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All rights reserved Imply® is a partner in one of the most innovative “Edutainment” projects in Brazil: the installation of two Bowling Lanes at UniFECAF The university center inaugurated a new campus in Taboão da Serra students and the community will have a technological and highly entertaining leisure option The term “Edutainment” suggests a methodology that uses entertainment as a tool to promote learning making the educational process more engaging What better way to achieve this goal than by promoting a sport of technique and skill that is modern That’s where Imply®’s expertise of over two decades comes in the university center becomes the first in São Paulo—and one of the pioneers in Brazil—to install Bowling “The goal of UniFECAF in installing Bowling Lanes is to materialize the concept of Edutainment which is the fusion of Education with Entertainment We strongly believe that this approach enriches the students’ experience on our campuses providing a more engaging and fun environment this project highlights the value of creating an academic experience that doesn’t have to be serious and boring We want our students to feel relaxed and make the most of their time at the university This is reflected in our academic calendar which includes pedagogical and festive events the Bowling Lanes as the big main highlight'” explain Marcel Gama Architect and Head of Facilities at UniFECAF UniFECAF has over 400 campuses across Brazil they will offer quality entertainment not only to students but also to the community It is the solidification of exceptional service and innovation as an objective “We chose Imply® technology because of the excellent technical support offered and the company’s proven experience in Bowling installations around the world The ease of learning and using Imply® technology were crucial factors as we needed a system that could be easily operated by students and staff,” they emphasize “What surprised us most about Imply® was the high level of technical support from the beginning of the process The Imply® team was always available to clarify doubts and offer personalized and efficient service The transparency and detail of the technical information were positive points that gave us confidence in our choice One of the main differentiators of Imply®’s service and technology is the incredible design of the lanes the ease of use and user-friendly interface of the bowling system along with the robust support and training infrastructure ensured that our team was well prepared to operate and maintain the lanes,” emphasize Marcel Gama and Michele Ortunes The design of each element of the Bowling confers authenticity and personality to the project with breathtaking LED lights and visual effects the Bumpers system ensures that even beginner players can hit the pins The Above Ground return system allows players to follow the ball’s return and creates even more enchantment The equipment is carefully developed to be super intelligent with Imply® offering specialized teams at every stage of the process Can you imagine your space with a Bowling Lane like this and together we’ll make the perfect space for you a reality Learn more about our Bowling Lanes: Bowling Alleys: Customized andOfficial Bowling Lanes |Imply® Technology 1.111 - RST 287 Km 105 | Santa Cruz do Sul | RS - Brazil imply@imply.com (+55) 51 2106-8000 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region 102,000+ key contacts related to companies and projects news and interviews about your industry in English 2020) - Orlando City SC has acquired midfielder Ocimar de Almeida Júnior via transfer ahead of the 2020 Major League Soccer (MLS) season As Urso will make above the maximum salary budget charge the club will determine his roster designation ahead of the MLS Roster Compliance date “We are very excited to welcome Júnior Urso to Orlando City Coming from a renowned club like Corinthians he brings a great amount of international experience to Orlando while allowing us to add more depth and a new skill set to our midfield,” said Orlando City EVP of Soccer Operations Luiz Muzzi “He possesses great vision and abilities on the ball and we expect him to make an immediate impact on our roster.” The 30-year-old midfielder joins the Lions from Brazilian Série A side Corinthians where he spent the entirety of the 2019 season Urso appeared in 48 matches for the Timão across all competitions scoring five goals while helping lead the team to a Campeonato Paulista title.  Urso spent nearly five seasons in the Chinese Super League He spent his first two years in China as a member of Shandong Luneng from 2014-16 appearing in 64 matches and scoring 14 goals before going on loan to Atlético Mineiro of Brazil’s Série A for the 2016 season he registered 48 appearances while netting seven goals.  Urso finished his time in China with Guangzhou R&F scoring eight goals before departing following the 2018 season.  The Taboão da Serra native began his career in his home nation with Santo André in 2009 before transferring to Ituano the following year In 2011 his federative rights were purchased by Avaí and subsequently loaned to Paraná Clube before he was called back for Série A play where he totaled 90 appearances and scored four goals in two seasons from 2012-13.  