PUBLISHED TUE, MAY 18 20219:17 AM EDT Shawn Baldwin
With more than 1.9 billion drinks served every day, Coca-Cola is one of the world’s largest beverage companies.
毎日19億本の飲料を提供しているCoca-Colaは世界最大の飲料会社の一つだ。
From its humble beginnings selling a single product at a drugstore for 5 cents a glass, the company has grown to have a roster of 200 brands that includes Coke, Fanta and Sprite.
With U.S. soda consumption on the decline, the soft drink maker has been forced to pivot. Coke recently launched Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, marking its first move into alcoholic beverages on its home turf after a four-decade long hiatus. The company has also recently invested in the sports performance drink category with BodyArmor and it purchased U.K. coffee maker Costa in 2019.
アメリカで炭酸飲料の消費が減少する中、このソフトドリンクメーカーは方向性をかえざるを得なくなっている。同社はTopo Chico Hard Seltzerを売り出した。本国でアルコール飲料を出すのは40年ぶりとなる。同社は最近スポーツ飲料のカテゴリーであるBodyArmorに投資をし、イギリスのコーヒーメーカーCostaを2019年に買収した。
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fourteen of the best invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) one-day meeting competitions.
The inaugural season was in 2010.[1] It was designed to replace the IAAF Golden League, which had been held annually since 1998.[2] The full sponsorship name is the Wanda Diamond League, the result of an agreement with Wanda Group that was announced in December 2019.[3]
While the Golden League was formed to increase the profile of the leading European athletics competitions, the Diamond League's aim is to "enhance the worldwide appeal of athletics by going outside Europe for the first time."[1] In addition to the original Golden League members (except Berlin) and other traditional European competitions, the series now includes events in China, Qatar, Morocco, and the United States.
Is Facebook putting company over country? New book explores its role in misinformation | PBS NewsHour
The back of your book has this sort of — a sort of humorous way of pointing out this pattern. This is 14 years of mea culpas, we got it, we understand the problems, from Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg.
Do you get the sense that they really do appreciate that this is an ongoing problem, or is this, these mea culpas, a sort of Kabuki that they go through to keep the regulatory wolves at bay?
Cecilia Kang: The reason why we put those blurbs in the back is because we realized the patterns are what's really powerful.
あのような発言を裏表紙に載せたのは、パターンそのものが力強く語っていると気づいたからです。
And so the dichotomy is, is that, if they continue to want growth to come first here, there will be collateral damage. And so, yes, they do recognize there are problems, and they do try to correct them. But it's always a few steps behind, at least.
Marco Rubio slams 'meaningless' Cuba sanctions as experts say they won't weaken communist regime | Daily Mail Online
'I actually don't think they have any significance,' said Jose Gabilondo, law professor at Florida International University. 'I think their goal is to appease part of Joe Biden's would-be electorate because he did poorly in Florida.
'There were already a quite complex set of sanctions in place.
すでに複雑な一連の制裁が課されています。
'It's kabuki politics.'
歌舞伎みたいな形だけの政治です。
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We're All Supposed to Pretend There's a Serious Investigation of January 6 That Republicans Would Support (msn.com)
"Unless Speaker Pelosi reverses course and seats all five Republican nominees, Republicans will not be party to their sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation of the facts," McCarthy said.
McCarthy expanded on this meretricious kabuki at a subsequent press conference, at which everyone was supposed to pretend that there is any serious investigation of the insurrection that he and his caucus would support.
Carol Leonnig: You know, his public image and getting reelected.
世間のイメージと再選されることです。
Maintaining his grip on power, Judy, was XXXX in everything he did. And one of the takeaways — Phil and I reported this in real time, but when we did that deeper excavation, the big takeaway was how disturbed and unsettled insiders in the Trump administration were about to the degree in which the president was willing to put American lives and democracy in danger, again, for his primary goal, staying president.
From our reporting, Judy, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff believed that this was a XXXX moment, essentially compared president's moves to Hitler's efforts to consolidate power, believed that he was trying to create chaos and disturbance and fear basically to hold on to power, and was worried about this coup.
