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During the most recent episode of "Mad Men," Peggy Olson struggles over an ad she's come up with for the old Burger Chef chain featuring a perfect American nuclear family straight out of 1955. The only problem is that it's 1969.
"Does this family exist anymore?" she asks her mentor-turned-rival Don Draper in exasperation.
Peggy's query – even with its obvious answer (no) and the question it begs (Did this kind of family ever really exist?) – marked one of the defining moments of the AMC drama's seventh and final season (or, rather, half-season).
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As the first half of the farewell season ends Sunday with the series' final episode a year away, "Mad Men" seems to be expanding its scope from one man's identity search to the shifting meaning of family.
For Don Draper, who was born Dick Whitman, the dirt poor, orphaned farm boy son of a prostitute who died in childbirth, advertising provided not just economic salvation but a vehicle to forge an idealized self. Don thrives on creating illusions of perfect family life in ads that tout happiness through products.
It's a ride he's piloted from his pitch for Kodak's Carousel slide projector in Season 1 ("It takes us to a place where we ache to go again") to last season when a similarly nostalgic rhapsody about Hershey bars flew off the rails and turned into a sordid, near-career ending confession about being reared in a brothel.
Don Draper needs advertising even more than he does booze. How else to explain his uncharacteristic acquiescing to return to the ad firm under conditions that could cost him his lucrative partnership with one misstep? Those conditions also put him under the supervision of Peggy, part sister figure, part daughter figure – or at least one of the few young female characters Don hasn't tried to conquer sexually.
Don and Peggy reached a rapprochement in the most recent episode, the strongest so far in a season brimming with fractured families. Silver-haired ad firm partner Roger Sterling unsuccessfully tried to retrieve his daughter Margaret – now Marigold – from an upstate hippie commune after she left her husband and young son. Don's child-like first wife Betty melted down over her young son, Bobby, giving away her sandwich to a female classmate on a school trip. (At least Don and his troubled daughter Sally seem to be mending their relationship amid his newfound openness about his past.)
The mysterious Bob Benson, whose status as a closeted gay man was confirmed in the latest "Mad Men" installment, proposed a marriage of convenience to firm partner Joan Holloway. The single mom turned him down, saying, "I want love and I'd rather die hoping that happens than make some arrangement."
Junior partner Pete Campbell, whose life mirrors Don's in some respects, can't relinquish control over the wife and daughter he left in New York – and can't deal with his independent girlfriend in Los Angeles. Don's also lost his actress wife, Megan, to the West Coast – not even the ménage a trois she pulled him into made him happy.
The most recent episode featured an even odder trio in a chaste, but telling scene: Don, Pete and Peggy sitting in a Burger Chef, eating and laughing like a de facto family. Don, of course, is the only one who knows about Pete and Peggy's secret child together. Peggy finds the ad's tagline in their fast-food dinner, "Every table is a family table."
It marked a meta moment for the show – the ad makers became the ad. The Burger Chef spot might represent a breakthrough beyond the nostalgia Don's made a career of peddling – or it could just be his leap into a new branch of illusion.
At least Don is moving forward: Amid rapidly changing times, he feels threatened by the mammoth new computer humming outside his office – but not as much as copywriter Michael Ginsberg, whose mental breakdown leads to self-mutilation in the most disturbing scene of this run. Even with his own disgusting gift of himself to Peggy, Michael, in his own pathetic way, is trying to make a human, familial connection.
There's little doubt that Don, who pounds out his ideas on a typewriter, is far more intricate than any machine. In the latest episode, Peggy uttered another key line of the season, perhaps one of the most important of the series: "Show me how you think," she implored Don.
We're watching – and will soon be waiting. In the meantime, check out promo for the half-season finale, ominously titled, "Waterloo":


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The general buzz this morning is that Walmart "won" Black Friday. Whether that actually matters to anything long or medium-term is up for debate, but that seems to be the consensus of traders and analysts.
Citi's retail guru Deborah L Weinswig put together a cool table breaking down the major retailers, and scoring them across a range of measures like execution, store traffic, customer experience, and so forth. As you can see (click to enlarge) Walmart was the big winner.
So how did Wal-Mart do it?
It seems to be a contribution of macro and micro factors.
On the macro side, Weinswig notes that gas prices have come down sharply in the last 4 weeks, creating some relief for low-end shoppers, who are most impacted by gas.
As for the micro-execution side, Weinswig explains what Walmart did to win
Opening 8PM This Year vs. 10PM Last Year; one-hour guarantee on wishlist electronics; online-only special access for customers who sign up for email, like the Facebook page, or download the mobile app; Emerson 32" LCD TV $148 This Year vs. $188 Last Year
Weinswig's runners up for Black Friday performance were Target and JC Penney.
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Truth-O-Meter gets education on education
A state investigation that confirmed reports of widespread cheating at Atlanta Public Schools sent politicians into full spin mode. Last week, PolitiFact Georgia found some of those pols were well worth a fact check -- or two.
The Truth-O-Meter first put former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin to the test. She said ex- Superintendent Beverly Hall, who was implicated in the scandal, left APS better than she found it. Franklin earned another check when she said that only a small percentage of district educators were involved in cheating.
Midweek, PolitiFact Georgia took a break from education matters to see whether Gov. Nathan Deal fulfilled a promise on zero-based budgeting. Then we aimed the Truth-O-Meter at state Rep. Ralph Long, who laid some of the blame for APS cheating at the feet of Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
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Our videographer Elena Parker -- a serious food and film buff -- is really good at throwing movie-themed dinner parties. She and her friends cook together, serve up, and eat while they watch.
We've asked her to start sharing the menus for her favorite films with us -- here's the latest installment: the magical anime film Spirited Away.
Every once in a while, you come across a movie that leaves you speechless.
I'm talking about a film so overwhelming that it causes your mind to shut off from receiving anything else for a while. This word-robbing experience has only happened to me a handful of times and I, for one, never thought that an anime film would qualify among the likes of Chinatown or In the Mood for Love.
But then I saw Spirited Away.
At the beginning of Spirited Away, John Lasseter, of Pixar fame, introduces the film: "You are lucky. You get to see Spirited Away." He goes on to praise writer and director Hayao Miyazaki and wildly proclaims that the following film is the man's masterpiece. As much as you want to regard these statements as hyperbole... don't.
The story begins when ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents get sidetracked during a move to a new neighborhood. Chihiro, dour and reluctant, follows her more adventurous parents into an abandoned park, but all three mistakenly enter an entirely different world. After greedily partaking of food in the park, Chihiro's parents morph into pigs and she is thrust into an alternate existence all on her own -- where very little is as it seems.
Okay. I make it sound kind of cliched, but you have to trust me that the movie is magical. Miyazaki's imagination creates some of the most fantastic images you will ever see: a man with six arms, who sits like a spider and orders dust to do his bidding; a giant baby-turned-mouse with a curious streak; and an entire universe of beings that are employed by and frequent a bath house for the gods. And at the heart of the film is Chihiro, who undergoes an incredibly impressive change: she, subtly and convincingly, grows up. The most stunning relationship in the film is that which Chihiro shares with Haku, an apprentice to the Witch who runs the bath. The depth of their connection will both humble and astound you.
Yes. I'm still talking about a cartoon -- a sophisticated and lyrical cartoon, with a phenomenal soundtrack too boot. Also of note, you'll find that the place of food in the universe is nuanced and real. Eating is at times forbidden, but at other times life-sustaining. Meals are offered as pandering sacrifice and later expelled by an over-gorged monster. Food literally colors the world, when the animators fill frames with hanging fish and meat. Like every other aspect of this enticing creation, Miyazaki's representation of food is both complete and supernatural. (Just consider: Chihiro must only eat one morsel of the world's food in order to not disappear.)
So I offer up a meal that I hope would meet with Miyazaki's favor: parts Japanese, parts not; colorful; varied. I would ask both you and him to bear with me on the blueberries. Though much less inspired by the country of our film's origin, there are bursts of color, depth of flavor, and they are spirited (in the form of the grappa, if nothing else). Perhaps, you could figure out a way to serve them with mochi...
A note: please, please watch the film with the original Japanese language and American subtitles (as opposed to the American dub referenced in the trailer above). There is no other way to do it justice.
A Meal for Miyazaki Yuzu, I zu by Teri
Okonomiyaki by Midge
Quick Cucumber and Shiso Pickles by Teri
Misoyaki Roast Chicken with Shoyu Onion Sauce by timWuNotWoo
Blueberry Grappa Sauce by amanda
Want more movie menus? See what Elena's serving with Hot Fuzz and A League of Their Own.
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The deer had been stuck on the lake for at least two days, as MedCity Hovercraft explain on their Facebook page. One viewer reported the stranded deer to the local news, and James and Doug Kenison responded yesterday, saving the perplexed deer.


