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con orgullo comparte los resultados del premio Internacional de innovación
educativa en donde participamos aproximadamente 2.000 trabajos de 29 países
deferentes y después de un largo proceso de evaluación clasificamos de
semifinalista, finalista y por último siendo ganadores del segundo premio a
nivel internacional con el blog <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><i><span lang="ES" style="background: white; color: blue; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-CO;">"http://tearidiz.blogspot.com/</span></i></b><span lang="ES" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES-CO;">
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a conocer a todos los ganadores en todas las modalidades y categorías a través
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al desarrollo del proyecto, al profesor Francisco Montañez, estudiantes de los
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Now, the VOA Special English program "Words and their stories". We received a list of expressions about food from Elenir Scardueli, a listener from Brazil.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: navy;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">Today we will talk about some good things to eat. If something is new and improved, we say it is </b><span style="background-color: #d5ffff; line-height: 20px;"><strong>the best thing since sliced bread</strong></span><b style="line-height: 20px;">. In the past, bread was only sold in loaves in baked goods stores. Today, American supermarkets sell sliced bread in plastic bags. Many people thought this was easier because you did not have to cut the bread yourself. The person who makes the most money in a family is called the </b></span><strong style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: navy; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: #d5ffff; line-height: 20px;">breadwinner</span>.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">the best thing since sliced bread:</b> sliced bread (pan en rebanadas) was first sold in 1928 and it was advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped." This led to the popular phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread"; <b style="line-height: 17px;">breadwinner:</b> sostén económico de la familia;</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">bread and butter issues:</b> los problemas esenciales para el sustento, el pan de cada día;</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><strong style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;">Half a loaf is better than none</span></strong><b style="line-height: 20px;"> means that getting part of what you want is better than getting nothing at all. If </b><span style="background-color: #d5ffff; line-height: 20px;"><strong>you know which side your bread is buttered on</strong></span><b style="line-height: 20px;">, then you know what your best interests are and will act to protect them.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">a piece of cake: </b>pan comido, juego de niños;<b style="line-height: 17px;"> icing on the cake:</b> el incentivo, el toque final, la guinda del postre; <b style="line-height: 17px;">you can’t have your cake and eat it, too:</b> quererlo todo, querer el oro y el moro;</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">Hotcakes are also called pancakes. They contain flour, eggs, milk and baking powder. You cook them in a frying pan and eat them with fruit or a sweet topping. If a new product is popular and selling well, you might say it is </b><span style="background-color: #d5ffff; line-height: 20px;"><strong>selling like hotcakes</strong></span><b style="line-height: 20px;">.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">baking powder:</b> polvo de hornear; <b style="line-height: 17px;">frying pan:</b> sartén; <b style="line-height: 17px;">sweet topping:</b> ingrediente dulce adicional; <b style="line-height: 17px;">selling like hotcakes:</b> vendiéndose como pan caliente (rápidamente);</span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">If you have an idea or plan that is not really possible, someone might say it is</b><strong style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;">pie in the sky</span>. </strong><b style="line-height: 20px;">If something is really easy to do, you might say it is like </b><strong style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;">taking candy from a baby</span>.</strong><b style="line-height: 20px;"> But that would not be a very nice thing to do!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Now, the VOA Special English
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>For example, a cucumber is a
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>If two people are very similar, you might say they are </b><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;"><b>like </b></span><strong><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;">two peas in a pod</span>. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>There are several expressions about beans. If someone is very energetic, you might say she is </b><strong><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;">full of beans</span>.</strong><b> If you say something </b><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;"><strong>does not amount to</strong><b> </b><strong>a hill of beans</strong></span><b>, you mean it is of little importance. I might say </b><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;"><strong>you don’t know beans</strong></span><b> about a subject if you do not know anything at all about it. But if you </b><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;"><strong>spill the beans</strong></span><b>, you tell something that was supposed to be a secret.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>full of beans:</b> lleno de energía, lleno de vitalidad; <b>does not amount a hill of beans:</b> no tiene nada de valor (no vale más que una pila de porotos); <b>you don't know beans:</b> no sabes nada de nada; <b>spill the beans:</b> soltar la lengua, contar todo, revelar un secreto;</span></div>
