Questões de Concursos

Navy looking for drone operator flying device around

Washington state base

Published February 27, 2016 Foxnews.com

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A civilian employee of Naval Submarine Base Kitsap-Bangor reported seeing the drone, spokeswoman Silvia Klatman told Military.com.

According to the Navy, it is illegal to operate a drone above the base without the permission of the Navy. "It's our intent to support the investigation and prosecution of this reported act, and any others that may occur, in coordination with civilian law enforcement," Klatman said.

Military.com reported that agents interviewed families who lived in houses surrounding the base. (II) _______Officials said the drones were seen operating at night. "It could be a hoax, but worst-case scenario, it could be clandestine, a foreign government, a cell," Al Starcevich, whose family's house is located between the base and Hood Canal in Washington, told the website. "The creepy thing is they' re only doing it at night. (Ill) ______ "

Starcevich told The Seattle Times that agents told him there had been repeated incidents around the base involving an alleged drone.

Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor's airspace was designated as "prohibited" by the FAA in May 2005, at the request of the Navy. (IV) ______ The prohibited area extends to the water across Hood Canal and the Navy-owned portion of Toandos Peninsula.

Doug O'Donnell, chief pilot at Avian Flight Center at Bremerton National Airport, said security forces are supposed to shoot down aircraft that violate the FAA riiles.

The Bangor base houses eight of the Navy's 14 ballistic-missile submarines, according to Military,com. Each can carry up to 24 missiles with multiple nuclear warheads.

The Defense Department has held countless classified exercises to counter possible drone attacks, The Seattle Times reported. Last year, one exercise included a Marine sniper shooting one down from a military helicopter,

(http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/02/27/navy-looking-for-drone-operator-flying-device-around-washington-state-base.html)

Doctor works to save youth from violence before they reach his ER

As an emergency physician at Kings County Hospital Center [in Brooklyn], Dr. Rob Gore has faced many traumatic situations that he'd rather forget. But some moments stick with him. "Probably the worst thing that I've ever had to do is tell a 15-year-old's mother that her son was killed," Gore said. "If I can't keep somebody alive, I've failed." [...]

"Conflict's not avoidable. But violent conflict is," Gore said. "Seeing a lot of the traumas that take place at work, or in the neighborhood, you realize, 'I don't want this to happen anymore. What do we do about it?"

For Gore, one answer is the “Kings Against Violence Initiative" - known as KAVI - which he started in 2009. Today, the nonprofit has anti-violence programs in the hospital, schools and broader community, serving more than 250 young people.

Victims of violence are more likely to be reinjured, so the first place Gore wanted to work was in the hospital, with an intervention program in which "hospital responders" assist victims of violence and their family - a model pioneered at other hospitals. The idea is that reaching out right after someone has been injured reduces the likelihood of violent retaliation and provides a chance for the victim to address some of the circumstances that may have led to their injury.

Gore started this program at his hospital with a handful of volunteers from KAVI. Today, the effort is a partnership between KAVI and a few other nonprofits, with teams on call 24/7.

Yet Gore wanted to prevent people from being violently injured in the first place. So, in 2011, he and his group began working with a handful of at-risk students at a nearby high school. By the end of the year, more than 50 students were involved. Today, KAVI holds weekly workshops for male and female students in three schools, teaching mediation and conflict resolution. The group also provides free mental health counseling for students who need one-on-one support.

"Violence is everywhere they turn - home, school, neighborhood, police," Gore said. "You want to make sure they can learn how to process, deal with it and overcome it."

While Gore still regularly attends workshops, most are now led by peer facilitators - recent graduates and college students, some of whom are former KAVI members - who serve as mentors to the students. School administrators say the program has been a success: lowering violence, raising grades and sending many graduates on to college.

"This is really about the community in which we live" he said. "This is my home. And I'm going to do whatever is possible to make sure people can actually thrive."

(Adapted and abridged from http ://www.cnn.com)

Switzerland’s invisible linguistic borders

There are four official Swiss languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh, an indigenous language with limited status that's similar to Latin and spoken today by only a handful of Swiss. A fifth language, English, is increasingly used to bridge the linguistic divide. In a recent survey by Pro Unguis, three quarters of those queried said they use English at least three times per week.

In polyglot Switzerland, even linguistic divisions are divided. People in the German-speaking cantons speak Swiss-German at home but learn standard German in school. The Italian spoken in the Ticino canton is peppered with words borrowed from German and French.

Language may not be destiny, but it does determine much more than the words we speak. Language drives culture, and culture drives life. In that sense, the Rõstigraben is as much a cultural border as a linguistic one. Life on either side of the divide unfolds at a different pace, Bianchi explained. “[In my opinion] French speakers are more laid-back. A glass of white wine for lunch on a workday is still rather usual. German speakers have little sense of humour, and follow rules beyond the rigidity of the Japanese."

The cultural divide between Italian-speaking Switzerland and the rest of the country - a divide marked by the so-called Polentagraben - is even sharper. Italianspeakers are a distinct minority, accounting for only 8% of the population and living mostly in the far southern canton of Ticino. “When I first moved here, people told me, Ticino is just like Italy except everything works’, and I think that's true,” said Paulo Gonçalves, a Brazilian academic who has been living in Ticino for the past decade.

Coming from a nation with one official spoken language, Gonçalves marvels at how the Swiss juggle four. “It is quite remarkable how they manage to get along,” he said, recalling going to a conference attended by people who spoke French, German, Italian and English. "You had presentations being given in four different languages in the same conference hall.’’

