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Chef's Corner – Laura Meyer
All the greats in the world, be they superheroes, late-night talk show hosts, presidents or sports figures, have that one person who helped them rise to the top of their game. Sometimes they're the unsung heroes who stay behind the scenes. Sometimes they're equal partners.
The same is true for any great pizzaiolo. There is always someone they have relied on to help them achieve greatness. Batman had Robin, Jordan had Pippen, and Tony Gemignani has Laura Meyer.
Laura has been working with Gemignani for 13 years now, having stepped up to a very important managerial role in several of his restaurants over time. But she has become one of the industry's shining stars in her own right. In a 2016 profile of Meyer, Eater.com described her as "the pizzaiola [who is] changing the face of pizza," adding that "the San Franciscan has achieved more at the age of 27 than most pizzaiolos [accomplish] in their entire lifetime."
Meyer was the first woman and the first American to win the Pizza in Teglia (pan) category during her inaugural trip to the World Pizza Championship in Parma, Italy, in 2013. Since then, she has continued to grow her culinary prowess and rack up culinary awards and other honors. She was named on Zagat's "Top 30 Under 30" list in 2014 and then made Forbes' "Top 30 Under 30" list two years later. And none other than Scott Wiener, proprietor of Scott's Pizza Tours in New York, has praised her as "a true pizza ninja" as well as a "force of good in the pizza community."
In addition to sitting down with me for a personal interview, Laura was kind enough to share with our Chef's Corner readers one of her personal creations, The Peach Pie. Featuring a well-balanced mix of flavors—salty, sweet, smoky and spicy—this pizza truly has something for everyone.
The Peach Pie
13-oz. New York-style dough ball or 9-oz. Neapolitan dough ball
4-oz. ball fresh mozzarella
3 oz. scamorza cheese, shredded
1 yellow or white peach, thinly sliced
4 oz. peach puree
2 oz. simple syrup
3-4 oz. corn, grilled and shaved off the cob
2-3 slices of bacon, cooked until crispy
Chili flakes
Smoked sea salt
Saute the peach slices in the syrup and puree until soft but still slightly firm, and until the syrup reduces by 1/3.
For New York-style: Stretch dough to 12". Place shredded mozzarella over the base and cook until about 50% to 60% done. Take it out of the oven and spread the shredded scamorza on the crust, then scatter the peaches with their juice on top of the cheese. Add the bacon and corn on top and return to oven. Finish the rest of the bake until the bacon is sizzling and the corn is hot. When it's done baking, take it out of the oven and cut it into six slices. Sprinkle with chili flakes, smoked sea salt and fresh thyme off the sprig.
For a wood-burning oven: Stretch dough to 12". Scatter peaches in their juice around the dough. Spread the fresh mozzarella on top of the peaches. Bake it until it's about 60% to 70% done. Take it out of the oven and add the shredded scamorza, corn and bacon. Return it to the oven and finish the bake, making sure bacon is starting to sizzle and the corn is warm. Take it out of the oven and cut it into six pieces. Sprinkle with chili flakes, smoked sea salt and fresh thyme off the sprig.
And there you have it, The Peach Pie. This is a great-tasting pie with complex flavors that play off each other in the best way possible—through pizza! If you want to find out more about Laura Meyer, check out my in-depth interview with her exclusively at pmq.com/lauratalks.
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Q: setting write permissions on theme subdirectory? I've a theme which supports multiple templates, each with a header background image whose color can be set by the site owner via a colorpicker widget in my theme's options panel. This has the effect of opening the background image, recoloring it and resaving it back to the server.
I've had zero issues with this routine until recently when a customer installed the theme on a web host whose default read/write permissions are apparently much more restrictive than the norm. In this case, the user was unable to alter the colors of the template images because of the permissions settings.
I'm looking for a bit of understanding on what the permissions would need to be (assuming I purposefully set them via script) to allow the logged in wordpress user to write to files under my theme's styles directory.
The code I'm using to write to the image file is below...
    $img = imagecreatefromgif("../wp-content/themes/mytheme/styles/".get_option('my_theme')."/image.gif");
    $color = imagecolorallocate($img, $info["red"], $info["green"], $info["blue"]);
    imagecolorset($img, 0, $info["red"], $info["green"], $info["blue"]);
    imagegif($img, $path);

A: What I have done in the past (and what I have seen people instruct other to do for autoupdate / wordpress file management) was to chown apache-user.apache-user folder/
This way you give the apache user (that is running apache for instance) access to the wordpress files, keep them at whatever permissions you want (read/write/exec).
Give that a try.
(of course replace apache-user with the proper user, ex: www-data)

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Q: make table rows clickable using jQuery In an ASP.NET web page, I have a table that shows results from a database query. In the same page, I have a form that adds a row to the database as well as displays the row at the end of table. I used jQuery ajax to insert the record to the database and if it's successful then I created a <tr> <td> ... </td> </tr> element and appended this element to the table using jQuery. This works fine. Now I want to make the table rows clickable. I tried it using
    $('#table-name tr').click(function () {
     alert ("hello");
        });
Click function doesn't work for the rows that I added using the form. Is there any workaround? How can I make all rows clickable?

A: $('#table-name tr') returns only the <tr> elements that exist when you call that selector. If you add new rows dynamically, they won't be accounted for.
jQuery has special syntax to take care of dynamically generated elements:
$('#table-name').on('click', 'tr', function() {
    alert('Hello');
});

A: The reason that the click event does not work for those elements is that the event handler was issued only once, before the elements existed on the DOM.
In order to have the click event exist for elements which are added in the future as well, you should use on, this will allow the handler to be assigned to the dynamically added elements. Make sure to include the 'tr' which will create a delegate function to handle the event for future elements.
$('#table-name tr').on('click', 'tr', function () { alert ("hello"); });

Another option would be to assign the click event to the element before you dynamically add it to the page.
success: function(results){
 var newRow = document.createElement("tr");
 //manipulate newRow with results
 $(newRow).click(function(){ alert("hello") });
 //append newRow
}

A: Use jquery on instead of click. The problem is that click events are only attached when the page loads.
$('#table-name').on('click', 'tr', function() {alert('hello');});

Jquery on method waits for events to propagate up from child elements.