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many areas. But something is considered </b><strong>
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your bare hands. This also means a problem or issue that no one wants to deal
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>small potatoes:</b> cosa poco importante; <b>hot potato:</b> asunto candente, tema delicado; <b>couch potato:</b> teleadicto, persona muy sedentaria;</span></div>
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difficult test to gain entrance to a special school. So you could say the ones
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Bananas are a popular fruit to eat. But if you </b><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;"><strong>go bananas</strong></span><b>, you are wild with excitement or worry.</b></span></div>
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and water. So here is an expression about lemons that we like: </b><strong><span style="background-color: #d5ffff;">If life gives you lemons, make lemonade</span>. </strong><b>This means you should always try to make the best of a bad situation.</b></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">effort is not rewarded, and gifts given are not similar in value</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">picking out names from a bag and getting someone he dislikes is annoying</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">getting IOUs instead of candy from lazy secret friends.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">day of unveiling secret friends is annoying, people holler cat call and expect kissing and hugging.</li>
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The game has taken an online tint as well. Secret Follower (or #FollowerSecreto) is the new method by which Colombian twitters are participating with their friends from the popular micro-blogging platform. The methodology is explained <a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcgjJF1OaEuXZGhzNDYyc3JfMGdzdzk4eGQ1&hl=es" style="color: #0e51b2; text-decoration: none;">in this page </a>and through <a href="http://www.actionsite.net/followersecreto/index.php" style="color: #0e51b2; text-decoration: none;">this tool, </a>people can send their secret follower messages, and anyone can also check out their own present. <a href="http://www.actionsite.net/followersecreto/index.php" style="color: #0e51b2; text-decoration: none;">Click on the menu button</a> and select a twitter user to see the types of gifts they have received: phrases of friendship, images of cute animals or candy, videos, poems and more.</div>
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<span class="ecxzoomMe"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">I think people everywhere dream about having lots of money. I know I do. I would give anything to </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">make money hand over fist</span>. </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">I would like to earn large amounts of money. You could win a large amount of money in the United States through </b><span style="background-color: #ffffae; line-height: 20px;"><b>lotteries</b></span><b style="line-height: 20px;">. People pay money for tickets with numbers. If your combination of numbers is chosen, you win a huge amount of money – often in the millions. Winning the lottery is </b><span style="background-color: #ffffae; line-height: 20px;"><b>a windfall</b></span><b style="line-height: 20px;">.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">make money hand over fist:</b> hacer mucho dinero en poco tiempo; <b style="line-height: 17px;">to earn: </b>ganar (dinero); <b style="line-height: 17px;">large amounts of:</b> grandes cantidades de; <b style="line-height: 17px;">you could:</b> uno/a podría;<b style="line-height: 17px;">lotteries: </b>lotería, juegos de azar; <b style="line-height: 17px;">is chosen:</b> es elegida, sale sorteada; <b style="line-height: 17px;">huge:</b>enorme; <b style="line-height: 17px;">in the millions: </b>en el orden los los millones de dólares; <b style="line-height: 17px;">winning:</b> ganar; <b style="line-height: 17px;">a windfall:</b> un golpe de fortuna, una ganancia inesperada;</span></div>
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<span class="ecxzoomMe"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">A few years ago, my friend Al won the lottery. It changed his life. He did not have a rich family. He was not </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">born with a silver spoon in his mouth</span>. </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">Instead, my friend was always </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">hard up</span> </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">for cash. He did not have much money. And the money he did earn was </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">chicken feed</span> </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">– very little.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">born with a silver spoon in his mouth:</b> nacido con una cuchara de oro en la boca (o "en cuna de oro"); <b style="line-height: 17px;">instead: </b>en cambio; <b style="line-height: 17px;">hard up:</b> en estado de pobreza, sin dinero, sin blanca; <b style="line-height: 17px;">he did earn:</b> que realmente ganaba; <b style="line-height: 17px;">chicken feed: </b>insignificante (alimento para las gallinas);</span></div>
