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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
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Very new a couple of questions. O.k. I'm going to try to answer all the questions that you need to know and I figured that this would be the easiest way to make sure. 1. Size of aquarium (# of gallons) 10 2. Is your aquarium set up freshwater or saltwater? Freshwater with aquarium salt. 3. How long the aquarium has been setup 3 days 4. What fish and how many are in the aquarium (species are important to know) I have a black molly, a creamsicle molly, a swordtail, a sunburst, and a fiddler crab. In a separate bowl I have a male betta. 5. Are there live plants in the aquarium? I have some bulbs, but no plants growing yet. 6. What make/model filter are you using? Not sure 7. Are you using a CO2 unit? I don't know what this is. 8. Does your aquarium receive natural sunlight at any given part of the day? It is in a sunny room, but not near any windows. 9. When did you perform your last water exchange, and how much water was changed? Just started new water 3 days ago, only had aquarium going for one day before adding fish.(Didn't know better, now I do. ) 10.How often and what foods do you feed your fish? Tropical fish flakes once a day. 11.Is your aquarium light incandescent or fluorescent and how often is it kept on? It is incandescent and I keep it on about 10-12 hours a day. My sons received these fish as a birthday present this weekend and now I have been reading and taking notes for several hours trying to figure out everything that needs to be done to take care of them. 1. I'm a little confused on how to cycle the tank with the fish in it, since this obviously wasn't done and seems to be very critical to keeping them alive. I have the conditioning salt and the water was treated with aqua safe. I have the ph tester strips(water is at 7.0 right now) temp is staying around 80 degrees. What do I need to do for this tank immediately to make sure that I don't kill these fish. They do at least seem like they are happy at this time and swim all over the tank. 2. I am most worried about the betta, he seems so lonely in his little bowl and not very happy.(it is only a half gallon. ) I now know that I need him in a bigger tank and will get one as soon as possible. So I was worrying that I would have to get a bigger place for him and worried that the fish in the 10 gallon would need more room also. When I read somewhere through a link on here that the fish that I have could be compatible with a betta, possibly. Would it be at all possible that I could get a 20 gallon and put all the fish into it? Sorry for this being so long, I'm finding all of this very interesting and want to take the best care of these fish. Any help is very appreciated. [/b] |
Don't be surprised if you lose your new fish. Your tank hasn't had the opportunity to build up the bacteria it needs to recycle nutrients the fish need to survive and remove the ammonia. One of the best fish to cycle tanks is the danio. These are surprisingly hardy little fish and can take more stress than other fish, eg neon tetras, guppies, mollies. Try and vary your fishes food. They are used to a varied diet in their natural habitat and plenty of live food too - you can get this from your lfs. A CO2 unit is a carbon dioxide unit, used to assist with plant growth. As with all fish tanks - it's a case of wait and see. Let me know how you go on. |
Mollies are still somewhat hardy fish and you may do ok with them. Your tank will continue to cycle over the next 4-6 weeks. Here is a basical bare bones of the cycle. 1. Fish waste, uneaten food, and deteriorating plant matter all break down into ammonia. 2. As ammonia builds, bacteria begins to colonize (usually in the filter). This bacteria converts the ammonia into nitrite. 3. As nitrite builds, ammonia will begin to decline and another bacteria begins to form which converts nitrite into nitrate. 4. As nitrate builds up and nitrite and ammonia decrease to 0, the cycle is comple. Because you get spikes in ammonia and nitrite and they are toxic to the fish, it is essential not to add fish during this cycle period. The fish you have in the tank get accustomed to the water quality daily but if you throw a new fish into water with high ammonia or nitrite, it could kill that fish in no time. Because mollies are a little more sensitive, test the water every other day or so. If ammonia and nitrite get into the danger zone, then do a small water change (10-15%). You can also pick up a bacteria supplement at the store which will help speed up the entire cycle process by "seeding" the tank with bacteria. Did you buy the 10 gallon setup in a kit? Where did you get it from and what was the name of the kit? The filter should have a name or brand name somewhere on it. If you could even just describe it and what kind of cartridges or filter media are inside or take a picture of the thing, that would help. As I mentioned earlier, beneficial bacteria grows mostly in your filter and each filter has a different place and method for bacteria to colonize in it. Some filters do not even have a place for this to occur. Knowing what kind of filter you have can help us give you advice in that area. About the betta, a half gallon bowl is too small but still surviveable. YOu could try putting them with the mollies but the bright colors and long fins (if its a hi-fin or a lyretail) could threaten the betta and he may be hostile. Mollies have been known to be nippy too so you may experience aggression from them as well. Personally I wouldnt suggest putting them all together but i'm sure it has been done before. If you are planning to get a new tank, now would be the time to do it before you have gotten too far into the cycle period. If you do that though, let the new tank run without fish for a few days to let any saturated gasses dissipate out. You will probably need to get a new filter for the 20 gallon but I suggest getting one rated for 30-50 gallons. You will thank yourself later for going bigger. Best filter for that would be one of the Penguin biowheel filters by marineland because the biowheel is one of the best methods of colonizing bacteria. |
