concentrated on advocating the youth perspective both in the agenda setting of national and international forums, as well as actual participation of Danish youth representatives where possible.
In June 2017, the SoMe Youth Panel presented their recommendations about digital youth life for children and young people, parents, professionals, politicians and industry. During workshops, the panel identified nine topics important to them and their peers. For instance, privacy, cyberbullying, image sharing and hate speech.
Corresponding to the activities in the SoMe Youth Panel, a close collaboration was carried out with the helpline regarding facilitation of youth participation activities on Cyberhus. The online debates and surveys with young people on Cyberhus gave valuable input to the work with the recommendations, and the collaboration between the panel and the online chat will continue.
Since 2009, Safer Internet Centre (SIC) Denmark has contributed to the organisation of the Danish version of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF Danish), which is organised by the Ministry of Business and Growth in collaboration with various organisations.
For Safer Internet Day (SID) 2017, the Media Council for Children and Young People produced a "Parents as digital role models" campaign, which contained, among other resources, three humorous video spots about privacy, sharing of images without consent, and offline presence. These videos had a total of 134,955 views (Facebook, Vimeo and YouTube) and they have been translated into English, Portuguese, Estonian, Norwegian and Latvian.
On an annual basis, the Centre for Digital Youth Care conducts 6,000 digital counselling sessions with vulnerable children and young people via the helpline, and do class lectures on internet and mobile ethics for a total of 15,000 pupils, professionals and parents.
Save the Children Denmark runs the hotline and from July 2016 to December 2017, the hotline received more than 2,000 reports and the hotline staff evaluated more than 12,000 pictures. In Spring 2016, the online counselling "Erase it" was released, and 750 children and young people received help from the counsellors (July 2016 – December 2017).
As a knowledge hub and mediator of the newest developments within the area of children and young people's use of online technologies, the Safer Internet Centre (SIC) Denmark has established a broad collaboration with representatives from academic institutions, industry, governmental bodies and law enforcement. The collaboration with national stakeholders is an important resource and knowledge base for the Safer Internet Centre Denmark, just as the centre plays an important role in the organisational and political landscape of children and young people's use of online technologies in Denmark.


