A capitalist manifesto on wheels Nov 16, 2008
DRESDEN, Germany - My driving partner and I were in the vicinity of Chemnitz, a somewhat dire little city in the former East Germany known for its alcoholism and an enormous monument to Karl Marx. Naturally, we had to see it. (Boston Globe)
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Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 10/03/08 08:46:36 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 75% Barometer: 29. (Florida Today)
Comment: Can SEMI ride to Dresden's rescue? Sep 10, 2008
The surprise lies more in the fact that it comes so late " perhaps too late. The industrial cluster that makes up Saxony's Silicon Valley is in crisis. The three semiconductor manufacturers which determine the image of the Dresden area as a focal point of the European chip industry are Advanced Micro Devices, Infineon Technologies and Qimonda. None of them currently makes money; all have announced severe job cuts, and none of them seem to believe that controlling the means of production is the... (EETimes)
Previous Pro Holly Robertson Named Women's Assistant Coach Aug 1, 2008
She last competed for the DBBL ChemCats, a Division I program, in Chemnitz, Germany as a post. Previously, Robertson played two years for the Terra Sarda Mercede Basket, also a Division I program, in Alghero, Italy. (Isubengals.com)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
Daria Bijak Makes German Olympic Team Jun 12, 2008
SALT LAKE CITY - University of Utah gymnast has made Germany's Olympic team after placing fourth in the all-around at the German National Championships on June 7 in Chemnitz. Bijak was notified of her selection to the team on June 11. (Utahutes.com)
Transcontinental Among Q.I Press Controls Customers on Three Continents Jun 7, 2008
IDS markless color controls for 25 towers were sold to Transcontinental (nine for its new plant near San Francisco and eight for Montreal operations) and to Freie Presse, Chemnitz, Germany. Both customers ordered the controls for their manroland Colorman XXL presses. (MediaWeek.com)
Bob Dylan artwork to go on show May 11, 2008
The first exhibition of Dylan's work opened in the eastern German city of Chemnitz last year. It came about after the 66-year-old musician was approached by Ingrid Moessinger, a curator of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Virtue, Moir take commanding ice dance lead Jan 19, 2008
They got a junior Grand Prix assignment in Chemnitz last fall and finished fourth. Last year, Lawrence credited their 14th-place finish with "being young" and having been together only 11/2 years. (Globe and Mail -- Sports)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
Kosher beer? Dec 20, 2007
He said the beer is the cross-cultural brainchild of Jewish brothers by the name of Dziuballa who run a kosher restaurant in east German city of Chemnitz and Wilfried Gotter, a friend who runs an evangelical bookshop. "It proves that beer brings people together.". (iAfrica.com)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Court rules that German train drivers' union can expand strikes Nov 3, 2007
CHEMNITZ, Germany A union representing German train drivers can expand its strike campaign against the national railway, a court ruled Friday, overturning a ban on strikes on freight and long-distance services ... The union said that prevented it from exerting sufficient economic pressure on Deutsche Bahn, and appealed to a labor court in the eastern city of Chemnitz. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Bob Dylan's pictures shown in Germany Oct 30, 2007
CHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) An exhibition of a unique collection of artworks by Bob Dylan, including variations of previously published drawings and sketches, has opened at a museum in this eastern German city. Visitors flocked to the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum Sunday to see the 170 colored versions of pictorial motifs by Dylan called, The Drawn Blank Series ... Curator Kerstin Drechsel prepares artwork by Bob Dylan for an exhibition in Chemnitz, Germany, on Oct. 22. (USA Today -- Life)
German Train Drivers, Waiting for New Offer, Say No Strikes Until Oct. 29 Oct 27, 2007
A ruling by a court in Chemnitz, Germany, on Oct. 5 prevents the engineers from striking on long-distance and freight routes. The GDL and Deutsche Bahn have both appealed the labor court decision. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
RI shuttlers reach Denmark Open quarters Oct 26, 2007
Luluk and Alvent had to struggle to a 23-21, 21-15 win over Simon Mollyhus and Anders Kristiansen of Denmark, while Rian and Yonathan beat host duo Jacob Chemnitz and Mikkel Delbo Larsen. Hendra AG and Joko Riyadi of Indonesia will meet third seeds and Asian Games winners Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong of Malaysia in the quarters. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Sports)
Railway Drivers Strike, Stopping Local, Commuter Trains in Much of Germany Oct 18, 2007
A ruling by a court in Chemnitz, Germany, on Oct. 5 prevents train drivers from striking on long-distance and freight routes. No strikes are expected for Saturday, Oct. 20 and Sunday, Oct. 21, Deutsche Bahn said on its Web site. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Train Drivers Strike, Disrupting Up to Half of Commuter, Regional Services Oct 13, 2007
A ruling by a labor court in Chemnitz, Germany, on Oct. 5 prevents train engineers from striking on long-distance and freight routes, limiting walkouts to regional and local trains. Two other railway unions, Transnet and the GDBA, agreed to raises of 4. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Deutsche Bahn Train Drivers Started Strike, Disrupting Commuter Traffic Oct 5, 2007
