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Cant format a Primary partition.
I really should know whats going on but i cant think straight.
I want to format my D: drive to clear some space. Thing is my D: used to be my C: drive under XP when i was dual booting so its showing as an active primary partition and W7 wont let me format it.
Ive tried deleting everything but some things are refusing to go (like the file boot which i assume is to do with dual booting)
Can someone please help.
Im not really as stupid as i seem
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|28 May 2009
Win7 build 7100, Win Bus 64bit, Mac OS X
couple of options
1. Go the the web site of manufacturer of your hard drive and get their
free disk utility. Usually they have a program on there to format
your hard drive.
2. Download Gparted boot cd and boot that and format your drive.
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|28 May 2009
thanks for the options.
I THINK my problem is the boot manager for my PC is on this drive, even though im booting from my C: drive.
Im going to try and move the Bootmanager to my C: drive and then see if i can format in the usual way.
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|28 May 2009
I've no experience of moving the BOOTMGR and had a problem with this earlier, but you can simply pop in your Win7 DVD/USB and after selecting a language, click on Repair instead of Install, and you should get the option to check your boot configuration; Win7 should do the rest for you in a matter of seconds.
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|28 May 2009
Thanks. ive had to do that twice tonight, each time the repair puts bootmanager back on the D: drive.
Im going to give it a rest for now.
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|28 May 2009
Unplug the D: drive whilst you rebuild the MBR (assuming it is a physical drive and not a partition)
And/or look in Disk Management and make sure the right drive/partition/s is/are set to active.
Also, I reccommend taking a look at the tutorials on this site (if you haven't already) -- can't hurt, can it?
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|28 May 2009
Vista Ultimate x64 SP2
There is a free partitioning program that will allow you to boot into it, recreate the partition/delete/format it outside of Windows.
You might also want to run a disk check though. Sometimes when you move the Boot config it must be rebuilt (the second link shows you how to do it)
Partitioning software
Dual Boot using free partitioning software - Vista Forums
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|28 May 2009
1 option is to boot from the Windows 7 DVD/Flash and continue up to the 'Drive Selection' part, then just delete the offending partition then create a new 1. You can then exit the installer with a fresh new D: partition.
Just a thought :)
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|28 May 2009
Thanks for the help guys.
My main worry now is the bootmanager. I can restore it but cant seem to move it so the suggestions above could be the answer.
Jeff, ill try your first as it a bit of a pain to get my PC open to disconnect the drive.
Are you saying that if i delete the partition the bootmanager will reflect this and W7 will create a new one on my C: drive?
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|28 May 2009
You may need to 'Repair' install afterwards but as D: will be empty it should use C:
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I've signed my husband up for this site. He's not real computer savvy so I dont' know how much he'll use it. But, I may stop by from time to time and hopefully, I'll get him comfotable to communicate.
A little background about why I'm here. We have a 1969 T-bird with less than 10,000 original miles on it. Near pristine interior, deteriorating original paint job but no rust except for a few bocks where the paint has worn down.
Its my husband's price and joy. When he first got it, he searched the web for information, places to find parts and advice and was pretty unsuccessful so he finally gave up. In poking around here, this group seems pretty active so I'm hoping this will prove to be a good fit for him/us.
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You might try TBird Sanctuary http://www.tbirdsanctuary.com
for some of your parts needs.
I think it's cool you guys have a '69 Bird. I've always liked those - especially the front end! You don't see these cars very often and people aren't very familiar with them.
As far as repaint vs original, I vote for repaint. If you had a very rare and unique car with some historical significance, then perhaps you would leave it original. However, our TBirds just aren't that rare - Ford made a lot of 'em even if not many of them are still around. A repaint won't hurt the value of your car.
I'm also restoring a 53 Olds 4-door that has original paint. I bought the car to drive and have some fun so it will get a repaint after Santa brings me some more car funds:) It isn't a terribly rare or unique car, just a low mileage survivor like yours.
Do you drive it often or is it purely a show car?
You'll like this site as there are a lot of very friendly and knowledgable people here who are eager to help out.
come back often.
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Thanks for the reply. I had a feeling I'd landed in the right place this time. I showed my husband the site today. Hopefully he'll be around soon instead of me.
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Young French Cinema 2017
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The Gene Siskel Film Center, in partnership with UniFrance films and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, presents Young French Cinema 2017, a series of six films that showcases emerging French filmmakers. All films in the series are Chicago premieres.