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Glory belongs to God alone--not your country
Julia Smucker says she's an orthodox Catholic: She gives glory first to God alone, despite the American ideals that challenge this commitment.
Guest blog post by Julia Smucker
The word orthodoxy, according to standard usage, is commonly understood to mean believing in the right things. Far be it from me, a linguist, to call this standard definition incorrect; yet, as a would-be theologian, I would like to suggest an additional meaning with attention to the Greek root doxa, meaning "glory." It is also the act of giving glory where it belongs—and nowhere else.
It is orthodoxy in this sense that thoroughly permeates the liturgy of the Mass. It is there in the ancient song of "Glory to God," as we sing, "For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ."
It is there in the creed (where, indeed, the two definitions of orthodoxy intersect), as we proclaim our belief in one God, Father Almighty and creator of all; one Lord, Christ Incarnate whose kingdom will have no end; one Spirit, who gives life and speaks through prophets; one church that sometimes manages, by the grace of God, to get the message right.
It is there as we dare to pray the words of our Lord, for the coming kingdom, for heaven to be realized on earth, for the daily bread we need not hoard, for forgiveness with a startling condition—as we forgive—acknowledging the holiness of the only one to whom belongs the kingdom, the power and the glory, now and forever.
And it is there in what may be the most subversive thing we do as Catholics: receiving the Eucharist. A wise priest once gave the profound instruction in a homily at Mass to "be Eucharist in the world." The Eucharist is a gift that calls us to give of ourselves, that commits us to become what we receive: the presence of Christ. It is only by his presence, which draws us to himself and seals us in communion with each other and with the entire church in all nations and all times, that we can resist the pervasive temptations to give glory where it does not belong—to false gods of national interest, self-interest, or the "Almighty Dollar."
This is why I am resolutely proud (if pride can ever legitimately be called a virtue) to be Catholic in America. I am proud to profess that although surrounded by demands made on my loyalty by the gods of mammon, America-first exceptionalism, and me-first individualism, my first and highest allegiance is to a holier Trinity, and to the church universal which transcends all national borders—and, by extension, to honoring the intrinsic dignity that the church solidly proclaims to be present in all bearers of God's image, the world over.
Julia Smucker is an M.A. student at Saint John's School of Theology in Collegeville, Minnesota.
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- Favourable geographical position, close to the European market
- Strategy to move to high-end market and diversify industrial production
- Political stability and commitment to reform
- Growing integration in African market
- Economy highly dependent on the performance of the agricultural sector
- Significant social and regional disparities. Although decreasing, the poverty rate remains high.
- Weak productivity and low competitiveness
- High unemployment and low female participation in the labour market
- Political tension with regional neighbours
A marked deceleration in the pace of growth in 2019
Despite the decline in agricultural GDP, Moroccan growth firmed in 2018 on the back of a favourable external environment. The non-agricultural sector grew at a lively pace, supported by the solid performance of the manufacturing sector and continued momentum in domestic demand. While the automotive sector continues to benefit from increased registrations in Europe, the construction sector is marking time. In 2019, growth is expected to increase slightly thanks to an rise in agricultural GDP. Indeed, the heavy rainfall suggests a promising 2018/2019 agricultural season. Value added growth in the secondary and tertiary sectors should continue to drive activity, supported by robust domestic demand and resilient exports despite muted European growth. Meanwhile, favourable domestic prospects and tax incentives are expected to boost private investment and offset the decline in public investment in 2019. Inflation is set to remain moderate, but rising energy prices are likely to affect both household purchasing power and business competitiveness.
Further fiscal consolidation
Initially forecast at 3% of GDP, the government deficit rose slightly in 2018. A smaller-than-expected increase in revenues has diverted the path of public finances. Although fiscal consolidation efforts initiated in 2013enabled the deficit to gradually stabilise, the government intends to raise expenditure in 2019 to cope with an economic environment that is expected to present risks. Public investment in major projects is likely to continue but should be streamlined. New hires in the Ministries of Defence and the Interior will increase the weight of the wage bill. At the same time, the focus on social spending on health and education should result in increased allocations to the relevant ministries. Higher oil prices would also increase the subsidy burden, which is estimated at 1.3% of GDP. Expenditure is to be partly financed by tax hikes (tobacco, corporation tax) and privatisations. This worries credit rating agencies, and in October 2018, S&P revised the outlook for the country's sovereign rating from stable to negative while warning the authorities that a downgrade was possible if fiscal imbalances increase. Morocco could move into the speculative category, which would push up the cost of debt as the country returns to the international market.
Turning to the external accounts, a favourable phosphate market, resilient automotive and aerospace exports, and rising tourism revenues should partially offset higher energy costs in 2019. The current account deficit is expected to be slightly reduced. Foreign exchange reserves will remain comfortable. The country's low exposure to international capital markets should also protect it from capital flow volatility. Nevertheless, Morocco has requested a new precautionary line from the IMF.
Rising social risk
The coalition resulting from the 2016 parliamentary elections and led by the Justice and Development Party (PJD) looks shaky. While relations between the Islamist party, which won the elections, and the National Rally of Independents (RNI) have eased somewhat, there was a flare-up with the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) in October 2018. At the same time, divisions are emerging within the PJD itself, whose militant youth movement is increasingly at odds with the political line adopted by the government. Prime Minister Saâdeddine El Othmani remains under fire from critics in the opposition, the palace and the population. He is being challenged on his management of several big issues (boycott of several major Moroccan groups, time change, and a rail accident) and is beginning to suffer from a lack of credibility. In response to mounting social unrest, the 2019 budget provides for a spending shift to allocate more resources to health and education. At the same time, Prime Minister Othmani has committed himself to pushing on with several unpopular reforms, such as increasing taxes on property capital gains and regulating road transport.
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Bank transfers are becoming the most popular means of payment for both domestic and international transactions. Cheques are still commonly used as instrument of payment and also constitute efficient debt recognition titles: debtors may be prosecuted if they fail to pay the amount owed. Bills of exchange also constitute an attractive means of payment, because they are a source of short-term financing by means of discounting, instalment, or transfer. Promissory notes are used to record the financial details of personal debts, business debts and real estate transactions. They are legally binding contracts that can be used in a court of law if the debtor defaults. A promissory note acts as solid evidence of an agreed payment, and subsequently debt in case of dispute.
Debt collection
Amicable phase
