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Friday, May 25, 2012

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A mating dance with Popeye arms

Public release date: 25-May-2012
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German Research Foundation funds Bielefeld project on the love life of locusts

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In the animal world, it is not always the strongest that prevails sometimes, it is the most beautiful. A well-known example is the peacock. The peahen chooses the partner with the most attractive tail fan. A research team at Bielefeld University headed by the evolutionary biologist Dr. Holger Schielzeth is now studying how far a comparable mechanism is involved in mate choice among locusts. The male Siberian locust (Gomphocerus sibiricus) has swollen front legs. The scientists are now studying how far female locusts prefer the male with the most powerful swellings and select their mates accordingly. The German Research Foundation is funding the project for five years as part of its Emmy Noether Programme.

Sexual ornaments are what zoologists call such prominent features that influence mate choice. One example is the swollen forelimbs of the Siberian locust (Gomphocerus sibiricus). Holger Schielzeth has called these ornaments 'Popeye arms' because of their resemblance to the cartoon sailor's muscular forearms. 'We suspect that this feature is decisive for the female's mate selection', he says. What's so special about such ornaments is that reproductive success does not depend necessarily on adaptation to the environment. At first, glance, it would seem as if such an ornament is even an end in itself.

Schielzeth and his team are experimenting with the locust in order to find out how important the condition of the Popeye arms is for female mate choice. They are also analysing whether the condition of the Popeye arms is related to an animal's health. Are the forelimbs more swollen when the male is better nourished? However, the opposite perspective is being studied just as closely. Are well-nourished females choosier than those living in deficient environments?

The reason why the scientists are seeking answers to all these questions is that they want to understand the evolution of sexual ornaments. 'Much of the variety that impresses us so much in nature relates to sexual ornaments', says Holger Schielzeth, 'hence, we are finally also interested in gaining a better understanding of the emergence of biodiversity'. Evolution cannot be understood without knowing about the genetics of these features, Schielzeth says.

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The research project is entitled 'Genetics of intersexual selection: Conflict and coevolution' and has been running since mid-March. The head of the project, Holger Schielzeth, wrote his doctoral thesis on mate selection in zebra finches at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen and at the LMU Munich. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a postdoc at Uppsala University in Sweden.

With its Emmy Noether Programme, the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (German Research Foundation) helps outstanding young researchers to gain the necessary qualifications to take a leading position in science, research, and teaching. The multidisciplinary programme enables them to set up their own independent junior research group with doctoral students and academic staff.

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German Research Foundation funds Bielefeld project on the love life of locusts

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Romney: American kids get 'third-world education'

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Charging that American students are getting a "third-world education" under President Barack Obama, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney on Wednesday proposed a voucher-style system that could significantly alter the public school system and revive the debate over school choice.

Romney, who has been reluctant to stray far from the economic issues at the core of the presidential campaign, outlined the proposal during a speech Wednesday at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

"Millions of kids are getting a third-world education. And America's minority children suffer the most," Romney declared. "This is the civil-rights issue of our era. And it's the great challenge of our time."

He continued: "President Obama has made his choice, and I have made mine. As president, I will be a champion of real education reform in America."

Romney said he would let low-income and disabled students use federal money to attend public schools, public charter schools and, in some cases, private schools. Federal funds could also be used for tutoring or digital courses.

The plan is line with GOP reforms aimed at giving students more educational choices. But it's unclear how schools in areas that depend on the federal funding would fare.

The proposal was not expected to include any new federal money for education.

Romney so far has offered few details for his plans on several key policy areas, including foreign policy, health care and education. He attacked Obama's education policy and said it's heavily influenced by campaign contributions from teachers' unions.

"The teachers' unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way," Romney said. "The teachers unions don't fight for our children."

The message is consistent for Romney, who regularly heaps criticism on the Democratic president's policies but until now has only offered a vague road map for what he would do as president.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday that Romney's shift to education was welcome after a campaign season in which he said the GOP rarely mentioned the issue.

"Education never came up in the Republican primary in any of the debates, or if it did, it came up almost never," Carney said.

Carney said Obama's education initiatives have received broad bipartisan support and that the president "looks forward to defending that record."

Romney's shift carries some risk. His regular criticism of labor unions, in particular, threatens to alienate voters in Rust Belt states like Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where a close election may be decided.

