Combine a confident trainer, a substitute jockey with a championship knowledge of the track and a razor-sharp racehorse that loves Chicago and you come up a winner in the Grade III National Jockey Club Handicap on Saturday at Sportsman`s Park.
Trainer Larry Robideaux shipped up a van full of dynamite named Allijeba from Arkansas to win Sportsman`s top race for older horses by a widening 1 1/4 lengths.
Robideaux also knew that his runner, which he believes is best at a mile, wouldn`t mind Sportsman`s sharp turns.
Allijeba lay seventh in the field of eight through six furlongs before two-time Sportsman`s riding champ Shane Sellers turned him loose turning for home. The second choice in the betting paid $8.20, $4.60 and $3.60, while covering the 1 1/8-mile distance in 1:50 2/5 over a sloppy track.
''He won this race on the turns. . .he actually accelerated on the turns,'' Sellers said. ''Look at my boot (which was scuffed on the outside left). He hugged the turns so good we were rubbing `em. I really didn`t know how he would handle this track, but Mr. Robideaux told me Allijeba worked over it a couple of years ago and that he ran like a bullet. He was right.
The victory was the biggest in his Chicago career for Sellers, who plans to return for Arlington`s meeting, which begins May 12.
Kerwin Clark, who rode $1.30-$1 favorite Home At Last-a tired fifth after setting the pace-originally had the mount on the winner. ''Kerwin was supposed to ride him; he had the call,'' Robideaux said. ''But his agent, Lenny Pike, called me and said he`d like to take off to ride Home At Last.
Allijeba has shown an affinity for Chicago racing. He scored his biggest win in the $143,450 Robert F. Carey Memorial Nov. 10 on the Hawthorne turf.
Saturday`s purse of $157,680 built the son of Bejilla-Tilt`n Sail by To the Quick`s bankroll to $499,547. He has won 10 times, run second eight times and finished third eight times in a 40-race career.
Allijeba`s supporters shouldn`t have to wait long to see the game roan gelding run again in Chicago. Robideaux is expected to start him in the Grade III Ark-La-Tex Handicap May 11 at Louisiana Downs and has his star pointed toward two Arlington stakes on Memorial Day weekend.
The 5-year-old is tentatively scheduled to make an appearance in the Grade III Equipoise Mile on the dirt May 25 or in the Grade III Sea O`Erin at a mile on the turf May 27.
Whiz Along, who pressured Home At Last throughout the race at 13-1, finished second. Last year`s Illinois Derby runner-up, Sound of Cannons, also raced off the pace but couldn`t gain any ground and finished third.
Dotsero, the Illinois Derby`s 1990 champion, got as close as third after six furlongs, but tired badly and finished last.


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package com.mycompany;

import io.milton.http.Auth;
import io.milton.http.LockInfo;
import io.milton.http.LockResult;
import io.milton.http.LockTimeout;
import io.milton.http.LockToken;
import io.milton.http.values.HrefList;
import io.milton.http.webdav.PropPatchHandler.Fields;
import io.milton.principal.Principal;
import io.milton.resource.AccessControlledResource.Priviledge;
import io.milton.resource.*;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.UUID;

public abstract class TResource extends AbstractResource implements GetableResource, PropFindableResource, DeletableResource, MoveableResource,
        CopyableResource, DigestResource, AccessControlledResource, LockableResource {

    private static org.apache.log4j.Logger log = org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(TResource.class);
    private LockToken currentLock;

    public TResource(TFolderResource parent, String name) {
        super(parent, name);
    }

    protected abstract Object clone(TFolderResource newParent, String newName);

    @Override
    public String getPrincipalURL() {
        TCalDavPrincipal user = getUser();
        if (user == null) {
            return null;
        } else {
            return user.getHref();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public HrefList getPrincipalCollectionHrefs() {
        return TResourceFactory.getPrincipalCollectionHrefs();
    }

    public String getHref() {
        if (parent == null) {
            return "";
        } else {
            String s = parent.getHref();
            if (!s.endsWith("/")) {
                s = s + "/";
            }
            s = s + name;
            if (this instanceof CollectionResource) {
                s = s + "/";
            }
            return s;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Long getContentLength() {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public Long getMaxAgeSeconds(Auth auth) {
        return (long) 10;
    }

    @Override
    public void moveTo(CollectionResource rDest, String name) {
        log.debug("moving..");
        TFolderResource d = (TFolderResource) rDest;
        this.parent.children.remove(this);
        this.parent = d;
        this.parent.children.add(this);
        this.name = name;
    }

    @Override
    public Date getCreateDate() {
        return createdDate;
    }

    @Override
    public void delete() {
        if (this.parent == null) {
            throw new RuntimeException("attempt to delete root");
        }

        if (this.parent.children == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException("children is null");
        }
        this.parent.children.remove(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void copyTo(CollectionResource toCollection, String destName) {
        System.out.println("COPY: " + parent.name + "/" + this.name + " --->>>" + toCollection.getName() + "/" + destName);
        TResource rClone;
        rClone = (TResource) this.clone((TFolderResource) toCollection, destName);
        rClone.name = destName;
    }

    public int compareTo(Resource o) {
        if (o instanceof TResource) {
            TResource res = (TResource) o;
            return this.getName().compareTo(res.getName());
        } else {
            return -1;
        }
    }

    /**
     * This is required for the PropPatchableResource interface, but should not
     * be implemented.
     *
     * Implement CustomPropertyResource or MultiNamespaceCustomPropertyResource
     * instead
     *
     * @param fields
     */
    public void setProperties(Fields fields) {
    }

    protected void print(PrintWriter printer, String s) {
        printer.print(s);
    }

    @Override
    public final LockResult lock(LockTimeout lockTimeout, LockInfo lockInfo) {
        log.trace("Lock : " + lockTimeout + " info : " + lockInfo + " on resource : " + getName() + " in : " + parent);
        LockToken token = new LockToken();
        token.info = lockInfo;
        token.timeout = LockTimeout.parseTimeout("30");
        token.tokenId = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
        currentLock = token;
        return LockResult.success(token);
    }

    @Override
    public final LockResult refreshLock(String tokenId) {
        log.trace("RefreshLock : " + tokenId + " on resource : " + getName() + " in : " + parent);
        //throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
        LockToken token = new LockToken();
        token.info = null;
        token.timeout = LockTimeout.parseTimeout("30");
        token.tokenId = currentLock.tokenId;
        currentLock = token;
        return LockResult.success(token);
    }

    @Override
    public void unlock(String arg0) {
        log.trace("UnLock : " + arg0 + " on resource : " + getName() + " in : " + parent);
        currentLock = null;
        //throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }

    @Override
    public final LockToken getCurrentLock() {
        log.trace("GetCurrentLock");
        return currentLock;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isDigestAllowed() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<Principal, List<Priviledge>> getAccessControlList() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }

    @Override
    public List<Priviledge> getPriviledges(Auth auth) {
        List<Priviledge> priviledgesList = new ArrayList<Priviledge>();
        priviledgesList.add(Priviledge.READ);
        priviledgesList.add(Priviledge.READ_ACL);
        priviledgesList.add(Priviledge.READ_CURRENT_USER_PRIVILEDGE);
        priviledgesList.add(Priviledge.UNLOCK);
        priviledgesList.add(Priviledge.WRITE);
        priviledgesList.add(Priviledge.WRITE_ACL);

        return priviledgesList;
    }

    @Override
    public void setAccessControlList(Map<Principal, List<Priviledge>> privs) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }
}

