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BlackRock warns of downside to Scottish independence
By Sarah Davidson
In a 12-page report the asset manager outlined several potential risks to investors, savers and the country, including the fact that Scotland's bank balance sheet would dwarf its GDP should the UK split.
BlackRock's analysis claimed that Financial Services Compensation Scheme-eligible deposits held by Scottish firms, which would be covered by the Scottish compensation scheme in the event of independence, "would total more than 100 per cent of Scotland's GDP," which in 2012 was £126bn.
The report said this would represent a "significant contingent liability for the state" and added that there would be "a risk of deposit flight" from Scottish banks.
It said this could "push the likes of RBS to move headquarters to England and establish Scotland as a subsidiary, à la Santander", particularly in the absence of a formal currency union.
And it added: "Banks and insurers would face pressure to move headquarters to a stronger fiscal state with a more certain regulatory backdrop. Yet a wholesale exodus of staff and operations would be unlikely given Scotland's cost advantage over London and other locations."
BlackRock's research suggested Scotland's banking system would equate to about 12 times the size of its GDP, versus the UK's five times.
UK government support to the Royal Bank of Scotland totalled £46bn in 2008/2009.
BlackRock also raised concerns for pension sponsors and trustees with schemes or schemes with contributors in both Scotland and the UK which are regulated by the Pensions Regulator and contributing to the Pension Protection Fund.
It said: "How would two regulators, two countries and a single pension protection plan work in practice? Would the remaining UK regulator be prepared to take on regulation in a country where it is not part of formal government?"
Consequently the firm advised EU cross-border schemes to "start scenario planning today" to set up separate UK and Scottish schemes "despite the costs and complexities involved".
The report also claimed that Scotland's lower life expectancy could lead to "postponement" of the proposal to raise the retirement age from 65 to 66.
Jeff Lewis, director for Edinburgh-based Robson Macintosh, said: "Most of my clients think an independent Scotland won't happen, but that's perhaps because they are going to vote no. I suspect independence will be more of an issue for companies than individuals."
Scotland will go to the polls on 18 September. A yes vote would sever a 300 year-plus union, setting in motion a "complex and uncertain process" of separation and would "create risks for investors, corporations, savers" and the UK economy, according to BlackRock.
Lloyds Banking Group, Standard Life, Alliance Trust Savings, Royal Dutch Shell and Barclays have all publicly warned a Scottish yes vote would be damaging.
The yes vote crept up to around 34 per cent in early 2014 polls while the no vote stood at just under 50 per cent. The three major UK political parties are against independence.
SHOULD SCOTLAND BECOME INDEPENDENT?
FSCS-eligible deposits held by Scottish firms would total more than 100 per cent of Scotland's GDP.
The nation would need to bring in new regulators, including a a new central bank, new financial services and pension regulators and new industry sector oversight mechanisms.
Costs for companies operating in both Scotland and the remaining UK would inevitably rise.
Scottish gilts would sell at higher yields, as the country would have to pay more to borrow than the UK, and it may need to accept shorter maturities.
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The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
This is the story of a covert operation to smuggle the banned manuscript of Doctor Zhivago out of the Soviet Union and into print. It's a story of art and power, identity and trust. Perfect for fans of The Americans or anyone who likes a page-turner.
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott ($26.95*, Knopf), recommended by Parnassus Books, Nashville, NC.
The Travelers by Regina Porter
Watching the events and lives of one family intertwined come together so beautifully in one novel is an absolute treat, and Regina Porter does not disappoint. The Travelers builds and weaves the story of family, strife, love, and frustration and encapsulates what it means to become and to remain a family. This story is absolutely gorgeous as it moves through time and experience and leaves its reader feeling like a part of the family rather than just an observer.
The Travelers by Regina Porter ($27.00*, Hogarth), recommended by Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, NC.
Give by Erica C. Witsell
I realize that this book is, in large part, about sisterhood. Unfortunately, I don't have a sister or a similar relationship to measure against. I loved Emma and Jessie anyway, and found them credible characters in their own right. Emma's struggle to find a nourishing relationship is deeply touching. The dynamics between the two of them and between Laurel and Jessie are written with honesty and affection.
But what grabbed me by the heart and wouldn't let go was Witsell's descriptions of parenting and motherhood. It's unflinching in a way that I haven't read before without someone being written as a monster. Laurel isn't a monster; She's just not cut out for motherhood. She's a flawed person whose flaws are particularly incompatible with mothering. God, I sympathized with her. Early motherhood was frequently intolerable for me as well, and I found a sort of weird validation from reading someone else who wasn't very good at it. However, I also loved Sarah's character. She wasn't any more perfect than Laurel was imperfect.
I especially applaud Witsell's commitment to Laurel's integrity. Laurel never "rises above" or adopts the proper level of selflessness. It would have been pretty but dishonest to do otherwise. Even when her intentions are good, as with baby Liza, she manages to get it all wrong.
Everything about this book feels real, genuine, and honest. It it were written as memoir, I would believe it, but I think it somehow points to even larger truths by being written as fiction.
Give by Erica C. Witsell ($19.95*, BQB Publishing), recommended by Sunrise Books, High Point, NC.
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera
When Arthur goes to New York for the summer, he expects it to be a lot like the Broadway plays he adores. But it's not. Ben, on the other hand, is much more pragmatic, in that native New Yorker way. When they meet, Arthur falls head over heels almost immediately, and his enthusiasm may rub off a bit on Ben...but things don't exactly work out in real life the way they do on stage. With alternating chapters from Arthur's and Ben's points of view, this is another wonderful read from Albertalli and Silvera, and fans of both authors won't be disappointed (and fans of musical theater will love it even more).
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera ($18.99*, HarperTeen), recommended by Fiction Addiction, Greenville, SC.
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Wen and her dads are taking a break from everything by visiting a remote cabin for vacation. Wen is studying grasshoppers in their yard when a man comes up and makes friends with her. He warns her that she and her dads are going to have to make a decision. And that's about all I can tell you without spoiling you.
This book was SO creepy in a very good way. I'd classify this as horror, but in a very real way.
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay ($26.99*, St. Martin's Press), recommended by Bookmiser, Inc., Roswell, GA.
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi
I devoured this book. Kimia's family history, and consequently the history of Iran, is given in tantalizing bits and pieces. It was fascinating, informative, and exceptionally well-written. I highly, highly recommend it!
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi ($18.00*, Europa Editions), recommended by Union Ave Books, Knoxville, TN.
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
From Page 158 Books: It was fascinating to step into the life of a gender non-binary individual. I really enjoyed that perspective.
From the publisher: If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight.
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater ($17.99*, Farrar Straus Giroux), recommended by Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, NC.
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
After Pointe (um, hello, go read that if you haven't), I waited and waited and waited for Brandy Colbert's next novel. I was not disappointed. Tackling the always timely topics of sexuality, mental health, and the beautifully, murky path that we walk when we love someone. Perfect for fans of Julie Murphy and Nina LaCour.
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert ($17.99*, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), recommended by Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN.
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Forget Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. Move over Big Little Lies and The Woman in Cabin 10. Because Fingersmith has one of the best jaw dropping, plot twisting, Oh-My-God-Did-That-Just-Happen moments that I've ever read.
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters ($17.99, Riverhead Books), recommended by Katie, Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA.
I'll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell is the kind of friend who calls you once in a while with some crazy story that never disappoints and is always worth the wait. Taking an almost memoir-istic structure, her essays show her personal growth through coping with addiction, internet/celebrity infatuation, acne, being broke, and feeling lost. Striking, funny, sometimes absurd, and always tender, Caldwell writes herself into she has always loved and needed—a friend.
I'll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell (16.95, Coffee House), recommended by Amanda, Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC.
Lust & Wonder by Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs ALWAYS delivers.
I love his madness, his romanticism, his hopeless inability to correct himself mid-stream and his hapless drive to overcompensate long after he's crossed the stream, and I love the way he writes about all of it.
This was an Augusten Burroughs memoir with a happy ending.
Lust & Wonder by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin's Press) Recommended by Clara at A Cappella Books Atlanta GA
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The more things change, the more things stay the same. Or so it seems in this novel by Armistead Maupin. Set in 1970s San Francisco, we follow a dozen city dwellers chasing their version of their dream life in this bustling metropolis. While certain details are amusingly out-of-date, the main themes still ring true today: friendship, companionship, heartbreak, loss, deciding what type of life you want to live and what type of person you want to be.
Tales of the City (Harper $15.99) by Armistead Maupin, recommended by Ceewin, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC.
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
I can't account for the historical accuracy of the story, but The Danish Girl is based on the true story of a young transgender woman (Lili) in the 1920s/30s.
Born a male, Einar struggles with the secret of wanting to be a woman. His wife Greta encourages his transition and Einar becomes Lili. Lili was the first person to undergo sex reassignment surgery in the 1930s.
It's a beautifully written story about love, trust and self-discovery.
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff (Penguin) Recommended by Christina at Blue Ridge Books Waynesville, NC
Fairfold is special.
Humans and fae live side by side in this magical town, but not always peacefully. Hazel and Ben have lived in Fairfold their whole lives. Jack, though fae, has lived among the human population just as long.
And longer than any of them, the horned boy sleeping in the coffin in the woods, a boy who fueled Hazel and Ben's childhood and adolescent fantasies. When he wakes, it could ignite a war between humans and fae that has been long coming.
With wonderful world building, Holly Black delivers and dark, fantastical story that will keep readers enthralled from the first page to the last.
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Recommended by Melissa at Fiction Addiction Greenville SC
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
16-year-old Simon is gay, but he hasn't told anyone yet.
Except for his secret penpal Blue, who's in the same boat, and who Simon has a major crush on. Then someone from school sees Simon's email, and uses it to blackmail Simon. Now Simon has to set up one of his best friends with his blackmailer or risk outing Blue. A romance more than a coming-of-age story, and one that I wanted to read again immediately just to have more of the warm fuzzies it gave me.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (Balzer & Bray/Harperteen) Recommended by Meliissa at Fiction Addiction Greenville SC
How to do justice to a novel that allows you to know each character so intimately that their pain and triumphs are your own?
I fell head-over-heels for twins Noah and Jude. I couldn't resist Noah, who has a penchant for contextualizing his life into paintings, or Jude, who takes to keeping onions in her pockets to avoid serious illness. The two share an almost other-worldly bond, but as life rapidly spins beyond their control and they retreat into their own internalized worlds, they lose touch with the others' heart.
Their journey back to one another is absolutely stunning.
Peppered with beautiful imagery and quirky excerpts from Grandma Sweetwine's folksy bible, I'll Give You the Sun is a book you'll wanna hold close to your heart. Or maybe I should just say, I want to give this book to everyone I have ever or will ever meet.
I'll Give You the Sun By Jandy Nelson ($17.99, Dial Books for Young Readers), recommended by Amanda, Foxtale Bookshoppe, Woodstock GA.

