With just 16m separating the intersection of the two railway tunnels, a conventional drained-tunnel design was not allowed. Instead, an all-around tunnel lining system was needed. By NAUE Geosynthetics - As part of the Deutsche Einheit (German Unification) Traffic Project 8.1, the Deutsche Bahn Netz AG (German Railways) ordered the construction of the Höhnberg and Füllbach tunnels on the Coburg-South section of the new twin-track line between Ebensfeld and Erfurt. The two tunnels cross one another Read more [...]

As its crowdfunding campaign nears $450,000 on Kickstarter, which has been attracting more than 230 backers a day, GrowlerWerks‘ uKeg enjoyed a bit of Bavaria this month, showing off at Leavenworth’s famous Oktoberfest. Now the game-changing growler that keeps oxygen away from beer, maintaining perfect carbonation from the first to last pour, is ready to visit more growler-fill locations around Portland, including Growlers Hawthorne from 5-8 p.m. on Halloween. It won’t have the Read more [...]

Judith Probst, Thursday, October 30, 2014 Leif Trenkler, Sonne (2013). Courtesy of Galerie Karl Pfefferle. Sonia Leimer, Schwarzes Loch/Black Hole (2014). Courtesy of Barbara Gross Galerie. Craig Read more [...]

MUNICH Oct 30 (Reuters) - German public-sector lender BayernLB is repaying another tranche of state aid after striking a deal to sell the last of the toxic assets that brought it to the brink of failure in 2008. Germany's second-biggest landesbank said on Thursday it will return 1.1 billion euros ($1.4 bln) to its state owner Bavaria, leaving it with 3 billion euros to hand back by 2019.In the financial crisis, Bavaria injected 10 billion euros in capital into the lender and gave it 4.8 billion Read more [...]