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He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.
A notable example is the book Filth, where the tapeworm's internal monologue is imposed over the top of the protagonist's own internal monologue ( the worm's host ), visibly depicting the tapeworm's voracious appetite, much like the ' Climax of Voices ' in Gray's novel 1982, Janine.
Nevertheless, it now appears that just as evolution tends to create new genes from parts of old genes ( molecular economy ), evo-devo demonstrates that evolution alters developmental processes to create new and novel structures from the old gene networks ( such as bone structures of the jaw deviating to the ossicles of the middle ear ) or will conserve ( molecular economy ) a similar program in a host of organisms such as eye development genes in molluscs, insects, and vertebrates.
* Mark Twain satirised the host of claimants in the characters of the Duke and the Dauphin, the con men in the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In Knut Hamsun's 1892 novel Mysteries, the characters, on a couple of occasions, briefly discuss Charles Stewart Parnell, particularly in relation to Gladstone: " Dr. Stenerson had a high opinion of Parnell, but if Gladstone was so opposed to him, he must know what he was about — with apologies to the host, Mr. Nagel, who couldn't forgive Gladstone for being an honourable man ".
By April 1980 Orion's first set of movie releases had yielded one hit — 10, starring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek — and a host of also-rans, including The Great Santini, based on a Pat Conroy novel about a Southern family, A Little Romance, and Promises in the Dark.
After host Frank Skinner read a line from the novel Qs prologue (" The coin of the kingdom of the mad dangles on my chest to remind me of the eternal oscillation of human fortunes "), Blissett produced a copy of Luther Blissett's Italian book Totò, Peppino e la guerra psichica (" Toto, Peppino and the Psychic War ", AAA Edizioni, 1996 ) and quoted extensively from it, in the original Italian:
The novel depicted the characters ’ different approaches to assimilating themselves within the host country ’ s culture as well as symbolic meanings of locations and settings crafted in a language that combines the two opposite poles of majority and minority i. e. English and Japanese.
* Collie Entragian ; former police officer in Desperation, now the third host of Tak but first one introduced in the novel.
In 2005, Kemp appeared in an episode of BBC's Extras and in a two-part adaptation of the Gerald Seymour novel A Line In The Sand for ITV, and he has also presented, on The Friday Night Project and as a stand in host on The Paul O ' Grady Show ( 2007 ; 2008 ).
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey chose McCarthy's 2006 novel The Road as the April 2007 selection for her Book Club.
Such beams will allow researchers and students to continue to address a host of questions at the intellectual frontier of nuclear science: How does the behavior of novel and short-lived nuclei differ from more stable nuclei?
Besides " I Can See Clearly Now ," Nash recorded several hits in Jamaica, where he travelled in early 1968, as his girlfriend had family links with local TV and radio host and novel writer Neville Willoughby.
Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities are invited to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host to consign them to a fate worse than death in Room 101, named after the torture room in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is itself named after a meeting room in the BBC Broadcasting House where Orwell would sit through tedious meetings.
The coast of Canvey Island was host to the Chapman Lighthouse as briefly described in Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.
Weisinger had once been a " judge in a preliminary Miss America contest ," through which he " learned the inside story ," later travelling to Europe with the then -" world-famous host of the real-life contest ," a friend of Weisinger's at the time who refused to talk to him again after reading the resulting novel.
A longer epidemic allows for selection pressure to continue over an extended period of time and stronger host immune responses increase selection pressure for development of novel antigens.
Some scientists, such as paleontologist David B. Norman, took issue with the scientific theories portrayed in the novel, fearing that the public would accept them as fact, while Discovery Channel host Jay Ingram defended Bakker's creative decisions in an editorial.
Lee's prolific output spans a host of different genres, including adult fantasy, children's fantasy, science fiction, horror, Gothic horror, Gothic romance, and the historical novel.
In Argentina, where Cris Morena was the host of a popular teenage programe Jugate Conmigo, the song was included on the main intro on the fiction novel, inside the program called: " Life College " ( 1994 ).