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This is a collated list of many of the Tools and source code we have written.
Some of these were previously released commercially. Everything here is unsupported.
Everything here is free, where possible we have released the source code.
All the available source code is on GitHub.com/eviltester and there are more projects in that account than are listed here. Plenty of source to read through.
Do you want to write without using the verb "to be"?
Do you want to master e-prime?
Use our online tool to check your writing.
A Test app that demonstrates some iframe security functions, and lets you search on multiple search engines.
Need a motivational slogan to help you test? This is the app to generate it.
A text adventure game for technical testing, using developer tools or the JSON REST API.
A prototype tool for recording your exploratory testing notes.
A small free tool derived from sHideWin for forcing the display of hidden windows, even if they are off the screen.
A prototype tool for editing session text files for use in James and Jon Bach Session Based Test Management scripts. Written a long time ago (2002) in VB6, still runs on Windows, but not sure how useful it will be to anyone.
A GreaseMonkey script to mark people as trolls and hide their comments when you read linkedin.
A small free tool for locking files. Written in AutoIt. Source code included.
A Java desktop app with a bunch of utilities e.g. counterstrings, canned text, etc.
A small set of html and php pages that I use for teaching Selenium and WebDriver. These are the examples used in Selenium Simplified.
A deep manipulation app for exploring and making it work. Used for training.
An ongoing dumping ground for source code examples when I blog about WebDriver.
A small Perl script for traversing a set of node pairs and producing the branch coverage paths for each.
A long time ago Danny Faught and I wrote about Testing when your hands are tied. Prior to writing that article I had written an Excel spreadsheet which I used on sites that "tied my hands".
Experimental test data generation macros written in MS Excel.
a text set of explanatory notes.
an excel spreadsheet of macros and examples.
Experimental tool for generating test data from xml data specification files.
Two projects in one - the first is a wrapper around AutoIt dll in Java. The second was a rewrite to avoid the need for the AutoIt dll. I have not worked on this for a long time.
An outliner, a diagrammer and an entity modeller. It handles cross references with ease and can automatically generate a xref matrix for any entity pair. With specific features to help testers do Graph based testing. It is Free to download and use now.
A support tool for Microsoft Outlook 2000 running on Windows 95,98, NT, 2000, XP. Email Control Center sits in your system tray.
Ready for you to take control over Outlook and your Email tasks. Easy to Configure, simple to use. Free to use.
A URL manager running on Windows 95,98, NT, 2000, XP. URL Control Center sits in your system tray.
giving you fast and easy access to all your favourite URLs. Simple to use with multiple browsers. Free to use.
Last modified:October 23 2018 13:01:37.


The UK and Ireland's largest business products and facilities supplies wholesaler, part of the EVO Group, will stage the gathering, the annual high point of its events calendar, on 7 December in Birmingham's Hilton Metropole hotel.
VOW says reseller registrations to attend this year's Green Light already equal 90 per cent of last year's total, with the event still two weeks away. Over 400 reseller representatives and 70 exhibitors are expected to attend.
This year's gathering will be sponsored by backers including office product manufacturer Acco Brands, consumer goods maker BIC, multinational conglomerate 3M, filing products manufacturer ExaClair, speciality packaging and envelope provider Bong and transnational food and drink supplier Nestlé and many more.


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require_relative '../test_helper'

describe CsvRecord::Query do
  let (:query) { CsvRecord::Query.new Jedi, age: 37 }

  describe 'checking query initialization' do
    describe 'setting the conditions' do
      it 'checking the amount' do
        query.conditions.length.must_equal 1
      end

      it 'checking the type' do
        query.conditions.first.must_be_instance_of CsvRecord::Condition
      end
    end
  end

  describe '#where' do
    describe 'adding more conditions' do
      let (:second_query) { CsvRecord::Query.new Jedi, age: 852 }

      it 'to one query' do
        query.where name: 'Luke Skywalker'
        query.conditions.length.must_equal 2
      end

      it 'two queries' do
        query.where midi_chlorians: '4k'

        query.conditions.length.must_equal 2
        second_query.conditions.length.must_equal 1
      end
    end
  end

  describe 'lazy querying' do
    before do
      yoda.save
      qui_gon_jinn.save
    end

    describe 'should trigger the query' do
      it 'when calling the to_a' do
        query.to_a.must_be_instance_of Array
        query.to_a.first.must_be_instance_of Jedi
      end

      it 'when calling the first' do
        query.last.must_be_instance_of Jedi
      end

      it 'when calling the last' do
        query.first.must_be_instance_of Jedi
      end
    end
  end
end


It takes many hands to provide this wonderful opportunity to piano students. Join us in making it happen.
Love music? Want to help?
Many hands make light work, is the saying.
We all know how true that is!
From helping at a performance, to providing professional services, ORS is a great organization to work with.
Contact us today to find your place in our community. You don't have to play piano to help, just a willingness to be present and want to help!


Someone threw a digestive biscuit to the swans; everyone predicted they wouldn't be able to eat it. Hmm! I love the fact that if you walk round with a semi-serious camera, people think that you're a serious photographer and get out of your way.


