and into an avatar the successful immortality is really didn't reach. one practice and remember you can't it's mean even if it's real if you need. bring factory starting march twenty fourth on the dollar. welcome to your own acts highlights the best of this week in the european lifestyle and culture here's what's coming up. mean machines why women are in the fast lane when it comes to buying cars. evil ice i was swiss opticians invention changed our wings and hollywood. and cultural

connections what to expect on a special train journey. and for us well. let's start off with a look at the geneva motor show for the last eighty eight years the coc invention has been a platform for the latest and greatest an automobile design and technology for decades car companies have viewed men as their key demographic and marketed their products to male clientele that cliche couldn't be further from the truth and life of international women's day we explored what comic is a doing to change this outdated business model. from high powered to compact from practical outlandish. for this car drivers need a pilot's license. the eighty eighth she. neiva international motor show would seem

once again to be aimed at men who like muscle cars and dark colors with abundant horsepower. the colorful compact seem to be intended for women. but is this really what they want in cars. i like big cars with lots of room i've got two kids and a dog so i need a lot of space for me it's important that when i close my car door i feel it all it's the whole package if it's in a design the ass and then sit down everything to get it is what. contrary to the cliches women tend to prefer as uvas. although they are generally regarded as men's cars seventy percent of those driving them are women. italian polo to me nellie has been researching consumer behavior in the automotive industry since two thousand to. this u.v. just as heels are tall which gives drivers

a sense of security because of s.u.v.s have room for children luggage space and often all wheel drive so you're prepared for snow and other kinds of bad weather because i know. what's important for many men is what's under the hood most male buyers appreciate the innovative technology found in these new b.m.w. and jeeps. ninety percent of the customers buying them are male. women tend to look for the sort of comfort and design found in his honda. the japanese carmaker will put this electric model on the market in twenty nine hundred . men and women appreciate features like parking assists and sat navs. your business or would we know from studies that women make or influence fifty to eighty percent of buying decisions and not just of cars. to be honest it would be

foolish to ignore this fact and not take women's preferences into account and. women apparently aren't into mercedes only twenty percent of the brands buyers are female. that's even a smaller ratio than for porsches beamers an out he's. perceived as trying to improve its image with women with a p.r. campaign titled she's mercedes. the company hopes that british style icon sarah jane adams will succeed in changing some minds. you could speak any god it's less about tailoring advertising to women we want to listen to and learn more from women we want to know what features they're looking for in a car and try to find communicative feigns i want to get to the team. but there is some truth to some cliches compact cars are often a turnoff for men. and certain brands do do better with women even if that may not be the result of anything intentional. x.x.

and the kids that took saddam develops its cars based on what customers in general want not what men or women or what big and small people prefer. people's fine decisions reflect the needs they have at certain points in their lives. both sexes are demanding when it comes to automotive quality and safety. no one knows what the car the future will look like a v.w. is ideal vision comes without a steering wheel it's operated by gestures and spoken commands and it's projected to hit the market by twenty thirty. whether you're a man or woman a child or a grandparent everyone will come together automotive life will be completely different. even if the majority of visitors to the geneva motor show are men car makers ignore women's wishes at their own peril.

now it's a topic i'm somewhat more passionate about than cars and that's food here in berlin there is a wonderful variety of food on offer with restaurants serving up delicious dishes from all over the world and today we're heading to the district of cannes lower back for a look behind the scenes at café a.b.c. that's where french australian alan ball ball has set up shop and created his own slice of sydney sunshine. what i miss about australia is like really simple is the sun i'm is the. wearing flip flops where my boys when i go for a swim every day i always miss it a large one in winter especially when it gets dark at three o'clock in the afternoon i really do miss is that well the wise. thing is.

alan bond has found his little place here in berlin reliving the gloomy winter with a splash of australian sunshine in the form of cathay a.b.c. alan sprint. and of course that's breakfast down under style he is a naturalized australian but his roots are actually french. island used to help out in his mother's restaurant in paris where he was born in one nine hundred seventy four. rich and he wanted to be a teacher then studied art and communication and eventually moved to australia. then he worked as a dishwasher cook waiter and so many years before returning to europe from sydney in two thousand and thirteen and sitting in. two years later he opened his own café i'm not a trench i. love food i love cooking so basically. everything i learn from different places that i work in. i think we. try them at home or

have to come home or we call together and practice together every show but i work with restaurant and i work every kitchen i work with they're all trying to give me something that i love. and in conversative form a bar into a cozy breakfast menu enlisting the help of friends to renovate the premises and making the furniture and fittings himself. it has plenty of features that make it feel like a typical beach bar that's the atmosphere that allen wanted to recreate. in australia as well. first is not and this is it's really a way of life we wake up in the morning we call our son we gather together and we go to a cafe. and drink and spend time together yeah we're just big foot is what it is we just love. one of his cafés signature dishes is a poppy seed they go with avocado inside me. alan marinate the salmon in break the

