Hungary’s electricity transmission system operator (TSO) has announced the appointment of Ferenc Szarvas as Chief Executive Officer Szarvas has also been elected as a member of the Board of Directors brings extensive experience from both the public and private sectors He previously served as Deputy CEO at State Privatisation and Asset Management Chairman of the Board of Directors at Malév Hungarian Airlines and as a member of the Boards of Directors at MFB Hungarian Development Bank and Hungaropharma pharmaceutical company Szarvas’s leadership experience includes serving as CEO of the Government Debt Management Agency starting in 2000 and leading the state-owned railway company MÁV from 2010 He later became CEO and Board member of the Budapest City Management Company (BKVF) and held a Supervisory Board role at the Centre for Budapest Transport (BKK) he was the Investment Director at Széchenyi Venture Capital Fund Management in 2022 and served as a Board member of MVM before assuming his new responsibilities as CEO CEOWORLD and ‘CEOWORLD magazine’ are trademarks of The CEOWORLD magazine LTD MOL Group has announced plans to purchase the Szarvas Biogas Plant from BayWa AG the waste processing plant uses organic wastes to produce electricity and heat through cogeneration with a peak electric power capacity of around 4 MW The plant processes more than 44,000 tons (40,000 tonnes) of waste a year from meat production in the region and another 58,400 tons (53,000 tonnes) of residual waste from neighboring livestock and meat processing farms around 19,800 tons (18,000 tonnes) of agricultural substrate is used as feedstock for the plant which produces in excess of 441 million cubic feet (12.5 million cubic meters) of biogas per year the acquisition of Szarvas Biogas Plant expands the company’s sustainable energy production portfolio The plant possesses one of the largest biogas production capacities in Central Eastern Europe and is also located in an area where MOL Group’s exploration and production activities are already present this creates a unique synergy by providing infrastructure to the biogas facilities for upgrading its gas products and consumer retail company that is active in more than 30 countries The company operates three refineries and two petrochemical plants under integrated supply chain-management in Hungary and owns a network of almost 2400 service stations across 10 countries in Central and Southeastern Europe Home | Our Work Around the World | Eastern Europe | Hungary | Szarvas Summer Program We know how important it is for elderly survivors to socialize together.  For some Shoah survivors in Budapest the arrival of summertime brings the chance to be with others in a supportive  The Szarvas summer program for Holocaust survivors run by the Hungarian Jewish Social Support Foundation (HJSSF) and funded by a grant from the Claims Conference is a great source of joy to its participants the JDC-Lauder International Jewish Youth Camp in Szarvas has hosted Holocaust survivors for a six-day retreat The camp was founded in 1990 for Jewish children 7-18 years old across Central and Eastern Europe HJSSF created the summer camp for survivors This is the fourth year that Claims Conference allocations have provided this much-needed respite hundreds of Hungarian survivors are able to spend time in the countryside relaxing and being with friends old and new The Nazis arrived in Hungary in March 1944 The majority of the Jews in Budapest – about 70,000 – were forced into a ghetto at the end of 1944 and most had survived when Soviet forces liberated that area in January 1945 It is estimated there are about 7,600 Shoah survivors in Hungary Approximately 3,500 survivors receive a range of services from HJSSF transportation and case management. And this year about 300 of them are able to go to summer camp 181 survivors participated in two sessions almost twice that number will attend one of three sessions – a six-day session in June and in September and a four-day stay at the end of August for those who want a shorter visit Claims Conference Program Officer Charles Rose visited Szarvas in June during the camp’s first session of 2015 reflected on his recent visit “I met three women who didn’t know each other before due to the large size of the survivor community in Budapest and they will take this friendship back to Budapest and support each other This program gives survivors something to live for; it builds relationships that they take with them throughout the year – and we feel this is so important. I was gratified to see the large gathering of survivors at Szarvas Especially with the climate of anti-Semitism in Hungary it’s important for the survivors to be openly Jewish in a safe environment They are happy and relaxed and are making friends and their interactions with the staff are also more relaxed than during the rest of the year The Szarvas program improves survivors’ quality of life adding to the critical and basic life-supporting services we provide through HJSSF during the year.” The Szarvas retreat is staffed by social workers and volunteers from the Holocaust Survivors Program of HJSSF who say it is crucial to the health and well-being of survivors an HJSSF staff member emphasized the importance of the program “Szarvas gives Nazi victims the possibility of being together and sharing the stories of their life with each other and the staff Szarvas is also about the most important values like love Most of the Holocaust survivors live alone fighting with solitude and distress every day but in this place they can feel strength and acceptance.” The daily schedule is filled with activities The cafeteria is strictly kosher and there is a synagogue on the property Survivors have told HJSSF that their visit to Szarvas is the highlight of their year “In this year’s first Senior Summer Camp we found a note from one of our clients ‘I’ve lost all of my childhood but you’ve brought it back’ The Claims Conference knows that socialization programs such as the Szarvas Senior Camp are vital in keeping elderly survivors engaged in the world around them and in giving them an opportunity to be with others who have shared similar wartime experiences We will continue to bring these summertime programs to elderly survivors who can now experience what was robbed from them in their youths Address: PO Box 1215New York, NY 10113 Tel: (646) 536-9100E-mail: info@claimscon.org The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) a nonprofit organization with offices in New York secures material compensation for Holocaust survivors around the world Founded in 1951 by representatives of 23 major international Jewish organizations, the Claims Conference negotiates for and disburses funds to individuals and organizations and seeks the return of Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust. 