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In which we marvel at the mental contortions of our self-imagined betters.
In February, we beheld the chutzpah of our new downtrodden elite at the United Nations International School, where the children of diplomats and titans of international banking insisted that even a single mispronunciation of an unobvious name is a form of "racial trauma" inflicted by "the white man's mouth." Elsewhere, at the University of Minnesota, we heard one student recount his experience of racial profiling and police brutality – "the most traumatic thing I have ever experienced" – and then, thanks to dashcam video, saw what actually happened.
And in the Los Angeles Times, the scrupulously progressive Virginia Heffernan aired her outrage at neighbours who cleared the snow from her driveway, but failed to vote for Joe Biden - the latter act requiring "absolution," and thus excusing Ms Heffernan's supposedly principled ingratitude for the former. You see, resenting neighbours' acts of kindness, and publicly badmouthing those neighbours, in print, is the progressive way, and a basis for expecting applause.
Oh, and we also learned how to turn toilet paper into drinkable alcohol.
"Larger-bodied person" Emily Duke enlightened us in March, via the pages of Slate, with an emotional tailspin triggered by a vaccination form featuring the word obese. The mere sight of which resulted in "unparalleled grief," three hours spent deciding what to have for dinner, and an elaborate, rather convoluted claim that being given priority for a vaccine during a pandemic, while others must wait, is actually a form of oppression. Slate's comment moderator added that, should any remarks "contradict the author's understanding of her own situation," they would of course be deleted.
Elsewhere, in Scary Mommy, where progressive ladies preen and seethe, Erin Hendriksen widened our eyes with her politics of laundry - a subject explored at length and in seemingly fractal detail – while pointing to her struggles with personal hygiene as proof of martyrdom. We also pondered the mental health of other Scary Mommy contributors, among whom the use of mood stabilisers seems remarkably common, and noted the things one must pretend in woke academia – say, when faced with "indigenous elders" whose cures for gastro-intestinal ailments include arm-flapping and rubbing corn pollen on the feet of the afflicted.
The pages of Scary Mommy gripped us again in April, when Ms Amber Leventry, a "queer person and educator," managed to be outraged by the fact that she had been asked not to swear and scream in the workplace. This appeal to reciprocal courtesy, and preference for not being assailed with bellowed epithets, was denounced as both "tone policing" - a wickedness "rooted in colonialism and white supremacy" - and an effort to crush underfoot the rights and wellbeing of transgender people. When not expecting deference and "validation" for her frequent fits of temper – one might say bullying – Ms Leventry encourages her own small children, aged seven and nine, to shout profanities at passers-by who may have voted Republican.
A visit to the Rockwood School District, Missouri, revealed educators so gorged on wokeness that they had created a fake curriculum to fool parents, thereby concealing the details of how children were being indoctrinated, and while simultaneously insisting, "This is not being deceitful." And racial monomania - seemingly to the go-to setting of progressives - cropped up again in the pages of the Guardian, where the anhedonic Natalie Morris informed us that the employment of fashion models who are difficult to racially categorise is "impossible to see… as a positive thing." On account of the models' "proximity to whiteness."
We also bore witness to the creative outpourings of Finnish artist Liu Susiraja.
In May, ¿jordan¿ - a "black trans artist" and prodigious taker of selfies - announced his discovery of a new form of "violence" – specifically, "When people get my pronouns right and I can tell they still perceive me as a man." That those cowed to mouth obvious lies regarding Mr ¿jordan¿'s alleged womanliness were not in fact hallucinating on demand and actually seeing him as a woman, albeit one with a moustache and beard, and were instead merely being polite, was an outrage for our bejewelled narcissist.
We also learned, via Mr Kenny Allen, editor of Northwestern University's student newspaper, that "white people walk awkwardly on sidewalks because of their internalised racism." Following his pronouncements on pavement users of pallor, Mr Allen was scandalised by polite requests for evidence, any evidence, to support his claims – an expectation seemingly quite alien to this would-be intellectual. Ruminations on racist pavement use were followed by equally bold assertions regarding racist cycling, thanks to P. Khalil Saucier, an associate professor of Africana Studies at Bucknell University, whose ramblings on the subject were likewise untroubled by evidence, or coherence, or indeed honesty.
The month ended with a reminder that the absurd and the sinister aren't mutually exclusive, with revelations regarding eye-widening indoctrination in Portland schools, where the stated goal of "anti-racist" educators is the "disintegration" of children's personalities, such that they experience "white guilt" and "feel bad for being white." When the eight-year-old victims of this psychological abuse complained that they were unable to sleep and felt alienated from their friends and parents, this was taken by the educators as a sign of progress, of emerging wokeness.
We learned, In June, via a Yale lecturer, that "white people don't eat bread." The imparter of this wisdom, Ms Aruna Khilanani - a psychiatrist with paying customers - also shared her belief that murdering random white people, guiltlessly and for no reason beyond their pallor, would be doing the world, and I quote, "a fucking favour." Ms Khilanani's areas of expertise, beyond bread consumption and homicidal fantasies, include gender theory, race theory, queer theory and Marxism.
Elsewhere, we learned that complimenting a friend or colleague on their weight loss is not only "fatphobic" - and worse, encouraging - but is also "a perpetuation and enforcement of white supremacist beauty standards." Should comments of a favourable kind prove unavoidable, they should instead be directed towards said person's shoes. Self-styled activist William Hornby also denounced the evils of "fatphobia," insisting that one should do nothing to avoid or delay the unsightly expansion of any body parts, on grounds that not wishing to be obese is "intrinsically entangled with white supremacy." Mr Hornby also steered us to the Fat Liberation Syllabus for Revolutionary Leftists – an actual thing – which in turn denounced the "fatphobic logic of productivity, discipline, and personal responsibility."
In July, Sinead Watson offered a welcome reminder that not all people with gender dysphoria are insufferably woke, with a frank and moving account of her own experiences, including that of de-transitioning, and a warning about the erasure of boundaries between adults and children, and the fashionable affirmation of mental illness.
Elsewhere, Dr Albert Stabler, an assistant professor at Appalachian State University, confessed his innate wrongness – "I am a white teacher" – before disdaining the "white feelings" of fellow educators who objected to being punched and humiliated by brown-skinned students - including Dr Stabler's immediate predecessor, a female art teacher whose hair was forcibly cut by a black student. These objections were denounced by our woke educator as "white supremacist violence," while the actual violence – the punching and cutting and so forth - was airily waved aside as a display of the students' "cultural knowledge" and "kinetic" creativity.
The subject of bras returned to the fore in August, thanks to Gender Studies Professor Sami Schalk, for whom bralessness, and twerking, and a cape emblazoned with the words "I AM 100% THAT BITCH," constitute acts of "political defiance." When not referring to the police as "fucking pigs," and offering refreshments to rioters and arsonists, Ms Schalk, a grown woman and professional educator, and paid somewhere in the region of $102,000 a year, invites us to admire her ample buttocks and their magic blackness.
The month also brought us a striking illustration of transgender gaslighting, and indeed sociopathy, with Mridul Wadhwa, the head of one of Scotland's largest rape crisis centres, laying down conditions for receiving the centre's services. Wadhwa, a transgender woman, insisted that actual women in search of help following sexual assault must first declare their embrace of Wadhwa's own rather niche transgender ideology, and that failure to do so is "unacceptable" and will be "challenged." Because, you know, priorities.
In September, we spied more racial neuroticism in the form of Dr Derek Hook, an associate professor at Duquesne University, whose areas of expertise include "post-colonial theory" and "white anxiety." The good doctor was visibly titillated by the idea that "white people should commit suicide as an ethical act," in order to "castrate whiteness." Readers are invited to imagine an educator speaking in such terms, excitedly, about any other racial demographic, and doing it in the name of "anti-racism."
Elsewhere in academia, we learned that "suspending proficiency requirements" will – in ways somewhat unclear – "benefit" those on whom these things are inflicted, and that expecting basic and reciprocal standards of behaviour – say, respecting other pupils who are trying to hear what's being said - is "the definition of white supremacy," and therefore very, very bad. And a visit to the high-security wing of transgender TikTok proved informative, with news that wearing a low-cut top to work is sufficient proof of womanhood and should never result in even momentary confusion, however polite, among female colleagues. We also learned that "cis people should not be having conversations about trans issues" and should instead be mere objects of discussion, not participants. And, oh yes, the revelation that trans people "can't fart."
Boutique gender identities, or pretensions of such, cropped up again in October, when party-person and would-be iconoclast Mr Jordan Bennett visited Heaven, a nightclub for London's famously downtrodden homosexuals, and found that his pronoun-stipulating earrings were insufficient to exempt him from the club's security procedures. Elsewhere, at Middlebury College, counselling director Alberto Soto noted a surge in students reporting mental health problems, notably anxiety and depression, and promptly identified "whiteness" as the "source of all our psychic suffering." The possibility that the college's preoccupation with race, and racial conspiracy theories, and near-continual racial scolding, might have some bearing on the issue was somehow not considered.
And over at George Washington University, associate professor of education Julia Storberg-Walker told us, "I didn't know I was white." And further, "I think a lot of people don't know they are white." This oversight can, however, be corrected with "somatic, embodied training" and realigning one's "positionality" as a White Devil, a doer of "harm." Happily, Dr Storberg-Walker is equipped to deliver "whole-planet flourishing" by drawing on "wisdom traditions" and, inevitably, "quantum field theory." Readers are welcome to speculate as to exactly how quantum field theory might bear upon such topics as "critical race activism," or "colonised words," and how it might inform "deep learning" about the seemingly endless pathologies of being pale.
In November, "white supremacy" was invoked yet again, this time as the go-to explanation for workplace dress codes and broader expectations of professionalism - say, when teaching other people's twelve-year-old children. When not devising excuses for deploying the word racism, and painting his nails, and generally being fascinated by himself, the 30-year-old teacher in question, Mr Segal, entertains his TikTok followers with his inability to grade papers on time, and by talking about the state of his mental health, a topic revisited more than once. The competitively woke world of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation was another highlight of the month - in particular, the union's move to "eliminate racism" by weighting the votes of non-white members, such that leverage very much depends on the colour of one's skin.
More coherent thinking came from Noah Carl and his research on the role of women in the phenomenon of wokeness. Needless to say, some Guardian contributors and other ladies of the left were brought to a state of high dudgeon by Mr Carl's charts and tables of statistics, denouncing his alleged "fear" and "hatred" of women, especially intelligent women, while scorning the "fragility" of the "straight white male," and while carefully avoiding anything approaching a substantive rebuttal. As intelligent women do.
