Patrick O'Brian
The author of the wildly popular 18th century seagoing saga created, out of his own life, a fiction nearly as elaborate.
By Ian Williams
Published January 13, 2000 5:00PM (EST)
When Patrick O'Brian died in Dublin early in the new year, not long after the publication of "Blue at the Mizzen," many of his readers were not only bereft, but also agog at the possibility that he may have left another novel laid down on the stocks. His avid readership spans oceans, classes and politics, from right to left, from Charlton Heston to Tom Stoppard. The long, discursive saga of Jack Aubrey, the British naval officer and Stephen Maturin, his surgeon-spy companion, takes readers into a fictional universe that covers the globe, yet is usually contracted into the claustrophobic wooden walls of a Royal Navy ship in the war against Napoleon.
O'Brian's fans declare that his work will live forever, but perhaps the most fascinating reading will be his own life story, which he had crafted as a fiction believed almost to the end by most reviewers and readers. Working as an honored guest at Trinity College, Dublin, for the last two years, he was recently awarded an honorary doctorate as a credit to Irish letters -- despite the fact that he'd adopted his name and his nom de plume, Patrick O'Brian, along with his Irishness, with no great claim to either.
O'Brian was born Richard Patrick Russ in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, England, in 1914. His father was a venereologist and his grandfather a German furrier. His birth year, the start of World War I, may have been one reason why he didn't want to advertise his German ancestry too much -- after all, even the British Royal family changed its name from Battenberg to Mountbatten at that time to hide its Teutonic antecedents. The family was prone to feuds, and O'Brian eventually broke off relations with his siblings, as indeed later he did with his own son.
During World War II he left his wife and two children to move in with the wife of Count Dmitri Tolstoy. Both were involved in British secret service activities. At the end of the war he changed his name by deed poll to Patrick O'Brian and married the now ex-countess. They lived first in Wales and then moved to the south of France where for many years he was a diligent, well-reviewed but poorly bought author and translator.
He saved his discursiveness for his books, and his notorious reluctance to give interviews, or at least to give any accurate information in them, broke down only in the last years of his life after his wife died in 1998, which is when his Irish Catholic persona was peeled away by investigating journalists. Far from detracting from his reputation, the mystery of the practical joke he played on decades of reviewers and interviewers is more likely to enhance interest in his life and work.
In a touch worthy of one of his own novels, his now-considerable estate may well go to his stepson Count Nikolai Tolsoy. Unless he took precautions, and deeded his estate to Tolstoy's stepchildren, then over $2 million of it would go to pay a libel suit incurred when Tolstoy accused a British officer of sending Russian and Yugoslav prisoners to their certain execution by the Communists at the end of World War II.
O'Brian's involvement with the sea began in the 1950s when he worked on "The Golden Voyage," a story based on the 18th century circumnavigation of the world by Capt. Anson. He discovered a rich vein of material that could be mined for fiction. In the late '60s an American editor suggested the maritime theme for what became the Aubrey/Maturin series of which the first volume, "Master and Commander," was published in 1969 when O'Brian was 54.
For most O'Brian fans, it's probably heretical to suggest it, but a recently created vacancy may have inspired his editor. C.S. Forester, creator of Capt. Horatio Hornblower, had died in California in 1966. After reading all the available O'Brians, I returned to the Hornblowers of my youth and discovered two things. First, they were very good in their own right, and second, Jack Aubrey was a sort of anti-Hornblower, as if O'Brian had assiduously tried to differentiate his character totally from any accusations of sequelling or plagiarizing his predecessor.
Hornblower was haunted with self-doubt, totally tone deaf, Spartan and solitary in his habits, but with sharp intellect. Aubrey, with some time out for introspection, as in the last book, is a sybaritic, convivial soul whose love for music has him and Maturin scraping away at their violins in the Captain's cabin. And far from the ship's biscuit and salt meats of Hornblower, there are so many descriptions of menus in the Aubrey/Maturin series that there's a spinoff cook book.
However, while Forester knew how to sail, O'Brian's specialty was sailing in late 18th century English, redolent with archaisms and technical arcanae. In fact, he admitted to one interviewer that he occasionally made some of it up, but for most of us who couldn't tell a futtock shroud from a gudgeon, it would be impossible to tell. His other big step forward was to double the attraction by having two lead figures, of contrasting but complementary personalities.
O'Brian transposes Hornblower's icy intellect into the brooding Stephen Maturin, half Irish and half Catalan. A Catholic in a Protestant navy, he is prepared to leave the plight of Ireland on the back burner until the main threat to freedom, Napoleon, is dealt with. The two are then launched on their career of mayhem to the king's enemies, and equally important, the infighting, disappointments and rewards of a naval officer seeking the financial and social rewards of promotion. He makes it plain that the navy was a highly qualified meritocracy. You could get promoted on merit and were unlikely to get too far without it, but it always helped to have patronage on your side. It is this attention to the minutiae of social life and family responsibilities that invited reviewers to make comparisons with Anthony Trollope, or if they really wanted to please O'Brian, with Jane Austen.
Like Hornblower before him, Aubrey and his career were modeled on several colorful characters, although Thomas Cochrane, who later went on, in disgrace from the Royal Navy, to head the Chilean navy, is clearly a major inspiration. And Chile is, of course, where Aubrey finds himself in the final book of the series, answering the nagging doubts of all those fans who wondered what would happen to their heroes when Napoleon was finally gone.
Historical fiction is often unfairly relegated to a genre niche, and O'Brian's series was appreciated by only a small coterie until Norton rediscovered him 20 years after he had begun it and reissued the earlier books under heavy pressure from readers. It was only then that, in his 70s, he began to get the critical recognition and royalty checks that he so clearly appreciated, no matter how belated.
For anyone who wants to start the series, it is perhaps even more essential than usual to begin at the beginning. Each book is clearly a chapter in a much longer work, in which the characters and situations are built up from the beginning. Some readers might find the leisurely pace -- Jane Austen on the quarterdeck -- difficult to get into, but once they have, the never-tedious attention to detail and his wry humor will carry them along.
There is indeed a great deal of hyperbole from his readers, who at times can have the fervor of Trekkies at a sci-fi convention. But once you are caught up in the rhythm of what is now, effectively, an unfinished 20-volume picaresque novel, O'Brian is almost as good as his fans say he is.
Ian Williams
Ian Williams' book "Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776" is due in late August 2005 from Nation Books. His last book was "Deserter: Bush's War on Military Families, Veterans and His Own Past."
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During the '60s, the anti-Vietnam War movement wasn't the student-led campaign of popular imagination. At least not initially.
In the early '60s, a group of middle-aged, middle-class housewives formed Women Strike for Peace to call attention to the out-of-control arms race and quickly realized the consequences of escalation in Vietnam. By 1965, they started traveling to North Vietnam to meet with Vietnamese women, visit POWs and deliver letters.
Binghamton University PhD candidate in history Jessica Frazier is looking at why these women took such extraordinary measures and how they influenced the peace movement. She's received a number of grants to peruse archives around the country, including a Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, a Sophia Smith Travel-to-Collections Grant from Smith College and a Mary Lily Research Grant from Duke University.
Early in her research, Frazier quickly realized the diversity of women involved — non-violent women, militant women, women of color, poor women — and says they haven't gotten as much attention as the student movement because every generation that's written about the era, grew up in the era.
"I'm the first generation of researchers who wasn't alive during the Vietnam War," she says.
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Where is donated blood stored?
After you donate blood you might wonder what happens to it until it is needed by a patient.
After the blood donation is tested, blood suitable for transfusion is labeled and stored.
According to the American Red Cross, red cells are stored in refrigerators at 6-degrees Celsius for up to 42 days.
Platelets are stored at room temperature in agitators for a maximum of five days, the Red Cross states on its web site.
The Red Cross says that plasma and cryo are stored in freezers for up to a year.


