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Bangalore, Feb 10 (PTI) Age is no bar for this 62-year-oldwoman pilot who is still flying high leading the Flying Bulls,the Czech Republic-based aerobatic team that is performing atthe ongoing Aero India 2011 show here.
Radka Machova''s role in the aerobatic team includes leadingthe formation into various complex manoeuvres, a verticalloop, a dive or roll on, the manager, Martin, said.
A mother of two and avid photographer, Radka loves hercurrent profile, Martin said
"It is the adventure, the thrill of the sport and positivemindset that keeps her going", he said.
Surprisingly, the gravitational forces, which could take atoll on the body when flying at those altitudes also do notappear to have impacted Radka.
Radka along with her other team mates, Jiri Saller, GiriVebrel and Miro Slav Krejci left many speechless as theyperformed mid-air manoeuvres, displaying amazing precision,agility, alertness of mind and quick reflexes.
The Flying Bulls, a part of the Red Bull family, comprisefour pilots (three men and a woman) are known for theiracrobats in the air.
The team has together logged in around 35,000 flying hours.
The team, comprising lovers of vintage aircraft, haveperformed in 600 shows in 30 countries and participate inaround 50 displays a year. All the group members are above 50and are veterans in their field.
The team''s highlights are its 19 manoeuvres, including itssignature manoeuvre of the mirror flight where the two planesmirror each other''s image in opposite directions while thethird loops around them. Their daredevilry acts in mid-airalso include the dog fight'', a barrel loop, a hammer head,and an inverted G. Perfect coordination, timing and precisionare the key to all the manoeuvres, said the team.
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"Bayport Long Island," "Barrett Avenue," "Deepwater Horizon" and "Between the Sound and the Atlantic." Water, Water Everywhere:Prose and Art. (November 14, 2015) Web.
Up the Hudson," "Ramona Says," "A House on Fire," "Accidentally," "Back to Brooklyn," "On Saturday" and "At Marysia's." Oz-Burp 2. Pete Spence's magazine. Victoria, Austrailia: Donnithorne Street Press (2015). Print.
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"Before the Noon Hour, " "Bundling" and "Under the Scaffolding." Visceral Brooklyn 1 (2015).
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"Strange Afternoon Dream," "Up Early Peddling" "Here We Are." "These Socks," "The M14 Bus," and "C U in 5 Minutes." Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Issue 42 (2014).
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"Bayport, Long Island," "Deepwater Horizon" and "Third Street, Tucson."Poets for Living Waters.
"14x14x14". Peep/Show: A Taxonomic Exercise in Textual and Visual Seriality 10:4 (2011).
"Twelve Green Rooms," Press 1, 4: 3 (2011).
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"The Dinner." A novella. Talisman (2010)
Three Prose Works: "Out of Detroit," "Organ Light" and "Protestants and Catholics." Jacket Magazine 37 (2009).
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"Five Stories: Hunger, Like a Stairway, The Light is Light, Two Big Yawns, and What We Need Now." Jacket Magazine 35 (2008).
"Little Tesuque. Eoagh, A Journal of the Arts. 2008.
"An Arc Falling Into the Bougainvillea." Reconfigurations. 2007.
"Aerial View" Not Enough Night. Fall 2006.
"Black Grapes" The Brooklyn Rail. June 12, 2006.
"Thakita Thaka or Postcards From India. How2: New Writing. Vol 1. No 3. (February, 2000).
Same poem but a beautiful web page designed by Kendal Kelly (a yoga pal/web designer)
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A Slow Curve (Monkey Puzzle Press 2012)
Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins (BlazeVOX 2012)
Looking Up Harryette Mullen (Interviews, Belladonna 2011)
Cities and Memory (Chax Press 2010)
Thirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVOX 2009)
My Autobiography (United Artist 2007)
You, Me and the Insects (Spuyten Duyvil 2005)
Photo Poem Pamphlets (2003-2014)
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Me and My Dog (Meeting Eyes Bindry/Poetry New York 1999)
Love Makes Thinking Dark (United Artist 1995)
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What is a HDMI Wall Plate?
A HDMI Wall Plate is a great little piece of kit. It will allow you to connect your High Definition Television to your Home Theater equipment via a high quality HDMI Cable – all while keeping those ugly cables hidden from sight, wherever your LCD, Plasma, or LED Television may be situated or mounted.
HDMI Wall Plates – or HDMI Wall panels as they're also commonly called – are able to be mounted to any part of a wall which you are able to drill into, and push a cable through. As you need to drill into the wall and pass cables through the openings, sometimes a HDMI Wall Panel is competely out of the question if your home is constructed of concrete or brick. If your home is constructed of timber, then the idea of installing a HDMI wall panel may seem a lot more realistic to the home handyman.
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Jason from Louin, Ms writes,
What if any herbicide is safe to use in my garden?
I need to kill grass and weeds without killing peas, butter beans, corn, okra,and tomatoes. (All very small plants at this point)
Please look into Avenger Herbicide. Avenger Weed Killer Concentrate is a great solution for those looking for environmentally safe herbicides. It is a non-selective and post emergence herbicide, that is made from oranges and lemons to kill grasses, weeds, and broadleaves. D-limonene (citrus oil), which is the active ingredient in Avenger, naturally takes away the waxy plant cuticle so the plant ends up being dehydrated and then dies. This product is more effective than other leading synthetic herbicides and faster acting, plus can be used in gardens. Please review the product label for application.
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Sometimes, you read something, and it just makes you sick to your stomach with envy. That is the feeling I have towards this couple – who decided to sell their $32 million condo because it was so big they were getting lost in it.Hedge funder Stuart Leaf's condo, if sold for the asking price, will become the most expensive ever sold in the borough of Brooklyn. Not bad.According to The Wall Street Journal, issues with the property started when Stuart's wife called him and got no response – then three hours later discovered they had both been home the whole time. First world problems.(via:unilad)
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The condo has a gym, a 3,500-bottle wine cellar and SIX bedrooms that all have bathrooms.
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Figs of Herston 2, at 74 Scott Road Herston, is a newly built eco-sensitive apartment on the ground level of a renovated 1920s verandah and gable styled Queenslander. The apartment is fully furnished and self-contained with 2 bedrooms, bathroom, open-plan living and dining and a fully equipped kitchen. Double French doors in the living area open onto the tranquil, productive edible garden terraces for you to feast from and revel in. Figs of Herston is close to many attractions and is truly and oasis close to the city. Come and enjoy the hospitality and the grandeur of the Figs of Herston
Figs of Herston is conveniently located on the top of Herston Ridge which is within easy walking distance of the Royal Brisbane Hospitals, Victoria Park Golf Club, Ballymore, Kelvin Grove College, QUT Kelvin Grove and the Urban Village with Saturday markets.
