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Dear email,
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In the current issue of Business Spotlight and below, we have a lot of material on the beautiful state of California. The first time I went there, I was a teen and very excited. For this New Yorker, it was like landing on a different planet. As the 80s pop song goes: nobody walks in L.A. There were hardly any sidewalks! But there was a lot of sun, beautiful people, health food, fancy convertible sports cars that drove through the winding canyons at what, today, I would call “German speeds” – and there was a lot of money. You could see, feel and almost smell the money in ways different from those in N.Y.
Scroll down to read about one Austrian who went to work in Silicon Valley, and his experiences there. And, as a bonus, you can take a fun and informative course about California on our ZEIT SPRACHEN app, which we link to below. Also, if you’d like to know what I find zen when I’m at home in N.Y., you can listen to the audio we have for you.
Next week, my co-host Inez Sharp will have some more entertaining stories for you from around the English-speaking world.
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Judith Gilbert
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Editor-in-chief, Business Spotlight
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sidewalk: Gehweg | fancy: schick | convertible sports car: Sport-Cabriolet | winding: kurvenreich, sich windend | co-host: Co-Moderator(in)
Note: Judith's editorial is written in US English.
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Word of the Week
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FAANG
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Did you know...? This is a collective name for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google’s parent company, Alphabet. All are headquartered in California, except for Amazon, which is located in Washington state.
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parent company: Mutterkonzern | headquartered: be ~ in: die Zentrale haben in
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Travel
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New York: ups and downtime
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New York City is often referred to as the city that never sleeps. But what if you need some downtime? Business Spotlight’s editor-in-chief, Judith Gilbert, loves to recharge her batteries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Find out what she loves about the museum, and where else she recommends, by listening to our audio.
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recharge one’s batteries: Kraft tanken
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© Image: Matthieu Joannon / Unsplash.com
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Innovation
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Lighting the way
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To read at night, children need light. But in Africa, about 600 million people don’t have electricity, and many of them can’t afford kerosene oil for lamps. Now, Innocent James, from Tanzania, has found a solution: backpacks with solar panels that charge battery-powered reading lights. His company, Soma Bags, sold 36,000 backpacks across Africa last year, and is working with charities and fashion companies around the world to sell the backpacks.
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kerosene oil: Paraffin | backpack: Rucksack | charge sth.: etw. aufladen | charity: Wohltätigkeitsorganisation
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© Image: UNDP Tanzania/Kumi Media
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Careers
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To Silicon Valley and back again
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Home to some of the world’s most famous tech companies, California’s Silicon Valley is a dream place to work for many people. Pius Binder moved to Silicon Valley to work at Facebook. Learn more about his time there, and what he’s up to now.
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© Image: private
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Quiz
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California slang
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1. What does “YOLO” mean?
A. I’m it (from Spanish)
B. You only live once
C. Yes, or leave out?
2. “Outta pocket” means:
A. cross a line / go too far
B. pay for lunch
C. not my business
3. “Tryna” is:
A. a Californian way of saying “trying to”
B. a Californian clothing brand
C. the last name of California’s governor
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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| Answers: 1. B.; 2. A.; 3. A.
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Companies
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Companies with unrelated side businesses
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It makes sense for a car company like Rolls-Royce to have started making jet engines as well – although these businesses separated in 1973. Other companies, however, own businesses that have nothing to do with each other.
Did you know...?
• Mars Inc., famous for its chocolate, also owns veterinary clinics.
• US consumer goods company Church & Dwight produce condoms, pregnancy tests and... baking soda.
• Bridgestone, the world’s largest tyre maker, also makes golf balls.
• Yamaha makes musical instruments and motorbikes. From 1991 to 2005, the company also made expensive furniture.
Find out more about companies and their unrelated side businesses in the current issue of Business Spotlight!
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veterinary clinic: Tierklinik | baking soda: Backnatron | tyre: Reifen
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© Photos (M): Imago
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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California special
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Hollywood: how streaming hurts | 2028 Olympics: infrastructure in Los Angeles | Wine industry: money, land, lifestyle
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Quiz
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Black history
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Seventy-five years ago, on 25 April 1950, Chuck Cooper became the first African American to be selected in the NBA draft, an annual event by the US National Basketball Association in which teams choose young, budding players. Take our quiz to test your knowledge of other groundbreaking moments in Black history.
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draft: hier etwa: Einberufung | budding: Nachwuchs... | groundbreaking: wegweisend
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© Image: Robin Jonathan Deutsch
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From the ZEIT SPRACHEN App
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🏄 California! 🏄
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Discover what makes California unique in our brand-new course! Host Judith Gilbert will guide you through the state’s cultural, historical and economic highlights – from Hollywood to Silicon Valley.
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© Illustratiion: Pia Spieler
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Mitarbeit: Dennis Draber, Judith Gilbert, Susanne Krause, Nadia Lawrence, Mae McCreary, Richard Mote, Rachel Preece, Inez Sharp.
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