Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) Chairman Lloyd Kaufman, president Troma Entertainment, has been reelected to a second two-year term leading the 150-member organization. IFTA President-CEO Jean Prewitt made the announcement today.
Others elected to two-year terms on the Executive Committee are: Pierre David (Imagination Worldwide), named General Vice Chairperson, and Brad Kembel (Summit Entertainment), who will serve as Vice Chairperson/Secretary.
They join other Executive Committee members continuing their two-year terms: Roger Corman (New Horizons), General Vice Chairperson; Avi Lerner (Nu Image), Vice Chairperson-Finance; Albert Lee (Emperor Motion Pictures Ltd. HK), Vice Chairperson/Non-California; and, Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard Rose (Lakeshore Entertainment Group), Chairperson, Export Alliance.
Elected to two-year terms on the Board of Directors are: Paul Hertzberg (Cinetel Films); Jay Joyce (Artist View Entertainment); Mark Lindsay (Arclight Films); Nicole Mackey (Fortissimo Films UK); Almira Malyshev (Screen Media Ventures); Bobby Meyers (Meyers Film Entertainment); Charlotte Mickie (E1 Entertainment); Barbara Mudge (Worldwide Film Entertainment); Michael Ryan (Handmade Films International); Adam Wright (Regent Worldwide Sales); Carl Clifton (The Works International), Alternate; Tony Kandah (Hollywood Wizard), Alternate; and, Edward Noeltner (Cinema Management Group), Alternate.
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The Eating-Houses
George G. Foster (1814?–1856)
From American Food Writing: An Anthology With Classic Recipes
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"Remembering Delmonico's, New York's Original Restaurant" (Amanda Kludt, New York Eater)
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Earlier this year various news sources reported that—for the first time ever—Americans are spending more in restaurants than in grocery stores. Although these statistics were soon followed by skepticism (the numbers compiled in the original report didn't take into account the trend of buying groceries in big-box stores), there is little argument that restaurant receipts have increased: "Especially now that the recession has ended for the most part, consumers are looking to splurge a little bit," remarks the president of the Food Institute.
The idea of sitting among strangers for the sole purpose of eating a meal was regarded as a rare and awkward experience—usually confined to the inn or the tavern—until the appearance of the American restaurant in the middle of the nineteenth century, particularly in New York City. Putnam's Monthly in 1853 disapprovingly observed (with some exaggeration) that "the male members of the family are eating their little dinners at Delmonico's, Frederick's or Sweeney's, as the case may be, [and] the female members are solacing themselves with fricandeaus, meringues, and ices at Thompson's, Taylor's, or Welter's; so that it may be said that nearly half of the people of New-York dine out every day in the week but Sunday." By the end of the century, the novelist Edgar Fawcett would look back in wonder: "Few New Yorkers ever pause to consider what mighty changes the past thirty years have wrought in all our modes of eating." For the most part, he recalled, "eating houses predominated whose atmosphere would now be defined as vulgarity itself."
New York Tribune journalist George G. Foster was an early chronicler of these new establishments. Between 1848 and 1854, he published four books (and an instantly forgettable novel) detailing the everyday lives of New Yorkers, ranging from lurid portraits of outcasts to humorous sketches of the upper crust. Several chapters described the new trend for eating in public and, on the whole, Foster was appalled. In a short piece on the various oyster houses that were cropping up around the city, he wrote:
The oyster-cellars, with their bright lamps casting broad gleams of red light across the street, are now in full tide, and every instant sees them swallow up at one entrance a party of rowdy and half-drunken young men on their way to the theater, the gambling-house, the bowling-saloon, or the brothel—or most likely to all in turn—while another is vomited up the other stairway, having already swilled their reeking mouths each with an atrocious cigar, which the bar-keeper recommended as "full-flavored."
Foster's attitude towards the new "eating-houses" was hardly more appreciative, but his colorful and harsh judgments are supported by other surviving reports. He divided the new public eateries into three categories: six-penny houses that dispensed quick and cheap midday meals to workers in the financial district; the more expensive chophouses, usually little more than glorified taverns offering slabs of meat with side dishes; and, still in a class by itself, the European-inspired Delmonico's, which had been established during the 1830s.
Although Foster made his name with sensational accounts of the seedier elements in New York, his preference for high-society haunts like Delmonico's ultimately caused his downfall. (He delighted in satirizing society swells, but Foster "does seem to have been a bit of a dandy himself," remarks his biographer Stuart M. Blumin.) Assuming the identity of a New York theater owner, Foster was caught forging a check for upscale clothing in Philadelphia. He spent the better part of 1855 in jail, awaiting trial for phony payments of several hundred dollars—although, according to his victims, the forgeries totaled in the thousands. Rufus Griswold, Foster's childhood friend (and the late Edgar Allan Poe's literary nemesis) reluctantly helped bail him out and the case was eventually dropped, but Foster died the following year of a flu-like illness.
Notes: For nearly two centuries the Croton River has supplied Manhattan with its water supply via the Croton Aqueduct. Foster's joking reference to Taylor at Bueva Vista evokes the military skills exhibited by General Zachary Taylor, who led 5,000 troops to turn back a Mexican army force three times the size at the Battle of Buena Vista, February 23, 1847. "Above Bleecker" was a common phrase for New York's residential neighborhood north of Bleecker Street. In the eighteenth century, Carl Linnaeus established the system for classifying organisms. The Astor refers to the Astor House Hotel, which opened in 1836 in lower Manhattan and which featured fine dining in an elaborate courtyard surrounded by alcoves.
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Perhaps the most extraordinary property of the brain is consciousness, itself. We aim to eventually replicate this emergent aspect of brain function in our computer simulations. The biggest impact of this research will be on how humanity sees itself.
Our spiritual beliefs and sense of sacred self-worth, including our ethics and legal systems, depend upon the special status seemingly accorded to us by our consciousness. So how do we respond when consciousness is explained simply as emergent neural dynamics, which can be simulated in machines? The future philosophical, ethical and legal impacts of these discoveries will be unimaginable. The first step towards simulating.
The first step towards simulating consciousness in machines must be solving the classic binding problem in visual psychology. We have recently found a solution to this problem, which is essential to enabling the primate visual brain to make sense of the visuospatial world.
Our next step will be to explore how biological neural networks that solve the binding problem may operate as a pre-processing stage before more traditional engineering networks such as supervised backpropagation of error and reinforcement learning networks.
