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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
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• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
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3.
4. The man in the image was born in 1972 in
Chennai, whose current mayor is S.S.
Duraisamy. He did both his undergraduate and
postgraduate education in computer science at
Worcester Polytechnic Institute inWorcester,
MA, whose mayor at present is the Democrat,
Joseph Petty. After completing his education he
went on to work at Lucent, Nokia and Sun
Microsystems before co-founding a social
networking venture.What did this man launch?
5.
6.
7. Foursquare, co-founded by Naveen Selvadurai.
In previous versions of Foursquare, if a user had
checked into a venue on more days than
anyone else in the past 60 days, then they
would be crowned "Mayor" of that venue.
8. X was created in England in 1874 to commemorate
the marriage of Grand Duchess Maria
Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh.
It became a symbol of prosperity in post-civil war
Spain, where it was mass produced to utilise the
surplus of wheat.There are many ways of using it,
primarily by sandwiching jam or marmite between
two of them, or with natillas custard, as it is done
in Spain, or on its own with tea. It is manufactured
all over the world by companies such as Arcor,
Nestle and Ghandour among many others. ID X
11. Ask.com was originally called Ask ________,
after a popular literary character. __________
was the "gentleman's gentleman", fetching
answers to any question asked.The idea behind
this was to allow users to ask questions posed
in everyday language, as well as traditional
keyword search. It was eventually phased out in
2006, and was said to go into retirement.
However he still appears on uk.ask.com. FITB.
15. This company was founded in 1894 in Zlin, Moravia, in the
then Austro-Hungarian empire, now Czech Republic by
siblingsTomas, Antonin and Anna. It was one of the earliest
companies to provide a fixed work schedule and a fixed
weekly wage. Due to mounting debts in the first year, they
cut costs by manufacturing with canvas instead of leather, a
product that became greatly successful.The company saw
rapid growth duringWorldWar 1 due to several military
orders. In the post wartime depression, as sales slumped,
leading to a slashing of prices by half, the employees
agreed to a 40% reduction in wages, to which the owners
reciprocated by providing food and other supplies to
employees at half prices. (cont.)
16. It is also one of the earliest known examples of
a profit sharing model, which is the precurson
to today's employee bonuses and stock
options.Today it holds a strong presence,
particularly in India and Singapore, so much so
that the parent company is widely believed to
be Indian.Which company?
19. The oldest of these in South Asia was
established in Calcutta in 1830, with
transactions being carried out under a neem
tree. Before independence, six of these were
established in Bombay, Ahmedabad, Indore,
Madras, Hyderabad and Delhi. In 1982, one was
established in Pune. Most recently, one was set
up in Mumbai in 2010 under the name of United
___________, headed by AmitTrivedi and
Mallika Saha.What?
22. X is a 1971 crime thriller film, directed by
William Friedkin and stars Gene Hackman,
Fernando Rey and Roy Scheider. It became the
first R-rated movie to win Academy award for
Best Picture, along with Best Actor (Hackman)
and Best Director (Friedkin) among many
others.The film revolves around two cops from
NewYork trying to bust a drug smuggling ring,
headed by the French criminal,Alain Charnier.
ID X, also the name of a popular fashion brand.
25. This company was initially founded by Alexander
Daracq and a few other investors as Societa
Anonima Italian Daracqq. Due to poor sales in the
intital days, the Italian investors decided to found
a new company, initially still in partnership with
Darracq.The company's current name, comes
from the acronym of the company along with the
name of an entrepreneur who took over the
company in 1915, who used to factory to produce
military hardware forWorldWar 1.Which
company?
26.
27. Alfa Romeo. Alfa originally stood for Anonima
Lombardia FabbricaAutomobilia and the
Romeo came from Nicola Romeo
28. This currency is followed by several countries
including Morocco, Qatar, Libya and Jordan. It
derives its name from an ancientGreek
currency, reintroduced in 1832 until 2002.The
term X is also a measure of mass used in the
Ottoman empire standardised as 3.207g.What
currency?
31. X is a term whose definition is "the process of
decreasing, or accounting for over a period of
time". It finds wide applications from computer
science to zoning regulations, to tax laws.
However the most popular use of the term is in the
world of finance and business where it is used to
decide the capital expenditures on intangible
assets, similar to depreciation. In loan banking, the
term is used to describe the process by which the
loan principal decreases over time.What is X?
