Daily bread 12/31/2017

• 5 types of programmers that you will ever encounter

  • not all programmers are similar
  • Just as there are dozens of programming languages
  • there are a number of different types of programmers
  • take a look at five type of programmers you are most likely to encounter in your daily life.
  • Tabs versus Spaces
  • What to use for indentation?
  • Copy-and-paste coder
  • Don’t really know what they are doing, but the one thing they do pretty well is copy and paste the code from Google.
  • The fixer-upper
  • rather write three more functions than fixing the one function which is broken
  • looks more like it needs to go through a spaghetti straightener rather than a compiler.
  • The perfectionist
  • They want every line to be inch perfect.
  • The smart one
  • they don’t have to reinvent the wheel
  • they just use an API to make use of the functionality that someone else is providing
  • dedicate their efforts towards improving upon that existing technology

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Daily bread 12/30/2017

• Auphonic

  tags: audio_levelling

• Longman Focus on IELTS New Edition full set Download free

  tags: ielts

• Focus on IELTS Sue o'Connell New Edition

  tags: ielts

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Daily bread 12/29/2017

• Trump travel drains Secret Service budget - BBC News

  • tumultuous
  • lease dispute

• How developers will work in 2018

  • How developers will work in 2018
  • spoke to developers across a number of segments, and asked what they thought next year would bring. Here’s what they said.
  • All about the containers
  • Containerization is a great idea
  • thanks to projects like Docker and Kubernetes, containerizing software is really easy
  • reliable software – secure, up to date, performant, resilient to failure
  • AR and Machine Learning

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Daily bread 12/26/2017

• Listen Notes: Best podcast search engine & podcast database

  tags: podcast_search_engine

• Why is it called Boxing Day? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Stephen Moss | Opinion | The Guardian

  • Why is it called Boxing Day?
  • nothing to do with boxing, or with putting used wrapping paper into boxes, or with boxing up all your unwanted presents
  • in small acts of kindness
  • The origins of Boxing Day lie
  • the name derives from the giving of Christmas “boxes”
  • churches in the Middle Ages. Parishioners collected money for the poor in alms boxes, and these were opened on the day after Christmas in honour of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr, whose feast day falls on 26 December.
  • Christianised late Roman empire, when similar collections were supposedly made for the poor in honour of St Stephen
  • St Stephen’s Day became associated with public acts of charity.
  • giving Christmas boxes – commonly a small gift or some money – to tradespeople who had provided them with good service
  • tradition of giving Christmas boxes to tradespeople was still extant a generation ago but is now disappearing
  • Christmas really isn’t what it used to be.
  • Boxing Day is primarily a British tradition, and the UK has exported it to Australia, Canada and New Zealand (in each of which it has become primarily a shopping and sporting day)

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Daily bread 12/25/2017

• Listen Notes: Best podcast search engine & podcast database

  tags: podcast_search_engine

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Daily bread 12/23/2017

• How did Europe become the richest part of the world? | Aeon Essays

  tags: europe

  • a classical emergent property
  • a complex and unintended outcome of simpler interactions on the whole.
  • the result of contingent institutional outcomes
  • a self-reinforcing dynamic of economic progress
  • Europe’s political fragmentation spurred productive competition
  • competing for the best and most productive intellectuals and artisans
  • the existence of multiple competing states encouraged scientific and technological innovation.
  • The ‘abuses of tyranny are restrained by the mutual influence of fear and shame’
  • meliorated
  • If conservative rulers clamped down on heretical and subversive (that is, original and creative) thought, their smartest citizens would just go elsewhere
  • The size of the ‘market’ that intellectual and technological innovators faced was one element of scientific and technological development
  • The structure of the medieval Christian Church also provided an element shared throughout the continent
  • the widespread use of Latin as their lingua franca.
  • ong before the term ‘Europe’ was commonly used, it was called ‘Christendom
  • Valencia-born Juan Luis Vives
  • If Europe’s intellectuals moved with unprecedented frequency and ease, their ideas travelled even faster.
  • the printing press and the much-improved postal system, written knowledge circulated rapidly
  • Europe’s divided and uncoordinated polities enhanced an intellectual freedom that simply could not exist in China or the Ottoman Empire.
  • It was a very competitive market.
  • time and again demonstrated a willingness to slaughter sacred cows
  • the best of two worlds, both the advantages of an integrated transnational academic community and a com­petitive states system
  • a belief in social and economic progress, a growing regard for scientific and intellectual innovation, and a commitment to a Baconian, ie a methodical and empirically grounded, research programme of knowledge in the service of economic growth
  • the appearance of better tools and instruments that faci­litated research in natural philosophy.
  • the micro­scope, telescope, barometer and modern thermometer.
  • developed in the first half of the 17th century.
  • Improved tools in physics, astronomy and biology refuted many misconceptions inherited from classical antiquity
  • Europe’s (and the world’s) Great Enrichment was in no way inevitable
  • Had political and military developments taken different turns in Europe, conservative forces might have prevailed and taken a more hostile attitude toward the new and more progressive interpretation of the world
  • the best is still to come

