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Robert Ferrara (center) with fellow North Castle police officers at Ground Zero on Sept. 12, 2001
The Cop Who Became a Property Manager
By Bill Morris
This article is part of our occasional series, "The Previous Lives of Property Managers."
Like many property managers, Robert Ferrara came into the profession through the back door. Growing up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where his father was a mechanic and his mom was a homemaker, Ferrara dreamed of being a cop. His mother didn't try to dissuade him, but she insisted he get a college education. The boy, who was never afraid of work, decided to do both. While studying accounting at Queens College in the late 1980s, Ferrara joined the New York Police Department's cadet program and somehow found time to volunteer in the ambulance corps in Rockaway Beach and also work part-time at an accounting firm, where he handled the books of several co-ops and condominiums. As it turned out, a career in the NYPD was not in the cards.
"I saw a good opportunity and I grabbed onto it, and I'm glad I did," Ferrara says about taking a job with the North Castle police force in Westchester County after earning his college degree. For the next 23 years he worked his way through the ranks in the hamlet nestled against the Connecticut state line – as a patrolman, on the scuba unit, as an emergency medical technician, finally retiring in 2014 as a sergeant. All along, he was picking up skills that would serve him well in the next chapter of his life.
"In law enforcement, you're constantly mediating disputes and negotiating," says Ferrara, 49, a gregarious bear of a man with salt-and-pepper hair and moustache. "Doing that for 23 years, I learned to listen, and it's very important to listen as a property manager."
His four-days-on, three-days-off police shifts offered him enough free time to moonlight with property management firms, where he handled a couple of properties and learned on the fly. "Just like any other property manager, I did everything – from rooftop to boiler room," Ferrara says. "There was no school for property managers, so you learned by trial and error."
Ferrara married his college sweetheart, Alisa, and together they raised three kids, now in their teens. As they were growing up, Ferrara earned a real estate agent's license, followed by a broker's license. A year before leaving the North Castle police department, Ferrara, no stranger to challenges and hard work, started his own management company with four employees and 13 properties.
"My police work has made a big difference," says Ferrara. "It's been helpful from a security standpoint – hiring personnel, securing properties, setting up surveillance cameras and key fobs. Through law enforcement I also know that you need redundant systems. If there's a snowstorm or a hurricane, my staff can work from home, log in, answer the phone. The other thing law enforcement gave me is the need to document things. When we take over a property, sometimes the documents we receive don't help with the transition. I'm always saying 'documentation, documentation, documentation.'"
In the end, Ferrara says, the essential thing that police work and property management have in common is that both are about service. "Overall, the best thing about police work was helping people," he says. "There's a lot of negative publicity about law enforcement, but police officers, day in and day out, do little things that don't get any publicity. Most police officers really care about public service."
If you doubt him, consider the photograph taken on Sept. 12, 2001 at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, where Ferrara, flanked by fellow North Castle officers, assists in the cleanup from the terrorist attack.
Though those days are in Ferrara's past, the lessons they taught live on. And it shows. From its humble beginnings, the Ferrara Management Group has expanded to 28 employees who handle more than 50 properties sprinkled across Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Westchester County.
"Knock wood," the former police officer says, "we've grown."
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Marking the second anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, the Parish of St Mark, Gonaives has written a letter of thanks to the Diocese of Meath for the support it received. Over € 300,000 was collected by parishes in the Diocese of Meath in 2010.
Among those who receive assistance from this fund is Sister Mary Hardiman, who works at St Mark's Parish in Gonaives, Haiti. Sister Mary's family live in Dunderry, Co. Meath.
Aside from the Earthquake Relief Fund, some parishioners in Mullingar organised a collection of sports kits and sent many of them to young people in Haiti. There was a huge response to the appeal and the Lions Club helped generously with the transport costs.
The photo above shows a local soccer team wearing the jerseys sent from here. The captain's name is George and he too wrote a letter. He explains that his team "St Mark's" took part in a regional championship last year. They made it to the final and they won, 3-2. In the letter, he says "we were overjoyed to win and we received a massive trophy. We were proud to wear the sports kits you sent us from Ireland". And then the letter continues "We have another championship in 2012 and we wonder if there is any chance you could send us some more sports kits".
Another photos shows Sr Mary Hardiman with Captain George holding the winning trophy and wearing a Westmeath jersey.
In some ways, the jerseys are irrelevant. The bigger and more important picture is that, by donating to Trócaire, Irish people contributed €7.58 million to the Haiti relief efforts, half of which came from parish collections. That money was used to provide food to 1.5 million people, healthcare to one million people and shelter to 160,000 people. The jersey project is just a symbol of the solidarity and friendship that exists, born out of tragedy. Once again, people in the Diocese of Meath show themselves to be exceptionally generous and sensitive to the needs of others.


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The writer's trustiest companion is his notebook. Over the years I've become something of an aficionado, and when I occasionally stray from the tried-and-trusted path, I usually regret it. Like this seemingly attractive £2 sale bargain from Sainsbury's (top), which turned out to have a really bad case of bleed through and was abandoned after just six pages.
My preference is for an A5 hardcover (orange if possible) with 90gsm gridded paper. Quo Vadis Havanas are particularly durable and satisfying to write on, and I'm also partial to Rhodia Webnotebooks, which come in a really great dot gridded option. As a work essential that you're going to live with for six or so months, it's worth plumping for something with decent quality paper that can take all kinds of inks and abuse. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of Moleskine notebooks. The best thing about them is the slightly curious name. They seem poorly constructed, and the paper has a grainy quality which pulls the ink away from your writing. Besides, they are a bit too ubiquitous for my liking.
The boast that Moleskines are the "legendary notebook of Hemingway and Bruce Chatwin" is a little misleading too. Chatwin always stocked up before his travels at a stationers in Paris. They were made by a family-run business in Tours, which discontinued production when the owner died in the mid-1980s. In 1997, an Italian company called Modo & Modo decided to revive the design based on Chatwin's description. So actually they are kind of homage rather than the real McCoy. Something they keep conveniently quiet about.