TRANSACTION: Orlando City SC acquires midfielder Júnior Urso via transfer.  José Aprígio da Silva was seriously hurt in October by assailants with assault rifles but police say it was faked As campaign strategies go it was unorthodox and illegal: buy an AK-47 and stage a fake assassination attempt against the mayor that would generate public sympathy and help him win a second term in power an armoured vehicle carrying José Aprígio da Silva came under fire in Taboão da Serra Officials including São Paulo’s rightwing governor, Tarcísio de Freitas, and the country’s leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, weighed in with messages of outrage and support. “This crime must be thoroughly investigated and those responsible must receive exemplary punishment,” Lula declared But this week police investigators said they believed the seemingly botched homicide was a fraud and launched a series of raids targeting suspected conspirators code-named Operation Hidden Fact The supposed ambush on Silva’s vehicle had actually been a farce engineered by supporters of the 72-year-old mayor They allegedly hoped the attack would cause an outpouring of sympathy and boost his campaign in the days before the vote Police said evidence gathered as a result of one plea bargain deal suggested Silva’s allies had paid 500,000 reais (about $88,000 or £70,000) for the duo of bogus shooters to launch their fake strike on his SUV “It was the mayor himself who asked for [them] to shoot at his car’s windscreen,” one unnamed witness reportedly told police although investigators admitted they did not yet have conclusive evidence proving the mayor’s involvement in the ruse Silva’s lawyers denied he had played any role in the alleged hoax and said he was surprised by claims the attack had been a simulation pointing out that the mayor had been severely injured during the Kalashnikov attack and “nearly lost his life” Reports in the Brazilian media suggested Silva’s injuries might well have been unintentional plotters failed to take into account that the ballistic protection level of the mayor’s armored vehicle was insufficient to stop the bullets fired by assault rifles like the AK-47 “Evidence gathered … shows that there was no attempt to murder the mayor … as described by him, but a sham” designed to swing the election his way, a police report quoted by the news website G1 claimed. If indeed that was the plan, it backfired badly. Silva failed to win re-election with voters instead handing his rival, Daniel Plana Bogalho, a landslide victory. “I can’t say I’m surprised because we were always sure this was a set-up. I’m happy with the way things have turned out,” Bogalho said on Monday, adding: “I hope now justice is truly done.” The Swope Park Rangers have signed defender Matheus Silva, the club announced on Friday. Silva spent the last three seasons with MLS side the San Jose Earthquakes, earning USL experience on loan at Arizona United SC in 2016 and Reno 1868 FC in 2017. Silva, 21, signed with San Jose in the summer of 2015 and went on to make four appearances, including two starts, in MLS action. He made his debut for the Earthquakes as a late substitute in a 1-0 victory over the Colorado Rapids on March 6, 2016 and made his first start on May 7, 2016 in a road game at Seattle Sounders FC. In addition, he started in a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup loss to the Portland Timbers on June 14, 2016. Silva was loaned to USL Arizona United and made his debut for the club on May 14, 2016. The Taboao da Serra, Brazil native appeared in 17 matches throughout the 2016 USL season as Arizona – now Phoenix Rising FC – finished 13th in the Western Conference. In 2017, Silva spent time on loan at USL expansion side and new San Jose affiliate Reno 1868 FC, making two appearances for the club in their successful inaugural season. Silva was one of the top prep players in the United States, playing for Montverde Academy in Florida – leading the team to an unbeaten 18-0-1 record in his final year. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. 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Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. the São Paulo state government reported 4 flood-related fatalities: 3 in Botucatu and 1 in Marília Meanwhile the number of displacements has increased to over 730 with around 350 of them in the Greater Sao Paulo area mostly in the municipalities of Carapicuíba (65); Pirapora do Bom Jesus (120); Jandira (32); and Itaquaquecetuba (128) Hundreds of people also remain displaced outside Greater Sao Paulo Heavy rain has affected wider areas of the state of São Paulo with severe flooding reported in the city of Botucatu State government in São Paulo confirmed that 246 people have been displaced across the state acting Governor Rodrigo Garcia surveyed the flooded areas of the Pinheiros and Tietê and landslides in Osasco Laranjal Paulista and Taboão da Serra have declared an emergency São Paulo State government said that the regions of Vale do Ribeira Baixada Santista and Alto Tietê were also among the worst affected Torrential rain has caused flooding