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<span class="ecxzoomMe"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">Sometimes Al even had to accept </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">hand-outs</span>, </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">gifts from his family and friends. But do not get me wrong. My friend was not a </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">deadbeat</span>. </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">He was not the kind of person who never paid the money he owed. He simply </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">pinched pennies</span>. </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">He was always very careful with the money he spent. In fact, he was often a </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">cheapskate</span>. </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">He did not like to spend money. The worst times were when he was </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">flat broke</span> </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">and had no money at all.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">hand-outs:</b> dádivas, limosnas, algo de dinero prestado; <b style="line-height: 17px;">do not get me wrong: </b>no me malinterpreten; <b style="line-height: 17px;">deadbeat:</b> aprovechado, gorrón, caradura; <b style="line-height: 17px;">paid:</b> pagaba; <b style="line-height: 17px;">he owed:</b>que él debía; <b style="line-height: 17px;">pinched pennies:</b> cuidaba el dinero; <b style="line-height: 17px;">he spent:</b> que él gastaba;<b style="line-height: 17px;">cheapskate: </b>tacaño, avaro, agarrado; <b style="line-height: 17px;">the worst times:</b> los peores momentos; <b style="line-height: 17px;">flat broke:</b> sin un centavo, sin un duro; <b style="line-height: 17px;">at all: </b>en absoluto;</span></div>
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<span class="ecxzoomMe"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">One day, Al </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">scraped together</span> </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">a few dollars for a lottery ticket. He thought he would never </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">strike it rich</span> </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">or gain lots of money unexpectedly. But his combination of numbers was chosen and he won the lottery. He </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">hit the jackpot</span>. </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">He won a great deal of money.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">scraped together:</b> juntó a duras penas, logró ahorrar; <b style="line-height: 17px;">lottery ticket: </b>billete de lotería; <b style="line-height: 17px;">strike it rich:</b> hacerse rico; <b style="line-height: 17px;">gain lots of:</b> conseguir parvas de; <b style="line-height: 17px;">unexpectedly:</b>de buenas a primeras; <b style="line-height: 17px;">he hit the jackpot:</b> acertó el gordo, se hizo rico; <b style="line-height: 17px;">a great deal of:</b> una gran cantidad de;</span></div>
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<span class="ecxzoomMe"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">Al was so excited. The first thing he did was buy a costly new car. He</b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">splurged</span> </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">on the one thing that he normally would not buy. Then he started spending money on unnecessary things. He started to waste it. It was like he had </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">money to burn</span>. </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">He had more money than he needed and it was </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">burning a hole in his pocket</span> </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">so he spent it quickly.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">excited:</b> emocionado; <b style="line-height: 17px;">costly: </b>costoso; <b style="line-height: 17px;">splurged on:</b> se dio el lujo de; <b style="line-height: 17px;">would not buy:</b> no compraría; <b style="line-height: 17px;">spending money on: </b>gastar dinero en; <b style="line-height: 17px;">to waste it:</b> a derrocharlo; <b style="line-height: 17px;">money to burn:</b> exceso de dinero; <b style="line-height: 17px;">it was burning a hole in his pocket:</b>le quemaba las manos (literalmente, el bolsillo);</span></div>
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<span class="ecxzoomMe"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">When we got together for a meal at a restaurant, Al paid every time. He would always </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">foot the bill</span>, </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">and </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">pick up the tab</span>.</b><b style="line-height: 20px;"> He told me the money made him </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">feel like a million dollars</span>. </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">He was very happy.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxzoomMe"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">But, Al spent too much money. Soon my friend was </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">down and out</span> </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">again. He had no money left. He was back to being </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">strapped for cash</span>. </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">He had spent his </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">bottom dollar</span>, </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">his very last amount. He did not even build up a </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">nest egg</span>.</b><b style="line-height: 20px;">He had not saved any of the money.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">too much:</b> demasiado; <b style="line-height: 17px;">down and out: </b>empobrecido, arruinado; <b style="line-height: 17px;">he had no money left:</b> ya no le quedaba dinero; <b style="line-height: 17px;">he was back to:</b> volvió a; <b style="line-height: 17px;">being strapped for cash:</b>andar falto de dinero; <b style="line-height: 17px;">had spent:</b> había gastado; <b style="line-height: 17px;">bottom dollar:</b> su último dólar; <b style="line-height: 17px;">he did not even: </b>él ni siquiera; <b style="line-height: 17px;">build up a nest egg:</b> ahorrar algo de dinero;</span></div>
