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diff --git a/ang/readings/.gitignore b/ang/readings/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a136337 --- /dev/null +++ b/ang/readings/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +*.pdf diff --git a/ang/readings/1.md b/ang/readings/1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4dee32f --- /dev/null +++ b/ang/readings/1.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +# Chinese minors will only be able to play video games three hours a week + +The share value of several companies has already fallen after the rules were tightened + +Chinese authorities have banned children under the age of 18 from playing video games for more than three hours a week, for only one hour on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays between 8 pm and 9 pm. Another hour "belongs" to them for the holiday. Teenagers are outraged, company stocks have already fallen. + +Under the 2019 rules, until now, minors could play games for up to an hour and a half every day, and for the holidays, three hours. + +The new rules, released on Monday, are part of a broader effort to increase control over society and key sectors of the economy, including technology, and education after those sectors expanded uncontrollably in recent years. Beijing argues that rules are needed to reduce the growing proliferation of games that they labeled "spiritual opium" weeks ago. + +The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, reported on Monday that the government needed to be ruthless. "It is undeniably true that online games affect the normal life, the physical and mental state of teenagers. The destruction of a teenager means the destruction of the family," the newspaper writes. + +Chinese teenagers are furious. "Has this group of grandparents who adopts rules and regulations ever played games? Do you understand that the best age for games is adolescence?" is one of the records on the Weibo network (Chinese Twitter). "Age 14 is allowed for sex, you can work at 16, and you have to be 18 to play games? That's a joke!" + +The gaming restriction, which applies to all devices, including mobile phones, is a big blow to the billion-dollar gaming industry. The share value of several companies has already fallen. The introduction of rules regarding gaming coincides with the introduction of restrictions imposed by the state against technology giants such as Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings. + +Game providers will thus be prohibited from providing services to minors outside certain hours, while at the same time providing a system for verifying the identity of players so that they will not be able to abuse the rules by using different usernames. At the same time, many users on the networks have announced that they will use their parents' usernames and passwords, which are not subject to restrictions. + +## continue reading: +* [https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/6080716.html](https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/6080716.html) +* [https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-rolls-out-new-rules-minors-online-gaming-xinhua-2021-08-30/](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-rolls-out-new-rules-minors-online-gaming-xinhua-2021-08-30/) +* [https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1032489883](https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1032489883) +* [https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/30/china-to-ban-kids-from-playing-online-games-for-more-than-three-hours-per-week.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/30/china-to-ban-kids-from-playing-online-games-for-more-than-three-hours-per-week.html) +* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/08/30/china-video-games-kids-ban-weekday/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/08/30/china-video-games-kids-ban-weekday/) +* [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/30/china-cuts-amount-of-time-minors-can-spend-playing-video-games](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/30/china-cuts-amount-of-time-minors-can-spend-playing-video-games) +* [https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-sets-new-rules-for-youth-no-more-videogames-during-the-school-week-11630325781](https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-sets-new-rules-for-youth-no-more-videogames-during-the-school-week-11630325781) diff --git a/ang/readings/2.md b/ang/readings/2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..67ba57b --- /dev/null +++ b/ang/readings/2.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# Ikea will also sell renewable energy in Sweden + +Users will be able to sell surplus energy + +Swedish furniture giant Ikea is becoming a supplier of renewable energy. The subscription service will be called Strömma. It will supply Swedish households with energy generated by wind and solar power from September onwards. + +The program, launched in partnership with Svea Solar, envisages the purchase of electricity at Europe’s largest electricity exchange Nord Pool, with electricity being resold at no additional charge, which will reduce the cost to the end-user. + +Subscribers of Strömm's service will also pay a fixed monthly fee as well as a variable one, but their amount is not known yet. + +However, users will also have access to an application through which they will monitor electricity consumption. Those who will also have Ikea solar panels will be able to sell excess energy. + +Svea Solar also cooperates with Ikea's Ingka. + +The Swedish furniture company said that with the new Strömma scheme, they want to become "the world's largest renewable energy movement", as they want to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 billion tons, which is generated each year by lighting, heating and cooling buildings. + +"We believe that renewable energy is the future, so we want to make energy from sustainable sources more affordable and affordable for everyone," explained Jan Gardberg, Business Manager of Ikea’s sister company Ingka Group. + +Ikea has set itself the goal of being carbon neutral by 2050, which is also in line with the Paris climate agreement. + +## continue reading: +* [https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/b1907116.