In this case, the subsequent engineering networks would be able to exploit the explicit binding information that has developed in the biological pre-processing stage. In the longer term, our goal is to combine our vision models with other spatial processing and behavioural modules in order to build unified models of brain function, from sensory input to motor output, that display fundamental elements of consciousness, starting the rise of conscious creatures.
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Galaxy Entertainment Unveils Plans for GalaxyWorld
By Chuckmonster on Wed 26 Sep 2007 9:03pm
It looks like the Galaxy Megaresort has finally gotten a new name. Drum roll please....
GalaxyWorld!
I'm not sure this is an upgrade, but it sure adds to the property name confusion holes they have dug for themselves with the Galaxy Waldo, Galaxy GrandWaldo, Galaxy StarWorld and now GalaxyWorld names. You'd think that a company that has the bill paying skills to crank out a joint as nice as StarWorld would also have someone on the payroll who is creative enough to name stuff.
Here's the news from the AP (via Forbes):
HONG KONG - Hong Kong casino company Galaxy Entertainment Group said Tuesday it has received government approval to expand its planned development on Macau's Cotai strip, pitting it against the newly opened Venetian.
Galaxy currently runs five casinos in China's gambling enclave in Macau, including StarWorld, which opened last October. It is also building GalaxyWorld Resort on Cotai, a reclaimed strip linking two outlying islands that Las Vegas mogul Sheldon Adelson hopes to transform into a massive resort that rivals the Nevada gambling mecca.
Peter Caveny, Galaxy's investor relations principal, told The Associated Press Tuesday that Galaxy has received Macau government approval to expand its development on Cotai beyond GalaxyWorld.
GalaxyWorld is currently expected to comprise 2,500 hotel rooms in two towers and 320,000 square feet (28,800 square meters) of gaming space. Its first hotel block and casino are expected to be completed the end of 2008, with the second hotel building to be finished in 2009.
Caveny said Tuesday Galaxy has received the go-ahead to add an additional nine hotels, 380,000 square feet (34,200 square meters) of gaming space, 750,000 square feet (67,500) of convention space and 1.4 million square feet (126,000 square meters) of retail and restaurant space.
Caveny declined to say when Galaxy will start work on the expansion or how much it will cost.
"When we proceed is when the demand is there," he said.
This is what GalaxyWorld looks like now.
It's quite interesting to see how Galaxy Entertainment doesn't have the PR machine that Las Vegas Sands Corporation does. It took a week for this to news item to break in the States.
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Hunch on Galaxy Entertainment
Galaxy Entertainment Hires P-Ho CEO
Why Does Galaxy Entertainment's Stock Cost Less Than A Cup of Coffee?
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The shooting sounded 'like pebbles tinkling off a window pane'
Thirty-five years ago, Republican gunmen massacred worshippers at a church in Darkley, Co Armagh
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Peter Murtagh
Pastor David Bell of Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church who survived the Darkley massacre. "We have peace and comfort knowing that those who died were in right standing and are in God's presence now." Photograph: Liam McBurney
Pastor David Bell of Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church near Darkley in Co Armagh, is 60 years old but can remember, as though it were yesterday, the day that he found God.
"The date was May 1st 1968," he says. "That was my moment – a singular moment for me."
Bell was just 10 years old at the time but that moment, at an evening meeting of song celebrating God's message and Bible stories hosted by the Child Evangelical Fellowship, had an immediate and lasting impact on his life.
Over the following days, he told his school pals what had happened and how: "I discovered I could speak to God through prayer and, as I read the scriptures, God could speak to me".
In time, this son of a Presbyterian farming family from Aughnacloy in Co Tyrone, became a confirmed adherent of Pentecostalism, which emphasises rebirth, Bible study and the celebration of faith, through prayer and song, with like-minded believers. By his twenties, Bell was a regular worshipper at Mountain Lodge Church, where he helped with the services and had developed strong friendships.
We are sitting in a small room off the side of the modern church built in 1990. Through a window behind Pastor Bell, I can see the wooden Assembly Hall that used to be the place of worship for this small evangelical community. It was there, on Sunday, November 20th 1983, that the world got a horrible glimpse of just how bad things were in Northern Ireland.
All was as usual that November Sunday. The morning breaking of bread service took place in the little church hall as it always did. Afterwards, David Bell drove his small blue Daihatsu car to the other side of Keady, to David and Doreen Wilson's farm for midday dinner.
David Bell loved this weekly encounter with the Wilsons. The meal was followed by dessert and coffee. By 6pm, Bell was back at the cedar-clad Pentecostal church hall, preparing it for the evening's worship, which he always tape recorded.
Meanwhile, David Wilson took up his place by the entrance door where, with two other elders of the church, Harold Browne and Victor Cunningham, they welcomed worshippers as they arrived.
At around the same time from the south, a vehicle was making its way towards the church. Inside it were three, possibly four, people, armed with automatic weapons. Three gunmen and a driver, it is thought.
By the time they were outside the church, about 65 people, including 20 children, were inside.
The singing was in full flow, Bell wrote later. The pastor Bobby Bain, son of a local farmer, was leading the congregation. They sang the hymn Are You Washed in the Blood? And as they began the final verse, Lay aside the garments that are stained by sin, the shooting began.
It was like the sound of pebbles tinkling off a window pane, those present said later. The bullets that hit Harold Browne and Victor Cunningham at the door struck them at point blank range and they died instantly.
David Wilson, Bell's spiritual mentor and friend, burst through the porch door and into the packed hall, blood streaming from his face. Still able to speak, however, he shouted at everyone to take cover, get down under the benches, before collapsing by the emergency exit and dying.
The gunmen carried on, firing into the hall before stopping, apparently to reload their guns and, from the outside, spraying the side of the wooden hall.
In all, they fired about 70 bullets, 25 of them after reloading.
Inside, William Whyte took five bullets in his lower abdomen. A bullet grazed the flesh protecting his wife's spine, another passed through the trouser leg of their 18-month old son.
Several guns
Bobby and Muriel Herron were both hit in their legs.
Sally Bain, Pastor's Bain's daughter, had her right elbow shot off, the bullet then hitting her thigh.
Edith Kenny was wounded in her cheek.
Nigel Whyte took a bullet to his leg; his girlfriend Cathy injured the bridge of her nose and required reconstruction surgery.
David Bell's tape recording captured the sound of the shooting. Just 47 seconds long, it makes for uncomfortable listening. The snapping sound of gunfire, the cracking and thudding noises of the weapons being discharged and of bullets hitting home indicate that several guns were used.
Behind the sound of firing, screams can be heard.
At least one of the weapons was later traced to Dominic McGlinchey, a notorious terrorist with the Irish National Liberation Army, the military wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. The atrocity – accurately termed a massacre by David Bell – was claimed by a flag of convenience organisation, the non-existent Catholic Reaction Force.