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JC's Graves perseveres to get back on the mound
Jackson Christian's Taylor Graves was the starting pitcher on Thursday in the District 15-A tournament.
JC's Graves perseveres to get back on the mound Jackson Christian's Taylor Graves was the starting pitcher on Thursday in the District 15-A tournament. Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/sports/high-school/baseball/2017/05/05/jackson-christian-player-fights-through-effects-boat-accident-pitch-again/101316874/
Michael Odom, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee Published 3:21 p.m. CT May 5, 2017
Scotts Hill's Hunter Beecham slides back to first base before Jackson Chrsitian's Taylor Graves makes a tag during their game, Monday, April 24.(Photo: KENNETH CUMMINGS/The Jackson Sun)Buy Photo
A little less than two years ago, Jackson Christian junior Taylor Graves was on life support after a boating accident on the Tennessee River.
Graves had to get airlifted to Vanderbilt after the accident, and the doctors didn't know if he would make it.
"I was at Vanderbilt for two weeks," Graves said. "They said that I wouldn't get to play baseball again, but I played that season. God was with me.
"I want to play baseball because it is a game that I love."
The effects of those injuries are still being felt. One of the biggest effects appeared on April 24 when the Jackson Christian School baseball team was playing Scotts Hill.
Graves played the first 1.5 innings of the game, but when he came to the dugout, he knew something was wrong.
"It was scary because I knew that if my heart rate got too high, I would never be able to play again," Graves said. "I think God just blessed me to allow me to play again.
"That was the first major time that my heart had acted up since the accident. I thought it would settle down that night, but it would go down and then go right back up."
Graves' heart rate went up and wouldn't come down, and his blood pressure plummeted and wouldn't come up. He sat in the dugout for a few innings to try and settle his heart, but nothing seemed to work.
He finally walked to the locker room to try and get dressed, but in the end, Jackson Christian athletic trainer Blake Butler had to call an ambulance to take Graves to the hospital. He was released later that night.
PHOTO GALLERY: Baseball - Jackson Christian at Riverside
Riverside's Spencer Odle catches the ball before tagging Jackson Christian's Collin Cantrell (1) out in a pickle between first and second base during the fourth inning of their District 15-A tournament game at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Owen Bartholomew (18) gestures as he rounds third base after hitting his second home run against Jackson Christian during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Jackson Christian's Hayden Love (17) pitches against Riverside during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Owen Bartholomew (18) is greeted by his teammates at home plate after hitting a home run against Jackson Christian in the sixth inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Players in the Jackson Christian dugout reach for a foul ball during the third inning of their District 15-A tournament game against Riverside at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Spencer Odle (20) rounds third base against Jackson Christian in the first inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Jackson Christian's Hayden Love (17) slides into home against Riverside in the third inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Jackson Christian's Parker Bain (24) looks on as Riverside's Cannon Duke (7) celebrates after his double in the first inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Jackson Christian's Taylor Graves (22) looks at the ball after walking in a run against Riverside in the first inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Alex White (25) runs through a tunnel of his teammates as the starting lineup is announced to take on Jackson Christian during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Jackson Christian's Carter Holt (34) celebrates as he jogs to home plate after a home run by teammate Trey Rast (16) in the third inning against Riverside during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Spencer Odle (20) celebrates with Dustin Rhodes after he scored off of a triple by teammate Drake Smith (not pictured) during the third inning against Jackson Christian during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Sladen Martin (1) throws to first base for the out against Jackson Christian during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Owen Bartholomew (18) calls off his teammates during the fifth inning against Jackson Christian during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Jackson Christian's Carter Holt (34) pops up against Riverside in the first inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Sladen Martin (1) slaps the ground after missing the ball against Jackson Christian in the fifth inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Cannon Duke (7) warms up on deck during the fourth inning against Jackson Christian during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Cannon Duke (7) pitches against Jackson Christian in the second inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Spencer Odle (20) looks to through to first after fielding the ball against Jackson Christian in the second inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Cannon Duke (7) pitches against Jackson Christian in the third inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Spencer Odle (20) tags Jackson Christian's Collin Cantrell (1) out after Cantrell was caught in a pickle during the fourth inning of their District 15-A tournament game at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Owen Bartholomew (18) adjusts his helmet on his way to home plate after a home run against Jackson Christian in the fifth inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Jackson Christian's Tucker Curlin (3) pitches against Riverside in the fifth inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside head coach Eric Quinn talks to his team after their win over Jackson Christian during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Riverside's Cannon Duke (7) pitches against Jackson Christian during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Jackson Christian's Taylor Graves (22) winds up to pitch against Riverside during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
Jackson Christian's Parker Bain (24) hits a ground ball against Riverside in the first inning during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun
But just as he fought back from the boating accident to play, Graves fought back from the heart-rate problem, and 11 days later, Graves was the starting pitcher for the the Eagles' opening game of the District 15-A tournament on Thursday.
"I have a tremendous amount of confidence in Taylor," Cooper said. "He gave us a chance. He pitched out of a bases-loaded, no-out situation, giving up just one run.
"He has a special blend of competitiveness and calmness about him."
For Graves to be on the mound, Cooper has stayed in constant contact with Graves' mother and medical personnel to make sure playing Graves is the best decision.
"Working with his mom and our trainer Blake Butler has been great," Cooper said. "The whole medical community has worked to get him back. I hate to put it that way because baseball is so secondary to life. But everybody has been on the same page with this is what he can do and this is what he can't do. Taylor has been good about being honest about how he feels and what his heart rate is doing."
Jackson Christian's Taylor Graves (22) winds up to pitch against Riverside during the District 15-A tournament at the Decatur County Community Center in Parsons, Tenn., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. (Photo: C.B. SCHMELTER/The Jackson Sun)
Graves doesn't think that he could have come back so quickly without the friends around him.
"My teammates have been there for me, and they have helped me get through it," Graves said. "I thought I would be out longer than this, but God has blessed me."
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1 Combine the watermelon, red chilli powder, mint and salt in a medium sized bowl and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Drain and discard the liquid.
2 Toast the sesame seeds in a dry pan for 1 minute, then set aside. Toast the cashew nuts in the same way, then halve or chop them and set aside.
3 Whisk the lime juice and hoisin sauce together in small bowl to blend, then stir in the toasted sesame seeds.
4 To serve as a canapé, make sure the watermelon is chilled. Sprinkle the hoisin dressing on each cube. Place on a serving tray, sprinkle over the cashew nuts and serve immediately.
5 To make the quinoa salad, heat the oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds. When they start to crackle, remove from the heat and mix them in a bowl with the quinoa.
6 Mix with the remaining ingredients and adjust the seasoning.
7 Divide the quinoa between four plates and spoon on the watermelon salad. Top each salad with hoisin dressing, sprinkle with cashew nuts and serve.


