聞き流し りっぺの英語部‪屋‬ Rippe

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1. Many people dream of relocating to a tropical island, but few make it happen.



2. Canadian restaurateur Neal Van Beers and his partner, Charmaine Sanchez, made their dream a reality — that is, by spending $30,000 to stay at a luxury resort in the Maldives for up to a year.



3. The couple swapped snowy British Columbia for the Maldives in December by purchasing the Anantara Veli resort's "Unlimited Stays in Paradise" package. 



4. The $30,000 package allows two people to stay "as often as you please" in one of the resort's luxury overwater bungalows until December 23, 2021. It includes daily breakfast, transportation, and discounts on dining and the spa.



5. Van Beers has been able to work remotely from the Maldives, though he says the only downside is that Canada is 12 hours behind. 



6. Van Beers starts his day with a coffee, then he settles into his workspace: a desk next to an ocean-view window. He then checks emails and does some admin before heading to breakfast.



7. The couple spends the rest of the day exploring the island and taking part in outdoor activities, including snorkeling, scuba diving, and swimming. They also pass the time by reading and taking cooking classes. By dinner time, Canada has woken up, so Van Beers would reply to more emails or take a meeting.



8. The Maldives is among many countries that offer various remote-working schemes. Travelers can enter the country on a 30-day visa, which can be extended to 90 days, which Van Beers and his partner have done.



9. Van Beers said that although he's been having a great time, he has missed some of the comforts of working in an office. He said the resort has provided printing services and a stable WiFi connection, though.

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https://www.insider.com/couple-remote-working-maldives-anantara-resort-unlimited-stay-year-2021-2





#英語 #モルディブ #リモートワーク

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1. The American space agency has released an astonishing image sent back from Mars by its Perseverance rover.

2. It shows the robot heading down to the ground on Thursday to make its landing. Perseverance has a large amount of data in its memory banks which it is gradually offloading to Earth.

3. Among other pictures is a view from a satellite that captures the rover in the parachute phase of its descent.This also represents an immense technical achievement because the satellite - the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - was approximately 700km from Perseverance at the time and traveling at about 3km/s.

4. Nasa is promising more in the next few days. This offering will include short movies shot during the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) sequence - with sound.

5. Perseverance has been put in a near-equatorial Martian crater known as Jezero where it will search for signs of past microbial life.

6. Engineers report Perseverance to be in good health, as they gradually commission its systems. All the hardware needs to be assessed to be sure nothing was damaged during Thursday's plunge through the Martian atmosphere to the ground.

7. The science team was itching to start exploring the crater, said deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan.
Even now, with just this limited first release of pictures, there were fascinating rocks to discuss, she told reporters.

8. Its initial mission will last one Martian year (roughly two Earth years), although it's hard to see the agency not extending this if all the hardware remains healthy.

9. As well as searching for signs of life, Perseverance's other key objective is to select and package rock samples that can be brought back to Earth laboratories by later missions.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56133281


#英語 #NASA #火星

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1. Bitcoin blew through another milestone, surging past $50,000 for the first time as the blistering rally in the largest cryptocurrency continues to captivate investors worldwide.



2. The world’s largest cryptocurrency jumped as much as 4.9% to $50,548 and is now up about 70% so far this year. Bitcoin pared its gain after setting the record high. Ether, a rival crypto, hit a record on Friday and is up about 140% year-to-date.



3. After ending last year with a fourth-quarter surge of 170% to around $29,000, Bitcoin token jumped to $40,000 seven days later. 



4. It took just nearly six weeks to breach the latest threshold, buoyed by endorsements from the likes of Paul Tudor Jones, Stan Druckenmiller and Elon Musk. Bitcoin traded for a few cents for several years after its debut more than a decade ago.



5. Optimism grew after Mastercard Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. moved to make it easier for customers to use cryptocurrencies, while Bloomberg reported Saturday that Morgan Stanley may add Bitcoin to its list of possible bets.

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記事の全文はこちらから↓ 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/bitcoin-jumps-to-50-000-as-record-breaking-rally-accelerates





#はじめまして #英語 #ビットコイン #bitcoin

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1. New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered the country's biggest city Auckland to go into lockdown after the discovery of three new local cases of Covid-19.



2. The measures will last three days and require residents to stay at home.



3. New Zealand has won widespread praise for its handling of the pandemic, going months without community transmission.



4. New Zealand, with a population of five million, has recorded just over 2,300 cases of Covid and 25 deaths.



5. The measures in Auckland require its 1.7 million residents to stay at home except for essential shopping and work. Schools and non-essential shops will close, and entry in and out of the city restricted.



6. Ms Ardern said three days should allow the government to get more information and get more testing done, and would also help determine if there was any community transmission.



7. "New cases of Covid-19 in the community was something none of us wanted to happen,"  Auckland Mayor Phil Goff said, adding the restrictions were the "best way to stamp out the virus".

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56059960



#英語 #ニュージーランド #covid19

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1. Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely.



2. The prototype is made by a Danish company from an extra-strong paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner.



3. But the goal is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing gas escaping from carbonated drinks.



4. But industry giants are backing the plan. Coca-Cola, for example, has set a goal of producing zero waste by 2030.



5. Coca-Cola was ranked the world's number one plastic polluter by charity group Break Free From Plastic last year, closely followed by other drink-producers Pepsi and Nestle.

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記事の全文はこちらから↓ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56023723





#はじめまして #英語 #コカコーラ #cocacola

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1. Spotify said Friday that it will let employees choose wherever they want to work, whether that's from home, in an office or a mix of the two -- and let them move to different cities and even countries. 



2. The program, called Work From Anywhere, allows Spotify employees to pick a Work Mode, deciding with managers whether they'll work full time from home, from the office, or a combo. 



3. The company is also introducing more flexibility for workers to choose their geographic location, letting them decide with their managers what city and country they'd like to work from, with some limitations because of time zone difficulties and regional laws. 



4. Spotify will even arrange a membership to a co-working space for employees who move to a location without a Spotify office nearby, if that employee still prefers to work in an office environment, the company said in blog posts about the new program. 



5. Work, Spotify said, isn't someplace you go, it's something you do -- and the company won't measure effectiveness by the number of hours spent in an office. 

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https://www.cnet.com/news/spotify-will-let-employees-work-wherever-they-want-even-after-pandemic/





#英語 #Spotify