New and used boat show at Port Solent

Premier Marinas will be hosting a New Used Boat Show at Port Solent. Taking place on Saturday 11 July and Sunday 12 July from 10am until 4pm onsite brokerages, Clipper Marine and Ancasta International Boat Sales will headline the show with a range of new and used boats ashore and in the water. Clipper Marine’s collection will include a Bavaria Sport 32, a Bavaria Cruiser 37 and 33 and a new Bavaria Sport 360 Coupe. Positioned right outside their offices, Ancasta will have a new Prestige 420 Read more [...]

New and used boat show at Port Solent – Practical Boat Owner

Premier Marinas will be hosting a New Used Boat Show at Port Solent. Taking place on Saturday 11 July and Sunday 12 July from 10am until 4pm onsite brokerages, Clipper Marine and Ancasta International Boat Sales will headline the show with a range of new and used boats ashore and in the water. Clipper Marine’s collection will include a Bavaria Sport 32, a Bavaria Cruiser 37 and 33 and a new Bavaria Sport 360 Coupe. Positioned right outside their offices, Ancasta will have a new Prestige 420 Read more [...]

Smaller German firms see US trade deal as threat

BERLIN -- Martina Roemmelt-Fella, who owns a small, family-run turbine manufacturer in Bavaria, should be a cheerleader for a trade deal between Europe and the United States that promises to ease the flow of goods and services across the Atlantic.But instead she fears the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) being hammered out between Brussels and Washington will give too much power to big multinationals at the expense of small Read more [...]

Smaller German firms see U.S. trade deal as threat – Agweek

BERLIN -- Martina Roemmelt-Fella, who owns a small, family-run turbine manufacturer in Bavaria, should be a cheerleader for a trade deal between Europe and the United States that promises to ease the flow of goods and services across the Atlantic.But instead she fears the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) being hammered out between Brussels and Washington will give too much power to big multinationals at the expense of small Read more [...]

Dublin Defence Worried Bryan Cullen As A Player

Double All-Ireland winner Bryan Cullen admits that Dublin's leaky defence used to worry him when he was still on the panel with the Boys in Blue. Now on the panel as a pundit for 98FM's Dublin Talks GAA with Bavaria Zero Zero, Cullen has been pleased to see the Dubs tighten things up at the back as demonstrated in yesterday's 5-18 to 0-14 dismantling of Kildare in the Leinster semi-final. "(When) I was involved over the last couple of years, it would have been something I would have been worried Read more [...]

University of Missouri Adds Pair of Western Kentucky Transfers

Photo Courtesy: Andy RinggoldUniversity of Missouri Head Swimming Coach Greg Rhodenbaugh announced on Monday (June 29) that All-American Fabian Schwingenschlogl (Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany) and NCAA qualifier Nadine Laemmler (Wackersdorf, Bavaria, Germany) have signed financial aid agreements to attend Mizzou and compete for Tigers. Schwingenschlogl and Laemmler, both of whom transferred from Western Kentucky, will be eligible to swim for the 2015-16 season and have two years of eligibility Read more [...]

Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau (pt. 2 of 2)

We'll begin with a Weill contemporary: Erwin Schulhoff, born in 1894 as the son of a Jewish wool merchant in Prague. A musical prodigy, Schulhoff studied under Max Reger in Leipzig and Claude Debussy in Paris. The German-Czech composer lived in Germany until 1924. Later, he was arrested in Nazi-occupied in Prague and deported to Bavaria. Interred at a concentration camp, he died of malnutrition, exhaustion and tuberculosis in 1942. Schulhoff’s La Somnambule (The Somnambulent) dates from 1925. Read more [...]

Grafenrheinfeld ends electricity production

The single-unit Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant in Germany was disconnected from the grid on 27 June after 33 years of operation. The government had ordered the plant to close by the end of this year as part of the country's energy transition. Grafenrheinfeld (Image: EOn) Plant owner EOn announced yesterday that the unit was disconnected from the grid at one minute to midnight on 27 June. The 1275 pressurized water reactor has generated more than 333 billion kWh of electricity, the company Read more [...]

How far along is Germany’s nuclear phase-out?

Several months after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Germany's coalition government agreed June 30, 2011, to accelerate its phase-out from nuclear power. Immediately after Fukushima, eight of 17 functioning nuclear plants were shut down, and the June decision established a timeline of taking the remaining plants offline by 2022. This past weekend, at midnight on Saturday (25.06.2015), the next shutdown took place: The Grafenrheinfeld power plant in Bavaria has been removed from the power Read more [...]