Debt collection must begin with an attempt to reach an amicable settlement. Creditors attempt to contact their debtors through different means (telephone calls, written reminders such as formal letters, emails or extrajudicial notifications, etc.). Amicable settlement negotiations can be intense, and cover aspects such as the number of payment instalments, write-offs, guarantees/collateral, and grace period interest. Moroccan law states that a lawyer can acknowledge the signature of the debtor via payment plans, which are signed, certified, and legalized by the competent authorities in Morocco. The creditors' lawyer can subsequently use this payment agreement as debt recognition in case of legal action.
Legal proceedings
Morocco has a dual legal system that consists of secular courts based on French legal tradition and courts based on Islamic traditions. Secular courts includes proximity courts (juridictions de proximité) in charge of settling disputes between individuals, Courts of First Instance (tribunaux de première instance) dealing with all civil matters, Commercial Courts dealing with business disputes, Appellate Courts (cours d'appel) dealing with civil and administrative matters, and a Court of Cassation (Cour de cassation).
There are 27 Sadad Courts, which are courts of first instance for Muslim and Jewish personal law.
Fast-track proceedings
The order to pay is available when the debt has a contractual cause or the obligation is of a statutory origin. It is characterized by a petition form sent to the relevant clerk of the court. The debt must be certain, liquid (i.e. clean and clear), due, and uncontested. An enforceable order to pay is obtained within an average delivery time of six months, unless the defendant lodges an opposition against the ruling. In the defendant opposes the order within one month of being served, the case is referred to ordinary proceedings.
Ordinary proceedings
A writ of summons is sent by the creditor's representative to the relevant court and served by a bailiff to the debtor, who may subsequently obtain legal representation in the period prescribed by the judge and file a counter claim. Several hearings may be required for the exchange of written submissions, transmissions of documents and to produce the relevant evidence.
The main hearing is set by the judge to hear the presentation of the pleadings. Discussions and pleadings are conducted by the judge during the public hearing. The case is then taken under deliberation to allow judges to discuss the means, grounds, and pronouncement that make up the content of the judgment. After the sitting of the judgers, a reasoned judgment is rendered. It can usually be obtained within an average delivery time of one year.
Enforcement of a court decision
Once all appeal venues have been exhausted, a judgment becomes final and enforceable. Garnishee orders are normally efficient for seizing and selling the debtor's assets.
According to Moroccan law, commercial courts are obliged to recognize judgments rendered abroad, even if there is no convention signed for this purposes with the issuing country. In order to be recognized and enforced, the original copy of the foreign judgment must be provided to the court with a certificate of non-appeal. When a foreigner gets final judgment that they want to enforce in Morocco and, if not, when seeking enforcement of a Moroccan judgment abroad, they must follow exequatur proceedings. There are two enforcement procedures. The first is uniquely Moroccan, whereas the second is fixed by judicial bilateral agreement between Morocco and other countries, including Germany, Belgium, the United States of America, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, France, Italy and Libya.
Insolvency proceedings
Insolvency proceedings are regulated by Book V of the Commercial Code. It provides for prevention of difficulties (alert procedure and amicable settlement procedure) as well as formal insolvency procedures (judicial rehabilitation proceedings and judicial liquidation proceedings).
Alert procedure
The alert procedure is initiated by a business' partners or auditors (external auditors hired by the company to rectify the financial situation), who are required to notify the company manager of any opportunities to redress the situation within eight days. If no steps are taken to remedy the situation within 15 days, a general assembly must be convened to take a decision on how to redress the situation based on the auditor's report.
Amicable settlement procedure
Amicable settlement procedures can only be implemented by a commercial company, trader, or artisan, who is experiencing financial difficulties but is not yet cash flow insolvent. Once initiated, the debtor is placed under the supervision of the Court. The Court subsequently appoints an external mediator for a limited period of three months to assist the debtor in reaching an agreement with its creditors. A settlement can be reached with all creditors or the debtor's "main creditors". Creditors are entitled to their entire claim, but the mediator may propose an arrangement or creditors may assign a portion of the debt if they so wish. Once approved by the Court, all judicial proceedings relating to debts covered by the agreement are suspended for the duration of the amicable settlement agreement.
Safeguard procedure
This is a heavy mechanism, intended to allow a company to reorganize in order to continue to survive. To benefit from it, the company must establish that it is not in a state of cessation of payments. However, in the context of this procedure, it is still possible to negotiate with your creditors, in order to avoid arriving at to this cessation of payments, to the receivership proceedings. It is the company that seizes the court, which pronounces a judgment of opening of the safeguard procedure. The procedure starts with a six-month observation period (renewable once) during which the insolvency administrator, in collaboration with the manager, draws up a "economic and social balance sheet" (BES) for the company: an update on the origin of the difficulties, he current financial situation, the corrective measures to be envisaged and the resulting prospects. During this period, the company takes appropriate measures to correct the situation, and it helps the administrator to develop a backup plan. The adoption of such a plan by the court marks the end of the observation period and the beginning of the actual plan, which can last up to five years. Here again, the manager remains master aboard his company but, above all, the company will benefit from radical measures that the court can only impose:
- suspension of maturities of debts;
- stop individual prosecutions;
- obligation for all creditors to declare their claims;
- stop interest rate.
Judicial rehabilitation
This procedure is only available for debtors that have become insolvent (état de cessation de paiements), but whose financial situation is not irreparably compromised. An insolvency judge and an office holder (the person appointed by the court as part of an insolvency or liquidation; also acts as the syndicate) are appointed by the court. During the process, the debtor company and its management remain in possession of the company's assets and the debtor continues its business. The rehabilitation procedure can result in either the reorganisation of the debtor's business or its liquidation. The office holder is required to prepare a report on the situation of the company within four months from the opening of the proceedings. In his report, the office holder will either recommend a rehabilitation plan for the debtor, the sale of the business, or liquidation. The court is then required to reach a decision on the fate of the debtor, based on the report. There is no direct vote by the creditors on the options available to the debtor during the procedure.
Judicial liquidation
The judgment initiating the procedure makes all the debts immediately due and payable, the creditors within a period of two months must present their claims. Moroccan creditors have two months to submit their declarations; creditors residing abroad have a period of four months. Liquidation proceedings may terminate prematurely before a distribution in liquidation if the debtor has no more debt, the office holder has sufficient funds to pay all the creditors in their entirety, or the debtor does not have enough assets to cover the costs of the liquidation procedure.
Under Moroccan law, there are no specific rules on the priority of claims in the event of insolvency. Nevertheless, there are some privileged creditors such as: the employees, the public treasury, the social agencies, the creditors of a collective conciliation, finally the unsecured creditors.


