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Artisan Producers, Cooking, Craftsmanship, Eat Good Food, Field Notes
Clay Cooking Transcends Time and Tradition
By SHED | October 11, 2018
Clay cookware brings traditions to the kitchen and tenderness to recipes. Since their invention about 12,000 years ago, clay pots have been used for good cooking and good eating across cultures and geographies. Clay vessels have unique properties that make them ideal for roasting, baking, steaming, and braising. The porousness of the material allows for heat and moisture to slowly circulate around the dish while it cooks. This makes the resulting food more tender, juicy, and delicious.
There are health benefits associated with clay cooking. Recipes do not require as much oil or fat because clay naturally draws out the rich flavors by heating evenly and recirculating steam. Some claim that clay cooking retains vitamins and minerals that otherwise would be lost in the process. Also, the alkaline in clay balances out the acidity in food, which makes the flavors more coherent and rounded.
Cooking and serving in clay cookware encourages a certain thoughtfulness in the kitchen. Gathering for a slow-cooked meal becomes a sought-often moment of respite. We offer a selection of clay cookware pieces, each with a unique story to tell. These made-to-last vessels are a way to connect to traditional cooking techniques from around the world and make your own memories.
Chamba (La Chamba, Colombia)
Chamba cookware is handmade by local artisans in La Chamba, Colombia, out of natural clay. Each piece is burnished with stones and fired on site. Chamba earthenware pieces are unglazed; their distinctive black color coming from the clay and how they are fired in the kiln. We use Chamba dishes in our Café because they retain the heat well from our oven to your table. The smooth black finish makes the vessels appear strikingly modern. However, the origins of the vessel's design can be traced back 700 years to pre-Columbian archaeological sites.
The Chamba roaster and bean pots are designed for cooking meats, stews, and pulses. The lid-less options are the Chamba Oval Platter for roasting and baking, and the Chamba Comal for heating tortillas and roasting chilies.
Oaxacan Collection (San Marcos Tlapazola, Oaxaca, Mexico)
We are proud to offer a selection of clay earthenware from Oaxaca. These pieces were created in San Marcos Tlapazola in collaboration with Colectivo 1050º, a design guild devoted to maintaining and advancing Oaxacan craft tradition. There are over seventy pottery villages in Oaxaca, each with distinct workshops and artisans. Eric Mindling's book Fire and Clay: The Art of Oaxacan Pottery is an essential introduction to the culture imbued in Oaxacan pottery.
The Elia Cooking Pot is suited for beans, soups, and braising meat. The Elia Rice Pot can be used for rice and other grains. The Clay Grill is a portable grill for meat and vegetables, as well as a mobile stovetop for cooking soup and warming tortillas. It is an intricately made and striking to watch in action.
Manufacture de Digoin (Burgundy, France)
Founded in 1875, Manufacture de Digoin originated as a family ceramic business in the northern Loire valley and established itself crafting staples of the French kitchen. Digoin specializes in earthenware and stoneware made from local materials. Each piece of pottery is hand-shaped by artisans and made to stand the test of time.
We're honored to be Manufacture de Digoin's first collaboration with a U.S. company. Digoin's selection of clay cookware includes unglazed and glazed pieces that serve a variety of functions. The Unglazed Roasting Pot works like a stove-top to roast potatoes, beets, and even chestnuts and coffee beans. The Unglazed Terracotta Roaster is ideal for baking bread (the clay will keep the insides soft and the make crust crispy) and roasting chicken – check out our roast chicken recipe. This type of roaster dates back to Roman times and is nicknamed the "four crétois," which translates as "the Cretan oven" or "Mediterranean oven."
Nagatani-en Pottery (Iga, Japan)
We source our donabes, traditional Japanese clay pots, from the Nagatani-en clayware house founded in 1832. Nagatani-en is the leading producer of Iga-yaki pottery, which is crafted from clay from the 4-million-year-old seabed of Lake Biwa. Iga-yaki donabes are handcrafted, each taking two weeks to complete. Donabe cooking has been traced by 10,000 years, yet the vessel remains a modern kitchen staple.
The Donabe Clay Smoker can be used for grilling vegetables and fish (here's our getting started guide). Due to its thick clay body, the Donabe Rice Cooker steam-cooks rice even after it is removed from the heat source, making the rice extra fluffy. The Donabe Clay Steamer is an impressive cooking and serving vessel well-suited for fish, chicken, or vegetables.
Artisan Producers, Chefs, Cooking, Craftsmanship, Farming, Field Notes
Dan Barber's Row 7 Seed Co.
By SHED | October 4, 2018
Dan Barber is more than a chef or restaurateur, he's even more than an author. With the launch this year of the new Row 7 Seed Co., a collaboration with seedsman Matthew Goldfarb and plant breeder Michael Mazourek, Barber is now also a botanical innovator, aiming to input deliciousness into plants from the seed forward.
It's a radical idea that's already working. Witness the success of the Honeynut, a squash Mazourek — an associate professor at Cornell — developed some eight years ago at Barber's request.
Boasting a higher nutritional quality and greater sweet profile than the Butternut, the Honeynut's pure deliciousness prompted star chefs and even such outlets as Vogue magazine to support it. The exposure made this squash a culinary hit and today it's readily available at Whole Foods Markets and other ordinary outlets.
Developed to entice a child, the Badger Flame beet has none of the earthiness of traditional beets, but is sweet enough to be eaten raw.
Barber comes to our Modern Grange on Oct. 10, 2018, to introduce Row 7 Seed Co. in an event dedicated to good farming, good cooking, and good eating with a who's-who roster of West Coast chefs.
We expect that one of the first questions he'll address is this basic: What's so radical about breeding for flavor? And here's what we reckon will be one of his answers: Flavor is typically last on the list when large seed companies are involved.
Rather, large corporations breed for portability, chemical symbiosis (as with those seeds made to interact with Monsanto's Roundup), uniformity of size and shape, and the varied notions of attractiveness that arise when one considers such as a tomato.
Durability and disease resistance are bred into Row 7's seeds so that they don't need to interact well with Roundup or other chemical inputs; they'll be robust enough to resist pests and other dangers all on their own.
Ultimately, the delectability of the produce and its nutritional value are the first concerns. Unlike other breeders, Row 7 has pledged not to patent their line of seeds, encouraging users to acclimate to their particular spot in the world. They're even working to make the leaves and stems of their squash delicious and edible.
And of course, the seeds are non-GMO, organic, produced without chemicals, and grown in the USA. When you're going to do something good, why not do it all the way?
That's the idea with Row 7. To do something good — all the way. Its initial seed slate includes the Badger Flame, a sweet orange beet that can be eaten raw; the Habanada, a habañero pepper with all of its floral notes retained without the heat; a potato that tastes as if already buttered; a cucumber with the yummy bitter edge that's been bred out of most stock; and a squash that changes color on the vine to indicate ripeness.
At our own HomeFarm, we're supporting Barber's efforts by growing his Habanada and Badger Flame varieties for our produce shelves. We grew Row 7's new line of peas last spring. Our friends at SingleThread Farms are growing some, too.
One of the genius beliefs that the folks at Row 7 hold is that chefs can actually influence supermarket choices by popularizing produce through their own artistry and evangelism. Actually: it's all genius.
Dan Barber hosts a sold-out Row 7 Seed Co. dinner with us on Oct. 10.
Craftsmanship, Field Notes
Sashiko: A Short History
By SHED | June 14, 2018
Sashiko stitching is an art form that evolved from a simple need.
Sashiko means "little stabs," or "little piercings" and is a folk textile method traditionally featuring white stitches on an indigo background.
Sashiko began in the North during the Edo period (1603-1868) and moved south along traditional trade routes. The plain running stitch of thick cotton thread makes striking geometric designs on the fabric, and allowed working people to have warm, decorative clothing that was within the confines of the law.
As chilled as it makes us to even imagine, 17th century Northern Japanese farmers somehow worked outside in clothing woven just from hemp or linen, fabric that offered just barely enough protection from the fierce winter cold.
Industrial fabric production didn't come to Japan until the late 19th century and then, it was too expensive for most people to afford. Cotton doesn't grow in northern climes. Even if the farmers and fishermen's families of Northern Japan could afford to use silk, it was illegal for citizens of those classes to wear it, as it was also forbidden for them to use bright colors or vibrant patterns.
With fabric so dear and rare, each piece was carefully saved. Mending pieces of hemp fabric, traditionally dyed with indigo, allowed wives and daughters to stitch warmer pieces of clothing, adding layers from old scraps and cleverly incorporating a quilting style of piece-work that made for a more durable, more thermal, and ultimately — more beautiful items of clothing.
As the centuries progressed and cotton became more available, it was swapped for hemp and sashiko styles became more artistic and purposeful, with an aim beyond merely keeping the wearer warm.
Strengthening and adding bulk to fabric, quality sashiko stitchery eventually became a measure of suitability for young women hoping to marry, as sashiko-stitched kimonos were part of a traditional dowry.
Heavily padded sashiko garments were used by 18th century firefighters who would first soak their clothing with water, adding as much as 70 pounds to their frames, before combating fires.
Today, sashiko stitchery adds a gorgeous note to handmade textiles and remains a beautiful way to mend such indigo as blue jeans or other clothes that deserve to be mended and amended, their beauty retained and appended.
Textile expert Marico Chigyo teaches a sashiko class at SHED on Saturday, July 7, from 10am-1pm. The images on this page are from her Chigyo Studio. Please plan to join us!
Chefs, Cooking, Craftsmanship, Field Notes, Modern Grange, Supper series
The Unforgettable Paula Wolfert
By SHED | May 31, 2017
"Good food is memory." —Paula Wolfert
"Paula Wolfert," says her editor and food biographer Emily Thelin, "is the most influential food writer you've never heard of."
Yet, if you've ever enjoyed a cassoulet or confit, delighted at a preserved lemon tucked into a dish, fluffed couscous with a fork or cooked in a tangine, you owe a culinary debt to Paula Wolfert — even if you've never heard of her.
Paula is the intrepid food journalist and chef who brought such delicacies as cassoulet and preserved lemons to American palates via her nine cookbooks, beginning with Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco, published in 1973.
Following her first husband to Morocco in the '60s, Paula became restless with the ennui of the bohemian expat crowd and instead turned her fine intelligence to the sights and smells of the souk, and finally to the kitchens and tables of the Moroccan people who frequented its food stalls.
Famous for nearly moving in with her subjects, Paula eventually found ease with seven languages, allowing her to move into the kitchens and homes of people across western Europe. An expert on Mediterranean cooking, including our favorite Clay Pot Cooking, Paula introduced French country cooking to an avid audience.
Now 78, Paula is a longtime resident of the town of Sonoma, where she shares a home with her husband, the writer William Bayer. She's still on a mission, but its aim has altered. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2013, Paula can no longer differentiate tastes but she can still enjoy the kitchen.
Rather than examine the traditions of a particular geographical area, her focus today is on brain-healthy foods that she hopes will forestall the worst of her disease as long as possible.
Paula's editor Emily Thelin (pictured above) realized that now is the time to capture Paula's food memories and best recipes in a new collection and set about trying to sell the proposal through regular New York publishing channels. No one committed.
So she did what we do these days, she took it to Kickstarter, where 1,112 people donated to the cause, raising $91,000 and catching the interest of both famed food photographer Eric Wolfinger and acclaimed food writer Andrea Nguyen, who agreed to edit the text.
The resulting book, Unforgettable, gathers together some of Paula's favorite and most iconic recipes along with a lively biography peppered with intelligent asides by Thelin throughout.
A loving and alacritive recent article by New York Times food writer Kim Severson looks at Paula's current life, after the book's publication, where she is still active in the kitchen and able to surprise both her biographer and her assistants.
Accompanied by photographer Wolfinger, Thelin and Paula come to SHED on Sunday, June 4, for a special celebration dinner. Each diner will receive a copy of Unforgettable as part of the night. Our chef Perry Hoffman has created a splendid Middle Eastern-themed dinner in Paula's honor.
"I don't remember yesterday," Paula says plainly to the camera in her Kickstarter film. "Tomorrow, I could get hit by a car. So I live in the now and I make it work for me."
It appears that there's more to learn from Paula after all.
The Unforgettable dinner honoring Paula Wolfert is slated for Sunday, June 4, from 5pm. $115 per person; includes the book. RSVP today.
Cooking, Craftsmanship
Sourdough Starter Is a Living Thing
By SHED | August 25, 2016
"Sourdough starter is a living thing," author Stephen Yafa told us on a warm Saturday afternoon in August. "Think of it as being the union of lovers. Yeast falls in love with lactobacillus and together, they're perfectly harmonious."
Yafa had a bowl full of love with him when he joined us in our upstairs Grange to demonstrate his sourdough starter recipe and support his new book, Grain of Truth: The Real Case For and Against Wheat and Gluten.
Turns out, your main job with starter is simply to provide what Yafa calls a "honeymoon suite." Yeast and lactobacillus, he says, "like to be left alone, fed, and to be safe in a warm, hospitable place."
An award-winning North Bay journalist and screenwriter, Yafa fell upon the topic of starters and yeast and gluten and wheat and lovers when his wife came home from a spa day announcing that she had "gluten neck." Whatever that is.
And indeed, what the heck is it? Yafa was intrigued.
Grain of Truth follows wheat from the good old days when it harmed only those with true celiac disease through to today, where the majority of the wheat consumed in the U.S. has been disastrously stripped of its nutrition and vitality and is quite literally making us all sick.
Like Tartine's Chad Robertson — who also became interested in heirloom wheat and ancient grains in an effort to help his gluten-intolerant wife — Yafa bakes whole wheat bread that has an extraordinarily long rising time, usually 16 to 18 hours. This extended fermentation produces loaves that those who are ordinarily gluten intolerant can consume with pleasure. (It is still not edible for those with celiac disease.)
But none of this yummy goodness can happen without the starter — a mix of whole flour, water, wild yeast, and bacteria that takes about two weeks to mature and, when properly maintained, can last a lifetime.
"The starter is the engine that drives the sourdough," Yafa said. "It can be a legacy that you can pass to other generations."
SHED's pastry chef Lorrette Patzwald understands Yafa's point of view.
"For me, the process of building a new starter is akin to bringing home a new baby," she says. "You can glean advice from professionals and read about how to take care of it in books, but it's entirely up to you to figure out what it takes to help it thrive."
Patzwald has been so successful at keeping her starter thriving that she's named it "Shirley." Of course we're not kidding.
"Once I was able to get consistently good results with my new starter it was time to give her a name," Patzwald explains. "Shirley is not just used for bread. She gives additional depth of flavor to the Little Shirley cookies sold at our coffee bar. She has also made appearances in pancakes, shortcakes, and waffles. Shirley has traveled to the Gold Coast of Long Island and to Greenwich Village for a bread baker's competition.
"I often offer some Shirley to my baking students," she says. "Hence there is little bit of her here and there around the Bay Area."
Once you have a stable starter — regardless of its name — you have the basis for your bread. Using some of the starter, you add flour to create a levain basis for your loaves.
"You're doing a 'build,'" Yafa explained. "The levain reduces the vinegary quality of the starter. You want to balance sour and sweetness."
By taking some of the starter and mixing it with flour to make a dough, you're also ensuring that there is enough starter to continue on to its next iteration. You want a wet dough, Yafa assured, and you want to slap it about to wake it up.
Several audience members gamely stood with Yafa slapping dough to awaken its gluten. He appeared to be delighted.
"You will screw it up," he assured the audience happily. "Everyone screws up. So what. Throw it out and start again."
Stephen Yafa's Sourdough Starter Tips
Use non-chlorinated filtered water for both your starter and your levain to nurture the growth of good bacteria.
Use organic whole grain wheat or rye flours, not all-purpose. They're more nutritious and offer more fuel to the microorganisms that will build your starter.
An electric plant propagation bed used to help sprout seeds is a nice way to keep your starter warm during its first few weeks. Place your bowl on it and leave it.
Buy a digital kitchen scale and use it. It takes the element of volume out of your recipe and reduces everything to weight. (Be certain, however, that you measure water and flour in the same signature. Yafa once tried to make bread with the water in ounces and the flour in grams. He needed a bathing suit, he says, to handle the ensuing tsunami.)
Try to use your clean, freshly washed and carefully dried hands to handle the dough, not a mixer's dough hook. You can feel the gluten strands hardening and you can transfer more natural bacteria to your starter if you use your hands. Plus, it just feels good!
Need help, direction, or inspiration? The King Arthur Flour website is Yafa's go-to site.


