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Disclaimer by Renée Knight
Harper • $25.99 • ISBN 9780062362254
published May 19, 2015
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It seems the reading world can't get enough of these psychological thrillers starring deceptive, unreliable female characters. Knight plays with our allegiances in this juicy domestic noir, already in the works to become a film with 20th Century Fox. Her debut tells the story of Catherine, a successful documentary filmmaker who receives a manuscript that describes in excruciating detail a day from her life she has tried so hard to forget. And at the end of the manuscript, Catherine's character dies. In alternating chapters, readers meet Stephen Brigstocke, who knows Catherine's secret all too well.
She tries to dislodge it with thoughts of the previous evening, before she picked up the book. The contentment of settling into their new home: of wine and supper; curling up on the sofa; dozing in front of the TV and then she and Robert melting into bed. A quiet happiness she had taken for granted: but it is too quiet to bring her comfort. She cannot sleep so she gets out of bed and goes downstairs.
They still have a downstairs, just about. A maisonette, not a house anymore. They moved from the house three weeks ago. Two bedrooms now, not four. Two bedrooms are a better fit for her and Robert. One for them. One spare. They've gone for open plan too. No doors. They don't need to shut doors now Nicholas has left. She turns on the kitchen light and takes a glass from the cupboard and fills it. No tap. Cool water on command from the new fridge. It's more like a wardrobe than a fridge. Dread slicks her palms with sweat. She is hot, almost feverish, and is thankful for the coolness of the newly laid limestone floor. The water helps a little. As she gulps it down she looks out of the vast glass windows running along the back of this new, alien home. Only black out there. Nothing to see. She hasn't got round to blinds yet. She is exposed. Looked at. They can see her, but she can't see them.
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The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato
Melville House • $16.95 • ISBN 9781612194349
published May 5, 2015
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Debut novelist Catie Disabato "picks up" where her mentor left off in this faux-journalistic novel about two disappearances, one a Lady Gaga-esque pop star and the other music journalist Cait Taer. Multilayered doesn't begin to describe this tale packed with footnotes, commentary from Disabato, explorations into philosophy and history and the investigation itself, which includes secret notebooks, interviews and more. As complicated as all this sounds, Disabato is a clever guide and will charm readers hoping for something wholly original.
After Molly disappeared, a few kooks came out of the woodwork to offer elaborate explanations. A popular Illuminati conspiracy theory website called The Vigilant Citizen weighed in with their particular brand of insanity. On August 12, 2009, the website published a long article called "Molly Metropolis: An Illuminati Puppet," which claimed Molly was a mind-controlled puppet and every time she posed for a picture with her hair over her eye (which, admittedly, happend a lot in her early press photos and the music videos for her Cause Célèbrety singles) she was making herself into the symbol for the All-Seeing Eye. The Vigilant Citizen wrote: "Those who have passed the 101 of Illuminati symbolism know that the All-Seeing Eye is probablyits most recognizable symbol."
According to The Vigilant Citizen, Molly Metropolis disappeared because her "Delta" or "killer" programming had been activated and she completed her "final Illuminati opersation," then vanished to hide the evidence of her actions.* With the story, The Vigilant Citizen ran an early publicity photo with Molly dressed in a black t-shirt with a deep v-neck; she holds the back of her hand up to her left eye to reveal the tattoo of an eye inside a triangle Molly has on her palm. Needless to say, the police never investigated "Delta programming/evil Illuminati mission" as a possible explanation for her disappearance.
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The 2015 Edgar Awards, honoring the best mysteries and thrillers and presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, have been announced! Several of our favorites earned nods:
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Scribner)
Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman (Norton)
The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani (Penguin)
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
by William J. Mann (Harper)
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker (Countryman)
Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Clarion)
The Art of Secrets by James Klise (Algonquin)
The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey (Minotaur)
View all the nominees and winners here, and view last year's winners here.
Did your favorites win?
GBH by Ted Lewis
Soho Crime • $26.95 • ISBN 9781616955502
published April 21, 2015
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British noir author Ted Lewis (1940-1982) is best known for his 1970 novel Jack's Return Home, later renamed Carter and then adapted to film by Mike Hodges as Get Carter, starring Michael Caine. Lewis' nine crime novels were brutal, unflinching in their depiction of the British underworld and set a new standard for hardboiled British thrillers. His final novel, GBH, is now available in North America for the first time. It tells the story of George Fowler from two periods of time: the first in George's past, when he reigned over a hardcore porn empire; the second in the present, when George is in hiding in a small English seaside town for some mysterious reason.
At the time of GBH's original publication in 1980, Lewis' literary career was plummeting, so it's not surprising that his final novel would go overlooked by many readers. But GBH is often considered to be Lewis' masterpiece, even better than his famous Jack's Return Home.
Consider a man like me and love. A butcher loves. He slits an animal's throat and dismembers it and washes the blood from his skin and goes home and goes to bed with his wife and makes her cry out in passion. The man who made it necessary to rebuild Hiroshima loved and was loved back, and I don't necessarily mean the pilot or the man who activated the bomb doors. Whoever left the bomb at the Abercorn rooms would comfort his child if it came into the house with a grazed knee. Everyone loves. Everyone considers things, considers themselves. And I considered why it came to be that Jean should be the one, as opposed to anyone else. And like everyone else, I could compile a list of things that added up to my obsession, and as with everyone else, it just remained a list; the final total defied the simple process of addition.
Her husband couldn't have timed his return from California any better. A couple of days after we'd made love for the first time. For a week I didn't see her; I waited for her to get in touch with me. When she did, she suggested we have lunch together; it was going to be one of those meetings.
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Nancy Atherton didn't intend to start a mystery series when she wrote her first book, Aunt Dimity's Death, and she certainly didn't intend to forever change cozy mysteries by creating the original paranormal detective. But she did! And with the publication of Aunt Dimity and the Summer King, Atherton marks the 20th book in her beloved series.
Twenty books? I've written 20 books? Are you serious? I guess you are, because Aunt Dimity and the Summer King is indeed the 20th title in a mystery series I began writing more than 20 years ago.
Aunt Dimity has been around longer than Netflix, Google, Facebook and some of you. The fact that she's still alive and kicking (so to speak) in a brand-new story is nothing short of miraculous. Not in a million years could I have predicted that my first book would lead to my 20th.
When I wrote my first book, Aunt Dimity's Death, I didn't think it had a snowball's chance of being published. At the time, there was no known market for a nonviolent, non-vulgar novel that was sort of a mystery and sort of a love story, with a supernatural element, some gardening, a bit of military history, a pink flannel bunny and a recipe thrown in because, what the heck, why not? The plot couldn't be summarized in a simple catchphrase, and the story didn't fit neatly into an established genre. It was a very strange little book—a marketing nightmare!—and I was absolutely convinced that it would remain forever in a box on a shelf in my closet, unseen by any eyes but mine.
And I was OK with that. I hadn't written Aunt Dimity's Death in order to see my name in print. I wrote it because the first two lines of the story popped into my head one evening, and I simply had to find out what they meant. If there's one trait I share with my characters, it's a burning desire to get to the bottom of things.
I didn't stop to write an outline, and it never occurred to me to do market research. I just hopped, skipped and jumped my way through the book like a kid on a treasure hunt. I never knew what would happen next, and I loved the excitement of not knowing. I wrote to please no one but my characters and myself, and when I finished the first draft, I knew for certain that it would never be read by anyone but me.
I've seldom been so happy to be wrong. To my utter astonishment, Aunt Dimity's Death found a great publisher as well as a loyal and highly enthusiastic family of fans. Best of all, it contained a snippet of dialogue that inspired me to write my second book. I hadn't intended to write a series, but my characters insisted that I stick around to tell more of their tales, and I'm exceedingly glad they did. It has been a privilege to watch them grow and change over time. It has been a pleasure to share in their continuing adventures.