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All content ⒸConference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) I was living in Baltimore and working for the Jewish community there when I first learned about Camp Szarvas also known as JDC-Lauder International Jewish Summer Camp in Hungary During a federation mission to Odesa in 2018 it seemed that everyone I met had a transformative summer experience at Szarvas founded in 1990 and one of the largest Jewish youth camps in the world hosting upwards of 1,300 participants from more than 20 countries each year Last week, I had the privilege of seeing it for the first time with CJP board member Dena Rashes and several other lay leaders from Massachusetts and the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) I was amazed at what I saw: Szarvas had been transformed into a place of rejuvenation for Ukrainian Jews who have been experiencing the horrors of war for over a year CJP’s relationship with Ukraine stretches back over decades We’ve raised more than $4 million over the past 13 months to support agencies on the ground assisting those affected by war which recently recognized CJP with an induction into the prestigious Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Society for our philanthropic efforts I was honored to be invited to spend three days with them visiting Camp Szarvas They are being treated to delicious kosher food and a range of activities Jewish educational and cultural activities They also have weekly Shabbat experiences and excursions to a zoo These efforts are being supported by the wonderful European and Former Soviet Union professionals as well as volunteers from the Hungarian Jewish community Our group had the privilege of meeting two Ukrainian families that came to participate in Mriya as it offered an opportunity to learn about their experiences Although both families have been through so much over the past 13 months I could not be prouder that Szarvas—a transformative incubator of Jewish identity and community life for the last 30 years—is now providing a refuge for Ukrainian Jews who have faced unimaginable circumstances Let’s be clear: Camp Szarvas is not a vacation for these families but an opportunity for them to catch their breath and regroup as the conflict rages on and our extended Jewish community in both times of peace and war MOL Group has agreed on a deal with BayWa on the purchase of Szarvas biogas plant a waste processing plant using organic wastes to produce electricity and heat through cogeneration with a peak electric power capacity of around 4 megawatts (MW) MOL Group noted that the plant processes more than 40,000 tons of waste a year from meat production in the region and another 53,000 tons of residual waste (such as slurry and manure) from neighboring livestock and meat processing farms around 18,000 tons of agricultural substrate is used as feedstock for the plant altogether which produces in excess of 12.5 million cubic meters of biogas MOL Group strives to expand its biofuel portfolio to meet the goals set by the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive This acquisition is also in line with the aims of the REPowerEU action plan which has set a high target for biogas and methane production to reasonably increase the overall energy independence of the European Union A sense of responsibility for the security of the energy supply in the Central and Eastern European region is a fundamental part of MOL Group’s identity and mindset for operation and development the acquisition of Szarvas biogas plant is a great opportunity to expand the company’s sustainable energy production portfolio with the potential to realize valuable synergies inside the company The plant not only possesses one of the largest biogas production capacity in Central Eastern Europe it is also located in an area where MOL’s Exploration and Production activities are present and active This creates a unique synergy by providing infrastructure to the biogas facilities for upgrading their gas products MOL Group is also looking 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Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Metrics details Public health authorities whole-genome sequence thousands of isolates each month for microbial diagnostics and surveillance of pathogenic bacteria The computational methods have not kept up with the deluge of data and the need for real-time results We have therefore created a bioinformatics pipeline for rapid subtyping and continuous phylogenomic analysis of bacterial samples The data is divided into sets by mapping to reference genomes Nucleotide based genetic distance is calculated between the sequences in each set and isolates are clustered together at 10 single-nucleotide polymorphisms Phylogenetic trees are inferred from the non-redundant sequences and the clustered isolates are added back The method is accurate at grouping outbreak strains together while discriminating them from non-outbreak strains The pipeline is applied in Evergreen Online which processes publicly available sequencing data from foodborne bacterial pathogens on a daily basis Epidemiological typing of bacteria is used by hospitals and public health authorities to detect outbreaks of infectious diseases and determine trends over time this includes culturing and isolating the pathogen followed by species identification and subtyping using various conventional microbiological and molecular methodologies This approach requires access to all of the raw data or assembled genomes and very extensive computational resources for larger databases no sub-species