McGlinchey later admitted that he provided the guns, claimed not to have been otherwise involved and said he condemned the attack.
It is hard to see God in the murder and shooting of people worshipping, but David Bell sees Him clearly in all that happened afterwards.
No one thought that William Whyte would live but he did. The profuse bleeding from his stomach stopped as Pastor Bain prayed over him.
Sally Bain, then David Bell's unannounced girlfriend, regained virtually full function of her right arm even though, in the immediate aftermath of the massacre, doctors considered amputation.She and Bell later married and have a grown-up daughter.
"We see God in the aftermath of what happened," explains Bell, who succeeded Bob Bain as pastor in 1994.
Immediately after the killings, Pastor Bain and others in the church said there should be no retaliation – a view also expressed by mainstream church leaders and politicians, north, south and in Britain.
Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich denounced the attack in strident terms and the entire local community around Keady and Darkley, which is perhaps 90 per cent Roman Catholic, wrapped itself around the church congregation in sympathy.
Memorial tablet
"The sense of abhorrence of the local people at what happened, both within the Protestant community and the Catholic community, was very powerful," says Pastor Bell.
At the time, the Mountain Lodge Pentecostal fellowship was about 30 strong at its core. Today, that has grown to around 65, some of the new members coming from south of the border, some from Catholic backgrounds.
A new church was built in 1990. A block and concrete structure, it has a large assembly hall for worship, several smaller meeting rooms and a kitchen.
Unseen under the assembly hall, there's a small heated pool for total immersion baptisms (meaning reborn faith is no longer tested in the chilly waters of nearby Lough Aughnagurgan).
There are signs everywhere of normal family and parish activity, and the terrible event of 1983 is remembered in a wall-mounted memorial tablet inside the church door. Harold Browne, Victor Cunningham and David Wilson "who were killed by terrorists", it says, adding "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ" (Romans 8.35).
If the murderers came to Mountain Lodge Church today, repenting of their sins and seeking forgiveness, Pastor Bell would welcome them openly.
"You never want such an experience but after it, you are able to empathise, to weep with those who weep and mourn with those that mourn," he says.
"We are more about life than death. We have peace and comfort knowing that those who died were in right standing and are in God's presence now."
It is 35 years this month since the massacre. Strong cross-community bonds have been built, notably through the primary school in Darkley, which is almost entirely Catholic in make-up. Pastor Bell says that as a Christian church, their doors are open to everyone.
The spirit behind that sentiment is still not shared universally. The recording of the shooting may be heard on YouTube (search for Darkley Shootings 21 November 1983). In a comment, posted just four months ago, an anonymous writer using the moniker "Saoirse Go Deo 1986", wrote the following:
"Completely justified. . .
"It was in response to members of that congregation of foreigners launching sectarian attacks against random Catholics. These people need to remember that their [sic] in Ireland not England and that if you want to attempt to ethnically cleanse the native population, then the same treatment should be expected back. Beir Bua!"
None of the people in Mountain Lodge Church were involved in any such activities and none were connected to any of the security forces. All were born, raised and were living in the locality or close by.
Saoirse Go Deo (Irish for Freedom For Ever) is a slogan favoured by the INLA/ IRSP, and is used on commmeorative posters, badges and stickers associated with the organisation and dead members of the McGlinchey family.
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the Darkley Church may be ordered from Pastor David Bell, 123 Crosskeys Road, Armagh, BT60 3LD, Northern Ireland, or online from mlpc.co.uk; paperback £9.99, hardback £13.99
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Although eBird went global in 2010, eBird in India took off in 2014. In the past 3 years, almost 6 million observations have been uploaded to eBird. eBirding in India may be a relatively new concept but bird watching in India has a long history. While birds have been documented for the past 3 centuries (or more!) in some form of the other, birding truly became popular as a hobby in the latter half of the 20th century.
A lot of birders who now use eBird have records which date to well before 2014, but a lot of these observations have not yet been uploaded to the eBird database. We refer to such data (ie, from before 2014) as historical data, and these are very valuable in enhancing our collective understanding of the distribution, seasonality, abundance and related changes in birdlife in India. Historical data provides context and helps build a long-term perspective of birds and birding in India.
Of the 6 million observations from India on eBird, only about 11% of all the observations uploaded are of sightings before Jan 2014. Of this 11%, 80% of the observations were uploaded in or after Jan 2014 — these are from people who have gone back to their records and have uploaded their observations. Considering the amount of information contained on email-based forums and even on Facebook groups from before Jan 2014, this number represents relatively little of the total amount of historical information available.
Several eBird users have made the effort of uploading their lists from before these dates. These include valuable records from the early 1900s based on literature, such as of the Jerdon's Courser in Telangana or the Slaty-legged Crake in Karnataka. There are more lists and records by current users from as recently as 1977, 1981 and 2003.
There is no doubt that many of us have notebooks, emails and other documents brimming with such valuable data. So why not start uploading them to eBird as well and contribute to add to our existing knowledge of Indian birds?
For entering a historical list, you minimally require just two additional data apart from your birdlist itself – a) Location and b) Date. With this you can use the 'Historical' protocol in eBird to enter the lists. However, if you have the effort data (start time, duration and distance covered), then we strongly encourage you to use the 'Traveling' or 'Stationary' protocol as this makes the list so much more valuable in eBird. If you have taken note of all the species seen (ie you have not focussed on a few particularly interesting species) during that birding trip, then yours becomes a complete list. Any additional details like number of each bird species seen, breeding information, age or sex that you may have recorded in your field notebook and even sketches or photographs makes your list an absolute classic.
Some valuable resources to help you get started:
a. Entering Historical Data
b. Uploading Data to eBird
Note: if you use the eBird Mobile app, it may be a very useful tool to quickly enter and submit old lists as well.
With this, we'd also like to thank many of the users who have uploaded a bulk of their lists and data from the past. This list of birders includes, but is not limited to:
Mike Prince, Aasheesh Pittie, Shivaprakash Adavanne, Maulik Varu, Raman Kumar, TR Shankar Raman, Arun M K Bharos, Ragupathy Kannan, Dilip KG, Prasad JN, Shantilal Varu, Praveen J, Sashikumar, Raju Kasambe, Panchapakesan Jeganathan, Subbu Subramanya and many others.
We are very thankful for their efforts and contribution to the database!


