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![]() Friday, July 22, 2005 via AutoWeek - The Auto Enthusiast's Online Resource ![]() It’s not pretty, but it works. Filmmaker Sean Casey's mobile camera platform was built to stand up to a tornado. (Photos by Phil Berg) Casey vs. the TornadoStorm chaser builds an armored Ford F-450 to drive into tornadosPHIL BERG Published Date: 7/18/05 Earlier this year near Paducah, Texas, cinematographer Sean Casey got the scary part of his wish. “The holy grail of all footage is to get a tornado coming right at you—filming with a wide-angle lens, and having the tornado hit you, impact the camera—and that shot really hasn’t been gotten yet,” says the seven-year storm-chasing veteran. “If we can get that on IMAX, it would be a really nice, nice shot.” Because of heavy rain, his bulky IMAX camera didn’t get the shot. Casey was hit by a tornado twice that day, events he recalls with a calm, articulate tone belying that average folks think the feat is totally, completely, insanely nuts. “The first was like being sandblasted by 70- to 80-mph winds. The last tornado was rain-wrapped. You couldn’t see the tornado. We just drove right into it,” recalls Casey. “The wind reading was 55 meters per second, so maybe 110 mph. Monday, July 18, 2005 [Politech] A response to U.N. working group's report on what to do with the Net [econ]From Declan McCullagh's Politech[Politech] A response to U.N. working group's report on what to do with the Net [econ] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: An Assessment of the WGIG Report Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:40:57 -0400 From: Milton Mueller <mueller@syr.edu> The Internet Governance Project, a consortium of academic experts on international Internet regulation and policy, has issued a response to the recently-released report of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). The IGP praises the report for providing a "useful" consensus definition of Internet governance and for "identifying a range of important public policy issues." The IGP singled out two policy issues mentioned in the report in particular : 1) A call for moving beyond unilateral U.S. control of the domain name system, and; 2) A recognition that existing Internet-related treaties around intellectual property protection are controversial, and may need to be reviewed to be better balanced with values such as fair use, free expression, privacy, technical innovation and economic development. However, when it comes to the WGIG's other mandates to "define the roles and responsibilities" of governments, civil society and business, and to make specific proposals for action, the Report provides less guidance. The IGP was forced to respond "none of the above" to its 4 proposed models of institutional reform. The IGP supports WGIG's call for a new, open global Internet policy forum that gives equal status to citizens and governments, but says that such a forum will not succeed unless its efforts are focused on a particular objective. The IGP suggests that the new forum focus on preparing the world's governments to achieve binding agreements on the basic principles and norms to guide Internet governance. The UN WGIG Report itself can be downloaded at www.wgig.org The Internet Governance Project's response can be downloaded at www.internetgovernance.org or at http://dcc.syr.edu/miscarticles/IGP-quovadis.pdf ### _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) |
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