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"Slow going at first, but gets better"
At first I thought the dystopic future was a bit unimaginative, but the story gripped me soon enough. I liked the way different narrators told different angles of the story. I'll definitely read it's companion book.
The narrator's mastery of all the accents and characters made the story come alive. The prose was not the greatest ever, but the story moved, and was captivating. I liked how the history was so seamlessly woven into the story. There were many times when a character or event was mentioned, and I went to look it up on the history to see how the actual event compared with the way the story portrayed it. You really do get connected to the characters, though some of them seemed two-dimensional. I think my only complaint was that the end of the book seemed to drag a bit. All in all I think it is a great book.


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Take advantage of early registration prices and our money back guarantee for inclement weather. We will send you a confirming e-mail when we receive your registration.
Name(s): _________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________
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Entire Weekend (postmarked on or before 2/18/15): $50 X ________ = $________
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Make checks payable to: Cape Friends of Traditional Music and Dance
C/O John Coffman
656 Highland Drive
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701-4727
Housing: Requests for (sleeping bag) space will be considered on a first come, first served basis. Space is limited, so make your request early. If we have more requests than space, we may open up the American Legion hall for floor space. Note, the American Legion Hall has rest rooms, but not showers. Please submit housing requests with your registration, postmarked on or before 2/18/15. I request sleeping bag space for ________ number of dancers. (Bring an air mattress or mat.) Please indicate special needs, such as smoking, allergies, etc.:
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Chance Dance Guarantee: If we have snow or ice, call John or Kathy Coffman at (573) 334-4706 to see if the dance has been cancelled. If you have snow or ice along your route, you may need to cancel. Either way, we will refund your money.
Two Brunches and a Potluck Dinner: We plan to serve a no-cook brunch on Saturday morning and Sunday morning. We also plan to have a potluck dinner on Saturday evening.
Help: We will ask your help (probably about 1 hour per person) with tasks such as moving tables and setting up and cleaning up the meals.
Chance Dance Questions: Contact John or Kathy Coffman at (573) 334-4706 firstname.lastname@example.com
Bands: The Euphor (U4) will send a shiver down your spine! They perform both traditional and new music, and they write much of their own material. Get ready to hear a mix of kickin' old-time and new music, including a bunch of gorgeous, swelling, minor tunes with a chuggin' feel. Euphor consistently surprises dancers with the beauty and power of their music. They feature Tom Turino on banjo, vocals, and fiddle; Matt Turino on fiddle; Michael Valliant on bass; and Sam Payne on guitar. Tom and Matt write much of the band's music. The Ripples are an upcoming band from Cincinnati with a unique sound. They feature Gabbi Lanza on vocals and percussion; Kristen Planeaux on piano, flute, vocals and percussion; Matt Willman on fiddle; and Christopher Wood on piano, guitar, and bass. The Bruce Zimmerman Band is phenomenal. Bruce is widely regarded as the best blues man between St. Louis and Memphis. He has played with blues legends, such as Skunk Baxter, Rufas Thomas, Snooky Pryor, Big Larry Williams, Narvel Felts and Lee Oscar. And Bruce has opened for Buddy Guy, Rare Earth, Grass Roots, Black Oak Arkansas, Sawyer Brown, Asleep at the Wheel, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Leon Russel, and others. And Bruce is a prolific composer. See Bruce's website: Bruce Last, Turnip the Beet will blow your mind. This duo feature Kelsey Wells on fiddle and Jeremy Lekich on guitar, percussion, and banjo. Expect to hear a mix of eclectic and original tunes.
Open Calling: Bring your calling cards. We plan to have a callers' discussion during the Sunday morning brunch.
More Contra Dancing: Dance in St. Louis Sunday evening from 7 - 10 p. Google "Childgrove Country Dancers" or go to www.childgrove.org for directions and details.
Planned Schedule:
7:30p to 11p: Contra Dance to Euphor
11:15 p.m. to 12:15 a.m.: Contra Dance to Turnip the Beet
10a to 11:30a: No Cook Brunch
11:45a to 12:45p: Waltz and Cajun to Euphor
1p to 4:30p: Contra Dance to the Ripples
5p to 6:00p: Potluck
7p to 10p Contra Dance to Euphor
10:15p to 12:a.m.: Blues and Swing with the Bruce Zimmerman Band
9:45a to 10:45a: No Cook Brunch
9:45a to 10:45a: Callers' Discussion
11a to 2p Contra Dance to Euphor
Location: American Legion Hall, 2731 Thomas Drive, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
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Directions from St. Louis: [Total distance from St. Louis is about 115 miles.] Take I-55 South (about 105 miles) to exit 99. At the end of the exit ramp, turn left (Southeast) on US 61 (Be careful turning left; US 61 is a divided highway. As you enter Cape Girardeau, US 61 becomes Kingshighway). Travel about 2.8 miles on US 61 until you reach Thomas Drive on the right side of the road. (Thomas Drive is a small, "easy to miss," street; it is across the street from the Budget Inn.). Turn right (West) on Thomas Drive. Travel about 500 feet until you see the American Legion Hall on the left. It is a fairly large building with beige metal siding.
Directions from Memphis: [Total distance from Memphis is about 173 miles.] Take I-55 North (about 162 miles) to exit 96. At the end of the exit ramp, turn right (East) onto Route K (William Street). Travel East on William Street for about 1.5 miles until you reach US 61 (MO 34, S.Kingshighway) Turn left (North) on US 61 (S. Kingshighway). Travel North about 1.9 miles on US 61 (S. Kingshighway) until you reach Thomas Drive on the left side of the road. (Thomas Drive is a small, "easy to miss," street; it is across the street from the Budget Inn, just before you reach the Budget Inn.). Turn left (West) on Thomas Drive. Travel about 500 feet until you see the American Legion Hall on the left. It is a fairly large building with beige metal siding.