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Tiny silicone spheres come out of the mist
(Nanowerk News) Technology in common household humidifiers could enable the next wave of high-tech medical imaging and targeted medicine, thanks to a new method for making tiny silicone microspheres developed by chemists at the University of Illinois.
Led by chemistry professor Kenneth Suslick, the researchers published their results in the journal Advanced Science ("Magnetic, Fluorescent, and Copolymeric Silicone Microspheres").
Illinois chemists developed a method to make tiny silicone microspheres using misting technology found in household humidifiers. The spheres could have applications in targeted medicine and imaging. (Image: Kenneth Suslick)
Microspheres, tiny spheres as small as a red blood cell, have shown promise as agents for targeted drug delivery to tissues, as contrast agents for medical imaging, and in industrial applications. One prime contender as a material for microspheres is silicone, the rubbery plastic found in everything from bathtub caulk to kitchenware to medical implants, but a method of making silicone into microspheres has eluded scientists.
Silicone owes its versatility to its unique combination of properties: It is biocompatible, heat resistant, chemically stable, waterproof and environmentally benign. Yet some of those same qualities have frustrated researchers attempting to make silicone microspheres. The traditional microsphere-making method of suspending tiny droplets of material in another liquid does not work with silicone.
"For silicone, creating a stable emulsion of small droplets is very difficult," Suslick said. "Even if a stable emulsion is achieved, you run into even bigger problems when it is heated, which is necessary to polymerize into solid spheres. Upon heating, small droplets of silicone starting material will coalesce with other droplets and produce only bigger spheres."
The Illinois team uses a technique called ultrasonic spray pyrolysis, which employs technology found in household humidifiers to create a mist of ultrafine droplets. Suslick's group has pioneered the technique for a variety of materials, and teamed up with U. of I. chemistry professor Catherine Murphy to tackle the problem of silicone. The researchers send a mist containing all the ingredients of silicone through a heated tube, which solidifies the mist into tiny spheres of silicone. Because the droplets are all separate within the mist, they don't stick together like they do in an emulsion, so the resulting microspheres are roughly 100 times smaller than any previously reported.
The researchers made silicone microspheres with a variety of properties for different applications, including colored, fluorescent and magnetic spheres. Because the spheres are bio-inert - they do not react with chemicals in the body - and the researchers believe they would be excellent vessels for extended-release pharmaceuticals. They are also exploring potential applications of solid, hollow and magnetic microspheres.
"The applications for silicone microspheres, to date, have been almost entirely speculative, simply because no one has been able to actually make them," said Jacqueline Rankin, the lead graduate student on this project. "With this new method, silicone microspheres can be easily and readily synthesized, facilitating the exploration of technologies that have only been speculated upon and creating novel technologies and new science in a number of scientific disciplines."
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Dreaming of being more than just an elf at the New York Hall of Science in Queens.
If your Elf has been on the road with you, we would love to see the photos! Post them on our Facebook page, or add them to the #ElfontheRoad streams in Twitter and Instagram. You can also check out the gallery of images from us and the other bloggers on Pinterest.
ALSO, if you've posted a photo of your #ElfontheRoad on your own blog, feel free to include the link to your post below so we can all check out where these restless elves have roamed!
These are really fun! I can't wait to see what else he gets up to.
I love your unnamed elf as an astronaut. Thanks for the idea of traveling with the elf, I love it. I need to remember this hashtag, too.
My best friend from growing up had his wedding in Red Hook last year at The Statue of Liberty warehouse and it was absolutely amazing. Great write up and photos.


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Kit change pushes Chelsea's high flyers to £70 million loss
By David Owen
December 19 – The short-term impact of the early termination of Chelsea's kit deal with Adidas has been made apparent, with the West London club announcing a big net loss of £70.6 million for the year to 30 June 2016.
The figure compared with a loss of £23.1 million for the year-earlier period. With the now once again high-flying club managing only a 10th-place finish in the Premier League, 2015-16 may be regarded as distinctly the worst of the Roman Abramovich era.
Chelsea said that it achieved record revenues of £329.1 million – up 5% – in the year under review, and that it generated a £4.7 million profit before exceptional costs.
Probably the most positive aspect of the figures was strong growth in commercial revenues, attributable to the shirt deal with Yokohama Tyres. More detailed analysis will have to await the arrival of the accounts at Companies House in the New Year.
It was announced in May that Chelsea and Adidas had agreed to end their deal six years early on 30 June 2017. Nike will take over from that point, under an arrangement described as "the largest commercial deal in the club's history".
Reports at the time suggested that Chelsea believed they could get more than the £30 million a year they have been receiving from the German sportswear giant. When unveiled in 2013, the deal with the Blues was said to be the biggest in Premier League history. However, Adidas broke its own record the following year, when it agreed to pay £750 million over 10 years to replace Nike as sponsor of Manchester United – with certain conditions regarding Champions League qualification. The May reports put compensation agreed by Chelsea at around £40 million.
The club said it expected the new Premier League TV deals to push 2016-17 revenues to another record high, in spite of this season's absence of European football.
According to Bruce Buck, chairman, the fact that the club recorded its highest revenues in a season when on-pitch performance was disappointing was "a credit to our hard-working, dedicated staff and the robust business they have helped build".
"It has long been our aim for the business to be stable independent of the team's results and we continue to reinforce that," Buck said.
One marked contrast with the statement released at the corresponding juncture last year was the complete absence of any reference to Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations.
Last year, FFP was referenced five times in a little more than 400 words, including once in the headline, with the club emphasising that, notwithstanding the loss, breakeven under FFP had been achieved.
With no European football, it is perhaps understandable if FFP is seen as less of a priority in the club's public messaging this time around, although Insideworldfootball understands that the club expects to continue to comply with FFP criteria.
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Taking stock of the 15th FMB: Exhibitors full of praise for the large number and high quality of the contacts
Satisfaction among the trade visitors, exhibitors and organisers: This is, in a nutshell, the summary of the 15th FMB – the supplier show for mechanical engineering, which took place in Bad Salzuflen from 6th to 8th November. There were precisely 555 exhibitors at the event, with both halls being filled right down to the last square metre. And both the exhibitors surveyed by the organisers of the show as well as the visitors confirmed that their expectations were more than satisfied. Christian Enßle, Head of the Cluster FMB of Easyfairs: "The unanimous feedback provided by the exhibitors: The quality of the discussions is very high. Buyers, directors and design engineers come to the FMB with very specific projects in mind. And many exhibitors reported that the quantity of the contacts was also at an extremely high level."
In doing so, the FMB once more demonstrates its reputation as an information platform for mechanical engineering. As shown by the many participants in the programme of lectures, information providing a deeper insight into the topics is also in demand. This year the content of the theme days focused on corrective maintenance of the future and digitalisation in practical applications. On the third day of the show, the programme of lectures was presented by the Leading-edge Cluster Intelligente Technische Systeme – it´s OWL. The cluster also showcased innovative and practice-oriented solutions for the production of tomorrow at its stand.
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Right now i am not buying any bitcoins...because i do not use it as investement i treat it as normal money..its highly volatile right now..whenever i collect some btc either i gamble with them or i withdraw them to fiat..
I want to buy for investment. But right now I don't have enough money to buy at the current rate but I will try my best to earn some while the price is on average low.
If speculations will become true, the current price maybe the bottom.
Yes I think current price is still good to buy some bitcoins if you want to hold it for a long term, as price will be definitely higher in future allowing us to make good profits.
Im buying bitcoin of course to get a profit, But now im buying all of my money for a great profits, Cause bitcoin opportunity to grow its price is very high now.
buying bitcoin is good these days specially if you catch panic sales because many pro expect that the price of 1 BTC will be more than\equal with coming halving .
Me too, I'm not buying bitcoins today because the price is very high. But if you can buy bitcoins and you can afford to by some parts of it.
That's good because the price of bitcoin is surely going to increase after the halving.
You can still buy a bitcoin even the price is very high because you are not forced to purchase to buy whole bitcoin, You can invest your money and buy just like 1/4 or even lower depends on your money. But if you want to get a great profit, holding it for a long term is the best way to reach that because the price of bitcoin is increasing every year so without doing anything aside from holding you are still getting good amount of money .
I like to earn my Bitcoin. Although, sometimes ill cash in Altcoins for Bitcoins, but I don't think that counts.
That's a good information to know about you. And you are just being an independent one that you are not depending to your fiat money.
And it is good to know that there are still types of person like you.
I am not buying bitcoins nowdays, but this last winter i bought some for gambling and it's already wasted caue i am so bad in luck, now i am not gambling anymore.
It's alright because you can't say that you're going to success if you don't made a mistake. Just always remember it as a lesson maybe the gambling is not for you. You can try other ways to earn bitcoin just like signature campaign,selling service or digital goods,trading,investment and forget gambling .
Yup and you are simply wasting your hard earned money in gambling, it would be good if you can only hold your coins for future, and I am sure you can earn more profits in compare to gambling.
bibili ako ng isang bitcoin dahil sa isang malaking halaga sa php pera. ngunit bumibili lang maman ako Ng btc kapag ang presyo ay napupunta up. para pag tumaas naman yong Presyo Ng btc ibebenta ko para magkakapera ako. Mahirap kasi bumili nga btc lalo na Dito ay isang japan. kask Walang nagbebenta Ng btc ay isang japan. Kaya mas mabuting tipirin yong btc na binili mo sa pamamagitan knline.
I bought last week when price went below $600 and I thought that it was the best time to collect some more coins for the halving, as price will rise in coming days.
it was nice I also bought some coins but at a slightly higher price than you get and the price recently increase maybe it will take a more longer to see price rise so if not I can only hope after halving I could get a little profit.
Halving is the only hope left for us and to be honest looking at the current condition of bitcoin I don't think that its gonna help us in the best way by giving best profits, but still hoping for the best.
I don't think bitcoin would go down anytime below $600 now so just wait for the lowest possible price that bitcoin can be everyday. I see that bitcoin drops to $630 at somepoint in the day. Wait for that perfect time. You don't necessarily need to buy 1 whole bitcoin. I started with 0.25BTC and I've pretty much gone far from that.


