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Offshore wind energy is a renewable technology able to deliver significant energy in a sustainable manner, able to satisfy more than 4% of EU electricity consumption by 2020. The installation of offshore wind farms incorporates new material and substrate to the marine biota. These new structures are located on the seabed and can function as artificial reefs (AA) by providing hard substrate and rocky microhabitats incorporate and provide shelter for the growth of species bound to the substrate (fouling). Wind farms may have a role similar to that of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs), influencing the spatial redistribution of pelagic and migratory species. It is therefore crucial to assess the potential of offshore wind parks as areas that act as aggregation of benthic resident species and pelagic species. Experimental set-up with a combination of FADs and benthic artificial reefs has been deployed at 30m depth to test influence of substrate aggregation on fish species. Fractal dimensions ...


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Convoy of 20 ambulances for Syria assembled by Human Aid UK
PUBLISHED: 17:00 20 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:17 23 December 2013
A convoy of ambulances is assembling this-afternoon in London's East End to be driven overland across Europe and Turkey with emergency medical aid for Syria.
The 20 ambulances are being loaded up at Fieldgate Street in Whitechapel with medical and winter supplies, ready to be driven by volunteers over Christmas to arrive at the Syrian border by the New Year.
The supplies are destined for hospitals to help paramedic emergency response, to treat refugees and civilians caught up in Syria's bloody civil war.
Some 75 volunteers are running the convoy organised by Human Aid UK.
"Our hope as winter approaches is that this medical aid will save lives," said the UK charity's operations manager Jilu Miah.
"While the ongoing civil war continues, many refugees are affected by the horror and the tragic loss of life that has ensued for more than three years now."
Money was raised to fit out the convoy by months of charity events, such as dinners, snooker competitions, Go-Kart races, football tournaments and car washes.
Most of the volunteers and fundraisers are British Asians, many from the East End's Bangladesh community.
The convoy leaves Whitechapel at 10am tomorrow, heading for the cross-Channel ferry, then travels through Europe and Turkey to the Syrian border.
It involves continuous driving during the day and tough nights when the volunteers sleep in the outdoors pitching tents in the winter cold.
Among the volunteers are university students, teachers, social workers, mechanics and youth workers, all giving up their winter holidays for the Syrian humanitarian cause.
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NEW DELHI: India saw a record 53 per cent increase in FDI in last two years as the investment climate brightened due to steps taken to foster growth, price stability and fiscal prudence which also improved the overall macroeconomic stability, government said today.
Emphasising that investments are not made for "charity", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told the Lok Sabha that improving the ease of doing business was a "work in progress".
In the last two years, there has been 53 per cent rise in FDI into the country, which is a record high, Jaitley said during Question Hour, adding that "comprehensive reforms in FDI have resulted in the highest ever FDI inflow in 2015-16".
"Steps taken by the government to foster economic growth, price stability and fiscal prudence have improved the overall macroeconomic stability, which brightens the investment climate in the country," the Minister said.
Stating that investors are not making investments for "charity", the Minister said, "if we say that profits cannot be taken... then nobody will come to invest (in the country)".
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Emphasising that the government has taken various steps in the last two years to attract foreign and domestic investors, Jaitley said that among others they needed a "reasonable and predictable tax regime".
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Author: Barry Houlihan, James Hardiman Library
Opinion: how does contemporary theatre function when it no longer entirely "human"?
As audiences of western theatre we are conditioned primarily to process plot, character, thought, diction, music, and spectacle, that are bound by unity of action, place, and time. In the era of artificial intelligence, big data, social media, bit-coin, and the dark web, we are essentially "born-digital". In the words of author John Cheney-Lippold and his study, we ARE data.
The categories of digital theatre and performance now include augmented reality, virtual reality, gamification, and immersive theatre, to name a few. But if theatre is an exploration of humanity and human experience, how then does contemporary theatre function when it no longer entirely "human"?
Can we as theatre audiences be reflected within this digital maelstrom? The answer is we already have been. Web-based platforms create a space where theatre is created, edited, distributed, stored and retrieved. Performance art is mediated through technology as much as it is created through digital means. Live broadcasts from major international venues such as the Met Opera in New York or the UK National Theatre's NT Live are now established and allow audiences in participating cities around the world to sit and view the live performance through the vicarious window of their local cinema screen.
From RTÉ Radio 1's Arena, Fergus Sheil discusses the live screening of The Magic Flute by the Metropolitan New York and Royal Opera House Covent Garden in Irish cinemas
The intermediality of digital theatre has been experimented with in various forms within contemporary Irish theatre. An early example of this was Who was Fergus Kilpatrick? Devised by The Company and commissioned by Project Arts Centre, the piece utilised, theatre, video "and stories filled with white lies and conspiracies [that] clash with old footage, old documents, old heroes to uncover new answers, a new company and a new truth". The premise of the play was to question the philosophy of reality and its construct through history: can we trust where we came from or what we think we know of the past? And how is our contemporary understanding of the past altered or deleted for corrupt gains or political advantage?
It is noticeable that the platform for theatre that constitutes large-scale digital components have been mostly such major international arts festivals as the Dublin Theatre Festival and Galway International Arts Festival. The reasons for this include the global audience that can now view such productions through social media, post-show talks, live streaming and the international touring platform that international festivals provide.
Incantata by Paul Muldoon had its world première at the Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018. In the play, a grieving figure of Muldoon himself, played by Stanley Townsend, engages in a relationship of memory with his recently deceased lover, the artist and print-maker, Mary Farl Powers. A video camera is affixed to the back of a plastic chair, which is then affectionately dressed with a coat and scarf, humanising the inanimate body of the camera creating a cyborg/human duality of presence that ironically (and tragically) is absent through death. Much of the action of the play is not present at all, but rather imagined and remembered and made present through digital means, displayed live to the audience projected onto the back-wall of the stage. This also serves to portray grief in its simplest and most raw of states – the desire to make a loved one present again from what is lost and gone.
From RTÉ Radio 1's Sunday with Miriam, Paul Muldoon discusses Incantata
Enda Walsh's Arlington premiered at the 2016 Galway International Arts Festival and included mixed-media and an extended piece of choreography. The work was as much an art installation as strictly theatre. The Second Violinist premiered at the Galway festival in 2017 and starred Aaron Monaghan as a lone and isolated figure, often playing video games on his phone as he commutes on the bus. This was projected live before the audience on an expansive screen that stretched the length of the stage, serving to situate the online characters we all inhabit within versions of ourselves embodied through the web.
Theatre company Dead Centre have created new ways in recent years of considering how we witness and contemplate contemporary life and also how we encounter the archive and production histories of major plays and canonical figures through digital production and performance. Chekhov's First Play and Hamnet both had Irish premières during the Dublin International Theatre Festival in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
Chekhov's First Play opens with the 'real' director, Bush Markouzal playing a character of a director, speaking to his audience and instructing them on how they can hear his running commentary on the play, through the headphones that all audiences members were given.