In 1996, Dubai invited everyone from all around the world to a global annual festival which came to be named as the milestone " Dubai Shopping Festival " or DSF, they came up with the novel idea of a global village, a shopping village was conceived with all nations participating with their wares and styles in their traditional or cultural ways, the immigrant ex pat population and the fly in visitors rejoiced in the celebration that took place and the promise was given that from then on every year Dubai will host a festival for people from all around the world.
One deleted scene portrayed three of the main gremlins, Daffy, Lenny, and George, sneaking into television host Grandpa Fred's studio and " helping " him host, acting on the premise that Grandpa Fred's show was intended to be scary ( though this scene was later included in the tie-in novel ).
All North American Limenitis feed on Salicaceae as well, suggesting that an ( ancestral host plant shift ) expansion of a novel host plant across the Bering land bridge could have driven the colonization of the Nearctic.

host and applications
These applets must run either in a container provided by a host program, through a plugin, or a variety of other applications including mobile devices that support the applet programming model.
In general, the difference between a statistics program and a biostatistics program is twofold: ( i ) statistics departments will often host theoretical / methodological research which are less common in biostatistics programs and ( ii ) statistics departments have lines of research that may include biomedical applications but also other areas such as industry ( quality control ), business and economics and biological areas other than medicine.
In order to take full advantage of PostScript printing, applications on the computers had to re-implement those features using the host platform's own graphics system.
The most common use of web servers is to host websites, but there are other uses such as gaming, data storage or running enterprise applications.
In the United States, two military standards govern the use of combat net radios and the host applications that communicate over the network — MIL STD 188-220 and MIL STD 2045-47001.
Early file servers housed multiple CD-ROM drives, which were used to host large database applications.
In July 2009, the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base confirmed that DISA will host the Air Force instantiation of the RightNow Technologies ' Commercial off-the-shelf personnel customer service and self-service applications at its Defense Enterprise Computing Centers ( DECC ).
Sometime in the years of 1986-89, the Bellatrix project was started, with the premise of using the America architecture as the base for a common architecture that could host OS / 390 for mainframe applications, OS / 400 for multi-processor server transactional processing, and AIX for scientific applications.
A TOE " offloads " the TCP / IP operations for this particular network interface from the host processor, freeing up CPU cycles for the main host applications.
WinTel is also a software product, that allows host operating systems ( and applications ) such as Microsoft Windows to run in a protected, virtual environment in a window on Mac OS X.
The host may also provide an interface or control panel for managing the Web server and installing scripts, as well as other modules and service applications like e-mail.
With the introduction of Web services into the contact center, host integration has been simplified, allowing IVR applications to be hosted remotely from the contact center.
SpiderMonkey is intended to be embedded in other applications that provide host environments for JavaScript.
The original Game Park firmware had three main functions: to launch applications, provide a means of linking to a host computer and to play music in MP3 format.
Through this strategy, the GP32 was the host of multiple homebrew applications and games.
Like other Active Scripting languages, it is built on the COM / OLE Automation platform and provides scripting capabilities to host applications.
Although that might sound unusual, that is actually common when servers are maintained under an industrial context and host critical applications such as banking systems.
Of the two surviving systems, Pro Tools still requires some proprietary hardware ( either a low cost portable device such as the " Mbox " or the more expensive multichannel A / D, D / A converters for more professional high end applications ), while Nuendo ( a successor to Cubase ) is of the " host based " variety.
Embedded SQL is a technique that simplifies the development of C / C ++ and COBOL Firebird applications, by using a preprocessor called gpre, which allows to embed SQL statements directly into the source code of the host language.
* Software like Synthetic Aperture's Color Finesse runs as a plugin in host applications like Apple's Final Cut Pro, Adobe's After Effects and Premiere.
* Magic Bullet Colorista II from Red Giant Software offers multi-step color correction with primary, secondary and master stages inside host applications including Apple's Final Cut Pro, Adobe's After Effects and Premiere.
SSDP is supported in many SOHO firewall appliances, where host computers behind it may pierce holes for applications.

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