We were also entranced by "really radical" aboriginal rap, or rather by the contortions performed by Guardian columnists who pretend to, like, totally dig it, man.
As the year drew to a close, we poked through the "teachers of TikTok" hashtag and found much to ponder, including a tall, bearded educator claiming that his days spent parading around the classroom in five-inch stilettos, and sometimes full drag, which he just so happens to enjoy, is a way to make pupils feel "safe," and not, say, bewildered. The "safe" classroom, we were told, is "a place for them, by them," while clearly being all about him and entirely his idea, and entirely dependent on his cartoonish cross-dressing preferences on any given day. Such is woke selflessness. It remains unclear whether pupils or parents who find this educator's behaviour, shall we say, distracting, or not wholly reassuring, will be indulged to the same degree.
We also continued our series on employees who may not be entirely suited to the job.
And finally, we visited Swarthmore College, where annual tuition fees are north of $70,000, and where having a suitably inclusive and intersectional student party is not a simple matter. Especially when "an outsized number of white students" attend, thereby oppressing everyone else with their rampant pallor, and thus necessitating a looped and amplified message, blaring through speakers for several minutes, "telling white students to leave." "By the time the message stopped playing," we're told, "the party's racial demographics had shifted significantly." And at which point, of course, further complications ensued regarding the precise ratio of gay people present and their respective skin tones.
So, plenty to chew on.
Heavens, a button. I wonder what it does.
Posted at 00:02 in Academia, Anthropology, Politics, Psychodrama, Reheated | Permalink
"The year began with an oddly specific medical diagnosis...academics at the University of York were rendered fretful and distraught by an image...'the most traumatic thing I have ever experienced'...outrage at neighbours who cleared the snow from her driveway...an emotional tailspin triggered by a vaccination form...Scary Mommy contributors, among whom the use of mood stabilisers seems remarkably common...bread consumption and homicidal fantasies..."
I sense a pattern. Apropos of this, Powerline links to an article at the New York Times about two academic papers pondering why surveys show that conservatives are happier than liberals:
"Liberals Are Miserable People They say misery loves company, and that may be why liberals always want to extend their control over everyone and everything—because they are miserable people..."
An ideology which sees success and well-being as evidence of injustice is bound to lead to the misery of envy and resentment. And what's more, the liberal's own well-being is proof of personal guilt. It is unsurprising that this should lead to every psychological pathology one can imagine.
Posted by: pst314 | December 27, 2021 at 00:39
An ideology which sees success and well-being as evidence of injustice is bound to lead to the misery of envy and resentment.
Hence Winston Churchill's pity summary that "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.".
Seventy five years later, things haven't changed much.
Posted by: Bill de Haan | December 27, 2021 at 02:08
To quote General McAuliffe:
"NUTS!"
Posted by: Squires | December 27, 2021 at 02:13
Thanks for documenting another year of woke hell. :-)
*pings tip jar*
Posted by: Alan | December 27, 2021 at 08:06
Bless you, sir. May your "quick" visit to the supermarket shortly before Christmas not turn into a 45-minute test of your patience.
Posted by: David | December 27, 2021 at 08:25
I sense a pattern.
As I'm sure I say every year, when you sweep a lot of leftism into one big pile, it's hard to miss certain… patterns of dysfunction.
academics at the University of York were rendered fretful and distraught by an image on the website of an art history conference – specifically, of the seventeenth-century Buddhist figurine, the three wise monkeys
I missed that one. 🤡
Posted by: Peeps | December 27, 2021 at 08:44
Well, as noted in the post, it does rather speak to the weirdly dogmatic assumptions (or pretensions) of the agonised, rather than the object being agonised about, or how said object is generally understood. At least by people who aren't competitively neurotic leftist academics.
The Competitively Neurotic Leftist Academics should be a band name.
Posted by: PiperPaul | December 27, 2021 at 12:21
...competitively neurotic leftist academics.
They should have their own olympics. Events could include:
Nervous around White People
Oblivious around Color People
Dumb for Muslims
Ew, a Peasant!
Scream at Cop
I'm a Real Woman!
I'm a Real Man!
Hate Hoaxin'
Freestyle Fatherlessness
Damage Children
They should have their own Olympics. Events could include...
Remember Monty Python's Upper Class Twit of the Year sketch?
Unfortunately the Pythons are a bit old now, and in spite of his recent public comments I doubt that John Cleese would want to do a proper job on all the academic lunacies that need mocking.
Leftist woman complains that it is more expensive to live alone than with a partner. It's an American conspiracy!
Mispronounced names: my name is german. Rarely does anyone say it right or spell it right. I'm white. I am not oppressed by this it is just life. FFS people, lighten up. There was a prof who got two black students mixed up--good thing I'm not in his situation, I mess up names constantly.
Posted by: ccscientist | December 27, 2021 at 14:07
Mispronounced names: my name is german. Rarely does anyone say it right or spell it right...I am not oppressed by this...
Agreed. Foreign language names will often be mispronounced and misspelled, no matter where you are.
I wonder if I would get your name right: I studied German for a number of years, but that was decades ago and I rarely have opportunity to practice my limited skills.
But since your name is German, and since collective guilt is all the rage, I would like to complain to you that the imported German pastries I bought for Christmas contained soybean oil and palm oil. If they had been echt Deutsche Gebäck then they would have been made with butter. Butter from cows that moo with an umlaut. Now what are you going to do about that?
Obesity: because of fear of offending, we were almost 18 months into the pandemic before I saw in print that obesity (called a pre-existing condition) is a big risk factor for covid. Better dead than rude.
If you observe middle age obese at the store, they are barely able to walk in too many cases. Esp women. Nevermind the heart disease and diabetes, do you really want to be voluntarily crippled? The only people I see using those electric carts shopping are the obese. The worst contribution of pop psych was the self-affirmation crap.
Christmas Eve meltdown: 'Woke' woman with doctorate in dance demands that she always be addressed as "doctor". Complains that she gets Christmas cards addressed to "Miss". Her profile on her now-deleted Twitter account described her as "Postdoctoral research fellow at @CDaRE_CU. Dancer. Teacher. Political. Thinker. Anti-racist. Research interests: Dance, disability, interventions, education, arts & politics. She/her. Sussex." (CDaRE_CU = Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University)
Her personal page at Coventry suggests that she will spend her life talking pointlessly about dance in tiresomely political terms while all the real accomplishments in dance will be done by actual performers and choreographers who will go about their lives paying no attention to her.
pst314: cows that moo with an umlaut hahahah.
on names: the irony is that in my experience Americans at least have gotten much better with foreign names the past 50 years with more exposure to them. Demanding people get names right that are ambiguous and complex is simply bullying.
Demanding people get names right that are ambiguous and complex
Even short and simple names can be difficult if the combination of phonemes is unfamiliar. My name is straightforward English and only two syllables, but people have lots of trouble spelling it the first time. I'm not offended, only amused.
Leftist woman complains that it is more expensive to live alone than with a partner
Carefully ignoring the significant number of partnerships where only one partner is contributing to the household income.
Posted by: asiaseen | December 27, 2021 at 14:43
I miss the original version of Girls Gone Wild videos. Why must everything turn to shit?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2021/12/26/sit-down-karen-maskless-woman-slaps-man-in-the-face-for-not-wearing-mask-on-plane-n1544547
Posted by: WTP | December 27, 2021 at 15:16
You only need to wash your jeans once a month, experts say.
I hate to think what people would smell like if they only washed their jeans once a month.
This should remind us that "expert" is almost always a euphemism for "propagandist".
the high-security wing of transgender TikTok
Actual lol
Posted by: sH2 | December 27, 2021 at 16:00
Think about your household's monthly expenses. There are the big-ticket items — your rent or mortgage, your health care, maybe a student loan. Then there's the smaller stuff: the utility bills; the internet and phone bills; Netflix, Hulu, and all your other streaming subscriptions. If you drive a car, there's gas and insurance. If you take the subway, there's a public transit pass. You pay for food, and household items like toilet paper and garbage bags and lightbulbs. You buy furniture and sheets and dishes.
Now imagine paying for all those things completely on your own.
Not toilet paper and light bulbs!
Anne Helen Petersen is an American writer and journalist. She worked as a Senior Culture Writer for BuzzFeed until 2020,when she began writing a newsletter for subscribers at Substack. Petersen has also been published in the opinion section of The New York Times... PhD in media studies in 2011 from the University of Texas at Austin where she studied the history of the gossip industry.
I may have spotted her particular malfunction. Imagine getting a real job.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | December 27, 2021 at 16:44
Only wash Jeans once a month? There was a woman in office near me who apparently did that and she stank with the particular crotch smell that only such a practice could produce. Awful.
A female singer proclaimed some years ago that one only needs a single square of toilet paper to wipe. Besides being TMI, that is absurd.
The Left seems to attract people who want us to live small lives. Small, smelly lives eating bugs and not having AC. WTF
There are also people who view the realities of life such as 2 can live cheaper than 1 (not exactly true but whatevs) or one must work or people are attracted to beautiful girls as conspiracies of the patriarchy or whiteness. Nothing is just what it is.
She takes every bit of actual data she sites and spins it as *proof* that American society is hostile to singles. Even the fact that the absence of dad in the house has real educational and life consequences for the kids is spun as a "if only Government was dad so mom never has one day of economic stress".
All she is arguing about is wanting to be a cosseted child where her own decisions - or even the vagaries of life itself, never cause any negative result. She wants a life of permanent Christmas with Government (and every other taxpayer) is Santa Clause.
Posted by: Darleen | December 27, 2021 at 17:26
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One only needs to look at why perfume was so popular in Europe during the Renaissance era.
I do indeed know what it would be like, chiefly from occasional proximity to "homeless" people and science fiction fans.
As Europe was pulling itself out of the middle ages but streets were still mud and cities dark at night, a book on manners was published (so 1600 or so) featuring advice to please not poop or have sex in the street. The Left wants to revert to that era.
Testing the spam filter.
"...Postdoctoral research fellow at @CDaRE_CU. Dancer. Teacher. Political. Thinker. Anti-racist. Research interests: Dance, disability, interventions, education, arts & politics. She/her. Sussex." (CDaRE_CU = Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University)"
Seriously - what the fuck? What is "dance research," and why on earth would you need a centre for it? In particular, why would the world's 601st to 800th greatest university (I looked it up) need one? Who will ever refer to or rely on any of her 'research?' This is simply the useless being hired by the incompetent (and all on your dime, or... pence, bob?), isn't it?
