The CompanyAbout usOur ResponsibilitySuppliersPress & MagazineCareersBackDr. Oetker Stories The tranquil town of Oerlinghausen, just outside Bielefeld, is home to our smallest production site in Germany – and has been for five decades. In 2024, we are celebrating this anniversary with the workforce. We will be looking back, but also forward… ShareIn 2024, we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of our production site in Oerlinghausen! The plant mainly produces muesli and baking mixes. Come with us on a journey through the last 50 years. At Dr. Oetker, on the other hand, the figures developed extremely positively in the early 1970s. In addition to frozen pizzas (1970) and fresh desserts (1972), the baking mixes introduced in 1971 were a particular hit with consumers. The sales increased 1974 by 108 percent. At that time, production took place exclusively in Bielefeld-Brackwede. The problem: The capacities were no longer sufficient. Dr. Oetker advertisement from 1971 for white wine cream. At that time, production took place exclusively in Bielefeld-Brackwede. A quick solution was found in the former weaving mill in Oerlinghausen. When it took over the location in 1974, Dr. Oetker had 16,000 square meters of the 56,000 square meter site immediately adapted to the needs of food production. The Dr. Oetker site in Oerlinghausen in 1974. Conversion from a weaving mill to food production. In the year 1976 Dr. Oetker created 60 new jobs in Oerlinghausen. In addition, there were another 40 employees who had previously worked in Bielefeld. In addition to baking mixes for cakes and pies (see pictures), alcoholic desserts, shelf stable yeast and bread mixes also rolled off the production line. Over the years, the plant has developed positively in line with the overall development of the company. The local population accepted the location, the cooperation has been harmonious, and the town hall was happy that life had returned to the old weaving mill. In 1979, the then plant manager Rolf Weber said in an interview: „ Former plant manager at Dr. Oetker Oerlinghausen in 1979 “ Rudolf August Oetker (left) and Dr. h. c. August Oetker visited the Oerlinghausen plant in 1982... ...and took a look at the production line for the top-selling red wine cream, among other things. In 1984 Dr. Oetker started ist own muesli production. Product packaging from 1987. In addition to muesli mixes, Dr. Oetker also produced muesli bars in Oerlinghausen at that time. Richard Oetker inaugurated the next major plant expansion in 1998: Dr. Oetker invested in a further 8,000 square meters of space to create more space for muesli production. Two eye-catching 20 meter high silos had already been put into operation. A new high-bay warehouse then followed in 2000. The international significance of the plant network was particularly emphasized by the new name "Euro-Plant Oerlinghausen". Installation of new machines for cereal production in 1997. Today, 220 employees work in Oerlinghausen. The ratio of the products produced is 55 percent mueslis and 45 percent baking mixes. Four lines for mueslis and five lines for baking mixes supply international markets, including countries as far away as South Korea. New products, such as mueslis with less sugar or vegan baking mixes, also taste good to the modern and conscious palate. The cohesion in the workforce is great. Many employees have been working side by side for decades and are a well-rehearsed team. There is a family atmosphere. Here – on the edge of the Teutoburg Forest – the employees proudly call themselves "Oerlians". To mark the anniversary, there was an internal party for the employees and their families on August 31, 2024. In addition to an entertainment program for children, the physical well-being was also taken care of. The relatives also had the opportunity to take a close look at the production facilities. With this celebration, the Dr. Oetker company thanks the people who have made the site so successful through their tireless efforts for 50 years now. From Wittlich to Europe For more information please contact: Read moreCareers Newsroom Driving Sustainability Locations & Brands Oetker Group Dr. Oetker Professional Working with suppliers Legal Terms & Conditions Supplier Portal & Contact Compliance Data Protection Notice Imprint SCDDA Legal Notice Chief Superintendent Jan Becker was introduced to the public as the new watch manager of Lage police station by Police Director Christian Peters Head of the Directorate for Emergency Response and Operations (GE) Peters explained the important function of the watch manager and gave an insight into the responsibilities of this position The 40-year-old police chief inspector Jan Becker then introduced himself With his impressive professional career and commitment Becker is ideally equipped to ensure the safety of the citizens in his area of responsibility He emphasized the great atmosphere in Lage where everyone still knows everyone: "I am very much looking forward to the challenges that this new task will bring The nice thing about this location is that problems here can often be solved through verbal communication." Becker will manage the security and district service in Lage and act as a direct point of contact for citizens and local authorities who wish to contact the police department he is in close contact with the public order office the local fire departments and a large number of network