1. Also called: diet (in medieval Germany) the estates or a meeting of the estates
2. the legislative assembly representing the people in the North German Confederation (1867–71) and in the German empire (1871–1919)
3. the sovereign assembly of the Weimar Republic (1919–33)
4. the building in Berlin in which this assembly met and from 1999 in which the German government meets: its destruction by fire on Feb 27, 1933 (probably by agents of the Nazi government) marked the end of Weimar democracy. It was restored in the 1990s following German reunification
ウィンブルドンの決勝もジョコビッチの安定感を感じた試合でした。今は本当に敵なしの状態です。テニスだけでなく第二言語である英語をここまで使いこなしてすごいですよね。age is just a number（年齢はただの数字だ）というありふれた言葉も彼が言えば説得力があります。ウィンブルドンの公式サイトではインタビューの書き起こしも読めます。
What would you say is the area in which you've improved the most, has been the most important way in which you've become a better player in the last decade?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: All areas, to be honest. I felt like from 15 years ago to today the journey that I've been through has been very rewarding for every segment of my game and also my mental strength, the experience, understanding of how to cope with the pressure in the big moments, how to be a clutch player when it matters the most. That's probably, if I have to pick one, the one that I would point out as the highlight of my, so to say, improvement in my assets that I have in the last 15 years on the tour. Just the ability to cope with pressure.
The more you play the big matches, the more experience you have. The more experience you have, the more you believe in yourself. The more you win, the more confident you are. It's all connected.
Obviously it's all coming together. I feel like in the last couple of years for me age is just a number. I've said that before. I don't feel that I'm old or anything like that. Obviously things are a bit different and you have to adjust and adapt to your, so to say, phases you go through in your career.
But I feel like I'm probably the most complete that I've been as a player right now in my entire career.
自分が知らなかった表現が形容詞clutch。understanding of how to cope with the pressure in the big moments, how to be a clutch player when it matters the most（大事な場面でのプレッシャーの対処方法や一番重要なところでものにする選手になる方法を理解すること）のところ。
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clutch
(米･くだけて)[通例名の前で]決定打となった<プレー･ヒットなど>; チャンスに強い<選手など>
a clutch hitter
[野球]チャンスに強い打者.
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clutch
(North American English, informal, sport)
referring to or performing at an important moment that will decide the result of a game or competition
Miami succeeds in clutch situations better than any other team.
前のブログでよく使っていたオックスフォードのサイトのtext checkerを使ってこの部分を見てみると。Oxford3000の単語が97%使われていました。難しい構文読み取り技術も大切ですが、基本語の運用力の習熟度がコミュニケーションでは何よりも大切なことを物語っているのではないでしょうか。フェデラーもabsence makes the heart grow fonder（遠ざかると思いが募る）という諺表現を知りませんでしたが、彼の英語運用力に疑問を持つ人はいないですよね。じっくり読み解く受験英語的なものよりも、瞬発力を鍛えるTOEIC的なものをYutaが勧める理由はここにあります。
Always having to prove myself, always not being good enough（常に自分自身を証明しないといけなかった。常に飛び抜けて良くなかったから）と語っていたシャポバロフを見て、思い出したのがこの曲。もう少しで30年経ってしまう。時が止まったおじさんであることを自覚させられてしまいました。。。
The young Canadians advanced on Monday to the men’s singles quarterfinals, one in easy straight sets, and the other in a gutty five-set victory. It feels like 2014.
By Ben Rothenberg July 5, 2021
“I think proving people wrong is what has made me who I am today,” Shapovalov said. “I was a kid who grew up without the help of a foundation, on my own with my parents literally spending every dollar that they make from work into my career. Always having to prove myself, always not being good enough, not being chosen to teams and places — it’s always been that for me.”
That sensibility has informed Shapovalov’s off-court passion — his rap career. Though he employs hip-hop tropes about expensive cars and drinking Champagne, Shapovalov’s lyrics also take an antagonistic approach to his perceived detractors.
“They all left me on the ground, they couldn’t see what I was worth; now I’m up in the clouds, don’t belong on this earth,” he rapped in a recent song, “Broken.”
One of the richest women in the world devoted decades to preparing for a pandemic.
Published Dec. 4, 2020Updated May 16, 2021
As the valedictorian of her Dallas high school, Melinda Gates delivered a graduation speech that included a quote attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. “To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived,” she told her classmates, “this is to have succeeded.”
Decades later and billions of dollars wealthier, Ms. Gates says the quote is still ringing in her ears. “That’s been my definition of success since high school,” she said. “So if I have an extra dollar, or a thousand dollars, or a million dollars, or in my case, which is absurd, a billion dollars to plow back into making the world better for other people, that’s what I’m going to do.”
