Cross Cultural Health Care Program CCHCPThe Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP) has been addressing broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide. Through a combination of cultural competency trainings, interpreter trainings, research projects, community coalition building, and other services, the Cross Cultural Health Care Program serves as a bridge between communities and Health Care institutions to ensure full access to quality Health Care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.

Brian Tierney, owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, is putting himself forward as a dark-horse candidate to acquire Dow Jones and its flagship Wall Street Journal newspaper.

– Inquirer owner interested in Dow bid

All day a firehouse in Charleston, S.C. was a center of gravity in a stricken city, its normal camaraderie stretched far beyond brotherhood.

– City Mourns Firefighters and 9 Lost on the Job: Fathers, Mentors, Friends

A Sony Ericsson wristwatch, communicating wirelessly with a user's cellphone, vibrates and lights up with an incoming phone number, or caller ID, in this Jan. 18, 2007 file photo in New York. The consortium behind the Bluetooth wireless standard announced Tuesday, June 12, 2007 that Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is contributing a technology that promises to bring the wireless connections to devices that are too small for regular Bluetooth chips. The technology, called Wibree, opens up the possibility of a host of small wearable gadgets, like watches, heart rate monitors, pedometers and pill boxes that communicate with Bluetooth-equipped cell phones or computers. Wibree should make it possible to make smaller watches with the same functionality as existing ones. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)AP – The consortium behind the Bluetooth wireless standard announced Tuesday that Nokia Corp., the world’s largest maker of cell phones, is contributing a technology that promises to bring the wireless connections to devices that are too small for regular Bluetooth chips.


– Bluetooth links up with rival technology
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Leading hardware and software firms join a campaign to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from computers.

– Google backs green PC plan

Wis. Moves Toward Universal Health Care (AP via Yahoo! Finance)A sweeping universal Health Care plan that would make Wisconsin’s system look more like Canada’s than anything in the United States has cleared a major hurdle but its prognosis remains murky.

Robert Novak: The great national Health Care debate has begun (New Hampshire Union Leader)There is no need to wait until a new President is elected next year for the great national Health Care debate. It is under way right now, disguised as a routine extension of an immensely popular, non-controversial 10- year-old program of providing coverage to poor children. In fact, this proposal is the thin edge of the wedge to achieve the longtime goal of government-supplied universal health .