No other national cinema has highlighted youth so centrally and consistently. The tradition dates back to the time of the French New Wave, when Francois Truffaut's 1959 debut THE 400 BLOWS focused attention on a celebrated movement that saw 97 new directors make their first films within a period of three years.
New directors and first films have been supported by such state-sponsored institutions as UniFrance, which promotes French cinema abroad, and the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), which earmarks funds for emerging filmmakers, with a mandate to favor films that are "independent" and "audacious." Typically, 35-40% of the yearly total of French films are made by first-timers. As film historian Tim Palmer has written, "This systematic emphasis upon young cinema makes France unique."
We previously hosted the 2015 and 2016 editions of "Young French Cinema." If there is a predominant thread in the widely varied selections of this 2017 selection, it is the globalization and diversification of French cinema. The anarchic comedy STRUGGLE FOR LIFE is set in Guyana. The prostitution drama MUCH LOVED is not only set in Morocco, but the director and main characters are Arabic-speaking Moroccans. Beginning in Berlin and ending in Brooklyn, THIS SUMMER FEELING is mostly in English and its main character is American writer played by a Norwegian actor. The youth-oriented documentary SWAGGER is set in a Paris suburb and its subjects speak French, but they are of African and Middle Eastern descent and inhabit a world where indigenous French persons are virtually absent. As these films indicate, Young French Cinema is becoming more and more a cinema without borders.
— Martin Rubin, Associate Director of Programming
"Young French Cinema 2017" is a program of UniFrance Films and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Special thanks to Adeline Monzier of UniFrance Films; Fabrice Rozie, Denis Quenelle, and Laurence Geannopulos of the Cultural Service at the Consulate General of France in Chicago.
Les Ogres
2015, Léa Fehner, France, 142 min. With François Fehner, Marc Barbé, Adèle Haenel, Lola Dueñas.
"Crowd-pleasingly big-hearted…A raucous, ribald romp." — Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter
The title might lead one to expect a horror film or a fairy tale, but the monstrous elements in this tangy, exhilarating road movie are the outsized egos and appetites of a troupe of itinerant actors. Reflecting director Fehner's own experiences growing up in a theatrical troupe run by her parents, OGRES portrays the adventures of a performing group (its leader played by Fehner's own father) whose traveling show combines elements of cabaret, circus, and roving gypsy band. Following in the footsteps of such theatre/life crossover dramas as CHILDREN OF PARADISE, THE GOLDEN COACH, and THE TRAVELING PLAYERS, the film depicts the performance world as a heightened but insular demimonde, whose volatile chemistry threatens to explode when the leader's ex-lover (Dueñas of VOLVER) rejoins the troupe and its loose-cannon leading man (Barbé of MOZART'S SISTER) is stressed out by the pregnancy of his partner (two-time César-winner Haenel). In French with English subtitles. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)
2016, Olivier Babinet, France, 84 min.
Music-video director Babinet spent two years working with kids in the projects in the Parisian suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois before embarking on a film that focuses on eleven middle-school students. Although the pervasive presence of drug-dealing, gang violence, and police harassment is always hovering around the edges, SWAGGER avoids the war-zone atmosphere of such films as LA HAINE and DHEEPAN in order to concentrate on the intimate and inner worlds of its subjects. Framed in bold colors and crisp compositions, they share their hopes, fears, and dreams, the last occasionally breaking through the documentary surface to enter a realm of the imagination: a science-fiction drone attack, a celebrity-style strut through school hallways, a Gene Kelly-like dance number with a red umbrella. SWAGGER reveals a hidden world that lies outside traditional concepts of "France" but nevertheless constitutes a rich and vital part of it. In French with English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR)
This Summer Feeling
Ce sentiment de l'été
2015, Mikhaël Hers, France, 106 min. With Anders Danielsen Lie, Judith Chemla.
Themes of mortality and mourning are unexpectedly flooded with sunlight in this lovely and leisurely tale that begins when a beautiful summer day is startled by the sudden death of a vibrant young woman. The film follows her partner Lawrence (Lie of OSLO, AUGUST 31) through three successive summers as he struggles to come to terms with his loss. Shared grief forges a bond between Lawrence and his late partner's French family, and the wide-ranging narrative branches off to take in their lakeside vacation in Annecy and sister Zoé's life as a separated mother in Paris. Returning to Brooklyn, promising novelist Lawrence is still unattached and unable to finish a second book, but the camaraderie of an old friend (filmmaker Josh Safdie in a raucous comic performance) and a chance encounter at a rooftop party suggest that the mourner's extended summer might be coming to an overdue end. In English and French with English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR)
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Struggle for Life
La loi de la jungle
2016, Antonin Peretjatko, France, 104 min. With Vincent Macaigne, Vimala Pons.
