You are viewing your 1 free article this month Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency has hired four new agents across its English and Scandanavian offices. Sam Birmingham, William Crona, Elizabeth DeNoma, and Pär Sjölinder join Haico Kaashoek, who was appointed to the London office in 2023 Birmingham and DeNoma work from New York and Seattle a Swede who has lived in the UK for most of his life The four new agents report to Paul Sebes and Rik Kleuver Birmingham and DeNoma represent Anglophone authors from North America as well as writers from various European languages Crona represents Scandinavian authors writing in their native language or in English Pär Sjölinder focuses solely on Scandinavian authors Birmingham specialises in a diverse array of non-fiction and select fiction and his clientele includes cultural critics and began his career in London publishing at Eccles Fisher Associates and RCW and later moved to Stockholm to work as a literary agent for Bonnier and Albatros Agency DeNoma has decades of experience as a literary editor politicians and other subject matter experts of all kinds Sjölinder joined the agency in 2020 as an editor and now has been promoted to literary agent; he will cover the Scandinavian market and has more than 10 years of experience in Swedish publishing Paul Sebes said: "I am very pleased with the arrival of these four fantastic it is very important for a literary agency to focus on as many international markets as possible and to serve as many different genres as possible in as many languages as possible Our experienced and knowledgeable team has moved from strength to strength these past few years and I have every confidence these four new members will play essential roles in our future success." a leading manufacturer of wood-based products announces the acquisition of ZG Timber’s Sebes plant from the Ziegler Group The acquisition ensures the continuity of operations at the Sebes facility safeguarding 500 local jobs following the insolvency of Ziegler Holding GmbH at the end of 2024 The acquisition agreement was signed on March 1 with the transaction expected to be finalized by mid-year The acquisition will help to protect numerous indirect jobs across suppliers and companies associated with the sawmill’s activities As part of its strategy to enhance its product offerings Kronospan will now incorporate sawn timber products into its global portfolio sawn timber products will complement the company’s existing production of wood-based panels and oriented strand board (OSB) at its Romanian plants in Sebes and Brasov Kronospan plans to invest in modernizing the Sebes sawmill to further enhance its production capabilities Kronospan is a leading manufacturer of wood-based panels and value-added wood products The company has invested over Euro 600 million in the country and currently operates two production plants in Brasov (OSB boards) and Sebes (PB and MDF boards) a logistics center in the Port of Constanta and several wood collection and recycling centers across Romania Republication of Lesprom Network content is prohibited without the prior written consent of Lesprom Network General Terms and Conditions and Privacy policy This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Sign in or register below for free to unlock 2 articles each month and receive personalised newsletters to your inbox.ORHelp support our journalism and subscribe with unlimited access.Subscribe from less than £3.50 Daimler is expanding its Sebes factory product portfolio with the new 8G-DCT eight-speed automatic transmission for which the company has built two new production halls totaling 54,000 square meters and hired 500 new employees The plant in Romania is the only one producing the new transmission and it will supply Daimler plants around the world “The expansion of Sebes gearbox production highlights the importance flexibility and high performance of the Romanian manufacturing centers within the global Powertrain network of Mercedes-Benz Cars,” said Frank Deiss “We are the first and only location in the Mercedes-Benz Cars powertrain production network that produces the new eight-stage dual clutch transmission. For this responsibility, we have prepared ourselves intensively and have taken all the necessary steps to deliver the highest-quality Mercedes-Benz gearboxes,” said Klaus Eichhorn, General Manager Star Transmission and Star Assembly. has officially started production of 8G-DCT 8-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox In order to integrate this new product into its transmission portfolio Daimler has built two new production halls in Sebes with an area of ​​approximately 54,000 square meters The new 8G-DCT dual-clutch automatic transmission was first introduced