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MoUs signed at Bangalore India Bio 2013 on Day 1 - Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services (KBITS) with Scottish Development International (SDI) and KBITS with Georgia Department of Economic Development
Bangalore: Bangalore India Bio 2013, which is India's premier biotech forum renowned for calibrating the pulse of the biotechnology industry, started in the biotech capital of India, Bangalore, on February 4, 2013.
This three day event, which is expected to witness over 800 delegates, saw two important memorandum of understandings (MoUs) being signed on day one. One was between the Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services (KBITS) and the Scottish Development International (SDI) and another between KBITS and Georgia Department of Economic Development.
The agreement between KBITS and SDI will promote and encourage investment opportunities between the industry and academic communities in India and Scotland. The MoU was signed by Ms Anne MacColl, CEO, SDI, and Mr Vijay Shankar, executive director, KBITS.
Ms MacColl said that, "Over the last decade, we have seen significant growth in trade and investment between India and Scotland. Karnataka is one of the pioneering states in India to offer a conducive environment for the life sciences sector to develop and grow. With one of the largest life sciences clusters in Europe, Scotland is well placed to provide expertise and collaborative opportunities to benefit both the countries."
There are already many Indian companies such as Piramal Healthcare, Axsys Technology, and Tata Consultancy Services, among others that are operating in Scotland. Omega Diagnostics, a Scottish company that manufactures, develops and distributes medical diagnostic products and in-vitro test kits has its office in India as well. Another Scottish firm, Touch Bionics is looking at entering Indian market with its i-LIMB, first fully articulating bionic hand.
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Grace Crowley
being modern
23 December 2006 – 6 May 2007
Introduction | Conservation | Crowley works in the National Gallery collection
Grace Crowley 'Ena and the turkeys' 1924 oil on canvas Private collection enlarge
Becoming an artist –
Australian pastoralism
Crowley's long journey to becoming one of the most modern of Australian artists had an inauspicious beginning. Born into a wealthy family of graziers who had pioneered European settlement in the Barraba region of northwest New South Wales, Crowley was brought up on the family property. Nothing in her background of hardy pioneers would have set her upon the course of becoming an artist and she recalled that growing up her 'contact with anyone interested in art was NIL'.1 That she became an artist at all, let alone one of the leaders of the avant-garde in Australia, is remarkable.
The Crowley family traces its origins in Australia to John Crowley, a convict who arrived in 1803, transported for life for stealing a sheep. His son William took up a large run, Cobbadah, in the Nandewar Ranges near the township of Barraba, north of Tamworth. In 1845 William married Emma Baines and their fifth son, Henry, born in 1854, was Crowley's father.2 He married Elizabeth Bridger in 1878 and they set up home at The Forest, close to the main homestead at Cobbadah Station. However, the rural depression of the 1890s, together with the division of William Crowley's estate among his many children, severely affected the family's fortunes. As Crowley recalled, 'When I was born things were tough in the country. Graziers those days had lots of land and fresh air and that's about all'.3 Henry had built a slab house consisting of two large rooms connected by a breezeway at The Forest where all of their children were born.
Grace Adela Williams Crowley was born on 28 May 1890, the eldest daughter and fourth of five children. In 1893, the family moved to Cobbadah Station, which had been purchased by Henry in partnership with one of his brothers after their father's death. A forceful personality, Henry was to clash with Crowley as she grew up. In contrast, Crowley's mother was
a gentle, softly spoken woman, who Crowley remembered as 'always sewing, baking, washing, mangling, ironing, getting ready for visitors, getting hens, gardening etc., etc. and et cetera'.4Crowley and her sister were brought up never to raise their voices in anger or in laughter, and all her life Crowley was known for her genteel demeanour. Yet there was another side to Crowley and, while her niece recalled that there was nothing obviously rebellious about either her appearance or her manner, she was considered the rebel of her family.5 She was also known for her fiery temper, of which her family learnt to be wary, and that 'when she went off she could really go off'.6
In 1899 the partnership between Henry and William Crowley was dissolved and Henry purchased Glen Riddle, a property of 15 000 acres on the southern side of Barraba. Reflecting the family's increasing prosperity, a large brick homestead was built, into which the family moved around 1900. Crowley's upbringing was conventional: she and her younger sister Florence were educated at home by a governess and the family observed the manners and mores of their class.
Crowley recalled that as a child her first drawings were done with white chalk on the smooth side of an old square brown tank behind the kitchen. Later, she would draw the animals around the farm, and a drawing of her father's prize bull was framed and hung in his office. Crowley's early efforts were clearly of some pride to her family and, around 1903, her mother sent one of her pen-and-ink drawings to New Idea, where it was reproduced in the children's page and won a prize. According to Crowley: 'encouraged by this success my Mother forwarded it on to "Gossip" who conducted a page in The Stock and Station Journal for his opinion. "Gossip" showed it to Souter (do you remember Souter's cats?) who said, "Your little girl has the gift" and advised an art training'.7
Grace Crowley 'Empying carts, White Bay' c.1921
pencil on ivory wove paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Bequest of Grace Crowley 1979 enlarge
Souter's opinion was possibly enough for the family to decide that Crowley's talent should be encouraged or at least indulged. When, in 1905, Crowley and Florence were sent to Sydney for a year of school at Methodist Ladies College in Burwood, Crowley's clergyman uncle, Archibald Crowley, encouraged her parents to allow her to attend classes one day
a week at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School. For her to be allowed to do so, Archibald also had to enrol in the classes
and accompany Crowley to and from the school.
