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ANSBACH, Germany - Representatives of Emergency Services Directorates and Fire Chiefs from garrisons across Installation Management Command, Europe (IMCOM-E) met at the IMCOM-E Fire and Emergency Services Region Training Center in Ansbach on Urlas Kaserne to tour the facilities and observe certification training of U.S. and German firefighters Oct. 17, 2018. The USAG Ansbach facility is the singular fire training facility for IMCOM in Europe.
While on site the visitors learned about the different training opportunities, observed and took part in and refreshed their fire-fighting and rescue skills in a variety of training scenarios including fire ground operations, breaching and rescue operations, equipment maintenance, hazardous materials response and emergency communications procedures.
Fire Protection Specialist Sigurd Mack from IMCOM-E Headquarters in Sembach, Germany explained that Ansbach site was invaluable in qualifying and certifying the proficiency of a firefighter's skill.
"The course objectives and structure offered here is based on requirements issued by the National Fire Protection Agency, which the Department of Defense has adopted " Mack said. He explained that the course includes academic study as well as weeks of practical exercises, including fighting various types of fires, and required safety measures.
"We adjust training and certification procedures to meet Host Nation safety standards, but within the NFPA framework, and with DoD recognized certification" explained Mack.
To learn more about the people and facilities of the U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach and the people they support in Ansbach, Katterbach and Illesheim, visit the community website at ansbach.army.mil
Photo by Michael Beaton, U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach Public Affairs (RELEASED).
Morgan Pope, Research Scientist at Disney Research, joined the College of ECST Capstone Senior Design AcroBot project as a guest speaker, for an inspirational and technical discussion with the team.
The AcroBot Capstone project is based on the Disney Stickman project, which Morgan Pope was the main engineer.
Learn more about Disney's Stickman project by clicking the following link la.disneyresearch.com/publication/stickman/. Human performers have developed impressive acrobatic techniques over thousands of years of practicing the gymnastic arts. At the same time, robots have started to become more mobile and autonomous and can begin to imitate these stunts in dramatic and informative ways. We present a simple two degree of freedom robot that uses a gravity-driven pendulum launch and produces a variety of somersaulting stunts. The robot uses an IMU and a laser range-finder to estimate its state mid-flight and actuates to change its motion both on and off the pendulum. We discuss the dynamics of this behavior in a framework of acrobatic capability and present experimental results.
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ITU has signs a new partnership initiative with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the United Arab Emirates aimed at providing a framework for increased cooperation to carry out joint projects in the area of ICT development in the Arab Region.
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in European Interoperability Framework for European Public Services (2010), p. 4. See complete Annex: ec.europa.eu/isa2/sites/isa/files/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 27JAN11 - Connie Hedegaard (R), Commissioner, Climate Action, European Commission, Brussels, speaks, while Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Bonn; Global Agenda Council on Climate Change, looks on, during the session 'The New Reality of Climate Change' at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2011.
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The early framework of my Darth Malgus figure - this is two different store bought figures assembled together then reduced down to form a working plastic armature. Malgus will appear as he did from both Old republic theatrical trailers - He will include two alternate head sculpts. I am working on a trio of Imperial Troopers to go along with him :)
I hope these early images show you how much effort goes into creating these figures - probably the most difficult part of building one of these is the early stages, creating a working armature that will allow the articulation I want as well as support the sculpt work I intend to apply.
Performance by Joan Morey, "POSTMORTEM. Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu" (2006-2007). Reenactment by Sònia Gómez programmed within the framework of the exhibition "COLLAPSE. Desiring machine, working machine", Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona - Fabra i Coats, 27 September 2018. Photo: Noemi Jariod. Courtesy the artist.
Each of the six programmed performance reenactments is extracted from its original context as studies or scenes from earlier projects and given an independent life. These live-action fragments encompass ritualistic exercises following the artist’s rules, tableaux vivants, and dramatic orations based on texts by the artist or by playwrights such as Samuel Beckett. Whenever possible the performances maintain their original interpreters, yet inevitably they are reinforced or degraded through their repetition, adding another layer to the artist’s exploration of control.
POSTMORTEM. Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu
[POSTMORTEM: To Have Done with the Judgment of God] 2006–2007
Fragment from panel 7 of "POSTMORTEM. Project in Seven Tableaux" (2006–2007). The performance uses the radio poem "To Have Done with the Judgment of God" (1947) by Antonin Artaud, with a duration of 23 min 49 s, as its choreographic score. The first performance of this piece for a single
female performer took place as a part of "POSTMORTEM". It was repeated as a part of later projects with either a female or male performer.
Made inert as an individual by the skin-tight garment that
covers her entire body, the performer becomes a crawling and indeterminate body-thing that emits vocal expressions. She is literally burdened by a device that only amplifies Artaud’s constant evocation of the voice as a kind of excrement and his palpable obsession with the misery of existence.
© Text by Latitudes
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Since the late 1990s, Joan Morey (Mallorca, 1972) has produced an expansive body of live events, videos, installations, sound and graphic works, that has explored the intersection of theatre, cinema, philosophy, sexuality, and subjectivity. Morey’s work both critiques and embodies one of the most thorny and far-reaching aspects of human consciousness and behaviour – how we relate ourselves to others, as the oppressed or the oppressor. This central preoccupation with the exercise of power and authority seemingly accounts for the black and ominous tenor of his art.
COLLAPSE encompasses three parts. The first is presented over two floors of the Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona - Fabra i Coats. ‘Desiring machine, Working machine’ is a survey of ten projects from the last fifteen years of the artist’s work. An exhibition display based around vitrines and video screens deployed as if sarcophagi or reliquaries, is presented alongside a continuous programme of audio works and a schedule of live performance extracts.
