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The names and descriptions of various types of teas can be confusing, but all the familiar types of Chinese teas - green tea, black tea, white tea, Oolong - are all made from the dried leaves of the tea bush, Camellia sinensis var. Sinensis. The plant is native to China, South and Southeast Asia and commonly called a tea plant or tea shrub. The special features of white tea is that it is picked when the leaf buds are still small and unopened and show fine silvery-white hair like structures. For this reason, white tea is also sometimes called "silver tip" tea. Unlike green and black teas, which are processed to oxidize the leaves under controlled heat and humidity (in a method known as fermentation), white tea is subjected to minimal processing: The young leaf buds are allowed to wither in natural sunlight, then are dried; that is all that is done to them. Because the leaves are so young, and the tea undergoes so little preparation, white tea is considered to provide the most natural flavor of tea. Although tea historians are not sure of the exact date when white tea first began to be produced, it was probably in the early 19th century in Fujan Province, China; it now also grown and prepared in Taiwan and northern Thailand
Vitis Vinifera is a perennial vine that continues to grow and produce for many years. The stems can grow to a length of 35 meters, but they are typically pruned to only 1 to 3 meters in length for better manageability and to avoid overburdening of the main stem. The thin leaves feature jagged edges. Preferring a well-drained growing medium, the Vitis Vinifera produces small clusters of flowers during the months of May, June, and July. The flowers give off a sweet scent. Soon after the flowers bloom, they produce small, oval, pulpy fruit in large clusters. The fruit ripens in the early fall months of September and October.
The Vitis Vinifera enjoys both full sun and semi-shady conditions. Training of the vines is necessary in order to encourage proper growth. Pruning is essential to encourage high yields. In general, the longer the grapes remain on the vine, the higher the content of sugar they contain is. Therefore, early harvesting of the grapes is not recommended when they are being used for edible purposes.
The ancient Egyptians included grapes in their dietary intake, believing them to encourage good health. Ancient Greek philosophers partook of wine, praising its healing properties. In European folk medicine, the sap of young Vitis Vinifera branches has been used to treat a variety of skin diseases as well as diseases of the eye over the course of many thousands of years. Grape leaves were often used to slow bleeding, reduce inflammation, and soothe pain, particularly that caused by hemorrhoids. This plant has also been used in traditional Chinese medicine for the last two thousand years.
The unripe fruit of this plant is considered to have astringent properties. It was used in remedies designed to treat throat afflictions, hoarseness, coughs, fevers, stomach upsets, and consumption. Dried grapes (raisins) were used to relieve the discomfort of constipation as well as to reduce thirst. The ripest of grapes were often part of a remedy designed to heal nausea, cholera, smallpox, and liver diseases.
Grape seeds contain oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs), offering exceptional benefits for the skin. While OPCs can be found in other plant life such as apples, cocoa beans, and green tea, the concentration found in grape seed extract is one of the highest levels ever known. Oligomeric proanthocyanidins hold potent antioxidant capabilities. These abilities are considered stronger than the antioxidant benefits offered by either vitamin E or vitamin C. Antioxidants are responsible for safeguarding the body from free-radical damage. They are also credited with the ability to slow down the growth of pre-malignant cancer cells, helping to prevent the development of cancer. Antioxidants offer the ability to fight tumors by inhibiting their growth. Grape seed has been used to protect against heart disease and circulatory problems.
The OPCs contained in Vitis Vinifera encourage the use of it as an ingredient in skin care formulas. It stabilizes collagen and prevents the loss of elastin, so it is used to promote youthful skin. Grape seed oil has also been used to treat edema, which is the swelling that occurs when the tissues retain too much fluid. While scientific evidence suggests that grape seed extract is useful in treating edema, many of the other claims await validation. Grape vine extract can be used to naturally brighten the skin, alleviating discoloration from sun spots, acne marks and the mask of pregnancy.
Grape seeds are high in linoleic acid, flavonoids, OPCs, and vitamin E. The skin of the grapes contains these compounds at lower levels. Grape seed extract is taken from the seeds of grapes. It contains water-soluble bioflavonoids that rejuvenate health, nourish blood vessel walls, and promote healthy blood pressure levels. Grape seed oil is capable of providing deep moisturizing capabilities to skin tissue. As a highly effective emollient, it strengthens the skin's ability to retain moisture by enhancing its cell barrier capabilities. It is often used in skin care formulas and soaps.

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this is happening way too fast :]
Phoronix: OSS R500 Driver Gets Textured Video Too
When John Bridgman mentioned at his FOSDEM talk that Textured Video support may be arriving soon, we didn't realize that it would end up being just hours away! Shortly after Alex Deucher had committed R100-400 Textured Video support, David Airlie went ahead and implemented Textured Video support for the R500 series. Furthermore, Rotate support has also been added by David for the R500 series...
this is happening way too fast :]
Au contraire, faster is better. And it's more important for recent cards like the R500 because they don't have overlay.
Uh, is this correct or am I thinking of nVidia cards?
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As far as I'm concerned, it's still happening too slowly because it's a long time overdue. But I'm NOT complaining, nor am I insisting on having faster unless it can be realistically done.
If we keep having stuff like this happening as quickly as it's happening, I know of a LOT of people that will revisit the "I won't use ATI..." position (And there's a HELL of a lot of Linux users that're holding this position...) as it'll be as good or better than NVidia- and it'll honestly be open.
This is absolutely awesome. I can't believe that the open source driver was able to get this going, and the proprietary driver still doesn't have support for Xv on the recent chips.
I'm looking forward to trying out the oss radeon driver as soon as Airlie and company do the next release, to compare.
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Sure, you're underutilizing the card, but it's not like you can't use it for light gaming on Linux and if you want to play the AAA titles you run the Gaming^W Windows OS.
I recommended AMD/ATI for a htpc graphics card or just a card that allows switching between TV and monitor and it's total crap.
The onboard nvidia on the mobo using Nouveau drivers did a better job (detecting hardware etc.) even though it still wasn't very good.