A labor court in Chemnitz limited the union's plan to halt movement of passengers and freight on long-distance and commuter services nationwide, issuing a ruling at 2 a.m. after a hearing that lasted for eight hours. The drivers may only strike on regional and local trains, Klaus Herrman, the court's spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Deutsche Bahn Asks Court for Injunction to Prevent Train Engineers' Strike Oct 3, 2007
Deutsche Bahn is seeking an emergency ruling from the labor court in Chemnitz, near Dresden in eastern Germany ... We went to the Chemnitz court because we think that the union will concentrate its strike efforts in the eastern part of Germany,'' said Uwe Herz, a spokesman for Deutsche Bahn. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Brace for a Dylan hootenanny this fall Sep 6, 2007
In museums: The Drawn Blank Series, the first museum exhibit of Dylan's visual artwork, starts its three-month run Oct. 28 at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in Chemnitz, Germany. More than 200 photo-lithographs, reworked in watercolor and gouache, are culled from his 1994 book of drawings, Drawn Blank. (USA Today -- Life)
Managers can benefit from an overlooked resource: the gut Sep 6, 2007
Echoing this opinion, Matthias Rosenberger of the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany argues in another article: "The best decisions do not always derive from analytical reasoning. The fact that emotional or subconscious principles - the gut feeling - significantly influence our decisions is verified by the latest research findings in psychology. "Intuitive decisions are more reliable and make us feel more comfortable. Until today it seemed impossible to effectively use implicit... (Business Report, South Africa)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
Nokia warns consumers about phone batteries Aug 15, 2007
Consumers face greater risk in the digital electronics age because of the greater power of lithium-ion batteries, which can deliver much more electric current that standard batteries, said Rudolf Holze, a professor of chemistry and a specialist in lithium storage at the Technical University in Chemnitz, Germany. "Some of these lithium batteries have enough power to start a car engine," Holze said. (International Herald Tribune)
German microbrewery finds niche market in kosher beer Aug 14, 2007
The Jewish organization Saxonian Friends of Israel and SCHALOM, a Jewish restaurant in Chemnitz, came up with the idea of producing a certified kosher beer and approached the brewer at the Brauerei Hartmannsdorf in Saxony for help. With samples of popular kosher beer from elsewhere to work from, the brewmaster there came up with about a dozen brews before the group finally decided on what became Simcha, Gotter said. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
Dylans drawings to go on display alongside Picassos Aug 11, 2007
It emerged last night that Dylan has produced more than 200 sketches and watercolours over the years, which will go on show in October at the Kunstsammlungen art museum in Chemnitz, Germany. The collection, entitled The Drawn Blank Series, will hang in an exhibition alongside works by various European masters, including Picasso. (Irish Independent)
German Museum to Display Dylan Art Aug 10, 2007
Drawings and sketches by American rock icon Bob Dylan will be on display at a museum in Chemnitz, Germany, next to works by the likes of Picasso, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec. Ingrid Moessinger, curator at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum learned of Dylan s artwork through a book of drawings Dylan created from 1989 to 1992 ... The museum, known in English as the Chemnitz Art Collections, is housed in one of few remaining pre-war buildings in the city, which, under the East German regime from... (Suite101.com)
German museum poised to display Bob Dylan's artworks Aug 10, 2007
The four-month show, which opens in October, will take place in the eastern German city of Chemnitz ... The exhibition came about after the 66-year-old musician was approached by Ingrid Moessinger, a curator of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Bob Dylan art to go on show in Germany Aug 9, 2007
BERLIN (AP) A collection of Bob Dylan's artworks, including variations on published drawings and sketches, is to open later this year at a museum in the eastern German city of Chemnitz ... The book attracted the attention of Ingrid Moessinger, a curator at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum, who approached Dylan about the possibility of displaying his works ... The show in Chemnitz, south of Berlin, is to open on Oct. 28 and run through Feb. 3. (USA Today -- Life)
Tech Volleyball Team Begins Two-Week European Trip This Week May 16, 2007
The team will visit the cities of Mainz, Hiedelberg, Munich, Salzburg (Austria), Prague (Czach Republic), Chemnitz, Berlin, Potsdam and Greifswald during their two-week tour of Europe, and "recaps" of their trip can be found at www ... May 18 - Arrive in Frankfurt, Germany Tour Mainz, Rhine Travel to Hiedelberg, Team Practice May 19 - Team Practice, Team Outing 5 p.m. match vs. Jr. National Team BBQ with Jr. National Team May 20 - 3 p.m. match vs. Jr. National Team Travel to Munich May 21 -... (Ramblinwreck.com)
School Shelves Harry Potter After Parent Complaint Mar 24, 2007
A school in the eastern German city of Chemnitz has taken the Harry Potter books off its syllabus, after Christian parents objected on religious grounds. Parents of two fifth-graders at a school in Chemnitz complained that the depiction of religion in the Harry Potter books offended their Christianity and asked to have them removed from the curriculum, school principal Stephan Lamm told ddp news agency. (Yahoo News -- Harry Potter)