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package com.droidprojects.spotifytray.sms;

import android.annotation.TargetApi;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Build;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.animation.Animation;
import android.view.animation.AnimationUtils;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;
import com.example.serviceproject.R;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 * com.droidprojects.spotifytray.sms
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@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
public class MessageListAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<SMSData> {
    private Context ctx;
    public ArrayList<SMSData> messageListArray = new ArrayList<SMSData>();
    public ArrayList<View> listev = new ArrayList<View>();
    public MessageListAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId,
                              ArrayList<SMSData> messageListArray) {

        super(context, textViewResourceId);

        this.messageListArray = messageListArray;
        this.ctx = context;
        //initview();
    }

    @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR1)
    public void  initview(){

        for (int i=0; i<messageListArray.size(); i++){
            View convertView1 = null;

            SMSData message = getItem(i);
            Holder holder;
            if (convertView1 == null) {

                holder = new Holder();

                LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater) ctx
                        .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

                if (message.type.equals("2")) { //OUT
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Leiocephalus lunatus är en ödleart som beskrevs av Cochran 1934. Leiocephalus lunatus ingår i släktet rullsvansleguaner och familjen Tropiduridae.

Arten förekommer på Hispaniola samt på de mindre öarna Isla Saona och Isla Catalina. Honor lägger ägg.

Underarter

Arten delas in i följande underarter:

 L. l. lunatus
 L. l. arenicolor
 L. l. lewisi
 L. l. louisae
 L. l. melaenoscelis
 L. l. thomasi

Källor

Rullsvansleguaner
lunatus
Kräldjur i neotropiska regionen

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Hey! There's a song I love, but I actually don't know Afrikaans, and can't find the lyrics anywhere. Would someone mind translating it?
Re: Could someone translate for me?
We do have a thread for song lyric translations, but it's hard to find so I've gone and stickied it now, for future reference.
Note: In Afrikaans, the word "draai" can mean turn or wind (as in, wind around something), and it's used in both senses in this song.
met jou hare in die wind.
en jy ry op die rug van die wind.
as die somer jou sou vind?
with your hair in the wind.
and you ride on the back of the wind.
if the summer should find you?
as die drome om jou draai, draai, draai?
as jou drome ook om jou kop draai?
Kan ek jou my hart gee?
Sal jy my dan met jou oë toedraai?
if your dreams also wind around your head?
Can I give you my heart?
Will you then wrap me up in your eyes?
ja, stuur vir my 'n ligstraal!
as die son weer om ons draai.
yes, send me a light beam!
when the sun winds around us again.
En almal se oë is met doekies toegedraai.
And everyone's eyes are wrapped up in sheets.


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Megrahi's Release Involved Oil/British Aid was 'Sweetener' to Libya/Doctors were Urged to Predict Bomber's Early Death
By JOHN F. BURNS
LONDON — In an admission likely to prolong the controversy over the release of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, Britain's justice minister told an interviewer that trade deals, especially in oil, had been a "very big part" of Britain's decision to include the bomber in a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya.
In an interview published Saturday by The Daily Telegraph, Jack Straw, the justice minister and a senior member of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's cabinet, said trade deals with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's government in Libya weighed heavily in his decision to abandon his opposition to the release of the bomber, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi.
Asked by a Telegraph reporter whether trade and oil were part of the cabinet decision to include Mr. Megrahi in a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya, Mr. Straw replied: "Yes, it was a very big part of that. I'm unapologetic about that. Libya was a rogue state. We wanted to bring it back into the fold and trade is an essential part of it — and subsequently there was the BP deal." ...
CONTINUED: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/world/europe/06lockerbie.html
Lockerbie bomber release: the British aid 'sweetener' to Libya
Britain gave Libya aid payments to help with its prison reforms while the discussions for the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi were ongoing, it can be revealed.
By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter
The grant of £146,000 is highly unusual because – unlike other poor African countries – Libya is well off as a result of its natural resources.
It is ranked as an "upper middle income" country by the British Government. The grant is believed to be the first time since the Lockerbie bombing of 1988 that Britain has provided aid to Libya.
The payment appears in the small print of a recently-published report from the Department for International Development (DFID) for the financial year 2007-8: just when British-Libyan relations were improving significantly.
At the time, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, was pushing for the release of Megrahi and British firms were negotiating multi-million pound contracts for oil, gas and other rights in the north African country.
However, inquiries by this newspaper have established the aid was, in fact, a discretionary payment from the British Embassy in Libya to encourage greater human rights in Libyan prisons.
It came, not from DFID, but the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) budget.
Senior Tories say the timing of the aid is "suspicious" and looks like a "sweetener" to Libya. They say it was given months after Tony Blair met President Gaddafi on his "farewell tour" in May 2007.
It also coincided with moves by Lord Mandelson, then the European Trade Commissioner and now Britain's Business Secretary, to strengthen Libya's relations with the European Union.
A spokesman for the FCO confirmed the existence of the grant saying: "The UK government continues to look for ways in which we can work with the Libyan government to improve the human rights situation in Libya.
"At present we are working closely with the Libyans to help them improve the quality of their prisons and to improve the capacity of Libya's human rights society.
"The Embassy has funded a large prison reform project, which is implemented by the International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College London.
"The project aims to improve the standards of Libyan prisons, transforming them into centres for reform and rehabilitation." ...
CONTINUED: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6143064/Lockerbie-bomber-release-the-British-aid-sweetener-to-Libya.html
Lockerbie: medical experts were urged to predict bomber's early death
Medical evidence that helped the Lockerbie bomber to be released was paid for by the Libyan government, which encouraged doctors to say he had only three months to live.
By Andrew Alderson
It was the key medical assessment that paved the way for the release of the Lockerbie bomber: cancer experts who visited Greenock Prison in Scotland to examine Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi concluded that he had three months to live.
Their verdict, following the visit on July 28, was crucial because, under Scottish law, prisoners could be freed on compassionate grounds only if they were considered to have three months, or less, to live.
Other experts had concluded in June and July that Megrahi, who had an aggressive prostate cancer, had up to 10 months to live. The bomber was duly freed 23 days after the latest assessment.
But today The Sunday Telegraph can disclose that the medical evidence was paid for by the Libyan government, which encouraged the doctors to say that Megrahi had only three months to live.
British and Scottish officials appear to have thought that it would be easier to justify Megrahi's release to the US government if it was done on compassionate grounds. The disclosures will increase suspicions that they colluded to enable Megrahi, 57, to return to his homeland. Their motivation was that Libya had repeatedly warned that it would sever all trade links with Britain if Megrahi died in prison.
Megrahi's application for release on compassionate grounds was discussed at a meeting between Libyan officials and Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice secretary. It is understood that Mr MacAskill's staff then provided the Libyans with advice on how to proceed.
Professor Karol Sikora, one of the three doctors who visited Megrahi at Greenock, said this weekend that he had been approached by the Libyans and paid a one-day consultancy fee to draw up a report.
In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Telegraph, the professor, who is the medical director of CancerPartnersUK in London, said he was initially "pessimistic" that the experts could say he would survive any less than a year.
But Prof Sikora admitted that the Libyans had encouraged him to conclude that Megrahi had just three months to live following his examination. "The figure of three months was suggested as being helpful [by the Libyans]," he said.
"To start with I said it was impossible to do that but, when I looked at it, it looked as though it could be done — you could actually say that." ...
CONTINUED: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6143966/Lockerbie-medical-experts-were-urged-to-predict-bombers-early-death.html


