もしその問いが「社会の役に立つか？」だったら迷うことなく役に立つはずです。英語ができて教養もあるような人は日本では今でも稀です。Financial Times に目を通してNew YorkerやEconomistを購読し、新刊や古典も読んでいる人がどれだけいますか。せいぜいTOEFLが何点とか、そんなレベルで終わっている人ばかりじゃないですか。残酷ですがそんな人はたかが知れている人で社会に役に立つほどにはなっていないと思います。
(NEW YORK, NY, November 26, 2017)—Time Inc. (NYSE: TIME) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Meredith Corporation (NYSE: MDP). Under the terms of the agreement, Meredith will make an $18.50 per share cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding Time Inc. shares for a total transaction value of approximately $2.8 billion, including the assumption of debt and net of cash acquired. The transaction has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of Meredith and Time Inc., and is expected to close during the first quarter of 2018. The $18.50 per share price represents a 46% premium over the closing price on November 15, 2017, the day prior to media reports about the transaction, and a 66% premium over the 10-day volume weighted average trading price ending on that day.
An Iowa publisher didn't buy Time for its famous global brands. That's just a sign of the times.
By
Joe Nocera
37
But that day has come. On Sunday evening, Meredith Corp., a magazine company based in Des Moines, Iowa, announced that it was buying Time Inc. It will pay $1.85 billion in cash and assume close to $1 billion in Time Inc. debt. Charles and David Koch are supplying $650 million of that cash, raising fears that they will want to use the magazines, especially Time, to spread their conservative views — just as founder Henry Luce did in the 1930s and 1940s.
I doubt that will happen, but not because I believe the Koch brothers’ promise not to get involved. I just don’t think Time magazine is going to be around much longer, at least not in a form its loyalists would recognize. When Meredith first tried to buy Time Inc. in 2013, it did not want to include Time, Fortune, Money or Sports Illustrated in the deal. There are already rumors that Meredith plans to shut down Time. My guess is that Fortune and Money are goners, too. None of them make money. Meredith publishes magazines for the heartland, like Better Home and Gardens, Family Circle and Ladies Home Journal. The Time Inc. magazines it likely covets are titles like In Style and Real Simple that it can market to its subscriber base.
Yutaは雑誌Economistで最初に読むのは書評のところです。先週号で気になった本はこちら。正直コンラッドは読みやすい作家ではないのでYet readers today are often deterred by Conrad’s convoluted, prolix
styleと書いてあるとほっとします。
Joseph Conrad, the first novelist of
globalisation
Raised speaking Polish and French, Joseph
Conrad didn’t learn English until he was 21. But he became one of the finest of
English writers
In 1948 F.R. Leavis, a well-known literary
critic at Cambridge University, listed him in “The Great Tradition” as being up
there with Jane Austen, George Eliot and Henry James. Eight years later Walter
Allen, another critic, wrote that “Nostromo” was arguably “the greatest novel
in English of this century”. “Heart of Darkness” gained a new audience through
“Apocalypse Now”, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic war film of 1979.
Yet readers today are often deterred by
Conrad’s convoluted, prolix style. This is a pity. Many of his novels and short
stories richly reward perseverance. As Maya Jasanoff, professor of British and
imperial history at Harvard University, argues in a new book that blends
history and literary criticism, Conrad wrote “at the turn of the 20th century”
of many of the global forces and perils that afflict the world today.
*******
Ms Jasanoff says she set out to explore
Conrad’s world “with the compass of a historian, the chart of a biographer, and
the navigational sextant of a fiction reader”, and these have served her well.
Anthony Powell, a novelist, once described Conrad as “an enigmatic figure. The
more we read about him, the less we seem to know him.” This biography may not
fully reveal the mystery behind the man, but it is a powerful encouragement to
read his books.
From financial crises to the threat of
terrorism, the works of the Polish-British author display remarkable insight
into an era, like ours, of elemental change in a globalised world
Maya Jasanoff
Saturday 28 October 2017 12.00 BST
Aterrorist bombing in London, a shipping
accident in southeast Asia, political unrest in a South American republic and
mass violence in central Africa: each of these topics has made headlines in the
past few months. But these “news” stories have also been in circulation for
more than a century, as plotlines in the novels of Joseph Conrad, one of the
greatest and most controversial modern English writers.