The second part of COLLAPSE takes place at the Centre d’Art Tecla Sala, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (23 November 2018–13 January 2019) and is the definitive version of the touring exhibition ‘Social Body’.
Titled ‘Schizophrenic Machine’, the third and final part of the project comprises a major new performance event which will take place on January 10, 2019 at an especially resonant – yet, for the moment, deliberately undisclosed – location in Barcelona, where live action will be integrated within the longer narrative of the site’s physical and discursive past.
COLLAPSE is curated by Latitudes.
—> info: www.lttds.org/projects/morey/
Verdandi played by Imogen Slaughter. Framework written and directed by Sean Mckenna. Costume by Sinfi Buckely. Photo by Guy Blackett.
Tbhis is part of the steel framework for the canopy of the Victoria Conference Center. Although this portion looks old, it has obviously been designed to fit in with the portion attached to the Empress Hotel in Downtwon Victoria. And another reminder to change your perspective.
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum speaking during the " Shaping a NEw Framework for Global Cooperation"at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Yann Zopf
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16.06.2011 - European local and regional leaders called on European Commission President Barroso to put forward “ambitious EU budget proposals” in order to stimulate the economy and asked that municipalities and regions be given an active role in the design and implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy.
This call was made two weeks prior to the unveiling of the post-2013 EU financial framework during a meeting held today in Brussels between the presidents of associations representing local and regional authorities, the President of the Committee of the Regions, Mercedes Bresso, and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso.
The local and regional leaders stressed that the new EU budget must be “substantial” if it is to respond to the challenges ahead and to support economic recovery. A fair share of the upcoming budget should be dedicated to cohesion policy and could, if needed, be based on new own resources.
Local and regional leaders also underlined that the Europe 2020 strategy must create a sense of “ownership” among all levels of government, as a large number of the strategy priorities concern local and regional authorities.
Committee of the Regions President Mercedes Bresso said: "The Commission must now send a clear signal to economic policymakers and citizens. The future budget has to reflect the EU's new ambitions and the irreplaceable role of cohesion policy in supporting public and private investment. It must empower local and regional authorities, and must support their efforts to deliver the Europe 2020 targets." Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, First Vice-President of the Committee of the Regions and President of the Murcia region (Spain), added: "We also need a more flexible EU budget. My home region, Murcia in Spain, was recently hit by a devastating earthquake. Recovery efforts will require large amounts of money and will have a great impact on our regional development priorities and spending. However, our EU regional aid programme was agreed in 2006 and runs until 2013. In the future, we should be able to quickly realign available EU funding to respond to such situations. In general, more flexibility will be desirable."
Jean-Yves Le Drian, President of the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) and President of the Bretagne region (France), underlined: "Solidarity is the root of Political Europe. Without solidarity, Europe would have been no more than an economic free trade area. This solidarity is currently being undermined by issues related to financial stability and the overall amount of the EU budget. I am very concerned once again to see the Europe of tomorrow being shaped within the confines of the Member States, with no involvement on the part of the regions and no strong and clear goal. For this reason, we are asking for a coherent budget capable of meeting the goals of the tomorrow’s Europe and giving prominence to a cohesion policy for all regions and all citizens."
Partnership makes a difference
Jean-Luc Vanraes, President of the Conference of European Regions with legislative powers (REGLEG) and Minister of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Finance, the Budget and the External Relations, emphasised: "Giving a central position to subsidiarity is to defend our democratic values. The heightening of the awareness of all the levels of power - from the citizen to the European institutions through the Member States – is a prerequisite to make Europe a space where the citizen is respected and to make the European project one realized for and by the citizens.”
Annemarie Jorritsma, Co-President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) and Mayor of Almere (Netherlands), called on “the European Commission President to bring the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty to life by supporting a system of governance in partnership. European, national, regional and local authorities must cooperate in a spirit of partnership if we hope to successfully address the challenges Europe is currently facing. We need to notably mobilise citizens, industries, academics and NGOs, and invite them to join us in achieving true territorial development and cohesion in Europe.”
Reform of cohesion policy
Karl-Heinz Lambertz, President of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) and First Minister of the German-speaking Community in Belgium, stated: “European territorial cohesion has a fundamental meaning in border regions. They are areas where Europe grows together, but they also face important obstacles and challenges, even 20 years after the completion of the internal market. A strong cohesion policy is an essential instrument for these areas.”
Nazario Pagano, President of the Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies (CALRE) and President of Abruzzo Regional Council (Italy), said: "In support of the position expressed by the European Parliament on 8 June, the European Commission should introduce a category of "intermediate Regions" whose level of per capita GDP is between 75% and 90% of the EU average, for the future planning period of European structural funds. In the light of the recent Mediterranean crisis, recognition of a "common European border" and an appropriate revision of the Schengen provisions would be desirable. On behalf of the many CALRE Regions having to deal with migratory flows, I call on the European Commission to continue its dialogue with the Southern Mediterranean countries on the themes of migration, mobility and security."
Strong European neighbourhood policy
Michèle Sabban, President of the Assembly of European Regions (AER) and Vice-President of the Ile-de-France region, underlined "We welcome with satisfaction the recent EU communication on the reform of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), which will help to ensure the political stability of certain eastern European states. As regional democracy is a key element of any progress towards democratisation, the regions should become true partners, and not merely beneficiaries, of the ENP. These voluntary politics should also be extended beyond the borders of Europe, particularly in light of the recent developments in North Africa, to support the people. Together, strengthened by our experiences, we should help these new democracies carry out their decentralisation process.”
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