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Home News Tom Gallagher: A President Macron honeymoon will last five minutes
Tom Gallagher: A President Macron honeymoon will last five minutes
Tom Gallagher
On Thursday, a message from Barack Obama appeared on Emmnauel Macron's campaign website. The former US president anointed the favourite to win the French Presidency and his embryonic En Marche platform as the European standard bearer of progressive modernity.
This will go down well with Obamaphile college graduates, perhaps Emmanuel Macron's biggest support base. It is no surprise that a sizeable French state and the centralised nature of the country have produced such a powerful urban, secular, multicultural group. French nationalism has lost its allure. These Gallic world citizens see French influence not only projected through the EU but through the engines of globalisation, from the UN to corporate capitalism.
Macron has been packaged as a dynamic symbol of radical change. But he is a depressingly typical example of the type of figure thrown up by continental democratic systems which run into trouble. He is a hybrid figure promoted by a bankrupt left-wing administration who has been put to the task of absorbing the centre and the moderate right in a new governing formula.
'Transformism' is the term for this conjuring trick. It originated in Italian politics after unification in 1870. The aim was to prevent deep internal problems, ones that the conventional politicians had no intention of tacking, from overwhelming the ruling order. Co-opting the opposition and neutralising former rivals with favours was the method used. It led eventually to Mussolini and fascism and when tried out again in the Italian Second republic, a meltdown of the parties resulted in the 1990s at the end of the Cold War.
France was dominated by cartels of parties and fleet-footed political insiders for nearly a century until in 1958 de Gaulle imposed a semi-presidential Fifth Republic. But it was France's socialists who moulded contemporary France. From François Mitterand to François Hollande their achievements have been meagre. French competitiveness and its proportion of global trade have sharply declined. The education system is a shambles, particularly at secondary school and university level. The country is now the scene of Europe's worst terrorist insurgency.
But these policy failures don't matter probably in the eyes of most career Socialists. What counts is that they inserted their people right across the French power structure: the bureaucracy, justice system, technocratic establishments, the much-changed decentralised system of government have been moulded to suit the urban, secular, and multi-cultural priorities of the French Left. Much patronage has come the way of the party through its hold over the French State.
In relation to devolution, Tony Blair was an amateur compared to the way that the Socialists altered the shape of French government. Ultimate control by Paris remains unbroken but a lot of intermediate tiers soak up money. Just one reason why the proportion of GDP spent by the state in France is 57 per cent compared to 43 per cent in Germany.
France has already seen a form of interventionist rule by a kind of Gallic Common Purpose in which ambitious media owners, civil servants, political fixers, and academics promote a globalist left-wing agenda. In Britain, rule-making by a similar paternalist oligarchy was nipped in the bud by hostility from the burgeoning online media. But in France, the media has often been a willing tool of those in power who are willing to reward collaborators with franchises and sinecures.
Now 73, Jacques Attali, who was a close adviser to President Mitterand from 1981 to 1991, is a counsellor to Macron. In Britain it is hard to imagine such a figure remaining active in public life after recurring controversies, one of which led to his departure as head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. But this social theorist, senior civil servant, musician and homme d'affaires has remained influential in nearly all political seasons.
The fact that Attali was an adviser to the centre-right President Nicolas Sarkozy sheds light on why a possessive but ineffective Left remains at the centre of power. French conservatives around de Gaulle created the Fifth Republic. But they had no philosophy for governing on a moderate, sensible basis with which they could shape, or even merely influence, the institutions that the socialists have bent to their will. Arguably, it was no different in Britain. Thatcher's Conservatives had an economic project but no idea of the importance of promoting balance and pluralism in the universities and the justice system and the media where one political point of view increasingly prevails.