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I am not a stranger to obsession. I know what it is to hang onto emotional attachment long after tears are shed, doors have been closed, and international flights have departed. I've replayed the touch of a hand on my cheek. The taste of soft lips in fresh falling snow. These are the snapshots of love that endure beyond the final good byes. They're imprinted into our selective memories.
Despite his 16th Century verbosity Spenser encapsulates in two lines a pain so great that only eternal darkness could possibly provide any sort of relief. Gauging by the opening line of "Kill My Love" Rain on Monday's Raimond Nurmilampi can relate to this sentiment. "Stab my heart and let it bleed…" sets the lyrical tone of desperation. From there Nurmilampi goes on to encourage his own death by vehicular manslaughter. This extreme imagery is carefully juxtaposed over a cheerful synth line that wouldn't seem out of place in a 1980's John Hughes movie. It's this contrast that gives the song the necessary depth to set it apart. Almost as if the synth melody is a remembrance of happier times.
Nurmilampi's husky defeated voice is the other highlight of this song. He sounds like he's washed down a handful of Xanax with a plastic bottle of cheap bourbon and the vibe works. I believe him when he sings the words, "Can you kill my love if I can't be with you?". It's a feeling everyone's experienced at some point. That commonality the first indicator of a solid song. The second is that it's also catchy enough that I found myself happily singing tonight while buying mangos at the grocery store. I look forward to hearing more from Rain on Monday.
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Bruce Wilson was born in the American south and after innumerable global relocations he now resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Bruce grew up listening to his parents' copy of The Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat and quickly moved on to The Stooges, David Bowie, and The Dead Boys. These days he is a writer and sings for the Vancouver based band "Sunday Morning" who released their epymonious debut album in early 2017. He'd like to have a dog but his apartment is too small.


The Harrison Homestead is one of the oldest homes in Sweetgrass County. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places, the recently renovated home features four bedrooms, three baths, a wonderful deck and extremely comfortable furnishings. The homestead is set in the middle of the Vermillion Ranch, an 800-acre ranch recently protected by a conservation easement. The Yellowstone River traverses the property for two miles and offers world-class fishing all year. Reservations are required.


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Fan Retrospectives: Batman: 'Dark Victory': Chapter 13: Peace
"Peace"
Writer: Jeph Loeb
Artist: Tim Sale
Color Artist: Gregory Wright
Letterer: Richard Starkings
Review by Eric Lee
Dark Victory: Peace is a momentous and emotionally-satisfying conclusion to Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's epic. Picking up from the previous chapter, Batman is being hanged with Catwoman waiting above him. Fortunately, Batman quickly escapes and disarms Selina, but the question remains, where did she disappear to for six months?
Sofia Personifies Old Crime versus New Crime
Catwoman revealed she has been in Italy for those past months searching for Sofia Gigante's whereabouts. After being mutilated by Catwoman and broken glass at the end of The Long Halloween, Gigante found a plastic surgeon to fix her face. Despite this, Sofia vowed vengeance against Two-Face for murdering her father. In a declaration, she cuts the left side of her face to resemble the former D.A..
Sofia Gigante purposefully scars her face to resemble Two-Face.
The act of cutting her face is an interesting notion. Her father had scratch marks on the right side of his face. Similarly, Two-Face's scars are on the left side, implying that the two are mirror opposites. Sofia cutting her left side signals that she identifies more with Two-Face, despite hating him. This may be more about her methods and less philosophical. Sofia has transformed herself into another super-villain, not just a regular mobster. She also embodies all the standard tropes of a super-villain. She has a secret identity as the Hangman, a gimmick crime, and even a mask. Loeb uses Sofia's character transformation as a parallel metaphor to show how new crime has overtaken old, traditional crimes.
This conflict becomes literal as Two-Face and the gang systematically murder the remaining heads of the mob families. Being a mobster has no use in Gotham City. Being a super-villain is the new way of committing crimes and it is now permanent.
Two-Face and the villains kill off most of Gotham's crime family leaders.
Side-note, but the coloring on the Columbus Day massacre page is wonderful. Look how it distinguishes different scenes base on the bold colors alone. I don't know if this was Tim Sale's idea or color artist Gregory Wright's, but it is such a cool visual trick.
The Falcones on the Run
With the majority of the mob family leaders killed, the Falcone siblings are scattered and on the run from Two-Face. What was once an untouchable crime family is now a fleeing for survival. This is another example of a reversal in power.
Mario Falcone turns to Batman and Commissioner Gordon for protection. And now, Sofia and Alberto Falcone are hiding out in their family mausoleum. Sofia grouses to Alberto how he is weak compared to their father. Alberto replies that he is not like his father.
I am not my father. I just want to live–
In his dying words, Alberto claims he is not his father.
That statement can be interpreted as both a sign of protest towards his sister and his level of acceptance. Since the beginning of TLH, Alberto has always sought his father's approval by committing crimes like him. However, when Carmine rebuffed Alberto, he became the Holiday in an effort to prove his family worth. But the mystery of the Holiday's identity inflated his reputation. Ironically, Alberto as Holiday became more notorious than the Falcone crime family. Now that Alberto is near death, he accepts how he is no longer his father. He accepts change. Thanks to his time as Holiday, Alberto is more than his father. He has also risen to super-villainy.
Unable to cope with that fact, Sofia suffocates her brother. What's more telling is her immediate reaction after she kills him. Her face almost looks fearful, as if she's being judged by all of her dead relatives. The irony is that she always rejected super-villains or "freaks", even murdering her brother to prove it. Yet, she is now a super-villain herself as the Hangman. For Sofia, she is unable to accept change.
Sofia feels the judgement of her dead relatives on her after she murders Alberto.
At Gordon's office, Mario reveals that Wilcox – one of Gordon's murdered officers – is a mole for the Falcones. Her recorded words give the last clue Batman needs to connect Sofia as the Hangman.
Mario confirms to Batman that Sofia is the Hangman.
Unfortunately, it's too little, too late. The gas mains explode all around Gotham City. Sofia has orchestrated the explosions to raze Gotham and kill the "freaks". Her ploy would have worked too, if it weren't for Batman's timely intervention.
Batman also now realizes that the Hangman messages were statements that reveal Sofia's true motives.
None of you are safe
Two can play this game
Knows if you've been bad or good
Guilty as sin
A jury of your peers
Murder in the first degree
Order in the court
Justice is blind
As the Hangman, Sofia sets out to wipe out Two-Face from history.
Sofia hates the super-villains for taking over the city, but hates Two-Face more for killing her father. She isn't satisfied with just killing Two-Face, she needs to see his legacy wiped away. Every cop she murdered has helped Harvey Dent's career. Now she wants to take it all away.
Ironically, when distracted by Batman, Two-Face murders her. Sofia was one of the last remaining mobsters in the Falcone crime family. Her death signals a definitive end to the old ways of crime in Gotham.
Two-Face murders Sofia, ending the Falcone crime family.
"The Sensational Character Find of 1940…"
The remaining villains meet up with Two-Face and accidentally stumble upon the entrance to the Bat Cave. Fortunately, before Two-Face and the crew can explore too far, Dick Grayson bursts onto the scene as Robin. The exchange between Joker, Two-Face, and Robin sets the scene up perfectly.
The villains discover the Bat-Cave.
Joker: What the hell is this?!
Two Face: Some kid all by himself.
Robin: Not alone, mister! A dynamic duo!
Dick Grayson debuts as Robin.
Robin's statement is in stark contrast to Bruce Wayne's opening line from issue one: "I am alone". Robin is in a very different attitude about loneliness, because of Batman. He is optimistic and ready to rely on his new crime-fighting partner.
The Complexity of Acceptance
Batman is also now at peace with Harvey Dent being truly gone. He no longer hopes for Two-Face to be redeemed. The twist is, however, that Batman acknowledges Harvey was a friend at one point too. Acceptance is complicated. It's okay to accept that bad things happen, but that doesn't negate all the good. Batman now accepts that Two-Face is here to stay, but that doesn't negate all the good he did as Harvey Dent. In some ways, this difficult acceptance allows Batman to emotionally move on. He can appreciate the harsh reality of something, but not let it overwhelm him with cynicism.
Batman accepts Two-Face has replaced Harvey Dent, but still acknowledges Harvey's contributions.
That's what sets Batman apart from the Falcones, as their refusal to change not only ended them, but twisted them into conflict and dispute. They could never accept change and, in the end, it caused them to self-destruct.
Unfortunately, for Two-Face, Joker betrays and shoots him. But before Joker can react, Robin takes him down.
Robin defeats the Joker.
Gordon on Acceptance
Now that the crime wave is finally over, Gordon tells Lopez that he's thinking of promoting her. He says how the old ways are probably done and it's time to build a new legacy.
Chief O'Hara would talk about the "old" days in Gotham City. How being a cop was tough, but that they held onto it. That being a cop meant something back then. I think it can be again, Lopez.
Gordon believes in upholding certain traditions.
Gordon accepts the changes to the city. But, he believes that some traditions still have value. But he is not embracing new ideas as much as he is adapting the traditions to the times. That is why he accepts Batman operating in the city, while still running the police force.
Next, we see various epilogues for the rest of the characters in Dark Victory. Mario Falcone is shown as broken, despondent, and having lit the Falcone mansion on fire. As Batman's narration notes, the Falcone empire ended with a broken man. Mario is perhaps one of the more tragic figures in Dark Victory. He recognized that Gotham was changing and did his best to adapt to it, but that wasn't enough and he suffered the consequences of his siblings' actions.
Mario Falcone is emotionally broken and burns down his family's home.
At the Roman's gravesite, Selina Kyle proclaims that she is his daughter. Or at least that she believes she is. Loeb wisely left her proclamation vague.
In an undisclosed location, we see Two-Face alive and the frozen body of The Roman.
The final scene in Dark Victory: Peace shows Batman and Dick Grayson in the Bat-Cave. Batman pontificates that he now sees how he can help guide Dick's rage productively. We then see a re-creation of the iconic swearing the oath by candlelight scene, an obvious call-back to the original Detective Comics #38.
Batman's narration ends the story on an up-note.
I made a promise to my parents that I would rid the city of the evil that took their lives. That remains unchanged. Only now… I am no longer alone.
Batman accepts Robin into his crimefighting crusade.
The last lines in Dark Victory: Peace are a call-back to Dark Victory #1's opening, and also TLH's end. In a way, it acts as a bookend for both stories.
Dark Victory: Peace was satisfying on so many levels. It ends all the plot-lines in a satisfactory manner and all of the story's themes of loneliness, acceptance to change, and old crime versus new crime also receive an emotional climax.
This is probably a controversial statement, but I think that Dark Victory is actually a better storyline than TLH. Thematically, it wraps up the motifs and themes in a logical way, and it has tighter pacing and less stupid, illogical plot points (Sorry, Gilda Dent). Loeb and Sale had a gargantuan task of crafting not one, but two great mysteries that explain how Gotham became the way it is.
In my opinion, the best reading experience involves reading Batman: ear One, TLH, and then Dark Victory, in that order. The storylines compliment each other so well, and seamlessly blend into one another. Even as a stand-alone, Dark Victory is a one of Loeb and Sale's best stories ever.
Bravo, gentlemen.
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'First Degree' - Acclaimed Graphic Novel Publisher Humanoids Assembles A Thrilling Team of International Talent for Crime Noir Anthology
First Degree: A Crime Anthology , is a book that puts the spotlight on crime noir and features dozens of short graphic stories from a variety of talent from around the globe. Here's the full press release, courtesy of Humanoids and Superfan Promotions: First Degree Acclaimed Graphic Novel Publisher Humanoids Assembles A Thrilling Team of International Talent Including David F. Walker David Aja, and Dozens More for a Crime Noir Anthology Humanoids, the acclaimed graphic novel publisher, has assembled a thrilling roster of international creators, including David F. Walker (Bitter Root) and David Aja (Hawkeye, The Seeds), for an anthology that puts the spotlight on crime noir. FIRST DEGREE: A CRIME ANTHOLOGY will feature dozens of short crime noir stories from a variety of talent from around the globe, as well as art by Michael Lark (Gotham Central, Lazarus) and cover art from Aja. A woman lures her husband and his secret lover to an abandoned house. Something sinister is happening i


