This past week, Audi began showing off it’s new Travolution technology near its Ingolstadt, Germany headquarters. Travolution is a vehicle to infrastructure communications system which improves efficiency and safety on the road. Did I lose you yet? Read more after the break.
Here’s an interesting bit of news for you. Bike helmets can save your life, or at least some pain, if you take a nasty fall. However, the more hits the helmet takes the less effective it is in protecting your noggin. Well, researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute have developed a special helmet that releases a nasty oder when it needs to be replaced due [...] Read more »
The latest edition of the German-American Journal is posted online to read or download. This online edition is packed with more color than the print version.
Formed in Hamburg back in 2003, Revolverheld is a product of Germany’s Neue Deutsche Welle punk revival. The band has cycled through several names since forming… Manga and then Tsunamikiller. In recent years they have produced several top hits in Germany, and Spinner can be added to the list after reaching number 13 on the German charts.
This is just too crazy! A 39-year old man near Dresden, Germany, exchanged wedding vows with his ill cat Cecilia. His 15 year old cat is asthmatic and quite obese and he wanted to tie the knot before the cat passed away. While the marriage isn’t “official”, that didn’t stop Uwe Mitzscherlich from hiring a TV actress to officiate the marriage and his twin brother to [...] Read more »
This last Monday, I had mentioned that we are going to try something new at our May Leadership Conference. We are going to take a few questions from our members/readers, and then report the answer on the blog. So here is how it is going to work…
Over the last 3 weeks the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano created havoc and virtually shut down all of European airspace for over a week. I had my flight schedule cancelled and changed, finally able to fly on April 21.
Just got back from that trip which took me to Amsterdam twice right after the European Control opened up the airspace again. Found it interesting [...] Read more »
We are going to try something new here…shocking, isn’t it? DANK National holds several Leadership Conferences throughout the year where the National Board gets together to discuss what is going on in the organization and where we are headed. These meetings are generally held in Chicago and what we tend to miss out on is addressing questions and issues our members have. So I would [...] Read more »