From RTÉ Radio 1's Arena, Sophie Gorman reviews Chekhov's First Play by Dead Centre
'The Director' explains that he's the kind of guy who goes to an art gallery and spends his time reading the captions on the wall, rather than looking at the paintings: ostensibly he reads the metadata rather than views the object - the streams of code upon which systems operate and which users find an interface. In the theatre, as much as in a gallery, the interface exists as a space between actor and audience. The digital interface introduces a further facet or performance space, a virtual and intangible space that is both present and live.
"I'll be offstage so I won't distract you, I'll just be a voice in your head. Hope it's not too strange. It can feel a little intimate. Like even though everyone can hear this, it feels like I'm just talking . . . to you."
As the play opens audience can hear 'the play' live on stage but also the voice of the offstage Director. The Director comments in real-time upon the live action, revealing that "[he] had ambitions once, to create new forms of theatre . . . connect to audiences in a new way . . . remind us we're alive." When the character of Anna questions "Do we matter? . . . I have a feeling that we don't anymore", she directs it to the audience as much as to her on-stage cast members. In Chekhov's First Play, the cast are, like Beckett's Estragon and Vladimir, waiting for someone, Platonov, who becomes a form of human avatar for an audience member in reality, in search of hope in a time where empathy and human connection are all but obsolete.
From RTÉ Radio 1's Drama On One, writer and director Bush Moukarzel, dramaturg Michael West and actor Ollie West discuss Hamnet
Hamnet utilised "live video and dead video" to present a contemporary retelling of Hamnet. Ollie West played Hamnet, the son of William Shakespeare who died aged 11, and who remains "one letter away from being "a great man", Hamlet". The videography within the play, designed by Jose Miguel Jiminez and with sound design from Kevin Gleeson, presents a live co-existence of viewpoint that relays onto a large video wall the audience looking at themselves looking at the play. Andrew Clancy's design includes a large video wall that simultaneously projects the dead child and past with the contemporary living Hamnet.
The inverse to this process applies to the digital archive of performance. Work which was produced in traditional media but through digitisation allows us to reanimate performance, gesture, sound, music, even audience laughter and silence, in order to create a digital and virtual reality of performance. For example, a recording of Donal McCann as Frank Hardy in Brian Friel's Faith Healer at the Abbey Theatre in 1980 in the digital theatre archives of the Hardiman Library at NUI Galway reveals a performance masterful in its simplicity and control within a monologue form. The intimate gesture of McCann's posturing and the constant movement of his hands bring an intimacy to his performance.
This is in stark contrast to Ralph Fiennes' portrayal of the same role at the Gate Theatre in 2006. Fiennes cuts a cocky, brash and unrepentant Frank Hardy, a huckster selling false promises and security. In a sense, this was Faith Healer for the Celtic Tiger-era - baseless bravado beneath a polished exterior.
It is noticeable that the platform for theatre that constitutes large-scale digital components have been mostly such major international arts festivals
Augmented reality superimposes a computer-generated image upon a user's view of the present real world to create a composite dual reality. Theatre in such form will also leave you questioning the reality of performance, the reality of theatre, and even the validity of our contemporary society as well as of our documented history. This work tightly embraces the aid of digital technology and painstaking video and sound editing and blatantly flaunts the presence of pre-recorded scenes amid live feed. As the framework of truth and believed conceptions of what we know to be reality are dismantled on stage before us, it becomes apparent that the import of this work will be to keep challenging what exactly is live in theatre and how we as audiences assemble to listen and to witness it.
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The US trade deficit widened slightly in May, reflecting declines in sales of American-made aircraft and machinery as exports continued to suffer from a strong dollar.
The deficit increased 2.9% to $41.9 billion in May, up from an April imbalance of $40.7 billion, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday, NewsNow reported.
Imports fell 0.1% to $230.5 billion. Exports slid at a faster pace of 0.8% to $188.6 billion. American producers have been hurt this year by the rising value of the dollar, which makes US goods less competitive in overseas markets.
Even with the slight rise in May, the deficit over the past two months is averaging less than in the first quarter. That should help support economic growth in the second quarter, analysts said.
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How many times have you been working around the house, or at a pal's place, and need to look for a place on the wall to hammer a nail to hang a painting. And just when you think you discover the stud to hammer the nail – you wind up breaking a hole into the wall and making a mess. You might need to consider Walabot, one of the first smart stud finders to hit the market. Walabot Canada Reviews
Walabot is manufactured by Vayyar Imaging, a 3D imaging sensor company that provides consumers with a method to see through objects, liquids and materials. The company decided to leverage its innovation to create Walabot and supply DIYers an opportunity to get a better view behind walls than the current stud finders you find on the market.
The device is the very same size as a mobile phone and quickly connects to it by means of a magnet supplied in the box, and placed on the back of your Android phone. Keep in mind that Walabot only works with Android phones. If you have an iOS phone, you are going to have to wait. The company told the public that the iOS version is on their roadmap. If you do not want to wait, there is an option for you: borrow a buddy's Android phone to utilize the device. Otherwise, go to Walabot's website, and enter your email address to get informed when the iOS app launches.
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What Is Walabot? Walabot Canada Reviews
It is a device that attaches to your Android phone and sends a picture of what it sees behind your walls. On your phone, you see images of wires, studs, pipes – even insects! Imagine an in-wall imaging mobile application, and you pretty much get the idea. Walabot Canada Reviews
The unit is about the size of a mobile phone, except it is a bit thicker. One side of it has a magnet to connect to your phone, and the other side is smooth and flat. The flat side is the one you will utilize to run the gadget across your walls while you view your phone screen to see what appears. The flat side needs to be held to the wall straight, not at an angle, so you can see what you want to.
What's in the box: It comes with a DIY sensor, a USB cable, a magnetic disc, a protective sheet, and a manual.
The manual will tell you how to see right through walls and translate the images you see. It is quite comprehensive, so it would not be hard to begin using the Walobot with a few minutes of its arrival. Walabot Canada Reviews
If you are thinking this sounds like magic, we are here to tell you it's science. Oh, and if in case you were thinking people might utilize it to look into your house from the street, it is not made for that. It is for people who are do-it-yourselfers or professional carpenters.
What are other things can you do with a Walabot?
The Walabot can spot wiring, pipes, and everything you would anticipate to discover behind your walls. Utilizing the device, you can:
- Look for leakages.
- Look for structural damages.
- Look for broken pipes.
- Find rats and other animals. The Walabot can spot movement behind walls, assisting you find nests and rodents.
How does the Walabot DIY work?
When you get your Walabot DIY, you would have to download the Android app for it and then create an account. Attach the Walabot DIY to your smartphone and you are all set to calibrate the Walabot DIY.
Do not worry, calibrating the gadget is really easy and if you have actually utilized an analog stud finder before, you would find the procedure really familiar.
The images it offers you are very accurate, and you would know if it is a pipe that the Walabot DIY is seeing or electrical wires, or anything else.