Posted by: dcardno | December 27, 2021 at 18:53
A one-two punch: Chicago cop: "The Red Line is starting to smell like a meth lab."
Bank refuses to cash paycheck, says city of Chicago has insufficient funds.
Seriously - what the fuck? What is "dance research"
Amazingly, there are academics who actually claim that the "research" is at least as important as the topic being researched. Watch them melt down when you laugh and tell them that dance is more important than academic papers on dance, literature is more important than literary criticism, art is more important than art criticism, and so on.
You are lucky, wellwalla, that I left my bat'leth in my other X-wing.
Posted by: semi retired conservative | December 27, 2021 at 19:10
If I ever go to another science fiction convention, I will bring a respirator. :-D
It wants to let the world know that it's a deeply caring person:
https://twitter.com/Transanimals3/status/1474677308866928644
Posted by: Captain Nemo | December 27, 2021 at 19:32
The Left wants to revert to that era.
As usual, San Francisco is already there.
Missed the premier of this.
Should comments of a favourable kind prove unavoidable, they should instead be directed towards said person's shoes.
"Oh how wonderful! You can see your shoes!"
Posted by: aelfheld | December 27, 2021 at 20:02
A deeply caring person
And yet we're the ones warned by Twitter: "Don't forget the human behind the screen."
Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet | December 27, 2021 at 20:05
I hadn't realised it was "puritanical" to not be enthused by the sight of drug dealers shagging junkies on the kerb, in broad daylight, where children can see.
San Francisco is already there.
Related: https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/1475143652942893056
Vancouver is already there as well (scroll down on this tweet). Likely most other places. But let's recognize that SF simply led the way.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FineTunedFoto/status/1422667387573207041
Leftist woman complains that it is more expensive to live alone than with a partner.
The author provides two solutions to her problems: stop thinking about marriage as something desirable and, of course, more government spending.
For the Progressives, there are no adult problems that cannot be solved by making other adults carry your burdens.
Posted by: Dan C | December 27, 2021 at 21:36
PhD in Animal gender studies.
A diploma mill, and/or the longest way to say "Two" known to man.
Atlanta, which used to advertise itself as "the city too busy to hate".
Atlanta: 4 motorcyclists driving with extreme recklessness on freeway; 2 die in crash. Much sympathy in Twitter comments, but I cannot forget that if anyone were to admonish them for their recklessness they would risk a beatdown that would put them in the hospital or even the graveyard. Perhaps it is time for our society to discourage sympathy for sociopaths, psychopaths, and other enemies.
Vancouver is already there as well...
Vancouver has long held the conceit that it is the 'San Francisco of Canada.' Maybe some truth to it - maybe the bridge, maybe the hippies; at one time it was a proud boast, but it's lately a matter of shame.
Children with learning disabilities offered 'do not resuscitate' orders during Covid pandemic
A minor cold snap in western Canada. (Global warming dontcha know.)
A song for my western brothers to celebrate.
Posted by: Steve E | December 28, 2021 at 01:35
But but but, Government-run healthcare is SO MUCH more humane and caring than those dirty, filthy, running-dog capitalist medical doctors and nurses.
That's a lot of cray-cray.
*hits tip jar*
Posted by: H | December 28, 2021 at 07:45
Bless you, sir. In the heat of intergalactic warfare, with atomic missiles incoming and supernovae imminent, may you master a grip that works while gaming on a tablet.
Which is why it is necessary for government to control everything: Independent private practices must be eliminated so that all doctors are part of large organizations and those organizations implement whatever policies government demands. Because doctors are incompetent to make medical decisions; only bureaucrats and political commissars know what is right and good.
Intrigue detected.
I looked at my class roster and saw last name "Ng". I asked the student how to pronounce it. He told me, but I think I still got it wrong. Thank goodness this happened in pre-woke times.
Come to find out, there are several correct pronunciations of Ng depending on dialect. So I might have pronounced it correctly in one dialect, but offended a listener familiar with another. Thank goodness this happened in pre-woke times.
What about cases where someone pronounces the name correctly but misspells it? McDonald v MacDonald, or McIntosh v Mackintosh?
Posted by: Joe | December 28, 2021 at 12:46
Thank goodness this happened in pre-woke times.
The supposed agonies of misspelled or mispronounced names have cropped up here once or twice before. With exquisitely sensitive ladies invoking Alex Haley's slavery novel Roots as a guide to their own suffering.
As noted previously, the matriarch of the local Chinese takeaway has been mangling my surname for two decades. I suppose I should barge in there, shout about feeling "invalidated," and shake her by the elbows.
Poor thing.
If you're cold, they're cold. Bring them inside and warm them up.
I suppose I should barge in there, shout about feeling "invalidated," and shake her by the elbows.
My usual reaction is to laugh, and ask "What are the most amusing mispronunciations that we Americans make, and what makes them funny? Do they just sound funny, or do they sound like wildly inappropriate words? And by the way, have you seen Monty Python's Bulgarian Phrase Book sketch?"
My usual reaction is to laugh,
It's not a hill to die on, that's for sure. And yet…
Oddly enough, the howling ladies linked above - for whom, an accidental misspelling of a phonetically unobvious foreign name amounts to a racist "attack" – don't tell us whether they're suitably punctilious in their pronunciation and spelling of strangers' names, lest they inflict the same alleged emotional scarring and feelings of being oppressed. In fact, it's curious just how rarely any mention of reciprocation crops up, even as a hypothetical possibility.
In fact, it's curious just how rarely any mention of reciprocation crops up, even as a hypothetical possibility.
Indeed. A general characteristic of the left.
Breaking: First images received from James Webb telescope:
Why are these killers never symphony violinists? It's a mystery.
Call me Doctor Dance,
Even by todays standards her CV is remarkable, but not in a good way, including as it does numerous qualifications and appointments at the following renowned and long-established seats of learning:-
Roehampton University
University of Winchester
And to cap it all:-
Bird College (you know, the one in Sidcup).
Posted by: John | December 28, 2021 at 14:25
Why are these killers never symphony violinists? It's a mystery
Because violins are part of the problem.
Also sax.
Why are these killers never symphony violinists?
Because classical music is racist.
Come to find out, there are several correct pronunciations of Ng depending on dialect. So I might have pronounced it correctly in one dialect, but offended a listener familiar with another.
And some pronunciations might include sounds that aren't in your phonetic repertoire, so you'll have to learn the phonetic systems of the ancestral languages of each of your students.
We're being reciprocal in our principles, so naturally every non-English speaking immigrant will be expected to correctly pronounce obscure Anglo names like Smith. Anyone who pronounces it Smeet or Smeefe will fail the oral test, but that could never happen because the theme is that it's only stupid monolingual Anglos who mispronounce things.
Our principles should be backdated, with the descendants of Ellis Island immigrants having their old-country pronunciations restored. We should fly German phoneticians into Ohio to start healing the multigenerational trauma of the lost umlaut in the Schroeder family.
I've noticed an ostentatious effort to pronounce Hispanic names, for example by soccer commentators. Ellis Island names are just say what you see; post-1965 immigrants with Bhutanese or Ethiopian names they have no chance with; but with a bit of high school Spanish and chit-chatting with the man who does the trabajo in the yard, they can really learn how to rev-up the r sound in Hernandez.
Posted by: tob | December 28, 2021 at 17:46
Via the Ace of Spades blog: The average quality of the information in a social network is inversely proportional to the square of the size of the network.
I've noticed an ostentatious effort to pronounce Hispanic names, for example by soccer commentators.
Some classical music radio hosts are guilty, too.
The average quality of the information in a social network is inversely proportional to the square of the size of the network.
Again, the fault lies not in our apps, nor in our social media, nor in our politicians, nor our guns, etc. etc. etc. but in ourselves. The specific problem here is that technology has advanced much faster than our ability to adjust our filters. The one exception to my point is that technology in general is accelerating much faster than any human society that has ever existed could possibly adjust. But even that is our own fault. Not so much because we "let" technology advance so rapidly but because we fail miserably to see and/or acknowledge this obvious reality. And blaming the tech for our failures eclipses our ability to see the root problem.
Having a chip on your shoulder about everything (name pronunciation, holding doors open, wood paneling, the "male gaze", imaginary nooses) is an example of what Thomas Sowell called Honor Culture where you are ready to fight to defend your honor or reputation. It is conducive to duels, feuds, and fistfights. It does not fit well with urban living or peaceful coexistence. In the context of two guys in person it at least has an internal logic. On the internet you are demanding that the whole world back down and say sorry for offending you or else...or else what?
Having a chip on your shoulder...is an example of what Thomas Sowell called Honor Culture
Is that from his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals?
...so naturally every non-English speaking immigrant will be expected to correctly pronounce obscure Anglo names like Smith.
Exceptions will be made for sexy Eastern European girls, yes?
I've noticed an ostentatious effort to pronounce Hispanic names...
El Nino!
....what Thomas Sowell called Honor Culture...
I consider "shame culture" the more accurate term, and have harped on before about both its pathological nature and the Left's fixation with turning the West into such a culture.
But here is a handy chart:
https://q.publicintelligence.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/guilt-shame.png
Note that it does cover such specific perversities as "if I and others pretend hard enough that you are guilty, even when we know you aren't, then you are" or "I am not shamed if I pretend hard enough that I am not guilty of what I did". Ditto the zero-sum game of "honor" being most readily gained by achieving the humiliation of another.
If multikulti trainers were really dedicated to the premise that there are multiple kultis instead of believing that everyone in the world is just a Western progressive with an exotic cuisine that whitebread whites irrationally hate, then this is the sort of material they'd be teaching.
Perhaps conscience culture is a better name than guilt culture: feeling bad even if you've gotten away with something, feeling secure about doing the right thing against social pressure, being able to respect an opponent's position if it appears to be conscientiously taken, appealing to an opponent's conscience if you believe him to have moral reservations about his position. It's a cultural package for conflict de-escalation and for things to be done right without having to be explicitly negotiated or micromanaged.
Posted by: Amboy | December 28, 2021 at 21:16
Today In Racism™: the song "Jingle Bells".
Rioux told the Beacon that some people "suggest that the use of collars on slaves with bells to send an alert that they were running away is connected to the origin of the song 'Jingle Bells.'"
"Bells on bob tail ring" - how the hell these dolts turn a horse into a runaway slave is beyond bizarre. This is what happens when you get rid of mental institutions.
Pathological leftism again: Imagine putting yourself in this comic and thinking you're the good person.
And it seems she did a previous comic about the joys of shoplifting.
Miserable lefty New York yenta writes a New Yorktimes column to warn every man in the world to stay away from her, much less marry her.