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fat, spicy, verdant, principally verdejo-based Spanish white
2006 Palacio del Marques Tempranillo-Syrah, M&S Ł2.99 until Oct 1lifted by a splash of syrah to deliver ripe, plummy, exotic fruit
2004 Wild Rock Gravel Pit Red, NZ, Waitrose Ł7.49 until Sep 30smoky scent, sweet, grainy red fruits and ripe velvety finish
2005 Errazuriz Estate Sangiovese, Waitrose, Ł5.24 until Sep 30glorious, fine, fat, violet-scented briary red
2005 Bourgogne Cuvée Oligocčne, Javillier, Lay & Wheeler Ł14.49oozes elegant, scented, steely, hazelnut, lemon and glacé fruit spice
2006 Langhe Arneis, Bricco Cappellina, Voerzio, Lay & Wheeler, Ł12nutty, stone fruit-layered complexity from the arneis grape
Fresh, grapefruity, softly nutty and creamy. Drink within a year
2005 Bourgogne Chardonnay, Marc Colin, Ł9.89 A&B VintnersHoneyed, spicy, mineral. Delicious now and for at least two years
2005 Sasso, Aglianico del Vulture, Ł6.99 Selected WaitroseDistinctive Italian red: earthy cherry and dark chocolate flavours
vivid, spicy blackberry-fruit flavours; long-lasting impression
2007 Cono Sur Riesling Reserve, Chile. Ł5.24, Waitrose, to 30 Sepscented, crisp dry riesling.
2005 Loma Larga Syrah, Chile. Ł12.10, Justerini & Brooksaromatic, peppery red, with intense black fruits and supple tannins
Spicy, meaty
2004 St Joseph, Cuvée Prestige, Cave St Désirat (Ł9.99, Waitrose)elegant, peppery
2006 Excelsior Paddock Shiraz, Robertson (Ł5.99, Tesco)richer style; rich, chocolatey
2002 Tatachilla Foundation Shiraz, (2 @Ł9.99 Majestic)powerful, densely fruity
Argentina (50-1) Its rugby team is getting better and better, as are its wines. Grab some peachy, citrussy Torrontés, Argentina's "signature" grape, or some beefy Malbecs or Syrahs and watch the Pumas confound the critics.
Australia (12-1) Trays of Castlemaine, Fosters, Coopers and Tooheys are flying off the shelves, but since the Wallabies could go all the way you will need to be well stocked with wine, too. For the quarter-finals put the Yellow Tail Bubbles on ice; for the semis Green Point Brut and, for the final, Clover Hill Brut.
Canada (5,000-1) Forget dreary Molson and Labatt lager and grab some Canadian wine. A soft, mellow red or aromatic white from British Columbia should help ease the pain of defeat. Save the nectar that is Inniskillin's sparkling Icewine for when Canada reach the final. Ha!
England (25-1) In the event of victory a fine sparkler such as Nyetimber, Chapel Down, RidgeView or Balfour Brut Rosé will be needed. In the event of defeat lots of London dry gin or copious quantities of fine English bitter.
Fiji (1,000-1) Mouth-numbing Yaqona, aka Kava (see Samoa and Tonga). Etiquette demands that on drinking it one should clap hands once and down it in one, after which everyone else claps three times and laughs uproariously at your folly.
France (10-1) So much to choose from (see venue guide, below) but in the event of the hosts doing well, it has to be the finest Champagne.
makes its presence felt; reminds you that champagne is a wine
Saam Chenin Blanc 2006, South Africa, Ł5.95, Bibendumwarm ripeness of cooked pears; crisp, clean finish
Borgo Salcetino Chianti Classico 2005, Italy, Ł7.99, Waitroserobust, blood-and-guts warmth. Drinking, more than thinking wine
La Segreta Bianco 2006, Italy, Ł8.85, Carluccio'sVery aromatic; lively citrus with some florality and a richer undertow


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Positioned between the business-targeted Latitude and the mainstream consumer Inspiron lines, Dell's Vostro has always been the type of computer that's half-meant for personal use, half for business: it's casual professional. The Vostro 3300, part of a revamped line from Dell, is a 13-inch laptop with a somewhat thick frame and a standard-voltage Core i3, i5, or i7 processor. It's not as slick as the more expensive Vostro V13, which takes much of its design ideas from the high-end Dell Adamo (the original model, not the newer XPS version), but it still has a bit of the Adamo magic in its looks and metal outer casing. More importantly, the 3300's price--starting at $599 for a Core i3 processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 250GB hard drive--makes it very affordable.
The Vostro 3300 isn't going to turn heads, but it is one of the best, most affordable and lightweight small business 13-inchers we've seen, with its only significant drawback being battery life. It's so nice that we wonder why Dell hasn't offered this little guy up to mainstream consumers more eagerly.
Price as reviewed / starting price | $868 / 599 |
Processor | 2.26 GHz Intel Core i5 M430 |
Memory | 3GB, 1066MHz DDR3 |
Hard drive | 320GB 7,200rpm |
Chipset | Intel HM57 |
Graphics | Intel Media Accelerator HD |
Operating System | Windows 7 Professional (32-bit) |
Dimensions (WD) | 12.8 x 9.0 inches |
Height | 0.8-1.1 inches |
Screen size (diagonal) | 13.3 inches |
System weight / Weight with AC adapter | 4.3/5.0 pounds |
Category | Mainstream |
The Vostro is meant to glide somewhere between personal and business, and that's exactly what the design of the 3300 suggests: metal and black define the outside, with squared-off edges on the front and back, and slightly rounded sides. The Vostro 3300 comes standard in Aberdeen Silver (which is what we had) in Core i3 configurations, with the option of adding Lucerne Red or Brisbane Bronze color schemes in the Core i5 configuration for an extra $40. Overall, the design lies somewhere between the trendy Adamo and the more utilitarian Latitude.
Plain, ThinkPad-esque matte-black defines the interior of this minimalist Dell, from the keyboard deck up to the material surrounding the above-screen Webcam. A few backlit media-control keys and a backlit power button above the keyboard are the only flashy touches. Because this Vostro has a slightly thick and squared bottom half, there's room to fit audio in/out jacks, an SD card slot, and a Wi-Fi toggle button on the front edge, although they're a little tightly packed together in the center below the track pad.
The keyboard on the Dell Vostro 3300 is similar to ones we've seen on other recent Dell laptops: it could be best described as a flat keyboard with individually raised keys. Though there's no number pad, it's easy to type and feels comfortable during extended writing sessions, and the keyboard goes edge-to-edge, maximizing the laptop's compact dimensions. The keyboard on our model wasn't backlit and that isn't available as an upgrade option on this exact model, but there is a Dell Vostro 3300 that includes a backlit keyboard on Dell's Web site starting at $708.