While Ashton was later to play a major part in Crowley's development as an artist, and become a close friend, she remembered that her early time at Ashton's 'had bored me to death as a school kid'.8 She had wanted to paint pictures, but Ashton started beginners in the cast room, where they spent many hours making precisely rendered drawings of plaster casts. Crowley only attended the school for two terms before returning to Glen Riddle in 1906, where she was now expected to take on a greater share of household duties. Crowley was clearly frustrated as, although the drawing classes had not fired her with enthusiasm to be an artist, neither did she want to take on the expected domestic role. As she recalled:
When I returned to Glen Riddle I did no more drawing. I felt deflated – or was it partly because my Mother believed firmly that 'a woman's place was in the home' and the best way to introduce us to 'household duties' was to sack the maid! Anyway, our time was more than full of 'woman's role'.9
Ashton had been invited to visit Glen Riddle in 1906 and returned in 1909 for a painting trip when Crowley was nineteen. Ashton's visit revived Crowley's interest in art and she accompanied him on his early morning painting trips when she too 'became deeply engrossed in the attempt to seize the "momentary effect of light"'.10 However, it was several more years before Crowley returned to Sydney and enrolled as a student with Ashton again.
The date of Crowley starting at the Sydney Art School has been variously given as 1912 or 1915. Crowley herself created this confusion, giving the date as 1912 in correspondence with Daniel Thomas and later correcting it to 1915 for the catalogue of his 1975 Project 4: Grace Crowley exhibition.11 She later conceded that 'events between 1912 and 1915 are difficult to place in continuity, and I doubt if ALL that time was spent in study at the school, nor would ALL the time have been spent at G.R. [Glen Riddle]'.12
In late 1914 she became engaged to her first cousin Gordon, who owned a remote property between Narrabri and Barraba. Soon after their engagement, Gordon enlisted for the First World War, but just before he was due to sail, he was invalided out of the army and he returned to his property. Around this time Crowley broke off the engagement for reasons unknown.13
What is clear is that in 1915 she was enrolled as a full-time day student at the Sydney Art School and 'certainly not with the approval of my parents'.14 However, this time:
I became enthusiastic about the anatomical head and figure, and still more absorbed in the nude figure when I entered the life-class – but then I was 8 years older and able to appreciate the master's relentless insistence on the accurate 'training the eye'. The structure of the human figure absolutely fascinated me so I guess I paid more attention to that sort of thing than any of the other students in the Sydney Art School when I was there. We had the skeleton, and the anatomical figure, and I'd trot along to the museum and make drawings there, hands, that sort of thing.15
Grace Crowley 'Horses pulling plough' 1920, oil on canvas on cedar panel, National Gallery of Australia, purchased 2001 enlarge
Yet already at this early stage Crowley was aware of the limitations of Ashton's teaching, which is significant in light of her later preoccupation with pictorial construction: 'J.R.A did not teach composition. Once returning from Glen Riddle with an effort I had been struggling with of men mustering horses, Norman Lindsay gave me a valuable lesson on how to organise the group of horses … At that time N. Lindsay god to art students!'16
Crowley's first teacher at the school was Mildred Lovett, who was soon after replaced by Elioth Gruner, at that time a rising star in the Sydney art world. Crowley quickly established herself as an outstanding student and a favourite of Ashton's and in 1916 had a drawing selected for the annual exhibition of the Society of Artists, of which Ashton was president.
During a sketching trip to Gerringong, near Wollongong, in late 1914, Crowley met Anne Dangar and began a friendship that was to play a major part in both of their lives.17 Their initial meeting was inauspicious. Crowley later recalled that every night before she went to bed, Dangar hid her money from Crowley in her shoe. Dangar's first impressions of Crowley also were not promising: 'she looked as though she wouldn't say BOO to a goose'.18 In 1915 Dangar joined the day class at the Sydney Art School, as did Dorrit Black, and by the following year the three friends were living together in a flat in Potts Point, then moving together to Craigielea in High Street, Neutral Bay, sometime later. During these student years Crowley acquired her nickname 'Smudge' by which she remained known to her close friends.
