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Can computers be creative? Lav Varshney and his group of researchers at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center say yes. They're using Watson, the artifically intelligent computer system that kicked butt on Jeopardy, to prove it. And what's Watson demonstrating creativity with? Cooking. Using a process that combines human experts with Watson's powers, the group have downloaded recipes, ingredients and included an ingredient-combing "novelty algorithm" so when a human enters some starting ingredients (eg. salmon) and a cuisine (eg. Thai), Watson will come up with some original recipes. And apparently, they're delicious.

The Sweet Sounds of Nintendo

The NES turned 30 this year (which isn't really that old, truth be told) and to celebrate, Nintendo is releasing what might be the greatest album ever: 26 of the best theme songs from classic NES games, like The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Brothers. The two-disc album will be out December 4, just in time for the holiday season.

Wait, Nintendo is Really Exploitative

Take a trip down memory lane and watch a two-minute excerpt from a news report from 1991, which details how parents felt "exploited" and "upset" over the introduction of the $200 Super Nintendo System, a new hardware that promised better sound and pictures. Parents were so upset, they took to group therapy sessions to voice their displeasure. Also, hilarious '90s hairstyles abound.

How to Become a LEGO Designer

Step one. Be one in a million. The Wall Street Journal goes behind the scene at the very stressful job interview process for what might be your dream job: A designer at Danish block company, LEGO. The world's No. 2 toy maker is always building its design staff, and finds new recruits not through a formal interview, but by asking people to just sit and sketch LEGO sets in front of senior designers.

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How did the iPad come about? Even while Apple SVP of design Jony Ive was working on the device, Steve Jobs was going around saying Apple would never come out with a tablet, according to an excerpt from a new book, "Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products," on Gizmodo, which details the inside process that led to the device, and its iconic design.

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NEW YORK ( -- Acrimonious battles with her editors and a struggle to control the focus of Rosie magazine were the subjects of Friday's proceedings in the Gruner & Jahr vs. Rosie O'Donnell case.
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Rosie O'Donnell screaming matches were described in the second day of court testimony.
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Friday saw the second day of courtroom testimony in the $100 million lawsuit that pits the media company against its its former business partner in their co-venture, Rosie magazine. Rosie ceased publishing in December.

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A major tenet of the court case Gruner & Jahr USA Publishing seeks to build against Ms. O'Donnell revolves around the former talk-show host's temperament. Testimony included descriptions of Ms. O'Donnell's wrath and her moves to circumvent decisions made by the magazine's editor in chief.

Jane Farrell, formerly executive editor of Rosie, testified about an August 2002 meeting in which Ms. O'Donnell and her brother Ed were repeatedly "screaming" over new editor in chief Susan Toepfer's attempts to speak. Ms. Toepfer, who replaced the magazine's original editor, Cathy Cavender, frequently clashed with Ms. O'Donnell.

At that August meeting, Ms. Farrell testified, Ms. O'Donnell told Ms. Toepfer: "You know the staff doesn't like or trust you." Ms. Toepfer's response, Ms. Farrell said, was to ask Ms. Farrell and another editor present about Ms. O'Donnell's charge, which both denied.

When cross-examined, Ms. Farrell admitted to tearing up after the O'Donnells' "outbursts," a fact Ms. O'Donnell registered sufficiently to send a note to her saying "thank you for caring."

Ms. Farrell also spoke of another meeting Ms. O'Donnell conducted in late August, while Ms. Toepfer was vacationing in Paris, in which Ms. O'Donnell "called editors off stories" previously assigned by Ms. Toepfer and gave them different or reworked assignments.

Ms. O'Donnell's vocal dissatisfaction with Ms. Toepfer's July 2002 appointment was laid out once more in an e-mail she wrote to Ms. Cavender that was later admitted into evidence. "This chick is so far from Michael Jordan," Ms. O'Donnell wrote, referring to Ms. Toepfer. "At the meeting yesterday she rolled her eyes like 22 times."

Both of the meetings Ms. Farrell discussed came after G&J's president-CEO, Dan Brewster, told staffers they were to report to Ms. Toepfer. The issue of who had editorial control over the venture is one key area of the legal dispute, but thus far there's been no testimony concerning what was outlined in the contract between G&J and Ms. O'Donnell.

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Cross-examination of Ms. Farrell, who appeared visibly uncomfortable during some of her testimony, was not completed by the time Judge Ira Gammerman called proceedings to a close around 5 p.m.

Earlier in the day, excerpts from a deposition of Ms. Cavender was read by a G&J attorney, in which Ms. Cavender said, "As time went on, I saw ... [Ms. O'Donnell] was not open to discussion" on certain subjects. ... Some discussion of covers and celebrities I thought of as normal give and take obviously really rankled her."

However, Ms. Cavender's testimony -- a steely and composed witness in the courtroom -- appeared far from a slam-dunk for the plaintiff. During her cross-examination, for instance, she testified that she had enjoyed working with Ms. O'Donnell.