in conjunction with diesel engines that fit the new B-Class which is being delivered to customers starting in February 2019 Other models in the new compact family will be equipped with 8G-DCT The gearbox was designed for a torque of up to 520 Nm the weight of the box drops by about 3.6 kilograms Transmission ratios are lower due to the additional gear that increases the ease of gear shifting and thus enables the engine to operate in the best possible operating parameters the eighth gear has a higher transmission ratio and increasing efficiency and attenuating noise Since its launch in 2005, Mercedes-Benz has produced more than 1.5 million B-class vehicles. In 1997, Class A launched the current Mercedes-Benz compact segment; since then, more than six million compact machines have been delivered to customers around the world. In 2018, more than 609,000 customers from all over the world received their new A or B, CLA, CLA Shooting Brake or GLA models. one in four vehicles sold by Mercedes-Benz in 2018 was a compact car The two biggest markets for compact models sold last year were China and Germany The new 9G-Tronic automatic gearbox is produced in the same space With the support of the Romanian Government Star Transmission is one of the first companies in Romania to offer a dual education system based on the Baden-Württemberg model The global powertrain network Mercedes-Benz Cars brings together several locations all of which have their production unit in Untertürkheim The location is also undergoing a transition to a high-tech unit for electrical components This includes a new battery line and assembly lines for power transmission modules for front and rear axles The location thus becomes a competence center for integrating the entire transmission system into production The Mercedes-Benz plant in Berlin is a location where state of the art technologies are used to produce components that help reduce CO2 emissions the unit will be equipped with lines for assembling transmission electrical systems for future vehicles produced under the EQ brand We use cookies for keeping our website reliable and secure providing social media features and to analyse how our website is used If you're an existing subscriber, please sign in below.Not a subscriber? Get unrestricted access to all the news, charts, previews, data & analysis by subscribing for less than £3.50 per week.Subscribe today to get: The Magical Magyars embarked on one of football’s most remarkable streaks Read moreNo team before or since has held a two-goal advantage in a World Cup final and failed to lift the trophy No team before or since has entered a World Cup final on the back of a 30-game unbeaten streak a team they had already battered 8-3 in the group stage But then no team before or since was ever quite like Hungary’s Aranycsapat Hungary’s appearance in the 1954 final was no bolt from the blue Hungary had been a pre-war European powerhouse The Wunderteam of the early 1930s had knocked Hungary out of the 1934 World Cup at the quarter-final stage before losing to Italy in the semis; Hungary went one better than their central European rivals four years later reaching the final of the 1938 tournament before Italy Both nations would see their footballing fortunes fall prey to authoritarian regimes After the horrors of the conflict – close to a million Hungarians lost their lives – it took four years for the Soviet Union to fully bring the country into the communist bloc when communist parties won 97% of the vote in elections Mátyás Rákosi’s Stalinist regime brought secret police murder and the end of free speech; it also helped create the conditions for one of the greatest teams in football history to prosper Sebes had enjoyed an unspectacular playing and coaching career before and during the war but was a stalwart trade unionist and a longstanding communist That and the odd usefully powerful old buddy – he and János Kádár a former Communist Party leader and member of the Hungarian politburo had played youth football together – meant that by the middle of 1948 he was second-in-command at the Ministry of Sport chair of the Olympic committee and the head of a three-man coaching committee that ran the Hungarian national football team the new regime was well aware of the power of sport and began a drive for national sporting excellence No player from the top two tiers would be permitted to move abroad to play The interests of the national side would take complete precedence over the club game Sándor Kocsis Photograph: Staff/AFP/Getty ImagesThere’s a hint of Ocean’s 11 get-the-gang-together montage in the way the side formed Goalkeeper Gyula Grosics was banned after attempting to defect Gyula Lóránt was in a labour camp having – spot the theme – attempted to form