Congratulations to Mr. Miklos Peller who is  an award recipient at the 62nd Annual Design & Construction Conference held on March 13, 2014.

The Hall of Fame Award is presented to an engineer and/or other design/construction professional for the purpose of honoring his or her outstanding achievements or career in the field of engineering, architecture, construction, or related areas for the betterment of professional efforts beyond the day-to-day routine of a candidate’s work and business with outstanding contributions to the profession, the public welfare, and/or humankind.

2014 Award of Excellence

New Construction:

Ernst & Young Tower, Flats East Bank (Cleveland)

Mike & Mary Stark Grizzly Ridge Exhibit (Akron)

Eaton Center (Beachwood)

Renovation:

Western Reserve Historical Society Transformation Project (Cleveland)

Infrastructure:

Buckeye-Woodhill Transit Station(Cleveland)

The Award of Excellence is among the premier recognitions accorded to members of the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction community. These awards are unique because they honor the three primary members of the building team: owners, designers, and constructors; and recognize outstanding team achievement and innovative use of technology. The awards were conceived over 50 years ago to encourage elevation of the standards of practice in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction professions.

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For people in wheelchairs, finding convenient ways to get around is a huge obstacle. But Kenguru, a new electric car manufactured in the U.S., promises to give disabled people some much-needed independence.

The Kenguru measures 7 feet long and 5 feet high, making it smaller than a Smart Car. It has no seats — drivers simply roll a wheelchair in from a pop-up back door. Designed for use on local roads, the vehicle goes up to 25 miles per hour, with an estimated range of 60 miles. The Kenguru will cost about $25,000, but green energy and mobility tax incentives can bring that price down for qualified buyers.

Kenguru has a long, courageous back story. The original concept, developed by Istvan Kissaroslaki from Hungary many years ago, hadn’t been able to go to market without substantial financial backing. But in 2010, Stacy Zoern, an American lawyer disabled from a muscle disease, came across the Kenguru online and thought it was just what she needed. Zoern eventually convinced Kissaroslaki to move the company to Austin, Texas. The pair has been aggressively pursuing investors ever since.

Last month, the company announced Kenguru is finally going into production in the U.S. Interested buyers can reserve one online, and the first cars are expected to be ready in 12 to 18 months.

Check out  this yellow Kenguru hitting the road.

(h/t Grist)

All images courtesy of Kenguru.  

Source: www.theatlanticcities.com

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Beginning Saturday February 8th and running through Sunday February 16th, you will have an opportunity to pledge your support to non- commercial Cleveland radio during WJCU’s To Thrive & Survive Radiothon 2014. We again are in need of your monetary assistance in order to continue broadcasting non-commercial, local programming 24/7/365.

WJCU is a primarily listener-supported station, and we ask only once a year for your financial support in keeping us on the air. WJCU is a 501-C3 not-for-profit organization and your contribution is tax-deductible. Please consider donating today!

Call us at 1-216-397-4438 to donate by phone or pledge online.

Our online donation system is set up securely via Wufoo. The information you give us will not be used for any purpose or shared with others except for purposes of processing the pledge and sending your premium and tax statement. WJCU will neither share or sell this information with anyone else – we value our relationship with you.

For pledges by check, be advised that we will not send any invoice or reminders, so mail your check as soon as possible after you make your pledge. When making the pledge by check, please send the check, payable to “WJCU” or “John Carroll University Radio”, to:

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You will receive an acknowledgment letter suitable for IRS record-keeping shortly after we receive your check. Please allow up to 4 additional weeks for delivery of your premium, which ships separately at a later date.

Be a part of Radionthon 2014 today and keep live, non-commercial, community-based radio strong in Cleveland!

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Several foreigners live in Hungary, who have contributed to the country’s development with their mental and financial capital. We ask one of them, Ramil Azmammadov (25) from Azerbaijan, what he thinks about Hungary, Hungarians and how he leads his daily life in our country. 

DailyNewsHungary: What had you known about Hungary before you came here?
Ramil: I have learnt about Hungary in my Geography class at school. We have been given basic information about Budapest and Danube river. Later on I heard about Puskas and Debrecen football team.

DailyNewsHungary: What differences and similarities do you see between Azerbaijan and Hungary?
Ramil: Surprisingly major similarity is language. Thus there are similarity in grammars of both languages, even some words are same such as (arpa, alma, csoban, ana-anya and etc.). Regarding difference, the only fact comes to my mind is that Hungarian apologize more than Azerbaijanies while they are drunk. It is really funny.

