In order to strengthen fire and panic safety in the school community of the Wenceslau Braz Civic-Military State School (ECIM), in Brazil training of the school’s 1st Fire Brigade has been carried out through the Organic Fire Brigade Training Course – Basic Level The course, conducted by the military of the Military Fire Department of Minas Gerais (CBMMG) divided into two parts; pre-hospital care and urban fire fighting The training involved 37 teachers and students from the 3rd year of the school’s Occupational Safety Technician course The qualification offered the technical and practical part necessary for participants to acquire essential knowledge to act in emergency situations both in the area of first aid and firefighting The first stage of the course was held on March 14 Teachers and students learned about the classification of fires how to act in cases of respiratory obstruction cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) maneuvers Safety procedures to be followed in cases of fire or other accidents were also discussed The second stage of the training was held on March 21 in practical mode and took place at the headquarters of the 2nd Platoon of Firefighters of the 1st Company of the 7th Independent Company of Firefighters (7th Cia Ind) The focus was on preventing and fighting the beginning of fires properly equipped with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) were able to apply what they learned in theory in addition to training safety procedures in situations involving gas cylinders all participants received the Organic Brigade certificate – Basic Level and were officially integrated into the Organic Brigade of ECIM Wenceslau Braz where they will play an essential role in fire and panic safety and well-being of the school community Training at the Wenceslau Braz Civic-Military State School in Brazil has been carried out Fire & Safety Journal Americas is a publication of Centurian Media Limited Registered office: 71-75 Shelton Street London Greater London WC2H 9JQ UNITED KINGDOMOperating office: The Maidstone Studios Centurian Media Limited (CML) is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer along with all qualified applicants that we receive for employment fixed contract or freelance projects receive consideration without regard to race CML is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status Website hosted and maintained by Grass Media Web Design ICO registration number: CSN0536342 All content copyright Centurian Media Ltd 2019-2025 A new agreement signed by HMC Itajubá –HMC Capital’s Brazilian branch– will grant Latin American investors access to boutique CRUX Asset Management’s specialized strategies the agreement with the London-based firm will allow HMC Itajubá to distribute their strategies that have strong investing capabilities in Asia CRUX is an active equity investment manager with 1.7 billion pounds in AUM (over 2.3 billion dollars) the firm’s three core equity teams focus on Europe including two of their outstanding funds: the CRUX Asia ex-Japan Fund Both vehicles are managed by Ewan Markson-Brown who joined the London-based manager in September 2021 and has spent over 20 years managing emerging markets and Asia portfolios This distribution agreement strengthens HMC Itajubá’s goal of representing leading fund managers offering specialized investment opportunities to its clients in Chile and Brazil “CRUX Asset Management is one of the top boutique asset managers We look forward to working with them and are proud to represent and help expand the firm’s presence in Latin America and to offering our clients access to top fund managers with a long and consistent track record of positive alpha” said Nicolás Fonseca “We are pleased to partner with HMC Itajubá and to have the opportunity to expand our international distribution to new potential clients” “Investors may find additional diversification and yield benefits in our UK European and Asian equity offerings which could help to position portfolios for the mid and late cycle environments” and has 15 billion dollars in assets under management and distribution from institutional Reportará directamente a Agnaldo Andrade .. 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You can register here This literature review provides readers with a synthesis of current information about university rankings including those related to academic entrepreneurship which serve as a means of monitoring third mission efforts in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) By conducting a thorough search on Scopus and Web of Science databases relevant studies were selected based on specific criteria The review suggests that rankings directly impact the governance of HEIs Due to the disparate nature of third mission university activities having a ranking system for universities based on these specific types of activities could provide government policymakers with a greater understanding of the strengths of universities across a new range of metrics The findings highlight that there is still no common framework of criteria for evaluating and measuring the performance of entrepreneurial universities and the engagement of academics with third mission activities Addressing this issue is crucial because entrepreneurial education alone does not significantly influence students' intentions to pursue entrepreneurship and start new businesses By creating incubators and providing financial resources consultancy and access to technological tools universities encourage and support their students' entrepreneurial intentions diversify their funding sources and enhance their innovation and profitability Academic entrepreneurship rankings can help universities develop appropriate institutional settings to achieve these goals and to produce individuals capable of leading social and economic progress Received: 17 Jan 2025; Accepted: 21 Apr 2025 Copyright: © 2025 Fernandes Costa Celeste, Sanches da Silva and Pereira Mello. 