taxonomical classification has so far been implemented in the pipeline by manual selection of strains to be included in the analysis SNP-based method for subtyping and preliminary phylogenomic analysis of bacterial isolates that circumvent the known limitations of current gene- and SNP-based approaches PAPABAC carries out rapid and automated subtyping of bacterial whole-genome sequenced isolates and generates continuously updated phylogenetic trees based on nucleotide differences a standalone version for local monitoring of bacterial isolates for global surveillance of foodborne bacterial pathogens We also suggest a stable naming scheme for each isolate making the results from the pipeline easier to communicate to others a The input raw read files are classified into sets based on k-mer similarity to NCBI RefSeq complete prokaryotic chromosomal genomes b The raw reads are mapped to the reference genome and a consensus sequence is generated via strict statistical evaluation (p < 0.05) of the mapped bases in each position c The resulting consensus sequences are of equal length in each template set The new isolates in each set are clustered to the non-redundant isolates already in the set if the pairwise nucleotide difference based genetic distance is less than 10 The remaining new isolates undergo the same clustering process d Pairwise genetic distance between all non-redundant isolate in the set is used as input for neighbor-joining algorithm If there are less than 600 non-redundant isolates in a set an approximately maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree is also inferred based on the consensus sequences (red: new isolates) The clustered isolates are placed back onto the trees with 0 distance to the cluster representative (marked with an asterisk) e The information about the acquired isolates and the phylogenetic trees is stored in SQLite databases which are queried once all sets with new isolates are processed to output the results to the users The pipeline retains analysis results in such a manner that input is added to the previously processed data The phylogenomic analysis is carried out on the current input and the previously found non-redundant isolates (singletons and cluster representatives) The genetic distance is estimated in a pairwise manner comparing the given two sequences for all non-ambiguous positions positions where none of the two sequences have an “N” assigned The distances between the previously processed runs are stored on disk and only the distances to the new isolates are computed in a given run A clustering step during the genetic distance calculation forms clusters of closely related isolates and reduces the number of similar sequences in each set and thereby also reduces the computation time After identifying a non-redundant isolate and a closely related isolate to it the one previously deemed non-redundant will be the cluster representative and kept while the clustered one is omitted from the subsequent runs of the pipeline the information about the clustering is added to a database and the clustered isolate will be placed on the inferred phylogenetic tree The cluster representatives remain constant through the subsequent runs of the pipeline and the clusters only increase in size if new isolates are clustered with the representative each cluster is stable in the sense that an isolate will never change which representative it is associated with and each cluster can be reliably identified by the template name and the identifier of its cluster representative The pipeline can be run on a computer with 8 Gb RAM and Unix system. The computational time is reduced compared to re-running the whole analysis each time new samples are added, even without parallelization (Supplementary Fig. 1) Taxa with an asterisk were clustered together with the taxa in the same clade Time requirement of the phylogenomic analysis for given number of non-redundant and new strains composed of both the queried and the non-queried organisms Neighbor-joining tree for the Listeria_monocytogenes_07PF0776_NC_017728_1 set after the samples of the L The red and blue isolates belong to the two original outbreak clades and the purple isolates are outgroups in the benchmark dataset Selected isolates in the a Escherichia_coli_O157_H7_str_Sakai_chromosome_NC_002695_1 NJ tree and on the b PDS000000952.271 SNP cluster maximum compatibility tree The three largest clusters of the selected samples on the NJ tree are labeled with yellow These isolates were marked with the same labels on the NCBI-PD tree The red labeled ones are on a single clade on the PD tree while the blue and yellow isolates are mixing on two other clades performed alongside the traditional methods in routine microbiology yields hundreds to thousands of WGS isolates yearly in hospital public health and food safety laboratories This amount of data is overwhelming for many and there is a lack of methods to generate a quick overview and help prioritize resources The timely analysis of the sequencing data would allow the detection of more bacterial outbreaks and aid the prevention of further spread lack of human and computational resources for this demanding task often hampers the prompt analysis of the data Automating the initial subtyping phase would facilitate the start of an outbreak investigation PAPABAC offers rapid subtyping for a wide range of prokaryotic organisms: the supplied database covers all bacterial subtypes with complete genomes present in NCBI RefSeq Further reference genomes could be added to increase the covered sequence space but the active curation of the reference database is not required for routine use The selection of the reference sequence for the phylogenomic analysis is fast and robust It is independent of pre-assumptions about the isolates: misclassification during previous analysis does not introduce errors into the downstream analysis Contamination from another species is discarded during the consensus sequence generation The subtyping step via k-mer based mapping to a close reference also serves as a sequencing quality control measure because low-quality sequencing runs will typically result in isolates with low identity to any reference and/or low depth These isolates do