Before the speech, Romney announced Tuesday a team of education policy advisers that includes former Education Secretary Rod Paige and other officials from President George W. Bush's administration. Paige is among several prominent opponents of teachers' unions on the panel. As education secretary in 2004, he labeled the National Education Association a "terrorist organization."

Romney's positions on education have evolved over time. He once supported abolishing the Education Department but reversed that position as a presidential candidate in 2007. At the time, he said he came to see the value of the federal government in "holding down the interests of the teachers' unions" and putting kids and parents first.

Romney also changed his position on the Bush-era education overhaul known as "No Child Left Behind." He said he supported the law as a candidate in 2007, but he has since generally come out against the policy many conservatives see as an expansion of the federal government.

Romney continues to support the federal accountability standards in the law, however. He also has said the student testing, charter-school incentives and teacher evaluation standards in Obama's "Race to the Top" competition "make sense," although the federal government should have less control over education. The campaign in recent days has emphasized his support for charter schools while governor of Massachusetts, a theme likely to play out in Wednesday's address.

The speech represents Romney's first public event in four days. Working to close Obama's cash advantage, he's coming off a three-day fundraising swing in the New York area that his chief finance aide said had netted $15 million. A single finance event in Manhattan on Tuesday evening generated $5 million.

Still, the campaign is eager to drive a positive message for voters now tuning in to the contest.

The education speech follows a relatively quiet phase for Romney, who has been focused on fundraising but usually delivers one major address a week. Most of his recent speeches, however, have been about the economic themes that so far have defined his campaign.

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Obama airing ads on veterans, seniors

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is airing two new ads, one focusing on his work with veterans returning home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and another aimed at seniors dependent on Medicare.

In the veterans spot, Obama credits veterans for allowing the U.S. to "go after al-Qaida and kill (Osama) bin Laden" and says the nation has a "sacred trust" to help veterans heal their wounds, find jobs and go back to school.

The ad on Medicare notes that Obama was raised by his grandparents and cites his administration's efforts to root out health care fraud.

The TV ads are part of a $25 million ad buy the Obama campaign has launched in May. The ads are running in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.

Associated Press

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Google goes Moogle, celebrates Moog's birthday with interactive doodle

It's time to surrender another afternoon to an interactive Google doodle. The search engine has outdone itself in celebration of the late-Bob Moog's birthday. The electronic music pioneer was born on May 23rd, 1934. Seeing as how the anniversary isn't until tomorrow, the doodle hasn't actually hit our Google front page. Thanks to the magic of timezones, however, you can check it out on some of the company's many international sites, as our colleagues at Engadget Japanese pointed out. Google's really outdone itself here, you can play the synth doodle by tapping on the keys with your cursor, or by hitting the numbers on your keyboard. Naturally, there are plenty of knobs to fiddle with, and you can also record your musical experiments for posterity. Get switched-on with the music awesomeness in the source link below.

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Evening star goes black in rare celestial event

Astronomers position themselves to capture crucial measurements as Venus passes across the face of the sun

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On June 5, skywatchers will have their last chance to glimpse a rare celestial spectacle, a ?transit of Venus,? in which the planet passes directly between Earth and the sun. Venus will take six hours to march across the star?s face, appearing as an inky black dot in silhouette against the looming solar disk.

After that, the sun-shadowed Venusian outline will disappear until 2117. Because the planet?s orbit is slightly off-kilter, its solar transits come in pairs spaced eight years apart, with more than 100 years between pairs.

During the most recent transit pair of 1874 and 1882, observers around the world focused on triangulating the Earth-sun distance. They tried to time precisely when Venus entered and exited the sun?s disk, so they could calculate the size of the sun (a complicated endeavour, it turns out, since an optical effect that blurred the boundary between planet and sun muddied the timing measurements). The most recent transit happened in 2004 ? only the sixth such performance seen through telescopes ? and it revealed that large portions of the Venusian atmosphere are visible to Earthly observers.

Now, scientists are hoping not only to study Venus itself during the transit, but are using the crossing to inform observations of far-off exoplanets that similarly betray their presence by passing between their star and Earth. ?Over 100 years ago, astronomers couldn?t have anticipated this transit question,? says astronomer Jay Pasachoff of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., who will observe the transit from Hawaii.