This is simply best for those who are considering refurbishing their houses, or those who love Do It Yourself jobs. This likewise can be found in extremely useful for those who are interested in architecture and building and construction.
The makers apparently thought in two unique categories when producing this gadget. The DIY model is for the individual doing periodic repairs and small jobs around your home.
What does it come with? Walabot Canada Reviews
It comes with a range of standard features. You can utilize it as described above to see wires, pipes, studs (both wood and metal) and even rodents and bugs.
These views work for both concrete and wood on this model.
This model likewise lets you change the depth of field so that you can see 4 inches deep if you wish to. You can alter it to utilize less depth.
The images on the screen are good, and they are shown in color. You can likewise scan throughout your wall and receive a graphic representation of the objects, with an indicator of how far apart they are. This is useful for preparing a task that consists of the whole wall.
One feature permits you to take a photo of an area you are scanning, so you can put the image on a computer and take a look at it more closely. This makes it much easier to sit at your desk and make plans while seeing the image.
This is an excellent standard unit for house owners and other DIYers. You will not miss out on the advanced features if you plan to do light repairs and remodeling around your house. It will certainly recognize studs for you, so when you hang heavy paintings or mirrors, you will have a solid landing place for your screws or nails.
The professional models come in three variations. Let's look at what they provide you.
Each model contains all the features of its predecessor. This model offers generally the exact same images that the DIY does, although they are a little bit clearer with the Starter.
It can not only find objects behind walls, it can spot breathing. That is quite uncommon. This makes it helpful for anybody who wishes to keep an eye on an older person they are taking care of. If you think you might have sleep apnea, it might tell you how often you stop inhaling throughout the night. Going from driving nails to watching breathing is a respectable leap, but maybe the maker believed, "Why not? We have the technology. May as well use it."
The unit serves as a motion detector too. Not only is this suitable for insects behind walls, but it is likewise great for keeping an eye on rooms and patios where people or animals should not be.
It has three antennas, making it a lot more sensitive than the basic model.
With this model, you have actually stepped up into some advanced| features, together with much better imaging than the DIY variation. Remember that it has all the features of the DIY and they have boosted sharpness and accuracy. With Starter, you have actually dipped your toe into the waters of professionalism.
What makes this model different from the predecessors?
This model includes all the features of the Starter model but has better spatial sensors. This is because it can track in 3D, offering you a much fuller view of spaces and objects. If you were sawing out a square of drywall or trying to break through concrete in a specific spot, you would require to understand far more than where studs are. It has fifteen antennas, suggesting it does not miss much.
This version puts you squarely in the professional ranks. It is more able than the lower models to catch hard-to-see risks and things and to show them to your clearly.
Look this one over thoroughly. It might have all the features you need on an average day. It is, obviously, more economical than the next model, and the imaging is excellent. There is no requirement to pay for features you will never ever use, so compare thoroughly.
What is the most powerful model? Walabot Canada Reviews
This has all the features we have taken a look at up until now. Other than they work far better on this model. So the imaging, spatial recognition, motion detection and even the breath detector are more sensitive and finely tuned.
This unit has 18 antennas, which provides it with the broadest range of frequencies. It has high-resolution 3D imaging and can provide raw signal information. This is the best view behind your walls you are going to get without taking apart drywall.
You are going to see precisely what is behind walls, whether concrete or drywall. This imaging is much clearer than the other models, and the 3D abilities end the uncertainty. It is not tough to envision a professional using this for a pricey job where mistakes are costly.
What you would love about Walabot DIY
Unlike other imaging gadgets that are currently offered, the Walabot DIY is not bulky. You can get the capabilities of high end imaging systems and stud finders. You get 3D imaging conveniently and quickly without needing to pay top dollar for it.
On top of that, it is really small and portable. With the magnet on the case, you can work the Walabot DIY device and your own smart phone as one unit.
Everything about using the Walabot DIY is extremely simple. You do not have to stress over circuitry, as you only need to link it to your smart device using the included USB cable. All the settings and tweaks are done utilizing the mobile phone. Adjusting the device is also made simple.
Plus, you have easy-to-follow instructions provided for you on the mobile app itself or you can view videos from the company's website to learn how to use your Walabot DIY.
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KWG Resources (CSE:KWG) has discussed the terms for the possible creation of an equal partnership with the Webequie and Marten Falls First Nations to develop mineral deposits in Ontario's Ring of Fire.
As quoted in the press release, KWG president Frank Smeenk said:
A little more than a year ago now, we welcomed the Webequie and Marten Falls First Nations joining forces to act together in concluding a 'Negotiation Protocol Respecting Early Exploration in the Ring of Fire. The railroad feasibility study that China Railway FSDI proposes to undertake for us is based on the railroad being part of the large-volume underground chromite mining operations being envisaged to supply a gas reduction processing facility where the chromite would be upgraded to ferrochrome. Those mining and transportation capital assets will be largely located within the traditional territories of Webequie and Marten Falls.
As we seek offtake terms for this potential new ferrochrome supply, it is crucial that such terms include a floor price which insures these large-volume operations, once begun, can continue without interruption for the many decades possible. To guarantee this we have proposed to transfer our mining claims into a limited partnership provided that Webequie and Marten Falls make an investment into the limited partnership equal to KWG's. We have offered to provide them with a non-recourse loan of $40 million to facilitate this.
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Scripting Question
Prompting user to reboot PC at the end of a script?
I'm hoping to find a method of prompting a user to restart their system after a script has run, giving them the option to restart now or snooze, similar to a pending reboot when KACE is patching.
Here is an example workflow.
- Script performs an action that requires a reboot once finished.
- Dialog box is created prompting the user to restart and gives them the option to restart now or snooze. The reboot would automatically occur if there is no interaction within a set timeout such as 15 minutes.
Are there any native KACE functions or executables which can provide this functionality?
Thank you!
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this is not possible natively.
If you use an OnlineKScript you can notify before run, update and destroy a message window.
After that window you could trigger a reboot with the shutdown.exe
You can use something like AutoIT to create a message window and prompt user by adding it as the last task. Down and Dirty run a message as a batch file last and check the box to show it in the script (visible)
@echo off
echo IT dept has just finished updating blah blah software.
echo You need to restart for changes to take effect.
set /p in=Enter 1 to restart now or press enter to keep working:
echo %in%
if /I "%in%" EQU "1" shutdown /r /t 2 /f
vbscript version of this would be something like this. It won't time out after 15 mins, but the message will be modal meaning it will remain on top of other windows till a choice is made. I commented out the restart so you can test how it works without worrying about it rebooting. just remove the quote before restart in the middle of the loop to use the restart function. for the popups, you can change the timeout for them by changing the "30" to however many seconds you want to use ( say 3 while testing for example), the delay before the user is prompted again is in the sleep line, this is in milliseconds - 1 second = 1000 milliseconds, so 15 mins = 15 X 60 seconds x 1000 = 900000
this page explains msgbox if you want to play with the message box options - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/internet-explorer/ie-developer/scripting-articles/sfw6660x(v=vs.84)
answer = 0
Do While answer <> 6
Dim answer
answer=MsgBox("Your PC needs to Restart" & vbCrLf & "Are you ready to restart now?",4148,"Install Complete, Reboot Required")
If answer = 6 Then ' Yes clicked, call restart Function.
wshShell.Popup "Ok chosen, restarting", 30, "Restarting" ' this popup will remain for 30 seconds before the restart begins.