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A guide to Topeka Restaurant Week 2019
Savanna Maue SavannaMaue
The number of restaurants participating in this year's Topeka Restaurant Week has doubled, which means double the delicious dishes to try.
Last year, eight restaurants donated proceeds from a week's worth of sales to Harvesters Community Food Network's BackSnack program. This year, Rosa Cavazos, director of events at Visit Topeka, said proceeds from Restaurant Week will be used to create scholarships supporting students studying tourism, hospitality and the culinary arts. Cavazos said Visit Topeka hopes to select a new recipient of Restaurant Week proceeds every two years, and because this is the third annual Restaurant Week, officials wanted to assist growth in Topeka.
Scholarships will be offered for such schools as the Washburn Institute of Technology, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, Fort Hays State University and others that offer hospitality management-type degrees.
To apply for these scholarships, students are asked to visit bit.ly/2jbafjF.
Also new this year, Visit Topeka has changed the dates of Restaurant Week to kick off on a weekend. Food specials begin on Friday, March 1, and run through Friday, March 8. Restaurants are donating a portion of proceeds from their specialty listed items, and some restrictions do apply.
Here is a list of participating businesses:
4 Guys Bar & Grill
Where: Brookwood Shopping Center, 2833 S.W. 29th St.
Kitchen hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Saturday
Info: 4guysbargrill.com
Four Guys will feature two soup and sandwich lunch specials: a bowl of pho, a Vietnamese beef and rice noodle soup, with either a Vietnamese sandwich of grilled pork or chicken for $7.95 or a beef brisket sandwich for $8.95. The lunch special runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and is dine-in only.
For dinner, 4 Guys will offer a Tote Salad, a fresh bed of romaine lettuce and spinach leaves with pickled carrot and daikon, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and red onion, topped with fried wonton strips, shredded marbled cheddar cheese and grilled chicken. Customers can choose to omit the chicken, wonton strips and cheese for a vegetarian/vegan option, for $8.95.
The second dinner item is Asian barbecue pork tacos. Flour tortillas layered with Vietnamese aioli, barbecue roasted pork, pickled carrots and daikon, fresh cucumbers and jalapenos, cilantro and house-made grill sauce. A serving is three tacos for $6.95.
Baking Traditions
Where: 4036 S.W. Huntoon St.
Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday
Info: squareup.com/store/baking-traditions-llc
Specializing in European-style baked goods, the bakery regularly offers scones, baguettes and other sweet treats.
For Restaurant Week, Baking Traditions will focus on its lunch menu, with two options: a soup of the day with a hot and melty stuffed baguette plus choice of a cookie or a beverage, or panzanela salad with house-made croutons and the soup of the day plus choice of a cookie or beverage.
KB's Smokehouse and Norsemen Brewing Co.
Where: Mobile food truck that regularly serves inside Norsemen Brewing Co., 830 N. Kansas Ave.
Hours: 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Info: kbsmokehouse.com, norsemenbrewingco.com
Because KB and Norsemen share space, they are offering a double dose of deliciousness for Restaurant Week.
For a $10 special, guests can buy a pulled pork sandwich or beer brat with one side and a craft beer. The beer brats, a KB specialty, are made with Norsemen beer by Kroeger's Country Meats in Lecompton.
KB will also serve its new smoked meatloaf sandwich, the "OMG Smoked Meatloaf." It's a smoked meatloaf, topped with homemade barbecue sauce, nacho cheese, smoked pork belly and homemade coleslaw.
Norsemen has about a dozen beers on tap, ranging from the Chocolate Cherry Porter to its classic pale ale, the Shield Maiden Wheat IPA. The special applies to any beer that is normally $5.50 or less.
This deal won't be valid during the First Friday Art Walk on March 1.
The Weather Room
Where: The Cyrus Hotel, 920 S. Kansas Ave.
Hours: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily
Info: cyrushotel.com/dining
Lunch specials cost $15 per person and include three courses. First is a choice of Celeriac Soup, with Granny Smith apples and celery leaves, or the Weather Room Salad, with escarole, bacon, egg, smoked tomato and blue cheese. Second course is an option of a Burnett Burger, with house-blended, aged cheddar, Burnett chutney and brioche, or Eggplant Sandwich, with crispy eggplant, mozzarella, tomato, olive tapenade. For dessert, a Weather Room Brownie with chocolate sauce and chantilly cream.
Dinner specials cost $35 per person, with a first-course option of braised bacon, pickled turnips and carrots, with bourbon peppercorn maple glaze, or a Weather Room Salad. Entree choices are crispy salmon, with Confit tomatoes, lemon caper Brussels sprouts and chermoula; Brick Chicken, with broccolini and lemon herb pan jus; or a 6 oz. Center Cut Filet Mignon, with gremolata crust and mushroom duxelles. Dessert is a Banana Sticky Toffee Pudding, with toffee sauce, caramelized banana, candied walnuts and a touch of sea salt.
The Blue Moose Bar & Grill
Where: 3030 S.W. Wanamaker Road
Hours: 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 11-12:30 a.m. Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sunday
Info: thebluemoosebarandgrill.com/topeka
The Blue Moose will feature a two-course lunch special for $10. Options include Mac and Cheese Croquettes, with cavatappi pasta, smoked cheddar cheese and smoked tomato cream sauce; Pork Verde Empanadas with roasted jalapeno crema; or Wood-Roasted Broccolini Salad, sherry truffle vinaigrette, parmesan and toasted almonds. Second-course options are Pork Belly Tacos, house-cured pork belly on corn tortillas with sriracha aioli and slaw spicy pickled vegetables, served with black beans and chipotle rice; Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad, grilled chicken with sherry vinaigrette, dried cherries, bacon and parmesan cheese; or short rib grilled cheese panini with spicy beef short rib, habanero pepper jack cheese, cheddar cheese, a tomato-bacon jam on two thick slices of sourdough bread and served with a side of french fries.
A three-course dinner is available for $30. In addition to the first course of Mac and Cheese Croquettes, Pork Verde Empanadas or Wood-Roasted Broccolini Salad, second course options are Hardwood Smoked Beef Ribs, marinated in a house-made espresso barbecue sauce and served with Palmetto Farms yellow corn grits; Kansas Pork Shoulder with a dark soy-rum glaze,spicy mustard sauce served with a side of crab-fried rice and wood-roasted broccolini; or Shrimp and Grits, grilled red shrimp with corn grits and a smoked tomato burre blanc. Dessert course is a choice of cinnamon roll; bread pudding collaboration, topped with brown sugar glaze with whipped butter; or Dark Chocolate-Chocolate Bliss, dark chocolate cake layered with dark chocolate buttercream and a dark chocolate Amarena cherry sauce.
LaRocca's Pizza
Where: 3100 S.W. Gage Blvd.
Hours: 4 to 9 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Info: laroccaspizza.net
For its lunch special, LaRocca's will offer a house salad, small three-topping pizza and soft drink for $10.
For dinner, two specials will be offered: a Family Pizza Night that includes four soft drinks, four rolls, one large specialty pizza and one small two-topping pizza for $25; or a Family Dinner Special that includes four soft drinks, two house salads, four garlic rolls, Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo or Penne Alla Vodka with Sweet Italian Sausage, and two mini kids pizzas or two spaghetti with meatballs for $30.
The Pennant
Where: 915 S. Kansas Ave.
Hours: 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday
Info: thepennanttopeka.com
In honor of its one-year anniversary, The Pennant is offering a specialty menu for St. Patrick's Day, which it will begin a few weeks early for Restaurant Week. Prices vary per dish, but include appetizers of Leprechaun Bites, Mac and Cheese Bites with pepperjack cheese sauce and chipotle ranch; Tot of Gold Shepherd's Pie, tater tots with ground beef, mixed vegetables and garlic mashed potatoes; and Limerick Chips, golden fries tossed in salt and pepper. Entrees include a St. Patty Melt, black Angus beef, cheddar cheese, carmelized onion, spicy Thousand Island dressing and Texas toast; The Limerick O'Riginal, black Angus beef, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles; the Lucky Mushroom Burger, black Angus beef, mushroom bordelaise, Swiss cheese, horseradish aioli and fried onion strings; and the Risky Ruben, corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, spicy Thousand Island dressing on marbled rye bread. For dessert, a Mint to be Found Shake, mint chocolate chip ice cream, milk, whipped cream and chocolate mint cookies.
Also being served are a variety of Limerick Cocktails, from the Warm & Wooly, with Jameson, butterscotch Schnapps, Irish cream coffee, whipped cream and shamrock sprinkles, to the End of the Rainbow, with Jameson, Peach Schnapps, ginger ale, orange juice and golden flakes.
The specials will only be offered in The Limerick Pub, a pop-up pub on the second floor of The Pennant. The specialty menu will be offered Feb. 25-March 17.
College Hill Pizza Pub
Where: 1418 S.W. Lane St.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Info: facebook.com/CollegeHillPizzaPub
For its lunch special, Pizza Pub is offering any one-topping pizza for $5 and Joey Sticks for $5. Joey Sticks are a signature Pizza Pub appetizer of cheese sticks of stuffed pizza with guest's choice of crust, garlic butter and five cheeses served with ranch, marinara or garlic butter dipping sauce.
For dinner, any specialty pizza will be $9, Joey Sticks $6 and cheese pizza for $4.
Specialty pizzas include the KC BBQ Pizza, with barbecue sauce, chicken, Polish sausage, pulled pork, pickles, red onion and cheddar cheese; Greek Pizza, wiht Tzatziki sauce, beef, chicken, red onion, Kalamata olives, spinach, tomato, feta crumbles and five cheeses; and Taco Pizza, with refried beans, chorizo, tomato, black olive, red onion, nacho cheese drizzle and cheddar cheese.
The White Linen
Where: 112 S.W. 6th St.
Hours: 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday-Saturday
Info: thewhitelinen.com
The White Linen is a fine-dining restaurant based on contemporary French and American cuisine. Chef Adam VanDonge takes locally grown, bred and produced products and adds imaginative twists, while keeping familiar flavors and textures of the Kansas plains.
For dinner, The White Linen is offering a $40 dinner for two featuring two 8 oz. center-cut sirloins, garlic mashed potatoes in a creamy herb butter sauce, steamed broccolini and a bottle of cabernet.
The Burger Stand at College Hill
Hours: 11 to 2 a.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday
Info: burgerstandrestaurants.com
For its lunch special, Burger Stand is offering Homestyle Chicken Noodles and Mash, which features homemade noodles and broth, served over creamy mashed potatoes, for $7. A vegetarian lunch option is the Impossible BBQ Basket, featuring the Impossible Patty, "burnt end" veggies, creamy slaw with a side of crinkle cut fries for $10. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Dinner options are Mushroom My Way: a house beef patty, topped with an herbed, pinot and mushroom-based bordelaise, Swiss cheese, hand-breaded onion rings and waffle fries for $11; or the Southern Hospitality, a vegetarian take on the traditional dinner staple, with black-eyed peas with smoked and cured mushroom bits, arugula greens warmed with truffle butter and a sweet jalapeno cornbread for $8. Dinner is served from 4 to 10 p.m.
NOTO Burrito
Where: 822 N. Kansas Ave.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday
Info: facebook.com/NotoBurrito
NOTO Burrito is known for its huge burritos served any way you like them. For lunch, the restaurant will offer the NOTO Burrito, a choice of meat, beans, rice, pico, lettuce, cheese and one of its signature sauces, with a small queso and drink for $10. Meat options are chicken, beef and pork.
For dinner, guests can choose any two signature burritos and two drinks for $20. NOTO Burrito offers a variety of signature dishes, from the sweet and tangy Thai Me UP, with Rice, Bean, Chicken, Hawaiian BBQ Slaw and Sriracha Aioli to the Planting Peace and Love, a tortilla chock full of rice, beans, two choices of meat, sour cream, guacamole, cheese, pico, queso and a rainbow of sauces.
AJ's NY Pizzeria
Where: 1930 S.W. Westport Drive
Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to midnight Friday-Saturday
Info: facebook.com/AjsNyPizzeriaOfTopeka
For Restaurant week, AJ's will offer its Pepperoni Bricks and Cheese Bricks for $1.25 each and Cin Knots for four for $2.50.
AJ's also will offer a variety of large pizzas for $14. Options range from The Big Apple, with sausage, pepperoni, ground beef, meatballs, Canadian bacon, ham, mushroom, onions, black olives, green peppers, mozzarella and parmesan, to The John Stamos, a Greek medley of green olives, red onions, grilled chicken and feta cheese on top of a white sauce.
Guests must request the Restaurant Week special while dining.
RowHouse Restaurant
Where: 515 S.W. Van Buren St.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday
Info: rowhouserestaurant.net
RowHouse will offer three selections for its lunch menu: the Half Orange Chicken Salad Sandwich on toasted grain bread, filled with dried fruit and jalapeno chutney, greens and house pickles; a vegetarian Veggie Seeds and Beans Bowl, with sweet potato, veggie ribbons, broccoli rice, seeds, legumes, and greens; or the Beef Short Rib Shepherd's Pie, with celery, green onion and garlic.
Lunch options include a cup of Tomato Dill Soup or a side salad with black pepper ranch, shortbread cookies for dessert and a nonalcoholic beverage of choice. This meal is $20 per person.
Iron Rail Brewing
Info: ironrailbrewing.com
The Iron Rail will offer a barbecue special of rib tips and fries for $10. The rib tips will be offered exclusively for Restaurant Week.
Other Iron Rail favorites are its Fried Pickles, cornmeal breaded pickle chips served with roasted garlic ranch; Shrimp and Grits, with Argentine red shrimp, andouille sausage, sauteed peppers and onions, grits and Cajun cream sauce; and for dessert, the Cast Iron Brownie, a triple chocolate chip brownie cooked in a cast iron pan, topped with salted caramel ice cream and toasted pecans.

