It is certain that when money clinks in the
money chest, greed and avarice can be increased; but when the church
intercedes, the result is in the hands of God alone.
Economistは大した扱いはなく、今年に限ってはドイツ全土で祝日になったけれども10月31日を祝日としているところはプロテスタントが優勢な地域に限られているという現状を取り上げていました。Hamburgers complain they get too little indulgenceというのは宗教改革で免罪符としておなじみの贖宥状indulgenceにかけたものです。
VALUES & IDEALS Perhaps nowhere are
Luther’s legacy and the various ways the book is affecting everyday life more
evident than in Chattanooga, Tenn., the Appalachian city where public monuments
quote Scripture and honor devout churchmen who helped make it the unofficial
Bible capital of the world.
It’s 500 years since Martin Luther defied
the authority of the Catholic church. It’s time for a similar revolt against
the hypocrisy of the religion of technology
Please keep an eye out for Taste of Italy
pastry chef Salvator Ribisi. He will be opening his own bakery within the
coming months,
*****
Bakery Gets Technological
MOMBASSA (June 10) - Incredible Cravings, a
nationwide bakery and pastry chain with more than 28 store locations, has
introduced a new way to use technology to better serve its customers.
完全に網羅しているわけではありませんがTOEICに登場するパンとお菓子です。
bread / sandwich
cake / crepe / cupcake / mousse / muffin / pancake
/ pastry / pie / tart
What’s for dinner? There’s nothing
in my fridge that I want to eat. How am I going to find time to go grocery
shopping?
夕食を何にしようか。冷蔵庫には食べたいものがない。どうやって買い物に行く時間をやりくりしようか。
Shopping for groceries can be a
hassle for my busy family. We need to make the time to go to the store, make
sure we find everything on our list (and a few things that likely weren’t), lug
them home and then put them away.
Hello, Priceway Grocery shoppers. It’s our
fifth anniversary, and we’re celebrating with a special sale this week. You’ll
find savings on everything from canned goods to fresh fruits and vegetables.
And make sure you stop by our bakery
VP, Walmart eCommerce Strategy
& Business Operations
September 22, 2017
What’s for dinner? There’s nothing
in my fridge that I want to eat. How am I going to find time to go grocery
shopping?
Shopping for groceries can be a
hassle for my busy family. We need to make the time to go to the store, make
sure we find everything on our list (and a few things that likely weren’t), lug
them home and then put them away. Sometimes this can be a fun trip, but more
often, we’re either pressed for time or, worst of all, can’t make the trip,
leaving us with an empty fridge that has us munching on unhealthy snacks,
instead of our typical fresh fruit, vegetables and yogurt.
またここでは最後のleaving
us with an empty fridge that has us munching on unhealthy snacks, instead of
our typical fresh fruit, vegetables and yogurt.を読むと、スーパーで定期的に補充が必要なour typical fresh fruit, vegetables and yogurtがgrocery shoppingの範疇にあることが想像できます。例えば下記の動画を見てもgroceryは生鮮食料品を指しています。
ロングマンやWikipediaでも食料品がメインのような書き方をしています。
（ロングマン）
groceries
[plural] food and other goods that
are sold by a grocer or a supermarket
(Wikipedia)
Grocery Store
A grocery store is a retail store
that primarily sells food. A grocer is a bulk seller of food.
Grocery stores often offer
non-perishable food that is packaged in bottles, boxes, and cans; some also
have bakeries, butchers, delis, and fresh produce. Large grocery stores that
stock significant amounts of non-food products, such as clothing and household
items, are called supermarkets. Some large supermarkets also include a
pharmacy, and customer service, redemption, and electronics sections.
Time for fresh thinking about the
changing economics of geography
Oct 21st 2017
These remedies will not work. The
demise of NAFTA will disproportionately hurt the blue-collar workers who back
Mr Trump. Getting tough on immigrants will do nothing to improve economic
conditions in eastern Germany, where 20% of voters backed the far-right
Alternative for Germany. But the self-defeating nature of populist policies
will not blunt their appeal. Mainstream parties must offer voters who feel left
behind a better vision of the future, one that takes greater account of the
geographical reality behind the politics of anger.
Economic theory suggests that
regional inequalities should diminish as poorer (and cheaper) places attract
investment and grow faster than richer ones. The 20th century bore that theory
out: income gaps narrowed across American states and European regions. No
longer. Affluent places are now pulling away from poorer ones (see article).