' Restart
ElseIf answer = 7 Then ' No clicked, sleep for 15 minutes
wshShell.Popup "Delayed for 15 minutes", 30, "Restart Delayed" ' this popup will remain for 30 seconds before disappearing.
WScript.Sleep 900000 '15 mins = 900000
End If
Function Restart
Dim colOperatingSystems
Dim objWMIService
Dim objOperatingSystem
Dim strComputer
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Shutdown)}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
End Function


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An easy target, I admit, but also irresistable: a clerical fashion show in which English clerics of various denominations walk the catwalk wearing chasables, capes, clergy shirts, and clergy skirts (short). The Daily Mail writer calls the vestments "cutting-edge," but they're all (except for the two capes and one black cassock) bog standard sappy vestments in the sixties liturgical tradition. The last pictured, a chasuble, features two eggs, one white and one goldenish, the second with a cross on it, apparently dancing around. And a chicken, sheep, and rabbit. And three daffodils. It's for Easter.
According to an area manager for one of the older vestment companies, quoted at the end of the story, "Our latest range, Serenity, is for women and features cutting-edge designs." (Cutting edge, it seems, for, oh, 1969.)
'They don't want to just dress in black, so we have new colours such as blush pink and rose, which are popular.
'Each item is fitted and made to measure. It is in response to female clergy who have said they want something out of the ordinary.'
Clerical dress is a uniform. It's supposed to be ordinary.
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Update II: This stuff reminds me of the church furnishings I discussed in Ecclesiastical Art, So-Called . That stuff is, much of it, even worse.


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]Just Energy Radio - Have World Governments Conspired to Conceal UFO Activity? With Robert Salas
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Dr. Rita Louise interviews Robert Salas about his encounter with extraterrestrials while working at a nuclear missile silo as well as the history of UFO cover-up in the US and around the world. And his new book.


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- Share your observations
Share your observations of plants or non-game animals with the Natural Heritage Inventory
- Contact information
- For information on Wisconsin's rare plants, contact:
- Kevin Doyle
James' Cristatella (Polanisia jamesii)
Life history
Species overview
James' Cristatella (Polanisia jamesii), a plant, is found on dry sandy to gravelly prairies along major rivers, as well as dry sandy lakeshores. Blooming occurs late July through late August; fruiting occurs early August through early October. The optimal identification period for this species is early August through late September.
Synonyms: Cristatella jamesii
- Distinguishing characteristics: Leaflets 0.5 to 4 mm wide; fruit 3 to 4 mm wide; bracts three-angled.
- Flower characteristics: 5 to 9 open flowers and buds; petals white to ochre-colored, strongly dimorphic, the larger pair 4 to 5 mm and the smaller 2 to 3 mm; stamens 6 to 9; nectary yellow, tubular, persistent and drying pink-purple; style 0.5 to 2 mm, persistent in fruit.
- Fruit characteristics: Linear-fusiform, slightly inflated, 1.5 to 3 cm long by 3 to 4 mm wide, opening nearly to the base at maturity; seeds 4 to 18, 1.7 to 1.8 mm.
- Leaf characteristics: Alternate; petioles usually shorter than the blades; leaflets linear or linear-elliptic, 0.5 to 4 cm long by 0.5 to 4 mm wide.
- Blooming phenology: late July through late August
- Fruiting phenology: early August through early October
- Optimum time to identify: The optimal identification period for this species is early August through late September
- Growth form: Forb-erect
- Vegetative reproduction:
- Life cycle: Annual
- Comments: Associated Species: Not recorded for Wisconsin specimens.
State status
Status and Natural Heritage Inventory documented occurrences in Wisconsin
James' Cristatella (Polanisia jamesii) is on the "watch list." Watch list species have experienced, or are believed to have experienced, a statewide or range wide decline, but they are not currently tracked in the Natural Heritage Inventory (NHI) database. The watch list includes newly discovered species for which origin and rarity need to be determined, certain animals designated as Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) in the Wisconsin Wildlife Action Plan, and species that were tracked in the past but proved more abundant, widespread or less vulnerable than previously thought. Although watch list species are not actively tracked by NHI, occurrences documented during surveys are often stored by NHI, as these species could be tracked in the future if there is further evidence of their decline.
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|State Status
|Federal Status in Wisconsin
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Habitats and landscapes
The Natural Heritage Inventory has developed scores indicating the degree to which each of Wisconsin's rare plant species is associated with a particular natural community or ecological landscape. This information is similar to that found in the Wildlife Action Plan for animals. As this is a work in progress, we welcome your suggestions and feedback.
General habitat information
- Habitat description: Found on dry sandy to gravelly prairies along major rivers, as well as dry sandy lakeshores.
- Soils: Sandy soils.
Natural communities
This table lists the natural communities that are associated with James' Cristatella. Scores for natural community associations are: "significant" association (score=3), "moderate association" (score=2) or the species can be present but is only weakly associated with the community (score=1).
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Ecological landscapes
This table lists the ecological landscape association scores for James' Cristatella. The scores (3=High, 2=Moderate, 1=Low, 0=None) also correspond to the map.
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Species guidance
The Endangered Resources Program has developed avoidance measures and management guidelines for plants on the Natural Heritage Working List. These are a work in progress, and we welcome your suggestions and feedback. Sources used in developing this information can be found here.
Avoidance measures
These are specific actions designed to avoid "take" (mortality) of this species.
- Avoid broadcast spraying of herbicides; use care with spot spraying.
- Avoid locating landings, staging areas, or access routes in open sandy areas dominated by native grasses.
- Avoid known individual plant locations and conduct operations elsewhere when they are least likely to cause damage. Ideally, this would involve frozen, snow-covered ground. However, in areas of the state where frozen conditions are unreliable, very dry soils late in the growing season might be the best available alternative. Consult with a biologist, if needed.
Management guidance
Management guidelines are additional considerations that may help maintain or enhance habitat for this species
- Maintain and restore open habitat through selective clearing and brushing.
- Prescribed burns and/or brushing may be beneficial (dependent on local site conditions).
