Anne Lamott Born ( 1954-04-10) April 10, 1954 (age 63), United States Occupation Novelist, non-fiction writer, essayist, memoirist Nationality American Genre,,, Children 1 son Anne Lamott (born April 10, 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher. Based in the, her nonfiction works are largely autobiographical.

Marked by their self-deprecating humor and openness, Lamott's writings cover such subjects as,,, and. Contents • • • • • • • • Life and career [ ] Lamott was born in, and is a graduate of. She was a student at for two years where she wrote for the newspaper. Her father,, was also a writer.

Writing style. All papers must be submitted for review in English. Articles that are accepted for publication can be published simultaneously in other languages; however. Jpg format, and each file should be labeled with the figure number. Demonstration of how to safely hold a bird in preparation for applying a leg band. When to count. The timing of a bird survey will depend on the life cycle of a particular bird species if monitoring one species. Of course, many surveys would be for more than one species. To get an inventory for a given area, typically the major breeding season is best suitable for monitoring the community.

Her first published novel Hard Laughter was written for him after his diagnosis of brain cancer. She has one son, Sam, who was born in August 1989 and a grandson, Jax, born in July 2009. Lamott's life was documented in 's 1999 documentary Bird by Bird with Annie: A Film Portrait of Writer Anne Lamott. Because of the documentary and her following on Facebook and other online networks, she is often called the 'People's Author'.

Lamott has described why she writes: I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness—and that can make me laugh. When I am reading a book like this, I feel rich and profoundly relieved to be in the presence of someone who will share the truth with me, and throw the lights on a little, and I try to write these kinds of books. Books, for me, are medicine. Lamott is cited as a writer who captures well the style of narrative nonfiction called, coined by Howard Freeman. Awards and honors [ ] Lamott was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2010. Bibliography [ ] Novels [ ] • Hard Laughter.

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• All New People. North Point Press. • Crooked Little Heart. Pantheon Books. Riverhead Books. • Imperfect Birds.

Riverhead Books. Non-fiction [ ] • Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year. Pantheon Books. • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. Pantheon Books.

• Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith. Pantheon Books. • Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith. Riverhead Books.

• Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith. Riverhead Books. • Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son. Riverhead Books.

(with Sam Lamott) • Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. Riverhead Books. • Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair. Riverhead Books. • Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace. Riverhead Books.

• Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy. Riverhead Books. References [ ]. Gabest Filters Download Youtube.

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• Tagg, Mariel.. Sacramento Press. Retrieved 4 November 2014. Further reading [ ] • Bochynski, Pegge.

(2010) 'Anne Lamott' in American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement XX, Mary Antin to Phillis Wheatley. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons p131-146. • Bouris, Karen (Jan–Feb 2013).. Spirituality & Health. 15 (6): 48–53. (2010) Architecture of the Novel: A Writer's Handbook.

Anne Lamott (Foreword). Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint External links [ ] Wikiquote has quotations related to: about Anne Lamott • • By Anne Lamott • • • in libraries ( catalog) • on • • • • • •.

I have a handful of PDFs open. One of them in particular is extremely laggy, almost to the point of being unreadable. When I scroll through its pages, it's almost like an extreme version of v-sync being turned off. Overall system resources are plentiful, and all of the other PDFs cruise up and down with no stuttering or problems. I've tried closing and reopening the problem PDF to no avail.

It's a small PDF, only 3MB in size, with no graphics (only programming code snippets). Surely, it must be some type of problem with the specific PDF (I'll try opening it in another PDF-viewing program, rather than Acrobat X). Possible corruption? Could there be some type of GPU/hardware-acceleration intervening going on?

I've never heard of such with PDF-viewing. EDIT One difference that I've noted is that the laggy file has -lots- of fonts in it, according to the PDF properties inside Adobe Acrobat. Probably 10x the amount of the other PDFs I have open. Could this be the source of trouble? If so, is it possible to compress/strip fonts from it?

TLDR; The quality and size of the data embedded within the PDF file can have a very big impact on the speed of scrolling. -- In simplistic terms, a PDF is a container format. The content can vary widely and can be arbitrary. Typically, the text is stored as plain text with typeface markers, and there are few images, these would be quick to scroll. Some files have more images, which will degrade scrolling speed--worst case, the images need to be completely redrawn for every pixel of scrolling. Some PDFs are merely full-page image scans.

Images are going to require more work from the computer to manipulate, since there is more data (more bytes). Images can be at arbitrary resolutions. If I am creating a magazine ad, I would use images that were 300dpi. A 10x10 inch photo (for print) would be 3000 pixels square. Expressed in bytes, this is 3000 x 3000 x 4 bytes (minimum for CMYK color for print).

That same image displayed for the screen at a particular zoom might only require the display of 300px square (for RGB = 300x300x3 bytes min), but the reader must still manipulate the original LARGE image. Depending on the reader software, an image thumbnail may be created based upon zoom factor to speed this up. If I give you a draft version PDF of that ad using acrobat's 'standard' setting, it might be.5-1MB in size and be quick to display (but not very good quality if you print it out). The same ad using an 'offset press' preset (without JPG compression enabled) could be be 35MB in size and you would notice a difference in speed, but the screen quality will be improved a little and the print version would be immaculate. If the image is a vector image, depending on layers and complexity, it may need to be recalculated each time you move the page. A lot all depends on the reader software and the manner in which the PDF was created. AFAIK, the original PDF specification even allowed for the embedding and execution of arbitrary binary & executable files.