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(EDITORIAL from Korea JoongAng Daily on Oct. 12)
The scandal mushrooms
Nearly a month after the scandal over the dubious land development project in Seongnam city, Gyeonggi, broke, Kim Man-bae, either the owner or a major shareholder of Hwacheon Daeyu, an asset management company at the center of the scandal, was summoned to the prosecution on Monday as a suspect. Prosecutors must clear deepening public suspicions over their dilly-dallying on the explosive case and find the truth behind the development project led by Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung when he was mayor of Seongnam.
Kim denied most of the suspicions over his role in the project. Asked who is the real owner of Cheonhwa Dongin No. 1, an affiliate of Hwacheon Daeyu that reaped an enormous profit from the lucrative project, Kim claimed that he is the owner, not Gov. Lee. Instead, Kim attributed all the confusion to public accountant Jeong Young-hak — the owner of Cheonhwa Dongin No. 5 — who "intentionally edited the transcript of conversations among stakeholders about how to distribute the profits." But in a written statement submitted to the prosecution on Saturday, a lawyer and former head of the strategic business team at the Seongnam Development Corporation (SDC) said he saw Yoo Dong-gyu, former acting president of SDC, repeatedly say he's the owner of Cheonghwa Dongin No. 1.
Given the discrepancies in the statements from the two, the prosecution must find out if Yoo really could rake in huge profits alone in return for giving special favors to the developer or if he did so after receiving an order from someone above him.
Kim Man-bae also denied the allegation that he gave money to former Supreme Court Justice Kwon Soon-il to play a part in the top court's final ruling that acquitted Gov. Lee of charges of election law violations. (Kwon worked for Hwacheon Daeyu as a counsel for hefty pay for a while.) Nevertheless, the prosecution must clear suspicions about why Kim frequently visited Kwon's office when he served as a justice.
Prosecutors also must clear suspicions over illegitimate lobbying of politicians in the process of building apartment complexes in the city. The prosecution must find where the 47.3 billion won ($39.5 million) Kim allegedly borrowed from the developer went. The prosecution also must dig up the truth behind other suspicions over hefty dividends to stakeholders.
The scandal is expanding to the Seongnam city council. A former head of the council and current vice chairman of Hwacheon Daeyu is also suspected of colluding with developers from the early stages of the development project. Prosecutors must get to the bottom of the case.
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You can see how Pee families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Pee family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Pee families were found in the USA in 1880. In 1911 there were 13 Pee families living in Ontario. This was about 52% of all the recorded Pee's in Canada. Ontario had the highest population of Pee families in 1911.
In 1880, the most common Pee occupation in the USA was Farmer. 45% of Pee's were Farmers. Farmer, Laborer and Carpenter were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Pee. A less common occupation for the Pee family was Day Laborer.
There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Pee. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in Canada, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.


There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
People I otherwise respect in skeptical circles keep saying they like Ayn Rand. Michael Shermer for example, whom as I recall spends an entire chapter of Why People Believe Weird Things shooting her down, nonetheless admires her. Then there was a some chatter on the Ottawa Skeptics forum, with some of my acquaintances there expressing some affection for her. Makes me wonder if she's someone I need to take seriously, or continue to dismiss as an over-rated crank.
So I don't think there's any doubt what philosophers' answer would be.
Atlas Shrugged is a life changing book. I read it in college (twice actually) and it was exactly for that day and time, even though it was 20 some years afters she wrote it. I'm sure it would have the same impact today.
40 years go by and we are still asking, who is John Gault?
I only know very little of her. A fellow atheist posted a chapter from one of her books on a forum, and it was some of the most vhildish immatrure, ignorant drivel I have read, that has had the misfortune to be published.
It presumed to describe a socialist society, were everyone got what they needed, and had to give what they could. But the author fucks it up in the second sentence where she describes that the good men had to slave 24/7, while the slackers were pampered - so it seems it wasn't a society where people got according to needs, or gave what they could.
It just went downhills from there.