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Figs of Herston is a short drive from the Bowen Bridge Rd entrance to the M7 which will take you to the airport in 15 minutes. There is also easy access to the Inner City Bypass for the Sunshine Coast - 75 minutes and the South East Freeway for the Gold coast and travel south.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Under the unique direction of Emily Jasper, this full movie with audio in English (original language) was premiered in 2015. This movie, whose libretto belongs to Emily Jasper, is an original production of UK. You can watch Trek online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2015.
Rating: 5 by 10 users./
Runtime: 30 minutes
Alon Bentley, Alexander Montagu, Charles O'Neill and Jack Tompkins.
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30-minute film (full movie) directed by Emily Jasper.
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It premiered in cinemas or television in 2015.
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Jemma Clowes and Andrew Barham.
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Win his straight sets win over Julien Benneteau on Wednesday, Andy Murray has now won 19 of his last 21 matches, with 3 titles under his belt (Shenzhen, Vienna and Valencia).
6-3 6-4 for the Scot who can thank Benneteau for all his unforced errors. Murray who is fifth in the race, needs to reach the quarterfinals to qualify for the London ATP finals. He next faces Grigor Dimitrov, who beat him at Wimbledon this year.
Fun fact: Benneteau's coach, Loic Courteau is the former coach of Amélie Mauresmo who is now the coach of Andy Murray.
Follow our Bercy 2014 coverage on Tennis Buzz.
A really solid 6-3 6-4 win for Novak Djokovic who is once again the big favorite for the title here. But he could lose his number one ranking if he loses in quarterfinals and Roger Federer wins the tournament.
Djokovic's coach, Boris Becker won the Bercy tournament three times in 1986, 1989 and 1992. He was also finalist in 1990 and 1995.
Follow our Bercy 2014 coverage on Tennis Buzz.
Bothered by a back injury before the French Open, Richard Gasquet has had a disappointing season so far: he reached only one final (Eastbourne, loss to Feliciano Lopez) and is now out of the top 20.
With a good performance in Paris he could secure a spot in the French Davis Cup team that will face Switzerland in less than a month.
Gasquet didn't panic after the loss of the first set 6-7, and played much more relaxed in the second set, with some beautiful backhands down the line, to level the match at one set all. At 3-0 in the third, Istomin injured his knee after a long and spectacular rally, and managed to played only one more game. 6-7 6-2 4-0 victory for Gasquet who next plays 11th seed Roberto Bautista Agut.
Gasquet interview after his win:
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A really bad day at the office for Edouard Roger-Vasselin, dismantled 3-6 1-6 by Philipp Kohlschreiber in just over an hour.
The Frenchman will take part to the ATP doubles finals in London with Julien Benneteau and has a tiny little chance to be selected as a member of the French Davis Cup team that will face Swizerland from 21 to 23 November in Lille.
Home of the Paris Bercy Masters since 1986, the POPB (Palais Omnisports Paris Bercy) can be can be easily recognized by its pyramidal shape and its walls covered with sloping lawn.
Opened in 1984, it was conceived as a modifiable sports arena capable of accomodating between 3500 and 17000 spectators for over 24 sports from basketball to boxing to tennis. The POPB also hosts some cultural events like concerts and musicals.
That's what the POPB looked like last year:
And that's what it looked like today, a vast construction site surrounded by palisades:
Nice to see you again, Marat!
The POPB is indeed undergoing a major modernisation project, with a budget of over 110 million euros. The plan is to make the new POPB (called Bercy Arena) a world class venue with increased seating capacity, VIP areas, box seats as well as new bars and restaurants.
The skatepark and the POPB in the background:
I'm pretty sure the player exiting the stadium was Milos Raonic, what do you think?
Some renderings of the future Bercy Arena:
The building will keep its pyramidal form and its outside grass areas, but the stairs will be removed to create a main entrance covering nearly 2,500 m² on street level, and which will house bars, restaurants and partner areas open seven days a week.
The sloped esplanade will be connected to the Parc de Bercy via a walkway which will join the Bercy Arena to the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand.
Stay tuned for more Bercy 2014 coverage on Tennis Buzz!
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For the first time in years, all the big stars (minus Murray who had back surgery) played the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. Nadal and Djokovic were fighting for the number 1 ranking whereas Federer, Wawrinka, Tsonga and co were all fighting for a qualification to the ATP Finals in London.
For the first time in the tournament history, the eight quarter-finalists were qualified for the ATP Finals in London. Djokovic defeated the defending champion David Ferrer in the final, and clinched his 40th career title.


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Busy Stressed and Food Obsessed Radio is becoming Healthy View Radio this fall and adding two AMAZING co-hosts!! We will continue to interview top Health & Wellness Rock Stars and bring you our own take on how to stay healthy in this crazy, stressful world.
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6/1/2017 - Interview with author of 'Women, Food, and Desire', Alexandra Jamieson & Bon-Vivant Girl, Nathalie Botros - Alexandra Jamieson's Playful Solution to Sugar Cravings and the Bon-Vivant Girl, Nathalie Botros
5/25/2017 - Interview with Dr. Tom O'Bryan, author of "The Autoimmune Fix" - The Link Between Gluten Sensitivity and Autoimmune Disease
5/18/2017 - Interview with Dr. Vincent Pedre & Debora Wayne - Healing your Gut and Living Pain-Free!
5/11/2017 - Interview with NYT bestselling author, Yuri Elkaim - Yuri Elkaim's All-Day Energy Diet
5/4/2017 - Interview with author of 'Style Yourself Over 40, 50, & Beyond', Sybil Henry - What Does You Wardrobe Say About YOU?
4/27/2017 - Interview with Debbie Adler - Sweet, Savory, and Allergen-Free with Debbie Adler!
4/20/2017 - Interview with Mel Robbins - Mel Robbins' 5 Second Rule
4/13/2017 - Interview with meditation teacher, Seth Monk and transformational yoga teacher, Jacqui Bonwell - Let's Get Centered! Tips from the Pros
4/6/2017 - Interview with founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Marc David - The Psychology of Eating
3/30/2017 - Interview with health coach Isabel Foxen Duke - How to Stop Feeling Crazy Around Food
3/23/2017 - Interview with expert health coaches Andrea Beaman & Michelle Pfennighaus - Are you BURNING OUT? Expert Health Coaches Andrea Beaman and Michelle Pfennighaus are here to help!
3/16/2017 - Interview with Geneen Roth, New York Times bestselling author - Making Peace with Food
3/9/2017 - Interview with Gary Taubes, author of "The Case Against Sugar", "Why We Get Fat", and "Good Calories, Bad Calories" - The Case Against Sugar
3/2/2017 - Interview with Dr. Joshua Garrin, author of "The I-Way to Well: Mapping the Seven Selves of Health Motivation" - Inside Out Motivation!
2/2/2017 - Interview with Dr. Arthur Ciaramicoli - Can Empathy Help Alleviate Stress?
