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See: CONGRESS [McChesney/Nichols quote]
LOCKE, John (1632-1704)
English empiricist philosopher. He was a proponent of the idealist notion of natural rights in ethics and politics, and was a major influence on those who founded the United States.
Locke also wrote on political economy, and as Marx said, championed the new bourgeoisie in every way, taking the side of the industrialists against the working class and against the paupers, the merchants against the old-fashioned usurers, the financial aristocracy against the governments that were in debt, and he even demonstrated in one of his books that the bourgeois way of thinking was the normal one for human beings. [Marx, quoted in an appendix to TSV, 3:592.]
See also: Philosophical doggerel about Locke.
A giant American corporation, and the nations largest defense contractor. This is one of the best illustrations of what is known as the Pentagon System, wherein the U.S. government promotes the welfare of supposedly private corporations. Lockheed Martin is at the centre of the grotesquely bloated miltary trough.
The F-22, a military plane manufactured by the company and that has been in development since the 1980s, has now become so horribly overpriced that not even the worlds premier imperialist power can afford to maintain a fleet of very many of them, and the Obama administration has terminated production, citing the ridiculous cost involved. This was something that the company tried hard to prevent, by spreading the manufacturing of the plane around the country and in many different Congressional districts, and tying employment in these areas with the planes procurement by the Air Force, thereby deliberately making itself too big to fail (in the lingo of the so-called financial crisis). Some military experts even complain that the aircraft will diminish US power because it is too complex and prone to unforeseen problems, which requires more maintenance time, fewer flight hours for pilots, etc, and will not even be deployed in sufficient numbers to provide very much of a strategic advantage to US imperialism.
Likewise, Lockheed Martins other fighter jet, the F-35, has been harshly criticized as being too compromised due, ironically, to its promise of being a cost cutting aircraft. (The Marine version is capable of vertical/short take-off and landing, but this imposes design constraints on the Air Force and Navy versions, which require ad-hoc modifications to make them competent in their assigned roles. To fix the inevitable problems emanating from a fundamentally unsound design, its costs have also ballooned wildly). This entire fiasco shows quite clearly what Marx said of the bourgeoisie being a hostile band of brothers: the capitalist class has overall interests that bring it together, but each capitalist tries to gain a short-term advantage over its rivals, even if this might jeopardize the system as a whole (in this case, the vitality of American military power). L.C.
Logic is usually defined to be the rules of valid inference or the rules and nature of reasoning. However, if you look at the dominant areas of discussion in books of logic, you will find that they usually only discuss the rules and nature of reasoning insofar as these are related to deduction. Actually deductive logic (or formal logic) is only one small part of what should logically be called logic. Other important areas of logic in the broad sense that usually receive scant attention include analogic logic (the logic of making analogies), and most important of all, dialectical logic.
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It has been said that the relationship of formal logic to dialectics
is like the relationship between elementary mathematics and higher mathematics. This
is a formulation which should be studied further. Formal logic is concerned with the
form of thought, and is concerned to ensure that there is no contradiction between
successive stages in an argument. It is a specialized science. Any kind of writing must
make use of formal logic.
Formal logic does not concern itself with major premises: it is incapable of so doing. The Kuomintang call us bandits. Communists are bandits, Chang San is a communist, therefore Chang San is a bandit. We say The Kuomintang are bandits, Chiang Kai-shek is Kuomintang, therefore we say Chiang Kai-shek is a bandit. Both of these syllogisms are in accordance with formal logic.
One cannot acquire much fresh knowledge through formal logic. Naturally one can draw inferences, but the conclusion is still enshrined in the major premise. At present some people confuse formal logic and dialectics. This is incorrect. Mao, Speech at Hangchow (Dec. 21, 1965), in Stuart Schram, ed., Chairman Mao Talks to the People (1974), pp. 240-241. Also in Mao, SW 9:229.
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and end in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physicsindeed, of modern science altogether. Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, Part V. (We believe these particular comments date from 1933. Ed.)
[T]he many books which have been and are still being written on logic provide abundant proof that here, too, final and ultimate truths are much more sparsely sown than some people believe. Engels, Anti-Dühring (1878), MECW 25:84.
An extreme form of empiricism, which began as an avowedly neo-Kantian movement, and which held that only statements that can be verified empirically have meaning, from which they assumed that it follows that all metaphysics, religion, and even ethical principles, along with other abstract philosophical and social principles and even most poetry, are meaningless and therefore neither true nor false. (They failed to notice that their very statement of this verifiability principle was also meaningless according to the principle itself!) The Vienna Circle of logical positivists was established in the mid-1920s by Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, and others, and was inspired by the views of Ernst Mach and the early philosophical musings of Ludwig Wittgenstein (who, however, kept his distance from them). Later on, Rudolf Carnap became the most widely known representative of this group.
Logical positivism was extremely influential in the 20th century among scientists, and that negative influence still continues. There is also still a quite strong current of empiricism within bourgeois philosophy which has logical positivism among its ancestral roots even if, today, it is rarely promoted by that name.
See also: A.J. AYER, Karl POPPER, W. V. O. QUINE, Charles STEVENSON
The intellectual project of the Vienna Circlethe drawing of a sharp distinction between meaningful discourse (mainly science) and nonsense (theology, metaphysics, ethics, poetry...)has long been regarded as having expired from its internal contradictions. Even [A.J.] Ayer, its onetime evangelist, came to concede this, telling a BBC television interviewer in 1978 that the most important defect of logical positivism is that nearly all of it was false. Jim Holt, Positive Thinking, The New York Review of Books, Dec. 21, 2017, p. 74.
A phrase now used in the manufacturing and shipping industries to refer to a set of innovations and new procedures introduced over the past half century which have made the globalized production and distribution of goods easier, cheaper, and thus more profitable to multinational corporations.
Central among these changes has been the near universal adoption of large shipping containers to ship goods, one big truck load at a time. These containers are loaded at a source factory, shipped by rail or truck to a port, loaded on ships by giant cranes, moved by sea to another port, unloaded by other cranes, and then shipped by rail or truck again to other factories or to distributors of the final goods. This method of shipping is sort of a wholesale approach, as against the earlier more piecemeal method of shipping individual items, small irregular boxes, individual sacks, and so forth, and is much cheaper and more reliable.
Other aspects of the logistics revolution include more automation in the loading of containers onto ships and off of them later; faster and more reliable shipping schedules facilitating just-in-time arrival of parts and raw materials (cutting down on warehousing expenses); the better integration of parts production in far flung factories, often in several different countries each with the best blend of low wages and worker skills for that particular item; and easier possibilities for shifting production of particular parts or for final assembly to a different location if there should be political or labor trouble at a particular plant.