******
Today, more than ever, Conrad demands our
attention for his insight into the moral challenges of a globalised world. In
an age of Islamist terrorism, it is striking to note that the same author who
condemned imperialism in Heart of Darkness (1899) also wrote The Secret Agent
(1907), which centres around a conspiracy of foreign terrorists in London. In
the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it is uncanny to read Conrad in Nostromo
(1904) portraying multinational capitalism as a maker and breaker of states. As
the digital revolution gathers momentum, one finds Conrad writing movingly, in
Lord Jim (1900) and many other works set at sea, about the consequences of
technological disruption. As debates about immigration unsettle Europe and the
US, one can only marvel afresh at how Conrad produced any of these books in
English – his third language, which he learned only as an adult.
本自体を読み始めたばかりですが、実際にコンゴに赴いてもいるそうで、New York Timesにも寄稿していました。
“With Conrad on the Congo River,” by Maya Jasanoff (Sunday Review,
Aug. 20), presents the Democratic Republic of Congo as an otherworldly and
exotic place, objectifying its subjects in a way that reeks of condescension
and colonialist attitudes. Ms. Jasanoff does not quote a single Congolese by
name.
She claims that in “The Heart of Darkness,”
Joseph Conrad “portrayed Africa … as irredeemably backward,” yet her own focus
on Congo’s poverty and dysfunction risks repeating the same mistake.
Having traveled extensively in Congo since
1992, I can say that this depiction of Congo shows a limited vision of the
modern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Congo is a troubled country that has faced
international exploitation because of its wealth of natural resources. Yet it
has cities with tall buildings, airports and paved roads. The Congolese people
use cellphones and Twitter, and they fight for democracy and oppose oppression
from both inside and abroad.
The name “Chibanian,” based on a stratum
discovered in Chiba Prefecture, is set to represent the geological age when the
latest reversal of the Earth’s magnetic fields is believed to have occurred, a
Japanese national research institute said Monday.
Strata of rock discovered in Chiba
Prefecture could be recognized as a boundary on the international geologic time
scale, which would be a first for Japan.
Japanese scientists have suggested calling
the geologic age “Chibanian” after the strata or rock in question found in the
city of Ichihara.
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A geological period
from 126,000 to 770,000 years ago will highly likely be named “Chibanian,” a
group of Japanese researchers said Monday.
According to the team, including
researchers from Ibaraki University and the National Institute of Polar
Research, an expert committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences
has concluded that a stratum in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, is the most
suitable place for observing a geological time scale shift 770,000 years ago.
be set to 動詞 / could 動詞/ will highly likely 動詞と微妙な違いがありますが、可能性が高いものの100%確実ではないというニュアンスを込めた表現になっています。
The name “Chibanian,” based on a stratum
discovered in Chiba Prefecture, is set to represent the geological age
Strata of rock discovered in Chiba
Prefecture could be recognized as a boundary on the international geologic time
scale
A geological period from 126,000 to 770,000
years ago will highly likely be named “Chibanian,”
Louvre Abu Dhabi will open to the public on
Saturday Nov 11 with a spectacular week long series of celebrations, it was
announced Tuesday during a media tour of the iconic architectural masterpiece
designed by Jean Nouvel.
The museum is opening to the public on
Saturday after a decade of delays and questions over labourers’ rights in the
capital of the United Arab Emirates.
And other facts
about Bible translation that transformed the world.
BEN WITHERINGTON
III
The Latin Vulgate
was the Bible that Luther first studied, but he soon became aware of its
deficiencies as he delved into the Greek text to discover his revolutionary
insights. That led Luther to another realization: if things were really going
to change, it would not come just by debating theology with other learned
souls. The Bible needed to be made available in the vernacular (in this case
German) and needed to be widely available. In my view, the most dangerous thing
Luther ever did was not nail the 95 Theses to a door. It was translating the
Bible into ordinary German and encouraging its widespread dissemination.
(?1492–1536) an English priest who supported
the reformation (=the time when many Christians in Europe left the Catholic
religion and started the Protestant religion). The Authorized Version of the
Bible is partly based on his translations. He was killed by being burned to
death because of his religious beliefs.
