日立與法國公司承建英國高鐵（High Speed 2 ，簡稱：HS2） 倫敦至曼徹斯特一小時可達

 

日立與法國公司承建英國高鐵（High Speed 2 ，簡稱：HS2）      倫敦至曼徹斯特一小時可達

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【新聞眼】日立與法國公司承建英國高鐵 倫敦至曼徹斯特一小時可達

日立製作所和法國阿爾斯通公司在二零二一年十二月九日發布消息，將會在英國建設新一代高速鐵路項目「高速鐵路2號（High Speed 2 ，簡稱：HS2）」的五十四輛列車（圖），包括車輛製造和十二年的維護協議，訂單大約為二十億英鎊（約二十五億美元）。
HS2將會打通倫敦、伯明翰以及曼徹斯特三市，從倫敦出發只需四十分鐘即可抵伯明翰機場、一小時內可抵達曼徹斯特機場，比現在的兩小時半快了很多。
這是日本企業首次在歐洲接到新一代高速鐵路訂單，將推動日本鐵路技術。HS2最高速每小時三百五十至四百公里，是歐洲行駛速度最快的列車。
日本科技衝出海外，背後成功的秘訣是「在地化」：不只是聘用日本工程師，更要與歐洲工程師溝通、理解他們的需求、讓在地化的專才加入管理層，並且做出符合歐洲市場的產品。
日本近年在科技的突破，已經使到它（從二零一四年至今）在歐洲的訂單價值上升三倍，但是仍然比中國提出三千億的歐洲高鐵網少許多。可是日本也不簡單，「經團連」前會長中西宏明透過技術數位化拯救了日立這被稱為「下沉的巨艦」的公司，讓它們成功打入國際市場。

Britain’s House of Lords...None of its 800 members are elected, and 92 of its seats are hereditary. How is this possible today?

 Britain’s House of Lords is one of the world’s largest legislative assemblies – only China’s National People’s Congress is bigger. None of its 800 members are elected, and 92 of its seats are hereditary. How is this possible today?

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Arcane, hereditary, all-male — and at the heart of British democracy
How a small blue-bloode

London’s bridges are falling down

 Cockneys have long joked that north and south London are separate cities. Bridge closures mean that increasingly they are

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London’s bridges are falling down
It is unclear whom to blame—and that is the reason for the problem

The lamps are going out all over Britain, the aim is to save money

 

Oddly, the people who care most about climate change are most opposed

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The lamps are going out all over Britain
Overwhelmingly the aim is to save money

“提高水平”要求英國成為科技大國 英國政府將向賽茲韋爾C核電站投資17億英鎊

 

科學 “提高水平”要求英國成為科技大國 佩恩：英國政治人士與科學的關係很彆扭，但加大對科學的投入是實現約翰遜首相“提高全國經濟發展水平”雄心的最靠譜途徑。

核電 英國政府將向賽茲韋爾C核電站投資17億英鎊 英國政府希望自己對賽茲韋爾C項目的融資參與能夠吸引來自英國、美國和其他國家的投資者，為其核電複興提供資金支持。

大英博物館BM把舊報紙（British Newspaper Archive，BNA)電子化

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#大英博物館免費線上展出500萬頁報章雜誌

近期英國的大英博物館正在把舊報紙電子化（British Newspaper Archive，BNA)宣布從8月9日起，將已經完成的部份免費給大家線上閱讀！

這次免費分享的是從西元1720年到1880年的100萬頁資料，而從今而後4年內將每年釋放其中的100萬頁，總共500萬頁可以免費閱讀。（文末附BNA連結）

BNA將把大英博物館館藏的歷史資源公開，其中將要電子化的資料不只包含大英帝國，還包含了牙買加、印度、紐西蘭的舊大英國協王國所出版的全國性報紙、週刊、體育、時尚流行、政治等刊物，合計約有4400萬頁資料化。其中館藏報紙佔了10%，截至目前每個月50萬頁資料收入完成。

如果想要全部資料閱覽吃到飽，每年需要負擔80英鎊（台幣3100元）。

BNA網站。閱覽前需要先註冊。

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匈牙利奧爾班總理的試驗才開始

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屠龍者終​​成惡龍？參與東歐劇變，歷經10年統治，奧爾班現在要面對的是一個逐漸聯手，以結束他總理生涯為目標的聯合反對黨團。而復旦大學布達佩斯分校計劃，在向東看還是向西看這一議題上，起到了民意試水的作用。