Slaves did not wear collars with bells. That is stupid. It is part of the "not enough real racism so let's make some up" trend. Like the rope to close a garage door in chicago being a noose. riiiight. or the banana peel hanging in a tree being racist.
And how does a ride to grandmas in a sleigh become slaves running away? How does this cretin explain the rest of the song? argh
https://thetakeout.com/what-forbidden-snacks-make-your-mouth-water-1848248157
In which progressives share their need to eat sand, Tide Pods and anti-freeze.
Wish a few more of them would try the last one...
Continuing the quote:
Rioux added that the school was "not taking a stance" about the lyric's meanings, but "we do feel strongly that this line of thinking is not in agreement with our district beliefs to value all cultures and experiences of our students."
So the school refuses to "take a stance" for truth against lies, and professes to "value the culture" of the most contemptibly ignorant and stupid people. Well, it is a public school...
Is this an example of a currently fashionable pathology, or is it satirizing that pathology?
Photoshopped insanity? No, here is the original post, in which a Wise Black Woman Goddess explains things to us: "The original Japanese & Chinese people were black. It wasnt until Ghenkiskan came around & spread his genetics that the slanted eyes became more prevalent.
Asian is a racial slur.
The term Asian should be banned, the correct term is aborigines.
Wow I miss Pangea so much."
I suspect that her unconventional spelling of Genghis Khan is a clue to where she gets her "knowledge".
Also, This agricultural/nutritional 'wisdom'.
I used to see a lot of weird stuff when I occasionally visited afro-centric bookstores, but I get the impression that things have gotten a lot crazier recently.
I think she was hangry when she wrote that. She was thinking gherkin and Genghis Khan at the same time.
Hangry for brains?
This agricultural/nutritional 'wisdom'.
Maybe I need new glasses*, I read that as semen not saliva.
* or perhaps a new brain
I've noticed an ostentatious effort to pronounce Hispanic names
The death of Col Gadafi was a great time if you regard the above as entertainment. Up to the time of his removal from power and death, I think he was always referred to in the Anglosphere as Col Gadafy/ Gadafi, and his name was pronounced as any English speaker would read Gadafy.
Then the media had a bout of competitive authenticity regarding his name, with a profusion of alternative, throat-clearing pronunciations and spelling.
When the great unwashed raised an eyebrow at this ostentatious display of affectation, we were informed that the matter was complicated - but not why each paper seemed to think it necessary to change its house style in the matter almost in unison
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/gadafy-gaddafi-or-kadafi-a-matter-of-style-1.579659
Posted by: a different james | December 29, 2021 at 09:39
Ms Amber Leventry, a "queer person and educator," managed to be outraged by the fact that she had been asked not to swear and scream in the workplace.
I think I've figured out why she's so angry. :-)
Posted by: Mike | December 29, 2021 at 09:56
I think I've figured out why she's so angry. :-)
Well, there is, shall we say, some doubt as to whether Ms Leventry's issues are the ones she says they are. And I'm not sure that a person with serious mental health problems, and drinking problems, and anger-management problems, such that meltdowns are pretty much a signature of her presence, is someone best placed to dish out lifestyle advice.
And how does a ride to grandmas in a sleigh become slaves running away?
Well, you have to admit that you could rhyme those two phrases fairly easily, so doing so would make it true for the First Order Thinkers and their faith in sloganeering and alliteration.
ostentatious display of affectation
Oooh, that's a good descriptor.
Well, you have to admit that you could rhyme those two phrases fairly easily
Jingle bells, urban hells, murder all the way.
Oh what fun it is live in a diverse hood today.
I should write a biography and title it Nine Neuroses in Amber.
Back in the sixties, there were black kids in my (Diverse Urban™) school who were offended by Irving Berlin's "White Christmas". Shrug.
Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University
Prize for the most joyless use of the word "dance" in the history of English.
Posted by: Thon Brocket | December 29, 2021 at 12:00
Yes. But have you noticed how professors who "study" the arts so often take all the joy and pleasure out of them?
In February, we beheld the chutzpah of our new downtrodden elite at the United Nations International School
And thus we see how children are trained to become monsters that no sane society should tolerate. Just one of the ways that we have come to be ruled by "elites" that should be treated with the greatest contempt and intolerance.
Following the links above, I came to this post from April.
It was indeed satisfying to hear the would-be carjacker squeal like a pig when his victim body-slammed him into the pavement.
However, it's a shame that his victim then allowed him to run away rather than detain him and call the police.
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The governor of Maryland announced on Friday that he will allow a bill to create a state fund to provide "cost-free" access to psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA and ketamine for military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury to take effect without his signature.
The measure from Sen. Sarah Elfreth (D) passed unanimously through both legislative chambers before being sent to Gov. Larry Hogan (R).
Rather than sign it into law or veto it, however, Hogan included the legislation in a list of measures that will be enacted without his proactive support.
That's similar to what he did last month when he allowed a separate piece of marijuana legislation become law without his signature. That bill creates initial rules for an adult-use legalization program if voters approve the reform at the ballot, which they will have the chance to do this November under a different measure that was enacted by the legislature this session.
The psychedelics bill, meanwhile, will establish what's being called the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury Alternative Therapies Fund. It stipulates that money from that fund must be used to study "the use of alternative therapies for veterans with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries."
In March, the House Appropriations Committee also considered nearly identical companion legislation sponsored by Del. Seth Howard (R). Members at the time adopted several amendments to more closely align the legislation in both chambers. It also passed in the House on second reading, but it is not the vehicle for the reform because it didn't advance through its chamber of origin ahead of the crossover deadline.
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The Senate bill that Hogan is allowing to become law will provide "cost-free access" to psychedelics for eligible veterans.
The state Department of Health will be required to "periodically" consult with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, Sheppard Pratt hospital, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and BrainFutures.
The purpose of the partnerships are meant to determine the "effectiveness of and a method for improving access to alternative therapies for treating" PTSD and traumatic brain injury in veterans. They will also consult on "appropriate uses of the fund that further the fund's purpose."
The department will need to first submit a report to the governor and legislation with "initial findings and recommendations" by December 1, 2022. Two years later, there's another deadline for findings and recommendations that are based on studies that were specifically funded through the PTSD fund.
The recommendations will focus on "budgetary, legislative, or regulatory changes to expand access to alternative therapies for veterans with post–traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries," the bill text states.
For fiscal year 2024, the bill calls for the governor to include $1 million in an annual budget bill for the fund.
Maryland is one of numerous states where psychedelics reform is being taken up this session.
For instance, Colorado activists are working to place competing initiatives to legalize psychedelics on the state's November ballot, with one campaign saying recently that it's already collected nearly half of the required signatures needed to qualify its measure.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) was recently asked about the prospects of enacting psychedelics reform in the state, and he acknowledged that advocates are working to accomplish that policy change at the ballot and also said he supports the idea of decriminalizing the substances.
He will also have a chance to sign a more modest psychedelics reform bill into law after the legislature sent him a measure to align state statute to legalize MDMA prescriptions if and when the federal government ultimately permits such use.
The governor of Connecticut recently signed a large-scale budget bill that includes provisions to set the state up to provide certain patients with access to psychedelic-assisted treatment using substances like MDMA and psilocybin.
The Maine Senate approved a bill last month to to create a medical psilocybin program in the state, but the House of Representatives refused to go along.
Also this year, Georgia lawmakers advanced a bipartisan resolution that calls for the formation of a House study committee to investigate the therapeutic potential of psychedelics like psilocybin and make recommendations for reforms.
The governor of Utah signed a bill in March to create a task force to study and make recommendations on the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs and possible regulations for their lawful use.
A Missouri House committee also held a hearing that month on a GOP-led bill to legalize a wide range of psychedelics for therapeutic use at designated care facilities while further decriminalizing low-level possession in general.
The Washington State legislature recently sent a budget bill to the governor's desk that includes a proposal to direct $200,000 in funding to support a new workgroup to study the possibility of legalizing psilocybin services in the state, including the idea of using current marijuana regulatory systems to track psychedelic mushrooms.
In March, the Hawaii Senate approved a bill to set up a state working group to study the therapeutic benefits of psilocybin mushrooms and develop a "long-term" plan to ensure that the psychedelic is accessible for medical use for adults 21 and older.
Also that month, the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill to decriminalize low-level possession of psilocybin and promote research into the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic.
Rhode Island lawmakers introduced a pair of drug decriminalization bills in March—including one focused on psilocybin and buprenorphine that would authorize doctors to prescribe the psychedelic mushroom.
An Oregon Senate committee also recently advanced a bill to ensure that equity is built into the state's historic therapeutic psilocybin program that's actively being implemented following voter approval in 2020.
A bill to decriminalize a wide array of psychedelics in Virginia was taken up by a House of Delegates panel in January, only to be pushed off until 2023. A separate Senate proposal to decriminalize psilocybin alone was later defeated in a key committee.
California Sen. Scott Wiener (D) told Marijuana Moment in a recent interview that his bill to legalize psychedelics possession stands a 50/50 chance of reaching the governor's desk this year. It already cleared the full Senate and two Assembly committees during the first half of the two-year session.
Meanwhile, a Pennsylvania bill meant to promote research into the therapeutic potential of psilocybin mushrooms for certain mental health conditions may be in jeopardy, with the sponsor saying that the chair of a key House committee is expressing reservations even after the legislation was amended in an effort to build support.
New Hampshire lawmakers filed measures to decriminalize psilocybin and all drugs.
Legislation was also enacted by the Texas legislature last year requiring the state to study the medical risks and benefits of psilocybin, MDMA and ketamine for military veterans in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine and a military-focused medical center.
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Сти́вен Ли (, род. 12 октября 1974 года) — английский профессиональный игрок в снукер. Победитель пяти рейтинговых турниров и полуфиналист чемпионата мира 2003 года.