Joy and sadness are as close to each other as the splendid colored leaves of a New England fall to the soberness of the barren trees. When you touch the hand of a returning friend, you already know that he will have to leave you again. When you are moved by the quiet vastness of a sun-covered ocean, you miss the friend who cannot see the same. Joy and sadness are born at the same time, both arising from such deep places in your heart that you can't find words to capture your complex emotions.
This season of Advent is a time of such mixed emotions for many; a time where joy and sorrow walk hand in hand. The joy of the season can bring painful reminders of Christmas holidays before the death of a loved one; the joy of the season can bring painful childhood memories of Christmases gone by. The days are short and the nights can be oh so long.
I have been particularly moved this Advent by the power of the lessons from Isaiah, "The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing." Such promise and hope! In times of mixed emotions, we live with the promise that God reaches us with the promise of new life and joy and singing! Reaches us in our own wilderness with the promise that that dry land will rejoice and blossom!
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dc.description.abstract In this study, samples from the 2013-2016 West African Ebola virus outbreak from patients in Guinea with Ebola virus disease (EVD) were analyzed to discover and classify what other pathogens were present. Throat swabs were taken from deceased EVD patients, and peripheral blood samples were analyzed that had been taken from patients when they presented at the treatment center with acute illness. High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and bioinformatics were used to identify the potential microorganisms. This approach confirmed Ebola virus (EBOV) in all samples from patients diagnosed as acute positive for the virus by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR in deployed field laboratories. Nucleic acid mapping to Plasmodium was also used on the patient samples, confirming results obtained with an antigen-based rapid diagnostic test (RDT) conducted in the field laboratories. The data suggested that a high Plasmodium load, as determined by sequence read depth, was associated with mortality and influenced the host response, whereas a lower parasite load did not appear to affect outcome. The identifications of selected bacteria from throat swabs via RNA-seq were confirmed by culture. The data indicated that the potential pathogens identified in the blood samples were associated with translocation from the gut, suggesting the presence of bacteremia, which transcriptome data suggested may induce or aggravate the acute-phase response observed during EVD. Transcripts mapping to different viruses were also identified, including those indicative of lytic infections. The development of high-resolution analysis of samples from patients with EVD will help inform care pathways and the most appropriate general antimicrobial therapy to be used in a resource-poor setting. IMPORTANCE Our results highlight the identification of an array of pathogens in the blood of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD). This has not been done before, and the data have important implications for the treatment of patients with EVD, particularly considering antibiotic stewardship. We show that EVD patients who were also infected with Plasmodium, particularly at higher loads, had more adverse outcomes than patients with lower levels of Plasmodium. However, the presence of Plasmodium did not influence the innate immune response, and it is likely that the presence of EBOV dominated this response. Several viruses other than EBOV were identified, and bacteria associated with sepsis were also identified. These findings were indicative of bacterial translocation across the gut during the acute phase of EVD.
html.description.abstract In this study, samples from the 2013-2016 West African Ebola virus outbreak from patients in Guinea with Ebola virus disease (EVD) were analyzed to discover and classify what other pathogens were present. Throat swabs were taken from deceased EVD patients, and peripheral blood samples were analyzed that had been taken from patients when they presented at the treatment center with acute illness. High-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) and bioinformatics were used to identify the potential microorganisms. This approach confirmed Ebola virus (EBOV) in all samples from patients diagnosed as acute positive for the virus by quantitative reverse transcription-PCR in deployed field laboratories. Nucleic acid mapping to Plasmodium was also used on the patient samples, confirming results obtained with an antigen-based rapid diagnostic test (RDT) conducted in the field laboratories. The data suggested that a high Plasmodium load, as determined by sequence read depth, was associated with mortality and influenced the host response, whereas a lower parasite load did not appear to affect outcome. The identifications of selected bacteria from throat swabs via RNA-seq were confirmed by culture. The data indicated that the potential pathogens identified in the blood samples were associated with translocation from the gut, suggesting the presence of bacteremia, which transcriptome data suggested may induce or aggravate the acute-phase response observed during EVD. Transcripts mapping to different viruses were also identified, including those indicative of lytic infections. The development of high-resolution analysis of samples from patients with EVD will help inform care pathways and the most appropriate general antimicrobial therapy to be used in a resource-poor setting. IMPORTANCE Our results highlight the identification of an array of pathogens in the blood of patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD). This has not been done before, and the data have important implications for the treatment of patients with EVD, particularly considering antibiotic stewardship. We show that EVD patients who were also infected with Plasmodium, particularly at higher loads, had more adverse outcomes than patients with lower levels of Plasmodium. However, the presence of Plasmodium did not influence the innate immune response, and it is likely that the presence of EBOV dominated this response. Several viruses other than EBOV were identified, and bacteria associated with sepsis were also identified. These findings were indicative of bacterial translocation across the gut during the acute phase of EVD.