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Hexplore: Borderlands
Posted on August 29, 2018 by Bryce Lynch
Courtney Campbell
Discover the hidden wilderness game in Dungeons and Dragons! It will bring the actual experience of discovery to your players faces. They will be excited to explore a strange fantasy world!
This eighteen page hex toolkit is something new under the sun. Maybe? I bought it expecting something like Wilderlands. I got something ELSE hex related: a domain play product. Those things are rare as fuck, henc this review of a non-adventure
Pre-1e D&D is a masterpiece of design. You can see how it evolved. Ear worms for people listening at doors. ESP to stop those fucking prisoners from betraying you. Resource play. The spell ist, in particular, doctates the play style. (along with gold=xp.) High level adventures don't typically work because they are not SUPPOSED to work. By the time you're high level you should be moving on to other things … doman play.
The first page of the product does a great job explaining its role in the world. Early D&D had a high-level play style where you went in to a hex, with your retainers, men-at-arms, etc, and cleared it of creatures. You set up some points of lights, got some settlers, and taxed the fuckers. TaDa! High level play.
This thing supports that play style. It's a one-hex overview. That one hex is broken down in to some nini-hexes with features in them. There's a couple of medium adventuring locations, a demi-human tribe, three lairs, four landmarks,, rumors, and a wandering monster table. Everything has a kind of relation to the description style from Wilderlands. This landmark is the house of an albino woodsman with mongolisn and is a superior warrior. This one is an abandoned herb garden, or a ruined tower, or a talking bird. The lairs are a sunken ship, hill caves and a basalt obelisk. The medium sites are a towerful of bards, a bandit camp, and a volcano with a lost world inside. All have nice little pictures meant to be inspiring. The Medium sites have some floorplans with a true minimal key. "9. Thone. Table." or "12. Bodies on floor. 2d12 zombies." The lairs just have a big "notes" section for you to jot things down on.
Nothing here is really put together, or interrelated. That's all up to the DM. There may be a sentence or two of description of the general area/lair/etc description, but then it's just he minimal key and picture to inspire you to create something. Sit down for an hour, think, jot notes, and have a big hex for people to clear … up to and including ye old 110 bandits.
It's an interesting concept. There's no scale to the maps, so I assume it standard hex sizes. Would it kill ya to put that on the map Courtney? Anyway, I'm not sure how to evaluate it. It's trying to be useful to a style of play doesn't really have many supplements for it, so its hard for me to judge … and I LUV judging things. It's a toolkit, not an adventure. It's a toolkit for something that I don't think has any other examples. If you take Wilderlands as your guide, then this supports the DM well. You, the DM, will need to flesh this out just as you would a Wilderlands hex. Riff on thing much more than a standard adventure.
This is $4 at DriveThru.https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/247916/Hexplore-Borderlands?affiliate_id=1892600
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squeen says:
Look, it has to be said: most days there is very little exciting happening in the OSR. Despite a multitude of blogs and mini-products, it frequently doesn't evoke the same giddy excitement I felt re-discovering D&D with the help of the internet several years ago after a 30-year personal hiatus.
This site is the one exception. I look forward to every review. If it's a positive one, I snap up the product and pour over what was "good"—trying to incorporate some of that in my own campaign-design. If it's "bad", I just sit back and enjoy the good-spirited derision the author has earned through naivety, lack of effort, or general OSR situational ignorance. While I don't always agree with everything Bryce writes (e.g. I don't detest humanoids the way he does), I do sincerely appreciate the time and money Bryce has expended for all our benefit and entertainment. I don't know him, but I think he must be one of the "good guys"—a generous fellow, who asks for little in return.
I write this in part because I just put 2+2 together and realized that Gus L., a frequent commenter here, used to run the site http://dungeonofsigns.blogspot.com/, that I have recently been exploring (and enjoying!). His published works are/were evocative, original, and…too short! Unfortunately, Good Things seldom last long, and it saddens me that Gus has recently closed the doors on his blog—having become disillusioned with some of the internet-typical bile that has leaked into the OSR. Alas, things wax and wane. That's life. He's not the first or last to "burn out".
In short, I am thankful that tenfootpole.org and Byrce's prolific reviews are still going strong. Reading it has become a favourite part of my day. A routine that, along with dungeon-prep, helps fill the gap between gaming-sessions and keeps a passion for (O)D&D alive in my heart.
Thanks again for the review.
The dimensions of the hex are not given in the product, which is a shame. However, the product blurb on DriveThru says it is a 6 mile hex.
ola j says:
I read this myself a while ago, and it's a very interesting attempt at a new kind of product, with great room for further improvement.
shaneward says:
I'm going to buy this based on this review. Thank you.
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This article covers how to authorize Online Payroll to electronically e-file and e-pay your Massachusetts state unemployment insurance (SUI) forms and taxes.
In order for Online Payroll to complete your enrollment, you must authorize us to act as your agent with the state of Massachusetts.
Log in to your Massachusetts DUA (QUEST) account.
From My Home Page, click Account Maintenance.
In the Account Maintenance section, click Third Party Administrator (TPA) Authorization.
Near the bottom of the screen, click New to add us as an authorized agent.
In the TPA ID field, enter 100182 (our agent ID for Intuit Online Payroll, Intuit Full Service Payroll, QuickBooks Online Payroll Enhanced, and QuickBooks Online Payroll Full Service).
In the TPA Details section, in the TPA Services Begin Date field, enter today's date.
Leave the TPA Services End Date field blank.
Please Contact Us so that we can proceed with the enrollment process. After you contact us, we'll complete your enrollment within 1 to 2 business days.
If you were with another Intuit Payroll product before Online Payroll, you may have already added Intuit as an authorized TPA (with a different TPA ID) on the Massachusetts website. You will need to enter an end date to the previous TPA's profile or else this will cause the MA SUI e-services to be rejected.
Log in to QUEST and click Account Maintenance.
Click the Third Party Administrator (TPA) Authorization link.
Leave the search criteria blank and click Search.
Click on the TPA ID for the company who's authorization needs to be ended. The Online Payroll, Intuit Full Service Payroll, and QuickBooks Online Payroll Full Service TPA ID is 100182. The end date is effective one day after the specified date. You will be able to make Intuit Full Service Payroll and QuickBooks Online Payroll Full Service the new TPA with a starting date one day later than the end date.
The TPA Details page appears, click Modify.
In the TPA Details area, change the TPA Service End Date to today's date.