На слушаниях WPBSA 24 сентября 2013 было утверждено решение, согласно которому Стивен Ли отстранялся от участия в турнирах на 12 лет до 12 октября 2024 и подвергался штрафу в £40.000.

Карьера
Стивен Ли стал профессионалом в 1992 году, наряду с Ронни О'Салливаном, Джоном Хиггинсом и Марком Уильямсом.  В свой дебютный сезон он сумел поставить рекорд, пройдя 33 квалификационных матча подряд. Это же достижение помогло Ли попасть в 1/4 финала на турнире European Open. Однако на чемпионат мира он не пробился, и поэтому по итогам сезона занял всего 101-ю позицию в рейтинге (для сравнения — О'Салливан стал 57-м).

Во втором сезоне Ли показал себя более уверенно, выйдя снова в четвертьфинал рейтингового соревнования (Гран-при), а также ещё в несколько ТВ-раундов других турниров. 1/16 финала чемпионата мира стала для него снова недостижимой целью, но Ли прогрессировал и стал 40-м.

В сезоне 1994/1995 англичанин не сумел добиться значимых результатов. Он несколько раз выходил в основные стадии рейтинговых турниров и, наконец, попал в основную сетку чемпионата мира, но уступил в первом круге Найджелу Бонду. В рейтинге поднялся только на 3 строчки.