to climate change, argued Rabe, neither country has made significant strides in designing a common bilateral framework to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Efforts to address climate change will be greatly affected by the development and implementation of renewable energy sources, said Ian Rowlands of the University of Waterloo. Rowlands argued that the criticism of renewable energy sources as being intermittent and unreliable could be overcome in part through broader bilateral cooperation. Utilizing renewable energy sources within a larger geographic area, explained Rowland, would increase its reliability as a viable power source by diversifying its supply. In the case of wind power, for instance, Rowland noted that while wind might not be blowing in a particular jurisdiction at any given time, it is "always blowing somewhere."
He also suggested that power sharing and collaboration in a bilateral context could also increase the market of energy renewables while lowering production and transaction costs. Despite the potential benefits of bilateral cooperation, the United States and Canada have continued to look past one another when seeking to bolster their output of renewable energy. State and provincial governments have preferred to ensure investment and energy output from renewable resources remain within their jurisdiction. According to Rowlands, policymakers should strongly consider looking beyond their own borders if they are serious about investigating ways to increase the use of renewable electricity in Canada and the United States.
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 method adapter(WWW::Kontent::Request $request where {.mode eq 'view' }) {
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WWW::Kontent::Request represents a request for a page. It is used to:
WWW::Kontent::Path object representing the path being resolved in this request.
Contains the name of the rendering mode, such as "view" (the default), "history" and "edit". Drivers, adapters, and renderers are all concerned with these modes. This actually retrieves it from the object in path.
Contains the name of the page's format, such as "html" (the default), "xml", "pdf", or "jpg". This field is mostly the purview of the renderer (and is used to select the renderer), but may be of interest to certain adapters as well, such as those used to store images. This actually retrieves it from the object in path.
Contains a hash of parameters to the page. Parameters are used to communicate information to drivers besides the mode and format; they usually correspond to HTTP POST or GET parameters.
Indicates the subrequest depth. Zero indicates that this object is the top-level request; one indicates it is a first-level subrequest; and so on. Many renderers will omit "chrome" such as headers or navigation tools in a subrequest, but drivers and adapters may be interested in this as well.
Contains the MIME type of the final output; as such, this is usually set by the renderer, but sometimes the adapter handles this instead. HTTP supervisors will typically output this value as the Content-Type header.
Contains the HTTP status code that should be returned to the browser; defaults to 200.
Contains the store's root page.
After a call to.resolve, contains the page and revision so resolved. These fields should usually be used only by supervisors; the request object will arrange for renderers and page classes to receive their own references to the revision object.
Contains the renderer to be used for this request.
Contains a WWW::Kontent::Session object for the current session.
Contains the path to the current user object. This is retrieved from the session during object construction.
Contains the current revision of the user page.
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Tells the objects in the userpath and pagepath attributes to resolve themselves; in the process, fills the user, page, and revision attributes.
Convenience method which calls.resolve, then the revision's driver, and finally the renderer. Returns a string containing the renderer's output. It also handles restarts and other inner exceptions.
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Endowed professorships are established using funding provided by foundations and/or patrons. Endowed professors are usually appointed for a period of five or ten years. After the funding ends, Humboldt-Universität maintains the endowed professorships without external funding. Endowed professors have the same rights and duties as other professors at Humboldt-Universität and do not take orders from the organisations or individuals that fund the professorship.
There are also endowed professorships for visiting professors, who spend a limited period of time at the University.


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What is Infinity Healing?
Creation through Alignment
The Infinity Healing Technique is a powerful modality created by Tarek Bibi that helps us move past challenges and create wonderful life experiences. This technique is based on the framework that your conscious mind is connected to your subconscious mind, your subconscious mind is connected to your higher self, and your higher self is connected to God/Source/Universe. All of these elements help to create your reality.
When the Infinity Healing Technique is applied by a practitioner, you are connected to God/Source/Universe energy through your higher self, and then your higher self decides what to do for you to receive exactly what is for your highest good. This alignment gets activated by consent through your sacred "yes."
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What is Human Design?
Personality and Possibility Assessment System
The Human Design System is a powerful tool to assist in self-knowledge. This system was founded and taught by Ra Uru Hu, and integrates Western astrology, the I-CHING, and the Chakra system, to describe the unique ways our bodies process and generate energy.
A Human Design chart analysis can assist in many levels of personal awareness, including optimal energy management, tips on decision making, and insights on one's life approach. This understanding facilitates deep levels of self love, appreciation, and forgiveness.


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Many of us have experienced an involuntary eyelid spasm but didn't give it much thought. These eyelid spasms, or twitches, are a repetitive and involuntary spasm of the muscles in the eyelids. The twitch most frequently occurs in the upper eyelid, but can occasionally occur in both upper and lower eyelids.
The twitch sensation is generally painless and harmless. It can be caused by several factors and rarely indicates a more serious underlying condition. One condition, however, that can contribute to eyelid twitching is dry eye syndrome (DES). Below, we'll briefly explain DES and how it can trigger eyelid twitching.
What Is DES?
Dry eye syndrome is characterized by the chronic lack of sufficient ocular lubrication and can be caused by allergies, irritants, and insufficient or poor quality tears. Some symptoms of dry eye include:
- Dry, irritated eyes
- Watery eyes
- Blurry vision
- Stinging or burning sensation
If you suspect you have DES or experience any of the above symptoms, speak with Dr. Chirag R. Patel about finding relief and regaining the quality of life you seek.
How Is Eyelid Twitching Related To DES?
When the eyes lack lubrication, the nervous system compensates by increasing the eyes' blink rate to try and refresh the tear film. If the brain sends too many signals to increase the blink rate, the eyelid's muscles may begin to twitch due to the overload of signals fired from the brain. Eventually, as the eyelid muscles become more fatigued from the excess blinking, twitching becomes more noticeable and irritating.
What Can Be Done To Ease Symptoms?
Eyelid twitching can be bothersome and can even interfere with performing daily tasks. Though twitching episodes usually subside after a minute or two, there are some steps you can take to shorten their duration or eliminate them altogether.
Try using lubricating eye drops to bring some moisture back to your eyes, thus reducing the signals sent to the nervous system to increase the blink rate. Dr. Chirag R. Patel can recommend which over-the-counter drops best suit your eyes' needs, or prescribe more potent eye drops.
Try gently massaging your closed upper eyelids to suppress the twitching when it occurs. The light pressure can help relax the surrounding muscles. You can also apply a warm eye compress when the lid is twitching or whenever your eyes feel irritated.
Additionally, if you experience twitching or cramping in other muscles, such as in your legs, taking some magnesium may help reduce the frequency of the spasms.
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Mild eyelid spasms and twitches are generally not something to be concerned about, unless they are prolonged, frequent, or distract you from your normal routine. At Dry Eye Center at Turner Eye Institute, we aim to provide you with relief from any dry eye symptoms using the latest treatments available. If you or a loved one suffer from eye twitches or any other DES symptoms, let us help you manage your ocular condition for a lifetime of clear and comfortable vision.
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Modern-day witchcraft and manifestation
From ghosts to zombies and vampires to Frankensteins, almost everyone has some form of mythical creature on their mind as Halloween draws near. Witches are no doubt a part of these ghoulish list of creatures, but are they really some fictional creature? To some, the long-nosed witches with pointy hats are just tall tales fabricated centuries ago, remnants of the medieval era, but witches still ex ist in the modern day—and they are vastly different from the stereotypical witch!
While there is no concrete definition of what a modern day witch is, they can be described as people who practice witchcraft or the manipulation of already existing energy. Witches are able to use this energy to work with their intention, which is the purpose of what they're trying to achieve. A witch's intention could be protection or positivity. But how do modern day witches practice witchcraft?
Alex Fleming is a junior at Northwood and one of these modern witches. They have been practicing for almost a year, researching how to practice modern witchcraft.
"Your practice of witchcraft is your own path that you personally want to follow," Fleming said.
There is no singular form of witchcraft that is practiced, although brewing potions and casting spells are certainly a part of it. One form of practice is Kitchen Witchcraft, where certain cooking ingredients are used for different intentions; for example, blackberries represent healing and protection and pepper could be used as a warning to "back off."
"Intention is the manipulation of preexisting energy," Fleming said. "Everything has a certain energy and I manipulate that energy to work with my intention."
Witches achieve their intentions in a variety of ways, one of them be ing manifestation, or physically creating something through your thoughts and feelings. Manifestation can happen through potions and spells. The crafting of modern-day potions are similar to witches brewing potions in the past, as they both brewed for a specific effect they wanted to achieve. Ingredients that are used in potions relate to the witch's intentions.
Other than manipulating the energy for intentions, witches are able to use the energy for divination; the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or unknown. Witches are able to use tarot cards, which can be a specialized deck or regular playing cards, to answer a question about the future. Specific cards have different meanings such as positivity or accomplishment. To use tarot cards, witches ground themselves by clearing their minds. They think of a question and use the card to answer their question.
The history of witchcraft has a dark history of witch trials and hunt ing, but modern day witches have taken that dark history and flipped it all the way around. These days, witchcraft is used by many women and men around the world as a method of empowerment. The concept of power and magic that witchcraft revolves around provide a sense of security and individuality. Additionally, witchcraft is something that has become accessible to everyone. Witches all over the world have agreed that you don't need any money or other prerequisites to become a witch.
What most people don't realize about witchcraft is that some of it is integrated into some of our most well known traditions. One of them being birthday candles. The act of having a wish and blowing candles is much similar to candle magic, which uses candles as a way to enhance a witch's intention. When we think about witchcraft, it's not about casting spells and brewing potions. It's about what a witch wants to achieve.


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Resistant myzus persicae aphid threatens virus yellows control
COLD weather and widespread use of neonicotinoid seed treatments combined to limit virus yellows infection in the sugar beet crop in 2011 to the extent that just 0.5 per cent of the crop was affected.
Concern, however, is increasing over the developing risk of resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides used to control myzus persicae aphids, the virus yellows vector.
Resistance has been identified in France, Italy and Spain, in myzus persicae populations associated mainly with peach and nectarine trees, where topical applications of neonicotinoids are used for aphid control, said Dr Mark Stevens.
"If those aphids start moving north and adapt to colder climes then I worry because there is very little chemistry coming on stream to control them," he said.
Rothamsted Research work had shown these aphids were also carrying MACE and kdr resistance mechanisms, conferring resistance to pirimicarb and pyrethoids. "We have little in the can to actually control them," said Dr Stevens.
"There are no resistant varieties coming on stream in the immediate future and the problem we are faced with is we are not looking at one virus but a complex of up to four different viruses, making it a very difficult target to hit with a resistance gene," he said.
He told sugar beet growers at the conference the situation was 'one we need to keep an eye on'.