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Bidding and Preproduction
Visual Effects Bidding and Preproduction are covered in this podcast.
Storyboards and animatics are included in this discussion.
Today I'll be discussing the start of the process, which includes bidding and preproduction.
A studio or producer will contact a visual effects company, which is also referred to as a visual effects house. If a producer or studio has a relationship with an effects company they may provide the script only to that company but more likely they will have at least 3 or 4 effects companies review the script. Studios often have a postproduction supervisor or even a visual effects head who is involved in making sure the postproduction process flows smoothing. If a production company is contacting the effects company directly they may have hired a visual effects producer for the film itself. This is common if the film is very large and will the work will be split out to a few effects companies.
Most of the time the producer will have a script for a film that's been greenlit or is close to being greenlit. Greenlit means that the money has been approved to make the film. Sometimes the producer just needs a ballpark estimate before it precedes any further in development.
At the effects company the visual effects supervisor and effects producer review the script. The visual effects supervisor and effects producer mimic the director and producer but specifically to visual effects. The supervisor's job is to oversee the work from both a creative and technical standpoint and make sure it accomplishes what the director needs. The visual effects producer is in charge of the budget and schedule of the work.
The script is reviewed and the supervisor and producer make notes on what they think the effects work will be. Typically I tag anything that might be effects work and create a list. Details about what the client wants may be minimal at this time. The supervisor and producer sit down and create a ballpark budget based on a rough idea of techniques and their experience. The next step is a meeting with the director and film's producer to clarify exactly what the vision is and what they think they can accomplish with stunts and practical effects work. Based on this conversation the list of effects shots is revised and a new ballpark estimate is created. It's important to provide these estimates in written form so there's no miscommunication.
Before more detailed bids can be created and the job awarded the work has to be very well defined. Scripts usually don't have a lot of detailed descriptions and even when they do the director may have other ideas.
This is the start of the preproduction phase. For a large film this can be 6 to 9 months before shooting even begins. Once filming starts there can easily be a crew of 200 or more people at a minimum cost of $100,000 or more per day. Anything that can be done in preproduction to speed up the actual shoot and make it as smooth as possible is worth it. An ounce of prevention as they say.
The concept phase
In many cases you're being asked to create something that doesn't exist so it's critical to get the design down on paper to allow communication with all involved. The production may start a concept phase where they hire an effects company or their own artists to create artwork. The visual effects art director plays a key role here. The director may not have a clear idea of what the creature or gadget or vehicles is supposed to look like so numerous sketches are done by the artists. The first step usually covers a wide range of possible looks and the artists may also work closely with the production designer to make sure they're on the same page. If there are elaborate makeup or costume designs these are proceeding as well and in many cases the teams work together. Hopefully the director will be clear about which parts of which designs he likes and the designs are refined further. In end color concepts are usually created and in some cases a model sculpture is created. This is sometimes called a Marquette.
Directors vary a lot in terms of being able to visualize and communicate their ideas. It some cases the director may not know what he wants until he sees it. This means you could spend a lot of times doing concept art and in some case this may continue on well into production which can cause further complications.
Sometimes during this concept phase I may shoot some video and do some moving mockups to try to clarify what the effect might look like in motion.
The next step is to storyboard all the visual effects sequences. There needs to be one storyboard or sketch of every shot that will have effects work. If it's a complex shot with a lot of movement or action then multiple panels will be done similar to a comic book except the format for all shots is the format of the film frame. The production may hire an artist to work directly with the artist or they may have the visual effects company artist work with the director. It's important for the visual effects team to be involved in the storyboarding since they have the most experience in what works and doesn't work in this area. I always suggest to a director he storyboard the shots as if it all existed. This avoids the effect shots being approached differently than the live action and avoids dwelling on a single effect.
Storyboard may seem to suppress the creatively of the scene but they're very important for a few reasons.
A single shot may require a number of departments to work together and prepare for the filming of the shots. With storyboards and concept art the director is able to easily communicate to everyone. A picture as they say is worth a thousand words. Without the boards each person would envision the shots differently.
For the visual effects crew we can't budget a shot until we see what the director sees. It's one thing in the script to set the action as a dogfight in space but it's critical to know the exact number of shots. The effects supervisor has to analyze every board and determine the technical process to create the final image. If an actor is framed one way that might require a bluescreen but if the shot is framed another way it may require rotoscoping or may be a simple split. A single shot may require a dozen different images or as we call the elements. There may need to be a section of a matte painting, a shot of the main actors on location, a shot of some extras against a blue screen, a model shot with motion control and a computer graphic creature all in one shot. Some of these elements may be shot or created over a span of a year so planning is critical. In a film such as star wars there about 2000 shots. Most shots average 5-8 seconds in length for budgeting purposes. In the old days. And I use the term old days to reference pre-digital effects; a large show was 200 shots.
Animatics
If a sequence is very complex, production may want to do animatics. These are essentially moving storyboards. They may be as simple as editing the storyboards together to check the flow and timings of the shots or may involve elaborate 3D models with animation. The storyboards do a good job of conveying the composition and basic action of the scene but moving images provide timing information and camera motion. At times we may videotape models by hand or do other types of mockups using clips from other references.
Both storyboards and animatics are used as a guide and starting point with the understanding that some of the shots will need to change when shooting based on the locations and the actors. It's important not to get too hung up on animatics. Because of their simple texturing they usually don't do a good job of conveying the sense of speed compared to a live action image projected onto a movie screen. It also becomes very easy to create shots you can't actually shoot due to the camera speed or other real world limitations. Some directors try to finesse the animatics in great detail which can make it that much more frustrating to them. They should be used just enough to convey the concept of the shot.
Once the boards are created then it's possible to create an accurate budget for the visual effects work. Budgeting is one of the most difficult tasks in effects work since there are still quite a few unknowns I usually gather the heads of the different departments and review the storyboards. Each department head provides their estimate for the amount of time they expect a shot to take for their discipline. Animation, matte painting, compositing, technical director, etc. Ideally they will bid it based on the performance of their average worker. It's easy to become optimistic when bidding about how quickly the work should be done and how the shots will all flow as planned. Reality and experience quickly temper this urge. Likewise if someone has had a bad experience they may pad their estimates. In either case these deviations from the target add up since there may be several hundred shots budgeted this way.
When reviewing the techniques to use it usually isn't a question of how to do an effect but which way is best for this particular film. Each technique has certain limits associated with it. I'll cover the details to this in another podcast.
