Nonprofit has new home: Health Plan of San Joaquin center built with…
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- Nonprofit has new home: Health Plan of San Joaquin center built with…
- Tesoro buying on West Coast.
- China leapfrogs to 4G mobiles
- Bush stresses taxes, trade in speech
- Manga in the land of Asterix
Nonprofit has new home: Health Plan of San Joaquin center built with…
Free with registration – The Record – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 30, 2007
30–FRENCH CAMP — Health Plan of San Joaquin has moved into its new headquarters. The home-grown, nonprofit, managed-care health plan known primarily for providing benefit.
Tesoro buying on West Coast.
Free with registration – San Antonio Express-News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 30, 2007
| San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX) (January, 2007). 30–In a move that boosts the national profile of home-grown Tesoro Corp. , the company said Monday it is buying a refinery near Los Angeles, along with 250 filling statio.
China leapfrogs to 4G mobiles
Times of India – Jan 30, 2007
China has leapfrogged into 4G mobile
systems, which provide faster wireless speeds for transmitting data and images
on phone networks. The home
grown technology, launched in Shanghai on Sunday is expected to be put into
commercial use by 2010, and is said to provide data transmission speeds of up to
100 megabytes per second, against an 10 Mbps under 3G which was not launched in
China and is confined mainly to GSM operators in Europe and CDMA operators in
Korea and Japan. It could even
be faster than entry-level broadband connections, which transmit voice and data
at speeds of 256 Kbps or more, and many times quicker than dial-up net
connections which usually have speeds of around 64
Kbps. With 4G technology
allowing faster data transmission sharply improving, consumers could hope to get
multi-channel high resolution TV broadcasting right on their
cellphones. While China claims
to have developed its own technology, other than what is used elsewhere,
technology buffs are surprised at the latest development. The protocol developed
by 10 “leading domestic institutions” calling themselves “FuTURE Project”, is
estimated to have a rollout cost of $19.
Bush stresses taxes, trade in speech
CNNMoney.com – Jan 30, 2007
To help reduce the country’s dependence on oil from abroad, the president stressed the need to develop new technologies and fuel sources. "I’m a big believer in ethanol," he told the Caterpillar audience. Last week, he asked Congress to set a goal of reducing American gasoline consumption by 20 percent over 10 years, mostly through a nearly five-fold increase in use of home-grown fuels like ethanol by 2017. Bush wants to achieve the target through improved vehicle fuel standards and increased production of alternative fuels. About 60 percent of U. petroleum supplies currently come from imports.
Manga in the land of Asterix
The Age – Jan 30, 2007
Generations of French people were raised on a diet of comicbooks, known here as “bandes dessinees,” feasting on the adventuresof Asterix the potion-drinking Gaul, the intrepid boy-reporterTintin, and their descendants. “In every French home you’ll find a few ‘bande dessinee’ albums,it’s a real part of our culture,” says Nicolas Finet, an organiserof the annual International Comics Festival, a four-day jamboreethat opens this week in the western French city of Angouleme. Last year alone, more than 4,000 new comic book titles hit theshelves in France and French-speaking Belgium and Switzerland – athree-fold increase since 2000 – with more than 40 million copiessold, according to market researchers GfK. But in recent years, characters with names like “Kakashi” or”Mamoru” have been jostling for attention with theirFrench-sounding counterparts, with manga now accounting for 40 percent of all comic book sales in France. For the first time in its 34-year history, the Angoulemefestival has set aside a dedicated manga showroom, with debates andscreenings of anime films, the motion picture answer to manga,while half a dozen Japanese titles are in the running for the topprize. By some estimates France is now the biggest market for mangaoutside Japan, and Finet says the French market has “fundamentallychanged” as a result… France’s publishing giants, who saw the manga wave coming, havemanaged to salvage their overall market share by licensing anddistributing most of the Japanese titles sold in France. So it is the authors who face the biggest challenge, as mangafans increasingly desert traditional Franco-Belgian comics. But some French-speaking authors are already trying to learnfrom manga – its real-life tempo and cinematic visual codes, withepic stories drawn out over several volumes – and the firsthome-grown manga started appearing in France last year. In Paris a school called Eurasiam was set up in 2005 to turnFrench comic artists into genuine “mangaka,” and a Belgian artist,Vanyda, won the US magazine Publishers’ Weekly’s bestmanga award in 2006 for her album L’Immeuble d’en Face(The Building Over the Road). “It is still early days, but things here have started tochange,” says Finet, who sees manga’s success as “a sign theworld’s centre of gravity is shifting eastwards”. “Since the 1990s, teenage readers have felt the need to golooking for new points of reference, to break with the oldergeneration that looked more towards America. “Manga’s just cooler,” shrugs 20-year-old medical student VictorLeloup, as he thumbs through the Japanese titles – ranging fromrobots and space heroes to gritty social realism – in a large Parisbookstore.