1/26/2017 - Interview with Sean Croxton - The Power of your Mind
1/19/2017 - Interview with Dr. Michael Breus - The Sleep Doctor
1/12/2017 - Interview with Kathy Gruver, PhD - A New Way to Conquer Stress
1/5/2017 - Interview with Linda Ford, a manager of Get In Shape for Women - How Community Can Help You Reach Your Fitness Goals
12/29/2016 - Interview with one of the founders of the online magazine, Better After 50, Felice Shapiro - Resiliency Through Reinvention
12/22/2016 - Interview with brain and cognitive scientist, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D - Are you ADDICTED to FOOD?
12/15/2016 - Interview with two different meditation teachers, Lodro Rinzler & Andy Kelley - What Would Buddha Say?
12/8/2016 - Interview with thyroid expert, chef, and health educator Andrea Beaman & nutritionist, cookbook author, and product development expert, Mona Dolgov - Let's Talk Thyroid and Portion Control
12/1/2016 - Interview with Celebrity Nutrition and Fitness Expert JJ Virgin - JJ Virgin's Miracle Mindset
11/17/2016 - Interview with celebrity dietician, Tanya Zuckerbrot & best-selling cookbook author, Terry Walters - No More Diet Deprivation!
11/10/2016 - Interview with 3 different superstars - The Empowerment Episode
11/3/2016 - Interview with The Food Mood Girl, Lindsey Smith and the Founder of PMS Bites, Tania Green - How Your Food Effects Your Mood
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Hi All,
I've looked and looked and I haven't found anyone asking this type of question. If I've simply missed another thread, please point me to it.
I have several content sites with informational content that doesn't talk about particular products, i.e. an article on growing the herb thyme or an article about a particular painter. Topics vary but the articles are similar to Wikipedia, About and eHow. All of the articles are original and unique and often go into more detail than the more well-known sites mentioned.
My question is...from a general sense, what's the best way to promote affiliate products when you are talking about a topic but not talking about a particular product?
- Do you display a picture of the product and include text like, "This item is available from XYZ company and would be a great way to grow thyme or you could own a custom-framed version of this painting..."?
- Embed a link within the text as in..."You can buy your own xxx here"?
- Or do you display an Adsense-style advertisement and hope the ad alone makes the sale?
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So, how will you have startup tasks in a Virtual Machine Role? If you think that it's just an easy task that involves adding you tasks in the Windows Startup folder (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup), then you are mistaken. This is not going to work as the tasks in the startup folders are executed only when a user logs in to the machine, but this is not what you want. Your tasks should run whenever your role is started.
The solution for this is to use VM Role Adapter. This basically involves creating a Windows Service that is configured to Start Automatically when windows start. This is really simple and involves following steps:
1. Create a WindowsService project in Visual Studio, let's call it VMRoleStartup and write the operation you want to be executed at VM Role's startup in the OnStart() method.
2. Add the installer class to the service by opening service's class in designer mode and right-clicking. Select "Add Installer" from the menu as shown below. This class is used to install the service.
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Any idea how to export from PageMaker 7 to import into CorelDraw 10?
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I received a 'multiple post blues' thing when I posted this note in the Corel forum. My problem is with the moving of files between Adobe/Corel. That's why I posted in both, so pros in either suite would see and perhaps assist. Probably the post to have removed would have been Adobe. The program I want to work in is Corel.
Someone said that '...I know some people actually use CorelDraw for multipage docs but, honestly, it's not what it's designed for. It's not a layout program!'
I have been using Corel since Corel 2...and have been thinking of taking an Adobe class. I learned as I went and am not easily retrained.
I have not used Pagemaker in forever but can you export the pages to eps files or pdf's?
I have had luck exporting eps or pdf files from quark and opening it in Illustrator. Different programs - same theory, page layout to illustration.
I wish I had something clever to put here.......Some advice is profound, some is clever. The above post is a good example of both.
Well there's no way to really convert from pagemaker to corel and keep everything editable like you normally would in corel.
I would print the Pagemaker file to a PDF or to a postscript .prn and then distill it.
Then you can import each page (there's a page selector in the Corel PDF import dialogue) one at a time or let corel automatically place each page for you.
The text will most likely come in as separated letters, words or sentences. Depending on how the font gets translated. You may be able to CTRL-SELECT a block of text and recombine it back into paragraphs.
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Newer versions of Corel will likely open a PM PDF up, mostly intact.
You can also use the PS interpreter import filter in Corel to digest a PM page EPS.
But, as has been pointed out-- this may look like a PM doc, but it won't act like one. All the paragraphs will become separate lines, and even portional lines of text. Not what you call edit friendly.
OTOH, if you move all the PM text to a separate top layer and make a PDF (or EPS) with this off so as just to get the graphics, then all you need to do is (at least in CDraw12) copy and paste the text from the PM doc into a Corel paragraph block. You'll be prompted to how to paste-- choose retain text and formatting. MOST of the formatting comes across-- but not the text styles, which you'll have to create from the text that comes in.
But I'm with others: it's CorelDRAW (even Corel capitalizes the last part!), and not CorelLAYOUT&DRAW.
You will have lots of problems with this, anyway. And realy, Corel is not layout program. I used it from version 3 to version 6, than I swiched to Freehand. And everybody who worked with PageMaker remember 'Bad index table' message - that means you will do whole job again (if you dont have backup).
If you realy want do that in Corel - i think the fastest way is to make this booklet from beginning. And why you need to do this in Corel? Why you cannot edit it in PageMaker?
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So I've been browsing JF for a few years now, watching builds, stealing ideas, and gathering information but I figured it was finally time to put my Jeep on here. Unimportant background about me upon starting this: 18 year old high school senior, living in central Oregon.
OK! When I got the jeep it was bone stock other than a front towing package (PO towed it behind their RV) and it had 96xxx miles.
Came with:
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Being a teenager I painted the wheels..
Ran it like this for awhile and did some minor wheeling
As my tires wore down, a friend of mine had a set of 31's that he sold me dirt cheep, so I tested my luck fitting those (I didn't know I had upcountry yet)
Up to this point, I didn't have much interest in building it in anyway, just wanted to spend all my money on my mountain bike. But as I searched forums for little bits on information, I quickly learned how much potential my little jeep had. So I found a cheap way to lift it 3 inches with coils and aals. As well as some Soft 8's, and trimmed the bumper
Now onto the current set up..
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Sweet pictures so far, bro. Good deal on the UpCountry
As money started slowing seeping into my wallet, it was quickly drained into the jeep.
Here are pictures I took today of everything on the jeep at this point:
RE 4.5" Coils, RC Discos, RC N2.0 Shocks, and RC X-Flex adj. Lowers
Hankook Dynapro A/T 31x10.5
Me and a buddy built a light bar replicating Detour's Brow Bar. Instead of the $70 he charges, it cost about $12 and mounted the same way. :2thumbsup: I threw some IPF 968's on there and put 55w 3000k's in those
and the backing plates
I mounted the ballasts behind the grille next to the radiator
Next was a Flowmaster Super 44 muffler and tail pipe from Performancecurve.com
All in all, this is how she sits now.
I'm pleased with everything so far, just have SOOOO much more on my list..