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Inaugural Kettlebell Swing-a-Thon raises funds for High Fives Foundation
TRUCKEE, Calif. – On Saturday, Dec. 15 Rebel Fitness Academy hosted an inaugural Kettlebell Swing-a-Thon. From 9 a.m.-5 p.m., the length of a traditional American workday, trained individuals swung kettlebells with common goals – to get a good workout and to raise money for the High Fives Foundation. In the weeks leading up to the Swing-a-Thon, participants collected pledges either on a "per-swing" basis or as a flat donation, and when the bell rang to start the event everyone was eager to test their physical limits.
"Used properly, kettlebells are the fastest way to tone, tighten and strengthen, which is why they are a staple in our facility," explains Rebel Fitness Academy owner and trainer Ryan Egan. "Rebel Fitness Academy is excited to use the kettlebell in this marathon-style event, which certainly tested my strength and endurance as well as all of the other participants."
The morning of the Kettlebell Swing-a-Thon at Rebel Fitness Academy saw 13 enthusiastic participants smiling, swinging and sweating. Among the participants was Olympic ski racer Daron Rahlves, who, along with Rebel Fitness Academy Owner and Trainer Ryan Egan, seemed to set the pace for other participants. Participants stayed fueled and energized with snacks donated by local merchants, and an eclectic mix of music helped participants make it through the long day. The end of the Kettlebell Swing-a-Thon saw each exhausted participant reaching their respective goal and raising the High Fives Foundation nearly $4,000 to be used toward the development of the CR Johnson Healing Center – a program service of the High Fives Non-Profit Foundation that provides resources for athletes in recovery from sport-related injuries.
"Nothing brings me more joy than working with a like-minded organization focused on regaining the passion for individuals who have had it taken away as the cause of a tragic event," says Ryan Egan. "It was an honor raising money for such an organization, and we look forward to working with the High Fives Foundation in the near future."
Visit http://www.crjohnson.org, http://www.highfivesfoundation.org and http://www.rebelfitnessacademy.com.