Better for politicians to focus on
speeding up the diffusion of technology and business practices from
high-performing places. A beefed-up competition policy could reduce industrial
concentration, which saps the economy of dynamism while focusing the gains from
growth in fewer firms and places. Fostering clusters by encouraging the
creation of private investment funds targeted on particular regions might help.
このあたりは微妙です。。。そういう取り組みは日本の経済産業省でもすでにやっているからです。Easier said than doneなところですね。ただクラスター形成の重要性はこの記事を読むと十分に理解できます。Briefingではアマゾンの２番目の本社の場所選びもクラスターに注目して決断するのではとしていました。
ただEconomistの提言の中身はともかく、締めコメのような問題意識は重要ですよ。今回の日本の選挙ではfor libertarians, freeing up the economという立場が見られませんが。。。
Perhaps most of all, politicians
need a different mindset. For progressives, alleviating poverty has demanded
welfare; for libertarians, freeing up the economy. Both have focused on people.
But the complex interaction of demography, welfare and globalisation means that
is insufficient. Assuaging the anger of the left-behind means realising that
places matter, too.
What makes a great leader? How can
leadership be developed into a force for true achievement? The David Rubenstein
Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations explores successful leadership through the
personal and professional choices of the most influential people in business.
Renowned financier and
philanthropist David Rubenstein travels the country talking to leaders to
uncover their stories and their path to success. Each episode features an
interview with one business leader.
Season Three
Episode 1: Brian Roberts, Comcast
CEO
Episode 2: Phil Knight, Nike
Co-founder
Episode 3: Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist
Episode 4: Paul Singer, Elliot
Management Founder and Co-CEO
Episode 5: Presidents Bill Clinton
& George W. Bush
Episode 6: Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO
Episode
7: Dr. Francis Collins, National Institute of Health Director
Episode 8: Leslie Moonves, CBS CEO
Episode 9: Abigail Johnson,
Fidelity Chairman
Episode 10: Masayoshi Son, SoftBank
Chairman & CEO
In 2017 it seems that everyone is
in everyone else’s business, and the list foreshadows the coming battles as
various industries, and the titans who captain them, increasingly weave
together into one.
24
MASAYOSHI SON
Not ranked last year
BIG NUMBER $100 billion: the size
of SoftBank’s “Vision Fund”—the biggest tech fund on the planet.
CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT Overtook Bill
Gates as the world’s richest person for a brief, glorious, four-hour span.
EVIDENCE OF VULCAN CHESS MASTERY
Bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, which sent Amazon’s stock soaring beyond
the value of the acquisition itself.
BIG NUMBER $5 billion, the amount
Amazon says it will invest in building and operating a second headquarters in
North America. The city of Tucson “bid” for the site by sending Bezos a giant
cactus.
EVIDENCE OF BIONIC ENGINEERING
Bezos showed up at this year’s Sun Valley retreat with bulging biceps and a
Terminator-esque countenance, spawning an Internet meme frenzy.
WORKOUT REGIMEN “Heavy weights and
whiskey. Not simultaneously.”
2
MARK ZUCKERBERG
Last year’s rank: 2
CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT Led Facebook
to two billion users worldwide, making it nearly as ubiquitous as running water.
BIG NUMBER $3 billion, the amount
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged to spend to try to cure,
prevent, or manage all diseases in existence.
RARE DISPLAY OF MORTALITY Said it
was “crazy” to suggest that Facebook may have swung the election. Later
admitted that Facebook hadn’t done enough to crack down on real fake news.
QUIXOTIC QUEST Has spent the year
visiting all 50 U.S. states, hobnobbing with truckers and farmers and spawning
relentless rumors that he will run for president in 2020. (He won’t, he says.)
3
TIM COOK
Last year’s rank: 11
CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT With a market
cap north of $800 billion, Apple is on track to be a trillion-dollar company.
RARE DISPLAY OF MORTALITY As
consumers reject the new MacBook Pro and Apple arrives late to the game with
HomePod, an Echo wannabe, the company is clinging to the iPhone for more than
half of its revenue—an inauspicious strategy, since phone sales are predicted
to decline.
MORTIFYING TRUMP MOMENT Cook showed
up at Trump Tower in December to kiss the ring, then went to the White House in
June to try to convince Trump of the importance of coding in schools.
4
LARRY PAGE
Last year’s rank: 13
EVIDENCE OF VULCAN CHESS MASTERY
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, gained ground on at least one competitor in
the self-driving-car space this year when it took Uber to court for intellectual-property
theft. Fallout from the lawsuit could kneecap Uber’s autonomous-vehicle
endeavors for years to come.