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Brazilian Army’s — and IMBEL’s after 1975– Fábrica de Itajubá (Itajubá Factory) will be somewhat of a flashback to the early 1970s I have skipped the actual timeline back because the weapons involved here were quite different from the previously-described models of the mid-to-late seventies It just so happened that in 1971 the guys at the facility’s Oficina de Protótipos (Prototypes Workshop) appeared to have given a better look at Israel’s Uzi buzzgun and decided to come out with a weapon with the same magazine-in-central-pistol-grip configuration The first prototype was designated FI Modelo 1971 (aka CE-971) an entirely conventional blowback-operated SMG that fired from the open bolt position and featured a cylindrical receiver and an involving bolt with a fixed striker The fixed (reciprocating) cocking piece was a small cylindrical job that projected upward at about 45 degrees to the left while the ejection window was to the right at about the same angle A small rectangular lower receiver housed the firing mechanism and possessed a lookalike Uzi selector switch with the settings “S” and “A” in a back-to-front sequence on the left side while the magazine catch on the lower pistol grip was no less inspired a safety lever was also present at the rear of the pistol grip… “Shalom!” The forward end of the gun received a wooden handguard of cylindrical shape a foldable tubular stock allowing the reduction of the overall length from 690 to 430mm (the barrel was 250mm long) The single CE-971 was followed by a subsequent CE-971A1 (aka CE-71A1) this having “Safe” and “Automatic” settings for the switch-type fire selector placed on the left side the reported cyclic rate of fire being in the region of 900 rounds per minute Another distinguishing characteristic was the slightly conical profile of the handguard Higher-res pics here: https://imgur.com/a/w8VwZ Ronaldo is a long-time (starting in the 1960s) Brazilian writer on aviation with articles published in local and international (UK His vast experience has made him a frequent guest lecturer and instructor in Brazil's armed and police forces More by Ronaldo Olive BCMF arquitetos and MACH arquitetos together have collaborated on a masterplan of the science & technology park of itajubá the city in brazil is known for its variety in industrial districts and having a prestigious university system in the country the scheme proves propitious for the construction of the science and technology park – an enterprise in which the partnership between the three spheres of government private companies and the federal university of itajubá (UNIFEI) will create an environment conducive to innovation and development the administrative building is established in two main levels prioritizing public activities on the ground floor the vast scheme has been developed with an emphasis on the providing an organized environmental and landscape quality will aim to stimulate tourist activity meanwhile the overall landscaping 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bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style O endereço abaixo não existe na globo.com Professor Pedro Paulo Balestrassi and the coordinator of Sciences Without Borders of the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI) will principally consist of professors and doctoral students from the UNIFEI travelling to the URV to carry out research and study and of URV students studying at the UNIFEI and doing internships in companies related to the UNIFEI Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Google Maps 977 29 79 75 Help us improve this site and website in this browser for the next time I comment Bell 525 Walkaround: The First Commercial Fly-by-Wire Helicopter Robinson R44 Raven II USD $ 570,000 Year: 2015 Click on the button below to send an email to our team and we will get to it as soon as possible Have a story idea you would like to suggest As a long-time (since the mid-1960s) licensed manufacturer of the well-known 7.62x51mm FN FAL rifle for the Brazilian Armed and Police Forces IMBEL – Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil took the opportunity to use it as a basis for other firearms How this eventually took the form of several 5.56x45mm rifle variations from the MD1 prototype of 1983 to the MD97 models of the late 1990s has recently been shown by TFB in a series of articles But it is not generally known that the weapon was also used as a basis for a number of 9x19mm submachine gun and carbine projects