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24 July 2012 at 5.45pm | 7 Comments
The Royal Ballet's unique collaboration with the National Gallery, Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, is to be commemorated with a luxury limited edition book. Containing a mixture of rehearsal and production imagery, the book will tell the story of the project from conception to stage.
Federico Bonelli and Marianela Nunez in rehearsals for Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. © ROH/The Ballet Bag 2012
Marianela Nuñez and The Royal Ballet in Diana and Actaeon. Metamorphosis: Titian 2012. © ROH/Johan Persson, 2012.
The limited edition, of which there will only be 250 copies, will include an introduction by former Director of The Royal Ballet Monica Mason and three original, signed works by artists involved in the project - Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger.
Find out more about Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 in our news and feature section.
The limited edition book, published by Art / Books, will be out later this year, and a standard edition will be available to buy from January 2013. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for further release details.
The exhibition Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 at the National Gallery is open until 23 September. Admission is free.


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Luca Brecel failed to convert two match-winning chances before losing 6-5 to Shaun Murphy in the UK Championship quarter-finals.
Competing in the last eight of a ranking event for the first time, Brecel led 5-4 but missed a pink that should have seen him go on to victory.
Murphy will play Ali Carter, who beat Stuart Bingham 6-4, in the semis.
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Shaun Murphy
Mark Davis beat Matthew Stevens 6-4 while Mark Selby came back from 4-0 to defeat Neil Robertson 6-4.
Brecel, who won four qualifying matches to reach the televised stages, was the only player from outside the world's top 16 in the quarter-finals.
The world number 74 made a confident start with breaks of 39 and 41 to take the opener, but Murphy edged a tight second frame before a fluent 122 put the Englishman 2-1 up.
Brecel levelled it at the interval and there was never more than a frame in it, Murphy nudging ahead again before breaks of 46 and 31 from Brecel made it 3-3.
He was on course to take the next with a break of 48 to the colours before going out of position on the last red and missing a difficult blue.
But Murphy missed a green to let him back in and Brecel, who earlier this year became the youngest to play at the World Championship at the Crucible, went ahead for the first time since the opening frame at 4-3.
The world number four drew level with a run of 79, but Brecel stayed composed, rattling in a 64 - his highest break of the match - to move within one frame of victory.
A nervy 10th frame came down to the final two balls and Brecel had a chance to wrap up victory, but missed the pink to allow Murphy to take it to a decider.
Brecel led 30-12 in the final frame but Murphy made 42 before getting a kick on the the final red. The 17-year-old cleared to the blue but left himself a difficult long pink, rattling the jaws to let a relieved Murphy in.
"The kid didn't seem to feel any pressure until the end," Murphy told BBC Sport. "I thought I was out two or three times to be honest. Maybe I have played my get-out-of-jail card.
"I have been in his position. He might look as if he wasn't nervous, but I am sure he was feeling it inside. But what a great week he has had."
Snooker world was shocked when they saw a mere amateur making his way into the opening round of the 2012 World Snooker Championship after earning four wins in the qualifying session.
This young Belgian potter, the 17-year-old Luca Brecel, broke the record of the former seven-time World Snooker Championship winner, Stephen Hendry and became the youngest potter to appear in a World Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
Due to his superb performance in the 2012 World Snooker Championship, Brecel has been selected as the Rookie of the Year by the snooker governing body, World Snooker. Brecel has been quite impressive at the baize during the Championship.
Despite the fact that he lost in his first round match against Stephen Maguire, the youngster did show his talent which really hit the hearts of many top guns of snooker and they really wished him luck for his future. Brecel showed great determination in the final stages of the 2011-12 Snooker Season, which has put him in the emerging snooker talents of the present.
The youngster started his Championship campaign from the first round of the qualifying session after beating the Englishman Ian McCulloch by 10-2. In his journey to reach the opening round of the mega event, the young cueman had to take care of Barry Pinches, Michael Holt and Mark King. The Belgian talent will now be aiming to perform better in the coming snooker season.
Meanwhile, the four-time World Snooker Champion from England, Ronnie O'Sullivan won the World Snooker Player of the Year Award and the Snooker Writers Player of the Year Award after his outstanding cue performance in the recently finished snooker season.
O'Sullivan clinched two Players Tour Championship (PTC) events and three Premier League Snooker (PLS) events. Besides, the Essex Exocet claimed the 2012 German Masters snooker tournament victory despite his illness.
However, he also had to miss the 2012 Haikou World Open snooker event and the PTC Grand Finals due to the glandular fever but the Rocket proved his class in the 2012 World Snooker Championship and after four years of dormancy, the Wordsley potter was able to clinch his fourth World Snooker Championship title, which brought him on top of the game once again.
Stephen Maguire is convinced Belgian prodigy Luca Brecel is a world champion in the making.
Glaswegian Maguire secured his World Championship last-16 place yesterday with a battling 10-5 victory over teenage sensation Brecel.
But the Scot, gunning to win his first Crucible crown in Sheffield, insists the 17-year-old youngster is capable of winning the game's grandest event in the future.
Maguire said: "Luca's a potting machine. He's one of the fastest players I've seen – and he's fearless.
"Right now he has the potential to win the World Championship one day. There won't be a 17-year-old in the world right now who can play like him.
"He's the youngest ever to play at The Crucible and he's a nice kid, he's got everything going for him.
"Good luck to him, I just hope I don't draw him in the World Championship next year."
Maguire led 6-3 overnight and was always favourite to progress but the former Crucible semi-finalist knew he still had to finish the job with his opponent snapping at his coat-tails.
And although Brecel reduced his arrears to 6-4 with a brilliant break of 86 in the first frame of the concluding session, it was Maguire who made his experience count to progress.
Breaks of 101 and 94 took the former UK champion within one frame of victory and, after Brecel got another frame on the board, the world No.7 made sure of his place in the next round.
Upbeat after a promising Crucible debut, Luca Brecel said: "I didn't play my best but I can't wait until next year."
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Burton wallows in the 'Shadows'
"Dark Shadows" stars Johnny Depp, director Tim Burton's omnipresent muse. The actor gamely embraces the least flattering look of his career to portray pasty-faced Barnabas Collins, a character from a gothic soap that fascinated Depp during his youth.
In the 1700s, the wealthy Collins family moves to Maine, where they establish a local fishing empire, build a large estate, and young Barnabas Collins spurns the affections of local witch Angelique (Eva Green). Her three-pronged revenge is to first kill Josette (the woman Barnabas loves), then to transform Barnabas into a vampire, and finally to padlock him inside a coffin buried deep in an unmarked grave.
Two hundred years later, in 1972, an unfortunate construction crew unearths the coffin and releases Barnabas, whose initial need for blood is unquenchable. Burton's approach to the feeding frenzy leads the film awry as he tries to get laughs from frenetically paced, off-camera kills, momentarily pausing so that Barnabas can announce, "I'm exceedingly thirsty."
Burton hits his stride when the fish-out-water-vampire is confronted by automobiles, architecture and fashion beyond his understanding and assumes he has landed in some special kind of hell. This portion of the story is all-too-brief because, beyond our understanding, Barnabas quickly makes his way to Collinwood Manor, where he finds his estate and fishing empire have fallen on hard times.
A subplot follows his involvement with the manor's occupants. They are: matriarch Elizabeth (Michelle Pfeiffer), her insolent daughter Carolyn (Chloe Grace Moretz), Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother Roger (Jonny Lee Miller), and Roger's motherless, 10-year-old son David (Gully McGrath). Elizabeth houses David's tippling psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), and Collinwood's chief bottle-washer/caretaker Willie (Jackie Earle Haley). Last, but not least, Barnabas takes a shine to the newly arrived nanny, Victoria, a ringer for his lost Josette.
Soon enough, Barnabas discovers that his fishing empire has been ruined by none other than Angelique, who has brought his family low without breaking a nail or aging a minute. Angelique offers to forgive and forget Barnabas's past transgressions in exchange for his pledge of fidelity – but he only has eyes for Victoria.
Though melodramatic and under-budgeted, the television show attempted to create an atmosphere of supernatural danger, casting Barnabas as something of a vampire Don Juan, and women as his conflicted pawns. Burton opts for the same tone as the lightweight music of the era played on his soundtrack, hoping that Barnabas's pursuit of young Victoria, will create tension. Their chaste, emotion-free romance is instantly forgettable.
Depp portrays Burton's vision of Barnabas with his signature style, but in contrast to the debonair Jonathan Frid of the gothic soap, Depp resembles a "Beetle Juiced" Addams Family member. Green's one-dimensional Angelique might as well tattoo "I'm evil" on her forehead, while Pfeiffer's Elizabeth plays straightman to a host of underdeveloped kooks. Burton's wife, Carter, fares best in a secondary role, making the most of her brief turn as the crazy shrink with aspirations of immortality.
Burton's films work best when laid out as visual buffets that depict eccentric people doing nutty things. This time, his vision, played against a pallet of dark, gloomy interiors, escapes him. There's much to look at, but little penetrates the "Dark Shadows."