Director Peretjatko, whose THE RENDEZ-VOUS OF DÉJÀ-VU (shown here in the 2015 edition of Young French Cinema) was a standard-bearer for the new generation of French filmmakers, returns for another freewheeling mixture of slapstick comedy, sexy shenanigans, and political satire, with bureaucratic ineptitude, persistent post-colonialism, and Francocentrism as its primary targets. Marc (Macaigne), a hapless intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to Guyana as part of a cockeyed scheme to build a ski resort in the middle of the tropical jungle. Fortunately for him, the clueless Marc is assigned a driver/bodyguard named Tarzan (Vimala Pons), who not only looks great in shorts but can also wield a knife like Crocodile Dundee. Thanks to Marc's misplaced faith in GPS, the two are soon hopelessly lost deep in the rain forest, as the film becomes a Zucker-style parody of jungle-adventure films. Special mention should be made of the fanciful assortment of CGI insects encountered by our heroes in their travels. In French with English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR)
Much Loved
2015, Nabil Ayouch, France/Morocco, 104 min. With Loubna Abidar, Halima Karaouane.
"A vivid, non-judgmental picture of a marginal female subculture…The performances are terrifically natural." — Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
Following its premiere at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, this latest film by veteran controversialist Ayouch (HORSES OF GOD, MEKTOUB) caused an uproar in Morocco, where the film was banned and its actors subjected to death threats. The cause of the controversy was its frank, bawdy, and compassionate depiction of prostitution in Marrakesh, where the flesh trade, although officially illegal, is the backbone of a flourishing sex-tourism economy patronized by wealthy Europeans and Middle Easterners. The story focuses on four prostitutes (vigorously portrayed by nonprofessional actors) who live and work together, ferried by their taciturn chauffeur to anything-goes parties. Degraded by their clients and despised by the families whom their earnings support, the women struggle to steal moments of tenderness and hope in face of an uncertain future. In Arabic and French with English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR)
Note: Contains explicit sexual activity.
A Young Poet
Un Jeune Poète
2014, Damien Manivel, France, 71 min. With Rémi Taffanel, Léonore Fernandes.
"Manivel creates a film that is fresh and distinctive, as quaint and authentic a picture of an artist finding his feet as you could hope for." — James Travers, Films de France.com
Deciding that he wants to be a poet, 18-year-old Rémi plants himself in the summer-struck Mediterranean town of Sète, where Paul Valéry is buried in a sunny hilltop cemetery overlooking a sweet blue harbor. But what's the next step? How does one find inspiration? Rémi conscientiously goes through the wannabe poet's checklist: speaking to Valéry's grave, communing with nature, drinking heavily, contemplating the sea, enlisting a vacationing girl as his muse. Alas, the summer is slipping by, and he has completed only one-third of his poem, most of it mediocre. Perhaps the ghost of Valéry has the answer... Lusciously photographed in soft, summery pastels, with echoes of Eric Rohmer, A YOUNG POET is an affectionately satirical look at the aspirations of youth and the elusiveness of artistic inspiration. In French with English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR)
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Essentials of Implantology and Guided Implant Surgery
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Dental implant surgery is well within the capabilities of most general dental practitioners. However, most general dentists receive very little education and training in any type of surgery. Surgical specialists are taught that performing surgery is a privilege and has significant responsibilities associated with it. General dentists who teach surgical courses rarely emphasize this, since it was not part of their training. This course aims to educate general dentists in the foundations of surgical principles and dental implant surgery. The understanding of how, why, why not, and what-if are fundamentals of proper surgical training which elevate the implant surgeon to be more than just a technician and to be able to deliver the best care to their patients.
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2) Be familiar with atraumatic extraction techniques and ridge preservation in order to maximize the volume of bone at the implant surgical site.
3) Understand the potential risks and complications that accompany dental implant surgery, and know how to prevent them, and manage them if the occur.
4) Know how to use the concept of prosthetically-based implant planning to determine the proper position and orientation of each implant fixture so that ideal prosthetic restoration is achieved.
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Credit Details: This program half live lecture and half self-participation, designated for 14 hours of CE credit by Online Oral Surgery. AGD Codes: 704 (7 hours) and 719 (7 hours).
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San Francisco—Patrick Kenealy will step down as CEO of International Data Group by the end of the year and become general partner of the IDG Ventures Pacific II Fund, BtoB has confirmed.