Talent Spec: Holy 2/31/3. I am currently Shadow OS for Cata (so i can level) but i am usually Disc.
Explanation of your spec, glyphs, gems and enchants: I chose my particular spec because i think it refelcts the way i play (a very renew orianted style of play). I choose glyph of guardian spirit because it is an incredibly useful spell and to make the cool down any shorter only adds to its benefit, I choose glyph of renew because it is useful with my playstyle, i choose glyph of lightwell because I understand that it will be very useful in cata (only from what I have read). I did my gemming because these are the sought of gems i thought were useful, i always liked to keep my intellect up because as you guys now it now counts for spell power, mana and spell crit. The enchants were just there to boost my spellpower even more, i have tuskars vitality for the speed increase, which was useful in Wotlk so i presume will be useful in cata.
What makes you an exceptional player?** Important Question ** I think I am an exceptional player because I think I know my class, I do everything I can to the fullest potential and I like to raid and this makes me more determined to clear content.
Will post a screenshot with new 4.0 stuff tonight when doing a Bane run .
How long have you been playing World of Warcraft? I have been playing since Wotlk, but my mate played during Vanilla and BC.
What is your raid experience? (Please go into detail on raid instances) 11/12 ICC 10 and 25 Norm. 10/12 ICC 10HM. 4/12 ICC 25 HM. RS 10 and 25 Norm. 12/14 ULD 10 (12/13HM). 10/14 ULD 25 (10/13HM). 15/15 Naxx 25. 6/15 Naxx 10.
Why did you leave your last guild or why are you leaving your current guild? I just want to clear Cata content faster and do more of it.
Location (Country + TIME ZONE please): Australia, Eastern Standard Time.
Can you make all the raid times (Wed/Thurs/Sun/Mon 6:30pm-9:30pm AEST. Farm content means considerably less raid days): Yes I can make these days and others if needed.
Why do you want to join Proxy? I would like to join Proxy because I want to clear all possible content and do it quickly. Proxy cleared LKHM 25 and that is the sought of stuff I want to be doing in Cata.
How did you hear about us? Just from people, you guys are best on horde, so everyone knows about you guys.
I think you should accept me into proxy because I learn all content before raid times, I am willing to wipe and wipe and wipe, I can take criticism, I am always prepared for a raid and I am always on time and I'm not one of those 12 year old who is an ignorant no it all who thinks he is the boss of everyone and is the best at every thing and every class.
Do you disconnect often? No I very rarely disconnect.
Hey I'll take a screenshot of recount tonight when doing the bane run.
Xenophobic wrote: I'm not one of those 12 year old who is an ignorant no it all who thinks he is the boss of everyone and is the best at every thing and every class.
Try applying to a school, i hear they teach you grammar and pronunciation.
Hey, I reply to the no you're a 14 year old, I was simply trying to state that I am note going to be arrogant and I will try not to be annoying.
I am using a razer naga, that is why there are no key bindings.
Xenophobic wrote: Hey, I reply to the no you're a 14 year old, I was simply trying to state that I am note going to be arrogant and I will try not to be annoying.


What does the Personal Chess Manager do for you? It makes recording your chess moves ridiculously EASY. It's like an electronic scoresheet. A bright LCD screen showing your chessboard lets you "tap" your last move on-screen.
The Personal Chess Manager isn't a sophisticated analysis tool with brilliant features, and a chess playing program. No, it's a simple, very well designed chess game recording tool with smart, intuitive features.
Unplug the memory disk once you have some games saved, plug it right into your computer, and you instantly have a PGN list of your games which you can open with your favorite chess software for analysis.
It's a new generation of technology in chess, capable of wirelessly communicating with a Monroi tournament manager device, which can even send the tournament games right to the World Databank of Chess games where you can often watch LIVE tournament games!


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District 233 board to name next H-F superintendent Tuesday
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March 15, 2021 - 21:03
When the District 233 school board members meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, they will be announcing the appointment of a superintendent-elect for the 2021-22 school year. That person will succeed Superintendent Von Mansfield when he retires in June 2022.
The school board has been working since December with BWP & Associates, an educational search firm, to find the best candidate. The firm accepted resumes from more than 20 educators interested in the job and selected finalists to be interviewed by the school board.
The search firm also did online informational surveys with residents, held meetings with school board members, parents, staff, administrators and students to glean enough input on what the community wanted from the next superintendent.
The school board had its final interviews with the candidates via Zoom on Wednesday, March 10.
The Tuesday meeting is available via Zoom through the school website hfhighschool.org. For audio via phone call 312-626-6799 and use webinar ID 965 6943 3694 with passcode 346422.
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Q: Jenkins REST API to retrieve latest builds for all Git branches, including SHA and result I want to retrieve information on the latest Jenkins builds for all Git branches, including the commit SHA for the build and the build result and timestamp, ideally using one single REST call or at least with a constant number of REST calls, independent of the number of Git branches. So far, I have only ended up with multiple queries, dependent on the number of Git branches:
http://localhost:8080/job/test/lastBuild/git/api/json gives me an overview of all branches (buildsByBranchName), including SHA, but unfortunately lacks the result and timestamp information completely (note, that there is some buildResult reported, but it's always null). For every build reported, I'm invoking http://localhost:8080/job/test/<buildNumber>/api/json to get the remaining details. Depending on the number of Git branches, this may be (too) many calls.
Is there some more efficient way of querying for this information?

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Since we have worked on more than 140 I0T projects, we know that the Internet of Things involves a lot more than just connecting sensors to the cloud. On the basis of experience, we also know that you need an analysed comprehensive approach if you want your own IoT idea to succeed.
It is important to create the right digital strategies and business models for the company's IoT success story, and for a digital strategy to succeed, it must be strongly synchronised with the business models. We support you in defining comprehensive IoT business models that include strategy and in the synchronisation of the digital strategy.
Luomme yhdessä sinun kanssasi liiketoimintalähtöisen IoT-strategian, joka palvelee liiketoimintasi kokonaisstrategiaa ja tuo lisäarvoa liiketoimintaasi.
We utilise proven and practically tested models which help us develop an ideal digital strategy and an accurate IoT business model for you. We help proceed from the ideas of an IoT solution to its conceptualisation and from conceptualisation to a prototype in a cost-effective manner.
As your strategic IoT partner, we are involved in the design and implementation of both an internal IoT business strategy and a service collection. We help with placement strategies, plans and implementation.
With the help of our wide network we provide added value to the entire value chain. We help in developing the right kind of ecosystem strategy and enable the growth of sales as well as in finding new earning opportunities.
We help in taking your IoT solutions from ideas to concepts and from concepts to prototypes in a cost-effective manner. We enable the growth of sales and in finding new earning opportunities.
We determine your starting position with you and help you assess and identify your own business opportunities.
With the help of our expert group, you will predict errors already at a very early stage and improve your company's iteration process.
Due to our wide experience and quality background work, we can quickly determine initial implementation actions as well as an accurate strategy, which includes an operating plan, market visions and trends, customer needs as well as developing business models.


The Ocun Hawk Quickdraw set is a set of 6 quickdraws recommended for multipitch and alpine climbing. The Hawk COMBI DYN 11 feature a lightweight 10 cm dogbone to cut down on weight. Another weight-saving measure is the implementation of a wire gate carabiner for the rope side of the draw. All in all, the Hawk QD set is a great lightweight set of draws to bring with on long ultralight adventures.


Part of improving the patient experience is about making changes that have a lasting impact – and no change is too small.
This is why we are taking part in Change Day! Change Day is a grassroots campaign that originated in the UK, and was created to encourage care providers to make simple changes in their day to day roles or within their organization to improve patient care.
To truly reflect the patient voice, we have put our own Waterloo Wellington LHIN spin on Change Day. We approached our Patient and Family Advisory Committee to help us create our organizational pledge to promote and engage staff and health providers.
The Waterloo Wellington LHIN pledges to communicate effectively with patients, families and caregivers at all points of the continuum of care so that they feel valued.
We are asking all health partners to take part in our Change Day campaign – how can you better communicate with patients? If you could create a related pledge, what would your pledge be?
Take a moment and create your own pledge – think about a change you could make to better communicate with your colleagues, community partners and/or patients to ensure they feel valued, and then visit: http://www.changedayontario.ca/ to share your pledge. Be sure to tag us in your tweets about Change Day @WW_LHIN!
I pledge to ask all patients I work with if they understand the care they are about to receive.
I pledge to listen more.
I pledge to ask more questions, giving patients the space to express their thoughts and feelings.


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Q: A ring is a connected set I not know how to prove this: For example $$A=\{(x,y,z)\in \mathbb{R^3}\mid 1 < x^2 + y^2 + z^2<2 \}$$ I know that $$\partial A=S(0,1)\cup S(0, \sqrt{2})$$ can that help me at all?
I was also thinking about making this set using a function that maps a connected set into this one, but which is continuous. Again, I think that could be done using spherical coordinates, but I do not know how to do this. If anyone knows how, what if the ring in question were ellipses, or a combination of a inner ellipse and outer sphere, or vice versa ?

A: You can prove easily that it is path-connected. From a point $A$ to a point $B$ consider this path:

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*First, the arc from $A$ to the point $C$ that is the intersection of the circle through $A$ and the radius through $B$.

*Then, append the segment $BC$ to this arc.

Both pieces are clearly in the annulus, so it is path-connected.

A: Let $0<a<b$, $A =\left\{x\in \mathbb{R}^n\mid a < \| x\|  <b \right\}$ and $B=\left\{x\in \mathbb{R}^n\mid 0 < \| x\|  <1 \right\}$. Function $f$ is a homeomorphism from $A$ to $B$:
$$ f(x) = \frac{ \| x\| -a}{(b-a) \| x\|}x, $$
$$ f^{-1}(y) = \frac{ \| y\|(b-a) +a}{\| y\|} y. $$
Punctured ball $B$ is connected (you can argue via path-connectedness, as above, but easier: if origin does not lie on the segment between the given points, we are done; if it does, choose a third point that does not lie on the segment through origin and use the two new segments created).