and landslides in the Greater São Paulo area, Brazil The state government said some places recorded more rain in 3 hours than normally seen in the entire month of February According to Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET) Barueri recorded 145.8mm of rain in 24 hours to 10 February Mirante de Santana in São Paulo City recorded 121.8mm during the same period The rain caused the Tietê and Pinheiros rivers to overflow with levels of the Pinheiros River at their highest for 15 years according to the Empresa Metropolitana de Águas e Energia (EMAE) Some schools have been closed and public transport suspended The São Paulo Fire Department has responded to more than 4,000 calls from late 09 February with 7 landslides and 132 flood points reported in the Greater São Paulo area overnight By early 10 February these figures had increased to 88 incidents of landslides and flooding in 546 points Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList 30% of them infected with the protozoan that causes Chagas disease teams from the Endemic Diseases Oversight Office (SUCEN) have found 135 insects in the municipalities of Greater São Paulo that are carriers of the protozoan that causes Chagas disease While there are no cases of the disease reported in humans yet laboratory analyses at SUCEN indicate that the captured insects had been feeding on the blood of humans and animals “We need to be careful to avoid transmission to people,” warns biologist Rubens Antonio da Silva a scientific researcher and technical coordinator for the Chagas disease control program at the oversight agency When a kissing bug was identified in 2015 in Pirapora do Bom Jesus Silva and his team thought they might be simply sporadic events That conclusion fell apart when they received calls from residents of Taboão da Serra in the following years and also received notifications from Carapicuíba and neighborhoods in the western districts of São Paulo Juquitiba and Santana de Parnaíba were added to the list of municipalities reporting kissing bugs researchers identified colonies with 57 insects living in possum nests under the tile roofs of three houses in a subdivision surrounded by forest 47% of the kissing bugs were infected with Trypanosoma cruzi females with eggs were found under the mattress on which the residents slept While on the rise for the first time in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region the kissing bug population has fallen in other parts of the state The total number of insects captured has decreased from about 6,000 in 2007 to about 2,000 in 2018 as Silva describes in an article published in April 2019 in the Brazilian Journal of Health Review the state of São Paulo reported only one new case of Chagas disease in 2016 and two in 2017 During the same two years the number of new cases went from 20 to 320 in Pará and from 3 to 24 in Amapá states with the majority of new case reports Brazil received international certification from the World Health Organization (WHO) for practically eliminating the kissing bug Triatoma infestans the principal species transmitting the disease which today is restricted to regions of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul as a result of the high infection rates prevalent through the mid-twentieth century it’s estimated that 1.2 million to 4.6 million people in Brazil have the chronic form of Chagas disease responsible for approximately 6,000 deaths per year which affects about 30% of people with the parasite according to the WHO Currently the species of kissing bug that causes the most concern is Panstrongylus megistus since it is capable of living in both forests and domestic spaces Megistus has a brown body with red spots and is 2.5 to 4 centimeters in length the insect may enter homes through open doors or windows cruzi by feeding on the blood of animals that harbor it—without themselves developing the disease—called natural reservoirs megistus in the metropolitan region of São Paulo have been sparse 15 specimens were captured in the city of São Paulo Only two insects were examined: one collected in 2011 in Jabaquara but the specimen collected in 2014 in Sacomã This is according to a survey by biologist Walter Ceretti Junior published in July 2018 in the Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo rodents and possums approach houses for shelter and food,” says Ceretti Júnior “The possibility of parasite transmission leaving the sylvatic [wildlife] cycle and expanding into urban areas is at the very least worrying,” says epidemiologist Guilherme Werneck a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) megistus in areas close to forests in four neighborhoods in the western districts of São Paulo: Jardim Amaralina Examining the locations of kissing bug reports in recent years they concluded that the insects may be on the move taking advantage of parks and forest corridors starting from the region between the Régis Bittencourt and Raposo Tavares highways “If in fact there is a territorial expansion of the carrier insects the situation tends to worsen,” Silva observes He believes that if the hypothesis is correct then since the insects reproduce more intensely in the summer residents of northern