François Fillon, the Republican party candidate, did have the makings of a conservative manifesto for France. But he was taken out in a skilful operation involving bureaucrats and media allies of the Socialists. He now faces a possible trial on the kind of corruption charges that a large part of the political class would probably also face if similar investigations were pursued with equivalent ruthlessness.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the Front National, is the standard-bearer of those who feel excluded by Paris-centred insider rule. She has massive working-class support and does well among men, those aged 35 to 65, the unemployed, farmers and those living in the countryside or in small towns. She is feisty, very much in control of the party founded by her father whom she expelled because of anti-Semitism, and appears a stable personality.
But she has no detailed policy agenda for managing France. This becomes clear when she is tackled on the economy where it seems she would use the centralised machinery of the State to help her supporters. On dumping the euro and withdrawing from the European Union, she can offer no specifics and descends into platitudes when cornered on these issues. Macron is agile enough to laugh off barbs from her, such as the one thrown at him in their television duel on 3 May when she said: 'no matter who wins the election, France would have its first female president — either Le Pen or Merkel'.
Many more young people who feel ill used and unwanted by those in charge of official France could have gone over to Le Pen if she had unfurled a programme for governing. It would have had to receive room alongside her plans to ally with Russia and Assad in Syria, disengage from NATO, and pursue a Eurosceptic course (which now has been much watered down). She will still, of course, get plenty of youth votes mainly due to Islamist perspectives openly on display in the centre of French cities and suburbs a as well as owing to disenchantment with the Philistine and hedonistic public values of the current elite.
If Le Pen reached the Elysee, I don't think the sky would fall in. Initially, there would be plenty of disorder (not all of it coming from Islamists) but the police and security services (where support for the FN is strong) would likely obey a leader who gave them coherent orders to improve law and order. On the economic front, she would have major difficulties and would have to show ingenuity and resolve, which so far hasn't been on display.
But the same applies to Macron, the likely winner. He was a minister dealing with economic issues for a large part of the Hollande presidency and he cannot escape responsibility for the economic malaise the country finds itself in.
He is likely to pursue image building in the style of Obama and Justin Trudeau in the name of a globalist agenda. He will view greater EU integration as vital for maintaining France and the EU's global status. He is unlikely to be troubled by Germany's insistence on a currency policy that gives it the lowest unemployment rate in Europe but wreaks misery in Mediterranean Europe, including southern France.
Aided by spin doctors and a sympathetic media, Macron has shown grit on the campaign trail. His likely next task will be to manufacture a majority in the 577-seat French National Assembly, at the June parliamentary elections, based on loyalty to him and a suspension of partisan enmities. The new pro-Macron front is likely to encapsulate many of the chief defects of the despised political order with few positive new features.
President Macron will be tough against his rivals further to the right who refuse to play his political game. He will not be a force for compromise in relations with Britain or Trump's America. Protectionist, nationally-minded France will be further dismantled under him. So will a secular republican France as Muslims are discreetly given social and religious autonomy in the hope of peace on the streets. Macron is the 21st century man on horseback facing into a storm he is supremely ill-suited to subdue.
Tom Gallagher is completing a novel entitled 'England – to be continued'. An earlier book, 'Scotland : A Warning to the World' was published in 2016.
(Image: Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay)
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The world's largest pork exporter, Danish Crown, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tmall, one of Alibaba Group's business-to consumer e-marketplaces in China, at a ceremony in Copenhagen. Witnessed by Danish Minister for the Environment and Food Esben Lunde Larsen, the agreement will make high quality Danish Crown products available to the 466 million annual active consumers on Alibaba's e-marketplaces.
As part of the agreement, the meat of 1001 Danish pigs – the number is based on the title of a well-known fairy tale – from one of Danish Crown's cooperative members on the island of Langeland will be reserved for sale to Chinese consumers, ready for Chinese New Year in February 2018.
– Danish produce enjoys an excellent reputation in China and I am pleased to announce this agreement with Danish Crown today. Chinese consumers increasingly want reassurance that the meat they consume is of outstanding quality and reared to high-standards, and we look forward to working closely with Danish Crown to enable the 466 million annual active consumers on our e-marketplaces to buy quality Danish meat products on Tmall Fresh to enjoy at home.


