the Star Weeks Award Ceremony took place at the Zurich Schauspielhaus attended by approximately 550 children and adults The event celebrated the most creative children's fundraising campaigns with winners coming from Villmergen (AG) raising CHF 467 000 for children in Bangladesh through their efforts and the support of ALDI SUISSE AG The Star Weeks are a joint campaign by UNICEF and the magazine “Schweizer Familie” children in Switzerland and Liechtenstein get involved with creative fundraising ideas for other children in need more than 135 000 children have collected around 8,5 million francs impressively demonstrating their solidarity for children in need Swiss celebrities such as Stefanie Heinzmann Rob Spence and Bastian Baker were also present at today's event Twelve campaigns were nominated in a total of four different categories Category: Individual childRobin Meyer from Villmergen (AG)Robin (2014) made a variety of different herbal ointments himself by collecting the herbs boiling them and mixing them with bee honey He has the recipes in his head and is always trying out new things He then sold his ointments together with homemade apple ringlis at the Christmas market - with great success: he took in 420 francs Category: Friends/SiblingsSiblings from Bedano (TI)Siblings Nina (2012) and Tobi (2014) collected 52 kilograms of chestnuts in the forests of Malcantone and sold them at a collection point They also made scratch cards and sold them to relatives and friends Whoever scratched off three stars won and received handmade stars made of wood Anyone who found two stars and a heart had lost and was asked to donate to the Star Weeks bringing the total amount raised to 400 francs Category: Families/NeighborhoodChildren from Albisrieden (ZH)The group from Albisrieden in Zurich and a game booth with tin can and crossbow shooting They also had a craft booth where visitors could make stress balls as well as a wagon selling homemade products such as biscuits Disentis (GR)As part of the religion lessons at Scola Populara students from the first and second grade of the upper school carried out the “AUA VIVA” campaign named after the Reformed community center in Cadi They designed the labels of 500 mineral water bottles from a Graubünden drinks manufacturer themselves using colored and felt-tip pens watercolors and design programs and stuck them on the bottles The motto was: “Aua Viva for clean water in Bangladesh” They set up stands at the entrances of major stores in Disentis and sold their creations The classes raised a total of 3002 francs through this fundraising campaign UNICEF ambassador Kurt Aeschbacher awarded five young people the Star Weeks Honorary Award Terence and Brandon Narapong from Horgen (ZH) Aina and Sina Scherling from Guttannen (BE) have already organized a Star Weeks campaign between twelve and 14 times around 3800 children collected a total of 467 000 francs through their activities and with the support of ALDI SUISSE AG the children in Switzerland and Liechtenstein campaigned for children in Bangladesh where climate change is increasingly threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of girls and boys Rising sea levels and flooded rivers are destroying their livelihoods where access to clean water and functioning sanitation systems is severely restricted which encourages the spread of dangerous diseases UNICEF is supporting children and their families in the slums of Khulna they have better access to clean water and a functioning sewage system The “Star Weeks” are supported by the school magazine “Spick” Detailed information about the Star Weeks: www.sternenwochen.ch Download link to pictures can be found here.For interview requests from regional and local media: Jürg Keim, Media Spokesperson UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein, 044 317 22 41, [email protected] UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund we have been committed to the survival and well-being of children around the world More about us Committee for UNICEF Switzerlandand LiechtensteinPfingstweidstrasse 108005 Zürich IBAN: CH88 0900 0000 8000 7211 9BIC: POFICHBEXXX Registration for the Vertical MRO Conference in Kelowna B.C. is now open! 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Dufour Aerospace is happy to announce that Connova AG has been selected as main supplier for the composite airframe of the uncrewed tilt-wing aircraft Aero2 The major sub-assemblies of the airframe “main wing” “fuselage” and “engine bay” will be produced by Connova AG at their production site in Villmergen (Aargau) The all-composite light-weight airframe is a key contributor to the superior performance of Aero2 Connova AG becomes a major partner to the Aero2 program This close partnership is intended to last for many years to come and not only for the first four vehicles which have been contracted for now The talks about increasing the contract value already in 2024 with more deliveries than originally planned have just began Connova’s long-lasting experience in designing and producing demanding aerospace-grade composite structural components for customers like Swiss-based aircraft manufacturer Pilatus makes Connova so valuable for the program Swiss-based production will finally yield Swiss-made high-quality and precision Head of Sales & Project Management at Connova points out