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Only reason I ordered something from Rustys is because they were the only other company besides RE that makes a .75 greasable lift shackle and rustys was $30 cheaper
Thanks for the order! Enjoy them!
Looks great. Stupid question but what did you buy to do the light bar? What kind of metal? Prebent? Welding? I dont know Im retarded
If memory serves it was 40" of 1 1/4" di. by 3/8" thick tube.
But then we measured how wide we wanted the top flat part to be, then bent to 40* on each side. Cut the ends off at the right length and angle, then welded on the end caps which had been drilled out and had 2 bolts welded to what would be the inside of the cap, then cut out and welded on light tabs. All MIG welded.
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Biggest reason I haven't left my current job. I can't go back to laying under **** in a driveway, frustrates the hell out of me now. :laugh:
Yeah, unfortunately this is my last few months in high school, so look like I'm on the ground all summer unless my shop teacher still lets me use the shop next year.. Fingers crossed
Being that it took so long for me to start this thread and become an active member or JF, I can justify to myself all of the small, frequent updates. That being said - parts started coming in.
A problem I cannot seem to fix is my track bar. When I lifted it initially, I drilled a new hole for it and welded the old hole shut. The stock bolt wallowed our so I put a 10mm bolt through and now there is enough play that it feels as though it's making my steering sloppy. And it's making a pop when I drive - which is concerning.
I guess my question is; what is the best solution to this? Weld another piece of metal on the axle? New track bar? Burn the jeep down?
It seems as though the bolt is secure through the hole, but the sleeve inside the bushing on the track bar might be the issue. Mind also that I replaced the track bar about a year ago because the stock TRE was bad.
I vote new track bar. Especially if your steering angles are off. If you've wallowed out the hole in the bracket you can weld some grade 8 washers over the holes to make it round again and ready to accept a new track bar.
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In an e-mail to her, we detailed the information that we considered breaking contract, highlighting the fact that she was not acting in our best interest, but in the buyers and Karen said well if you can talk at this one time I am available then you can tell me how she broke contract.
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Football disunited - Margin
With latecomers we numbered 19, and it turns out my friends are a diverse bunch. Around half had post or under graduate degrees in subjects like textile design, archaeology, history*, economics and fashion.
We were publishers, nurses, council staff, writers*, unemployed, and (whisper it) a lawyer.
We numbered Atheists*, Christians, Agnostics and Hindus, homosexuals, heterosexuals*, baritone choir singers, rockers* and house clubbers.
One went to public school, three private, two religious school, and the rest went to bog standard comprehensives*.
Most were from my native South East of England, but some hailed from New Zealand, Mauritius and Rochdale.
We may not quite have been the cosmopolitan height of modern Britain, but we were not far off. So we let our divisions unite us with talk of non league football.
There was some mention of Pilates and Yoga. There was more talk of house buying, relationship and job talk. We reminisced and bitched about old times and old friends, and speculated about when dessert would arrive.
But it was football that really divided us.
We largely split between West Ham, Spurs* and Arsenal, along with a lone Kingstonian voice in the otherwise Premiership crowd. The one Liverpool fan spent his time embarrassing a hen party at another table, and the sole Man City follower sobbed into her soup that Big Sam should have chosen them.
And so the conversation flowed.
We discussed the detail of Luton Town's governance. They were owned by a bastard who stole their money until fans bought the club's creditors. They then called in the debt while organising a boycott so as to take control of the club on the cheap. A new ground is finally being built and the new 'owners' have a contract that gives control back to the fans if attendances fall (under another boycott).
We discussed Chelmsford City's large crowds since moving to the Melbourne Athletics Stadium. Last season they drew an average attendance of 1001 in the Ryman Isthmian Premier Division. That is the seventh tier of English football, putting Chelmsford as far behind Rochdale as Rochdale are behind Manchester United. Their travelling support even outnumbers the home crowd at some away games.
We discussed the upturn in fortunes at Exeter City where Spurs legend Steve Perryman is Director of Football. He lost a good manager to his former club's youth academy recently but has seemingly replaced him an excellent new man in Paul Tisdale.
And we discussed Kingstonian, who sadly were not as lucky Luton Town fans when faced with a bastard in charge. They were subjected to high debts, the sale of their players, and were made homeless when AFC Wimbledon of all teams took their ground. They went on to be relegated three times from their Conference high to the Ryman Isthmian Division one South – one division below Chelmsford City.
And so with religion, race, sex, sexuality, class and hair colour to divide us, an Italian restaurant in Soho offered a glimpse of utopia. Everyone was happy and fed - and for one off-season afternoon there was no Premiership.
* = Margin's place in the crowd.
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Interesting thoughts margin. I've never thought to consider parties I've thrown as "accidental social experiments" but I can see your point. One thing please do explain to this non-football person, Chelmsford City play at the Melbourne Athletics Stadium? They've gone to Aus??
- June 11, 2007 at 5:50 PM
Margin - I think I was there. Was it 1988 at Braganza?
Plus ca change - especially the getting off bloody house prices on to the things that really matter.
- June 11, 2007 at 10:06 PM
- Margin said...
Alas they have not moved to Aus - But have moved the the newly refurbished athletics ground (with retractable stands for the football) that happens to be n the edge of a large council estate called the 'Melbourne Estate'.
ah 1988 - with the slow synth rock playing in the background being muffled by shoulderpads.
- June 12, 2007 at 8:01 AM
- andrewm said...
Knowing something about football gets me through most awkward situations at work where I'm stuck with people I wouldn't normally talk to, and plenty of social situations as well. I consider that adequate recompense for the hours I waste obsessing over it.
- June 12, 2007 at 11:42 AM
- andrewm said...
PS. By coincidence, this week I conducted some deliberate animal experiments.
- June 12, 2007 at 1:16 PM
- Margin said...
What animals and who do they support?
- June 12, 2007 at 2:45 PM
- andrewm said...
margin, I know you're hoping for some GG/offside-style flight of fancy about having dinner with an ostrich who supports Stenhousemuir, but that's not my bag.
I have been injecting new makes of shampoo into the eyes of squirrels.
- June 12, 2007 at 3:30 PM
- Ebren said...
did the cat make you do it?
- June 12, 2007 at 3:34 PM
- Margin said...
so - can blind squirrels still find their nuts?
- June 12, 2007 at 3:46 PM
- andrewm said...
ebren, all the cat makes me do is get up ten times a night to throw it out of my room because it won't stop biting me.
margin, no they can't but they didn't cry when I did the injections, so we're moving ahead with the human trials. Do you need fifty quid by any chance?
- June 12, 2007 at 4:37 PM
- andrewm said...
Back on topic - more or less - I once rescued an incredibly awkward social situation involving an Italian girl by talking to her about Juventus, to the astonishment of my non-football friends.
Football is great, and so am I.
- June 12, 2007 at 4:40 PM
- guitougoal said...
did you get the girl and steal a kiss in the dark?
- June 12, 2007 at 5:34 PM
- Margin said...
nah - he offered her fifty quid.
