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First Movie From Foo Camp: “Concentrated Foo”

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This movie is titled “Concentrated Foo” because it really seems to encapsulate the spirit of the conference. The film is unedited and shot entirely in sequence! It just worked out perfectly on its own. (As those of you who shoot video probably know, this almost never happens, so it’s quite exciting.)
The interviews within Concentrated Foo and all of the other movies are also available separately.
But first, a bit of explanation. The “session” in this case was taking apart a rental hybrid vehicle in order to see what makes it tick. I forget whether it was a Honda or a Toyota, but I’m sure someone will refresh my memory at some point.
There were self-imposed “rules,” however. For instance, no one was allowed to take anything apart that they weren’t reasonably sure they could put back together. The group was quite conservative in this respect. The team was meticulous about keeping the parts in order and even replacing each screw in its exact previous location, etc.
Other than that, it was a free-for-all 🙂
At that said, it was pretty amazing how far we took things apart — and how elegantly everything went right back together.
I was interviewing folks in-between documenting the car exploration.
There’s a lot more where this came from, but this ought to wet your whistle for a bit.
Foo A-Z

Concentrated Foo – All (Small – 64 MB)

Concentrated Foo – Part 1 of 3 (Small – 20 MB)

Concentrated Foo – Part 2 of 3 (Small – 21 MB)

Concentrated Foo – Part 3 of 3 (Small – 24 MB)





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Foo Camp Movies and Interviews On The Way

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So I just got back from O’Reilly’s Foo Camp yesterday and will be posting a bunch o’ stuff early in the AM.
The first movie is titled “
Concentrated Foo” — and encapsulates the spirit of the conference in many ways. The film is unedited and shot entirely in sequence.
Foo Attendees: This film must not be confused with the footage of the “Wandercam” — a handheld that was roaming around the conference on its own from 9am on Saturday morning on. I myself have not looked at this footage yet, though I have digitized it.
That’s tomorrow’s little task 🙂
More on the Wandercam soon…
I’ve also created an
A-Z page for both my little foo movies and the interviews themselves within the movies, so we can keep track of them all. I’d hate for any of it to be “lost” because I had forgotten to link to it. So I’m linking to it from there first, and then if I have time I’ll link to stuff from here too.
Yeah all the above stuff I mention will be linked to in the am. Plus three movies from the “making of the RetarDEAD theme” video I shot in Seattle last weekend.
But now I gotta catch some zzzz. Lotsa great stuff I tell ya. I just can’t believe how great some of it came out.
But I’m a sentimental fool…
Back soon,
lisa

This Is A Blogmapper Test

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Here I am, almost ready to post the first batch of Foo Movies, and now I’ve gone and gotten sidetracked on Blogmapper, a tool for generating code to specify the latitude and longitude of a geographical location so you can include your coordinates within blog entries. I don’t know if I’m doing this right. But I suspect I’ll find out soon.

(Update 10/14/03: Aha! I forgot to include the necessary JavaScript. Testing again now…)

I’ve embedded this code in this entry:


<span style="display:none" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#">
<geo:lat>38.07306</geo:lat>
<geo:long>-122.693</geo:long>
</span>

38.07306-122.693

Just added this link for a test:

This is a test

Father Of British Guantanamo Bay Detainee Asks For Justice

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Emotional appeal from detainee’s father
In the BBC.

The father of one of the British detainees in Guantanamo Bay has made an emotional appeal for the release of his son…
He said his son should be punished if found guilty, but said he could not understand “under what law, under what human rights he has been kept there”.
He said: “I just want my son back. I do not say set him free, what I say is let him come back to this country he belongs to, where he was born, where he was brought up…
“If he isn’t found guilty he shouldn’t be there for a second. Why is this not happening what is wrong with our laws?”
Moazzam Begg, from Sparkbrook in Birmingham, was held by US forces in Pakistan in February 2002. He was transferred to Guantanamo Bay a year later.
The conference backed a call to the government to deliver “due process and justice” for those held at Guantanamo Bay.

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Red Cross Asks Supreme Court To Intervene In Guantanamo Bay

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Guantanamo detentions blasted
In the BBC.

