Germany won Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was the 55th annual Eurovision Song Contest, broadcasted from the Telenor Arena in Barum, a suburb of Oslo, Norway.
Acts from 25 countries took to the stage during the event, hoping to impress voters from across Europe. Germany emerged triumphant at this year's Eurovision Song Contest with Lena singing "Satellite" as the UK limped home in last place. Turkey's MaNga came in second place, with Romania third and Denmark fourth. Russia was given only the 11th place. Organisers also allowed Spain to perform twice during the event after a fan disrupted his first performance by jumping on stage.
With 246 points, Germany was named the winner of the contest. It was their second win after 28 years and the first time since 1997 that a Big 4 country won the contest. Speaking after her win, 19-year-old Lena, said: "I'm so happy and so thankful and so grateful." Even though Lena danced regularly during her childhood – from Ballet to Jazz and Hip Hop – she made her way to music without piano lessons or vocal training. But she got her chance, grabbed it and developed rapidly.
It was my last podcast in this academic year. So I want to make a conclusion. Speaking about this podcast it was long but very interesting. It was not about economy that’s why the vocabulary was clear. As for the whole time of listening podcasts during this academic year I want to say that I see a real progress.

Carl Zeiss: A State Within a State

I'm going to tell you about report from Germany on its microeconomics I've listened to (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004v8xg). This podcast examines German partition and reunification as seen through the lens of one of the country’s most prestigious companies, Carl Zeiss.
The company was founded in 1846 and built a global reputation for producing high quality microscopes, scientific instruments, cameras and lenses. Originally based in Jena in eastern Germany, the company was split at the end of the Second World War. Like Germany itself, Carl Zeiss was divided after 1945 and the history of the two Zeiss factories, both specializing in optical technologies, mirrors post-war political, social and technological separation and subsequent re-unification. Both parts of the Carl Zeiss company initially struggled to maintain contact. But the bitterness and mistrust of the Cold War soon created deep political, economic and social divisions and the two parts of the company became bitter international rivals, arguing about who owned the Carl Zeiss trademark on the world market. But 20 years ago, the Berlin Wall came down and while Germany reunified, Carl Zeiss in Oberkocken was determined that it too, should be reunited with Carl Zeiss in the East.
Now over 100 years old, Zeiss continues to be associated with expensive and high-quality optical lenses. Zeiss lenses are generally thought to be elegant and well-constructed, yielding high-quality images. Even old lens designs demonstrate engineering elegance.
As for my self-judgement I want to say that in this podcast I found difficult the fact that the voice of Tim Whewell was unintelligible. So, I couldn’t understand thoroughly everything. However as the spirit of the speech remained clear for me I think that I managed the task.