Not in a million years could I have foreseen the long and joyful journey that would spring from the opening lines of Aunt Dimity's Death. I never dreamed that my strange little book would lead to a series that's still going strong two decades after its most unlikely birth. I hope you'll join me in a toast to my 20th title. And I hope you enjoy Aunt Dimity and the Summer King. As for me, I'm off to work on number 21. I can't wait to find out what happens next!
Nancy Atherton is the best-selling author of 20 Aunt Dimity mysteries, including the latest installment, Aunt Dimity and the Summer King (Viking; on sale April 14, 2015). The first book in the series, Aunt Dimity's Death, was voted "One of the Century's 100 Favorite Mysteries" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Atherton lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Author photo credit Grey Taylor.
Maybe we're excited about baseball season because opening day feels like a better beginning of spring than the actual equinox on March 20 (I mean, it was snowing in NYC). Maybe it's because our local minor-league team, the Nashville Sounds, is getting a brand-new stadium. Whatever the reason, we're excited. Our April issue includes a selection of stellar nonfiction baseball books, but every year we also enjoy a steady stream of baseball novels.
Leslie Dana Kirby has just published her debut novel, The Perfect Game, a psychological suspense that explores the murder of the wife of a professional baseball superstar. In this guest blog post, she digs into baseball as an interesting background for books:
Ahhh, spring. Longer days, warmer weather for reading good books poolside . . . and opening day of baseball season.
As a resident of Phoenix, I have already been enjoying a month of baseball as rabid fans stream in from all over the country to attend spring training games. And as the official opening date of the professional baseball season was April 5, this is a great time of year to crack open some books with baseball themes.
As a kid, I really enjoyed In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord, a charming book about Shirley Temple Wong, a young girl who immigrates to Brooklyn from China. As she struggles to assimilate, she finds herself inspired by Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, who is proving that minorities can live their dreams in the United States.
While I was reading about Shirley Temple Wong, my older brother fell in love with Ball Four, an expose by pitcher Jim Bouton, which peeled back the curtain on professional baseball. When it was first published in 1970, it created a firestorm of controversy and was banned by some libraries. By 1999, it was being hailed by the New York Public Library and Time magazine as one of the most important works of nonfiction of the 20th century.
My first novel, The Perfect Game, is set against the backdrop of professional baseball. My protagonist, Lauren Rose, is devastated when her older sister and only sibling, Liz, is murdered. It's a tragedy that is compounded by the fact that Liz was married to professional baseball pitcher Jake Wakefield. Jake's fame quickly attracts a national spotlight to the murder and the ensuing investigation.
Why does baseball create an interesting setting for books? Perhaps it is because the topic takes many of us back to lazy summer days of enjoying peanuts and cracker jacks. Others relish the opportunity to get a glimpse into the glitzy and glamorous lives of professional baseball players. And the truly hardcore fans might be looking for a way to combine their love of the game with the joy of reading.
The slow pace of baseball play also allows time for reflection between plays. For baseball fans, that allows times for thinking about the possible implications of a hit or a fly ball. For authors, this allows time to discuss the reaction of the players or the spectators in between the action.
Additionally, baseball allows for reflection on individual performance more than most sports. For example, in my book, Jake pitches a perfect game, a tremendous achievement for a baseball pitcher. While other athletes might excel in a game, it isn't really feasible for players in other sports, such as quarterbacks or basketball point guards, to accomplish a "perfect" outing.
Overall, I think for most of us, baseball represents the quintessential experience of long, relaxing days spent rooting on our favorite teams. So in between pitches in the next game of your favorite MLB team, consider reading some of these other popular books that feature the all-American sport:
I hope that one of these, or some other baseball book that you pick up this summer, might be a grand slam for you!
Thanks, Leslie! Readers, The Perfect Game is now available from Poisoned Pen Press.
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Normal by Graeme Cameron
on sale March 31, 2015
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Here's something that's definitely not normal: a serial killer as a sort of bumbling hero. Maybe "hero" is too strong, but the unnamed protagonist in British author Cameron's debut is, outside of kidnapping and murdering girls, darkly funny and even likable. His lifelong killing spree kicked off when he took out his bad dad, and now he's moved on to prostitutes and other girls, sometimes killing them and burying them in the woods, sometimes keeping them in a cage on his property. Add in some real, non-sociopathic feelings about a few of his victims, plus cops circling about a disappeared hooker, and you've got one strange story on your hands.
Erica regarded her new cellmate with a mixture of elation and disdain. Whilst a problem shared is a problem halved, she clearly wasn't overjoyed at the prospect of sharing hers with a bleeding, screeching harridan.
The hooker had told me that her name was Kerry. Then again, she'd told me that she was clean in every respect, where both her profession and her trackmarks suggested otherwise.
I'd picked her up a mile from Jeremy's house on a foolish and immediately regrettable impulse fueled by raw adrenaline and the sheer bloody-minded need to catch something, so to speak. She'd directed me to a remote riverside picnic area on the south side of the city, and had been only too eager to jump into the back of the van, the false promise of mattresses and pillows offering a welcome relief from the repeated prod of a gearlever in the sternum.
Until that point, this, in a nutshell, was the reason I never interfere with ladies of the night: it's just too damn easy. It's a game for impotents and bed-wetters. These women queue up to get in the car with you, for Christ's sake. They actually expect you to take them somewhere dark. That they exercise free will in putting themselves in harm's way only makes obligingly slaughtering them all the more cowardly.
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Endangered by C.J. Box
Putnam • $26.95 • ISBN 9780399160776
on sale March 10, 2015
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Fans of best-selling author C.J. Box expect a lot of action and suspense, delivered in clear prose and paced expertly. The author has won a number of awards for his satisfying high-country thrillers, including the Edgar for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009), but his 15th Joe Pickett novel, Endangered, is a cut above. It's darker, tighter and proof that even though Box's a seasoned thriller writer, he's still a writer to watch.
Joe is out surveying a field of massacred, engangered sage grouse when he gets a call about a woman found in a ditch. She's alive, but badly beaten. The victim is Joe's adopted daughter, April, who ran off with a rodeo rider in Stone Cold. Joe's ready to hunt down the rider—until an anonymous tip points Joe toward survivalist Tilden Cudmore as April's abductor. All this is going down when Joe's old pal Nate Romanowski, who has just been released from prison, is found dead. And the twists just keep coming.
Blunt force trauma.
The very words were brutal in and of themselves, Joe thought as he and Marybeth trailed April's gurney down the hallway. He could hear the helicopter approaching outside, hovering over the helipad on the roof of the hospital.
April was bundled up and he couldn't see her face. He wasn't sure he wanted to. Joe was grateful Marybeth had positively identified her earlier.
He was unnerved by the number of suspended plastic packets that dripped fluids into tubes that snaked beneath the sheets. An orderly rolled a monitor on wheels alongside the gurney. Her body looked small and frail beneath the covers, and she didn't respond when the orderlies secured her to the gurney with straps.
Joe reached down and squeezed her hand through the blankets. It was supple, but there was no pressure back.
"Let me know how it goes," Joe said to Marybeth, raising his voice so as to be heard over the wash of the rotors.
"Of course," she said, pulling him close one last time before she left. Her eyes glistened with tears.
Joe watched as the gurney was hoisted into the helicopter. A crew member reached down from the hatch and helped Marybeth step up inside. Seconds, later, the door was secured and the helicopter lifted.
