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2019 Tech Trends: Users Weigh In and Make Predictions | Page
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- to wax nostalgic
- to flourish
- show the most promise
- you're out of
- relatively high awareness of
- hinted at
- a few discrepancies in
- a higher prevalence of
- In turn, that could lead to
- a sense of
- particularly interesting to see
- planned to do so fairly soon
- went for a spin
- permeate the
- quite as much as some may have hoped
- made quite the mainstream splash
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Free Technology for Teachers: Best of 2018 - Create a Video Lesson Completely in PowerPoint
English stuff, Kiwi stuff, Colombian stuff, lot´s of stuff
Monday, December 31, 2018
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Seniors Who Exercise Regularly May Have Younger Hearts, Muscles : Shots - Health News : NPR
- put a brake on
- heart, lung and muscle fitness
- the take-home message
- lifelong exercise
- is noteworthy
- heart and lung system
- a former colleague
- his knees started to bother him
- he headed to the pool
- couch potatoes are the norm
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Cancellation Policy for Online Lessons | Teaching ESL Online
"If the lesson is cancelled with 24 hours (or more) notice, then a full refund is given. If the lesson is cancelled with less than 24 hours notice, no refund is given. If the student doesn’t show for whatever reason, no refund is given."
Monday, December 10, 2018
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Comprar productos de Ebay - TiendaMIA.com
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Item model number: FBA_AK-848061066487
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Comprar productos de Ebay - TiendaMIA.com
- UPC: 0608802065052
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Sunday, December 9, 2018
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Who Is the 'Breadwinner' in Your Family?
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- Are you the breadwinner?...or are you on the breadline? - English Words & expressions.
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Friday, November 16, 2018
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BBC - Culture - The greatest foreign-language films of the 21st Century?
"Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)"
Thursday, November 15, 2018
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Outlaw King vs Braveheart on Historical Accuracy
- flicks
- track records
- with some trepidation
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018
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People in Canada have good health, are living longer - Tech Explorist
- People in Canada have good health, are living longer
- by and large
- disease trends
- historical estimates
- mortality
- leading causes of death and disability
- noncommunicable diseases
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New Zealand-Japan test in Tokyo could produce more one-off All Blacks | Stuff.co.nz
- catch
- a curly question
- the most seasoned pub quizzing teams
- on the hop
- romp
- any soul
- Kudos
- ought to head to the UK to compete in The Chase.
- uncapped All Blacks
- the locking combination
- ran in eight tries
- have come a long way
- demolition job
- trouncing
- rout
- dwarfed by
- debutant
- 45-point haul
- Those were the days.
- hard-nosed Joseph
- upward trend
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Monday, November 5, 2018
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'The Invisible Network' Podcast - Episode 01: Ascension | NASA
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Why Simone Weil is the patron saint of anomalous persons | Aeon Essays
- a species so rare, it had only one member
- a Christian convert who criticised the Catholic Church
- a communist sympathiser who denounced Stalinism and confronted Trotsky
- As a child during the First World War, she refused sugar because soldiers on the front could have none
- she died at 34 when working for the resistance government France libre in London, refusing to eat more than the citizens’ rations of her German-occupied France
- ‘The intelligence is defeated as soon as the expression of one’s thought is preceded, explicitly or implicitly, by the little word “we”.’
- Uncritical collective thinking holds the free mind captive and does not allow for dissent.
- she advocated the abolition of all political parties, which, she argued, were in essence totalitarian.
- 1) A political party is a machine to generate collective passions.
2) A political party is an organisation designed to exert collective pressure upon the minds of all its individual members.
3) The first objective and also the ultimate goal of any political party is its own growth, without limit. - ‘complete, unlimited freedom of expression for every sort of opinion, without the least restriction or reserve, is an absolute need on the part of the intelligence’
- She believed it politically essential that every human soul feel ‘useful and even indispensable’ within the social body.
- she believed in the redemptive power of punishment, arguing that it should ‘wipe out the stigma of the crime’ and offer an education to offenders, allowing for full re-entry into the community.
- A perfectly pure love for one’s country bears a close resemblance to the feelings which his young children, his aged parents, or a beloved wife inspire in a man. The thought of weakness can inflame love in just the same way as can the thought of strength …
- the ethical urgency with which she approached the problem of education
- her sustained campaign against a self-interested, narcissistic citizenry
- her emphasis on first-hand knowledge (of the assembly-line worker’s plight, for example, or the farmhand’s daily exertions)
- her belief that technology’s distancing effects would lead to total alienation
- the congruity of her preaching and her practice
- ‘The youth of our schools are as much obsessed by their examinations as our workmen engaged in piece-work are by their pay packets.’
- A lot of people think that a little peasant boy of the present day who goes to primary school knows more than Pythagoras did, simply because he can repeat parrot-wise that the Earth moves round the Sun. In actual fact, he no longer looks up at the heavens. This Sun about which they talk to him in class hasn’t, for him, the slightest connexion with the one he can see. He is severed from the Universe around him.
- Weil also believed that by infusing every physical movement required by one’s trade with full, contemplative attention, one could become woven into the vocation and into the generation line of forebears who’d also practised it.