not progress further to the phylogenomic analysis By using all positions in the consensus sequences for estimating the genetic distance as we also include mutations that occur between genes where the pipeline clustered the outbreak-related strains and separated them from the outgroup strains Both the maximum likelihood inferred and the neighbor-joining trees placed the outbreak strains correctly in the phylogeny that PAPABAC provides quick and reliable information about the close relatives of an outbreak strain to provide candidates to perform a more thorough analysis on The design of PAPABAC means that once an isolate passed the homology reduction step it will be present in the subsequent runs of the pipeline When an incoming isolate is highly similar to a non-redundant one the more recent will be the one that is clustered added to the database and removed from further runs the cluster representatives and clusters are robust to the addition of new data to the analysis PAPABAC yields a stable and communicable name for the clusters comprised of the template name and the cluster representative where allelic profiles don’t necessarily have communicable names This turnover time facilitates quick response in a potential outbreak scenario The template set that corresponded to the stone fruit L monocytogenes outbreak dataset reference had more than 1000 non-redundant isolates The isolates that were part of the same outbreak clustered together and formed the two expected outbreak clusters despite the confounding presence of the sequences already in the template set had a different cluster representative when using all data for the template set compared with analysis of the outbreak data alone: an environmental sample as it was sampled from the same US state and year (California 2014) as the samples in the outbreak dataset These findings indicate that the pipeline is capable of identifying closely related samples however it is necessary to conduct epidemiological analysis and apply other knowledge when interpreting the results the labeled samples form similar topology to the NCBI-PD tree The homology reducing clustering in Evergreen Online means that any sample in the cluster is less than ten nucleotides differences from the cluster representative the differences between the samples could amount to 18 nucleotides The compatible character distances on the NCBI-PD tree between the mixed samples are less than that the observed distribution of the labeled samples in the two platforms are concordant an application made for the global surveillance of foodborne bacterial pathogens stability and practicality of PAPABAC on thousands of samples via an on-going analysis The Z-score threshold for accepting a base is set to 1.96 and the majority base have to be present in 90% of the mapped reads where the neighbor-joining tree is the starting tree and the GTR nucleotide substitution model is used The clustered isolates are placed back onto the clades with zero distances to the cluster representative The information about the trees is saved to the main SQLite database When all the phylogenetic trees with new isolates have been inferred then the main SQLite database is queried for the list of all isolates cluster representatives (if there is any) and the latest phylogenetic tree they are on This information is printed to a tab-separated file A query is made to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Sequencing Read Archive (SRA) for the newly published Illumina paired-end sequenced isolates of Campylobacter jejuni Fastq files of raw sequencing reads and the corresponding metadata (collection date etc.) are acquired either from SRA or from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) The sample inclusion criteria is known metadata for collection date and location samples are included from the following institutions: Unites States Center for Disease Control United States Food and Drug Administration The downloaded isolates are the input to PAPABAC The metadata are saved in the main SQLite database and added to the tip labels on the phylogenetic trees Individual subtrees are inferred from isolates with less than 20 SNPs distance from each cluster-representative considering only the positions in the sequences where there is no missing data The subtrees are inserted into an SQLite database Once all instances of the second wrapper script have finished then the SQLite databases are queried for the list of available phylogenetic trees (the maximum likelihood trees preferred over neighbor-joining ones) changes in the clusters and the list of all isolates in the system the phylogenetic trees can be downloaded as newick files and the corresponding metadata as tab separated files The isolates and clusters can be searched by SRA run ID which allows the quick localization of the clusters that increased in size via their cluster representative The two main parts of the pipeline have their own wrapper scripts PAPABAC can be run on a personal computer with as few as four cores Evergreen Online is running on a high-performance computing cluster utilizing the Torque (Adaptive Computing Inc. The first wrapper is run in one instance on 20 cores meanwhile the second wrapper is run once on 20 cores for each template that has at least one new run When all of these instances are finished running a Bash script is launched to collect the information from the SQL database the website is updated and the job for the next day is scheduled The reference sequences are complete prokaryotic chromosomal genomes from the NCBI RefSeq database. Homology reduction was performed at a 99.0% sequence identity threshold with the Hobohm 1 algorithm. The curated NCBI prokaryotic reference genomes were given priority in the process. The reference sequences could be downloaded via ftp (ftp://ftp.cbs.dtu.dk/public/CGE/databases/Evergreen/) One hundred and one samples from the Escherichia coli in vitro evolution experiment dataset by Ahrenfeldt et al were batched according to their sampling time The parallelization in PAPABAC was disabled The traditional method meant that the analysis was carried out on all the samples up to the given batch the benchmarking dataset constituted 50 tips on the ideal phylogeny These samples