Kenealy said in an interview that IDG is eliminating the full-time CEO position and that the company will now have a decentralized management structure. Kenealy will remain an IDG board member.
Kenealy, who has been CEO of IDG since 2002, launched the Pacific I Fund in 1996. It has since grown to four times its initial investment of $100 million.
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I used to HATE pickles, and well, I still kind of do. But I have to say I've come across some very intriguing pickling ideas from some of my favorite food bloggers. For those of you once fearful of the pickling process (like myself), might I acknowledge that pickling is not just for cucumbers. I don't mind showing off my naïveté, because I now know that pickles are, apparently, so much more than that.
They can be…carrots. (courtesy of Orangette)
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The title of this says it,the way for companies and people to make sales and cash for household based robots along with restaurants/bars etc.(robot that collects the dishes etc,loads the dishwasher and when finished unloads and stores them back where they came from).Would make immediate public and buisness interest around the world the second they were for sale.
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We are experiencing low speed with one.com (our current .se host). We have been promised this will be corrected, but needless to say, if the slow speeds and occasional hiccups persist, we will switch hosts - it is naturally unacceptable. If it were possible, we'd use our partner, LiquidNet Ltd, however, they can register international domain names ony. For others experiencing the same with one.com, we might suggest aleborg.se which is the one we're looking at now.
This means that page loading times reflect the host performance and not the lean 38.7KB template used here.


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India assures 'fool-proof' security to Pakistan for World T20
President Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Shashank Manohar called up Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shahryar Khan on Tuesday and assured him that fool-proof security arrangements will be made for the side.
It should be noted that Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh has refused to host Pakistan for the tournament and demanded the cricketing board to either cancel or shift the match to a different venue.
The fate of the highly-anticipated Pakistan-India match, scheduled to take place on 19th March this year at Dharmshala, is unexpected after the statements by the Himachal Pradesh CM.
Read More: Indian CM refuses to host Pakistan in World T20
BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur, on the other hand, has accused the state of playing politics.
"The Congress-led state government is clearly playing politics. Hundreds of Pakistani athletes were given security during the South Asian Games in Assam, why can't the Himachal government do the same?" BCCI secretary asked.
"The venues of the World Cup matches were decided one year ago, the allotment of matches was decided six months ago. People all over have made bookings and it is not fair to give such statements at the last minute", he said.
Schedule & location of T20 Cricket World Cup ws planned 1yr ago. Allotment of match venues ws made many months ago. @BCCI
— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) March 1, 2016
In his tweet, Thakur said that the fans, tourists and the organizers of the mega event have made their plans according to the schedule.
Cricket fans,tourists & organizers hv all made their travel plans in accordance w/ this schedule. @BCCI
— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) March 1, 2016
Those politicizing this cricket issue hv shown thr own shortcomings & incapability, are working to tarnish image of HP & the country. @BCCI
— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) March 1, 2016


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Faced with gales and drift, Atkinson and Keohane decided to turn back. They had collected Lt. Evans's sledge and got to Corner Camp.
"Taking into consideration the weather and temperatures and the time of the year," Atkinson wrote later in his report, "and the hopelessness of finding the party except at any definite point like a depôt, I decided to return from here. We depôted the major portion of a week's provisions to enable them to communicate with Hut Point in case they should reach this point. At this date in my own mind I was morally certain that the party had perished." [1]
[1] Edward Atkinson, quoted in Scott's last expedition, v.2 (GoogleBooks edition), p.211.
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According to Harvard Business Review, the role of a data scientist is the 'sexiest job of the 21st century'. In India too, the demand for data scientists, data visualisers, managers and analysts is surging.education Updated: Aug 01, 2014 12:37 IST
Never has data been this important. With hyper-digitisation taking over our lives, there is a need to scour through gigabytes of information, analyse them and convert them to a usable format. Which is why big data and analytics have emerged as the hottest new domains in the world of technology internationally. According to Harvard Business Review, the role of a data scientist is the 'sexiest job of the 21st century'. In India too, the demand for data scientists, data visualisers, managers and analysts is surging. Nasscom (National association of software and services companies) projects that India will need about 150,000 to 250,000 analytics professionals for domestic and international operations by 2022.
What is big data
Amitabh Lahiri, president, career building solutions, NIIT Ltd, says, "Big data is basically data sets that are too large or complex to analyse using traditional methods. Researchers today use big data to predict trends and patterns in order to make decisions. A large amount of new data is created every single minute, hence data analytics skills are no longer just an extension of the IT professionals, but are becoming increasingly important for all businesses."