neighborhoods such as Tucuruvi will likely find the insects nearby or inside their homes by late 2019 SUCEN’s action plan includes communicating with the residents of Cotia The parasite is transmitted mainly through food or beverages contaminated with feces from kissing bugs “We have to avoid letting them form colonies 565 adults and 1,183 kissing bug nymphs of the species Rhodnius neglectus were collected from dozens of palm trees in the streets and squares of the northwestern city of Araçatuba in São Paulo State He states that although these kissing bugs weren’t infected the concern is that a contaminated possum might climb the palm trees in search of parrot eggs and transmit the parasite to the insects “The identification of kissing bugs in urban areas reinforces the need to warn of the risks of transmission to humans,” says biologist José Eduardo Tolezano director of the Center for Parasitology at the Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL) today accounts for 9% of the human cases recorded in Brazil by the Ministry of Health the means by which the parasite was transmitted is not identified Currently the leading cause is oral transmission (72%) through the consumption of food or drink containing feces from insects contaminated with the parasite a study by the Tropical Medicine Foundation reported ten cases of people who presented with the initial symptoms of Chagas disease—fever and weakness—after drinking acai juice contaminated with T a transmission event of still uncertain origin was reported In a group of 77 people who attended a religious retreat during Holy Week in Ibimirim possibly contracted from contaminated food or drink Their treatment was initiated with benznidazole which is effective in controlling the acute phase of the disease but has strong side effects such as allergic skin reactions © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved. Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu and Gabriel Stargardter; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien continuava sem iluminação pública na noite deste domingo (13) - Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil On Monday morning (14), Enel, the electricity distribution company in São Paulo, released a report on the blackout in the capital's metropolitan region Around 530,000 clients are still without electricity 354,000 of them in the city of São Paulo with 36,900 homes without power; Taboão da Serra with 32,700; and São Bernardo do Campo The outage to the population of São Paulo began on Friday (11), when a 30-minute storm hit the state. At the time, around 2.1 million homes were left without power In a statement released on Saturday (12), Brazil’s Electricity Agency (Aneel in Portuguese) ordered Enel to provide details on what happened and raised the possibility of recommending the end of the company's concession after a meeting with representatives of Enel the federal agency and the São Paulo State Public Services Regulatory Agency (Arsesp Aneel classified the company's performance in restoring the power supply in the metropolitan region as “below expectations.” The agency pointed to Enel's delay in reaching 2,500 employees working in the neighborhoods affected by the power outage to make the necessary repairs The company itself informed the number in its contingency plan 1,700 employees were working in the affected areas Aneel also compared Enel's current lack of a satisfactory response to that seen in November 2023 the resumption is not as efficient as we had hoped,” said Aneel's director-general The meeting between the regulatory agencies and Enel took place amid an exchange of criticism between Ricardo Nunes (Brazilian Democratic Movement) and Alexandre Silveira (Social Democratic Party) the Brazilian Minister of Mines and Energy Nunes went so far as to criticize the federal government saying there was “neglect” regarding São Paulo’s population After receiving heavy criticism for his role in curbing the crisis Nunes posted on his X/Twitter profile on Sunday that Silveira had talked about renewing Enel's contracts in Brazil with the company's director in Italy Silveira accused Nunes of seeking to inherit Pablo Marçal's votes [third in the first round of elections for São Paulo City Hall] with accusations against the federal government The minister said he had taken part in a discussion forum in Italy “with several Brazilian and Italian businessmen and authorities” and that “there was no discussion about renewing Enel's concession.” “This is not on the table São Paulo residents were left without electricity for nearly a week after a storm This incident led Aneel to find Enel in over BRL 165 million (approximately $29 million) The Agency's decision acknowledged that the severe weather events on November 3 it emphasized that these events did not absolve the distributor of its responsibility to restore service quickly and effectively faced heavy criticism for attending the Formula 1 race while parts of the city remained in darkness.  All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced provided it is not altered and proper credit is given All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced provided it is not altered and proper credit is given.