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Winter Wonder Slam 2006 Rocks with Diversity for the Holidays
Multi-Grammy and Dove winner tobyMac whose critically acclaimed album Diverse City has just received RIAA gold certification, will once again live up to the definition of 揹iversity?as the Winter Wonder Slam Tour announces details on the highly anticipated 2006 line-up of artists and markets.
Premier Productions, the nation抯 leading Christian concert promoter, is again this year joining forces with Total Axxess Radio for presentation of the November 24th to December 16th run of Winter Wonder Slam. The tour is scheduled to include 16 markets.
As in past years, Winter Wonder Slam will benefit the work of the U.S. Marine Corps in its?annual Toys For Tots campaign. The mission of the Toys For Tots Foundation is to provide a tangible sign of hope to economically disadvantaged children at Christmas and concert-goers will again this year be encouraged to bring an unwrapped gift to the event. Last year抯 Winter Slam produced multiple sell-outs over its?eight market run, setting a new tour record for the amount of gifts collected for Toys For Tots.
Noted Shane Quick of Premier: 搕obyMac continues the tradition again this year of bringing with him to the stage a tremendous line-up of artists who, like him, share the dedication to a 慶oncert with a cause?through the benefits received by Toys For Tots. We at Premier are looking forward to this year抯 tour setting a new gold standard in both concert attendance and the amount of good accomplished for a wonderful cause that benefits children.?nbsp;
Talent set to perform this year on the billing with tobyMac includes a litany of hot new artists in contemporary Christian music. The tour will feature Canadian band Hawk Nelson whose signature brand of pop/punk has lit up the Christian charts with their latest single. Everything You Ever Wanted continuing their wave of success nationally. INO/Epic artists The Afters, whose single Beautiful Love experienced major success on radio and MTV, will be making their initial debut on the Wonder Slam stage, as will Gotee/Maverick artist Family Force 5, bringing their personal style of 慶runk rock?to the stage. Rounding out the tour package is breaking Gotee artist Ayiesha Woods whose June release of her debut single Happy has climbed the national charts this summer.
In making the initial announcement of this year抯 tour, tobyMac noted his pleasure at the artists assembled for the Winter Wonder Slam mission. He notes: 揇uring the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to One. The Winter Wonder Slam Tour does have a Christmas theme but not to worry-- every band will be playing their hits and doing it the way they do!?/FONT>
It抯 a tour close to the heart of the artist for whom 2006 has been another banner year with the acquisition of two more Dove Awards and the success of his latest project Renovating Diverse City leading a fresh list of career credits. Winter Wonder Slam 2006 will be a welcome return of the concert series that抯 become a traditional holiday family reunion for tobyMac and national audiences. It抯 a reunion that抯 anticipated to again this year bring the real meaning of Christmas to concert goers and needy children alike.
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Wal-Mart grows 'green' strategies
BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Andrew Ruben, vice president of strategic planning for the world's biggest retailer, leans across the table and pleads, passionately, for consumers to embrace the compact fluorescent light bulb. Though a CFL bulb costs more, it uses 75 percent less energy and lasts 10 times longer than a regular bulb.
"Tell everyone to buy this light bulb!" he says, his voice trembling just a bit. "If we could get every American to change "a single light bulb", we'd be doing the world a world of good."
What's sparking Ruben's fervor is a new mission at Wal-Mart: embrace the Earth. advertisement
The $312.4 billion retailing giant has launched an aggressive program to encourage "sustainability" of the world's fisheries, forests and farmlands, to slash energy use and reduce waste, to push its 60,000 suppliers to produce goods that don't harm the environment, and to urge consumers to buy green. This week for the first time, Wal-Mart will report on its carbon dioxide emissions - the "greenhouse" gases that cause global warming.
"We asked ourselves: If we had known 10 years ago what challenges we would face today, what would we have done different?" says CEO Lee Scott. "What struck us was: This world is much more fragile than any of us would have thought years ago."
Already, Wal-Mart has become the world's largest buyer of organic cotton. It introduced "fair trade" coffee at its Sam's Clubs. It began selling some organic foods in the spring and will introduce others this fall. And it is pushing suppliers to use smaller packages to cut waste.