However, where there are militant labor movements (especially by longshoremen) or even political or revolutionary movements in key locations, this whole globalized production system can still become quite vulnerable to massive disruption.
In our modern global trading system, moving goods around costs next to nothing, said Rachel Slade. Shipping companies have achieved mind-boggling economies of scale, with megavessels carrying 20,000 containers constantly crisscrossing the oceans, and automated cranes in every port loading and unloading ships in record time. The maritime industry brings Americans bottled water from France, shoes from Cambodia, and phones from Chinaall at affordable prices; cheap shipping truly is the backbone of the global economy. Yet shipping companies face the same relentless downward pressure on prices as global manufacturing does, and firms are creaking under the strain. Many developing countries have bankrolled new ports and vessels and subsidized shipping in order to tip the trade scales in their favor. As a result, shipping rates on some key global trade lanes have fallen below cost. China has been particularly aggressive with subsidies; it now costs more for a U.S. firm to ship goods within the U.S. than for a product to get from Guangzhou to Boston. Its possible that global supply chains will get leaner and more efficient year after year. But a cheap shirtmade of Indian cotton thats processed in China and sewn in Vietnamalready makes it to Americans for pennies. Rachel Slade, Boston Globe, as summarized in The Week, May 25, 2018, p. 34.
The lower (and more powerful) house of the parliament in India. It has around 545 members who are mostly elected, and have a term of 5 years. The current Lok Sabha was formed in May 2009 after national elections. Most revolutionaries and progressives in India view the Lok Sabha as consisting largely of wealthy political careerists and opportunists, and in some cases outright thieves or other criminals.
[Nepali:] Democratic republic. This is usually a shortened version of the current formal name of the country of Nepal, Sanghiya Loktantrik Ganatrantra Nepal (Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal), or else a reference to the current political system or regime in Nepal.
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After roaming the streets of the capital a day or two, making headway
with difficulty through the human turmoil and the endless lines of vehicles, after visiting
the slums of the metropolis, one realises for the first time that these Londoners have been
forced to sacrifice the best qualities of their human nature, to bring to pass all the
marvels of civilisation which crowd their city; that a hundred powers which slumbered within
them have remained inactive, have been suppressed in order that a few might be developed
more fully and multiply through union with those of others. The very turmoil of the streets
has something repulsive, something against which human nature rebels. The hundreds of
thousands of all classes and ranks crowding past each other, are they not all human beings
with the same qualities and powers, and with the same interest in being happy? And have they
not, in the end, to seek happiness in the same way, by the same means? And still they crowd
by one another as though they had nothing in common, nothing to do with one another, and
their only agreement is the tacit one, that each keep to his own side of the pavement, so as
not to delay the opposing streams of the crowd, while it occurs to no man to honour another
with so much as a glance. The brutal indifference, the unfeeling isolation of each in his
private interest, becomes the more repellent and offensive, the more these individuals are
crowded together, within a limited space. And, however much one may be aware that this
isolation of the individual, this narrow self-seeking, is the fundamental principle of our
society everywhere, it is nowhere so shamelessly barefaced, so self-conscious as just here
in the crowding of the great city. The dissolution of mankind into monads, of which each
one has a separate principle, the world of atoms, is here carried out to its utmost
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), The Great Towns, MECW 4:328-329. Online at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Engles_Condition_of_the_Working_Class_in_England.pdf. [This description of the streets of London in 1845 more or less applies to the streets of any great city at any time during the capitalist era. Ed.]
LONG CYCLES or LONG WAVES
This refers to hypothesized long-term economic cycles or waves, substantially longer than the length of the standard industrial cycle that Marx described. The most well-known of these theories is Kondratiev Waves, but there is now a more plausible split-cycle theory for the imperialist era.
See also: ECONOMIC CYCLES
The mostly long-forgotten period of serious economic weakness in the United States and other countries which began with the financial Panic of 1873, had a moderate respite in the 1880s, then reached its nadir in 1893 (in another Panic), and was largely over by around 1896 (though aspects lingered for yet another decade). This entire period was characterized by relative economic stagnation, high unemployment and violent labor struggles, large numbers of farm foreclosures, and considerable political unrest. In 1892 both the housing market and railroad construction faltered, which in turn led to a major slowdown in steel production and other industries. In other words this was a classic overproduction crisis.
This Long Depression was actually called the Great Depression until the new and qualitatively worse Great Depression of the 1930s came along. This led to the renaming of the earlier historical episode in order to avoid confusion. Although the Long Depression had some similarities to the Great Depression of the 1930s, in some respects it was merely the worst of the old-style recessions/depressions of the pre-monopoly era of capitalism. Capitalism had not yet commandeered the State in the same way it has done in the capitalist-imperialist era to help manage the economy and try to resolve crises for it. And although this crisis was serious and prolonged, it was not nearly as severe as that of the 1930s.
An epic escape of the revolutionary army led by the Communist Party of China from southeast China to the Yanan (Yenan) area of northern China in the years 1934-1935. During this 6,000 to 8,000 mile Long March across China the Communists underwent tremendous hardship and were pursued and attacked most of the way by the army and airplanes of the reactionary Chiang Kai-shek regime. Only about 10% of the revolutionary army survived the extremely arduous journey. At a temporary stop along the way Mao was named the top leader of the CCP. The Long March, the selection of Mao as the top leader, and the safe arrival of the much diminished revolutionary forces in Yanan marked the turning point in the Chinese Revolution.
The Long Slowdown is the qualitative slowdown in economic growth rates of world capitalism which began circa 1973, after the 25-year long post-World War II economic boom. As of 2008 it appears to be coming to an end with the beginning of an even more serious stage to the long-developing world economic crisis. [More to be added... ]
Initially the troubles of the 1970s [for the world capitalist economy] were
seen only as a hopefully, temporary pause in the Great Leap Forward of the world economy, and
countries of all economic and political types and patterns looked for temporary solutions.
Increasingly it became clear that this was an era of long-term difficulties, for which
capitalist countries sought radical solutions, often by following secular theologians of the
unrestricted free market who rejected the policies that had served the world economy so well
in the Golden Age [of the post-World War II boom],
but now seemed to be failing. The ultras of laissez-faire were no more successful than
anyone else. In the 1980s and early 1990s the capitalist world found itself once again
staggering under the burdens of the inter-war years, which the Golden Age appeared to have
removed: mass unemployment, severe cyclical slumps, the ever-more spectacular confrontation of
homeless beggars and luxurious plenty, between limited state revenues and limitless state
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, (NY: Vintage, 1996 (1994)), p. 10. [As a revisionist, Hobsbawm did not understand that the Soviet Union was a state-capitalist country in this era, and that therefore the even more severe economic problems in the USSR and its sphere were also part of the overall growing world capitalist economic crisis. Ed.]