that the entire team is very proud to have been selected as one of the main suppliers for this exciting project “I can tell you that we get many inquiries for composite airframes for similar new UAV or drone-type projects None of these new concepts or market players equal the professionalism and dedication of Dufour Aerospace in the development and marketing of Aero2 We strongly believe in the success of this aircraft and are willing to increase our production capacities with the growing demand by Dufour Aerospace in the upcoming years.” “Connova has a wealth of experience and knowledge as an established composite manufacturer to the aerospace and automotive industry In making the wings for Dufour’s current Aero2 experimental flight test aircraft to a new patent pending design and manufacturing method Connova has demonstrated the diligence and professionalism required to assure the high standards of quality necessary to deliver light weight aircraft structures I am confident that we can achieve the build standards expected of our regulators and customers and look forward to a successful future together” says Simon Bendrey This press release was prepared and distributed by Dufour Aerospace and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Bell 525 Walkaround: The First Commercial Fly-by-Wire Helicopter Bell 505 Contact seller for price Year: 2022 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 Mondelez World Travel Retail (WTR) has completed “˜Project Forward’ – the 14-month consolidation of its distribution centres in Europe – which will offer retail partners “a step change” in supply chain efficiency Operations at the company’s Villmergen distribution centre in Switzerland and the former Cadbury distribution centre in Veghel Netherlands have been merged into Villmergen providing a platform for Mondelez WTR to fulfil its “˜One Order – One Delivery – One Invoice’ promise to partners Project Forward is said to be the biggest logistics and supply chain challenge Mondelez WTR has tackled in its 20-year history After three years of commercial integration consolidation of European-sourced products into one distribution centre represents the final step in the integration of the Cadbury business The upgraded Villmergen facility has a storage capacity of 21,000 pallets; maximum outbound capacity of ten 40ft oversea containers and 40 trucks and maximum inbound capacity of 20 FTL (full truck loads) from 31 factories across Europe Transition tasks included manual container loading customer/portfolio specific knowledge transfer transfer of 1400 pallets of stock within four weeks and integration of highly complex IT systems and data Mondelez WTR Manager of Customer Supply Chain & Innovation Jens-Ulf Hinze commented: “To have completed such an extensive consolidation project in such a short timescale and with no reported impact on service levels to our customers is a great testament to everyone involved “In order for our “˜Delighting Travelers’ category vision to continue gaining traction we understand that Mondelez WTR must be a good partner to do business with and this project clearly supports this drive We now have a more reliable and flexible order-fulfilment system and a far more robust platform for supporting growth in our travel retail business moving forward.” World Duty Free Group Global Head of Supply Chain Justin Suter said: “We have been very impressed with the way Mondelez WTR has handled this process and with the quality of service they are now set to deliver which is a significant achievement and testament to Mondelez’s detailed planning and collaborative approach “With the new simplified systems and improved infrastructure in place we are now working together on an end-to-end supply chain review with a view to being even more efficient and effective in how we work together.” Subscribe to our newsletter for critical marketing information delivered to your inbox which marked Amicelli’s regional travel retail debut is the first step in a wider global strategy to drive presence in the channel The performance is a timely boost for the travel retailer Among the stand-out performers were confectionery which turned in an extraordinary +84% increase year-on-year The cdf Global Shopping Festival underscores the retailer’s strategic focus on innovation customer engagement and service excellence as key levers to stimulate Chinese consumption during the Labour Day Golden Week and beyond Copyright © The Moodie Davitt Report | Website by Yellowball We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website Please click on one of the buttons below to accept We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze how you use this website and provide the content and advertisements that are relevant to you These cookies will only be stored in your browser with your prior consent You can choose to enable or disable some or all of these cookies but disabling some of them may affect your browsing experience Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns ' + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.webview_notification_text + ' " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_title + " " + scriptOptions._localizedStrings.redirect_overlay_text + " by Madeleine Baran Doctors used to call it "shell shock," "soldier's heart," or "nostalgia." Soldiers would shake