were batched according to their sampling time (6th The batches were processed by PAPABAC chronologically The pipeline was run with the default parameters Both maximum likelihood and neighbor-joining trees were inferred The pipeline was run individually on the datasets with default parameters If the isolates were mapped to more than one template the phylogenetic trees of the template set with the highest number of isolates were evaluated The maximum likelihood trees were visually compared to the ideal phylogenies and checked for the distribution of the isolates amongst the clades monocytogenes SNP dataset was added to a copy of the Listeria_monocytogenes_07PF0776_NC_017728_1 template set of Evergreen Online on 2018-06-15 The refined subtree around SRR6766978 was downloaded on 2019-10-30 and pruned to contain only the isolates that were on the Evergreen Online tree The common samples on the three biggest clusters on the Evergreen Online tree were labeled and their placement on the NCBI-PD tree and the refined tree was visually inspected and running it on the same input data would yield reproducible results for the consensus sequences for they are produced with deterministic algorithms Further information on research design is available in the Nature Research Reporting Summary linked to this article No novel datasets were generated during the current study. All analyzed data are available in this published article, or on the website: https://cge.cbs.dtu.dk/services/Evergreen/ Scripts and installation instructions for the pipeline are publicly available on Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/genomicepidemiology/evergreen Multilocus sequence typing of total-genome-sequenced bacteria Rapid and easy in silico serotyping of Escherichia coli isolates by use of whole-genome sequencing data Rapid whole-genome sequencing for investigation of a neonatal MRSA outbreak Prospective genomic characterization of the German enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak by rapid next generation sequencing technology Real-time whole-genome sequencing for routine typing and outbreak detection of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli Whole Genome Sequencing for Foodborne Disease Surveillance: Landscape Paper (World Health Organization Genomic epidemiology: whole-genome-sequencing-powered surveillance and outbreak investigation of foodborne bacterial pathogens 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this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing: Microbiology newsletter — what matters in microbiology research Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Following the strong German language influence at the end of the 19th century and the fight against excessive language renewal the leaders of the Linguistics Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences decided to create a language-protecting János Arany and László Arany elected Gábor Szarvas as editor after reading his study study entitled Hungarians at the Catholic High School in Bratislava in 1866/67 Szarvas was transferred to Budapest with the help of József Eötvös then in 1871 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy and entrusted with the editing of the Hungarian Language Guard The Hungarian Language Guard was published in 1872 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Photo: FSZEK Budapest Collection) The first volume of the first year of the Hungarian Language Guard was published on 12 January Gábor Szarvas published an article titled What do we want "We want where fluctuating fund invested and established by improvising language reform brought against the rules for a market works restoration of accuracy; where contact with foreign languages has cultivated frivolous terms the promotion of purity; we want to facilitate the compilation of scientific Hungarian grammar that meets the requirements ...; and we want to achieve all this with the help of tools drawn from the life of the Hungarian language especially the erroneous word forms and alienations in circulation will be the subject of our excellent attention the founder of Hungarian language education was the first editor of the Hungarian Language Guard (Source: mki.gov.hu) The magazine was published quarterly to learn about language cultivation He also opposed violent language renewal and foreign turns and clarified the boundaries of language renewal Grammatical laws were also laid down by scholarly authors and great emphasis was placed on orthologist debates The second edition of the first volume of the Hungarian Language Guard in 1885 (Source: adt.arcanum.com) Prominent representatives of contemporary Hungarian linguistics were grouped around the journal The bust of Gábor Szarvas was inaugurated in 1899 in front of the building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences the operation of the Hungarian Language Guard was suspended.  the Hungarian Language Guard was published by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a journal of the Language Education Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and since 1994 it has been published by Eötvös Lóránd University Cover photo: The journal of the Linguistics Committee of the Hungarian Language Guard was launched 150 years ago (Photo: adt.arcanum.com)  © 2025 Látóhatár Kiadó Lap-és Könyvkiadó Kft The extremely energy efficient plant uses renewable raw materials and organic waste from the region to produce hot water and electricity through cogeneration and is capable of processing more than 40,000 tonnes a year in waste from meat production in the region and another 53,000 tonnes of residual waste (slurry and manure for instance) from neighbouring livestock and meat processing farms around 18,000 tonnes of agricultural substrate is used as feedstock for the plant which produces in excess of 12.5 million cubic meters of biogas The project is split into two locations which are connected through a four-kilometre long gas pipeline Whereas the biogas plant has been built to the east of the City of Szarvas is situated in the proximity of Gallicoop Zrt. one of Hungary's largest turkey meat processing companies The plant was opened in the presence of Mihály Babák Mayor of the city of Szarvas; Klaus