- June 12, 2007 at 5:59 PM
- Zephirine said...
But talking of bites in the dark, Andrew, I fear that you and that cat are locked into an abusive relationship. Have you thought of counselling?
Or perhaps it's conducting an experiment to see how much pain you can stand.
- June 12, 2007 at 6:05 PM
- guitougoal said...
btw, I enjoyed your piece it's very refreshing-do you think andrewn and his cat may be reunited if they only talk football?
- June 12, 2007 at 6:24 PM
I thought andrewm only borrowed the poor small cat. does this make it worse?
- June 12, 2007 at 7:11 PM
- andrewm said...
margin, she was a classy lady. I doubt she charged, but I'm sure if she had then fifty wouldn't have got me far. Anyway, she was a Juve fan and I hate Juve (although I pretended to like them - the things I do for the ladies).
mimi, indeed he's not my cat, so we have to wonder why he's been here for six weeks. I could do with some sleep.
- June 12, 2007 at 7:26 PM
andrewm: I thought kitten was going abroad, so if indeed you have become parent to small beast, then questions should be asked. But how does creature prevent sleep? Can you not shut a door?
- June 12, 2007 at 9:11 PM
- andrewm said...
mimi, it's complicated. He's probably still going abroad, but I don't know when.
Shutting the door is fine, if you can ignore the plaintive cries which he will keep up ALL NIGHT until you open the door.
I love him really, though.
.... and the topic was ....
- June 12, 2007 at 9:28 PM
The topic... yes... what was the topic? I think we've been looking for the topic since about mid-february now. So, if anyone has any news of the topic or its whereabouts, please email the editor of Pseuds' Corner asap. In the unlikely event that the topic is found again, and if there is any danger it might actually be discussed, you can, as ever, count on me to take the appropriate course of action.
In the meantime, you may or may not be interested to hear that since I arrived in the Toulouse area, I also conducted a number of experiment on a (different) number of animals. They mostly (the experiments) involved testing the effect of said animals on various sets of tastebuds. I'll spare you the details and the list, as it might disturb some of our younger, more impressionable audience.
Please rest assured that in the course (entrée, main, etc...) of these experiments, all the animals have been killed, slaughtered, skinned, dismembered, skewered, diced, disembowelled, torched, grilled, steamed, and strangled, not necessarily in that order, but in the name of science.
Bon appétit.
- June 12, 2007 at 10:28 PM
- guitougoal said...
scientific cuisine.
lapin a la moutarde
gigot d'agneau, poulet de bresse etc...
- June 12, 2007 at 11:34 PM
- Ebren said...
mais non, c'est sûrement la cuisine zoologique
- June 12, 2007 at 11:42 PM
- guitougoal said...
like alligator a la sauce bearnaise?
- June 13, 2007 at 12:34 AM
- DoctorShoot said...
nile crocodile with
onions l'egypie
was napoleonic famous fare
ingested bravely with a smile
and the famous quip:
"let who would ask how come by, dare"
- June 13, 2007 at 12:38 AM
- guitougoal said...
french are disgusting, they eat like pigs then they go on strike unwilling to work and uncapable to use their energy-Thanks god Sarko is going to come up with a new menu:
clopinettes and clopinettes and feed the crocodiles withthe protesting crowd.
-n'est ce pas monsieur offsite?
- June 13, 2007 at 12:47 AM
- DoctorShoot said...
let them eat peanuts as they will,
to each their wickedness and their swill,
for us so far removed from france
know only of their degas and dance...
and in a similar coquettish vein... isn't there a drink called distillate of the right sane (or similar? I believe the left bank has closed down now...)
- June 13, 2007 at 12:58 AM
- DoctorShoot said...
....and as regards nymphs of illurian descent
still holding rome as home and castle
and comely as though heaven sent....
and briefly met at some hasty garden party to which one went
(in hopes of achieving romance at last) I'll
mention my own small dalliance in a tent
out in the great australian bight
(a gibber plain) where hot intent
translated into fried wombat repast full
dressed with grit and dust but she left on sight
leaving me there alone, her flight
explained in latin words that sent me
searching for some wild garlic to retempt her to delight....
but she hailed a passing truck (as was her right)
and went to perth while my hot ghastly fare
unconsummated crackled and seared in the bitter starry night...
well, that's it in black and white that's the italian bent for you....
and no mention of a coin to ease juventas to my side... no time just height not taken.... and stewing in ones singularly impotent
- June 13, 2007 at 1:46 AM
- Margin said...
good thing we don't ban people for rhyme.
- June 13, 2007 at 2:02 PM
Or frying wombats... no, come to think of it that's pretty much de rigueur around here.
- June 13, 2007 at 2:58 PM
margin -
footy talk beats mortgage talk anytime (just made a ridiculous profit on a flat I flogged).
Please tip your Rochdale mate off about my plan to resurrect Rochdale footy: let the Co-op buy them out,
re-name the "Rochdale Pioneers", then have co-op organisations from all over the world buy local players and send them to the glowing beacon of co-operativism; the "Internationale" must be sung in all tongues present before and after games and at half-time.
I could go on, but I might save it for a PC article...
offside -
when I was in Toulouse I ate an excellent local stew, but don't remember the name. What is it called, and what flayed creatures does it contain (n.b. scientific
Back to the chapel tomorrow - concert on Saturday, Elvis show on the 14th. of July. If any of you are passing by (no excuses, Mouth, it's dead close to Värmland)...
andy -
you refer to our "flights of fancy", then blandly inform us that you squirt things into the eyes of squirrels.
What's wrong with Stenhousemuir?
- June 13, 2007 at 4:10 PM
- Margin said...
please do write an article on it - I really want to read the proposals.
- June 13, 2007 at 5:51 PM
if it really was local, there's a good chance it was "cassoulet". It contains (typically) three kinds of animals: duck, sausages and beans. And quite a lot of fat, which they call "confit" because it's more distingué.
I always thought andy was a dodgy character, but I had no idea how twisted he actually was. Injecting squirrels is a heresy. Eveybody knows they taste better if they're stuffed.
- June 13, 2007 at 9:47 PM
- andrewm said...
doc, that was very colourful. I really enjoyed that. I must be in a good mood.
GG, the problem with Stenhousemuir is they're not Cowdenbeath.
- June 13, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Andrew: ah! Cowdenbeath! Are you not just trying to invoke obscure Scottish legends here? If you want to go for lots of consonants, then how about throwing into the mix the Cally Thistles? Inverness on its own brings some nice letters into the mix and it's been an interesting season for the northern lads in the SPL.
- June 13, 2007 at 10:28 PM
- marcela said...
ah, here you all are, replicating margin's birthday dinner with your talk of non-premieship sports...
andrew; of all the jobs in all the world i might have imagined you doing...
no more tears? isn't that an existing brand already?
cassoulet pour moi, if you please. there certainly don't seem to be any other taverns offering rhyme nor reason round here.
- June 13, 2007 at 10:37 PM
- byebyebadman said...