- The alienation produced by the mind-numbing repetition of meaningless gestures would hence disperse, and factory workers, farmers and other manual labourers would recover the dignity they’d lost in the industrial age.
- the body, with all of its burdens and pleasures, is the precondition for all thought and creation.
- Weil forces us to see the body as the vessel out of which thought arises.
- Her outsider status – as a woman in the man’s world of philosophy, as a mystic among secularists, as an intellectual among workers and peasants, as a woman whom Kraus calls ‘Bizarre-Simone’ and an ‘admirable freak’
- Weil is the patron saint of anomalous persons.
- a chronic illness that made it difficult to eat.
- She did not want to be a woman … She wanted to disappear. Certain aspects of disappearance had to be concealed from the parents and so her many letters to them are repetitions of the one same glowingly factitious postcard that every good daughter sends home – Dear people what splendid weather thanks for the chocolate I’m making lots of friends here kisses to all – meanwhile she was dying.
- We see Weil as emblematic of women and daughters who suffer and yearn for something beyond the self.
- the advice that Weil gave to her students: ‘Always do what will cost you the most.’
- ‘Fear and terror … whether they be caused by the threat of unemployment, police persecution, the presence of a foreign conqueror [or] the probability of invasion’, give rise to ‘a semi-paralysis of the soul’
- She provides unusual but practical counsel for educators, students, workers and citizens.
- For outsiders of any gender, creed or colour, she has something to say.
- relentlessly anti-ideological, and gives judicious guidance for resisting the pull of narcissism.
- Stressing the urgency to write, think and, most importantly, do
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Is Computer Delivered IELTS better than Paper Based IELTS? | IELTS ONLINE PRACTICE
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Think Fast. Talk Smart | Matt Abrahams | TEDxMontaVistaHighSchool - YouTube
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- IELTS Listening: presentation about 'better communication'I've just watched the following presentation about better communication. I was planning to create a quick vocabulary exercise about it, but I've changed my mind. I think we can learn a lot more than just vocabulary from this speaker.If you have time to do some 'real work', here's what I suggest you could do:Watch the video once, all the way through. What was the main message that you took from the presentation after listening once?Watch again, and take notes on the content of the talk. What does the speaker say about: 1) approach 2) audience 3) context 4) structure?What other communication techniques does the speaker use? For example, why does he begin the talk by saying "people hate me"?Focusing on the part about 'structure', do you notice any similarities with the 'structures' that I recommend for IELTS speaking and writing?Finally, perhaps you could compile a list of the good collocations and phrases that the speaker uses. His talk is full of good language.The video is 16 minutes long, but I think you could spend hours studying it. I hope to read your ideas in the 'comments' below.
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Top 20 Music Podcasts You Must Subscribe and Listen to in 2018
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Artificial Intelligence: The Robots Are Now Hiring - WSJ
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- How robots hire job candidatesArtificial intelligence is becoming a key component in how companies hire, according to The Wall Street Journal. While computers scanning keywords in resumes is now common practice among large firms, hiring technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated, from avatars interviewing candidates to machine learning assessing a candidates public profiles for personality traits. The WSJ report looks at two firms upending the hiring process: DeepSense, which scans social media accounts to develop a picture of the candidate's personality, and HireVue, which assesses the candidate's behavior from a recorded video interview. Today's must-readJason BelliniJason Bellini • 3rdSenior Producer at The Wall Street Journal2dVideo interviews are becoming an increasingly common part of the hiring process — particularly for positions at large corporations. Most people taking these interviews assume a human being will be watching and evaluating them. Well...that’s not necessarily the case. We’ve been exploring the Wild West of hiring, the center of which happens to be in Utah. We visited a company that’s using AI and machine learning to analyze tone of voice, word clusters and even facial “micro expressions” to score job candidates. Scores of Fortune 500 companies are using this service. Is AI advanced enough to measure personality traits and compatibility for a job? Should people be clearly informed when their video interviews are being analyzed this way? Could algorithms help remove human bias from hiring?
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Note-taking: A Research Roundup | Cult of Pedagogy
- half-baked ideas
- combed through
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Sunday, September 16, 2018
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- What is your dream in life, and what are you willing to sacrifice in order to achieve it?
- Is there any downside to dreaming?
- What would a productive and empowering social media network look like?
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Why Singapore has the smartest kids in the world - CNN
- "They source their teachers from among the best kids coming out of their high schools,"
- OECD
- instilled at a young age
- a child who is resilient
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10 Tips on Chinese Table Manners – International Business Protocol and Social Etiquette
- spend time and share food and drink with
- keep in mind
- a bite
- fortitude
- immersed in a conversation
- Lazy Susan
- seconds
- greed
- toasts
- clink glasses
- clink
- staying in touch
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Saturday, September 15, 2018
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Looking beyond the Tester-to-Developer Ratio | TechWell
- have some notion
- is rooted in
- cut down on
- one large swath
- stuck in a queue
- small batches
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Subject and Object Questions in English – Espresso English
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- Who does want fruit juice?