In mid 1918 Gruner resigned his position at the Sydney Art School to enlist for the First World War and Crowley was appointed in his place. Crowley was a popular teacher, yet despite her diminutive size could also be somewhat intimidating. A former student, Karna Birmingham, related her impressions of Crowley: 'you pattering down the "antique room" in those little dancing pump shoes you used to wear – your hair in a marvellous bun, all smoothly swathed … If you only knew with what awe we looked at you, and your drawings done in one beautiful flowing line'.19 From about 1920 Ashton's failing health meant that his visits to the classes became less frequent and Dangar was appointed as an assistant teacher to help Crowley. She later recalled that between the two of them they carried the school.20
Throughout this time Crowley continued to visit Glen Riddle, which provided the main subjects for her painting. While very few works from this period remain, the titles of her early exhibited works – such as Waiting for the ploughing c.1918, Plough horses c.1919 and Milking yard c.1919 – indicate her main interests. Sydney also provided interesting subjects, including the excavations at White Bay, and she was fascinated by the movement of men, horses and carts there. The drawing Emptying carts, White Bay c.1921 is one such study and appears to be used as the basis for a later painting.21 One of her earliest paintings, Horses pulling plough 1920, shows Crowley working in the conventional late-impressionistic manner popular at the time. Similarly, the celebratory rural themes of her work accorded with the nationalistic mood that prevailed in Australia following the First World War. Having grown up in the country, all her life Crowley felt a deep affinity with such subject matter, and she continued to draw at Glen Riddle until the late 1930s.
While the first ripples of modernism had been felt in Sydney from as early as 1915, Crowley did not respond to these new developments. It is not known whether Crowley saw the 1915 or 1916 Royal Art Society annual exhibitions in which Grace Cossington Smith and Roland Wakelin exhibited their post-impressionist works. She did, however, know Roy de Maistre,
a fellow student at the Sydney Art School in 1916, 'and to anyone who wanted to listen, he would talk about colour'.22 In 1919 Crowley accompanied Ashton to the opening of de Maistre's and Wakelin's experimental and controversial Colour in art exhibition in which the artists exhibited abstracted landscapes based on colour–music principles. Crowley remembered Julian as 'strongly disapproving' and Howard's [Julian's son] critique in the Sun, as 'scathing'.23 As Ashton's head teacher, it is likely that Crowley would have shared his negative assessment. While modernism was slowly making an appearance in Sydney, in these early years Crowley remained firmly aligned to the mainstream in art.
In mid 1923 Crowley resigned her teaching position at the Sydney Art School to concentrate on preparing works for the recently re-established travelling scholarship of the Society of Artists. She returned to Glen Riddle to work, a decision that she was to later regret as 'the domestic situation had become impossible'.24 Unfortunately none of the works that she submitted are known to have survived and are not known by reproduction, although the principal work, The milking yard c.1923, 'was inspired by the familiar sight of a man milking, surrounded by cows'.25
Crowley believed that, as head teacher of Ashton's school and with his support, she was favourite to win the scholarship. The awarding of the scholarship to de Maistre was unexpected and a shattering blow to Crowley.26 Apparently the votes of George Lambert and Thea Proctor, both influential and pro-modernist artists, had given the scholarship to de Maistre, and Ashton was outraged. In a letter to Sydney Ure Smith he accused Proctor of 'bulldozing' Lambert to support de Maistre and resigned his presidency of the Society of Artists in protest.27 While bitter at the time, and believing that de Maistre had won because of his society connections, in retrospect Crowley considered that the loss of the scholarship was 'a deliverance rather than a calamity otherwise I would have studied at the Slade London, like other scholarship winners'.28Instead, Crowley, through the enthusiasm of Dangar, set her sights on Paris. This decision was to have far-reaching consequences, introducing her to more advanced forms of modern art than prevailed in England at the time.
Grace Crowley 'Mary and the babe' 1925
oil on canvas, Private collection enlarge
Soon after the loss of the scholarship, Crowley and Myra Cocks, a former student who had also submitted works for the 1923 travelling scholarship, briefly visited Melbourne, where, on the suggestion of Julian Ashton, they attended the classes of Bernard Hall at the National Gallery School. Crowley and Cocks were not impressed by Hall and apparently Hall was not impressed by them: 'me thinks B.H. "not amused" – neither were we – deadly teacher. Met two delightful people Geo. Bell and his wife, also Daryl Lindsay'.29 Crowley's time in Melbourne and contact with these artists did not seem to make any lasting impression on her, although in the 1930s she was to exhibit with Bell and the Contemporary Art Group in Melbourne.