Critics like WakeUpWalmart call the efforts "green-washing." They say the efforts are an attempt to polish a corporate image tarnished by controversies over low pay and limited health care benefits for its employees and "anti-big box" feelings in some towns.
Environmentalists ecstatic
But many environmentalists are ecstatic. Wal-Mart is a very big rock to throw into the pro-environment pond, and its ripples, they say, will be felt across the globe.
"Wal-Mart is a huge player, and they have enormous clout," says Scott Burns of the World Wildlife Fund, which has 10 employees working with Wal-Mart on several projects, including sustainability of fisheries. "They're sending a very powerful signal that already is having effects on the way people produce products for them."
Wal-Mart says it will:
• Slash gasoline use by its trucking fleet, one of the largest in the nation, and use more hybrid trucks to increase efficiency by 25 percent over the next three years and double it within 10 years. That will save $310 million a year by 2015, the company says.
• Buy 100 percent of its wild-caught salmon and frozen fish for the North American market only from fisheries that are certified as "sustainable" by the non-profit Marine Stewardship Council within three to five years. That designation means areas of the ocean aren't fished in ways that decimate fish populations.
• Cut energy use at its more than 7,000 stores worldwide by 30 percent and cut greenhouse-gas emissions at existing stores by 20 percent in seven years. Wal-Mart is the largest electricity user in the United States.
• Reduce solid waste from U.S. stores by 25 percent within three years.
The company, second-largest in revenue in the world behind ExxonMobil, has vowed to invest $500 million a year in energy-saving technologies.
It has built test lab stores in Aurora, Colo., and McKinney, Texas, where it is experimenting with everything from wind power to permeable asphalt that lets rainwater seep through parking lots to help refill groundwater aquifers. It wants to build stores that produce 30 percent fewer greenhouse emissions in the next four years.
And it has reached out to environmental groups, many of which were once highly critical of the company; Wal-Mart has made them part of its in-house planning.
On Climate Change Day in mid-July, it hosted former vice president Al Gore at its corporate headquarters here. "We know that Wal-Mart is not necessarily an easy place to come to," Scott admits. Yet after Gore showed his global-warming film, "An Inconvenient Truth," he got a standing ovation from a crowded Wal-Mart auditorium.
"A lot of organizations in that room had campaigned against Wal-Mart. We were kind of skeptical," says Paul Rice, founding president and CEO of TransFair USA, the nation's only group that certifies products such as coffee as "fair trade," meaning they are bought from groups that pay growers fair wages. "But no one is anymore."
Wal-Mart isn't pushing sustainability solely out of the goodness of its heart. It has realized that it can make money by selling products that are environmentally friendly. It can make millions selling recycled trash or save hundreds of millions by cutting transportation costs.
It even is actively supporting the idea of a system for companies to "trade" carbon dioxide credits. Wal-Mart believes it can earn lots of credits by saving energy, and it can sell them for millions of dollars to companies that can't. All of those savings will go into keeping prices on its products low, it says.
Wal-Mart also says it is worried about having enough products, primarily fish and other foods, to sell to consumers in the future.
"We set out to do (sustainability) as an obligation, a good-works effort," says CEO Scott. "But we discovered the truth: The real reason to do this is for the business itself."
Wal-Mart has formed 14 sustainable value networks made up of employees, suppliers and environmentalists. The groups get together regularly in person or on conference calls to brainstorm how products that don't hurt the environment can be made or bought.
The networks work with Wal-Mart's buyers and suppliers, and the suppliers of its suppliers, to push change all the way down the business chain. "We've never worked this way before," says Matt Kistler, vice president of product and packaging innovation.
They're mapping whole product lines to find out where the environment is hurt along the way and how to stop that.
"When you hear your words coming out of their mouths, it's amazing," says Suzanne Apple of the World Wildlife Fund. "These are issues we've been working on for years."
Fishing for profits
Manish Kumar supplies frozen fish to Wal-Mart.