（オックスフォード）
William Tyndale
(c. 1494-1536) an
English writer who translated the Bible. His work as a translator was opposed
in England and he was forced to live in Germany, where he produced the first
English version of the Bible between 1525 and 1531. This later became the basis
for the King James Version of 1611. He was burnt alive in Belgium as a heretic.
記事でこのTyndaleに触れているところです。ロングマンもオックスフォードも取り上げていることですが、King James Versionの基盤となった翻訳なんですね。
Perhaps the most
poignant tale of this era is that of William Tyndale. Tyndale lived from
1494–1536 and was martyred for translating the Bible into English. Tyndale,
like Luther, translated directly from the Hebrew and the Greek, except
presumably for cross-referencing and checking. He actually only finished the
New Testament, completing about half of his Old Testament translation before
his death. His was the first mass-produced Bible in English.
Tyndale originally
sought permission from Bishop Tunstall of London to produce this work but was
told that it was forbidden, indeed heretical, and so Tyndale went to the
Continent to get the job done. A partial edition was printed in 1525 (just
three years after Luther) in Cologne, but spies betrayed Tyndale to the
authorities and, ironically, he fled to Worms, the very city where Luther was
brought before a diet and tried. From there, Tyndale’s complete edition of the
New Testament was published in 1526.
As Alister McGrath
was later to note, the King James Version (KJV), or Authorized Version, of the
early 1600s (in several editions including the 1611 one) was not an original
translation of the Bible into English but instead a rather wholescale taking
over of Tyndale’s translation with some help from the Geneva Bible and other
translations. Many of the memorable turns of phrase in the King James—“by the
skin of his teeth,” “am I my brother’s keeper?” “the spirit is willing but the
flesh is weak,” “a law unto themselves,” and so forth—are phrases Tyndale
coined. He had a remarkable gift for turning biblical phrases into memorable
English.
For this and
various reasons, many of the budding Protestant movements on the Continent and
in Great Britain were not happy with the Great Bible. The Geneva Bible had more
vivid and vigorous language and became quickly more popular than the Great
Bible. It was the Bible of choice for William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell,
John Bunyan, John Donne, and the pilgrims when they came to New England. It,
not the KJV, was the Bible that accompanied them on the Mayflower.
The Geneva Bible
was popular not only because it was mass produced for the general public but
also because it had annotations, study guides, cross-references with relevant
verses elsewhere in the Bible, and introductions to each book summarizing
content, maps, tables, illustrations, and even indices. In short, it was the
first study Bible in English, and again note, it preceded the KJV by a
half-century. Not surprisingly for a Bible produced under the aegis of John
Calvin’s Geneva, the notes were Calvinistic in substance and Dissenting
(disagreeing with the Church of England) in character. That was one reason the
kings of England produced “the Authorized Version.” They needed a Bible that
didn’t question Dieu et mon droit (meaning “God and my right,” the monarch’s
motto that suggested his sovereignty).
Min Jin Lee: In
1989, I attended a college lecture featuring an American missionary who worked
with the ethnic Korean population in Japan. He told a story about a 13 year-old
Korean-Japanese boy who had been bullied by his Japanese classmates, and I
couldn’t stop thinking about it. After college, I
went to law school, practiced law for two years then quit. From 1996-2003, I
worked on one version of the book about the Korean-Japanese people, but it was
no good. I moved to Japan in 2007, and I started a new version and worked on
that one for nine years. I’ve wondered why I wanted to write this book, and I
think it’s because I’m an American of Korean descent. As an immigrant child in
a new land, I had been treated with far, far greater acceptance than that boy.
I know we can do better.
“Many of today’s zainichi are
fourth-generation, so they’re hardly immigrants anymore. They are essentially
Japanese,” Professor Ukiba added. Outright discrimination has faded, he said,
since the period depicted in “Pachinko” — the 1910s through the 1980s — but has not disappeared. Some bigotry has moved
online, where trolls depict zainichi as “cockroaches” or fifth-columnists for
nuclear-armed North Korea.
Ms. Lee spent
nearly two decades conceiving, writing and rewriting “Pachinko.” The seed was
planted in 1989, when, as a student at Yale, she attended a talk by a
Protestant missionary who had spent time among the zainichi. Until then, she
said, she had never heard of this branch of the Korean diaspora. Growing up in
the United States, she was used to Koreans being viewed as hardworking and
upwardly mobile, a model American minority. But many zainichi, she was
surprised to discover, languished at the bottom rungs of Japan’s socioeconomic
ladder.