Big data also played a huge role in this year's general elections in India which saw political parties like the BJP, for instance, make use of data analytics in a big way. Dr Iadh Ounis, a reader in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, says, "Big data played a part in the last presidential elections. Besides, Google Traffic also uses crowd-sourced data from mobile phones to provide real-time information on road congestion in 50 countries; the Royal Bank of Scotland uses big data to assist in fraud detection."
Roles and prospects
KS Viswanathan, vice president, industry initiatives, Nasscom, explains, "Data scientists must have deep analytical skills. Data hygienists are also in demand and their job is to ensure that the data is clean. Other roles include those of data analysts, data visualisers etc. The highest salaries in this domain are paid to data scientists. A data scientist in the US, with say, ten years of relevant experience, can easily earn about US$400,000, while data reporters and visualisers there make about US$100,000."
In India, fresh engineering graduates entering the field start off at Rs. 25,000 upwards a month, he says. Lahiri adds that salaries at the entry level have witnessed a hike of 27% since 2013 and that the sector will continue to offer lucrative salaries and career opportunities to young professionals.
As per a report by Jigsaw Academy, data analysts earn thrice the amount they start off with, in a span of five years, and there is a 250% jump in salary when one moves from an entry-level data analyst to the role of a manager.
With big data becoming an integral part of the functioning of big organisations, it is important for students to learn more about it. Iadh Ounis says, "Recently, Indian investors, Amit and Arihant Patni, were reported to be planning to raise about US$40m ( Rs. 253 crore) to invest solely in companies that provide big data analytics to customers in the US."
There is a dire need for more qualified people in the field of big data and analytics - something that experts see as a big challenge.
Viswanathan says that companies are no longer looking for people with engineering backgrounds. "Big data and analytics call for a deep understanding of technology, commerce, mathematics, statistics, economics and econometrics. So students from any of these backgrounds who have a penchant for technology can thrive in such work environments," he says.
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2017: Books
January 8, 2018 § Leave a comment
Recent* Poetry
Ida Börjel. Miximum Ca'canny The Sabotage Manuals. 2013. Translated from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida. Commune Editions, 2016.
Daniel Borzutzky. The Performance of Becoming Human. Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016.
Don Mee Choi. Hardly War. Wave Books, 2016.
Tim Earley. Linthead Stomp. Horse Less Press, 2016. « Read the rest of this entry »
2016: Books
January 5, 2017 § 2 Comments
Bref, I read a lot of poetry translated from German and a lot of nonfiction translated from French. This is not very shocking. Much of my non-book reading happened at Asymptote: this reading (plus editing) is far more diverse and includes work by poets like Vicente Huidobro (Chile), Jan Dammu (Iraq), and writers who push at the limits of what translation means (the Special Feature in our January issue). One of my favorite pieces of this latter sort is Bronwyn Haslam's anagrammatic translations of Nicole Brossard's poetry ("Soft Links" becomes "Silk Fonts," for example):
It's nouns that gulp fire and life, one can't tell if they're Latin, French, Urdu, Veda, Cree, Mandarin, Aleut, Creole, Basque, English, secrete a number, deed, quorum, animal or accelerate old anxieties eddying before us in doubled somber contours full of luster and immense legends.
I also got to collaborate with my friend Michael Joseph Walsh to put together a different sort of experimental translation portfolio for Denver Quarterly 50.4 I have a few extra copies and would be happy to mail them to anyone interested (or you can subscribe). Joshua Ware's visual translations of Celan appear as an online supplement to this portfolio here.
For some years now I've been obsessed with a film by Yvon Marciano called Le cri de la soie (1996), which fictionalizes the life of pioneer psychiatrist Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault. This year I read two texts relevant to this film, de Clérambault's case studies of women who developed an unusual sexual "passion" for silk and other textiles: Passion érotique des étoffes chez la femme (1908) and its suite (1910). « Read the rest of this entry »
December 31, 2016 § 2 Comments
– speak less of other people
– watch more good cinema
– sleep well
I found a poem I wrote on 06.04.09 called "A doctoral student confesses"—it is oddly prescient:
"so sound would be plural like description is" (Giscome Road 52)
"Sentences find you, style finds you on the road out; it overtakes you effortlessly, it palavers" (69)
Celan/Joris (327)
Compressed Food Blog
May 31, 2016 § Leave a comment
I would very much like a machine that compresses my fruit.