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PHP, CGI, and MT: Together at Last
A long-standing problem with Movable Type's templating system is that the Perl-based .cgi files it relies on don't allow for the use of PHP. That's changing though.
The lovely and talented Shaun Inman wrote up his method of using PHP includes to pull in CGI data back in January, which allowed him to pass a query string to the script using HTTP GET. Technical details are at Shaun's, go read and come back when you're done.
Using his thinking as a starting point, I spent some time a few weeks back tweaking to solve another Movable Type problem — the comment preview pages that are so often the neglected children of sites like, say, this one.
The problem is that I use PHP to include a standard set of header and footer files across the site; changing one of those files changes the entire site equally. Includes are a beautiful thing, but .cgi files won't allow you to run PHP. So the only solution I've had till now is to flatten a copy of my HTML, reduce it to the bare minimum, and drop the whole thing into my preview template. Which results in parts of the site falling further and further out of synch with the rest as things change.
Out of the box, Movable Type jumps all comment previews and new comment posts to a file called mt-comment.cgi after you hit the submit button, which does the parsing and filtering and spits out a result based on whichever template you have told Movable Type to use. (There are a few possible templates here including those for Comment Preview, Comment Listing, Comment Error, and new in MT3, Comment Pending. Defining a non-default template for each of these is important and I haven't yet spent the time figuring out how to apply this to Error or Pending.)
Comment Preview is the one we're trying to hook into. Instead of relying on the .cgi file to render the whole page, instead what I've done is strip the template to a bare minimum, and hijack the Individual Entry Archive to point to a different PHP file that includes it.
So that's the summary, but it's difficult to make sense of that without the examples. First step, having the Individual Entry Archive and Comment Preview pages point to the new PHP file instead of mt-comments.cgi. Look for the line that goes like this:
<form method="post"
And change it to this (replacing the
/path/to/preview.php with the path to the .php file on your own server, of course):
<form method="post"
Do that with both templates. Next step is to build the actual PHP file that does the heavy lifting. Since your site will require custom includes and a completely different wrapper than my own, there's no point in listing the whole file. Instead, here's the code you'll need. Drop this first bit in the page header, before anything else happens. (Thanks to Dan Benjamin for help with the Post to Get conversion. All insanely genius type code is his; all mucking-around-without-a-clue type code is mine.)
function makeGetRequest( $str ) {
$result = str_replace(':','%3A',$str);
$result = str_replace('/','%2F',$result);
$result = str_replace('@','%40',$result);
return $result;
if ($_POST['post']) {
$variables = 'entry_id=' . $_POST['entry_id'] . '&static=' . $_POST['static'];
$variables .= '&author=' . urlencode($_POST['author']) . '&email=' . $_POST['email'];
$variables .= '&url=' . $_POST['url'] . '&text=' . urlencode(stripslashes($_POST['text']));
$variables .= '&post=post' . '&bakecookie=' . $_POST['bakecookie'];
Drop this second bit later in the page, where you'd normally place the preview text and the comment form.
if ($_POST) {
$variables = 'entry_id=' . $_POST['entry_id'] . '&static=' . $_POST['static'];
$variables .= '&author=' . urlencode($_POST['author']) . '&email=' . $_POST['email'];
$variables .= '&url=' . $_POST['url'] . '&text=' . urlencode(stripslashes($_POST['text']));
$variables .= '&preview=Preview+Comment' . '&bakecookie=' . $_POST['bakecookie'];
} else {
echo "

This is the comment preview form. You're seeing this message because either something went wrong, or you've typed in the URL, or you clicked a link that shouldn't have been pointing here in the first place.

Whatever the case, there should be a form here, but there isn't because of the above reasons. So if you were expecting a comment preview form, let me know that you got this instead. Otherwise, hit the back button and try again. Thanks!

For the sake of debugging and possibly retrieving your comment, this is the data that was posted to this page:

"; echo $_POST;
The message in the second half is just a bit of defensive design to let the user know there's a problem if somehow they wind up on the preview page without going through the proper channel. Just in case something goes wrong, I'm dumping the post data as well to allow retrieval, though I can't foresee much chance of it ever being displayed. Never hurts to be helpful though.
At this point, it should work — but the comment preview page will look a little off. You need to strip everything but the essentials if you're going to be including the rest of your site structure. This will usually mean taking out everything from the HTML  start tag to where the comment preview form begins, and everything after to the . For what it's worth, my revised, light preview template:

<$MTCommentPreviewAuthorLink show_email="0"$> says:

Posted on <$MTCommentPreviewDate$> §

Edit / Post Your Comment:

<form method="post" action="/path/to/preview.php" name="comments_form" onsubmit="if (this.bakecookie.checked) rememberMe(this)">

<input type="hidden" id="entry_id" name="entry_id" value="<$MTEntryID$>" />
<input type="hidden" name="static" value="1" />
Name:<input type="text" id="author" name="author" value="<$MTCommentPreviewAuthor encode_html="1"$>" />
Email Address:<input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="<$MTCommentPreviewEmail encode_html="1"$>" />
URL:<input type="text" id="url" name="url" value="<$MTCommentPreviewURL encode_html="1"$>" />
Comments:<textarea id="text" name="text" rows="13" cols="55"><$MTCommentPreviewBody convert_breaks="0" encode_html="1" $></textarea>

<input type="submit" id="preview" name="preview" value="Preview Again" />
<input type="submit" id="post" name="post" value="Post" />

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It's not perfect. The conversion dropped out a few of the custom filters I relied on to get rid of things like SmartyPants-generated "smart quotes", and things are messy when Unicode characters are pasted. But it's been running for almost a month now and I haven't received any nasty emails about comment loss, so the basic functionality is there.
As always, share and enjoy.
Under some circumstances, every new comment starts being automatically blocked. It appears MT has some form of automatic IP banning. The comment form posts new comments from the IP of the site its running on, instead of the user's IP, so all it takes is one instance to trigger the banning, and all new comments are denied.
Quick fix — in your weblog's configuration, hit 'IP Banning' and delete the entry for your site. (If you don't know what it is, you may have to delete them all). Long term fix — still looking for one.