a team to get out of the country Jenő Buzánszky was plucked from the tiny northern town of Dorog The drive for youth meant key roles for wide-eyed teenagers Zoltán Czibor But Sebes’s plan did not solely rest on bringing the best of Hungary’s talent together for the national side He had seen the success of Vittorio Pozzo and Hugo Meisl when selecting national squads from just a couple of teams – Juventus and Torino for Pozzo Sebes was determined to have the same set-up the various tentacles of the communist regime were quick to take an interest in the sporting sphere and by the end of 1949 the army were keen to have their own club Ferencváros was the biggest in the country but was historically right-wing so Puskás and Bozsik were already there and would be joined by many of their international teammates at the club now renamed Honvéd Honvéd’s status as the army club made the unseemly business of transfers unnecessary Players were given the choice of playing football or grabbing their rifles and heading to the border ranks (hence Puskás’s Galloping Major sobriquet) and were housed in army barracks With the secret police then taking over MTK in Budapest providing Sebes with the second of his two domestic hothouses Sebes’s first game in sole charge was a 5-2 defeat to Czechoslovakia in Prague Hungary’s own Wembley moment four years before they destroyed England’s sense of superiority in north-west London the issue could no longer be avoided,” Puskás wrote in his autobiography “Hungary had to evolve an entirely new method of play if we were to make any headway in international football.” What emerged was one of the earliest iterations of Total Football MTK players in Budapest in 1949 Photograph: Fortepan/Kovács Márton ErnőThe outdated W-M formation that featured five forwards became something much closer to a 4-2-4 but playing in a much deeper free role behind the front four They won six (exacting revenge for that defeat in Prague with a 5-0 win over the Czechs in Budapest) and drew two of their next eight A 5-3 defeat against Austria in May 1950 (a loss that persuaded Sebes to get Grosics to Honvéd and back into the team) ended that run but it would be the last game they would lose for more than four years “firemen heading to the wrong fire” and all that Hidegkuti thundered home an effort from distance inside the first minute and by the half-hour mark it was 4-1 “Football from another planet,” reckoned the England defender Syd Owen “Carthorses against racehorses,” said Tom Finney This huge painting in Budapest pays homage to the iconic match at Wembley Photograph: N E O P A I N T W O R K SWhile England’s lions licked their wounds and embarked on a bout of self-reflection A warm-weather training camp in Egypt provided No 24 in the undefeated streak a narrow win over Austria made it 25 and England’s visit to Budapest for Hungary’s final World Cup warm-up resulted in a 7-1 home win an even more emphatic performance than at Wembley travelled to Switzerland as tournament favourites on the back of a 26-game unbeaten streak The draw pitted Puskás and co against West Germany (a team that had existed for four years and had not particularly impressed in bettering Norway and Saarland in their qualifying group) had reached the tournament after the 14-year-old son of a stadium worker in Rome had drawn their name out of hat following a draw in their play-off against Spain) and the debuting South Korea what should have been a simple group stage was needlessly complicated The two seeded teams – Hungary and Turkey would not face each other with the top two in the group qualifying for the quarter-finals a play-off would be used in preference to any more sensible decider The West Germany manager saw no point in trying to beat the Hungarians and considered a Turkish victory over the Koreans as a certainty would need to beat Turkey in their opening game and then again in a play-off to make it out of the group Turkey were dispatched 4-1 in the opener while Puskás was helping himself to a hat-trick against South Korea in a 9-0 win Turkey also had little problem in swatting aside the Koreans 7-0 in Geneva Hungary and West Germany were embroiled in one of the more intriguing and controversial group games in World Cup history ⚽️ 27 goals in one World Cup 🤯⚽️ An average of 5.4 per match 🤯🇭🇺 Hungary tore up the #WorldCup record books in 1954 with their groundbreaking style and dazzling attack of Hidegkuti, Kocsis & Puskas 🤩 pic.twitter.com/0NJ9ytgmFh Hungary thrashed a German side featuring only four of those who had played against Turkey The Hungarian captain had been in top form: “I could feel the ball as a violinist feels his instrument.” Jupp Posipal was run ragged so switched positions with Liebrich English referee William Ling (more of him