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Daily bread 12/22/2017

• BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / The perfect Santa

  • The perfect Santa
  • what it takes to be the perfect Santa
  • learn six items of vocabulary.
  • How many Santas are there in the world?
  • Transcript

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Daily bread 12/21/2017

• Why Asian Countries Are Investing So Heavily In The English Language

  • Asian Countries Are Investing So Heavily In The English Language
  • Japan is slightly behind, too.
  • ack of English proficiency could be hindering the accessibility and the full economical potential and political influence

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Daily bread 12/20/2017

• Free Technology for Teachers: BandBlast - A Fun App for Learning to Play Music

  tags: music

• ​Five highly-paid and in-demand programming languages to learn in 2018 - TechRepublic

  • ​Five highly-paid and in-demand programming languages to learn in 2018
  • in demand
  • a decent pay packet
  • expected to take off next year.
  • Python
  • data scientists with Python skills who are earning the big bucks
  • machine learning will typically know programming languages and frameworks related to data science, have a strong mathematical ability, and likely a Masters degree or PhD in computer science, mathematics or related field
  • R
  • automation and machine learning
  • Java
  • Big multi-nationals tends to have a preference for Java
  • there's more jobs than there are individuals available to do that work
  • Java remains a good choice for someone starting out as a programmer.
  • Go
  • helps power some of Google's biggest web properties.
  • commonly requested as a skill in job adverts for devops engineers
  • Kotlin
  • offering "some of the best features of other languages" combined with "interoperability with Java"
  • an Android developer with this up-and-coming language on their CV will stand out from the competition

• Points Indicator for Skilled Migrant Expression of Interest | Immigration New Zealand

  tags: nz_immigration

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Daily bread 12/19/2017

• Learn

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Daily bread 12/18/2017

• ESL News New Zealand » Population density

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Daily bread 12/17/2017

• Australia, New Zealand Face China’s Influence | Council on Foreign Relations

  • has stepped up efforts
  •  sparked concern
  • amid signs
  • Canberra has to be “very conscious of the possibilities of foreign interference in our universities.”
  • Confucius Institutes
  • censor criticism of Beijing
  • McCarthyism
  • bombshell report
  • have increasingly been tasked with monitoring China-born students who attend foreign universities
  • Regional Security Overtones
  • significant strategic and economic ramifications
  • lasting tilt
  • seismic consequences
  • Wielding greater influence
  • a robust response
  • stigmatize Chinese-Australians
  • due diligence
  • Australia is stepping up its defenses

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Daily bread 12/16/2017

• Penis cliffhanger is New Zealand quote of the year - BBC News

  • lewd
  • cliffhanger line
  • blurted out
  • popped up on
  • a spoof
  • laughably theatrical
  • anxiety-inducing
  • private parts
  • immensely topical
  • whistle-blower
  • 'dick pics'
  • encapsulated
  • dual citizenship
  • "Kwaussie"

• How can I understand Indian English accent better?

  • Indians do not generally differentiate between Strong Forms and Weak Forms. It may create a problem of intelligibility, abroad.

    Indians don't aspirate the initial p, t, k sounds in a Stressed position. It is one more problem and it needs remedying.