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Report of Regents Adult Career and Continuing Education Services (ACCES) Committee to The Board of Regents
Your ACCES Committee held its scheduled meeting on February 9, 2015. All members were present, with the exception of Chancellor Emeritus Bennett and Regent Tilles, who were excused. Additional members included Regent Finn, Regent Phillips, and Regent Tallon.
MATTERS NOT REQUIRING BOARD ACTION
The Impact of the New Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act on Adult Education and Vocational Rehabilitation (ACCES (D) 1) – the Committee was provided information on the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) that was signed into law in July, 2014. WIOA requires states to align their workforce development programs, which include amending two core programs administered by the State Education Department: the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (Title II of WIOA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Title IV of WIOA). WIOA also requires each state to develop and submit a single, unified strategic plan submitted for approval by the Governor and State Workforce Development Board for all core programs, including vocational rehabilitation and adult education, starting in July 2016. To meet these new requirements, the recommendation is for ACCES staff to analyze the changes required in procurement procedures to meet WIOA guidelines; explore options for addressing expanded transition services; and work closely with NYS Department of Labor to establish five joint work groups, each with ACCES-VR and Adult Education representation, to analyze and recommend approaches to WIOA implementation and explore the dedication of up to 2 percent funding to support WIOA transition planning in meeting all of the new requirements.
ACCES-VR Strategic Plan Final Recommendations (ACCES (D) 3) – the Committee was presented with the final recommendations from the ACCES-VR Strategic Plan. ACCES-VR initiated a strategic planning process to identify recommendations which would enhance and improve employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities. Six priority areas were identified: service delivery; communication; partnerships and alliances; operations and fiscal management; human resources and accountability; and technology. Teams were formed to address each priority area and, after completing a full analysis of their area, each team developed recommendations that were presented to ACCES-VR staff. ACCES plans to implement each team's recommendations to increase ACCES-VR's effectiveness as an agency and result in moving toward its vision that all individuals with disabilities who want to work will have the opportunity to achieve employment and independence.
First Year Implementation of the new High School Equivalency Exam (ACCES (D) 4) – the Committee was provided an update on the new national High School Equivalency exam, the Test Assessing Secondary Completion™ (TASC) since it was first administered in January, 2014. In the first few months of 2014, only 2,000 individuals took the TASC. However, the rate of testing increased by the third quarter and by the end of the year there were 24,442 individuals who took one or more subtests of the TASC. The TASC Test's annual calendar will end in March 2015, at which point CTB/McGraw-Hill will release final test participation and pass rates for the TASC. Although final numbers are not yet tabulated, preliminary data indicates that of the 22,598 New Yorkers who took all five subtests in 2014, 11,281 passed all five and received their HSE Diploma for an estimated 2014 New York State passing rate of 49.92%. In addition, NYSED's policy to allow grandfathered GED® scores has added an additional 1,876 HSE Diplomas. The TASC 2014 pass rate is largely consistent with historic pass rates for examinees who took the GED® in New York State.
Amendment of Section 100.8 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education Relating to Local High School Equivalency Diplomas based upon Experimental Programs (ACCES (D) 2) – the Committee discussed proposed amendments to extend the authority of boards of education to issue local high school equivalency diplomas based upon experimental programs from June 30, 2015 to June 30, 2017. This two-year extension is recommended to ensure that all current NEDP students in the approximately 22 program sites across the state are provided with an opportunity to complete their programs and earn a local high school equivalency diploma. In addition, the Committee asked that ACCES and P-12 staff consider how the NEDP informed local high school equivalency diploma might align with the CDOS credential to provide Special Education students a diploma pathway.
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A year ago, Donald Trump was elected president of the USA, kicking off a presidency that has been upsetting us ever since. If only Hillary Clinton had won – would Trump even be remembered?
However, almost half of the voters (though not the absolute majority) didn't consider Clinton to be the best choice. In her recent book, What Happened, she complains that if it hadn't been for obstacles like her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, she would be president now.
Other people make the opposite point that if the Democrats had taken Sanders as their presidential candidate, they would have won the election. As a "democratic socialist" – that's his self-description – Sanders may have changed America for real and for the better: higher taxes for the rich, universal health care, tough regulation of Wall Street, etc.
Former USA presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
By contrast, according to Clinton, Sanders's agenda rested on "pipe dreams" – enthralling a few (naïve?) voters (who otherwise would have been Clinton's), but not realistic enough to convince a majority.
In her analysis, where she blames her failure on "everyone but herself," Clinton may be self-righteous in many regards – yet when it comes to Sanders, she may be more right than wrong. Why so?
Despite his self-description, Sanders is more of a social democrat than a socialist. He doesn't go so far as to advocate a system without private property or related ideas. However, by US standards, something like a European-style health insurance indeed borders on "socialism," disputed even among Democrats. In Europe, even conservative or economically liberal parties wouldn't exclude anyone from medical care.
Political pop star Bernie Sanders.
In many Western countries (including America's neighbor Mexico), there's one major party left of the ideological center, and another one right of it (like in Germany: SPD vs. CDU/CSU). In the USA, the "progressive" Democrats stand right of the European center, and the "conservative" Republicans even further right – at least today, for in the 19th century, it strangely was the other way around: Democrats were the party of slavery; Republicans that of Lincoln.
In any case, in the US ideological system, there seems to be no room left of the European center – room for a major party of socialism or social democracy, which we may define as parties that generally place solidarity above competition, and collective equality above individual liberty.
To borrow Clinton's book title, what happened in the USA to make the country so slanted towards the right?
The question has haunted scholars, socialists and socialist scholars for one and a half centuries: Why is there no socialism in the United States? In 1906, German sociologist Werner Sombart published a whole book with that very title.
Besides him, Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky themselves observed how the USA became the world's most capitalist, most industrialized country, but at the same time disproved the Marxist belief that rising capitalism would dig its own grave by inevitably triggering an anti-capitalist, socialist revolution. In the USA, there have never been signs of any such system change. Trump is the latest confirmation.
When searching for the roots of America's exceptionalism, we find many historical circumstances that may have played a role, alone or in combination. It's impossible to ascertain which ones were more or less decisive, because we would have to rerun history without certain things to isolate the pure effect of others.
If somebody has access to a time machine allowing us such reruns, please email contact@leipglo.com, and we'll get back to you soon.
Till then, we'll have to content ourselves with the following range of factors as possible answers to our question.
1) It's not that there has never been any "labor party" in the USA. For example, there was the Socialist Party of America (existing from 1901 to 1972), and the Democratic Socialists of America (founded in 1982) are still around.
But America has always voted according to a "first-past-the-post" system. Meaning that votes for parties that don't win at the end don't count at all – also because US presidents or state governors from one party don't enter into governmental coalitions with another party.
Minor parties such as the aforementioned are unlikely to win, so voters, who of course don't want to waste their vote, favor either Democrats or Republicans, which have "duopolized" political power since the mid-19th century. By the way, in Sombart's analysis, the majority voting system reflects Americans' fervent pursuit of "success" – winning is everything; all those who don't finish first are losers. In fact, isn't "loser" one of Trump's favorite invectives?
In any case, for minor parties, it's a vicious circle: People don't think they can win, and don't give them their vote; then they indeed don't win, and people think even more that they shouldn't vote for them.
Nevertheless, if the US electoral system allows but two powerful parties, why hasn't one of them been socialist (or social democratic), like in other countries?
2) When Leon Trotsky visited New York in 1917, he was astonished by a worker's apartment he saw: "At eighteen dollars a month, it was equipped with all sorts of conveniences that we Europeans were quite unused to: electric lights, gas cooking-range, bath, telephone, automatic service elevator, and even a chute for the garbage." In fact, the enormous wealth that industrializing America started to accumulate after the Civil War trickled down to its workers.
In the meantime, workers in London, for example, lived in the slums described in Charles Dickens's novels. Slums existed also in the USA; but in the worst case, Americans could still "go West," claim a cheap plot of land, and start a new life full of chances.
3) … socially and politically: European societies have traditionally distinguished several classes with different rights and duties. American society has – at least with respect to white men – been built on equality, as an antithesis to the "old" continent.
Thus, in the USA, workers have also always possessed the right to vote and to otherwise participate in politics, and have never had to "bow" before some "upper class" (according to Sombart). What counted in America was not somebody's birth, but somebody's accomplishments, thanks to which any worker – if lucky enough – was able to himself become an entrepreneur.
As a consequence, American workers didn't develop a class consciousness, because they weren't, like their European equivalents, united by common suffering under common "enemies" named "capitalists." They didn't feel the need for a workers' party, because they understood themselves as American citizens, who were – like non-workers – fully represented by either the Democratic or the Republican Party.
4) While American workers didn't identify with their "class," they did identify with their respective ethnic and/or religious group. The USA was an immigrant society, especially with regard to its workers, who arrived year after year from all over Europe and the whole world: the Chinese, the Irish, Brits, Germans, Italians, and Russians; the Protestants, the Catholics, the Orthodox Christians, the Jews; among others. Not to forget the African-Americans freed from slavery, who entered the factories, too.
6) … owing to American workers' diversity, their trade unions were at constant odds with each other. Moreover, unions were at odds with their country's political labor parties.
Perhaps out of traditional American individualism, which also matches the country's highly fragmented Protestantism (there are the Baptists, Pentecostals, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, etc.), many US socialists didn't compromise with anyone, but insisted on realizing a communist utopia. Instantly.
The actual effect of their radical, impatient strategy was that they didn't achieve any change at all.
8) Although American workers enjoyed, in comparison to their European colleagues, multiple advantages, they too knew times of extreme hardship – notably during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Why didn't even such a crisis of capitalism unite American workers against that system?
In fact, American socialists hoped that their time had finally come. The existing labor parties saw a surge in membership and votes.
However, President Franklin Roosevelt, after the 1933 start of his first term, adopted many of the workers' demands for relief as his own, and invited labor leaders (including communists) from parties and unions to assist him in fulfilling those demands, which happened in the framework of the New Deal program.
This is how the shrewd Roosevelt managed to satisfy workers while preserving capitalism, which the New Deal wouldn't undermine. Already in 1936, the Democratic president was reelected in a landslide, whereas labor parties were again declining.
The described structures and events may be "what happened" in the history of the United States to prevent the rise of socialism or social democracy there.
In today's America, many things are different than 100 or 150 years ago, and the future will again be different. However, throughout its independent history, the USA seems to have run counter to socialism on a structural level, and structures change at a snail's pace, if they change at all.
Therefore, also in the present USA, taxation and public spending are exceptionally low; trade unions are exceptionally weak; and there's no universal health care – in contrast to all other "developed" countries. And the most important fact: All those characteristics haven't been imposed on the American people by some dictatorship, but Americans have continuously opted for them as citizens of the world's oldest existing democracy.
In such a country, which comes from the described historical background, would a "democratic socialist" like Bernie Sanders have a true prospect of winning a presidential nomination or even the presidency? We must conclude that he wouldn't, at least not for now.
Most historical observations in this article have been drawn from the book by Seymour Martin Lipset & Gary Marks, "It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States," New York & London: W.W. Norton, 2000.