Pasachoff and his colleagues are also deploying nine instruments to locations including Japan, Kazakhstan, and Norway, to study the sunlight filtered through Venus? toxic clouds.

During the transit the sun will act as a giant light bulb, illuminating Venus? upper atmosphere and providing information about temperature and aerosols across the planet. The orbiting Venus Express spacecraft can gather data only about isolated portions of the swirling sulfuric acid clouds, begging the question of how the shroud behaves globally. ?As temperatures and winds are closely linked, those measurements will be fed into models that aim to explain the exotic dynamics of the Venusian atmosphere,? says astronomer Thomas Widemann of the Paris Observatory, who will join Venus Express team members in Svalbard, Norway to observe the transit against the midnight sun.

When Earth?s little sister passes before the solar backdrop, its planetprint produces the type of dimming that occurs when exoplanets periodically block their stars? light. Astronomers have been able to study the atmospheres of Jupiter-sized exoplanets, but similar observations of terrestrial planets are still a thing of the future.

Gathering data about a known planet ? Venus ? will help ground those future observations, says astronomer Paolo Tanga at the Cote d?Azur Observatory in Nice, France. ?Maybe one day we will be able to measure the same light that is filtered from the atmospheres of exoplanets ? exo-Venuses and exo-Earths,? says Tanga, who will be in Arizona for the transit.

But such observations aren?t so simple. ?Big mirrors and sensitive detectors are not good things to point at the sun,? explains planetary astronomer Heather Knutson of Caltech. Instead astronomers will use the Hubble Space Telescope to capture sunlight reflected off the face of the moon during the transit. In that light are signatures of chemical compounds in the Venusian atmosphere, Knutson says. ?It?s the first time we can make this measurement for a truly terrestrial planet.?

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

PC and Mac ? WIV LLC | Arts and Entertainment

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PC and Mac - WIV LLC ?Passagio is an excellent tool to visually teach vocal technique. Tangible feedback is a huge help in directing vocal technique and training.?

Passaggio gives the singer a picture of their voice as they are singing. The vocal picture is shown against the musical staff so that the singer can instantly tell what is going on and make adjustments on the spot.

Passaggio shows you a real time display of your voice while speaking or singing. The voice is displayed as a series of dots moving from left to right that show the pitch, vocal characteristics and volume of the voice in minute detail. The display background is set up as a musical staff.

I can instantly see if I am singing flat or sharp with Passaggio and adjust my voice so I am right on pitch.

Passaggio is fantastic for learning vibrato. It will immediately show me if I am singing straight or with vibrato. I can see how pronounced my vibrato is, how fast it is, and how even it is.

I can see how I initiate and release my notes and if I stay on key or drift flat or sharp off key. I can learn to be more precise with note attack and release. Read more?

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Senior Manager - Sales Training-1467 - ASTD

Job duties include but are not limited to the following: Accountable for providing leadership for the creation, implementation and maintenance of Consumer and Employer Market sales training programs, including the Sales Talent Management Program. The key responsibilities include creating and managing integrated Program plans to carry out the goals and strategy and oversight of program execution. The position will have direct management responsibilities of trainers and instructional designers as well as training program participants. Establishing integration and coordination processes with other business areas, vendors and initiatives to monitor progress and prioritizations. ? Responsible for the development and ongoing, end-to-end management of the program. ? Responsible for managing and training the newly hired candidates while in the program. ? Delivery of training programs specific to new products and services, systems, processes and tools in support of new sales and retention of Individual and Group business. ? Manages the program budget, including associated vendor costs and contracts. ? Responsible for vendor relationship management, including contract adherence, payment reconciliation, performance, and continuous improvement. ? Responsible for program performance, including performance results, vendor performance and adherence to established SLA?s, ROI, etc. ? Coordinates with all impacted business areas to develop and maintain appropriate program adherence and reporting. ? Invoke corrective action plans for program or vendor for missed targets. ? Responsible for all established processes associated with the program: e.g. Vendor Management, Contract Adherence, Program/Content maintenance and enhancements, etc. ? Responsible for continuous improvement of the program. ? Responsible for reporting effectiveness of the program including vendor performance. ? Act as direct liaison between the business areas and vendor components of the program. ? Translate corporate strategies into tactical application of program management. ? Manage multiple complex issues and projects simultaneously. ? Work collaboratively with other areas of the organization: Retail Centers, UW, Marketing, Sales and Operations.

