New Mexico wildfire has charred at least 4,000 acres and shows no sign of containment

連休に入ってる読者諸氏もおられるかと思いますが、英語の習慣化は数行でも良いので目を通し、音読し、興味ある単語、構文を学びましょう！

America で又大規模なWildfireが発生していますと言う報道です。

(CNN)The Three Rivers Fire has burned 4,000 acres in New Mexico and has not been contained, according to a press release on the New Mexico Fire Information site.
The fire "is being driven by steep terrain and extreme fire weather conditions, including gusty winds and low humidity levels around 8 percent," the release said.
There has been no containment of the blaze, which is burning about 60 miles northeast of White Sand National Park and about three hours south of Albuquerque.
"The fire started ½ a mile north of Three Rivers Campground and has spread almost to Ski Apache and into the South Fork Bonito area," the release said.

Curator Coffee Chat: Let’s Talk About The Basics

週末の英語の習慣化です。

とうとう緊急事態宣言発令されちゃいましたね...大阪も今日から... 何のDataも証明されず、ただ恐怖で出される緊急事態宣言...
知事さん連中は勉強しているんでしょうか？こんな事態はどんな人でも政治家になれるって証明でしょ！

皆さんはしっかりお勉強して根拠のある英語力と理解力を養いましょう！

Coffee Breakですからお気楽に流しましょう！

You’re invited to our next community conversation! In our next Curator Coffee Chat , which takes place on Wednesday, May 5, at 10 AM PDT/ 1 PM EDT, we’ll discuss The Basics on Flipboard. 

Whether you are an avid Flipboard user or haven’t yet created an account, this event is for you. We’ll discuss everything you need to know to create thoughtful, engaging Magazines and how to recommend stories about your interests with your community through curation. We’ll talk about the intention, mindset, and many use cases for curating on Flipboard. Join our upcoming Flipboard Curator Coffee Chat: Let’s Talk About The Basics event to learn all about curtation and to talk with the Flipboard team and curator community— and bring your cup of coffee.

Georgia mom blasts school board for making kids wear COVID face masks: ‘Take these masks off of my child’

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英語の習慣化のお時間です。

又、緊急事態宣言発令があるみたいですね。1年以上もコロナに晒されてきたのに、政府も、各知事さん達も何も学んでないのでしょうか？

Maskに対しても、小児に対して特に危険性が、医師達からも注意喚起がなされているにもかかわらず、相変わらず、日本も世界もヒステリック状態です。

そこで、Americaの母親が発言をしていると言う記事です。

週末、記事を読みながら考えましょう！

A Georgia mom is going viral after she grilled school board members for making young children wear masks and socially distance despite there being little evidence that kids are severely at risk of contracting COVID-19.

Courtney Ann Taylor slammed the Gwinnett County Board of Education members at a meeting on April 15, telling them that she’s heard the same talk for over a month about kids’ social and mental health.

Everything an F/A-18 Fighter Pilot Wears in the Cockpit

From the HGU-68/P tactical helmet to the steel-toed, ejection-safe boots.

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は...なかなかお目にかかれない内容の記事ですよ！

Fighter機 F/A-18 のパイロットがCockpitで着用している物のご紹介！

好奇心 = 脳の働き で自分の興味を学習に使いましょう！

Like motorcyclists, U.S. Navy pilots “dress for the slide, not the ride.” Their gear is meant for frost, flames, and flotation. Even the very first pilot to operate from a ship carried safety equipment: Eugene Ely, attempting his landing on the deck of the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in 1911, took the controls of his Curtiss Pusher wearing a leather football helmet, bug-eyed motoring goggles, and a makeshift life vest fashioned from bicycle inner tubes.

The odds of a mission ending with an ejection from the cockpit are slim—it happens precisely 1.33 times per 100,000 hours of flying, according to the Navy. But naval flight officers still carry equipment for just such a scenario. “Most of the gear is only for emergency use,” says Lt. Luke “Oslo” DeLisio, a flight officer from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106. “But when you need it, you’re glad it’s there.”

“Like Wearing Your Pajamas to Work”
Starting from the inside out, pilots and aircrew wear cotton undergarments. In the event of a cockpit fire, cotton won’t melt and fuse to a crew member’s skin the way nylon or polyester would.

