今日ご紹介したニュースです😌
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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
今日ご紹介したニュースです😌
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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 (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56133281)
#英語 #NASA #火星
17 Feb 2021
#25 聞き流し英語ニュース | ビットコイン、初の５万ドル突破
今日ご紹介したニュースです😌
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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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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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