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Is our world going through another 1930s Great Depression? Commentary on the Global Economic Crisis by Sheldon Filger
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More On Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and His Disastrous Economic "Forecast"
It is said that those whom the Gods intend to destroy they first drive mad. Is it not madness to reappoint to a second term leading the most important financial and economic institution on the planet, the Federal Reserve, a man with a forecasting record as disastrous as that of Ben Bernanke?
As a follow-up to my recent post on economic forecasting, below is the original Washington Post article by staff writer Nell Henderson, describing the intellect of Ben Bernanke in action during his presentation before Congress just prior to his nomination by President George W. Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Fed Chairman.
Read this article in wonderment, and try to comprehend how the author of such a catastrophic forecast on the implications of the housing price boom in the U.S. could be chosen by President Barack Obama to serve another term.
Bernanke: There's No Housing Bubble to Go Bust
Fed Nominee Has Said 'Cooling' Won't Hurt
By Nell Henderson
Thursday, October 27, 2005; Page D01
Ben S. Bernanke does not think the national housing boom is a bubble that is about to burst, he indicated to Congress last week, just a few days before President Bush nominated him to become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.
U.S. house prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years, noted Bernanke, currently chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, in testimony to Congress's Joint Economic Committee. But these increases, he said, "largely reflect strong economic fundamentals," such as strong growth in jobs, incomes and the number of new households.
Bernanke's thinking on the housing market did not attract much attention before Bush tapped him for the Fed job Monday but will likely be among the key topics explored by members of the Senate Banking Committee during upcoming hearings on his nomination.
Many economists argue that house prices have risen too far too fast in many markets, forming a bubble that could rapidly collapse and trigger an economic downturn, as overinflated stock prices did at the turn of the century. Some analysts have warned that even a flattening of house prices might cause a slump — posing the first serious challenge to whoever succeeds Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan after he steps down Jan. 31.
Bernanke's testimony suggests that he does not share such concerns, and that he believes the economy could weather a housing slowdown.
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Global Financial Meltdown:Perspective Of A Leading African Economist
January 6th, 2009 Comments off
Dr.Obadiah Mailafia is a distinguished African economist. Currently he is the Chairman of the Center for Policy and Economic Research (CEPER), in Abuja, Nigeria. Dr. Mailafia has had a distinguished career in government, academia and international development. He has been a university academic, international banker and a senior government official. He was until recently Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and a Senior Advisor to the President of Nigeria (with rank of Minister of State). He was also for several years an official of the African Development Bank Group. He is by training an economist and policy scientist, with research interests in monetary economics, international finance, and strategic management and development administration. On December 16th, 2008. Dr. Mailafia delivered a speech on the current Global Economic Crisis for the Kaduna Chamber of Commerce in Nigeria. Though his talk dealt in part with the impact of the global meltdown on the Nigerian economy, Dr. Mailafia's presentation provides an exceptionally cogent and lucid analysis of the ongoing global financial and economic turmoil. Below is an excerpt from the speech on the Global Economic Crisis, which Dr. Mailafia graciously provided permission for WWW.Global EconomicCrisis.com to publish on our blog.
Presentation on the Global Economic Crisis by Dr.Obadiah Mailafia:
From first principles, we must not forget that financial booms and busts are not a new phenomenon. What is disquieting about the current meltdown is that it is in the nature of a seismic tremor of earth-shaking proportions.
Within a few moths, some of the biggest financial giants have gone belly-up, while several more are in serious trouble. How indeed are the mighty fallen! Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and Merill Lynch. The automobile giants are virtually on their deathbeds while a good number of industrials are surviving only by the skin of their teeth. A rather prosperous central European nation, Iceland, has virtually sued for bankruptcy, resorting to an IMF standby arrangement – the first since the British 'humiliation' of 1967.
The contagion has spread to Europe, Japan, Asia, Africa and Latin America. An estimated US$1.7 trillion in bailout funds has already been committed by OECD countries, but we are yet to see the end of the tunnel, not to talk of any light in it. According to a recent report, the world stands in need of a staggering US$4 trillion to fully resolve this crisis.
Any explanation of the current financial turbulence must begin with the housing bubble fuelled by low interest rates, increased global liquidity and predatory lending by the financial giants. According to some estimates, the annual issuance of US sub-prime mortgage backed securities increased from a mere $56 billion in 2000 to a massive $508 billion in 2005, comprising something of the order of 20 percent of total US mortgages. By 2006, the housing bubble was beginning to unravel, as higher interest rates and rising oil and food prices – and a generalized decline in consumer confidence – were starting to take their toll.
For Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary under President Clinton, greed has to be the main explanatory variable. For billionaire investor George Soros, on the other hand, the main villain is former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan whose monetary policies allegedly encouraged speculative exuberance even as interest rates were at an all-time low and asset prices were spiraling out of control. Predictably, President-elect Barack Obama puts most of the blame on the misguided policies of the Bush administration, describing the situation as "the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression". To all intents and purposes, the big ratings agencies must also bear some of the blame for failing to be more rigorous in their risk assessments. There Acare yet others who blame the situation on the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act 1933 which had made a clear demarcation between general commercial banking on the one hand, and investment banking activities, on the other. The absence of such a demarcation was underlined as one of the factors accounting for the speculative exuberance that led to the 1929 Wall Street crash.
Linked to this is the dwindling capacity of regulatory authorities. The reality is that the world of high finance has become so complex in our digital age, with capital travelling at the speed of light and several instruments engineered using the arcane language of quantum physics. The hedge funds, which control over a US$1 trillion in assets, are not subject to many of the traditional regulatory regimes. Inevitably, such power without responsibility is bound, sooner or later, to lead to anarchy or even worse.
Another factor that may not be so apparent is what I would term "the crisis of American hegemony". It is an open secret that America is today the world's number one debtor-nation. One of the greatest achievements of the Clinton Presidency was to have eliminated the budget deficit. When the Republicans took over, the notion of balanced budgets was thrown out of the window. It was further aggravated by military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq that cost an astonishing US$1 billion daily in taxpayers' money. And we all know that those adventures have more to do with advancing the interests of oil sharks and the military-industrial complex than about fighting terrorism or spreading the ideals of democratic government.
A hypothesis made famous by the late Harvard economist Charles Kindleberger and others posits that a stable international monetary is possible only where there is a world power able and willing to bear the burdens of responsibility for the preservation of the prevailing system. Such a leader must also be prepared to act as a lender of last resort. Britain played this role in the nineteenth century. America was to play this role for much of the twentieth century. For such theorists, the decline of a 'hegemon' is often reflected in international financial disequilibrium, a situation which perhaps offers part of the explanation for the current difficulties.
For America, it will not be the end of the world, but it certainly signals the end of en era. In over-extending herself beyond her means and her material capabilities, America has ended up alienating her allies, pursuing a unilateralist course that its wisest statesmen would never have dared to contemplate. In so doing, George W. Bush and his neoconservative brethren have exhausted the moral capital that the American Republic has accumulated for the better part of a century. More than at any time in her illustrious history, America stands isolated and bereft of moral authority…
I have to confess that I am not one of those who are easily taken in by the report attributed to Merrill Lynch, which declares our economy to be the safest in the world. As far as I know, our alleged safety derives from the paradox of marginality – to the simple fact that we are not deeply hooked into the global digital economy. It is foolhardy to behave like the proverbial ostrich when Rome is on fire and when the embers of financial contagion have been unleashed everywhere.
Madam President, talking about the much-vaunted Vision 2020, I am constrained to note that we are yet to see a clear economic strategy around which to anchor rational expectations and mobilize the vast resources and energies of our people. Our leaders have all but forgotten the onerous task of nation building. The simple truth is that we are not yet a nation and we are far from having that spiritual bond which the British political philosopher Sir Ernest Baker regarded as the most critical factor in the building of a united and prosperous democracy.
Clearly, we have enormous work to do and several steep mountains to climb. At the global level, we would need to work with others to hammer out a brave new world in which the demands of equity harmonize with the imperatives of international solidarity.
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, for us in this benighted continent, the current upheaval provides an opportunity to re-launch the African Century and to consolidate the foundations of democracy that would enhance peaceful and just development for our long-suffering people. After a millennium of servitude, our continent may, at last, be coming to its own. No nation is better placed, in my view, than ours to champion this continental rejuvenation, whose foundations must be built on sound economic and public management. But I daresay that we will not rise to the occasion until we have transformed our national mindset, reformed the way we do business and changed the structure of our politics and the very spirit of our constitution, leadership and nationhood.
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Born in Okcheon, North Chungcheong, Woojin began his archery career in 2001, and rose to prominence following his international debut in 2009. Two years later he won an individual gold medal at the 2011 World Archery Championships and a second gold medal as part of the winning men's team. 2012 saw him win another individual gold medal at the FITA Archery World Cup, and three years later Woojin was once again selected for the Korean national team, going on to win the World Archery Championship for a second time.
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LOS ANGELES, March 3 (Xinhua) -- "Convergence LA", a landmark public art installation funded by Chinese real-estate developer Greenland, was unveiled at downtown Los Angeles on Thursday night.
The artwork, which was created by local artists Susan Narduli and Refik Anadol, is a digital craftsmanship that visualizes historic and real-time data of Los Angeles and reflects it on a 100-foot-wide (30.48-meter) LED media wall.
"The really unique thing about this project - really ground breaking, is that this is an artwork telling the story of a city. It is taking live data that the city of Los Angeles is making all the time," Narduli told Xinhua.
She said the visuals were created by various kinds of data, including tectonic, weather, social media, news feed, and traffic.
"In fact, this piece is always live, always new, and it's always informed by the data in the moment that's being made by the city," the artist added.
Jose Huizar, a Los Angeles City Council member, said this digital artwork would potentially increase the traffic in downtown L.A. area.
"People are going to be curious" and they are going to "talk about it," Huizar said. Once they understand what this means and how it comes together, they will "start visiting."
"Convergence LA" is located on the facade of Metropolis, a Greenland property that Council member Huizar described as "a huge second spark" of revitalization after the establishment of L.A. Live, and this spark encouraged many other investors to invest in downtown L.A.
L.A. Live is an entertainment complex occupying more than 520,000 square meters in downtown of the city, adjacent to the Staples Center and Los Angeles Convention Center.
"We have a great working relationship with Chinese investors right now," Huizar said. "We're looking forward to continue that relationship."
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Though Djokovic is still far ahead in No. 1, Federer also got his third win of the year against the Serb in the semifinals. He put on such a dominant display that Djokovic said in an unusually brief post-match news conference that it was the best Federer has ever played against him.
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WASHINGTON – The FBI has located 23 known terrorists – including some linked to al Qaeda – inside the United States since November, a key FBI terror-tracking agent told The Post yesterday.
"They got into the United States undetected," said Steve McCraw, head of the bureau's Foreign Terrorist Tracking Network.
The thugs' names, locations and other information were given to the FBI's terrorism task force as soon as possible.
McCraw wouldn't say if the suspects were under 24-hour surveillance, out of the country or detained on immigration or material-witness charges.
McCraw said his team found the terrorists using computer systems from the FBI and other agencies, as well as a variety of commercial data services.
Word of the infiltration of other terrorists came as Congress began hearings – yesterday's were closed – into what the government knew before Sept. 11.
"In terms of whether the FBI and CIA communicated properly, I think it's clear that they weren't, and now we're addressing that issue," President Bush said at the National Security Agency, adding he saw no evidence the attacks could have been stopped.
Also yesterday, David Frasca, the mid-level FBI agent blamed for ignoring terror warnings, testified for two hours behind closed doors that he never saw a field agent's July memo warning of Arabs training at flight schools until after the Sept. 11 tragedy.
Frasca – head of the FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit – insisted he didn't learn about the Phoenix memo until October, when it was shared with him by Justice Department auditors, sources told The Post.
Critics of the FBI have asked why the warning from the agency's Phoenix office, delivered by special agent Kenneth Williams in a July 10 memo, did not ring alarm bells at the bureau's D.C. headquarters.
Williams' eight-page memo said that Osama bin Laden had sent terrorists to the United States to learn how to fly commercial airliners at American flight schools.