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PA #4: 50-100 cm of freshies?
Boom, there it is! The very first northwest Stau of winter 14-15 is in the making. Although we have already had some snow from that direction, but never as significant as it will be right now. But man, did we have to wait long for that dump or what? First the Southern Alps, then the Southern Alps again, then Norway and finally the northwest of the Alps.
A low pressure area still without a name (it will probably be called Hiltrud or Indira) is moving from the north of Scotland to the southeast. This opens the door to cold air from the north and with a northwest current ice cold air is send to the western Alps central, the western Alps north, the northern Alps west and the northern Alps central.
And this storm will not only bring snow to the northwestern parts of the Alps. It will even snow in the lower parts of The Netherlands (do they have higher parts anyway?), Belgium, Germany and France. Sad news for the people who are on holiday in the Alps right now, because not only they had not that much or even no snow, the trip home on Saturday will be an adventure with fresh snow on the roads. It will probably snow in the The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in the morning and this will expand into France and the southwest of Germany. Something to keep in mind when planning your trip to and from the Alps if you live in those countries.
Which path will the low pressure area follow?
The low pressure area that will arrive in The Netherlands and Belgium on Saturday morning will move south rapidly and will hit the northwest of the Alps on Saturday evening. It will be pushed over the Alps on Saturday night and will be brought back to live in the Adriatic Gulf and will bring huge amounts of snow to northern Greece, Albania and the Balkan countries.
Earlier this week, it looked like there was a chance that a solid low pressure area could form around the Gulf of Genua and start a classic retour d'est. Well, that's not the case anymore in the final calculations. A rapidly blossoming Azores High pressure area forces the storm depression to follow a path more east and it will quickly leave the Alps. Therefore no chance on a retour d'est and probably no snow for the southern Alps.
Where is the snow going to fall?
Most snow will fall west of the red line above. This is where the front and the most moisture will be. The most snow will come down in the western Alps central, the western Alps north and the northern Alps west. Expect 50-100 cm of freshies. The wind will kick in the higher alpine, but the details about that will follow on Friday. Check out where the snow will fall on the image below.
Don't be fooled by all the purple and yellow colors in Tyrol and the Salzburgerland. That's snow that will come down on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. It will be dry and even sunny on the 27th of December. It will start snowing in Tyrol again on Sunday afternoon and Monday and that snowfall is not shown on the map above. The area west of the Arlberg however, will get some freshies from this system from the northwest.
The reason that it will snow west of the Arlberg has to do the following. Between the Bielehohe, the Arlbergpass and the Nebelhorn is a line of peaks that mark the highest point. West of these peaks are clouds forced to rise and drop all their snow, while east of the peaks the fronts will drop and the snow intensity decreases. This is also the explanation of the secret of the Voralberg and the Kleinwalsertal. They pick up snow both from the north (just like the rest of Austria), but also from west.
How about the rest of the Alps? The French Southern Alps will have some snowfall in the northern parts, but the further south you'll go, the less snow will fall. Especially south of the Ecrins you don't have to expect much. The same applies to the Italian Piedmont. Little significant snowfall over there. Or the retour d'est should pop up again. The Southern Alps central will be dry and sunny. The fortunately have a base above 2000 meters, but the strong northwest Föhn will move a lot of snow. Same goes for the southern Alps east, but the most eastern part will have some snow. It's even possible that the rest of the Dolomites will have some snow as well, we'll see what happens on Saturday. Steiermark, the Salzburgerland and Tyrol will get some freshies on Sunday and Monday. You can expect around 10-20 centimeters.
Earlier this week we warned you for the unstable snow cover. It is thin and the layers are poorly bounded. You'll have to pay great attention with this new snow coming in. The snow cover often is very unstable and can form a good sliding layer for the freshies that will fall the next couple of days.
In addition to that, in most places in the northwest of the Alps there's little or even no base below 2000 meters. 50-100 cm of snowfall falling on top of nothing means that you hit the rocks pretty soon. Opt for mountain meadows because the chance that you hit something here is as good as nil. A disadvantage of the lower parts of the mountain is that they'll normally get less snow. 70 centimeter on the mountain is often only 20-40 centimeters in the valley. So pay attention.
A third risk is powder stress. This is the first dump for the northwest and you're not the only one hungry for first tracks. Especially during the holiday season. That means a real battle in the resort (but also in your head). You'll see people do things that you know are not smart, but that might also just to give you that little push to do stupid things. Be aware that the season is still long. What this week will be dangerous, will be much better later in the season. Have patience ... because a good freerider is an old freerider so the saying goes.
Why not? Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will be sunny, but you'll have to search for some good accommodation. A place to stay right on the slopes will be hard to find, but with some searching, I found some good places pretty quick. I did some searches in Engelberg, A *** t, Chamonix and the Portes du Soleil and the Grand Massif. Start searching here and I'm sure you'll find something. Sometimes even at discounted prices.
The weather will calm down on Monday. It will be dry, sunny and the temperature will go up. More details tomorrow and merry Christmas!


