Celina Biniaz was barely 14 years old when she and her parents sought refuge in the small German town of Mindelheim after surviving one of the most horrific events in human history shortly after the surrender of Nazi Germany ended World War II Biniaz — whose last name at that time was Karp — had spent more than half a decade living in fear shuttled between Nazi-controlled camps and forced to labor for the Germans instead of attending school and on more than one occasion feared she would be murdered I could not understand what had happened or why,” Biniaz wife and grandmother of four living in Camarillo Despite the unimaginable challenges of her childhood she has thrived since arriving in the United States in 1947 Her physical survival can be credited to Oskar Schindler and more than 1,100 other Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelwear and munitions factories Biniaz said: a 90-year-old German Catholic nun called Mater Leontine or Mother Leontine, who became her tutor in Mindelheim Schindler and her experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust during a meeting at Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks organized by the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County Biniaz will answer questions from the audience Holocaust survivor and Thousand Oaks resident Clara Knopfler will speak at 11:45 a.m an auditorium near the Exotic Animal Training and Management program will share his story at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley Biniaz said Mater Leontine knew nothing of Hitler and had no idea she was supposed to despise Jews the nun saw Biniaz for who she was: a young girl who needed help She taught her German and English and helped her catch up with the education she’d missed from being out of school since second grade “She was an incredible influence,” Biniaz said “She taught me how to get through hate figuring out that hate is very corrosive and only hurts you and the only way you can move forward in your life is by confronting all the hate and anger “I say she was my salvation because she showed me a way of moving on.” Bachner’s story:  He talks to local schoolchildren $15,000 raised:  Westlake teen sends survivor to Israel After relocating with her parents to the United States Biniaz continued to correspond with Mater Leontine by mail until the nun died at age 94 followed by Columbia University in New York had two children and became an elementary school teacher for students with learning disabilities “I could understand where they were coming from,” said Biniaz referencing her own academic struggles after years of missing school Biniaz didn’t speak about her experiences during the Holocaust Thomas Keneally published the book “Schindler’s List.” Later Steven Spielberg turned the story into the Academy Award-winning movie of the same name bringing widespread awareness to the plight of Jews during World War II and the story of Oskar Schindler and those he rescued Biniaz gave numerous presentations about her wartime experiences Her testimony appears on the “Voices from the List,” part of the “Schindler’s List” DVD and is archived along with video testimonies of more than 54,000 Holocaust survivors at the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive With the population of Holocaust survivors quickly dwindling Biniaz said sharing her story has become more important than ever “I speak for our generation,” she said “We just don’t want (the Holocaust) to happen again.” Celina Biniaz presentation at the general meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County Information: Information@JGSCV.org or call Jan Meisels Allen at 818-889-6616 Information: http://www.moorparkcollege.edu/community/multicultural-day Where: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum Cost: Free, but registration is required at reaganfoundation.org Alstom has received two orders for the supply of a total of 25 Coradia Lint regional trains in southern Germany while Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG (HzL) has ordered five additional trains All the Coradia Lint DMUs (diesel multiple units) will be manufactured in Salzgitter at Alstom’s biggest production site worldwide “We are very pleased about the confidence once again placed in us regarding our proven Coradia Lint the trains will be operating in Baden-Württemberg and from 2020 in Bavaria improving railway transport in the regions and bringing passenger comfort to a new level,” said Joerg Nikutta managing director of Alstom in Germany & Austria The vehicles ordered by DB Regio will operate on the "Dieselnetz Ulm" network along the routes Ulm-Memmingen(-Buxheim) Ulm-Weissenhorn and (Ulm-)-Günzburg-Mindelheim 15 trains will be delivered in autumn 2020 while the five remaining will follow in autumn 2022 DB Regio has ordered two different types of trains that can easily be coupled for enhanced operational flexibility Consisting of eight Coradia Lint 41 seating 125 passengers and 12 Coradia Lint 54 seating 150 people the fleet can be quickly and easily adapted to the volume of passengers and to the different routes The five Coradia Lint 54 ordered by HzL for the Bodenseegürtelbahn network in Baden-Württemberg are identical to the fleet ordered by HzL last year for the “Ulmer Stern” network and will be delivered together with the main fleet in June 2019 The low-consumption vehicles reach a maximum operating speed of 140 km/h with high acceleration The two-part trains feature an entry height of around 620mm a seating capacity of 150 passengers and 18 bicycle parking spaces spacious seating arrangement in which almost every fixed seat is equipped with a table for laptops an entertainment and passenger information system with static and dynamic information monitors and video surveillance to ensure high passenger safety Alstom's Coradia Lint trains have been operating on more than 30 networks in Germany these trains offer the highest standards in terms of safety noise and CO2 emissions and are characterized by high availability More than 2,800 Coradia trains have been sold so far and around 2,300 are currently in service in Denmark animal feed manufacturer Futtertrocknung Mindelheim eG of southern