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Lay back and think of Germany…

January 13, 2012 – 9:03 am

This is from the Telegraph: A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year…. Under Germany’s welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced [...]

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Glass silos at Autostadt

January 8, 2012 – 3:25 pm

Autostadt is a park surrounding the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. We went there just before Christmas. These two glass silos may be technical, architecturally impressive bling, but they are more or a proper business tool than the attractions that surround them. From Wikipedia: There are two 60 meter/200 ft tall glass silos used as [...]

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