Above the keyboard, a small backlit touch-controlled media bar has basic play/pause and volume functions. It's useful, but not overly so for a business-focused machine. These might have been better spent on videoconferencing and other productivity-related toggles. To the right of these are a few LED indicators for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and battery status.
The track pad is wider and responds better than that of some brands we've seen. The plain discrete buttons below are nothing remarkable and could be slightly larger, but at least they're not overdesigned.
A 13.3-inch LED-backlit display on the Dell Vostro 3300 has a 16x9 aspect ratio and a native resolution of 1,366x768 pixels, which is standard for most laptops up to 15 inches. These screens also come standard with antiglare, which is far rarer. The experience we had was excellent--the screen has the glare-free quality of a matte display, with the crispness found in a glossy coating. Text and video were easy to watch in any lighting.
The included 2-megapixel Webcam had better clarity, sound-recording and light sensitivity than most Webcams we've come across, making it perfect for video conferencing. A small LED light also indicates the camera's in record mode. Though the camera's professional, Dell's selection of cartoonish effect overlays in its included camera software can only be described as cheese-ball.
There's only one speaker on the Vostro 3300. It's located on the front left edge of the laptop's bottom half, and though it sounds loud and clear, its off-center position makes it a weak choice for movie playback. Should you choose to take a break with a DVD, you might want to pack some good headphones.
Dell Vostro 3300 | Average for category [Mainstream] | |
Video | VGA | VGA plus HDMI or DisplayPort |
Audio | Mono speaker, headphone/microphone jacks | Stereo speakers, headphone/microphone jacks |
Data | 2 USB 2.0, 1 USB 2.0/eSATA combo, SD card reader | 4 USB 2.0, SD card reader, eSATA |
Expansion | None | ExpressCard/54 |
Networking | Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, modem, Bluetooth | Ethernet, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optional mobile broadband |
Optical drive | DVD burner | DVD burner |
The Dell Vostro 3300 doesn't have a huge selection of ports, but it does have eSATA. It's lacking HDMI-out, however, which is a feature that's becoming nearly universal on all laptops (excluding Macs). Thankfully, at least there's Bluetooth.
Configuration options abound on the Vostro 3300, as is often the case with Dell laptops. Customization on Dell's Web site offers either a Core i3 or i5 processor, along with RAM configurations from 2GB to 4GB and hard drives from 250GB to 500, all at 7,200rpm. RAM can be expanded up to 8GB. Despite Core i3 and i5 processors being 64-bit-ready, Dell chose to make 32-bit Windows Home Premium the default OS. Upgrading to 32-bit Professional or 64-bit Home Premium costs an extra $70; 64-bit Professional, an extra $120.
Depending on the support software, memory and other options chosen, the Vostro 3300's price can climb above $1,000, where it no longer seems like a great bargain. We'd advise you keep software services to a minimum and focus on basic needs. Our configuration, at over $800, just straddles the border of what we'd consider paying before looking elsewhere.


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To determine eligibility of medically needy individuals, the Medicaid agency must use a single resource standard that is set at an amount that is no lower than the lowest resource standard used on or after January 1, 1966, to determine eligibility under the cash assistance programs that are related to the State's covered medically needy group or groups of individuals under § 436.301.
The resource standard established under paragraph (a) of this section may not diminish by an increase in the number of persons in the assistance unit. For example, the resource level in the standard for an assistance unit of three may not be less than that set for an assistance unit of two.
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Hinchcliffe returning to Andretti
FONTANA, Calif. (AP)
James Hinchcliffe will return to Andretti Autosport in 2014 with sponsorship from United Fiber & Data.
The team, meanwhile, will switch from Chevrolet to Honda.
The manufacturer change to Honda announced before Saturday night's season finale at Auto Club Speedway had been expected after rival Chip Ganassi said two weeks ago he was moving to Chevrolet.
The re-signing of Hinchcliffe went down to the wire. Not only did Andretti need a new primary sponsor to replace GoDaddy, but Hinchcliffe had been in discussions with Ganassi on a multi-series program. Hinchcliffe's hope had been that the Ganassi deal would eventually lead him to the team's No. 10 car currently driven by Dario Franchitti.
But without sponsorship needed to fund the Ganassi program, Hinchcliffe's smart play was a return to Andretti, where he's become a breakout star for the series.
"The last two years have been tremendous and we've spoken so much about the chemistry and the team, and being able to keep the band together is huge," Hinchcliffe said.
The Canadian was hired by Andretti following Dan Wheldon's death in a crash in the 2011 season finale. Wheldon had been scheduled to replace Danica Patrick in the Andretti ride, and team owner Michael Andretti then turned to Hinchcliffe, who was looking for a ride following the unexpected closure of Newman-Haas Racing.
Instantly popular among fans off the track, Hinchcliffe clicked immediately with new teammates Marco Andretti and Ryan Hunter-Reay. He hit his stride this season, where he won his first career IndyCar race in the St. Pete season-opener, and later added wins at Brazil and Iowa.
But the indecision of sponsor GoDaddy made Hinchcliffe's future at Andretti uncertain.
Instead, Michael Andretti grabbed United Fiber & Data for the No. 27 car. The tech company, which was founded by three members of the multi-platinum rock band LIVE and their Think Loud Development company, will also be an associate sponsor for Marco Andretti and Hunter-Reay, and the primary sponsor for Pro Mazda Champion Matthew Brabham as he moves to Indy Lights next season for Andretti.
UFD director Bill Hynes said Hinchcliffe will be an outstanding spokesman for its tech company.
"We saw how great James was with his prior sponsor, how great he was as a brand ambassador, and we almost want to piggyback to that," said Hynes. "We just really love the IndyCar product, we really think it's great platform for us and we really think the face for UFD should be (Hinchcliffe)."
The move to Honda was expected following Ganassi's decision to join Roger Penske in the Chevrolet ranks. It put the top three IndyCar organizations with the same manufacturer, and a switch to Honda made sense for Andretti. It means he'll be the top team and not fighting with two others for attention or resources.
"It's like being back home," Andretti said. "I have no doubt that together we will see great success."
Andretti won three series championships with Honda in 2004, 2005 and 2007, and the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2007. Of Andretti Autosport's 48 IndyCar wins, 39 were with Honda.