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[Editor's Note: Making Memories has recently followed the lead of scrapbook company EK Success into the bead and jewelry segment of the crafts market. Contributing Writer May Flaum gave the jewelry a try to see if it will appeal to Making Memories' existing scrapbook customers.]
When I discovered the "Vintage Groove by Jill Schwartz" line from Making Memories at CHA-Winter 2010, I was instantly smitten. What you are about to read is a gushing review of the most unexpected find of the winter show. A scrapbooking company getting into jewelry? What sounds crazy at first makes a lot of sense to me. There is a lot of crafting overlap already, and I believe they've done an excellent job with this.
What appealed to me were the detailed vintage inspired pieces, the colors, and most of all the usefulness of the line. Once I saw how easy it was to use, and that even I could find success with the line I was sold. I have been working with some pieces from this new offering, and I'm impressed with the quality, variety, and how beginner-friendly this line is. There are a lot of items available, from monograms to charms, flowers to rhinestones – everything you need to make simple and amazing jewelry.
You only need jump rings and pliers to attach things together, and you can simply piece things together. Making Memories has a variety of chains and pieces that are able to link together, and I was able to start making things in minutes. I used to string beads to make necklaces when I was a child, but I have never been into making my own jewelry. This line has me re-thinking that and ready to buy a whole lot more.
I didn't need to figure out "how", just simply what I wanted. Choose a chain, choose some decorative pieces, and attach with jump rings.
I learned quickly (with a very sore thumb) that two pairs of pliers to twist the jump rings open is imperative. Making Memories has a video on their website demonstrating a quick and easy monogram necklace that demonstrates the how-to nicely.
Playing with these products, I found myself both dreaming up pieces for myself and thinking about the gifts I could create for others as well. I was really encouraged by how easy they've made this so that I don't need to be an expert to put something pretty together. Above is a necklace I made in under 10 minutes. I confess, the hardest part is choosing what to use! That takes considerably longer.
I really like that no matter what you choose from the line, it's going to go with everything else. Depending on your color and style preferences, you can make any number of looks, and it can be as tricky or simple as you like. In the above necklace I pieced together some charms, pieces of chain, and even some pre-made lengths of beads to create this funky necklace. I didn't worry about matching things, and I love how this looks on me. Funky and fun – and totally one of a kind.
I showed the pieces I have to a friend who is very into jewelry making, and she was excited by how the charms and decorative beads and pieces could be used in her more advanced work. Because the line is sold in small affordable bits and pieces, you can really get the things you love, and not be stuck with items you don't wish to use. I went wild with a multi-strand necklace (above) using the silver bead chain that is a part of the line. Having chains and strands of beads ready to go is so nice. I just get to play with the fun stuff!
What I am most excited about is how quickly I could start having finished pieces in my hands, and that if I made a mistake I could simply open the jump ring back up and start over. I am also very excited by how some of these pieces would translate beautifully into scrapbook and paper craft projects.
I already shop the bead isles at my craft store for unique embellishments, and I love that some of these are flat enough to work for me.
In the layout above (Making Memories princess sticker, alpha stickers, paper, and Jenni Bowlin button) I strung several pieces together along the bottom of my photo and removed the metal backing for the large blue flower. Normally I think I would just choose one or two special pieces to accent my layout, but I couldn't resist.
Playing with these products has been a treat, and I look forward to seeing all of the products in stores soon. I'm told that a handful of select Target stores have the line now, and that it should show up the first week of April in stores that have ordered it. If you like the vintage look as much as I do, you'll want to keep your eyes peeled for it.
I'm already looking forward to making another necklace and bracelet, not to mention some canvas and scrapbook projects.


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Packing and Unpacking Heap Graph structures
An essential component of Eden as well as other Parallel Haskells for distributed memory is a packing module: traversal/serialisation of a subgraph in the heap, and respective de-serialisation.
In one sentence, packing walks breadth-first through the reachable subgraph from the node to pack, and only copies info-pointer and non-pointers, since pointers can be established from the order inside a packet when unpacking.
The details are a bit more involved, and not much documentation available... You should have a look at the wiki page about Heap closure layout before reading the packing code.
TODO this subject deserves largely more space, and links to GHC commentary pages.
Pointer tagging
Recently, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl spotted a number of issues with Pointer Tagging in version 6.8. The e-mail exchange related to this is documented here: GpHEden-PackingAndPointerTagging.
Spark tagging
In GHC-GUM and GHC-SMP a variant of pointer tagging might be useful: spark tagging. A tag is attached to a spark in the spark pool. This can hold information for example on the estimated size of a computation. Initially the tag will 0 since we only add pointers to unevaluated closures. During GC the spark pool is pruned anyway, i.e. pointers to closures that have become evaluated will be eliminated. Inbetween GCs we only need to follow the spark pointer when activating a spark or packing the graph. In both cases the RTS routines can take care of the untagging. The plan is to implement such spark tagging in GUM-6.08.
In the GHC-6.13 port,
Pack.c has been created from the previous version (Eden-6.8.3), doing a one-pass review of the old packing code. Packing and unpacking methods for pointer arrays have been added (should not be used on mutable arrays, though).
Things to do:
- reformatting in line with GHC customs
- code restructuring,
- directly use an "unpack state", recover from interrupted packing
- send partial structure in separate message
The module can be tested by a primitive
duplicate#:: a -> IO a, which packs and unpacks (=> creates a copy of) something in the local heap.
Interesting question is: should the routine be able to pack/unpack every heap object? (up to now unable to pack: MVars, TSOs, all kinds of Stack elements, all STM-related closures)