I'm working on a CD-ROM of different corporate presentations, and I want the project to have a menu of all the different presentations. I have different bitmaps of each menu item, but I don't know the best way to build it.
The biggest problem with using individual bitmaps to create complex branching menus is that it ends up taking up lots of room in the score. Whenever you have to add a new item to the menu, you might have to shift sprites around to make room for it, and it can get pretty cumbersome. Luckily, you can use a little bit of imaging lingo to fit your entire branching menu into a single sprite.
1. Download the source code for the sample Director 8 movie in Macintosh or Windows format.
2. Open the cast window in the sample movie, and you will see two scripts. The first is a behavior called "Branching Menu Behavior" and the other is a parent script called "Branching Menu Parent Object". You should copy these scripts into your own movie.
3. Create individual bitmaps for each item of your menu. This branching menu uses an ink effect to create the rollover effect, so you don't need to create multiple versions of the menu. The initial state is fine. When you're done, create another bitmap that consists of a single pixel. This member will be used later to display the menu as your movie runs.
The first piece of information is the name of your branching menu. This can be any string such as "myMenu", "mainNavBar", or in this example "DOUGMenu". The Branching Menu Object will then look for members that contain this name and include them in your branching menu. If you want to have more than one menu in your project, this isn't a problem as long as the menuNames are different.
The next part of the member's name is a numeric list describing that item's position in the menu. If the numeric list is , then that item will be the first item in the first branch of the list. If the numeric list is [7,2], then that particular menu item will be the second item in the branch stemming from the seventh item in the list.
The final piece of information to add to your member's name is a unique identifier. This can be any word or string describing what the button does. This information will be used later on when you click on the button. In the sample movie, these were strings like "Item 2, 4, 3" or "Item 7,2" which described the name of the button.
5. Once your members are named properly, the next step is to place the menu in the score of your movie. Take the dummy sprite (the one with just one pixel that you created in step 3), and place it on the stage where you want the upper left corner of the menu to be. Also, be sure to set the ink effect of the sprite to Matte or Background Transparent depending on the style of your menu.
6. Attach the Branching Menu Behavior copied in step 2 to this single pixel sprite. A dialog box will appear asking for two parameters. The first parameter is the name of the menu. This name should be the same name that you used when naming your individual bitmaps in step 4. The other option you can select here is the ink effect to be used on rollover. Whenever you rollover each member of the sprite, an ink effect will be applied to that sprite to show its rollover effect.
When a user clicks on the menu, the Branching Menu Object automatically calls the executeBranchingMenu handler, and it passes two values to this handler. The first is the name of the menu you specified in the behavior, and the second parameter is the unique identifier you created for each menu item in step 4. Based on the menu name and the unique identifier, you can execute code for individual buttons or for an entire menu.
tempStr = "You clicked button '" & uniqueIdentifier & "' in menu '" & menuName & "'"
This code takes the parameters passed to the handler and puts them in a string. Then it displays the string in the field on screen.
And those are just the basics for using a branching menu in your project. You can use the code as is, and it will work with a variety of menu buttons and various sizes. There also no limit to the number of branches or depth that the menu can go. If you wanted, you could even customize the object to allow for multiple bitmaps, or even a deactivated state. So if you're up to the challenge, it would be interesting to see what you come up with. Happy coding!