But she nonetheless expressed concerns over Ms. O'Donnell's judgment over what worked for magazines that sought a mass audience. Ms. O'Donnell, for instance, suggested as a cover subject heavyweight-champion-cum-convicted-rapist Mike Tyson. On the witness stand, Ms. Cavender wryly noted that maintaining the title's substantial 3.5 million (and overwhelmingly female) circulation would be "hard to do if you run photos of Mike Tyson and his baby."

Friction over controversy
Ms. Cavender's testimony also illuminated one major source of friction between G&J and Ms. O'Donnell -- Ms. O'Donnell wanted more controversy. As she put it in a June 2002 memo to Ms. Cavender, the magazine "needs not to give a [expletive] ... it needs to scream the truth."

Ms. Cavender did not wholly write off Ms. O'Donnell's desire for a more controversial approach, but she testified that at the time of Ms. O'Donnell's memo G&J was already worried over advertiser concerns "the magazine was already too edgy."

Instead, G&J sought a softer focus, as evidenced by an e-mail entered into evidence by Ms. O'Donnell's attorneys that suggested some ways to make Rosie into a monthly version of People magazine. On this notion, Ms. Cavender and Ms. O'Donnell eventually bonded.

"Later," Ms. Cavender said, she and Ms. O'Donnell discussed how "we both hated People magazine."

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Elsewhere on Friday there was back-and-forth concerning Ms. O'Donnell's proposed stories on convicted murderers such as Lyle Menendez and a female member of the Manson family, as well as one about accused murderer Robert Blake. In his opening statement, Martin Hyman, an attorney for G&J, echoed the concerns of executives within the company who suggested stories like those would be extraordinarily inappropriate for the delicate mix of a mass-circulation women's magazine. But in her testimony, Ms. Cavender shrugged "there could be ways to use some of them" in the magazine.

The origins of those stories illustrated Ms. O'Donnell's role as a sort of celebrity sister-confessor. Both Mr. Menendez and Mr. Blake were in touch with Ms. O'Donnell. Mr. Menendez had contacted her about child abuse, while Mr. Blake suggested a potential story on what Ms. O'Donnell's attorney said would delve into "the dichotomy" of being a gun control advocate and also accused of a "violent act with a gun, specifically the murder of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.

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The Mining Co., an online network founded by Scott Kurnit, launches Monday with about 250 sites, each led by a human guide. The Mining Co. had signed a handful of undisclosed advertisers to the site. AT&T Corp., Nabisco Biscuit Co. and IBM Corp. all participated in beta tests of the network. A print, radio and outdoor campaign by Frierson + Mee, New York, breaks Monday with the tagline "Take back the Net." Online advertising by SiteSpecific, New York, also supports.

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A Thought for Our Predecessors' Ignorance

From a press-release from “Eurekalert” HERE
“Mummy CT scans show preindustrial hunter gatherers had clogged arteries”
“The leading cause of death in the developed world also afflicted our early ancestors, indicating there's more to it than modern lifestyles
Like nearly 4.6 million Americans, ancient hunter-gatherers also suffered from clogged arteries, revealing that the plaque build-up causing blood clots, heart attacks and strokes is not just a result of fatty diets or couch potato habits, according to new research in the journal The Lancet.
The researchers performed CT scans of 137 mummies from across four continents and found artery plaque in every single population studied, from preagricultual hunter-gatherers in the Aleutian Islands to the ancient Puebloans of southwestern United States.
Their findings provide an important twist to our understanding of atherosclerotic vascular disease, which is the leading cause of death in the developed world: while modern lifestyles can accelerate the development of plaque on our arteries, the prevalence of the disease across human history shows it may have a more basic connection to inflammation and aging.
"This is not a disease only of modern circumstance but a basic feature of human aging in all populations," said Caleb Finch, USC University Professor, ARCO/ Kieschnick Professor of Gerontology at the USC Davis School of Gerontology, and a senior author of the study. "Turns out even a Bronze Age guy from 5,000 years ago had calcified, carotid arteries," Finch said, referring to Otzi the Iceman, a natural mummy who lived around 3200 BCE and was discovered frozen in a glacier in the Italian Alps in 1991.”
There are those who bewail their lives in historically high per capita income economies and desperately wish they could transform society to their images of whatever utopian fantasies they have created from their convictions. I sometimes comment on representative examples of this genre, usually when they blame their image of what Adam Smith is alleged to have written and thereby caused the problems.  Noticeably few, if any, detractors of high-income societies move from the horrors of their high-living standards to existing low per capita income societies.
Caleb Finch shows that some fairly common health problems of people in the richer countries were prevalent in the distant past.  The difference is that modern knowledge is able to identify the problem of what causes early deaths from heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke (for which I for one am grateful).  This knowledge was denied to our hunter-gatherer predecessors. Many others died from malnutrition, living on the equivalent of under $1 day for long periods, and from natural calamities. Some hunter-gatherers enjoyed locally provided livings at risk of wandering others of violent dispositions.
Deaths of individuals from non-apparent causes were likely to have been ‘explained’ by imagination emanating from whoever had a degree of articulate ignorance to assert what Smith labeled the “pusillanimous superstition that supplied the place of philosophy" (see Smith “History of Astronomy”).

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Leading a life of sobriety can be challenging once an addict steps outside of the protected walls and supportive foundation of a residential drug and alcohol addiction treatment center.