there are some products that claim to speed up the cycling process by adding live bacteria to the tank- but BUYER BEWARE. i have yet to find one that actually works. (i have heard good things about biospira, but have never tried it). as an emergency, you could use an ammonia detoxifier- they will let the tank continue to cycle, but convert the ammonia to a less toxic form- but you will get false positive readings for ammonia when you use it, which makes it difficult to know when you are done cycling. i would use this in emergencies only and i would reccomend 'kent freshwater first step' if you went this route. you could borrow some gravel or a sponge from an established tank to speed up the process, naturally. the beta needs a bigger place, but i would hold off on putting him in the 10 gallon with the others for now, as you already have a lot of fish in there and you don't want any more contributors of waste. once the tank has cycled, you could try putting him in there with the others. |
I have not been giving them a lot of food, just enough so that they all get some and the flakes are gone in about 2 minutes. Should I give them more, less while the tank is cycling? I will be getting some variety for them also. The water was started on Fri. The water became cloudy on Sat. even before any fish were put in and now the water has cleared up....is that a good thing? Yes, the aquarium came as part of a kit from Wally World. A ten gallon tank, the filter says Aqua Tech on it and hangs outside of the tank with just a tube going in. The heater that came withe the kit hangs down in the water and just has a little knob to adjust it. (trying to get it right has been a big guessing game.) All the manuals from the kit have Tetra on them. I have moved the fiddler crab out into a small bowl for the time being after reading that it did in fact need some land to live. Until I can get a bigger place for it also. So that right now leaves four fish in the ten gallon, who seem to be doing o.k. for now. Right now my need to get very important list includes: A test tube kit that will check ammonia,nitrate,and nitrate. (Any others that are critical?) At this time I only have a ph kit. Gravel vacuum/siphon. 2 gallon tank for crab. ( Keep reading different things on this one. Some places say two is enough and some say that I need at least a 5. Also that just one crab won't be happy and I need at least one more.) Opinions? Aquarium sand---for the crab tank Marine salt--for the crab Not sure if I should for the fish(mainly the mollies), still reading on that. Sounds like people each have their favorite. More aquasafe for the water changes. Is there anything else that I really need or something that I have added that I could do without for the time being? I'm willing to put in the time and money to do things right, but I am working with a tight budget for the summer. So I don't want to buy unneeded things or kill the fish if at all possible. Thanks for taking the time to read. |
as far as bacteria supplements...miagrrl said she has yet to find one that works but there are definitely ones that do work. BioSprira is the best known on the market. I personally have not tried it because it isn;t sold in many places but people here on the forum have and said it cycled their tank in a matter of days. The head researcher at Marineland (makers of Bio-Sprira) is a genius when it comes to beneficial bacteria and so I trust anything they put out. Personally i've used Cycle which works well but more recently i've used Stability by Seachem and it works great. I cycled my tank in about 2 weeks and i've heard others say the same thing. Its a good thing to use and a great thing to keep around to replace lost bacteria during water changes. You may want to look into getting a new heater eventually. SOunds like you have one without a built in thermostat. A lot of the ones that come in kits basically just have an "up and down" knob. That means you have to monitor the temperature and adjust accordingly. You can buy ones that have built in thermostats in which you set the temperatures and it automatically adjusts for you to keep that temp. My persoanl favorite is the Visitherm Stealth by Marineland but Rena and Hydor make good ones too. As far as the filter goes, i'm trying to remember what the aquatech looks like. If it came as a kit it is probabably too small. If I remember correctly though, Aquatech is a lot like the Marineland biowheel filters but without the biowheel. I know walmart still sells the Regent filters which is that same thing. The problem with that is there is nowhere for good bacteria to grow except the filter cartridge itself. When you go to change your cartridge after