Which area of Scotland do you live in mimi? Are you anywhere near the mighty Inverurie Loco's of the Highland League?
- June 13, 2007 at 10:53 PM
Marcela: joy to find you on our threads again!
Byebye: I'm up on the Firth and far from much action. Elgin City seems to do well with its juniors. We had the kids from Manchester up the other week, and I think we lost, but everyone had a fine time.
- June 13, 2007 at 11:01 PM
Come to think of it, andy as a mad scientist who enjoys inflicting pain on small, defenseless animals is not that far-fetched. And in case you ever need a new job, there's always the tavern...
- June 13, 2007 at 11:12 PM
- guitougoal said...
C'est quand meme un cas se saouler at Toulouse.
- June 13, 2007 at 11:19 PM
- marcela said...
mimi, thank you. :)
- June 13, 2007 at 11:31 PM
Isn't there some phrase about plus ca change, plus la meme chose? from my time in la belle France this was mostly about Mitterand and his mistresses, but a noveau era and nouvelle temps. Is it now about andy and his little kitten? Who knows?
- June 13, 2007 at 11:35 PM
- byebyebadman said...
I hope the young lads from my home town left Elgin as they found it! :)
- June 13, 2007 at 11:35 PM
Well, byebye, the football ground is as was, but naturally the Abbey is as left by the Wolf of Badenoch, so still a ruin!
- June 13, 2007 at 11:45 PM
- guitougoal said...
I love ruins, the beauty is their power to be for ever
an evocation of what they were once.
- June 14, 2007 at 12:43 AM
- fred said...
Margin -
this will be a long summer in the sticks, though I may be able to borrow a backwoods computer now and then.
If not, I'll be back in a few months with state-of-the-articles on Crown Green Bowling, the Rochdale Pioneers, Alexander's junk shop in Milnrow and the global supremacy of Holland's meat puddings.
OffsideByaCountryMile -
I couldn't give a flying fox for stuffed squirrel; je voudrai jig-a-jig le cassoulet.
A friend from Bordeaux informs me that you can get it in cans - or maybe he meant Cannes.
Perhaps we should stock a few cannes at the tavern - cassoulet, steak and kidney pie, haggis - to tide us through when tapirs are in short supply. Nesta could recycle the cans as snake traps, which would further improve the menu.
Andy -
Stenhousemuir sounds Scandinavian to me. Cowdenbeath - pure poetry!
One of the joys of Saturdays way back when was hearing the final scores read out, with all those - for my Sassenach ears! - unfathomable names of clubs in Scottish footy's nether regions, my father cursing in the background as his coupon collapsed.
As the announcer read out the name of the away club, you could tell by the sound of his voice if the game was a home win, a draw or an away win.
Maybe you should kick out the kitty, move in with Mimi and practise your black arts on the Black Isle...
- June 14, 2007 at 5:49 AM
Sorry about the confusion - must be this heat wave!
I am, of course, "fred".
- June 14, 2007 at 5:51 AM
Ah yes, the poetry of the Scottish football results. My favourites were Hamilton Academicals and Airdrionians.
I know you can get cassoulet in cans (though possibly not in Cannes) - some friends went on holiday and stocked up with the stuff, blithely convinced it would taste the same as it did in Carcassonne when it was warmed up and served in Crouch End. It didn't.
Hope we'll hear from you over the summer, gg.
- June 14, 2007 at 10:27 AM
yes, I liked those too - once thought Airdrie Onions must have been a strange crowd.
Third Lanark, anyone?
- June 14, 2007 at 4:10 PM
Always feel that Inverness Caledonian Thistles have a nice ring. But maybe that's cos they're local - or have too many syllables.
For pure poetry on the radio, go the Shipping Forecast. Names of places to travel to, but only in dreams!
- June 14, 2007 at 5:29 PM
- marcela said...
the shipping forecast...
next you'll be recommedning 'sailing by' for easy listening, mimi.
gg - will you serenade us before you go off to the sticks?
- June 14, 2007 at 8:00 PM
- Zephirine said...
It's a Brit thing, Marcela. We're genetically programmed to love the shipping forecast. Can't be helped :)
- June 14, 2007 at 8:09 PM
Marcela: do not scoff at Sailing By. A truly wondrous bit of dozing off music, and very safe. I like safe. Brilliant bit of TV some years back when Beeb telly and radio got together for the New Year and there was fab footage of marine life and things to Sailing By. I love it.
- June 14, 2007 at 8:29 PM
- marcela said...
if you say so, you two.
if you say so.
what i think is really odd about both the forecast and the tune, is how many people leave the radio on while they're broadcast. i mean, you'd think it was a good time to tune into a different station for a brief flavour of somethink else, leave the shippers to get their important info...
also, do you understand the shipping forecast? i mean, actually understand it. because i don't. not one word, letter or number. maybe that's the point.
what are you ladies up to tonight, then?
- June 14, 2007 at 9:49 PM
Ladies' night, is it? My favourite. Although, there's a pretty good south-american night thingy going on here:
I'm sure Zeph and Mimi are just dying to drop a foggy comment on Argentine football.
- June 14, 2007 at 9:55 PM
- Zephirine said...
Offside, you know football is as clear to me as cricket is to you. I did read Marcela's piece and noticed some quite unnecessary carping and bitching going on in the early posts, but people sprang to the defence of Marcela's excellent writing and I thought I'd stay out of it, really. Hope you weren't bruised Marcela?
I'm just watching a programme about birds in which hawks and owls are tearing little furry creatures apart, quite like the Tavern really. Or Andrew at work...
- June 14, 2007 at 10:08 PM
- Zephirine said...
Blimey, yes, I've just looked at Marcela's blog again, it's turned into a three-figure marathon, hasn't it? Some familiar names there.
- June 14, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Marcela's writing defends itself very well. And the killjoys weren't even a minority, they were a non-entity.
I really admire the way Margin effortlessly turned his thread into a tavern of sorts. And, at this point, I'd like to leave a haiku for andy:
Wee Scottish kittens
If you kill them and skin them
Make real nice mittens
- June 14, 2007 at 10:12 PM
- Zephirine said...
Well, it was a piece about a dinner party.
How's Toulouse? Stables finished yet?
- June 14, 2007 at 10:14 PM
oh no - not the kittens into mittens again! I once had a house-mate who threatened to turn the kits to mits - and that was pre-small fiend days!
- June 14, 2007 at 10:21 PM
Toulouse is magic.
(we'll call it Toulouse for convenience, instead of "my uncle's house in the country where I've spent all my childhood holidays")
The stables are nowhere near finished and I won't see the end of it this time, but there are now two massive holes in the wall where there used to be two small windows.
That crowbar and me are getting on like a house on fire. Or rather, like a house being brought down...
- June 14, 2007 at 10:24 PM
And thank goodness for the Lord Ebren, because when I read a certain Frenchman in Toulouse on GU, I am so, so tempted to respond!
Marcela: can't understand what all the hostility was about, but didn't read all 233 or so comments. Seems there are just a load of w***ers out there.