34. ID this logo, very popular in India and also has
an association with sports
35.
36.
37. The M1 carbine is 0.30 caliber semi-automatic carbine that became
the standard firearm for the US military inWorld War 2, Korean War
andVietnam War.While it was designed byWinchester, it was
manufactured by several contractors to meet wartime demands,
some of which included the Underwood typewriter company, General
Motors and X.
In the backdrop of Hitler's invasion of Poland, the founder of X placed
all facilities at the US government's disposal, including expanded
manufacturing capabilities.The largest one of these was at
Poughkeepsie, where later in 1941 he set up the Munitions
Manufacturing Corporation. Apart from the munitions, X also
supplied electric accounting machines to aid the Allied forces in
accounting and statistical control.
Needless to say, X is not a company you'd generally associate with
guns and ammunition.What is X?
40. What feat connects Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid
Concepts And CreativeAnalogies: Computer
Models OfThe Fundamental Mechanisms Of
Thought and JohnWood's Leaving Microsoft to
Change theWorld?
41.
42. First books to be sold on Amazon and Flipkart
respectively
43. X is a former businessman and philanthropist. He was
born in Calcutta, got a degree in mechanical engineering
from IIT-Delhi, and received an MBA from Harvard
Business School where he graduated as a Baker scholar.
He joined McKinsey in 1973 immediately after B-school,
and went on to become the first Managing Director of
the company born outside the US. He, along with Anil
Kumar set up the Indian School of Business in
Bangalore. He is however most well known for certain
events in the US in 2009, when he found himself pitted
against Manhattan US Attorney, Preet Bharara. ID X
46. X-Y is a venture capital fund, headquartered in Menlo
Park, California, in 2009. Since its inception it has
invested in several startups at early and late funding
stages, including Zynga, OculusVR and Buzzfeed.
X is a software engineer, who created Mosaic, one of the
earliest web browsers. He also founded Netscape, which
dominated the browser market before Internet Explorer.
He, along withY cofounded Opsware, a company that
offered products for server and network provisioning,
configuration and management.They sold the company
to Hewlett Packard for $1.6 billion cash in 2007, one of
the largest tech acquisitions at the time. ID X andY
49. In the initial few hours of trading on July 18th 2014, the
stock of a South-East Asian company took an 18%
tumble due to the events of the previous day.The event
followed an equally tragic one about four months prior.
While the likelihood of either event is very low, the
occurrence of both in such a short span of time dealt a
massive blow to company and it's stock tumbled, until in
August 2014 the government of the company's home
country, which was the major stakeholder in the
company until then, bought out the shares of the
minority stakeholders, and pulled the stock off the
market.What company?
57. William Randolph Hearst was anAmerican newspaper publisher who built
the nation's largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly
influenced American journalism. Hearst entered the publishing business in
1887 after taking control ofThe San Francisco Examiner from his father.
Moving to NewYork City, he acquiredThe NewYork Journal and engaged in
a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's NewYorkWorld that led to the
creation of yellow journalism—sensationalized stories of dubious veracity.
He was twice elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives,
and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of NewYork City in 1905 and 1909, for
Governor of NewYork in 1906, and for Lieutenant Governor of NewYork in
1910. Nonetheless, through his newspapers and magazines, he exercised
enormous political influence, and was famously blamed for pushing public
opinion with his yellow journalism type of reporting leading the United
States into a war with Spain in 1898.
He inspired a very famous character in one of the most iconic films in
history. Which movie?
60. Born as Marcel Bloch, he was a Jewish-French
industrialist, who invented a type of aircraft propeller
used by the French army inWorldWar 1 and founded the
Société desAvions Marcel Bloch aircraft company.
However after his company was nationalised in 1936 he
formed X, which he named after the codename his
brother Darius Bloch used in the war, a term which
derives for the French word for battle tank. He later
adopted this name as his surname, and converted to
Roman Catholicism in 1950.
This company has been in the news recently.Which
company? And why is it in the news?
63. The beginnings were humble - classic example of the enterprising Punjabi
spirit.The founders Pahwa Brothers dreamt of giving the common man of
this country an affordable means of mobility in those early days of our
country’s independence. Excellent quality, economical price and ethical
business dealings earned them instant acceptability. Holding these values
close to their hearts they built the trust brick by brick.