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The process produces spherical pellets on the supplier's Sphero underwater pelletizing system. Pellets of this shape are said generate less wear during conveying processes than other pellet geometries. Less wear equals less dust formation, which results in less effort for dust removal or cleaning, says Maag.
In the process, pellets are cut and cooled first in pressurized, overheated water (above 100 C/212 F). The pellets are then separated from overheated water and transferred to the second cooling circuit (less than 95 C/203 F).
After subsequent cooling, the pressure is released and the pellets are separated by Maag's Centro dryer from the process water. Once dry, the pellets are ready for subsequent processing or packing. The closed loops reportedly result in operating conditions without any air emissions or product contamination.
Based on the higher temperature level in the isolated first cooling process, that energy could easily be used for heating purposes or transformed into electrical power suitable for consumption by system components like pumps and motors.


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Domenech, Graciela and Holik, Federico (2007) A discussion on particle number and quantum indistinguishability. [Preprint]
The concept of individuality in quantum mechanics shows radical differences from the concept of individuality in classical physics, as E. Schrödinger pointed out in the early steps of the theory. Regarding this fact, some authors suggested that quantum mechanics does not possess its own language, and therefore, quantum indistinguishability is not incorporated in the theory from the beginning. Nevertheless, it is possible to represent the idea of quantum indistinguishability with a first order language using quasiset theory (Q). In this work, we show that Q cannot capture one of the most important features of quantum non individuality, which is the fact that there are quantum systems for which particle number is not well defined. An axiomatic variant of Q, in which quasicardinal is not a primitive concept (for a kind of quasisets called finite quasisets), is also given. This result encourages the searching of theories in which the quasicardinal, being a secondary concept, stands undefined for some quasisets, besides showing explicitly that in a set theory about collections of truly indistinguishable entities, the quasicardinal needs not necessarily be a primitive concept.
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In Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake the marriage of Ashima and Ashoke is arranged by their families. The closest intimacy they share before their wedding is when Ashima steps briefly, secretly, into Ashoke's shoes. Gogol's romantic encounters are different from what his parents experienced or expected for their son. What draws Gogol to the various women in his life– Ruth, Maxine, and especially Moushumi? Look over the novel and your class notes and highlight passages that treat these love relationships. Let the following prompt guide your review:
Prompt: How does Gogol's mixed cultural heritage define his ideas and experience of love?
For your final research assignment, you will write an essay that responds to this same prompt. To prepare for this project, you should revisit the text. Below are a series of questions that will help you develop a strong argument for your essay. Write your answers onto this worksheet.
Character sketch: Gogol
 1. What is Gogol's cultural background? How is it mixed?
Gogol's family is from India. When Gogol's parents married and moved to Boston, they did not look at the consequences that could follow. They were very traditional that when Gogol was born they followed their traditions like using a dog name and another real name. So when Gogol grew older he began to suffer a cultural shock since he wanted to fit into American society but also wanted to obey his parents
 1. Throughout the novel, Lahiri describes Gogol as a sad or melancholic character. Find two passages that present his unhappiness. You may choose to use the same examples you discussed in your Prewriting Worksheet 2. Note them here, including page numbers.
 2. "He is aware that his parents, and their friends, and the children of their friends, and all his own friends from high school, will never call him anything but Gogol." 103
 1. He didn't want to go home on the weekends, to go with them to pujos and Bengali parties, to remain unquestionably in their world" (126)
 1. How does Gogol's mixed cultural identity influence his disappointment at each of the moments you listed under Question 2 (just above)? Write a sentence that describes the cultural aspect of each of the two moments that you listed above.
 2. Gogol has problems with his identity since his parents, being traditional, follow their traditions of their country and this throughout affected Gogol. His dog name is something that Gogol has disliked and causes him to cause identity problems. Even Gogol decided to change his name, but he knows that people who know him will still call him Gogol.
 3. The traditions of his parents greatly influence Gogol's unhappiness since he tries to fit into American society but he knows that his parents are a problem since their traditions are different. So Gogol try not to go to his parents' house much.
Relationship A: Ashima and Ashoke
 1. Drawing upon your first essay for this class, briefly describe the nature of Ashima and Ashoke's relationship. How did they meet? Did they fall in love? When and how? Support your claim with a citation from The Namesake.
Ashima and Ashoke are originally from Indian. According to the Indian traditions most of the people have an arranged married. So the marriage of Ashima and Ashoke was not an exception. Ashima met Ashoke the first time when her parents introduced to her for the wedding. At the beginning they were not in real love because they didn't know each other but with the time they start to fall in love. Ashima start to learn to cook Ashoke favorites food. Also they planne how they are going to live in the future."Ashima has decided to spend six months of her life in India, six months in the Sates.It is a solitary, somewhat premature version of the future she and her husband had planned when he was alive."(275) This quote shows how they were in love, because when you are in love of someone you want to planned your future with that person
Relationship B: Gogol and Moushumi
 1. Gogol and Moushumi are adults when they are reintroduced. Each has fallen in and out of love before. Briefly note the main points of the relationships that defined Gogol and Moushumi before they were reintroduced.
Gogol was
 1. What is Gogol looking for in Moushumi? Support your claim with a citation from The Namesake.
Gogol is looking in Moushumi have connection to their parents roots. "He is aware that together he and Moushumi are fulfilling a collective, deep-seated desire– because they're both Bengali."(224)
 1. What is Moushumi looking for in Gogol? Support your claim with a citation from The Namesake.
Moushumi is looking for comfort in Gogol after the love break he had. So Mushoumi seeks to get along with his parents." But their parents insist on inviting close to three hundred people, and serving Indian food, and providing easy parking for all."(219)
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Essay 3: Using Secondary Sources in a Research Paper
PROMPT: In Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake, how does Gogol's mixed cultural heritage define his ideas and experience of love?
Once you have approval, please print out copies of each article. On the top of each article, write down this information:
 - the author's name
 - the title of the article (placed in quotation marks)
 - full title of the periodical (underlined)
 - the date of its publication
 - the page numbers of the article
 - the name of the database you used to access the article
 - the date you accessed the article
Now you should reread your two articles, looking for passages that correspond to your own notes on The Namesake as well as your responses to the various Prewriting Worksheets. Some scholars will agree with your findings; others will disagree. That's alright. You can still identify these points of contact in your research paper, whether they are moments of agreement or disagreement.
 1. Author and title of first article ("article title" in quotation marks):
"Diasporic language and identity in "Namesake." by Hamid Farahmandian, Atefeh Yousefi and Fatemeh Ghorbani Rizi.
 Write down short passage to cite in your paper (include page number):
"When Gogol meets Maxine and starts living with her family, he longs for the life they have. Maxine's parents are in love and do not practice the rituals Gogol had to practice as a child although he did not like them."
Do you agree with the author's argument? Why or why not?
I agree with the author, Gogol wants to be part of American society, which is difficult for him due to the traditions of his parents. He is showing that he does not want to be part of Bengali Traditions
 1. Author and title of second article ("article title" in quotation marks):
"Being (and Feeling) Gogol:
Reading and Recognition in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake" by Tamara Bhalla
"The Namesake was "touching in a way" for how it portrayed the longing to "connect with your parents' history," but also how that can often be an alienating experience when "your reality at school or in college is changing" and "when [having] white friends shapes what you're like and who you are and what you're attracted to" (Nishi)"
I am agree with the author because Gogol is suffering mix culture. So, in some way Gogol try to connect to her parents roots but to him it is hard since he born in United States and live there is different traditions which for him is a hard decision what to do or not.
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Modernity and the Discourse of Scientific Buddhism
This chapter shows, with attention to the social, political, and polemical contexts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the ways Buddhists and Buddhist sympathizers attempted to align Buddhism with scientific rationalism. A discourse of scientific Buddhism emerged in the context of two intertwined crises: the Victorian crisis of faith in the West and the crisis of colonialism and western hegemony in Asia. In Ceylon, Anagarika Dharmapala promoted the image of Buddhism as scientific to counter denigrations of Buddhism by colonialists and missionaries and to assert its superiority to Christianity. Paul Carus, who through science had lost his faith in traditional Christianity, presented Buddhism as a part of a triumphal vision of science that would eventually lead to a universal "religion of science." Henry Steel Olcott saw Buddhism as representing an "occult science" aligned with Theosophy and spiritualism.
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Is it possible to set the inertia tensor used for a rigid body control?
I have understood thus far that it is possible to set the mass and principal moments of inertia for a rigid body through function calls to jbullet itself through the following functions:
final javax.vecmath.Vector3f principalInertia = new javax.vecmath.Vector3f(inertia.toArray(null)); rbc.getObjectId().setMassProps(mass_kg, principalInertia);
or to set the principal inertias more directly:
final javax.vecmath.Vector3f principalInertia = new javax.vecmath.Vector3f(inertia.toArray(null)); setInvInertiaDiagLocal(Vector3f diagInvInertia);
However, I have not been able to find any way to set the off diagonal terms of the inertia tensor, namely through specifying the principal axes. At the very least, I expected it to be pretty straightforward something as basic as the entire inertia matrix for an rbc to exist, but i have not been able to find anything. At first i considered that jbullet might limit itself to have all rigid bodies require principal axes that align with the reference frame unit vectors( which would be severely limiting, but i considered it nonetheless) but I could clearly see that it was possible to get the inertia tensor as a whole(but not set it?) that the off diagonal terms were not zero. Namely this was observed with the function:
javax.vecmath.Matrix3f inertiaTensor = new javax.vecmath.Matrix3f(); rbc.getObjectId().getInvInertiaTensorWorld(inertiaTensor);
Since the off diagonal terms were clearly non-zero, then the principal axes are clearly not aligned with the rbc reference frame. So the question remains, how can either the principal axes or the entire inertia tensor as a whole be set?