Other resources
Links to additional James' Cristatella information
Other links related to vascular plants (all exit the DNR website)
- Wisconsin Flora
- NatureServe Explorer
- Atlas of Wisconsin Prairie and Savanna Flora - Wisconsin State Herbarium
- USDA - NRCS Plants Database
- USGS Midwestern Wetland Flora - field office guide to plant species
- eFloras
- Cofrin Center for Biodiversity Herbarium
- Intermountain Herbarium Grasses of North America
- Orchids of Wisconsin
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Support for Wisconsin's rare plant information has been provided by the Division of Forestry, the Endangered Resources Fund and the Wisconsin Rare Plant Preservation Fund. To donate, visit the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin [exit DNR].


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Access to the Internet in the 21st Century is an everyday feature everyone has access to right? Wrong! You wouldn't believe how many communities don't have the ability to connect on the World Wide Web, and Lifeline can help alleviate this issue.
What is Lifeline and why is Lifeline Broadband needed?
Lifeline is a federal run program from the Reagan Administration, that for 30 years has helped the people of low-income communities pay for discounted telephone services. If telephone services can be made readily available and affordable to the people in these communities so should broadband Internet.
Did you know that 41% of American homes only have access to the Internet through a wireless cellphone? Can you imagine trying to do your homework, apply for jobs and fill out government forms all on your smartphone? Yes, it is possible and I'm sure many of you have done it several times. However, it is extremely frustrating and most of the time we decide to wait until we get home to finish. Unfortunately not everyone has that option. Only 53% of all Latinos and 38% of Spanish- dominant Latinos have broadband at home.
These low-income communities need to stay connected and cost does matter. The average monthly Internet bill is $48. That is too much for low-income Americans. Tell the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) we need Lifeline Broadband to be $10/month for the people of these communities.
To spread the message and promote the need for Lifeline Broadband, LATISM is hosting a twitter chat. Join LATISM and CETF on Thursday, February 25th at 9:00 PM ET to build up awareness to this issue affecting our communities.
HASHTAGS: #LATISM #Internet4all
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Website: Internet For All Now https://www.internetforallnow.org/
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History of Lifeline: https://www.internetforallnow.org/rebooting_lifeline_for_the_internet_age
Affordable Internet Resources Today:https://www.internetforallnow.org/resources
Closing the digital divide and bringing communities closer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mGZeHz26RA
Louis Herrera, an #internet4all supporter who is visually impaired talks about the importance of affordable internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_TZwItB-Uc


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There are few things a fan wants to hear more than a player say "I want to be the best." Pittsburgh's Stephon Tuitt is a player who said as much this week and there's nothing wrong with that right? In Jeremy Fowler's piece on Tuitt, he quotes him as saying he's "probably a couple of steps away from being the No. 1 defensive lineman in the league."
Well, as of right now, Tuitt is not the best player on his own unit. That distinction belongs to Cam Heyward who currently makes just shy of $10 million per season. As Tuitt enters the final year of his rookie deal, is he suggesting he should be paid the same as his counterpart?
Should the Steelers and Tuitt not agree to a new deal prior to the beginning of the season then he will enter 2017 as the final year of his contract and become a free agent next March. Pittsburgh has a long standing tradition of not negotiating contracts once the regular season begins. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that someone will pay Tuitt more than the Steelers are willing to pay and that would be a significant loss for the defensive line corps.
But is Tuitt worth the money he may be demanding? We had an excellent opportunity to gauge this last season. Heyward went down for the season in the ninth game of the year against Dallas. That put the spotlight clearly on Tuitt and don't think for a second the front office wasn't paying attention. Below are Tuitt's stats for the full season keeping in mind he missed two games as well.
Charts courtesy: pro-football-reference.com
In the five games he played without Cam Heyward by his side, Tuitt collected three of his four sacks on the season while collecting seven tackles and three assists. We must understand that defensive linemen in the Steelers' 3-4 defense aren't necessarily relied on for tackles or quarterback sacks. However, with the defense spending nearly 60% of it's time in specialty packages like nickel and dime, that should have opened things up for Tuitt a little bit more in terms of stats.
In fairness to Tuitt, Heyward had just three sacks on the season before going down with the torn pectoral muscle.
Stephon Tuitt is a very valuable player in the Steelers' defense and he deserves to be rewarded for his effort on and off the field. He's been durable; playing in 40 of 44 games in his first three seasons. His goal of being the best at his position is what any fan wants to hear but is Tuitt worth the same money as Cam Heyward?
With looming issues with Le'Veon Bell and Alejandro Villanueva, Tuitt may have to wait his turn and that might mean getting that money elsewhere.
Update: Tuitt was NOT at mini-camp today.
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"All it takes is a push-up bra, a low-cut blouse and the chance of a nip slip to get the drool spilling down your face and the pre-cum sputtering in your pants. It's time to put you into the titty trance, little man. Because once Princess Becky booby traps you, I can do anything I want with you…"
On Your Knees to Worship Princess Remi's Boots, Feet and Ass
"Get down on your hands and knees, wussy. I'm giving you the privilege of worshiping the bottom half of Princess Remi, from the bottom of my boots, to my silk-shrouded toes, all the way up my sexy legs to the precipice of my perfect ass. I expect to hear lots of begging and pleading along the way…"
Doctor Vika Re-Addicts You to Your Most Crippling Compulsions
"I have decided to take over as your therapist. Rather than cure you, I intend on making your most embarrassing fetishes even more crippling, until all Dr Vika has to do is snap my fingers to turn you into my puppet. As helpless as the high heeled shoe dangling from the open-toe of my exquisitely stockinged foot…"
You Are Princess Ashleigh's Helplessly Addicted Jerk Puppet
"Your ejaculations are like the droppings of a disgusting little animal. Which is why I keep you locked in chastity. For the few minutes each month I let you out of your cage, you can't help but paw at yourself, can you, puppet? The meaner I am to you, the more you yearn to demonstrate your helpless devotion to me…."
Your Bratty Boss Erin Locks Your Cock & Sends You to Your Knees
"I'm your boss now. And if you resent working beneath a dominant young woman? You can quit. Otherwise? If you want to work under me, you're going into chastity — to keep your disgusting little worm where it belongs as you're worshiping my feet and doing all the other degrading tasks I have planned for you…"
Princess Ashleigh Teases Your Caged Cock in Three Sexy Outfits
"Just to make your blueballs ache even worse, I decided to stage a fashion show — in your face. I'm going to preen, prance and do a jiggle dance to increase the pain inside your pants. HA HA! Tell me, droolyface, which of my devastating looks makes your penis prison hurt the worst? Let's find out, shall we…?"
Humiliating You Makes Goddess Vika's Pussy Wet for Her Boyfriend
"I bet my spike heel dwarfs the size of your dick. Let's compare. Feeble little dweeb. Then you can pull my crotchless panties over your face and jerk for me. Because humiliating you makes my pussy wet. For my boyfriend. Does that sting? Aww. You can fill my panties with your worship goo while I ride his big thick cock.."