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Hi all.
I have this problem with an algorithm. To put things simple, I have a method that creates a string to a collection of strings. I am using it in a small mini-language (it seems to primitive to be called a scripting language) I have been working on for fun. It has one type, collections of strings, and you can create new ones by combining old ones, and I am doing it through the method I mentioned. For example, if I have a variable $number containing the strings "1", "2" and "3" and then parse this line:
you get a new collection with the following strings:hello$number
A more advanced example, where $numbers contaings the strings "1" and "2" and $words contains "sun", "moon" and "donkey":
You will get a new collection containg the following strings if you parse it:$numbers and $words
1 and sun
1 and moon
1 and donkey
2 and sun
2 and moon
2 and donkey
Basically the string kind of works like a template for creating new collections, using variables (variables are identified with the dollar sign, btw). The current algorithm has an issue, though. It causes stack overflow rather easy, if there is a lot of different combinations to create. Think it is because it is recursive. So I guess I would have to find an iterative solution to the problem. But I am not sure where to begin. For some reason I have some real trouble figuring out the proper iterative algorithm. Could anyone help me?
And here is the current code, if it helps. It is not very optimized, quite frankly I feel a bit embarrast about it (and about my own failure at spelling ), but this is how it looks atm.
Have tried to comment it as best as I can, but, well, I am terrible at figuring out good comments :p. And as I already said, the code is not optimized at all, I just realized the issue of stack overflow before I had a chance to clean up in it. The method getPermutations is the one i talked about above. It will make a call to createPermutations which in turn will call getPermutations. If you want I can try and describe more in detail how they work but since I am after a different algorithm I dont really know if I need to.public class Utilities { /** * Returns a list of all permutations of the given string * * @param str the string that may or may not contain variable references * @param vtable the map of variables * @return a collection containing all permutations of the given string */ public static Collection<String> getPermutations(String str, Map<String, Collection<String>> vtable) { // Check if the string contains variables or not (the $ sign) if (str.contains(Lang.VAR_ID)) { // Check if the variable starts at the first index or not int index = str.indexOf(Lang.VAR_ID); if (index > 0) { // If the variable did not start at the first index separate the parts with and // without the variables String withVars = str.substring(index); str = str.substring(0, index); // Combine the string with whatever was in the variables return combine(Arrays.asList(str), createPermutations(withVars, vtable)); } return createPermutations(str, vtable); } // If no variables existed, return a collection containing the given string return Arrays.asList(str); } /** * Basically, what this method does is to generate a collection of strings containing all possible permutations, * or combinations if you prefer, of the variables in them * * @param str the string to parse * @param vtable the map containing the variables */ private static Collection<String> createPermutations(String str, Map<String, Collection<String>> vtable) { // Get the smallest valid index of an array int index = minIndex(str.indexOf(Lang.VAR_ID, 1), str.indexOf(Lang.SPACE)); // If the returned index is not -1 then get the variable and combine with the result from a recursive call // to getPermutations if (index > -1) { String next = str.substring(index); str = str.substring(0, index); return combine(vtable.get(str), getPermutations(next, vtable)); } else { // If the index was -1 then the entire string van be assumed to be a variable name return vtable.get(str); } } // NOTE: Dont worry about the methods bellow this point, I just included them to make it clear where they come from since they are used by the relevant methods /** * Returns the smallest valid index for a string or -1, if none of * them where valid * * @param a one index * @param b another index * @return the smallest valid index or -1 if no index was valid */ public static int minIndex(int a, int b) { if (a < 0) return (b < 0) ? -1 : b; else if (b < 0) return (a < 0) ? -1 : a; return Math.min(a, b); } /** * Combines the left and right collections by adding each string in the right collection to each and every * string in the left collection * * @param left a collection of strings * @param right a collection of strings * @return the collection that resulted from the combination */ private static Collection<String> combine(Collection<String> left, Collection<String> right) { Collection<String> combined = new ArrayList<>(left.size() + right.size()); for (String ls : left) { for (String rs : right) { combined.add(ls + rs); } } return combined; } }
So, can anyone help me figure out the right algorithm? What would the best problem be to solve this problem? Thinking of an algorithm that does not cause a stack overflow when there are too may different combinations that will be generated (which means it probably has to be iterative). Sorry if I could not describe my problem in a good way, I am not good with describing things :p.
Take care,
EDIT: There are two methods in the code, minIndex and combine, they work as they should. So dont worry about them (just included them so it would be clear where they came from).


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· 1 lbs Ground beef
· 1 C Diced onion
· 4 cloves Minced garlic
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· 1 each Diced jalapeño pepper, deseeded
· 1 each Diced chipotle pepper in adobo, add more to increase level of heat
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To paraphrase German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, COBOL is dead. Or at least that's what some people in the IT world believe. It's a legacy language with relatively little new development taking place.
But the growth of the mainframe of late, combined with the staggering amount of COBOL running currently, has some experts are questioning whether the 800-pound gorilla is really dead. So Rockville, Md.-based Micro Focus International Ltd. decided to poke it with a stick to find out.
According to preliminary results of Micro Focus' survey of 750 mainframers in the U.S. and Canada, 41% name COBOL as a principal programming language by an approximate 25% margin over Java, the next most popular language. Preliminary results also find 52% of mainframe applications are still written in COBOL.
The survey also found the median age of the COBOL programmer is 45-49, leading to the belief that there will be a growing knowledge shortage of COBOL programmers in the next decade.
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As it happens, Mark Lillycrop, CEO of U.K.-based Arcati Research and Publishing, has a nephew that is a first-year computer science student, and he has been encouraging him to pursue mainframe skills.
"COBOL is like an invisible giant. There's reported to be 180 billion-200 billion lines of code out there, processing 75% of commercial business. Few companies are keen to throw away the hundreds or thousands of man-years that have been invested in mature, high-performance COBOL code. Instead, they are integrating and building bridges between COBOL, .NET and J2EE [Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition], using service-oriented architectures to preserve the strengths of the legacy code while benefiting from Web-oriented development tools," Lillycrop said.
Ron Kizior, assistant professor Loyola University Chicago School of Business, ISOM area, worked on the Micro Focus survey. According to Kizior, the aspect that surprised him the most was the small number of mainframe shops that had gone to the Web. He'd expected up to 40%, but the numbers showed only 10%.
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Micro Focus said full results of the survey will be available in June.
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