 | Jolly Jack Junior Fight Scene A Scene from "Jolly Jack Junior" as performed by Dean Rideout and Maria-Rose Macdonald in a Rapier Wit Basic Intensive course. Fight Direction by Daniel Levinson, May 2007 |
 | Dr Vinton Cerf Presentation in Brisbane Dr Vinton G Cerf, cofounder of the internet and Senior Vice President at Google presents 'Internet infinity and beyond' recorded in Brisbane Australia March 2007. Presented by Alessandro Sorbello http://www.alessandrosorbello.com for New Realm Media www.newrealm.com.au Vinton G. Cerf Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment." From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering. Vint has received numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, among many others. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Google Corporate Information: Management Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology Shona Brown, Senior Vice President, Business Operations W. M. Coughran, Jr., Vice President, Engineering David C. Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow Jeff Huber, Vice President, Engineering Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Business Development George Reyes, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management Elliot Schrage, Vice President, Global Communications & Public Affairs Google Management Group Tim Armstrong, President, Advertising and Commerce, North America, & Vice President, Google Inc. Nikesh Arora, President, EMEA Operations & Vice President, Google Inc. Laszlo Bock, Vice President, People Operations Adam Bosworth, Vice President Brent Callinicos, Vice President & Treasurer Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Vice President, Asia-Pacific & Latin America Operations Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist David Eun, Vice President, Content Partnerships David Fischer, Vice President, Online Sales & Operations Stuart Feldman, Vice President Engineering Mark Fuchs, Vice President of Finance and Chief Accountant Dave Girouard, Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Salar Kamangar, Vice President, Product Management David Lawee, Vice President, Marketing Kai-Fu Lee, President, Engineering, Product, and Public Affairs, Greater China & Vice President, Google Inc. Udi Manber, Vice President, Engineering Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience Douglas Merrill, Vice President, Engineering Norio Murakami, President & General Manager, Google Japan & Vice President, Google Inc. Julio Pekarovic, Vice President, Global Sales Finance David Radcliffe, Vice President, Real Estate Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President, Global Online Sales & Operations Benjamin Sloss Treynor, Vice President, Engineering Kent Walker, Vice President & General Counsel Susan Wojcicki, Vice President, Product Management Google.org Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director Board of Directors Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google Inc. Sergey Brin, Google Inc. Larry Page, Google Inc. John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital Ram Shriram, Sherpalo John Hennessy, Stanford University Arthur Levinson, Genentech Paul Otellini, Intel Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University Ann Mather |
 | Wesley Clark "swiftboats" John Mccain (2 of 2) Wes Clark stood by his criticism of John McCain in a television interview last night, stressing that while he would "never, never dis someone's service," it is legitimate to discuss what types of military experience are relevant to being commander in chief. Republicans have been twisting Clark's mundane observation that McCain's experience "getting shot down" in a fighter plane is not a "qualification to be president." Clark made the point in response to a question from CBS' Bob Schieffer on Sunday, while noting that he "honor[ed]" McCain's service and considered him a "hero." Of course, the Republican "outrage" to Clark is both hypocritical, as The Nation's Ari Berman noted, and illogical, since McCain's war experience is laudatory but different than running the country. Professor Sandy Levinson explains: One might say... that John McCain displayed literally incredible valor in responding to many years of torture in Vietnam; I would also add my admiration for McCain's refusing to bear grudges against those who had been anti-War during the 1960s. But why would any person believe that "getting shot down" (which is precisely what happened to McCain) and then being tortured has anything to do with qualifying one to be President of the United States as against, say, receiving an award for displaying incredible grace under maximum pressure?... Isn't it worth thinking about the fact that the three senators who in fact saw ground combat in Vietnam -- James Webb, Chuck Hagel, and John Kerry -- are all dedicated opponents of the Iraq War? Webb has even made this exact observation regarding McCain -- comparing facts about their service experience, not ranking their valor: John McCain was a prisoner of war; I respect what he had to go through... He did not see the ground environment, how difficult things really are on the ground. He did not really see how bad this country was torn apart by the war, for the unfortunate reason that he was in prison. ...Chuck Hagel and I both intrinsically understand how difficult it is in an infantry environment to carry out some of these goals and we both experienced what it was like to come back to a pretty hostile peer group. Webb did not draw any Republican "outrage" for that analysis, offered last February, because there was no presidential campaign at the time. This would all seem unremarkable, if the mainstream and self-declared "objective" political press could see through the charade and report the facts. But today's Times opens an article about "patriotism and service" by falsely alleging that Clark "diminished Senator John McCain's service as a naval aviator in Vietnam." There's just no way to read Clark's logical observation, offered with "honor" for McCain as a "hero," as diminishing the service. Or as the Columbia Journalism Review's Campaign Desk explained yesterday: Arguing that a person's record of military service is not a qualification for the presidency does not constitute "attacking" their military credentials; nor can it be described as invoking their military service against them, or as denying their record of war heroism. [Handling this basic idea] is not a very high bar for sophistication. But right now it's one the press isn't capable of clearing. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/yes-we-can-talk-about-mcc_b_110180.html |
 | Stage Combat Demo This is a collection of videos from my basic stage combat certification. Combat choreography by Daniel Levinson, Todd Campbell, and Kevin Robinson. Performed at Rapier Wit, 2007. |
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