This is where outpatient treatment can help!

But, why is outpatient therapy necessary after inpatient rehabilitation program? Most inpatient drug and alcohol treatment programs range from 30 to 90 days, and do not extend the continuum of care through an outpatient treatment plan after inpatient rehab. The reason most people fail in the pursuit of sobriety is because they receive a limited amount of treatment and then they stop.

In this article we explain more about the benefit and importance of outpatient addiction treatment programs and continued therapy. Then, we invite your questions and comments in the end section.

Treating addiction as a lifelong chronic disease

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), addiction is a chronic brain disease, meaning there’s not a finite amount of treatment time for addiction. The NIH further describes addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive drug and alcohol urges, despite harmful and potentially fatal consequences. For that reason, outpatient therapy is a critical step in the path to recovery.

At Enterhealth, a drug and alcohol treatment center based in Dallas, we treat addiction as a chronic brain disease, providing medically focused program both inpatient and outpatient treatment.

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Here is what the addiction treatment process looks like:

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  2. The assessment leads to individualized treatment plans and strategies to manage addiction on a daily basis.
  3. The individual plan follows the patient through residential treatment into outpatient treatment extending treatment well beyond the residential stay.

When addiction treatment stops, the disease returns, just like you would suspect if an individual with diabetes, asthma or high blood pressure suddenly stopped taking medication or watching their diet.

At Enterhealth, we work to help patients develop strategies to manage their disease over their entire life span, as you would any other chronic medical illness. Healing the brain takes time and outcomes are significantly improved when treatment is both medically based and extended over a long period of time.

Outpatient addiction services and therapies

We believe that by adding advanced, science-based therapy services, patients will have more resources to manage the disease and lead a successful life. To affirm our commitment to state-of-the-art outpatient treatment services, we recently invested $500,000 to further expand treatment programs, online therapy tools, as well as hire additional addiction treatment professionals. Our expansion of outpatient services includes the following:

Cognitive remediation therapy helps repair and improve weakened brain functions, such as memory loss and task sequencing, caused by alcohol or drug use.

Neurobiofeedback treats the chronic brain disease of addiction by retraining the person’s brain to be calm, focused and more relaxed in stressful situations. Stressful incidents are a major cause of relapse, and Neurobiofeedback training helps create a solid foundation on which to build recovery.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an addiction therapy technique used to desensitize patients when it comes to the negative emotions associated with a traumatic event. The treatment is used as a tool to reprocess traumatic memories into something more positive.

Medical experts at Enterhealth continue to implement the latest and most advanced addiction treatment tools to enhance residential treatment and outpatient maintenance programs in an effort to increase the chances of a successful recovery process.

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Enterhealth Outpatient Center for Excellence provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary assessment when the patient first arrives. That means we have a physician, neuropsychologist, senior level therapist, as well as lab and drug testing readily available to design an individualized treatment plan for each person. Using these assessment tools, we’re able to determine the level of brain injury caused by drug or alcohol use for each individual patient.

We’ve designed a one-stop outpatient treatment program by providing all the necessary services a patient needs in one convenient, accessible place. This kind of outpatient treatment model provides a seamless transition to life after inpatient therapy or can be a standalone option, depending on the severity of the addiction. The goal of each customized treatment plan is to deliver a suite of services over a long period of time to help patients lead a sober, happy and productive life.

The importance of stress management in recovery

One of the most important goals of outpatient therapy is to teach the patient healthy coping skills for dealing with stress. When an individual is actively using drugs or alcohol, the addict relies on the substance as a way to cope. Our teams of medical professionals specializing in addiction help patients:

  • Develop a handful of coping strategies to effectively deal with and manage stress.
  • Find a new, sober peer group.
  • Better manage stress and previous trauma in the healthiest way possible.
  • Be equipped with a variety of effective tools before diving into more intense therapy issues, such as past traumatic experiences and events.

We understand that an overwhelming percentage of addicts have a history of trauma in their lives. Before dealing directly with the trauma, we first teach individuals during one-on-one therapy sessions about coping strategies.

Continued care and outpatient addiction treatment

The expert medical team at Enterhealth Outpatient Center for Excellence believes that outpatient therapy is really a necessary part of long-term success. We urge individuals who are struggling or who have struggled with addiction in the past to continue their journey through sobriety by choosing a continuing care support program.

Unfortunately, triggers that can potentially ignite a relapse will be there forever. That is why a continuing care program is the recommended critical part of recovery, regardless of the length of the residential stay or short term outpatient program.

At Enterhealth, we believe the purpose of continuing care is for everyone involved to stay actively aware and engaged during the recovery process, and to always be seeking new and more effective ways to help them lead a healthy, happy and sober life.

Outpatient therapy questions

Did you like the information provided in the article, but would like to learn more? If you have any further questions regarding outpatient treatment for addiction, please post them in the section below. We try to reply personally and promptly to all legitimate inquiries.

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Dr. Urschel is Co-Founder and Chief Medical Strategist for Enterhealth, one of the finest residential and outpatient treatment programs in the nation. Known as one of the country's foremost authorities on substance abuse and addiction, Dr. Harold Urschel is the author of the New York Times best seller, “Healing the Addicted Brain.” He is a coveted speaker on substance abuse and the latest treatments of the chronic brain disease of addiction on both the local and national stage.