Congratulations are in order to Ron Paul, who, as predicted, won a prize this week. The Republican presidential candidate is the latest winner of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste's Taxpayer Hero award, a sort of Nobel Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Being Ron Paul. Well deserved!
According to an e-mail from the Paul campaign, it is the good doctor's fourth time earning the distinction of "Taxpayer Hero." Campaign chairman Jesse Benton said, "This comes as no surprise as Dr. Paul's strong record of fiscal conservatism has earned him the nickname 'The Taxpayer's Best Friend.'" We've never heard anyone call him that, and did not know he preferred it. Taxpayer Hero Ron "The Taxpayer's Best Friend" Paul it is, then.
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Life Lessons I learned from Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa is one of the amazing characters in the world of fiction. He is someone I truly idolize.
Rocky is a hard-hitting story of a rookie boxer who achieves success in the boxing world without having any background or training in this field. It is only due to his dedication and perseverance that he gets one in a million chance to fight with a heavy-weight champion and beat him with his sheer power of will to survive. Rocky reflects the struggles of a common man who clears the hurdles that come on his way and even goes on to achieve his goals. Rocky in itself is a perfect metaphor for a person who beats all odds and achieves success in his career. Moreover, Rocky convincingly proves the fact that you can achieve anything in life if you have a strong will power and dedication to do so. Throughout the film series, each chapter of the Rocky Saga gives us a new lesson to learn. Here in, I have narrowed down six chapters of the saga (Creed is not included) into 6 points which I have learned so far:
1. Hard work can beat Talent
Sylvester Stallone, Photograph: Rocky (1976)
In the first film, Rocky gets one in a million chance to fight with the heavy-weight champion, and nobody had expected that he would get so close to winning the Championship belt. He did this miracle by working hard and believing in himself. He didn't have any hi-tech training equipments or world-class training facilities. He came from lower suburbs and yet against all odds, he shocked the world with his stellar performance. This chapter made me learn that one's dedication and hard work can beat even the most talented competitors.
2. Once you Achieve Success, Sustain it
Sylvester Stallone, Photograph: Rocky II (1979)
In the follow up to the first film, Rocky didn't plan his future once he got stardom and success from his previous match that made him a people's champ. He started spending money hastily in buying stuff without even considering what to do with them and didn't even bother to think that how he was going to maintain his new lifestyle. Consequently, he ended-up being jobless and later landed up working at the gym until he got an opportunity for a rematch with the champion and ultimately won this time around. However, in real life you hardly ever get a second chance to recover from your failings. This chapter is an eye-opener for those who take success for granted. It is important to remember that once you achieve success in your career, you should not stop there. Instead, you should work hard every day towards its sustenance. Additionally, don't just sit back and relax! You have to keep striving to achieve new heights since sky is the only limit.
3. Don't be over confident
Sylvester Stallone, Photograph: Rocky III (1982)
In the third installment of the Saga, Rocky achieved tremendous amount of stardom and success in his boxing career. He wins various matches and maintains his status as the 'Heavy Weight Champion.' However, due to this immense power and stardom, he gets too overconfident about himself and loses his will to fight for it. Consequently, he loses his championship belt too. With time, he realizes his mistake and fights back to win the belt again. What one can learn from this entire scenario is that, no matter how good you are in your field of work, just don't be overconfident about it. Being overconfident is a perfect recipe for self-destruction. Therefore, what matters is that you keep working hard and do not forget to be humble with everyone who comes your way up.
4. Size doesn't matter, what does matter is Will Power
Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren, Photograph: Rocky IV (1985)
In this edition, Rocky faces his biggest challenge so far as he fights with someone who is far more powerful and younger than he is. It is indeed worth a mention that he doesn't run-away from the situation. Knowing that he stands nowhere infront of him, he still continues to fight with his opponent because of his strong will power and even goes on to win the match. Similarly, we should also learn to tackle the hurdles/roadblocks in such a way wherein we adopt positive methods to deal with them. Having a positive outlook and accepting the challenges with open arms is the real trait of a winner.
5. It's about how hard you get hit and rise again
Sylvester Stallone and Tommy Morrison, Photograph: Rocky V (1990)
In this chapter of the saga, after all the hard work that Rocky did to build his career, his life hits the rock bottom when he finds out that at the age of retirement he has lost all his wealth and insurance and he can't even fight anymore. Now at this stage, he has to build it all over again to take care of his family. He is still strong willed and determined. Additionally, he doesn't lose his hope to rise and shine again. This teaches us an important lesson that we have to remain well prepared for any setbacks that may come at any phase during our lives.
6. Saying goodbyes to loved ones
Sylvester Stallone, Photograph: Rocky Balboa (2006)
This has been one of the most gripping chapters of the whole saga, because it deals with the emotional aspect of our lives. Here in, we see Rocky as an old man in his 50's. After retirement, he ventures into restaurant business – an Italian restaurant which is named after his late wife Adrian. He feels that the times have been changed and the love of his life is not with him anymore. Moreover, his struggling realtionship with his son adds to his woes. He starts living in the past and frequents old places where he used to go along with his wife. It is evident that he doesn't want to let go of the past. He doesn't know how to say goodbye to his past life, especially his wife. However, in the end he finally learns to move on in life and acquires inner peace. Everybody can relate to such issues in their old age. However, the key is to know that nothing in life is permanent and everybody has to depart at some point of time. All we can do is cherish the memories that we have shared with our loved ones.
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ive been trying to remember the name of this game for years and it just pops up on itch one day
TarAlacrin1 year ago(+2)
There are very few things in life that inspire me so completely and thoroughly to make video games more than playing a game by thecatamites. Thank you man.
SorenJB1 year ago(+1)
Wonderful RPG. Fulfilled my ambition to be a knight errant in an RPG. Thanks for being one of the greatest to ever play the game.
TheDuples1 year ago (1 edit)
It looks wonderful, but is there a fullscreen mode? It's very tiny on my 4k monitor
SickHouse2 years ago
Hey Iam trying to get in touch with the secret society of thecatamites. Anybody has a clue which magic tree i have to hug ? xx A
glitchyrobot1 year ago
that tree has been cut down a while ago, now you have to "message" them or something.
WallaceLovecraft2 years ago(+4)
There's something about Magic Wand that I love. At first glance it looks kind of messy but for some reason it looks appealing. The weirdness is appealing and I like weird but I guess I'm also a fan of the creators work.
The things that I liked
What I liked the most was the adventure. It really felt unique and fun to play. I didn't know where to go and just explored the world hoping that something cool would happen.
I liked the art style of the game. It has that nice pixel look but the freshness of a 3d game. It's quite wonderful.
The music was really good. That indie music touch is so great and it's pleasing to the ears.
I also liked how easy the game was. HP didn't matter for me and maybe that was on purpose.
Mac version can fullscreen.
Can't die from falling off the edge.
Things I didn't like
I didn't like how there wasn't a good story. I would say that the story felt non existent.
I didn't like most of the dialogue from NPC's. They just said nonsense.
I didn't like how there wasn't a shop to buy cool new things like potions or weapons.
I didn't like the blocks that you could break as they served no real purpose.
Hard to get/farm money.
Windows version can't fullscreen so it may be best to reduce screen resolution to play.
I really enjoyed the game even when I was playing on a trackpad. I guess I would also like to say that this game was very relaxing to play. It was a fun time indeed!
errorwave3 years ago
I love this...what did you make this in? This art style is so cute and unique.
Pabagames3 years ago
Fantastical styles. Love the happy-scrappy graphics and adventurey feels. Nice work!!
Rainy Button5 years ago (2 edits) (+1)
First of all, great game! I just bought the bundle, and I'm loving magic wand and the notes so far. But I'm kind of confused as to where I would get the steam key.
Edit: Just found the key, had to log on to itch through browser and hit download there.
Also, this is kind of unrelated, but it says 50 short games isn't available for windows on the itch.io client, so I'm not sure how to access those.
Edit: Also just found out you have to download 50 short games through browser, the client doesn't work. I guess this comment is sort of useless now :\
thecatamites5 years ago(+1)
Ah, thank you! I haven't tried out the client myself but I'll have a look at 50SG and see if there's a way to set it up there. It's kind of a weird case since it's a loader for 50 separate games so it could work best just playing from desktop anyway, hahah.
Rainy Button5 years ago(+2)
On a somewhat unrelated note, I just finished Magic Wand. Honestly - probably GOTY 2018 for me. I've always wanted to make my own game, and seeing 50sg, MW, and all your other offerings is hugely inspirational to me. So thanks for that :)
...Though, I was a little confused about the capsules - Is there only the one capsule machine in the game? And if so, how do you get more capsules after leaving the first world?
Ah, thank you! And IIRC there should be four capsule machines in the game - one in the hotel garden, one in Bigdug's office, one in the parade grounds area of Beachtown, and one in the Skuldug moon laboratory. But they're hidden, just like in life....
gXxshock5 years ago
Do you get a Steam key as well?
Yes, there should be a Steam key with each copy - when you buy here and hit "Download" you'll have an option to claim it.
If for some reason there isn't just drop a comment and I'll check it out!
tga5 years ago
Cavauro5 years ago
tehirs cum on this.
Bison Kings6 years ago(+7)(-1)
I think you should brush up on your style and join the ranks of the AAA game developers. You have the talent to join the hundreds of faceless clones that created such mind-numbingly boring games like Assassin's Crud or something.
I freaking love your games because they are fun, hilarious and immanently surprising. Magic Wand is a great example of the biting humor I love.
Get them pots, sir
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Q: Ubuntu Touch - Webcam chat app I have a Ubuntu tablet and so does my son. We want to use an app like Skype to have chats when he is overseas. I downloaded Skype the other day hoping to be able to have these webcam chats. However, there does not seem to be any option to hold cam chats. There is no option either in Telegram. So is there any paps that I can install where we can hold cam chats between our two tablets?