If you're looking to immerse yourself in a lively, deeply local, communist-era neighborhood bar that doubles as a breakfast joint, I can't think of a better place than Bambi Eszpresszó in Buda. What makes Bambi the real deal? It isn't trying to show off an artificial (retro), unremembered past—it's a genuine throwback..
Opened in 1968, Ibolya Espresso is an iconic café and bar in Budapest's downtown. Ibolya is deeply anchored in Budapest's collective memory as two generations of local residents have been coming here for everything from first dates to business meetings over the past half-century. Ibolya's interior furnishings evoke the design items of the communist era: the Mid-century modern-inspired light fixtures feature orange plexiglass, while chairs are topped with sticky, red faux leather upholstery..
Grinzingi, an unpretentious downtown wine tavern, has a simple formula: serve cheap drinks in the center of Budapest that's otherwise teeming with overpriced, tourist-oriented bars. But what gives Grinzingi its native spirit is its longevity, the variety of its patrons, and the "interior design." .
Opened in 1948, Mátra Borozó is one of the oldest and most eccentric wine bars in Budapest, a genuine throwback (Gábor Abendschein, the current owner, has been in charge since 1983). Apart from the constant presence of the amiable, graying regulars, Mátra's communal spirit stems from the unique layout of the space: instead of a bar counter splitting up the room, just a simple metal box stands in the middle which contains the wines. .
One of Budapest's oldest and most atmospheric wine bars is hidden below ground on a quiet downtown street otherwise known for its antique stores selling expensive chinaware. Like other unchic, communist-era bars that have survived to the present day, this holdout from the 1960s—no one seems to know the exact opening year—draws mainly long-time regulars from the neighborhood..
That this unfussy, communist-era neighborhood bar right across the street from one of Budapest's most visited tourist destinations—the Dohány Street Synagogue—still exists is a small miracle. Despite its moniker, Turiszt Büfé, which opened in 1982, has never gained much of its business from tourists. .
In present-day Budapest, listening to live gypsy music is mainly a tourist activity. Overpriced downtown restaurants tend to hire gypsy bands to play traditional songs, thereby enhancing the "Hungarian vibes." The reality is that except for the occasional wedding parties when such songs may be performed, most locals, especially those below 50, are seldom exposed to this type of music..
Borpatika ("Wine pharmacy") is a neighborhood watering hole in Újbuda. Not much has changed inside since it opened in 1986, which is, of course, part of its charm. Customers are a blend of students from the nearby Budapest University of Technology and downtrodden neighborhood regulars who come here for spirit-lifting liquors and friendly banter..
Szlovák Söröző ("Slovak beer hall") is an old-school bar located on a gray side street near Budapest's Nyugati Railway Terminal. The main appeal of this unfashionable haunt with weathered wooden booths is its longevity—the place has been drawing throngs of beer-loving men of all ages for over four decades. When I say men, I mean it: on some nights, not one woman is in sight, save for the waitress..
For a bit of time travel, you don't even need to leave Budapest's downtown. The "Villány" in the name of this grungy, run-down neighborhood bar is tongue-in-cheek, because the wine they serve here is hardly the premium stuff from the Villány region. But that is beside the point. Places like this will soon be extinct, so take your chances before it's too late.
Since it opened in 1997, Piccolo has been the go-to watering hole for many left-wing artists from Újlipótváros who enjoy low-priced Unicum and beer. For an outsider, Piccolo may feel intimidating at first as everyone seems to know one another, but don't let that hold you back—patrons are easy-going, open-minded, and often entertaining. .
Head to Tóth Kocsma if you're looking to immerse yourself into everyday Hungarian life. The main appeal of this unpretentious bar, which opened in 1987 and is located in a pricey gallery district in downtown, is that it isn't trying to be more than what it is: a no-frills, low-priced bar. Tóth Kocsma is especially popular among groups of middle-aged locals, who tend to fill the space in the evenings. .
The Grand Boulevard (Nagykörút) doesn't only separate the city center from outer Pest, it's also a boundary between the polished and the gritty, the predictable and the mysterious. As a result, bars along here draw eclectic crowds from all walks of Budapest life. Krúdy Söröző, an unpretentious, all-welcoming, communist-era neighborhood bar, is one of them. Despite the wifi and flat screen TVs, the space feels distinctly 1980s, as do the prices.