that originated from the Fábrica de Itajubá (Itajubá Factory) facilities’ Oficina de Protótipos (Prototypes Workshop) using off-the-shelf FAL parts (unchanged and/or slightly modified) in their subgun designs so that development time could be abbreviated and production costs Here’s a brief account of the SMGs that were built and tested by IMBEL in the late-1970s/early-1980s period The first physical result received the in-house designation M979 based on the year a first prototype was completed but it was generally referred to as the “Falzinho” Its more obvious external relation to the rifle could be noticed in the use of the same synthetic pistol grip and trigger components and a deeper examination of its guts would show some other minor components of common use the upper and lower receiver (firing mechanism housing) swung open in the same FAL fashion in the early field stripping process The blowback weapon fired from the open-breech position with the firing pin machined on the bolt face The non-reciprocating cocking handle on top of the gun was made in aluminum and machined into a wide U-shape so as to allow unrestricted use of the protected sights was designated Sub Mtr 9 IMBEL MD1 (solid FAL stock) and Sub Mtr 9 IMBEL MD1A1 (re-shaped all-metal folding stock) incorporating some design changes here and there but still featuring the fixed firing pin bolt The earliest prototypes employed a machined upper receiver with a pressed steel cover on it but follow-on examples had a single stamped receiver with 1.2mm thick walls This resulted in an overall gun weight reduction of 300 grams to about 3.6kg in addition to having cut down workshop work from 43 to 19 operations The wooden handguard was reshaped in contour and received wider longitudinal grooves instead of the earlier reduced to 495mm when the stock was folded Although officially approved in offical tests conducted at Brazilian Army’s Campo de Provas da Marambaia (Marambaia Proving Grounds) Since IMBEL’s primary design objective was to employ as many FAL components as possible this was taken to a further step ahead in 1981 when the Sub Mtr 9 MD2 (solid stock) and MD2A1 (foldable metal stock) models appeared The new prototype guns employed 90 parts common to the 7.62x51mm rifle which translated into about 80 per cent shared components with the rifle This included the whole machined lower receiver firing mechanism and three-position fire selector resulting in the guns becoming closed-breech a bonus when it came to more accurate semi-auto fire 1:254mm pitch) were available in two lengths 211mm (muzzle velocity: 400 m/s) and 160mm (360 m/s) The longer barrel was usually fitted with an external perforated sleeve and a flash hider with the same dimensions of the FAL’s and thus allowing the fitting of… the rifle’s bayonet Although the practical usefulness of such an item for an SMG is open to question I was told by the IMBEL guys at the time that this had been actually required by one of the potential costumers Other clearly visible FAL-related items were found such as the protection structure for the fixed (100m) aperture rear sight and the non-reciprocating charging handle of that small variant that lies flat under spring tension when not pulled out by the operator A semi-automatic carbine version with a longer (401mm) barrel was also made this being clearly intended to eventually enter the U.S Designated Ca 9 IMBEL MD1 (those guys loved the “MD-number” names!) it was particularly smart-looking thanks to its long perforated barrel thermal jacket and flash hider For eventual use by law enforcement agencies using semi-auto pistol-caliber carbines an option would be fitting the 211mm barrel of the MD2 subgun Although the longer barrel gave a slightly higher muzzle velocity (440 m/s) than the 400 m/s offered by the SMG it was found that the difference in terminal velocity became smaller as the range increased a more than adequate firing distance for the caliber at hand with all these FAL-based designs having materialized into functional (fully functional in my experience) prototypes and with installed tooling that allowed series production to be undertaken at Fábrica de Itajubá with no great efforts the international market was already somewhat crowded with submachine gun offerings and eventual in-country orders from the military and LE agencies (already committed to the locally-made Beretta/Taurus M12) did not seem to justify the full go-ahead for this 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In my recent article (http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/06/09/brazils-7-62x51mm-mosquefal/) on the Mq 7,62 M968 rifle made by Fábrica de Itajubá (Itajubá Factory) for the Brazilian Army I also showed said gun in a photo alongside two shorter carbines one clearly based on the 7.62x51mm “Mosquefal” and another which was referred to as a “sports” model an enthusiastic part-time firearms researcher I was soon able to learn a little more about that second gun It seems that the Brazilian Army at some time wanted to make a good number of long guns available for transfer to higher-ranking reserve officers then asking the Itajubá Factory to transform some still-stored DWM-made 7x57mm M1908 rifles (Musketoons or Mosquetões in the local military