Joe clamped his hat tight on his head with his right hand and silently asked God to save April, because she'd suffered enough in her short life, and to give Marybeth the strength to carry on.
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Till now, Judith Flanders has confined herself solely to nonfiction as one of the foremost social historians of the Victorian era and the best-selling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian City. With her debut crime novel, Flanders takes on the cutthroat publishing industry and spices it up with a bit of that Victorian-style macabre.
Chosen by librarians for the February 2015 Library Reads list, A Murder of Magpies is a darkly funny romp that takes readers between London and Paris in pursuit of a potentially libelous manuscript.
But how did Flanders make the leap from Victorian crime to contemporary crime fiction? As she reveals in a guest blog post, it's just more fun. (And now we know never to get on Flanders' bad side . . .)
Fiction has some definite advantages over nonfiction. I've been writing nonfiction for nearly 20 years now, specializing in Victorian Britain. I truly can't complain: It's a great job. As with every job, though, there are some days that are just a slog. At one point I was writing about a fire along the river Thames in 1861, and I wanted to incorporate an eyewitness' description of seeing the fire from a train. To do that, I needed to say where his train was heading. It took me nearly a week in the library to find that out. Even though it was one of those boring little details that nobody reading my book would care about, still, I had to get it right.
If I had been writing a novel, I grumped to myself, I could have just made it up. And then I bumped into an ex-colleague in the library, someone I'd worked with years before. And I remembered how much I disliked her. (The feeling, I believe, is mutual.) So, to relieve the boredom of researching trains, I began to imagine ways of killing her. From making up train stations, to making up murder methods, I moved on to just making things up.
And before I knew it, I'd started to write a crime novel. Sam Clair is an editor in a publishing house. I worked in publishing for 17 years, and publishing is full of people that belong in a novel. The 20-something editor who thinks he knows everything? Check. The last remaining Goth in Britain, who loves commercial women's fiction? Double-check. And of course then there's the general murder and mayhem. After all, there isn't an author alive who hasn't wanted to murder her editor, and vice-versa.
With my nonfiction hat on, I wrote a book on 19th-century murder and how real-life crimes were used for entertainment purposes: Where today we have films about the Boston strangler or whatever, they had plays and novels and even puppet shows. What struck me was that real-life murder was, on the whole, not very interesting. Thug A hits Thug B over the head, fighting over a few pounds. Thug B dies. That was the pattern, over and over.
Crime was dull. Crime fiction, however, now that was fabulous. From Dickens to Dracula, authors everywhere found themselves invigorated by these very ordinary, very ugly events. They took the dull stuff—Thug A, a railway station, a fire—and turned it into magic.
Publishing can be dull, too. Like a lot of glamorous jobs, on a day-to-day level it's often just paperwork: admin and schedules and budgets. But if you make things up, you can liberate the routine, turn it into magic, too.
So I decided that I'd give myself a break from researching train stations, or even Thugs A and B. Instead I would take the ridiculousness that is publishing, and the magic that is making things up, and see what happened.
Thank you so much, Judith! Readers, A Murder of Magpies goes on sale tomorrow!
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One Step Too Far by Tina Seskis
Morrow • $25.99 • ISBN 9781616954765
on sale January 27, 2015
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Right off the bat, this debut from British writer Seskis displays impressive control and pacing. Hints are doled out at just the right time, with Seskis' excellent prose keeping her reader's attention.
Emily has run away from her husband and children and started a new life as "Cat." But Seskis isn't so careless as to allow the reader to pass judgement on this abandonment; rather, she jumps back and forth in Emily/Cat's story, as well as in the story of her parents', to reveal what's really going on. One of the first elements of the mystery that readers learn is that Emily/Cat has (had?) a twin, named Caroline, who was wholly unexpected to her pregnant mother:
The doctor tried again. "Congratulations, Mrs. Brown, you're soon to be the mother of twins. You have a second baby to deliver."
"What d'you mean?" she'd screamed. "I've had my bloody baby."
Now she lay there in shock and all she could think was that she didn't want two babies, she only wanted one, she only had one crib, one pram, one set of baby clothes, one life prepared.
Frances was a planner by nature. She didn't like surprises, certainly not ones this momentous, and apart from anything else she felt far too exhausted to give birth again—the first birth may have been quick, but it had been fierce and traumatic and nearly three weeks ahead of schedule. She shut her eyes and wondered when Andrew would arrive. She hadn't been able to get him at his office, he'd been out at a meeting apparently, and once the contractions had quicked to every minute and a half she'd known her only option was to call an ambulance.
So her first baby arrived in a gush of red and a gash of loneliness—and now she was being told to deliver a second and still her husband was absent. Andrew hadn't seemed too keen on having one baby, so God knows what he'd think of this development. She started sobbing, noisy snot-filled gulps that rang through the little hospital.
"Mrs. Brown, will you control yourself!" the midwife said. Frances loathed her, with her mean features and squeaky, grating voice—what was she even doing in this job, she thought bitterly, she'd suck the air out of any situation, even the beauty of birth, like a malevolent pair of bellows.
"Can I see my baby?" Frances said. "I haven't even seen her yet."
"She's being checked. Just concentrate on this one."
"I don't want to concentrate on this one. I want my real baby. Give me my real baby." She was screeching now. The midwife got the gas and air and held it over Frances's face, pressing hard. Frances gagged and finally stopped screaming, and as she quieted the fight went out of her and something in her died, there on that hospital bed.
One Step Too Far goes on sale in a few weeks. Think you'll check it out?


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Peru Likely to Keep 4.25% Rate as Credit Pinch Fights Inflation
Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Peru's central bank probably will keep borrowing costs unchanged for the 17th consecutive month today as it seeks to balance inflation risks resulting from strong growth with concern that the global economic outlook is deteriorating.
The five-member board, led by bank President Julio Velarde, will maintain the overnight rate at 4.25 percent, according to all 16 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The decision will be announced at about 6 p.m. in Lima.
Policy makers increased reserve requirements Oct. 1 for a second straight month as consumer demand fuels credit growth and investors move money into South America's fastest growing economy. While inflation accelerated for a fourth month in September, the bank won't raise its key rate as stagnation in Europe threatens Peru's metal exports, said Michael Henderson, an economist at Capital Economics Ltd.
"Policy makers still have one eye on troubles in the euro zone while domestically inflation is a bit stronger than they'd be comfortable with," Henderson said in a telephone interview from London. "There are risks on both sides, which is why you see them doing incremental tightening using macro-prudential measures."
The central bank increased the average reserve requirement by 0.5 percentage point for local and foreign currencies this month, after a similar increase in September. Banks' average ratio was 16.2 percent for soles in August and 39.5 percent for dollars.
Balance of Risks
While annual inflation has slowed to 3.74 percent from 4.74 percent in December 2011, it has been above the top of the central bank's target range of 2 percent plus or minus 1 percentage point since June 2011.
The bank is tightening money supply after credit growth expanded 17 percent in August, the strongest pace in five months, amid rising consumer demand and private investment.
The $176 billion economy expanded 7.2 percent in July, the fastest pace in 11 months, as construction activity surged. The government is rolling out an infrastructure-heavy fiscal stimulus package equivalent to 2.5 percent of gross domestic product to offset falling exports.
Shipments overseas fell 4 percent to $29.6 billion in the first eight months of 2012 on lower copper and gold prices, Juan Varilias, president of exporter association Adex, said in an Oct. 4 e-mail. Exports dropped 20 percent in August from a year ago, he said. Metals account for almost two thirds of Peru's sales overseas.