“My level of research became a little
neurotic,” she said. Although she was a Korean immigrant herself, she was
entering a completely new world.
For ethnic Koreans
in Japan, one route to economic improvement has been pachinko, a pastime
derived from pinball. Played by millions of Japanese at noisy, smoke-filled halls,
many of which are operated by zainichi, pachinko occupies a legal and social
gray zone. The game itself is legal, but the gambling that inevitably
accompanies it is not.
“Instead of banning it, Japan tolerates it
but disparages the people who run it,” said Ms. Lee. She sees a parallel with
Koreans’ place in Japanese society: deeply established, yet not fully accepted
as legitimate members.
The wealthiest man
in the twentieth century mastered the art of minimum-wage employees selling you
stuff. The wealthiest man of the twenty-first century is mastering the science
of zero-wage robots selling you stuff.
The greatest
threats to modern civilization have come from people and movements who had one
thing in common: controlling and perverting the media to their own devices in
the absence of a fourth estate that was protected from intimidation and
expected to pursue the truth. A disturbing aspect of today’s media duopoly,
Facebook and Google, is their “Don't call us media, we're a platform” stance.
This abdication from social responsibility, enabling authoritarians and hostile
actors to deftly use fake news, risks that the next big medium may
前回の英検ではChurchill and GallipoliとGallipoliが出たそうですが、この本でもさらっとフェイスブックのザッカーバーグの失敗について触れるときに比喩として使われていました。
The most powerful
force in the universe is regression to the mean. Everyone dies, and gets it
wrong along the way. Mark Zuckerberg has been (very) right about a lot of
things and was due to make an enormously bad call. And he has. Technology firms
do not (yet) have the skills to shape people's decisions on what to wear in
public. People care (a lot) about their looks. Most don't want to look like
they've never kissed a girl. Remember Google Glass? It got people beaten up. The
bottom line is everyone wearing a VR headset looks ridiculous. VR will be to Zuck
what Gallipoli was to Churchill, a huge failure that shows he can be (very)
wrong, but won't slow his march toward victory. The company is still positioned
to dominate the global media market— and reinvent advertising for the
twenty-first century.
I have much
pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the
following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has
been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
"His
Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a
national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to
facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that
nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political
status enjoyed by Jews in any other country".
I should be
grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist
Federation.
I have much
pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the
following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has
been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
"His
Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a
national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to
facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that
nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political
status enjoyed by Jews in any other country".
I should be
grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist
Federation.
NZ Post Board
Chair Jane Taylor today announced that David Walsh will take up the role of
Chief Executive Officer at NZ Post, with effect from 1 May 2017.
The announcement
follows the notice of retirement last year of Sir Brian Roche.
“Following an extensive search, which
considered candidates from New Zealand and overseas, I have much pleasure in
announcing David Walsh as our new CEO,” said Ms Taylor.
Mr Walsh has been
at NZ Post for two years as Chief Financial Officer and has provided executive
leadership to the Information Technology function.
バルフォア宣言にあったI have much pleasure in conveying to youでの動詞conveyはTOEICでも登場していますが、下記のようなもので手紙の書き出しで誰かに伝えるというような使われ方ではありませんでした。
Rather than shying
away from academic subject matter, Dr. Park conveys it through storytelling
methods that a nonacademic audience can appreciate: anecdotes, personal
impressions, and poetic descriptions.
IN THE summer of
1974, a 26-year-old Mayan villager lay drunk in a town square in the Guatemalan
highlands. Suddenly he heard a voice that was to change the course of his life
and that of his home town, Almolonga. “I was lying there and I saw Jesus
saying, ‘I love you and I want you to serve me’,” says the man, Mariano
Riscajche. He dusted himself down, sobered up and soon started preaching,
establishing a small Protestant congregation in a room not far from the town’s
ancient Catholic church.