"As many of you will remember, the Andretti organization played a major role in Honda's success during the previous era of manufacturer competition in Indy car racing, and we're looking forward to adding more victories and championships to an already impressive total," said Art St. Cyr, President, Honda Performance Development.
In its two seasons with Chevrolet, Andretti won the championship last season with Hunter-Reay and nine races.
"We would like to thank the Andretti Autosport drivers for their on-track achievements that contributed to Chevrolet clinching the 2012 manufacturers' championship," said Jim Campbell, U.S. Vice President Performance Vehicles and Motorsports. "They are all true professionals on and off the track. We wish them well and look forward to spirited competition in the future."
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Jessica Lowndes hosts a wrap party at NYC hot spot, Beauty & Essex to celebrate her second music video, "Nothing Like This." The fashionable '90210' starlett arrived looking stylish sporting a QVC M by Marc Bouwer cropped faux fur bolero over a black lace dress and gorgeous Simon G Jewelry!
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VAT treatment of charities and not-for-profit organisations can be a cloudy area for accountants.
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Published August 29, 2012
A Soul/Maka FST.
it's the way you hold my hand by rudysteiner
a mix for karasuno's dear parentals :') cover art and tracklist here: http://rudy--steiner.
haikyuu!!, daisuga, sugawara koushi, sawamura daichi, anime
let's go out! by rudysteiner
songs about crushes and confessing.
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kisses easier than smiles by rudysteiner
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The Passover Seder MealThis meal is the one observed by Jesus with His twelve disciples in the upper room on the night Judas betrayed Him to the Jewish authorities. It is very important for Christians to celebrate this day as well because it is a complete foreshadowing of the communion or "Last Supper" we partake of during our services on our day of worship. This is where Jesus taught His disciples about the use of the bread and wine to remember what He did for us on the cross. In fact, as Christians, we should be observing the Passover with a Seder meal every year rather than celebrating Easter with giving out bunny rabbits and hiding Easter eggs. If you do research way back to the roots of the Easter holiday, you will find the name Easter, along with the rabbits and eggs, are not Christian based at all. The Passover Seder is celebrated on the 14th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar which varies every year between the months of March and April on the Gregorian calendar. The word Seder means order, so the meal is done in a prescribed order, but not so orderly that the dinner cannot flow with the Holy Spirit. There are scripts called Haggadah (meaning: the telling) that are different and are available over the internet. There is not a specific "licensed and ordained" script that has to be used, so please don't get caught up in legalism. (Download ours below) Participants Haggadah for Pesach Passover Recipes In Microsoft Word Desserts It is also a nice time to try out some kosher recipes and there are many available on the internet It is not a requirement to serve lamb at a Seder, in fact scores of people use brisket for the main course. We usually end up doing rotisserie chicken because most people enjoy it. We have been fortunate to have our own Jewish culinary chef, Stephen Edelstein, attending our home church, so we turn him loose in the kitchen and he creates the best Seder dinner available anywhere, completely from scratch. We have managed to confiscate some of his great recipes to share with others. Please feel free to download any of the recipes on the right for your enjoyment. The mother of the home lights the candles at the beginning of the Seder (Included in the Haggadah). On everyone's plate at the beginning of the meal you will need the following items: Charosett: A mixture used to represent the brink and mortar. (see recipe above) Horseradish: The stronger the better Celery: Parsley: Egg: Needs to be hard boiled, then remove from the shell and roast in oven till lightly brown Shank bone: We have found the large bone on chickens usually work best. So about a month before the meal, we begin saving the bones so we have enough for everyone to have one. For those needing a scripted Christian Haggadah for conducting the Seder meal, we have included (in the links below) the ones we at Emerald Ministries use for the Seders we observe. It has been composed by combining several others and then fine tuning it with suggestions from completed Jews in attendance. There is one for the leader and one for all the other participants. Simply download and print one for each of the attendees. They are color coded so it is easy for all to follow. We usually have everyone participate as "readers" (blue) going around the table switching to the next person every time the lead word "Reader" appears. these are PDF files and you will need Acrobat reader 3.0 or better to read and print them |


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This book is about FXRuby, a library for developing GUIs with Ruby. It's a Ruby binding to the FOX toolkit. The book consists of two parts. The first part (chapters 1 to 6) is a gentle introduction to FXRuby, in which you build a simple photobook application step by step. The second part (chapters 7 to 14) is a more thorough overview of how FXRuby works and how to use all the different available widgets to build a GUI. Some advanced topics, such as FXRuby's support for OpenGL graphics, are not covered in the book. The book also does not contain a complete reference to the library - the author refers you to the online RDoc documentation. The book is written by Lyle Johnson, the lead developer of FXRuby.
I like the way the book is set up; if you're new to FXRuby, like I was when I started reading the book, then the first part is a nice and easy tutorial, and the second part is a good reference to most of FXRuby's features if you're using it in your own applications. So the book is useful for beginners and experienced users alike.
For anyone who wants to create a good GUI for their Ruby application, I would recommend them to have a look at FXRuby and this book.
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4When Cheryl takes to the stage none of her loyal fans are too far away. This talented lady of song and humor once peered out into the audience and commented that she knew everyone in the sold-out audience. Cheryl's first pubic performance was at a Hootenanny style show when she was 12. She started writing songs when she was 17. Cheryl has long been hailed as a songwriter's songwriter. Her songs have been covered by Peter, Paul & Mary, Bette Midler, Juice Newton and Garth Brooks, to name a few. When she's not on tour nationally or internationally, Cheryl is regularly entertaining area audiences with her particular blend of song and comedy. And the room is always full, so get your tickets early for this show. Opening for Cheryl is Chelsea Berry, a singer-songwriter known for her noticeable edge, power, and finesse. Chelsea's songs are rooted in the genres of folk and rock with more recent explorations into a more alternative rock sound.
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Heyman G M - - 1995
In two experiments deviations from matching earned higher overall reinforcement rates than did matching. In Experiment 1 response proportions were calculated over a 360-response moving average, updated with each response. Response proportions that differed from the nominal reinforcement proportions, by a criterion that was gradually increased, were eligible for reinforcement. ...
White K G - - 1995
In a successive discrimination, red and green hues signaled component variable-interval schedules. The exponent of the power function relating ratios of responses in the red and green components to ratios of reinforcers provided a reinforcement-free measure of discrimination or stimulus control. Responses were recorded in successive 10-s subintervals of the ...