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Ryanair unveils record annual profit

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Woods insists he's close to regularly contending

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) ? Tiger Woods insists he is close to contending on a weekly basis, even if recent results suggest otherwise.

"I think I'm headed in the right direction," Woods said at Congressional Country Club, where he was promoting the AT&T National which takes place June 28 to July 1.

"I'm going to try and continue to improve in incremental steps in every facet of my game and try to make every facet of my game more efficient."

Woods has one PGA Tour victory this year, but his game has hit a slump recently with a missed cut in Charlotte as well as 40th-place finishes at The Masters and Players Championship.

"I've just played three events ? I won a tournament (four) tournaments ago," Woods said. "If I get more efficient at what I'm doing, then I'm going to win golf tournaments."

Woods won at Congressional in 2009 before the event moved to suburban Philadelphia to make way for last year's U.S. Open.

Injury prevented Woods from participating in Rory McIlroy's big win.

"Unfortunately, I was in a position where I couldn't play and it was tough because I missed out on a golf course I know, that I've won on and that I love," Woods said. "Those factors made it difficult to sit back and watch. What Rory did was extraordinary. He played some beautiful golf."

McIlroy dominated Congressional, finishing at 16 under. He is not among the early commitments for the AT&T National, but in addition to Woods, past tournament champions Nick Watney, Justin Rose and K.J. Choi will play in the $6.5 million event.

Par on Congressional's Blue Course will be 71 and at 7,535 yards. Woods has finishes of tied for 16th (1997 U.S. Open), tied for sixth (2008 AT&T National) and the win three years ago.

"The difficulty is that it's a big ballpark," Woods said. "If you get to where there's a little moisture in the fairways and (tee shots) aren't running and aren't chasing, this course gets really long. ... It's a fantastic tee-to-green golf course. You have to drive the ball well and once you get onto the greens, there's a lot of pitch and movement, usually back to front.

"Playing here this year, I would like to see it difficult, there's no doubt."

Associated Press

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Monday, May 21, 2012

REVOLUTION 360: Reason to Believe

Ryan Mackfall is a crafty fella, born in the beautiful coastal town of Cornwall, UK. Ryan has established himself as a young and highly respected Cinematographer/Director. As a kid growing up in Cornwall, Ryan first realized his attraction towards films through his love of releases that were meant for slightly older audiences. The films often housed narratives that he didn't necessarily understand, but the cinematography more than made up for it. His love of the composition of certain shots gave him a real buzz, which at his young age he didn't really attribute towards any career aspirations, just merely 'enjoying films'.

Ryan later under-took studies at the University College of Falmouth, one of UK's most celebrated art institutions, and graduated with a BA honors degree in film. In late 2005 after having worked as a freelance artists he founded Crashburn Media. A cutting edge production facility with some of UK's finest creative people. Ryan's work has mainly being associated to music covering areas such as; video, documentary, brand and viral media along with extended branches into photography. Ryan's directional ability to draw his audience through his film subjects provoke desire and thought. His film list is long and outstanding. Having documented some of UK and USA's leading PUNK/Indie alternative artists, along with many international music festivals. When not working behind the lens, this English POM is an avid surfer and a confessed film geek.

R. You have been working in the film industry for quite sometime, when did you first pick up the camera and what was your first video/film? Do you still have it?
RM. I think the first time I picked up a camera was when my parents purchased one of those old Sony video8 cameras. They got it for filming various family things, recording memories etc, and I found it an extremely interesting piece of gear. By nature as a kid I found anything technological interesting. This piece of gear was no exception. I was fascinated you could push a button and zoom into things far off.

I would later go to Indonesia with my friends surfing, and I wanted to shoot a documentary. The budget ?was non existent but I got a hold of a small Sony handycam off eBay and then purchased this old Sony video8 water housing and modified it so we could shoot the surfing. I got some wooden blocks, wrapped rubber around them and basically wedged the camera in there. ?We just had to leave the camera shooting wide, and then we would press record, shut the housing, get on the boat, get to the reef, jump in and film. So crude but so perfect. We had a complete blast and it's a video I look back on with fond memories because it was my first real achievement. I worked with an old friend on the titles and we really made something great we were proud of. While I was shooting it I remember how some of the guys were kinda cagey about it. They wouldn't really cooperate. Then we premiered it at my 21st birthday and they were all like "man you did a great job" and that was my first real feeling of accomplishment. The first time I took an idea and made it real in a more serious sense. The journey began on that day I guess. It's on my vimeo if anyone has the time to waste viewing it. It's gotta be watched tongue and cheek though! Surf rats doing there thing in Indonesia!