- June 14, 2007 at 10:30 PM
- Zephirine said...
Writer, rower, tapir chef, demolition man... it's an impressive range of skills.
- June 14, 2007 at 10:31 PM
Strange how whenever I join in, someone (thanks Zeph) always reminds me of the Tapir. Look, I'll say it here again. It was not MY Tapir. I thought he'd be safer in the Taproom then left alone at GU Towers. I was wrong. He was eaten. I'll never again subject a defenceless creature to the crew. Barely even have the courage to venture myself!
- June 14, 2007 at 10:39 PM
That may be wise, Mimi. Last time you were there, I could have sworn greengrass was eyeing your rump, while flipping through his little book of sauces.
- June 14, 2007 at 10:47 PM
- marcela said...
i don't think there was SO much hostility. a couple of posters - or maybe four - didn't think much of my blog.
speaktruth was very good. he said he approves of a little marcela-bashing now and again... democracy, he called it.
and then, a hundred or so and a day later, cal and a poster i don't recognize got into an interminable spat.
but it all goes one way, then another, and then back to orsay, zidane, and whether or not argentina were any good at the world cup :)
it was a bit of poor blog post, but a good thread nevertheless. particularly all the match reports; with guitou master of ceremonies.
we shall perfect the art of live coverage by blog, i'm sure.
any laphroig at this dinner party?
orsay, are you being roped into the construction industry by 'your uncle'?
- June 14, 2007 at 10:52 PM
- Zephirine said...
But Mimi, we managed to rescue the otter (I think). And the orangutan is now heading up a department at a well-known design company and planning his first exhibition.
- June 14, 2007 at 10:52 PM
The otter got out unscathed, but the hamster got eaten, and now, I find I can only lurk on the sidelines as Offy is suggesting me on the menu! Huh!
- June 14, 2007 at 10:57 PM
- Zephirine said...
Not to mention the goldfinch brochette exchange at Other Stuff. We're dealing with some twisted minds here...
- June 14, 2007 at 10:59 PM
I have to confess I helped the otter escape (otherwise, Mrs Offside would kill me, skin me, etc.)
Marcela, I am not going into the construction industry at all, just lending a helping hand. Least I can do since I've been enjoying free room and board here since I was born. And let me tell you, when you spend a couple of hours with the crowbar and the sledge-hammer you work up one hell of an appetite. Mimi as an entrée doesn't sound too daunting.
Seriously, you have trouble seeing how much Riquelme and the fog have in common?
- June 14, 2007 at 11:05 PM
Offy: leaving aside your suspect desire to put a bit of Mimi on the menu, I thought you were doing deconstruction? Which would be good for poetry, non?
- June 14, 2007 at 11:15 PM
- marcela said...
you see it?
share it.
zeph, why in the world you're watching nature documentaries when 'Inside Deep Throat - documentary looking behind the scenes of one of..." etc. is on is beyond me.
- June 14, 2007 at 11:18 PM
- marcela said...
construction, deconstruction... what's the difference. construction good for poetry too. non, mimi?
- June 14, 2007 at 11:22 PM
Marcela: to see the beauty in the words and phrasings of the poetry, I think you must deconstruct first. In fact to grow and learn, you must mainly deconstruct the teachings of your past. Non?
- June 14, 2007 at 11:29 PM
What could have put me in mind of cannibalism? Thinking of Argentina, the fog, the Andes, that plane crash? Yummi-mi.
Anyway, my own brain is getting too foggy at this time of night, so I'll share whatever hazy, deconstructed thoughts I have on Riquelme and the fog later. And since I don't have access to saucy documentaries, I think I'll just go to bed.
Sweet dreams, ladies.
- June 14, 2007 at 11:31 PM
- Zephirine said...
I guess I was just enjoying the random feathered violence and sex, Marcela.
I should warn you that only this afternoon, File and I challenged each other to write a poem about the shipping forecast. You might like to join in on this one, Mimi?
- June 14, 2007 at 11:32 PM
- Zephirine said...
Night, Offside. and flights of finches sing thee to thy rest..
- June 14, 2007 at 11:35 PM
- marcela said...
i'm only just gearing up to file's challenge of writing about a classic sport moment with a fresh take, or whatever the challenge was. it was so long i can't remember!
so you do understand the shipping forecast then?
i agree, mimi, deconstruction is part of the process. but so is construction. me thinks.
- June 14, 2007 at 11:36 PM
- marcela said...
yes, sorry, good night orsay
que sueñes con los angelitos :)
- June 14, 2007 at 11:37 PM
Zeph: a tempting thought. I may well have to throw my hat into the ring if it's the glories of the SF. A challenge certainly, and one wrapped in memories when I think of those to whom I have introduced the dulcet tones of such as Charlotte Green. Um, must muse on this, and now to bed. 23 mins away from tonight's forecast. I will try and stay awake.
- June 14, 2007 at 11:37 PM
- Zephirine said...
Marcela, you know this map?
it shows all the different areas which have the evocative names... otherwise it's wind speed and visibility, the sort of thing we all naturally need to know at all times :)
Anyway, quite understand your reluctance to write a shipping forecast poem, but it would be good to read your 'new take on a great sporting event' piece.
- June 14, 2007 at 11:43 PM
- Zephirine said...
BTW, Marcela, while you're here, SeanI did finally reply and say he thought my cricket piece was really good, and he suggested CiF, but by that time I thought the whole thing had been really well covered (there was a good piece by David Conn, too)so I've let it be.
- June 14, 2007 at 11:46 PM
- marcela said...
maybe a quick click on this, mimi. inspirational ageing from the old pro!
i'll check the map out, zeph. i doubt it will sway me, though.
- June 14, 2007 at 11:47 PM
- marcela said...
oh, good.
well, if you ever feel another coming, now you know!
what do you think of robert mckee? i was being read a bit out of Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting the other day. wondered if you've any thoughts.
if YOU'RE still here, that is...
- June 14, 2007 at 11:51 PM
- Zephirine said...
How long have you got? :)
McKee is a forceful speaker and has influenced a generation of producers (not always for good). He's very prescriptive, and bizarrely always bases his lectures on 'Casablanca' which was famously written in a completely chaotic way, the opposite of what he advises. The real script guru is a guy called Syd Field, who writes excellent books but doesn't do the live lectures that McKee has made a fortune out of.
All the Hollywood script theory is just dumbed down classical drama theory with new names, though...
Stop now, Zeph.
- June 15, 2007 at 12:00 AM
- Zephirine said...
That's it, one mention of R McKee and they all go off to sleep. And quite right too.
- June 15, 2007 at 12:31 AM
- marcela said...
sorry. not sleeping, ms.
just paying attention in lectures always easily mistaken for a snooze...
my cousin read me a bit out of the book (great title, surely) about aristotle pondering why the emotional response to an event is so different to the emotional response to a representation of said event. and then there was some interesting stuff about intellectualizing the feeling at the same time as you're feeling it.
forgive the lack of elegance in my 'narrative'.
point is, wasnt sure how much was aristotle, how much was mckee, how much was my cousin!
but it was fascinating.
and it reminded me the is football art thread, and offside claiming 'football is real'. and i thought, ahh... but is it?
or is it, in fact, someting that happens on a stage?
have i lost you yet?