Half a millennium
earlier, a 33-year-old German monk experienced something similar. At some point
between 1513 and 1517, Martin Luther had a direct encounter with God and felt
himself “to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise”. His
moment of being born again was private. The day on which he is said to have
nailed a list of 95 complaints about ecclesiastical corruption to the church
door in Wittenberg, Saxony—widely thought to have been October 31st 1517—made
the private public and, soon, political. A mixture of princely patronage,
personal stubbornness and chance led what could have ended up as just another
minor protest in a remote corner of Europe to become a global movement.
Here I Stand: Wars
of the Reformation 1517-1555 is the first game in over 25 years.to cover the
political and religious conflicts of early 16th Century Europe. Few realize
that the greatest feats of Martin Luther, Jean Calvin, Ignatius Loyola, Henry
VIII, Charles V, Francis I, Suleiman the Magnificent, Ferdinand Magellan,
Hernando Cortes, and Nicolaus Copernicus all fall within this narrow 40-year
period of history. This game covers all the action of the period using a unique
card-driven game system that models both the political and religious conflicts
of the period on a single point-to-point map.
アマゾンの絶賛レビューも見ておきます。
A magnificent
historical game and simulation
投稿者Kenneth Winland2012年4月30日 - (Amazon.com)
This game is a
charmer!
One of the best
wargames and simulations out there for the early years of the reformation. VERY
fun and involving with an INCREDIBLE level of historicity. Not too complex, but
it is detailed with many steps. It is recommended for 3-6 players, but you
REALLY want 5-6 players for this rascal. The time is estimated at 3-8 hours,
and indeed it will take HOURS - not due to complexity, but due to ACTIVITY! A
perfect game to play over a looooong day or over several afternoons.
One of the best
historical games published in the last 40 years!
上記に加えてChief Digital Information OfficerとChief Technology Officerという役職がTOEICでも使われていました。
Chief Digital
Information OfficerってCIOなのか、CDOなのかタイトルだけだと分かりづらいです。WikipediaはCIOでもCDOでもChief Digital Information Officerの呼称を紹介していますし。。。
(Wikipedia)
Chief Information Officer
Chief information
officer (CIO), chief digital information officer (CDIO) or information
technology (IT) director, is a job title commonly given to the most senior
executive in an enterprise responsible for the information technology and
computer systems that support enterprise goals.
Chief Digital Officer
A Chief Digital
Officer (CDO) or a Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) is an individual
who helps a company, a government organization or a city drive growth by
converting traditional "analog" businesses to digital ones using the
potential of modern online technologies and data, and at times oversees
operations in the rapidly changing digital sectors like mobile applications,
social media and related applications, virtual goods, as well as
"wild" web-based information management and marketing.[1]
さらにCTOとの違いについても触れています。紛らわしいのは英語ネイティブにとっても同じなのでしょう。TOEICで登場したChief Digital Information Officerの方は企業ITシステムでの個人情報漏洩だったのでCIO寄りかなと思いますが、まあそのような違いをTOEICの受験では意識する必要はないでしょう。
(Wikipedia CIOの項目)
Distinction
between CIO, CDO and CTO
The roles of Chief
Information Officer, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Technology Officer are
commonly blurred. Tom Silver, the North American senior vice president for
Dice, states that CTOs are concerned with technology itself, whereas CIOs are
much more concerned with its applications in the business and how this can be
managed.[14]
More specifically,
CIOs manage a business’s IT systems and functions, creates and delivers
strategies and policies, and places great emphasis on internal customers. In
contrast to this, CTOs place emphasis on the external customers to the
organization and focus on how different technology can make the company more
profitable.[15]
The traditional
definition of CTOs focused on using technology as an external competitive
advantage now includes CDOs who use the power of modern technologies, online
design and big data to digitalise a business.
冒頭で紹介した記事にもあったようにChief Digital Officerの方は新しい役職のようでケンブリッジビジネス辞典では見出語がなかったです。CIOとCTOがあったのとは対照的です。
（ケンブリッジビジネス）
chief information
officer
* the person who
is in charge of the department that deals with the computer systems in a
company or organization:
As chief
information officer he was responsible for the company's policy on employees'
use of social networking sites in the workplace.
* the person in
charge of giving out information about a company or organization to the public:
The chief
information officer sent out a press release about several new products.
chief technology
officer
*the person who is
responsible for the technical needs of a company or organization:
The city's chief
technology officer hopes to get new computer systems into all city schools by
next year.