These croquettes let you get your cheesesteak fix without getting too full. You can indulge in these tasty bites and still have room to sample everything else at the tailgate!
Technique tip: Using egg whites instead of whole eggs when breading the croquettes makes for crispier shells.
Swap option: Swap out the rib-eye for mushrooms or just go cheese all the way!
1. Grease three straight-sided 13- by 18-inch sheet pans with nonstick cooking spray.
2. In a hot heavy bottom pot, quickly sauté the ground rib-eye with 3/4 teaspoon of the salt. Remove beef and reserve.
3. Pour off some of the fat from the pan, and then add the butter and onion. Stir them with a wooden spoon, loosen any browned bits left on pot from the rib-eye. Season with the rest of the salt and curry powder. Add flour and cook the mixture until lightly golden.
4. Add warmed milk and whisk until all lumps are removed. Bring up to a boil, immediately reduce heat to a low simmer and cook, whisking constantly, until smooth, thick and glossy.
5. Whisk in cream cheese, then add the shredded provolone and mozzarella. Mix with wooden spoon. Stir in the bloomed gelatin, cook for 2 minutes. Add the reserved rib-eye and mix well.
6. Pour mixture out evenly onto the prepared sheet pans. Immediately place in the freezer to cool. When firm enough to handle, punch out croquettes with a small ring mold or glass.
1. Preheat a heavy-bottomed saucepan with about 1/2-inch oil to 350°F.
2. Place the flour, egg whites and panko in three separate bowls.
3. First dredge the punched out croquettes in flour and shake off excess. Next dip croquettes into the egg whites. Finally dredge the croquettes into the panko.
4. Chill breaded croquettes for at least 15 minutes before frying.
Fry the croquettes for 1 minute on each side until golden. Serve hot.


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20 March 2015 (13:30-18:00), Women in STEM: a celebration of research excellence, Plymouth University. One day symposium to bring together PhD students, postdoctoral and early-career researchers as well as experienced academics to highlight world-class research by women in STEM. Keynote speakers include Professor Suzanne Skevington (Professor of Health Psychology, University of Manchester), Professor Deborah Greaves (Professor in Ocean Engineering and Director of the Coast Laboratory, Plymouth University) and Dr Kerry Howell (Reader in Marine Ecology, Plymouth University), and talks will be followed by structured discussion sessions.
15 October 2014 (13:30-18:00), WiSET Ada Lovelace Day, Alan Turing Building, Room G.107. We will be celebrating the life of Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and the world's first computer programmer. Professor Dame Celia Hoyles will be talking about the first woman 2014 Fields (International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics) medallist Maryam Mirzakhani and her work. University academics, industrialists and students will also share their own stories about their career pathway; talking about what they do and the teams they lead, inspirational people met along the way, what it's like being a woman in STEM, challenges faced (at any career stage) - and overcoming them, any tough choices to be made, maintaining a healthy work life balance, and more. Robogals will provide demonstrations and you can meet the STEMettes. To book click here or please email Helen Ryder. Click for Joining Instructions (including programme).
10 September 2014 (12:00-14:00), Wiki Women in Science Editing Session, University of Manchester Main Library, Blue 4 Teaching Suite. We will be editing Wikipedia articles and creating new pages, to improve and increase the content of female scientists on Wikipedia. No booking required. Please email Helen Ryder if would like further information.
13 & 27 August 2014 (12:00-14:00), Wiki Women in Science Editing Session, University of Manchester Main Library, Blue 4 Teaching Suite. We will be editing Wikipedia articles and creating new pages, to improve and increase the content of female scientists on Wikipedia. No booking required. Please email Helen Ryder if would like further information.
4 August 2014 (16:30), Feminist Reading Group, Ellen Wilkinson Building Seminar Room 2, University of Manchester. We will be chatting about Angela Carter's short fairytale "The Bloody Chamber". Readings and info either by emailing Camilla Rostvik or the Facebook group
16 & 30 July 2014 (12:00-14:00), Wiki Women in Science Editing Session, University of Manchester Main Library, Blue 4 Teaching Suite. We will be editing Wikipedia articles and creating new pages, to improve and increase the content of female scientists on Wikipedia. No booking required. Please email Helen Ryder if would like further information.
23 June 2014 (09:00-17:00), Public Speaking and Communicating Your Research: Masterclass for Women in Science, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London. Join physicist, engineer and television scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock on this one day practical course to learn how to communicate your research effectively with clarity and passion. Booking required please email Cleo Howard, fee payable (£245 + VAT).
23 June 2014 (12:00-16:30), National Women in Engineering Day Event, Concorde Hangar, Manchester Airport. WiSET Event to celebrate women in STEM. We will hear inspirational stories, discuss challenges and share personal experiences. We will host technical tours of Concorde alongside a structured networking session with female engineers, scientists and technologists from academia and industry. Men also welcome! Free event, transport provided. Our keynote address will be given by Dr. Danielle George, Reader in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning. Booking required - booking form here or email Helen Ryder. Read our NWED2014 Event Report.
19 June 2014 (10:30-11:30), National Women in Engineering Day Lecture, School of Chemistry, Lecture Theatre G.53. Lesley Yellowlees, Professor of Inorganic Electrochemistry in the School of Chemistry at University of Edinburgh (Athena SWAN Gold Award) and the first woman president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, will join us to share her story; highlighting her proudest moments as a woman in STEM, how she maintains her drive & love of science and remains optimistic that all women can reach their full potential. Booking not essential but please email Helen Ryder.
6 June 2014 (09:00-17:00), Public Speaking and Communicating Your Research: Masterclass for Women in Science, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London. Join physicist, engineer and television scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock on this one day practical course to learn how to communicate your research effectively with clarity and passion. Booking required please email Cleo Howard, fee payable (£245 + VAT).
22 May 2014 (16:30-17:30), Athena SWAN Panel Discussion, Manchester Museum, UoM. Event about the participation of women in science. Panellists include Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, Professor Dame Tina Lavendar, Professor Dame Nicky Cullum and Professor Helen Gleeson. The panel will be facilitated by Professor Chris Griffiths. Booking required - email Helen Ryder.
22 May 2014 (10:30-16:00), Wiki edit-a-thon, Main Library, UoM. Event to improve and increase the content of female scientists on Wikipedia. Booking required - follow link.
22 May 2014 (10:30-16:00), Athena SWAN Silver Workshop, Sackville St, UoM. Event to help you understand the awards process, see what judging panels are looking for, exchange good practice and network.
26 March 2014 (14:00-16:00), Work Life Balance Focus group, STDU, Humanities Bridgeford Street. We are offering staff the opportunity to provide feedback on what they consider to be the challenges of managing work/life balance effectively, and to share experiences of how they have personally dealt with these challenges. Booking required - email Helen Ryder.
25 March 2014 (18:00-19:30), Women's Voices Amplified: Women in Science, UoM Students Union. Second in a high profile series of events featuring women alumni and staff. Athena SWAN Coordinator on the panel. Download flyer.
19 March 2014 (17:30), Women in Science Lecture Series, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical London. Listen live online to the Inaugural Women in Science lecture by Prof. Dame Sally Davies (Chief Medical Officer for England). Book your ticket online (via Eventbrite). This prestigious lecture series aims to highlight the work of women in research. The focus of the lecture is on the speaker's career, how being a woman has influenced the decisions she has taken and identifying lessons that can be learnt that are broadly applicable to other people's career choices and pathway in research and policy.
7 March 2014, International Women's Day Awards Ceremony, Manchester Town Hall. Success for the Centre of Women's Mental Health - winner of the Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Award. Success for Prof. Margor Brazier, School of Law - winner of the Women in Legal and Business Award. See news article here.
5 March 2014 (13:00-15:00), International Women's Day FMHS Event, Uni Place, UoM. Event for MHS students/staff to raise awareness and celebrate women across the Faculty in particular their contribution to changing organisational culture. IWD2014 MHS Flyer.
3 March 2014 (14:00-15:30),International Women's Day WiSET Event, Uni Place, UoM. Event for EPS students/staff to help boost confidence and self-belief. .
Internal Events 2015
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Researcher Parent Trap
Information session is aimed at early career researchers at The University of Manchester that have or are planning to start a family.
Policies and procedures for expectant and existing parents - Karen Scoresby, HR Policy Manager
Athena SWAN - why does it affect you and where you choose to work? - Helen Ryder, Athena SWAN Coordinator
Support at the University - Sarah Mohammad-Qureshi,
Resuming your research after a career break - Katie Perry, Chief Executive, The Daphne Jackson Trust
Download the NWED2015 Flyer
Download the NWED 2015 Welcome Pack and read the bios of 20 leading ladies in the field of engineering.
Read the NWED 2015 Report here
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The University supported Manchester's WonderWomen Campaign by producing a video celebrating inspirational women at the University of Manchester. Click here to find out more and watch the film.
From 5 March-9 March 2015 posters were displayed in University Place Foyer celebrating women's achievements across the University. Manchester Pharmacy School focussed on postgraduate research, sharing experiences from current students and increasing contribution of female students, and also highlighted their international research in Africa. Leading female researchers from the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work displayed work about current Midwifery Research and Fear of Birth. The School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, School of Dentistry, and School of Physics and Astronomy case studies demonstrated how their School's inclusive cultures and working practices have enabled the progression of their staff and students.
Again the University was well represented at the Manchester International Women's Day Awards (Friday, 6 March 2015) celebrating Manchester's strongest and most inspirational women. Congratulations to Professor Caroline Dive, the Deputy Director of the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, who won the award for 'Breaking Through in Business, Legal or Science and Technology' category. Manchester alumnus Kirsty Harrison, who graduated from Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science in 2012, was one of the three finalists in the same group as Caroline. Kirsty was also shortlisted for the 'Young Women Breaking Through' category. Jess Lishak, from the Students Union, was shortlisted for the 'Breaking Through in Campaigning' category for her Reclaim the Night work.
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The Financial Times iPad app will be sponsored at launch by Hublot, the watchmaker, subsidising a two-month free access period, highlighting interest in Apple's device from advertisers, a constituency as critical as readers to media owners.
Apple has allowed only a few publishers – including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal – to work with the device and there will be just a handful of dedicated media applications for the device at its US launch this weekend.
The early apps display a wide variety of business models, suggesting that there is little consensus among publishers about how to exploit a category of mobile devices they hope will help change the economics of content.