Returning to Sydney, Crowley would have been aware that the tide was gradually turning in favour of modernism. Lambert's return to Australia in 1921 was an important event for many Sydney artists and his public support for modern British art has been considered as a milestone in the wider acceptance of modernism.30 In 1924 Wakelin returned to Sydney after two years overseas where he had studied the works of Cézanne, an event which was a watershed for Dangar. At his lecture at the Sydney Art School he displayed his recent paintings for the first time, and Crowley recorded that 'Wakelin returned from abroad head filled with Cézanne … the walls were filled with the best paintings he has done before or since, Anne and I much impressed by paintings'.31 Dangar later recalled that '[Cézanne] had shaken me so much that for two years I put all the money that I earned (8 pounds per week) into the savings bank to come to Europe to study "modern art" in the manner of Cézanne'.32 Crowley, however, was not convinced: 'I remember her [Anne's] interest in Cézanne's theories of pictorial construction. However, J.R.A [Ashton] did not share it with her … Indeed at that time neither did I.'33
That Crowley did not respond in the same way as Dangar is hardly surprising given her admiration and friendship with Ashton and her position as head teacher and stalwart of the Sydney Art School until 1923. From 1920 her works were also being well received. She included seven paintings and four drawings in the 1921 Exhibition of paintings in oil and water colours and drawings in black and white by eleven Australian women, alongside Dangar and Black, and her paintings were the highest priced. A pencil portrait drawing, Study c.1921, was reproduced in the catalogue of the1922 Society of Artists annual exhibition. In 1924 she participated in the Exhibition of work by the younger group of Australian artists and her painting Ena and the turkeys 1924 was reproduced in colour in Art in Australiaand singled out by William Moore in his review: 'From a technical standard the works of Crowley were among the most proficient. She is one of the few who are painting outback subjects and should produce something distinctive in this phase of art.'34
The sentimental theme of a bush childhood of Ena and the turkeys is reminiscent of Lambert's A bush idyll 1896. Crowley's young niece Eena is depicted at her brother's property near Barraba; the distant landscape of gum trees shimmers in the light of the Australian summer. Yet the rhythmic semicircle of the turkey's fans is an early indication of Crowley's fascination with geometric forms35
Despite having lost the travelling scholarship, Crowley remained determined to further her studies overseas and decided to accompany Dangar to Paris. She was also beginning to experiment with post-impressionism – in 1925 Crowley painted a work that in its subject and manner departed from her earlier works. Mary and the baby 1925 is Crowley's first major figurative work, and uses large areas of contrasting high-key colour. There is an increased emphasis on design, with the curve of the umbrella being a dominant element in the composition. While the subject matter is somewhat sentimental and traditional, it is clear that Crowley was cautiously responding to some of the changes occurring in art in Sydney. That Crowley was pleased with this work is borne out by the fact that she took it to Paris with her.
On 17 January 1926, after a farewell party hosted by the Sydney Art School students, Crowley and Dangar boarded the steamer Ville de Strasbourg bound for Marseille. Crowley left Australia at the age of thirty-five with a modest reputation as an artist and teacher and a solid academic training in draughtsmanship. Many years later she summed up this first phase of her life: 'I was in Australia a post-impressionist, and considered quite sane.'36
1 Grace Crowley, handwritten biographical notes, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
2 The full story of the origins of the Crowley family in Australia is detailed in Betty Crowley, A Crowley story: family history from 1775, 3rd edn, Fairlight, NSW: Betty Crowley, 2000.
3 Grace Crowley, Grace Crowley, Archival art series, Smart St Films, Melbourne: Australian Film Institute, 1975.
4 Grace Crowley, correspondence with Margaret Curell, 10 February 1975.
5 Eena Job, Skeletons, Queensland: Eena Job, 2001, p. 21.
6 Elena Taylor, conversation with Brian Smith and Eena Job, 9 May 2006.
7 Grace Crowley, 'Grace Crowley's student years', in Janine Burke, Australian women artists, 1840–1940, Collingwood, Victoria: Greenhouse, 1980, p.77. DH Souter was a well-known black-and-white artist.
8 Crowley in Burke, p. 78.
9 Crowley in Burke, p. 78.
10 Grace Crowley, handwritten biographical notes, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
11 In her correspondence to Thomas, Crowley related a story that placed her age at 22 when she started at the Sydney Art School, making the year 1912. Grace Crowley, handwritten biographical notes to Daniel Thomas, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
12 Grace Crowley, handwritten biographical notes to Daniel Thomas, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
13 Job, p.23.
14 Crowley in Burke, p.78.
15 Grace Crowley, interview with James Gleeson, 25 August 1978, NGA Research Library, transcript, p. 5.
16 Grace Crowley, handwritten biographical notes, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
17 Bruce Adams, Rustic Cubism: Anne Dangar and the art colony at Moly-Sabata, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, p.11.
18 Grace Crowley, notes on Anne Dangar, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
19 Karna Birmingham, correspondence with Grace Crowley, 27 October 1976, Grace Crowley Papers, AGNSW Research Library and Archive
20 Students at the school included Ralph Balson (evening), John Passmore, Rah Fizelle, Gerald Lewers (evening) Herbert Badham (evening), Nancy Hall, Joan Tillam, Isabel Huntley and Enid Cambridge.
21 Horse and cart and buildings 1921 – the present location of this work is unknown. It is reproduced in black and white in Deutscher Fine Art, Australian art: colonial to modern, exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: Deutscher Fine Art, 1985, cat.66.
22 Grace Crowley, handwritten biographical notes, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
23 Grace Crowley, handwritten biographical notes, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
24 Crowley in Burke,p.80.
25 Grace Crowley, draft of letter to Mary Eagle, 1977, Grace Crowley Papers, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
26 All her life Crowley considered that she had 'lost the scholarship to de Maistre'. Myra Cocks, Herbert Badham and Mary Edwards also entered.