A rich and powerful super-speculative U.S. hedge fund that collapsed in 1998 and had to be bailed out by a consortium of giant banks under the supervision by, and pressure from, the U.S. Federal Reserve. It is said that if it had not been bailed out, there would likely have been a chain-reaction failure of many big banks and possibly the entire U.S. financial system.
Long-Term Capital Management was founded in 1993 and was immediately hailed as the most impressive, and most brilliantly managed, hedge fund in history. It was led by the rich Wall Street figure, John Meriwether, and included among its other leading partners two winners of the (phony) Nobel Prize in Economics, Myron Scholes and Robert C. Merton. These and other bourgeois financial and mathematical geniuses had supposedly discovered some full-proof methods of sophisticated arbitrage that would allow LTCM to extract billions of dollars of profits from the rest of the financial system. It worked for a few years, and had annual profits of more than 40%. But then, when the Asian (and Russian) Financial Crisis of 1997-98 hit, the huge bets made by LTCM on the value of speculative bonds turned out to be wrong guesses. In less than four months in 1998 LTCM lost $4.6 billion. Most of this money was owed to giant U.S. banks. So it took a massive bailout to prevent a general collapse. LTCM was finally closed down for good in early 2000.
LONGUET, Charles (1839-1903)
A journalist and prominent figure in the French working-class movement and a follower of Proudhon. He was a member of the General Council of the (First) International (1866-67 and 1871-72), Corresponding Secretary for Belgium (1866), and a delegate to several congresses of the International. He was also a member of the Paris Commune, then emigrated to England and later joined the opportunist group known as the Possibilists. He was married to Marxs oldest daughter, Jenny.
LONGUET, Jean [Jean-Laurent-Frederick] (Johnny) (1876-1938)
Son of Charles and Jenny Longuet; a lawyer and a reformist leader of the French Socialist Party and the Second International. He was a social-chauvinist during World War I, and though nominally a pacifist, invariably voted for the war expenditures for the French bourgeoisie to carry on their inter-imperialist warwhich brought about Lenins condemnation. He was the founder and editor of the newspaper Le Populaire. At the Tours Congress of the French Socialist Party in 1920, the communists gained a majority, but Longuet sided with the minority. Afterwards he joined the centrist Two-and-a-half International. All in all, a very disappointing showing for a grandson of Karl Marx!
See: TAX LOOPHOLES
LOST DECADE [Japan]
Originally a translation of the Japanese phrase ushinawareta junen for the decade of the 1990s, which was viewed with remorse in Japan as a period of economic failure after the great hopes raised during the 1980s that Japans economy would continue expanding rapidly and perhaps even in time surpass that of the United States! The term has since then become rather pathetic and even inappropriate, since the Japanese economy has now (as of 2017) been stagnating, and in and out of recessions, for more than two and a half decades since the collapse of the property asset bubble around 1990.
For the first decade and more, most bourgeois economists in Japan and elsewhere viewed Japans malaise as its own peculiar problem, and even today many still think of it that way. But some Marxist analysts were much more alert to its true significance and recognized even before the end of the 1990s that the Japanese disease would soon expand throughout most of the capitalist world, and that it indicated the path that the entire world capitalist economy would be taking for quite a considerable period (before things eventually get even worse!)
See also: Following the Japanese Economic Path, by S.H., July 11, 2008, online at: http://www.massline.org/PolitEcon/ScottH/Japan/FollowingJapansPath-080711.pdf
Lotteries, now run by most of our 50 states, are disguised forms of
taxation that fall most heavily on those least able to pay. In todays economic crisis,
state leaders face rising resistance to taxation from everyone. Therefore, many of them
plan to expand lotteries even more, hoping that no one realizes they represent a kind
of masked tax. In the elegant words of conservative South Carolina State Senator Robert
Ford, reported by the Associated Press, Gambling aint no blight on society. To fight
them, we need first to expose state lotteries as disguised and very unfair taxation.
... Duke University researchers in 1999 found that the more education one has the less one spends on lottery tickets: dropouts averaged $700 annually compared to college graduates $178; and that those from households with annual incomes below $25,000 spent an average of nearly $600 per year on lottery tickets, while those from households earning over $100,000 averaged $289; blacks spent an average of $998, while whites spent $210.
Put simply, lotteries take the most from those who can least afford them. Thus, still another study of state lotteries concluded: We find that the implicit tax is regressive in virtually all cases. Instead of taxing those most able to pay, state leaders use lotteries to disguise a regressive tax that targets the middle and even more the poor. Just as the richest were getting much richer from 2001 to 2006, the middle and poor were getting more heavily taxed by means of lotteries....
Lotteries are also powerful ideological and political weapons. They reinforce notions that individual actsbuying lottery ticketsare appropriate responses to societys economic problems. Lotteries help to distract people from collective action to solve the economic crisis by changing society. Lotteries massive advertising shows an audacity of hype: shifting people from hope for the social fruits of collective action to hope for the personal fruits of individual gambling. Richard D. Wolff, Capitalism Hits the Fan (2010), pp. 165-167.
In recent years, in the U.S. and many other countries, the new jobs that have opened up pay much lower wages than the jobs which have been lost. Consequently, not only are there fewer jobs, but even those jobs which are created pay substantially lower wages on average. (And this is without even taking into account the much greater decline in, or even total elimination of, health, retirement and other benefits especially in new jobs in recent years.) This strong tendency towards the elimination of the better paying jobs is sometimes called the hollowing out of the work force. More straight-forwardly, it is yet further evidence that in the U.S. and overall in the world as a whole, the working class is being rapidly driven down.
Loyalty, for Kantian-style ideologists in ethics, is a virtue in and of itself, and is viewed as morally praiseworthy regardless of who or what you are loyal to. Thus, absurdly, the loyalty of a German soldier in the Nazi imperialist army to that army and even to Hitler personally in that circumstance is still somehow viewed as morally praiseworthy even by some people who are totally opposed to and horrified by Nazism! In reality, loyalty is only morally justified when the ends or individuals you are loyal to are themselves moral.