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GEF3D Coordinate Systems
In GEF, there usually is one global coordinate system and figure-local coordinate systems to deal with. Generally, mouse coordinates can be translate to the global coordinate system and the figure-local coordinate systems in a simple and straightforward fashion, and users of the framework seldomly have to deal with these issues. In GEF3D however, there are more coordinate systems involved and dealing with those can become cumbersome. This article aims to describe the concepts of coordinate systems and coordinate system conversion in GEF3D.
In GEF3D, there are three types of coordinate systems that framework users have to deal with:
- screen coordinates (also called mouse coordinates in GEF or window coordinates in OpenGL)
- global world coordinates (3D coordinates in world space)
- figure-local 3D coordinates
- surface coordinates (2D coordinates on the surface of a 3D host figure)
- figure-local 2D coordinates (only applies to embedded 2D editors)
On top of that, the following conversions are possible:
- global world coordinates <-> figure-local 3D coordinates
- surface coordinates <-> global world coordinates
- screen coordinates + depth value -> global world coordinates
- screen coordinates -> figure-local 3D coordinates
- screen coordinates -> surface coordinates
To explain more about these concepts, we will first describe in greater detail the coordinate systems and the conversions. After that, we will explain how embedded GEF editors and their tools relate to the GEF3D coordinate systems and how GEF3D provides 2D coordinates to them.


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Most of the online collection Buckaroos in Paradise has been derived from the laser videodisc The Ninety-Six: A Cattle Ranch in Northern Nevada, published by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in 1985. A later portion of this document tells the story of the videodisc project, as recounted by Carl Fleischhauer, emphasizing the rationale for the presentation of film and video footage in segmented form and explaining how the archive of 2400 still photographs was assembled. The conceptual structure of the videodisc has been carried over to the World Wide Web. The online environment has provided the producers with computerized tools that made it easier to provide hyperlinking between elements and a computerized database, thus integrating the collection beyond what had been possible on the videodisc.
A variety of sources were used to produce the digital files for the Internet. The videodisc's audio tracks were used create the WAVE format audio files, while the RealAudio format files were derived from the WAVE files by means of digital processing. The videotapes used to produce the videodisc--the so-called "premaster" tapes--were used to produce BetaCam format video copies, which were then sent to Crawford Communications in Atlanta, Georgia, to create the digital video files. The character-generated titles for some of the clips were retained for the digital files, albeit with a superimposed recording data, while new titles were created for a number of other segments.
Still photographs treated as analog video frames have inherently low resolution; some experts suggest that the resolution of an analog video frame is roughly equivalent to a digital image with a resolution of about 300x225 pixels. This fact, as well as other exigencies in the production process for the videodisc The Ninety-Six, meant that the 2400 still photographs had been poorly reproduced in 1985 and the team decided to rescan them for the Internet. The new scans were produced in 1998 by JJT Inc., of Austin, Texas, the Library's pictorial image contractor. The company's scanning setup brings together a digital camera manufactured in Germany with JJT's custom software.
In keeping with the Library's practices, an uncompressed archival or master file was produced for each photograph and drawing, as well as three derivative files. Beginning with the new pictorial image contract awarded to JJT in 1997, the level of resolution employed for the Library's archival pictorial-image files has risen dramatically from earlier levels, now ranging from 3000x2000 pixels to 5000x4000 pixels, depending on the types of original materials. The Folklife Center wished to indicate to researchers that the images have not been cropped and a small portion of the cardboard mount for each color slide is included in the scan. It was not practical, however, to remove the mounts, which would have exposed a small additional portion of the image on the film.


Dear Alice,
If my wife is sexually adventurous, does it mean she's more likely to cheat? My wife is slowly opening up to me about how sexually adventurous she wants to be (I'm talking bondage-type stuff), and I'm afraid that maybe she might cheat in the future if her "appetite" isn't met. I haven't voiced any of these concerns, I've been completely supportive of it and actually would be completely ok with doing all of it. I just worry that maybe the adventure-ness might be a sign of promiscuity?
Dear Reader,
The concept of sexual adventurousness has different meanings depending on whom you ask. For some, keeping the lights on during sex is adventurous, while others might consider role-playing, threesomes, or bringing sex toys into the bedroom all as potential sexy adventures. For this reason, clear communication is a key characteristic for sexual relationships. Fortunately, your wife is open about her sexual tastes and desires, and better yet, you're also interested in exploring her interests. Worry not — sexual adventurousness is not necessarily linked with promiscuity or infidelity, especially when both or all partners' sexual needs are being met, and when partners make an effort to be honest, nonjudgmental, supportive, and highly communicative.
Although the percentage of relationships that are affected by infidelity is a difficult figure to measure (data compiled from several different studies hover around the 20 to 30 percent mark), infidelity is the single most cited reason for divorce. In an attempt to determine why so many relationships are affected by infidelity, the Department of Psychology at the University of Colorado Denver conducted a study that aimed to isolate risk factors for infidelity in married, heterosexual, monogamous couples. Among those couples where the female engaged in infidelity, there were several predictors: lower levels of positive communication, higher levels of invalidation (or lack of support), higher male and female negative communications, and higher levels of premarital sexual satisfaction. In couples where the male engaged in infidelity, predictors included lower premarital male relationship satisfaction, sexual satisfaction, and positive communications. Sexual compatibility, age, gender, religiosity, frequency of one-night stands, attitudes toward infidelity, income, personality, marital status, level of performance anxiety, susceptibility to sexual excitation, and mental health may also play a role in predicting whether an individual will cheat, but research is still developing.
Many marriages are affected by the "disillusionment model," in which partners overlook each other's shortcomings during courtship that arise later during the early years of marriage. To prevent any possible issues from taking their toll overtime, make sure to check in with your sweetheart regularly. This goes for sexual satisfaction too. The University of Colorado study suggests that higher premarital interest in sex for women could be a risk factor for infidelity if a woman's level of sexual satisfaction decreases during marriage. However, infidelity is not likely to become an issue if you remain open to exploring your wife's sexual desires. It is crucial to be validating and supportive of her interests as well; the more validating your relationship is, the less likely it is that infidelity will become a problem.
Research regarding predictive factors for sexual infidelity remains a developing field, but what is largely regarded as the most important indicator for extramarital affairs is poor communication at the beginning of and throughout the duration of a relationship. Effective communication is proven to have a protective effect on monogamy, especially when openness is supplemented with support and validation, so keep it up!
To obtain further emotional support and advice, you can talk to a counselor. Kudos to you for being receptive and supportive of your partner's sexual interests!
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Q. I work at a major children's book publisher and have recently noticed a trend in creating books without any blanks at the end of the book. I would like to know if there is a rule on how many back-of-book blank pages are permissible in standard works of fiction (young-adult and middle-grade novels). At various adult publishers, I was taught that up to six pages is acceptable and that having at least a couple of blanks is actually preferable in order to allow for potential changes and additions during pass stages. But I can't seem to find anything online or in CMS to support that. Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.
A. In conventional offset printing, large sheets of paper are folded into "signatures" of usually 16 or 32 pages (sometimes 8, or even 48) that are bound together and trimmed to make a book. For this reason, books have a page count that is a multiple of at least 8, and usually 16. Children's picture books have long been paged at 24, 32, 48, or 64 pages. Middle-grade books page out at larger multiples. Having blank pages in a book isn't a goal; it is simply unavoidable if the text and illustrations can't fill all the available space. And since it's expensive to tear out extra pages by hand, publishers turn a blind eye to the blanks. Digital printing doesn't involve these large sheets of paper, so if you are seeing a lot of self-published or print-on-demand books, they probably won't have any leftover pages.