As mentioned before it's also common for the studio to bid out the project to multiple effects houses so budget is always an issue. On larger shows the studio may end up dividing up the work among a few effects houses. When this is the case the film usually has an effects producer or coordinator assigned to it to oversee the project to make sure budgets and schedules from multiple effects houses are on target.
Most productions are done on a fixed bid that means that any overages are out of the effects company pocket unless the director requests changes or additions to the from the original planned shots. Part of the budgeting process is determining how much coverage is included for changes. Some places bid a bare minimum, which requires them to request, a change order from the production for additional charges even when a minor change has taken place. Most of the larger effects houses try to include enough funds to cover typical adjustment requests by the director.
The time is also a consideration when budgeting. If there isn't sufficient pre-production or postproduction time the crew may have to work overtime. In this business a 50-hour week is usually a minimum. Days are usually 10 to 12 hours long and a workweek can stretch to be 6 or even 7 days, especially toward the final completion of the project. At the end of Star Trek the motion Picture I worked 90, 12-hour days straight. Since the movie release date is locked at the moment it is greenlit it becomes an unchanging deadline. Obviously this will affect the budget.
You may have to do a fair bit of research and development to create the look the director is after and since this is an artistic endeavor with a different director on each project the amount of time it takes will sometimes be an unknown. One director may like the look of the shots very easily and another may dwell on some detail in a single shot at the expense of other shots.
During the pre-production phase the film departments are busy creating the sets, costumes and other items required for the shoot. On the visual effects side the R&D, research and development, is in process and tests are being shot if new techniques are required. Some of the models (both CG and physical models) can be constructed. Just a note here that CG refers to computer graphics. Visual effects artists usually use CG instead of CGI since it's shorter and not redundant.
We also use this time to work with the director of photography to make sure we're in sync with them. The film stock and shooting process will discussed since this could affect some of the approaches taken in post production.
As the date for shooting nears the visual effects supervisor goes on the tech scout with the other department heads. This may be reviewing the sets or flying to the locations where the film will be shot. The effects supervisor works closely with the director of photography, the practical effects supervisor and the stunt supervisor. Some revisions to budget and storyboards may need to be done once the tech scout is done.
Preproduction on your own
Even if you're doing the visual effects for your own miniDV movie it's important to take advantage of preproduction. It's best if you do a simple sketch or storyboard of your shots. This doesn't have to be anything fancy, it's just to help you review what you're planning to do. When you've sketched it out it's easy to spot some potential problems you might not have thought about.
You'll have to figure out what techniques will be required for each shot. If you haven't done much of this before it's best to keep it simple because a simple shot well done is better than a complex shot poorly done. In most cases a locked off camera will make the shot easier to do. This means use the camera on a tripod and don't move it.
Also consider doing what the professionals do during pre-production. Test. If you have a video camera then try to shoot a simple version of your shot with people filling in for the actors. Step through the process of the shot with this test footage so you're clear about how the technique works. You don't need to finish the shot but this can help figure out how to best shoot the images and how much work will be required in post production. It may not cost you in money but it's important to understand the amount of time required. By doing a test you'll also gain a bit more experience so that your skills will be better for the actual shots.
Well that wraps up today's podcast. Shooting the visual effects will be our next topic. Thank you.
Posted by Scott Squires at 11/13/2005
Labels: audio, bidding, budget, film, podcast, pre-production, preproduction, previs, storyboards, vfx, visual effects supervisor
Fantastic concept for a podcast, and (to judge by this first substantive installment) well executed. I really appreciate your taking the time and lending your expertise to illuminating the work of visual effects design, budgeting, and manufacture. Good luck with this, and thanks!
Thanks for the feedback. It's always useful to know if it's making a connection and if I'm covering the topics people want.
Peter oh December 07, 2005
Wow, this blog is the one of the most wanted blogs...
I am a previz & layout artist in San Francisco. I can get a lot of info about VFX in this blog. Good for you!
If you have a time, hang around my web site.
www.previzlab.com
Scott Squires December 08, 2005
Hi Peter, You've got some nice work on your site.
Hi Scott, great idea for podcasts and you're certainly qualified to discuss it.
I look forward to visiting here often. I'm hoping this will also be an interactive area for good discussions. Our industry keeps us busy and I appreciate you taking the time to share your experiences.
Anonymous July 17, 2006
hey thanx again Scott,
So good to get quality information from a real working professional. You have got me coming back for more, thanx heaps
Gunism August 19, 2006
Hi Woww..
Thank you for your information. All is very interesting and useful for me. I'm interested in digital compositing; very beginner though. Sometimes I don't know where to start first, trying to get myself some knowledge of film compositing.
I'll definitely visit your blog again and again and again.
Cheer!
first time i am visiting your blog, its informative and useful, thanks a lot.
JoyGreen September 02, 2010
Thank you so much for running such great blog. I learned a lot from here.
I have a question here after reading this post. If you could spend some time answer me that'll be wonderful. You said "A studio or producer will contact a visual effects company, which is also referred to as a visual effects house....but more likely they will have at least 3 or 4 effects companies..." My question is how do I let the studio or producer know about my company and contact me for biding the project? Do I need to hire a producer or sales that have relationship with the studio? How this work?
Thank you again for having this wonderful place.
Scott Squires September 05, 2010
A VFX company has to contact the various studios or production companies that might require vfx. Most studios have a gatekeeper for vfx. This is usually a Vice President in charge of VFX or VFX Producer. The problem is they would much rather go with an established company they've already worked with in the past than to try a new company.
It's possible you could have a sales agent or producer contact them but I suspect in most cases the influence would be minimal. All depends on the agent, the vfx company and the studio person.
Go ahead and track down the name of the person in charge (shouldn't be difficult with the internet) and send in a great demo dvd and a cover letter. Be aware though that most of these people probably get demo disks daily so you're dvd could collect dust in a large pile of other dvds.
A supervisor or vfx producer (or film producer) that has worked with your company in the past could relay your dvd to the correct person if they're involved currently with a project at that studio.
The main thing is to gain a good reputation and start making headway anyway you can with credits and a great reel.
Its 2015 and this article is still helpful! Thanks Scott!
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This is a personal description of Grzegorz Rozenberg. There is something magical in the fact that one man, Grzegorz, has been able to obtain so many and such good results in so numerous and diverse areas of science. This is why I have called him a "magical scientist." He is also a very interdisciplinary scientist. In some sense this is due to his educational background. His first degree was in electronics engineering, the second a master's in computer science, and the third a Ph.D. in mathematics. However, in the case of Grzegorz, the main drive for new disciplines comes from his tireless search for new challenges in basic science, rather than following known tracks. Starting with fundamental automata and language theory, he soon extended his realm to biologically motivated developmental languages, and further to concurrency, Petri nets, and graph grammars. During the past decade, his main focus has been on natural computing, a term coined by Grzegorz himself to mean either computing taking place in nature or human-designed computing inspired by nature.