A senior Red Cross official has launched a rare attack on the US detention of al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
Christophe Girod told the New York Times it was unacceptable that the 600 detainees should be held for open-ended terms without proper legal process.
His criticism came as a group of American former judges, diplomats and military officers called on the US Supreme Court to examine the legality of holding the foreign nationals for almost two years, without trial, charge or access to lawyers.
Mr Girod said the International Committee of the Red Cross was making the unusually blunt public statement because of a lack of action after previous private contacts with American officials.
“One cannot keep these detainees in this pattern, this situation, indefinitely,” he said during a visit to the US naval base where the Taleban and al-Qaeda suspects are being held…
Mr Girod is leading a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has just completed an inspection tour of the detention camp in Cuba.
Although he did not criticise any physical conditions at the camp, he said that it was intolerable that the complex was used as “an investigation centre, not a detention centre”.
“The open-endedness of the situation and its impact on the mental health of the population has become a major problem,” he told the New York Times.
Christine Huskey, an American lawyer representing 28 Kuwaiti inmates, told the BBC she had had “absolutely” no access to them.
“I represent a ghost,” she told the World Today programme.
In the past 18 months, 21 detainees have made 32 suicide attempts, and many more are being treated for depression, the New York Times says…
On Sunday a group including former American judges and military officials filed legal papers urging the US Supreme Court to intervene.
Don Guter, the US navy’s judge advocate general until last year, said it was not acceptable simply to hold suspected al-Qaeda or Taleban members until the US war on terror was over.
The argument filed to the Supreme Court by Mr Guter and others said: “The lives of American military forces may well be endangered by the United States’ failure to grant foreign prisoners in its custody the same rights that the United States insists be accorded to American prisoners held by foreigners.”
That view was backed by ex-prisoners-of-war, some of whom told the Supreme Court they owed their lives to the fact that their captors abided by the Geneva conventions.
On Wednesday an Australian lawyer representing some of the suspects said they were being submitted to torture.
US officials have denied torturing detainees, saying they are allowed to practise their religion and given good medical care.

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Group Of Ex-Judges, Diplomats, and Former Military Lawyers Takes Due Process For Guantanamo Detainees To The Supreme Court

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Things are finally heating up around the Guantanamo Bay Prison/Death Camp Situation and the lack of Due Process for its terrorist suspects. This article is the first of several I’ll be putting up today.

‘Justice denied’ at Guantanamo
By Rachel Clarke for BBC News.

A diverse group of ex-judges, diplomats and former military lawyers is urging the US Supreme Court to intervene on behalf of hundreds of men being held without trial by the government…
They hope the top court will agree to review the detention of suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban members in the US military camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
US officials insist there are reasons for holding the alleged fighters and say they will get a fair legal hearing in due course.
But opponents say it is already nearly two years since most of the detainees were captured and they should be afforded more rights now.
John Gibbons, a former appeals court judge, said justice was being “totally denied” to the detainees in Guantanamo.
“They don’t have access to lawyers; they have had no hearings; they are just in limbo. That’s as clear an example of justice denied as you can find,” he said.
A key issue is that the detainees are foreign citizens being held on foreign soil and as such may not come under the jurisdiction of the civil courts.
Mr Gibbons said he found it “repugnant” that the administration could order the imprisonment of people possibly beyond the reach of law, especially as he said the US clearly ruled over Guantanamo Bay, even if it was technically part of Cuba.

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Steve Carell On Howard Dean’s Campaign Trail

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This is a great clip. And not just cause I’m a Deanie. This is just plain funny.
Steve follows Howard around at one of his speaking engagements, and then turns the tables and makes Dean get behind the camera to film the event.
Right on to Steve Carell for putting this together.
This piece was produced by Jim Margolis and edited by Einar Westerlund.
This is from the October 9, 2003 program.