DailyNewsHungary: How long have you been here and what are your experiences?
Ramil: I won FAO scholarship and came to Hungary in September 2010 to study my Master’s degree at Szent Istvan University (SZIE). After finishing my classes in the university 2012 June, I established my own trading company (Sericovia Kft) and started to work in Hungary. Besides I am a Board Member of Azerbaijani-Hungarian Youth Union (AHYU). It is already more than 3 years I am living in Hungary.

DailyNewsHungary: If we are not mistaken, you distribute some special fruit juice, which is not native in Hungary. Where did the idea come from?
Ramil: That is true, it is 100% Pure Pressed Organic Pomegranate Juice. As a Sericovia Kft we import organic pomegranate juices from Azerbaijan to Hungary. Well, the idea was just to do some business between Azerbaijan and Hungary. After small market research I recognized that pomegranate juice would be best option to do business between these two countries. It is healthy and unique product for Hungary. For now it seems that I gave right decision.

DailyNewsHungary: Your business has taken a big step ahead recently, could you tell us about it?
Ramil: Well, actually it took around one year for us to step in Hungarian market. Although we have 6-7 major competitors in the market, we still think we are quite successful. Today our products are being served in luxurious restaurants and sold Bio shops and in some important market chains (for example: CBA) under the brand name of Melagrana and +More. Day by day our scope of sale is expanding. Besides Hungary, we are selling our products to Germany, Poland and Sweden as well. We trust in the quality and taste of our product as several times we witnessed people to buy our juices often once they taste it. We believed that our customers discovered the real taste of pomegranate.

DailyNewsHungary: What is your favorite Hungarian place?
Ramil: I love Hungary very much and I had a chance to visit 15 Hungarian cities. Some of places are special for me, like: Miskolc Tapolca, Balaton and Velencei Lakes. Besides, there are a lot of beautiful places in Budapest as well: Citadella, Buda Castle, Margaret Island, Szechenyi bath and so on.

DailyNewsHungary: Which is your favorite branch of sport? Do you support a Hungarian team?
Ramil: My favorite sports are swimming, basketball, football and table tennis. I know that there a lot of world famous swimmers in Hungary.

DailyNewsHungary: How would you describe Hungarian people with 3 features?
Ramil: Kind, cool and friendly.

DailyNewsHungary: Malevolent reports about Hungary often say that Hungarians are racists. Have you ever experienced any form of racism since you moved here?
Ramil: Absolutely not, I have never faced or heard anything about it since I have started living here.

DailyNewsHungary: You are a young man, do you often go out in Budapest?
Ramil: I do, but unfortunately not that often due to the time constraints. I used to go out a lot while I was student.

DailyNewsHungary: Hungarian people are keen on eating, what is your favorite dish? Can you prepare it at home?
Ramil: I love fried fish with pomegranate sauce, it has unforgettable taste. I would say I cook fish at home frequently and my favorite Hungarian meal is Fish soup.

DailyNewsHungary: We talked just about positive things, is there anything Hungarians could be better at?
Ramil: The only thing I have noticed is their foreign language skills. They have to work on it.

DailyNewsHungary: We know that future is unpredictable, but what are your plans? Do you imagine your future here?
Ramil: As we started our classes at SZIE almost all professors asked the same question to us: Why did we choose Hungary and what are the plans after graduation? I always responded that I wanted to be a bridge between Hungary and Azerbaijan and to help to increase relations between these two countries. Slowly I started to realize my plans. Both in business and social context some goals have been reached. Currently people keep talking to me either on oil-gas or caviar when they know I come from Azerbaijan. Now I am doing my best to add pomegranate juice to the list of products Azerbaijan is popular about. I believe in near future not only Hungarians but also whole Europe will be aware of the taste of Azerbaijani pomegranate juice and talk about it.

DailyNewsHungary: How is your Hungarian? Which is your favorite word or expression?
Ramil: It has been almost one year that I started learning Hungarian language. I want to speak in Hungarian fluently soon. My favorite word is “nagyszerű” – which means great! I want everything around me to be great.

Source: dailynewshungary.com

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BAPTISM OF FIRE. THE FIRST COMBAT EXPERIENCES OF THE ROYAL HUNGARIAN AIR FORCE AND SLOVAK AIR FORCE, MARCH 1939

Author: Csaba B. Stenge

This conflict is just a short episode from the turbulent history of Central Europe in the 20th century, which is little known even in the countries involved, and almost totally obscure outside them. From the international point of view the most important event in the middle of March, 1939 was that the Third Reich occupied the Czech territories, which was a failure of the Western powers, since they hoped that by the Munich Agreement (29-30 September, 1938), they could avoid any future conflicts with Adolf Hitler. That is why their contemporary media and their recent history books are filled with these events, and do not mention a small parallel conflict.