I first reported this pattern of showering money on private corporations while researching my 2015 book, “No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy.” The main argument of the book was that billionaires who make their fortunes through corporate practices that undercut workers and deepen inequality — like corporate tax avoidance, insufficient sick pay and the immoral gap in pay between executives and low-paid workers — are not the solution to problems they generate.
私が資金を民間企業に注いでいるこのパターンを最初に報じたのは2015年の私の本「No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy」を調査していることだった。この本の主要なポイントは企業活動で富を築いた億万長者、労働者を低賃金で働かせ、不平等を広げ、法人税逃れ、不十分な疾病手当、役員と低賃金労働者との道義に反した給与差、彼らが生み出した問題に対する解決策にはならない。
I put it this way: Asking Bill Gates to fix inequality is like asking an arsonist to hose down your house after he just set it on fire. Philanthropists might have the deep pockets to fund the fire engine and water hose, but the money is coming from making our houses unlivable in the first place.
In April last year, the University of Oxford was reportedly considering offering a Covid-19 vaccine developed by its scientists on a nonexclusive basis, which would have made it possible for manufacturers across the world to produce it more cheaply and widely. But then, Kaiser Health News reported, “Oxford — urged on by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — reversed course. It signed an exclusive vaccine deal with AstraZeneca that gave the pharmaceutical giant sole rights and no guarantee of low prices.” A spokesperson for the University of Oxford denied that there were any conversations between Oxford and the Gates Foundation on this matter.
昨年の4月にオックスフォード大学がコロナウィルスワクチンを独占することなく供給することを検討していると報じられた。世界中のメーカーが安く広範囲に製造できるようになるのだ。しかしその後Kaiser Health Newsによれば「オックスフォードはビル＆メリンダ ・ゲイツ財団に促され方針を転換した。アストラぜネカと独占的なワクチン契約を結んだのだ。これでこの製薬大手が独占権を持つので、低価格の保障はなくなった」。オックスフォード大学の広報は本件について大学とゲイツ財団との間にやり取りがあったことは否定した。
This dealmaking left many people aghast. It seemed to conflict with the Gates Foundation’s stated mission to improve global access to medicines, but it’s not surprising to those who’ve long followed the foundation’s proclivity to lend Big Pharma a helping hand. Recently, Melinda told The Times that vaccine makers like Pfizer and AstraZeneca “should make a small profit, because we want them to stay in business.”
このブログではゲイツ財団批判は前にも取り上げていましたが、世界的な危機においても民間企業の利益優先で動いていたのを知ると失望しかありません。世界全体ではなく民間企業のことを第一に考えることはTo know even one life has breathed easier（この世でたった一人でも気持ちが安らいだ人がいることを知ること）であり、彼女は高校生の時からの気持ちを大事にしていると皮肉を言うことも可能ですが、それにしてもこの事例は見逃せないポイントです。
But as America slouches toward plutocracy, our problem isn’t the virtue level of billionaires. It’s a set of social arrangements that make it possible for anyone to gain and guard and keep so much wealth, even as millions of others lack for food, work, housing, health, connectivity, education, dignity and the occasion to pursue their happiness.
There is no way to be a billionaire in America without taking advantage of a system predicated on cruelty, a system whose tax code and labor laws and regulatory apparatus prioritize your needs above most people’s. Even noted Good Billionaire Mr. Buffett has profited from Coca-Cola’s sugary drinks, Amazon’s union busting, Chevron’s oil drilling, Clayton Homes’s predatory loans and, as the country learned recently, the failure to tax billionaires on their wealth.
In a long statement last week, Mr. Buffett defended himself by pointing to his long advocacy for a fairer taxation system, and then he immediately told on himself by undermining the very idea of taxes in the same letter. “I believe the money will be of more use to society if disbursed philanthropically than if it is used to slightly reduce an ever-increasing U.S. debt.”
In other words: I believe in higher income taxes on people like me, but I’m highly organized to avoid having income to report, and I don’t really believe in taxes because I think I should decide how these surplus resources are spent.
Yet because of this, it is often the Good Billionaires who end up with the most illegitimate influence over public life. No one is asking members of the Sackler family for public health advice. But Mr. Gates has become a major policy voice on vaccines despite holding no elected position. Mr. Buffett, for his part, has shied away from that kind of lane hopping and richsplaining, but in donating his fortune to Mr. Gates’s foundation he has pumped up that undemocratic influence.