Stephen J. Schueler, M.D.
Overview Symptoms Types
Drug Toxicity Overview
What is drug toxicity?
A person with drug toxicity has accumulated too much of a medication in the bloodstream. The effects of the medication are more pronounced at toxic levels, and side effects may be severe. Toxicity may result when the dose is too high, or it may result when the liver or kidneys are unable to remove the drug from the bloodstream. Many commonly prescribed medications can accumulate in the bloodstream and result in toxicity.
What are the symptoms of drug toxicity?
Symptoms of drug toxicity depends on the drug taken. Symptoms drug toxicity can be broken down into: symptoms of GHB, symptoms of hallucinogens, symptoms of narcotics, symptoms or sedatives, and symptoms of stimulants.
How does the doctor treat drug toxicity?
Treatment for drug toxicity depends on the drug taken and the blood level of the drug.
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Theory of personality that focuses on career and vocational choice. It groups people based on their suitability for six different categories of occupations. The six types yield the RIASEC acronym, by which the theory is also commonly known.
Young people (15 – 29 years). It can even be used when working with adults.
Step 1 (15 min): Short debate on vocational choices, the RIASEC theory and six vocational types and how we can use this knowledge in our career.
Step 2 (15 min): Participants explore Holland's model and explore what are their possible 3 top types.
Step 3 (15 min): Group debate, possible directions for discussion:
- what professions are connected with the six types,
- what competencies do you need to have for each type,
- what are the strong points of people in each type, and what do they still need to learn,
- who are good collaborators to work in a team, etc.?
Note: Best option would be for participants to solve the Hollands test, but this depends on country regulations. To perform the test yourself, you need to complete training and obtain a certificate that enables them to purchase the SDS Holland test.
LIST OF MATERIALS
It depends on you and how you decide to use this method, but we recommend:
- printout descriptions of all six vocational types and Holland's model,
- open RIASEC test,
- paper and pens.


Technical Manual of the Ceylan-Traces Layer
Copyright (C) 2010-2021 Olivier Boudeville
about (dash) traces (at) esperide (dot) com
Creation date:
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Lastly updated:
Monday, February 8, 2021
Work in progress
Users and maintainers of the Traces layer.
The role of the Traces layer (part of the Ceylan project) is to provide Erlang applications with advanced trace services, so that the user can efficiently log, browse and search through detailed runtime messages that may be emitted concurrently (i.e. in a parallel, distributed way) by all kinds of processes.
We present here a short overview of these services, to introduce them to newcomers. The next level of information is to read the corresponding source files, which are intensely commented and generally straightforward.
This layer is in charge of providing Erlang programs with the means of emitting, collecting, storing and browsing applicative traces (i.e. logs - not related in any way to Erlang tracing).
This means that both user-originating traces (that your code emits thanks the Traces API) and standard Erlang logs are routed and centralised in a single view whose purpose is to help monitoring your application(s) as a whole.
For that, various types of components have been designed and implemented, such as a trace aggregator, emitter, listener, supervisor, bridge, etc.
They collectively constitute the Traces layer, whose only prerequisites (besides Erlang itself, of course) are the WOOPER layer (for object-oriented primitives) and the Myriad layer (for many lower-level services; itself a prerequisite of WOOPER).
The project repository is located here.
The main purpose of this Traces layer is thus to provide adequate traces (i.e. advanced logs) for distributed systems (a rather critical feature in order to debug in these difficult contexts), and to ease their study and browsing. A few backends are available for that, from the direct reading of basic (text) trace files to considerably more user-friendly solutions, such as the generation of PDF reports or the use of our more advanced trace format, which can be read notably by commercial tools such as LogMX [1].
[1]The Ceylan-Traces layer defined a trace format of its own, supported by our Java-based parser for LogMX. For what it is worth, LogMX is the only non-free, commercial tool on which we rely, as we find it quite convenient. Devising an interface to any other log browsing tool of interest is certainly a rather reasonable option. Pull requests welcome!
Finally, an effort has been made to lessen the runtime impact of this service when it is enabled, and to pretty remove it as a whole (hence with no runtime overhead) when disabled (through flexible build options).
Trace Severities
Traces now relies on the same conventions as the ones of the newer standard logging facility in Erlang/OTP, logger, which itself obeys the Syslog protocol, as defined in RFC 5424.
There are eight built-in levels for trace channels, of increasing severity:
Trace Severity Mapped Priority
debug 7
info 6
notice 5
warning 4
error 3
critical 2
alert 1
emergency 0
Starting from warning onward (thus included), these severities are considered as error-like, and as such will never be disabled and will be echoed on the console as well.
There is also an addition trace severity, void, that designates traces that shall be muted in all cases.
Its purpose is to provide another means of muting/unmuting some traces, instead of commenting out/uncommenting said traces.
Trace Content
This section is not of interest for Traces users, it is only useful if wanting to integrate other tools or simply to have a look under the hood.
The traces corresponding to an execution are represented as an wallclock-time ordered stream of trace messages.
These traces are possibly exchanged over the network or stored in a file, whose extension is conventionally.traces.
For example the traces for a test named my_foobar_test are typically stored in a my_foobar_test.traces file, generated by the trace aggregator in the directory from which the corresponding test was launched.
Following data is associated to a given trace:
 1. technical identifier of the emitter, as a string (ex: <9097.51.0> for the PID of a distributed Erlang process)
 2. name of the emitter (ex: "Instance tracker")
 3. dotted categorization of the emitter (ex: "Core.Tracker.Instances"); here for example the emitter is an element of the service in charge of the instances, which itself belongs to the tracker services, which themselves belong to the (even more general) core services
 4. application-level timestamp (ex: operation count, relative tick, absolute timestep, or any complex, application-specific timestamp, etc.), possibly none, or undefined if not applicable (ex: a simulation that would not be started yet)
 5. wall-clock timestamp, in the "Year/Month/Day Hour:Minute:Second" format (ex: "2016/6/10 15:43:31"); this is an emitter-side timestamp (hence not related to the wallclock time known of the trace aggregator)
 6. emitter location, as a string (ex: the name of the Erlang node, possibly including the name of the application use case, of the user and of the host; ex:
 7. dotted categorization of the trace message itself (ex: MyApp.MyTopic.MyTheme)
 8. severity of the trace message (mapped to an integer level, as discussed above)
 9. the trace message itself, an arbitrary text of arbitrary length
Trace Emission
The following header is to be included so that an Erlang process can send traces:
or, better, in an OTP-compliant fashion:
This process can be a standalone module (ex: a test or an application launcher, see trace_management_test.erl) or, more frequently, it might correspond to a WOOPER (active or passive) instance, in which case it shall inherit, directly or not, from class_TraceEmitter (see class_TestTraceEmitter.erl for a complete example of it).
Traces can also be emitted thanks to Myriad's trace_bridge. This is especially useful when developing lower-level libraries that can depend on Myriad, but may introduce extra runtime dependencies such as WOOPER and Traces only optionally. Using that bridge, the traces will by default go through Myriad's low level trace_utils, unless Traces is available, in which case its default trace aggregator will be used.
Such a bridge is also useful whenever spawning processes that have not direct trace emitter state of their own, yet may at least in some cases send traces; the bridge allows them to use a designated trace emitter as a relay.
From member methods
Then sending-primitives can be used, such as:
?info("Hello world!")
?info_fmt("The value ~B is the answer.",[MyValue])
Many API variations exist (see class_TraceEmitter.hrl), to account for the various trace content, contexts, etc., but?S(Message) and?S_fmt(MessageFormat,MessageValues), for S corresponding to a trace severity (ex: S being notice), are by far the most frequently used.
From constructors
Note that for example?debug(Message) is a macro that (if Traces is enabled) expands (literally) to:
As a result, the availability of a State variable in the scope of this macro is expected. Moreover, this WOOPER state variable shall be the one of a class_TraceEmitter instance (either directly or, more probably, through inheritance).
This is not a problem in the most common case, when using traces in member methods (as by design they should be offering such a State), yet in constructors the initial state (i.e. the State variable directly fed to the construct operator of this class) is generally not the one of a trace emitter already (it is a blank state).
As a result, an instance will not be able to send traces until the completion of its own class_TraceEmitter constructor, and then it shall rely on that resulting state (for example named TraceState). Sending a trace of severity S from that point should be done using a send_S macro (ex:?send_debug(TraceState,Message)) - so that an appropriate state is used.
An example of some class Foobar inheriting directly from TraceEmitter will be clearer:
construct(State,TraceEmitterName) ->
 TraceState = class_TraceEmitter:construct(State,TraceEmitterName),
 % Cannot use here?info("Hello!), as it would use 'State',
 % which is not a trace emitter yet! So:
Trace Categorisation
In addition to browsing the produced traces per emitter, origin, theme, wallclock or applicative timestamps, etc. it is often useful to be able to sort them per emitter categorisation, such a categorisation allowing to encompass multiple emitter instances of multiple emitter types.
Categories are arbitrary, and are to be nested from the most general ones to the least (a bit like directories), knowing that subcategories are to be delimited by a dot character, like in: Art.Painting.Hopper. As a consequence, any string can account for a category, keeping in mind dots have a specific meaning.
Hierarchical categorisation allows to select more easily a scope of interest for the traces to be browsed.
For example, should birds, cats and dogs be involved, introducing following