R. The majority of your work is music related, was this a conscious choice or how did you fall into this genre?
RM. I think it was a conscious choice for me that felt right. I understood that many of the adverts and films I loved sometimes came from people who made music videos. There was such a lack in the UK of accessible video media for bands (on a smaller scale). I saw that production values for big bands were great, and thought, 'why don't we bring this to the smaller guys'. I saw the difference between successful bands and less successful ones, 'The brand'. If a band could be promoted via excellence than the 'kids' would want a piece of it, and that essentially is what the music industry is about in it's rawest form.

Since the inception of Crashburn Media we primarily have concentrated on live promo stuff and a bit of documentary. I remember the first real time we approached a UK hardcore band to do a DVD. The band was Shaped By Fate. One of the guys on the band 'Richey Beckett' saw the idea I had and agreed it was what he wanted for his band. Rich is an extremely talented artist and is currently on the up in a big way now with people like Mondo and other sites that celebrate great art, so he had that creative flare. We hit the road and filmed the documentary and there was a great vibe, everyone working towards a product. Finally it all came together via the great creative team we had. After that it was more widely known that I could 'produce the goods' and it was a turning point for me and other bands.

We moved onto music videos and I've been directing them for while. I feel like it's been a transformation for me as the challengers have risen and the progression has been great. Me and my guys have all evolved. When I started I was a videographer, and over the last 1.5 years I moved away from that term as I've felt I'm a director. Tom Griffiths, one of my photographers and video assistant has progressed to be my 'director of photography'. Josh Mansfield has come into the team a bit later and is my location manager etc. The team is growing up. We're moving onto more singular roles. I think the DSLR evolution helped that come about. Now we're all considering the next steps. I feel like I need to broaden my horizon more. As much as I love music, I want other subjects, topics and investors to be coming my way so we can work together to bring new things into the reality sphere. I want to be creating bigger projects. I think I took my first steps towards this in February early this year, when I co-directed a project about soundwave festival in Australia. The project is just bigger than anything I could have imagined. It was such a last minute affair but we've somehow pulled it out of the bag! I have a hunger for bigger things now, with or without the music industry. I see no boundaries, and people that place boundaries aren't really who I want to work with.

R. Every director encounters many challengers, their goal is to ultimately achieve a vision. What has been the highlight so far for you?
RM. I think the highlight for me has been creating a piece of work that people still talk about to this day. A band from Long Island, New York, called Crime In Stereo came to become very good friends of mine. We were working on a documentary and the band unfortunately spilt up. A lack of money ended the dream, and this is a reality for many bands these days. It's bad news really. People who live to write music and inspire people, falling short. When CIS disbanded I felt obligation to do something to show the world how amazing they were. They were more than a band; they were all well mannered, supportive friends, who loved their fans and played every show like it was their last. The inspiration they gave me I put back into my work, and I was touring with them for just expenses, but they were living the same way. The news of the spilt came one night while I was working on something else and I thought, "We're not gonna let these guys disappear". What came from that was a short video about them as people. It was footage from a European tour, with audio interviews over the top. We reordered the interviews on my iPhone in a basement washroom of a hostel in London. I will always remember that moment throughout my life.

R. What are you working on next?
RM. I've got a couple of music videos to direct, a studio documentary on a band who are recording a new album, and then a week directing a short feature which is off to Cannes and some other great festivals. Trying to be busy, but not a busy fool!

R. Which film/documentary makers are you inspired by?
RM. JJ Abrams, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Daren Aronofsky, David Lynch, Joe Simon (cinematography), Stacey Peralta, Louis Thoreux, Pennebaker (Bob Dylan's early documentary director), and of course David Fincher (probably my biggest influence).