Who wants fruit juice? - What did damage your house?
What damaged your house? - What do you want to drink?
- What did the earthquake damage?
The simplest rule for subject/object questions
When you are going to ask a question in the simple present or simple past using who or what, ask yourself,
“Am I asking about the doer of the action or the receiver of the action?”
If you’re asking about the doer/subject, then DON’T use do/does/did:
If you’re asking about the receiver/object, then YES – use do/does/did:
- Who does want fruit juice?
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Friday, August 31, 2018
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New ¥900 million Tokyo study facility gives students hands-on taste of English | The Japan Times
- gives students hands-on taste of English
- a spacious English education facility
- children can immerse themselves in
- part of efforts to beef up
- a variety of settings
- to be afraid of making mistakes
- have a headache
- refrain from speaking in Japanese
- are overseen by
- spots are limited
- It should also be noted that
- programs targeting
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Photos of Amazing World Traditions
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- Humans are amazing: Check out these festivals, rituals and traditions from around the world.Choose one to focus on in our next class.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018
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Turning Japanese, the connection between Colombia and Japan - The Bogotá Post
- Turning Japanese, the connection between Colombia and Japan
- puts Colombo-Japanese relations under the spotlight
- couldn’t be further apart
- a boom in
- a travesty
- shoulders with
- shows a more authentic side to
- Armed with their experiences o
- a little slice of Tokyo in the heart of Bogotá
- try something a little exotic
- to sink your teeth into
- to bring sushi within everyone’s reach
- the sushi top dog
- decide once and for all
- to commemorate
- play host to
- in the process of
- we launched in
- to establish the brand
- merges tastes together
- a truly distinctive
- muses that
- not least the fusion of
- to delve into
- aimed at
- thriving cosplay, manga and anime fanbase
- looking forward to
- geekfest
- aims to
- ambitious proposal
- to complement each other.
- It’s a case of opposites attract
- can learn so much from them in terms of
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This Software Developer Provides AI Savvy To Google, Disney
- turmoil
- has held up well
- usher their customers through
- three key values: simplification, surprise, and anticipation.
- artificial intelligence is central to its services
- is poised to be
- are keen to interact with
- rebound
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Sunday, August 19, 2018
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- Factitious is a game for testing your skill at identifying fake and misleading news stories. To play Factitious simply go to the site and select quick start. You'll then see an article appear on the screen. Read through the article, click the source listed at the bottom, and then select either the green check mark or red X to indicate whether or not you think the article is a real news story. After you make your selection you'll get instant feedback and an explanation of how you can tell if the article was a real or fake news story.Factitious does offer the option to create an account to save your progress in a game, but you don't need to create an account in order to play the game in "quick start" mode.What's the source? Do you recognize the news outlet? Is it independent, partisan or satire?What's the purpose? Is the article trying to inform, inflame, persuade, entertain?
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
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What is the world worrying about in 2018? | Bryan Alexander
- it’s most illuminating
- Ipsos polled nearly 20,000 people
- to get a finger on the world’s pulse
- across the world
- none cracks 34%
- the United States stands out
- has rapidly risen
- intriguingly
- headed in the wrong direction
- a global touchstone
- are talking up
- looms very large
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Monday, August 13, 2018
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Diet Hit A Snag? Your Gut Bacteria May Be Partly To Blame : The Salt : NPR
- Diet Hit A Snag? Your Gut Bacteria May Be Partly To Blame
- ever been on a diet
- help — or hinder
- in our guts
- tracked the progress of
- enrolled in a
- a low-calorie diet
- an increased abundance of
- there's a certain part of
- providing energy
- to conduct a larger, follow-up study
- these findings are
- Down the road,
- the results hold up
- could lead to
- currently on the market
- linked to successful
- to manipulate
- is just the first step
- mass-produced
- it could be challenging
- difficult to work with
- at least some years off
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Is it unprofessional for doctors to have tattoos or facial piercings? - Tech Explorist
- Is it unprofessional for doctors to have tattoos or facial piercings?
- Is it unprofessional for doctors to have tattoos or facial piercings?
- patient satisfaction is correlated with outcomes
- to take prescribed medications
- to heed instructions
- healthcare providers
- non-pierced peers
- unadorned appearance
- take a hard line on
- try to be open-minded in
- to be in sync with
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Brutality is common in video games, but not sexual violence. Why? | Aeon Ideas
- Brutality is common in video games, but not sexual violence. Why?
- impaling
- notoriously violent
- caused quite a stir
- were appalled at
- not least
- relentless pestering
- the outrage produced by
- takings of more than $6 billion
- have now grown up surrounded by
- let video games off the hook
- a handful of nasty examples
- would be uncontroversially wrong
- be so sanguine about
- react with appalled horror to
- bloodletting
- have taken up this question
- is misguided
- our relatively blithe acceptance of
- Tempting though it might be to
- George Orwell bemoaned the fact that
- has gone hand in hand with
- the ubiquity of
- voyeurism
- to feign
- Insofar as
- the gamer’s dilemma
- tap into
- strikes us as
- By contrast,
- we’re happy to condemn it
- a hail of bullets
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