Peter Riedel envoy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Hungary; László Domokos President of the State Audit Office; Zsolt Gémesi Head of the Renewable Energies Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Development; Roland Schuler member of the Management Board of BayWa AG; and Erdélyi István Those present underscored the ground-breaking nature of the substrate concept and the fact that the plant's extremely high efficiency of 64 percent is unique in the Central European region for a plant of this kind The electricity produced can supply 18,000 inhabitants which is around the size of a city such as Szarvas which is a by-product of electricity generation cooling and hot water which is used directly on site in meat processing Biogas is now used in place of more than one million cubic metres of natural gas a year This also helps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 210,000 tons within 20 years feeds the power generated by biogas into the grid only when required thereby tracking general demand for electricity Szarvas therefore only feeds into the public grid at times of intermediate and peak loads and The substrate produced by fermentation in the plant is used as a high-quality organic fertiliser which can now replace artificial fertilisers on several thousand hectares of agricultural land in the environs r.e Bioenergie GmbH is a shareholding of BayWa r.e which an international trading and services group operating in the fields of agriculture r.e Bioenergie Gallicoop AG Tributes have today been paid to a former Shropshire schoolboy and his mother who were on board the Air France jet which crashed in the sea near Brazil moved to Ludlow from Hungary when Mrs Szarvas started working at the Megan Baker House near Leominster The mother and son are both Hungarian nationals Friends and colleagues have said the pair were on board the plane which crashed on May 31 The Hungarian Embassy is unable to confirm details due to the data protection act but Mrs Szarvas was listed on the flight list Andras attended Ludlow Infants School for two years and the school is planning a day of remembrance in July to coincide with the opening of its garden Val Matthews said: "He had moved from Hungary with his mum He was four years old and spoke only a few words of English "Within months Andras had learned to speak English fluently Everyone was sad to see him go as he had so many friends His class teacher kept in touch with his mum and often e-mailed to exchange news "We were all devastated to hear the news last week but we knew our source of information was very reliable." Mrs Matthews said staff had been reassuring young children and their families while governors had been a great support to staff Mrs Szarvas's neighbour Sasha Griffiths and her son Marcus were close friends and their two boys often went to school together Mrs Griffiths said: "Rita was offered a job in a Hungarian University last September She had a nature and a talent to work with children." added: "Rita was great friends with everyone here Flight 447 had 228 people on board including five Britons when it mysteriously crashed Experts are hoping the ocean location of the plane crash victims could provide answers to whether the doomed jet broke up in the air Renata Szarvas and Matt Dutton share an exhibition at Renata's Art and Framing Renata Szarvas is celebrating a year in her riverside premises with an exhibition in which she finally gets to show her own work.Teaming up with Matt Dutton and Aaron te Rangiao On Paper shows a variety of work - paintings assemblage - from three markedly different artists.It all came about through an incident at the Resource Recovery Centre."It starts with me climbing into a rubbish bin," she said in an impromptu speech to a large crowd at the exhibition opening on Saturday evening."We were doing our good citizens' recycling when I saw shiny things."She tried to remove what turned out to be old books she had to climb into the wire cage to get access."There were close to 100 really old books it turned out someone had inherited a family estate and they were cleaning out the attic Their decision to throw them away gave us the opportunity to rescue them give them a new life and look at them in a different view we found a nice way to honour the history that came with them by creating a body of work around them."Renata and Matt invited Aaron to contribute."And alongside Aaron and Matt I was also brave enough and decided for the first time in my life I would like to show what I do when I'm not framing pictures."The exhibition is also a good way to celebrate a year and a month in her new workshop and gallery."I made the big move and even the river came in to greet me," she said referring to the flood that coincided with the relocation and I feel I have found my home in Wanganui."To see what extraordinary works have been created using the books as inspiration and art material visit the exhibition at Renata's Art and Framing at 17 Taupo Quay The exhibition runs until December 20.Among the books there were also some old family photographs Renata and Matt would like to see them returned to their rightful home Low temperatures are forecast to temporarily return to double digits this week this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read Renata Szarvas and Matt Dutton will enter the pattillo Whanganui Arts Review again this year Submissions for the 2021 pattillo Whanganui Arts Review close on February 23 and local artists Renata Szarvas and Matt Dutton are gearing up to enter the competition again this year Szarvas works on frames for some of the other artists who enter meaning the first two months of the year are usually a busy time "If you're an artist and your work involves other professionals like painters or picture framers don't leave it to the last minute to submit," Szarvas said Any original artwork in any medium is able to be submitted as long as it was completed in the last 12 months and the artist lived in the Whanganui region The review was one of the biggest events for artists in Whanganui "The quality and quantity of submitted work exceeds last year "The Sarjeant itself is respected as one of the premier galleries in the southern hemisphere and