- June 15, 2007 at 12:39 AM
- Zephirine said...
Hello, still here. Yeah, this is kind of what I mean, all the good stuff is Aristotle. He was the man.
I guess McKee is a good example of the person you hate because of the people who love him! He gets endlessly quoted at you by producers who don't know a drama from a dead lizard.
Here's something for you to think about - in western society, people watch more drama and/or sport in a week than they would have done in a year in former times. Why? Why do we want it? Why do we need it?
- June 15, 2007 at 12:59 AM
- Zephirine said...
I think most sport is kind of next door to drama. Athletes have allotted roles, there's a limited time-frame during which an adventure will happen. It is 'staged'.
But you wouldn't bet on the outcome of 'Hamlet'.
- June 15, 2007 at 1:08 AM
- marcela said...
maybe precisely because we can intellectualize it at the same time as we experience it.
escapism. literally. otherwise, processing emotion becomes the 'real' thing. too cumbersome.
or maybe western modern life has become so sanitized and corporate (in the loose sense of both words) that the drama fix is lacking in reality.
so we seek the emotional intensity that in the olden non western days we would have got from reality...
mmm. you're trying to make me think.
i wonder if it will work.
still a good title. style, structure, substance...
did you check out the marianne faithful clip?
- June 15, 2007 at 1:11 AM
- marcela said...
missed the hamlet post...
'next door' - very good :)
no, but hamlet is a classic and you assume people know it. you could easily take bets on a whodunnit which was new.
and you can - and do - get ad infinitum 'deconstruction' of classic games, and even instances on a game. even when the outcome is known and all bets are closed.
- June 15, 2007 at 1:14 AM
- Zephirine said...
Yes, I watched old Marianne, bless her, croaking away. Then I had to watch 'The Ballad of Lucy Jordan' too, which is so good but deeply depressing.
Or is modern life too oppressive and overwhelming, so that we need to take manageable chunks of excitement/experience out that we can handle on our own terms?
This is too heavyweight a discussion for this time of night..
- June 15, 2007 at 1:19 AM
- Zephirine said...
You couldn't bet on a whodunnit because all the people involved in performing it would already know how it would end. It would be like betting on a fixed match. You can bet on a reality show though - so are reality shows sport?
My head hurts...:)
- June 15, 2007 at 1:25 AM
- marcela said...
mine too, noe that you've thrown the reality show spanner into the works.
i mean, are they reality, are they show...? WTF
haven't watched big brother since the first series. ever again.
and i'm proud of that.
- June 15, 2007 at 1:27 AM
- Zephirine said...
Other brains can take this up tomorrow.
- June 15, 2007 at 1:37 AM
- marcela said...
don't let bugs, squirrels, tapirs etc. bite -
- June 15, 2007 at 1:46 AM
- munni said...
Once again I'm too late, and besides nobody asked me, but how can I not wade into this? Wanted to add that both drama and sport are also next door to religious ritual, with their set patterns and prescribed rules that must be followed, but also living things that, if they are played out fifty or a thousand times, will never be the same twice. Not to mention having the capacity (ideally at least) for transformative powers, and for all hell breaking lose.
Marcela, are you saying that intellectualizing a thing detracts from its emotional impact (or vice versa)? Because if so, I disagree.
Zeph, re. watching more drama/sport in a week than people used to do in a year, how are you defining "watch" – as mindless consumption or as being actively engaged with what we're watching - Does having the tv on when you're not really paying attention count? Can it be as simple as, we watch more of it because it's always there, on tap?
And, I am reliably informed that most reality shows are in large part staged and scripted, not to mention edited beyond recognition. Not so much reality then – the show part is arguable.
- June 15, 2007 at 6:54 AM
Hi Munni,
Good to see you joined the somewhat sleepy debate!
I just came back to post this from Cedric Pioline on GU Small Talk:
"I like watching music reality TV shows, like talent contests. You know, you have these young people who want to be music stars and for six months they all have to work like hell knowing that there's only going to be one winner. It's like sport so I find it very interesting."
Great minds, etc.
The reality shows are undoubtedly staged and edited to give the audience particular views of the contestants, so they're a bit like fictional drama, however the audience votes are still out of the programme-makers' control. So it's not like sport really, or only if the outcome of a football match could be decided by audience vote... imagine...:)
I think you're absolutely right that these are all rituals, and they're obviously something we as a species need, to take us out of ourselves.
As for why we watch so much now, I don't know the answer, obviously a lot of it is 'just on' but we still must prefer our 'wallpaper' to be sport, drama (or reality shows) because ultimately the TV, cinema, theatre, sports organisations will provide what people want to watch. I just find it an interesting aspect of modern industrialised life.
- June 15, 2007 at 11:38 AM
- byebyebadman said...
I wonder how conscious footballers are of the fact that they are being watched? Not to the point where it makes them unbearable show-offs and controversy merchants like on reality TV, but does it influence the way they act, or can they really block out the crowd and atmosphere (and the thought however many watching in TV land) like many claim?
The overriding fear of being the player that makes the defining mistake has only heightened through the saturation of football coverage - is this a factor in why so many cup finals/crucial matches are awful non-events these days?
You could make a case that football at the professional level isn't real if the players' freedom to play naturally is restricted.
Just a few thoughts.
- June 15, 2007 at 5:09 PM
margin: you could always try a social experiment of running the Taproom.
- June 18, 2007 at 8:13 PM
- DoctorShoot said...
well run football is the reality show of today as long as wags dags fags live-to-air-commentary scrags and others too numerous are allowed to participate in the 24hour-a-day last on first off tv bonanza,
and anyhow
have greatly enjoyed your garden party taproom
wanted to be the 100th poster and a century for you margin not out well done.
- June 19, 2007 at 5:26 AM
- Margin said...
Wow - 100 posts
Whats the taproom?
- June 19, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Very enjoyable thread. And i would have been happy enough just to read Margin's piece.
Big occasions like parties and weddings are fascinating to observe, but I think I avoid properly taking part when present, preferring to drink heavily and dance free spiritedly, which the English seem to find unnerving. This is quite odd as people often praise me as a 'good' party person. I prefer there to be children present so there is someone pretty much guaranteed to be interesting to talk to.
Reading the stuff about footballers being watched made me think of George Best's goal where he beats everyone (I know that doesnt necessarily narrow it down much) and then does a kind of weird ecstatic double arm stretch after scoring. He looks like he has just really satisfied himself (and yes I mean that in all its senses). I love that moment.
What it contributes I dont really know. But it wasnt staged that's for sure.
- June 19, 2007 at 1:46 PM
"What's the taproom?"
I can't believe this. Seriously, Margin, I thought you lived here, too...
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