Germany uses ecological methods to generate the heat and electricity the company needs to dry soilage low-temperature heating network in its co-generation power station it supplies local industrial firms and public institutions with district hot water for heating and feeds electrical power into the public power grid the power plant delivers about 10,000 to 14,000 MW/h of useful heat yearly The heart of the power plants are thermal oil pumps from Allweiler AG These pumps feed hot oil at temperatures up to 350°C into a heat exchanger where the silicon oil is heated to the point of vaporization The hot silicon-oil vapor drives the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) turbine to produce electrical power The power plant is fired with wood chips provided by local landowners The wood chips themselves are produced from scrap wood after heavy storms or during forest thinning efforts The power plant produces not only electricity This system gives the Mindelheim animal feed company the most modern and efficient process available for producing power in a co-generation biomass plant The power plant gives the cooperative a year-round source of income because it provides electrical power and heat at all times of the year regardless of whether animal feed is being dried or not heat and power were produced for only 2,000 to 2,500 hours per year but the system now runs around-the-clock throughout the year The turbine produces approximately 1.5 to 1.6 MW; the boiler’s heating capacity is between 20 and 30 MW and the plant requires approximately 50,000 metric tons of wood chips each year.High pump requirements  Centralized thermal oil pumps which operate safely and dependably are critical for maintaining reliable energy production One aspect of this is the high load placed on the pumps failure of a pump can have serious consequences This makes operators of heat-transfer systems very sensitive to leakage engineers walk a fine line when designing shaft seals in heat-transfer pumps While water normally escapes through the sealing clearance in the form of vapor escaping heat-transfer oil is always readily visible This is why the leakage required for the shaft seal to function properly must be minimized as much as possible without overloading the seal The unusually high loads on the pump are the result of high temperatures and temperature differentials as well as decomposition reactions that may occur when the heat-transfer liquid is subjected to excessive thermal loads the chain-like hydrocarbons decompose over time into ‘low boilers’ and ‘high boilers’ If the proportion of low boilers is too high from bitumen-like consistency to extremely hard carbonized products which accelerate wear on the pump Both threaten the pumps’ bearing and shaft seal The Mindelheim power plant uses synthetic thermal oils which reduce the formation of low and high boilers The low viscosity and low lubricity of these materials mean they have disadvantages as well such as the tribological loads on the gliding components of mechanical seals being particularly high Since the power plant is controlled automatically and without human input almost all the time the ability to react rapidly to disturbances is used in conjunction with the new Allready Box these pumps have been developed over many years to handle hot liquids the new Allready Box gives the operator several options for disturbance notification and for reacting to those situations The cooperative decided to retrofit their equipment with this safety device after a disturbance on New Year's Eve 2008 whereby a defective seal allowed hot oil to escape the resulting smoke was quickly noticed and damage was limited Technical director Johann Rogg said: “Ever since then Allready Box has been an essential feature of all of our thermal oil pumps.” The fact that the generation of power must be interrupted for only a short period of time makes the investment worth the money in every situation the cooperative has already decided to equip the third pump with Allready Box control devices monitored outlet pressure and pump capacity however deviations from normal operation were not noticeable until it was too late The pump operator cannot react fast enough to prevent major damage or long-term production losses reacts immediately and draws attention to potential malfunctions as they arise It monitors two important components of every pump: the temperature of the shaft bearing and performance of the seal Warning and alarm thresholds are defined for each of these items the Box executes a series of programmable actions Optical notifications on the pump alert the user whenever these values are exceeded the device can also emit an acoustical alarm and/or forward the alarm to a remote location Alarms can be forwarded to a monitoring station or sent to any desired recipient in the form of a text message Rogg said: “If the box detects any irregularities I immediately receive notification This gives me the ability to react immediately and - if necessary - shut down the pump or the entire plant without leaving my house.” Depending on the operator's requirements Allready Box can even shut down malfunctioning pumps on its own and bring reserve pumps into operation This feature is not utilized at the Mindelheim plant because the technicians prefer to view the situation with their own eyes first Another benefit of using Allready Box will be noticed in Mindelheim after a few years Since it reliably detects wear of the seal after it has actually reached the critical level excessive preventive maintenance is no longer necessary Maintenance intervals are now much longer than before and maintenance is performed only when actually necessary Allready Box lets operators fully exploit the maintenance benefits of high-quality pumps with a long service life typical maintenance costs for pumps in heat transfer systems are reduced by up to 50% this simple yet effective system pays for itself within a short period of time and gives operators of heat-transfer systems the security of knowing that they have everything under control at all times Allready Box is compatible with all Allweiler heat-transfer pumps of the NTT series as well as ALLHEAT NTWH and CTWH