How to Deal With Overwhelm When Learning New Skills (i.e. What to Do When I Am Stuck)
I don't want to convince you that learning is easy. You know damn well that is complicated and full of challenges. Even when you master the process of effective knowledge acquisition, you might still run into different obstacles.
Knowing how to learn is one side of the equation. However, being able to sustain your progress over a long period is an entirely different beast. It's a mental war that you have to wage against your brain and the resistance this spongy thing will create,
This article is supposed to serve you as a life ring. Whenever you feel that you're drowning in the sea of overwhelm, revisit it to resurface.
Feel free to use just one of these strategies or all of them. The most important thing is that you shake off any gloomy feelings and snap out of the state of inertia.
What You Need to Know About Overwhelm
The first you need to know about learning how to deal with overwhelm is that it leads to three results:
 - Avoidance
 - Passivity
 - Hectic behavior (e.g., switching from one task to another in a hasty manner)
They all have one thing in common - loss of control. If you ever notice any of these telltale signs, you should be alarmed. It means that you are losing the grip on your learning process. Instead of being organized and methodical, you start floundering.
Here are some of the strategies that may help you regain the feeling of control.
How To Deal With Overwhelm
1. Be primitive
First thing you need to be aware of is the concept of activation energy
Activation energy is the energy need to start performing an action. The higher it is, the less of a chance that you will start performing a given action.
That means that you should reduce any clutter that stands in your way and holds you back. It also concerns your general attitude. If you overthink everything, your activation energy will be high as well. You can't focus on the start of the action if dozens of thoughts and tasks are running through your head.
In other words, focus on primitive tasks.
Here is what I mean by that:
 - Too many resources? Reduce their number drastically!
 - Can't create a proper learning plan because it's getting too big? Screw it. Just grab the first book for beginners and start learning.
 - Too many reviews? Stop adding new flashcards temporarily or use Load Balancer plugin for ANKI
 - Can't maintain your current learning pace? Reduce it.
 - Too little time for learning today? Do 5 flashcards and call it a day.
Remember that ideally, you want to become a life-long learner. Any temporary setback is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. The only thing you should care about is regularity.
Don't break the chain at all costs. Review even two flashcards if you're exhausted today or don't have time, but do something every day!
2. Identify the constraints
The theory of constraints states that in any system, there is one function, resource, process area, or process step that constrains the entire system's ability to deliver on its mission.
Sometimes it will mean that removing just one obstacle will unblock your potential. Other times, you will discover that after eliminating that one significant constraint, there will be another one looming underneath.
In any case, do your best to get rid of these obstacles. Once you do, your learning process should regain its previous smoothness.
Keep in mind that your constraints can be:
 - psychological (e.g., "I am too stupid to do it," passing away of your relative)
 - people (e.g., toxic persons in your life telling you that your project is silly or useless)
 - organizational (lousy time management skills, being unable to access some facilities)
 - health-related (too little sleep, bad diet, being sick)
 - material (not having appropriate tools)
Try to identify them on your own. If you can't figure it out, ask someone trust-worthy for helpSometimes it's easier to spot such problems when you're on the outside looking in.
3. Lower The Intensity
The intensity you can endure will always be a resultant of your:
 - character
 - motivation
 - health
 - frame of mind
 - habits
 - external conditions
 - and the current level of advancement in your field of expertise
It's impossible to tell anyone that they should learn X amount of hours per day or do Y flashcards per day. You can suggest a goal that will later be verified by reality. In other words, good goals will be established only after some trial and error.
Regardless, if you notice that instead of jumping for joy at the thought of learning and discovering the unknown, you feel like somebody slapped you with a slimy mackerel, it's time to stop. It's time to rethink whether your learning pace is not too ambitious.
Don't get me wrong - ambitions are great, but regularity always beats short-lived zeal. If your will to learn wanes, decrease your learning and practice intensity temporarily.
Try to find out what pace and effort level make you happy. And don't even try to think of it as a failure. You're making a wise and strategic decision that will guarantee your long-term success.
4. Take more breaks
Very often, a simple solution to feeling overwhelmed is taking more breaks.
How to deal with overwhelm
How often should you do it?
Once again, your endurance threshold will depend on all the variables mentioned in the previous point.
Sometimes you will discover that you can plug away for hours on end, and sometimes 20 minutes of tackling a complex topic will break you.
It's definitely true for me. I have noticed that my ability to write is very fragile. The slightest distractions will throw me off most of the time. What's more, very often, even 40 minutes of writing leaves me in tears. On the other hand, I can effortlessly pore over ANKI for hours and create hundreds of new flashcards. I am positive, you will observe such regularities in your daily routine as well.
The most important question is - when should you take a break?
The internet is full of different numbers. Some say 20 minutes while the other ones cite a 40-minute rule. None of these things is true.
Your energy levels, and thus your concentration, constantly fluctuate throughout the day. They are also heavily influenced by the variables mentioned above.
That's why the best predictor of the need to take a break is your mental fatigue.
Whenever you:
 - start daydreaming,
 - get distracted, i.e., you realize that almost anything is more interesting than what you're doing right now,
 - feel brain fog,
 - notice that your performance dropped drastically,
it's time to pause.
Keep in mind that your breaks should be meaningful. That means no electronics and no taxing activities. Go for a walk, meditate, or lie down.
Rest for as long as you need.
It's crucial for your full recovery. I know that 10-15 minutes of lying in my bed is usually all I need. Very often, that leads to micro-naps - I am okay with that. I know that once I get up, I am ready to rumble again.
5. Take care of SPDSH (sleep, private life, diet, sports, health)
Damn, I really tried to find some cool acronym for these elements, but (HuSH PeDo!) is all I got. On the bright side, it is as memorable as it might be offensive to some.
The critical takeaway from this point is that your learning project is not placed in a magical void. Your life is a system of interconnected vessels. If you have problems in your private life or you are sick, learning will be the last thing on your mind. Don't neglect those things at the cost of education.
Trust me - I know how difficult it is. I learn so much that usually, my sleep suffers. It's not wise, and it's something I have been struggling with for a long time.
6. Organize your learning better
overwhelm while learning
For example, you might feel stressed by dozens of tabs in your web browser or 20 studies you still have to go through
I get it because I struggled with it in the past. How have I solved it?
I have organized my learning better, i.e., I focused my full energy on learning in ANKI whenever it's possible.
If I run into some papers or articlesI paste them into ANKI. I know they are safe and sound there, and I can process them by breaking them down into flashcards later. ANKI is my command center, and this feeling helps me stove away any anxiety related to learning.
With this conviction, you can devote all your energy to comprehension, analysis, and retention of the learned material, instead of eating your heart out.
7. Make a shift
A plateau happens when your brain achieves a level of automaticity; in other words, when you can perform a skill on autopilot, without conscious thought. Our brains love autopilot because, in most situations, it's pretty handy. It lets us chew gum and walk and ride bikes without having to think about it, freeing our brains for more important tasks. When it comes to developing talent, however, autopilot is