27 Julian Ashton, letter to Sydney Ure Smith, 8 May 1923, quoted in Heather Johnson, The Sydney art patronage system, 1890–1940, Grays Point, NSW: Bungoona, 1997, p.53.
28 Grace Crowley, draft of letter to Mary Eagle, 1977, Grace Crowley Papers, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1. While the awarding of the scholarship to de Maistre has been considered a win for modern art, it has been suggested by Heather Johnson in Roy de Maistre: the Australian years, 1894–1930 that, in the lead-up to the scholarship, de Maistre deliberately returned to a more conservative style of painting to win the approval of the judges.
29 Grace Crowley, draft of letter to Mary Eagle, 1977, Grace Crowley Papers, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
30 Anne Gray, George Lambert 1873–1930, Sydney: Craftsman House, 1996, p. 108.
31 Grace Crowley, handwritten biographical notes, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
32 Anne Dangar, 1949, Zodiaque, no. 8, 1952, quoted in Adams, Rustic Cubism, p.15.
33 Grace Crowley, notes on Anne Dangar, Grace Crowley Papers, c.1975, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.
34 William Moore, 'The younger group', Art in Australia, third series, no. 9, October 1924.
35 I am grateful to Daniel Thomas for pointing this out.
36 Grace Crowley, draft letter to Murray Bail, 19 March 1978, Grace Crowley Papers, AGNSW Research Library and Archive, MS 1980.1.


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Same here...but tomorrow...I'm definitely going to attempt to stand and balance on the ball.
If I can, then I'll move on to trying to free squat lol.
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Hi guys I am upgrading from a 65L tank to a 160L tank. Currently in the 65L i have 8 guppies (they were born and raised in that tank) and 5 neon tetras.
I have researched and compiled a list of fish that i would like:
3 more neons
2 otos
3 pearl gourami
1 red tailed shark
2 clown loaches
1 peppermint pleco
any advice as to which order to introduce them, compatibility or other suggestions would be greats.
03 more neons
2 otos
3 pearl gourami
1 red tailed shark
2 clown loaches
1 peppermint pleco
First of all, I think you have room for more than 8 neons and frankly with a school of only 8 they're going to be feeling pretty insecure. I would say 20 would be a good number -- at least.
Pearl Gourami are territorial, so the rule is one-per-tank.
Clown Loaches get far too big for a 160L tank, and also require a school. A suitable loach for your tank would be a school of 8 or so Dwarf Chain Loaches. They stay a suitable size and are a fantastic fish to keep, I have a school in a tank of a similar size to yours. Info here -- http://www.loaches.com/species-index...ia-sidthimunki
If you don't like the Dwarf Chains, cories are a good alternative for a bottom-dweller. They also require a school and 8 would be ideal. They come in many different varieties such as Bronze, Albino, Peppered, Panda, Sterbai and Julii to name a few. It is important to have a group which are all the same.
I would not recommend a Red-tailed Shark in a 160L tank. A Rainbow shark may be suitable, but you would have to nix the loaches or cories and the pleco too as he would claim the entire floor of the tank as it territory. I also think they would frighten the neons and possibly fight with the gourami. Sharks just don't make good community fish.
If you are going with a Pepperment Pleco I would probably suggest you nix the ottos, or get the ottos instead of the pleco.
So that would bring your stocking to:
- 20 Neon Tetras
- 8 Guppies
- 1 Pearl Gourami
- 8 Dwarf Chain Loaches OR 8 Sterbai Cories (or other variety, whichever you like best)
- 1 Pepperment Pleco OR 3 Ottos
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my only exception to that suggestion is no gourami. I've had horrible luck with them. lol
and I would be concerned with the size of the gourami scaring your neons, but the neons being in a good school that size would help.
other than that, you'd have a killer set up with what ammeliaahx has suggested.
I agree with the above posts. The only additional suggestion I have is to keep Otos in much larger numbers. They are very sociable and in a tank that size I'd have 10-15 as they are small, and stay small."Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
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3 more neons
2 otos
3 pearl gourami
1 red tailed shark
2 clown loaches
1 peppermint pleco
NO WAY! Why would you even consider a red tail shark with tiny neon's and otto's? It was suggested to go with ONE gourami and no loaches. Agree to that but also NO shark!
What you should be doing is getting the tank set up, making sure you have the proper filtration and starting the fishless cycle. That will give you 3 weeks to think of stocking. (Directions in my signature.) I would start a thread asking for suggestions of what would work rather than tossing out a bunch that will not?
That 17 gallon would make a good tank for a neon tank, too.
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3 neons. Good idea
2 otos. Bit low, but doable. Stock up some algae wafers, all too many of them starve.
pearl gourami. With care you could do a male/female pair. Otherwise dwarfs.
red taileds, I know it's a popular beginners fish but you don't have the space for one. It will grow, get grumpy and beat everyone up
As said, clown loaches is 12 inch/30cm of highly sociable fish, not a good plan.
peppermint pleco, that's Parancistrus nudiventris . Not the best idea, that's a very warm water fish. You'd need ot run at 26 sharp.