partners He maintains close links with the youth and social services church representatives and local associations Police Director Christian Peters concluded by emphasizing the outstanding position of the watch manager who now acts as a "back office" for the employees of the police station: "I am delighted to have found such a qualified person as Jan Becker for the position I have known him for a long time and I am convinced that he will do an excellent job." The Head of Directorate also highly praised the achievements of the previous Lagens Watch Manager Michael Sieweke after training as a police officer at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld initially worked in the security service and the task force in Wuppertal he worked as a lecturer in the area of conflict prevention and intervention at the NRW State Office for Training Further Education and Personnel Affairs of the Police in Stukenbrock he was able to pass on his experience and knowledge to colleagues and contribute to the further development of police work Becker was seconded for a year and a half to deal with the refugee crisis and provided administrative assistance to the Ministry of the Interior and the Arnsberg district government he was able to demonstrate his skills in working with authorities and crisis management Becker worked as a liaison officer in refugee matters for the Detmold district government at the NRW State Office for Central Police Services he was able to successfully demonstrate his expertise Becker was transferred to the Lippe district police authority where he was initially assigned to the GE directorate in the command post he took over the position of watch commander at Lemgo police station Becker has held the role of duty group leader in Lemgo he has now been watch manager at Lage/Oerlinghausen police station The role of the watch manager in Lage/Oerlinghausen: The Lage police station covers the towns of Lage and Oerlinghausen and covers an area of around 110 square kilometers Becker is now responsible for four district officers and around 20 police officers on guard duty He is also the internal contact for various directorates particularly with regard to crime hotspots and planned special operations His tasks also include complaints management and maintaining networks A hug, a massage or other social or professional forms of physical touches have a positive effect on well-being and health. Researchers of international renown have published a paper where they suggest the establishment of a new medical specialty: touch medicine. Prof. Dr. Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen holds a senior professorship of clinical pharmacology at the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB) He says that this innovative approach aims to close the gap between recent findings in touch research and clinical medicine and to tap the potential of human contact through touch as a therapeutic tool for various medical specialties has long been recognized as a basic sensory experience of decisive significance for enhancing social bonds and general well-being The discovery of specific thin nerve fibers in the skin of mammals that are crucial in perceiving emotional touches like caresses have resulted in increased research on affective touch in recent decades Touches of emotional significance trigger a chemical reaction via specific receptors in the skin and have a positive impact on health and well-being Numerous research findings document the effectiveness of the professional touch (e.g in the form of psychoactive massage); but the integration of touch-based therapies in clinical practice remains limited so far The authors – all of them experts in touch research two of them active at the MHB – underline the profound effect of touch on psychosocial and physical health Studies have associated a lack of affectionate touch in childhood with negative effects on later phases in life while professional techniques of physical contact have been shown to be effective in the prevention and treatment of various disorders Müller-Oerlinghausen and Michael Eggart (both MHB) is on the application of such treatments to depressive patients Controlled trials and analyses of earlier studies have highlighted the antidepressant anxiolytic and analgesic effects of specific massage techniques Current international research is exploring the action mechanisms of such touches which have a positive influence on the sum of continuous signals from inside the human body harmonize stress regulation and have a positive impact on other psychological factors Müller-Oerlinghausen underlines that touch medicine is not limited to a single discipline but is an interdisciplinary undertaking with a wide range of other possible applications might profit from an integration of touch-based interventions into clinical practice This is a matter of particular concern to the national association of touch medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Berührungsmedizin e.V.) Clinical psychology and psychosomatic medicine are further disciplines where these findings may be used to improve patient care Müller-Oerlinghausen calls the establishment of touch medicine “a paradigm shift in healthcare that acknowledges the enormous significance of human touch for the promotion of a holistic health concept Research is making advances in this emerging field whereas the potential to transform clinical practice at this point in time and thus to improve treatment outcomes is enormous.” This article is based on the recently published paper: McGlone, F., Uvnäs Moberg, K., Norholt, H., Eggart, M., & Müller-Oerlinghausen, B. (2024). Touch medicine: Bridging the gap between recent insights from touch research and clinical medicine and its special significance for the treatment of affective disorders. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1390673. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1390673 Go back In order to be able to offer you a personalized and optimized user experience statistical cookies and localStorage entries for technical functions We use localStorage entries for technical functions that are necessary for a smooth and effective use of our website Our optional statistical cookies are used to collect information about the use of our website Eclipse.outdated-browser: "confirmed" Here is the translation of the text values in the code: Here is the translation of the text values into English: ```plaintext Metrics details Predicting lithium response (LiR) in bipolar disorder (BD) may inform treatment planning but phenotypic heterogeneity complicates discovery of genomic markers We hypothesized that patients with “exemplary phenotypes”—those whose clinical features are reliably associated with LiR and non-response (LiNR)—are more genetically separable than those with less exemplary phenotypes Using clinical data collected from people with BD (n = 1266 across 7 centers; 34.7% responders) we computed a “clinical exemplar score,” which measures the degree to which a subject’s clinical phenotype is reliably predictive of LiR/LiNR For patients whose genotypes were available (n = 321) we evaluated whether a subgroup of responders/non-responders with the top 25% of clinical exemplar scores (the “best clinical exemplars”) were more accurately classified based on genetic data compared to a subgroup with the lowest 25% of clinical exemplar scores (the “poor clinical exemplars”) the best clinical exemplars of LiR had a later illness onset The best clinical exemplars of LiR and LiNR were genetically separable with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.88 (IQR [0.83 0.80] (p = 0.0032) among poor clinical exemplars Variants in the Alzheimer’s amyloid–secretase pathway and histamine H1R signaling pathways were informative predictors This study must be replicated on larger samples and extended to predict response to other mood stabilizers and the trial-and-error process of pharmacological optimization for BD may lengthen this time by predicting patients’ mood-stabilizer response this burden of untreated illness may be reduced some clinical phenotypes may consistently predict lithium responsiveness across all centers; patients with such phenotypes are the best clinical exemplars of lithium response and non-response poor clinical exemplars are characterized by clinical profiles that do not consistently predict lithium response or non-response We hypothesize that biological differences will be greatest among samples of lithium responders and non-responders whose phenotypes are clinically exemplary by using a large set of clinical data on lithium-treated patients with BD collected across seven international specialist clinics our present work develops a measure called clinical exemplar scoring which identifies those subjects whose lithium responsiveness can be reliably predicted from their clinical phenotype (the “best clinical exemplars” of lithium response and non-response This method also identifies “poor clinical exemplars” of lithium response and non-response Poor clinical exemplars are patients whose lithium responsiveness is not reliably predicted from their clinical profiles We hypothesized that the clinical differences between the best clinical exemplars of lithium response and non-response would be reflective of factors previously associated with the “classical” bipolar phenotype The second step of our study leveraged the fact that genomic data were available for some subjects whose clinical exemplar scores were computed based on clinical features The genomic and clinical data are not combined we test whether genomic classification of responders vs non-responders improves when the subject sample is restricted to only the best clinical exemplars of lithium response and non-response We hypothesized that lithium responsiveness would be better discriminated among the best clinical exemplars Step 1 uses a multi-center database of clinical variables to derive a score that identifies subjects whose clinical phenotypes reliably predict lithium response/non-response A subset of subjects for whom we computed clinical exemplar scores in Step 1 (a North American outbred sample from Dalhousie University Canada) also had genomic data available from participation in an entirely separate study through the Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) we evaluate whether lithium responsiveness can be better discriminated based on genomic data when the subject group is restricted only to those individuals who are the best clinical exemplars of the lithium responsive and non-responsive phenotypes It bears repeating that absolutely no genomic data from Step 2 were included in the clinical exemplar scoring procedure of Step 1 and no clinical variables from Step 1 were included in the genomic classification procedure of Step 2 Clinical and genetic data were collected