But, the radeon drivers were pure crap. I'll probably install the Catalyst drivers just so the damn card can be used properly. But, it sounds like it's going to be garbage, too.
Why does anyone hype AMD/ATI when neither their FOSS nor their binary blob driver is any good?
Sure, you're underutilizing the card, but it's not like you can't use it for light gaming on Linux and if you want to play the AAA titles you run the Gaming^W Windows OS.
I am utilizing my ATI card to the extent that I want to use it - I play many different games with it, I have a dual Zaphod Head display set up with it, I have a composited desktop running with it, and it has been very stable and fairly easy to use. This is using the Radeon Gallium3D drivers. For my use case it fits me fine. Agreed, for some it may not, but that is a far cry from saying it does not work. Nvidia does not fit my use-case, as I value ease of installation and maintenance, and only a free in kernel driver allows me that. Catalyst fails me on this use case as well, but for the most part it succeeds on my other requirements, and other than finding it to be a pain to install and maintain it does actually fit most of my other needs. When I have used it I have actually had little problem with it. Regardless, I would say I am fairly pleased with my investment in AMD.
Maybe it is fine for you because you want to support your power company. If you want to save power you still have to use binary drivers. Especially when your card is able to run games you pay the price for higher energy consumption. Some laptops get even so hot that using oss radeon drivers is a real pain.
And of couse nvidia fully drops support for older hardware as fast as amd does. Well in theory intel would be the best choice, for laptops it might be the least problematic one. Hopefully intel really fixes tearing with snb+ chips soon.
Geforce 8 you say!? Here I was thinking that the Geforce 8 family came out in 2006, while the Radeon HD 5xxx family came out in 2009.
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Let's hope for a much better showing tonight! Go Cyclones!
Quick turnaround, but I'd sure they'll be focusing on correcting some of the issues that plagued them Friday.
This game should be just what the doctor ordered ... a chance to show improvement in limiting turnovers and getting good shots by moving the basketball. Rebound margin should be double digits.
I expect we hit 100 points tonight
This game scares me. UNO is legit.
I am happy we have almost a month off after this. So far the games have been really boring.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
If any students want to go to this pm me, I'll give my ticket for the $2 dollar fee. I can't make it.
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tip off time?
"Day after day, situation after situation you do things the right way. If you do things the right way, in life, you are going to be successful. I'm not just your football coach; I'm not just here to win games. I could not be prouder of who we are and who we are becoming, together. You do things right in the classroom, off and on the field; that's whats's makes us Cyclones and that's what our culture's all about."
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6 cst.
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I am happy we have almost a month off after this. So far the games have been really boring.
What??? We play next weekend. Thats not even a week.
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
My brother ( hok fan) says ISU leads the NCAA in tattoos - I haven't paid that much attention, do we?
The sky is the limit. We are trying to win every game. We are going to try to get to that big stage, the Final Four, and play on. Morris (May 2014)
If you take a look at this group, were extremely talented 1-15. We have a lot of talented guys in this locker room all guys who are willing to put their agendas aside to win. That separates good teams from great teams. Niang (Oct 2014)
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My brother ( hok fan) says ISU leads the NCAA in tattoos - I haven't paid that much attention, do we?
More than likely, yes.
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What nobody has mentioned this might help out reactos with native opensource drivers? I think they have some binary driver compatibility but it might not ever be stable...
This is the news I like to hear! Someone is smart in the dev team,,,,
What nobody has mentioned this might help out reactos with native opensource drivers? I think they have some binary driver compatibility but it might not ever be stable...
Can't I have a little fun while learning the G3D interface without it ending up on the Phoronix articles page?
I'm not trying to replace anything in WINE, I just want to augment it. Their implementation could very well just check whether another solution is available and use that on the rare occasion that it is.
Now let's get something out of the way: this is not a project meant to deliver significant results but merely a hello world state tracker in the only API I saw fit to try my mind on. I chose D3D9 because it's well documented on the MSDN and is tied to a class inheritance OOP model, making it easier (for me at least) to implement.
So what can it do for you now? Nothing is what. All it can do is render colored triangles.
Let the shitstorm begin.
EDIT: I should probably mention that zhasha == jsindholt
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I feel a little sorry for zhasha (the author). He spends a few days messing with a little D3D9 state tracker for his own personal learning, then happens to mention it in a forum and suddenly it's a news post and he's being insulted for various reasons. Leave him alone, if he wants to spend some time with a pet project then that's his choice.
That said, we don't know the state of Linux graphics in 2-3 years time. If at that point the open source drivers are to comparable to the proprietary offerings then the Wine devs may just switch to using a G3D D3D state tracker as the primary D3D path. If no one writes a D3D state tracker we'll never know.
For now, this changes nothing for anyone because it's just a personal project.
That being said, I think it's a great idea. Even if you don't complete significant portions of the D3D 9.0 implementation, hopefully someone does in the future, because I think it would be very useful to have. I wouldn't be surprised if VMWare was working on something like this at the moment.
Currently, to the best of my memory, VirtualBox is linking against Wine in order to get D3D working in Windows guests running on Linux hosts. The existence of a D3D state tracker for gallium could lead to some nice performance boosts (and possibly compatibility boosts as well) for people who want to run Windows games in a VM on Linux. I like Wine, but they've always had compatibility issues with newer games, and this could help resolve a lot of those issues.
I wish you luck on this. At a minimum, it will help you learn the Gallium3D interface, which is something I've been wanting to do for a while now. If a D3D state tracker ends up in Mesa because of this, great, but I won't grab a torch/pitchfork if it doesn't work out.
Now, I can see the usefulness of this state tracker as just another graphics API a Unix developer can make use of. I don't know, maybe it could be nice for porting Windows applications. At the very least it shows the expressive power of Gallium3D.


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I had a buddy at work who said this all the time. He was (and is) an anesthesiologist. Sometimes he'd look at a patient and think "there is no way this epidural is going to happen" and in spite of everything it would just slide right in. Lucky!