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Q: Javascript solution for huge size value multiselect I'm developing a web application where I need to allow to the users to select one or more values I'm usig Jquery 1.11 I was think to use a picklist and not an autocomplete mainly for the following reason: it's not sure that users know what they want to add; they may want to select what to add by seeing a list The problem I'm facing is that in my database I can have thousands of values and a picklist showing all these elements is not comfortable to use I was wondering is there is some kind of Javascript library who can offer to me a paged picklist Otherwise.... what is the best way to show this huge size of data? By taking care that users often don't know what they can add
My situation is the following one: in my project i'm using a WCM (Liferay) and I'm doing some extension to the redactional side of contents. I must provide to the user to fill a field by selecting 1 or N (with N>1) other web contents taken from WCM DB
Often redactors don't use tags and/or categories when they write web contents and some web contents can be written from some user groups and others web content can be written by others user groups; virtually each user group don't know/communicate with other user groups and this means that each user don't know what other user adds so I can't use some autocomplete solution
At the beginning I'll have few Web Contente, but after some time, by seeing the old web site, i can reach huge values (around 4000/5000 web contents and also more)
I already used select2 and I like it, but I have only two option for select2:

*

*full load all data from DB but this means to kill performances and
show users all the data in a combobox

*offer a search to users but users may not know what to search and so
they can do a lot of research without finding what they are looking
for

Now I was seeing also this JQuery plugin: https://github.com/yanickrochon/jquery.uix.multiselect but this plugin doesn't offer pagination options so I should always load all data from DB
I'm wondering if I can use some kind of Javascript utility to solve my issue or if I should take another kind of solution
If I should use another kind of solution.. what would be the best one?
I premise that this form will be only used on the redactional side and so I don't need a multi-device solution

A: https://github.com/lucknerjb/PaginationSelect
Couldn't find a verified project, however this one seems legit.
If you download zip and run index.html you will see this widget at work.
However personally I would rather implement some sort of server side user cart and download items range from a database dynamically instead of serving entire list of items to the user at once.

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As the sun climbs higher our snowy world becomes a beautiful stage for shadows of all kinds. Here are two simple ones I found in Hubbard Park this week.
06 Mar	This entry was published on March 6, 2015 at 10:38 am. It's filed under Abstract, Hubbard Park, John Snell, John Snell Photographer, Snow, Vermont, Winter and tagged John Snell, Photography, shadows, snow, Vermont, winter.	Bookmark the permalink.	Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
Aren't they fascinating! We have sun today, too.
Beautiful! I, too, have been fascinated with these tangled, shifting traceries on the undulating canvas of late winter. It's different every day.


