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sábado, 14 de agosto de 2021

The Costs of and Response to COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the Education Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean

 

Dear all,

 

I do hope this message finds you well!

 

I sharing this one with you folks.

 

 


Acting Now to Protect the Human Capital of Our Children: The Costs of and Response to COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the Education Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean

 

“The sanitary and economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic brought about the most significant disruption in the history of the education sector in Latin America and the Caribbean region, leading to school closures at all levels and affecting over 170 million students throughout the region. Despite the tremendous efforts made by countries to mitigate the lack of in-person education through remote learning, education is taking a serious hit and outcomes are plummeting in the region. Learning poverty by the end of primary education could increase by more than 20 percent. Over 2 in 3 lower secondary education students could fall below minimum proficiency levels, and learning losses will be substantially larger for the most disadvantaged students. There is no time to lose. All countries must act now to make sure schools are ready to reopen safely and effectively country-wide so as to speed up the recovery process from the dramatic effects of the pandemic. They can leverage many emerging lessons and evidence, and must protect public funding for education, to enable this reopening process. While education systems face a challenge like no other, this exceptionally difficult situation also opens a window of opportunity to build back better their education systems to become more effective, equitable and resilient.”

 

 

Source:

 

World Bank. 2021. Acting Now to Protect the Human Capital of Our Children: The Costs of and Response to COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the Education Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/35276 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.

 

 

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sábado, 24 de julho de 2021

Do you know what 'THE NUCLEAR FOOTBALL' is?

 



The nuclear football is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers, such as the White House Situation Room or the Presidential Emergency Operations Center.

 

It functions as a mobile hub in the strategic defense system of the United States. It is held by an aide-de-camp.

 

(From Wikipedia) 

 


Pentagon puzzle: What if the nuclear ‘football’ goes missing?

https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/pentagon-puzzle-what-if-the-nuclear-football-goes-missing/

 

 

Curiosity

 

 

"Following President Trump's failure to secure a second term, he did not
attend President Biden's inauguration, when the football is normally handed
over. Instead, Trump's football remained with him while a second one
accompanied Biden. At the 12:00 PM EST transition time, the codes in Trump's
and Pence's (who did attend the inauguration) football were deactivated, and
those in Biden's and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris's were activated."

 




Beaumont, Peter (January 19, 2021). "How will Trump pass 'nuclear football' to Biden if he's not at swearing-in?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on January 19, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2021.

 

 

 

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sexta-feira, 17 de julho de 2020

A BATTLE OF WILLS





Read the sentences bellow and try to figure the meaning f A BATTLE OF WILLS.

The President offered compromises to parliament to defuse the battle of wills over who should wield power.
Instead I was getting myself into an increasingly confrontational situation, a battle of wills, with the Director of Coaching.
A battle of wills, no less, between pursuer and prey.
This follows whispers of an alleged battle of wills with manager Don Mackay.
After two days even, the smallest decision could become an exhausting battle of wills.
A drawn-out battle of wills began, with my having to stone-wall both in London and on visits to Moscow.
The battle of wills between them forms the backbone of the story.
In fact, their battle of wills is escalating.
Each refusing to compromise, the husband and wife entered into a battle of wills as they attempted to negotiate their divorce settlement.
It was a battle of wills, and Grace's was the stronger.
All that was left was a mutual struggle, a battle of wills, which became totally exhausting.

MEANINGS:

If an argument or conflict is a battle of wills, the person with the strongest beliefs or personality will win.

A competition in which opposing sides are unrelenting in their attempts to achieve a particular outcome.

A battle of wills is a situation that involves people who try to defeat each other by refusing to change their own aims or demands and hoping that their opponents will weaken first.



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quarta-feira, 8 de julho de 2020

LEAD SOMEONE UP THE GARDEN PATH




Meaning: if someone leads you up the garden path, they deceive you by making you believe something which is not true.


EXAMPLES:

Don't lead me up the garden path—tell me what is really going on here.

He led me up the garden path. He said the relationship with Penny was over but now he seems to be seeing her again.


According to by some websites, LEAD SOMEONE UP THE GARDEN PATH is mainly British. There is also the variety LEAD SOMEONE DOWN THE GARDEN PATH, which is mainly American English.

EXAMPLES:

Don't lead me down the garden path—tell me what is really going on here.

Now, be honest with me. Don't lead me down the garden path. That cheater really led her up the garden path.

He believes the average consumer is being led down the garden path by the promises in advertisements.



In a nutshell, what does 'LEAD SOMEONE UP THE GARDEN PATH' mean?

“If someone leads you up the garden path, they deceive you, or give you false information that causes you to waste your time. 'Lead someone down the garden path' is also used.”


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quarta-feira, 1 de julho de 2020

IN THE PIPELINE




You may have heard this one before. A pipeline is a large pipe that carries oil or gas over a long distance, often underground.

If something is in the pipeline, it is being planned or developed.

EXAMPLES:

o   The group has a new CD in the pipeline.
o   The theatre company has several new productions in the pipeline for next season.
o   Twenty-eight lawsuits were filed this week, and another 200 cases are in the pipeline.
o   The project has been in the pipeline since forever. I am not sure if it will ever get completed.
o   I am not working right now but have a few offers in the pipeline.
o   She keeps telling me that her new book is in the pipeline but is she even writing something right now?
o   My mother's operation has been scheduled. Finally, it has been in the pipeline for a very long time.
o   My boss asked for an update about every project that is in the pipeline right now. Is something going on that I don't know about?


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terça-feira, 30 de junho de 2020

KEEP A LOW PROFILE





Read the sentences below:

• With police apparently keeping a low profile, the violence intensified during the night.
• Apple kept a low profile for the first few days of the conference, making no major announcements or product introductions.
• Many of the exiles have married, taken jobs, and generally kept a low profile.
• But since then they have kept a low profile and not made their findings public.
• Kendall keeps a low profile, refusing to grant on-the-record interviews with the news media.
• Like every really smart lobbyist, Boggs knows the importance of being subtle and of keeping a low profile.
• She's keeping a low profile until the scandal is forgotten.
• There was nothing she could do about it, other than keep a low profile and stay well out of his way.
• Western visitors to the region are asked to keep a low profile.
• I decided to keep a low profile, after all I was a guest.
• During the event Clinton will keep a low profile.
· The president continues to keep a low profile on vacation in Maine

Having read the sentences, I would like to call your attention to KEEP A LOW PROFILE.

If someone KEEP A LOW PROFILE, they avoid doing things that will make people notice them. We KEEP A LOW PROFILE in order to avoid drawing attention, scrutiny, or observation to oneself.

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How the World Missed Covid-19's Silent Spread


Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and contradictory claims in the face of mounting evidence.

By Matt Apuzzo, Selam Gebrekidan and David D. Kirkpatrick (June 27, 2020)

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“[…] The two-month delay was a product of faulty scientific assumptions, academic rivalries and, perhaps most important, a reluctance to accept that containing the virus would take drastic measures. The resistance to emerging evidence was one part of the world’s sluggish response to the virus.

It is impossible to calculate the human toll of that delay, but models suggest that earlier, aggressive action might have saved tens of thousands of lives. Countries like Singapore and Australia, which used testing and contact-tracing and moved swiftly to quarantine seemingly healthy travelers, fared far better than those that did not.

It is now widely accepted that seemingly healthy people can spread the virus, though uncertainty remains over how much they have contributed to the pandemic. Though estimates vary, models using data from Hong Kong, Singapore and China suggest that 30 to 60 percent of spreading occurs when people have no symptoms […]”



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