Parenting involves a lot of luck. People who don't have kids know all the right moves. Let me tell you- "all the right moves" work just fine…when you're lucky. When you try the right moves on a kid who doesn't like most foods…you learn quickly that you don't know jack. When you are lucky enough to get an eater…that is the best! And I really believe that luck is what makes the difference.
My girls were eaters. I was lucky there. Syd took food seriously. Her first real (solid) food was an avocado-swiss melt on sourdough bread. I hadn't planned this. We were having lunch at The Black Dog on Martha's Vineyard and she was just sitting there, Jonesing for my lunch. She learned to love food. She enjoyed the rituals of eating and taught me those rituals as well. She'd put her face up to mine, grab my cheeks and order "Mumma say 'Would you like a snack now, dear?'! ". Never "can I have; may I have or I'd like". Always taking me by the face and instructing me; feeding me my lines.
Avery was not an eater at first. She didn't want solid food at all and would vomit even the tiniest bite. When she was 9 months old we were in a fancy hotel dining room (another story), trying not to horrify the people while we dined with 3 kids. The hostess (aka: some crazy baby-switching gypsy lady) scooped up our Avery and wandered off to the kitchen with her. My 'mom alarm' went off, but I tried to remain calm. Then the woman brought back another baby. This one looked just like ours, dark brown curls and a Betty Boop face. This one, however, was eating. She was sucking down a piece of melba toast slathered with goose liver pate'. Like a champ. This changeling went on to try anything and everything she was offered. Loved mushrooms, leeks, garlic. Loved food. I got really lucky with that girl, changeling or not!
My boys, however, were not adventurous eaters. Matt went off to college with a repertoire of about 6 foods. He wouldn't eat sauces. He ate pizza plain; just dough and cheese. Pasta was plain with butter. No BBQ. No chinese food. No kidding. I think he ran into that crazy baby-switching gypsy lady while in college. Another alien child returned from Maryland claiming to be my first-born. He not only ate things like lentil stew, he knew how to cook them! I was on to him right away. This vegetable eating, sauteing, cheerful person is not the same boy we sent off to college. I know enough not to complain when I am, in fact, lucky.
PJ, my baby, is a fairly good eater all things considered. His first food was spaghetti, fed to him with love (by Avery) at the age of 2 months. She couldn't wait to feed him and would do so anytime you turned your back. He preferred bland foods but gradually started to try new things. Once he tried a new food, he usually liked it. One food he would never eat, no matter how many times he tried it, was yogurt. We tried the organic frufru baby yogurts. We tried the crappy candy flavored stick yogurts. Nothing doing- he wouldn't eat it. Until last week…when I got lucky! I made some blueberry yogurt and it was sitting in the fridge. PJ was doing his usual fridge inventory, and asked what the "purple stuff" was. I said "yogurt". Then I added "it's blueberry pie flavored". I don't know what came over me. I knew that boy loved blueberry pie. He grabbed a jar, stirred it up, put a spoonful in his mouth and…smiled! He loved it. Since then he and Grumpy are eating it up faster than I can make it. And I still feel lucky!
Blueberry Pie Yogurt…first the yogurt…
I've been making yogurt for Grumpy for a few weeks now. It was easier than I'd expected. Since our milk needs fluctuate without warning, it was a good way to use up some milk. Now I "use" about a gallon a week making yogurt. First – the skim or fat-free milk makes better yogurt. I have no idea why, but I've tried them all and it's true.
Pour all the milk into a large pot and heat to 115f (***if you use raw milk just heat until warm -not hot- bath temperature). Now add some plain yogurt with live cultures. Any good yogurt with at least 3 types of bacterial cultures. Stir in 2 Tablespoons for every 1/2 gallon of milk. After the first batch you can save some of your own yogurt to add to the next batch. Stir it in thoroughly. Now it needs to rest in a warm place to become yogurt. If you have a gas oven with a constant pilot light it may be warm enough. I use my dehydrater. The dehydrater is usually about 130 degrees, which is a little too warm. Through trial and error, I've learned that a canning lid under the top of the dehydrater raises it enough that it's the perfect temperature. The yogurt will be solid within 4-6 hours. You can keep "growing" it for longer. I like to leave it for about 8 hours to give it a tangy flavor.
Now you can use it like this, or thicken it to a greek yogurt consistency. I line a colander with a tea towel (you can also use an old clean Tshirt) and scoop all the yogurt into the towel. Place the colander over a tall bowl and store in a cold porch (here) or your fridge to drain. After a few hours I pour off the liquid, put the yogurt into the bowl and whip with a hand mixer to a smooth, creamy yogurt. Now I put it into jars with whatever fruit topping we have. In this case…
Blueberry PieTopping
In a medium saucepan I heated 1/2 cup sugar with 1/2 cup water, stirring until sugar was dissolved. I added in 2 cups of frozen wild blueberries and 1/2 tsp cinnamon.
Continue stirring for just a few minutes, mashing some of the blueberries into the pan to release the juice. That's it! Tastes like fresh pie filling.


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THE UNPLEASANT PROFESSION OF JONATHAN HOAG by Robert A. Heinlein (first published Unknown Worlds, 1942; The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein, Tor, 1999. Included in Horror: The 100 Best Books ed. by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman)
It is blood, doctor? Jonathan Hoag moistened his lips with his tongue and leaned forward in the chair, trying to see what was written on the slip of paper the medico held.
-- first paragraph, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Jonathan Hoag awakens each morning, ritually performs his ablutions, dresses and then he does not know. He arrives home each evening satisfied that he has done something, but his memories are only of early evening until early morning; of when he supposes he is at work, he remembers nothing, and so he hires Randall and Craig, Confidential Investigations.