RARE DISPLAY OF MORTALITY Some of
Alphabet’s projects—notably Fiber, its Internet division—have struggled in the
past year as Google C.F.O. Ruth Porat pressures them to make money.
BIG NUMBER $47.2 billion: Page’s
net worth, a new record high.
5
ELON MUSK
Last year’s rank: 5
LATEST CONQUESTS This year alone,
Musk has launched rockets into space (and landed them back on earth), showcased
a plan to create colonies on Mars, and built an affordable electric car.
BIG NUMBER $63 billion, Tesla’s
market capitalization, which makes it the world’s most valuable car-maker.
At this time, the safety concern
described in this SIB is not considered to be an unsafe condition that would
warrant Airworthiness Directive (AD) action under Regulation (EU) 748/2012, Part
21.A.3B.
日経だと4点あげているんですが、箇条書きとしては3点ですよね。。。
Recommendation(s):
Until further information becomes
available, allowing refinement of the scope of the problem and determination of
its potential significance to safety, EASA makes the following recommendations:
- All organisations that may have
specified or used Kobe Steel products should do a thorough review of their
supply chains in order to identify if, and when, Kobe Steel products have been
used in their product designs and fabrications.
Note 2: At this time, no definitive
timescale has been identified for the period of time during which this problem
has existed, so current production should be prioritised.
- In addition to informing their
customers, production and repair approval holders are advised to inform their
competent authority of the use of such materials, if not already known by the
competent authority.
- Design approval holders are
advised to establish the scope of use of affected parts in its products, paying
particular attention to identifying such material usage in more critical
applications, e.g. Primary Structure, Principal Structural Elements, Critical
Parts and Systems. Where alternative suppliers are available, it is recommended
to suspend use of Kobe Steel products until the legitimacy of the affected
parts can be determined.
All organisations that may have
specified or used Kobe Steel products should do a thorough review of their
supply chains in order to identify if, and when, Kobe Steel products have been
used in their product designs and fabrications.
(2)関係者は当局に神鋼製の部品の使用状況を報告する
production and repair approval
holders are advised to inform their competent authority of the use of such
materials
(3)代替製品を生産できる企業がある場合は、神鋼製品の合法性が確認できるまで使用を停止する
Where alternative suppliers are
available, it is recommended to suspend use of Kobe Steel products until the
legitimacy of the affected parts can be determined.
動画の最後にイディオムが使われていました。こういうのも知識がないと勘違いしやすいですよね。
kobe is japan's third largest steel
producer. They have apologized and said they’re investigating quality issues
and improper conduct but investors are already jumping ship. The company lost
about a third of its market value this week.
Life today is busier than ever. You
have a lot to get done and often don’t have enough time to squeeze all in. What
if you didn’t feel like you have to be in two places at once to get everything
done. Walmart just may have a solution. It’s a new concept we’re testing with companies
like August Home. The idea is you can choose to receive orders from walmart.com
not just to your door and left on the front porch but securely inside your
home. If you’re not home, rather leaving the package on the front porch, the
driver enters one-time used code using August Home App. You’re alerted the
moment the driver enters the code into the keypad and can even watch the deliver
as it happens through home security cameras. At Walmart, we’re testing all
kinds of new ways to make shopping faster and more convenient so you don’t have
to be in two places at once. We’re moving faster to find more ways to save you time
and money because, well, you have a lot to get done.
This
is why for the women of Saudi Arabia, Sept. 26, 2017, the day the monarchy
announced that it plans to overturn the driving ban, will be remembered as our
Emancipation Day. It is every bit as monumental for us as Aug. 18, 1920, was
for American women, the date the 19th Amendment giving them the right to vote
was ratified.
And then, in 2011, came a wave of
pro-democracy protests across the Arab world. Ms. al-Sharif was back in Saudi
Arabia by then, living in the Aramco compound, a divorced single mother to her
son, Abdalla.
She had bought a car. She was
allowed to drive inside the Aramco compound.
Does anyone have progress to report?はanyoneをyouにprogressをany progressとしたほうが検索ヒット数が増えました。検索結果を見てもレポートの進捗をしているのではなく、報告できるような進捗について話していることがわかります。
'The time is 8.30 a.m., Monday,
June the thirteenth. This is the seventeenth briefing of Operation Icon,' Roy
Grace said to his team in the Conference Room. ' Does anyone have any progressto report since our briefing of yesterday morning?