Idgaf about sous vide, but a fruit compressor. Yes, please.
I love cooking for people, but tend to be nervous about it. I also haven't done much of it since I moved to Denver three years ago, but I usually do a good bit when I'm visiting my family in Bangalore. On my most recent visit I made my folks risotto with clams. My brother said, "It's like khichdi but Italian."
I cry almost every episode of Netflix's Chef's Table. I think it's easily the best original series they've made.
If you don't know, Chef's Table devotes each episode to a different world-renowned chef. Some of them have Michelin stars, some don't—but judging by Season 1, they're all compelling, driven, philosophically-minded people. And some may not be as famous as other chefs who might have been invited to be profiled in this way, as this article on Ana Roš suggests.
There is something odd about having this relationship with fine dining when I really don't fine dine. At all.
And something precarious too, because food as art only ever throws into relief food as utterly basic to living—not "a way of" of living, as though you could find a beautiful way to be destitute.
And yet I'm weeping over these chef's creations, which I'm not ever going to eat. Part of it must be the honesty of it all, naked stories of struggle and triumph. And part of it is—not the dishonesty exactly—but what's lurking under all of the very articulate—maybe over-articulated—philosophies which really are more like political statements.
Some of the weeping happened during the Dan Barber episode in Season 1, who comes off surprisingly unlikeable—not maybe in general, but to me. Barber goes into this thing about how he can't really leave his kitchen in the hands of others and he has to be there, always. I think what I didn't like about him is what I don't like about myself.
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2015: Books
February 2, 2016 § 1 Comment
Truly, the most important reading I did last year was Beowulf. I got to read it in the original Old English with a group of amazingly brilliant people and to live in that super soundrich world for about two months. We also looked at a couple other translations; the Thom Meyer is really special. The next most important reading was for my comprehensive exams, which I wrote about here.
Hmm. I don't really mean to hierarchize the value of these books. This is wrong. Maybe, since so far things have been listed chronologically (did Beowulf early last year, comps reading during the summer): a third highlight was Michael Donhauser's Of Things (trans. Nick Hoff and Andrew Joron), which I read toward the end of the year, on my multiple flights home to Bangalore. It is a gorgeous and fierce book that reads fieldlife:
from "The Tomato"
To say once more "the tomato."
On this autumn-saturated Sunday evening.
At the quiet of day's end, the ringing of bells, cries of farewell.
When the fun stops and with it, the feeling of its insufficiency.
The waiting, the passing in silence, the rustling of leaves, being nowhere.
When Sunday, diminishing gradually, retires.
In sitting there, in spoiling away, in willingness.
With which we endure it: in praise of enduring.
To say it: that this has been a beautiful Sunday.
Yet the tomato takes the evening as an opportunity.
Favored by the given conditions: in all their sparseness.
By way of the light: allowing it to gently settle there.
By way of the surging traffic: in order to absorb it.
The humming, the droning, the vibrating: in order to transpose it.
Into the quieter variety of its seeds, into the juice of its fruit-flesh.
(No fruit has ever robbed me of every rebellion like this.)
The tomato appears in the shadow of language.
As moon (once again): as monad.
Darkened: a silken coal ember.
Here are the rest of my favorite books from last year: « Read the rest of this entry »
My Comprehensive Exam Results
September 14, 2015 § 1 Comment
Pass Pass Pass
Pass Pass Fail
Pass Fail Pass
Fail Pass Pass
Pass Fail Fail
Fail Fail Pass
Fail Pass Fail
Fail Fail Fail
are one of the above combinations.
Or they are what's in this blog post.
What's in this blog post is a list of books that I "discovered" this past summer, that shifted things for me in small or big ways, or that I simply enjoyed.
Comprehensive exams, where I go to school, involve picking three topics for which you create a list of at least thirty-five books each. Like most PhD amateurs I went overboard and had around two hundred books overall, then read about half of them.
You get the summer to read and make notes, then you get questions which you answer in five thousand words each and await results.
I don't care much for waiting, so I've declared myself three wins.
Congratulations, me! You've done what millions before you have done.
The books I picked were of four main kinds:
books I'd read before that I knew would be core books for my essays
books I hadn't read before that I knew would be important for me
books I hadn't read before that were there because they were "supposed to be" there
books I picked by chance/that fell into my lap/that weren't even on my precious lists but I read them
I don't want to be a broken record about books I may have gushed about before, so I'm picking just a handful of books from the last three kinds.