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Do I Need Yet Another Reason to Justify "Agility"?

I haven't blogged in a while, but an email from someone triggered me to put up some Agile thoughts.

Someone emailed me an issue today. I thought I would share it with you and include my response:

"... due to an entirely unnecessary international conference call with a brand new manager-type of a big International customer who suddenly thrust himself into a long-running discussion with their Indian subsidiary. Of course, we now have to dance around and kiss HIS culo, so I have to be in the office at an ungodly hour.

I find that the profitability of successful companies disguises a lot of fatty tissue (i.e. not-very-busy Manager-types). So we get a "suddenly self-appointed stake-holder" who is high enough in the mucky-muck list so you can do nothing about it. Of course, after spending all this time and effort to get him/her involved, they fade away, leaving a giant hole in the team's productivity. Anybody have ideas on how to handle these? Suggestions appreciated."

No solution comes to mind except simply supporting an Agile and transparent process should do the trick. Here is some background on the type of attitude that is at work here:

Eventually, these people end up quitting on their own if it becomes impossible for them to hide their antics. Reasons given for quitting usually are "I've outgrown the company", "I need new challenges", etc.

Watch for behaviours such as forcing themselves to be the point of contact for major customers and purposely leaving people in the dark wrt to these customers so they appear to be more knowledgeable. After the useful people have been fired for ineffectiveness (because now they look like they are the fatty parts of the company that can be trimmed), this person ends up with a raise and higher title due to the amount of responsibility. And because they are the ones in contact with clients, they appear to be the only one to have the tools to calm an irate client. They've now become a bottle neck and productivity starts to crawl as the idea of delegating anything wrt requirements is not possible.

Once they quit because the found a better job, productivity goes through the roof! The higher ups instantly know that the joke was on them for the last 2-4 years since this person was hired. They were able to find a better job because on paper it looks like they were doing so well - including a promotion in a relatively short amount of time.

I've seen this at least a couple of times during my consulting days. I call these people "professional ladder climbers". To them, the only goal is to get promoted, get a raise and has nothing to do with making the organization effective. As long as they satisfy the optics, no one is the wiser until it's too late to do anything about it and they've gone to greener pastures.

This is why I support a transparent process. Agile stuff makes this possible. Now to implement some of these processes in government offices so our tax dollars can go to teachers and charities instead of these narcissistic leaches. I suspect most are not self-aware enough or don't care to know their impact on society or those immediately around them.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Vancouver Tech Fest GIT Presentation

I did a presentation on GIT for Agility at Vancouver Tech Fest today. Here are the slides for those who wanted them! Let me know if you want more info.

Here are some links to good GIT sites:

Linus Torvalds on GIT:
GIT magic book:
GIT Extensions project for VS:

I'm glad people liked the presentation. The organizers will post the actual screen capture and audio later.

Monday, November 2, 2009

ALT.NET Vancouver is on!

We will have a FREE open spaces event held at the 500 Plaza Hotel (Cambie and 12th) starting at 5:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 5th! Participants will include:

Eric Evans
Michael Feathers
and possibly Martin Fowler and others!

This is your chance to participate in an interactive setting with a lot of the presenters from Agile Vancouver.

Please go and sign up at Please message Stefan Moser or Scott Muc through that site regarding any details.

Books at Agile Vancouvre Conference

Since some people couldn't get the time off work or couldn't afford to attend the conference, they won't be able to get the great discount we have on some books that we have at 20% off the cover price. Please look them up online for the price and subtract 20%. We also include the tax in that price. Let me know through twitter:

Refactoring: Ruby Edition Jay Fields / Shane Harvie / Martin Fowler / Kent Beck
Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas Mary Lynn Manns Ph.D./Linda Rising Ph.D.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code Michael Feathers
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, 3E Martin Fowler
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software Eric Evans
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck / Tom Poppendieck
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Martin Fowler
Planning Extreme Programming Kent Beck / Martin Fowler
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Martin Fowler / Kent Beck / John Brant / William Opdyke / Don Roberts
Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models Martin Fowler
Leading Lean Software Development Mary Poppendieck / Tom Poppendieck

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Much Ado About Agile 2009 Conference Registration is Open!

This is the line up:

Martin Fowler,
Eric Evans,
Michael Feathers,
Mary Poppendieck,
and others

The conference is going to sell out quickly as it is a small venue.

To register please visit

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Event Sourcing and CQS part 1

Lets start by getting the transaction side of the application going. We're going to have a customer class that will have some simple properties at first.

Here is the project setup:

This is a pretty easy start. We have the test project that will exercise anything that we write. The messages project is where all our messages will reside. The Transaction Service will house our coordination of receiving commands to the Domain. We'll worry about the event publishing in a little bit. The Domain project will house our entities.

Time to get some sleep. More on this tomorrow.