. insults. show them. fresh still. and fuck up. he said to chill in the refrigerator for three days. most of the cargo is of course a staple of upon diabetes breakfast. plus training cuisine is big on fusion combining asian and european flayed it's. common enjoys reinterpreting classic dishes. to repeat larry made gives the salmon a pinkish hugh and usual slightly sweet edge.

so that's. used to live with my girlfriend and everything like every morning we go for a morning swim then after that next to our place. i was born and we always used to go there and sit down in the sun swim just salty and autos one bagel with. his head every morning we used to be like like it was amazing this is the best he could do. i mean specter's club is in pencil the neighborhood he did say even though it's gentrified it has surprisingly few good breakfast venues putting talent is now filling the gap in the market. his cafe is open from wednesdays to sundays and it's always full. this is really one of the best breakfast places in france or berkeley wonderful

food great quality great service wonderful environment even on a cold day it's really wonderful to sit outside on the trees so really enjoy coming in i love this place i live just around the corner there so it's bit of a kind of a habit forming that we could be on a sunday morning either inside or outside for things happening here as i series as well and yet so is a fool in nice. in the evenings when the cafe transforms into a wine bar i mean this french side comes to the full facts of the day time he says as they come ok guys today we have prepared for you homemade cured salmon with publishing bago. and. we stay in germany the country is known as a leader when it comes to recycling it's a perfectly normal part of everyday life here so it's not surprising to find entrepreneurs who recycle old items into something new and reusable

a company in hamburg is now winning awards for its up cycles do. science. there are an inventive design duo that finds ingenious uses for waste. as avoiding the kind of guy who don't want to make purely decorative objects they have to have a function and most of all they have to be will made beautiful products you only notice the recycling or upcycling when you take a second look and. product designers constant toil and vanish melting founded the local factory in two thousand and four they sell their one of a kind on jacks online or out of a store in downtown hamburg. i listened to and everything used to be under one roof the workshop was down in the cellar shop was over there and the office was over here over the years we got bigger and we just couldn't manage some aspects of production anymore for. now they have

a good sized workshop outside hamburg where they and their employees manufacture their designs. they also have room to store their materials here like surplus oil barrels. and broken skateboards. for anyone else it may look like trash but for the people here it's a resource that all started quite pragmatically. on what's got to be at the time we had no clue about upcycling per se it was more about finding materials that we didn't have to pay for the baton. to greet purpose the old records trained industrial electrician dentist developed a special machine to remold the vinyl this. is continuously optimize the production process. someone from what you just showed first each piece was one of a kind then we realized that if a shop were to buy our stock it would have to be at half price so they could make

a profit so we started mass producing. the aliens would see and. dennis spends most of his time in the workshop. while karsten generally looks after the store the online shop and acquiring the terry els they collect used skateboards from skater shops all over germany just. ask a skateboard shop of put out our box. there are advantages that they can offer to recycle their customers boards and we'll pick them up. in our advantage is that we use the boards as raw materials for. the designers plant a tree for every fifth skateboard they get. in the past two years they've up cycled three hundred seventy five skateboards translating into seventy five planted trees

. lock and load has already won several prizes including the green product award in two thousand and fifteen for their bestselling key novels. they make over old books as key or cult tracks. as a d.d. the idea for the key hook novels is such a simple one but a yield such an incredible variety of nice things. if you fight and actually that's always the best part of discovering a new idea. so you can vary it to come up with the wildest objects. intervened and resistance to her now kirsten tail and vanished melting artwork developing their first jewelry line but whether it's books skateboards or records the two designers from hamburg never run out of ideas.

now to an entrepreneur from switzerland who made it to the big time with her i pod . being invention as a child jacqueline created a toys out of socks because our family didn't have the money so by her presence after training as an optician in a home country she moved to hollywood to combine her job with her passion for ups and crafts. amazing colors and even patterns for your eyes it's all possible with custom contact lenses. the idea to combine vision correction with bright colors and fantasy shapes came from a swiss woman. titian a shark in. one particular high contact gave her the inspiration is talk of. one day i saw a brown eyed woman i'm cold who had a golden spot in one eye. i mean that fascinated me and i thought of gold all the color in your eye that's an idea that's stevie. it was nine hundred sixty