R. So you're an avid surfer, most people wouldn't associate England as a surfing destination. Tell us about the surfing culture in the UK? Do you compete in tournaments??
RM. I wish I competed haha! It's purely a recreational sport for me which has become a life long love. Where I'm from in Cornwall is probably the best place to surf in the UK. We've got beaches all around us and it's beautiful. Forget the great north, I come from a place that is more akin to the shire out of Lord of the Rings, mixed with great sandy beaches. There's a good scene there and I surf with a lot of talented people, most of them friends. I get in a surf when I can because I currently don't live in Cornwall, rather Brighton. But I head home 4/5 weeks to get in some time with family and hit the waves. It's a place I will return to at some point. It's where my soul feels most at home I think. The soul though shouldn't get too comfy while you're young, so I moved to have a change. As they say though, home is where the heart is.

R. Musically speaking, what are some of your musical influences? Is there any artists that's HOT right now playing on your iPhone?
RM. I think a lot of my influences come from a board spectrum of music. Largely I'm known for my heavier musical collaborations, visually. But under the surface I'm a big jazz fan, I like a lot of indie, soul and some classics. I've had the chance to get to know a lot of the bands I've been inspired by and that really is a blessing. I've had the time to sit down with them, and talk as people, and that gives you a reward you can't really describe. They give the music and I give back the visuals. Those working relationships are always the best and are always the ones that seem to last the longest. I've worked extensively with Foxy Shazam from Cincinnati Ohio, and I'd say those guys are actually some of my best friends. Their music is pushing a boundary right now, and their performances are beyond exceptional.

Last but no Least?

R. Martin Scorsese has just hit you up on Facebook, he has asked you to join him in making a new film. Your given the creative freedom to do what you want. What kind of film would you make?
RM. Well, off the top of my head, after I'd had a stiff drink; I think the world needs to be woken up to what is happening in the music industry. If Scorsese got in touch with me I'd love to work with him on a documentary about the changing face of our economies within the music and creative industries. He's worked with some amazing artists and I think he has an understanding of the way artists work. I'd really ?love to film bands in a way that's never been done before and just blow the lid off the hardships many are facing. We need to let people know world wide what's happening. I think it would be a subject matter everyone would love to watch because you'd incorporate so many genres of music. It's that whole inspiration factor.

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By Administrator on May 21, 2012 in Home and Family

Summer is just around the corner; soon it will be warm and bright. Homes keep you warm in winter but sometimes struggle to keep you chilled in the summertime. If your house is just too uncomfortable, then you need to have an alternative to enjoy our short but sweet summer evenings. A Garden Studio may be the way round your issues.

It's a great space to spend your evenings, with pals or family. Serve a light summer spread or host a film night with your closest chums, a Garden Studio adapts nicely to every summer event allowing you to flee the normality of your home.

The better part about summer is allowing your kids to play for hours outside, not stressing about the mess they are making. All that summer air is bound to make your youngsters tired, so make the studio into a safe snooze area permitting you to still enjoy the summer sunshine. Try to not decorate the studio so it's a standard room. eep it simplistic and effective. Less is more in this example.

If you've got the space then a garden studio is a perfect changing area. A modern addition to your pool, it works nicely as pool house. Grab a couple of towels, add some lounges and hang up some hooks and you have created an area to change and relax after a swim. Or if you are hosting for a night or 2 and short of room in the house, the Studio is a great space to line up a temporary bed for your visitors allowing them to stay all night in a free and comfortable environment.

These are a couple of concepts on how a Garden studio can be good for you. There are lots of alternative routes of using up that space. A small amount of imagination and a little time decorating your studio makes it more appealing and fascinating to your friends and family.

I am James Barclay, and a Garden Studio expert. I read, and blog about garden issues and you can check out Henley?s Garden Office website where they display a variety of garden rooms.

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Putin's economic plan: 'great leap' into the unknown

Newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin has set hugely ambitious targets to catapult the Russian economy into the modern era but their realism remains in doubt despite a benign short-term outlook.

Russia is looking with a degree of superiority on the crisis engulfing the debt-ridden eurozone states, predicting only a narrow budget deficit of just 0.3 percent of GDP this year and buoyed by robust first quarter growth.

But Putin is also acutely aware that a major eurozone crisis would severely wound Russian exporters and limit its receipts of petro-dollars.

