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.
Daylilies are flowering perennials native to China, Korea and Japan. There are over 60,000 registered daylily cultivars worldwide, but the best-known is the so-called tawny' or orange daylily. The tawny daylily goes by other names: ditch lily, tiger lily, tiger daylily, common daylily. In some parts of the United States such as Wisconsin, the tawny daylily is considered an invasive species. Daylilies grow in clumps that can be separated to grow plants in new locations.