Etel Adnan (major figure)
All of Etel Adnan's books, which I either read or re-read this summer, are wonderful—I pick Journey because it works beautifully as both memoir and manifesto for how Adnan looks at the world. As you may know, Adnan has painted Mount Tamalpais for decades of her life. I expected Journey to tell me how she came to that work and how it has sustained her. I didn't expect it to let me re-enter her written work—The Arab Apocalypse, Seasons, and Sea and Fog particularly—with a more nuanced sense of what she does. Here is one of my favorite paragraphs from the book (context: Cézanne painted Mont Sainte-Victoire repeatedly in a similar manner, so obviously is an influence):
Let us return to Cezanne. He is a petrol lamp. His glance lightens the things it touches. A sense of the tragic in the quality of a painter's glance, in the moment of choice, in the phenomenon called vision. Cezanne was in love with the mountain (or the gardener, or the apples) but with the moment when his glance settled on them differently than when he was promenading or was involved in a conversation. A painter's glance is bitter, in the sense Rimbaud gave this word. That's why this glance seems to erase the very object that creates its intensity, the cause of its intensity. ("To abolish . . .," Mallarme used to say.) Cezanne turns light into an impersonal and cruel prism. And if we so much like his watercolors, it is because they escape our direct glance, they slide like mercury under our eyes, because there is between them and us an invisible obstacle which is both transparent and irreducible. It can lead you to insanity.
I'm struggling to remember exactly why I put this book on my EA list . . . « Read the rest of this entry »
Best Things 2014, Part I: Books
January 5, 2015 § 4 Comments
Upon deep reflection I nearly came to the conclusion that 2014 was a total shit show, unworthy of comment/time travel/etc.
Then upon deeper reflection I realized that I read all of Proust's Search in roughly eight weeks.
So yeah, 2014 is exonerated!
In addition to these extraordinary books—
In Search of Lost Time Volume I: Swann's Way. 1913.
In Search of Lost Time Volume II: Within a Budding Grove. 1918.
In Search of Lost Time Volume III: The Guermantes Way. 1920-1.
In Search of Lost Time Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah. 1921-2.
In Search of Lost Time Volume V: The Captive & The Fugitive. 1923-5.
In Search of Lost Time Volume VI: Time Regained. 1927.
in the 1992 Modern Library translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and D. J. Enright*
[*I like their work, though of course the argument can and has been made that they've over-smoothed the French, which Lydia Davis has not. I was reading Proust in a small group and this was the translation chosen out of consensus. I'm happy I went along because the Viking series, from my occasional referencing it, seems to be inconsistent probably on account of having different translators for each novel.
One day I'll read in French. And do my own translation! Ambitions.]
—I began my discovery of three writers whose work, like Proust, will have a lasting impact on how I read, write, think, live:
(1) Edmond Jabès;
[I read the first two volumes of The Book of Questions (The Book of Questions. 1963. & The Book of Yukel. 1964.), translated by a my biggest translation hero, Rosmarie Waldrop, and published by Wesleyan University Press. This was part of an amazing one-on-one tutorial and I'll be reading the rest when I can breathe again.]
(2) Etel Adnan (who is going to be a major figure on my upcoming comprehensive exams—she is completely stunning and writes in multiple genres and languages);
[Sitt Marie-Rose. 1978. Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege. Post-Apollo Press, 1982.
Seasons. Post-Apollo Press, 2008.
The Cost for Love We Are Not Willing to Pay. Hatje Canz Verlag, 2011.
Sea and Fog. Nightboat Books, 2012.]
(3) and Lisa Robertson (whom I got to hear read and lecture at Naropa and make sign a billion books for myself and a friend).
[Occasional Work and Seven Works from the Office of Soft Architecture. 2003. Coach House Books, 2011.
Magenta Soul Whip. Coach House Books, 2009.
Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, the Codex, Melancholy, Lucretius, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias. BookThug, 2011.
The Weather. New Star Books, 2011.]
I should add George Oppen to this list, though technically I've read his books before; « Read the rest of this entry »


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Fiona Gilbraith CST-D MCSS qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 1985 and worked in the NHS for 13 years. During this time she also studied for and graduated with a BSc(Hons) in Health Studies.
In 1998 she left her NHS job to focus full-time on her practice as a CranioSacral Therapist. Since then, she has undergone a continuous programme of personal and professional development, mainly through the Upledger Institute, for whom she is now a certified instructor in the UK. She also runs an Upledger Study Group for practitioners in Scotland, and is an official Mentor for other Upledger therapists. She has also studied with Jean-Pierre Barral, developer of Visceral Manipulation.