Moreover, the country's economy has yet to fully modernize 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its vulnerability to external shocks is an acute worry for Putin as he faces the first serious street protests against his rule.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, pointman on the economy in the outgoing government, this week gave an unusually frank assessment of Russia's failings, admitting "we cannot say now that Russia is a modern country".

"We have big social spending, large-scale innovation-based industry is absent, we have underdeveloped institutions and a legal system which needs almost to be created from scratch."

"We need to bring the economy and the social sphere to modern standards. This is not an empty slogan but the fulfillment of plans on modernization," he told the Vedomosti business daily.

Hours after taking office on May 7 for his third term as president after his four year stint as prime minister, Putin signed a decree on economic policy apparently aimed at ending Russia's shortcomings once and for all.

The lofty aims sounded familiar but, if implemented, they would have a truly revolutionary impact on the Russian economy and society.

Putin ordered the government to take measures:

-- To create and modernize 25 million high-productivity jobs by 2020.

-- To increase investment to no less than 25 percent of GDP by 2015.

-- To boost labour productivity to a level one-and-half times greater than that of 2011.

-- To lift Russia's position in the World Bank's Doing Business Index from 120 in 2011 to 50 in 2015 and 20 in 2018.

-- To raise average life expectancy by 2018 to 74 years from the current 70.

Russia's current ranking on the ease of Doing Business index places it nine places below Ethiopia and two places above Bangladesh.

The goals are spectacularly ambitious, particularly as they are supposed to be released within the period of his six year presidential term.

"The goals are reminiscent of the Great Leap Forward in China," the Institute of Development at Moscow's Higher School of Economics (HSE) wrote in a report, referring to the radical modernisation plan of Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

"Some of the goals -- which in Russian conditions would be realistic to reach within 10-15 years -- have been squeezed into the six-year period, against the laws of nature and economic development," said the Institute's director Natalya Akindinova.

The institute noted that statistics agency Rosstat only expects the 74 years life expectancy figure to be reached in 2023 and that in a best-case scenario.

As for the vault up the Doing Business table "there is no example in the history of these tables of a major country making such a jump", Akindinova said.

In an early boost for Putin, Russia's first quarter growth in 2012 surprised everyone by coming in at robust 4.9 percent at a time of almost unremittingly depressing global economic news especially from the eurozone.

"The better than expected first quarter GDP growth number shows that Russia, so far, remains relatively well protected from the crisis in Europe," said Chris Weafer, chief strategist at Troika Dialog in Moscow.

The head of the Russian Central Bank Sergei Ignatiyev this week said he was optimistic, even though a second wave of the economic crisis in Europe could not be ruled out that would see most European states go into recession.

"But we are better prepared for a future economic crisis than in 2008. We have the experience, the instruments which we can use at practically any moment," he told parliament.

However Russia still remains vulnerable to a prolonged eurozone crisis and analysts are still skeptical that the country's long term growth will be anything near the levels the government wants to see.

According to a survey of 30 top economists by the HSE, annual growth in Russia is expected to bump along at 3.5-4.0 percent between now and 2018.

Most troubling for the government is possibly the prolonged and substantial net capital outflow from the country, which was $84 billion in 2011 and no better this year with capital flight of $35.1 billion in the first quarter.

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

World leaders want Greece in euro zone

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - World leaders backed keeping Greece in the euro zone on Saturday and vowed to take all steps necessary to combat financial turmoil while revitalizing a global economy increasingly threatened by Europe's debt crisis.

A summit of the G8 leading industrialized nations came down solidly in favor of a push to balance European austerity - an approach long driven by German Chancellor Angela Merkel - with a new dose of U.S.-style stimulus seen as vital to healing ailing euro-zone economies. But it was clear that divisions remained.

"We commit to take all necessary steps to strengthen and reinvigorate our economies and combat financial stresses, recognizing that the right measures are not the same for each of us," the leaders said in a joint statement issued at their meeting at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

The message sent by the summit hosted by President Barack Obama reflected his own concerns that the euro-zone contagion, which threatens the future of Europe's 17-country single currency bloc, could hurt the fragile U.S. recovery and his re-election chances in November.

In their final economic communique, the Group of Eight leaders endorsed calls to broaden Europe's focus to more pro-growth remedies and said: "We reaffirm our interest in Greece remaining in the euro zone while respecting its commitments."