cycling the tank, you end up throwing your whole bacteria colony away and starting over. Can you tell me exactly what cartridges are in there? It actually does make a big difference. With fiddler crabs, I have heard so many mixed storied. I've successfully kept them in freshwater tanks before fully submerged but I know their natural environment is semi-terrestrial with brackish water. In a small tank, you will be fine with just 1. In groups they can easily fight and break off legs and thats just no fun. You shouldnt need aquarium sand though, they will do just fine with gravel. Either slope the gravel to give them a beach or put decorations in there that they can climb up on. For test kits, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate are your ongoing concerns. Other tests involve hardness, alkalinity, pH, and chlorine. The things that will ever fluctuate the most will be your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate though and those pose the biggest threat to your fish. Most local fish stores will do free testing too. I work at one so I just bring samples in every now and then and test it for free :-) The cloudy water right off the bat could have been either particles from your gravel or maybe the tap water you used is nutrient-rich and you had a small bloom of heterotrophic bacteria. Those blooms often appear in new tanks or when overfeeding occurs or sometimes after gravel vaccing when debris has been kicked up. If you continue to notice it, cut down on feeding a little. As far as salt for the mollies, do not use a marine salt if you choose to. Buy some freshwater aquarium salt from your LFS. Personally i'm not a fan of using salt unless its a strictly brackish fish or if the fish is stressed and/or diseased. Mollies naturally are used to water with higher ammounts of electrolytes and a slightly higher salinity...which your aquarium salt will over both. They will live fine in pure freshwater though. As far as water conditioner, aquasafe is good but my personal favorites are Amquel+ by Kardon or Prime by Seachem. Prime is a lot more concentrated and you'll get better bang for your buck. It detoxifies Chlorine, Chloramine, Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate plus adds a stress coat...not too shabby. I cant think of anything else you might need. I would consider a heater and filter upgrade but in the future you will want a bigger tank so you might as well go really big on the filter and a higher watt heater and get a bigger tank while you're at it :-) Otherwise you're good. Hope I answered most of your questions. |
o.k. another problem. The "sunburst" fish is terrorizing the other fish. I have been able to find all the fish online but this one...wish my camera was working and I could post a pic. He is chasing the swordtail all over the tank and I noticed that the orange molly fins are a little ragged. I noticed all of this activity last night. So this morning I just sat and watched. Everything was fine while everyone was eating but about 20 minutes later this fish started chasing the swordtail again even hitting it in the side. The swordtail finally was able to hide.The fish then turned and bit the tail of the orange molly. So I'm guessing call my brother and tell him to take the fish back to petsmart? I took the fish out and put it in a tall tupperware since it was running two of the fish so bad. I would rather lose one than two. But I of course don't have anther heater or filter and this is a tropical fish. (Was also suppose to be a community fish.) |
if you are seperating him in another container, try to float or suspend the container in the tank. The warmth of the tank will heat his little container till you can get him back to the store. Since it is still a new tank and still cycling, I would bring him back and let the others hangout till the cycle is over. Its stressful enough going through the cycle, you dont need a fin-nipper to add to the problems. Bring in a water sample too when you go in, petsmart will test it for free. Have them write down the results and keep us posted :-) |
thanks I will try to find a way to get the container in the tank to at least keep him warm. Called my brother and he will be taking the fish back to the store as soon as possible. |
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The lumbar pain caring consists from a 3D reconstruction of the spine obtained to scan or radiography, determining the lumbar pain cause and gravity, to propose a conservative treatment in first intention or a adapted spine surgery in first or second intention (Fritzell and al ., on 2001).
The analysis and the correction of postural disorders pass inevitably by a good knowledge of the not pathological posture. The validation of the acquisition 2D / 3D reconstruction by EOS ™ technology demonstrated its interest for the diagnosis and the lumbar pain caring.
However, the EOS technology ™ is recent and few data were acquired with this technology for healthy population.
So, this clinical study with EOS ™technology would allow to obtain a precise knowledge of the standing skeleton in position (to an asymptomatic adult population), by displaying the gravity constraints on the joints, and the compensation phenomena in normal situation. This functional information for a given age bracket would allow to propose to the patients with lumbar pain, adapted interventions to the gravity constraints considering the skeleton evolution for age bracket.