Though skeptical of a case in which they follow and report on the client to the client, Randall and Craig need the money. In the course of the investigation, first Hoags background information does not check out then Cynthia Craig Randall loses the two men after seeing Hoag catch her husband Ted tailing him. When Cynthia finally catches up with Ted he denies being spotted and says he followed Hoag to the thirteenth floor of the building in which Hoag works. On going to the building they find there is no thirteenth floor.
Then things get peculiar.
Elements of the story echo G. K. Chestertons The Man Who Was Thursday a reality behind the commonly perceived reality, a secret cabal led by a fat man, and the use of a form of popular fiction for structure for a story outside the usual scope of the form. Where Chesterton used the tale of espionage ala John Buchan for his structure, Heinlein uses the 1940s private eye story along with a common genre trope of the time, amnesia, to catalyze his tale questioning consensus reality. The novellas major weakness shows up early on and stems from the private detective story: The snappy banter between Cynthia and Ted falls flat as Heinlein attempts dialog along the lines of 1940s screwball-comedy like The Thin Man movies or, for an even better example of similar film dialog, His Girl Friday. Still, the premise overcomes any missteps and reverberates off stories of the time with similar concerns, like Fritz Leibers Youre All Alone and Smoke Ghost, and Jack Williamsons Darker Than You Think. The revelation of Hoags true profession is at once ludicrous, audacious and unnerving in its implications. Reasonable readers may disagree whether Heinlein spells out the implications a bit too clearly, but the ending convincingly underscores what reality the Randalls have found, and how they cope with it is both touching and sad.
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag is one of my favorite Heinlein stories and I wish it was as well-known and frequently re-issued as his science fiction.
Another Heinlein story of similar interest (same collection): They
Reality behind reality:
Cornell Woolrich: Night Has a Thousand Eyes (first published 1945; Pegasus, September 2012; available for Nook & Kindle)
Neil Gaiman: We Can Get them for You Wholesale (Smoke and Mirrors, first published Avon Books 1998)
Caitlin R. Kiernan: The Red Tree, The Drowning Girl & Le Peau Verte (To Charles Fort, With Love, Subterranean Press, 2005)
John Langan: House of Windows (Night Shade Books, November 2009 [hc]; August 2010 [tpb])
Thomas Ligotti: Grimscribe (Carroll & Graf, 1991; Subterranean Press, July 2011) & Conversations in a Dead Language
Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan (anthologized in many, many books)
M. John Harrison: The Course of the Heart (Night Shade Books, 2004 [hc]; March 2006 [tpb])
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THE DEAD LETTERS & HEADSTONE CITY by Tom Piccirilli
THE DEAD LETTERS by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam Books, October 2006)
"Killjoy wrote:
Words are not as adequate as teeth."
-- first paragraph
Edward Whitt's daughter, Sarah, was the first victim of a serial killer dubbed Killjoy after Whitt told a reporter the murderer had "killed his joy." Killjoy went on to murder several other children, then mysteriously stopped, then just as mysteriously reappeared two years later, taking children from abusive families and distributing them to his previous victims. During this time, frustrated by the inability of the police to find Killjoy, maddened by grief and the loss of his wife to insanity, Whitt dedicated himself to finding Killjoy: What motivated Killjoy to kill? What then motivated him to repent or seem to, to try to repay the losses he'd inflicted? The novel details how Whitt struggles with these questions and the cost of his quest on himself and those nearest him.
Piccirilli's taut, concise writing and insight into obsession and near-insanity born of grief, guilt and rage and the mind-tricks a man can play on himself when driven to extremes make this a tense thriller. Whitt may not be wholly likable but I found him understandable and believable. Equally believable are the characters around Whitt, from his wife Karen, to his father-in-law Mike, to his friend Freddy, to his contact with the police, Brunkowski, who is gruff and manipulative and confrontational and gives Whitt more information than is probably good for him, to FBI agent Diana Carver who takes on the case late, to Mama Prott and her sons, murderous religious fanatics who seem to discern Whitt's darkness and who know more about Whitt than they should. I would go so far as to say that what distinguishes this novel is the strong cast of characters surrounding Whitt.
In honesty, The Dead Letters is not as creepy as Thomas Harris' best thrillers, nor is it as compelling and ambitious as Glen Hirshberg's The Snowman's Children, but Piccarilli's novel is literate, intelligent and frequently intense with a few harrowing scenes, and his Killjoy is far less romanticized than Hannibal Lector and so somewhat more believable. And that is as it should be. This is Whitt's novel and what there is of horror in it comes from watching the ways his quest warps and torments him, the lengths to which he must go to solve the murders, the lengths to which he must go to control himself, skittering along the edge of becoming what he hunts.
Piccirilli started his career writing mainly horror stories. In the last decade or so he has slid over into the thriller category while retaining the ability to ratchet up narrative suspense and also create scenes that capitalize on fear and dread. I have a chunk of bookshelf holding Piccirilli's novels and now that I've started reading him, I intend to read more. Anyone interested in crime stories, serial killer stories or noir would find this novel of interest.
HEADSTONE CITY by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam Books, March 2006)
The came after Dane in the showers while he had soap in his eyes.
-- first paragraph
Johnny Danetello, aka Dane, has "the burden": He can see ghosts and converse with them. His grandmother, his only living relative, has a similar ability, and his best friend, Vinny Monticelli, has a limited ability to see the future -- he sees three likely avenues the present can take, and he can move between them as he likes. But friendship aside, part of the Monticelli family blames Dane for the death of their youngest daughter, the Monticelli family is still one of the strongest Mob families in Brooklyn, and one of its members has taken out a contract on him.
After a stint in the Army, Dane has drifted for years. Now, to save his life, he has to decide what direction he needs to follow. Can he stave off Vinny's family? And what does Vinny really want from him?
This is an interesting book that overlaps with urban fantasy and crime stories in the hard-boiled tradition, and it steps around the border of horror without ever really falling over into it. I found it engaging and at times quite good. I enjoyed Dane's humor and his reminiscences about his old neighborhood and the people he grew up with; they help define a time and place where this story could happen. Still, I might have liked Headstone City more if I'd read it before or quite a bit after reading The Dead Letters. I think I expected another novel with a similar intensity, but Dane being laid back, a guy who mostly waits for things to happen before reacting, this novel doesn't have the same kind of drive. I also wasn't entirely convinced by the ending, even though Piccirilli prepares for it.