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April 15, 1865 while The president Abraham Lincoln watched the play in the balcony seat at Fords theater John Wilkes Booth came from behind the president and shoot him with a percussion cap pistol
Then leaping from the balcony to the stage escaped the theater to ride away on a horse.
on October 3, 1942, Nazi Germany launched a V2 Rocket.
The V2 Rocket was the first manmade object to break the sound barrier.
In only 70 years, one life time! The world saw automobiles, telephones, computers, radio, radar, submarines, aircraft and missiles into space! 4 years after that the Nuclear Bomb
The next 50 years we had satellites in space, the landing on the moon, the DNA sequencing and cloning. the invention of microprocessors, artificial intelligence, robots on mars exploring the planet! Where is the film developers for your camera? Where are the telephone booths that Neo used to escape the matrix? What would James Bond give for your smart phone? Does anyone cook without a microwave? Does anyone remember how to cook from scratch?
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OMG! The earth is NOT FLAT but the Universe IS!
Another chapter of history has been written with the compilation of the data gathered by the WMAP team in 2008. All the data confirms that the universe is flat!
Ah! you will say but mankind before Columbus believed the earth was flat too.
That is not true!
Let's review the facts.
With extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat.
A round earth appears at least as early as the sixth century BC with Pythagoras, who was followed by Aristotle, Euclid, and Aristarchus, among others in observing that the earth was a sphere. Although there were a few dissenters–Leukippos and Demokritos for example–by the time of Eratosthenes (3 c. BC), followed by Crates(2 c. BC), Strabo (3 c. BC), and Ptolemy (first c. AD), the sphericity (ball shape) of the earth was accepted by all educated Greeks and Romans.
Ah but you will say Christianity changed that. That is not true. A few–at least two and at most five–early Christian fathers denied the sphericity of earth by mistakenly taking passages such as Ps. 104:2-3 as geographical rather than metaphorical statements. On the other side tens of thousands of Christian theologians, poets, artists, and scientists took the spherical view as described in Isaiah 40:22 which discribes the earth as a circle dwelling in the heavens as a man dwells in a tent; throughout the early, medieval, and modern church. The point is that no educated person believed otherwise. Historians of science have been proving this point for at least 80 years (most recently Edward Grant, David Lindberg, Daniel Woodward, and Robert S. Westman), without making notable headway against the error. Schoolchildren in the US, Europe, and Japan are for the most part being taught the same old nonsense.
I know what you're thinking. What about Copernicus or Galileo or their followers? Their challenge was not that the earth was spherical but had to demonstrate the superiority of a heliocentric (sun centered) system over a geocentric (earth centered) system. NO EDUCATED MAN OF HISTORY BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS FLAT!
Well if no one in history believed the earth was flat then why do we believe they did?
It began with the writings of two men.
One a Frenchman Antoine-Jean Letronne whose book On the Cosmographical Ideas of the Church Fathers printed in 1834 said the church fathers believed in a flat earth.
The other an American who is no other than our beloved storyteller Washington Irving (1783-1859), who loved to write historical fiction under the guise of history. His misrepresentations of the history of early New York City and of the life of Washington were topped by his history of Christopher Columbus printed in 1828. It was he who invented the indelible picture of the young Columbus, a "simple mariner," appearing before a dark crowd of benighted inquisitors and hooded theologians at a council of Salamanca, all of whom believed, according to Irving, that the earth was flat like a plate. Well, yes, there was a meeting at Salamanca in 1491, but Irving's version of it, to quote the distinguished modern historian of Columbus, Samuel Eliot Morison, was "pure moonshine. Washington Irving, scenting his opportunity for a picturesque and moving scene," created a fictitious account of this "nonexistent university council" and "let his imagination go completely…the whole story is misleading and mischievous nonsense."
What does this have to do with computers? absolutely nothing! I have other interests, my world isn't flat. 🙂
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Rick's going to have a tough time moving forward.
Warning: There are major spoilers ahead for Sunday's mid-season premiere of AMC's "The Walking Dead," "Honor."
"The Walking Dead" returned Sunday with a big send-off to one of its original characters.
When we last saw Rick and the gang, the leader of Alexandria was shocked to discover that his son Carl (Chandler Riggs) was suffering from a zombie bite. Fans waited until February to learn his not-so secret fate.
This is your last warning before spoilers.
Chandler Riggs has played Carl for eight seasons on "The Walking Dead."
Though some fans held on to hope that Carl would make some miraculous recovery, there was no turning back from a walker bite to his side.
Carl took the situation into his own hands, after saying goodbye to his father and best friend Michonne, and took his life in the remains of Father Gabriel's church.
While fans are processing the death of one of the show's longest-running characters, they should slightly be comforted in knowing that Carl's send-off has a bigger purpose.
"I think what they [fans] can take away from Carl's death is that it's not a senseless death," episode director and executive producer Greg Nicotero told INSIDER. "There's some meaning and purpose behind it and we see the fact that Rick and Michonne are able to say goodbye to him and that he goes out with a lot of dignity."
Rick and Michonne process the news that Carl was bit.
Nicotero said as far as he knows, there were never conversations to kill off anyone else on the show but Carl. He was talking about the idea to kill off the character since the fourth or fifth episode of season eight. Though, Nicotero said this is something showrunner Scott Gimple could have had in mind for a while.
"I think they [the 'Walking Dead' team] had been thinking about it [Carl's death] in regards to propelling our story forward," said Nicotero. "I mean, it's a really big deal and in terms of the war, I think the thing that's important is, you know, in the comic books it's kind of over relatively quickly [the war]. So, I think for our purposes it was really just about keeping the motivations clear about what the stakes are."
Carl's death may serve as the impetus to get Rick to swallow his pride and end the war with Negan.
At the heart of the show, "The Walking Dead" has explored the idea of morality and who the characters are becoming in the face of the zombie apocalypse. As we've seen in recent seasons, it's turned the usually peaceful Morgan into a vengeful killer and Daryl into someone bent on revenge after he was kidnapped by the Saviors in season seven.
But killing off the few remaining, breathing inhabitants of the world around them might not be the right answer in the long run in a world full of the undead.
"With Carl, it gives him an opportunity, a very, very strong opportunity to reach out to Rick and try to make him understand what the stakes are and that the world in front of them is a completely clean slate," explains Nicotero. "It's up to him to define what society can become and I think the feeling was, there weren't a lot of characters on the show that could have that kind of impact on Rick. Carl is really the biggest one that can really try to lay down some blue prints for him."
Carl starts to have a serious conversation with his father about the direction of the war with Negan on the season eight premiere. It continued in November's mid-season finale.
Those blue prints include Carl telling Rick about his visions for the future, the ones where he imagines seeing Negan living in harmony with the Alexandrians at the episode's very end.
"That's really Carl's vision of the future and our hopes are that Rick can hear what he has to say and take that to heart because, otherwise there's not going to be anybody left to live on the planet," says Nicotero.
We now know that this flash-forward sequence was Carl's ideal vision for the future.
Carl's death is going to be used to help end the ongoing war between Rick and Negan. How that will happen remains to be seen, but Negan had a great respect for Carl. There was even a point where he wanted him to work with the Saviors.
Negan even made Carl spaghetti once.
It's tough to imagine that Carl's death won't have some sort of impact on Negan.
"Carl clearly has a different perception of what he wants for the world. He doesn't participate in the war. Carl is charged with keeping Alexandria safe," said Nicotero. "So the idea that Carl was not killed as a result of the war is tremendously important."
Nicotero acknowledges that not everyone in the fandom is going to be happy after the mid-season premiere. After all, viewers have watched Riggs grow up on screen since 2010.
Everything Rick has done on "The Walking Dead" has been for Carl. Now, he'll have to see if he can carry out his wishes.
"I know the people that are going to be upset," said Nicotero of the expected reactions to Carl's death. "The people that are going to be angry, hopefully will understand that we really wanted to make sure that we pay tribute to a very loved character and a fantastic actor. I think there are aspects of the episode that are really beautiful and I feel like it's a great story that we were able to tell."