“上世紀八九十年代，中國商人湧入布達佩斯，奠定瞭如今的布達佩斯華人群體雛形，促進匈牙利成為中國在東歐地區的關鍵夥伴國；到2000年左右，因匈中關係不斷發展，布達佩斯也開啟了匈中雙語學校”，“中國和匈牙利的友誼，長久以來並沒有威脅到布達佩斯的歐盟-大西洋關係，直到現在”，“原因出在中國崛起，和奧爾班試圖打造專制政權這兩個因素的結合”：這是匈牙利極右翼民粹反對黨Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom（尤比克爭取更好的匈牙利運動）今年5月下旬的一篇觀點，題為“中國是不是在利用奧爾班來破壞歐洲？”其中主要觀點是：中國有權出於自身利益，在國際競爭場更活躍，因此匈牙利人民才越來越擔心奧爾班政府對中國一邊倒的依賴，這種依賴已經超過了商業和文化範疇；無論是匈塞鐵路還是複旦分校，中國為奧爾班政權提供的幫助，完全不帶有民主或法律的條件，與此同時歐盟則逐漸對奧爾班的腐敗反民主政權展現出堅定姿態，然而和中國友好，決不能夠損害到匈牙利向西方做出的政治承諾。

立足西方，立足歐盟，這是摩拳擦掌準備2022年議會選舉取匈牙利總理維克多-奧爾班代之者們共同的思路。上文所提的極右翼民粹反對黨Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom（尤比克爭取更好的匈牙利運動）黨主席Péter Jakab近期民調在各反對派當中支持率較高，他與布達佩斯市長的反對黨等共6大政治力量決議以合力“迎戰”歐洲懷疑論者奧爾班。

屠龍者終​​成惡龍？參與東歐劇變，歷經10年統治，奧爾班現在要面對的是一個逐漸聯手，以結束他總理生涯為目標的聯合反對黨團。而復旦大學布達佩斯分校計劃，在向東看還是向西看這一議題上，起到了民意試水的作用。 6月初的周末大遊行，數千人在布達佩斯街頭拒絕復旦分校落地。如果說反對派政治家有選舉考量，那麼民眾反對複旦分校，更多是因為這一校園建設計劃投入成本和全匈高等教育系統資費呈誇張比例，需匈財政撥款，和占成本八成的來自中國貸款，擔心因此增加納稅人的負擔，更何況，原定該地要建造“學生城”，可以為8000名匈牙利學生提供吃住娛樂體育系列設施，而這個“學生城”的場地，被執政黨“就這樣賣給了中國的大學”。此外，還有示威者擔心接受復旦分校，會向外界，尤其是歐盟，發出有關人權的錯誤信號。

Elisabeth I, 1533~1603. :Rainbow, Pelican, Phoenix Portraits

The Pelican Portrait by Nicholas Hilliard. The pelican was thought to nourish its young with its own blood and served to depict Elizabeth as the "mother of the Church of England".^[51]

The Phoenix and the Pelican: two portraits of Elizabeth I, c.1575

The ‘Pelican’ portrait, Queen Elizabeth I
associated to Nicholas Hilliard,
Oil on panel
© Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

The ‘Phoenix’ portrait, Queen Elizabeth I
associated to Nicholas Hilliard
Oil on panel
NPG 190

These two portraits of Elizabeth I (1533-1603), recently examined for Making Art in Tudor Britain were painted when the queen was in her early forties, almost half way through her reign. They show the queen wearing remarkable pendants at her breast: one depicting a phoenix and the other a pelican (see details shown below).

Both emblems were regularly employed by the queen. The face pattern used for these portraits is similar to a miniature of the queen by Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619) (see image below).

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Elizabeth I
The "Darnley Portrait" of Elizabeth I (c. 1575)
Queen of England and Ireland  (more...)
Reign	17 November 1558 – 24 March 1603
Coronation	15 January 1559
Predecessors	Mary I and Philip
Successor	James I
Born	7 September 1533 Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, England
Died	24 March 1603 (aged 69) Richmond Palace, Surrey, England
Burial	28 April 1603 Westminster Abbey
House	Tudor
Father	Henry VIII of England
Mother	Anne Boleyn
Religion	Church of England

May 26 is #WorldRedheadDay! The English Tudor Queen, Elizabeth I, was very particular about her appearance and especially proud of her red hair. Her ladies in waiting are said to have spent around four hours a day on her makeup and clothing. Incidentally, in this famous portrait the Queen wears a wig – it was painted when she was in her late sixties, when she had long since turned grey.
Rainbow Portrait Elisabeth I, c. 1600-1602
attrib. Marcus Gerards the Younger or ……
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The bonds that hold England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland together are weaker

Future of the union
From United Kingdom to Untied Kingdom

The bonds that hold England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland together are weaker than at any time in living memory
LeadersApr 17th 2021 edition


Apr 15th 2021



The united kingdom was not born in glory. The English conquest of Ireland in the 17th century was brutal, motivated by fear of invasion and facilitated by the superiority of Cromwell's army. The English takeover of Scotland in the 18th century was more pragmatic, born out of Scottish bankruptcy after an ill-fated American investment and English worries about France. But the resulting union was more than the sum of its parts: it gave birth to an intellectual and scientific revolution, centred on Edinburgh as well as London; an industrial revolution which grew out of that, enriching Glasgow as well as Manchester and Liverpool; an empire built as much by Scots as Englishmen; and a military power which helped save the world from fascism.