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<span class="ecxzoomMe"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: 20px;">I admit I do feel sorry for my friend. He had enough money to live like a king. Instead, he is back to living </b><b style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="background-color: #ffffae;">on a shoestring</span> </b><b style="line-height: 20px;">– a very low budget. Some might say he is </b><span style="background-color: #ffffae; line-height: 20px;"><b>penny wise and pound foolish</b></span><b style="line-height: 20px;">. He was wise about small things, but not about important things.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b style="line-height: 17px;">I do feel sorry for:</b> siento sincera pena por; <b style="line-height: 17px;">like a king: </b>como un rey; <b style="line-height: 17px;">instead:</b> en cambio; <b style="line-height: 17px;">live on a shoestring:</b> vivir con lo mínimo; <b style="line-height: 17px;">very low budget: </b>bajísimo presupuesto; <b style="line-height: 17px;">some might say:</b> algunos podrían decir que; <b style="line-height: 17px;">penny wise and pound foolish:</b> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">inteligente para las cosas pequeñas y muy tonto para las grandes.</span></span></div>
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<i style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother’s Day is almost here and it got me to thinking about my favorite Mother’s Days memories.</i></div>
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<i style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ok..let me back up a little..get this…when I was growing up in Mexico, the typical Mother’s Day included tons of folks heading over to my grandma’s house, where my grandma, my mom, and all the rest of the mothers in the extended family spent all day, prepping, cooking, serving, and cleaning up after a large Mother’s Day family meal!! Really? Really! Well, I say, no way to that!</i></div>
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<i style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now that I’m a mother, my stand out favorite Mother’s Day memories were quiet, peaceful days, when I had both time just to myself and time with the people I love most, my husband and kids.</i></div>
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<i style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And my favorite memories always somehow involve plants. Strange, right?</i></div>
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<i style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Having time for myself is important to me. I’m talking about time to recharge my batteries and focus on my wellbeing. It can mean a nap, reading a book, watching a show, having a pedicure with my friends, or even taking a long, hot shower. My husband is so good, he usually takes the kids out of the house so I can have this time just for me.</i></div>
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<i style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My favorite gifts are usually the most meaningful ones; handcrafts from my kids, good books, and music are some of my favorites. And then there’s the plants, I love it when my boys buy plants and flowers and plant them in our garden for me. See, I love flowers and vegetable gardens but I don´t think I´m particularly good to them. My husband and kids take the time to water the plants and take care of them, while I, and I love this part, enjoy the results!</i></div>
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<span style="color: navy; font-size: medium;"><b><i>THREE WOMEN SHARE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE</i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Three women shared 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for their "non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights, to full participation in peace-building work." </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>shared:</b> compartieron; <b>prize: </b>premio;<b> struggle: </b>lucha; <b>safety:</b> seguridad; <b>rights:</b>derechos; <b>full: </b>íntegra; <b>peace-building:</b> orientado a la paz;</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The recipients are Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, activist Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, and activist Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. The 1.5 million dollar prize was equally divided among the three female laureates. In a statement announcing last year's winners, the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee said, "We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society."</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>recipients:</b> beneficiarias; <b>Liberian: </b>liberiano/a (nativo de Liberia, Africa); <b>activist:</b>militante; <b>equally:</b> a partes iguales; <b>among: </b>entre (más de 2 personas, animales o cosas); </span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">laureates:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> laureadas, premiadas; <b>achieve:</b> lograr, alcanzar; <b>lasting:</b>duradera; <b>unless:</b> a menos que (las); <b>obtain:</b> consigan; <b>as men: </b>que los hombres;<b>developments:</b> evoluciones, desarrollos; <b>at all levels:</b> en todos los niveles;</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is Africa's first democratically-elected woman president. Since her inauguration in 2006, she has contributed to securing peace in Liberia, to promoting economic and social development, and to strengthening the position of women.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>since:</b> desde; <b>inauguration: </b>asunción presidencial; <b>to securing peace:</b> para asegurar la paz; <b>to strengthening:</b> para fortalecer;</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Leymah Bgowe is responsible for mobilizing and organizing women across ethnic and religious dividing lines to bring an end to the long war in Liberia, and to ensure women's participation in elections.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>responsible for:</b> responsable de; <b>mobilizing: </b>movilizar; <b>across:</b> en todos los; <b>ethnic and religious lines:</b> frentes étnicos y religiosos; <b>to bring an end to: </b>para poner punto final a; <b>to ensure:</b> para asegurar; <b>in elections:</b> en las elecciones (voto);</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Tawakkul Karman played a leading role in the struggle to attain women's rights and for democracy and peace in Yemen, both before and during the Arab Spring.