For communist revolutionaries loyalty means only one thing: loyalty to the revolutionary proletariat, the masses, and the proletarian revolution. (This is because true morality means support for the interests of the people, and their central interest in capitalist society is making social revolution.) And therefore loyalty to individual leaders, or even to some particular political party, is only permissible insofar as this is in fact a genuine means of maintaining loyalty to the interests of the proletariat and the revolution. If an individual leader turns against the masses and revolution then it is totally wrong to remain loyal to that person. If a once-revolutionary party becomes revisionist and turns against socialist and communist revolution, then it is absolutely wrong to remain loyal to that party. In these cases we need new leaders and/or a new party.
Responding to a letter of party member I. Shatunovskii in 1930, Stalin was
very careful to distinguish between personal loyalty to the leader and loyalty to the cause
he represented. Shatunovskii had questioned some of Stalins recent pronouncements, while
simultaneously proclaiming his complete personal devotion to him. Stalin recommended that he
abandon this un-Bolshevik principle of devotion to individualsan empty and unnecessary
intelligentsia trinketand direct his devotion instead toward the working class, its party
and state. Sarah Davies & James Harris, Stalins World: Dictating the Soviet Order
(Yale: 2014), p. 140. (A bourgeois book, but with some points of interest.)
[Stalin was of course correct in his stance here. It seems, however, that as these authors state later in quoting Mikoyan (p. 144), veneration of Stalin increasingly came to be equated with loyalty to the party line. In addition to this criticism of the personality cult around Stalin and his leadership, there is another difficulty here, however. When a party member really believes that the revolutionary party or its leadership is making a serious error which actually goes against the interests of the proletariat and the revolution, then this comrade has not only the democratic right but also the revolutionary obligation to say this, to oppose the perceived error, and thereby to more genuinely defend the revolution (to the extent they are correct). This is the higher loyalty to the revolution that we require of communists. Of course, such an opposition to leadership or the party line must be done within the rules of democratic centralism, which allows the party to operate in practice as if it has absolutely complete agreement even while it continues to internally struggle over what all the specifics of a correct revolutionary line should be. S.H.]
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You can walk around on your own and feel as though it's all yours. It's the Cape's best-kept secret," says Ian Ives, director of Mass Audubon's Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary. Located off Route 6A on Bone Hill Road, Long Pasture offers stunning views of Sandy Neck Barrier Beach and Barnstable Great Marsh. It's a peaceful place where visitors can explore trails and sign up for bird walks. In the visitor center, you can observe turtles, marine shellfish and invertebrates and tadpoles on display in tanks, and register for summer kayak trips, aquatic excursions or island cruises (see sidebar). Piglets will also be in the fields starting in June.
This year, the sanctuary is celebrating its 10th anniversary and Ives says the milestone will help raise the sanctuary's profile to the Mid-Cape and beyond. "We are ultimately trying to make Long Pasture everyone's third place," says Ives. "Everyone has work, and everyone has home, but a lot people are looking for a third place that is special to them."
Sherman Parker bequeathed the home (circa 1948), including 110 acres of land, to Mass Audubon in 1996. It officially became Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary in 2006. The home is in need of renovation and repair, so the sanctuary's big push in coming years, says Ives, will be to renovate and expand the building. He would like to add an improved exhibit area with more live animal exhibits, as well as a new greeting area and program space, such as a wet lab with sinks, suitable for a large group of kids.
This past spring, Long Pasture collaborated with Falmouth Academy and Monomoy Middle School in Chatham to create wetlands for endangered species, such as the spadefoot toad. "These vernal pools are great living labs or living classrooms for students," says Ives. "By using the landscape, we will be able to take advantage of these wetlands for our programs."
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My musical influences come, from the day that I was born until the present day, from the Masters Of Reality… Black Sabbath. And my all time favourite: Jaco Pastorius.
Musical background
- Black Sabbath
- Frank Zappa
- Jaco Pastorius
- Steve Harris
- Billy Sheehan
Favourite bands
- Black Sabbath
- Iron Maiden
- Misfits
- Weather Report
- Frank Zappa
Favourite albums
- Black Sabbath – Sabotage
- Frank Zappa – One Size Fits All
- Weather Report – Heavy Weather
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- Iron Maiden – Killer
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- Dune (1992) review by Wertzone
- Sean T. Collins finishes his The Wire reviews
- All you ever wanted to ask about graphics, and never dared to, or something.
- How accurate does Sleeping Dogs simulate Hong Kong?
- Interested in a Netflix series about Zelda? I'm not, but in case you are, there you go.
- Dying Light review
- Extensive Lyanna analysis
- Hillarious Jupiter Ascending review
- Samsung's smart TV introduces pop-up ads, because that's a good idea.
- Russian astronauts have shotguns with them in space, in case they land in the Sibirian wilderness by accident. Somewhere, you hear Liam Neeson signing up for the movie.
- The semantics behind the standalone
- Peter Molyneux imploding in this lengthy interview is hilarious
- Interesting review of 50 Shades of Grey
- Arya VI chapter analysis
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[really enjoyed adding bass, guitar and organ to her beautiful voice and pedal steel]
available on the Sampler, along with Denial, from my lead guitar gig, Anne Castellano & The Smoke.
It's a joy to play within such a fine musical community.
Good Sponge Records is a music umbrella based in southeastern CT dedicated to showcasing some of the region's finest original roots, Americana, rock and blues songwriters and bands.
For those who missed the first two samplers, here they are
[in mini-player form!]
My track on Vol I is Side-By-Side, as Monkey68, and on Vol II, 2 Pieces from Sparse, under my own name.


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Sensational Butterflies returns to the Museum from 31 March to 17 September 2017.
This Easter, escape to the tropical butterfly house and watch the crawling caterpillar transform into the beautiful butterfly.
This immersive exhibition is filled with life, colour and beauty and features species found in the tropical forests of Central and South America, Africa and Asia.
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This exhibition is the perfect place to admire the intricate detail and diversity of these creatures. Find out more about different ways to look at butterflies and how Museum scientists use powerful microscopes to reveal details smaller than the human eye can see.
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Highlights include:
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- searching for caterpillars hidden in the foliage and at different life stages and sizes
- seeing butterflies feed and pause their flight to enjoy nectar and fruit
- watching butterflies engage with each other
- butterfly-friendly tips and advice from the Butterfly House team
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My colleague David Lasnier designed all the phases for our baseball athletes this year and he came up with a great way to design the programs for a group of athletes that may require different qualities. Certain athletes require more stability work while others may present with more stiffness thus prioritizing more mobility work. Writing the program this way (and highlighting which athlete needs what) makes it a bit more effective and more individualized. Also, if you work in large groups this may be a great way to regress or progress athletes based upon their individual differences. Check out the picture below
Check out B2: Athlete "A" would perform a set of the side standing med ball scoop w/ partner toss (B1) then perform a set of a prayer position thoracic spine rotation mobility (instead of the rolling pattern –a stability based exercise). In C2, I chose to incorporate both as the athlete needs dynamic stability of the cuff and ankle mobility.