Time Machine Example Implementation

A little while ago I wrote about a time machine for your application. This based on Greg Young's infamous Event Sourcing strategy. It's time to get a sample application going with this approach. I'll also take it one step further and apply the same strategy to the reporting side of the application. A lot of this hinges on the Open Closed Principle (OCP) so I'll try and enforce that through GIT hooks.

Here is a recap of the steps I'll be taking:

1. Event Sourcing and CQS to the extreme as prescribed by Greg.
2. Event Sourcing for reporting schema changes.
3. OCP application to the versioning of the dB instead of version scripts.
4. Enforcement of the OCP to the pub/sub of the reporting dB.
5. OCP application to the reporting services side through GIT hooks.

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Prod. 2011 - The Fabulous Mr. Toad (VIII)
  - Seq. 10.1 - Cyril's Testimony

Directed by James Algar, assisted by Jack Bruner, layout by Charles Philippi and Hal Doughty, secretary Dessie Flynn.
This draft number 2 dated 11/18/48.

Animation by Hugh Fraser (44 scenes) and Rudy Larriva (1 scene of four seconds).
This is Jim Algar's first sequence in this film as director. In 1946 he occupied room 2B-6, next door to layout men Philippi and Doughty in 2B-5 while Hugh Fraser was downstairs in 1B-6.

Note that the film's title here is "Magnificent Mr Toad."

Hugh Duncan Fraser was born in Butte, Montana on 08/15/1904 and passed away at age 89 on 01/06/1994 in Contra Costa/Walnut Creek, CA. Alberto has the following data on him: "Animator: DISNEY c38-54 (Pinocchio 40, Fantasia 40, Dumbo 41, Saludos Amigos 43, Victory Through Air Power 43, Goofy 43-44/46/48/50-53 [Victory Vehicles 43, How to Be a Sailor 44, How to Play Golf 44, A Knight for a Day 46, Double Dribble 46, The Big wash 48, Hold That Pose 50, Lion Down 51, Cold War 51, Tomorrow We Diet 51, Get Rich Quick 51, No Smoking 51, Father’s Lion 52, Hello Aloha 52, Man’s Best Friend 52, Two Gun Goofy 52, Teachers Are People 52, Two Weeks Vacation 52, How to Be a Detective 52, Father’s Day Off 53, Father’s Week End 53], Donald Duck 45-46 [The Eyes Have It 45, No Sail 45, Frank Duck Brings ‘Em Back Alive 46], Make Mine Music 46, Fun and Fancy Free 47, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 49, Cinderella 50, Alice in Wonderland 51, Peter Pan 52, Lady and the Tramp 55)." I cannot find any info on what he did between Lady and the Tramp and the 1960 Popeye series he worked on for director Jack Kinney.

Rudolph (Rudy) Larriva was born 02/12/1916 and passed away at age 94 recently on 2/19/2010. Last residence Irvine, CA.
Someone must have interviewed him, one would think...
Alberto's info about his time at Disney does not mention his work on Toad: "Animator: DISNEY 25 Feb 46-28 May 47 (Song of the South 46, Melody Time 48)." In July 1946 his room at Disney's was 1E-11.

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Blogger Zartok-35 says...

Fascinating! I knew High Fraser did weasle scenes, but I didn't think he did the whole sequence!
Bettacini says Rudy Larriva was out of Disney by mid-1947, so this draft must have been compliled quite awhile after his contributions.

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Blogger John V. says...

Notice that the bg data for scene 01.6 says that it (the background) is the same as scene 48 of sequence 07.1. This is crossed out and replaced with "seq. 19.1 sc. 16". Presumably the designations for the different sequences changed during production.

Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 5:28:00 PM PST
Blogger Steven Hartley says...

A whole Hugh Fraser sequence. I knew that he worked on the weasels, but I didn't think he practically animate the whole sequence (the Larriva scene is a re-use), and I never thought he even worked on the Trial scenes.

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Today (February 11) marks the anniversary of Voltaire’s 1778 return to his native Paris after more than 20 years in exile; sadly, he would die there just three months later. Outcast by the French nobility for his searing political satire and criticism of the Catholic church, the last two decades of Voltaire’s life were spent living and working in Geneva and the French border town of Ferney. Despite these difficulties, Voltaire’s output is unsurpassed; in his lifetime he produced over 2,000 publications. Few have permeated literary culture the way his writing did, but another group of writers living in exile came close.

The Latin American Boom movement, or simply “El Boom,” was a generation of writers who came to prominence in the mid-20th century working largely in exile, either self-imposed or otherwise. Like Voltaire, these five would heed the call to expose, examine and critique the social and political edicts alienating them from their home countries:

1. Carlos Fuentes

Fuentes was born into an affluent Mexican family and began writing at a young age. Much of his early work examines the political and revolutionary ideas from the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Six years after The Death of Artemio Cruz cemented him as one of the leading Latin American writers, he witnessed the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre and denounced the government of the time.

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Required Reading: The Death of Artemio Cruz

2. Octavio Paz

Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize, Paz was another Mexican writer who railed against political corruption affecting his home country and other parts of Latin America in the mid-20th century. A true leftist, he briefly fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Afterward, while living in Paris in the '50s, Paz began to publish his poems and essays, attacking totalitarianism and the Mexican government, but also the communist ideals of Joseph Stalin and, later, Fidel Castro. He began publishing Vuelta in the 1970s, using the Spanish literary magazine to continue criticizing his country’s politics and human rights standing.