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>played a leading role:</b> desempeñó un papel de liderazgo; <b>to attain: </b>para lograr; <b>Arab Spring:</b> Revolución Árabe;</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton congratulated the three Nobel Peace Prize winners saying, "they are shining examples of the difference that women can make and the progress they can help achieve when given the opportunity to make decisions about the future of their societies and countries."</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>shining examples:</b> destacados ejemplos; <b>when given: </b>cuando se les concede;</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">She added: "The unflinching courage, strength and leadership of these women to build peace, advance reconciliation, and defend the rights of fellow citizens in their own countries provide inspiration for women’s rights and human progress everywhere. This recognition of their extraordinary accomplishments, reflects the efforts of many other women who are promoting peace and security in their countries and communities."</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b>unflinching courage:</b> coraje firme; <b>strength: </b>fortaleza; <b>leadership:</b> liderazgo; <b>fellow citizens:</b> compatriotas; <b>provide: </b>proporcionan; <b>recognition:</b> reconocimiento;<b>accomplishments:</b> logros; <b>efforts:</b> esfuerzos; <b>promoting:</b> impulsando.</span></div>
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In the global economic turmoil since the last Summit of the Americas in 2008, Europe has navigated upheavals that threatened its hard-won economic union and the U.S. has faced tumult that meted out social and economic adjustment. Canada has fared reasonably well, but Latin America appeared to exhibit particular resilience in the face of global economic disorder. The Economist lauded the region a few months ago for weathering the storms relatively unscathed, and for producing relatively strong growth trajectories of about 5 per cent annually.</div>
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But don’t be fooled. While recent decades have seen significant development of infrastructure and institutions, political reforms and an explosion in the numbers of people moving up to the middle class, much of the recent hardiness of the region is due to unsustainable factors such as access to cheap money from rich countries, and record high prices for natural resource and commodity exports, fuelled chiefly by strong demand from Asia.</div>
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Despite their apparent escape from the financial turmoil experienced in Europe and the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean remain among the regions with the highest economic inequality levels in the world. In Colombia, the host country of this year’s summit, per capita income of the richest 10 per cent of Colombians is 25 times higher than that of the poorest 40 per cent. While widening differentials are explained by the fact that increases in wealth far outpace increases in poverty, it remains true that, although recent growth in the region has benefited the poor, it has benefited the rich more.</div>
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To achieve long-term economic sustainability, Latin America needs to confront the challenge of maintaining economic gains while addressing the persistent high levels of poverty and inequality. Commodity price fluctuations are inevitable, but reliance on natural resource revenues, even as they ebb and flow, tends to stymie investment in the human capital needed to further develop the economies of resource-exporting countries. Meantime, as inequality persists or increases, the potential for social, political and economic disruption escalates, dampening the appetite of international capital for that country that may be buoyed in times of high commodity prices, but quickly evaporates when prices fall.</div>
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Traditional production structures in the economic systems of natural resource-endowed developing countries make it difficult for those industries to move up the value chain. Without the significant investment in education and technology it would take to develop the economies of many Latin American countries, gaping inequality threatens to remain a feature of many of the region’s resource-based economies.</div>
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Leaders meeting this weekend in Cartagena would thus be wise to address two of the summit’s key challenges – inequality and access to technologies – in tandem. Summit participants, from the business forum to the civil society groups, should consider the importance of integrating value and production chains in order to develop a variety of industries – high-tech to community based – that work in relation to natural resource industries, raising demand for human capital in resource-related services.</div>
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This year’s Summit of the Americas – Connecting the Americas: Partners for Prosperity – offers a practical, logical and convenient forum for discussing co-operation, partnership and integration tactics that would take advantage of today’s revenues from natural resources to relieve future vulnerabilities caused by inevitable commodity price fluctuations; invest in human capital while creating programs for worker training and education; and develop science, technology and research partnerships that bring the resources of wealthier countries together with the ambition and enterprise of less developed ones.</div>
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Creating programs that design frameworks for integration and co-operation that are flexible and anticipate change, development and evolution of societies throughout the Americas is the route to connecting the Americas in partnership for prosperity.</div>
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