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That's awesome! He does great work!
I'm just looking at this on my cell phone, but that looks pretty good for a novice painter!
Thank you guys! I will have to tell him, and Im sure he would be glad to hear that!
I made my comment here by accident... I meant to make it in the thread, but I was on my cell phone, and I think I hit the wrong thing without realizing it!
But yeah, give your dad a big for me!


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Every Jewish holiday comes with a menu of special foods to eat. Even Yom Kippur's day of solemn fast comes with a prescription for the food at the Break-Fast after sundown. So it should come as no surprise that there are special foods that are associated with Chanukah.
The Miracle of the Oil, where one day's worth of oil in the Temple lasted for the eight days it took to prepare more, is the starting point for the foods of Chanukah. If it is all about the oil, then this is the holiday of "Fried Foods." We did not say it was healthy food, just that it was traditional — and tastes good! And, remember, this holiday food, not "every day" food.
While fried foods in general are considered traditional, there are two of them that appear in every recipe list for Chanukah: latkes (a fried potato pancake) and sufganiyot (jelly-filled donuts). Though they're both fried, and traditional, they come from different Jewish cultural traditions — latkes from the Ashkenazi (or Northern European diaspora) and sufganiyot from the Sephardic (or Middle Eastern region).
Latkes have typically been made from potatoes, but you can find recipes that use sweet potatoes or other root vegetables, such as carrots. For this recipe the potatoes are grated. Nowadays that often means a food processor, but a hand grater works just as well — just make sure you don't grate your hand! Once the potatoes are grated you have to work quickly. The starch found in potatoes will quickly go an unappetizing black color on exposure to air. To avoid this, I grate my potatoes into a bowl of cold water. After grating the potatoes, take them out of the water, wrap them in a kitchen towel, and squeeze as much water out of the as you can (even if you don't grate into water, you should still dry them). Removing as much moisture as possible is a key step in making your latkes nice and crisp. Here's a link to recipe for making classic latkes.
Once you have the latkes, you have to decide what to serve them with. Traditionally, they're served with applesauce or sour cream — depending on which crowd you're part of. While you can start a lively debate by claiming on is better, or "the" way, it's probably safer just to serve them both! Some other possibilities to consider: kids often prefer ketchup or BBQ sauce; me, I really like Red Onion Jam on them. Get creative, it's all part of the fun.
A sufganiyah (sufganiyot is the plural) is a fried donut. These are not the usual American version of a donut with the hole in the middle, but a jelly-filled, round donut (usually some sort of berry) dusted with sugar. You can generally find a local donut where you can buy some, but you can absolutely make your own. You can even make your own gluten free version! Those are hard to find in a store! This is a favorite recipe for regular sufganiyot and just in case you want to try your hand at them, this gluten free recipe works great!.
So enjoy the treats of the Chanukah season! And make some memories.


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Commercial, cultural, sport and tourist co-operation established by Mikołów with partner towns in Europe became very friendly over the years; official contacts quickly became less formal, often at the level of individual residents.
Therefore it would be better to call our partners twin or sister towns as they are referred to in other countries.
First international contacts were established in 1981 between Mikołów and Beuningen muncipality, the Netherlands. In those difficult years the Dutch people organized charity aid for residents of Mikołów. In November 1991 representatives of both towns signed a formal agreement on co-operation and afterwards Mikołów received a Magirus fire egine and PCs for the City Office.
Representatives of those cities are invited every year to major cultural events in our town Mikołów's Music Days, "Mikołow Impressions", and "Days of Mikołów".
Young residents of the partnership towns meet at European Youth Meetings organized for years now as part of co-operation between European towns, and during holiday stays organized e.g. by the Dutch for groups of children coming from the poorest families in Mikołów.
Young people eagerly participate in numerous sports events. One of the most popular is the athletics meeting of three towns – Mikołów, Klimkovice and Ilawa.
A common practice also includes an exchange of experience between small business owners, social activists, or employees of local government offices in partnership towns.
The authorities of Mikołów do appreciate the co-operation with foreign partners and to prove this the following three were awarded the title of the Citizen of the Year – Pierre Champion, the mayor of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, Huib Zijlmans, the mayor of Beuningen and Pavel Malik, the mayor of Klimkovice.
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Debbie Smith Act Leads to 192,000 DNA Matches
The Debbie Smith Act (DSA), the federal government's primary tool to eliminate the backlog of untested DNA evidence from unsolved rape cases, is responsible for nearly half of all matches to the FBI's DNA database, CODIS. Now, Congress is about to consider whether to renew the program for five more years.
Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Ann Wagner (R-MO) have introduced a bill to reauthorize the DSA, and a Senate bill is expected soon from Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). The current law expires on September 30, so Congress must act soon to avoid having the current law expire.
DNA evidence from sexual assault cases not only helps law enforcement identify perpetrators in existing unsolved cases, but is crucial in identifying perpetrators and preventing them from committing future crimes.
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More than 860,000 DNA cases have been processed and 192,000 DNA matches were made.
376,000 DNA profiles from crime scenes have been uploaded to CODIS — 43% of all forensic profiles in CODIS, the national DNA database.
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I've been researching front end options and I'm starting to have more questions than when I started. The one that has troubled me the most so far is how the MR-03 responds to camber curve. Is this something we actually want in our local setups?
With all the ways there is to tame the responsiveness of the front end it would seem like increasing(by increasing camber) the traction as weight is applied would result in traction rolling. It would seem too if there is any increase in camber it would create positive bumpsteer, which would increase the steering angle even further inboard, multiplying the effect to some degree. I don't know how much of a factor that really has depending on tolerances in the suspension, but it sounds like a recipe for more traction rolling.
I was talking to Mike K about his 90 and he showed me how he raised the upper control arm mount to increase the downward angle of the arm below horizontal, effectively decreasing camber as the suspension is compressed. This is the exact opposite of what all the other suspensions are designed to do. Makes sense if you're trying to limit the amount of traction during hard cornering. I'm not sure how that affected roll center, and how the combination works together or fights each other.
Outside of the MR-02 suspension there isn't any alternatives I've found that allow suspension travel without some associated CC/BS. I've tried to research it here on the forums but the threads are 1% data and the other 99% people arguing about credentials. Figured since we all race here locally you would know better than anyone what works/doesn't work in our setting.
Camber gain is one of the pitfalls of the MR03 single A-Arm design. Camber gain is the increase in camber as the suspension loads. There are benefits for it when you can tune it by raising the a-arm hinge pin. This will raise roll center, but reduce camber gain.
With low traction, the camber gain can be helpful to give good initial steering with low camber, and increase as it is loaded... As traction rises, static camber (in knuckle) with less gain makes the car easier to drive.
There were aftermarket parts available to deal with these camber gain issues, that unfortunately are no longer available. Longer A-arms definitely helped give the cars a more neutral feel with static camber (used with either Reflex upper tower, or narrow hinge configuration). Now, raising the hinge location is one of the few available methods to deal with this.
I assume that traction is high where you race. What front tires do you use? Do you glue your tires? A little glue around the outside sidewall of the front tires can also help work around traction rolling issues after raising the tower bar.
I havent been racing recently, but I dont think that anything ground breaking has become available that changes much in the setup of the MR03.
Here are a couple of dated threads that may have some relevance.
Thank you for that info. Good stuff.
I'm running PN KS Mediums in the front and Pravada 5's in the rear, both taped. I haven't experienced traction rolling but I am looking to upgrade the front end. With all the options out there I was curious to learn what faults of the 02 suspension were cured with the 03, and what faults of the 03 the aftermarket was attempting to cure, and at what cost.
From my understanding between those posts and your comments the MR-03 camber gain allows you to run less static camber without the fear of digging the edge in under cornering. Essentially a compromise.
The negative of the mr02 front end is that it only has static camber, which means that you either have less camber than you want at corner entry to get optimum camber in the middle corner, or optimum camber at corner entry with too little in the mid corner (outside sidewall heavily loaded in mid corner).
The largest negative to the mr02 suspension is that the knuckle slides on the kingpin as suspension travels. Which can lead to slop and binding.
The mr03 suspension when oriented in a reverse kingpin layout removes vertical travel of the knuckle on the kingpin, which means a smoother suspension travel.
The negative of a reverse kingpin mr03 configuration is that tere is more unsprung mass on the front end, but my opinion is that it is worth the trade-off to gain more precision and reduce binding of the knuckle on the kingpin by only having the knuckle pivot on the kingpin rather than have the knuckle have vertical travel on the kingpin.
With camber gain that the mr03 has, it can be tuned to the conditions. Giving optimum camber at corner entry and mid corner. Adjusting the roll center, by raising the a-arm hinge along with shims above the knuckle to adjust the geometry. Combined with optional static camber of knuckles, you can really dial in the front end for maximum traction at a reduced cost compared to a double a-arm configuration that was the only real option on an mr02. Many will argue that the double a-arm on the mr03 is still the best configuration, since it has reduced camber gain compared to the single a-arm of the default mr03, with more adjustability of that camber gain with minimal part changes. I personally prefer plastic suspension parts offer aluminum. The expense of the double a-arm is also hard to swallow.
Learning when and where to adjust the camber, caster, and camber gain is important to sorting the front end. For the most part, I would have one car arranged for small track layouts or low traction with less static camber and more camber gain, and one with more static camber and less camber gain for large or high traction tacks. On race day, it is all tire prep, I would almost never adjust front suspension. Only rear suspension to adjust f/r roll rate, and tire.
Lots of good stuff. The local track was just re-tiled last week so it will be interesting to see how the cars perform. Should be even more grip. Lap times will be telling.
I was wondering too how sensitive the cars are to scrub. I know with the DAA front end it effectively adds 2mm to each side, cutting the offset (in my case) down to zero. I assume this would ease up some load off the steering but not sure to what extent, or if it's even noticeable.
I was talking to another member and he mentioned the r246 cambered spindles and the plastic steering arms. You too mentioned you preferred plastic. Besides cost can you explain why?
plastics are typically lighter than metals. And they rebound in impacts or break. Aluminum can bend, and you might not notice. Easier just to replace the plastic part.
plastic also needs no lubrication on moving parts like a metal to metal joint would.
Im not against metal parts, but I typically only use them when needed. The pn double a-arm typically generates the most front traction out of any setup that I have tried, but is expensive.