Living in such a multilingual environment "really reshapes how I see the world and imagine the possibilities,” Gonçalves said. “I am a significantly different person than I was 10 years ago.”

Switzerland’s languages are not evenly distributed. Of the country’s 26 cantons, most - 17 - are German speaking, while four are French and one Italian. (Three cantons are bilingual and one, Grisons, trilingual.) A majority of Swiss, 63%, speak German as their first language.

(Abridged from http ://www.bbc.com)

TEXTO 2

Minha amiga me pergunta: por que você fala sempre nas coisas que acontecem a primeira vez e, sobretudo, as compara com a primeira vez que você viu o mar? Me lembro dessa cena: um adolescente chegando ao Rio e o irmão lhe prevenindo: "Amanhã vou te apresentar o mar." Isto soava assim: amanhã vou te levar ao outro lado do mundo, amanhã te ofereço a Lua. Amanhã você já não será o mesmo homem.

E a cena continuou: resguardado pelo irmão mais velho, que se assentou no banco do calçadão, o adolescente, ousado e indefeso, caminha na areia para o primeiro encontro com o mar. Ele não pisava na areia. Era um oásis a caminhar. Ele não estava mais em Minas, mas andava num campo de tulipas na Holanda. O mar a primeira vez não é um rito que deixe um homem impune. Algo nele vai-se a profundar.

Eo irmão lá atrás, respeitoso, era a sentinela, o sacerdote que deixa o iniciante no limiar do sagrado, sabendo que dali para a frente o outro terá que, sozinho, enfrentar o dragão. E o dragão lá vinha soltando pelas narinas as ondas verdes de verão. E o pequeno cavaleiro, destemido e intimidado, tomou de uma espada ou pedaço de pau qualquer para enfrentar a hidra que ondeava mil cabeças, e convertendo a arma em caneta ou lápis começou a escrever na areia um texto que não terminará j amais. Que é assim o ato de escrever: mais que um modo de se postar diante do mar, é uma forma de domar as vagas do presente convertendo-o num cristal passado.

Não, não enchi a garrafinha de água salgada para mostrar aos vizinhos tímidos retidos nas montanhas, e fiz mal, porque muitos morreram sem jamais terem visto o mar que eu lhes trazia. Mas levei as conchas, é verdade, que na mesa interior marulhavam lembranças de um luminoso encontro de amor com o mar.

Certa vez, adolescente ainda nas montanhas, li uma crônica onde um leitor de Goiás pedia à cronista que lhe explicasse, enfim, o que era o mar.Fiquei perplexo. Não sabia que o mar fosse algo que se explicasse. Nem me lembro da descrição. Me lembro apenas da pergunta. Evidentemente eu não estava pronto para a resposta. A resposta era o mar. E o mar eu conheci, quando pela primeira vez aprendi que a vida não é a arte de responder, mas a possibilidade de perguntar.

Os cariocas vão achar estranho, mas eu devo lhes revelar: o carioca, com esse modo natural de ir à praia, desvaloriza o mar. Ele vai ao mar com a sem-cerimônia que o mineiro vai ao quintal. E o mar é mais que horta e quintal. É quando atrás do verde-azul do instante o desejo se alucina num cardume de flores no jardim. O mar é isso: é quando os vagalhões da noite se arrebentam na aurora do sim.

Ver o mar a primeira vez, lhes digo, é quando Guimarães Rosa pela vez primeira, por nós, viu o sertão. Ver o mar a primeira vez é quase abrir o primeiro consultório, fazer a primeira operação. Ver o mar a primeira vez é comprar pela primeira vez uma casa nas montanhas: que surpresas ondearão entre a lareira e a mesa de vinhos e queijos!

O mar é o mestre da primeira vez e não para de ondear suas lições. Nenhuma onda é a mesma onda. Nenhum peixe o mesmo peixe. Nenhuma tarde a mesma tarde. O mar é um morrer sucessivo e um viver permanente. Ele se desfolha em ondas e não para de brotar. A contemplá-lo ao mesmo tempo sou jovem e envelheço.

O mar é recomeço.

(SANT'ANNA, Affonso Romano de. O mar, a primeira vez. In: _____ . Fizemos bem em resistir: crônicas selecionadas. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 1994, p.50-52. Texto adaptado.)

Based on the text below, answer the question.

Why Join the Navy?

In the Navy, you' 11 find there' s much more to be gained than a regular paycheck. In fact, the Navy experience can shape your future through outstanding financial benefits, unparalleled career potential, and the lifestyle of freedom and personal growth that you've been waiting for.

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Launch your future in any of dozens of dynamic career and j ob areas - each with excellent opportunities to earn promotions by advancing through the ranks.

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Report to work in a dif f erent time zone or a dif f erent hemisphere. Take on lif e as a world traveler. Experience people and places that most others simply canft . And see firsthand the positive impact you'11 make - for yourseif, your country and the world at large.

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Do it all while earning competitive pay, generous vacation time and other special bonuses that make the difference between getting ahead and just getting by.

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The Navy has a strong interest in the long-term health of its Sailors and their families, which means that outstanding benefits are standard - for both you and your family, including full coverage from some of the nation's most talented professionals.

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Think about it . As long as you have the drive to make a difference in the world - and in your own life - there will be a place for you in America's Navy. Enlist now!

(Adapted from http://www.navy.com/joining/why-join.html