Alongside the big American name artists the Berlin Jazz Festival also increasingly presents musicians from all quarters, artists whose music centres on crossing the borders between local folk traditions and global sounds and trends.
Ford Agrees to Sell Volvo to a Fast-Rising Chinese Company. HONG KONG â Ford Motor reached an agreement on Sunday to sell its Volvo subsidiary to a Chinese conglomerate, in the clearest confirmation yet of Chinaâs global ambitions in the auto industry. The Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, based in Hangzhou, agreed to pay $1.8 billion for Volvo, with $1.6 billion in cash and the rest in a note payable to Ford. Ford paid $6 billion in 1999 to acquire Volvo, leaving the company with a substantial loss on its investment.
Print. Dr. Taco Geertsma is a radiologist and head of the Ultrasound department at Hospital Gelderse Vallei, The Netherlands. He is also the founder of Ultrasoundcases.info, a teaching website that makes case files available free of charge for educational use to hundreds of thousands of people every year.SI: Describe for us the qualities that make a good radiologist or sonographer. Dr. Geertsma: Ultrasound is now being performed by a lot of people, many of whom are not a radiologist or a doctor.