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The Department of Homeland Security is laying the groundwork for securing the technology supply chain.
Improving bi-directional threat information sharing between the government and private sector.
Developing criteria for evaluating when threats should lead to risk-based decision frameworks.
Building qualified bidder and manufacturer lists.
Setting up procurement rules around original equipment manufacturers and authorized resellers.
The recommendations expected this summer will help guide reforms to federal and industry acquisition practices, Bob Kolasky, director of the National Risk Management Center and co-chair of the supply chain task force, said in a March 16 interview with Government Matters.
Kolasky said a key metric to judge the group's success will be "did this fundamentally change the nature of how risks are being managed in the supply chain?"
The task force will also need to figure out how best to work alongside another cross-agency body, the Federal Acquisition Security Council, which will also focus on supply chain security. The council was established through legislation passed by Congress late last year and is charged with a similar, overlapping mission, helping to steer development of National Institute of Standards and Technology guidance, crafting information sharing protocols and diving into federal procurement law.
On March 18, DHS released its fiscal year 2020 budget request that included $68 million and 169 employees for the National Risk Management Center, which houses the task force. The budget would realign $18.4 million and 35 employees from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to the center to support a range of activities, including work on the supply chain.


Been trying to get this recipe right since September, At first I tried making it waay to complex and it was not working out through a steep. Then I sat down and thought all this profile is really is a dry vanilla cake that is thick with some strawberry vanilla frosting...thats it!
Inw shisha strawberry= I believe this flavor to be a somewhat authentic strawberry that sits on top of a watermelon base.
How does it vape? On inhale you get the strawberry vanilla frosting But on exhale at first you get that thick rich cake and then the frosting. Leaving that strawberry vanilla frosting sugar lips that stays in your mouth. If you vape this in public don't be surprised if people around you know the exact profile your vaping... It's happened a few times already.
This recipe was so difficult to nail down and a steep time of 10-14 days is needed THIS IS NOT A SAV!!! So make as much as you possibly can i'd say at lest 180-300 mls you will thank me in the long run. So... If you like cake pops from Starbucks this recipe is most certainly for you. Enjoy!


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Bill Clinton's Corporate Fantasy
Bill Clinton predicts corporations will care less about profits and more about workers and communities, without government action. Terrific, but the big companies aren't with the program. Their CEOs are cashing in and leaving communities and countries behind.
By Robert Borosage — September 25, 2014
At annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, former President Bill Clinton predicted the corporations would soon care less about maximizing profits and more about employees and society. This would happen without significant government involvement because "of proof that markets work better that way." Companies would understand that they gain greater overall success by taking care of their employees and doing good for more than only their shareholders.
We should only hope. This revolution in the corporate worldview would be immensely important, to say the least. The focus on "shareholder value" -- magnified by lavish executive compensation packages – has driven executives to focus on meeting short-term profit goals, scramble for every tax dodge, trample worker rights, and play communities and countries off against one another in a brutal race to the bottom.
There are socially responsible companies. Many gather at the Social Venture Network. Socially responsible investment funds give investors the ability to screen their investments. The recent movement to divest from fossil fuel companies is an example.
Sadly, there is little to suggest that major corporations have gotten the former president's message. Current trends suggest the reverse: that CEOs are plundering their companies assets, cashing in their future to reap short-term profits and bonuses.
A recent column by Edward Luce in the Financial Times summarized in naked capitalism reported on the current executive gambit: using corporate funds to buy back its stocks, hike the stock price and pocket bigger bonuses.
According to Barclays, US companies have lavished more than $500bn in the past year on stock buybacks – a multiple of what most are spending on research and development and other capital investments. In the first six months of the year, buybacks surged to $338.3bn – the largest half-yearly volume since 2007. The rationale is simple. By reducing the volume of outstanding shares, chief executive officers increase earnings per share. That in turn lifts their pay, which is heavily tied to short-term stock performance. If you need an explanation for why the top 0.1 per cent is doing so well, start with equity-based compensation.