uncontrollably or go blind after witnessing trauma on the battlefield history reveals the psychological toll of war on soldiers Today we call the condition post-traumatic stress disorder Click on the dates in the right column to advance the timeline depicts a battle between Greek and Persian soldiers The Greek historian Herodotus describes an Athenian warrior who became blind when a soldier standing next to him was killed during the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C "A strange prodigy likewise happened at this fight and behaving himself as a brave man should when suddenly he was stricken with blindness without blow of sword or dart; and this blindness continued thenceforth during the whole of his after life," Herodotus wrote "The following is the account which he himself gave of the matter: he said that a gigantic warrior stood over against him; but the ghostly semblance passed him by First battle of Villmergen (1656) in Switzerland depicted by an unknown 18th century artist (Wikimedia Commons) coins the term "nostalgia" to refer to cases of homesickness a condition that afflicted Swiss troops stationed far from home German and French doctors also diagnosed the condition as homesickness ("heimweh" and "maladie du pays") as they believed the symptoms came from a soldier's longing to return home Spanish doctors called it "estar roto," literally "Nostalgia" remained a common mental illness for the next 200 years Austrian physician Josef Leopold Auenbrugger describes the plight of trauma-stricken soldiers "When young men who are still growing are forced to enter military service and thus lose all hope of returning safe and sound to their beloved homeland these cease to pay attention and become indifferent to everything which the maintenance of life requires of them nor threats of punishment are able to produce any improvement." as depicted by the artist Thure de Thulstrup in 1888 Noted author Ambrose Bierce wrote that he was plagued "by visions of the dead and dying" many years after the war ended Bierce fought as a Union soldier in the Battle of Shiloh an intense two-day fight that killed more than 23,000 men The war also forever changed Union general and future U.S "At the sight of these dead men whom other men had killed that never came back again: The sense of the sacredness of life and the impossibility of destroying it," wrote 19th century author William Dean Howells of Garfield Wounded British soldiers in a trench during World War I Military physicians started using the terms "shell shock" and "combat fatigue" to describe soldiers' reactions to trauma in the early years of World War I clinging to the nearest man and praying not to be left alone," one man wrote in his journal in the middle of the vicious Battle of the Somme in 1916 the military believed that shell shock was a physical reaction to shelling But when soldiers who never experienced shelling started reporting the same symptoms physicians began to classify the condition as a psychiatric disorder French infantry firing from a trench during World War I "I wish you could be here in this orgie of neuroses and psychoses and gaits and paralyses," a professor of medicine at Oxford wrote to a colleague in 1915 "I cannot imagine what has got into the central nervous symptom of the men...Hysterical dumbness but I wonder if it was ever thus in previous wars?" Reporters struggled to explain the bizarre and wide-ranging symptoms having passed into this state of lessened control becomes a prey to his primitive instincts," the Times reported in 1915 "He may be so affected that changes occur in his sense perceptions; he may become blind or deaf or lose the sense of smell or taste He is cut off from his normal self and the associations that go to make up that self and such sleep as he gets is full of visions; past experiences on the battlefield are recalled vividly; the will that can brace a man against fear is lacking." A Marine returns after two days of battle on the beaches of the Marshall Islands in February 1944 British and American physicians use the terms "battle fatigue," "combat fatigue," and "gross stress reaction" to describe traumatic responses to combat during World War II the military believed that the condition was partly related to long deployments Historian Ben Shephard describes one British soldier's emotional breakdown The soldier collapsed and lost the ability to speak after he saw his best friend's body blown apart by a landmine He was transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Cairo where a general described him as "tremulous show[ing] the startle reflex." Many of his fellow patients "had severe battle dreams and were restless and inclined to scream in their sleep." The soldier returned to active duty 49 days later his wife told a doctor that her husband was "well employed but inclined to rush out of doors when the children are noisy." "I sometimes get in a mood that I want to kill myself or somebody who has said something I dislike It has only been since I came back from the front line My life before I came into the army was uneventful but full of childish dreams," recounted one British soldier after being evacuated to a psychiatric hospital Army-funded documentary "Let There Be Light" follows 75 "psycho-neurotic" soldiers being treated at a psychiatric hospital As the camera pans across a group