Readers often report trouble understanding this portion of the novel due to its impressionistic language, necessitated by Benjamin's autism, and its frequent shifts in time and setting.

The temporal setting shifts back and forth from 1969, when fraternal twins Rahel and Estha are seven years old, to 1993, when the twins are reunited at age 31.

The automatic featured a performance setting which gave crisper shifts at a higher RPM, and a setting for traction in which the transmission would stay in 2nd gear from a stop for more controlled take-offs.

These practices and policies can be fairly obvious: selecting an appropriate shift schedule or rota and using an employee scheduling software to maintain it, setting the length of shifts, managing overtime, increasing lighting levels, or providing shift worker lifestyle training to help shift workers better handle issues such as understanding basic circadian physiology, sleep and napping, caffeine usage, social life issues, diet and nutrition, etc.

Throughout its length, it shifts between two and four lanes as it passes through a frequently changing setting of scenic forestry and smaller populations, as well as busy intersections and larger developments.

Throughout its length, it shifts between two and four lanes as it passes through a setting that consists of open rural areas, as well as larger developments and heavy congestion.

All shifts were initially canceled up to September 26, 2005, potentially setting back future Shuttle flights.

The plot unfolds with DeLillo's customary shifts of time, setting, and character.

Typical symptoms of the disorder include: halos or auras surrounding objects, trails following objects in motion, difficulty distinguishing between colors, apparent shifts in the hue of a given item, the illusion of movement in a static setting, air assuming a grainy or textured quality ( visual snow or static, by popular description, not to be confused with the normal " blue field entoptic phenomenon "), distortions in the dimensions of a perceived object, and a heightened awareness of floaters.

Mass extinctions are regime shifts on the geological time scale, while financial crises or pest outbreaks are regime shifts that require a totally different parameters setting.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

Wilfrid did not respond to the accusation, but a monk present relayed the episode to Bede, who replied within a few days to the monk, writing a letter setting forth his defence and asking that the letter be read to Wilfrid also.

In present day feature films rhyming slang is often used to lend authenticity to an East End setting.

With a setting within the realm of science fiction, the series wisely offers a world that seems entirely realistic considering our present time.

However, he cannot permanently ' reprogram ' human minds to believe what he might want them to believe even if he wanted to do so, explaining that the mind is an organism that would always recall the steps necessary for it to reach the present and thus ' rewrite ' itself to its original setting if he tried to change it.

Distance education or distance learning is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom.

It is with this technology that Lee and his bandmates are able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity that fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

Kaplan wrote a seminal essay " On the Need for a University of Judaism ," in which he called for a University setting that could present Judaism as a deep culture and developing civilization.

It is with this technology that the group is able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

One common feature of many RPGs is the role of gamemaster, a participant who has special duties to present the fictional setting, arbitrate the results of character actions, and maintain the narrative flow.

In addition to setting a boundary for what the matrix is, Dott also breaks up the different types framework grains that can be present in a sandstone into three major categories: quartz, feldspar, and lithic grains.

Ronald Hutton criticizes this conclusion as unfounded ; he argues that the assembly of royalty and warriors on Samhain may simply present an ideal setting for the exposition of such tales in the same way that many tales of Arthurian Romance are set at courtly gatherings of Christmas or Pentecost.

Different minerals in a given geologic setting can acquire distinctly different ratios of radiogenic strontium-87 to naturally occurring strontium-86 (< sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr ) through time ; and their age can be calculated by measuring the < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr /< sup > 86 </ sup > Sr in a mass spectrometer, knowing the amount of < sup > 87 </ sup > Sr present when the rock or mineral formed, and calculating the amount of < sup > 87 </ sup > Rb from a measurement of the Rb present and knowledge of the < sup > 85 </ sup > Rb /< sup > 87 </ sup > Rb weight ratio.

The next cluster of cubes zoomed in on a vision of a high-tech, future home in a sylvan setting ( and a commuter gyrocopter ); a series of projections contrasted this " best of the future " to " the worst of the present " ( over-uniform suburbs, a dreary urban housing project ).

Prayer Flags, Mani Walls and Prayer Wheels present a propitious setting throughout the urban agglomerate of Thimphu.

The seventh scene takes place in both 1812 and the present day, with the action of each in the shared setting effectively running concurrently.