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as repairs and maintenance, ground rent and dwelling insurance. As interest payments represent the cost of borrowing money rather than the cost of consumption, it would be inappropriate to measure OOH costs this way in CPIH. OOH(Payments) is an experimental series and we therefore advise using it with some caution. For more information on the methodology used to construct the OOH(Payments) approach, please see Annex 1A.
Figure 1 presents the contributions to the quarterly growth rate of OOH(Payments) from the sub-indices used in its construction. Looking at contributions to growth is helpful to provide insight into the main drivers behind the year-on-year changes in the series.
For the payments approach, it is the sub-index for mortgage interest payments that appears to have the highest impact on the aggregate series. Prior to the economic downturn in 2008, mortgage interest payments contributed positively to the growth of OOH(Payments), which peaked in Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2007. This can be explained by a growth in the Bank of England base rate from 3.5% in July 2003 to 5.75% in July 2007. As the economic downturn took hold and the Bank responded to the financial market shock, the base rate fell to a historic low of 0.5% in March 2009. The corresponding decline can be seen in the negative contributions from mortgage interest payments, which drive the fall in the OOH(Payments) annual growth rate in 2009.
Since the beginning of 2010, OOH(Payments) have seen less volatile growth, largely due to the unchanged base rate set by the Bank. The reduction in Stamp Duty rates in December 2014 led to a fall in the overall OOH(Payments) approach in 2015.
In Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2016, OOH(Payments) grew by 1.3% compared with Quarter 2 2015.
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The net acquisitions approach – OOH(NA) – theoretically treats a home as the purchase of a good that is part asset (the land) and part consumable (the house) and excludes the land component from the index. OOH(NA) should also include costs associated with buying and maintaining a house; for example, self-builds and renovations, repairs and maintenance, transfer costs and dwelling insurance. As discussed in section 3, while the measure presented here is the best measure of the net acquisitions approach that we can currently produce, the lack of available source data means that some components are not recorded fully and some measure of asset price will be included in the index. We therefore advise that OOH(NA) should be used and referred to with caution, and is therefore not suitable for purpose in CPIH. For more information on the methodology used to construct OOH(NA), please see Annex 1B.
Figure 2 presents the contributions to the quarterly growth rate of OOH(NA) from the sub-indices used in its construction. New dwellings, other services related to the acquisition of dwellings, and major repair and maintenance explain most of the changes in the 12-month OOH(NA) price growth. The strong growth in the period leading up to the start of the economic downturn in 2008 is mainly driven by increases in the prices of new dwellings and other services related to the acquisition of dwellings. The input data for the new dwellings series is the ONS House Price Index (HPI), which saw strong growth in house prices leading up to the start of the economic downturn. This demonstrates one of the main limitations of the current method of measuring net acquisitions, which is that movements in the asset price are not excluded from the index and can therefore influence some of the main trends shown in the data.
New dwellings had a relatively strong negative contribution between Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2008 and Quarter 4 2009 mirrored by the other services related to the acquisition of dwellings. This was likely caused by shrinking demand for housing caused by the economic downturn which in turn affected both house prices and transfer costs.
In the period following the recovery, growth in OOH(NA) was again driven by new dwellings and other services related to the acquisition of dwellings. House prices fell again in the period 2010 to 2013, corresponding to the second dip in the series. Movements in asset prices are therefore an important driver of trends in the OOH(NA) series, which can be further demonstrated by the close relationship between the HPI and OOH(NA) index shown in Figure 3.
In Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2016, OOH(NA) grew by 3.4% compared with Quarter 2 2015.
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This section presents the rental equivalence approach to measuring owner occupiers' housing costs OOH(RE) which targets the measurement of ongoing consumption of owner occupiers' housing services, rather than when they are acquired or when they are paid for. Because of the methodology used to calculate the rental equivalence approach, it is not possible to present a contributions chart for this approach. This is mainly due to the fact that OOH(RE) is not constructed using a set of sub-indices that measure different concepts (maintenance costs, stamp duty and so on), but instead is aggregated from indices measuring the same concept across regions. However, we can still compare movements in OOH(RE) over time on a monthly basis. Figure 4 shows that in June 2016, OOH(RE) grew by 2.3% compared with the same period a year ago.
OOH(RE) grew at a steady rate up until the end of 2009. Following the economic downturn, prices then fell sharply reaching a minimum of negative 1.8% for the 12 month growth rate in April 2010. OOH(RE) then recovered, although growth remained below that experienced in the period prior to the downturn. Prices then began to rise again towards the end of 2014 and have continued on an upward trend in recent months.Back to table of contents
Although there is not a single defined measure of owner occupiers' housing costs (OOH) and each of the methods discussed prior measure different aspects of OOH, it is still useful to look at the 3 measures together to see how they differ over time.
The cumulative measure of all 3 approaches is presented in Figure 5. It suggests that since 2005, OOH(NA) has shown the strongest growth over the period. OOH(Payments) saw strong growth prior to the economic downturn due to the large positive contributions from the growth in mortgage interest payments (Figure 1). Of the 3 measures, it has also seen the largest fall since the economic downturn, again driven by the falling price of mortgage interest payments and has still not recovered its pre-downturn peak.
OOH(RE) appears at a lag to the OOH(NA) and OOH(Payments) approaches for the peak and trough before and after the economic downturn. This lag is because OOH(RE) is a "stock" measure of rents. This means that it captures price information for the entire stock of rental properties, which includes existing contracted properties and properties that are new to the market. Therefore, the flow of new rents based on recent developments in house prices will only gradually influence its development because the stock of existing dwellings is so much larger. This also means that the relative peaks and troughs of OOH(RE) will be subdued relative to OOH(NA) because the large stock of contracted rental properties is likely to mute the impact of volatile house prices.
The lag for OOH(RE) is not a disadvantage to using the rental equivalence approach in the calculation of the owner occupiers' housing costs component in CPIH. This is because the rental equivalence approach aims to measure the flow of housing services that are consumed each period (consistent with the principles that underlie the construction of CPIH) and therefore does not need to follow the trend of house prices. If consideration is required of house prices, the HPI should be used instead.Back to table of contents
The rental equivalence approach measures the ongoing consumption of owner occupiers' housing in CPIH. It uses rental prices as a proxy for the costs of housing services. The rental equivalence approach therefore answers the question: "how much would I have to pay in rent to live in a home like mine?" for an owner occupier. In other words, we value housing services by looking at the cost of the next best alternative to home ownership, namely renting a property: "if I did not own a home, I would need to rent one".
Therefore, as the approach aims to measure the cost of housing services rather the asset value of the house, it should not be expected to move in line with house prices in the short-term.
However, intuitively, changes in house prices can be thought of as an important influence for private rental prices over a longer period of time. It may therefore be reasonable to expect a longer-term relationship between movements in rents (which feed through into the rental equivalence approach) and house prices. This spotlight therefore meets the user demand for some analysis that looks to investigate this assumption.
This spotlight will first look at the theory concerning the relationship between house prices and rents, before looking at some empirical evidence. This evidence stems from comparing the ONS Index of Private Housing Rental Prices (IPHRP) data and the House Price Index (HPI). The IPHRP measures the change in the price of renting residential property from private landlords. The index measures both the change in price of newly advertised rental prices and the price changes experienced by existing


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A child's behavior problems can be a daily struggle for parents, but many kids are learning important lessons and finding unlikely heroes in a group of puppets and a program called Dinosaur School.
The program, first invented and tested in Seattle, uses puppets, videos, pictures and practice to teach young kids how to behave in school, how to make friends and how to problem solve.
It has been widely tested and approved and now a new clinic in Ahwatukee Foothills is bringing the program to kids in a small group setting.
Linda Wiskerchen has been running the program in public schools for about nine years. She first began teaching the program school-wide in a central Phoenix school district.
When the first grant ended, they began another but decided to do the program in small, pull-out groups of kids who were behaving badly or who maybe just needed help socializing more. The results in that school district were impressive.
Teachers were surveyed before and after and reported significant improvement in social competence as well as decreases in anti-social behavior.
From there Wiskerchen moved on and began teaching the program to students at Kyrene de las Lomas Elementary School. This year she decided to take the program to private practice.
"This is a great thing for the community," Wiskerchen said. "That age group really takes to it. It's been done in this way, in a clinic, in Seattle for years."
The star of the program is a puppet named Wally. Wally is a kid who has made some mistakes in the past and has learned through dinosaur school how to identify his feelings, control them and do better in school.
"I love him. He's the magic," Wiskerchen said. "The kids just absolutely take to him. The thing about Wally is he's the perfect kid. He's not going to demand anything and he's going to show emotion. If somebody takes something from him he's going to tell them it hurt his feelings right way. He's not going to challenge them too much and he's going to help them. They know that. He tells them about his mistakes but he doesn't act it out because we don't want kids to copy the bad behaviors."
Wally takes the kids through six units, with help from his friends Dina-Dinosaur, Tiny Turtle, Oscar the ostrich and his little sister Molly.
It begins with how to do your best in school, then feelings, problem solving, how to be friendly, how to talk to friends, problem sharing and celebration.
Kids learn to identify and express feelings, identify problems and solutions, control their anger and be kind to others. Each unit takes weeks and is accompanied with pictures to take home and lots of practice.
The program is best suited for kids ages 4 to 9 but Wiskerchen says in the schools she has had kids fall in love with the program so much that they want to come back and help the younger kids when they get a little older.
"The lessons are timeless. Some adults could use a lesson or two," Wiskerchen said. "I truly believe that the kids who are the most successful and have the best relationships with parents and teachers are the ones that are most insulated when they're teenagers. They do the best. They find the people who are choosing the right things and it goes on to where they can be very successful people who know how to interact."
Though the program has a curriculum that was carefully designed, Wiskerchen says it's not a one-size-fits-all program. She has taught children whose parents are in a difficult situation and things like divorce or jail time are topics Wally can bring up and get the kids talking.
"It is a set program but it's not a cookie-cutter program," Wiskerchen said. "If I have kids going through a tough situation I can incorporate that with Wally and the kids will start talking. We talk about those feelings and what we can do with those feelings. So now we're talking about coping skills."
Cost for the program is reasonable as well. A one-hour group session is $40, which Wiskerchen says is comparable to any other kind of class around town.
She says just like a sport or art, the lessons taught in her classes are skills that need to be practiced and learned. She also spends time with parents separately to make sure they're keeping up with practice at home.
The program is run like an after-school class so Wiskerchen says her hours are flexible. She's just beginning now but she plans to host groups on weeknights as well as Saturdays and Sundays.
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Invasive lionfish may be a selective predator
Invasive predators have the capacity to dramatically alter marine ecosystems. The lionfish, a voracious predator native to the Indo-Pacific and now established along the southeast coast of the U.S., the Caribbean and parts of the Gulf of Mexico, has become a growing threat to the ecological balance of Atlantic waters. To gather insight regarding its impact on reef communities, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and collaborating institutions evaluated the predatory behaviors and diet choices of lionfish in a semi-natural environment.
On the fringing reefs of Curacao, hungry lionfish were placed within artificial enclosures designed to simulate natural conditions. Three prey fish species were selected for the trials—brown chromis, bluehead wrasse and masked/glass goby—based on their relative abundance in the reefs and their prevalence in the lionfish diet in Curacao.
Although the ecological consequences of invasive lionfish are often attributed to their unique predatory strategies and broad diet, the experiments revealed that most lionfish actively selected their prey species, exhibiting a strong preference for the brown chromis over the other two. This study first appeared online January 2020 and was subsequently published in the March 2020 bi-monthly issue of Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. These findings suggest that their foraging behavior is not strictly proportional to prey availability given the abundance of other equally or even more vulnerable species in the enclosure. Alternatively, the scientists noted that lionfish in poorer condition were less selective, often going for the most accessible prey.
"Our study shows active discrimination by lionfish among the top three prey species on Curacao reefs, and an influence of how well-fed an individual was before hunting its prey, on the strength of its preference," said Michele Pierotti, STRI fellow and senior author of the study. "In other words, as long as they are not starving, lionfish can be very picky about their daily menu."
This represents the first experimental, field-based study to provide direct evidence for active prey choice in this invasive predator. Given the considerable variation in lionfish diet across the invaded range, and the unlikelihood of controlling its continued expansion, further understanding of lionfish diet choices could provide additional insight into their impact on reefs and improve predictions of how they might affect newly invaded communities.
"More researchers might consider using this experimental method—of transforming the field into a working laboratory—to obtain a more accurate representation of what is happening on coral reefs," said Amelia Ritger, who led the experiment in the field and is now a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "Setting up and maintaining the field enclosures is a lot of work, requiring multiple dives every day, but it certainly pays off."
More information: Amelia L. Ritger et al, Diet choice in a generalist predator, the invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles), Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2020.151311
Journal information: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Provided by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute


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These days, in Germany there is a lively discussion about women's quota in major enterprises. The facts are clear: in most German businesses, especially in leadership positions, women are still underrepresented. Only 13 percent of the boards of directors of the 30 leading firms in Germany are women. Many politicians believe it is not enough that political parties or private businesses establish self-made women's quotas for their organizations. They claim that there must be a regulation to ensure an appropriate proportion of women in big businesses. Thus, Germany should again win the leadership among the international competition. For comparison, Norway adopted the women's quota for boards of directors in 2003. Spain followed in 2007 with a similar regulation. France took the step on January 13, 2011.
However, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, recently declared that there will not be a women's quota in Germany, since it would not be enforceable anyway. Rumors are circulating that she decided this way because she was concerned to lose votes in this very important election year 2011. Yet, clever enough, she also mentioned that she only decided against women's quota because economy should once again try to give themselves quotas without any state regulation.
Finally the women's quota issue also made it in Swiss headlines. Whereas in Swiss politics and government, women slowly compete men (four out of seven federal councils, 26 percent of the National Council and 24 percent of the Council of States, the head of the Swiss financial market supervisory authority and the head of the state secretariat for economic affairs are female), in economy there are still not enough women visible, and there is no perspective of change in the next couple of years. On an international comparison, Switzerland is among the last if it is about women in the executive suites.
Voices are getting loud for women's quota only partially. Arguments against are made and say that especially young women don't want to be so called 'quota women'. Others fear that state regulation displaces the individual freedom. Other arguments are made that it is unconstitutional: Art. 27 of the Swiss Federal Constitution provides the freedom of economy for individuals and private companies. However, given a statutory basis, it could be a legitimate restriction as being within a public interest and proportional. Another constitutional argument says that quotas violate the prohibition of discrimination based on gender according to Art. 8 Abs. 3 of the Swiss Federal Constitution. Yet, this argument is highly controversial.
Anyhow, some concerns might be more legitimate. Many examples show that women who finally made it to a leading position had to fight even harder to prove that they were not only quota women but qualified at least as much as a competing man was.
However, from my point of view, there are reams of reasons for the introduction of women's quotas for major enterprises. There are several studies (among others one from McKinsey) which show that the equity return and the profit in all of a business is clearly higher in businesses with gender-mixed management teams than in men-only teams. A UN research study shows that US firms with women in the business management feature a 42 percent higher operating margin than firms led only by men. The hope that the older men dominated generation would step back from their leading position in big firms and both female and male would fill their positions, did not occur. If the economy is not able to fill the free seats in their leading management with woman, coercion is probably the only solution to achieve gender equality.
Women supply half the market of enterprises. Their exclusion possibly leads to an alleviation of the potential for economic growth. Also, women are half of the market of businesses. They make half of the decisions regarding consummation. Furthermore, researches show that women are needed in leading positions of big businesses because of the aging of our society. It is assumed that in 30 years in Europe there will be an absence of 24 Million employees. If women would participate to same parts in the working life as men, the number could be reduced to 3 millions.
Although I believe that women's quota for big businesses are the best solution to reduce the discrimination against women, there would be several good alternatives and softer forms to augment the number of female employees in leading positions. One would be to reward the commitment for women's quota of every major enterprise. Another possibility would be to certify enterprises which advocate gender equality and exhibit a certain women's quota in their businesses. It is also possible that an enterprise can assert factual reasons to not fulfill the requested quota of female employees, e.g. because not enough women applied for open jobs, and that this would lead to the fact that these businesses would have to take action in respect of affirmative action programs for women and provisions for the advancement of women in big businesses. My favorite solution, however, is to legally regulate a women's quota on time for major enterprises. Therewith it would not be a rigid institution but a promoter for a self-supporting development.


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TradeLog allows a user to hold long-term positions open and close them in the future while actively trading the same security. See: Holding Long-Term Open Positions
Once the long-term holding is closed, the closing trade will have to be manually matched with the open long-term position.
To match closing trade records with the long-term holding if the closing position was imported:
1. Select the closing trade records that need to be force matched with the holding. See Selecting Multiple Trades.
2. Click Edit, Edit Record(s). See Editing a Trade
3. Use your TAB key to move the cursor to the Matched column. See: Display Matched Tax Lots
4. Enter the SAME lot number as the holding.
5. Hit your ENTER key TWICE to save.


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Water Sensor Circuit with Alarm
If you are looking for a Water level indicator or a Water level controller, there are pretty good circuits we have developed. This one is just a fun project made for hobby purpose! You can call this a water sensor circuit for sure!
This is a simple musical alarm circuit which produces a musical tone when water or some conducting liquid comes in contact with the two sensor wires provided. The circuit is based on four transistors and one melody generator IC (M 3482).
When water comes in contact with the sensors wires A & B, the base of Q1 gets connected with the negative and it conducts. This makes Q2 and Q3 ON. When Q3 is ON the power is available for the music generator circuit and it starts producing 12 different melodies one after another. The music continues as long as there is water between the sensor wires. The POT R12 can be used as a volume controller.
Circuit diagram with Parts list.
- Assemble the circuit on a good quality PCB or common board.
- Two insulated aluminum wires can be used as the sensor.
- The IC1 must be mounted on an IC holder.
- The speaker can be a 8 Ohm, ½ W tweeter.


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Young filmmakers challenge viewers to "Find Your Footprint"
The last time I mentioned young filmmakers, I was discussing college students. Turns out they're not the youngest people making environmentally-themed documentaries: the National Geographic and P&G Future Friendly "Find Your Footprint" contest solicited short films from elementary school classes in which the kids shared their ideas for conserving natural resources.
The competition is already well underway: judges have already reviewed all seventy-five entries and chosen six finalists. Visitors to the site can vote for the grand prize winning entry; the winning group will receive some really cool technology for its classroom.
Of course, the kicker (for me, anyway) in a competition like this involves who really made the film: were the students directly involved in all aspects of production, or is it something basically scripted, shot, and edited by an adult? I thought the film on saving water from Brooklyn's PS 8 really came through as authentic; the Daily News seems to back this up in their article about the video. The idea came from a student who belongs to the school's film club, and members did the shooting and editing. These kids are pretty excited about their current second place standing, but, as 10-year-old Madelaine Smith told the Daily News, there are other issues at play: ""I want people to know that [kids] can do these things, not just professional grownups." You can see their film above.
Check out the entries, vote if you'd like (you have until March 16 to do so), and let us know what you think about the work of these young filmmakers.
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Urbani izziv Volume 0, No. 16–17, September 1991
Vesna KOLAR PLANINŠIČ
Mojca ŠAŠEK DIVJAK
Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
Renewal of a "Kras" village, the example of Orlek
Simulation of a planning, procedure and the fabrication of a development model is presented on an example of a Karst village - Orlek. The most important elements are emphasized, such as: position characteristics, social and economic conditions, structural typology etc.


text: METEOROLOGY TODAY has for many years been one of the most widely used and authoritative texts for the introductory meteorology course. This eighth edition sees improvements in flexibility for instructors and strengthened learning solutions for students. Author C. Donald Ahrens has been widely praised for his ability to explain relatively complicated ideas so that even under-prepared students can understand them. The text's clear and inviting narrative is supplemented by numerous pedagogical features that help augment students' understanding. Introductory stories found at the beginning of each chapter draw students naturally into the discussion. In-chapter reviews help students master concepts while they study, and four types of end-of-chapter exercises provide opportunities for everything from further review to in-class discussion questions. In addition to these in-text learning aids, the eighth edition sees a complete integration with CengageNOW, the first assessment-driven and student-centered online learning solution created specifically for this course. CengageNOW uses a series of chapter-specific diagnostic tests to build a personalized learning plan for each student, allowing students to focus their study time on specific areas of weaknesses. Each personalized learning plan directs students to specific chapter sections and concept-driven multimedia tutorials designed to augment their understanding. The new edition is available in its original nineteen chapter classic" version, or as a "core" version, which features only the most popular sixteen chapters. The "core" version sacrifices none of the detail that the course needs, but eliminates chapters that may not be directly covered in class. Looking for more flexibility? With the Cengage Learning TextChoice custom solution program, instructors can select and reorganize chapters to perfectly match their syllabus, thereby creating the ideal text solution for the course."