Condition | Intervention |
Healthy Volunteers |
Device: EOS™ Acquisition |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Cohort Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | PARAMETRES GLOBAUX DE REFERENCE DU RACHIS CALCULES SUR DES PATIENTS ASYMPTOMATIQUES PAR IMAGERIE EOS™ |
- the profile spine parameters: apex lumbar position [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
- the lordosis lower angle, back type according to the ROUSSOULY [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
- the sagittal balance parameters [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
- the lordosis upper angle, back type according to the ROUSSOULY [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
- the pelvis parameters [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
Enrollment: | 161 |
Study Start Date: | May 2011 |
Study Completion Date: | December 2013 |
Primary Completion Date: | December 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Groups/Cohorts | Assigned Interventions |
EOS™ Acquisition |
Device: EOS™ Acquisition
Double Incidence Postero Anterior and Lateral full body low-dose X-ray acquisition on EOS™ device following SOP of the service of radiology.
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects of more than 18 years old
- Both genders
- Woman under efficient contraception (if not menopause)
- EVA < 2 for the rachis (lumbar vertebra and radiculaire),
- Score ODI ≤ 20 %
- Given informed consent
- Subject with French health system
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or feeding women
- Subject having a follow-up of the back or a regular back pain,
- Subject presenting lower limbs pathology which can have an echo on the rachis such as a length disparity or a flexum
- Subject with spine and pelvis surgery antecedents.
- Person placed under protection of justice
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01406743
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Bordeaux, France, 33076 |
Principal Investigator: | Jean-Charles LE HUEC, PU-PH | University Hospital, Bordeaux |
Study Chair: | Antoine BENARD, MD | University Hospital, Bordeaux |
Responsible Party: | University Hospital, Bordeaux |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01406743 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | July 28, 2011 |
Last Updated: | January 13, 2015 |
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Spine and pelvis parameters Sagittal balance Database |
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LAST Wednesday, Bear Stearns, with all the brass-knuckle arrogance with which it had always gone about its business, was still insisting its book value was around $84 a share.
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This high-speed fire-sale left one of Bear's largest individual shareholders, former chief executive James E Cayne, nursing a massive financial loss. Little more than a year ago, when Bear stock was trading at nearly $172, his personal stake was worth around $1.2bn. Now it's valued at just $13.4m.
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As bank valuations around the world plummeted in recent months, much of the initial talk was about picking the right moment for investors to wade back in and make a killing. Royal Bank of Scotland at 300p a share? HBOS at 450p? Might that be the time to fill your boots?
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Liquidity was all. Readily available interbank borrowing, at keen rates, enhanced that liquidity and banished to the recesses of banking history the days of mortgages on allocation or rationing of credit. But this flight to complexity came to a juddering halt last autumn as the sub-prime crisis in America and the near-demise of Northern Rock here raised countless unanswered questions.
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Did the board of a North of England mutual, turned quoted bank, ever think, as they sanctioned the pursuit of hell-for-leather market-share growth, what might happen if the money markets ever seized up? Did the tyros at Bear Stearns, chomping on their cigars and boasting about how far they could test the trading envelope, never think: This is banking, not alchemy.
Well. Now these risks have all crystallised, to such devastating effect, the great unanswered question is how many more lurk in all those off-balance sheet vehicles and investments made in times of plenty. Governments are not in control of this great unravelling. Slashing interest rates is not the answer when the problem is banks refusing to lend at all except at punitive margins.
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text: One Of The Worst Penalty Misses You'll SeeSean Newell1/11/14 12:45pmFiled to: lowlight reeljason puncheoncrystal palace429EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The great thing about soccer announcers is the brutal honesty. They are a close second to golf announcers, who also never pull any punches, but do so in a whisper that is so incongruous with what they're saying you can't help laughing. Soccer doesn't have to worry about the niceties of golf, though, so we get Tony Jones and Tony Gale absolutely murdering Jason Puncheon after a brutal penalty miss. Advertisement Early on in a Premier League matchup between Tottenham and Crystal Palace, Puncheon launched what seemed like a fairly straightforward penalty kick "absolutely miles wide and high over the bar" for a pretty devastating miss for Crystal Palace. Let's see what else the Tonys had to say about it:It's a dreadful miss.Jason Puncheon has blown it.It's an awful strike.Look at that, ugh.It's an awful penalty.One of the worst I've seen.That's a terrible strike.Here's a bonus headline: "Jason Puncheon endangers International Space Station with shocking penalty against Tottenham." Advertisement Tottenham beat Crystal Palace 2-0.h/t Chris[NBCSN]


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Gartner has announced it's annual magic quadrant for cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for 2012. The list was compiled by Gartner analysts Lydia Leong, Douglas Toombs, Bob Gill, Gregor Petri, and Tiny Haynes. It examines the top 15 providers of infrastructure as a service, employing two main evaluation criteria, which include 'ability to execute' and 'completeness of vision'.