Annalise Vineer raised her hand.
'Yes, chief. I've been going
through the list of members of the West Sussex Piscatorial Society supplied to
me by their secretary, and the list of all people who had any involvement with
this club. I've found someone with a link to Sonery Farm.
Do you have any progress to report?の方がが検索ヒット数は断然多かったです。
JC: Well yes, we have just reported
the result of the VELOUR study for aflibercept in the second line treatment for
colorectal cancer, which has met its primary end point of overall survival,
which clearly is very encouraging for the VEGF program.
*********
“I’ll keeping working on the plan
and refining it Im open to suggestions if anyone has any ideas, please let me
know. Mike,do you have any progress toreport?”
Mike told the group about his
progress with the key and added, “So while I have pretty easy access when
Hightower's out of the office, I can't get the key while he's there. I need to
have a backup plan …
Do you have any progress to
report?と同じようにIs
there any progress to report?という表現も使われていました。
“Police are continuing their
investigation into the murder of Ms. Bonner.” TV reporter Ken Ford spoke in hushed
tones into his handheld microphone as, in the background, the simple casket was
carried into St. Anselm's. “With me is homicide
detective Lieutenant Tully. . . .” The
picture widened to include Tully's impassive face. “Lieutenant,” Ford asked,
“is there any progress to reportin this case?”
“We're following leads.
There's been some progress. But there'snothing really new to report.” Tully looked
away from the camera, creating the true impression that he was uncomfortable
being interviewed.
じゃあ「〜についての進捗」を聞いたい場合はと言えば、Is there any progress
on ...?のようになるようです。
Q8:You told me that you were
consideringto write a story based on your experiences visiting Japan. Isthere any progress on that project?
A8: Hmm, I had in fact
forgotten my reckless promise to write such a story. The thing is, William
Gibson has written so much about Japan in his books, and he's done it so well.
***********
'All right. I appreciate
loyalty.' Alicgave the man a sympathetic smile. 'Sois there any progress on the Martiancase?'
'Sorry, not a thing. Nobody
can think what they needed that data for.
雑誌Natureの最新号では、国際的に門戸を開いた研究が引用を生む優れた結果を生み出しているという考察をそれぞれ切り口は違いますが2つ紹介していました。これはトランプ政権の入国制限やイギリスのEU脱退の影響を意識していて、社説のタイトルもScience without wallsとトランプの政策を念頭に置いていますね。
International mobility and
collaboration are linked to stronger research.
04 October 2017
This week, Nature’s Comment section
publishes two bibliometric analyses that suggest international mobility has
similar science-boosting effects.
The first finds that researchers
build strong links between nations as they travel around the world. The authors
track 16 million individuals who published papers in 2008–15. Only about 4% of
these people changed countries, but those who did had 40% higher average
citation rates than those publishing solely in one region, a trend that held
true across 13 regions. Importantly, mobile scientists retained ties in the
countries they left.
The second argues that countries
with mobile scientific workforces produce papers that are more highly cited.
(These are the same countries that have the greatest fraction of
internationally authored papers.) The analysis shows that a nation’s willingness
to let scientists cross borders was a better predictor of highly cited papers
than was the proportion of its gross domestic product that it spent on
research.
Caroline S. Wagner and Koen Jonkers
find a clear correlation between a nation's scientific influence and the links
it fosters with foreign researchers.
Countries that are highly 'open'
and that produce high-impact research seem to benefit from participating in
international collaboration. This is seen in the higher impact of smaller
nations, which cluster in the top-right quadrant of the graphic (see 'Open
countries have impact'). Singapore, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,
Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark all scored highly on this measure as well as on
citations. The correlation between openness and citation impact was tight (r2 =
0.7 according to a regression analysis) regardless of R&D spending or
numbers of articles published.
Countries with low openness and low
impact include Russia, Turkey and Poland, China, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, the
Czech Republic and, against expectations, South Korea (which spends a higher
percentage of its GDP on R&D than almost every country, including the
United States) These countries are shown in the lower-left quadrant.
（中略）
In Japan, especially, output and
citation impacts have remained flat since 2000. Japan is also among the least
internationalized of leading nations, and this could be dragging on its
performance. Lack of professional mobility, as well as language barriers, may
be hindering engagement.
カズオ・イシグロの受賞で「日本人すげえ」の人が勢いづいていますが、日本の将来はどうなるのか心配になります。でも「日本人すげえ」の人たちはこのような研究を読んでもSouth Korea (which spends a higher percentage of its GDP on R&D
than almost every country, including the United States)のあたりを喜んで「ざまあ」と言っておしまいなんでしょうか。。。
Richard Branson loved Saudi Arabia
so much, he wants to invest in it.