Ли стал играть лучше в следующем сезоне. Он дошёл до четвертьфинала на International Open и ещё трижды был в 1/8 других соревнований. Несмотря на проигрыш на ранних стадиях квалификации к ЧМ, Ли занял 31-е место в рейтинге, что освобождало его от прохождения квалификации на большинство турниров. В следующем сезоне два четвертьфинала и 1/8 на чемпионате мира в Крусибле были очень хорошими результатами для Ли. Впервые за свою карьеру он попал в Топ-16 официального рейтинга.

В 1997 году Ли вышел в полуфинал второго по важности турнира — чемпионата Великобритании, а в другой половине сезона, в 1998 — в ту же стадию Scottish Open. В обоих случаях он проиграл Ронни О'Салливану. Тем не менее, во всех остальных турнирах он всегда проходил первый раунд, и это помогло ему закрепиться в Топ-16.

На первом же турнире сезона 1998/99 Стивен Ли показал, возможно, свою лучшую игру, когда с лёгкостью дошёл до финала, и так же легко, как и в предыдущих матчах, победил дебютанта мэйн-тура Марко Фу 9:2. Ли досталась не самая сложная сетка, тем не менее, он подтвердил свой статус одного из сильнейших снукеристов на двух следующих турнирах, выйдя в обоих случаях  Дальнейшему продвижению помешала травма шеи, из-за которой он пропустил British Open. В том сезоне Ли установил свою высшую планку на чемпионате мира, когда дошёл до четвертьфинала. За несколько недель до этого он мог стать победителем нерейтингового турнира Irish Masters, ведя в финале со Стивеном Хендри 8:4. Но шотландец не оставил шансов Ли в конце поединка, выиграв 5 партий кряду. По итогам сезона Ли стал шестым.

Следующий сезон снова начался хорошо. Ли выиграл пригласительный турнир Кубок Тысячелетия в Гонконге, в финале победив 7:2 О'Салливана. В рейтинговых же турнирах Ли два раза проигрывал в финале на Welsh Open и China Open. Ещё один полуфинал и два четвертьфинала подняли его на пятую, высшую для него строчку по итогам сезона, хотя ему вновь пришлось сняться с ещё одного турнира. В том же году Ли в составе сборной Англии выиграл Кубок наций, переиграв в финале сборную

 В результате он опустился до 8-го места.  — одним из примеров стал матч с Питером Эбдоном на чемпионате мира, который Ли проиграл 12:13.

В сезоне 2001/02 он исправил ситуацию, заработав больше рейтинговых очков, чем кто-либо. Он выиграл LG Cup в Престоне, уверенно  Эбдона, а также Scottish Open в Абердине,  Дэвида Грэя. Некоторое время он даже занимал первое место в предварительном рейтинге.

Затем в игре англичанина настал новый спад. Он продолжался несколько сезонов, в течение которых Ли часто проигрывал в первом же матче. Позже он признавался в интервью, что его ужасно угнетало то, что он столько напряженно тренировался только для проигрыша в первом матче. В 2003 году Ли всё-таки добился лучшего для себя результата, когда дошёл до полуфинала чемпионата мира.

Спад закончился в сезоне 2005/2006, когда Ли вышел в финал Welsh Open и уверенно победил действующего чемпиона мира  Это означало, что выбывание по итогам сезона из Топ-16 ему не угрожает. И хотя на очередном чемпионате мира он дошёл всего  по итогам сезона он

В сезоне 2006/2007 Стивен Ли дошёл до полуфинала на турнире в Северной Ирландии, проиграв будущему чемпиону — Дин Цзюньхуэю. Но прочие выступления в сезоне оказались недостаточно хорошими, и, как результат, рейтинг Ли упал до  Улучшения не последовали и в следующем сезоне: финал на Мастерс, в котором Ли проиграл Марку Селби 3:10, не мог улучшить его рейтинг. Более того, Ли усложнил своё положение, поскольку завершил сезон на  в рейтинге снукеристов.

Стивен Ли начал сезон 2008/2009 довольно неплохо, выйдя в четвертьфиналы двух турниров. Кроме того, в этом году он сделал лучший брейк в своей карьере — 145 очков. Но теперь ему приходилось проходить квалификацию на некоторые соревнования, и это осложняло восстановление формы. По итогам сезона он стал 25-м, а позже, в 2010 году — 23-м. В сезоне 2009/10 главным достижением Ли стала  чемпионата Великобритании.

В сезон 2010/2011 Ли выиграл 4-й этап низкорейтинговой серии турниров Players Tour Championship, а также дважды достигал четвертьфиналов рейтинговых соревнований. На одном из них (China Open 2011) Ли сумел выиграть матч до 5 побед (счёт 5:4) после того, как его соперник, Марк Уильямс, сделал 4 сенчури-брейка по ходу игры.