with informed consent in the context of protocols approved by the Ethics Committee of the former Health Agency of Cagliari (for Cagliari University and Centro Bini samples) and the research ethics boards of the Nova Scotia Health Authority Figure 1 illustrates Step 1 of the present study, wherein we identify and characterize clinical phenotypes that are reliably predictive of lithium responsiveness using the clinical exemplar score. This step of our study uses only the clinical database, without any reference to the genomic data used for Step 2 of the analysis. Note that this step of the analysis is performed using the clinical feature dataset alone and therefore has no overlap in the feature space with genomic data used in Step 2 A Demonstration of heterogeneity in the relationship between lithium responsiveness (depicted as “Li(+)” for responders and “Li(−)” for non-responders) and clinical features across four hypothetical sites Overall (A) demonstrates how a classifier trained on different sites’ data may yield different discriminative functions B Points demonstrate the aggregated dataset (“+” and “−” are responders and non-responders Contours demonstrate regions of clinical feature space in which site-level classifiers from (A) agree with high accuracy on the predicted class (i.e. A clinical exemplar score can be computed for each subject in the clinical dataset by (1) holding his data out of the training set (2) predicting his lithium responsiveness using site-level classifiers trained on the remaining subjects then (3) using the site-wise prediction results to compute the clinical exemplar score C Stratification of the clinical dataset according to lithium responsiveness and clinical exemplar score quartile The “LRBest” and “NRBest” exemplars are those responders and non-responders with clinical exemplar scores above the 75th percentile The “LRPoor” and “NRPoor” exemplars are those responders and non-responders with clinical exemplar scores below the 25th percentile This stratification can be used to evaluate the clinical features that differentiate good from poor clinical exemplars of lithium response and non-response which accounts for observation of appropriate lithium levels and compliance Full technical description is provided in the supplementary materials For each site in the clinical predictors dataset our predict every subject out (PESO) analysis protocol begins with a leave-one-out cross-validation run to obtain out-of-sample predictions for each of that site’s constituent subjects We then train an RFC on that site’s data and predict lithium response in all other sites’ subjects Each subject thus obtains one prediction of his or her response for each site’s classifier Accuracy of each site’s prediction was calculated as the reciprocal of the absolute error for each subject Using the distribution of accuracies recorded for each subject the clinical exemplar score is computed as an index of both (A) how accurately the subject’s response is predicted and (B) the agreement across sites regarding the subject’s class Poor clinical exemplars will score near zero (poor accuracy and poor agreement across sites) the best clinical exemplars score near 1 (accurate classification with high agreement across sites) Subjects classified accurately with poor agreement (or vice versa) have intermediate clinical exemplar scores Univariate clinical feature differences were compared between the best clinical exemplars of lithium response and non-response (“LRBest” and “NRBest,” respectively; the top 25% of clinical exemplar scores per class) and the corresponding poor clinical exemplars (“LRPoor” and “NRPoor,” respectively; the bottom 25% of clinical exemplar scores per class) Continuous variables were compared using the two-sample permutation test and categorical variables were compared using the randomization chi-square test (with 10,000 replications) The significance threshold was adjusted for 116 comparisons: αc = 0.05/116 = 0.0004 A Subjects’ genotypes lie on a genotypic feature space (shown in (A1) as a simplified 2 dimensional plane) (A2) shows a hypothetical ROC curve for these aggregated data B Each genotyped subject has a clinical exemplar score computed from Step 1 of the present study The exemplar score merely identifies the degree to which a subject’s clinical profile (i.e. etc.) is reliably predictive of lithium responsiveness across sites in the clinical dataset; it merely allows us to define the different groups for the genomic classification analysis (best and poor clinical exemplars); (B1) illustrates stratification of the aggregated genotyped sample into the “Best” clinical exemplars (subjects with top 25% of clinical exemplar scores within each of the responder and non-responder groups and the “Poor” clinical exemplars (those with the lowest 25% of clinical exemplar scores in each responsiveness class) the clinical exemplar score is not computed based on any genomic information nor are any variables from the clinical dataset included in the genomic classification analysis We then apply classifiers to the genomic data in each of these best and poor clinical exemplar strata and compare classification performance (B2) The hypothetical receiver operating characteristic curve in (B2) reflects our hypothesis that genetic classification of lithium response will be superior among the subgroup of best clinical exemplars we compared the performance of a classifier