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HomeHome sliderThink Global's 2018 Global Educator of the Year announced: Samantha Olubodun!
Think Global's 2018 Global Educator of the Year announced: Samantha Olubodun!
Think Global are delighted to announce the winner of the 2018 Global Educator of the Year Award – Samantha Olubodun. The Award was celebrated at a special event in City Hall, London: recognising the incredible work of educators who are integrating global learning in their lessons, as well as celebrating Think Global's 35th Birthday!
2018 Global Educator of the Year Award winner Samantha is a primary school teacher and a Specialist Leader in education, at Meadow County Primary School, Cheshire. She works within her school and County to help pupils and teachers to better understand the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's), think critically about global issues, and encourage people to act on them for a more just and sustainable world.
Heather Swainston, Director at Cheshire Development Education Centre (CDEC) who nominated Ms. Olubodun says:
Sam has done so much to help pupils understand the SDGs and for her colleagues in school and across the County to be inspired to undertake similar work.
Running for the fourth year, the Award recognizes educators who have gone above and beyond in raising awareness and deepening understanding of the UN's SDGs and educators inspiring and empowering a new generation of active global citizens.
Every year we receive nominations for educators who are passionate and committed to creating a better world by giving young people the tools and opportunities to feel inspired and empowered to create change. This year, the calibre of those nominated has made the judge's task a lot more difficult. I am so pleased to give recognition to and celebrate the pivotal role of teachers in inspiring a new generation of active global citizens.
Jess McQuail, Chief Executive of Think Global
Find out more about the 2018 event.