Nordholm A F - - 1995
Linopirdine (DUP 996), a proposed cognitive enhancing agent, was studied in four squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) and six White Carneau pigeons responding under a titrating matching-to-sample paradigm (TMTS). Briefly, under this titration schedule, each trial began with the presentation of a sample stimulus on the center key of a three-key ...
Schmid A - - 1995
The acoustic startle response of rats was found to be attenuated if elicited in the presence of a conditioned stimulus predicting reward. During conditioning, animals received a total of 21 pairings of light with palatable food and sucrose solution, whereas controls received food and sucrose in the absence of light. ...
Pilgrim C - - 1995
Following the emergence of two four-member equivalence classes (A1B1C1D1 and A2B2C2D2), 5 students were exposed to a series of phases including a baseline conditional discrimination reversal (i.e., choosing D2 was reinforced and D1 punished given Sample A1; choosing D1 was reinforced and D2 punished given Sample A2), the delayed introduction ...
Armony J L - - 1995
Conditioning of fear reactions to an auditory conditioned stimulus (CS) paired with a footshock unconditioned stimulus (US) involves CS transmission to the amygdala from the auditory thalamus, the auditory cortex, or both. This article presents a simple neural network model of this neural system. The model consists of modules of ...
McLean A P - - 1995
Four pigeons responded on multiple schedules arranged on a "main" key in a two-key experimental chamber. A constant schedule component was alternated with another component that was varied over conditions. On an extra response key, conjoint schedules of reinforcement that operated in both components were arranged concurrently with the multiple ...
Alsop B - - 1995
Four experiments, each with 6 human subjects, varied the distribution of reinforcers for correct responses and the probability of sample-stimulus presentation in symbolic matching-to-sample procedures. Experiment 1 held the sample-stimulus probability constant and varied the ratio of reinforcers obtained for correct responses on the two alternatives across conditions. There was ...
Del Seppia C - - 1995
The comparison of two measurements of the pigeon threshold for electrical stimuli, performed 2 h apart, reveals stress-induced analgesia as a result of stressful manipulations between the two tests. When pigeons are exposed to a weak, oscillating magnetic field between the two measurements, the analgesic response is inhibited and a ...
Rogers W R - - 1995
Using a set of six baboons (Papio cynocephalus), we conducted a series of seven experiments designed to evaluate the potentially aversive character of a 60 Hz electric field (EF). Initially, the subjects were trained, using food rewards as the reinforcer, to respond only when a cue light was illuminated. Next, ...
Fetterman J G - - 1995
Pigeons partitioned time into three intervals. Responses to one key could be reinforced after a short time, to a second key after an intermediate time, and to a third key after a long time. The values of the short, intermediate, and long times and the proportion of trials ending with ...
Kiyatkin E A - - 1995
Although a large body of neuropharmacological evidence suggests that the mesolimbic dopamine system (ML DA) is critical for goal-directed behaviors, exactly which aspects of behavior are mediated or modulated by this system remains a matter of conjecture. By measuring changes in DA cell firing patterns and extracellular DA concentrations in ...
Kuno H - - 1994
Four homing pigeons were trained over 5 months in a zero-delay, "arbitrary" matching-to-sample procedure with sample and comparison stimuli presented on any of three response keys. Birds were also required to complete a fixed-ratio 10 requirement on both sample and comparison stimuli to terminate their presentation. The procedure resulted in ...
Dougher M J - - 1994
Two studies investigated the transfer of respondent elicitation through equivalence classes. In Experiment 1, match-to-sample procedures were used to teach 8 subjects two four-member equivalence classes. One member of one class was then paired with electric shock, and one member of the other class was presented without shock. All remaining ...
Jitsumori M - - 1994
Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were trained to discriminate between sets of artificial stimuli such as those used by Jitsumori (1993) for pigeons and humans. The stimuli were arrays of symbols differing along three two-valued (positive or negative) dimensions. The discrimination required was between polymorphous categories in which a positive stimulus was ...
Graham S - - 1994
This experiment examined the effect of destroying the 5-hydroxytryptaminergic (5HTergic) pathways on the acquisition and performance of discrimination between two brief time intervals. Rats that had received injections of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine into the dorsal and median raphe nuclei, and sham-lesioned control rats were trained in a series of discrete trials to ...
Davis R E - - 1994
The blockade of learning of Pavlovian fear conditioning by the N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA)-receptor antagonist MK-801 was examined in 166 goldfish. In previously untrained fish, MK-801 blocked learning of a light-off or a tone conditioned stimulus (CS) paired with an electrical shock unconditioned stimulus (US). Pretraining on the light-off CS did ...
Stubbs D A - - 1994
Under a psychophysical trials procedure, pigeons were presented with a red light of one duration followed by a green light of a second duration. Eight geometrically spaced base durations were paired with one of four shorter and four longer durations as the alternate member of a duration pair, with different ...
Esteves F - - 1994
We examined the possibility of nonconscious associative learning in a context of skin conductance conditioning, using emotional facial expressions as stimuli. In the first experiment, subjects were conditioned to a backwardly masked angry face that was followed by electric shock, with a masked happy face as the nonreinforced stimulus. In ...
Bonardi C - - 1994
In 4 experiments an instrumental contingency between a response and a reinforcer was introduced in the presence of a discriminative stimulus. Then a discriminative inhibitor (S delta) was established that signaled that the instrumental contingency would no longer operate in the presence of that discriminative stimulus, so that the S ...
Reed P - - 1994
Three experiments examined the influence of a brief stimulus (a light) on the behavior of food-deprived rats whose lever pressing on tandem schedules comprising components of different schedule types resulted in food presentation. In Experiment 1, either a tandem variable-ratio variable-interval or a tandem variable-interval variable-ratio schedule was used. The ...
Elsmore T F - - 1994
In two experiments conducted in an eight-arm radial maze, food pellets were delivered when a photocell beam was broken at the end of each arm via a nose poke, according to either fixed-interval or random-interval schedules of reinforcement, with each arm providing a different frequency of reinforcement. The behavior of ...
McLean A P - - 1994
Behavioral contrast and response-ratio sensitivity to reinforcement were compared in multiple schedules in which components alternated strictly or according to a pseudorandom sequence. Average component durations in the two regimes were always 60 s, and order of presentation of component alternation regimes was counterbalanced across subjects. In Part 1, the ...