with something like the arts review the call is out for every creative to submit work presentation of the work always shows not only the care that artists take in presenting their work but also the respect of that grand place where the art is exhibited." Dutton said his work hadn't been accepted the first two times he submitted it and it wasn't until a few years later that he got selected into the exhibition you're sort of sitting there thinking 'am I going to get accepted or not'," Dutton said "Sometimes I might do a piece and think 'oh and the top prize is really quite significant for people but also with the professional practice and development that comes with the show but it's the Sarjeant supporting artists as well." Szarvas said a great thing about the review was the fact the entry requirements were so wide you have the chance to be exhibited alongside big names said he had a "couple of pieces on the go" which he was considering submitting "I knew with the first stitches that it would be the piece I'd like to enter," Szarvas said Matt Dutton and Renata Szarvas will be exhibiting in Open Studios for the first time.PHOTO/STUART MUNRO Renata Szarvas will experience Artists Open Studios in a completely different way this year Open Studios is an annual event in which Whanganui artists open their studios and galleries to the public This year the event will be held March 12-13 and 19-20 with around 65 studios and galleries taking part Ms Szarvas makes mixed media works out of found objects "I like using things that already had a purpose and might have been thrown away," she said I am fascinated by how an entire life story can be compressed into one image And that's what I like in working with old objects or old books - you can start to tell a whole different story." She's been working on her art for many years but it was a joint exhibition at her shop two years ago that encouraged her to step up her art practice All her artworks at that exhibition were sold I'm now working with a purpose," Ms Szarvas said Mr Dutton is also formally taking part in Open Studios for the first time he will include some more unusual works in his Open Studios exhibition "I will be showing a range of work from the last 10 years "The last year has been quite interesting for me because I've just finished the first series of abstract works I've done in a very long time I've also done some woodcut prints and I will probably show a few of those." Mr Dutton's exhibition will also include his more well-known street scenes Nearly all his painting work is done with a palette knife Agriculture Minister István Nagy said livestock farmers shared an “enormous responsibility” in the efforts to stop the spread of foot-and-mouth disease and pressed for compliance with restrictions speaking at a press conference in Budapest on Friday Nagy said the need for full compliance with restrictions had been shown since the appearance of FMD in Hungary in March and added that authorities needed to weigh the possibility of even tighter restrictions He said no new FMD outbreaks had been detected He put the cost of recent outbreaks at “tens of billions of forints” bird flu was detected in Szarvas concerning 40,000 poultry Read about the foot-and-mouth disease HERE Is Fidesz now going to give the agriculture minister some kind of award for his fantastic work and website in this browser for the next time I comment Y"},"category":false,"taxonomy":{"active":false,"name":"category"}},"markup":{"custom_html":true,"wpp-start":"","wpp-end":"<\/ul>","title-start":"","title-end":"<\/h2>","post-html":"{thumb} {title} {stats}<\/span>{excerpt}<\/p><\/li>"},"theme":{"name":""}} You have successfully joined our subscriber list SupportUs Newsletter © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved SAN DIEGO — This week I would like to highlight an incredible teen who chose to do something pretty unique with her summer Sydney Schenk is a rising senior at the San Diego Jewish Academy This summer Sydney was selected to be a North American fellow for Camp Szarvas (SAR-vash) an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) camp in Szarvas Camp Szarvas attracts over 1,500 campers from over 20 different countries including Bulgaria The camp has been central to Jewish renewal in budding Jewish communities within the region By keeping the camp local and attracting Jews from around the world Camp Szarvas is able to instill a sense of Jewish peoplehood that is unparalleled in the current Hungarian Jewish community In an effort to expose Hungarian youth to other Jews from around the world Each summer up to 75 North American teens are selected to be “American Ambassadors” through their fellowship program are given a unique opportunity to discover their own Jewish identity while also discovering new and shared traditions of Jewish teens from around the world Teens are encouraged to apply to be a fellow on their own without their friends which is contrary to most other teen experiences This is done to emphasize the role that each fellow must play in getting to know new people and building new relationships The following is a conversation that I had with Sydney shortly after she returned from Camp Szarvas: Darren: Tell me about your camp experience this summer The camp likes to encourage teens to participate in the fellowship without people you know so we are all meeting each other for the first time in the airport We then got on a plane with Rabbi Seth Braunstein and traveled to Budapest where we celebrated Shabbat with the Israeli and Indian fellows After Budapest we took a bus to Camp Szarvas which is in the Hungarian countryside A typical day at Camp Szarvas would involve waking up and going to mifkad – which is a time where we say good morning to each country and say it in different languages We would have different activities throughout the day In our fellowship group we would have something called “Jewish Journeys” where every kid throughout the session would talk about their Jewish Journey – their denomination We would have other activities throughout the day like going swimming with teens from Ukraine and Israeli dancing with Hungarians At the end of the day we would have a night activity either just for the Americans or with