That said, I enjoyed it over all and anyone interested in Piccirilli, mob stories, or hard-boiled crime stories mixed with urban/supernatural fantasy should find it entertaining.
Other noir thrillers with elements of horror:
Cornell Woolrich: Black Alibi (first published in 1942; it has not been reissued since the 1980s, as far as I can find) & Night Has a Thousand Eyes (first published in 1945; Pegasus Books, September 2012)
Fredric Brown: The Screaming Mimi (first published in 1949. Filmed in 1958, starring Anita Ekberg and Philip Carey. There are Nook and Kindle editions available.)
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Additional information about Tom Piccirilli: Late last month a friend of Tom's announced at Shocklines that Tom had been diagnosed with "a tennis-ball sized tumor" in his brain. Tom has been operated on and, according to Shocklines, is doing well. He will be in for a round of chemo. Last I heard, Crossroad Press is giving 100-percent of purchase price of any of Tom's books until the end of this year to Tom to help defray costs. ChiZine Publications is doing the same with their edition of Every Shallow Cut
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That is sad news about Tom, Randy: I wasn't aware of his health issues. Here's hoping he's on the mend and is better soon.
October 10th, 2012, 12:31 AM #37
I've been planning to read The Coldest Mile by Piccirilli this year. I don't know much about it, except that it was a psychological thriller, wasn't aware of horror elements. thanks for the heads up.
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13 BULLETS by David Wellington
13 Bullets by David Wellington (Three Rivers Press, 2007)
Through the rain there wasnt much to see. The all-night dinner stood at the corner of two major streets. Its plate glass windows spilled a little light on the pavement. I handed the binoculars to Webster, my partner. Do you see him? I asked.
--first paragraph
Wellingtons vampires are real and fast and strong, physically monstrous predators nearly invulnerable when full of blood. They are worlds away from such relatively debonair vampires as Dracula (or at least of his imitators) or Lestat, or even the more sensuous, insinuating vampires in Tim Powers The Stress of Her Regard. They are also extinct. Or were thought to be extinct in the U.S. since the destruction of Piter Lares by the one living American to have killed a vampire, Special Deputy Jameson Arkeley of the U. S. Marshalls. When a traffic stop discovers a car trunk full of corpses driven by a half-dead a victim of a vampire whom the vampire calls from the dead to serve him Arkeley joins the case.
Because Arkeley takes on as an assistant Trooper Laura Caxton, who was working the traffic stop that accidentally flushed the half-dead, 13 Bullets has a little of the flavor of The Silence of the Lambs. The story is told mainly from her point of view and over the course of the novel Caxton has to figure out what it is that Arkeley wants from her, why the vampires show an interest in her, save herself from direct attacks by half-deads and vampires, try to understand the recent ennui of her live-in lover, Deanna, and come to terms with her emerging feelings for another Trooper, the photographer, Clara. The characters act in ways consistent with the logic of the novel, and in mostly believable ways for fairly tough humans pushed into a stressful and violent situation, although their endurance approaches that of action/adventure movie-humans. The story builds to a crescendo and the conclusion, while obviously intended to leave room for sequels (four of them), doesnt really disappoint me and again, in a way, reminds me of Thomas Harris novel as we gain more insight into the true villain of the novel.
Most readers who think about such things at all would probably call this a noir horror novel. To me it reads less like noir than like noirs precursor, hard-boiled. Where noir emphasizes mood and atmosphere, an overhanging sense of emotional gloom and the overwhelming improbability of an ordinary person triumphing over the powers arrayed against them, hard-boiled fiction usually features the tough character (almost exclusively male in hard-boiled written before the 1970s) who takes on the odds and through gumption, guile, street smarts, luck and strategically applied violence survives if not triumphs. The difference between noir and hard-boiled fiction is the difference between Tom Piccirillis The Dead Letters and his Headstone City. 13 Bullets certainly has its dark, noir moments, but the overall feel is less horrific than like a crime adventure novel with teeth.
I've been chided for calling something a beach read, but even so thats what I would call this. But there's the beach read you walk away from wondering if it has drained away IQ points, and there's the beach read that may not be substantive but is entertaining. For me, 13 Bullets is the latter: The story is handed to you on a platter (little subtlety of approach or subject), the characterization is adequate and with Caxton maybe better than adequate, and the prose is straight-forward and appropriate for the story being told, a story that is developed with some intelligence. Some of the plotting feels a bit TV-movie-ish to me, but in spite of that Wellington does a good job of balancing the elements of action/adventure and horror.
One caveat: While I would not call 13 Bullets excessively gory given the premise, if you're squeamish about the physical manifestations of extreme violence, know that Wellington does not avoid such descriptions, though I don't feel he dwells on them either.
More contemporary vampires:
Fright Night
The Wide, Carnivorous Sea by John Langan
Next: The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
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I'm assuming you mean the Kiernan since you mentioned elsewhere that that one didn't work well for you.
In truth, I was less taken with it than with The Red Tree, possibly because the main character is more overtly passive, but I still found it well-worth my time. I expect to reread them sometime in the future, and one after the other because I have a feeling the two books play off each other to some degree -- Kiernan could almost package them as the fire and ice duology.
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THE STRESS OF HER REGARD by Tim Powers (Tachyon Publications, August 2008; first published by Ace, September 1989)
Until the squall struck, Lake Leman was so still that the two men talking in the bow of the open sailboat could safely set their wine glasses on the thwarts.