英国政府系の組織でもchief digital information officer (CDIO)いるそうで、ちょうどTOEICのダブルパッセージにぴったりの話題があったのでご紹介します。CDIOの求人についてと、新CDIOの紹介についての記事です。どちらもTOEIC頻出表現にあふれています。
HM Revenue &
Customs are looking to hire a CDIO to lead the department’s digital agenda,
with a potential salary of up to £180,000
HM Revenue &
Customs (HMRC) are in the process of recruiting a new chief digital information
officer (CDIO) at director general level, following Mark Dearnley’s departure
in autumn 2016.
Dearnley left the
department and returned to the private sector in September, in the midst of
HMRC’s transition away from its £800m-a-year Aspire contract.
The department is
now looking for a CDIO to lead its work on making HMRC one of the “most
digitally advanced tax administrations anywhere in the world”, offering pay of
up to £180,000.
記事中are looking to hire a CDIO / are in the
process of recruiting a new chief digital information officer (CDIO) / is now
looking for a CDIOと類似表現が使われていますね。求人要件のところもおさえておきたいです。
According to the
job advertisement, the CDIO will “shape and transform the way HMRC works – developing
the capability to provide better online services to the taxpayer and customer
to achieve faster and more effective models of delivery at optimal cost”.
“The role requires the ability to engage and
lead people, as well as position HMRC in the cross-government agenda playing a
full role across Whitehall and supporting smaller government departments.”
次の記事は数ヶ月後に採用が決まり採用者を発表しています。Wright will be accountable to drive forward
HMRCs' ambitious digital transformation agendaとaccountableが職務を表す表現としてresponsibleに近い意味で使われています。
HMRC appoints
Jacky Wright as its new Chief Digital and Information Officer to take over from
the departing Mike Potter
By Chloe
Dobinson September 15, 2017 CIO UK
Jacky Wright will
leave her role at Microsoft Corporation as corporate vice president to become a
Chief Digital and Information Officer at HMRC.
Wright will be
accountable to drive forward HMRCs' ambitious digital transformation agenda,
taking over from the departing Mike Potter who will be taking up a new role as
Director of Future Borders. She is reputably known in the industry as a senior
executive who is a global leader and innovative technologist, and will take up
her new post on 16 October 2017.
抱負を語る就任者のコメントも語り口に慣れておきたいですね。
Wright said:
"There could not be a better time in the history of technology to
demonstrate the power of technology innovation at an organisation such as HMRC.
I am really excited to be joining the UK's tax authority at such a pivotal time
in its history.
"I am
passionate about the impact innovation can have in truly transforming services
for people and businesses in a positive way and want to continue the great work
being done within HMRC and across the Civil Service at this time.
As a senior
executive for Microsoft, Wright has previously held senior roles at a number of
large organisations including BP, GE and Andersen Consulting.
一方で迎え入れる側の期待を込めたコメントの語り口もいつも似ていますのでチェックしておきます。exceptional candidateとかmarks an exciting new phaseなんかはTOEICで出てもよさそうです。
HMRC chief
executive Jon Thompson said: "I'm delighted to welcome Jacky to HMRC as
our new Chief Digital and Information Officer. Jacky was an exceptional
candidate and this appointment marks an exciting new phase for us as we
continue towards our vision of becoming a world-class organisation.
"Jacky is a
seasoned commercial leader with 'best in class' credentials, globally.
Balancing strong operating experience with a record of driving innovation,
Jacky is widely recognised for her contributions to technology and diversity.
Her influence as a technology leader and as a champion for the role of women
and BAME in industry, is a major win for this organisation.
International Judo official expresses hopes
Israeli symbols will be allowed next time, after row over Abu Dhabi refusing
anthem, flag
By TOI STAFF
29 October 2017, 1:06 am
On Thursday, event organizers refused to
play the Israeli national anthem or display the Israeli flag when Israeli
judoka Flicker won the gold medal in the men’s under-66 kilogram category. The
same day, the flag was left out when Gili Cohen won bronze on the women’s side
in under-52 kilogram class.
Flicker sang out his own private “Hatikvah”
under the International Judo Federation’s (IJF) flag, as the federation’s
anthem played in the background.
I have much pleasure in conveying to you,
on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy
with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by,
the Cabinet.