Like many of the company's 60,000 suppliers across the globe, Wal-Mart is his biggest customer. In the four years since he landed the business, he's become the retailer's largest supplier of frozen fish in the United States. That's tens of millions of pounds of fish a year.
The way he does business today is radically different than just eight months ago, when he and other fish suppliers were called to Bentonville for a meeting on buying fish only from sustainable fisheries.
"We didn't even know what the Marine Stewardship Council was. Now, it's all we do. The speed with which things are happening is incredible," says Kumar, CEO of The Fishin' Co., based in Pittsburgh. Now, he works with 18 fish-processing plants that use only fish accredited by the MSC.
Wal-Mart, the world's largest buyer of fish depending on the species, now sells 10 fish products with the blue MSC label, including wild salmon and pollock.
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UD cruises past Hornets again
DOVER -- The reason behind Delaware State's decision to play its intrastate rivalry baseball game against the University of Delaware at the off-campus location of Schutte Park was simple: play under the lights and draw a good crowd.
So, almost by design, a fairly enthusiastic and full crowd swelled over the bleachers until only standing room remained. But the result was all too familiar for the Hornets and DSU coach J.P. Blandin.
Delaware pounded out 21 hits in an 18-7 win on a cool Tuesday night.
The result was nearly an exact replica of the Hens' 16-7 victory over DSU last Tuesday at Delaware. That wasn't the only thing of concern for Blandin, who had the idea to change the sight so fans in Kent County could watch a college baseball game at night.
"My hope was to see how enthusiastic this county would be to see college baseball," he said. "I wanted to make it more convenient for them."
The Hornets (12-24-2) stayed close and trailed 5-4 into the fourth inning before the Hens came to bat in the sixth. UD piled on eight runs on eight hits to break it open against DSU starting pitcher Justin Bittner.
Hens sophomore outfielder Dan Richardson went 4-for-5 with five RBIs and a home run. Ryan Englehardt and Ryan Jablonski were each 3-for-4.
In the sixth inning, Blue Hen freshman Alex Buchholz led off with a walk. The next seven batters reached safely, with eight coming across, to build a 17-4 lead.
Delaware ripped four home runs, one a two-run shot by Bryan Hagerich in the sixth. Buchholz was 2-for-4 with five RBIs for the Hens (21-13).
"We were going pretty well all night," Delaware coach Jim Sherman said.
Hens starter Evan Bowen allowed four runs on five hits in 3 2/3 innings. Chad Kerfoot pitched 3 1/3 innings of relief to earn the victory.
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Boeing Signs Agreement With China For Next-Generation 737s
KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 (Bernama) -- The Boeing Company has signed the general purchase agreement today with China Aviation Supplies Import and Export Group for 80 Boeing Next-Generation 737 airplanes.
In a statement from Washington Tuesday, Boeing said the 80 airplanes in the agreement combine with 70 airplanes, agreed to in November 2005 to complete a planned 150-airplane purchase.
The first 50 of those Next-Generation 737 airplanes were booked in December 2005 with an additional 20 booked in January 2006.
Boeing expects to finalize agreements for the 80 new orders with the individual Chinese airlines over the next few weeks.
The 737 is ideally suited for the Chinese market and represents a large portion of the country's fleet.
Of the 542 Boeing airplanes in China's fleet, 366 are 737 family aircraft.
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The Video of X Romance Worths 3 Million Dollars?
BEIJING, March. 17 -- Sex sells. If it involves a big boy like Colin Farrell, it booms. And if it involves a glam girl with one-fourth desi genes, the price can simply shoot up to many many millions.
The former glamour model Nicole Narain - Playboy‘s Miss January 2002 -- has been seeking to market a videotaped sex session with the ‘Alexander‘ of Hollywood-Colin Farrell and if the buzz is to be believed, the Indian-American model could get a whopping a 3 million dollars as advance payment from an Internet porn outfit for this.
According to thesmokinggun.com, Nicole Narain is stipulated in an October 2005 option agreement she signed with Internet Commerce Group (ICG), the Arizona firm that would be poised to distribute the 15-minute video if Farrell‘s Los Angeles Superior Court legal challenge fails.