-- first paragraph
In the early 1820s, Michael Crawford, physician and practitioner in a new branch of medicine, obstetrics (and, yes, this has a bearing later in the novel), spends the eve of his nuptials to Julia with friends, drunk and foolishly adventurous. While helping one of his friends, to keep from losing the engagement ring he has bought for Julia he slips the ring over the finger of a statue. But it is not a statue, he is unable to remove the ring and from that night Crawfords dreams turn vividly erotic and his mornings tired and dim, until the morning after his marriage when he finds his wife dead in his bed and her sister Josephine determined to kill him. Thus Crawford gained the attention and devotion of the nephalim and in the process married one of its number.
While sharing the quality to mesmerize humans, the contrast between Powers nephalim and the vampires in David Wellingtons 13 Bullets could hardly be greater. Where Wellington presents his vampires as true monsters, reveling in the carnality of blood, Powers lamia pay us little heed, excepting those few of us on whom their attention focuses, and those few the nephalim love. Often enough the few are gifted with words and the attachment of the nephalim sharpens and strengthens the gift, which leads Crawford to friendship and uneasy alliance with the lamia-beset John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Shelley. But the attention and love of the lamia comes at a price: They are jealous and do not allow the distraction of other loved ones for long, often claiming their victims families as their own. Where Wellingtons vampires are mainly predators, Powers vampires are a disease (consumption) and a drug.
The Stress of Her Regard a phrase lifted from a poem by Clark Ashton Smith builds on the foundations of the Gothic novel, in particular through taking place in striking European locales known for their remoteness, mainly the Alps, or for their connections to antiquity, like Venice. And there are scenes that capture the feel of Gothic literature, as during the prologue in which a scene recreates the diner at the Villa Diodati during which Mary Shelley first began to conceive of Frankenstein: Percy Shelley, listening to Byron recite Coleridge, screams at something peering through a rain-covered window. Still for the most part Powers writing only suggests the atmospherics of Gothic as his conception of magic having, if not a scientific basis, then a science-like rationale and enactment, vitiates the mystery of magic. But this is greatly off-set by the cost of magic: As in the other novels Ive read by Powers, there is often a grueling physical price for the use of magic, a price often symbolic of a deeper, more unsettling moral price.
Action, terror, despair, hope, friendship, romance, love, honor, magic, poets, gondolas, impossibly powerful enemies, striking locales, warring cabals, seductive nights, mountain-climbing, sailing, and more! More, I tell you! This novel you are likely to find yourself immersed in if it appeals to you at all and one impossible to encapsulate in a brief discussion. For instance, I havent even touched on the evolution of Josephines character from a damaged young woman, mentally unstable, to a strong, caring woman. This is an old-fashioned adventure novel in the best tradition, spanning decades and countries, taking place on land and sea. I may have reservations about Tim Powers, writer his prose works well enough, but his dialog often sounds more American than British to my ear but I have no reservation about Tim Powers, story-teller, whose impeccable research supports and enhances his story, providing background for the time and place and personages he describes. I doubt Byron, Keats and Shelley would have spoken quite as they do in The Stress of Her Regard, but Im willing to suspend disbelief as Powers tells his story.
Novels by Tim Powers of similar interest, though not quite horror:
The Anubis Gate
On Stranger Tides
Another historical vampire novel:
Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin
More vampires:
By Blood We Live
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Patrick Susskind: Perfume
Guy Endore: The Werewolf of Paris
Christopher Priest: The Prestige
Glen Hirshberg: Devils Smile & Like a Lily in a Flood (from American Morons)
Next: "The Venus of Ille" by Prosper Merimee
October 12th, 2012, 07:47 AM #43
Hey, what about the original Halloween broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds starring Orson Welles? The one that allegedly convinced a surprising number of Americans that the Martians were genuinely invading? I won't give you a link because I'm not sure if it's in the public domain throughout the world, but seeing as how more than 70 years have passed, if you happen to find a free copy somewhere, I don't think anybody's going to sue you. "Mercury Theatre Of The Air" might be a useful search-term. To get the full effect, you need to fast-forward for about five minutes. Something much more popular was playing on a rival channel, so many listeners tuned in a little bit late and missed the opening announcement which made it clear that it was fiction. Seek and enjoy!
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A number of years ago I went to a funeral where the deceased's daughter told an anecdote about the deceased as a teenager. Seems one day he returned home from his paper route to find the house empty, everyone gone to church. Tired, he decided he would skip church and listen to the radio. Guess what was playing? Apparently, he ran all the way to the church to be with his family when the end came.
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"The Venus of Ille" by Prosper Merimee (Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday ed. Italo Calvino: Vintage International, November 1998: first published in Italy in 1983; "La Venus d'Ille" first published in 1837)
"I was going down the last slope of the Canigou, and, although the sun had already set, I could distinguish on the plain the houses of the little town of Ille, towards which I was making."
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A young antiquarian and scholar from Paris visits Ille to see the local remnants of ancient buildings and artifacts. By coincidence he arrives a fortnight after the man he has arranged to stay with, M. de Peyrehorade, unearthed a bronze statue from the Roman era, which the locals have begun calling the Venus of Ille, and just before Alphonse, the son of his host, is to be married. Welcomed and invited to the wedding, on the day of the wedding the young scholar witnesses Alphonse start to play tennis and, to keep from losing it, place his wedding ring of his bride-to-be on a finger of the statue. (Sound familiar?) Later he thinks Alphonse is having a joke at his expense when the groom, distraught, claims he cannot remove the ring, that the statue has closed its hand. By morning he has reason to believe Alphonse.
I would be surprised to learn Tim Powers was not familiar with this story. At one time "The Venus of Ille" was frequently anthologized and is still considered a classic of the ghost/horror story. Powers would seem to have lifted the central conceit of placing a ring on a statue then used it as entry to a much more wide-ranging story, tapping into mythology and the Bible. While M. R. James might have felt distaste for the sexual nature of "The Venus of Ille" it's also possible that this story was something of a template for his own: Take one antiquarian and one cursed object, mix liberally and observe the reaction.