"Training for a 5k, tips and planning"
The wonders of training for a 5k, is that it can be done in so many ways. Whether or not it is to combine it with the marathon training schedule.
Or you are just getting up "from the couch" and is looking for a couch to 5k training plan, program.
"The 5k is one of my big loves. From the first time I ran it, until the two Olympics in 2000 and 2004. It is a massive test of speed, speed-endurance, and pure stamina"
Speed runner, "the need for speed type". You are probably the more explosive type runner. Then you may want to read about speed training in combination with endurance events.
Endurance runner. You can go on forever...but still have some speed in your legs but you have to train for it.
Or a pure marathon runner?
And of course, last but not least, you may be a beginner running - training for your first 5k run.
The answer to that question helps you identify what work to do for a better 5k.
You can focus on that speed as sort of your base.
If you are an endurance person..
You like to do on the longer work.
Your work should mainly consist of longer intervals with only small speed work as part of the endurance sessions.
Your 5000 training should be used as a building block in the marathon training.
I explain some more about this in the 5k marathon training article here.
The fun thing about training for the 5k is that you can test and try different models of training.
These are just examples. You will find more information about the specifics on the other 5k articles, the 10k article and in the "running tips" section.
Each one is explained below.
A good choice for the last medium-hard session is 4 days before a race.
And the last really, really hard one about 10 days before.
This helps you hit it "right" on the day - because muscular tension generally takes a few days to increase - then a couple more to go down to "normal but alert".
It seems that for most 5k runners a medium hard session 4 days before works good for hitting it right on the day.
Use the treadmill for some of the faster 5k type stuff.
I have personally very, very good experience with this.
It may not be the most fun thing you do, to run on the spot but it is actually excellent work to improve running economy.
I am a big fan of treadmill running for that particular reason.
You may read more about treadmill running in this article. And you can see my viewpoints on this topic.
Even if your 5k is a road race, hit the nearby track for some faster work.
This will help you even on the road 5k races. Because you get the springy effect from the track.
Your tendons will gain elasticity.
More elasticity means less effort for the same speed.
Which is in reality better running economy.
That is : up until the last 4-5 weeks when pace should be steered to 5k training only.
For those of you that are interested in 10k training - there is a separate section about 10k training here, where you will find some examples of training sessions to do.
In the marathon running articles you find on this site - what you will find is a training cycle that consists of 4 different, but equally important parts.
The key is to place the 5k work in a marathon cycle as early as possible - something I write more about in the 5k marathon training article that you will find on the bottom of this page.
But what kind of track workouts ?
A good commonly suggested model is 1:2 for your track workouts.
The alternation like this ensures muscle tension to stay in control and the variation helps with a faster increase in performance.
Attitude of good 5 k work is always finish the workout "on top" and this variation will help you control that.
If you had to, you could have continued the workout for a few more runs. You have pushed hard but.....you still feel great.
Good luck with your 5k training quest, click below for more articles about 5k training or to go back to marathon training schedule index.
Speed training - Read about speed training and distance running. Workouts for improvement and what to consider.
5k Marathon Training - Smart tips and tricks to combine the 5k and the marathon training.