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Daily bread 12/15/2017

• Why do Japanese have trouble learning English? | The Japan Times

  tags: japan

• 4 Trends You'll See in the Tech Workplace in 2018 | TechWell

  • an abundance of
  • trepidation
  • needs to comply
  • is increasing exponentially
  • take steps to protect
  • mutually exclusive

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Daily bread 12/14/2017

• Practice English on Skype for Free! | MyEnglishTeacher.eu Forum | MyEnglishTeacher.eu Forum

  tags: english_speaking_practice

• speaking24.com - find a partner to practise English speaking skills online!

  tags: english_speaking_practice

• Practice English online for free - Better at English speaking tips

  tags: english_speaking_practice

• English Chat 24/7: Find a partner to practice English speaking skills online! - English Speaking24 Chat - English Speaking 24/7

  tags: english_speaking_practice

• English Speaking Practise Via Skype - Language Forum @ LingQ

  tags: english_speaking_practice

• Control Alt Achieve: 4 Fantastic Rubric Tools for Google Docs

  tags: rubrics

• Fossil hunters find bones of human-sized penguin on New Zealand beach | Science | The Guardian

  • Remnants of
  • chanced upon
  • became accomplished
  • are extremely rare
  • switched from flight to diving
  • the meal of choice

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Daily bread 12/10/2017

• 7 programming languages that every developer should learn in 2018 - TechRepublic

  • 7 programming languages that every developer should learn in 2018
  • That being the case,
  • to remain relevant
  • one useful way to measure
  • to improve their career prospects
  • job postings
  • in-demand
  • chugging along

• U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital stirs sentiments of Islamic world - People's Daily Online

  • Jerusalem
  • stirs
  • recognition
  • Islamic
  • sentiments

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Daily bread 12/08/2017

• Buying in New Zealand? Time is running out . . . 

  • backdrop
  • safe haven
  • when disaster strikes
  • there is no better place to be than
  • an escape from a volatile world
  • ties to
  • Would-be buyers
  • being snapped up
  • increased ferociously
  • aspiring buyers
  • a vastly watered-down version
  • thrives on
  • to close the door on
  • supply and demand imbalance

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Daily bread 12/06/2017

• Study finds reading information aloud to yourself improves memory – UKEdChat

  • reading information aloud to yourself improves memory
  • tudy from the University of Waterloo
  • helps to get words into long-term memory
  • “production effect,”
  • dual action of speaking and hearing oneself that has the most beneficial impact on memory.

• How New Zealand Invented Adventure Sports - Condé Nast Traveler

  tags: nz

• New Zealand ‘like a beautiful person with cancer’ says environmentalist | The Independent

  tags: nz

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Daily bread 12/05/2017

• ESL Lesson Plan on Married People - Breaking News English Lesson

  • marital bliss
  • cortisol
  • saliva
  • widowed
  • regulates
  • inflammation
  • intimate social relationships

• Would, Used To Or Simple Past

  tags: used_to

• Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence – Brain Pickings

  • You have to tweak the system by pushing
  • the main predictor of success is deliberate practice
  • persistent training to which you give your full concentration rather than just your time
  • often guided by a skilled expert, coach, or mentor
  • experts did so with full concentration on improving a particular aspect of their performance that a master teacher identified.
  • a second necessary element: a feedback loop that allows you to spot errors as they occur and correct them, much like ballet dancers use mirrors during practice.
  • Ideally that feedback comes from someone with an expert eye and so every world-class sports champion has a coach. If you practice without such feedback, you don’t get to the top ranks.
  • The feedback matters and the concentration does, too — not just the hours.
  • Paying full attention seems to boost the mind’s processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.
  • The experts, in contrast, keep paying attention top-down, intentionally counteracting the brain’s urge to automatize routines. They concentrate actively on those moves they have yet to perfect, on correcting what’s not working in their game, and on refining their mental models of how to play the game, or focusing on the particulars of feedback from a seasoned coach. Those at the top never stop learning: if at any point they start coasting and stop such smart practice, too much of their game becomes bottom-up and their skills plateau.
  • Focused attention, like willpower, is like a muscle and gets fatigued with exertion:
  • limit arduous practice
  • Rest and restoring physical and mental energy
  • Optimal practice maintains optimal concentration.