parlance) into shorter carbines The Army industrial facility just went ahead and did as requested designated “Mosquetão DWM M908/ Officer” One hundred eleven of them were finally sold in an auction in 2001 when Fábrica de Itajubá was already a part of the IMBEL – Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil S.A showing the example numbered “606 EB” sold in that public auction Is there a minimum barrel length requirement for civilian rifles in Brazil Having recently reported ( http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/04/13/imbels-new-7-62x51mm-ia2-carbine-rifle/) on the official certification test program of Brazil’s IMBEL 7.62x51mm IA2 semi-auto carbine currently under way at the CAEx – Centro de Avaliação do Exército (Army Evaluation Center) it might be proper to inform TFB readers on the status of the earlier 5.56x45mm model It took IMBEL – Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil quite a while to reach its current position as a viable manufacturer of 5.56x45mm rifles and carbines since the State-owned company started its efforts at such back in mid-1983 ( http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/04/10/imbels-first-5-56x45mm-rifle-attempt/) as that rotary-bolt prototype model proved unfeasible to go ahead due to budgetary restrictions (too much R&D money required and not readily available to launch the program) the State-owned company decided to later proceed with an even more FAL-based gun a measure to basically to cut down costs since that rifle of Belgian origin had been fully nationalized in Brazil back in 1973 as the M964 (fixed stock) and the M964A1 (foldable tubular stock) and was still in full-scale production at the Fábrica de Itajubá (Itajubá Factory) The earliest attempt along this path materialized as a selective-fire tilted-bolt breech locking prototype designated MD1 in 1984-85 a short wooden handguard (pretty much the same as the one used in the FN FALO Squad Automatic Weapon) and this resulted in the loaded weight almost touching the 5kg mark when a foldable bipod was fitted The next progression step was achieved in the early 1990s with the MD2/MD2A1 (foldable stock selective fire/semi-auto only) and MD3/MD3A1 models (fixed stock but the initial market response made the FAL-type tubular folding stock the chosen one to go ahead with Tests conducted by the Brazilian Army Campo de Provas da Marambaia (Marambaia Proving Grounds) 1364/91 certification being granted in January thus clearing the gun for production and sales delivered to selected Brazilian Army units for troop evaluation purposes while the semi-auto MD2A1 found its way into the inventories of a number of state LE agencies and a loaded weight of 4.85kg with 30-rounds in the STANAG-compatible magazine that had Brazilian Army’s Basic Operational Requirements No 06/95 were issued in which new parameters for a 5.56x45mm rifle were set up and this included a 3.8kg weight limit and a three-round burst facility They resulted in the so-called MD97 family which include ed the MD97L selective-fire rifle and the MD97LC semi-auto carbine The man design improvement in the “97” series was replacing the FAL-type tilting bolt with a rotary bolt whose radial lugs locked directly to a barrel extension rather than to the somewhat redesigned lower receiver This permitted the use of light alloy material in its construction and The MD97LC carbine weight came down to a more reasonable (still while the longer-barrel MD97L was 0.3kg heavier including the pistol grip/trigger assembly Picatinny rails began to find their way to the top cover of the gun’s receiver some in full-length and most in the shape of two in-line short units The Brazilian Army did receive small batches of the MD97L rifle for field trials and general evaluation purposes but main sales were those to a number of state LE agencies and to the Força Nacional de Segurança Pública (National Public Security Force) a Federal-controlled organization that is available to send troops to wherever in Brazil a local crisis requires extra police action that IMBEL was able to seriously commit itself to a full development effort of a 5.56x45mm rifle by adequately investing in personnel qualification and modernization of its production equipment Emphasis was also placed on establishing comprehensive in-house test facilities meet Brazilian Army’s Basic Operational Requirements and Ministry of Defense’s Joint Operational Requirements some prototype photos and computer-generated images began to appear of the officially-called Fuzil de Assalto (Assault Rifle) 5.56mm IA2 while the official public presentation of pre-production examples took place during the 2011 LAAD Defense Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro extensive demonstrations of a semi-auto-only version (called a “carbine” but with the same barrel length of the rifle’s) for the local LE community began to take place in different parts of Brazil the Army issued Document No.211-EME announcing the official adoption of the selective-fire rifle as a complement to the 7.62x51mm M964 FAL the approximate total number of 5.56x45mm IA2 rifles and carbines that have been delivered to the Brazilian Armed Forces and to LE/penitentiary agencies is 14,350 distributed as (also roughly) 