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Q: Why is a single drive much faster than 4 of them in RAID5? I have a 2005 vintage server (dual 3GHz Xeons, LSI53C1030T RAID/SCSI controller with 256MB cache, 8GB RAM) and I'm re-purposing it for some light VM storage duty.
First try to was to put 4x300GB drives into a hardware RAID5, and then install Openfiler's LVM and iSCSI on top of it.  That resulted in very inconsistent read speeds (20MB/sec to 2GB/sec, but that's probably caching), and a horrible but consistent 8MB/sec write.  All these results were measured with both local dd and an actual big file transfer over the network, and both yielded similar results.
So after much reading I found that the aforementioned LSI controller isn't that great for hardware RAID, so I turned off the RAID functionality on the channel with the 4x300GB drives, made the RAID array with mdadm software RAID, and put LVM on top of it.  I did more tests, and the results improved (20MB/sec writes), but that's still rather horrible.  I spent another day aligning partitions, optimizing chunk, stripe-width, stride sizes, playing with ext4 options, different journaling options, etc, without much observable improvement.
Another experiment I did was running hdparm -tT on /dev/md0  vs  /dev/mapper/vg0-lv0 (which was simply a mapping of the entire md0) and I got 2x slowdown when going through the LVM.  I've read that LVM can introduce some speed penalties, but cutting the speed in half is not acceptable.
Since none of this was making sense, I went back to basics, made a single partition on a single drive, no LVM, RAID, just plain old SCSI320 and ran some tests on it.  I got ~75MB/sec read and ~55MB/sec write  with multiple runs and multiple programs.
So if one drive can do 75MB/sec read and 55MB/sec write, why does RAID5 (hardware or software!) of 3 of them gets such horrible speeds?  What am I doing wrong?  What else should I try?
UPDATE 1:
While continuing with experiments, I noticed that one of the disks sometimes didn't want to be partitioned;  parted and fdisk would simply refuse to actually write out the partitions to it.  So I tried the same commands on all the other disks to make sure it's not a systemic problem, and it looked to be isolated only to that one disk.  I proceeded to run smartctl's health tests on it, and everything checked out fine.  dmesg was the only source of any indication that there might be something wrong with the drive, albeit with rather cryptic and not particularly helpful messages.  Out of sheer curiosity, I pulled out the drive, rebooted, and redid everything I've done so far for software RAID5 without LVM but with ext4 on it.  On first try, I got 200MB/sec reads, and 120MB/sec writes, to a five drive array (I found two more 300GB drives in the meantime) when testing with dd dumping 4.2GB files in 64kB blocks onto the new partition.  Apparently the drive, while not completely dead, wasn't particularly cooperative, and once out of the equation, everything ran MUCH better.
I feel saner now, 8MB/sec just didn't feel right, no matter which RAID level.
Tomorrow:  testing with LVM and maybe going back to hardware RAID.

A: RAID5 is notoriously bad for write performance. The reason for this is that every write to a particular disk needs to update the parity block, so therefore every write requires reads from every other disk in the array + a computation of the parity which is then re-written to the disk where the parity is kept for that particular block.
This takes a long time, compared to just writing a single block.
If you want fast writes, a mirrored configuration is better, such as RAID1 or RAID10.