William Lazonick of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell explains the true scope of the perversity:
In total, the top 449 companies in the S&P 500 spent $2.4tn – or more than half their profits – on buybacks in (the decade of 2003-2012] They spent almost the same again in dividend payouts. Taken together, they came to 91 per cent of net income.
[S]even of the top 10 largest share repurchasers spent more on buybacks and dividends than their entire net income between 2003 and 2012. In the case of Hewlett-Packard, which spent $73bn, it was almost double its profits.
In a time of soaring profits, CEOs are putting off capital investments and starving research and development budgets while devoting profits and sometimes taking on debt to buy back stocks, hike stock values and reward themselves. This does not reflect growing concern for consumers, workers, communities, or even the long-term health of the company. CEOs are plundering their companies to reward their shareholders – and themselves – in the short term. In the long-term, they'll have gotten theirs and will be gone.
Clinton convened a panel of business leaders to echo his views, but the selections didn't help his case. Tony James, president and CEO of Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, praised socially responsible companies, but Blackstone is under investigation for violating anti-bribery laws, and is infamous for its rabid defense of the obscene "carried interest" deduction that enables private equity billionaires to pay a lower tax rate than their chauffeurs. Private equity firms like Blackstone clean up by buying companies, burdening them with debt, taking their money out up front, and then selling off the remains.
Antony Jenkins, CEO of Barclays, suggested there was a "sweet spot" where a company can "create real commercial value" while still doing good. Barclays isn't exactly exploring that sweet spot, having just paid a record fine for illegally co-mingling its depositors funds with its own money, while under separate investigation for, among other things, rigging the Libor and interest rate markets, and for "systematic fraud and deceit" of its investors in its "dark money pool" trading practices.
Policy and law matter. Corporations and the rich have rigged the rules to benefit themselves. They don't deploy armies of lobbyists out of public spirit; they deploy them to carve out exemptions and build in subsidies and defend their privileges. Concern about consumers hasn't stopped turncoat Burger King from doing a foreign merger to duck paying US taxes.
In a later interview, Clinton suggested that the solution for Burger King and other turncoat companies is to reform and lower corporate taxes. But the corporate tax code is complicated because corporate lobbies have carved out exemptions and dodges to avoid taxes. The effective tax rate most US corporations pay is already low. Continuing a race to the bottom – competing with tax havens like the Cayman Islands – is to fall for the rigged game.
We need leaders who understand that the rules have been rigged, and rouse the country to fix them. We need progressive tax reform that raises taxes on the wealthy and treats the income of investors and private equity buccaneers the same as the wages of workers. Corporate tax reform should end deferral of taxes on profits reported abroad, and tax multinationals on the same scale as domestic companies. Executive compensation packages that give CEOs personal multi-million dollar incentives to plunder their own companies, ship jobs abroad, borrow money to hike stock prices and other perversities have to be penalized, not rewarded.
Clinton knows this. His effort to limit excessive executive pay while president carved out an exemption for "performance pay," premised on aligning executive incentives with shareholder value. That led directly to today's perverse compensation packages. It is good that he's predicting that era must come to an end. But it won't happen unless the rules are changed, and new laws passed and enforced. And that won't come out of those who are making out like bandits under the current arrangements. It will require a people's movement that demands the change, and leaders who seek a mandate to make it happen.
(This article was first published at ourfuture.org, the blog of the Campaign for America's Future)
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"Veet Be the Diva" season 3 concluded with much fanfare and razzmatazz in the presence of eclectic jury and gorgeous finalists in Delhi and was won by Shree Radhe Khanduja, The first and second runners-up were Shefali Roy and Rishita Shah respectively.
The winners were chosen from 10 finalists, shortlisted after a well scrutinised selection process. Post a rigorous training of two days, the 10 finalists radiated on stage at a gala event held at The Lalit today. The first round, as the contestants walked the ramp, presented a fine display of charm, poise and determination. The Q&A round which followed demonstrated the inner beauty and confidence of the divas in making.