Today, my friend asked me to go ice skating with her. At first I was a little bit hesitant but after a few minutes of forcing me, I finally gave up and said yes. That was actually my first time to try to skate. I really look weird. I bet those professional skaters were laughing at us, but we do not care. We just enjoyed our time. After a number of falls, we learned the basic way on how to skate. It was an achievement! We had fun whole day and we plan to do it again some other time.


Le programme de défragmentation de disques durs MyDefrag, anciennement connu sous le nom de JkDefrag, vient de sortir en version 4.2.8. Le programme est compatible avec Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 et Windows 7 ainsi que leurs déclinaisons 64-bit.
– Fixed a bug in the grammar of the MaxRunTime statement. It can now be used multiple times in a block, as intended.
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Leptospermum oreophilum, commonly known as the rock tea tree, is a shrub that is endemic to the Glass House Mountains in southern Queensland. It has firm, rough bark on the older stems, elliptical leaves with a short, blunt point on the tip, relatively large white flowers arranged singly on side shoots and fruit that remains on the plant until it dies.

Description
Leptospermum oreophilum is a shrub that typically grows to a height of  with firm, rough bark on the older stems. Younger stems have minute hairs and a flange near the leaf base. The leaves are elliptical, silky-hairy at first,  long and  wide with a short, blunt tip and tapering at the base but without a petiole. The flowers are borne singly on side shoots and are white and  wide. The floral cup is  long and the sepals are glabrous, almost round and about  long. The petals are  long and the stamens are about  long. Flowering mainly occurs from September to December and the fruit is a capsule  in diameter and that remains on the plant at maturity, the remains of the sepals having fallen off.

Taxonomy and naming
Leptospermum oreophilum was first formally described in 1989 by Joy Thompson in the journal Telopea. The specific epithet (oreophilum) is derived from ancient Greek, meaning "mountain-loving", referring to the mountain-top habit of this species.

Distribution and habitat
This tea-tree grows in shallow soil in rocky places on the Glass House Mountains.

Conservation status
This species is classified as "vulnerable" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.

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Myrtales of Australia
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The National Park Service has launched cleanup efforts aimed at taking care of the trees along the Tidal Basin that were uprooted during Thursday's wild storms.
WASHINGTON — The National Park Service is cleaning up after Thursday's stormy weather.
See the aftermath of Thursday's fierce storms.
A dozen or so trees were uprooted along the Tidal Basin, including some cherry trees near the Jefferson Memorial.
"The paddle boat parking area will remain closed today so crews can get in and clean up the downed trees, make sure there aren't any broken off branches or widowmakers hanging from up above," National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst told WTOP Friday morning.
The cleanup should be wrapped up by the end of the day Friday.