later) turned a blind eye to the various clatterings dished out – three blatant penalty shouts were almost comically ignored – and eventually the inevitable happened Puskás looked to spin away from Liebrich on halfway; Liebrich hoofed his opponent into the Basel air A cynic might argue West Germany had achieved the perfect result despite the score: Sebes had a strong hand but had revealed it; Herberger had kept his best cards close to his chest; and Puskás’s tournament appeared to be over While Puskás put a brave face on his ankle injury the rest of the squad prepared for a quarter-final against Brazil In another baffling organisational decision in a tournament of baffling organisational decisions the teams who finished top of their groups went into one half of the knockout draw Hungary would face Group One winners Brazil in the quarters and then whoever came out on top between Group Three winners Uruguay and Group Four winners England in the semis Brazil had been runners-up on home soil (and not particularly happy about it) last time around and would go on to win the tournament in 1958 The only answer they had for Hungary in 1954 Bozsik and Nílton Santos were sent off for fisticuffs and Humberto Tozzi saw red for putting the boots to Lóránt But the real action in the Battle of Bern came after the final whistle Hungary having seen off a spirited Brazilian fightback to prevail 4-2 Swiss police had struggled to contain a few pitch invaders as things got a little rowdy in the Hungary changing rooms into which the brutal Brazilians rushed An almighty stramash broke out in the tunnel Broken bottles and boots were wielded as weapons Sebes caught a bottle in the face and needed stitches Brazil’s Pinheiro suffered a similar fate – Puskás was reckoned to be the guilty party shrugged and left it up to the respective FAs to dish out punishments It was a decision that suited everyone and allowed both FAs to wash their hands of the whole sorry affair In a story that would become horribly familiar Hungary were 2-0 up and cruising only to throw away the lead Sebes’s side rallied and two Kocsis headers ensured a 4-2 win and Hungary’s second final in three World Cups Hungary’s Nandor Hidegkuti dives at full length to score their second goal Photograph: PopperfotoAnd then came the Miracle of Bern Hungary were 2-0 up after eight minutes but with a thud of his left boot Helmut Rahn made it 3-2 with six minutes to go completing the greatest comeback – and arguably the biggest shock – ever seen in a World Cup final There were plenty of reasons for the unlikely result While Hungary had battled (literally) past Brazil and Uruguay West Germany had a far more serene passage against Yugoslavia and Austria (who they beat 6-1 in the semi-finals) The rain and stodgy pitch sapped what energy was left from Hungarian legs The Swiss national battle-of-the-brass-bands was held in the town of Solothurn the night before the final and the players struggled to sleep reckoned Puskás: “We were not at all refreshed but nearer a state of nervous exhaustion.” The referee Puskás even scored a late equaliser to make it 3-3 only to see the linesman rule it out for offside (it’s not by any means clear from the footage Grosics was arrested on suspicion of spying Czibor was left out after rowing with Puskás while Zakariás and Lóránt were ditched for younger players Defeat in Turkey in early 1956 was followed by a home loss to the Czechs — their first ever defeat in the Népstadion — a 5-4 reverse in Belgium and a 2-2 draw with Portugal in Lisbon The final nail came as the country exploded in revolution in October of 1956 Honvéd left the country to travel to Bilbao for a European Cup tie while MTK headed to Austria for some hastily arranged friendlies Soviet tanks rolled into the country while both squads were away and with neither particularly keen to head home each embarked on mini-European tours to keep the money rolling in By the time the players regrouped in Vienna The Soviet Union was brutally restoring its authority Despite obvious fears of defections (48 of the 60-strong Hungarian Olympic squad had refused to come home after the Melbourne Games in 1956 and the entire Under-21 football squad had followed suit) the Hungarian FA felt the best way to woo the stay-away players home was with a stick rather than a carrot Lengthy bans were promised on their return Kocsis instead went to Barcelona and was joined by Czibor (whose move to Roma had been blocked by the Italian FA) Puskás trained with Internazionale before accepting an offer to join Real Madrid (he would play for Spain in the 1962 World Cup) From the Jaws of Victory Photograph: Halcyon PublishingIt’s sometimes difficult to get a grasp on just how good the teams of earlier eras were – the game Puskás