Mistress Kendra Stokes Your Shameful Desire to Be Her Cuckold
"You lust to be my cuckold. To cower in the closet watching me get fucked by a real man, afraid of getting caught, knowing that I'm going to humiliate you after he finishes. It makes you ashamed and excited at the same time. Take out your cock right now, stroke it, and beg to be Mistress Kendra's cuckold…"
Cruel Becky Destroys Your Date with a Pair of Pink Frilly Panties
"I heard you have a date tonight! Does she know you're secretly submissive? Does she know all about your embarrassing fetish for lacy girlie panties? If you don't want Becky to tell her EVERYTHING, then you have to wear these sissy panties on your date with her tonight. After you do a dance for me in your panties…"
Goddess Vika Teases and Tortures Your Pathetic Little Pigtail
"You pathetic little piglet. Look at you. Drooling over your goddess. If you want to spit out the pigsnot for Goddess Vika you're going to have to suffer for it. Put your pigtail on display for me. So I that I can flick it, twist it, spank it. Then I will consider letting piggy make me a worship puddle…"


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Chicano Batman
Freedom is Free
Chicano Batman, a quartet from Los Angeles, embrace a kind of cultural ricochet effect, playing fuzzed-out soul with pan-Latin grooves and rhythms that reflect and demonstrate their Mexican, Central and South American heritage, but with musical roots pointing back to Curtis Mayfield and James Brown. If the music of the African diaspora boomerangs all over the world - picking up bits of regional flavour wherever locals develop a taste for jazz, blues, gospel, reggae and other styles - then certainly, Chicano Batman's sound is steeped in Tropicália from Brazil, Peruvian psych-rock and Mexican garage jams, as well as American soul. The styles all reflect off each other in one way or another. The band makes excellent use of wah-wahs, overdriven organ and generally retro effects, playing dance-friendly music that is still totally 21st-century American.
1. Passed You By (Passed You By)
2. Friendship (Is a Small Boat in a Storm)
3. Angel Child (Angel Child)
4. Freedom is Free
5. La Jura (Prelude) [La Jura (Prelude)]
6. La Jura (La Jura)
7. Flecha Al Sol (Flecha Al Sol)
8. Jealousy (Jealousy)
9. Right Off the Back (Right Off the Back)
10. Run (Run)
11. The Taker Story (The Taker Story)
12. Area C (Area C)


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Conga unveils major updates to its System Integrators Partner Program
Conga has unveiled updates to its rapidly growing System Integrators (SI) Partner Program. Originally launched in March 2016, the program has already helped more than 350 partners to integrate Conga's best-in-class solutions in order to simplify and automate their customers' Salesforce experience. Conga's SI Partner Program provides structured engagement with and support for its partners, who come from among the approximately 800 SI/Consulting partners listed in the Salesforce Consulting Partner AppExchange. The program provides customers with strategic guidance, deep technical skills and relevant expertise around Salesforce and AppExchange applications. For partners of all tiers, it offers an array of tools, education and resources that enable partners to successfully implement Conga solutions into joint customers' environments. "We are incredibly proud of the traction Conga has received within Salesforce's growing SI/Consulting Partner community," said Susie Wallingford, Manager, SI Partner Program at Conga. "We spent months seeking feedback from our top partners about the program. We used their insight to make enhancements. Since we unveiled the evolution, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. We're looking forward to continuing to strengthen our relationships with current Conga partners as forge new partnerships in the community." One of Conga's top priorities over the past year has been to enhance the SI Partner Program so it rewards the partners that continually bring value to Conga's customer community. The program now consists of a rewards system, allowing partners to earn points through engagement with both Conga and new customers. The system gives increased value to Conga customers by offering those partners more valuable benefits within the program. "Having implemented Conga with our clients for many years, we see the release of their new partner program as a great step forward to improve collaboration, provide more relevant benefits, and ultimately, increase client success through the use of their innovative solutions," said Hans Hendershot, principal, Eide Bailly. Significant channel growth has been a major focus for Conga in recent months. The enhanced SI Partner Program comes on the heels of strong continued growth of Conga's OEM Partner Program, which provides partners with the opportunity to embed Conga's best-in-class solutions into their own tools and solutions to better simplify and automate their customers' Salesforce experience. Both programs are designed to leverage relationships with partners and assist Conga customers with meeting their highly-targeted needs. Find out more about the SI Partner Program here.


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In July our 4-year old male stopped eating, and we took him to the vet. A blood test confirmed that he was anemic, and the vet gave 3 different shots that must be administered for 45 days - Fortaz (100 mg/ml) 0.18 ml every 3 days, Iron Dextran (200 mg/ml) 0.05 ml every 3 days, and 0.14 ml of B Complex every other day. She also gave milk thistle liquid that must be given orally daily (0.15 ml). 9 days into treatment he started eating on his own, and everything is good. We finished his treatments in early September and a simple blood count showed normal count (Low 30s)
However, about 10 days later (mid september) he lost appetite again. A second comprehensive blood test was run and his HCT was down to 15 again (the first test in July was 7). Most of all other measurements were within range:
RBC Morphology: Normal, and no blood parasites
Protein is a little low (3.0) with Albumin and Globulin 1.5 each.
He is also low on Glucose (108) and Potassium (1.1)
Fecal test shows normal amount of parasites. (pin worms)
The vet doubled the Fortaz, and now we're on the 2nd run of treatment and it's been 15 days and he still doesn't eat on his own. We syringes fed him and forced some crickets down his poor throat every day. He is still able to move and lift him self up to the basking spot.
He has a 40-gallon tank, and we use 80-W SolarGlo (I think it is) UVA and UVB that's on 10 hours a day. Basking spot temperature is around 96 using temperature gun. There's no poop in his enclosure (we clean it as soon as possible).
We are desperate because even the vet (one of the experts in the area, only 2 available) doesn't know why he doesn't eat. Please pardon my ignorance, but in one of the post it looks like if a Dragon is going into brumation his blood count will also drop. Is that right? Is that possible that he is going for brumation? We've had him for almost 3 years and he's never gone to brumation. We live in a hot central California.
Please help....
thank you very much,
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Pregnant at LEGOLAND Florida
What to See and Do at LEGOLAND Florida for Pregnant Mommies-to-Be
LEGOLAND Florida is a theme park centered around LEGO, the popular childrens' toy. It is the second LEGOLAND theme park in the United States and the largest LEGOLAND built to date. It is located in Winter Haven, Florida, and was opened on October 15, 2011. LEGOLAND Florida boasts more than 50 rides, shows and attractions. It is also complete with a historic botanical gardens and water ski show!
Check out my LEGOLAND and LEGO blog, BrickStar.com, for theme park and LEGO deals and ideas!
Although LEGOLAND is geared towards children from ages 2 to 12, there is plenty to do and see for adults who are fascinated with LEGO toys, and even pregnant women can take the opportunity to visit. However, I must stress that if you are a pregnant adult visiting without small children, and you are not interested in LEGO, you may want to read on to see if it is worth all the walking.
There is much more to SEE than there is to DO as a mother-to-be at LEGOLAND Florida, so hopefully, you are interested in checking it all out.