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Ari Behn, Norwegian Princess' Ex and Kevin Spacey Accuser, Commits Suicide at Age 47
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Ari Behn, a former member of Norway's royal family who was one of Kevin Spacey's sexual assault accusers, died by suicide on Wednesday, his manager confirmed.
The successful Danish author was married to Norway's Princess Martha Louise between 2002 and 2017. They have three daughters, the youngest of whom is 11.
"It is with great sadness in our hearts that I on behalf of the very closest relatives of Ari Behn must announce that he took his own life today," his manager, Geir Hakonsund, said in an email to AFP.
"Ari was an important part of our family for many years, and we carry warm and good memories of him with us," the Royal House of Norway said in a statement. Martha Louise is the eldest child of King Harald and Queen Sonja and fourth in line to the throne.
Behn published his first book, a collection of short stories titled "Sad as Hell," in 1999. He also wrote several novels and plays. His last book, "Inferno," came out last year and detailed his struggle with mental health issues.
In December 2017, Behn accused Spacey of groping him under a table at a Nobel Peace Prize concert in 2007. Spacey has been accused by more than a dozen men of sexual misconduct. In July, sexual assault charges in Massachusetts involving an 18-year-old man were dropped. Spacey had denied the allegations.
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The University of Iloilo started as the Iloilo City Colleges (ICC). It was established in June 1947 by the Hon. Fernando H. Lopez, then mayor of Iloilo City (then became the vice-president of the Philippines), who was imbued with the spirit of unselfish service to the youth.
The College of Criminal Justice has gained popularity in Western Visayas with its modern laboratory facilities like the infra-red microscope, the lie-detector, the questioned document kit, the interrogation and investigation room, practice court room, target range, and its latest acquisition – the paralyzer shield.
On December 17, 1968, the Iloilo City Colleges was granted the university status and became the 32nd University in the Philippines.
In 1991, the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports acknowledged the University of Iloilo as an Excellent School for the College of Criminology, now the College of Criminal Justice. In March 1993, a certificate of recognition was awarded to the College of Criminology for its "OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN THE PURSUIT OF QUALITY EDUCATION AS EXEMPLIFIED BY MERITORIOUS PERFORMANCE IN BOARD EXAMINATIONS – SCHOOL PASSING PERCENTAGE HIGHER THAN NATIONAL AVERAGE."
On June 25, 1993, a month after the death of Former Philippine Vice President Don Fernando H. Lopez, the FHL Museum dedicated to his memory, was inaugurated.
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In 1998, the University entered into a contract with Net Curricula Incorporated in order to be among the pioneer schools in the country to integrate technology in classroom instruction in all levels – elementary, high school, and college. During the First Semester of 1998-1999, the Net Curricula installed industry-grade network and telecommunication facilities including structured cabling, branded workstations and servers, high-resolution presentation equipment, and licensed software.
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Letter: Safety of our children is of utmost concern
Published 10:13 am EDT, Tuesday, April 25, 2017
I have been asked by concerned citizens to defend or explain statements that were made in court filings on behalf of the Town of Wilton in the case of Girl Doe v. Town of Wilton. I cannot do this. I have not had any involvement in this case, officially or unofficially, and it is not my place to do so. However, as a concerned citizen myself (and not as a member of the Board of Selectmen), I can and must defend the town officials who have been unfairly maligned in commentary because of things the attorneys have said in these court filings. First and foremost, Dr. Kevin Smith, our superintendent of schools, was not even employed by the Town of Wilton at the time of the events alleged in these court papers. Unfortunately, he inherited this terrible situation on virtually his first day of work in Wilton in July 2014. However, because of who he is as a person, he has never sought to avoid responsibility for providing a safe environment for our children or to shift the blame for what is alleged to have occurred in the past. Instead, he has worked proactively to make sure that the kind of things that are alleged in the court papers do not happen in the Wilton Public Schools while he is in a position to prevent it.
Everyone in Wilton should be assured that the safety of our children is our highest priority in the Town of Wilton. On Friday, I had the privilege of reading to a kindergarten class at the Miller-Driscoll School as one of many town officials participating in Read Aloud Day at Miller-Driscoll. Other town officials reading to the children included the Fire Chief, the Director of Parks and Recreation, and at least four Wilton police officers. When I asked one of the police officers in full uniform when we were finished whether she was going back to work, she informed me it was her day off and she was going home. When I asked her why she came in to Wilton on her day off to read to elementary school students for half an hour or so, she informed me that she believed it was important for the students to get to know her as a person. We all should get to know the people who work for us in the Town of Wilton as people before we make judgments about them.
In my 20-plus years in Wilton, I have gotten to know many town employees personally, and I can tell you without equivocation there are no better people to entrust the safety of our children. I know nothing is more important than the safety of our children to the administrators, teachers, police officers, firefighters, and just about everyone else who works for the town that I have gotten to know. Each of my four children attended the Wilton Public Schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade, and I had the good fortune of getting to know virtually all of my children's teachers. With few exceptions, all of my children's teachers were truly outstanding educators and human beings, and the few that were not outstanding did not last very long in Wilton.
I also know our children's safety is first and foremost in their minds all of the time. I witnessed this myself the day before school started this year when I stopped by Miller-Driscoll unannounced to satisfy myself that the building was ready for the students. I rang the doorbell because the building was locked tight, and was greeted by the new principal because she was the only staff member left in the office. When I introduced myself and told her I just wanted to look around to make sure everything was ready for the students, she stopped what she was doing and offered to take me on a tour. About midway through the tour, she admitted to me that the reason she stopped what she was doing to give me a tour was because I was not allowed to walk through the building unescorted even though I was a town official. I was reminded of this again on Friday when all of us participating in Read Aloud Day at Miller-Driscoll, including the police officers, had to ring the bell and sign in before we were escorted to our classrooms to read to the children.
What is alleged in the court papers filed in the lawsuit against the Town of Wilton is atrocious, and it is now up to the court system to adjudicate responsibility for what it determines occurred in the past. What we are responsible for as a town going forward is to provide the safest possible environment for our children. Please be assured that we have the best possible people working for us to make sure this happens.
Michael Kaelin
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It's no news that waste management has grown complex. What was once relatively simple has become separate streams for recycling, organics, hazardous material, industrial waste, and good old garbage, each with its own unique pricing structure. As this core service has become more complicated, so too has the receivables processes associated with remittance from customers. A well understood routine of invoice and check is becoming ever-more disrupted by new options in payment methods and payment channels.
Further complicating matters, many companies haven't kept their payments software up to date — or as in most cases, never consolidated to a single receivables platform. So they have different tools doing all of these things, or worse yet, it's all still done by hand. It all makes for an alarming hodge-podge of manual processes and disparate, siloed systems.
But the tide, it is a changing.
According to the Aite Group, 81% of receivables and treasury executives in the U.S. perceive adopting an integrated receivables hub as adding value to their organization. Furthermore, 60% of receivables and treasury managers are not satisfied with their current remittance processing systems.
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Checks have stood in good stead, making it convenient for people to make payments wherever they are. And while check use overall is in decline, checks still accounted for over 50% of B2B remittances in 2013, according to the 2013 AFP Electronic Payments Survey. And that's just the B2B market. Direct consumer payments are a large sources of added check volume. Needless to say, we'll be using checks for a decade or more to come.
Checks are a vital key to the whole thing. Waste services organizations, whether they're small businesses or national enterprises, need to ramp up for the inevitable online and mobile advances that are making waves in the payments industry. They need a solution that can process checks and remittance documents more efficiently, saving time, improving cash flow, and reducing costs, while helping integrate multiple payment platforms into one easily managed, low-cost solution.
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Scientists discover hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet named K2-229b
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Scientists have discovered a hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet orbiting a dwarf star located 260 million light years away.
It reaches a day side temperature of over 2000 degrees Celsius.
Scientists have discovered a hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet orbiting a dwarf star located 260 million light years away. Named K2-229b, the planet is almost 20 per cent larger than Earth but has a mass which is over two-and-a-half times greater. It reaches a day side temperature of over 2000 degrees Celsius. It is located very close to its host star (0.012 AU, around a hundredth of the distance between the Earth and the Sun), which itself is a medium-sized active K dwarf in the Virgo Constellation. K2-229b orbits this star every fourteen hours.
Using the K2 telescope, researchers from Aix-Marseille Universite in France and University of Warwick in the UK employed the Doppler spectroscopy technique – also known as the 'wobble method' – to discover and characterise this faraway planet. The astronomers knew the planet was there due to dips in the light from its host star as it orbited, periodically blocking starlight.
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They then calculated the size, position and mass of K2-229b by measuring the radial velocity of the star, and finding out how much the starlight 'wobbles' during orbit, due to the gravitational tug from the planet, which changes depending on the planet's size. "Mercury stands out from the other Solar System terrestrial planets, showing a very high fraction of iron and implying it formed in a different way," said David Armstrong from the University of Warwick.
"We were surprised to see an exoplanet with the same high density, showing that Mercury-like planets are perhaps not as rare as we thought," Armstrong said. "Interestingly K2-229b is also the innermost planet in a system of at least three planets, though all three orbit much closer to their star than Mercury," he said. The dense, metallic nature of K2-229b has numerous potential origins, and one hypothesis is that its atmosphere might have been eroded by intense stellar wind and flares, as the planet is so close to its star.
Another possibility is that K2-229b was formed after a huge impact between two giant astronomical bodies in space billions of years ago – much like the theory that the Moon was formed after Earth collided with a body the size of Mars. Discovering details about far-flung planets across the universe gives us more clues as to how planets in our own solar system formed, researchers said. As K2-229b is similar to Mercury, knowing more about the former can potentially reveal more about the latter, they said.
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ALL YOU NEED IS LSD
Playwright Leo Butler talks about his new play coming to the Unity exploring the psychedelic revolution
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From The Beatles experimentations through locals' obsession with Pink Floyd and the development of Acid House, Liverpool has always had a comfortable relationship with LSD. It's also indisputable that the drug has had a massive impact on wider popular culture with the worlds of music, film, literature, visual art and theatre all having undergone creative revolutions owing to lysergic acid diethylamine.
Fertile ground, then, for a play exploring the story of the drug, society's relationship with it and one writer's experiences and experiments. ALL YOU NEED IS LSD is acclaimed playwright Leo Butler's 'part history, part fantasy' all about a substance which has consistently promised a psychedelic revolution. Using his involvement in controversial drug tsar David Nutt's LSD medical trials as a jumping off point, the production, in collaboration with much-loved theatre company, Told by an Idiot, contributes to the drug debate in a humorous, insightful and trippy way. Butler answers our questions ahead of the play coming to the Unity Theatre in October.
Could you tell us about the origins of the All You Need Is LSD project?
I always wanted to write a play about drugs – especially psychedelics – as I have some experience with them and most plays usually just say 'drugs are bad' which isn't necessarily the case. By chance I was invited by Professor David Nutt to take part in an LSD trial while I was researching the play – a magic moment!
Have the subjects of LSD and psychedelia always interested you and has that manifested itself in any of your earlier works?
I first got interested in LSD through my love of The Beatles and all things 'summer of love' – that was when I was a kid. I was a teenager during the '90's second summer of love, which kind of shaped who I am today. As for the work, I've written about crack-cocaine before, but LSD is a lot more fun and a lot less harmful. I always like to take an audience on a 'trip' of some kind and create the unexpected. There's nothing worse than spending money on seeing a boring play, so I always want my own plays to be memorable.
How has it been working with the company Told by an Idiot?
It's been a privilege to work with such a bunch of idiots. They're fearless and funny, and they don't spend hours sitting around a table examining the script. We've had the play on its feet since day one, and every member of the company has contributed to the finished play. It's in the hands of the actors now, it's their baby.
With the city's cultural history, do you think the play will have any extra resonance in Liverpool?
Well, the Beatles feature in the play, and their approach to music has certainly influenced the writing. Liverpool's played a massive role in both the first and second Summer of Love – and it's been the home of so many exciting, counter-cultural artists over the years. I'm so excited that this is my first play to come here, I love this City, the people properly look after each other and don't take any cr*p.
In the context of drug policy, would you say there is a central argument to All You Need Is LSD?
I'm in favour of decriminalisation of most drugs, it would save lives because it by stopping kids having to buy off the streets where you're not sure what you're buying or become attracted to dealing. It would give scientists a chance to explore using psychedelics to help with addiction and depression, and it would allow people to use psychedelics for recreation without any of the stigma, and to do so sensibly. But we have to cut through the myths and b*llsh*t, and start redefining our language about drugs. The play's asking us to look at drugs in a different way for once, but it's essentially a fun night out, it's entertainment.
What has the director and the cast brought to the production?
Everything. They've put it on its feet, brought ideas and suggestions, made it their own. The script is just the blueprint, it's up to them to give it its magic.
How are you expecting people to react to the play?
Laughter and tears, gasps and giggles, tapping feet, something to talk about on the bus home.
How would you describe All You Need Is LSD in 25 words or under?
Mad. Wild. Moving. Nuts. Funny. Serious sometimes. Heart-felt. Music-y. Weird. Real-life. Provocative. Daft. Loved-up. Dramatic.
All You Need Is LSD is on at the Unity Theatre 16th-20th October.
Tickets are avaialable from unitytheatre.co.uk
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TheHellboy reboot is just around the corner, and it was only a matter of time until a cross-promotion for the film came around. However, fans may not have expected them to put up a fight in the process. Game publisher Ubisoft has announced that Mike Mignola's signature character would be ready for battle in Brawlhalla. The deal comes as a partnership with Millennium Media and Lionsgate.
In the cartoon-style free-to-play fighting game, multiple combatants duke it out until only one remains in the ring. It has some traits in common with Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but with its own distinctive touches. Hellboy, along with a few of his fellow characters, went through a redesign for the game. They have a more cartoon-style look than their film counterparts.
There are three characters that will join the fire-fisted hero in battle. First up is Nimue, the villain from the film, portrayed by Milla Jovovich. Joining her is Gruagach, a warthog-like creature that serves as her right-hand cohort. And last but definitely not least is Ben Daimio, with Daniel Dae Kim in the role. This fellow B.P.R.D. agent transforms into a jaguar. He already takes this form based on the art above, but it's unknown if he can transform into a human in-game.
This marks Hellboy's latest appearance in a beat-em-up. Last year, he became a playable character in Injustice 2, alongside others like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Brawlhalla already has over 40 combatants to choose from, including Ubisoft's star character Rayman.
There is no specific release date for these characters just yet. However, Hellboy will hit theaters on April 12, so he should show up in the game somewhere around that date.
What do you think about Hellboy and his crew joining the Brawlhalla ranks? Let us know in the comments below!