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I lived in London during the 1980s, and like many people I was mesmerized by the snooker match between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis. Davis was widely expected to win, and indeed he won the first game of the match, and carried his lead all the way to the end of the second day, when Taylor potted the final black ball and took the lead for the very first time over the two-day match, winning the world championship.
Snooker is scored by points for the balls of various colors: there are 15 red balls, each worth 1 point, plus one ball each of yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black worth, respectively, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 points. Players accumulate points in a break by potting balls one after another until they make a miss. As long as there is a red ball on the table, the player must pocket a red ball first; then, after making a red, the player can attempt to make a "colored" ball (other than red). If a color is potted, it is returned to the table (put on its spot) as long as there is a red on the table; once all the reds are potted, the colors must be potted in ascending point order, and are not respotted. A perfect game requires the player to pot 36 balls in order — 15 reds, each with a black, followed the colors in order — and earns 147 points. Perfect games are not common, but neither are they uncommon; in ranked match play, there are typically one or two perfect games per year.
Your task, which comes from an interview question, is to write a program that calculates the sequence of scores from a game of snooker; for a perfect game, the sequence is 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, 24, 25, 32, 33, 40, 41, 48, 49, 56, 57, 64, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81, 88, 89, 96, 97, 104, 105, 112, 113, 120, 122, 125, 129, 134, 140, 147 (A241263). When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
7 Responses to "Snooker"
Couldn't resist perl golf
[sourcecode language="perl"]
say"@{[map{$t+=$_}(map{(1,7)}1..15),2..7]}"
[sourcecode]
chaw said
I interpreted the question to require mapping a sequence of potted
balls (including fouls) to scores, so this code handles such cases.
However, my knowledge of snooker rules is limited to what's mentioned
in the question, so only those violations are caught.
(import (scheme base)
(scheme write)
(srfi 2))
;; State of the game: config[i] = # of balls of value i on table, for
;; 0 < i < 8.  config[0], if nonzero, is the value of the last potted
;; ball.
(define (initial-config)
(vector 0 15 1 1 1 1 1 1))
;; Colors of balls
(define ball-color
'#(#f "red" "yellow" "green" "brown" "blue" "pink" "black"))
;; A break is represented as a sequence of values of potted balls.
;; Here's a perfect game, which should score to 147 points:
(define perfect-game (append (apply append
(make-list 15 '(1 7)))
'(2 3 4 5 6 7)))
(define (vector-decrement! vec idx)
(vector-set! vec idx (- (vector-ref vec idx) 1)))
;; Update game configuration cfg (in place) to record ball being
;; potted. Return the points scored, or #f if ball is not on table.
(define (pot-ball! cfg ball)
(and (positive? (vector-ref cfg ball)) ; else impossible => #f
;; Check for scratch (config remains as is and no points awarded)
(if (and (positive? (vector-ref cfg 1))
(not (= 1 ball))
(not (= 1 (vector-ref cfg 0))))
(when (or (= ball 1)
(and (zero? (vector-ref cfg 1))
(not (= 1 (vector-ref cfg 0)))))
(vector-decrement! cfg ball))
(vector-set! cfg 0 ball)
ball))))
(define (game-score-sequence balls)
(let ((cfg (initial-config)))
(let f ((balls balls)
(scores '(0)))
(if (null? balls)
(cdr (reverse scores))
(and-let* ((points (pot-ball! cfg (car balls))))
(f (cdr balls)
(cons (+ (car scores) points)
scores)))))))
(display (game-score-sequence perfect-game))
(newline)
Here's a solution in Python 3.
from itertools import accumulate
l = list(accumulate([1,7]*15 + list(range(2,8))))
print(l)
[1, 8, 9, 16, 17, 24, 25, 32, 33, 40, 41, 48, 49, 56, 57, 64, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81, 88, 89, 96, 97, 104, 105, 112, 113, 120, 122, 125, 129, 134, 140, 147]
Here's a solution in C.
[sourecode lang="c"]
/* snooker.c */
#define NUM_POTS 36
void print_array(int* array, size_t n) {
printf("[");
for (size_t i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
if (i > 0) printf(", ");
printf("%d", array[i]);
printf("]\n");
void accumulate(int* array, size_t n) {
array[i] += array[i-1];
void calc_perfect_game(int* scores) {
for (size_t i = 0; i < 15; ++i) {
scores[i2] = 1;
scores[i2 + 1] = 7;
for (size_t i = 0; i < 6; ++i) {
scores[i+30] = i + 2;
accumulate(scores, NUM_POTS);
int scores[NUM_POTS];
calc_perfect_game(scores);
print_array(scores, NUM_POTS);
[/sourcecode]
I spelled "sourcecode" wrong. Here it is again with the correct spelling (and formatting).
printf("[");
if (i > 0) printf(", ");
printf("%d", array[i]);
printf("]\n");
scores[i*2] = 1;
scores[i*2 + 1] = 7;
Last try…
Here's a Haskell version. For fun we generate a random snooker game.
import Prelude hiding ((++))
import Control.Monad.Random
import Data.Vector (Vector, (++))
import qualified Data.Vector as V
import qualified Data.Vector.Mutable as M
data Ball = Red | Yellow | Green | Brown | Blue | Pink | Black
deriving (Enum)
-- The number of points awarded for potting a ball.
points :: Ball -> Int
points = (+1) . fromEnum
-- The 15 red balls.
reds :: Vector Ball
reds = V.replicate 15 Red
-- The remaining coloured (non-red) balls.
coloureds :: Vector Ball
coloureds = V.enumFromTo Yellow Black
-- A series of balls corresponding to a random game in which one player pots one
-- ball per shot.
-- We construct a game by generating the sequence of shots:
--   r, c, r, c, ..., r, c, c, c, c, c, c, c
--   +-------------------+  +--------------+
--      15 (r,c) pairs         final 6 cs
-- which consists of 15 pairs of a red ball, and a coloured ball chosen randomly
-- (with replacement), followed by all the coloured balls in increasing order of
-- points.
randomGame :: Rand StdGen (Vector Ball)
randomGame = do
cols <- randomSelection (V.length reds) coloureds
return $ unpair (V.zip reds cols) ++ coloureds
-- Show the accumulation of points for a sequence of potted balls.
score :: Vector Ball -> String
score = unwords . map show . V.toList . V.postscanl (+) 0 . V.map points
-- The sequence of balls potted in a perfect game.
perfect :: Vector Ball
perfect = let blacks = V.map (const Black) reds
in unpair (V.zip reds blacks) ++ coloureds
rand <- getStdGen
printf "perfect: %s\n" $ score perfect
printf " random: %s\n" $ score $ evalRand randomGame rand
--                          Utility functions
-- Given [(a, b), (c, d), ...] return [a, b, c, d, ...].
unpair :: Vector (a, a) -> Vector a
unpair xs = V.create $ do
ys <- M.new (2 * V.length xs)
V.imapM_ (\i (x1, x2) -> M.write ys (2*i) x1 >> M.write ys (2*i+1) x2) xs
return ys
-- A random selection of size n from v, with replacement.
randomSelection :: MonadRandom m => Int -> Vector a -> m (Vector a)
randomSelection n xs =
V.backpermute xs <$> V.replicateM n (getRandomR (0, V.length xs - 1))
$ ./snooker
perfect: 1 8 9 16 17 24 25 32 33 40 41 48 49 56 57 64 65 72 73 80 81 88 89 96 97 104 105 112 113 120 122 125 129 134 140 147
random: 1 4 5 10 11 17 18 25 26 29 30 33 34 41 42 46 47 52 53 56 57 59 60 62 63 66 67 72 73 77 79 82 86 91 97 104