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/b1907116.html) +* [https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/ikea-starts-selling-renewable-energy-households-sweden-2021-08-17/](https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/ikea-starts-selling-renewable-energy-households-sweden-2021-08-17/) +* [https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a37364164](https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a37364164) +* [https://www.dezeen.com/2021/08/20/st](https://www.dezeen.com/2021/08/20/st) +* [https://earth.org/ikea-s](https://earth.org/ikea-s) +* [https://truthunfold.com/business-and-economics/ikea-to-s](https://truthunfold.com/business-and-economics/ikea-to-s) +* [https://electrek.co/2021/08/17/i](https://electrek.co/2021/08/17/i) diff --git a/ang/readings/3.md b/ang/readings/3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38aaf44 --- /dev/null +++ b/ang/readings/3.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Cathodic TVs are celebrating their 90th birthday + +It was one of the biggest breakthroughs on the road to modern television + +Exactly 90 years ago, inventor Manfred von Ardenne demonstrated the first working modern cathode-ray television in Berlin. By doing so, he showed the sense of using this technology for television sets and paved the way for modern television. + +The exact date of birth of television is difficult to determine, as the development of the ultimate technology, which millions of viewers today watch daily, has been fueled by numerous inventions with different dates of discovery. But among them is certainly the depiction of the German physicist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne, who on August 21, 1931, showed the first working cathode-ray television in Berlin. + +The cathode-ray tube is a device invented by Karl Ferdinand Braun, who directs a beam of electrons at the luminescent material on the screen and thus creates an image on it. Cathode-ray tubes were the basis of all screens from the beginnings of television technology between the two world wars to the advent of LCD screens at the end of the millennium. + +By demonstrating the technology, Ardenne proved that the cathode-ray apparatus is significantly more suitable for use in emerging television technology than previous attempts to use films and slides. Ardenne did not yet have a developed camera recording system, but he was able to remotely transmit and display slides and pre-recorded film tapes. + +Due to the success of his show, the first regular public television program was launched in Germany, broadcasting several times a week in the vicinity of Witzleben near Berlin. The program became extremely popular and world-famous in 1936 when the first mass television broadcast of the Olympic Games took place through it. For the first time in history, more than 130,000 people were able to watch the Olympic Games in Berlin on a few rare private and public television screens. + +## continue reading: +*error whilst gathering sources* diff --git a/ang/readings/4.md b/ang/readings/4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1029e28 --- /dev/null +++ b/ang/readings/4.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# The ice age lion cubs found in Siberia are 28,000 years old + +The discovery offers insight into the evolution of cave lions + +In the fall of 2018, researchers at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Jakuck, Arctic Siberia, seven meters underground, discovered a beautifully preserved corpse of an Ice Age animal, namely a 28,000-year-old cave lion cub. + +The puppy had intact teeth, skin, claws, even a mustache. Initially, it was named Spartak, but genetic tests revealed that it was a female, so they renamed it Sparta, reports the Euronews portal. It was discovered just 15 meters from another lion cub named Boris, which had been discovered by locals a year earlier. + +At first, they thought the cubs were related, but a study published this week found that they lived more than 15,000 years apart. Boris is 43,448 years old. + +The cave lion became extinct about 14,000 years ago. Researchers, including the best paleontologists from Russia, Sweden, Japan, the US and the UK, were therefore greatly surprised as the puppy looked as if it had died two years ago. + +Both pups were brought to Jakuck in November 2018 and January 2019 and then tested in detail for infectious diseases, including anthrax. + +New research has found that both pups were only a month to two years old at the time of death. There are no signs on them that they were killed, which means that they may have fallen and got stuck somewhere, or died under an avalanche. + +The discovery also offered new findings on the development of the Eurasian cave lion. The furs of the cubs found were similar to the furs of today's African lions, but with long and thick fur that would protect them from the cold. + +Scientists have also found that their teeth grew earlier than in today’s African lions. The reason is said to be harsher winters, which is why the pups had to get their teeth earlier so they could eat meat sooner. + +## continue reading: +* [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/13/well-preserved-28000-year-old-lion-cub-found-in-siberian-permafrost](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/13/well-preserved-28000-year-old-lion-cub-found-in-siberian-permafrost) +* [https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/world/frozen-cave-lion-cubs-siberia-scn/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/world/frozen-cave-lion-cubs-siberia-scn/index.html) +* [https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/08/06/stunning-ice-age-lion-cub-found-in-siberia-russia-is-28-000-years-old-scientists-say](https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/08/06/stunning-ice-age-lion-cub-found-in-siberia-russia-is-28-000-years-old-scientists-say) +* [https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article35911682.ece](https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article35911682.ece) +* [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/near-perfect-cave-lion-cub-corpse-found-siberian-permafrost-180978403/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/near-perfect-cave-lion-cub-corpse-found-siberian-permafrost-180978403/) +* [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/b1902619.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/b1902619.html) +* [https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/n1276137](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/n1276137) diff --git a/ang/readings/README.md b/ang/readings/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4eaccaa --- /dev/null +++ b/ang/readings/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +# ang/readings + +TODO: +* continue reading on: +* grammar check: +* personal opinion: 1, 2, 3, 4 +* words: 1, 2, 3, 4 +* print: +* handwrite: 1, 2, 3, 4 |