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Another Unhinged Professor Has Been Exposed As A Pedophilia Apologist
By: Spencer Lindquist
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'The notion that it's wrong even with a one-year-old is not quite obvious to me… I don't think it's blanket wrong at any age.'
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It's been less than two months since an associate professor teamed up with a pro-pedophile organization in an attempt to normalize the most repugnant crimes imaginable. Now, yet another unhinged professor has been caught advocating for pedophilia, this time even more brazenly.
Stephen Kershnar is a professor at State University of New York at Fredonia, and a pedophilia apologist.
Here's Kershnar on video saying that an adult male having sex with a 12-year-old girl is not obviously wrong, and that calling it wrong is a "mistake." In the same clip, he refers to pedophilic rape as "adult-child sex," another euphemism that, just like "minor-attracted person," is being used in an attempt to run cover for evil.
🚨🚨🚨 Professor says an adult wanting to have sex with a kid is accepted as being wrong but "it's not obvious to me that it is in fact wrong" pic.twitter.com/ygC5nuHDNa
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2022
It gets worse. Twelve isn't young enough for Kershnar. He continues to defend pedophilia, remarking "The notion that it's wrong even with a one-year-old is not quite obvious to me." He goes on. "I don't think it's blanket wrong at any age."
It just keeps getting worse! @FredoniaU this guy needs to be fired ASAP pic.twitter.com/mgOi1spSxt
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 2, 2022
Kershnar even argues that children can consent to sex with adults, comparing it to a child willfully engaging in kickball or participating in bar mitzvah lessons.
What are the legal ramifications of such an unspeakably vile perspective? Kershnar lays it out. Since he's not sure if raping infants is good or bad, "the thumb on the scale should go to liberty." Liberty for who? Moral monsters who want to rape infants.
Kershnar is open to the idea that pedophilia is deeply harmful to victims, but he just can't put his finger on why. He thinks it could be because of bigots like you and me, who go "berserk" when pedophiles rape kids.
He even argues that we often make children do things they don't want to do, like "go to church" or "go to temple" or "go to their sister's ballet recital." His perspective is backed up by podcast host Thaddeus Russel, who makes an equally monstrous argument when he says "all a child's life is, is coercion by adults … often to make the child do something for the adult's pleasure only."
It's also telling that these dangerous viewpoints have found their way into the mainstream through left-wing outlets. At one point, Russel boasts that he authored an article in The Daily Beast that argued for lowering consent laws.
If SUNY Fredonia would like to right this wrong, it can begin by correcting Kershnar's bio, which adopts the language of child groomers by calling pedophilia "adult-child sex."
Thus far, SUNY Fredonia's response has been swift, although incomplete. In a statement, the university remarked that Kershnar's views are "reprehensible and do not represent the values of SUNY Fredonia in any way, shape or form" also noting that "The matter is being reviewed."
Only one moral decision can be made following such a review. Half measures, or any other move to placate those who are correctly outraged at the situation rather than remedy the crisis, are entirely unacceptable and unbecoming of any institution that hopes to maintain a shred of legitimacy.
Although SUNY Fredonia may in fact come to the correct decision, it must be recognized that these sentiments did not come out of nowhere. The institution is responding to a high-profile case that's just now been exposed.
Some of the school's alumni weren't the least bit surprised. After all, we're talking about a professor who published a book titled "Pedophilia and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis" all the way back in 2015. That SUNY at Fredonia is only now responding to this moral crisis in response to public outcry is disgraceful and deceptive.
Kershnar Is Not Alone
When hearing about such an outrageous situation, it can be easy to believe that it is an isolated experience, that such insane notions couldn't possibly have taken root elsewhere. Unfortunately, this would be a misconception.
As mentioned previously, it hasn't been long since a former professor at Old Dominion University rebranded pedophiles as "minor-attracted persons." Even this instance was not unique.
A professor at Yale University by the name of Joe Fischel publicly argued that children should be shown nudity, thereby victimized by acts of indecent exposure, at LGBT pride parades. His article was replete with the same strategies that child groomers use, as I outlined previously.
These handful of pedophilia apologist professors are just the tip of the iceberg, one facet of a wider campaign to normalize pedophilia. The logical results of these sentiments have trickled down into K-12 institutions, with gay pornography being featured in school libraries, while other government-run schools host LGBT clubs for four-year-olds, all while refusing to reveal if parents were required to be present on these clubs' Zoom calls.
The crisis isn't relegated to education, either, with similar themes popping up in a number of totally different sectors. A commercial from Twix featured child cross-dressing, just one more example of the elite attempt to groom children.
A YMCA's LGBT center hosts youth-only events, and hosted a man who creates drawings that feature characters from children's shows having sex. Meanwhile, a broader push to foist transgenderism on children has a dark and storied history of pedophilia, child abuse, and psychological torment.
Make no mistake, there is a broad and deliberate push in nearly all areas of public life to normalize pedophilia. This push must be fought wherever it is found, without reservation.
Here's How To Fight Pedophilia's Normalization
Let's be abundantly clear: this is not a complicated issue. In fact, there can be no simpler issue. Pedophilia is evil. That's it. We shouldn't accept the notion that pro-pedophilia sentiments are valid ideas to be contended with in the marketplace of ideas by the use of rhetorical flourish or superior philosophizing.
Illiberalism is no crime when your opponent uses bad-faith arguments to justify moral atrocities that target the most vulnerable among us, victimizing them in ways they can't even comprehend.
These ideas, just like those who use their institutional positions to normalize this horrid evil, must be ostracized, shamed, shunned, stigmatized, and mocked out of any and all forms of socio-political or academic influence. This is not extreme. It's the natural immune system response that any healthy society enacts when confronted with a rising tide of danger and evil.
Here are some simple ways you can reject it:
Refuse to use euphemistic and manipulated language.
By using euphemisms, you fight the battle against child groomers on their terms. You must completely reject phrases like "minor-attracted person," or "adult-child sex," both of which seek to grant sympathy and dignity to these atrocities and those who commit them. Maintain the moral high ground with terms that accurately identify evil.
Become comfortable with being intolerant.
Tolerance is a vice, not a virtue, when you are asked to tolerate unspeakable moral crimes. Our society has begun to see tolerance as the mark of an enlightened person. Reject this faulty framing, and all the degeneracy and spiritual rot that has followed closely behind it.
Fight, fight, fight.
If there was ever a time to be uncompromising, to cling to your beliefs with unrelenting zeal, this is it. The only proper response to situations such as this is action backed by righteous anger. Root out attempts to normalize pedophilia anywhere and everywhere you find it. Publicize it. Send examples like this to The Federalist. Demand that institutions that are home to these sentiments condemn it wholeheartedly in speech and in action. Fight, fight, fight.
Kershnar did not respond to a request for comment.
Spencer Lindquist is an intern at The Federalist and a senior at Pepperdine University where he studies Political Science and Rhetoric and Leadership and serves as Pepperdine's College Republicans President. You can follow him on Twitter @SpencerLndqst and reach him at LSpencerLindquist@gmail.com.
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Tobias Bloéb Moretti (Gries am Brenner, Austrija, 11. srpnja 1959.) austrijski filmski i kazališni glumac, glazbenik i poljodjelac.