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The IaaS report builds upon on a recent report, also by Gartner, that organizations will spend nearly $109 billion worldwide this year on public cloud services, an increase of 19.6 percent over last year. Organizations spent $91.4 billion worldwide on public cloud services in 2011, and that number is expected to grow to $206.6 billion by 2016.
According to this year's Magic Quadrant report, cloud compute infrastructure as a service, which Gartner describes as a virtual data center of compute, storage and network resources delivered as a service, is a still-maturing, rapidly evolving market. They note that each service provider has a unique offering, and the sourcing of these services must be done with care.
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- The service must be enterprise-class, offering 24/7 customer support (including phone support), SLAs, the ability to scale an application beyond the capacity of a single physical server, an allowable VM size of at least eight compute units and 15 GB of RAM, the ability to support secure connectivity to the infrastructure, and support for role-based access control. They must offer this service in a minimum of two data centers, located in different metropolitan areas.
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Angel Fish swollen fin So I just got home from my friends house in Frederick for his birthday. I spent the night out there. Before I left I had noticed that the male angel fish has his fin a little irritated but was still swimming fine. I put some extra water with Prime in the tank just to make sure everything was good. When I get home his fins look like this (Keep in mine that I JUST fed them so the water look cloudy :( ): http://www.termato.net/wp-content/up...47-800x450.jpg http://www.termato.net/wp-content/up...89-800x450.jpg He is not swimming as freely with that other fin although he is not having a hard time. There are white spots, you can barely see them. They look like pimples almost. If anyone knows what it is, please let me know. I'm doing some research right now on it. I just got home. I checked all the water parameters and everything is fine. Thanks for help in advance. |
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Hey, Chesh asked me to take a look at your thread. Looks like are a couple possibilities for the swollen fin. One is your angelfish could be developing lymphocystis, a usually nonfatal virus that causes cauliflower-like cysts on the fins and body. Depending on the severity, the cysts could be localized in one spot and stay on that fin or they could spread more. You can't treat this virus but it almost always clears up on its own after a few months. Only dangers are if the cysts are on the head and interfere with eating or if a cyst bursts and gets infected. Second possibility is not so pleasant. :( It is glugea, an internal protozoan that initially manifests itself as white pimple-like cysts on the fins and body before going on to destroy the internal organs. There is no known treatment and the disease is fatal. Unfortunately, because the cysts look just like lympho cysts, there's no way to know which one your angelfish may have without an expensive veterinarian pathology test. My best advice would be to keep the angelfish as isolated as possible and avoid any possibility of cross-contamination as glugea is definitely infectious and there may be several species-specific types out there; one of my sources speculates there is even an anabantoid-specific type. :( To ease some of the angelfish's distress, you could try adding API Stress Coat or Kordon Fish Protector to the water, or possibly trying an AQ salt dip to help promote slime coat growth. I hope it's just lympho. Best of luck and keep us updated. EDIT: I forgot to mention that it seems like glugea is fairly rare so chances are it's lympho. |
I'm going to set the 29 gallon up today, but in the mean time I can keep this angel in the 10 gallon (although I don't want to) just to isolate him. Any thoughts about that? |
Keeping him in a 10gal should be fine while he recovers, although he could be there for a while. Lympho is contagious as well but as long as the other fish have strong immune systems and don't get stressed, most of them fight off the virus before it ever shows up as cysts. If he starts to act stressed at the confined space, you could move him back and take a chance but as long as the water quality stays good, chances of the other fish getting a serious case are small. |
I'm going to test and clean out the 10 gallon tomorrow because I'm working from home and then he should be all good. I'm giving him all the attention tomorrow. :) I will keep everyone posted and so far thank you all very much for the help! It is greatly appreciated! |
You're welcome. Best of luck with him. He's really gorgeous. I really hope it's just lympho that clears up soon. :) |
oh.. just looked at the video and now I know this is what I had with one of my angels!. For some reason I forgot we even went through that because it was so soon after getting him and so long ago. He didn't use that one fin for a while during the issue. It was most likely lymphocystis on mine. He had a full recovery and all I did was keep the water super clean...like over the top paranoid clean lol. It took a while..can't really recall how long but went way. I was very thankful to slow back on the rediculous water changes after that and probably mentally blocked it out because it was a lot of work to keep the water clean as I decided not to QT mine because My house was already full of 3 qt tanks with new cichlids n didn't want to start another. Long story short. My angel is fine and now much bigger and from what I can tell he is the peace keeping angel I have. Only after effects are..me obsessing over the water quality of that tank :lol:(BTW it was always perfect water quality..just for some reason the sickness made be obsess on that ) |
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The fun, super-stylish actress spills on One Day (in theaters August 19), romantic comedies, and vintage clothes.