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Daily bread 12/04/2017

• New Research Quantifies The Vocabulary Improvement Generated By Reading – Here’s How I Plan To Use It In Class | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  tags: reading

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Daily bread 12/03/2017

• Noun and verb syllable stress | english-at-home.com

  "disCOUNT"

  tags: Noun_and_verb_syllable_stress pronunciation

• ESL Lesson Plan on Flat Earth - Breaking News English Lesson

  • Hughes
  • reporters
  • kmh
  • extraordinary
  • walls
  • none of us are getting out of this world alive.

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Daily bread 12/02/2017

• TOEIC articles and tips for students and teachers | TEFLtastic

  tags: toeic

• TOEIC Trainer - Lesson Plan

  tags: toeic

• 5 Score Boosting TOEIC Teaching Strategies for Your ESL Class | FluentU English Educator Blog

  tags: toeic

• 15 most interesting TOEIC lessons | TEFL.net

  tags: toeic

• Agile Project Management - Indian School of Business | Coursera

  tags: indian

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Daily bread 11/30/2017

• Airline workers share some of the most bizarre things they have seen | Stuff.co.nz

  • outdo
  • the most seasoned
  • passing gas
  •  clear-air turbulence.

• New Zealand - Culture, Etiquette and Customs

  tags: kiwi_culture

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Daily bread 11/28/2017

• Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 (rev. 1.0) | Motherboard - GIGABYTE

  tags: Motherboard downloads

• What Colombian women want: Recent survey reveals Colombian women's attitudes on violence, discrimination and the peace process - The Bogotá Post

  • 40% of Colombian women are dedicated to housework, a figure that has remained unchanged since 2008. Only 1.4% of men do housework.
  • 79.2% disapprove of the FARC becoming an active political party, a figure 16.3% higher than men.

• How to Select an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for Your Computer

  tags: ups

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Daily bread 11/27/2017

• How Do You Play Games

  tags: games

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Daily bread 11/25/2017

• tickets

  https://t.co/n4BhUuyFzI tickets

  tags: DontBlink

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Daily bread 11/24/2017

• Dittach: Find your attachments

  tags: gmail

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Daily bread 11/19/2017

• Women are better in tech than men, says a report - CNET

  • better digital skills
  • underrepresented
  • higher aptitude
  • pie
  • share of the

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Daily bread 11/18/2017

• Beginners Guide to Online Training

  tags: online training guide

• Hong Kong's poor live in homes smaller than prison cells – study | World news | The Guardian

  • inmates
  • flush

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Daily bread 11/16/2017

• Google Slides Templates: Free Downloads - by Mike Macfadden

  tags: presentations templates

• SlidesCarnival - Free Powerpoint templates and Google Slides themes for presentations

  tags: presentations templates

• Professional PowerPoint Templates & Slides - SlideModel.com

  tags: templates presentations

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Daily bread 11/14/2017

• The Secret To Sounding Smart? Using Simple Language

  • the ease of processing information is strongly associated with positive qualities such as confidence, intelligence, and capability.

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Daily bread 11/13/2017

• 700 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books: TOEFL

  tags: toefl

• 700 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books: TOEFL IBT

  tags: toefl

• Colombian Newspapers : Periódicos Colombianos : Newspapers from Colombia : South America

• Adjectives-for-business-1 - Eslflow

  tags: business_websites

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Daily bread 11/12/2017

• Lacking inspiration? 6 awesome resource websites to find stuff for your classes | Blog de Cristina

  tags: websites teaching_stuff

• BBC - Capital - The surprising damage smart workers can cause

  • overachiever
  • be a boon
  • ripple out
  • cubicle
  • fester

• Climate change | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

  tags: climate_change

• Democracy should be blockchainified

  • don’t live in a true democracy.
  • after one or two terms with a radical switch
  • vote on every major decision
  • blockchain voting.
  • every major government policy
  • everything could go to a referendum
  • a nightmare to hack
  • Estonia,
  • Iceland
  • Denmark
  • change the way we interact with our government
  • change the voting system around the world