Another example is seen in D3, instead of belly press (which is important) we are going to work on full body hip and t-spine mobility.
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Categories: Core Training, Injury Prevention, Strength Training


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By Jim Thomas
Monday, Nov. 12 2007
NEW ORLEANS Marc Bulger's most meaningful handoff of the season didn't take
place on the field Sunday. Minutes after the Rams' startling 37-29 victory over
heavily favored New Orleans, Bulger turned in the visitors' locker room and
handed a game ball to. ...
Scott Linehan.
In a season of offensive crises and eight straight losses as well as the
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Bulger said he didn't act on his own in handing the game ball to the Rams'
beleaguered head coach.
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His passer rating of 125.0 was his best since the Washington game last
Christmas Eve.
But he got plenty of help Sunday. Bulger's numbers were all the more impressive
considering he was working behind his 25th different starting combination on
the offensive line as a Ram. Four of the six offensive linemen who played
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Running back Steven Jackson's bulging disc held up well enough to get 27
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a touchdown pass on a trick play, his first TD toss since his days at Eldorado
High in Las Vegas.
Wide receiver Torry Holt didn't score but topped 100 yards receiving for the
second game in a row, with 124 yards on eight catches. All told, the Rams piled
up a season-high 409 yards, albeit against a Saints defense that was missing
three injured starters.
As for the St. Louis defense, coordinator Jim Haslett's aggressive blitzing
schemes kept one of the league's hottest offenses and hottest quarterbacks
(Drew Brees) off-balance for three quarters. With a 34-7 lead early in the
fourth quarter, Haslett basically stopped blitzing.
The Saints nearly made the Rams pay for that change in strategy by scoring
three fourth-quarter touchdowns. But Dane Looker's recovery of an onside kick
with 29 seconds remaining ended any hope for a miracle comeback by the Saints
Instead, it was Bulger kneeling in the "victory" formation to end the game. It
was that football from the final play of the game that Bulger handed to
Linehan in the locker room. This came after Linehan had handed game balls to
Haslett, linebackers coach Rick Venturi and secondary coach Willy Robinson
all former Saints coaches.
"I'm very proud of our football team," Linehan said. "I'm certain not many
people gave this football team much of a chance going on the road, with the way
we'd started our year. For obvious reasons, I don't blame them."
After enduring the stress of an 0-8 start that led to questions about his job
security, Linehan said he'll never take winning for granted.
"You've got to enjoy them all," he said. "It's hard to win in this league and
we proved that this year. You can get in a downward spiral, and it's hard to
come out of."
In the days leading up to the game, and even on game day, the Rams did
everything in their power to break out of that spiral.
Bulger said the Rams practice the victory formation every week. "And every week
we've lost, so we actually switched the direction we do it in our indoor
facility," he said. "Maybe that's what it was."
Or maybe it was the Saturday night speech by safety Corey Chavous in the team
hotel, imploring his teammates to play with more energy. Tight end Randy
McMichael said Chavous told the team to "just go back to playing football like
you played it when you were a little kid. Not for the money. Just go out there
and have fun."
Haslett addressed the team before the game and at halftime.
Members of the Rams' equipment staff even visited a voodoo "queen" in New
Orleans on Saturday in search of a way to break out of the 0-8 hex.
Somehow it worked. The karma changed. And despite being double-digit underdogs,
the Rams won a regular-season game for the first time since Dec. 31, 2006 in
"Hopefully, it's kind of contagious and rolls over to next week," center Andy
McCollum said. "You've got to play like you're having fun out there. Even when
you lose, it's a fun game. But it's a heck of a lot more fun when you win."
For the first time this year, the Rams know that's the case.


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Water Development Commission Report
Jon Wade, River Basin Planning Administrator, indicated both the planning and construction bills were uncontested during the legislative session. 32 planning projects are currently in the consultant selection process. Opportunities in the basin include: Alpine Raw Water, Alta Master Plan, Bairoil Master Plan, Pinedale Intake, Little Snake River Small Dams Phase II, Baggs Master Plan, Church Reservoir (Green River ASR), Pinedale Hydropower, North Alpine Water Supply, Viva Naughton Enlargement, and Green River Supply Canal projects. Also, supplemental funding of $1 million for the Groundwater Grant Program was received.
Barry Lawrence updated the BAG on the status of the plans for the other basins. The BAGs for the Snake/Salt and the Wind/Bighorn Basins will be meeting April 9 in Cody and April 10 in Jackson; whereas the BAGS for the Green, Powder/Tongue and Northeast Wyoming Basins will be meeting March 19 in Lyman, March 20 in Buffalo and March 21 in Newcastle. Barry discussed the status of these interim basin studies, and schedule for future meetings.
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Robin Gray gave a brief overview of the current activities of the Water Resources Data System (WRDS). She also reported that as of March 18, the Snotel average for entire state ranges from 57% in Laramie County to 84% in the Yellowstone area. The snowpack average for the Bear River area is 80%.
The state drought task force is meeting March 19. New online data includes a monthly climate report, drought monitor/studies, and links to other regional and national data sources. Of special interest is:
The water library is acquiring part of State Engineer's Office collection. The 2002 municipal system survey study will be available in another month or so. The Green River Basin report, including the GIS products, is 99% online with the Bear River Basin report due to be online by mid-April.
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Jade Henderson, Division 4 Superintendent for the State Engineer's Office, discussed the potential need for water right regulation both in state and interstate. He indicated regulation could occur as early as April/May in the lower basin and due to low water levels in Woodruff Narrows Reservoir, the upper basin might be called upon to supply the lower basin.
Bear River Commission Report
Bear River Commission Chairman Denice Wheeler presented an update to several ongoing issues within the basin.
Cokeville Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
Ed Rodriguez, US Fish and Wildlife Service, explained that refuges, such as the Cokeville Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, are a branch of the Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Department of Interior. He outlined the mission statement of the USFWS, and stated that by law, the refuge system is dedicated to wildlife observation, fishing, hunting, photography, and environmental education. 98% of refuge system lands are open to the public. There are 7 Wyoming refuges with 80,776 acres. The Cokeville Meadows Refuge must not be larger than 27,000 acres, lands must be purchased from willing sellers, state owned lands must be purchased or leased, and state water laws must be abided by. The refuge contains unique wetlands that support 65 species of migratory birds, especially redhead ducks, which are found no other place in Wyoming. Currently, the refuge is working with cooperators, cleaning up contaminated sites, repairing fences, treating weeds and reducing grazing, controlling trespass, especially by cows, monitoring wildlife populations, providing food plots for wildlife, posting boundaries and purchasing additional lands.