six and twenty four year old jacqueline orbach had established herself as an optician in hollywood after moving to the us from switzerland with little cash and lots of ideas she started developing new contact lenses. how does the system all i know is that i bought my first c.n.c. les then experimented on it day and night on the set that april first i had no idea how you made contact lenses. it was just trial and error his watch and i just kept trying and trying. if the property of the the property and eventually she succeeded experimenting with different materials she found a way to color lenses and filed for the patent that still serves as the basis for motive lenses for movie effects as one example tom cruise wore them in interview with a vampire. in twilight red contacts gave the vampires their bloodthirsty look

and in alice in wonderland colored lenses help to transform johnny depp into the mad hatter. now the selection is vast with a hard or soft contact corrective or purely cosmetic green die die over. black capped green capped reptile ice. if i was or how i die. scary. starting a just ten year as anyone can compliment an ensemble with brightly colored peoples the first colored lenses were made by hand each pair took a week to produce that's what i did it was a test run we didn't even sell those and we just passed them on to selected opticians would be for them to show to special customers and have fun try them on the years passed before the colored lenses caught on and went into mass production . today jacqueline or back at over eighty years of age is back in zero six and running an online mail order company for contact lenses. to.

see. thinks she's american rageous she makes courageous decisions that i like that and she's very creative which has to do with her story and i think creativity is an important factor in running a business she has lots of it. now jacqueline or bankers suppliers produce the lenses. she has good memories of the early days. or less than the old danish and food but i'm proud that it was little me who had the idea to do this and make it a reality how the small so at the time i never expected it to be such a huge success so at least in the fall. jacqueline or box invention may be small but it has certainly changed the look of today's world. let's get back on track with a rather unique railway experience the train ride from berlin to votes was is more

than just a journey the so-called culture train connects the two cities culturally as travelers can explore the shared history between germany and poland. during the right at the twenty seventeen cultural brand awards the project was voted the trend brand of the year. it looks like a disco but it isn't a club it's a train compartment but trip on the culture train between berlin and what's love is a unique journey. this direct train between the two cities only runs on weekends a ticket costs nine thousand euros. during the four and a half hour journey passengers don't just get closer to their destination they also learn a lot about polish and german history berlin or not to leave awesome on as one of the organizers she feels it's important to maintain a cultural dialogue between poland and germany. a culture train is

a wonderful way for people to engage in conversation not just to talk with the artists up close but with one another without on. the journey includes a comprehensive cultural program more than three hundred artists have already taken part today double bassist mike ahead but he is providing the musical accompaniment to a reading. a library on wheels supplies the passengers with plenty of reading material on the history of germany and poland. and a permanent exhibition seen on the headrests traces the life stories of rock slobs german and polish citizens. as he's thank you that's said he this is the. reasons i think it's very important to have this train connection between what's left and berlin. this make these things wouldn't it gives us the opportunity to engage in a cultural exchange. and it's

a very good way to work through our common history and understand it better and to build the future together now it's. just kind of. the service is popular many people here are looking for clues. their families past. my last name is polish so poland's always played a role in our family history though i don't have any relatives there but the name goes back generations so i have a certain connection without knowing exactly what it is and i'm intrigued. my grandmother was born in salafia on the polish czech border she lived there for the first ten years of her life and then came to germany. because i've never been to poland myself i want to travel there and look around. me. but. the culture train made its debut in twenty sixteen stint as european capital of culture in two thousand and seventeen the train was named european trend brand of

the year brighter of both common likes to hold readings on it does not suit the sound of this train isn't just a means of transport like other trains that you don't board just to get from one city to another but to get psyched up for the city you're headed to. the soviet. arriving in boats love visitors can find traces of the city's history as the former german city of breslau. has only been a polish city since the end of world war two both common has written a novel based on the city's history. from one field until one thousand nine hundred five votes life was exclusively a german city that from one thousand nine hundred six to the ninety's it was almost exclusively a polish city. it's only been in the past few years that a consciousness has taken shape that it's a city with german and polish history and it could be thought of as a place where germans and poles can come together without any revanche just motives . or to. go.

the next day both come on is on the culture trains return journey to berlin. the passengers in this direction can look forward to a silent disco where the music. because piped into their ears on headphones. the. belts vibrating to the beat take on the function of the bass for me it's like. i feel that the future has arrived i feel that we are very open and i think that we are moving in the right way. that's why i feel a business really because yeah to see everybody together it's making us happy to date more than thirty thousand passengers have boarded the culture train and it would mean something to the culture train really is bringing people closer together stop by stop and without complications simply on

a very spirited playful level not in the sense of a meeting of nations but of people. on the basis of culture and exchange. of. organizers hope to expand the project to service other european destinations to promote greater mutual understanding and a more open europe. that's all for today but you can catch up on all your on our website. slash lifestyle.

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