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Rape not an inherent risk of employment – SCA rules that MEC liable for damages after doctor's ordeal
An employee, who suffered the horrendous ordeal of being raped whilst on duty, is not precluded from suing her employer for damages. This is according to Johan Botes, Director in the Employment practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, who explained that the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), handed down judgment on 8 October 2014 which stated that the employer (the MEC for the Department of Health, Free State Province) did not escape liability for damages by relying on the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, (COIDA). While the Compensation Commissioner stands in the shoes of the employer for claims in terms damages by an employee in terms of COIDA, that Act does not relate to claims that are unrelated to the employee's employment with the employer.
"The SCA confirmed that the statutory regime dealing with claims by employees for accidents in the workplace are governed by the provisions of COIDA. That Act aims to create a framework whereby employees could recover damages from their employer where they had an accident in the workplace. The employees are thus able to obtain relief without expensive litigation. In addition, the employees are able to obtain compensation from the Compensation Commissioner, including loss of future earnings, where the employer may not have been able to satisfy such a claim due to the significant financial burden such payment may represent to an employer," Botes noted.
"COIDA limits the employee's common law rights to sue the employer, though," said Botes. "The employee is precluded by COIDA from bringing a claim against the employer (under circumstances covered by the Act) and must bring the claim against the Commissioner in terms of COIDA.
Botes noted that section 35(1) of COIDA, which was at the centre of the appeal to the SCA in this case, stated that ,'No action shall lie by an employee or any dependant of an employee for the recovery of damages in respect of any occupational injury or disease resulting in the disablement or death of such employee against such employee's employer, and no liability for compensation on the part of such employer shall arise save under the provisions of this Act in respect of such disablement or death.' 'Occupational injury' is defined in s 1 of COIDA as "… a personal injury sustained as a result of an accident.' with an accident defined as meaning "… an accident arising out of and in the course of an employee's employment and resulting in a personal injury, illness or the death of the employee.'
"Thus, for the employer to escape liability (by relying on COIDA) for a claim for compensation brought by an employee, there must be a personal injury sustained as a result of an accident arising out of or in the course of the employee's employment," he explained.
Botes said that in the present case, the employee (a medical doctor) was raped by an intruder whilst she was on duty at the hospital. She instituted a claim for damages from the MEC, electing not to seek compensation form the Compensation Commissioner under COIDA. The MEC raised a special plea, claiming that the employer cannot be held liable as the employee ought to bring the claim under COIDA. The SCA considered the injury suffered by the employee. It stated that, for the MEC's plea to succeed, the injury (rape) must bear relation to her employment. The Court held that the risk of rape is not incidental to employment. It held that limiting the employee's right to seek redress from her employer would not be in the interest of employees. The Court stated as follows:
"Dealing with a vulnerable class within our society and contemplating that rape is a scourge of South African society, I have difficulty contemplating that employees would be assisted if their common law rights were to be restricted as proposed on behalf of the MEC. If anything, it might rightly be said to be adverse to the interest of employees injured by rape to restrict them to COIDA. It would be sending an unacceptable message to employees, especially women, namely, that you are precluded from suing your employer for what you assert is a failure to provide reasonable protective measures against rape because rape directed against women is a risk inherent in employment in South Africa. This cannot be what our Constitution will countenance."
"The judgment sends a strong signal to female employees that employers will not be able to escape liability for negligent action where employers fail to take reasonable measures to protect their employees from harm whilst on duty. Failure to repair security fencing, not replacing broken light bulbs or otherwise ensure walkways are lit or neglecting to implement proper access control to a workplace could see more employees relying on their common law rights to institute action against their employers where they suffer damage attributable to the employer's negligence. Employers should take heed of the judgment and ensure that precautions are taken to prevent foreseeable harm that may befall employees on duty," he added.
https://www.cliffedekkerhofmeyr.com/en/en/news/press-releases/2014/employment/rape-not-an-inherent-risk-of-employment-sca-rules-that-mec-liable-for-damages-after-doctors-ordeal.html