NASA will attempt to fly its Mars helicopter on April 19th

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は.
NASAの火星計画 Mars Helicopterを飛ばす計画であるとの記事からです。

4月からの新規シーズンから、英語の習慣化を始められた読者諸氏に繰返しの習慣が、何事にも新分野の習得に効果があると言うことを、実感して頂きたく似かよった記事を提供しています。

1日数行でもイメージを活用して読みましょう！

音読も効果ありですよ！

NASA finally has a new flight date for its Mars helicopter after a bug fix prompted a delay. The space agency now expects to fly Ingenuity "no earlier than" April 19th at about 3:30AM Eastern. Don't worry about staying up all night to follow along, though. A livestream covering the data download won't start until 6:15AM Eastern if all goes smoothly, and the post-flight briefing isn't slated until 2PM Eastern.

The mission team had originally hoped to fly Ingenuity on April 11th, but a command sequence problem on April 9th led it to push the flight back. NASA just recently completed a spin test for the helicopter.

The flight will only be a 30-second hover meant to verify that the aircraft can fly in the first place. You'll have to wait until the four successor flights to see it roam the Mars surface. Even so, it will represent a historic moment if all goes according to plan. It's not surprising that NASA is cautious as a result — there's a lot riding on this mission besides the fate of a small drone.

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NASA Selects SpaceX to Build Upcoming Lunar Lander

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は..
Space記事からです。 SpaceX Projectが 来るべき月着陸の計画にNASAにより選ばれる事となりました。

今までの英語の習慣化のお勉強で出ていた内容を覚えていられる読者諸氏には難しくない内容だと思われます。

気楽に英語を身につけましょう！

SpaceX has won a lucrative NASA contract to build the first lunar lander since the Apollo program. The announcement comes as a big surprise, as the Elon Musk-led company beat out a pair of promising competitors, including Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin.

Sorry Blue Origin and Dynetics, but SpaceX will have the privilege of putting its logo on the next Moon lander, as NASA announced at a press conference today. The move highlights NASA’s growing trust in its commercial partner, as the space agency prepares to return astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972.

“This is a gutsy, and risky, choice by NASA,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told me via Twitter. “If Starship works as planned, it will provide a lot more capability than the other entrants. But that’s a significant if.”

Plastic Is Falling From the Sky. But Where’s It Coming From?

At any given time, 1,100 tons of microplastic are floating over the western US. New modeling shows the surprising sources of the nefarious pollutant.

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は...
Microplastic(マイクロプラスチック)問題を報じた記事からです。

プラスチックがどれだけ害があるかは兎も角、公害的記事がどのように英語で表現されているかのお勉強の一環です。

IF YOU FIND yourself in some secluded spot in the American West—maybe Yellowstone, or the deserts of Utah, or the forests of Oregon—take a deep breath and get some fresh air along with some microplastic. According to new modeling, 1,100 tons of it is currently floating above the western US. The stuff is falling out of the sky, tainting the most remote corners of North America—and the world. As I’ve said before, plastic rain is the new acid rain.

But where is it all coming from? You’d think it’d be arising from nearby cities—western metropolises like Denver and Salt Lake City. But new modeling published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that 84 percent of airborne microplastics in the American West actually comes from the roads outside of major cities. Another 11 percent could be blowing all the way in from the ocean. (The researchers who built the model reckon that microplastic particles stay airborne for nearly a week, and that’s more than enough time for them to cross continents and oceans.)

Microplastics—particles smaller than 5 millimeters—come from a number of sources. Plastic bags and bottles released into the environment break down into smaller and smaller bits. Your washing machine is another major source: When you launder synthetic clothing, tiny microfibers slough off and get flushed to a wastewater treatment plant. That facility filters out some of the microfibers, trapping them in “sludge,” the treated human waste that’s then applied to agricultural fields as fertilizer. That loads the soil with microplastic. A wastewater plant will then flush the remaining microfibers out to sea in the treated water. This has been happening for decades, and because plastics disintegrate but don’t ever really disappear, the amount in the ocean has been skyrocketing.