Rammsayer T H - - 1994
In Experiment 1, the proposition that duration discrimination of filled auditory intervals is based on temporal information rather than on energy-dependent cues was tested in 64 naive subjects. The subjects were presented with two auditory stimuli at different levels of intensity within one trial, and had to decide which of ...
Zentall T R - - 1994
Value transfer theory has been proposed to account for transitive inference effects (L. V. Fersen, C. D. L. Wynne, J. D. Delius, & J. E. R. Staddon, 1991), in which following training on 4 simultaneous discriminations (A+B-, B+C-, C+D-, D+E-) pigeons show a preference for B over D. According to ...
Williams B A - - 1994
McLean (1992) presented significant data showing that the occurrence of behavioral contrast in a multiple schedule was correlated with shifts in the frequency of reinforcers from a second source between components of the schedule, and interpreted his results as showing that contrast was due to changes in the degree of ...
Gormezano I - - 1994
We determined MDA's effects on: (a) conditioning of the rabbit's jaw movement response (JMR) (Experiment 1); and (b) nonassociative JMRs and unconditioned JMRs (Experiment 2). Rabbits were administered 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA; 0, 2, or 4 mg/kg) into the marginal ear vein 20-30 min prior to each of 10 daily sessions. Experiment ...
Zeiler M D - - 1994
The peak procedure was used to study temporal control in pigeons exposed to seven fixed-interval schedules ranging from 7.5 to 480 s. The focus was on behavior in individual intervals. Quantitative properties of temporal control depended on whether the aspect of behavior considered was initial pause duration, the point of ...
Baron A - - 1994
Fixed-interval performances of rats were described either in terms of the individual intervals of the session or in terms of a single average interval constructed for the entire session. Responding in the individual intervals usually followed break-and-run and single response patterns rather than the scalloped pattern that emerged when the ...
Lattal K A - - 1994
Male Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens, swam through a ring in an aquarium, breaking a photocell beam and initiating an unsignaled, resetting delay interval. Following delays of 0 s, 10 s, or 25 s, a 15-s mirror presentation released an aggressive display by the fish. Swimming through the ring increased ...
Iwata B A - - 1994
This study describes the use of an operant methodology to assess functional relationships between self-injury and specific environmental events. The self-injurious behaviors of nine developmentally disabled subjects were observed during periods of brief, repeated exposure to a series of analogue conditions. Each condition differed along one or more of the ...
Omino T - - 1993
Pigeons were exposed to a concurrent-chains schedule in which a single variable-interval 30-s schedule was used in the initial links and fixed-time schedules were used in the terminal links. Three types of keylight conditions were used in the terminal links. In the first condition, different delays were associated with different ...
Palya W L - - 1993
The ability of stimuli correlated with successive periods in a fixed interfood interval to support a response that produced or removed them was examined using pigeons. The degree to which those correlated stimuli elicited directed key pecks was also obtained. Stimuli early in the interval functioned as negative reinforcers, and ...
Grondin S - - 1993
Experiments 1 and 2 compared, with a single-stimulus procedure, the discrimination of filled and empty intervals in both auditory and visual modalities. In Experiment 1, in which intervals were about 250 msec, the discrimination was superior with empty intervals in both modalities. In Experiment 2, with intervals lasting about 50 ...
Voss P - - 1993
The present study compared the performance of 6 pigeons trained to detect luminance differences in two different signal-detection procedures. Exposed to a three-key array, the pigeons were trained to peck the left key when the brighter of two light intensities had been presented on the center key and to peck ...
McSweeney F K - - 1993
Pigeons pecked keys for food reinforcers delivered by multiple variable-interval 2-min variable-interval 2-min schedules. Positive behavioral contrast was created by changing one component to extinction; negative contrast was achieved by changing one component to a variable-interval 15-s schedule. The duration of each component was varied independently of the other from ...
Wyrwicka W - - 1993
This article reviews studies of various authors on the phenomenon of "switching," which is observed in both classical and instrumental conditioning and consists in elicitation of different responses to the same conditional stimulus (CS) when it is applied in an environment different than the original one. The different responses include ...
Panlilio L V - - 1993
Rats were trained to press a lever in the presence of a tone-light compound stimulus and not to press in its absence. In each of two experiments, schedules were designed to make the compound a conditioned punisher for one group and a conditioned reinforcer for the other. In Experiment 1, ...
Fantino E - - 1993
Delay-reduction theory states that the effectiveness of a stimulus as a conditioned reinforcer may be predicted most accurately by the reduction in time to primary reinforcement correlated with its onset. We review support for the theory and then discuss two new types of experiments that assess it. One compares models ...
Helmstetter F J - - 1993
Exposure to an innocuous stimulus that has been paired with footshock during Pavlovian conditioning results in the activation of descending antinociceptive systems in the rat. Several recent studies indicate that the hypoalgesia observed when contextual stimuli are paired with shock and the formalin test is used to measure antinociception depends ...
Iversen I H - - 1993
Steady and blinking white lights were projected on three nose keys arranged horizontally on one wall. The procedure was a conditional discrimination with a sample stimulus presented on the middle key and comparison stimuli on the side keys. Three rats acquired simultaneous "identity matching." Accuracy reached 80% in about 25 ...
Higa J J - - 1993
Recent developments reveal that animals can rapidly learn about intervals of time. We studied the nature of this fast-acting process in two experiments. In Experiment 1 pigeons were exposed to a modified fixed-time schedule, in which the time between food rewards (interfood interval) changed at an unpredictable point in each ...
Young A M - - 1993
Classical conditioning both to rewarding and to aversive stimuli is sensitive to drugs which act on the dopaminergic system: amphetamine enhances conditioning and neuroleptics attenuate it. Many lines of evidence point to the nucleus accumbens as being part of an anatomical substrate for reward. We have examined the release of ...
LeFrancois J R - - 1993
Bar presses by one group of rats were conditioned under a differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate reinforcement schedule immediately prior to conditioning under a fixed-interval schedule. In a second group of rats, bar presses were conditioned first under a differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate schedule and then under a fixed-ratio schedule prior to conditioning under a fixed-interval schedule. ...