Paz was prolific, publishing more than 40 volumes of poems and essays in his lifetime. He eventually moved back to Mexico and died in Mexico City in 1998.

Required Reading: The Labyrinth of Solitude

3. Isabel Allende

Allende was born in Peru to Chilean parents, her father being first cousin of then President Salvador Allende. In 1945, when she was three, her father disappeared and the family moved back to Chile; her childhood and adolescence were also split between Bolivia and Lebanon, where her stepfather was ambassador. In her 20s, Allende became a successful news reporter and worked as a journalist for several feminist magazines. Chile’s military coup in 1973 saw her uncle executed, and Allende and her family, including her two young children, fled once more — this time to Venezuela under the rule of Augusto Pinochet, where she stayed for 13 years.

During that time, Allende began a formal literary career, experimenting with both magical realism and historical critique, and published her first novel, The House of Spirits. The novel, which started as a letter to her dying grandfather in hopes his life would continue from his need to read it, was met with critical acclaim, but later works garnered criticism for being overly commercial. She has since published more than 15 novels and numerous works of collected fiction.

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4. José Donoso

Donoso was born and spent most of his adolescence in Chile. He moved to the U.S. to attend Princeton University and graduated with a BA in 1951. He returned to Chile and taught university literature classes while working as a journalist until the end of the 1950s.

Donoso would spend the next two decades in exile, first as a self-imposed expat teaching at the University of Iowa, and then, similar to Isabel Allende, he would flee the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, taking up residence in Spain. Considered his best novel, The Obscene Bird Night was published in 1970 and explores the darker side of identity and sexuality, placing the human psyche under unrelenting scrutiny. Donoso returned to Chile in 1981, where he worked as a writer and political activist for the rest of his life.

Required Reading: The Obscene Bird Night

5. Julio Cortázar

Born in 1914 in Brussels, Belgium, Cortázar and his Argentine parents spent most of World War I living in Switzerland with his maternal grandparents. After the war and a short stay in Barcelona, his family moved to Buenos Aires, where the writer remained until the 1950s. In 1951, at odds with what he considered Juan Peron’s dictatorship, Cortázar emigrated to France. He worked as a translator for UNESCO for many years and continued to write novels, short fiction and essays in support of socialist movements in Latin America. His novel Hopscotch is considered the definitive novel of the Boom movement.

Cortázar had several serious relationships, most notably with the Canadian artist Carol Dunlop. In 1982, Dunlop died from an unknown virus; Cortázar died two years later, succumbing to what doctors diagnosed as leukemia but is now thought by some to be AIDS. He is buried in Montparnasse, France.

Required Reading: Hopscotch

The critique of one’s own country, whether it regard government, religious ideology or social order, continues to be a catalyst for art, and while it doesn’t always lead to exile, the final product is a good litmus test for determining the birth of a movement. Who will be the next El Boom generation? Perhaps an outpouring from Russia and Ukraine will be spurred by recent political and human rights events. Wherever the location, we would benefit from recognizing the artistry within the criticism, as Voltaire's audience did, and gain from looking past the page for the reason the writing exists.

Elizabeth Karp-Evans is a New York-based freelance writer and editor. She has written for various online publications (Fader, Dish Pig) and worked as an editor on numerous fine art publications, most recently Doug Aitken: 100 YRS and Damien Hirst’s Freedom Not Genius. In her free time, she enjoys going to galleries, eating Mexican food, occasionally playing her clarinet and watching other people’s dogs play in the park.

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System Sustainable Land Association in collaboration with the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association analysed the data released by the National Energy Network (REN) and concluded that the four consecutive days of 100% renewable energy was a milestone.

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"The  purported goals of the program are either moot (like the pumping capacity) or, in the case of increasing the  share  of  renewables,  reducing  GHG  emissions  and  external  dependence,  could  be achieved  with  alternative  measures,  much  more  cost-effective  and  with  positive  social  and environmental impacts, such as the efficient use of energy." (The Portuguese Dam Program: an economic and environmental disaster: GEOTA, FAPAS, LPN, Quercus, CEAI, Aldeia, COAGRET, Flamingo, SPEA.)

Technological development over time will enable more efficient renewables production but again, Portugal has been slow in developing wave power systems despite being ideally placed to do so.

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Many countries around the world are leading the charge towards a clean energy future. According to 2013 data from the Energy Information Administration, 16 countries have hit 100% renewable electricity production.

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The lessons from the gems continue with a special lesson on fusion! Subscribe to the Cartoon Network UK YouTube channel:

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Welcome to the official Cartoon Network UK YouTube channel, the place where you can watch funny videos, clips with theme tunes and songs and interactive game plays from Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, Regular Show, Ben 10, We Bare Bears, Uncle Grandpa, Steven Universe, Clarence, Teen Titans Go!, Ninjago and many more. Get ready to laugh out loud and join us by subscribing to the channel!