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Nova Scotia – Nick de Graaf
By Dan Woolley
Working towards self-sufficiency...
Nick de Graaf's broiler and turkey operation is 100 per cent self-sufficient in corn for rations, and he's working on increasing soybean acreage.
Nova Scotia broiler producer Nick de Graaf passed several significant milestones in 2008.
First, he bought out his father's share in the Annapolis Valley poultry farm founded by his Dutch grandfather in the early 1960s in Kings County, Nova Scotia, between Canning and Port Williams.
Next, Nick bought more quota, increasing his flock production by 196,000 birds annually. This came just three years after the de Graafs bought additional quota in 2005, increasing their flock production by 102,000 birds per year. "We grow 660,000 chickens per year and we also grow 67,000 turkeys per year," says Nick.
He ships his birds to the Sunnymel poultry processing plant in Clair, Northern New Brunswick.
Nick's poultry production is audited for four food safety and animal welfare programs. For his broilers, this includes the Chicken Farmers of Canada's (CFC) On-Farm Food Safety Assurance Program (OFFSAP) and CFC's Animal Care Program. He also follows two similar programs for his turkey production.
Lastly, in 2008 he also built a feed mill to process poultry rations from his crops.
He grows wheat, primarily for straw bedding for his flocks and he is 100 per cent self-sufficient in corn cultivation.
Nick owns 700 acres of arable land and he also crops an additional 900 acres in scattered parcels across Kings County.
He only grows 65 per cent of the soybeans he uses in his rations as he doesn't yet have enough acreage for soybean self-sufficiency. However, he is looking for more land.
Nick graduated in 1998 from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, now the Dalhousie University Agricultural Campus with a B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics and four years later, in 2002, he became financially involved in the family farm.
Nick is now a director on both the Chicken Farmers of Nova Scotia and the Turkey Farmers of Nova Scotia marketing boards. To date, he has served seven years on the chicken marketing board and two years on the turkey board. He is also a past-president of the Kings county Federation of Agriculture.
He and his wife, Trudy, have three children. Their eldest daughter, Malorie, is married with two children of her own.
Their next daughter, Vanessa, is 16 and their son, Tyler, is 14.
Vanessa plans to attend Dalhousie University's Agricultural Campus and seems interested in farming after graduation, de Graaf says.
At age 40 he has not yet begun farm succession planning.
Off-farm recreational interests of the de Graaf family include travel and de Graaf says he and his two youngest children enjoy the shooting sports of trap and skeet.
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Home Cannabis Kamala Harris Vs. Rudy Giuliani: Who Was Worse On Marijuana?
Kamala Harris Vs. Rudy Giuliani: Who Was Worse On Marijuana?
By: Brendan Bures
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Giuliani sparked the match that lit a bonfire while Harris has used her power to put out whatever flames she caused. You decide who was a bigger opponent to cannabis.
Since Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his presidential running mate, opposition that includes notable Trump advisors have attacked her complicated cannabis history. Few have denounced her marijuana record more repeatedly or more vociferously than former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
This is curious. Describing Giuliani as cannabis friendly is like calling great white sharks cute and cuddly. Still Giuliani has eagerly accepted the attack dog role on cannabis against Harris. He is determined to make this a thing.
I finally succeeded in getting the number of words in my convention speech below the number of small time Marijuana smokers Comrade Kamala put in prison.
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) August 23, 2020
But who was a harsher Drug War advocate and who caused more damage pursuing cannabis arrests: Rudy Giuliani or Kamala Harris? We ran a number crunch to find out.
According to Giuliani, he and his "get-tough" policies saved New York City from itself. He "brought down crime more than anyone in this country — maybe in the history of this country — while I was mayor of NYC," the former mayor proclaimed at the 2007 GOP presidential debates in Orlando.
City crime rates did decline substantially during the 1990s when Giuliani was mayor. Violent crimes dropped by more than 56% in New York and property crime fell by 65% as well, the National Bureau for Economic Research reports. Nationally, violent crime only lowered 28% and property crime by 26% in the same timeframe.
Giuliani ascribes his success to "broken windows" policing, which believes that by aggressively pursuing low-level disorder and misdemeanors, it will limit the number of larger infraction and crimes possible. "Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other," Giuliani said at 1998 press conference.
RELATED: Minorities Accounted For 90% Of New York Marijuana Arrests
Later research has drastically questioned what role "broken windows" policing played in lowering crime in New York, if at all. Instead, what we know is that Giuliani's policies led to dramatic increases for marijuana arrests, which disproportionally affected Black residents. A 2007 paper co-authored by Bernard E. Harcourt, a political scientist, and Jens Ludwig, an economist, reported that misdemeanor arrests for publicly smoking cannabis per precinct jumped from 10 per year to 644 annually between 1993 to 2000. In 2000 alone, NYPD arrested more than 51,000 people for cannabis-related offenses.
Black Americans were more than 50% of those cannabis arrests, though they only represented around 25% of the population. If arrested for cannabis, convictions were twice as likely for Black suspects than white ones.
The paper's authors argue there is "no good evidence" any of this was "associated with reductions in serious violent or property crimes in the city. As a result, New York City's marijuana policing strategy seems likely to simply divert scarce police resources away from more effective approaches that research suggests are capable of reducing real crime…. If anything, it has had the reverse effect."
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Here's how Giuliani responded the day Harris became the Democratic vice presidential candidate:
Giuliani on Kamala Harris prosecuting marijuana smokers pic.twitter.com/HTMRgDt6Tq
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) August 15, 2020
"She went after 1,500 marijuana smokers — marijuana smokers, not people selling it — smokers. And then when she was asked if she smoked marijuana, she went 'ha ha ha ha yea.' Tell me this isn't a horrible person," Giuliani said while mocking someone puffing a joint.
"All the politicians in San Francisco, all of [former Mayor] Willie Brown's friends, they went free, but she went after marijuana smokers," Giuliani added. "Tell me this isn't a horrible person."
RELATED: Kamala Harris Will Help With Cannabis Reform (And That's Good Enough For Me)
Until Harris entered the U.S. Senate, she opposed cannabis reform. In 2010, she co-authored a voter guide arguing against a recreational marijuana legalization initiative, calling it "flawed public policy." Four years later, Harris laughed in a reporter's face when asked about legalizing recreational cannabis in California. A 2019 Washington Free Beacon investigation reported that as California Attorney General, Harris sent 1,560 people to state prisons for cannabis offenses between 2011-16.
As a Senator, she has frequently called for decriminalizing cannabis nationwide and sponsored important reform bills like the MORE Act and Marijuana Justice Act. She labeled the "whole war on drugs […] a complete failure" and called for federally legalizing cannabis during her 2020 presidential candidacy.
Making marijuana legal at the federal level is the smart thing to do and it's the right thing to do. Today, I'm announcing my support for @CoryBooker's Marijuana Justice Act. pic.twitter.com/cOh3SjMaOW
— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) May 10, 2018
Since joining the Biden campaign, she told ABC News that under their Administration there will be a "policy that is going to be about decriminalizing marijuana." On the other hand, a federal grand jury indicted Giuliani associates last year for allegedly bribing state politicians in reward for retail cannabis licenses.
Who was worse?
Giuliani's policing approach eventually led to what the New York Civil Liberties Union described as "The Marijuana Arrest Crusade in New York City." Between 1997 to 2006, there were 353,000 cannabis possession arrests in New York. In the two decades prior, there was a combined 60,000 such arrests.
While Giuliani isn't entirely to blame for those total figures, he sparked the match that lit the bonfire. In 2010, NYPD made 50,300 arrests for marijuana possession. New York spent $75 million pursuing marijuana arrests and jailing mostly young people in 2010, according to Drug Policy Alliance figures. Between 1997 and 2010, New York's cannabis policing cost taxpayers $500 million to over $1 billion, the organization calculates, as NYPD made over 530,000 marijuana possession arrests in those years.
All that is part of Giuliani's "broken windows" policing legacy.
Harris, while wrong as a California prosecutor, has since used her power to put out whatever flames she caused and many others. You decide which politician is hypocritical and which is not.
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How Blockchain is Regulated Around the World?
As the desire for universal digital currency has arisen, blockchain is needed in every country. With this comes the need to regulate the currency. The methods for doing so vary from country to country.
The Blockchain is strictly regulated in the European Union. In May of 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation went into effect. The purpose of this regulation is to ensure citizens of the country that they are permitted to keep their personal data private. Despite the perceived controversy of this regulation, blockchain has to ensure each user can claim rightful ownership of their own data. The controversy stems from blockchain companies feeling like this regulation is a direct contradiction to their purpose.
Countries in East Asia are also very strict about such regulations. Though in the past no restrictions were placed on blockchain companies, that has now changed. In light of the extreme popularity of digital currencies, East Asia has tightened regulations on its use.
Both South Korea and China have stopped allowing initial coin offerings, which were allowed previously. The People's Bank of China made the decision to stop the allowance of ICOs. South Korea then banned its use as well. However, the government of South Korea supports the use of blockchain technology. Despite this support, it hasn't made a clear decision about cryptocurrency use and the regulations that should be applied to them. As a result, the future of cryptocurrency in South Korea is shaky at best.
In Japan, cryptocurrency use is embraced, with regulations placed on its use. Bitcoin was recognized as an accepted currency in Japan long before it was in any other country. The country promptly granted businesses the necessary exchange licenses to use cryptocurrency. Yet, regulatory bodies throughout the country have not recognized any digital currency other than Bitcoin. This may or may not change in the future.
The United States has taken a much different approach. Many cryptocurrency companies are avoiding the U.S. because of tighter regulations than anywhere else. Topics related to security are the biggest concern in the cryptocurrency issue. Digital currencies are seen as assets that the government has a right to monitor. This is why the U.S. is so far behind other countries on this matter.
It remains to be seen how the world's other countries are responding to cryptocurrency.