That union is now weaker than at any point in living memory. The causes are many, but Brexit is the most important. Political leaders in London, Edinburgh and Belfast have put their country at risk by the way they have managed Britain’s departure from the European Union.

歐洲“疫苗戰” ：Europeans have grown worryingly sceptical about AstraZeneca's covid-19 vaccine over the past month...

歐洲“疫苗戰” ：意大利當局在羅馬附近的一家工廠發現了2900萬劑阿斯利康新冠疫苗庫存，這使人懷疑該公司正試圖將這些疫苗偷運至英國或其他國家，而非在歐盟分發。週三，歐盟宣布了一項緊急規則，賦予其限制在歐洲生產的疫苗出口的權力，以緩解其供應短缺。這種不同尋常的保護主義立場有可能在歐盟與英國這個前成員的脆弱關係中引發新的危機。

歐盟委員會提議疫苗出口新規，可更輕易對疫苗出口設限

歐盟委員會提議發佈新規，為歐盟各國政府阻止新冠疫苗出口創造便利。此舉很可能會加劇歐盟與英國的緊張關係，還有可能損害歐盟與其他國家的關係。

Europeans have grown worryingly sceptical about AstraZeneca's covid-19 vaccine over the past month, according to polling data released by YouGov.
More than a dozen countries in Europe paused their roll-out of the jab last week after reports of blood clots.
Many of them are now inoculating again after the EU’s drug regulator said in a preliminary review that it was safe to do so.
Read why the region's vaccination drive could remain in trouble
https://econ.st/3tNN16V

歐洲衛生當局稱阿斯利康新冠疫苗好處大於風險

 

歐洲衛生當局稱阿斯利康新冠疫苗好處大於風險

歐盟衛生當局表示，仍堅信阿斯利康新冠疫苗的好處大於風險，儘管該聯盟的幾個國家已因血栓擔憂暫停使用該款疫苗。

Britain’s new trading relationship with the EU will lead to the economy being around 4% smaller than it otherwise would have been

Britain’s new trading relationship with the EU will lead to the economy being around 4% smaller than it otherwise would have been

ECONOMIST.COM
The cost of Brexit becomes apparent
Filling the GDP gap it has created will be hard

英国一份报告称中英学术合作对英构成安全风险......导致英国的大学对中国形成“战略依赖”，带来诸多风险。

 据英国《金融时报》3月4日报道说，英国的一份研究显示，英国大学与中国合作伙伴进行联合研究以及在英国留学的中国学生人数的快速增加导致英国的大学对中国形成“战略依赖”，带来诸多风险。该研究敦促英国“急迫地”加强监测本国与威权政权之间的学术联系。

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英国一份报告称中英学术合作对英构成安全风险
调查显示，在英国大学许多高影响力科学技术学科的研究中，逾五分之一的研究都涉及与中国的合作。

一周世界舆论聚焦：世界核心经济技术或将分化成“三个世界”格局 2021-03-01

英国大学对政府收紧对华合作审查感到困惑 2021-02-22

COVID-19: Four passengers fined £10,000 each for lying about flying from 'red list' country.The 33 red list countries are:

 

The group flew into Birmingham Airport on Monday but did not say they had been to one of the government's 33 "red list" countries within the past 10 days, according to West Midlands Police

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COVID-19: Four passengers fined £10,000 each for lying about flying from 'red list' country

The 33 red list countries are:

• Angola
• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Burundi
• Cape Verde
• Chile
• Colombia
• Democratic Republic of Congo
• Ecuador
• Eswatini
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Lesotho
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Portugal (including Madeira and the Azores)
• Rwanda
• Seychelles
• South Africa
• Suriname
• Tanzania
• United Arab Emirates (UAE)
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

The Dundee Three: Great Thinkers that Changed our World.

 I'm one of the 'Dundee Three' being discussed by Keith Skene in this new evening class:

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The Dundee Three: Great Thinkers that Changed our World

The Dundee Three : Great Thinkers that Changed our World. A 3 week course with Keith Skene. 24th Feb - 10th March 2021. Class size 25 max.

• Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson : the great zoologist and a true polymath. He was the author of the book On Growth and Form, penned in Dundee, which would have widespread impacts on anthropology, architecture and developmental biology. He challenged Darwinian thinking, setting out a new theory of Structuralism, and inspiring others.
• Patrick Geddes : an extraordinary thinker, his work spanned ecology, botany, social science and town planning. Major design projects included Tel Aviv, inner-city transformations of Edinburgh and many cities in India. He transformed the subjects of urban renewal and of sociology, setting out a framework that would go on to inspire many urban planners and theorists including Lewis Mumford.
• Robert Smith. Raised in the Dundee Hilltown, Smith studied under Geddes and would become the first plant ecologist in Britain. He died aged 27, but by then had established ecology as a field of study in Britain, a legacy, which his brother William, saw to its completion.