Fastest Growth
Peru will be South America's fastest growing economy in 2012 and 2013, expanding 6 percent and 5.8 percent respectively, according to the International Monetary Fund. The Washington-based lender cut its global growth forecasts Oct. 9 and warned of "alarmingly high" risks of a steeper slowdown as the euro area's debt crisis escalates.
Peru's consumer prices rose 0.54 percent in September, the fastest pace in six months, the national statistics agency said Oct. 1. The increase pushed the annual inflation rate up for a second straight month
Though last month's price increases were a bit higher than the central bank was expecting, the annual rate will slow to 3 percent by the end of December, Velarde told reporters Oct. 3. Consumer prices will rise 0.1 percent a month in the current quarter, he said.
"The central bank uses its benchmark rate to manage inflation and that's calculated to end the year within the target range. There's no need to use this tool," said Carlos Montalvan, chief executive officer at Interfondos SAF, the country's fourth-largest mutual fund manager, in an Oct. 4 interview. "There's still a small possibility that Europe will fall over, so it's better for the bank to keep the rate at 4.25 percent and have margin to lower it quickly than to use it today and be left without bullets."
To contact the reporter on this story: John Quigley in Lima at email@example.com
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at email@example.com


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I'm looking for a recommendation for a good mp3 streamer that will run as either a daemon or in console mode and will use mp3's off of a local hard disk. I looked at shoutcast, but it looks like I need an x program running to stream to the shoutcast server, or something like that. I also looked at http://edna.sourceforge.net/, but it kept giving me errors.
nm, I found this http://www.jinzora.org/
Does this help?
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nm, I found this http://www.jinzora.org/
Cool, thanks!
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results, chessforce?
I gave it a try. At first, I was impressed by the interface. However, what bothered me was that the directory with music files could be browsed by anyone. Therefore, it would not matter if you can login or not to access the music. Also, the admin cannot set restrictions due to this. Thank you for asking me to review. I was originally going to make a post, but I forgot about it later on.
I just password locked index.php.
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I just password locked index.php.
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The Magazine
Fact Checking the Fact Checkers (cont.)
From the Scrapbook.
Sep 3, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 47 • By THE SCRAPBOOK
Well, no sooner had The Scrapbook's language been rendered into print than the New York Times, as if on cue, produced a full-page, deeply therapeutic profile of the malefactor with this headline: "A Media Personality, Suffering a Blow to His Image, Ponders a Lesson." And there was a fetching, four-column portrait of -Zakaria, looking fit and rested in jacket and dress shirt (no tie), smiling gamely for the camera, his hands positioned slightly awkwardly on his jean legs.
Note the carefully worded cause and effect: Zakaria did not commit plagiarism; he suffered "a blow to his image," from which he has learned a lesson. And of course, there is no sense whatsoever that Zakaria had resorted to the lowest means by which any writer can cultivate renown: stealing the words of another, the New Yorker's Jill Lepore, and touting them as his own. Instead, we are treated to excuses from friends: Zakaria is so gosh-darned busy ("I wish I had one-tenth of the energy and productivity he has") and profound ("He's one of the premier global intellectuals") and always thinking at laser speed ("a phenomenally fast and lucid writer") that, of course, he inadvertently "confused" his own prose with "notes" taken from two separate sources on the subject.
Adds the Times, helpfully: "He often writes his research in longhand."
None of which is the least bit persuasive. But that doesn't stop the Times from trying. The reader is treated to the spectacle of an Aspen symposium on the Iraq war, hosted by a Beverly Hills power couple and featuring George Soros, Queen Noor of Jordan, Sen. Dianne Feinstein—and Fareed Zakaria ("I am just so thrilled he -exists," declares his hostess). Then we are informed, as we might have suspected, that his tenure as editor of Newsweek International had more to do with career management than journalistic enterprise ("Former colleagues . . . said he was involved in choosing covers and generating ideas but did little line editing and was more the public face of the magazine").
And finally, we learn the lesson: Our hero is such a treasure, such a force of nature, such a boundless resource for the beautiful people from Manhattan to Aspen to Beverly Hills, that he must slacken his pace, take personal stock, and preserve the Fareed Zakaria brand. Accordingly, he has announced that he "plans to cut back work with groups like the Council on Foreign Relations, the Little Shakespeare Company, and the Yale University governing board"—translation: drop the commitments that don't promote wealth/celebrity.
Well, all of this proves two things, from The Scrapbook's perspective. First, in the media stratosphere, the stars will protect themselves, no matter what, and protect one another. And second, celebrity confers immunity: This self-protective, self-sustaining, self-perpetuating state of mind will persist, ad infinitum, in the media—even when one of their number is exposed as a thief.
A rare dissenter, Steven Brill, makes the point memorably in a column for Reuters:
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The passing of the, it turns out, not immortal Helen Gurley Brown this month at the age of 90 seems a fitting occasion to welcome a newcomer to the ranks of women's magazines. Gurley Brown built Cosmopolitan into the hugely successful bible of "fun fearless females," whom it encouraged to dress sexy, strive at work, be careful with money, and slough off like last year's fashion fad any vestigial scruples about sleeping with married men.
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What is needed to make your products successful? That is one of the topics covered in the high-spirited discussion with The Cranky Product Manager (a.k.a. CPM). In this interview Michael talks with the CPM about several interesting topics. Although the CPM writes and talks in third person, she has a wealth of knowledge about product management and marketing.
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The file can be found by here. Right off the jump, the documents explains that the FBI received information form NYPD detectives that the Wu-Tang Clan was "heavily involved in the sale of drugs, illegal guns, weapons possession, murder, car jackings, and other types of violent crimes." Looks like all that crazy shit the Clan were rhyming off about was probably true.
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This article goes into some very interesting things about the deportation problem. Most of us know that there has been a huge number of deportations under Obama. But why? In related articles, it is pointed out that the only Dems voting against immigration reform happen to have very large numbers of people in private prisons. Guess who's helping them get elected?
Then there's the idea that too many immigrants eventually becoming able to vote would swing things too far toward the left. And there's the effect of deportation on employment numbers. I'm sure there are more theories.
In Sonora, people have been giving their babies some quirky names. It might seem overly paternal, but some of those names have been outlawed. The authorities said they wanted to prevent bullying. The biggest list I could find came from the Guardian. Here they are:
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Looks Like Betty White Might Host 'Saturday Night Live' After All
White has said she wants to do the show, and now Michael Ausliello over at Entertainment Weekly is reporting that negotiations are underway for White to host the show later this season. But she wouldn't host it alone. The episode would be a "Women of Comedy" episode, with people like Molly Shannon on board and possibly Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Seems like they might not want White - who is 88 years old - to have to host the entire live show herself.
This could still be a great show anyway. But if they're getting White, why not get some other classic female TV personalities? Wouldn't it be great to have, say, Mary Tyler Moore, Rue McClanahan, and Cloris Leachman join White on the show? I'm sure we could think of other women from TV history that could co-host with White.
Facebook Group Wants Betty White to Host 'SNL'
This is one of those things where you say to yourself, "hey, why not?" White is a TV icon, and even though she's 88 years old she's still spry, and I bet she could handle an hour or so of sketches. Besides, if the show can have people like Charles Barkley, Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, and Ellen Page host, why not White? She's been around for several decades, is one of those TV stars who is known to both people in their 50s (if they even watch 'SNL') and also people in their 20s ('The Golden Girls' is actually quite popular on college campuses). She was even on '30 Rock' this season.
Lorne Michaels, your move.
New TV DVDs for Feb. 2: '90210,' 'Doctor Who' and More
But while counter-programming options can sometimes be limited ('Lingerie Bowl?' Really, that's the best you can do?), you're in luck, because this week finds a whole new batch of DVD releases ready to save your weekend.