You got some options but that depends on your water and how you set up the tank.
If you plant, get some wood in, few rocks on sand you could do half a dozen bronze cories and a bristlneose for the bottom. Run a school of 12 neons and start thinking about a small apistogramma like cacatuoides for example.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.


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While the rules don't specifically mention it, it is viewed as a switch.
While the rules don't specifically mention it, it is viewed as a switch.
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In HRC, they tie a ribbon on the diversion bird for a reason. Many dogs have delivered both the diversion and the mark at the same time, and passed.
As long as the one on the outside, has the ribbon.
A diversion is not a mark (at least in AKC rules)
The OP was talking about a dog going for the long bird and picking up the short on the way back to the line. He established a hunt on the long bird
and was recalled (handled in) and then established another hunt.
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I would argue that it is not a switch since the dog retrieved two birds on his two hunts.
I consider a switch to be when a dog goes to an AOF, establishes a hunt then leaves that AOF WITHOUT coming up with a bird to go hunt another AOF
If it was a seasoned or senior hunt test, the birds (marks) would be widely separated and not returning promptly and directly would be a serious fault, IMHO. I looked in the HRC rule book and didn't see anything that directly applied. Nevertheless, a dog going a 100 yds or so off a reasonable return line would not be an obedient dog, IMHO.
Plus the purpose of the double is to demostrate memory. Maybe he did that but maybe not.
If memory bird was such that he could wind the bird on the way in, was that showing memory?
This is such an easy thing to fix. I am not a judge, so maybe one or two experienced judges could tell us what they think.
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I personally would not drop that dog, others might. Like I said, as a handler I'll just avoid the whole situation by calling my dog in away from that bird if it looks like he might try that.
This would be hard to judge in a field trial as we are placing dogs against each other, I wouldn't know how to score that mark, but less problematic in a hunt test, like I said, "bonus points" for the dog.
In a AKC HT a "switch" is defined as a dog leaving a hunt or dropping a bird to go after another. Some years ago a friend had a lab who would routinely pick up the diversion bird on a return w/o dropping the bird in mouth. This past weekend the dog picked up the poison bird blind, then ignored commands to come in and picked up the flyer as well. In the first case, no foul, no harm. In the later, yer out. While it might not cause the dog to be dropped, depending on the situation, it's a habit that - as in the later example - could cause a problem. As suggested, a come-in whistle means just that.
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Whistle, sit, No here, I practice it in training. Nothing more frustrating, then have a dog blow off many whistles, as you try to handle Or have to shut down the trial, go with a four wheeler to pick the dog up. It has happened to me with a FC/AFC more then once. I have judged some nice dogs one a National Amateur Field Champion, the owner/handler chased the dog down about a quarter mile from the running line! That dog had just won the National stake about three months before. There are many reasons for this behavior that could be discussed in another thread, but, not here. They are just dogs is the old many, times used, statements. Others times I have picked dogs up at the line, because of line issues and never let them have a bird, expensive yes, but it isn't all about ribbons, it's just because. Welcome to field trials.
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Learning Goal
By the end of this lesson I will be able to calculate the rate of change using rise over run of various lines.
What if you were given two points that a line passes through like (-1, 0) and (2, 2)? How could you find the slope of that line? After completing this Concept, you'll be able to find the slope of any line.
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Wheelchair ramps at building entrances must have a slope between and . If the entrance to a new office building is 28 inches off the ground, how long does the wheelchair ramp need to be?
We come across many examples of slope in everyday life. For example, a slope is in the pitch of a roof, the grade or incline of a road, or the slant of a ladder leaning on a wall. In math, we use the word slope to define steepness in a particular way.
To make it easier to remember, we often word it like this:
In the picture above, the slope would be the ratio of the height of the hill to the horizontal length of the hill. In other words, it would be , or 0.75.
If the car were driving to the right it would climb the hill - we say this is a positive slope. Any time you see the graph of a line that goes up as you move to the right, the slope is positive.
If the car kept driving after it reached the top of the hill, it might go down the other side. If the car is driving to the right and descending, then we would say that the slope is negative.
Here's where it gets tricky: If the car turned around instead and drove back down the left side of the hill, the slope of that side would still be positive. This is because the rise would be -3, but the run would be -4 (think of the axis - if you move from right to left you are moving in the negative direction). That means our slope ratio would be , and the negatives cancel out to leave 0.75, the same slope as before. In other words, the slope of a line is the same no matter which direction you travel along it.
Find the Slope of a Line
A simple way to find a value for the slope of a line is to draw a right triangle whose hypotenuse runs along the line. Then we just need to measure the distances on the triangle that correspond to the rise (the vertical dimension) and the run (the horizontal dimension).
Example A
Find the slopes for the three graphs shown.