of soldiers the narrator solemnly announces: "These are the casualties of the spirit they were overnight plunged into sudden and terrible situations in the fulfillment of their duties as soldiers were forced beyond the limit of human endurance." under the name "gross stress reaction," in the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders The DSM gave clinicians a common language for mental health disorders and began to shape the ways the public viewed mental illness "Under conditions of great or unusual stress a normal personality may utilize established patterns of reaction to deal with overwhelming fear," the entry states The diagnosis was restricted to combat soldiers and those who experienced a "civilian catastrophe" (defined as fire soldiers shell German soldiers retreating in northern France The American Psychiatric Association removes "gross stress reaction" from the DSM mental health professionals could no longer diagnose a soldier with a specifically combat-related mental illness the lack of a suitable diagnosis made it difficult to access health and disability benefits A Marine recruiting poster from 1971 emphasized military toughness troops carry a wounded soldier through a swampy area in Vietnam in 1969 The military continues to use the term "combat fatigue" to describe emotionally distraught soldiers Officials classified many soldiers as suffering from "character disorders," and focused on behavioral problems the media began to refer to "Post-Vietnam Syndrome," to describe the psychological difficulties of returning soldiers a term challenged by many military psychiatrists A physician and supporter of the term described the symptoms in a 1972 New York Times article and impatience with almost any job or course of study." About 15 percent of American soldiers who served in Vietnam were still suffering from war-related mental health issues fifteen years after the war according to a government-funded report published in 1990 A Marine waits to take psychological tests at a base in California The military is testing Marines and soldiers before they ship out in search of clues that might help predict who is most susceptible to PTSD The American Psychiatric Association includes post-traumatic stress disorder in the updated DSM after a prolonged fight by Vietnam War veterans and other groups The diagnosis applied to people who suffered a psychologically distressing effect "outside the range of usual human experience." The DSM listed military combat as one potential source of trauma efforts to avoid feelings or activities associated with the trauma a feeling of detachment or estrangement from others BC Business It sounds like hyperbole to say that Sandra Phillips got in on the ground floor of Canada’s smart transportation movement The Switzerland native hadn’t been in Vancouver very long when she got a job as Car2Go’s first local employee (she was the company’s seventh North American staff member) Her mission was to find out if the German car share service could work in her new hometown her role changed a few times (being able to speak German meant she was something of a natural Canadian liaison to head office) but her passion for connecting people and vehicles in new ways never waned “My heart was in launching new services partly because I grew up in a small town of 10,000 people where I could get from anywhere up to the mountains without having a car,” Phillips says of Villmergen all connected through one fare card.” a mobility consultant that works with public sector clients (TransLink and various municipalities) and organizations like Evo Car Share Vancouver Bike Share (Mobi) and BCAA to help them build out their transportation infrastructure I would go to parties and tell people what I did and get blank stares What are you talking about?” she recalls people started coming to those parties in Car2Gos That shift can happen if you create reliable supply and reliable services.” Vancouver-based Movmi often serves as a go-between for those public entities and the car bike or scooter share outfits in a bid to create that reliability and seamless transport for the consumer but we’re essentially the neutral party in between,” Phillips laughs with all the new technologies that are becoming available in the transportation space there are some know-ledge gaps in how to properly apply those innovations “A lot of traditional transportation engineers and urban planners don’t know what to do with all of this,” she maintains “How do you tackle it and use it in a way that’s beneficial to the community we’ve had work for the last seven years.” COVID-19 saw Phillips shrink her workforce as things dried up temporarily but Movmi is now up to four full-time and two part-time staff from its pre-pandemic count of 10 “We have to continue to make the ecosystem more reliable and bring in the latest and greatest when it makes common sense,” she says “Kick scooters aren’t really a solution when you don’t have a safe bike lane to ride in.” BCBusiness is your go-to playbook for what’s going on in the province right now Our magazine aims to inform and entertain you about the companies big and small making waves in your backyard the issues affecting the province and the people you really should get a coffee with Copyright © Canada Wide Media Limited. 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