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Music school to hold more public concerts
THE internationally renowned Yehudi Menuhin School of Music at Stoke d'Abernon hit the right note with Mole Valley planners over its application to admit the general public to more concerts.
Sir Cliff Richard staged a concert in aid of Princess Alice Hospice at the Menuhin Hall last year. An increase in the number of concerts staged at the school each year has now been agreed by Mole Valley District Council.
The district council's development committee has agreed to modify the conditions of the school's planning permission that has until now limited the number of public concerts to 18 a year.
In future the public will be admitted to up to 50.
County highways chiefs had originally objected to the move saying it would treble the amount of traffic using local rural roads to get to the school's concert hall.
However, after receiving guarantees from the school that the total number of concerts would be limited to 50 a year, around one a week, they withdrew their objections and the application was approved at the committee's January meeting.
The school was granted planning permission in 2003 for a 308-seat recital hall in its grounds at Cobham Road. It included a condition limiting the number of concerts open to the public to 18.
The reason was to ensure that the use of the hall remained ancillary to the school and to limit the amount of traffic travelling to the site.
In its first year of opening, the hall proved to be very successful presenting more than 40 concerts. The school then applied to lift the restriction and allow the public admission to up to 50 concerts a year.
The school held 18 public concerts in its first year plus one invitation only event to raise funds for the Grange Centre at Bookham. The other 24 concerts were limited to admission by invitation only.
The school explained that it was keen to remove the anomaly and make all its concerts open to the public. It also promised that there would only be an increase of seven concerts over the 2006 programme.
The school said this struck a reasonable balance between the need to "minimise the impact on the character of the area" and the aim of developing the musical talents of its pupils.
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Google, Facebook and Twitter CEOs Confronted With Senate Subpoenas
by Hangyun Kim | Oct 1, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured, Topics
Ranking member Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) speaks before the committee. (Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation)
WASHINGTON – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation unanimously voted on Thursday to compel the CEOs of Google, Facebook, and Twitter to appear before the committee amid concerns over the tech giants' monopolistic powers and legal immunity.
The Republican-led Senate Commerce Committee found common ground with the Democrats and sent bipartisan subpoenas to Google's Sundar Pichai, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Twitter's Jack Dorsey as all three executives declined the committee's previous invitation to appear for testimony.
Social media companies have long enjoyed legal protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a provision that prevents websites like Facebook and Twitter from being held liable for third-party content that users post. Section 230 also allows the companies to decide what can stay, or be taken down, from their platforms.
Both sides of the aisle have called for the amendment of Section 230. Republicans claimed anti-conservative bias in Silicon Valley, while Democrats pressed for a stricter moderation on hate speech and fake news on social media.
In his opening remarks, Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said the decision fulfills the committee's obligations "to increase transparency and accountability among Big Tech companies who determine what millions of Americans read, view, and hear every day."
Ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., initially objected to Wicker's plan to resort to subpoenas but voted aye as the issue of privacy and "media domination" by the platforms were added to the subpoena language as discussion points.
"Ceding the power to the star chamber of Silicon Valley is profoundly dangerous," said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, following the committee's vote. "There has never been such an aggregation of power in the history of humankind as Big Tech enjoys today, with money and monopoly power and the hubris that comes with the unchecked use of power."
All three top executives have testified before Congress in the past. The chiefs of Google and Facebook testified in July, along with the heads of Amazon and Apple, and Twitter's CEO faced questions by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in 2018.
Google, Facebook, and Twitter's stock prices initially plunged on the news of the subpoenas, but all rebounded minutes later.


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Later, many other topics came to be included under the heading 'metaphysics.' The set of problems that now make up the subject. Introduction. The Theaetetus, which probably dates from about BC, is arguably Plato's greatest work on epistemology. (Arguably, it is his greatest work on anything.) Plato (c– BC) has much to say about the nature of knowledge elsewhere.
Plato's Cave Metaphor and Theory of the Forms. We explain Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Plato's Theory of the Forms to help readers understand the essence of Plato's overarching theory.
[1] [2] First we explain Plato's Allegory of the Cave, also known as Plato's Cave Metaphor (a metaphor for enlightenment, the noumenal world as it relates to virtues like justice, and the duty of. Epistemology and metaphysics as described by Socrates is the crux of this article.
Socrates here is all set to assess the wisdom of the candidates. He goes about arguing as to who is wiser and the various aspects of wisdom. He also elaborates on wisdom as a virtue. The article further harps on the idea of what counts as knowledge and also highlights the differences between Socratic Ignorance Cited by: 3.
Perhaps this means that I am not writing a biography of the book, and certainly I am not writing a history of the life of Republic, so much as a case-study of it, but I suppose that too is a kind of biography.
So Plato himself, Christianity, seventeenth-century writers like Locke or Hobbes, nineteenth-century ones like Nietzsche, twenty-first. The Meno is one of the best dialogues to read for an introduction to some of Plato's characteristic themes.
It is generally regarded as an early "Socratic" work, and really ought to be read along with the "trial and death of Socrates" cycle (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo), since it is here that we are introduced to one of Socrates' accusers /5(13). Plato (c.
BCE) and Aristotle (– BCE) are generally regarded as the two greatest figures of Western philosophy. For some 20 years Aristotle was Plato's student and colleague at the Academy in Athens, an institution for philosophical, scientific, and mathematical research and.
Few philosophical doctrines have been as influential and as widely discussed as Plato's theory of Forms; yet few have been as misunderstood. Most philosophers, following the recommendation of Aristotle, regard the Forms as abstract entities.
However, this view is difficult to square with other aspects of Plato's thought, in particular his theory of s A. Grabowski aims to. The additions and alterations which have been made, both in the Introductions and in the Text of this Edition, affect at least a third of the work.
Having regard to the extent of these alterations, and to the annoyance which is naturally felt by the owner of a book at the possession of it in an inferior form, and still more keenly by the writer himself, who must always desire to be read as he. The Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the mouth of Socrates, who describes a conversation which had taken place between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Callias—'the man who had spent more upon the Sophists than all the rest of the world'—and in which the learned Hippias and the grammarian Prodicus had also shared, as well as Alcibiades and.
A real element of Socratic teaching, which is more prominent in the Republic than in any of the other Dialogues of Plato, is the use of example and illustration (Greek): 'Let us apply the test of common instances.' 'You,' says Adeimantus, ironically, in the sixth book, 'are.
Introductory note from this translation: "Immanuel Kant was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, Apthe son of a saddler of Scottish family was pietist, and the future philosopher entered the university of his native city inwith a view to studying theology.
The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, the Symposium and the Protagoras are of higher.
The harmony of the soul and body (iii. D), and of the parts of the soul with one another (iv. C), a harmony 'fairer than that of musical notes,' is the true Hellenic mode of conceiving the perfection of human nature.
In what may be called the epilogue of the discussion with Thrasymachus, Plato argues that evil is not a principle of strength, but of discord and dissolution, just. An Introduction to Metaphysics – book by Martin Heidegger and is the published version of a lecture course he gave in the Summer of at the University of Freiburg.
The book is famous both for its powerful reinterpretation of Greek thought and infamous for its acknowledgement of the Nazi Party. -- William A. Welton, Loyola College, Review of Metaphysic, Vol.
LVIII, No. 4, June From the Back Cover This is an English translation of Plato's Socratic dialogue attempting to achieve a definition of virtue that applies equally to all particular virtues and serves as a great introduction to Socratic dialogues/5(10).Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States inby Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the Great Books in a volume set.
The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series: the book must be relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read.Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality.
The word "metaphysics" comes from two Greek words that, together, literally mean "after or behind or among [the study of] the natural".
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In addition to books and workbooks, we use a lot of computer games and websites for learning in our homeschooling. We've been using ABCmouse.com for about a month now and Zeke (my 5 year old) absolutely loves it. The website is geared towards toddlers through kindergarten age children and both of mine (who are 5 and 2) have really liked it. Ellie is still a little too small to be at the computer herself but she will happily sit next to Zeke and watch him play. ABCmouse is a subscription website that costs $7.95 a month but with over 1000 activities available, this is worth it. You can register several kids on your account and they can each customize their fish tanks, their avatars and more. ABCmouse offers tracking tools to see what activities your kids have done and their progress is tracked individually. The kids are gently guided to different activities or they can play freely and choose whichever ones they want. I can sit with Zeke while he plays or he can easily play by himself, which is always a blessing when you have more than one that needs your attention.
Zeke has been flying through the lessons and has really enjoyed the wide variety of activities. On the main screen, we see a screen that looks just like a classroom. Zeke loved that he got to make his own little avatar that looked like him and that he could "visit" all the different areas within the classroom - the art easel, the aquarium, the little kitchen, the reading corner, etc. There are SO many different things for him to do on this website that he never gets bored - and with each activity, he earns tickets to buy new things like different fish for his fish tank. I'm very impressed with the amount of things to do on this website - it's not intended to replace the school program parents already have (either public, private or homeschooling) but it would definitely help little ones struggling to learn or who'd just like to have some fun.I also found out that as a public service, the company has announced that ABCmouse.com will be available FREE of charge to all public schools throughout the United States and Canada that apply for the program. Very cool.
Zeke playing with an alphabet puzzle - that's his avatar on the right.
Disclosure: We got to try this website in exchange for my honest review.
thank you so much i'll definitely bookmark that!