applied to genomic data from (A) all 321 subject’s We employed L2-penalized logistic regression (C = 1 set a priori since this imposes a consistent prior on model weights Model criticism was performed under stratified-10-fold cross-validation we provide an alternative protocol using repeated shuffle-split cross-validation in which we also test the sensitivity of our results to test set size Our primary outcome was the average cross-validated Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) Classification performance differences were compared between conditions using the Kruskal-Wallis test Where a statistically significant difference was observed (at α = 0.05) pair-wise comparisons were done with the Mann-Whitney U tests (at threshold αc = 0.05/3 = 0.017) area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC-AUC) Supplementary Fig. 5 shows that the distributions of accuracy between site-level models were variable in shape and modality highlighting the heterogeneity in between-site classification behavior whose redress is the central motivating factor of our present study The LRBest group came predominantly from IGSLi (53.6%) and Ontario (21.8%) and most NRBest subjects were from Maritimes (72.5%) and Montreal (25.1%) The LRBest group showed a later age of onset (median 28 y All the LRBest subjects for whom clinical course information was available showed a completely episodic course whereas NRBest courses were mainly chronic fluctuating (43.5%) and episodic with residual symptoms (44.9%; omnibus p = 0.0001) NRPoor subjects had predominantly completely episodic clinical courses (74.1%) whereas LRPoor subjects exhibited predominantly chronic fluctuating (41%) and chronic (25.3%) courses with only 18.1% being completely episodic (omnibus p = 0.0001) The complete absence of rapid cycling was reported in 98.3% of LRBest The majority of NRBest subjects (49.2%) reported spontaneous rapid cycling History of lifetime psychosis differed between LRBest and NRBest with a total of 42.8% of the non-responders reporting episodic and mood congruent psychosis (compared to only 16.7% of responders; p = 0.0001) Non-responders also reported incongruent episodic psychosis in 18.6% of cases with only 37.1% of non-responders reporting an absence of psychosis altogether 83.3% of the best clinical exemplars of lithium response reported a complete absence of lifetime psychosis There was also a general trend toward lower rates of psychiatric comorbidity in LRBest compared to the NRBest group whereas LRPoor generally showed more psychiatric comorbidity than NRPoor subjects with a comparison to the broader ConLiGen sample Results of classifying lithium response based on the genomic data of all subjects (“ALL”; n = 321) the poor clinical exemplars (<25th percentile of clinical exemplar score; n = 81) and the best clinical exemplars (>75th percentile of clinical exemplar score; n = 79) Boxes are defined by the interquartile range (IQR) with the median shown as the black centered line Each panel shows the results for a different classification performance metric ROC-AUC area under the receiver operating characteristic curve Results of the statistical enrichment test using the logistic regression coefficients from the classifier trained on the best exemplar stratum with pathway nodes (and edges) colored according to the pathway identity The terms in bold along the perimeter of the graph (i.e. with edges connected to their constituent genes The best clinical exemplars of lithium response and non-response were genetically discriminated with a ROC-AUC of 0.88 (95% CI [0.83,0.98]) whereas we found only a ROC-AUC of 0.66 among poor clinical exemplars (95% CI [0.61,0.80]; p = 0.0032) Although the absolute classification performance estimates and their generalizability must be tested on larger more genetically heterogeneous samples that include distinct subpopulations (for example our main finding remains important: if there was no biologically mediated information in the exemplary phenotype of lithium response (and non-response) then this difference would not have been observed Some of these findings reflect changes in gene expression rather than DNA sequence variation and thus are not directly comparable with our results it would be of interest to characterize a more fine-grained “gradient” of genetic differences across the spectrum of clinical exemplar scores we must endeavor to collect detailed clinical information and genotype more patients in our genomic and clinical databases our study also used only those SNPs that overlapped across genotyping platforms in the ConLiGen dataset the number of fully imputed variants was in the order of millions which would be analytically intractable in the present context Further discussion of this point is provided in the Supplementary Materials suffice to say that further methodological work must develop ML methods capable of handling genotypes of 1–10 million SNPs in size we would (A) recommend lithium as the first-line mood stabilizer for patients with the profile corresponding to exemplary responders (“classical,” Kraepelinean-type BD) (B) not recommend lithium for patients with the characteristics of exemplary non-responders and (C) consider a time-limited trial of lithium for patients with information insufficient to classify them into either of these two groups Risks of all-cause and suicide mortality in mental disorders: a meta-review Genetic risk of suicidal behavior in bipolar spectrum disorder: analysis of 737 pedigrees Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder Duration of untreated bipolar disorder: missed opportunities on the long road to optimal treatment Prediction of lithium response using clinical data In Lithium in Neuropsychiatry: The Comprehensive Guide Is response to prophylactic lithium a familial trait Amare, A. 