There are already right triangles drawn for each of the lines - in future problems you'll do this part yourself. Note that it is easiest to make triangles whose vertices are lattice points (i.e. points whose coordinates are all integers).
a) The rise shown in this triangle is 4 units; the run is 2 units. The slope is .
b) The rise shown in this triangle is 4 units, and the run is also 4 units. The slope is .
c) The rise shown in this triangle is 2 units, and the run is 4 units. The slope is .
Example B
Find the slope of the line that passes through the points (1, 2) and (4, 7).
We already know how to graph a line if we're given two points: we simply plot the points and connect them with a line. Here's the graph:
Since we already have coordinates for the vertices of our right triangle, we can quickly work out that the rise is and the run is (see diagram). So the slope is .
If you look again at the calculations for the slope, you'll notice that the 7 and 2 are the coordinates of the two points and the 4 and 1 are the coordinates. This suggests a pattern we can follow to get a general formula for the slope between two points and :
Slope between and
In the second equation the letter denotes the slope (this is a mathematical convention you'll see often) and the Greek letter delta means change. So another way to express slope is change in divided by change in . In the next section, you'll see that it doesn't matter which point you choose as point 1 and which you choose as point 2.
Find the Slopes of Horizontal and Vertical lines
Example C
Determine the slopes of the two lines on the graph below.
There are 2 lines on the graph: and .
Let's pick 2 points on line —say, and —and use our equation for slope:
If you think about it, this makes sense - if doesn't change as increases then there is no slope, or rather, the slope is zero. You can see that this must be true for all horizontal lines.
Horizontal lines ( = constant) all have a slope of 0.
Now let's consider line . If we pick the points and , our slope equation is . But dividing by zero isn't allowed!
In math we often say that a term which involves division by zero is undefined. (Technically, the answer can also be said to be infinitely large—or infinitely small, depending on the problem.)
Vertical lines constant) all have an infinite (or undefined) slope.
Watch this video for help with the Examples above.
CK-12 Foundation: The Slope of a Line
- Slope is a measure of change in the vertical direction for each step in the horizontal direction. Slope is often represented as "".
- Slope can be expressed as , or .
- The slope between two points and is equal to .
- Horizontal lines (where constant) all have a slope of 0.
- Vertical lines (where constant) all have an infinite (or undefined) slope.
- The slope (or rate of change) of a distance-time graph is a velocity.
Guided Practice
Find the slopes of the lines on the graph below.
Look at the lines - they both slant down (or decrease) as we move from left to right. Both these lines have negative slope.
The lines don't pass through very many convenient lattice points, but by looking carefully you can see a few points that look to have integer coordinates. These points have been circled on the graph, and we'll use them to determine the slope. We'll also do our calculations twice, to show that we get the same slope whichever way we choose point 1 and point 2.
For Line :
For Line
You can see that whichever way round you pick the points, the answers are the same. Either way, Line has slope -0.364, and Line has slope -1.375.
Use the slope formula to find the slope of the line that passes through each pair of points.
- (-5, 7) and (0, 0)
- (-3, -5) and (3, 11)
- (3, -5) and (-2, 9)
- (-5, 7) and (-5, 11)
- (9, 9) and (-9, -9)
- (3, 5) and (-2, 7)
- (2.5, 3) and (8, 3.5)
For each line in the graphs below, use the points indicated to determine the
- For each line in the graphs above, imagine another line with the same slope that passes through the point (1, 1), and name one more point on that line.


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hey guys, good thread. ive learned quite a bit. as i mentioned earlier, im not an expert on fisheries or the politics involved. but, i base my opinions on the experiences i have while on the water. i fish the salmon 2-3 days a week from october till mid march. in the last several years, i just havent seen a decline in steelhead numbers on the river. at least not where im fishing, and i DONT fish the fly zones. i guess it just depends on how often you fish and maybe sometimes where you fish. interesting to see different points of view. best, mark
In my opinion the state will not significantly reduce the chinook stocking numbers anytime soon. Bottom line is that the charter boys on the lake call the shots regarding the fishery...this has become more apparent than ever in the last year. The chinook is their bread and butter fish and I am convinced that they would rather see the whole fishery collapse than give up the chinook. On top of that the stake-holders in Pulaski (i.e. tackle shops, gas stations, motels etc) have built an entire economy on a 2 month stretch in the fall when the salmon run and the circus begins. Very shortsighted in my view but that is the reality of it.
You are right, there is something to be said about Steelhead fishing in solitude!
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Dmas, thank you, and that is consistent whit my observations. I feel that steelhead numbers int he area are way down and declining. While there is a lot of 'guidespeak' and blameflinging going on, it seems to me the principal cause is stocking of many more fish than the ecosystem can support. There4 was great fishing while the stocked fish were busy depleting the forage base, but now we are swinging into an equilibrium. The real question is whether anybody is investigating the 'maximum sustainable yield' or the maximum salmonid density that the Lake Ontario forage base can support.
My guess is the number would be MUCH lower than what the state has been stocking.
This spring I fished the area hard for two days (with a guide) for one 14" rainbow (steelhead??) and one other steelhead hit. My son scored a ~6lb brown (which had sevceral fresh lamprey bites). It was fun and the crowds were minimal, but that's the least fish we got there per hour of effort since I began fishing the river. Reports from other fishermen seemed similar.