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which is not a freshwater fish
Many freshwater biomes can be found in the Amazon River, Florida, and Russia. Like most barbs, needs a diet with some vegetable food or algae. A small shell-dwelling cichlid from Lake Tanganyika. The bristlenose genus has at least 59 identified species and many others yet to be named. Their unique appearance and high… To be honest I would much rather eat a wild fish caught in a clean lake over any farm raised 'ocean' fish that is fed garbage and has no nutrients. This powerful leaper can easily jump out of an aquarium, so keep only in a fully covered tank. One of the few freshwater aquarium fish that survive in cold water. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Once you get the hang of it, you can haul in a large amount of fish … Breeding pairs leap to deposit eggs on overhanging leaves; may jump out of uncovered tanks. Generally hardy and peaceful; considered a standard choice for less experienced aquarists. This species is known for predatory behavior toward tankmates. Read More. Native to costal streams and estuaries; keep in brackish water or add crushed coral to water. Every freshwater fish doesn't have the same quality and taste. The Beluga Sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in the world. A freshwater biome can be any pool of water that doesn't contain salt. Long-finned and extra red morphs are available. Several species of panaque are popular aquarium fish. Either way, there is almost a certainty that at one point, you are going to deal with snails. several color varieties; this species is the common angelfish in the aquarium trade. Siamese fighting fish (sometimes Betta, esp. This fish largely resembles catfish, and that is why a number of the catfish varieties are usually mistaken for basa fish. A good beginner fish, but sensitive to water quality. These are not your typical…, The glowlight tetras is one of our favorite freshwater species. They're not picky eaters, so you can feed them live, frozen, flaked foods, they'll eat it all. We've been fans of this species…, The blue gourami is a stunning freshwater fish that's very fun to own. freshwater synonyms, freshwater pronunciation, freshwater translation, English dictionary definition of freshwater. Species landing page for Freshwater fish. Sometimes called Feeder platy because can be used to feed larger fish like Stingrays, Payara, Cichlids, Pickerel, Catfish, Sunfish, Arowanas, Gar, Arapaima, and other predator fish. Some fish can have an adverse reaction to a FW dip by appearing unable to maintain their equilibrium once returned to the aquarium. However, 1.75–2% of freshwater is frozen in polar ice caps and glaciers as ice, and 0.5–0.75% exists as groundwater. Because of their shark-like appearance, people tend to include schools of this fish species in their shark-themed tanks. Although they are smaller than the tiger shovelnose, these catfish are extremely aggressive and extremely fast. User: Which of the following does not contribute to water pollution?a. Also known as Harlequin tetra or Harlequin barb. The heads and entrails of our fish are processed into commercial bait and high nutrient fertilizers. Sexually dimorphic; males larger, with expanded dorsal fin. John. Hardiest, easiest-care species of aquarium pencilfish. More aggressive with members of its own species than most pencilfish. Hardy and tolerant. Several color varieties available. This list gives some examples of the most common species found in home aquariums, List of freshwater aquarium amphibian species, List of freshwater aquarium invertebrate species, List of freshwater aquarium plant species, List of marine aquarium invertebrate species, The Aquarium Wiki Encyclopaedia List of Freshwater aquarium fish, http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Corydoras-haraldschultzi.html, http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Corydoras-sterbai.html, http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=12199&AT=Threestripe+corydoras, "Everything You Need to Know About the Bristlenose Catfish", "Phractocephalus hemioliopterus (Red-tail Catfish)", "Hyphessobrycon megalopterus summary page", "Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi summary page", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_freshwater_aquarium_fish_species&oldid=989269144, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with incomplete citations from September 2013, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Note that Amphilophus labiatus is also called red devil cichlid, Note that Amphilophus citrinellus is also called red devil cichlid, Exceptionally beautiful adult coloration; large adult size, Common, very easy to breed, aggressive. The bloodfin tetra is distinguished by its red fins. Investors and policymakers urged not to overlook freshwater fish farms. Freshwater sharks are often sold as juveniles and advertised as community fish. Why a Freshwater Fish Cannot Survive in Saltwater. Water temperature: 73 to 82 °F (~23 to ~28 °C) … The Platy Fish, is another great choice for beginner fish keepers. For more and more folk today they are choosing to own a freshwater fish … Can live … There are over 5,300 species of freshwater fish that are raised in captivity by aquarists across the globe. Angelfish are not the friendliest fish especially when it comes to feeding time, and they'll come to the surface of the tank when they see you approaching. Keep in species only tanks or with small. Pairs hold small territories around caves or pots and display to neighbors. This fish is similar to the neon tetra other than coloration. Populations vary in color and pattern. All are hardy, peaceful, and highly social; keep in groups. Most people use common names when talking about aquarium fish. Bright red coloration on males; females are slightly larger and show less red. Not actually a type of killifish but a livebearer. They're also…, Emerald Dwarf Rasboras are a beautiful freshwater fish that are seriously underrated. Simple and comparatively easy to care for, the freshwater aquarium business is a multi-billion dollar industry today. This fish is very hardy and can stand a variety of water qualities. One of the most common fish for new aquarists. Fish chunks in ceviche will turn opaque and firm, but the citric acid does not necessarily kill all the bacteria or parasites in the flesh. To survive fresh water, the fish need a range of physiological adaptations. Several color morphs available. Red Tail Shark. One of the best choices for first-time cichlid keepers and smaller aquaria. Once upon a time, there was this man dangling his feet over a dock in waters of southeastern United States. Basa fish is among the famed freshwater fish varieties. Can live without aeration. Many aquarium hobbyists underestimate the amount of time and effort it takes to set up and maintain a thriving planted tank. Suitable for small to mid-sized aquariums but cannot compete with more aggressive fish and males kept together may fight. Peaceful and very bold; for example it is unafraid of gravel cleaners and algae scrubbers. Good at preying on snails. It needs a cave, and will feed when the aquarium light is out. Requires space to swim; not suitable for nano tanks in spite of its small size. Their size, behavior, and stunning looks…, Denison Barbs (aka Roseline Sharks) are a beautiful and active freshwater fish that make a great addition to…, The Tiger Barb is an amazing freshwater fish that definitely lives up to the hype. often sold as freshwater fish, but this species actually thrives in brackish water and may even require saltwater when reaches adulthood, often sold as freshwater fish, but this species prefers brackish water, Very hard to feed it anything but live food, Despite the name, this is not an "eel" but rather a huge knifefish; illegal to possess in some areas; dangerous; very large adult size, Encyclopedia of Aquarium and Pond Fish (2005) (, 500 Aquarium Fish: A Visual Reference to the Most Popular Species, This page was last edited on 18 November 2020, at 00:49. lutino variety can also be found in the aquarium trade, sold as feeder fish; the gold variety known as "rosy red" is very common (the image is of the "rosy red" strain). Naturally swims and rests at a 45-degree angle. A schooling species. It will school with similarly sized and tempered fish. A vast number of aquatic species have successfully adapted to live in the freshwater aquarium. A highly spirited fish that may occasionally chase its own species as well as harass slow moving fish with long fins. These catfish are very appealing when small, but may grow somewhat large. Adults of both sexes develop spectacular reflective scales. Cambodian log sucker, false Siamese algae eater, This species may be sold as Siamese algae eater. Despite their beauty, the discus is one of the least hardy aquarium fishes available. Many other cyprinids are sometimes mistakenly sold under this name. This fish should only be kept by the experienced aquarium keeper. Not as common as other livebearers in the aquarium trade. Peaceful and dwells at the top of the tank in schools. They're a slightly larger and very colorful freshwater fish that come in a bundle of different variations. They like river sand in the tank because they like to cover themselves in it. this species may be sold as Siamese algae eater. It depends on which fish it. Kite fishing is a new, creative and complicated way to fish. Neon Tetra (Paracheirodon innesi): This small size freshwater fish is known for its dazzling colors … Needs generous amounts of plants. Do freshwater fish breed with other freshwater fish? Males may claim small territories and occasionally minor battles may occur. When searching for information, it is preferable to use the scientific name, which is normally in Latin. Males do spectacular displays with their expanded dorsal and anal fins. Does not usually breed in captivity. They're peaceful, low-maintenance, and a lot…, Common Plecos are a very popular freshwater fish that have been kept in the aquarium community for ages.…, The Leopard Frog Pleco (L134) is one of our all-time favorite freshwater fish. Very likely to jump out of the aquarium especially after reaching adult size. Peppered corydoras, salt and pepper catfish, Threestripe corydoras, leopard catfish, false julii cory. The oscar prefers to be with members of its own species, but this is not a necessity for its well being. Nile Puffer freshwater fish has a striking appearance, and like all other pufferfish can change color depending on its mood. Plants and animals in freshwater regions are adjusted to the low salt content and would not be able to survive in areas of high salt concentration (i.e., ocean). Difficult to keep with other green sunfishes, other sunfishes, or even other perciform fishes in general unless kept in very spacious aquaria or ponds. The oscar should be put with fish of similar size as they will eat any fish that can fit in their mouth. Sensitive to water quality. Disease is not a big problem with the black tetra. They're colorful, active, easy to care for, and…, Lemon tetras are a lovely freshwater fish that can add a special pinch of color to any aquarium.…, Fantail goldfish are a popular and gorgeous freshwater fish that are great for beginners and experienced owners alike.…, Diamond tetras are gorgeous freshwater fish that don't get nearly enough attention. Like all pencilfish, males may be aggressive with each other if the tank or the group of pencilfish is too small. The fish thrives in water that has been added aquarium salt. The female black tetra is more robust and larger than the male. Considered most beautiful freshwater fish by some killifish enthusiasts. FRESHWATER FISH 'FRESHWATER FISH' is a 14 letter phrase starting with F and ending with H Synonyms, crossword answers and other related words for FRESHWATER FISH We hope that the following list of synonyms for the word freshwater fish will help you to finish your crossword today. They are best kept and bred in killifish-only aquaria. Having a Cichlid aquarium is a bit more challenging, as not all Cichlid species can live together, and not all freshwater fish can live in the same water condition as Cichlids. has different varieties including long-fin, albino, golden, etc. Also known as the Queen loach. Many…, The kissing gourami is a very interesting freshwater fish that stands out no matter what. Almost all rainbowfish species are bred in captivity and wild populations may be protected. Ask Questions, Get Answers Menu X For whatever reason, they just aren't…, Shubunkin Goldfish are a popular and interesting fish that have earned the attention of aquarists all over the…, Oranda Goldfish are an interesting freshwater fish that bring a unique element of beauty to any aquarium. Having a Cichlid aquarium is a bit more challenging, as not all Cichlid species can live together, and not all freshwater fish can live in the same water condition as Cichlids. Contrary to some beliefs, a citrus bath does not actually "cook" meat in the same way heat does. High oxygen level and water quality required in addition to a strong current. Very likely to jump out of the tank unless there are some floating aquatic plants. Snails can enter your tank purposely or not; sometimes they can sneak into the tank with other fish that are put into the water (as they are caught in the net with the fish) or with the plants that are put into the aquarium. very peaceful and hardy, and works well with white clouds and neon tetras. Suddenly, a… Like all pencilfish, it is timid, eats small foods, enjoys live/frozen foods, can be bred in captivity, and cannot compete with aggressive fish. image: Big Fishes of the World. Molly Fish 101: Care, Types, Food, Lifespan & More! These Cichlids have one of the most unique body shapes and grow to be larger than most people expect. They work well with other fish but should be kept in a school of 3 or more if you want more than 1. This common name is used for three different species of schooling fish with similar patterns: Active, sensitive to water quality, prefers moving water. With an endless list of hobbies at your doorstep you may be finding it difficult to choose one which is appropriate for you. Aggressive, Very active fish, need many rock caves to allow establishment of territories, Cobalt blue cichlid, cobalt zebra cichlid, 'giraffe' spotting is juvenile coloration only. The largest of the shovelnoses, this catfish grows huge and will need a 450 US gallons (1,700 L) min when mature. The name "silver dollar" may also refer to, The red-bellied pacu is a close relative of the. US), Numerous color and fin pattern varieties. There are around 150 species of puffer fish, but only 29 are truely freshwater puffer fish. Generally, freshwater is defined as containing less than 0.05% of dissolved salts. When searching for information, it is preferable to use the scientific name, which is normally in Latin. A freshwater tank can be a glass or acrylic of any size. Keep in groups of 3 or more. A very active species. Requires a very large tank. Not in the same numbers, but I had six in one session on the Ouse. This powerful leaper can easily jump out of an aquarium, so keep only in a fully covered tank. For ideal fish health, freshwater tropical aquariums should be kept at around 77 degrees F but they can easily survive under temperature which ranges from 72 to 82 degrees F. Normal support of aquarium water, including close consideration regarding water temperature, will guarantee that your freshwater tropical fish remain healthy. I think they were dumped in from someone's fish tank, and thrived because of the warm water outlets. However, a corresponding reflection on the temporal aspects of research has been lacking. Likely the most aggressive sunfish. They also prefer floating plants. They are also very common in the aquarium industry, and many a newbie has brought home an angel or … The Phantom tetra goes well with other tetras of similar size. Anyone remember the cichlids that used to thrive in the St Helens canal years ago? Peaceful when small but should not be kept with other species at adulthood. Formerly considered conspecific with the spotted sunfish. Especially, the hump of this cute chubby fish … The variegated pattern and cute plump body of this fish are often adorable in the eyes of fishkeepers. A schooling fish (keep in groups). a number of similar Pangio species are sold under the same name. Blue Gourami 101: Care, Tank Mates, Lifespan, Size…, Bleeding Heart Tetra 101: The Complete Care Guide, Endler's Livebearer Care 101 (Poecilia Wingei). Could be territorial. Sufficiently peaceful for larger (40 gal+) home aquariums, though it may bite fishes smaller than its size. State fish and wildlife agencies change regulations all the time. It blows our mind…, White Cloud Mountain Minnows are a freshwater fish that we highly recommend. They don't get large. Granted they may not be as tasty or have the mouthfeel of a fatty saltwater fish they are perfectly fine to eat. Has been highly inbred in the aquarium trade and often shows poor hardiness. But, as you can see from this article, they have some very precise care requirements. Betta is the name of the, Various color varieties each given a different name (blue gourami, gold gourami, and opaline gourami). Eats mainly algae. Several color varieties have been bred. A schooling species (keep in groups). A small shell-dwelling cichlid from Lake Tanganyika. Diamond Tetra 101: Care, Tank Mates, Size & More! Typical Size: Up to 5.5″ (male) and up to 6.3″ (female) Typical … Hunts and eats small shrimp. 31.4 cm (12.4 in) at maturity, 37 centimetres (15 in) maximum length. This genus (often represented by N. anomala, the golden dwarf cichlid) is often recommended as one of the best cichlids for new cichlid keepers and smaller aquaria. Most common variety is the Blue Paradise. For beginners, start with a simple tank, a good filtration system, and a fish … One of the smallest fish in the world. Until recently considered conspecific with the longear sunfish. Many color and tail pattern varieties exist. Due to their small size, the neon tetra should not be kept with large or aggressive fish. One of the several fish sold under this name. The most hardy of all the hatchetfish, but not the most plentiful. Production systems. A "neon" form is available; both males and females are bright red. Peaceful and dwells at the top of the tank in schools. One of the most popular Hypancistrus species. What is proposed in this story is not an unusual management position: It is currently how we manage trout, bass and walleye (and many other "game" species) in every U.S. state. By reducing this non-native fish population, we will help restore America's waterways back to their natural ecosystems while feeding America. Cons/Side Effects – Not a permanent "fix" for any disease, as FW dips are not usually effective enough to eradicate all of the parasites/worms afflicting the fish. Distinguished from the similar L. similis by the lack of striping on the face. The fish is born with eyes, but they quickly deteriorate leaving behind two scars where the eyes once were. various color varieties, the discus requires high water quality and a varied diet. [24] Many species of this fish exist, but are not yet officially identified; the three common aquarium species are known as L-018, L-081, and L-177. Often confused with the croaking gourami. 1. Generally hardy and peaceful. Can only be fed live or frozen foods. Kite Fishing. Like other sturgeon, it's part of the oldest known group of fishes, which is estimated to be 200 million years old. the black phantom tetra enjoy being in groups of 6 or more and a slightly shaded tank. Prefers low light and somewhat higher temperatures than the neon tetra. These hardy and easy to look after fish are best for freshwater/mildly brackish water environments. I remember reading reports of them making up a part of the match weights at the time. Aggressive and territorial towards other fishes especially its own kind during mating and after spawning, Kribensis, krib, many common names because of many subspecies. This means their body cells contain similar concentrations of ions as freshwater. Freshwater fish are isotonic to freshwater.
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Q: Could not get every words inside span element in Selenium automate tool? Using Selenium automate tool, I tried to automate on this simple online typing site.
So, my automate script goes like this:
import time
from selenium import webdriver