На чемпионате мира 2011 года Ли проиграл в 1/16-й, и занял 18 место в рейтинге.

12 октября 2012 года Стивену Ли было запрещено участвовать в снукерных турнирах в связи с подозрениями в участии в договорных поединках. 24 сентября 2013 года Международная федерация бильярда дисквалифицировала Ли на 12 лет, что в его случае означает конец карьере. 38-летний спортсмен был признан виновным в участии в семи договорных матчах в 2008 и 2009 годах. Также он должен заплатить штраф в размере 46 тысяч евро. Санкции вступили в силу с 12 октября 2012 года.

Достижения в карьере

Рейтинговые турниры
 Гран-при — 1998, 2001
 Scottish Open — 2002
 Welsh Open — 2006
 Финал Players Tour Championship 2011/2012

Низкорейтинговые турниры
 Euro Players Tour Championship 2010/2011 – Этап 4

Другие турниры
 Кубок наций (в составе сборной Англии) — 2000
 Millennium Cup — 1999
 General Cup International — 2011

Места в мировой табели о рангах

Примечания

Ссылки
 Профиль на Top-Snooker
 Профиль на Sports

Снукеристы Англии
Снукеристы, набравшие 100 и более сенчури-брейков

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The Uniform Power of Attorney Act takes effect this weekend (October 1, 2011), and it clarifies existing law governing the use of powers of attorney while also creating additional obligations and duties on both the users and recipients of these instruments. The new law only applies to powers created by individuals and does not impact powers issued by corporate or other types of entities. It does, nevertheless, apply to both durable and non-durable powers. Any power which was properly executed prior to the effective date of the new law remains valid, but it will be subject to use and acceptance in accordance with the revised act after October 1. Any power executed in another jurisdiction is valid in Florida, even if it does not comply with the requirements of the revised act, as long as it was properly executed in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction where its was executed. So, some legal research may now be required in the use of foreign powers.
A change under the new act is that in the event that the power names more than one agent, each agent may act independently of the other. Under existing law, both agents had to exercise the authority jointly. Also, an agent may only exercise whatever authority is specifically granted by the language of the power. The agent also has implied authority to do whatever is necessary to give effect to any express grant of authority.
Another change in the revised act addresses the obligation of a third party receiving a request to accept a document or accept some action undertaken by an agent under a power of attorney. After October 1, 2011, a third party must accept or reject a power within a reasonable period of time. If the power is rejected, the third party must give specific reasons for the rejection in writing. The revised statute sets forth specific grounds under which a power may be rejected, and it also allows the third party to request an opinion of counsel from the agent, at the agent's cost, verifying the validity of the power. The refusal by an agent to provide an opinion of counsel is one of the valid grounds for rejection outlined in the revised statute.
One final curious change is that the revised statute now codifies that if the third party improperly rejects the power, the third party may be liable for damages suffered by the agent and its principal.
With all of these changes, the Uniform Power of Attorney Act certainly has a significant impact on how a power is used in real estate transactions in the state. Our South Florida real estate lawyers will continue to monitor and write about pressing issues affecting commercial and residential real estate in the state, and we encourage industry followers to submit their e-mail address in the subscription box on the right in order to automatically receive all of our future articles.


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Halle attack one year on: 'We mourn, but as we mourn, we need to create'
פורסם ע"ימתי שמואלוף 19 באוקטובר 2020 פורסם בכלליתגים: base berlin, Berlin, Germany, halle, jewish life, PLUS61J, terror
"When I arrived at the festival in Gleisdreieck Park, I saw the beautifully decorated sukkah they had built."
MATI SHEMOELOF talks to Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz, a victim of the synagogue shooting, about the Sukkot Resilience Festival he organised to overcome the trauma of the attack.
JUST OVER A YEAR AGO, an international group of Jewish young adults living in Berlin travelled to the small German city of Halle to visit its Jewish community for Yom Kippur. Their aim, organised by Hillel International's Base Berlin project for Jewish young adults, was to bring the spirit of young Berlin to a synagogue with an older, mostly Russian-speaking community, and to build bridges in the German Jewish community.
I was attending the Yom Kippur service at Berlin's Fraenkelufer synagogue when I was told of the terror attack on the Halle synagogue. A synagogue shooting in Germany after the Holocaust?! I knew people in the group that had travelled to Halle.
Fortunately, no one was hurt in the synagogue attack but the shooter later killed two people.
During his trial last month, we learned he had anti-Semitic, racist, and xenophobic motivations; he went to Halle with homemade guns and grenades with the intention of murdering everyone inside the synagogue.
One year later, Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz (one of the founders of Base Hillel Centre in Berlin), organised a Sukkot Resilience festival, in the centre of Berlin, as part as an effort to heal both those who live in Halle and those who came from Berlin. Rabbi Borovitz had been in Halle with his wife and their daughter, standing with 40 other people inside the synagogue, praying the door would not give in to the attacker. That awful event changed his life.
The festival is also Rabbi Borovitz's way of healing from the trauma of the attack and processing the enduring presence of right-wing prejudice in Germany. It's important to mark anniversaries and milestones along the way, he tells me.
Therefore, the festival has to take place with the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, to mark one year's passing of time. The festival lasts three days in the Hebrew calendar month of Tishrei with an opening ceremony, a party, and a story-telling event which has two people who were there, and two people who weren't.
When I arrived at the festival in Gleisdreieck Park, I saw the beautifully decorated sukkah they had built. A DJ was playing Jewish music from East and West; they served vegan and non-vegan food of hotdogs and cabbage salad with chips. A police car was parked nearby, a reminder that a Jewish man on his way to celebrate Sukkot at a synagogue in Hamburg had suffered serious head injuries when attacked with a spade by a man dressed in camouflage gear. The attacker had a hand-drawn swastika in his pocket.
Still, the show must go on. We can't stop because of crazy, extreme right-wingers. Rabbi Borovitz said his life and German Jewish life would never be the same. So, resilience doesn't mean going back to normal. It means going through the difficult moments. And what he wants more than anything is that Jews in Germany will not be defined by the terror attack in Halle and the anti-Semitism that fuelled it.Germans leave flowers at a memorial of solidarity after the Halle attack in October 2019
"We are defined by the fact that we build a sukkah on the middle of the city of Berlin. Where east and west used to meet and where there was a wall between them. For me that is the story."
Rabbi Borovitz is one of 43 co-plaintiffs in the trial against the Halle shooter. In an earlier interview, he gave a detailed account of how it felt to be inside the synagogue while the terrorist was outside shooting at the synagogue doors.
He had a breakdown after the attack and sought therapy. "I have been working through a lot of stuff. I am seeing a psychologist. It was a difficult thing for me personally and professionally; you can see the police outside our Resilience festival. And every time we have a public event now, we've got security because we have to."
Jewish resilience, from the Borovitz point of view, is about building. He tells the story from the Talmud about Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, who escaped from Jerusalem as it was being destroyed. The rabbi did not say, "Oh no, it is terrible," but instead, said to Vespasian, the Roman military commander, "Give me Yavneh and its Sages and don't destroy her".
His face is filled with light as he explains that in the face of tragedy we build, we create. We mourn, but while we mourn, we need to create.
Rabbi Borovitz immigrated from the US a year and half ago with his wife, Rabbi Rebecca Blady, a co-founder, and Executive Director of Base Hillel Berlin. He was raised in New York in a family originally from Ukraine and Poland; his wife's relatives are all Holocaust survivors.
Part of the healing process was to hold the Yom Kippur service this year inside a refuge centre in downtown Neukölln, with Syrian and Muslim refugees, other potential targets of the terrorist. "Yom Kippur last year was difficult and horrible. And this year Yom Kippur was the most beautiful I had in my life," he says. "They were so hospitable to us."
The column was first published on Plus61J
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