Watershed Planning to Address Impaired Waterbodies in the Bear
Chuck Harnish, Department of Environmental Quality, stated that the purpose of the 303(d) list is to
3 segments are on the proposed 303(d) listing: Bear River, 2AB Woodruff/Sulphur and Sulphur Creek to the reservoir and above the reservoir. Factors contributing to 303(d) list development include waterbody classification, state standards, credible data, and weight-of-evidence. According to water quality standards, there are 4 types of streams 1) outstanding waters, 2) fisheries and drinking water, 3) aquatic life other than fish, and 4) agriculture, industry, recreation, wildlife.
Watershed plans typically are locally led, are activity specific, have multi-pollutant considerations (habitat, sediment, etc.), and have a monitoring plan. In addition, there are three phases in developing a watershed plan. Phase I identifies concerns, inventories resources, analyzes resources and determines goals/objectives. The formation, evaluation, and selection of alternatives are the main components of Phase II, with Phase III implementing and evaluating the plan.
There are currently watershed plans in progress for 16 creeks/rivers around the state.
Smiths Fork Water Development Project
DeMont Grandy, Lincoln County Conservation District/NRCS, addressed the possibility of a reservoir on the Smiths Fork River and possible local sponsoring entities. Jim Schwartz, Wyoming Dept of Agriculture, addressed a sponsoring entity. He indicated the community must first identify what is needed, be in total support, and form a workable entity. He suggested a new group, such as Smiths Fork Watershed Improvement District, sponsored by the Lincoln Conservation District, which would represent the Smiths Fork Irrigation District, the Cokeville Development Company, and the Cokeville Watershed Improvement District be formed.
Jade Henderson, State Engineer's Office, stated that under the Bear River compact, 4300 acre-feet of water is available, with an additional 21,000 acre-feet available, but subject to Bear Lake elevation.
John Jackson, Water Development Commission, recommended that a watershed improvement district be formed, which could request a Level II analysis of compact allocation site(s).
Ken Short, State of Utah, indicated that the Smiths Fork project had been modeled in 1980's, and all available Idaho water was already stored in Bear Lake. Idaho would support building the project, but would not be investing any capital. Helen Harrington, State of Idaho, indicated Idaho did not feel the project would provide any financial aspects, but possibly water quality benefits would be realized.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 9:17 p.m.


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I arrived in Baguio, the City Of Flowers at 7pm that evening. I'd known that there was a large local festival on, but didn't expect the half million which swelled the city and absorbed all the hotel rooms. Everywhere was full, and the onwards buses had finished. I experienced a mild panic. Five hotels in, and the phone battery started dying. Laivan and Toon (the Belgians) would meet me in town for dinner. I needed a charge to reply, and wandered into a beauticians below the last hotel I enquired at. They kindly charged my phone and asked where I was staying. I laughed and told them "In a bush with the dogs". One offered to ring around a few hotels, but to no avail. Another lady wandered in from the back, and asked who I was and where I was staying. She said one of her clients lived behind, and ran a transient guesthouse. Turns out she was full, but on meeting me, said her son was doing a night-shift at the hospital, and that I could stay with them. Relieved is not the word. The girls at the salon let me take a shower while I waited for them to prep the room. Talk about a lucky break...if the phone hadn't been dying, I'd never have walked in there. And one of the girls in there, Jenny, was absolutely stunning. If I'm back in Baguio, I'll have to marry her. Olive skin and dimples? Turns my knees to jelly.
I had a good chat with Marvin, the landlady's son. He'd just finished college, and had been approached about a job in Manchester. I told him he should jump at the chance, and extolled the virtues of the city. If he ever goes, there'll be plenty of new mates I can introduce him to.
Showered and changed, I went off to meet the Belgians; only having a couple as I didn't want to take liberties with the landlady and turn up pissed at 1am. Who said I don't have manners? The evening was quiet, and I arranged to meet the lads and two Swedish girls they were completing a medical internship with, the next morning for the procession.
Monday, 9 March 2009
The Kindness Of Strangers
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I saw a post about grief being shared by some special needs mamas today. I'm guessing that each one of us mamas--those raising a special needs child and those raising typical children--have probably had to work through the stages of grief at least once in her lifetime. I know I have.
I wrote about grief a few years ago sharing some personal thoughts and experiences of mine in that post. I chose to write about the topic after hearing it being discussed on a television show. I wasn't looking for a lesson on the stages of grief when I turned on the show to drown out some of the emotions I'd been dealing with. But a lesson is exactly what I got after reflecting on those stages long after the show was over:
As the show continued, a character quoted Elizabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief. Hearing those stages hit me. They hit me hard. So much for relaxing, I thought. Instead of paying attention to the rest of the show I was thinking about Ronan, wondering about his life and also brainstorming this post. I contemplated Kübler-Ross' model. It suits more than just for those who have suffered a loss through death. The five stages, although not always experienced by every individual, nor followed chronologically, made sense to me. As the parent of a child with special needs, especially knowing that my child was typically developing for a period of time, it does fit the criteria of a terminal loss. I should note it's not so much the physical death of a child I was reflecting upon because, thankfully, my son lives and breathes. But his abilities and his disabilities remind me daily of loss, loss of what he can do and what he can't do. Sadly, our community has witnessed deaths resulting from issues with autism. But my original thoughts about Ronan's great needs and of what could have been, and later what should have been had I known more – yes, those. They exist. They are true. They are real. They are unfortunate. And for many, these issues could have been prevented.
Grief is not an easy subject to talk about nor an easy emotion to work through. I've been mostly successful in moving through the stages and cycles of grief as I experience them, but not without support, extra prayers, and the will to get through them. I don't have one set strategy for each stage (or for the others that Mary mentioned in her comment after my post) but I am thankful that when I start to feel overwhelmed, when I sense a feeling of depression coming on, or when I think that giving up seems loads easier than pushing through, I at least recognize that things are getting bad.
Knowing that I've hit rock bottom isn't the best feeling in the world nor the best place to be, but when I hit that dark and dismal place, I recognize it. Not only that, I know that I will soon realize that after hitting rock bottom, the only other direction I can go is up.
Looking up gives me resolve to get up.
To do something.
To try again.
To always remember to try, try again.