6,450 for the military and 4,390 for the Ministry of Justice (SENASP – National Public Security Secretary and DEPEN – National Penitentiary Department) Adoption by additional state police agencies that have demonstrated intention to do so has been slowed down due to the country’s current internal economic crisis but IMBEL is ready to increase production rates as soon as the market demands official adoption by the local military is limited to the Army but the Brazilian Navy is known to have asked IMBEL to add a number of modifications to the gun (prototypes believed to be ready) so that it better suits the requirements of Brazil’s Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais (Marine Corps) This shows a more than casual interest in the weapon and the possibility that it may eventually complement and/or replace that service’s M16A2 rifles and M4 carbines in service since 1996 You guys really think this is a good looking rifle It's pretty much 20 year old SOP --- thick forend I am 100% on board with modern rifles --- thin and a nice thick buttstock for good cheek weld So what's it going to take to get copies made here Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information 2013 at 10:46 AM ESTBookmarkSaveLock This article is for subscribers only.As the sequester demonstrates new lows in America’s fiscal management and the European debt crisis drags on for its third year it’s worth noting that most of the rest of the world’s financial health is pretty good Developing countries used to rule the roost when it came to debt crises and defaults But after a painful period of policy reform supported by considerable debt relief and restructuring they were in a far stronger position by the end of the last decade This has allowed them to follow policies that cushioned their citizens from the impact of the global slowdown rather than having to ratchet up the pain—in contrast to the paths chosen by governments in much of Europe and now average external debt across 75 developing countries was worth less than a quarter of gross domestic product Less than one in 10 saw ratios above 50 percent in the aftermath of the oil shock and two “lost decades” of growth the average developing country had an external debt worth a little more than its GDP More than six out of every 10 countries had ratios above 50 percent while average external debt levels had fallen to 83 percent of GDP two thirds of countries still had external debt-to-GDP ratios above 50 percent IMBEL – Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil may soon be producing and marketing a new 7.62x51mm sniper rifle This comes as a follow-up of the company’s previous venture into the precision rifle market which started in the early 1990s with the AGLC named after the initials of its creator’s name Brazilian Army Colonel Athos Gabriel Lacerda de Carvalho Widely used by the Brazilian Army and some local LE agencies the .308 Win-chambered weapon is based on a refined Mauser bolt action with an adjustable trigger coupled to a heavy cold-forged steel free-floating heavy barrel (610mm-long) and an all-wood furniture The rifle’s overall length is 1200mm it was still available from IMBEL’s Fábrica de Itajubá (Itajubá Factory) Mention should be made of a single AGLC-based rifle in a skeletonized configuration made by Col Athos in Fábrica de Itajubá in 2002 or so It featured a forged-steel 610mm barrel (1:12in pitch) with a threaded muzzle to receive either a combination compensator/muzzle brake that added 51mm to its length or a sound suppressor An ASTM 7075-T651 aluminum adjustable stock was fitted to the gun which was consistently able to make 1-MOA groupings at 300 meters with .308 Win ammo hand loaded by Col Athos himself FAL-type 10-round magazine was the same supplied for use in the IMBEL-made Springfield Armory SAR4800 rifles conceptual sniper rifle idea apparently came into view within the Itajubá Factory walls late in 2016 an in-house concept study that was not sprung by any Brazilian Army requirement the general aim being the creation of a semi-auto and eventually multi-caliber precision gun A study example chambered in 7.62x51mm was ready by mid-2017 when TFB had the privilege of taking a brief look at it and firing some rounds at IMBEL’s range in Itajubá The author has now been cleared to bring it to light with the information that firing results with that specimen have been generally promising towards a sub-MOA at 100 meters accuracy performance considering IMBEL’s long-term experience in manufacturing FAL rifles the firing mechanism of the new gun is based on that rifle’s this including the use of the 20-round box magazine The fitted barrel is 610mm long and was given a somewhat bulky muzzle brake the whole rifle being 1.20m long and weighing 5.4kg with an empty magazine The scope currently fitted is a 4.5-18×50 Kahles K418 What follows is a selection of pictures of the single “study” example (not really a prototype) made by IMBEL TFB will try to keep you informed of additional developments in the program which the author has informally – and very unofficially – named the SVI – Snayperskaya Vintovka Imbela… Higher-res pics: https://imgur.com/a/esMGte1 Funny isn't that no one is making or choosing the 6.5 Creedmoor as a Sniper Rifle....