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Unit of Clinical Pharmacology & San Giovanni di Dio Hospital Alberto Bocchetta & Caterina Chillotti Section of Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology School of Medicine & University Hospital Bonn Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics Aleksandra Suwalska & Janusz Rybakowski Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-01148-y Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Subscribe the local Rotocontrol representative in Southern Germany The modular machine on order is configured with an unwind unit for 1,200mm rolls a semi-rotary die-cutting unit with a Kocher + Beck Gapmaster and the Rotocontrol EPOS automated slitting system with shear knives The Gundlach Packaging Group is a combination of three packaging specialists with headquarters in Oerlinghausen ‘Logo Etiketten is a recognized specialist in label printing with a broad international focus,’ said Marco Aengenvoort ‘It's an honor to receive their third Rotocontrol machine order this time to complement their digital label production.’ There are already two Rotocontrol RSC440 inspection and slitting machines at the Mahlberg location Gain knowledge with articles and videos collated from Label Academy books Art Lentz was a gangly teenager who soon grew into a tall experiencing a growth spurt that added nearly a foot to his frame and sealed his fate.  He had played some basketball at the tiny school they affectionately called the "Corncob College," a four-room schoolhouse out in the country that housed grades four through eight and had moved on to play junior high ball at West York.   he played varsity ball for a West York team that won its league title and it appeared that his future lay on the basketball court He recalled his team once lost a game to a Swatara Township team because the game was played in Steelton in a gym equipped with those then-new-fangled glass backboards His team just couldn't adjust to it and lost 40-38.  He was fixing to graduate high school in 1944 when he had the unfortunate luck of turning 18 The war was still raging and the military needed bodies so on his 18th birthday, Art got a greeting from his Uncle Sam he reported to the induction center in Harrisburg and within a month D-Day had just occurred and the forces in Europe were in dire need of soldiers to make the final push of the war crossing France and Belgium into Germany.  More: York man piloted the longest nonstop blimp flight ever he and 1,500 fellow soldiers boarded the Queen Elizabeth and made the 9-day journey to England the trip taking much longer than usual because the ship took a serpentine route to evade German U-boats.  He joined the 30th Division's 119th Infantry and was shipped to the front lines where his unit was fighting the Battle of the Bulge One of the first bits of survival advice he got from a fellow foot soldier was to get rid of all his gear Carrying all that stuff would only slow you down he and another soldier were ordered to deliver a radio to a front-line unit they had to cross 500 yards of open territory coming under enemy fire as they sprinted across the field. They made it and the action earned Art a Bronze Star for heroic service.  his unit crossed the Rhine and entered Germany near the town of Oerlinghausen A forward unit had run out of ammo – it wasn't like the movies in which guns seem to have an endless capacity of bullets and it was easier than you would think to run out of ammo – and Art was ordered to deliver some to the unit.  He didn't remember feeling much pain; it felt like someone had taken an iron to his lip. There was a lot of blood he was more frightened that a sniper's bullet would hit the ammo he was carrying and cause the cartridges to explode.  More: Joseph Stalin's daughter lived in East Berlin, briefly The doctor would peel the scab off his lip every day to prevent scarring He earned a Purple Heart and an oak-leaf cluster for his Bronze Star.  he was given a choice – he could go back to his unit or be assigned to a different unit He returned to his unit just as it was approaching Berlin His unit spent a few weeks on occupation duty even though he spent just half a day there.   for the Pacific to join the final push in that theater dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the war ended.  Then he was assigned to Fort Knox in Kentucky.  He recalls the base team played some exhibition games against some of the top colleges in the country at the time – including the legendary University of Kentucky teams coached by the legendary Adolph Rupp He got discharged from the service in '46 and returned home He completed his work to get his diploma and played ball for the Vikings in a club league He played at York Junior College for half a year before going pro playing for the York team in the Eastern Professional Basketball League He got a raise to $35 a game his second year in the league The York team eventually dissolved – it played in the league's smallest gym and couldn't make enough money – so Art played for the Pottsville Packers for a couple of years before retiring from the pros.  