Fetterman J G - - 1993
Pigeons were trained on a psychophysical choice task to discriminate between 2 fixed ratios and tested with probe ratios intermediate to the training requirements. Absolute and relative ratio size were varied over conditions. In a final condition, subjects were transferred from the number-based discrimination to a time-based discrimination. The times ...
Fredrikson M - - 1993
The reliability of classically conditioned skin conductance responses was investigated. Temporal stability was determined in 28 subjects studied three weeks apart (study 1), and internal consistency in 223 subjects studied once (study 2). A discriminative classical conditioning paradigm using slides with a duration of 8 s served as conditioned stimuli ...
Omino T - - 1993
In two experiments, pigeons were exposed to concurrent-chains schedules in which a single initial-link variable-interval schedule led to access to terminal links composed of fixed-interval or fixed-delay schedules. In Experiment 1, an 8-s (or 16-s) delay to reinforcement was associated with the standard key, while reinforcer delay values associated with ...
Leung J P - - 1993
College students responded for monetary rewards in two experiments on choice between differentially segmented aperiodic schedules of reinforcement. On a microcomputer, the concurrent chains were simulated as an air-defense video game in which subjects used two radars for detecting and destroying enemy aircraft. To earn more cash-exchangeable points, subjects had ...
Bouton M E - - 1993
Four experiments with rat subjects examined the effects of contextual conditioning on conditioned appetitive performance. Experiment 1 compared the effects of contextual conditioning on performance to conditioned stimuli (CSs) with different conditioning histories. Contextual conditioning enhanced performance to the CS if the CS had first been conditioned and then extinguished, ...
Crosbie J - - 1993
In two experiments a multiple-response repertoire of four free-operant responses was developed with university students as subjects using monetary gain as reinforcement. Following baseline, one of the responses was reduced either by making monetary loss contingent upon it (response cost) or by removing it from the repertoire (response restriction). In ...
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Izod IndyCar officials are "talking to potential promoters about getting the Milwaukee Mile back on the schedule," according to Chris Jenkins of the AP. IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard Saturday said that "'several' promoters are interested in bringing the series back to Milwaukee." Bernard: "I want that event bad." However, Bernard "doesn't seem to be counting on any financial help from the state of Wisconsin." Bernard: "The state's in a pickle in their own mind. I never want to be a parasite to any state. I don't think that's fair to the state, (and) I don't think it looks good upon IndyCar. But it has to be viable. So right now, we're trying to figure out how we make this event viable with what we have to work with." Jenkins noted while it "remains unclear whether a deal can be put together for next season" for a Milwaukee Mile race, the track "could replace Chicagoland Speedway as an IndyCar venue." Bernard Saturday "didn't sound optimistic" about Chicagoland's IndyCar future. Bernard: "ISC has their primary objectives and IndyCar has their primary objectives, and I'm not sure if we're all on the same page right now" (AP, 8/28). Jenkins Sunday noted it is not clear when a Milwaukee Mile race "might be held," but it "is clear that IndyCar probably wouldn't race in two markets so close to each other" in Milwaukee and Chicago. As a result, Saturday's Peak Antifreeze and Motor Oil Indy 300 at Chicagoland "might have marked the last time IndyCar runs" at the track "for the foreseeable future." Driver Dan Wheldon: "I think it would be a shame. It always produces the racing that I think the fans like to see" (AP, 8/29).
FUTURE PLANNING: Bernard Saturday said that the '11 IndyCar schedule "could be complete by the end of next week but may not be announced for some time afterward." In Milwaukee, Dave Kallmann noted the schedule "in all likelihood ... will again include 17 race weekends, counting the Texas Motor Speedway doubleheader" as a single event. Bernard said the series needs "some short tracks." Bernard: "We want to say we're the most versatile, fastest race car and race drivers in the world. When you combine that with superspeedways and short tracks and road courses and street courses, that just plays into our diversity." The '10 schedule "includes four ISC tracks," and Bernard said, "We want to talk to all of the promoters ... and say, 'OK, which ones of you want to do the best job for IndyCar?' Which ones are going to activate on their marketing?" (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 8/29).
OWNERS, INDYCAR UNITED: In Indianapolis, Curt Cavin reported "all decisions regarding the Izod IndyCar Series' new car program for 2012 will be made by project manager Tony Cotman, a move that seemed to please owners gathered Saturday at Chicagoland Speedway." Bernard said that Cotman "represents both the league and the teams." Bernard: "It's his baby." IndyCar team Owner Michael Andretti said that owners and league officials "left united." Cavin noted Bernard "got a welcomed vote of confidence from an unlikely team owner," Vision Racing co-Owner and former IRL CEO Tony George. Bernard: "He said he supported what we're doing and that he'd help however he could. That was great" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 8/29).


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Naïve Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence and Wisdom of Crowds
We study learning and influence in a setting where agents communicate according to an arbitrary social network and naïvely update their beliefs by repeatedly taking weighted averages of their neighbors' opinions. A focus is on conditions under which beliefs of all agents in large societies converge to the truth, despite their naïve updating. We show that this happens if and only if the influence of the most influential agent in the society is vanishing as the society grows. Using simple examples, we identify two main obstructions which can prevent this. By ruling out these obstructions, we provide general structural conditions on the social network that are sufficient for convergence to truth. In addition, we show how social influence changes when some agents redistribute their trust, and we provide a complete characterization of the social networks for which there is a convergence of beliefs. Finally, we survey some recent structural results on the speed of convergence and relate these to issues of segregation, polarization and propaganda.
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Final selections
The deadlines approach – well, that one first, big deadline: with the Best Translated Book Award longlist due to be announced March 11 we judges have to decide what makes the 25-book cut. Twenty-five titles seems like a lot, but the procedure is that each of us submits our top-ten list (on March 1), from which the top sixteen vote-getters make the longlist, and then each judge gets to add one personal choice to round off the list, for a total of twenty-five titles. So each of us only gets to select ten+one titles. (Last year, only six of my top-ten choices for the longlist made it (with a seventh then slipping on as the plus-one).)
Since my top-ten/must-have list currently stands at roughly fourteen titles (fluctuating daily, as two or three titles different fall in and out of favor, depending on my mood …) this is proving a more arduous exercise than I had hoped. Twenty-five slots would be easy (well, easier … maybe) to fill), but ten feels really, really tight.