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Yoon Eun-hye (hangeul : 윤은혜, hanja : 尹恩惠), née le  à Séoul) est une actrice et mannequin sud-coréenne, ancienne chanteuse des années 1990. Elle a débuté comme membre du girl group Baby V.O.X, entre 1997 et 2005. Elle est ensuite devenue actrice : elle doit sa popularité et sa notoriété à son rôle de princesse héritière dans la série télévisée « Les Heures d'une princesse » (également connue sous le nom « Goong ») .

Profil
 Surnoms : « JamGgoDae », « Kkodae Kkodae » (Noctambule), « Pooh », « La jeune guerrière », « Yoonie »
 Lieu de naissance : Séoul, Corée du Sud
 Religion : Chrétienne Protestante
 Famille : Parents, 1 petit frère (Yoon Ban Seok)
 Éducation : Lycée Joong Kyung, Université de cybernétique Kyung Hee (diplômée le , titulaire d'une licence en administration des affaires, spécialisée dans la gestion touristique)

Biographie

L'époque de Baby V.O.X.
Quand le groupe de filles Baby V.O.X a perdu l'un de ses membres à la suite d'un scandale, Yoon Eun Hye a été choisie pour la remplacer. Elle était alors, et de loin, le plus jeune membre du groupe, en faisant ainsi ses débuts artistiques à l'âge de 15 ans. Elle a enregistré 4 albums avec le groupe avant de le quitter en  pour poursuivre une carrière d'actrice. À l'intérieur du groupe, Eun Hye a rapidement eu la réputation d'une personne « maligne » en raison non seulement de son jeune âge, mais aussi de sa brillante personnalité. Cependant, elle a également été critiquée pour son poids, car elle était considérée comme en étant en surpoids par rapport aux autres membres du groupe, très minces.

Eun Hye a souffert des critiques émises par les détracteurs de Baby V.O.X. quand elle a rejoint le groupe pour la production de leur troisième album. Ce fut notamment l'incident du pistolet à eau : alors que les membres de Baby V.O.X. attendaient dans leur fourgonnette avant de passer dans l'émission de Gyun-Ahn « Music Engine », un individu non identifié a tiré sur Eun Hye avec un pistolet à eau. L'homme a prétendu être un fan passionné du groupe et a essayé d'offrir une poupée Pikachu comme cadeau. Soudain, il a sorti un pistolet à eau et a visé l'œil droit de Eun Hye avant de s'enfuir.

Après cette attaque, Eun Hye a été douloureusement blessée et n'a pas pu rouvrir les yeux. Baby V.O.X. a dû annuler sa participation à l'émission et s'est rendu directement aux urgences. L'hôpital a fait savoir que la cornée de Eun Hye avait été abîmée.

Les membres du groupe ont affirmé que l'eau sortie du pistolet avait une odeur de sauce de soja et de vinaigre.

Carrière d'actrice
Eun Hye a joué le rôle secondaire d'une ancienne petite amie du riche Lee Minki dans la sitcom « La romance de l'arc-en-ciel », avant de devenir l'un des invités réguliers du spectacle de variétés « X-Man » sur la chaîne SBS. Quand elle passait dans « X-Man » elle a été impliquée dans un scandale amoureux, diffusé dans la presse, avec le chanteur de music pop coréenne Kim Jong Kook. Bien que « X-Man » ait amélioré son image, elle a quitté l'émission un an plus tard pour commencer une carrière d'actrice. Eun Hye a également joué sur sa passion avec Kim Jong Kook dans la vidéo « Quand tu dis que tu m'aimes », sortie en .

Eun Hye a obtenu son premier grand rôle dans la série télévisée populaire coréenne « Les Heures d'une Princesse » (également connue sous le nom « Goong »). Au début, pourtant, les fans de Goong avaient lancé une polémique sur ses talents d'actrice. Le succès de la série a également semblé peu clair puisqu'il était en concurrence avec la série « Ma Fille » qui mettait également en scène des célébrités comme Lee Jun Ki. Les premiers chiffres d'audience ont été moyens, mais au fur et à mesure de la diffusion des épisodes, l'audimat a grimpé jusqu'à atteindre près de 30 % au niveau national, ce qui a conduit à prolonger la première saison (de 20 à 24 épisodes) et à diffuser une émission spéciale « Les Heures de la princesse » sur MBC. Bien qu'Eun Hye et les autres principaux acteurs aient d'abord accepté de jouer dans sur une deuxième saison des « Heures d'une princesse », un seul a finalement fait ce choix, obligeant le directeur à modifier le scénario et à mettre en avant de nouveaux personnages, dans une série baptisée Goong S.

Compte tenu du succès de la première série, Eun Hye a pu poursuivre sa carrière dramatique. Elle a travaillé à d'autres fictions, parmi lesquelles « The Vineyard Man (포도밭 그 사나이) ». Comme la plupart des fictions coréens à ce moment-là, « The Vineyard Man » a d'abord pâti de faibles audiences en raison de la forte concurrence de la série Jumong, diffusée pour le quarante-cinquième de la chaîne MBC ; cependant, l'audience a progressivement augmenté jusqu'à atteindre 15,6 % pour le dernier épisode.

Le , « Eight Peaks » (l'entreprise de production de Goong) a confirmé la suite probable d'une saison « Goong 2 » à la première saison. Selon « Eight Peaks », le manhwa original se poursuit. L'entreprise de production veut filmer la suite, à la différence de Goong S qui a profité des retombées de la première série. « Eight Peaks » a déjà commencé les préparatifs nécessaires pour le tournage de la suite, en vue d'une diffusion fin 2007 ou début 2008. Les acteurs comme Yoon Eun Hye et Kim Jeong Hoon devraient réapparaître dans Goong 2. Le projet n'a cependant jamais été confirmé.

Yoon Eun Hye a renoué avec de bons chiffres d'audience pour son rôle d'actrice principale dans l'excellente série du week-end sur MBC « The 1st shop of Coffee Prince (aka Coffee Prince) » diffusée en . Dans ce drama, Eun Hye est, « Go Eun-chan » une fille qui se fait passer pour un homme après un mal entendu dû à son physique androgyne. Elle obtient alors un travail de serveur dans un café, tenu par le beau Choi Han Gyul, lui permettant de subvenir aux besoins de sa famille très endettée. La série enregistre une moyenne de visionnage de 24,2% au national, et 25,6% à Séoul, en faisant un des plus gros succès de l'année 2007 sur la chaine MBC. Yoon Eun Hye remportera notamment le prix d'Excellence au MBC Drama Awards de 2007 et le prix de la meilleure actrice à la prestigieuse cérémonie des 44ème Baksang Arts Awards.

Yoon Eun Hye est en tête d'affiche en  en Corée du Sud avec I Miss You, drama dans lequel elle joue aux côtés de Micky YooChun, ex-membre des DBSK et actuel membre des JYJ.