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Уолтер Комин () (ум. декабрь 1258 г.), лорд Баденох, граф Ментейт с 1234 г., — второй сын Уильяма Комина, юстициария Шотландии и графа Бухана, от первого брака.

Уолтер впервые появляется в королевских грамотах ещё в 1211—1214 гг. В 1220 он сопровождал короля Александра II Шотландского во время его визита в Йорк. Он упоминается как лорд Баденох в 1229 году, после того как его отец разгромил МакУильямов. Подобно своему отцу, Уолтер около 1230 года женился на наследнице графства Изабелле, графине Ментейт, дочери Муредаха II Младшего, 3-го графа Ментейта. К 1234 году Изабелла наследовала это графство, и таким образом Уолтер стал графом или мормэром Ментейта в правах своей супруги (jure uxoris). У него был, по крайней мере, один ребёнок, сын по имени Генрих, о чём свидетельствует грамота Малькольма, графа Леннокса, от 1250 г.

Уолтер был одной из главных политических фигур в Шотландии, особенно во время малолетства короля Александра III, когда вместе с Аланом Дорвардом он фактически привёл страну к плачевному состоянию. Он скончался внезапно — либо в октябре, либо в ноябре 1258 г. В Англии было объявлено, что причиной его смерти стало падение с лошади, но в Шотландии прокатился слух, что супруга графа Изабелла отравила его, желая выйти замуж за английского барона по имени Рассел. К этому времени его сын Генрих был уже мёртв. Изабелла оставалась графиней вплоть до 1260/1261 года, когда Уолтер Стюарт, муж сестры Изабеллы — Марии — захватил её графство. Поскольку Уолтер не имел наследников мужского пола, лордство Баденох перешло к его племяннику Джону. Но графство Ментейт Джон наследовать не мог.

Примечания

Литература
 Paul, James Balfour, The Scots Peerage, Vol. VI, (Edinburgh, 1909)
 Young, Alan, Robert the Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns, 1213—1314, (East Linton, 1997)

Ссылки
 Генеалогия Коминов на сайте Stirnet Genealogy

Клан Комин
Графы Ментейт

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