A process, grief and all that comes with it is one of the hardest emotions I have had to work through. I know that I very likely will experience grief several times as a mother. I know that I will learn from it each time I experience it. I also know that no matter what brought that grief on, I will always try, try again. That seems to be my motto: try, try again. With all that we've had to handle, it's a good one to live by. It's one that I don't plan on letting go of any time soon.
xo, Cat
If you have any strategies for what's helped you through the stages of grief, please share them in the comments section below.


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A good read is such an evil thing.
I took yesterday off work for two reasons: to clean my house and to write. House cleaning happened, which was good, because I started first thing in the morning. Then I stepped out onto the deck to run a quick errand and BAM! there was a book in my mailbox.
Michelle Sagara's CAST IN RUIN had finally arrived! So I devoured it. That was just barely afternoon, and I then proceeded to lose my entire afternoon and evening to reading. I'm not sure I put the book down once until I finished it, ten hours later.
But damn, it was worth it. If you haven't checked out the Cast series, do it now. The characters are beautiful, the humour frequently makes me laugh out loud (much to Husband's annoyance), and the fantasy world is so well developed it should serve as a lesson point for all little fantasy writers like myself.
If you're already well into the series, you'll love this one. Kailyn learns and grows magically (which usually happens) but this time around she also matures somewhat in terms of the men in her life, and has a bit of an epiphany in terms of growing up in general. And while this book answers a whole lotta questions about the Dragon Court and the Empire, it opens up a plethora of new mysteries. The egg? Bellusdeo? There wasn't enough Nightshade for my liking, but I'm sure we'll see plenty of him in the next installment, CAST IN PERIL, since they're heading to the West March—ostensibly together.
Because I read the thing so damn fast, I'm going to go back and re-read. Maybe at a sane person's pace. But once I've done the re-read... let the countdown to PERIL begin!!


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Even an inexperienced Risk-player is well aware of the ill-considered strategy of the United States.
This is part II in a series of two articles, in which I discuss the courses of action open to the US regarding North Korea and Iran.
Even an inexperienced Risk-player is well aware of the ill-considered strategy of the United States.
This is part II in a series of two articles, in which I discuss the courses of action open to the US regarding North Korea and Iran.
In two posts, I discuss the courses of action open to the United States regarding 'North Korea' and 'Iran'. Escalation is unavoidable, I argue.
"China's nationalist Global Times newspaper ran a cartoon captioned "Bully pulpit" showing Trump holding a megaphone, shouting "America First," while the state-owned China Daily newspaper said Trump's speech was "full of sound and fury." (Source: Washington Post)
Imposing 'America first' and motivating other nations to also focus on their own 'sovereignty' – as president Trump did during his address to the United Nations, yesterday – will further undermine the already fragile United Nations, the current international order.
"Cho Tae-yul, the South Korean ambassador, and Ambassador Nikki Haley of the United States during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Monday to discuss North Korea's nuclear tests. "The time has come for us to exhaust all of our diplomatic means before it's too late," Ms. Haley said" (source). But who is actually begging for war?
According to the US, North-Korea is "begging for war". It is however a matter of perspective: The US – it can be argued – is begging for much more war, and not only in North Korea.
Another successful provocation – 'trap' – of North Korea for the United States.
The leadership of North Korea – Kim Jung Un – must walk a fine line to ensure its survival in the face of two existential threats: The continuous aggression of the United States and its allies, and the risk of social unrest and collapse in North Korea.
The last round of mutual threats and provocations, was a resounding success for Kim Jung Un – at least for now – who confirmed its hero-status at home, while the United States and its allies are still confronted with North Korea's growing military capabilities.
President Trump considers Hollywood's version of the United States' self-image to be reality. But even John Wayne knows better.
This week, through several statements, president Trump of the United States took friend and foe (again) by surprise. Led by his 'gut feeling' and a rather limited perspective on international politics and human relations, Trump issued a number of far-stretching warnings to North-Korea, and Venezuela, related to North-Korea's provocations and Venezuela's internal political struggles.
Front cover of the Clingendael Monitor 2017
In two preceding articles, I discussed the 'Clingendael Strategic Monitor 2017' with the title "Multi-Order". This is the third and last article in this series. Contrary to what the Clingendael Institute and the 'Monitor' observe, I argue that the current international order is crumbling; its collapse is a matter of time.


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//3D animation
Trivecta reached out to me and asked me to design three unique visuals for his tour. He wanted something that was reminiscent of fantasy landscape concept art. We came up with the idea that perhaps 'Trivecta' isn't a person, but a place. Contained within that world would be different terrains, cities and characters whose story we can unfold and develop visually over time. This would allow me to create a variety of directions while still making the visuals look like they belong to the same world, Similar to how he produces a wide variety of bass music. What you see here is a compilation of all three visuals cut together.
Song: Illenium Fractures (Trivecta remix)
//Motion Design
Our team was tasked with creating two videos to show how customers can unlock special deals just by trying out some of the camera features on the mobile shopping app. One video was for Black Friday, and one for Cyber Monday. Although we had a style guide for colors, the visual treatment was fairly open ended. We wanted this to be eye catching and fun and not just a phone UI video, so we created little abstract vignettes that are representative of each of the camera search functions. Additionally, we added in some 2D cel animated flourishes, bursts and explosions for some extra energy.
Creative Direction: David ViauLighting & Shading: Ian Frederick, Austin HochstatterModeling: Ian FrederickDesign & Animation: Ryan Eastham, Ian Frederick, Austin Hochstatter, Andrew Nam2D Animation: Casey Doherty, Alex Noelke
//Animation, Illustration
This is a personal piece I made after being inspired by Spider-man: into the spider-verse. I wanted to make something in a colorful comic book style. I also wanted the song to be something electronic and colorful sounding, but with a hip-hop bassline and lyrics. I felt like Bassnectar's song 'Speakerbox' fit well with the vibe I wanted to create, and also his music in general is a source of great inspiration to me. I hope you enjoy watching this as much as I enjoyed making it!
// 3D Animation, Motion Design
Prime Day is Amazon's large one day summer sales event with thousands of deals. Our team was tasked with creating a video to show how customers can unlock special deals just by trying out some of the camera features on the mobile shopping app.
Initially our client imagined this being a 2D explainer video, however we thought it would be more appropriate and visually appealing to build a 3D scene that is in line with the stop-motion brand style Amazon uses for Prime Day. Additionally, we added in some 2D cel animated flourishes, bursts and explosions for some extra energy and a unique take on the established brand look.
Case study: https://www.behance.net/gallery/67975565/Prime-Day-2018-Mobile-Shopping?