It was unusual for the often-bland G8 communique to single out a relatively small nation. But fears that a political stalemate in Greece would lead to its departure from Europe's monetary union at unknown costs to the financial system and global economic stability have spooked markets.

Spain too has roiled markets by revealing huge bad loans in its banking system as it struggles to rein in its budget while facing recession.

Merkel, increasingly isolated by a French-led push for a more growth-oriented approach, sought to play down the differences, saying: "Solid finances and growth belong inseparably together and should not be put into contrast."

Obama, who has pressed Europe for more growth-boosting measures like those he pursued at home, used his closing statement to remind euro-zone leaders that the stakes were high and there could be "enormous" costs to the global economy if they failed.

"Growth and jobs must be our top priority," he said, reaffirming his view that Europe has the capacity to meet the challenge.

Marc Chandler, currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman, said: "It is significant that a group as weighty as the G8 backs Greece and reinforces the idea that Europe needs a strong union. It strengthens its hand."

In another move to shore up shaky global growth, the G8 leaders said they would monitor oil markets closely and stand ready to seek an increase in supplies if needed. While crude oil prices have declined by 10 percent over the past month, the threat of sanctions on Iran loom next month.

The G8 said the global economic recovery shows promising signs but "significant headwinds persist."

CASUAL SETTING, TENSE ISSUES

The mountain cabins at Camp David where a shirt-sleeved Obama hosted the G8 leaders contrasted with recent tense meetings in European capitals about a sovereign debt crisis that just keeps getting worse.

The economic communique endorsed a recent political shift away from the budget-cutting austerity that has been championed by Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron as the route to prosperity.

Instead it recognized a common need to combine budgetary discipline with a growth strategy. This strengthens the hand of newly elected socialist French President Francois Hollande before a crucial European Union dinner on Wednesday to discuss growth.

The euro zone crisis took another lurch downward late last week when Spain revealed huge losses in its banking system and partially nationalized Bankia.

Cameron, after an early morning gym workout with Obama, said he detected a "growing sense of urgency that action needs to be taken" on the euro zone crisis. London relies heavily on international finance and banking instability would strike a fresh blow to an economy already in recession.

"Contingency plans need to be put in place and the strengthening of banks, governance, firewalls - all of those things need to take place very fast," he told reporters.

European leaders seemed keen to stress that they would stand firm in protecting their banks, after news of escalating bad loans raised the specter that rescuing Spain's banks would crash the euro zone's fourth largest economy.

"We will do whatever is needed to guarantee the financial stability of the euro zone," European Union President Herman Van Rompuy said, using language that ended up in the statement.

Hollande suggested using European funds to inject capital into Spain's banks, which would mark a significant acceleration of EU rescue efforts. But there was no direct mention of Spain in the communique or any indication of action leaders would take to combat the financial stresses.

GERMANY SOFTENING ON AUSTERITY

There already were signs of a softening in Germany's austerity stance as the meeting began.

Germany's largest industrial union, IG Metall, struck its biggest pay deal in 20 years early on Saturday. The 4.3 percent pay increase, more than double Germany's inflation rate, will boost worker buying power in the euro zone's richest nation and lift consumption. That is something the United States has urged as a means to bolster overall growth throughout the world's second largest economic region.

In the G8 group photo outside the presidential log cabin, Obama also sought balance. He stood with the leaders of Europe's two largest powers - France and Germany - to his right and his left respectively.

G8 leaders also raised pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, which they suspect has military objectives, by committing to a common approach. They pledged to implement sanctions fully against Tehran and indicated they would act together to lower oil prices if needed.

"Our hope is that we can resolve this issue in a peaceful fashion that respects Iran's sovereignty and its rights in the international community, but also recognizes its responsibilities," Obama told reporters.

The Camp David summit kicked off four days of intensive diplomacy that will test world leaders' ability to quell unease over the threat of another financial meltdown as well as plans to wind down the unpopular war in Afghanistan.

After the Camp David talks, Obama and several of the G8 leaders headed to his home town of Chicago where he will host a two-day NATO meeting at which the Afghanistan war will be the central topic.

(Additional reporting by Alister Bull, Jeff Mason, Caren Bohan, Stella Dawson, Elizabeth Pineau, Gleb Bryanski, and John Irish; Writing by Stella Dawson; Editing by Mary Milliken and Christopher Wilson)

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