New TV on DVD Releases This Week
It's not every week that you see four different DVD sets for game shows released, but that's what we have this week: "Best Of" sets for 'The Price is Right', 'Password', and 'Match Game '73', as well as a special set for the Richard Dawson 'Family Feud' episodes. I actually might buy the first three (not really a big 'Family Feud' guy). Having DVDs for classic episodes of those three game shows might be fun.
I'd like to see someone come out with a sampler DVD set of short-lived game shows or even well-known game shows that will never get their own full sets.
- 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold' - Vol. 3
- 'Beverly Hills, 90210' - Season 9
- 'Doctor Who' - The End of Time, The Waters of Mars, and The Complete Specials
- 'Dynasty' - Season 4, Vol. 2
TV's Most Memorable Mothers and Daughters
It's the latest in a tradition of TV series featuring memorable mothers and daughters, a formula that has inspired both great shows ('The Gilmore Girls') and disasters ('Kath and Kim'). If 'Life Unexpected' becomes a hit, perhaps we'll have one more duo to add to this list of TV's most memorable moms and the girls they love.
Check out the top 10 list after the jump.
What's the best TV theme of all-time, Happy Days or Gilligan's Island?
I know, I know, you're thinking, those are the only two choices I get, Happy Days and Gilligan's Island? Yes, according to this poll over at AOL Television. For the past several weeks they've pit various TV show theme songs against each other in a tournament, and the two finalists, for some reason, are Happy Days theme and the Gilligan's Island theme.
Now, it seems like these aren't the "best" theme songs, just the ones that readers and TV fans thought were the most iconic, or maybe it's the fact that they both have lyrics and that's what readers were looking for?
Veteran writer David Lloyd dead after a long illness
Lloyd died last night after a long illness.
Lloyd had a part in many memorable TV shows over the years, as a writer and/or a producer, including Cheers, Wings, Taxi, Lou Grant, Rhoda, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Phyllis, The Tony Randall Show, Dear John, The Dick Cavett Show, The Associates, The Best of the West, and many other shows.
Ken Levine has a great tribute to Lloyd on his site, including a discussion of how Lloyd was as a writer. It includes an example of Lloyd's script for the classic Mary Tyler Moore Show episode "Chuckles Bites The Dust."
New TV on DVD releases this week
Not only is The Lola Falana Show on DVD now, I didn't even know there was a Lola Falana Show. I knew that there was a Lola Falana (that's a fun name to say: Lola Falana Lola Falana Lola Falana). She was a dancer and actress who was pretty well known back in the 70s, but her TV show escaped my radar. This set includes guest stars Dick Van Dyke, Bill Cosby, Sonny and Cher, and Muhammad Ali.
There's also a Heeere's Johnny: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson "Holiday Set." It looks like the same set that I've owned for a couple of years (several DVDs split up into different categories: Timeless Moments, Standup Comedians, Carson Country, and the original Ultimate Collection disc), but with a special Christmas disc thrown in, with three classic episodes.
- Ally McBeal - Season 1 and Complete Series
- Astroboy - Vols 1 and 2
- Blood Ties - Season 2
The Brady Bunch was not better than The Odd Couple
I don't think I'm giving anything away by revealing that shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, and All in the Family are at the top, but there are a few entries that you and your friends can argue about.
Pepsi Throwback can talks to a fondue pot and a Polaroid camera
What the ads can't answer is why the heck I can't find any of this stuff in any of the stores in my area.
Stump the King - Child Stars
Robbie Rist is one of the most well-known child stars there is. Oddly enough it's not because he got arrested or starred in a reality show about his crazy marriage. He is well-known for his body of work.
Robbie has worked on some of the most popular shows on television including The Brady Bunch, Mary Tyler Moore, Galactica 1980, The Bionic Woman and, of course, the immortal Kidd Video, just to name a few.
Oprah brings the Mary Tyler Moore Show cast together on Monday
Have you ever wondered if Mary Tyler Moore can still turn the world on with her smile? You'll be able to find out this Monday on Oprah.
The daytime talk show host will host a reunion of the show. Not only will she get all of the surviving cast members together (Moore, Valerie Harper, Ed Asner, Betty White, Gavin MacLeod, Cloris Leachman, and Georgia Engel), they will also have duplicates of the WJM set and the set for Mary's apartment on the stage (the link above includes a preview of the show - no idea why Oprah is crying).
Out of the Blogosphere
What's happening on other blogs via the interweb.
- Is Katee Sackhoff about to join CSI?
- Daryn Kagan visited CNN for the first time since getting canned after 12 years and it was...odd (especially the second video).
- What the heck was going on at the Ellen show the other day?
- Get ready for more commercials on TV network sites.
- Earl Pomerantz tells a secret about a Mary Tyler Moore Show script he wrote.
- How would you like to star in the new music video that Zach Braff is directing?
- Ratings for The Office hit a season low the other night, and 30 Rock's weren't that great either.
- Check out the storyboards for the second season of Mad Men.
David Groh dead at 68
Actor David Groh is probably best known for his role as Rhoda's husband Joe Gerard on Rhoda. He was also a regular on General Hospital and guest starred on several shows, including Police Story, Law and Order, Girlfriends, The X-Files, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, JAG, Baywatch, Melrose Place, Sisters, Murder, She Wrote, Spenser: For Hire, L.A. Law, Kate & Allie, Hunter, Simon & Simon, and many other shows. He was also a veteran stage actor, appearing in Chapter Two, as well as movies like Two Minute Warning, Crazylove, and Get Shorty.
Groh died of kidney cancer in Los Angeles at age 68.
His wedding to Rhoda was a major TV event back in the 70s. Of course, with ratings slipping, they had to go ahead and divorce the couple in the third season of the show. That left a bad taste with viewers, I think.
What's On Tonight: Hell's Kitchen, Heartland, High Stakes Poker
- At 8, TLC has two new episodes of Little People, Big World.
- Soccer players join Emeril on a new Emeril Live on Food Network at 8.
- At 9, ABC has a new Extreme Makeover.
- FOX has a new Hell's Kitchen at 9.
- There's a new Age of Love on NBC at 9, followed by a new Dateline, a salute to Stone Phillips.
- PBS has a new History Detectives at 9.
- TNT has a new episode of The Closer at 9, then a new Heartland.
- USA has a new Monday Night RAW at 9.
- I didn't know that American Life had started showing The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The first episode is on at 9, followed by the first episodes of Newhart, WKRP In Cincinnati, and The Bob Newhart Show.
- Also at 9: GSN has a new High Stakes Poker.
- At 10:30, BBC America has a new Hollyoaks.
Check your local TV listings for more.
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- Damion Barton avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to murdering and torturing a Snellville woman he once affectionately called his "aunt."
Barton, 33, of Conyers pleaded guilty in Gwinnett County Superior Court Tuesday to charges of murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He was sentenced to life plus 20 years, Senior Assistant District Attorney John A. Warr said.
On Sept. 18, 2010, Barton is believed to have bound and tortured Eva May Francis, 61, inside the same Snellville home he had once lived. An autopsy showed Francis had been shot in the mouth, chest, abdomen, knees and thighs.
Francis -- who owned cleaning and lingerie businesses with her husband in DeKalb County, Miami and Canada -- was found with her hands bound with a phone cord and her mouth covered with tape. Her husband, Erroll, had been out of town.
According to testimony in prior hearings, Barton had lived at the home on Garnet Way until Memorial Day in 2010, when he was kicked out for driving a vehicle without permission.
He avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty this week.
