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#Atividade (07): Spain quarantines 3, plans to euthanize Ebola nurse's pet dog

MADRID – Health officials scrambled Tuesday to figure out how West Africa's Ebola outbreak got past Europe's defenses, quarantining four people at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nursing assistant became infected. Determined to contain the spread of the deadly virus, they even announced plans to euthanize the woman's pet dog.

The first case of Ebola transmitted outside Africa, where a months-long outbreak has killed more than 3,400 people, is raising questions about how prepared wealthier countries really are.

The nursing assistant in Madrid was part of a special team caring for a Spanish priest who died of Ebola last month after being evacuated from Sierra Leone. The nursing assistant wore a hazmat suit both times she entered his room, officials said, and no records point to any accidental exposure to the virus, which spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sickened person.

The woman, who had been on vacation in the Madrid area after treating the priest, was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday after coming down with a fever, and was said to be stable Tuesday. Her husband also was hospitalized as a precaution.

Madrid's regional government even got a court order to euthanize and incinerate their pet, "Excalibur," against the couple's objections. The government said available scientific knowledge suggests a risk that the mixed-breed dog could transmit the virus to humans, and promised to use "biosecurity" measures to prevent any such transmission.

The afflicted woman, reportedly in her 40s and childless, was not identified to protect her privacy, but nursing union officials she had 14 years' experience. Spanish officials said she had changed a diaper for the priest and collected material from his room after he died. Dead Ebola victims are highly infectious, and in West Africa their bodies are collected by workers in hazmat outfits.

The Madrid infection shows that even in countries with sophisticated medical procedures, frontline health care workers are at risk while caring for Ebola patients. More than 370 health care workers in the hardest-hit countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone have died.

Disponível em: FOX News.
Acesso: 08 de outubro, 2014.

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#Atividade (06): Charge

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#Atividade (05): Wonder Woman, Jesus and Obama via for votes in Brazil

Latin America's largest economy will head to the ballot on October 5. Voting is compulsory for Brazilians, so with dozens of local and federal congressional seats in the offing, candidates rely on the exciting and the occasionally bizarre to attract attention.

A congressman known by his stage name, Tiririca, has a video where he appears in a wig alongside dancers that wouldn't be out of place at a Miley Cyrus show. In another video he makes a bathroom joke involving a politicians "main role" and a roll of toilet paper.

But some Brazilians don't share this sense of humor. One voter blames the proliferation of the humorous ads on "low education levels" and voters who think "elections are just a joke."

Another pointed to a serious problem, saying that voters think "everyone is corrupt so they vote for some guy because he's funny."

Disponível em: CNN.

Acesso: 02 de Outubro de 2014.

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#Atividade (04): Cameron delivers response to Isis hostage threat at PMQs

We’ve got the first PMQs* since the summer recess today and it will be dominated by what David Cameron has to say about the government’s response to Isis’s latest beheading of an American hostage, and its threat to target a British hostage next. David Cameron will set out the British government’s response to the threat to the life of a British man by Islamic State (Isis) at prime minister’s questions after an emergency meeting of Cobra on Wednesday morning.

Government sources said Cameron had known of the threat to the man’s life for many months so it will not change his short-term calculations, but the revelation of the threat to the public in the gruesome Isis video is likely to put more pressure on the UK to join the air strikes that the Americans have been conducting for weeks against Isis in northern Iraq.

Obama is under intense domestic pressure to be more decisive and is considering whether to extend the air strikes to Syria, the original base of Isis.


*PMQs - Prime Minister Questions (Perguntas ao Primeiro Ministro) - Sessão em que o primeiro ministro responde a perguntas feitas por membros do parlamento inglês.

Disponível em: The Guardian.

Acesso: 26 de setembro, 2014.

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#Atividade (03): Cartum

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#Atividade (02): Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey has announced two US shows – in a Hollywood cemetery.

The singer will play two dates next month (October 17 and 18) at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, which according to its website is the "final resting place to more of Hollywood’s founders and stars than anywhere else on earth." It also regularly hosts gigs.

The two dates are the first to be announced by the singer since she pulled out of a string of European appearances earlier this month due to illness.

She cancelled her scheduled appearance in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge and subsequently two private concerts for Virgin Radio listeners in Paris. A statement from the singer's label Polydor/Universal read: "For medical reasons independent of our will, the artist has been forced to cancel all promotional activities planned in Europe over the coming days."

Lana Del Rey released her second album 'Ultraviolence' in June, which was the follow-up to her 2012 debut 'Born To Die'. Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys produced a number of tracks on 'Ultraviolence' including lead single 'West Coast'.

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#Atividade (01): Biometrics - The Future of the Password

Usually, whenever anyone talks about biometrics, the first thing they think about are fingerprint scanners like those found on the latest crop of Apple and Android-based smartphones. This isn’t a new concept: a 2003 paper from the SANS Institute goes into significant detail about the notion. The idea even dates all the way back to the 1980s, when it was deployed at some high-security data center entry doors. I can recall using several of these to gain access to the various data centers that I have visited over the years.

The latest fingerprint scanners are great for protecting general access to your phone. But that’s pretty much it. Apple doesn’t have any interfaces for individual apps on that phone, and even when they do develop this, it will still be some time before they can be implemented. Certainly, Android (and Samsung specifically) seems to have the jump on iOS when it comes to this particular form of biometrics for the time being.

And there are other Minority Report-style biometrics devices that are in the works. One idea is to scan your eyeball, and vendors such as EyeLock are trying to deliver lower-cost models that can be more generally deployed for the public. And not all eyeball scanners are alike: this post explores the common differences and talks about the different elements of the eye that are actually scanned and calculated.

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#Dica: Faça Simulados!

Muitas pessoas que irão fazer o ENEM ou qualquer outro tipo de vestibular nem sequer sabem como é o ritmo de uma prova deste porte, assim, acabam se saindo muito mal. 

Pensando nisso, muitos sites e escolas realizam diversos simulados durante o ano. É algo que ajuda muito, já que esse tipo de treinamento poderá revelar determinados pontos dos quais você precisa prestar mais atenção.

Dessa forma, você se familiariza com esse tipo de prova além de adquirir conhecimento em que área do conhecimento deverá focar focar, gastando maior quantidade de tempo para resolver suas questões.
Enfim, simulados nos auxiliam a criar nosso próprio ritmo e nos ajudam a montar nosso próprio esquema de desenvolvimento durante o teste.

Selecionamos alguns simulados online para que possam treinar. Confiram!

Simulado: Seja Bixo;
Simulado: Brasil Escola;
Simulado: UNIPAR;
Simulado: Guia do Estudante;
Simulados: Mundo Vestibular;
Simulado: UOL - Fuvest.

Acesse também os seguinte artigos:

UOL: Provas e Correções;
SejaBixo: Simulado é um grande aliado na reta final de preparação.