From chick flicks like The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada to the upcoming action movie The Dark Knight Rises, super-talented and super-stylish Anne Hathaway can do it all. Based on the bestselling novel with the same title, Anne's latest movie One Day, in theaters August 19, follows the relationship between Emma Morley (played by Anne) and Dexter Mayhew (played by Across the Universe cutie Jim Sturgess) over 20 years on the same day they met. Seventeen caught up with Anne at the premiere of One Day where she gave us all the dish on this romantic movie, perfecting Emma's English accent, and her favorite outfit from the film.
Seventeen: We've heard you say that Emma's Yorkshire accent was one of your biggest challenges in making the movie. What was so hard about it?
Anne Hathaway: The thing about the accent that was really important for me to get was that it evolved over the course of the film because as you get older your voice changes, the way you speak can change. I've met a lot of people from Yorkshire, and when they left the area or moved to London, their accent changed. You can meet 10 different people from Yorkshire, and they have completely different accents.
17: How is One Day different from your typical romcom?
AH: In a lot of traditional romcoms or romances, people meet in really unbelievable ways, and then they fall in love in about three weeks, and then they fight, and then somebody chases somebody across Manhattan, and then they kiss, and that's the end of the story. This movie allows these characters to get to know each other for a really long time, so when they say they love each other, when they finally admit to it, you believe them, because they've earned it. I think this is a movie where the characters earn your belief in their love.
17: Can you relate to your character? How are you like her?
AH: Emma's a late bloomer. I am myself, and I think a lot of women out there are too. There's a lot of pressure to feel like you have it all together in your early 20s, and I certainly did not feel that way nor did I have it all together. And there's something very nice about getting older and realizing that getting it together is something you do over the course of your entire life. Once you start to relax, everything gets a lot more fun.
17: What was your favorite outfit from the movie?
AH: I loved the dress that I got to wear when I was in Paris. I loved it. Emma loves vintage. And I love the idea that she was in Paris, and she found that perfect vintage dress and wore it and had the guts to cut her hair off. For me, that dress symbolizes a lot of Emma's dreams coming true.
Did you read the book One Day is based on? How do you think the movie will compare? Comment below!


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While Chromeo work on their third studio album, we're graced with another track from the upcoming full-length titled "Sexy Socialite." With disco beats, funky bass lines, and a happy-go-lucky vibe of the track - the duo sing about the ironically happy and not Gossip Girl back stabbing type of socialite. So you never know, next time you end up partying at the high end of town, you just may run into one of these young and fun socialites.
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Banned Book Week is a week long annual event where libraries, author, publishers, and readers celebrate the freedom we have to read. In a world where information is at our fingertips every hour of the day, books are still being challenged and, sadly, banned.
Banned Book Week highlights the fight against censorship. We'll be celebrating Banned Book Week (Sept 21-27) with displays, events, and a game!
- Come in and get "Booked" at the library by having your picture taken with a banned book.
- Play our "Guess that Banned Book" game to get an entry for one of our prize packs.
- Pick up a banned book and read it!
- Find out if your favorite author/book has been banned somewhere.
- Join us for the Banned Book Week Movie on Tuesday September 23rd @ 5:30 PM. We'll be watching To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Eclipse 4.0/Wishlist
This page lists things people would like to see addressed/fixed in Eclipse 4.0. Some of the items in this list were originally posted as comments on https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=200097.