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April's quick and easy popular flapjacks

    April's quick and easy popular flapjacks

    4 people made this

    About this recipe: A very easy flapjack recipe, I made it myself! It is a really simple and tasty recipe! You will need to freeze the chocolate beforehand for as long as desired. My favourite is banana and milk chocolate, you may need to freeze the banana beforehand as it will go mushy when it has been cooked! Please enjoy this and comment! The picture is flapjack made with 250g of sultanas.

    Norfolk, England, UK

    Makes: 24 flapjacks, approx 5cm by 5cm

    • 200g chocolate of your choice, frozen and chopped into approx 2cm by 2cm cubes
    • 200g fruit of your choice (freeze banana beforehand if using)
    • 200g golden syrup
    • 170g butter or margarine
    • 60g sugar, white or brown sugar (caster sugar would be best)
    • 450g porridge oats

    Prep:10min  ›  Cook:30min  ›  Extra time:1hr freezing  ›  Ready in:1hr40min

    1. Chop and freeze chocolate and banana if using for approx 60 minutes (optional).
    2. Preheat fan oven to 160 C / Gas 3. Place foil onto an oven tray and grease.
    3. Place the golden syrup, butter or margarine and sugar in the saucepan and heat gently until butter/margarine has melted.
    4. Stir in porridge oats a little at a time, followed by fruit and chocolate. Spoon mixture into the tray and flatten down.
    5. Bake in the preheated oven on the middle shelf for 30 minutes.
    6. Once the flapjack has cooked, cut into 24 squares immediately, and leave in th tray to cool.
    7. Once flapjack has completely cooled, place them in a suitable container and store at room temperature.
    8. Enjoy! :)

    Try adding 100g of nuts and 100g of sultanas to the plain flapjack mix. they are perfect if you are out cycling or running and need some energy.

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Pan Fried Potato Farls

    Pan Fried Potato Farls

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    Prepared potato farls are pan fried in hot olive oil then seasoned with a pinch of salt. Serve with an Ulster fry or just top with a poached egg. My favourite.

    Serves: 2

    • 4 prepared potato bread farls
    • 1 tablespoon olive oil, or as needed
    • 1 pinch salt

    Preparation:2min  ›  Cook:6min  ›  Ready in:8min

    1. Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Gently fry potato farls for 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Season with salt and serve immediately.

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

War in our house

My friend Leslie recently wrote a blog about some funny marital advise.  She basically said that instead of getting mad at the little things (leaving the honey on the counter, clothes left on the floor, etc) she makes a fun game out of it.  Well, I thought, this could be FUN!  So I started.

Kyle always leaves his dirty clothes everywhere.  So I started placing them like a person in funny spots.  His undies and a t shirt on the toilet like someone was sitting there, his work clothes on the bed like he is laying down.  This was fun at first but it did not get my point across, which was of course to get him to put his dirty clothes in the laundry basket.  So, I started more.  In the evenings he lays out his work clothes for the next day.  I took his dirty socks that he had left on the floor and put one in each pocket.  He has at least 3 pairs of shoes out at one time... no idea why... one of the many mysteries that is my husband.  Well, I started by having Luci's giant chicken wear them.  When that went unnoticed I started hiding one and putting the other away.  My favorite was one in the freezer:)  Well, finally he cracked.  Instead of getting mad he got even!

He decided to take ALL of my tank tops, still on hangers, and put them on my side of the bed.  When I explained to him that my antics were all to make a point and his were just to be a brat he responded with this... "I AM making a point, my point is that you trying to condition me will NEVER work".  Well, our competitive nature has taken over and now we are in full on war.  It is hysterical and FUN!  The other day I spent the entire day looking for the remote (of course I told him I found it right away as to not loose face). He of course had put it on the highest shelf possible, we short people don't tend to look above eye level very often.  There are no more points to be made just a war to be WON!  So, if anyone out there has any great ideas I am all ears.  No mean pranks, just funny subtle ones please:)  I am thinking of collecting every single pop can he leaves in his car over the next month and building a HUGE tower somewhere.  What do you all think?

  1. I think Kyle is correct-we can never condition men, so you should just have fun with it!!

  2. Yes--definitely make the pop can tower.
    Shoe in the freezer? Cold feet?

  3. haha I figured his left foot would feel nice and cool in this summer heat!

  4. I heard of someone first threatened her husband to throw away all the cloths left on the floor....and after she really threw away his fav bluegeans, he started to put them where they're supposed to be.
    I woldn't throw away my man's clothes...
    But...a thought on what some would do :)


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Friday, October 08, 2010

Yarn and Pirates

Two quick mentions today:

1. is having a huge Rowan Yarn sale over the next couple of days.  I ordered two sweaters worth of yarn from them for very, very little.  We're talking less than $3 a ball cheap.  How often do you find Rowan yarns going on sale this cheaply?

2.  We're huge Johnny Depp fans in this household, particularly of his Captain Jack Sparrow persona.  Click this link to find out why I now love him even more and make sure to watch the video clip there.  How cool that he took time out to go to a school and spend time with these kids. Here's another link from the Daily Mail that show's her letter.