and co were playing was a very different beast to the modern version jerky black-and-white footage only makes it more so there is still something other about the Aranycsapat – a sense of movement of opponents scrambling at full pelt just to keep up the same political system that provided the fertile soil in which this special team grew proving deeply inhospitable when things started going wrong is the fact the Golden Squad are always in the conversation when talking about not just the greatest teams not to win the World Cup This is an edited extract from From the Jaws of Victory, published by Halcyon. Follow Magic Spongers on Twitter too Work on the Radlick Park Fitness Trail improvement project will begin the first week in September and should be completed by the end of October “The idea is to connect Ackley and Manorford roads to create a connector,” said Joe Sebes Parma Heights director of community and economic development The city’s community and economic development department was awarded a $35,000 parks and playground grant from the Cuyahoga County Department of Development for the project A fitness trail will be built where an old gravel path now exists The trail will snake through the park and have two or three exercise stations along the way The 10-acre Radlick Park is located in what was once known as Lexington Green the landscape architect the city has on staff provided expertise in design of the greenspace Sebes also said the city’s recreation and service departments are providing manpower for the demolition of the cracked asphalt that now covers some of the southern end of the park This will save the city approximately $25,000 in demolition costs The two softball diamonds that have been there for years will remain Follow him at Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. 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Badde Manors Cafe, Glebe(Facebook: Badde Manors Cafe) Published: 14h agoMon 5 May 2025 at 7:30pm Download the ABC listen app to text and call your favourite live radio The Grand Duchy's capacities have been extended and additional resources can be activated - even Moselle water could be treated for consumption in the future with May being extremely dry until the heavy rainfall of the past couple of days Reservoir lake has enough waterThe Stauséi lake is pretty full at 319 meters above sea level It currently holds about 50 million cubic meters of water SEBES uses around 20 million cubic mieters a year With the little rain we've had over the winter there is a deficit of 30 percent in ground water Ground water makes up just under half of our drinking water it will be a problem.Drinking water from the Moselle Treating Moselle water is technically feasible "The Moselle has the advantage that it has a completely different and much larger drainage basin the fluctuations will be smaller." This makes it a more reliable source of water Water is one of our most precious resources water use per capita has gone down over the past years This advanced plant has the capacity to treat 111,000 cubic metres of water per day a significant increase compared to the previous site in Esch-sur-Sûre The first production line was already put into operation in 2022 the largest drinking water reservoir in the country serves as a vital water source for 90% of Luxembourg's population The construction of the new drinking water facility cost over €200 million In early April, the water level in the Haute-Sûre reservoir, serving the north of Luxembourg, was quite low due to little rainfall but according to the local water syndicate SEBES, even the heavy recent downpours have not raised the level considerably. According to Jean-Paul Lickes, director of the water resource management, water is standing at 316 metres above sea level, which is four metres below the normal value. However, there is no cause for concern as Lickes explains that they leave some leeway in regulating the normal volume of water to handle anticipated rises in autumn. Therefore, a few meters below the average now is not that significant. Fortunately, there has never been any threat of a water shortage in this part of Luxembourg. The lowest the reservoir has ever been was 309 metres in 2011 and still, there was no serious drought. Lickes says that ''SEBES has three drilling sites around the Haute-Sûre, which, in case of an emergency, can be used to purify groundwater. Then, that water can be released into the national water grid.'' However, should water levels continue to drop, SEBES warns of possible national restrictions on water use. According to Lickes, water from the dam currently meets the quality standards. ''We only have to test the water twice a year, when the lake 'turns'.'' 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