This monitoring device can be mounted on new pumps or retrofitted to older pumps at any time Free access to this content is for qualifying individuals only Corporate and institutional access requires an appropriate license or subscription For more information contact institutions@markallengroup.com owner and chef of Morel restaurant in Sarasota His mother was an accredited chef and his father a master butcher Peters Cellar restaurant in Memmingen and a butcher shop in Mindelheim You might say the world was his classroom as he trained as a pastry chef in Europe was chef patissier at Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados supervised the kitchens at Manor Restaurant in West Orange and served as corporate executive chef at the Longboat Key Club My mother's roasted duck with red cabbage and pommes frites Q:What would you be doing if you had not become a chef Q:How did you happen to settle in Sarasota A:I was visiting the west coast to see an old friend and thought that this would be a great place to live Then I was offered the position of corporate chef at the LBKC Q:If you could prepare a meal for a famous person (living now or from history) who would it be and what would you prepare A:I would enjoy preparing the best Mediterranean fish soup for Ari Onassis I met him in Barbados many years ago and enjoyed the time we sat talking about the sea A:I had to make 280 Grand Marnier soufflés Q:What is the one food temptation you absolutely cannot resist 2016 9:00 AMThere May Actually Be a Good Reason to Teach Drones to Land on CarsThe German Aeronautics Center lands a drone on a speeding Audi but analysts aren't sure why.DLRSave this storySaveSave this storySaveLast week researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) pushed drone technology another step further: They made one land on a moving car On a runway at the Mindelheim-Mattsies airfield in Bavaria the 44-pound drone successfully spotted a QR code on the roof of an Audi and touched down on the net affixed to the station wagon's roof The DLR researchers say using a speed-matching vehicle to catch a drone makes for safer landings and that the removal of cumbersome landing gear frees up space for the UAV to carry more equipment "The available payload capacity can be increased significantly In the case of very light solar aircraft it could be almost doubled," says Tin Muskardin an engineer at the DLR’s Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics who worked on the project because "these fragile aircraft could be landed in much less restrictive weather conditions." a drone without wheels and the accompanying support structures could accommodate more scientific instruments for errands like taking weather measurements up in the stratosphere and it wouldn’t have to worry as much about dangerous crosswinds interfering with touchdown And if a strong wind did push the drone off course the moving vehicle underneath could reposition accordingly (as long as the road's wide enough) but it's not clear the researchers have found an answer to a question anyone is asking "There may be places where people don’t have the ability to land and they need to catch a drone,” says Colin Snow CEO and founder of the research firm Drone Analyst The US military has experimented with that "I scratched my head a little bit when I saw it If your aim is to reduce the drone's weight (and thus increase its carrying capacity) Snow concedes cutting out the landing gear is a smart move But he points out that there are already drones available that have scrapped their wheels in favor of more durable structures that let them land on rough terrain is a hand-launched vehicle without landing gear---it's built for use in Afghanistan "That problem has already been tackled just by having beefier underbellies," Snow says "And that beefier underbelly has tricked down to advanced commercial small drones.” now is not the time to invest your savings in a company that specializes in making landing nets you strap to the roof of your car that there's no point to figuring out how to make an aircraft land itself on a moving target there may be a bigger upside for another project interested in stratospheric flight research The EU-funded Gabriel Project Consortium is working to make air travel more efficient by using a magnetic levitation pad to assist with take off and landing Instead of carrying heavy landing gear that's only useful for a few minutes per flight planes would attach to a sled that levitates above the runway It's the sled that accelerates down the track and unleashes the plane once it's going fast enough to lift off the ground not unlike how jets take off from aircraft carriers matching the speed of the descending aircraft the first reaction to hearing about this is "Why do this?" It's "Why does anyone think rebuilding all the world's airports is the best way to make flying a bit more efficient?" Snow doesn't buy the idea that reworking landings is the best way to keep UAVs in the air those are the places where people are looking right now for some big wins for endurance," he says "How much endurance would taking off a landing gear add to a drone I don’t know what other problem they’re trying to solve So in the scheme of all the future-inspired transportation projects people around the world are working on, the DLR drone catch feels more practical than teaching a robot to ride a motorcycle, but not nearly as useful as using autonomous tech to make parking easier. Still, the fact that this technology doesn't have an obvious use right now doesn't mean it's no good. It's not hard to imagine Amazon tinkering with it to make its package-delivering drones link up with its package-delivering trucks. Or maybe some brilliant fast food entrepreneur will build a fleet of drones to bring us meals at highway speeds. Forget drive-through eating---it's time for drive-by. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our lives—from culture to business The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking With the ceremonial opening of the world's sixth production plant in India GROB is strengthening its presence in the Indian market and is also expanding its long-term both in the region and worldwide as an export-oriented company The plant in Bangalore is another important milestone in the GROB Group's efforts to secure the growth of the company and thus the jobs of all plants GROB recognized the enormous potential of this rapidly growing market early on after the opening of the Indian automotive market to foreign car manufacturers at the end of the 1990s and established the first sales and service branch on the South Asian subcontinent as part of the first delivery of a flexible production system in 2007 In the following years of active market development further important orders were processed and sales service and after sales were further expanded by the GROB India branch The Indian market has traditionally played an important role for GROB in Asia and will continue to grow in importance in the coming years Against the background of securing its presence in the Indian market and its strategic commitment in the region in the long term the decision to build a production plant in Bangalore was made two years ago and the foundation stone for the eight million investment project was laid on May 4 GROB India - a tour de force for the entire GROB Group Building a plant means something completely different in terms of resources than just setting up a branch with sales and service Not only because of the enormous investment required but also to bring the necessary expertise in technology A package that has also become a real tour de force for the main plant in Mindelheim But the future will show that India will develop into a very large market and gain in importance for the GROB Group As investment budgets in India are generally low GROB is also forced to continuously use local products "With our 'Made in Germany' products in India we are only competitive in terms of price to a limited extent We can achieve lower manufacturing costs locally in Bangalore with a high proportion of added value," explains GROB Group CEO German Wankmiller in order to manufacture the complex GROB products in India it is necessary to continuously develop all production processes with a pronounced quality data save This applies first and foremost to the machining centers but also to the electric machines and systems in the near future." In order to counter the shortage of qualified skilled workers and engineers at the Mindelheim and Bluffton plants GROB has been employing qualified Indian workers for years There are already 40 - 50 Indian skilled persons working in Mindelheim today and 30 Indian employees will be working at the American GROB plant in Bluffton in the future "Indian skilled persons are highly qualified intelligent and have an excellent command of English," says Wankmiller explaining the win-win situation for the GROB Group's enormous demand for skilled workers Skilled workers who will not only support the GROB plants worldwide but will also return to work in India after intensive induction and training it is planned to additionally rent an office complex in Bangalore to employ engineers and software specialists who will not only work for GROB India but also provide design and software services for other GROB plants worldwide.  GROB's commitment to build a plant in India is based on a long strategically oriented process and has developed over the years GROB has been active in India for many years and has become an established partner for OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers particularly in the universal machine business and especially in the aerospace sector The region around Bangalore plays an important role here as many customers and suppliers are located here as the many guests from this region at the opening ceremony demonstrated And the prospects are good: "We expect strong growth over the coming years," Christian Müller (CSO) is convinced "The focus in the Indian automotive industry is still on conventional drives we are already offering one or two e-projects in India Especially as we are in direct contact with the largest Indian car manufacturers TATA and Mahindra." Florian Grob: We are proud that we have now been able to celebrate the opening of our 6th production plant in India and thus further expand the family business We have thus made a first start in building up and expanding in the promising Indian market German Wankmiller: With our plant in India we are not only creating an improved position in the highly competitive Indian market which is important for our international GROB plant network.     Christian Müller: It makes a fundamental difference whether you sell machines from a catalog or whether you present the machines to customers in a beautiful showroom and bring them to life in the GROB world we now have the opportunity to better demonstrate the GROB genes of our machines to our customers and convincingly present their advantages Area: Hall 5,000 m² Property: 80,000 m² Construction time: 2 years Investment: EURO 8 million Number of employees: 130 Products: Machining centers I would like to receive the bi-weekly Foundry-Planet newsletter with all latest news Plus the special newsletters – all can be cancelled anytime and at no cost Pfaffenhausen - Die Marktgemeinde Pfaffenhausen trauert um ihren Ersten Bürgermeister: Franz Renftle ist im Alter von 54 Jahren verstorben „Der Markt Pfaffenhausen und die Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Pfaffenhausen trauern um ihren Ersten Bürgermeister und Gemeinschaftsvorsitzenden Wir werden ihm ein ehrendes Gedenken bewahren“ als er mit  92,7 Prozent der Stimmen gewählt wurde hatte Renftle das Amt des Rathauschefs inne Gut ein Jahr später wählte außerdem die VG-Versammlung Pfaffenhausens Renftle zu ihrem neuen Vorsitzenden nachdem Vorgänger Hans Egger seinen Vize um einen Ämtertausch gebeten hatte Auch auf Kreisebene engagierte sich der ausgebildete Polizist politisch: Seit 2020 war Renftle Mitglied des Kreistages und schwerpunktmäßig insbesondere mit Hoch- und Tiefbaumaßnahmen der Kreisentwicklung und der Wirtschaftsförderung betraut Zudem saß Franz Renftle für die CSU im Bauausschuss sowie im Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Tourismus Dieser Inhalt"+t(a)+"kann aufgrund Ihrer Datenschutz-Einstellungen nicht geladen werden