While Septimus waits for appropriate music for a dance lesson that Thomasina has asked for, he examines the picture she made to illustrate the irreversibility of heat, an action mirrored in the present setting with Valentine and Hannah also looking at the same diagram and discussing its significance.

They present stylistic evidence that patches of writing are by Middleton, and argue that Middleton changed the setting to Vienna from the original Italy.

In the present day setting of the book, Victor is now a man in his mid-twenties who left medical school in order to find work to support his feeble mother who is now in a nursing home.

Females were never allowed to be present in such a setting.

Nearly every episode opens, following the opening credits, with Hamner's voice-over ( ostensibly speaking as the present day John-Boy ), briefly reminiscing about the events about to be depicted and setting up the story.

It was to add steampunk elements to the fantasy setting, set in a world where the past, present and future of Sosaria were merged by a mistake made by Lord British while attempting to merge the shards of the Gem of Immortality.

The set rotated as well to present a different interview setting.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

There was night and day, but no setting of crops, no change of season, no generations of men.

The custom of setting apart a special day for intercession for certain of the faithful on November 2 was first established by St. Odilo of Cluny ( d. 1048 ) at his abbey of Cluny in 998.

In week five, with starting wide receiver Roy Williams sidelined by injury, receiver Miles Austin got his first start of the season and had a record setting day ( 250 yards receiving and 2 TDs ) to help lead Dallas to an overtime win over Kansas City.

Vividly colored yamato-e ( Japanese style ) paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines became common in the mid and late Heian periods, setting patterns for Japanese art to this day.

The day started with a procession of eight trains setting out from Liverpool.

Like Laugh-In, the show minimized production costs by taping all of the recurring sketches for a season in batches — setting up for the Cornfield one day, the Joke Fence another, etc.

Muslim rule in the subcontinent began in 8th century CE when the Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Sindh and Multan in southern Punjab in modern day Pakistan, setting the stage for several successive invasions from Central Asia between the 10th and 15th centuries CE, leading to the formation of Muslim empires in the Indian subcontinent such as the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire.

Using the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami as his setting — and on a small budget, with a very tight shooting schedule, and no script — Lewis shot the film by day and performed at the hotel in the evenings.

* The 10th Kingdom miniseries requires the use of a magic mirror for the characters to change setting between modern day New York City ( the 10th Kingdom ), and the Nine Kingdoms of fairy tale, primarily the 4th Kingdom from Snow White.

Instead, the Renaissance motet is a polyphonic musical setting, sometimes in imitative counterpoint, for chorus, of a Latin text, usually sacred, not specifically connected to the liturgy of a given day, and therefore suitable for use in any service.

The next day, though, with Zeus ' help, the Trojans broke into the Achaean camp and were on the verge of setting fire to the Achaean ships.

Tyler ended up taking the Oath of Office and became President, setting a precedent that is followed to this day.

The children's book Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Fraser tells the story of the final, record setting push by the Central Pacific in which they set a record by laying of track in a single day on April 28, 1869 to settle a $ 10, 000 bet.

On the final day 221, 554 visitors added to the more than 50 million ( 50, 306, 648 ) that attended Expo 67 at a time when Canada's population was only 20 million, setting a per-capita record for World Exhibition attendance that still stands.

In the hospital setting, chest physiotherapy ( CPT ) is utilized ; a respiratory therapist percusses an individual's chest with his or her hands several times a day, to loosen up secretions.

Cray immediately turned to the design of a machine that would be the fastest ( or in the terminology of the day, largest ) machine in the world, setting the goal at 50 times the speed of the 1604.

The pair hoped that after setting off home-made explosives in the cafeteria at the busiest time of day, killing many hundreds of students, they would use their guns to shoot survivors as they fled from the school.

Despite their ongoing struggles, the Masens are reluctant to leave their home but their hand is forced by the arrival of a squad of soldiers the next day who represent a despotic new government which is setting up feudal enclaves across the country.

During the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, the Duke of Monmouth was welcomed when he passed through Shepton Mallet, staying in Longbridge House in Cowl Street on the night of 23 June, with his men quartered throughout the town, before setting out for Bristol the following day.

Another form the Exercises came in, which became known as the nineteenth " Observation ", ' allowed continuing one's ordinary occupations with the proviso of setting aside a few hours a day for this special purpose.