Creative Direction: David ViauLighting & Shading: Drew Nelson, Ian FrederickModeling: Ian Frederick, Ryan EasthamRigging: Ryan Eastham, Drew NelsonDesign & Animation: Drew Nelson, Ian Frederick, Andrew Nam, Ryan Eastham, Josh Van Whye2D Animation: Casey Doherty, Alex Noelk
Early Styleframes & Look development
//3D Animation
In mid 2018, Wooli and his management reached out to me to create a variety of key visuals for his Summer and Fall tour. This video is a mashup of all of them. They were fun and challenging to make and proved to be a great learning experience from concept to execution.
Creative Direction, Design, Animation, Illustration: Ian Frederick
Music: Throw it up - Wooli, Falling - Wooli & Trivecta
Wooli and his management team liked this visual a lot and decided to use a still frame from it as the album artwork for Wooli's Mammoth EP
//Motion Graphics, 3D animation
Short for Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space. MARS is a private tech conference that takes place in the Palm Desert. The primary goal of MARS is to bring together the brightest minds from each of the above disciplines to one location in hopes to inspiring one another, networking, and collaboration.
The team was tasked with creating a background animated loop as well as animated introduction speaker cards for event. Our goal was to create visuals that would cause curiosity and stimulate the viewer. All while staying subtle and would not steal the attention from the attendees conversations.
We wanted the visuals to be an extension of the conference. Inspired by the mid century moderns aesthetic styled venue (The Parker Hotel, Palm Springs) where the conference took place. We landed on slow moving letter forms resembling in four different vignettes that all have a little piece of The Parker in them.
Creative Direction: David ViauVisual Direction: Drew NelsonLighting & Shading: Drew Nelson, Ian FrederickDesign & Animation: Drew Nelson, Ian Frederick, Andrew Nam, Ryan Eastham, David ViauTitle Design: Andrew NamAudio: Sugiwa
//3D animatiion
This Digital Product Video was a collaborative project made by the Amazon Motion Team. A DPV is created when Amazon releases new Echo enabled devices. The new sub-woofer EchoSub allows customers to enhance their Echo sound system by adding bass. We were tasked with creating a variety of 3D home interiors for EchoSub to live in that mirrored the look of the product photo shoot. We then created an animatic where we blocked out scenes and focused on the cinematography. This DPV lives on the Amazon website.
Direction: David Viau, Mike Morris
Animation: Austin Hochstatter
Lighting & Shading: Ian Frederick
Compositing: Ian Frederick
Script: Brandon Hilliard
A self initiated music video.
Music Dreams by Nero & ZHU
A self Initiated project, I wanted to make something fun and colorful, with intricate little pieces of machinery and a playful and whimsical feeling. Sound design by Secrets & Machines
I made these as part of a social media campaign that went along with a larger Oprah's favorite things/ Amazon.com partnership.
//Motion Graphics, Animation
I created this piece as an intro for all of the work that the D1 design team does. D1 is the name of Amazon's internal production agency.
//Motion Design, 3D Animation
My team and I created a series of launch videos for the new generation of Echo devices. Echo plus is the one that I owned. The goal was to create a video that shows the new features without feeling too much like a corporate explainer video. Amazon wants the device to be something the customer relates to, so we shied away from surrealist mograph environments and went for a more realistic approach with some fun transitions to keep it interesting
Creative Direction: David Viau, Mike MorrisDesign & Animation: Ian FrederickLighting & Shading: Ian Frederick, Justin ReedScript: Brandon Hilliard
Early on in the Look Dev process, we went for a faster paced mograph approach with surreal environments and content. The client decided they really wanted it to feel more relatable to their customers with the device sitting in real world places. That being said, the below unused styleframes still deserve to see the light of day.


text: Eaglecarver is a small one man woodshop business located in Saltillo Tennessee near the Tennessee River. Originally beginning with what was then termed "Homemade Headstones" and later called "Economical Headstones", the product line has evolved to include plaques, desk nameplates, a line of stackable bead boards for bead weavers, a host of custom products and is continuously growing. I like to believe that "if you can think it I can carve it". I have had this idea put to the test a few times and have always been successful to far. A noteworthy thing to mention is that many of the product lines that are produced at Eaglecarver are designed around and made from scrap materials that would have otherwise wound up in a landfill. This cost savings helps to compensate for the time consuming design work and cost of running a CNC milling router to produce the highest quality of products at an affordable price.


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We live in a very busy time, if we're not at work or school we're busy scrolling through timelines. It becomes a real challenge to jam all the things you want to do into the 24 hours you have in a day. Keeping your brain healthy in that time as well is sometimes just impossible. That's where it becomes important to slow yourself down.
My favourite way of getting some head space is wandering by the beach and watching the sea, it's something me and Joanna do quite often. There's something very special about just sitting down and watching the water lap up the beach, the sound of crashing waves and smell of sea air. It resets your mind and puts everything that's going on in perspective.
There's this very strange concept that exists at the moment that says everything has to be done immediately, which makes everyones lives such a manic rush. It's just not needed. So by taking these simple, short moments to just slow yourself down you can pull yourself from the rat race, and watch what's happening around you. At that point you start to appreciate everything a little more.
So if you have a spare ten minutes in your day (everyone does we just like to pretend we don't). Then maybe take the time out to relax, and do so properly, leave your phone on the side, get some tea, light some candles and forget about everything for a little while. It's important to keep your mind nice and healthy.
Another thing that helps with calming is forming routines, like a set of things you do before you go to bed or as soon as wake up in the morning – once you've got it down and don't have to think about each thing anymore it becomes a really relaxing thing to complete. I know for sure that making a little evening routine has made me fall asleep far far easier. Maybe worth trying out?
Let me know what you do to let your mind relax in the comments, and if you find an evening routine has helped you too let me know about it!
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Scrubs (2001)
3 continuity mistakes in My Fruit Cups
Starring: Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Judy Reyes, Ken Jenkins, Neil Flynn, Sarah Chalke, Zach Braff
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Parking is available at the Sydney International Regatta Centre and at Penrith Station. If you park at Sydney International Regatta Centre, please allow 10 minutes to walk to the Registration Area. Gates open at 6am for parking. If you park at Penrith Station, a shuttle bus will be operating a continual loop between Penrith Station and the Sydney International Regatta Centre. The bus will depart the Station approximately every 15 minutes. The first bus will depart Penrith Station at 5.15am. The last bus will depart Penrith Station at 1.00pm. The bus stop is located in Penrith Station Northern Exit Carpark.