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Сочица је насеље у Србији у граду Вршац у Јужнобанатском округу. Према попису из 2011. било је 133 становника.

Историја

Назив места Сочице, Салокфалва -{(Szälokfalva)}- 1421. године Сочица, 1690. године Солчица, 1779. године -{Temes-Szölös}- 1911. године Сочица, 1919. године Салоквалва у де Јанковом била је у поседу од 1690. до 1700. године.

Касније, кроз дуги низ година, ништа се не зна о овоме месту. На карти Баната из 1723-1725. Сочица -{(Schozischa)}- је насеље. исто тако и на карти из 1761. Али зато у црквеним конскрипцијама из 1713, и политичко-админстративним из 1717, не помиње Сочица.

Солчици било је 60 дома 1749, а 1751. године 64 дома. Године 1779. припојена је Сочица вршачком диктриту (срез, област) Темишварског комитета. По аустријском царском ревизору Ерлеру, било је то 1774. године. Становништво у месту је било претежно влашко. Године 1779. била је прописана контрибуција 476 fl. 47 kr., која је повишена на 885 fl.1kr.

Године 1832. откупили су насеље од коморе браћа Цицко -{(Czicco)}-. тада је пописано 842 становника. У атару је било 34 целих поданичких сесија.

Спахије Цинцари, Андрија Жико и Димитрије К. Жико (или Џико!), оба от Солчице се јављају 1837-1841. године у Пешти као претплатници српске књиге о мађарском праву.

Црква је из средине 19. века. Године -{1854}-. пописано је 845 становника; повришина катастралне општине имала је 3109 ланаца,(1. ланац је 56 ари.)а бивши алодијални посед 1207 ланаца.1865. било је 155 малопоседника и 2 великопоседника. Општински атар обухватао је 3146 ланаца. Године 1865. било је 108 ланаца винограда, а 1884. већ 498 ланаца. Цео тај комплекс винограда уништен је 1886. од филоксере.

Бројно кретање становништва у последњим деценијама:
 1869.:1026 становника,
 1880.:935,
 1890.:854,
 1900.:875,
 1910.:925.

За време преврата (1918) сељаци су опљачкали дворац барона Мајтењиа. У новембру 1918. ушла је војска у Сочицу, која је припојена тороталско-тамишкој жупанији. 31 јануара 1921. пописано је 798 становника, од којих је било Срба 6, Чеха и Словака 5, Румуна 772, Немаца 9, Мађара 6.

Овде се налази Дворац Барона Јовановића.

Демографија
У насељу Сочица живи 142 пунолетна становника, а просечна старост становништва износи 47,9 година (42,2 код мушкараца и 53,2 код жена). У насељу има 68 домаћинстава, а просечан број чланова по домаћинству је 2,50.

Ово насеље је великим делом насељено Румунима (према попису из 2002. године), а у последња три пописа, примећен је пад у броју становника.

Референце

Литература

 Извор Монографија Подунавске области 1812-1927 саставио Др, Владимир Марган бив. Председник Обласног одбора Комесар Обласне Самоуправе, објављено 1927"Напредак Панчево,,
 Територија Подунавске Области написао Др. Владимир Марган Председник Обл. Одбора Смедереву 1928 г.*
 Историјиски преглад Подунавске Области Банатски део написао: -{Феликс Милекер}- библиотекар и кустос градске библиотеке и музеја у Вршцу 1928 г.
 -{A delibláti homok hőmérséklet ingadozása-u.a. (Mathem. És természtud. Ertes.}-) 1903
 -{Délmagyar. őskori régisiségi leletei; Milecker Felix Temesvár 1891.}-
 -{Der europäische Flugsand J. 1873.}-
 Летопис Период 1812 – 2009 г. Пешчари Написао М. Марина:(Беч 2009) Саставио од Писаних трагова, Летописа, по предању о селу Сочица настанак села ко су били Досењеници чиме се бавили мештани:
 Препоручена Литература: -{  }-

Спољашње везе

 Мапе, аеродроми и временска ситуација локација (-{Fallingrain}-)
 Сателитска мапа (-{Wikimapia}-)
 Гугл сателитска мапа (-{Maplandia}-)
 План насеља на мапи (-{Mapquest}-)
 Дворац барона Јовановића

Град Вршац
Насељена места у Војводини
Википројект географија/Насеља у Србији