China sees more backing for home-grown encryption standard
The News Review:
- China sees more backing for home-grown encryption standard
- Free Range on Food
- South Korea to introduce Internet code of ethics
- Real-life violence turns Mexico off drug-lord films
- Villa finishing with flourish
- England ‘con-Tests’ show up our myopia
China sees more backing for home-grown encryption standard
The Age – May 23, 2007
“A complete WAPI industry chain is already taking shape and itis set to prevail in China,” said Jiang Shiping, chairman of theWAPI alliance, an industry group pushing the standard. Encryption software transforms messages into virtuallyunbreakable code in order to make sure the information does notwind up in the wrong hands. China has been pushing hard for its own standards in a range ofproduct categories including third-generation mobile phones,digital TV and home networking in a bid to leverage domestic firmsand reduce reliance on foreign technologies. The China Daily said technology standards issue will likely bediscussed at the two-day Sino-US Strategic Economic Dialogue, whichstarted in Washington on Tuesday. Spelling follows North American usage, along with foreign currency and measurement units.
Free Range on Food
Washington Post – May 23, 2007
I’d rather buy my own ingredients and do it simpler. I was shocked to see a pound of black beans with Walmart’s house brand coming from China. Don’t we grow beans in the US??Bonnie: Let the legislation and home-grown efforts begin. You’re shocked? Walmart and China have been good for each other, productwise, it seems. _______________________Turkey burgers need love too: Submitting early with my plea. Let me first say: I DID a recipe search for turkey burger recipes that the Post has run before, and yes, many of them look (and taste) delicious.
South Korea to introduce Internet code of ethics
The Age – May 23, 2007
Local portal operators will be asked to filter out obscene,defamatory and other unwanted material. If they do not, they willbe punished, he said. There are 18 home-grown portal sites in service. Younger peopleare especially active in creating and uploading image files andvideo clips. Experts say that, unlike text, filtering of video footage istechnically difficult. In March, a sex video clip was posted on Yahoo Korea for severalhours, prompting police to launch a criminal investigation. In response, the information ministry blocked 180 foreignwebsites used by South Koreans to spread obscene material on thelocal portals.
Real-life violence turns Mexico off drug-lord films
Reuters AlertNet – May 23, 2007
0 article header end –>. Mexican actor and director Rumaldo Bucio, famed for portraying trigger-happy villains in home-grown films such as "Narcos of Death" said growing disgust at increasingly violent traffickers had forced him to stop making films about them. "Drug traffickers were seen as gods; they were idolized," said Bucio, better known by his stage name Agustin Bernal. "Not any more, people are shunning all this in movies and real life. " President Felipe Calderon has sent thousands of troops to fight competing cartels in a three-way war of unprecedented violence that has killed over 900 people this year. Drug gangs have used parts of Mexico as dumping grounds for corpses and severed heads of rivals.
Villa finishing with flourish
Telegraph.co.uk – May 23, 2007
This was their eighth game unbeaten and victory was never in doubt once the home-grown Gabriel Agbonlahor and £9. 5 million signing Ashley Young had given the Midlanders a two-goal lead by the interval. Villa’s third goal, by veteran midfielder Patrik Berger, was the sort of high-quality product manager Martin O’Neill will be hoping to see repeated more often next season, when he is expected to be provided with substantial funds for buying the new players he still needs, this comfortable victory notwithstanding. United manager Neil Warnock, normally so volatile, was surprisingly meek and mild afterwards. “Sometimes,” he said, “you’ve just got to hold up your hands and say you were beaten by a better side.
England ‘con-Tests’ show up our myopia
Telegraph.co.uk – May 23, 2007
Having alluded to the play-offs, there remains contention about their validity, but those of us who disagree probably have to shut up because they are here to stay; not least because of the extra revenue they generate. The finance director at Twickenham will be glad that Leicester and Gloucester will grace the final, but happily they also represent the best of English rugby in a number of ways this season. Both have produced and played a lot of home-grown talent; both have shown, in patches, the necessary dynamism in the loose and both are passionately supported. On this last point, and to all Tigers fans, would it be too much for you to learn a chant that has more than two syllables?On Saturday, Leicester effectively dismissed the Bristol challenge with two pieces of unorthodoxy, a quick 22 and long line-out, that so wrong-footed their West Country opponents that they never really recaptured their poise. The traditional strengths of driving mauls and tight forward play were augmented with ingenuity. Can they do the treble? While I doubt it, I would, nevertheless, not put much of my own money against it. I was asked whether this was the start of another dynasty and it is too early to say, but the foundations are there and in almost every way, on and off the field, Leicester seem to have addressed the important issue facing a professional club.