“May it be” là một bài hát trong phim do Enya ghi âm cho phim Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring năm 2001. Bài này được Enya và Roma Ryan sáng tác cho cuốn phim này. Bài hát được lên hạng nhất trên bảng Singles Chart ở Đức năm 2002 và được Enya trình diễn tại lễ trao giải Emmy Academy Awards lần thứ 74.
“May It Be” được nhiều nhà phê bình nhạc ca ngợi và được đề nghị cho giải Golden Globe Academy Award cho Bản nhạc mới hay nhất (Best Original Song), và giải Grammy Award cho Bản nhạc hay nhất viết cho phim ảnh (Best Song Written for Visual Media). Đọc tiếp May it be – Chúc anh – Enya→
Đương nhiên là các bạn đã nghe nhiều về năng lượng tinh thần của mỗi người chúng ta để chuyển hóa cuộc đời chúng ta từ tù mù thành sáng sủa. Năng lượng đó thường được nhắc nhiều nhất khi thiên hạ nói về Luật Hấp Dẫn – sức mạnh của tâm trí chúng ta hấp dẫn vào chúng ta những gì chúng ta nghĩ đến nhiều, nói đến nhiều, và làm nhiều. Người ta thường mô tả một cách giản dị là khi tâm trí ta tập trung vào một điều gì, cả vũ trụ sẽ cùng làm việc với ta để biến điều đó thành sự thật cho ta. Đọc tiếp Năng lượng chuyển hóa thế giới của bạn→
Working with the young person of generation Z is difficult
because his mind easily wanders
and he often thinks about himself as the best,
a person can do big things well,
but truly even small things, he doesn’t do well.
So I need to talk with him simply and clearly,
depending on his ability to receive information,
at his right time,
so that he can understand and do exactly what I want. Đọc tiếp Prayer 782→
Truss’s Departure Kicks Off Another UK Leadership Contest
Lawmakers from the ruling Conservative Party in the United Kingdom (UK) will hold a preliminary vote (FT) on Monday to choose candidates to succeed Liz Truss, who announced her resignation yesterday. Party members will then choose from the final two candidates in an online poll next Friday. The victor will become the UK’s fourth prime minister in four years and take the helm of a country rattled by inflation and market turmoil under Truss’s six week tenure. Ex–finance minister Rishi Sunak, who opposed Truss’s controversial tax cuts, is expected to stand for the role. Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, an immigration hard-liner, and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson could also join (The Economist) the race. Markets have calmed after Truss’s second finance minister reversed her budgetary plans, but the Conservative Party still trails the opposition Labour Party by around 30 percent in opinion polls.
TTCT – Thị trường trái phiếu doanh nghiệp đang đứng trước nguy cơ suy thoái trên diện rộng sau giai đoạn tăng trưởng quá nóng.
Ảnh: Harvard Business Review
Tiếp sau sự kiện Tân Hoàng Minh, các lãnh đạo của Tập đoàn Vạn Thịnh Phát mới đây bị cáo buộc có hành vi gian dối trong việc phát hành, mua bán trái phiếu trái quy định của pháp luật để chiếm đoạt tiền của nhà đầu tư trong giai đoạn 2018-2019. Sự kiện này có thể kích hoạt tâm lý tháo chạy trên thị trường tài chính.
Nguy cơ mất khả năng thanh toán trên thị trường trái phiếu ngày một lớn dần. Mới đây, Công ty cổ phần VKC Holdings thông báo tạm hoãn thanh toán lãi trái phiếu vào ngày 9-9 cho các trái chủ của đợt chào bán quy mô 200 tỉ đồng thực hiện cuối năm 2021.
Lý do được đưa ra là công ty phát hiện nhiều sai phạm nghiêm trọng trong quản lý tài chính và phát hành lô trái phiếu của ban lãnh đạo trước đây. Dù vậy, quyền lợi của trái chủ như thế nào thì VKC vẫn không đưa ra câu trả lời.
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said at a news conference Oct. 18, 2022, that Lafarge and its Syrian subsidiary were responsible for providing significant funds to ISIS. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)
NEW YORK — Global cement company Lafarge will pay the U.S. government nearly $780 million for conspiring with Islamic State militants to run a production plant in war-ravaged Syria during its civil war — a move that helped bolster the terrorist group’s meager finances, officials said Tuesday.
A top executive of Lafarge, which was acquired by Swiss-based Holcim in 2015, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to a count of conspiring to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations, admitting that Lafarge knowingly engaged in a deal with Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), a Syrian Islamist militia, in 2013 and 2014.
The guilty plea marked the first time a corporation was prosecuted under a U.S. statute that prohibits a person or entity from assisting foreign terrorist groups, officials said. The Justice Department has a broad ability to bring such cases in U.S. courts even if the conduct generally occurred abroad but also involves at least one wire transaction locally.
Justice Department officials said Tuesday that the two groups obtained at least $6 million in payments from Lafarge. The payoffs allowed Lafarge to operate the plant in the Northern region of Syria, near the Turkish border, and bought them protection from the militias.
The Islamic State also made more than $3 million directly through the sale of cement it obtained at the end of Lafarge’s operation there starting in late 2014.
In total, Lafarge agreed to forfeit $687 million and pay $91 million in criminal fines to the United States.
U.S. District Judge William F. Kuntz, who accepted Lafarge’s guilty plea, said the case “impacts global communities [and] the national security of the United States,” as well as victims of the terrorists.
Lafarge, which is based in France, had dealings with ISIS at a time when the group was responsible for capturing and killing journalists and aid workers in the devastated region.
Justice Department officials said the company paid for access to the plant and for protection from ISIS at a time when other corporations were fleeing Syria.
The Islamic State even issued stamped driving permits for Lafarge workers to get access to the plant.
“To the brothers at the checkpoints of Qarah Qawzak Bridge, may Allah keep you safe,” a translation of the permit read. “Kindly allow the employees of Lafarge Cement Company to pass through after completing the necessary work and after paying their dues to us.”
U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said at a news conference Tuesday that Lafarge and its Syrian subsidiary were responsible for providing significant funds to ISIS, which “otherwise operated on a shoestring budget.”
“This conduct by a Western corporation was appalling and has no precedent or justification,” Peace said.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said greedy intentions by Lafarge fueled rampant violence.
“In its pursuit of profits, Lafarge and its top executives not only broke the law, they helped to finance a violent reign of terror that ISIS and [ANF]imposed on the people of Syria,” Monaco said.
In France, six former executives and Lafarge are facing pending criminal charges in connection with their relationships in Syria. Those six people were referred to in court papers in the New York case but were not named.
“We deeply regret that this conduct occurred and have worked with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve this matter,” Lafarge said in a statement.
The conduct did not involve “Lafarge operations or employees in the United States and none of the executives who were involved in the conduct are with Lafarge or any affiliated entities today,” the statement also said.
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