"His Majesty's Government view with
favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,
and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this
object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may
prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other
country".
I should be grateful if you would bring
this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
The British pledge to establish a ‘Jewish
national home’ in Palestine is being celebrated and condemned as a divisive
anniversary approaches. By Ian Black
For 100 years the British statement, which
inaugurated Zionism’s legitimation in the eyes of the world, has been seen as
the isolated act of a single nation. The truth is much different.
The Zionists collected other endorsements,
some outright, some with emendations. The most important came from Italy and
Japan—the two states that, along with Britain and France, would participate in
the San Remo conference and become permanent members of the Council of the
League of Nations. In May 1918, the Italian government pledged to Sokolow to
help “facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish national center
(centro nazionale ebraico).” In January 1919, Japan informed Weizmann that “the
Japanese Government gladly take note of the Zionist aspirations to establish in
Palestine a national home for the Jewish people and they look forward with a
sympathetic interest to the realization of such desire.” (Similar endorsements
came from Siam and China, the other two then-independent states of East Asia.)
Sceptics
can point to plans elsewhere for “smart cities” (such as Masdar in the United
Arab Emirates) that are launched with much fanfare but fail to live up to the
hype. In Saudi Arabia itself, the King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh is
a $10bn white camel. Will NEOM be different?
It
starts, at least, with the credibility that comes from its big-name supporters.
At the launch were an ebullient Masayoshi Son, the Japanese head of a $100bn
“Vision Fund”, and Stephen Schwarzman, head of Blackstone, a private-equity
giant. Klaus Kleinfeld, a former boss of Arconic, Alcoa and Siemens, is to be
NEOM’s chief executive. The prospect of creating a dynamic zone without the
barriers to enterprise found elsewhere in the country has such people genuinely
enthused.
雑誌版のタイトルはSaudi Arabia’s reforms There’s no place like NEOMだったのですが、これはThere's no place like home（我が家にまさる所なし）のバリエーションですね。ただEconomistのことですから、「NEOMみたいなところはない」と計画の実現不可能性を皮肉っているかもしれません。
There's no place like homeのようなことわざ表現は専用の辞書で調べた方が詳しいようで古代ギリシアのヘシオドスまでさかのぼれることがわかります。
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There's no place like home
Home is the best of all places. This saying
comes from the song “Home, Sweet Home.”
Home is the place where people feel most
comfortable and contented; often said by somebody on his or her return: “ They
. . . were only come now to stay a few weeks on account of their father's death;
but they did so like Marsh End and Morton, and all these moors and hills about.
They had been in London, and many other grand towns; but they always said there
was no place like home” (Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847). The proverb is of
ancient origin, occurring in the Greek poet Hesiod's Works and Days (eighth
century B.C.) It was popularized in the song “Home, Sweet Home” (1823) by J. H.
Payne: “'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,/Be it ever so humble,
there’s no place like home.”
By Glen Carey, Vivian Nereim and
Christopher Cannon
October 26, 2017
Pink Scarf
A promotional video released on Tuesday
features a lifestyle so far unavailable in Saudi cities.
It showed women free to jog in leotards in
public spaces, working alongside men and playing instruments in a musical
ensemble. The one woman wearing a hijab had her head covered with a patterned
pink scarf. Although the futuristic city will be business friendly, the
government won’t allow alcohol, Prince Mohammed said.
“We can do 98 percent of the standards applied in similar cities, but
there is 2 percent we can’t do, like, for example, alcohol,” the prince said.
“A foreigner, if they desire alcohol, can either go to Egypt or Jordan.”
Even by Saudi standards, the area where
they are building the city is conservative. Along the coastal road, there are
no tourist facilities and restaurants that allow women, other than the recently
opened Golden Tulip Sharma Resort.
The MoU with the SoftBank Vision Fund will
see the development of a 3-GW solar energy capacity in 2018
By Bernd Debusmann Jr
Thu 26 Oct 2017 09:50 AM
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF)
and the SoftBank Vision Fund have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to
create a 'Solar Energy Plan 2030' for the kingdom.
Signed during the Future Investment
Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, the new initiative includes an agreement to develop
Saudi Arabia’s first 3-Gigawatt solar generation capacity in 2018. This will
take place through the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), which is 74.3 percent owned
by PIF.