I've not read Merimee before but certainly look forward to reading more. His descriptions emphasizing both the beauty and wickedness of the statue goes a long way to preparing the reader for the ending. But perhaps more, this story is told, at least in translation, with a light touch and a sense of humor. For instance, when first welcomed the young scholar is nearly overwhelmed with food all the while his hosts apologize for the meager fare and complain how picky Parisians are. And perhaps that explains the story's reputation; the ease and flow of the narration, and the contrast between the early sense of humor with the appreciation of the quirks of the narrator's hosts, and the late scenes of tragedy have a broad appeal.
Other femmes fatale:
Vernon Lee: "Amour Dure" (Hauntings, Ash-Tree Press, 2002; also, Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday ed. Italo Calvino [as "A Lasting Love"]; first published January, 1887)
Peter Straub: Ghost Story
Caitlin R. Kiernan: The Drowning Girl
Other stories of interest:"A Warning to the Curious" by M. R. James
Next (Monday): Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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We don't really about free or proprietary drivers, as long as they work under the conditions described originally (KMS is not much of a priority now, given that the binary drivers are unable to use it).
I forgot to mention Nvidia's VDPAU. With VDPAU you can watch videos with very little CPU utilization. I think VDPAU was added starting with the 2XX cards. The latest Adobe flash player now uses VDPAU when it's available.
I just tested VDPAU/flash on an X6 machine that is running High Performance Linpack with 100% CPU utilization on all six cores. The youtube video ran perfectly. Xbmc also supports VDPAU.
The only way you can offload video with ATI cards under Linux is with Crystal HD add-in cards.
We don't really about free or proprietary drivers, as long as they work under the conditions described originally (KMS is not much of a priority now, given that the binary drivers are unable to use it).
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Doom3, RoE, Quake3, QuakeLive, Quake4, Prey, Penumbra games and Amnesia, and many others also work just fine. Frame rate is slower than with blobs, but it's completely playable.
*The only exception is Hammerfight, which is too slow, so I'm guessing that it's some SW fallback, but I haven't had time to debug it.
I also live in colombia and have test ATI/NVIDIA cards in ubuntu (especially in wine) since more or less 2 years for mor information see my blog (stay in spanish):
I have NVIDIA GF 210 512MB DDR2 (I use low card because if i works good for many people with better cards run much better) and ati drivers suffer compatibility problems while NVIDIA compatibility is very high and install lastest propietary drivers is easy and run very well
I haven't measured FPS recently, but Doom3 flew at 1280x960 and high quality settings, with shadows and all. I also managed to run Quake4 at 1080p, and that was clearly unplayable (a few frames per second), but it ran.
I finished Prey (modified idTech4) at 1680x1050, and it was fine for the most part (got slow at some parts with many enemies, but very pretty).
Keep in mind that this card is the lowest level you can get. If you buy a decent card, it should be faster. This was all with r600g.


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Popiah (薄餅) is a type of fresh spring rolls commonly found in Malaysia, Singapore, Medan, and Taiwan. Filled with shredded vegetables and more, Popiah is a popular street food in Malaysia. It's also one of the popular dishes served at home; the concoction is especially fun and rewarding if shared with friends and family.
I grew up with countless popiah, freshly made by my late mother. On the days she made popiah, all the female cooks in my family would gather around to help: slicing and shredding jicama, cutting French beans, shelling shrimp, dicing bean curds, and cooking the filling—which would take hours as we would make a huge batch for our big family. But as soon as my mother declared the words "popiah is ready," my elder siblings and I would all rush to the kitchen, grabbing our plate, and busy assembling, rolling, and savoring our own popiah. There was always so much energy, anticipation, and excitement in the house whenever we had popiah; not only was mom's popiah delicious and utterly gratifying, we always had so much fun "playing" with the food.
Popiah is of Chinese origin, from the Fujian province. I have tried many variations, in Xiamen (probably its place of origin), Taipei, Singapore, Medan, and other places in Malaysia, but my favorite is still the ones made by mom. I love having friends over and having a popiah party, and everyone will be busy rolling and eating. Here is the popiah recipe of my mother, ones which is much-cherished, not only because of its supreme flavor, but also the flood of memories it brings.
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Popiah!!! I miss it haven't had it in a while since coming to the US.
What a gorgeous looking popiah. Looks so good.
i'm a big popiah fan :P gotta try your recipe someday :D
Did you make the popiah wrappers yourself?
Do you have any good recipe for making the pohpiah wrappers? Thanks in advance!
I love Popiah. It's the one thing I missed ever since I left Singapore. The only problem i, you can't get a proper popiah skins in the UK. I have recently made this using my own homemade popiah skin too. See what you think of it :)
Lenny Gan No, I bought it but will post a resource how to make it.
Delish! Thanks…
I love popiah. Look forward to the recipe to make the wrapper.
We just had popiah at my parent's place 2 weeks ago. I could have gorged on 5 in a sitting but my hubby only had 2… I didn't feel right having more than him. :-( Next time, I'm stuffing myself silly with popiahs.
Hi, In Ipoh the most famous Popiah sold by a man in old cinema of Old Town– not the shop's name !! Now his daughter took over but she made it into King size that frighten me off !! He added in deep fried 虾皮 which is tiny shrimps with mostly shell as it has a very distinguish aroma and the fried shallot also a must for popiah. Lily Ng teaches to make the popiah skin too .http://lilyng2000.blogspot.com/
Oh yes, if you like to eat the deep fried popiah, please don't wrap in lots of filling !! Only 2-3 spoons of filling ( as fat as a hot dog sausage ) and try to roll and roll and seal off the edge with some flour mixed with some water. If too fat it will not crispy !! It will look like wet sea cucumber instead of crispy popiah !! The crispiness comes from the skin, so the more skin, the more crispy !!
I really love popiah!! It's one of the best appetisers!
Beautiful photography! Can't wait to try the spring rolls recipe – so hard to find the good ones!
My favourite popiah is also the one I had in Ipoh…with the super crunchy bits inside! Love popiah..so delicious I can eat lots of it!