The Virgin founder toured Saudi
attractions last week including heritage site Madain Saleh and a section of Red
Sea coast that's slated to become a major tourist destination.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Culture
and Information said that Branson would become an investor in the projects.
"Branson has become the first
international investor to commit to involvement in the Red Sea Project and
nearby [Madain Saleh], another prime site for the development of tourism, both
domestic and international," the ministry said in a statement.
Project will be developed by the
sovereign wealth fund
Groundbreaking expected in 2019,
first phase by end of 2022
Saudi Arabia wants to turn hundreds
of kilometers of its Red Sea coastline into a global tourism destination
governed by laws “on par with international standards” as part of its plan to
transform the economy and reduce its reliance on oil.
The project will cover 50 islands
and 34,000 square kilometers -- an area bigger than Belgium -- between the
cities of Umluj and Al Wajh to attract “luxury travelers from around the
globe,” according to an official statement sent to Bloomberg on Tuesday. It
will be developed by the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, with the first work
expected in two years.
“If you can’t
change restrictions on alcohol and dress, that market disappears,” said Crispin
Hawes, London-based managing director at Teneo Intelligence, referring to
foreign tourists.
Tourists will either not require a
visa or will be able to obtain one online. One of the documents referred to the
project as a “semi-autonomous” area governed “by independent laws and a
regulatory framework developed and managed by a private committee,” a sign that
it could ease strict rules applied elsewhere in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom’s
austere interpretation of Sunni Islam bans alcohol, imposes a dress code,
limits gender mixing and prevents women from driving cars.
1. To be set again: waiting for the
bowling pins to reset.
語法大好きの人からすると辞書にない使われ方を嫌うんでしょうけど。TOEICのシチュエーション、衛星テレビチャンネルのアカウントのリセットをカスターマーセンターにお願いしたという状況を考えると、the account will reset のように表現したほうが自然だと思います。他動詞にして衛星テレビ会社がアカウントをリセットしますとわざわざ主語に衛星テレビ会社を持ってくる必然性は低いからです。
Resetting your television
remote-control device will delete individual settings and restore all functions
to the standard manufacturer settings. To perform a global reset, follow the
steps below.
Please note: Following the steps
below will reset all of the key functions on the remote, clearing the remote
address, TV and AV codes, as well as any programmable buttons.
Step 1
Cover the end of the TiVo remote
control with your hand.
Step 2
Press the TiVo button and the TV
POWER button simultaneously until the red light comes on.
Step 3
Press THUMBS DOWN three times, then
ENTER. The red light on the remote should go out. If it doesn't, repeat this
step.
Please note: If you press the wrong
button, just press CLEAR to start over.
Step 4
Remove your hand from the end of
the TiVo remote control.
*Please note: After performing a
global reset, you can reprogram your remote.
There are several ways to restoring
a roland AT-900 to it’s factory setting. Choose one of the following ways:
on the Main screen, touch SYSTEM
> UTILITY > FACTORY RESET > OK
on the Main screen, touch QUICK
GUIDE > press the One Touch Program button > touch OK
just simply power ON while
simultaneously holding the One Touch Program button
Warning! This procedure will return
all of the settings to the values when the AT-900P was shipped from the
factory. Do not use this function unless you are certain that you want to do
this. This also applies to the Roland AT-900C, AT-900, AT-800, AT-500, AT-300
units, (for AT-100 and AT-75 units, Third step only). Hopefully the article of
“Performing a Global Reset in Roland AT-900 Atelier Organ” can help you.
This is an incredibly
exciting time in the country’s history and I’ve always felt that there’s
nothing like getting a first-hand impression. It was quite an experience to be
there on the day that women were given the right to drive for the first time.
In a country where women’s rights still lag behind the West, this was a huge
announcement and a much-welcomed sign of progress and one welcomed by every
woman we met.
As a kid if I was asked who
my hero was, I would say Lawrence of Arabia. So it was a real treat to visit
the railway that was once a target for Lawrence of Arabia in the revolt against
Ottoman domination. The train I am standing next to was one that he blew up in
the conflict, which has been restored back to the track.
英語学習的には以下のtreatの使い方を見てみます。
So it was a real treat to
visit the railway that was once a target for Lawrence of Arabia in the revolt
against Ottoman domination.