Rana mladost i početak karijere
Za rad u kazalištu i filmski glumac uzeo je prezime svoje majke talijansko prezime Moretti. Od djetinjstva, Tobias je postalo očigledno glazbenog talenta, tako da je sada aktivno uključen u glazbi. Studirao je na Sveučilištu u Beču u odjelu za skladatelja. On je također dobio diplomu u "skladatelja" u Beču Conservatory of Music. Tobias je uspješno završio srednju školu glume Otta Falkenberga, koji je bila u Münchenu. Nakon treninga Moretti je angažiran kao glumac u kazalištu u Bavarskoj. Godine 1986., postao je umjetnik "Kammerspiel" popularnog teatra u Münchenu. Moretti je radio i u Italiji. Vrlo je zapažen njegov rad sa svjetskim poznatim redateljem Giorgioom Strellerom. Tobias Moretti, čija je biografija bogata je raznim događajima i dalje je dao prednost na glumačkoj karijeri. Filmski debi Tobias Moretti održan u TV filmu 1986. godine, "Wilhelm Busch". Dvije godine kasnije, on je glumio u filmu "Kletva", nakon čega je dobio ponudu da radi u mini-seriji «Die Piefke-Saga» (1990). Iste godine je sudjelovao u filmu «Der Rausschmeißer»

Uloga u krimi seriji "Inspektor Rex"
Prvi serija koju radi Tobias je pozitivno prihvaćen od strane publike i kritičara, pa je ponudio vodeću ulogu u krimi seriji "Inspektor Rex" (1994-2004 g), s kojom je ovaj austrijski glumac poznat u cijelom svijetu. "Inspektor Rex je serija koja je Tobiasa Morettija vinula u TV zvijezdu svjetskih razmjera.

Uloga policijskog inspektora Richarda Mosera omogućila mu je da otkrije sve aspekte njegovog glumačkog talenta.

Nakon ovog posla, Tobias je raspao masu prijedloga za pucnjave na televiziji i filmovima. Nakon četiri godine konstantnog rada na ovoj seriji, Tobias je odlučio da se okuša na nečemu drugom i rekao producentu o njihovoj odluci(da hoće izaći iz serije). Publika je bila jako uznemirena i razočarana kada je neočekivano uloga Morettija "ubijena". Svi sljedeći nasljednici su probali zamijenjeni njegov glavni lik, ali nisu mogli osvojiti toliku popularnost.

Daljnji razvoj karijere Tobiasa Morettija
Glumac Tobias Moretti, pored što je snimao seriju Inspektor Rexa, koji se prvi put pojavio na televiziji 1994. godine, glumio je u televizijskom filmu "Naš djed je najbolji" (1995) i filmu Workaholic (1996). Od 1997. do 2005. glumac je svoj život posvetio snimanju u TV emisijama i televizijskim filmovima. Dakle, glumio je u telenovelama "Mia, Liebe meine Lebens" (1998) i "Speer i Hitler" (2005).

Također, Tobiasova djela nisu prošla nezapaženo: Die Bernauerin, Noć noći, Vječna pjesma (1997); "Smrtonosni neprijatelji", "Clarissa", "Krambambuli", "Vječna pjesma", "Moj djed i 13 stolica" (1998); "Nećakinja i smrt", "Rhinestone", "Sjene", "Osoba iz alfa grupe", "Srce ostaje mlado", "Vaše najbolje godine" (1999); i, Kad muškarci vjeruju ženama, Joseph iz Nazareta (2000); "Ples s vragom" (2001). Televizijski filmovi poput Juliusa Cezara, Šetnja gradom, Andreas Hofe Tetovaža: Oznake smrti, 1809. (2002) vrlo su uspješni na malom ekranu; "Djeca Švaba" (2003); "Käthchens Traum", "Namereck", "Povratak majstora plesa" (2004). U razdoblju od 2006. do 2008. glumac je glumio u 12 uloga. Većina ih je bila vodeća, iako je u epizodama bio vrlo uočljiv.

Dakle, 2006. god Tobias Moretti bio je zapažen u filmovima poput Heretica, Ubijanje recepta, Slava i zalazak kralja Ottokara, Der Liebeswunsch.

Sjetio se 2007. godine fanovi glumca s ulogama u filmovima: "Glavni svjedok", "Pripadate meni", "Blagajne kapetana Kremena", "Ljetno ludilo", "Plus 42". Iste godine glumio je u uspješnoj seriji "Kolekcija Fred Vargas". Godine 2008. glumio je u "Dolini sjene smrti" i "Vitez i pol i pol". Tobias 2009. djeluje: filmovi "Ja, Don Juan", "Crno cvijeće" i televizijski film "Anna i princ" Danas je ovaj glumac jednako potražen kao i prije desetljeća

Filmovi
Tobias Moretti, čija filmografija obuhvaća gotovo 70 televizijskih i filmskih djela, još uvijek aktivno snima. 2010. godine sudjelovao je u snimanju dviju slika: "Židovska Suess" i "Amigo - Bei Ankunft Tod". Tobias Moretti je 2011. godine glumio u tako popularnim televizijskim filmovima kao što su Violet i Bauernopfer. U 2012. godini odmah su objavljena dva filma "Ljeto u velikom gradu", "Vikend" i tri televizijska filma: "Žena nestaje", "Mobbing", "Die Geisterfahrer". Tobias je 2013. je oduševio svoje obožavatelje svojim radom na TV seriji Die Entführung aus dem Serail. U 2014. odjednom je objavljeno pet filmova s njegovim sudjelovanjem: "Mračna dolina", "Med u glavi", "Yoko", "Hirngespinster", "Alles Fleisch je Gras", "Im Schaten des Spiegels". U 2015. godini planiran je rad na filmu "Das ewige Lebne".

Privatni život
Tobias Moretti je vrlo svestran čovjek. Dakle, on je maestralno svira orgulje, gitaru, klavir, klarinet i udaraljke. U slobodno vrijeme sklada glazbu. Među njegovim hobijima postoje i ekstremni kao penjanje, sanjkanje i skijaško trčanje, automobilske trke i kanu. Tobias ima reputaciju strastveni motociklist.

Usprkos glumačkom i glazbenom talentu Moretti je uvijek teži za samopoboljšanje. Dakle, 1997. dobio je diplomu poljoprivrednika.

Kao direktor Moretti debitirao u proizvodnji fazi Mozartove opere "Don Juan" u Zürichu i Bregenzu. Tobias je nesumnjivo ima kulinarske vještine.

U svojoj domovini je vrlo popularna svojim jedinstvenim recepti za razna jela. vlastite farme Live glumca u Innsbrucku. Tobias Moretti ima reputaciju vrlo vjernog čovjeka. Dakle, sa svojim partnerom, Julia, on je bio u braku 17 godina. Bračni par ima dvije kćeri: Antonia (1998) i Rose (2011) i njegov sin Lenz (2000).