Quick OK-To-Do List
Although there are very few rides that are ok for a pregnant woman at LEGOLAND Florida, there is plenty to do and see. Just make sure you are ok with walking - a lot of walking, maybe not too far along in your pregnancy, because it is a large park. Also, try to avoid going during the hottest season (late spring, summer, early fall) where it is virtually unbearable for a pregnant woman or anyone who is not used to the heat.
- Island in the Sky - outdoor ride
- Wells Fargo Funtown 4D Theatre - indoor 3D movies
- The Factory Tour - walk through indoor tour
- MINILAND USA - outdoor LEGO city displays
- Ski Show - outdoor (covered stadium) ski show
- Safari Trek - kiddie car, drive through safari
- Boating School - kiddie boat ride
- The Big Test - kiddie show (outdoor/no shade)
- CYPRESS GARDENS - botanical walk through gardens
LEGOLAND Florida Park Map
In Depth To Do List for Each LEGOLAND Area
Attractions, Rides, Displays and Shows that are ok for Expectant Moms
For your convenience, I've divided LEGOLAND Florida into sections and noted what you can do in each.
This is the area of the park that is just past the entrance. This is where The Big Shop, the largest LEGO store in the park, is.
- Island in the Sky - 150' rotating platform that gives you a breathtaking view of the entire property.
- Wells Fargo Funtown 4D Theatre - an air-conditioned indoor theatre with special effects. Perfect place to get off your feet.
- The Factory Tour - an indoor walk through to see how LEGO is made
- Carousel - ride on the bench, not the ponies, of course
A walk through area depicting miniature American cities and a tiny Pirate land. For any adult that ever enjoyed LEGO toys, hours can be spent marveling over the details in these amazing scale modeled cities made entirely out of LEGO bricks.
If you have smaller children, this section of the park has play areas for them as well as a coupld rides, like Grannies Jalopies and Big Rig Rally that are ok for a pregnant mom. If you are visiting with older children or as adults, you can probably avoid this area completely.
This is the castle area. It is a great area to walk through and look around, but unfortunately, there is not much there for a pregnant woman to do besides eat, sit and shop for more LEGO.
Again, it may be worth a walk through to see the giant LEGO Octopus, but the rides are NOT suitable for expectant moms.
This area has a lot of places for the children to play with LEGO, but nothing much for a pregnant woman to do. Once again, worth the walk to see take a peek at the LEGO models in this land.
- Ski Show - a MUST SEE show. Great place to get off your feet and out of the sun.
A lot of LEGO models to see in this area, from a giant pharoah, elephants and dinosaurs, but not much to do.
- Safari Trek - a cute little car ride to see beautiful LEGO animals. It is fine for a pregnant woman, but seems to be meant more for the smaller kids.
- Lost Kingdom Adventure - they state that pregnant people SHOULD NOT ride, but It is not a coaster or a fast ride. It is just the lap bar and liability that have them recommending against expectant moms riding. Some would say that you can make the call for yourself if you want to ride while early enough that you don't appear very pregnant. It is interactive, similar to Buzz Lightyear at Disney.
Rides and show (The Big Test) are geared toward the younger children and LEGO models are not as impressive as the other lands, aside from the life-sized LEGO Ford Explorer.
- Boating School - a kiddie boat ride, is the only ride that's suitable for expectant moms, here.
If you have made to this end of the park, this area is the beautiful and historic botanical gardens. It is a wonderful and relaxing walk, away from the chaos of the rest of LEGOLAND.
Tips to Enjoy Your Day at LEGOLAND While Pregnant
VISITING SEASON - Avoid the hottest months. DO NOT GO HERE IN THE SUMMER. There is not enough shade or indoor activities to be safe for an expectant mother, and the park is not open early OR late. Forget June thru September if you are pregnant, and enjoy LEGOLAND during October thru May instead.
MAP - Make sure you grab a map on the way in, especially so you can locate the restrooms as needed.
HYDRATE - Just like any Florida theme park, Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
WHEELCHAIRS and ECVs - Wheelchairs and Electric Convenience Vehicles (ECV) are available for reasonable rental pricing in "The Beginning" if you think the walking is going to be too much for you.
PLENTY OF SUNSCREEN - You WILL need it here. There is not a lot of shade in this theme park and only a couple of the attractions are indoors.
WALKING SHOES - Wear your best tennis shoes. There is no transportation from one end to this park to another besides your feet. If you are not up for a LONG walk. Forget it. If you are fine walking from shade to shade, bench to bench, indoors to indoors, you will be fine.
AC - Take advantage of every indoor attraction, shop, and restaurant to take advantage of the air conditioning.
KEEP IT COOL - Ice cream is available everywhere. Today is the day to treat yourself, guilt free!
FIRST AID - You will find the First Aid station behind the Factory Tour in Funtown if you need it.
Tickets and Discounts
Official LEGOLAND Florida Ticket Sales
Undercover Tourist usually has discounted LEGOLAND tickets.
Discounts and Promos on mousesavers.com
Rides NOT to Do When You are Pregnant
The Dragon
Royal Joust
Merlin's Challenge
Test Track
Auquazone Wave Racers
Kid Power Towers
Lost Kingdom Adventure (once you are showing, 2nd-ish trimester - you will want to avoid this. It is not a coaster or a fast ride, so it is just the lap bar and liability that have them recommending against expectant moms riding. As long as you do not appear to be pregnant, you will be fine on this one.)
Beetle Bounce
Rescue Academy
Flying School
Where to Eat When You are Pregnant
Sit Down and Indoor Locations in the Park
There is food and snacks pretty much everywhere you look, except in Miniland. My advice is to enjoy the indoor air conditioned locations where you can take a break and get out of the sun for a bit.
Here's the list:
Market Restaurant - Healthy/lighter fare salads, soups, rotisserie, Asian fusion, and specialty dessert selections, as well as gourmet coffee, cappuccino, caffe latte, Pepsi beverages, water, fresh fruit, pastries and snacks.
Pizza & Pasta Buffet - All you can eat buffet-style restaurant featuring a wide range of pizza, pasta and salad.
Lakeside Sandwich Company - Fresh sandwiches, wraps and salads are made here throughout the day. Healthier choice drinks.
Cap'n Brickbeard's Burgers - NOT Indoors, but has a covered patio dining area 100% beef hamburgers and cheeseburgers and delicious fries.
Unfortunately, none of these places seat and serve you. You will be taking your food to your table yourself at all of the locations.
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THE DAILY RECORD'S Mr Fixit (@mrfixitstips) picks out his three best bets in Scotland this weekend.
St Johnstone v Motherwell | Saturday 15:00
The title may be over but there's plenty to keep fans interested in the Premiership.
Just four points separate sixth-place Killie from basement boys Partick Thistle so any of those seven sides could finish bottom.
It's tightly bunched and teams are evenly matched and it makes it difficult for punters to make calls – last weekend for example there were four draws including three 0-0s.