Séries télévisées
 Princess Hours /Goong (MBC, 2006)
 The Vineyard Man (KBS, 2006)
 The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (2007)
 Take Care of the Young Lady (My Fair Lady) (2009)
 Personal Taste (2010), cameo épisode 8
 Lie to Me (2011)
 Missing You (MBC, 2012-2013)
 Marry Him If You Dare (KBS2, 2013)

Films et téléfilms
 Urgence 19 (2002) Caméo
 The legend of seven cutter aka Seven Cutter / Escaping Charisma (2006)
 My Black Mini Dress (2011)
 After Love (2015)

Récompenses
 44th Baeksang Awards: Award de la meilleure actrice pour The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince (2008)
 2007 MBC Drama Awards: Top Excellence Acting Award pour The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince
 2006 The Grime Awards: meilleure actrice pour The Vineyard Man
 2006 KBS Acting Awards: Award de la meilleure nouvelle actrice pour The Vineyard Man
 2006 KBS Acting Awards: Award du meilleur couple avec Oh Man Suk
 2006 MBC Drama Awards: Award de la nouvelle actrice pour Goong
 2004 Hallyu Award: 15th Seoul Music Awards
 2003 Korean Music Awards: Award de la meilleure chanteuse
 2002 SBS Music Awards: Representative Award
 2001 Award Model Line: La chanteuse la mieux habillé (Best Dressed Singer)
 1999 10th Seoul Music Awards: Award de la meilleure chanteuse

Notes et références

Liens externes

Chanteuse sud-coréenne
Actrice sud-coréenne
Mannequin femme sud-coréen
Naissance à Séoul
Naissance en octobre 1984


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Least We Forget
Today is May the Fourth….to some it is the international day for Star Wars….and to others, like myself, it is a day of mourning for this is the day that students at Kent State were killed by the National Guard.
Those students were gathering to protest and not all killed were even involved in the protest they were on-lookers…….
For those too young to remember or those that care to forget this despicable event…….
On this date, May 4, in the year 1970, four students were killed and nine others wounded when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire during a Vietnam War protest. Approximately 67 shots were fired by the guardsmen over thirteen seconds. Jeffrey Glenn Miller, age 20, was shot through the mouth and killed instantly. Allison B. Krause, age 19,was shot in the chest and died later that day. William Knox Schroeder, age 19, was also shot in the chest and died almost an hour later in a hospital while undergoing surgery. Sandra Lee Scheuer, age 20, was shot in her neck and died within a few minutes from loss of blood. Among the wounded was Dean R. Kahler, who was shot in the back, causing permanent paralysis from the chest down. All of those killed or wounded were unarmed.
During the 1968 U.S. presidential campaign, candidate Richard Nixon ran on a platform that promised "peace with honor" for the Vietnam War. After his election, however, on April 30, 1970, President Nixon announced during a televised speech to the nation that American forces had invaded Cambodia. Many Americans saw this new invasion as an expansion or lengthening of the Vietnam War. In response to Nixon's announcement of the invasion of Cambodia, students across the United States began to protest.
https://reasonabledoubt.org/criminallawblog/entry/may-4-1970-four-kent-state-university-students-killed-by-ohio-national-guardsmen-today-in-crime-history
For anyone interested there is an outline below with pertinent sections for easy fact checks……
https://outline.com/bVUFet
It has been 49 years….approaching half a century and still there are unanswered questions.
Please take a moment to remember those that died for no other reason than they were protesting a war they did not agree with…..I know I will.
A solemn beginning to my weekend….
Least We Forget.
By loboteroin History, Observations, Professor's Classroom, Society, War 4 May 2019 365 Words2 Comments
May The Fourth Be With You–2019
Saturday….MoMo has hunted down a mole, dug it up and is now playing with it….
Apparently it just pissed her off….now she is just pissed at me for spoiling her fun……
Since today is May the Fourth I feel compelled to post on space and a galaxy far far away ………..it is only a matter of time until we discover life on another planet….
Extraterrestrial life, that familiar science-fiction trope, that kitschy fantasy, that CGI nightmare, has become a matter of serious discussion, a "risk factor", a "scenario".
How has ET gone from sci-fi fairytale to a serious scientific endeavour modelled by macroeconomists, funded by fiscal conservatives and discussed by theologians?
Because, following a string of remarkable discoveries over the past two decades, the idea of alien life is not as far-fetched as it used to seem.
Discovery now seems inevitable and possibly imminent.
https://theconversation.com/why-the-idea-of-alien-life-now-seems-inevitable-and-possibly-imminent-115643
This seems to be the consensus among planet scientists…..they are trying desperately to find that life and to justify the money spent in that pursuit.
Of course we could all just sit back and buy into the "Ancient Alien" BS….for me I prefer a more scientific approach than some silly leap of faith from a bunch of deluded and washed up pundits.
Then there is Mars……I read a piece about human life on Mars after colonization…..
A city on Mars could provide the first-ever truly blank slate to organize a new kind of economy.
While attempts to re-organize the means of production are as old as humankind itself, these experiments have always been limited to some extent by the economic systems that came before. People can only change so much so fast. Space exploration, and the establishment of new colonies, may be humanity's first shot at creating an economy from the ground up. Its first settlers could opt for pure socialism — where all ownership was shared — just as easily as they could establish a city that enshrines property rights so much there are no other laws at all. The dusty red surface, in other words, will provide us with what could be the first history-free moment to start anew.
"To an economist, this is perhaps the most exciting thing about space settlement!" Matt Weinzierl, a professor at Harvard Business School who has written about the economics of space, tells Inverse. With Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk possibly on the verge of opening up space to society, a prospect that has venture capitalists excited, this developing area of research has started to grapple with how economics may shift as humans explore beyond Earth.
https://www.inverse.com/article/55060-a-mars-colony-could-be-humanity-s-best-shot-at-a-purely-designed-economy
That is an ambitious and glowing prospect for a Mars colony…….and then it may not happen as quickly as some have predicted…..
An independent report concluded that NASA has no chance of sending humans to Mars by 2033, with the earliest such a mission could be flown being the late 2030s.
The report, while completed prior to the March 26 speech where Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to return humans to the moon by 2024, does offer insights into how much a lunar return might cost and how it fits into long-term plans to send humans to Mars.
NASA contracted with the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) to prepare the report, which Congress directed NASA to perform in the 2017 NASA authorization act. That bill called specifically for a technical and financial assessment of "a Mars human space flight mission to be launched in 2033."
https://www.space.com/human-mars-mission-is-not-feasible.html
It is possible that a Mars colony will have to wait awhile longer.
There is my round-up from a galaxy far far away……
By The Way….MoMo is now onto a new adventure.
Have a good day and see you later….chuq
By loboteroin Observations, Science, Society 4 May 2019 640 Words6 Comments
Let's Play 'What If'
The weekend is my time to step away from the silliness of the news cycle and post on some interesting stuff….well interesting to me and hopefully someone else will see it as well…..
I have written a couple of post about 'what if'…..an alternate look at history…..and I found a good one for this weekend…..
We hear all the time about this asteroid or that that is on a collision course with Earth…….and then there is the most famous asteroid strike…millions of years ago.
What if an asteroid had not destroyed the dinosaurs…….
An asteroid slammed down and did away with all the dinosaurs, paving the way for such developments as the human race, capitalism, and posting on the internet: it's the story we all know and love. Yet if things had shaken out differently—if the asteroid had stayed in its place, and the dinosaurs allowed to proceed with their business—what would things have looked like?
Would the earth be a pristine, unsmogged paradise, or would the dinosaurs have somehow evolved into even more rapacious profiteers/industrialists, wrecking the world with their dinosaur refineries and dinosaur dark money? The latter scenario being totally implausible, what's a likely answer to the question of what our world would look like if that asteroid never hit it? To find out, for this week's Giz Asks we reached out to a number of geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists.
https://gizmodo.com/what-if-the-asteroid-never-killed-the-dinosaurs-1834377309
That is an interesting 'what if'……
I'm out…..time for me to find some time for MoMo and the garden…..peace out….my friends.
By loboteroin History, Professor's Classroom 4 May 2019 280 Words6 Comments


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