From the Hungarian point of view, occupying its former territory of Sub-Carpathia was very important. Hungary was surrounded on three sides by the hostile Little Entente countries (Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia) and on the fourth side, since the Anschluss in March, 1938, by the Third Reich. To break this encirclement, it was necessary to restore the common border with Hungary’s historical ally, Poland and this was achieved by the occupation of this territory. For the Hungarian Armed Forces, the short border conflict with Slovakia was only the closing phase of the occupation of Sub-Carpathia.

From the Slovakian point of view, however, this is a far more important conflict. Slovakia became independent for the first time in its history in March, 1939. Parallel to Slovak independence, the Czech territories from the former Czechoslovakia were seized by the Third Reich and Sub-Carpathia was occupied by Hungary. The invasion of a border area of Slovakia by the Hungarians was considered by the Slovaks as a direct threat to the independence of the country.

During the Hungarian occupation of Sub-Carpathia, their ground troops were supported by Hungarian reconnaissance and bomber forces. During the border conflict with Slovakia, a short but fierce clash started between the contending air forces. Slovak planes strafed and bombed Hungarian ground troops on 23 March 1939, but the heaviest clashes happened on the very next day, when extensive air-to-air combat occurred. Clashes saw Hungarian Fiat CR.32s come up against Slovak Avia fighters and Letov reconnaissance and light attack planes. Also on that day, Hungarian Ju 86 bombers raided the main Slovak air base.

The majority of Hungarian materials relating to the combat have been lost or destroyed, so author Csaba B. Stenge Ph.D. has put in a Herculean effort to construct this account. The text contains details of the historical background to the conflict, a full account of the combat, as well as notes on Hungarian aviators decorated for their performance, short biographies of Hungarian aviators credited with aerial victories, and a list of Hungarian anti-aircraft claims and aerial victories. Besides this, the book contains over 150 rare and mostly previously-unpublished images, as well as a selection of superb colour profiles showing camouflage and markings for the aircraft of both air forces.

Source: helion.co.uk

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Dear Friend,

I want to bring you up to date on what is happening in my life. I’m halfway through my junior year studying Art Education at Kent State University. While I am busy studying and enjoying meeting new people, I have had the opportunity to be involved with Campus Crusade for Christ (aka Cru), an international Christian organization designed to help students know Christ.

This Spring Break, I have the privilege to have a significant impact in reaching others for Christ in a needy part of the world. A group of students and staff from Kent State and central Ohio will be spending 10 days in Kingston, Jamaica in order to meet both the physical and spiritual needs of the people. If you’re like me, when you think of Jamaica, you think of beautiful beaches. In reality, those beaches are only one side of Jamaica. We will literally be on the other end of the island where many Jamaicans live in third world conditions. We will reach out to students at the University of the West Indies, where many of Jamaica’s future leaders study. Our time at the university allows us to build relationships, share Christ, and meet physical needs. We get to show the love of Christ to others through our actions of improving their living conditions as well as tell others about how they can have a personal relationship with Jesus.

In order to make this trip a reality, I need your help. First of all, will you please pray? Pray that God would bring many to know Him personally. Pray also for me as I prepare for this trip. Second, I must raise $1,600 to help cover the cost of airfare, food, and lodging for the trip. Would you please prayerfully consider giving a gift of $25, $50, $100 or some other amount to help me serve the Lord in Kingston this Spring Break? Thank you so much for your prayerful consideration.

We are taking donations by mail. Please send your donation to 9453 Greenbriar Drive, Parma Heights, OH, 44130. Cash or checks payable to Campus Crusade for Christ, as your gift is tax deductible.

Thank you so much for helping me go on my first Mission Trip!

Alexandra (Ali) Petrulis

Source: https://apetrulis.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/support-letter/

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Andras Dinnyes (’92 National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution) received the prestigious Dennis Gabor Award in the Hungarian Parliament Building for his outstanding researches in the field of biotechnology. He is the third Fulbrighter to be awarded following Balázs Sarkadi (’00 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) in 2006 and István Peták (’97 St. Jude Children Research Hospital, Memphis) in 2012.

Source: Károly Charles Jókay

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