On the good side, 1 steelhead per 2 days is still a respectable number and is low enough to really chop crowds. In that sense, the Salmon river might actually become more fun to fish for dedicated anglers.
Maybe this decrease in fish numbers will help address the river's meatpit mentality.
Why do they keep stocking such a large ratio of chinooks to steelhead?
This is some very good info. My talks with DEC biologists and my personal experiences seem to confirm what you have stated. Thanks for posting it and keeping us informed.
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It's interesting how individual perspective sometimes varies from the data based on personal experience. MarkNY...sounds like you have been having some fun with the chrome lately which is great! But believe it or not, it is actually the Steelhead fishery that is in significant decline in Lake Ontario and it has been for probably the last 10 - 15 years. Check out the LOSA website for the link to presentations that the DEC put together for the state of the lake this year and for more info on the subject.
Lots of data has been generated over the last 15 years and the fact that the steelhead numbers are significantly down is impossible to argue at this point. Salmon River returns have actually been declining to the point where the state is starting to get anxious about having enough returning Washington State fish to supply the egg demand. In addition, returns for Ganny Strain fish on the Canadian side are also way down from historical highs in the mid 90's. These are all wild fish so some of the problem has to do with the liberal creel limits set buy the Canadians at 5 fish per day but if you talk to the Biologists who have the creel data etc. they feel that there is more to it than that. Its a very complex problem and nobody to this point really knows exactly what the issue of Steelhead survival is other than the fact that the fish are not surviving to adulthood in the Lake. Most biologists feel that the decline is related to the exotic zebra/quagga infestations that began in the early 90's as this is when the steelhead decline started. Diporia (shrimplike invertebrates)...a staple food for young Steelhead have virtually dissapeared in the lake, and this is again probably linked to the mussels.
I have seen no data that suggests that the Chinook fishery is depressed from a numbers standpoint at this time. In fact last season was probably the best season that the lake boys had with chinooks since the halcyon days of the mid 80's. I would agree that you wouldnt get too much of an argument that the chinooks are recently trending smaller on average than they used to and the DEC feels that this is likely due to a decrease in Alewife fitness. The wild card in all of this is that there are very significant numbers of wild chinook that are produced in the Salmon river each year now ever since the new water licensing agreement went into effect in the mid 90's. That is well documented but what is not known at this time is how many are surviving to adulthood. So another theory is that the steelhead are now expensive fish food for chinooks who key on the steelhead more because of less forage is available in general. I have not seen any data to support this but it seems plausible.
Finally, I just read a summary of a summit that was held regarding EMS (Early Mortality syndrome...the thiamine deficiency problem that is plaguing Great Lakes salmonids among other fish populations). It appears that chinooks need less thiamine to survive relative to the other species so a diet on Thiaminase rich Alewives isnt as problematic for them. In addition there is evidence that the changing structure of the food web out in the lakes is making the problem worse becaue the fish are lacking certain specififc lipids (I believe) that theye are not getting now and are related to the problem from a biochemisrty standpoint. So that may have something to do with the decline.
Because many of our rivers are tailwater fisheries we still get Steelhead that Stack up in the rivers and fishing can still be unbelievable at times but the data does not lie. I also believe that most fisherman that were around in the 80's had much more productive Steelhead fishing than they do now...at least that is the case with the fisherman that I run with.
Sorry to be so long winded but this is an important issue that has been much politicized lately. South shore steelhead trib fisherman (who have one fish limits and who creel data shows are virtually all C&R with Steelhead now anyway) are attempting to reduce the liberal creel limits that the charter boys enjoy out on the lake in an attempt to spread the wealth. As you can imagine they want nothing to do with it and they are well organized and connected in Albany. Anyway, there is a ton more information out there on the subject...just Google a bit and you will stumble across it.
Tight Lines and I hope you are into all the chrome you can handle come fall.
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josko, im not an expert on this subject, but here are my thoughts. if any part of the fishery is degrading, it would the salmon fishery. that doesnt include the steelhead fishery by any means. if anything, the steelhead fishery is on the up. steelhead, being more diverse in there feeding behavior dont rely on forage fish like salmon do. therefore, the forage fish depletion in the lake(due to lower phosphate levels, nutrient absorbing zebra mussels) isnt putting the steelhead fishery in jeopardy. its hard to say what will happen with the future salmon runs, although i hope its just a hurdle that needs to be overcome and not the end to an excellent salmon fishery. either way, i think the steelhead is the fish that will carry this fishery. plenty more to say, but thats enough. dont give up on the salmon. best, mark
Salmon river fishery
My recent experiences in the vicinity of Pulaski point to a degrading fishery for steelhead and salmon. I've heard it said that's due to earlier overstocking efforts and the resultant depletion of forage fish in the lake, but I'd be very curious to hear others' view on this issue.
What's happening with the salmonid fishery in Lake Ontario tributaries? Is there a long-term issue here?
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