X is the only group anywhere in the world with full backward integration.
They have facilities for making almost all the parts, including Steel Balls
needed for their Bicycles.This places them a cut above the rest when we
talk of quality born of work culture.They did not venture intoTyre and
Tubes, these being in a different discipline, altogether.To meet their
expanding requirement of raw materials, they added facilities for making
Steel Strips, SteelTubes and Hot Rolled Steel, achieving full backward
integration, unmatched and unequalled anywhere else.
This is taken from the website of what company?
68. They all have “3” in their name.
Mitsubishi-Three diamonds (Japanese)
Samsung-Three stars (Korean/Hangul)
Ertiga-Three rows (Indonesian)
69. ___________ : A Life in Politics is the memoir of
SenatorTrent Lott, published in 2005.
__________ is also the name of an album
released in 1999 by Gaelic Storm. In business
jargon, __________ is an idiom that refers to a
frustrating attempt to control or organize a
class of entities which are uncontrollable or
chaotic.What two word idiom is this?
72. X was originally developed by the Hartman
brothers in Knoxville,Tennessee as a mixer for
whiskey.They initially approached Coca-Cola who
turned them down. X was later acquired by
PepsiCo. who still owns the brand today.
The origins of X as mixer for drinks is fairly
obvious, considering that X is a slang for
moonshine, which itself is a slang for homemade
whiskey. It was called moonshine because during
prohibition, it was made at night to hide the
smoke from the distller. ID X.
75. ID the brand which draws inspiration from the
subject of this painting
76.
77.
78. Phanindra Sama is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani
and co-founder of Pilani SoftLabs, which he
started after merely four years experience as a
design engineer, in 2006. In 2013, he sold his
stake in Pilani SoftLabs to the Ibibo group
which is jointly owned by Naspers of South
Africa andTencent Group from China.What
major product, endorsed by ShreyasTalpade, is
Pilani SoftLabs known for?
81. X was a German born American businessman. Originally
from Kallstadt, Germany where they owned a vineyard, X
moved to America in 1885, aboard the SS Elder. After he
arrived in USA, he worked as a barber for six years in NYC
before moving to Seattle. In Seattle he opened an
establishment called Dairy Restaurant, which due to its
location in the middle of Seattle's red light district, was
described as "a hotbed of sex, booze and money and was the
indisputable centre for action in Seattle". In 1894, X moved to
the mining town of Monte Cristo, where he opened a similar
establishment. He made his riches through similar
enterprises, along with investing in mining activities during
theYukon gold rush. His family continued the business and is
especially relevant today. ID X
87. When the NativeAmericans from Manhattan
island crossed over to mainland NewYork, they
signed a peace treaty with the local Dutch
colonialists.The Dutch, however, broke the
treaty within a few days and massacred the
NativeAmericans. Fearing retribution/revenge
from the surviving NativeAmericans, the Dutch
fortified their area with palisades and
ramparts.This is the story behind the naming of
which landmark in the financial world?
90. Being 400 years old, this company started by
Armenian Avedis _________ is one of the oldest in
the world. Avedis was an alchemist who walooking
for a way to turn base metal into gold; he created
an alloy combining tin, copper, and silver into a
sheet of metal, which turned out to be the best
possible material for a particular application, a
product for which this company is still known
for.The manufacturing process for this alloy has
been a secret which has been passed on from one
generation to another,currently in possesion of the
14th generation.Which company?
93. In 2014, French economistThomas Piketty
published the English translation of a book he had
completed in 2013. "Capital in theTwenty-First
Century" became a best-seller with its discussions
on income inequality being hotly debated by the
business media.The book makes interesting
references to characters from works of literature,
using them to talk about incomes in various eras.
One such example is the discussion about a
fictional 19th century heroine who can only
become well-off by marrying rich. From which
author's book is this character taken?
96. Arturo Di Modica is an Italian-American
sculptor born inVittoria, Sicily. He is most
famous for his work, ________ in NewYork,
which he installed at a cost of $360,000 of his
money in 1989. In 2010 a similar work was
installed in Shanghai, and in 2012, in
Amsterdam as a mascot to rise up from the
crisis.What is his most famous work?