Note to Captain Jack:  If you happen to read this, rest assured that if you decide to stop by sometime, I'll gladly mutiny on the ol' hubby and sail off into the sunset with you!  Would it happen any faster if I wrote it on notebook paper and drew a skull and cross bones on the page?   Love you.  Call me!

PS.  This little guy would mutiny as well:

PSS. Please ignore the Batman sticking out from under the white shirt.  The kid's a little confused as to whether to be a good guy or pirate, but he leans toward piracy more days than not.

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Birthday Surprises

Yesterday, the Eldest received a birthday gift from my parents.  Want a great tip to make a kid really happy on his birthday?  First, grab a box.  Then take 30 one dollar bills, crumple them up lightly and throw them in the box.  Wrap gorgeously for the kid to open.   You'll get this response:

Now, beware.  See the little fella?  That smile was only for a split second and right before he realized that there would be none of those little green thingies coming his way.   There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, stomping of feet and huge tears once he figured out that those pretties were not for him.  We had to give him two of dollars of his own to keep him (The Youngest) from punching his brother out of anger because he (The Eldest) wouldn't fork over any.     Life is never dull with The Youngest around.

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

More Halloween Decorating

I added a few more decorations to my mantle today, small ones.  Rats!

You can snag these templates over at Martha Stewart.  Check out what Thrifty Decor Chick did with hers.

If you look closely over to the left, there's a rat checking out the climbing skeleton:

I used black poster board for mine that I bought over at the Dollar Tree.   I just couldn't resist these cute little rats once I saw them.

Monday, October 04, 2010

Weekend Wrap Up

Guess what?  My Skull Pops are featured on Dollar Store Crafts today!  Yay!  If you're dropping in from over there, welcome, glad you could join us.

In other news, The Space Shuttle Project is coming along nicely.  The Eldest got all nice and sticky yesterday.  We moved to the garage for this part of the project.  It's just a bit too messy for the house.

Because of the humidity that we have around these parts, we opted for a mix of glue and water instead of flour and water.  It may need a bit more glue on the next go around, it's not quite as hard as I would like it to be.

My Sister-In-Law's birthday was celebrated this weekend.  I got out her gift, the Queen Anne's Lace Crochet project and finally blocked it.  Look at the difference:

The Magic of Blocking has worked it's wonders once again!


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Diet Websites for Moms: After that second cocktail, I care so much less about weight.

By Melissa Summers

Like I said last week, if it weren’t for the kids, I’d be absolutely fine skipping right over Christmas this year. But the kids, they are fond of this little holiday so I’ll perform all my duties. Still, let’s not talk about Christmas anymore.
I like to start my New Year’s Resolutions in December, it somehow makes me feel less likely to fail than doing the traditional January 1st resolution. It’s fun being at the gym in December when no one else is bothering to worry about exercise in all the holiday rush and then in early January, you can’t get a treadmill, not even the one without a water bottle holder. But watch, by February you’ve got run of the treadmills again…even the one with the TV.
I know you’re thinking ‘I’m too busy this month!’ ‘There’s so much to indulge in!’ Last year I decided to start a new fitness routine in December figuring if I could make time for it as Christmas loomed over my head, I’d be able to make time for it when the holidays were over. I was (mostly) right.
I suggest, if you want to lose weight, eat healthier and get active in the new year, you start thinking about it now. You don’t have to be perfect, just start incorporating some of your new habits into your life, a ramp up to the new year. I’ve collected some sites to get you started.
diettelevision.jpgDiet Television offers a free ‘Diet Finder’ tool to help you find the diet that works best for you based on several criteria you determine. Each diet is reviewed by other dieters who share what they liked and didn’t like about the diet. It’s then reviewed by Diet Television’s nutritionists, in a straightforward manner. I’m not a fan of dieting in general but my ears perked up when I saw the Martini Diet, I like martinis and losing weight. Of course the nutritionist sort of set me straight on that. “This plan aims to create dieters who are completely self-absorbed and spend their time shopping instead of eating…” and “….These suggestions do little but encourage disordered eating behaviors.” This is a straighforward site to start your search for the weight loss plan which will work best for you, even if it’s not the Martini Diet.
hungry_girl.jpgHungry Girl is the diet/food website of Lisa who is not a professional nutritionist, just someone who loves food and wants to enjoy it while still fitting in her pants. In the process she’s collected lots of diet tips, food news, reviews and low(er) fat recipes and she’s happy to share them with you. As a plus, if you like Weight Watchers and the point system, Hungry Girl offers recipes with the points already calculated for you. Nice.
diet-blog.gifDiet-Blog reviews diet books, diet food delivery services and ready made grocery store diet offerings. The site filters “…the best of diet news and advice – and combin[es] it with real-world application and opinion.” Site owner Jim Foster also offers compelling critical looks at issues surrounding the diet industry, weight loss and body image.
Of course, I might be the only one who likes this slow ramp up approach to life changes, reading, preparing and considering my options for a few weeks. I’ve wanted to sell my house and move somewhere new for over a year. Even though we weren’t ready I’ve been searching real estate ads for about two years. Your results may vary.

Melissa Summers
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Melissa Summers was a regular contributor writing Melissa’s Buzz Off.

Melissa Summers was a regular contributor writing Melissa’s Buzz Off.

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