Fiona works with clients of all ages, from new born to the elderly. She is passionate about treating the whole person and finding the origin of an issue in the body, rather than treating symptoms. Fiona believes that the body has a natural tendency towards self-correction and healing, given the right conditions.
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I don't remember much about the plot even though it's been under a year since I watched it but I remember the great atmospehere. Weren't there some scenes in a garden? Those were creepy (if there were any, that is).
Yeah, there's a garden or something in Curse of the Cat People.
On the Waterfront: 10/10Zulu: 9/10Strangers on a Train 8/10
Dead Poets Society (1989)One of the most inspirational films of all-time. This is further proof why I prefer the dramatic side of Robin Williams to his comedic. He's a brilliant actor when he's a bit more reserved. His portayal of John Keating was exceptional and totally unforgettable. What a film!
I don't remember any of those... maybe the sequel?
Dawn of the Dead- 8/10
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) saw the latest DVD realease of this thanks to Netflix, a big improvement over the old VHS version I've seen before. 10/10 Anybody who hasn't seen it check it out, Klaus Kinsky is great, and the landscapes fantastic,


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"Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy, a kid will eat ivy too, wouldn't you?"
Seriously, did life really ever roll along with such simplicity that people actually knew AND sang along to such whimsical lyrics? I mean, where were the political debates, the insurance debacles, the lottery winners, the tremendous trifles of life, and all the unsolved mysteries of the world? What happened? Surely to goodness they always had pumpkin muffins? Didn't they?
Recently I stumbled upon a magazine's magnificent muffin recipe. Once I made them, I knew I had made history and suddenly, nothing else mattered. (Truth be told, I wouldn't even consider eating ivy; would you?)
Masterpiece Muffins
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Using the medium speed setting on your mixer, cream together ¾ cup of softened butter and 1 block (8 oz.) softened cream cheese. Gradually add in 1 cup brown sugar and 1 cup granulated sugar until the mixture looks light and fluffy. Add 2 large eggs, blending them in one at a time.
In a separate bowl, mix together 3 cups flour, 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice, ½ tsp. baking powder, ½ tsp. baking soda, and ½ tsp. salt. Now, gradually start adding these dry ingredient to your mixture, beating on low speed. Stir in 1 can of pumpkin, ½ tsp. vanilla, ¾ cup chopped pecans and ½ cup dried Crasins.
Spray muffin pans with Pam or something like it and then fill the cups up about 2/3 full. Sprinkle of the streusel topping then bake for 25 minutes. Allow to cool for about ½ hour before eating.
Streusel: ½ cup chopped pecans, ½ cup brown sugar, 1 Tbsp. flour, 1 ½ Tbsp. melted butter, and ¼ tsp. pumpkin pie spice


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The HSX twice reached a peak of just over 566 points on the morning of January 13 before fluctuating around 564 points then closing at 564.65 points, just 0.39 points (0.07 per cent) higher. The market saw 92 shares increasing and 65 decreasing.
The VN30-Index also reached a peak before falling and closing down 0.61 points (0.1 per cent).
Banking shares saw only two large caps rise: CTG, by 0.56 per cent, and VCB by 0.47 per cent, with EIB down 0.88 per cent, STB down 0.8 per cent, and BID and MBB closing at their opening price.
Brokerage shares continued with the solid trade seen yesterday, with large caps on the rise including HCM, by 2.12 per cent, SSI 1.45 per cent, and BSI 1.1 per cent. On HNX, BVS rose 1.79 per cent, KLS 1.56 per cent, and VND 0.9 per cent.
Oil and gas shares briefly shook off the woes caused by the slumping oil price. While ASP hit the floor of 5.41 per cent and CNG finished 0.95 per cent down, other large caps in the sector either increased or closed at their opening price, with GAS rising 1.73 per cent and PGD 0.28 per cent.
The reason for the fall in the VN-Index in the second half of the session was large caps in the food and beverage sector heading downwards, with VND falling 0.81 per cent and MSN 0.65 per cent.
Real estate shares also found themselves in negative territory, with FLC closing 2.53 per cent lower, ASM 1.69 per cent, and VIC 1.04 per cent.
HHS performed impressively, increasing 4.39 per cent on trade that was just half of yesterday's total, or 3 million shares.
The HNX index increased 0.29 points (0.38 per cent) in the morning session, with 83 shares increasing and 77 decreasing.