Looks great Bee – we are brining a team up to Penang from the Asian Food Centre at Taylors University to to field research and go IN DEPTH, I may actually to my Master's Dissertation on the evolution of the spring roll!!! NO JOKE.
Just had to tell you I made these last night and they were delicious. My husband loved them. I am so making these on a more regular basis. This is the first recipe I have made from this blog and it was awesome. Thanks.
Bee, I live in OC too. Can you tell me where to get poh piah skins around here? Thanks!


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Sheridan High grad killed in New York helicopter crash
SHERIDAN — Mackenzie "Mack" Bleth, a 2006 Sheridan High School graduate, was killed about noon Thursday when the helicopter he was piloting crashed on the banks of the Chemung River in downtown Corning, N.Y.
The location in upstate New York is a few miles west of Elmira/Corning Regional Airport.
Bleth, 24, was flying a McDonnell Douglas 369D for Haverfield Aviation of Gettysburg, Pa. A passenger, 41-year-old Dale Crout of Watkins Glen, N.Y., was also killed. He was employed as a lineman by New York State Electric and Gas and worked out of the Horseheads, N.Y. office.
Bleth was not married and had no children. Crout was married for 21 years and was the father of three children, two girls and a boy.
An employee of World Kitchen on the south side of the river told the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin that the helicopter clipped a power line near its building first, knocking out electricity temporarily, and then crashed along a dike on the river.
Bleth and Crout were flying along power lines that come off the hill at the east end of the city, cross Interstate 86 and run along the Chemung River in downtown Corning, the Corning Leader newspaper reported.
The helicopter struck a cable atop the power lines near the end of Corning Boulevard, spun, crashed and exploded when it hit the ground, Corning Fire Chief John Tighe told the paper.
The aircraft was being used to inspect transmission lines, according to Clayton Ellis, a spokesman for New York State Electric and Gas, who spoke to the Associated Press. The utility was contracting with Haverfield.
The Federal Aviation Administration, National Transportation Safety Board and Haverfield Aviation are investigating the crash.
A Haverfield official could not be reached for comment, and there is no mention of the crash on its website.
"We are cooperating with the authorities that are investigating the crash," Ellis said. "NYSEG is deeply saddened by this tragic accident. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families, friends and co-workers of the two men who were killed in the crash."
Bleth's mother, Michelle, is the Assistant Health Services Administrator for the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, and is a former Sheridan School Board member.
"We are fully supportive of Michelle and her family and are providing them with the suupport they need," FCI spokesperson Paul Thompson said. "We are respecting their wishes and privacy and given them the opportunity to grieve as a family during this tragic time."
Mackenzie went to work for Haverfield this year, according to his Facebook page. He previously worked for Coastal Helicopters in Juneau, Alaska, from 2010 to this year, and was a pilot during the final year of his employment. He worked at Hillsboro Aviation Inc. from 2008-2010.
His Facebook page bio, in part, reads: "Studied spending lots of money at Hillsboro Aviation Inc."
Sheridan Superintendent A.J. Grauer said she received a text message Friday morning from Faulconer Chapman School Principal Marti Hofenbredl informing her of Bleth's death.
Grauer taught at the high school before becoming the superintendent, and she remembers Bleth as a student in her social studies class. She said he would sit in the back of the classroom and do "silly things" in an effort to make her laugh.
"He was a fun-loving kid, and could be a practical joker," Grauer said. "Everyone just loved to be around him. He would do anything for anyone."
She added, "He loved his friends, his family, the outdoors. I remember a green Samurai the boys would take up in the hills. We wondered if they would come back."
Grauer said Bleth was adventurous, which she said undoubtedly played into his love for flying.
While it's not likely that any of Sheridan High's current students knew Bleth, many present staff members remember him, according to Grauer. She said they met as a group Friday morning.
"It's going to hit them hard," Grauer said. "He was well-known and liked. We'll set up what we call a safe room for anyone who wants to come in and talk about this or write a card or letter of condolence, and then send those on to the family."
Teacher Lori Bogen wrote, "I started to write this letter and I can't seem to finish. There are many young people who have come into my life, but none who had your unique combination of self-confidence and humor. Your smile was one to definitely light up any room. And I will truly miss you."
Karen Martin, a secretary, wrote, "Mack has the most contagous smile."
Teacher Beth Statts wrote, "Mack Bleth enjoyed life."
Kathy Byers, the Night Court coordinator, wrote, "When I think of Mackenzie — he was so full of life and love. A positive, great, great person.
Librarian Dolly Bagwell wrote, "When I think of Mack, I remember him as always having a big smile on his face. He was a happy go lucky, test the waters young man. His dream was to fly helicopters. He pursued and achieved that dream. We lost a terrific young man, doing what he loved to do."
Principal Dean Rech said he got to know Bleth through physical education and conditioning classes he taught.
"It is a tremendous loss for the community of Sheridan to have a young man like him pass away," he said.
Rech said Bleth was well liked by his classmates. He was funny, had a good sense of humor and was a hard worker.
It didn't matter where you were at — in class, out of class, at a football game, a basketball game — Bleth always had a smile on his face. "Mac loved life," Rech said.
He started to pursue his love of flying following graduation, and Rech said he still remembers Bleth once flying over the high school. "He talked about how much he loved being in the air."
Grauer said, "There are a lot of kids who were in his graduating class that are still in town. I'm contacting some teachers he had who have left. I got a text from one who is pretty sad about this."
That didn't surprise Grauer. "He was a great kid," she said.
Haverfield Aviation, Inc. is the leading provider of aerial power line inspection and construction support services both in the United States and abroad, according to its website. It claims to be the most efficient provider of energized line services in the U.S.
Haverfield has participated in many extensive inspection and maintenance projects across the country and in Canada, Panama, Australia and Africa. To date, Haverfield has performed services for virtually every major utility in the United States.


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Comments about Passions Journal - Wellness:
The diet and fitness sections needs more paper in those areas; I will go through this book quickly because of lack of space in these areas.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend