The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, famed for its adoption of Gross National Happiness as a development goal, is to make every Tuesday a ?pedestrian?s day? with motorists banned from town centres.
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FILE - In this April 21, 2006 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II meets the public during a walkabout to celebrate her 80th birthday in Windsor, England. In the next four days, the normal ebb and flow of British life will give way to a series of street parties, flotillas, outdoor concerts and finally the appearance of an elderly great-grandmother on her balcony to wave to her subjects. The pageantry is very grand and very British. But at the heart of the Diamond Jubilee celebration is a nearly universal sense of appreciation for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who is marking 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)
FILE - In this April 21, 2006 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II meets the public during a walkabout to celebrate her 80th birthday in Windsor, England. In the next four days, the normal ebb and flow of British life will give way to a series of street parties, flotillas, outdoor concerts and finally the appearance of an elderly great-grandmother on her balcony to wave to her subjects. The pageantry is very grand and very British. But at the heart of the Diamond Jubilee celebration is a nearly universal sense of appreciation for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who is marking 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)
FILE This Tuesday, May 25, 2010 file photo shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II returning to Buckingham Palace in a carriage after attending the Houses of Parliament in London for the official State Opening of Parliament. The patriotic bunting is ready, the golden carriage on standby, the boats freshly painted, the shops filled with royals souvenirs. The normal ebb and flow of British life gives way in the next four days to a series of street parties, flotillas, outdoor concerts and finally the appearance of an elderly great-grandmother on her balcony to wave to her subjects.The pageantry is very grand and very British. But at the heart of the Diamond Jubilee celebration is a nearly universal sense of appreciation for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who is marking 60 years on the throne. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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LONDON (AP) ? The patriotic bunting is ready, the golden carriage on standby, the boats freshly painted, the shops filled with royals souvenirs.
The normal ebb and flow of British life gives way in the next four days to a series of street parties, flotillas, outdoor concerts and finally the appearance of an elderly great-grandmother on her balcony to wave to her subjects.
The pageantry is very grand and very British. But at the heart of the Diamond Jubilee celebration is a nearly universal sense of appreciation for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who is marking 60 years on the throne.
The queen was a vibrant young woman of 25 when she became the head of state of a faltering post-war nation. Today at 86 she remains strong of heart and stout of spirit, refusing to let age slow her pace or dim her smile, which if anything has grown more welcoming over the years.
Winston Churchill was prime minister when she became queen, and David Cameron, who wasn't even born then, is Britain's leader now. Elizabeth herself has no political role. But her royal mystique, the centuries of history she embodies and her own discreet charisma help define the very idea of Britain for the world.
Alan Watson, a member of the House of Lords who has written a book about the queen, said the Jubilee is a joyous occasion for many Britons who see the queen as a symbol of stability.
"These 60 years have been years of really dramatic change in the UK, the tectonic plates have moved," he said.
"The country has lost its empire and is no longer in the front rank of power, and I really think that change has been enormously eased by her and what she represents. My feeling is she has enabled change by her reassurance of essential continuity."
When Lord Watson joined the queen at a rain-soaked tree-planting ceremony in Richmond several weeks ago, he said he was struck by her buoyant mood as the Jubilee approached.
"I got the clear feeling that she is really enjoying things," he said. "It was pouring rain, but she really looked radiant, a happy person. I think she feels very content in herself. I think she is satisfied with how the reign has gone."
Elizabeth has weathered shaky times with her children, whose marriages have tended to break apart, and her popularity suffered after the 1997 death of Princess Diana, with some finding her response to the tragedy to be cold and out of touch with public sentiment.
The late princess was an international superstar. And the queen was seen by some as overseeing the royal push to cast her adrift after the breakup of her troubled union with Prince Charles, the heir to the throne.
But all evidence suggests the queen's connection to her subjects has recovered from those blows.
There was overwhelming support for Elizabeth at the last great celebration that focused on her role ? the Golden Jubilee bash that in 2002 marked her 50 years on the throne.
The event is remembered not just for the concerts and the parties but for the spectacle of an estimated 1 million people gathered in front of Buckingham Palace to wave to the queen and say: "Well done."
Palace officials are hoping this simple show of affection will be repeated on Tuesday when the festivities climax with another balcony appearance.
They have reason to be optimistic. Newspaper polls this week suggested that affection and appreciation for Elizabeth cut across all ages, social classes and political affiliations.
For many, she is a living link to the challenges and triumphs of World War II, when she was a young princess who helped with the war effort, even learning how to drive and service heavy vehicles with the Auxiliary Transport Service.
Her staying power is impressive. Elizabeth is the oldest person to reign over Britain, and only Queen Victoria, who took the throne at an earlier age, had a longer reign.
It is of course true that some are indifferent or hostile to the monarchy, with its vast inherited wealth and status, but few question the dedication or sincerity of the queen.
"She's done a very good job," said Jean Robson, a London retiree. "She works so very hard. The family's had problems like every family, and she's dealt with them very well."
Robson said she and her family admire the royal family and its longtime role in the nation's life.
"We're very lucky to have them," she said.
Others just feel good about the queen, even if they aren't exactly sure what she does or what she's really like.
"I personally like her, I think she's like the nation's grandma," said Sarah Mills, a 27-year-old from York. "She seems like such a nice old lady. You can't really know her though, can you?"
The queen, and the royal family, have benefited in the last few years by the newfound maturity of Prince William, who married the former Kate Middleton in a spectacular ceremony last year, and Prince Harry, who has put his partying days largely in the past as he focuses on a military career.
The young princes have stepped up their official duties, at times representing the queen abroad. Their natural flair has given what had been an aging monarchy a badly needed touch of cool.
This effect has been accentuated by the former Middleton, who has brought poise and fashion flair to her new position as the Duchess of Cambridge.
She has won raves for her ability to bring new pizazz to the royals, and her presence at the Jubilee festivities is expected to produce pictures and TV images that will be seen throughout the world.
But the Duchess of Cambridge is expected to make sure she does nothing to upstage the queen at the weekend events. She is likely to focus on honoring the queen, not making her own fashion statements or drawing attention to herself in any way.
William and Harry have used rare television interviews given in the run-up to the Jubilee to emphasize that the queen is just "granny" to the younger generation. Harry described her as an active, involved parent and grandparent trying to keep track of her large brood.
He said the queen is "really very, very normal. Very relaxed. But you know, she obviously takes a huge interest in what we all do. You know, that's her children, as well as her grandchildren."
The queen and her husband, Prince Philip, are also coping with his heart disease, which surfaced over the Christmas holidays when he required emergency treatment to clear a blocked artery.
The 91-year-old has cut back slightly on his public appearances and some of his charity work, but is expected to be at the queen's side for the Jubilee events.
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Associated Press writer Sylvia Hui contributed to this report
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Let?s talk about the purpose and some examples of each one.
1.?Generating Leads
I?m sure you?ve seen a contact form at a website asking you to sign up for a mailing list in exchange for an eBook, audio recording or other free thing. You can also do this if you have a physical location or appear in person at a speaking engagement.
When clients ask me how they can grow a targeted mailing list, this is one of the main steps. Although it looks like you?re giving something away,?you?re actually asking people to ?pay? for it with their contact information and permission to contact them.?
Busy people are unlikely to give up their contact info unless they are truly interested, which is one thing that helps you filter out the ?freebie seekers.?
So, what can you give away to generate leads?
I?m all about communicating your marketing message (brand), so I?d like you to think of something that?expresses the unique way in which you help your clients.
Then, put that information into a?video download, special report,?eBook, audio, teleclass,?presentation or ? whatever you feel will? communicate it best and?entice your prospects.
2.?Converting Prospects into Clients?
Once you have someone?s interest, the focus moves to what is called ?conversion,? or taking them from being a prospect to a client.
This is not actually marketing but?selling, the part where you explain to your client what you could do?specifically for them.
The promise of a no-cost, no obligation consultation will attract some prospective clients to your business. The key here is to give a valuable experience that persuades the right prospects to work with you. What?s important is that your clients know they can ?try before they buy.?
It may seem crazy, but you actually have to market the free consultation as if it were a paid product.?
Instead, you want to take them through a format that helps them to see what it would be like to work with you but without?solving their?specific problems. General guidance is free; specific?answers and?how-to are part of the paid service.
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When flies are made to lose a gene with links to Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), they suffer the same sleep disturbances and restlessness that human patients do. The findings reported online on May 31 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, strongly suggest a genetic basis for RLS, a condition in which patients complain of an irresistible urge to move that gets worse as they try to rest.
"Although widely prevalent, RLS is a disorder whose pathophysiological basis remains very poorly understood," said Subhabrata Sanyal of Emory University School of Medicine. "The major significance of our study is to highlight the fact that there might be a genetic basis for RLS. Understanding the function of these genes also helps to understand and diagnose the disease and may offer more focused therapeutic options that are currently limited to very general approaches."
Sanyal's team recognized that a number of genome-wide association studies in humans had suggested connections between RLS and variation in a single gene (BTBD9).
"BTBD9 function or its relationship to RLS and sleep were a complete mystery," Sanyal said.
His team realized that there might be a way to shed some light on that mystery in fruit flies. Flies have a single, highly conserved version of the human BTBD9. They decided to test whether the gene that had turned up in those human studies would have any effect on sleep in the insects. In fact, flies need sleep just like humans do, and their sleep patterns are influenced by the same kinds of brain chemistry.
The researchers now report that flies lacking their version of the RLS-associated gene do lose sleep as they move more. When those flies were treated with a drug used for RLS, they showed improvements in their sleep.
When flies are made to lose a gene with links to Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), they suffer the same sleep disturbances and restlessness that human patients do. The findings reported online on May 31 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, strongly suggest a genetic basis for RLS, a condition in which patients complain of an irresistible urge to move that gets worse as they try to rest. Credit: Freeman et al. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
"Our results support the idea that genetic regulation of dopamine and iron metabolism constitute the core pathophysiology of at least some forms of RLS," the researchers write.
More broadly, they say, the study emphasizes the utility of simple animals such as fruit flies in unraveling the genetics of sleep and sleep disorders.
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In this May 26, 2012 photo, Yang Shihan, 20-year-old grandson of the business's owner of the Yang family's car parts and hardware store attends a customer in Houqiao, near the Myanmar border, Yunnan Province, China. Many still expect that the lifting of U.S. and European Union economic sanctions against Myanmar will boost trade from China's industrial regions through Ruili and other border areas in Yunnan, a mostly mountainous province that has close ties with all its Southeast Asian neighbors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
In this May 26, 2012 photo, Yang Shihan, 20-year-old grandson of the business's owner of the Yang family's car parts and hardware store attends a customer in Houqiao, near the Myanmar border, Yunnan Province, China. Many still expect that the lifting of U.S. and European Union economic sanctions against Myanmar will boost trade from China's industrial regions through Ruili and other border areas in Yunnan, a mostly mountainous province that has close ties with all its Southeast Asian neighbors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
In this May 26, 2012 photo, a man and a woman ride a motorcycle past deforested and tree-planted mountain in Houqiao, near Myanmar border, Yunnan Province, China. Many still expect that the lifting of U.S. and European Union economic sanctions against Myanmar will boost trade from China's industrial regions through Ruili and other border areas in Yunnan, a mostly mountainous province that has close ties with all its Southeast Asian neighbors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
In this May 26, 2012 photo, a local woman plants rice in Yingjiang, near Myanmar border, Yunnan Province, China. Many still expect that the lifting of U.S. and European Union economic sanctions against Myanmar will boost trade from China's industrial regions through Ruili and other border areas in Yunnan, a mostly mountainous province that has close ties with all its Southeast Asian neighbors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
In this May 26, 2012 photo, local man carries young rice plant in Yingjiang, near Myanmar border, Yunnan Province, China. Many still expect that the lifting of U.S. and European Union economic sanctions against Myanmar will boost trade from China's industrial regions through Ruili and other border areas in Yunnan, a mostly mountainous province that has close ties with all its Southeast Asian neighbors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
In this May 26, 2012 photo, a vender, left, weights corn for a customer, right, at a market in Yingjiang, near Myanmar border, Yunnan Province, China. Many still expect that the lifting of U.S. and European Union economic sanctions against Myanmar will boost trade from China's industrial regions through Ruili and other border areas in Yunnan, a mostly mountainous province that has close ties with all its Southeast Asian neighbors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
RUILI, China (AP) ? This remote southwestern Chinese city of about 140,000 nestled in a river valley on the Myanmar border amassed huge wealth over decades of trade and smuggling of drugs, timber and jade. Now, China's main trading gateway to its long-isolated neighbor is waiting for a new boom that may never come.
Along the river, lush golf courses and luxury villas evince gold-rush expectations. A sprawling 16 billion yuan ($2.5 billion), five-star resort is rising above the city, the showcase of a local tycoon.
In fields along a still-uncompleted expressway stand stacks of big black pipes for a 770 kilometer (480 mile) pipeline to carry Middle East gas and oil shipped through the Indian Ocean from Myanmar to thirsty Chinese industries far to the east.
But the legions of gem and jewelry, electronics and household goods shops in Ruili's export zone are almost deserted. Cars and trucks with black Myanmar plates trickle through the border checkpoint, hauling televisions and computers, construction materials and household goods for which there are few buyers.
"Business is not going so well. The rent is getting higher and higher and there are more and more business people, but not so many customers," said Li Qingsan, manager of Sanxing Trading, which sells bicycles and bike parts.
The malaise stretching from crisis-stricken Europe all the way to the remotest corners of China is partly to blame. Fierce fighting between Myanmar forces and the Kachin ethnic minority in the north of the country, which was known as Burma until 1989, is also putting a damper on their border trade.
The robust trade with China that brought wealth to Ruili is also bringing a backlash. As Myanmar's government reaches out to foreign investors, and tentatively opens its markets, it is also reassessing ties with the Chinese, who for years provided succor to Myanmar's reviled generals while amassing ever greater economic influence.
"The whole relationship is very difficult right now. For decades China was the only country Burma could do business with, and the Burmese people are very unhappy with their treatment," said Sean Turnell, an economist at Australia's Macquarie University. "The Burmese are anxious to reassert their sovereignty."
That desire was evident in Myanmar's decision to cancel the Myitsone hydropower dam on the Irrawaddy River, which the project's contractor, China Power International Corp., is lobbying to have resurrected.
Beijing has invested billions in the impoverished country, building mines and dams, roads and pipelines and making deep inroads into restive northern areas. Chinese trade with Myanmar hit $6.5 billion in 2011, according to International Monetary Fund figures, up almost 50 percent from a year earlier, with China running a surplus of $3.1 billion.
But dislocation and environmental damage from those projects has helped fuel renewed fierce fighting between government forces and ethnic Kachin insurgents, analysts say.
Recent protests over chronic power shortages, and over the gas pipeline, highlighted resentment in Myanmar over energy and infrastructure deals that have earmarked big shares of the country's abundant natural gas and hydroelectric power for use in China while failing to redress Myanmar's own energy crisis.
In Ruili's market, jade trader Huang Shishou, bored and eager for conversation, enthusiastically sprayed water on several football-sized stones brought in from Myanmar, holding a flashlight against their dull surfaces to show the emerald translucence within.
"Here, have a seat! Take a look! You don't have to buy," Huang said.
In the city's dusty, ramshackle industrial zones, the yards of timber mills large and small are stacked high with rosewood and teak from Myanmar's dwindling forests.
"It used to be that we had so much work, we had trouble finding people to do it," said Xie Wenhua, manager of a workshop that turns blocks of rosewood from Myanmar into intricately carved chairs, tables and bookshelves.
"Now, it's just a bit of work at a time. Only rich people can afford to buy this, and people don't seem to want to spend money right now."
Many still expect that the lifting of U.S. and European Union economic sanctions against Myanmar will boost trade from China's industrial regions through Ruili and other border areas in Yunnan, a mostly mountainous province that has close ties with all its Southeast Asian neighbors.
For centuries, commerce thrived along this southwestern Silk Road, helped by ties between indigenous ethnic groups and Chinese on both sides trading opium and heroin, jade, rubies and timber.
The Yang family's car parts and hardware store, in the frontier town of Houqiao, once did a booming business, in the days when trucks loaded with precious teak from Myanmar rolled through, often breaking down along the winding old Burma Road.
These days, the cross-border timber trade in these parts is mostly clandestine, and the renewed fighting with the Kachins is disrupting trading, local residents say.
"When they cracked down on the logging trade, the trucks stopped coming. These days, there's almost no traffic because of fighting across the border," said Yang Shihan, 20-year-old grandson of the business's owner.
Houqiao, whose name means "monkey bridge" in Chinese, is just 155 kilometers from the Myanmar city Myitkyina and vital rail and water links to the rest of the country. It's 550 kilometers to the Indian city Ledo.
During World War II, the town's strategic location lent it a critical role, as Allied and Chinese forces fought the invading Japanese. Families like the Yangs are scattered across the borders: several of Yang's grandfather's siblings fled to Myanmar during the tumultuous 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, and an elder brother to India.
The region's abundant minerals and other resources could make it a hub for growth, but only if the fighting is brought under control, says Macquaire University's Turnell.
"Those are all areas of immense potential, but they must reach a broader political settlement," he said.
Like Ruili and other border towns, for now it is an outpost in limbo.
Unfinished streets lead to a future industrial park and warehousing, trading and exhibition zone. Up the road lie checkpoints and an army base tasked with keeping Myanmar's conflict within its own borders.
Myanmar is renewing efforts to seek a cease-fire with the Kachine rebels. Without peace, any new infrastructure in the region would be prone to attack, said Jan Zalewski, an analyst with IHS Global Insight.
Yang, who opted to join the family business instead of seeking work further inland, has pinned his hopes on an expressway, under construction 50 kilometers (30 miles) away, which could eventually link Houqiao and the rest of China to northern Myanmar, India and Bangladesh.
"Once they build the road we will be able to sell much more than we can now, even to India," said Yang.
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