- I'd like to have the modern container features like ioc in equinox for Eclipse 4. One example I can think of is injecting configurations into plugin, configuration by annotation. For extension points, maybe we can borrow some things in Tapestry 5 (http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5/tapestry-ioc/). --John Willson See bug 209873 for experimental work in this direction (for Platform UI and the Workbench). --Boris Bokowski
- Fundamentally Eclipse is doing great but 2 big areas I think the community would love to see get attention in the next major version is the concept of workspaces and the resources in them. The WorkspaceRoot should be able to contain other workspaces and not just projects. Currently dealing with multiple projects with the same name (a project from the trunk and a branch) is cumbersome because multiple workspaces are needed. In this case multiple workspaces are still needed but are contained, from a model standpoint not necessarily physically, within a single root. And finally nested projects, the next major version simply needs to support them. As an example to hopefully make this clearer, if a user is working on 2 streams of development for Product Foo and another Product Bar then the Eclipse workspace model with look like: --Binyan
WorkspaceRoot/ Product Foo [trunk] <- is a workspace Project A Project B Project C Product Foo [3.x branch] <- is a workspace Project A Project B Project C Product Bar [trunk] <- is a workspace Project A Project B Project C
- Refactor and streamline the workbench so that the barrier for entry for new contributors is reduced. -- Him Korne
- I think that macro recording and playback (bug 8519) should be part of the 4.0 plan. This is one of the most voted-for bugs, and one of the few features where Eclipse falls short of commercial closed-source solutions. The reason why this can not be addressed in Eclipse 3 is that in an open ecosystem of plugins contributed by multiple different sources, macro recording and playback can only be provided consistently when all plugins "play by the rules", i.e. adhere to a common API needed for scripting. In other words, they need to offer their functionality not only by menu actions, views and key commands but also by scriptable commands; and, when macro recording is turned on, they need to pass the actions they perform into the macro recorder. I'd think that for Eclipse 4, the Platform should come up with the APIs and Rules that plugins need to implement if they want to be part of macro recording and playback. Given that it would not be user friendly if a macro recorder would supporrt "most" but not all actions performed by the user, plugins should be strongly encouraged to follow those rules. --Martin Oberhuber
- Wizards are modal dialogs in Eclipse 3.x. This makes programming easier, since you can rely on resources not changing. (and it makes wizards harder to use). With the idea in e4 to separate client and server and make e4 a multiple user architecture, this assumption of non changing resources fails anyway. It doesn't make sense for me to use the dialog metaphor for wizards in e4. For me, wizards aree more an editor thing. See 147762 -- Gerd Castan


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A Butler Township Police Officer was helping to clear the scene after a felony vehicle stop when a car driving through the area struck a squad car, causing a mirror to break free and hit the officer in the head.
Officer Timothy Jacobs, 42, of Hazleton, sustained a severe laceration to his head, state police in Hazleton said. The incident occurred Friday on South Mountain Boulevard east of Birch Lane and medics transported Jacobs to Hazleton General Hospital for a moderate injury.
Driver Pragnesh A. Pathak, 62, of Mountain Top, was charged after the incident, but police did not specify the charge. He was driving a 2003 Kia Sedona at a high rate of speed and sustained no injuries in hitting the Wright Township Police vehicle.
All emergency vehicles at the scene, including vehicles from Wright Township, Butler Township and Freeland Police Department, had emergency lights activated when the crash occurred.
Driver strikes parked police car, mirror hits officer in Luzerne County
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Edward Gorey
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1925 – 2000
Edward Gorey was known for writing at least 90 books, illustrating 60 others, and designing sets for stage productions, including "Dracula" on Broadway and "Amphigorey," an Off Broadway play he wrote. He won a 1978 Tony award for costume design for ''Dracula." His best-known characters included the Gashlycrumb Tinies, one woebegone child for each letter of the alphabet, from Amy, who fell down the stairs, to Zillah, who drank too much gin. His work was influenced by Ionesco and Buster Keaton, Goya and Matisse.
In the last two years he produced two books, "The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas," and "The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium."
Mr. Gorey grew up in Chicago, served in the Army, and attended Harvard University, where he roomed with the poet Frank O'Hara. He graduated in 1950, then moved to New York, working in the art department at Doubleday, where he would stay in the office at night to create his own books. His first book, "The Doubtful Guest," in 1957, won acclaim from Edmund Wilson in the New Yorker. In 1962 he established Fantod Press to publish his works.


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