An NBC News analysis finds at least 165 local and national groups are trying to disrupt or block lessons on critical race theory. NBC reporter Tyler Kingkade explores who is waging this fight, and why. "Opponents are using critical race theory as really more of a catchall to include anything teaching students about systemic racism, any mention of white privilege, and really the definition that they're using has expanded to include anything related to equity, diversity and inclusion," he says.
Olivia B. Waxman @OBWax June 24, 2021 Updated: June 24, 2021 1:46 AM
「批判的人種理論をめぐる論争は、「文化戦争」を再び盛り上げ、選挙に利用したい共和党の思惑が働いたものと言って間違いない。」と毎日新聞の記者の方も書いてくれていますが、TIMEの切れ味を感じられるのはIn short, “Make America Great Again” has evolved into “Teach America’s Great Again.”とキャッチーにまとめてくれているところ。
In short, “Make America Great Again” has evolved into “Teach America’s Great Again.” Candidates for local school boards, which tend to wield power over questions like which textbooks are used, are being grilled about where they stand on historical facts. Like nearly all controversies involving race in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, Americans are joining Team 1776 or Team 1619 along partisan lines. Last fall, the American Historical Association and Fairleigh Dickinson University, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted a national survey on what Americans think about history. In preliminary results shared with TIME, they found that 70% of Democrats said the study of history should “question” the past, while 84% of Republican respondents said the goal was to celebrate it.
The former President is still in on the action too. In a June 18 op-ed on RealClearPolitics, Trump called for a 1776 Commission in every state, the establishment of a patriotic-education corps à la Teach for America, and a voucher program to move kids out of schools teaching CRT.
These tactics mark a new chapter in the culture wars over education, experts say. “Conservative activists have always worried that innocent white American children might be harmed by a traumatic exposure to ideas about race, class and American exceptionalism,” explains historian Adam Laats, author of The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education. “But in the 20th century they did not accuse progressives of teaching racist ideas.”
Like many communities where critical race theory has been a subject of fierce debate, the Rockwood school district does not even teach it. Actual critical race theory is rarely taught below the graduate level.
Parents who agree with Prior are now part of a growing chorus opposing what's known as critical race theory, or CRT, often a graduate level framework that examines how the legacy of slavery and segregation in America is embedded in legal systems and policies.
The thing is, critical race theory isn't being taught here. But that didn't stop dozens of parents from flooding a recent school board meeting to protest it.
Ian Prior: We're not about not teaching history. We're about teaching history in an objective way that is not represented as America is systemically racist.
Ian Prior: So, there's a balancing act here of making sure that there's equal opportunity for all, that we're committed to meritocracy, but also that, when we are trying to figure out how to deal with any kind of social problems, we do not overstep and overreact.
World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty reached the Wimbledon quarter-finals for the first time on Monday, beating French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic 7-5, 6-3.
“In a sense of being in the quarters, I’m happy,” said Barty. “I’m excited. It’s another stepping-stone for me. It’s another first, I suppose. “It’s kind of going to be a new situation, a new scenario, one that I’m going to look forward to.
The spectator was holding a cardboard sign with a message saying 'Allez Opi-Omi' ('Go Granny and Grandpa') and leaning slightly into the road, while looking in the opposite direction to the approaching peloton.
The suspect had brandished a homemade cardboard sign reading "Granny and Grandad" in German on the roadside between Brest and Landerneau as the race began on Saturday. She was looking up the road towards the cameras but with her back to the approaching peloton.
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brandish
(書)«…に»(脅そうと)<武器など>を振り回す; <物>を見せびらかす, 誇示する«at».
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brandish something
to hold or wave something, especially a weapon, in an aggressive or excited way
Video from the race on Saturday showed the woman leaning into the road while holding up a cardboard sign for the television cameras. Because she had her back to the approaching riders, she failed to realize how close the riders were to her position and did not pull the sign out of the way of the racers in time.
The woman can be seen holding a sign with "granny and granddad" written in German. She is looking away from the peloton coming towards her and does not see them approach, while holding her sign too far into the road.
On Saturday, Martin was sent tumbling when he rode straight into a cardboard sign being held out by the woman, who was looking the other way at a television camera, creating chaos with 47 kilometers (29.2 miles) left in the stage.
On Instagram, Martin wrote: “To all the people next to the road who think that the Tour de France is a circus, to people who risk everything for a selfie with a 50 km/h fast peloton, to people who think it’s nice to show their naked butt, to drunken people who push us sideways on the climbs, to people who think that it is a good idea to hold a sign into the road while the peloton is passing. I want to ask this people forcefully: Please respect the riders and the Tour de France!”