One side who have joined the top-five breakaway are St Johnstone and stats suggest they'll beat Motherwell at home today. Saints dominate the head to head with six wins in a row against the Fir Park men in Perth.
Tommy Wright's men are in good form with just one loss in four including draws against Aberdeen and Hearts.
Last time out at McDiarmid they were dominant in 3-0 defeat of Inverness and I'm on them at 41/50 with Marathon.
Celtic v Dundee | Saturday 15:00
Celtic are no bigger than 2/15 at Ladbrokes to make it 20 domestic wins in a row against Dundee.
Brendan Rodgers's side were flat in a midweek 1-0 victory against Accies and fans will hope for a better display.
Dundee will go to Celtic Park and also park the bus and best bet is the Hoops to win to nil – which has trapped in their last three at home in the league – 4/5 with Ladbrokes.
The Dens men have netted just once in six visits to the East End of Glasgow and have drawn a blank in their last two outings against Ross County and Killie.
Raith v Dundee Utd | Saturday 15:00
Hibs and Dundee United are locked in a fight for the Championship and United could move clear this weekend.
Ray McKinnon visits his old Raith club who have just played the bottom four and failed to win any, scoring just once in the process.
United haven't conceded in five games – winning four of them 1-0 – and are on a cracking unbeaten run of seven wins in eight outings.
Take the in-form away side to edge this one at 27/25 with Marathon.
Best Bets
St Johnstone v Motherwell – St Johnstone to win (41/50 Marathon)
Celtic v Dundee – Celtic to win 'to nil' (4/5 Ladbrokes)
Raith v Dundee Utd – Dundee Utd to win (27/25 Marathon)


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Why yesterday's European Parliament election affects us all. Also, Greens in 2nd place in Germany
On May 26, Europe had its elections for the European Parliament, which will have massive implications on issues such as climate and nationalism. Here is what you need to know, in 60 seconds:
Why should I care about this election?
The results will have a large impact on how the whole world deals with the climate crisis, inequality (via global trade agreements), human rights (ditto), refugees and other issues that affect everyone.
Just give me the take-home message in ONE SENTENCE.
The mainstream center-left and center-right parties suffered unprecedented losses and the smaller parties from far-left to far-right saw gains across the European Union; within Germany, the Greens got the second-most votes.
Why are people making such a big deal out of this election? What isn't a crisis nowadays?
For the first time since the creation of the EU the combined seats of the two major parties – center-left and center-right – don't add up to more than 50%, which until now had always been the case and allowed them to win every vote in parliament because they had set a joint agenda (which is what a coalition is – it just means, two or more parties whose combined votes add up to more than 50% come up with a governing plan, which is necessary because no single party is ever popular enough to exceed 50%). Now for the first time they have to form coalitions with some of the small parties in order to add up to more than 50%, although that has always been common within individual countries.
The center-left went from 25% of seats in 2014 to 20% yesterday, and center-right down from 29% in 2014 to 23%. So what used to be a 53% majority coalition now only would have 43%.
Is it true that Germany has neo-Nazis but also a lot of Greens? Does the rest of Europe have that too?
Yes for Germany; more or less similar elsewhere. I can tell you about Germany because I know it the best. The Greens in Germany are an established, respected party that is taken seriously by the other parties. It has 9% of the seats in the German parliament and got 20% of the German vote yesterday for the EU parliament. But for our American mind-set you should add that to the 10% of the German parliament held by the far-far-left party called "The Left", to get a total of 19% for parties in Germany's parliament that would be on the far left in the U.S., or conceivably 29% if Germany held national elections right now.
The party which is neo-Nazi in all but name has 13% of seats but the thing to remember is that it was only first founded in 2014. Before that, there had been no hard-right party in major political office since WWII, only fringe skinhead-type neo-Nazis who murdered people. The new one is appealing to the kind of people who are extremely OCD about their allotment gardens.
Compared to the EU as whole, Germany had somewhat more support in this election for the center-right (Merkel's party), and less for center-left, far-right, and pro-business-liberal – and a huge amount more for the Greens.
So the Greens and Left can cancel out the nationalists?
Germany's becoming like the U.S., with the deranged vicious racists concentrated in certain states. In Germany, they're in the former-East-Germany (former communist) states, where the neo-Nazis got from 18% to 25% on Sunday. In the former-West-German states they got from 7 to 10%.
What is the European Parliament anyway?
It's a parliament with 751 seats for the whole European Union which meets in alternating weeks or months or something in Brussels AND Strasbourg and yes, that is as crushingly stupid and wasteful as you think it is. Imagine if Congress had to alternate meeting for two weeks in Washington then two weeks in Chicago, all year long and every member of Congress had to have an entire house and staff in both places. There is no practical reason for it and no one has ever tried to claim there was. It's purely because France bullied the entire continent into it, because they felt like it, and that's that. And you wonder why there's Brexit.
On May 26 2019, all of Europe had elections where each country chooses representatives to the European Parliament, proportional to its population. These are separate people from the representatives in each country's normal national parliament. The EU has a lot of power over things with international implications, so for example a lot of the environmental and consumer and worker protections you hear about are decided at the EU level.
Is it good or bad that the major centrist parties are shrinking and the smaller parties are growing?
It will be only be good if the centrist parties change their ways to do something about climate and improve the social structures they weakened in order to help rich people get richer, such as education, pensions, public transport and pretty much every aspect of everything in rural areas.
There are three smaller parties that gained from the majors' losses:
1) Greens (9% of seats)
2) extreme-right anti-EU racist-nationalists (11%)
3) Neoliberal party that is aggressively pro-corporate but with liberal social values for a few things like LGBT rights (14%).
Those figures represent huge increases over 2014, ranging from 34% for the Greens to 55% for the neoliberals.
All of this is even more dramatic within Germany:
All of the gains and losses were far more dramatic in how Germans voted for their EU parliament representatives, than for the average of all the EU countries: in Germany, the Greens doubled their support, from 10% to 20%, to become the second most popular party. The center-left lost 2/5ths of its voters as compared to 2014, and the center-right (Merkel's party) lost 1/5th.
Young people are massively to the left of the rest of the population: Greens got 34%, center-right 13% and center-left 9% (both about half the national figure) among under-25s. Remember, those last two have been the overwhelming bedrock foundation for over a century. Even if you define 'young' as under-45s the figures are similar, just a little less Green-heavy. The Greens also got 36% among first-time voters.
What else is fun and interesting about this election?
Elections in Europe are on weekends.
The results are final within an hour or two of the polls closing. Maybe not 100% legally officially final but they somehow have pretty much have everything counted by then even though the voting machines use paper.
In Italy the polls are open until 11:00 pm.
What else is nightmarish and dystopian about this election?
These are all entirely distinct institutions but I guess the good news is you don't vote for them directly:
Council of Europe
European Council
Council of the European Union
European Commission
European Union
European Union Customs Union
European Parliament


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