There are half a dozen or so titles that I simply can't not put in my top-ten (which, in cruel-tease-form I won't name here – though I'm probably sufficiently on the record regarding my feelings about them elsewhere …) – because I think they are really the most deserving (and, in some cases, because I worry that they might otherwise be overlooked) – but after that it gets complicated. There are a couple of titles that so many judges already seem to feel enthusiastic about that I'm not sure I need to put my full weight behind them yet – books by recent BTBA winners like Wiesław Myśliwski's A Treatise on Shelling Beans or Krasznahorkai's Seiobo There Below, for example, or Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle II, among others. But it's hard to leave off any title that I truly want in the running: one favorite not making the initial cut is okay, since we each get to add that one personal selection, but likely there will be several that don't get enough votes, making for quite a quandary with that lone personal selection…..
There are a lot of titles at the upper margins, the ones that I think I could make a case for – clear top-25 titles, to me, but maybe not top-ten (though some days I'm convinced title X is, other days title Y …).
There are the big novels my name-authors: Javier Marías' The Infatuations (translated by Margaret Jull Costa), Antonio Muñoz Molina's In the Night of Time (translated by Edith Grossman, The Economist just recently reminding us that: "Its author, one of Spain's leading writers, has been unjustly ignored in the English-speaking world. With this book, he should get the acclaim he deserves" (though Entertainment Weekly (yes, well …) suggests the novel moves at: "the pace of a narcotized elephant" …)), Christa Wolf's City of Angels.
There are the works by authors who have been getting great reviews and quickly gaining large followings, like Robert Walser (A Schoolboy's Diary) and Elena Ferrante The Story of a New Name.
There are translations that have already won translation prizes: Ten White Geese by Gerbrand Bakker, which won (under a different title) the British counterpart to the BTBA, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013 and Dimitri Verhulst's Vondel Translation Prize-winning The Misfortunates. And I was already on a translation-prize-jury that found Elfriede Jelinek's Her Not All Her to be a worthy winner – the 2011 Austrian Cultural Forum Translation Prize – so how can I not longlist it this time around? (Sure, the competition might be tougher here – certainly there are a lot more titles in the running – but this remarkable piece of work (and the excellent translation) continues to stand out – helped also by the fact that it's different from almost everything else we're looking at.)
There are the smaller works that linger nicely (and often don't seem to have gotten enough attention). Sure, Amélie Nothomb's Life Form is kind of simple much of the way – but in its conclusion totally won me over. Jang Eun-jin's No One Writes Back – among the least-Dalkeyesque of the (many) Dalkey Archive Press titles to consider – has been among this year's most pleasant reading surprises. The same goes for Uday Prakash's The Girl with the Golden Parasol, a rare (okay, the only …) translation from the Hindi we get to consider. And while Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is the rare smaller (paperback original, too) title in translation to get pretty widespread coverage I still think it's widely misread as a story-collection: I find it comes together beautifully and very effectively as a unified novel-whole. And then there's a book like Jan Jacob Slauerhoff's The Forbidden Kingdom, which held me rapt and whose strangeness still haunts me.
Finally, there's than annual search for a worthy 'genre' title – a top-notch thriller, solid sci-fi, or the like. There were certainly mysteries and thrillers galore to consider this year (like every year), but it was not a great year – with the highly touted ones feeling particularly derivative. I suppose Ogawa's Revenge might be considered genre, of sorts (horror). Otherwise, there's only one of these titles in my mix: Ofir Touché Gafla's The World of the End (and not just because of the author's awesome/ridiculous name – touché!), which certainly hasn't gotten the ('mainstream') attention it deserves.
Of course, time is not yet up, the decision doesn't have to be made yet. I still have a few weeks days of reading ahead of me, a few more books to discover and consider. Part of me hopes to find another gem – but part of me also worries: what then? which book gets knocked off the already too-long list?
The prolific Spanish author Benito Pérez Galdós wrote his short novel, Tristana, during the closing years of the nineteenth century, a time when very few options were available to women of limited financial means who did not want a husband.. . .
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I would like to pose the argument that it is rare for one to ever come across a truly passive protagonist in a novel. The protagonist (perhaps) of Three Light-Years, Claudio Viberti, is just that—a shy internist who lives in. . .
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Christoff Dungalion is the nephew of Danath Trollbane.S&L 29, 30
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Doug Speedcheck is a character in Cars 2.[1]
He is a black Ford Mondeo British police officer. He is one of the policemen (although it cannot be said which one) who try to protect the Queen from Mater as he lands on the Queen's platform with a bomb implanted on him.
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The Post Graduate Department of Applied Zoology was started in 1993. The Department offers M.Sc., M.Phil & Ph.D degrees in Applied Zoology & Wildlife and Management. The Department is well equipped with facilities and infrastructure. It is supported by three permanent and six guest faculty members, and four non-teaching staff. Major thrust areas of the research in the Department include Genetics, Developmental Neuroscience, Bio diversity, Aquaculture, Toxicology, & Physiology. M.Sc., students are trained in various aspects of Zoology, namely Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Environmental pollution, Toxicology, Genomics, Proteomics & Bio-diversity. During the past eighteen years of existence, the Department has produced thirty PhDs and twenty M.Phils and published more than two hundred research papers in various peer reviewed journals of India and abroad. Presently Sixteen students are pursuing Ph.D. The two staff members namely Prof. B. B. Hosetti and Dr. Nagaraja have visited United States of America, England and Nepal for higher studies.
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Dr. M. Venkateshwarlu
Dr. K. Nagaraj
Minor Project-Ecological studies on sloth bear in the Daroji wildlife century at Hospet.
1 Year
A two day workshop on "Aquaculture for Rural Development"
Regional Level
Un assigned Grants of U.G.C.
Well equipped with 2 Class rooms, 2 student laboratories, 2 research laboratories, 1 Seminar hall. The dept. also equipped with necessary instruments and equipments for teaching and research.
The Department is aiming at the establishment of well equipped research laboratories to take up research in thrust areas of the dept, namely Molecular Genetics, Neurobiology, Biodiversity, Aquaculture, Toxicology etc. To train M.Sc., students in modern biological disciplines such as Genomics, Proteomics and Genetic Engineering, Computer laboratory will be established. The curriculum of the department including syllabus would be modified comprehensively. That would help our students better taught and trained.


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