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Thankfully, Cooler Heads Prevail In Daytona Fireworks Display
By Jerry Bonkowski
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I just love fireworks displays. Saturday, we got two shows for the price of one at Daytona International Speedway.
While the main fireworks display came after the race, the preliminary show wasn't half bad itself, when Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch tangled on the final turn of the final lap of the Coke Zero 400.
Like a pinball and Roman Candle both in one, Busch first bounced off Stewart, spun and bounced off the wall, bounced off Kasey Kahne and then off Joey Logano, with fireworks-like sparks flying everywhere from each point of contact.
It was great theatrics, causing the 100,000-plus fans at DIS, as well as several million watching on their TVs, to go "oooh" and "aaah" before they really ooohed and aaahed a few moments later during the racetrack's real and planned post-race fireworks extravaganza.
To his credit, Busch took the end of the race in stride. He and Stewart were both battling for the same piece of real estate, just like Busch has done so with numerous other drivers over the course of his career.
And when you do battle like that, especially when the younger Busch brother tried to block Stewart from getting a final run, something – and someone – was going to have to give, even if it wasn't by choice.
End result: Stewart got into the back of Busch's car and sent the No. 18 Toyota on one hell of a ride, while Stewart's No. 14 went on to victory lane for the second time this season.
While Stewart was making his way to victory lane, Busch didn't play the fool. He didn't make a spectacle of himself walking back to pit road, didn't chase after Stewart or angrily throw his helmet at him or call him out. Of course, with Tony probably outweighing Kyle by 70 pounds or more, Busch may have thought twice about putting up his dukes.
Sure, Busch wasn't happy when NASCAR officials forcibly took him by the arms and directed him to a track truck for a ride to the infield care center to get checked out.
The officials were actually doing Busch a favor, because he took a nasty hit first from the retaining wall, then from Kahne, whose car lifted Busch's up almost 45 degrees in the air – pushing it across the finish line, no less – and then when Logano couldn't seen through the resulting smoke and smashed broadside into Busch's driver's side door.
Busch then did the right thing by declining to be interviewed or talk about the incident afterward. A cooler head prevailed and that was the smartest thing Busch could have done. He's to be commended for that.
Stewart, as well, is to be commended. I can't recall him ever feeling so bad about a win. He actually was unhappy at how he earned the win.
"It's not the way I like to win a race," Stewart said afterward.
That's why Saturday night's race finish was one of the most enjoyable I've seen in a long time. It wasn't because of the race-ending multi-car wreck. Rather, it was how two of the sport's most fiery and tempestuous drivers both held their tongue, kept their cool and let the end result play out the way it did.
To me, that's true sportsmanship on both Busch's and Stewart's part, which we haven't always been able to say after other episodes in both of their respective racing careers, particularly on the Sprint Cup level.
Kyle sucked it up and Tony lamented about a finish he'd rather not have had play out the way it did. No one went charging after the other, especially at a place that has seen more than its shares of fisticuffs and brawls over the years. We weren't going to see a replay of the Allison-Yarborough tilt at Daytona following the 1979 Daytona 500, or even anything close to it.
Busch displayed perhaps some of the greatest restraint he has ever shown in his brief Cup career, and for that he's to be applauded. Whether you like him or not, he didn't pout, throw a tantrum or a punch.
Ditto for Stewart. He didn't rub it in Busch's face, he didn't claim Busch got what he deserved for trying to block, nor did Stewart intentionally go looking for Busch to apologize for what happened.
Rather, Tony let Kyle cool off, calm down and accept things at his own pace and in his own style. I'm sure they'll talk in the next day or two and everything will be forgiven and forgotten from both their viewpoints.
Honestly, no one was really to blame for how the Busch-Stewart wreck occurred. It was as close to a perfect example of a so-called "racing incident" as you'll see anywhere.
Saturday's pre-fireworks display was the perfect prelude for the main event. As Stewart and Busch have both said numerous times in their careers, that's racin.' No one should feel bad about it at all.
But damn, you have to admit it was a hell of a show on the track, just like the one in the skies that followed after the checkered flag fell.
By Jerry Bonkowski at Saturday, July 04, 2009
Kyle did the right thing by not talking to the media? I don't think so. To see how a professional handles the situation watch Carl Edwards interview after Talladega. Kyle still has much growing up to do.
Jerry Bonkowski July 5, 2009 at 1:39 AM
If you think you're going to blow up and make a fool of yourself because of anger and temper, the best thing is to take the high road and not say anything at all. While I respect your opinion, RickyBobby, Kyle did show the grown-up thing to do in my mind. Otherwise, people would be piling up on him for once again being immature, etc. Thanks for writing in! .... JB
Brenda July 5, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Yes, we would have liked to see an interview but Kyle showed a little more maturity by not talking to the press. Stewart's maturity is another surprise.
But what I really liked was the good racing at the end. I want to see great driving and racing and I'm not so concerned about the 'emotional intelligence' of my favorite drivers.
Bruce Atkinson July 5, 2009 at 8:02 AM
The right thing for Kyle to do would be to talk to the media. I would have far more respect for him if he would learn to be able to talk to the media when things don't go his way. Kyle new he screwed up and was 100% wrong before he ever hit the wall for the first time. The only thing he should be mad at is himself. He also should apologize to the rest of the field for causing the destruction of so many cars.
Dot July 5, 2009 at 1:37 PM
I'm with you Bruce.
I for one would like to see him at least think his sponsors and manufacturer and if he cant say anything without sounding like a spoiled chap then decline to comment about the wreck. A lot of people put a lot of money into that car and he should show some appreciation for them at the very least. Bottom line is he is a good driver, but when he leaves without acknowledging his fans car owner and sponsors he still looks like a spoiled brat that will take his ball and just go home without saying a thing if he strikes out.
Brad Ford July 5, 2009 at 6:30 PM
How about that "Car of Tomorrow?" It takes a licking, and keeps drivers alive and uninjured.
Whatever its "problems," I can live with them if it keeps drivers like Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch healthy after horrific impacts.
Mobe1969 July 6, 2009 at 3:35 AM
I'm not trying to be rude but "Stewart got into the back of Busch's car and sent him flying"? Were we watching the same race? If you see the replay Tony was driving in a straight line, and Kyle turned left. Stewart did not turn him.
Kyle Petty (boy what a breath of fresh air over DW) put it best: Block me once, that's racing and that's fine, block me twice, you're going up into the wall.
The initial block was fine, but the second one, he came right across the front of Smoke's car, after Stewart had already established his position. What the hell else did Kyle Busch expect was going to happen? That's the part of racing that Busch still has to learn; had he ceded the position, he most likely would have finished in second place and in great shape in the points standing. Instead, he winds up in 14th with a wrecked car.
I get the whole "that's restrictor plate racing for you" sentiment, but sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.
I'm with gary on the whole "Busch speaking to the media afterward" sentiment: Sponsors pay good money and as cheesy as it sounds, a little "the Interstate Batteries Toyota team did a great job today, but I don't want to comment until I see the tape and see what happened" soundbite would go a long way toward shedding the whole "spoiled kid who loves soaking in the cheers and mocking the fans with his bow when everything is going well but runs and hides when something goes bad" image Kyle Busch has made for himself.
-George_N
roachc420 July 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM
I'm pretty sure Kyle Busch's sponsors have figured out he's a driver, not a spokesman. As long as his car is on the screen, the eyeballs are on the ads. Granted, the ads may be dented and occasionally shredded, but they're being seen.
I agree that his sponsors have had to make a choice as to weather they want to keep the money going to a team that gets booed every time he shows his face and cheers when you can no longer read what is on the car. But he could increase his image and the bang for the buck they spend by being more mature and showing good sportsmanship. In today's economy the better image you can put on your product, the more value your advertising dollar is and there will be more cuts to come in the near future I am sure. I for one would be doing everything I could to sell the whole package and increase my value not alienate people because I cant control my temper or just don't care what others think. He can't stay on top as just a driver forever without support from others when times are bad and times will be bad for him. There has never been a driver that I am aware of that has not gone through a slump in there career. I am definitely not a Kyle Bush fan but I give credit where it is due, as I said in the previous post he is a good driver but he could be so much more if he would show some maturity and not put the image out that he thinks the world should revolve around him. A quick look at Terrell Owens from the NFL will give you a good idea of what happens when it is all about you and not presenting yourself as the complete package and a team player when what you choose to do puts you in the public eye. Simply, to be one of the best you have to present yourself as the best.
roachc420 July 8, 2009 at 12:39 AM
I'll give you the Terrell Owens thing. I haven't seen or really heard about him in a while. (not a big football fan, but I know the big names) Hopefully for Kyle when (not if) he hits that slump it makes him grow up a little so he can hang on to those sponsor dollars. There's been many burnouts in the sport before him, and will be more in the future. With his potential, talent, and skill it would be sad to include him in that group. Ultimately time will tell if a young punk that drives old school win at any cost can survive in today's NA$CAR.
Beth Beutler July 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM
I guess the "maturity" of Kyle took a dive with the latest announcement that he thinks Tony dumped him, huh?
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