More: Remembering a father he never met. State will honor Spring Grove man killed in Vietnam War He met his wife, Ruth Reindollar, through basketball. Her sister was married to a local sportswriter and they set up a blind date. It stuck. Art and Ruth, a nurse who had worked at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, raised a family in West York. Art went on to own Central Bowling Lanes in York with his dad. He retired after the bowling alley closed, taking 10 years to do some traveling with Ruth. He went back to work at 62, as a maintenance supervisor at York College.  He played basketball until he was 45. Now, at 91, he looks like he could still take to the court.   But given his experience, he might have to spot some of the younger guys some points.  Reach Mike Argento at 717-771-2046 or at mike@ydr.com.  Art Lentz will be sharing his story March 28 at an ALLVETS Roundtable at the York County Historical Society Museum, at 250 E. 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The CompanyAbout usOur ResponsibilitySuppliersPress & MagazineCareersBackDr our colleagues work in shift to create a "Taste of Home" for our consumers Jasna Subosic tells us what it’s like to operate machines and gives us an insight into her career path ShareIt’s loud here on the Sparrenburg filling line at the Brackwede (Bielefeld) plant the afternoon shift workers concentrate on their work despite the noise The production line is currently producing Vitalis Porridge with Berries affectionately dubbed “Agatha” by the workforce She has all of the processes under routine control she celebrated her 40th year of working for the company Oetker’s Brackwede plant on the gala pudding powder filling line Her mother falls ill and is now dependent on her daughter’s help She is therefore unable to complete her schooling she plans to save for her driving license and to buy a car so she can then return home But things turn out differently once again: Jasna Subosic meets her future husband and the pair start a family in their new home country Jasna Subosic appreciates the comfort of modern equipment because it has made work much more pleasant The "paperwork" is also part of her business Young Jasna follows her mother’s example and commences her career at Dr She starts on the filling line and progresses to the high-bay warehouse After seven months she returns to the filling line and shortly afterwards moves to the so-called “phial department” her permanent field of activity remained the filling line she also experienced the move from the pudding powder structure in Bielefeld’s Lutterstrasse Oetker Welt (a world of experience for visitors) Oetker products such as pudding and Vanilla Sugar have perhaps not changed greatly over the decades the transformation in manufacturing itself cannot be simply dismissed The modern machines require considerably more attention; their operation has become more demanding over the years and the responsibilities of each individual worker have increased take samples and independently maintain an overview of everything going on Jasna Subosic particularly values the pleasant working environment and team spirit which is characterized by collegiality and helpfulness Jasna Subosic considers these transformations quite positively She and her colleagues are not only experiencing the development of manufacturing processes in terms of keywords like “Industry 4.0” but are actually noticing the practical effects on their daily work individual employees are now able to become considerably more involved they can contribute their own ideas for improving existing processes and generally work more independently Modern organizational methods such as “shopfloor management” have experienced colleagues are actively included in the development process The fitters had offered brief instruction and then left her and her colleagues to operate the new machine after just two or three days Jasna values the significantly better convenience offered by modern machinery simply because her work is considerably more pleasant Jasna Subosic still remembers the old machines which can now be viewed in the “Technical Collection” on the Brackwede plant premises With the so-called “rattle machines” a lot of manual work still had to be performed for instance prepackaging and straightening the packets It brings back memories: in the "Technical Collection" on the Brackwede factory premises Jasna Subosic once again stands at one of the historic filling machines affectionately known as "rattle machines" Oetker and has never regretted her decision She is pleased to have contributed for decades to enthusing people about products she has helped to make Irrespective of where she and her family travel on vacation – Dr What is her advice to young talent in production Primarily to continue their education and training so they can develop better She would also be pleased if her story motivates young people to undertake an apprenticeship in production Glück im Unglück hatte am Montagmorgen eine 18-jährige Frau aus Detmold Sie übersah gleich eine ganze Panzerkolonne - mit Folgen Der Fahrzeugführer des ersten Panzers erfasste mit dem "Challenger 2" den Toyota und überrollte die Fahrzeugfront des PKW Die 18-Jährige konnte ihr völlig zerstörtes Fahrzeug unverletzt verlassen Der Gesamtschaden beträgt zirka 12.000 Euro