Trail and Tribulations (Small – 12 MB)













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Ambassador Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press Discusses “Intimigate” (The Scandal Involving The Outing Of His Wife As A CIA Agent By A Top Shrub Administration Official)

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Ambassador Joseph Wilson was on
Meet The Press (hosted by Tim Russert) last Sunday to discuss the leak from an unnamed top official of the Shrub Administration that ended up blowing the cover of his CIA-employed wife.
The interview with Robert Novak from the same show is also available.
Wilson clarifies some of his own comments over the last week, while Tim Russert takes advantage of the opportunity to clarify some of the facts of the situation in more detail. (Tim is the man!)
I’ve made the clip available in its entirety, in two pieces, and in four smaller pieces to make it easier to download and circulate the parts of interest to you. This is good stuff.
This is from the October 5, 2003 program.
Complete:
Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Complete (Small – 39 MB)
In Two Parts:
Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 18 MB)
Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 21 MB)
In Four Parts:

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 4 (Small – 10 MB)

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 4 (Small – 9 MB)

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 3 of 4 (Small – 9 MB)

Joseph Wilson On Meet The Press – Part 4 of 4 (Small – 11 MB)





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Robert Novak On Meet The Press – What He Was Told By A Senior White House Official About Joseph Wilson’s Wife Being A CIA Agent, Why He Printed It, And Why He Won’t Reveal His Source

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Well I certainly understand why he can’t reveal the source. There’s no reason to throw journalistic ethics out the window completely.
This entire situation provides a perfect demonstration of how backstabbing this Administration can be. Novak is one of the few journalists that has stood by the Shrub and his cronies and consistently defended them through all of their folly. Now he has been chosen as the sacrifical lamb to “leak” a story that could potentially land him in jail. This Administration even screws over their “friends.”
It sure seems like the “senior official” interviewed by Novack knew exactly what he was doing. He gave Novak classified information and then sort of half-heartedly asked him not to print it. This is a classic example of a premeditated “leak.” Novak says that he tried to downplay the information by burying it in the sixth paragraph of the article. He also claims that he uses (or “misuses,” by his own admission) the word “operative” all the time, and that “oops” this time he was referring to a “real” CIA operative. (Not sure what he “really” means when he uses the word “operative” incorrectly.)
You can check it out for yourself. Sorry I couldn’t bring you the entire thing. My camera would not cooperate. (I really have to send it in for servicing!) I kept letting it cool down before I tried again, and did this enough times so I could get the important part at the beginning.)
This is from the October 5, 2003 program of
Meet The Press (hosted by Tim Russert).
I’ve made it available in its entirety and as two smaller clips.
Note: the interview with Joseph Wilson from the same program is also available.
Complete:
Robert Novack On Meet The Press – Complete (Small – 28 MB)
In Two Parts:
Robert Novack On Meet The Press – Part 1 of 2 (Small – 14 MB)
Robert Novack On Meet The Press – Part 2 of 2 (Small – 14 MB)











AFTRA, AFM, FMC and RAC Release “Joint Statement On Current Issues In Radio”

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Artist Groups Deliver “Joint Statement On Current Issues In Radio”
The press release is available online here.

John Connolly, National President, AFTRA:
The escalating vertical and horizontal consolidation of radio station ownership has harmed recording artists, from the freshest innovators to the most accomplished veteran stars – AFTRA members all. As a result of the homogeneous and limited playlists that have emerged with concentrated radio station ownership, fewer artists are able to receive airplay and reach an audience. Because these same media conglomerates also own concert venues and concert promotion companies, it can’t help but create a modern version of payola — radio station owners forcing artists to be represented by their promoters and perform in their venues or run the risk of being shut out of certain key markets entirely or negatively impact the artist’s airtime across the country. This monopolistic structure severely impacts the ability of artists to succeed and also harms the public – we have access to less music with less diversity, and the music we hear is selected based on crass commercial promotional considerations rather than quality or performer artistry.
Thomas F. Lee, International President, AFM:
It’s bad for musicians and bad for the public when a few large radio owners can pressure performers to use promoters and venues that they control, force artists to pay independent promotion fees in order to get airplay, and homogenize radio playlists around the country. The AFM and the music community continue to insist that the radio waves belong to the public, and to demand that Congress and the FCC ensure that radio serves the public interest.

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