Warr said a total of 20 years worth of consecutive sentences doled out from aggravated assault and weapons charges will keep Barton in prison for a long time, even if there's a chance of parole somewhere down the road
"He will be eligible for parole on the murder, but the current guidelines are about 30 years before being considered for parole on a life sentence," Warr said. "The consecutive sentences will further extend any potential parole date."
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- New charges filed in grisly killing of Snellville woman ( December 16, 2010 )
- Authorities arrest man in shooting ( September 20, 2010 )
- Detective: Woman was 'tortured' before dying ( September 30, 2010 )
- Duluth man gets 25 years in stabbing ( October 21, 2009 )
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A highlight of today's Duke Oceanfest--- the FINAL heat of the AccesSurf competition. The local non-profit helps disabled individuals swim and surf. AccesSurf athletes competed in a three day event. When the non-profit joined OceanFest 8 years ago it had less than 10 competitors. Now-- there are 6 separate divisions with about 30 participants. CARA TROY, ACCESSURF: "IT HAS NOW GROWN IN SUCH POPULARITY THAT IN IN THE ADAPTIVE SURFING COMMUNITY A PRESTIGIOUS EVENT AND SO THIS YEAR WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE DIFFERENT ATHLETES TRAVELING FROM AUSTRALIA THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES TO OF COURSE THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS" The athletes are able to compete with customized gear. Depending on the participants injuries there are adaptive boards with back rests, handles and padding.
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SARASOTA — Many operas are all about the music, but in "Stiffelio" composer Giuseppe Verdi paid a lot more attention than usual to the words.
This may be the twelfth revival of Jonathan Miller's 1987 production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville for English National Opera, but the ready laughter from the auditorium and the fresh musical and dramatic responses from the stage suggest that it will continue to amuse audiences and serve the house well for some time to come.
The third and final instalment of the Academy of Ancient Music's survey of Monteverdi's operas at the Barbican began and ended in darkness; the red glow of the single candle was an apt visual frame for a performance which was dedicated to the memory of the late Andrew Porter, the music critic and writer whose learned, pertinent and eloquent words did so much to restore Monteverdi, Cavalli and other neglected music-dramatists to the operatic stage.
English Touring Opera's recent programming has been ambitious and inventive, and the results have been rewarding. We had two little-known Donizetti operas, The Siege of Calais and The Wild Man of the West Indies, in spring 2015, while autumn 2014 saw the company stage comedy by Haydn (Il mondo della luna) and romantic history by Handel (Ottone).
LA Opera got its season off to an auspicious beginning with starry revivals of Gianni Schicchi and Pagliacci.
On September 9, 2015, Opera Las Vegas presented James Sohre's production of Viva Verdi at the Smith Center's Cabaret Jazz. It was a delightful evening of arias, duets and ensembles by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). The program included many of the composer's blockbuster arias and scenes from famous operas such as Aida, La traviata, and Macbeth.
On Saturday, September 19, San Diego Opera opened its 2015-2016 season with a recital by tenor René Barbera. This was the first Polly Puterbaugh Emerging Artist Award Recital and no artist could have been more deserving than the immensely talented Barbera.
Did the iconic "off-beat" and "serious" American musical hold the stage of the War Memorial Opera House? The excited audience (standees three deep) thought so and roared their appreciation.
The Wigmore Hall, London, has launched Schubert : The Complete Songs, a 40-concert series to run through the 2015 and 2016 seasons. There have been Schubert marathons before, like BBC Radio 3's all-Schubert week and The Oxford Lieder Festival's Schubert series last year, but the Wigmore Hall series will be a major landmark because the Wigmore Hall is the Wigmore Hall, the epitome of excellence.
Luisa Miller sits on the fringes of the repertory, and since its introduction into the modern repertory in the 1970's it comes around every 15 or so years. Unfortunately this 2015 San Francisco occasion has not bothered to rethink this remarkable opera.
Demonised by Pushkin and Peter Shaffer, Antonio Salieri lives in the public imagination as the embittered rival of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — whose genius he lamented and revered in equal measure, and against whom he schemed and plotted at the Emperor Joseph II's Viennese court.
The annual concert given by Lyric Opera of Chicago as an outdoor event previewing the forthcoming season took place on 11 September 2015 at Millennium Park.
Orpheus — that Greek hero whose songs could enchant both deities and beasts, whose lyre has become a metaphor for the power of music itself, and whose journey to the Underworld to rescue his wife, Eurydice, kick-started the art of opera in Mantua in 1607 — has been travelling far and wide around the UK in 2015.
One is a quasi-verbatim rendering of J.M. Synge's bleak tale of a Donegal family's fateful dependency on and submission to the deathly power of the sea.
Is there anything that countertenor Iestyn Davies cannot do with his voice?
BBC Proms Youth Choir shines in a performance notable for its magical transparency
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The Sarasota Opera plans to renovate its stage and orchestra pit, and the improvements could alter the looks of the artistic product. This well-run company's 1,000-seat theatre, built in the 1920s, is an agreeable place for opera and gives the lie to the notion that economic realities require American opera houses to seat thousands. But its stage has practically no depth, a defect especially conspicuous as the company continues its traversal of the Verdi canon, due for completion in 2013.
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|This article relies too much on references to primary sources. (November 2009)
|Original author(s)
|Bart Massey
|Jamey Sharp, Josh Triplett, Bart Massey
|Initial release
|Stable release
|1.11 / 1 August 2014[1]
|Written in
|Operating system
|X11 client library
|MIT License
XCB (X protocol C-language Binding) is a library implementing the client-side of the X11 display server protocol. XCB is written in the C programming language and distributed under the MIT License. The project was started in 2001 by Bart Massey and aims to replace Xlib.
Xlib/XCB provides application binary interface compatibility with both Xlib and XCB, providing an incremental porting path. Xlib/XCB uses the protocol layer of Xlib, but replaces the Xlib transport layer with XCB, and provides access to the underlying XCB connection for direct use of XCB. Xlib/XCB allows an application to open a single connection to the X display server and use both XCB and Xlib, possibly through a mixture of libraries designed for one or the other.[2][3]
The main goals of XCB are to
- Reduce library size and complexity;
- Provide direct access to the X11 protocol.
Secondary goals include making the C interface asynchronous, facilitating better multithreading and making it easier to implement extensions (via XML protocol descriptions).
The core and extension protocol descriptions are in XML, with a program written in Python creating the C bindings. (Previous versions used XSLT and M4.)
A further goal is to be able to use these protocol descriptions to create protocol documentation, more language bindings, and server-side stubs.
Massey and others have worked to prove key portions of XCB formally correct using Z notation.[4] (Xlib has long been known to contain errors.[5])
/* Simple XCB application drawing a box in a window */
/* to compile it use :
cc x.c -lxcb
#include <xcb/xcb.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void)
xcb_connection_t *c;
xcb_screen_t *s;
xcb_window_t w;
xcb_gcontext_t g;
xcb_generic_event_t *e;
uint32_t mask;
uint32_t values[2];
int done = 0;
xcb_rectangle_t r = { 20, 20, 60, 60 };
/* open connection with the server */
c = xcb_connect(NULL,NULL);
if (xcb_connection_has_error(c)) {
printf("Cannot open display\n");
/* get the first screen */
s = xcb_setup_roots_iterator( xcb_get_setup(c) ).data;
/* create black graphics context */
g = xcb_generate_id(c);
w = s->root;
mask = XCB_GC_FOREGROUND | XCB_GC_GRAPHICS_EXPOSURES;
values[0] = s->black_pixel;
values[1] = 0;
xcb_create_gc(c, g, w, mask, values);
/* create window */
w = xcb_generate_id(c);
mask = XCB_CW_BACK_PIXEL | XCB_CW_EVENT_MASK;
values[0] = s->white_pixel;
values[1] = XCB_EVENT_MASK_EXPOSURE | XCB_EVENT_MASK_KEY_PRESS;
xcb_create_window(c, s->root_depth, w, s->root,
10, 10, 100, 100, 1,
XCB_WINDOW_CLASS_INPUT_OUTPUT, s->root_visual,
mask, values);
/* map (show) the window */
xcb_map_window(c, w);
/* event loop */
while (!done && (e = xcb_wait_for_event(c))) {
switch (e->response_type & ~0x80) {
case XCB_EXPOSE: /* draw or redraw the window */
xcb_poly_fill_rectangle(c, w, g, 1, &r);
case XCB_KEY_PRESS: /* exit on key press */
done = 1;
/* close connection to server */
return 0;
XCB has a comparable, but slightly lower-level API than Xlib, as can be seen with this example.