the entire camp Camp wide programs would usually focus on events in Judaism or Jewish values Many of the Hungarian kids that come to this camp don’t have a big Jewish background Some of them may not even define themselves as Jews Darren: How were you selected to be a fellow at Camp Szarvas Sydney: The application process was very detailed I wrote an essay about a challenge that I faced and how I overcame it and my Jewish identity I remember that I wrote about Friendship Circle and my involvement with their Camp Let Loose program for kids with special needs My parents also had to fill out a form for the application and I had to get a recommendation from someone who knows me well Darren: Have you gone to overnight camp before how does that experience compare to going to Camp Szarvas Sydney: I have been going to Camp Ramah in California since I was in third grade for about a month each summer My favorite part about Camp Szarvas was that a lot of the things we did were similar to the activities at Ramah We did similar Israeli dances and sang a lot of the same songs That is just really cool to hear people from around the world singing the same songs we sing in California Darren: Was it a similar Shabbat experience Sydney: The thing is Ramah is a conservative camp It was interesting that Szarvas had a mechitza (partition that separates men and women during prayer) –because there are some more orthodox kids there So it was a different Shabbat experience with similar Shabbat tunes and some of the same songs Darren: Tell me about the most meaningful relationship that you made at Camp Szarvas Sydney: I just thought this was a cool moment. I have a lot of family in Hungary—my paternal grandfather was Hungarian. My cousin is part of a well known rock band in Budapest—Ivan & the Parazol—funny thing was that the band was playing at the San Diego County Fair while I was in Hungary and I was telling her about my cousin and his band I thought it was cool to know something about their culture what do you now know about yourself and your Jewish community Sydney: I now know how Judaism can be different all over the world which makes me think about how I see Judaism in a global way I think it opened my eyes to the different ways you can be Jewish and how people identify as Jews Especially in the fellowship program there were kids from Jewish day schools yeshivas – I really learned a lot about what is a Jew through many different perspectives We obviously overlap in many ways in our values but we are also different and I learned a lot about my Jewish identity by hearing about other kids in our Jewish Journeys program There are many ways for teens to explore their Jewish identities Sydney happened to find one that took her half way across the world and opened her eyes to the different faces of Judaism There are two things that you should know about my conversation with Sydney during this interview The first was that she was grateful to her parents and a family friend who was a participant several years ago for bringing this opportunity to her attention The second was her disappointment that there are not more teens from San Diego that go on this program To find out more about Sydney’s experience or to get more information about Camp Szarvas, please email me at darrens@lfjcc.org. I would be happy to put you in touch with Sydney or Rabbi Seth Braunstein. To find other great experiences for San Diego Jewish teens go to www.sdjewishteens.org PLEASE CLICK ON ANY AD BELOW TO VISIT THE ADVERTISER'S WEBSITE Get the latest stories from San Diego Jewish World delivered daily to your inbox for FREE Please help us continue publishing quality content with your non-tax-deductible donation Online daily Behir.hu reports that a new factory plant was opened in Szarvas where 1 million lamps will be manufactured for IKEA on a yearly basis As a result of the almost 2 billion HUF (6.42 million EUR) investment was expanded by a 4 thousand square metres big plant The factory in Szarvas was opened in 1952 and has been a fully Hungarian-owned venture ever since They have started producing coffee machines in 1970 There are altogether 420 people employed there while the remaining one-third work in the coffee machine manufacturing section Szarvasi Vas-Fémipar Zrt’s main profile is lighting which got a separate plant thanks to a deal made between the Hungarian company and the Swedish furniture-trading company The Hungarian company made a partnership agreement with IKEA in 1996. Recently, they applied for becoming the sole producer of a particular type of lamp, and so they will take over production from a Chinese company. According to business daily Heti Világgazdaság 20 thousand lamps are produced at the Hungarian plant each week Szarvasi Vas-Fémipari Zrt will be IKEA’s exclusive supplier concerning this lamp the commercial director of Szarvasi Vas-Fémipari Zrt announced at a press conference that the reason for this investment was to initiate a project: IKEA is going to introduce a new line of household products where they require from the Hungarian company the production of 1 million lamps per year as they are made up of 100 million tiny pieces which is – according to the local member of parliament Béla Dankó – important both for the town and the county A group of the 200 new employees are professionals with degrees Another upside of this investment is that next year production could reach twice as much than in 2016 Dankó further digressed that expansions of this kind contributed to Hungary’s 4 percent economic growth of last year 750 thousand more people are employed compared to 2010 and 20 thousand people returned home from abroad The company in Szarvas has introduced various new technological equipment that will help to produce flawless lamp parts CEO of Szarvasi Vas-Fémipari Zrt added that the future lies in the technological development and that the employees should be trained to be able to face new challenges The company produces almost 200 million lamps on a yearly basis Business daily Világ Gazdaság writes that 10 percent of the 6.42 million EUR investment will be financed from tenders Tamana Sahar is very lawyer she want to you give to her sisters work visa they are jasos don’t give her Afghan people very fake