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Daily bread 11/11/2017

• The Haunted History of Halloween (Full Documentary) - YouTube

  tags: halloween

• Engaging Students Google Resources

  tags: templates

• How technology will transform software development in 2018 | ZDNet

  • Fast, iterative delivery of high-quality software
  • better customer engagement and higher satisfaction
  • pivot into new areas
  • a sneak peek into
  • no sign of demand for developer skills abating
  • comes into sharper focus
  • puzzle pieces
  • to blur the traditional concepts of
  • increasing demand for

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Daily bread 11/10/2017

• C is for (COCA) Corpus | An A-Z of ELT

  tags: coca_corpus

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Daily bread 11/08/2017

• 10 must-see movies from Colombia

  tags: movies

• 7 Cultural Differences in Nonverbal Communication

  tags: cultural_differences

• 22 Online Tools That Will Help Learners With Improving Writing Skills

  tags: writing

• Compra Gabinete de PC en Linio Colombia

  tags: cajaatx

• Caja ATX Corsair 230T Naranja Colombia

  "Corsair Graphite Series 230T"

  tags: cajaatx

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Daily bread 11/07/2017

• Games & Activities for the ESL/EFL Classroom (I-TESL-J)

  tags: activities games

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Daily bread 11/05/2017

• Business English Speaking Lessons Week 2 | eslwriting.org

  tags: beginners

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Daily bread 11/04/2017

• How does it take to improve a band score in IELTS? -

  tags: ielts

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Daily bread 11/01/2017

• Colombia Visas - Visa Requirements for Colombia

  tags: visa

• Самый лучший учебник грамматики для изучающих английский язык.

  tags: grammar

• Mirra

• Asus 15.6 Republic Of Gamers Strix Gl502vm Notebook | Circuit

  "Asus 15.6 Republic Of Gamers Strix Gl502vm"

  tags: investments

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Daily bread 10/31/2017

• Cloze Test 'Match Sentences to Tenses'

  • has been playing

• Why Faking the Moon Landing Was Impossible

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Daily bread 10/29/2017

• My new favorite Android game takes me offline and back to my childhood

• Dark Stories - Android Apps on Google Play

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Daily bread 10/27/2017

• BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 in Four - Game on! The language of video games explained

• Science proves that alcohol increases your ability to speak a second language

  • Dutch courage
  • slightly inebriated
  • especially
  • pronunciation
  • impair
  • boosts your self-confidence.

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Daily bread 10/23/2017

• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to push reform of pacifist constitution after election win | Stuff.co.nz

  • push reform of pacifist constitution
  • hold a snap general election.
  • ruling bloc
  • bolstering
  • push to revise the pacifist constitution.
  • up for grabs
  • hefty win
  • ambiguous status
  • codify the status quo
  • target he had floated
  • a fast-aging population
  • an uptick in his ratings
  • dented
  • cronyism
  • snap poll gamble
  • a significant chunk of
  • often floated as a
  • a big chunk of
  • enthusiasm soon waned
  • vying with
  • fret about
  • has become arrogant and complacent.
  • fed up with
  • landslide wins
  • took the helm

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Daily bread 10/22/2017

• What a world of AI robot writers will look like

• Chips are down as potato shortage bites | Radio New Zealand News

  • Chips are down
  • bites
  • to go without
  • Chippie lovers
  • the root of the problem.
  • ceaseless rain
  • to dig deep
  • keep up to date
  • were chipping in
  • be hindered

• Business English vocabulary and terms with exercises|Learn English Today

  tags: business

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Daily bread 10/21/2017

• A Brief Guide to IELTS General Training Exam ~ IELTS Exams Tips Philippines | IELTS Review Strategies

  • The speaking exam can be taken on a different day—provided that it is completed a week before or after the others tests were taken.
  • t is scored against the Global Scale of English (GSE), the world’s English language standard criterion.
  • Other globally acknowledged proficiency exams, like TOEFL and PTE, are also marked against the GSE.

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