Protocol description[edit]
Creators of XCB have invented a specialized interface description language to model X11 protocol in language-neutral way and facilitate generation of bindings to other programming languages. libxcb itself is implemented as a code generator and a tiny C stub of utility functions.
<xcb header="bigreq" extension-xname="BIG-REQUESTS"
extension-name="BigRequests" extension-multiword="true"
major-version="0" minor-version="0">
<request name="Enable" opcode="0">
<pad bytes="1" />
<field type="CARD32" name="maximum_request_length" />
The XCB logo was produced by Gearóid Molloy, author of the web comic Neko the Kitty, and donated to the project.[6]
Other language binding[edit]
- xpyb - The Python binding to the X Window System using XCB. As of June 2013, it does not support Python 3. Provided by freedesktop.org.
- ^ Schlachter, Uli (2014-08-01). "[Xcb] [ANNOUNCE] libxcb 1.11". xcb (Mailing list). Retrieved 2014-10-13.
- ^ "Xlib/XCB: Xlib with XCB transport". 2008-01-11. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
- ^ Jamey Sharp and Josh Triplett (2006-11-26). "libx11 with Xlib/XCB now in experimental; please test with your packages". debian-devel-announce (Mailing list). Retrieved 2009-09-11.
- ^ Massey and Bauer, 2002.
- ^ Sharp and Massey, 2002, §2.4. "While Xlib was designed to support threaded applications, and while that support is not unusable, there are known race conditions that cannot be eliminated without changing the Xlib interface."
- ^ KittyLogo (xcb.freedesktop.org)
- Massey, Bart; Sharp, Jamey (2001-09-19). "XCB: An X Protocol C Binding" (PDF). Proceedings of the XFree86 Technical Conference. Oakland, California: USENIX. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
- Massey, Bart; Bauer, Robert (2002). "X Meets Z: Verifying Correctness In The Presence Of POSIX Threads". Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. Monterey, California: USENIX. pp. 221–234. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
- Sharp, Jamey; Massey, Bart (2002). "XCL: A Compatibility Layer For XCB". Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. Monterey, California: USENIX. pp. 71–83. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
External links[edit]
- XCB wiki (freedesktop.org)
- XCB API reference - tutorial
- libxcb tutorial
- Further publications
- The X New Developer's Guide: Xlib and XCB


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Since 1967 Nielson Construction has been at the heart of structural growth in Castle Valley. Their fierce work ethic and constant attention to detail has made the small family owned company a household name in the Carbon, Emery area. The Nielson name along with their reputation has continued to grow year by year and with the addition of their second asphalt production facility this year it seems that the sky is the limit for this construction juggernaut.
"We take a lot of pride in what we do," said paving superintendent Bobby Peirce. "This company started as a small family owned business and even though we have grown by leaps and bounds everyone who works for Nielson maintains a sense of ownership in all we do."
Company founder John C. Nielson fostered the small company for many years after its inception in 1967 by dedicating himself to taking good care of his customers and providing them with quality work. In 1981, two of John's children Wayne and Ralph Nielson, joined him in the development of the company, according to Nielson's website at www.nielsonconstruction.com. The company incorporated in that same year and grew slowly due to their ability to perform a diverse array of jobs with skill and dedication.
The 1990s brought unprecedented growth to Nielson as it more than tripled in size and capabilities. According to the site, when John Nielson lost his battle with cancer, Wayne and Ralph committed themselves to the company's continued growth. In 1999 the company acquired an asphalt plant and took the bold step of making superpave for federal highways. Despite many naysayers Nielson reached their goal in the first year.
What started as a small family company is now the largest locally owned employer in Castle Valley and they are still family owned. Wayne and his sons, Jesse and John, now own a company that considers its diversity its strength. Nielson currently operates projects in gas well site development, mine site development and reclamation, coal haul trucking, crane service, general trucking, road construction and asphalt.
In April, Nielson opened their Price asphalt production facility allowing them to expand their project capabilities. During a Sun Advocate tour of the facility on June 24, plant operator Rex Rich and plant manager Jeremy Draper detailed the production process.
Gravel is crushed to variable sizes from sand all the way up to three quarter inch rock. The sized aggregate is then loaded into feeder bins where screens remove any odd sized particles from the mix. A state-of-art automated system then weighs and determines how much of each mixed aggregate goes in depending on the customers specifications.
The different aggregates are combined on a belt line and fed into the mixing drum that brings the components to above 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The mix is then fed into the mixing chamber where it is combined with oil to create the "hot mix," which is apply named as the batch witnessed was being produced at 309 degrees Fahrenheit.
According to Draper, the facility can produce as much 1,500 tons of hot mix a day which is loaded into a variety of vehicles from a storage silo. He stipulated that the production plant typically manufactures approximately 800 tons every day.
During the current summer season, Nielson has completed or is currently working on:
â¢Price city's Homestead Blvd. project.
â¢The Cat Canyon renovation on U.S. Highway 6.
â¢A nine point two mile repave from the junction of U.S. Highway 6 to the Sunnyside Co-Generation Plant along S.R. 123.
â¢The Moore cutoff project that will connect to U.S. Interstate 70.
â¢Providing W.W. Clyde with the asphalt for the Helper Interchange project.
â¢Providing Carbon and Emery County road crews with asphalt for their independent projects.
The Nielson website states, it has been said, "the road to success is always under construction. We couldn't agree more, which is why we have dedicated ourselves to being the best at what we do. Our customers have come to rely on us for our experience, or professionalism and our determination to get the job done right the first time."
Peirce, who has worked for Nielson since 2000 when the company got into asphalt, is fiercely proud of the work that is done by Nielson's paving department and echoed the company's philosophy.
"We put the same work ethic into any job no matter how big or small," concluded Peirce. "And what is important to us is that we treat all of our customers with the same respect and priority. This company has maintained its family roots and I think that really shows in our track record."


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PAWTUCKET - James W. Trudell of Manton Street, Pawtucket passed away on Saturday, March 2, 2013. He was the husband of Mona (Viens) Trudell.
Mr. Trudell was born in Pawtucket the son of the late Harold and Ellen Trudell. He was a Korean War Veteran of the United States Army. Mr. Trudell was a supervisor for the Copper and Brass Company in North Attleboro, Massachusetts for many years.
Besides his wife Mr. Trudell is survived by his son Gregory Trudell of Pawtucket and his stepson Michael Gelinas. He also leaves his six grandchildren, Jennifer Adam, Nicole Trudell, Lynn Cook, Brian Holmes, Sean Parentean, and Amber Adam. He was the father of the late Susan Adam and the brother of the late Florence, Leisa, Arthur, Harold, Mildred, Florence, Francis, and Leatrice.
The funeral service and visitation for Mr. Trudell will be Thursday, March 7, 2013 from 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm in the MANNING-HEFFERN FUNERAL HOME, 68 Broadway, Pawtucket. His burial with full Military Honors will be in the Rhode Island Veteran's Cemetery, Exeter.