browser     = webdriver.Chrome('/home/narun/Downloads/soft/chromedriver_linux64/chromedriver_linux64 (1)/chromedriver')
URL = 'https://onlinetyping.org/typing-test/typing-test-wpm-10minutes.php'
browser.get(URL)

time.sleep(3) # waiting every elements finish loading

wordsection = browser.find_elements_by_css_selector('#word-section span')

wordlist = []
text = ''

for span in wordsection:
    if span.text !='':
        wordlist.append(span.text)

if wordlist:
    text = ' '.join(wordlist)

print text # text for typing

typebox = browser.find_element_by_id('typebox')
typebox.send_keys(text)

After opening a website, I paused my script for 3 seconds in case some elements are not ready loading.
Then after I got those words inside span elements of ID word-section section, I generated them into a text ready for typing input.
However, my problem is I could get only half of typing, thought. From inspecting element, I found every typing words is already inside span element of ID #word-section, but why my selector script could not get all of them? Thanks.

A: I totally agree with @pcalkins comment, you have a lot of words, using find_elementS will run pretty slow, run a javascript and do whatever you want with the result, also, stop the usage of the sleep and use WebDriverWait as the code bellow:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait

browser = webdriver.Chrome('/home/narun/Downloads/soft/chromedriver_linux64/chromedriver_linux64 (1)/chromedriver')
URL = 'https://onlinetyping.org/typing-test/typing-test-wpm-10minutes.php'
browser.get(URL)

WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(expected_conditions.invisibility_of_element((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.waiting')))

script = 'return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\'#word-section span\')).map(cell => cell.innerText)'
word_list = browser.execute_script(script) # ['word1', 'word2', ...]
text = ' '.join(word_list)

type_box = browser.find_element_by_id('typebox')
type_box.send_keys(text)


I've always thought of poetry as a kind of foreign language. It has its own logic and is accessible only through repeated exposure. You think you don't get it, and then, one day, you find yourself thinking thoughts you simply cannot express in your first language.
I stumbled across two poems referencing nuns yesterday. Two nun poems in one day! One is cold and frozen, and I found her in a tweet from ModPo that lead me to this page. The other was Emily Dickinson (722). I found it in Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson praising the mountains themselves as the Madonnas, the abbess of all who worship the mountains.
I've long put off reading Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson. It seems to have uneven critiques and it is very short – I didn't want to plunk down money for a short book (sorry, I don't generally love short books) that seemed to have a 50/50 chance of offering me something. I wasn't convinced I could love Emily Dickinson any more, but I hadn't considered loving Emily Dickinson differently.
Wrong. The book itself a journey. If you love poetry and love how it takes your mind to both tiny and tremendous places that were always within your grasp, and yet you had not yet visited…you'll like Susan Howe's book.
Today's drawing was pretty much an accident. It is done on my sketch pad and started out as thumbnails for Probably In Love, practice pieces that were meant for the dust bin. Then, one thing lead to another and I found myself doodling on the sketches while ruminating on Susan Howe's words and on Emily Dickinson's words, and the colored pencils were on my desk, and today's post happened.