Veet went one step further with the first ever social walk "Veet Walk of Confidence". 17 beautiful women took to the streets of Delhi, as they celebrated feminity and womanhood with élan. Led by Nargis Fakhri and six stunning models, the 10 finalists of "Veet Be the Diva" contest scorched their way to Red Fort. Wearing hot pink skirts, they confidentially boarded the metro at Patel Chowk, disembarked at Chandni Chowk and rickshawed through the bylanes right up to the Red Fort.
The beautiful Nargis Fakhri felt that "With the social walk, Veet is asking the girl of today to be confident about looking just as beautiful as she feels within, irrespective of where she is, to shine on & celebrate her femininity without being afraid of labels, to believe that beautiful and smart can go together.
"Veet Be the Diva" contest in its third season attracted over 4000 entries across the country, almost 5 times the entries received in the previous season. Regional auditions were held in 4 cities to select 60 girls from the 200 shortlisted contestants. A voting round was initiated on Veet India Facebook page where these 60 girls competed to gather the maximum votes to be amongst the top 10. The jury members of the opulent event were Actress Nargis Fakhri, Nitish Kapoor(GM at RB India) and Anindita Ghosh (Features Editor, Femina).
Veet believes that every woman radiates beauty from within. A Diva is not only a model or an actress; she is the hidden beauty in every woman that's waiting to be enhanced and recognized. With this thought, the annual mega hunt was launched by Veet in 2011.


The exhibition "Meet Van Gogh" is marketed as an immersive experience – and it is not.
As often happens with good books and films, the exhibition by Gabriel Cualladó at the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation stays with you for some time after your visit.
The so-called microvisits to the "Poetics of Emotion" exhibition, which are offered by the CaixaForum every weekend, without the need for reservation and at no additional cost, are a simple and easy way to get closer to contemporary art.
Survival and vulnerability but also courage and freedom. This is the message that all Louise Bourgeois' work exudes and for me she is one of the best artists of the twentieth century, out of both men and women.
Gamification is just one way of applying new digital technology to the museum and heritage sector.
La Infinita, in L'Hospitalet, is a new space of multidisciplinary creation and is the brainchild of Jordi Colomer and his partner, the producer Carolina Olivares.
The AES+F group doesn't care whether they are labelled as frivolous or kitsch. Their aesthetic is generally considered to be on the verge of bad taste.
After the exhibition last year at the Macba "Not here or anywhere", Domènec returns to show the tensions between utopia and reality in modern architecture.
At a time when it is so difficult to see good painting exhibitions in our country, the exhibition by Chancho at Ana Mas Projects is a breath of fresh air.
In the work of this Chilean-born German artist it does not occur to us that she has no arms or whether she is a man, a woman or a transgender person.
At a moment in humanity when time has never been so difficult to find and keep, Polish artist Alicja Kwade (1979) invites us to pass through, listen to and observe space-time.
The work of Charlotte Salomon contains the legend of this woman artist discovered long after her death.
Jaume Sabartés, at certain times proved to be a solid part of Picasso's daily life.


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Twenty-nine-year-old Jillian Cross refuses to believe that a pair of skinny jeans has led to her untimely demise. Life just isn't that cruel. But when an overly-enthusiastic attempt at squeezing herself into them leads her to fall and lose consciousness, she is faced with just that possibility. When she awakens with both a bruised ego and a bump on her head, she's not in her tiny apartment but her childhood bedroom circa 1999-the spring of her senior year in high school. Jillian knows that time travel isn't logical. But then again, neither was her decision to wear skinny jeans. As she attempts to navigate her way through the halls of Reynolds High, walking the same path and making the same choices she made years before, she knows that any change she makes can have a catastrophic effect on her future. But when she strikes up an unexpected friendship with motorcycle-riding, cigarette-smoking Luke Chambers, can she pretend to be the same shy girl she once was? At least she has her pink sparkly flask to take the edge off. One little change won't hurt, right?
Tracy Sweeney graduated from Merrimack College with a degree in Management and Finance but prefers writing ridiculous things to crunching ridiculous numbers. She lives north of Boston with her two young boys and is working on her second novel. You can read her musings at www.tracysweeney.net.