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The State of Real Estate, April 2007
Did you send your child to school today well-prepared and rested? If so,
you may have taken a tiny step toward enhancing the value of your home.
Forget showy curbside flowers and the latest home fashions. A growing
body of academic research, including a new study of 2005 Silicon Valley
home sales, shows that students' academic performance at local public
schools plays a surprisingly strong role in determining the value of homes.
In Cupertino, a town renowned for its students' excellent state test
scores, the difference in home prices in the poorest-performing high
school's catchment area versus those in the best-performing high
school's area is $250,000, according to research from Palo Alto's Movoto
Home buyers were willing to pay a whopping $378,000 more to ensure their
children attended Los Gatos High School versus Leigh High School in the
Campbell Union High School District last year, according to an Movoto
analysis of comparable home sales on either side of the districts'
dividing line. Student performance scores were 15 percent higher for the
Los Gatos high school than Leigh on the state's Academic Performance
Index for the 2004-2005 school year.
The same kind of premium exists for homes in Mountain View's Miramonte
area, where some homes feed into the Los Altos elementary and
junior-high school district and others into Mountain View's. Miramonte
home buyers on average spent an additional $142,000 last year to buy a
home that fed into the Los Altos lower schools, where student
performance scores were 13 percent higher. Middle school and high school
scores do not differ that much.
Matthew Swenson, a Los Gatos Realtor who works for Alain Pinel, says the
magnitude of the $378,000 premium for Los Gatos High does not surprise
him at all.
"School districts are big for buyers in Los Gatos. Family is important,
and parents want to give their kids everything," he says. "If you spend
$1.5 million on a house, you want to give them what you believe is the
best opportunity."
Even buyers who don't have kids are often keyed into the strong
relationship between school quality and a home's re-sale value, he and
other agents say.
Swenson says, "I had a conversation with a buyer today. He said, 'I
don't care about schools, but I know it's important because when a down
market comes, the value of a good location is going to kick in. If the
market becomes a buyer's market, the seller with the premier home in the
premier location is going to fare the best and that includes schools'."
In the Los Gatos analysis, as in all probes of school quality and its
relationship with house prices, peeling out factors other than schools
such as disparate house size and neighborhoods that contribute to
housing value is the most difficult and important precursor. It's fairly
evident, for instance, that among Silicon Valley's socially aware a Los
Gatos address carries a cachet that a Campbell or San Jose address does
not, adding an unquantifiable price premium to Los Gatos homes relative
to those locations that is not directly related to schools.
In addition, the Los Gatos situation illustrates what Mr. Swenson and
others interviewed for this story say can be the difficulty of sorting
out which factor comes first: the good schools or the expensive homes
and well-educated, well-to-do parents that typically come with them.
Such parents generally put a premium on education, sending to schools
children poised to learn and perform well on standardized tests.
The Business Journal worked with Movoto, a Palo Alto Internet start-up
and brokerage, to reach its conclusions regarding the dollar premiums
attached to Silicon Valley homes in districts with high-scoring schools
on state performance exams. Movoto reviewed the sale of 334 Silicon
Valley single-family houses in 2005 in nearly a dozen towns and school
districts stretching from Menlo Park to San Jose. Fewer than five early
2006 sales were also included.
Movoto specializes in providing prospective home buyers with detailed
information on homes, schools, crime rates, resident demographics and
local home-sales data based on the regional multiple listing service and
public information drawn from such sources as the U.S. Census Bureau and
the state of California's Department of Education.
Dan Lorimer, a company co-founder and site architect of Movoto,
performed much of the analysis. His findings were based on the
relationship between home prices based on actual sales and the state's
academic performance index, or API, for the various schools. API scores
range from a low of 200 to a high of 1,000. The state's goal for all
schools is to score at least 800.
Movoto analyzed the data exclusively for the Business Journal in part
because it, too, wants to better understand how to quantify the
importance of school quality to home prices. In some cases the analysis
did not yield clear enough results to reach any conclusion, as in the
case of Palo Alto and Menlo Park-Atherton schools. Palo Alto High
School's 2004 API score is more than 200 points higher than that for
Menlo Park-Atherton High School, yet the price per square foot of
comparably sized three-bedroom, two-bath homes was virtually the same at
$732 in Palo Alto and $729 in Atherton.
"To me it would seem that you would see more of an effect" in the home
prices between the different high schools, Mr. Lorimer says. "It may be
that (the lower high-school API score) doesn't affect Atherton prices as
much because so many people send their kids to private schools."
In addition, he says, the homes in the two high schools' catchment areas
are not nearly as comparable as those in, say, Cupertino, which clouds
any conclusions further.
Nonetheless, the relationship between home prices and school quality has
been fairly strongly established in multiple academic studies by
researchers in locations as disparate as Ohio, North Carolina, Florida,
Connecticut and Reading, England. Invariably, they find that the better
quality the local schools, the higher priced the home.
"School quality is the most important cause of the variation in ...
house prices," concludes a 1996 study by David Brasington, an economist
at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and his
then-dissertation advisor, Donald R. Haurin in the Departments of
Economics and Finance at Ohio State University. The study looked at
single-family homes in 134 school districts in six metropolitan areas.
In an interview, Mr. Brasington says his studies of Ohio schools have
shown that if school quality improves by 10 percent as measured on a
student proficiency test, then home prices in its catchment area rise by
2 percent. Other studies looking at Florida schools have found house
price increases of nearly 3 percent in similar circumstances and as much
as a 5 percent increase in a study of Connecticut home values.
A study of home prices in England by two professors at the London School
of Economics and Political Science and Williams College in Massachusetts
found, among other things, that a home well-suited for raising a family
carries an even higher price premium if it is in the catchment area of a
good school.
The same study found that expectations about future school quality also
affected prices, with home buyers discounting for risk if they found too
much variability in past school performance test scores. They also found
that home buyers really paid price premiums only to get into the very
best schools, and that home prices in mediocre or even poor schools were
not materially different.
SHARON SIMONSON covers real estate for the Business Journal. Reach her
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P1651 Chevrolet - Fan 1 Relay Control Circuit
Forum Code
Possible causes
- Faulty Fan 1 Relay
- Fan 1 Relay harness is open or shorted
- Fan 1 Relay circuit poor electrical connection
- Fan 1 Relay harness is open or shorted
- Fan 1 Relay circuit poor electrical connection
Possible symptoms
- Engine Light ON (or Service Engine Soon Warning Light)
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Tori Petry reports on the Lions' initiative to make the game safer for kids by educating moms with proper football techniques and preparation through USA Football's Heads Up Tackling Curriculum.
The Heads Up Football Clinic targets youth leagues — from coaches to players — and gets them involved with the safety of the game and using proper techniques.
Director of Youth Football Programs Chris Fritzsching leads the Heads Up Tackling clinic, which focuses on tackling in a better, safer manner, during the Lions' Training Camp Family Weekend.
DE Ziggy Ansah and G Larry Warford participated in a Detroit Lions youth football camp at Ford Field this week.
Deerfield Elementary (Novi, MI) was the grand prize winner of the Pepsi Recess promotion through Walgreens.
Ford Field will be transformed into a giant recess, with approximately 400 students from local schools teaming up with the Lions alumni to highlight the NFL Play 60 partnership with Playworks Detroit and help combat childhood obesity in front of a sold out Ford Field crowd. Thank you to all of our following Halftime partners, including PlayWorks Detroit, XBOX, Movable and Blue Cross Blue Shield!
View photos from the free football safety clinic for moms at the Detroit Lions practice facility.