Saturday, June 16, 2012

Last Weekend, Half of #Germany Was Running on Solar Power, world record is shattered



Mike Smullin

4:00 PM  -  Public
Last Weekend, Half of Germany Was Running on Solar Power »
A world record is shattered, and the path made clearer for nations seeking to switch to renewable energy.


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Books on Google Play has arrived in Germany. Enjoy bestsellers like Charlotte Link’s Der Beobachter or Jeanette Walls’ Ein ungezähmtes Leben, as well as classic titles. We’re happy to invite Germans to start reading today on the web, Android, and iOS.

On the web: http://play.google.com/store/books
On Android: http://goo.gl/cITDz
On iOS: http://goo.gl/wcMbd
Der Beobachter: Roman »
Fesselnd, abgründig, raffiniert Er beobachtet das Leben wildfremder Frauen. Träumt sich an ihre Seite, in ihren Alltag. Identifiziert sich mit ihnen und will alles von ihnen wissen. Als Beobachter. Au...
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Tina Patel12:55 PM
+Max von Beust Thanks for your feedback. What specific improvements would you like to see? I'll circle back your feedback to the Google Play team. 

Max von Beust12:59 PM
+Tina Patel : Great to get such direct feedback :-)
-Better (more fluid) Animations
-Auto Sync/Download
-Link to the Store
-Small improvements (the text on the login-screen is cut off)
-Sharing quotes to G+

That are the things I noticed at the first glance. Will dig deeper into it and will then write feedback again :-)
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Let’s recap. The Marshall Plan had an outer shell, the European Recovery Programme, and an inner core, the economic reconstruction of Europe on the basis of debt forgiveness to and trade integration with Germany. The effects of its implementation were huge. While Western Europe in the 1950s struggled with debt/GDP ratios close to 200%, the new West German state enjoyed debt/ GDP ratios of less than 20%. This and its forced re-entry into Europe’s markets was Germany’s true benefit from the Marshall Plan, not just the 2-4% pump priming effect of Marshall Aid. As a long term effect, Germany effortlessly embarked on a policy of macroeconomic orthodoxy that it has seen no reason to deviate from ever since.

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Germany, Greece and the Marshall Plan »
Albrecht Ritschl is professor of economic history at the London School of Economics and a member of the advisory board to the German ministry of economics.OLD myths die hard, and the Marshall Plan is ...

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Sakis Koukouvis

2:39 AM  -  Public
Forget the euro crisis. There's another credit storm brewing in Germany that hits much closer to the heart. It's on Twitter and Facebook.

Last week, Germany's wired population and business press freaked out when a broadcast news agency revealed confidential documents that showed that the country's largest credit agency, SCHUFA, plans to scrape data from social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to determine an individual's risk to lenders and ability to pay bills, according to Der Spiegel.
Germans Freak Out Over Facebook Credit Checks »
Forget the euro crisis. There's another credit storm brewing in Ger