Nicole Narain dated the Hollywood hellraiser three years ago.
The video reportedly shows the movie hunk engaging in sex acts with the former model during their brief romance.
Narain has insisted the pair never agreed to keep the tape private, and hoped to have the case dismissed in order to benefit financially by its public release.
Leodis Matthews, an attorney for Narain, said: ‘Sales of the videotape could represent significant income for my client.
"It would rival that of the notorious Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape," he said.
There is a rider though. To get to that point, Nicole needs to prevail in her lawsuit against the Hollywood star, who is suing to keep the steamy video under wraps.
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Snow-related death reaches 104 in Japan
The death toll from snow-related accidents in Japan since December reached 104 Thursday, a Kyodo News tally shows, making this winter the deadliest in more than two decades.
The latest victim of the bad weather is a 73-year-old fisher man in Hokkaido, who died after falling into the sea Thursday, probably during snow removal around the port, according to local coast guard.
Last winter, 88 people were killed in snow-related accidents in Japan. In the 1983-1984 season, the toll is 131.
Heavy snow kept falling in many parts of western and northern Japan since December. Statistics from Japan's Meteorological Agency show that in the badly-hit Niigata prefecture, at least seven observation stations record more than two meters of snow by 7 p.m. (GMT 1000) Thursday. Tsunan, Niigata still has 3.28 meters of snow. Meanwhile, Sukayu, Aomori prefecture, recorded 3.58 meters of snow.
Besides leading to fatal accidents, the severe weather has cut off traffics in some areas and caused the prices of vegetables and fruits to soar.
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US threatens to take Syria to United Nations
The United States claimed on Wednesday that Syria had been blocking the inquiry into the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri and threatened to take the issue to the United Nations for action.
"Syria must cease obstructing the investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Hariri and instead cooperate fully and unconditionally, as required by UN Security Council resolutions," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a statement.
"We call upon the Syrian regime to respond positively to the requests of UN Independent International Investigation (UNIIIC). We intend to refer this matter back to the Security Council if Syrian obstruction continues," Rice said, adding that the United States has "grave and continuing concerns about Syria's destabilizing behavior and sponsorship of terrorism."
The United States has been accusing Syria of blocking the investigation to the murder case of Hariri. Syria has denied it has any links to the killing of Hariri.
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Bin Laden's aide boycotts Guantanamo trial
A former aide of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden boycotted a US military court when he was brought to a trial Wednesday at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Ali Hamza Ahmad al-Bahlul, a 37-year-old Yemeni, defiantly told the U.S. war crimes tribunal he will boycott the court because he was not allowed to defend himself and did not recognize its authority.
U.S. prosecutors allege Bahlul had made a videotape on bin Laden's orders to glorify al Qaeda's October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors.
He is also accused of wearing an explosive belt to protect bin Laden when he traveled with him in 2001.
During his court appearance, Bahlul held up a sign written in Arabic which reads "boycott."
"I am boycotting all sessions, even if I'm forced to be present,"Bahlul said via a translator.
He also managed to speak out the word "boycott" in English.
In the end, Army Col. Peter E. Brownback, the presiding officerof the tribunal, denied Bahlul's request to represent himself and set a May 15 trial date.
It was the second time Bahlul appeared before a war crime tribunal, which was set up by the U.S. military under the authorization of U.S. President George W. Bush, in order to try "enemy combatants" after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001.
Later Wednesday, a separate panel was to start hearing the caseof Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was only 15 when he was detained in Afghanistan in 2002 and accused of killing a US military medic with a hand grenade during a battle.
Khadr's defenders have also protested over the handling of the trials.
The latest hearings came on the fourth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo detention facility for prisoners roundedup in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hotspots in the "war on terror" declared by Bush in 2001.
At present, there are about 500 prisoners from almost 30 countries in Guantanamo, most of them being detained indefinitely without a trial.
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China denounces US criticism on human rights
China strongly opposes to the assault of the US government on the pretext of human rights issue, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said here Sunday.
Qin made the remarks in response to the US State Department spokesman's statement on Saturday's International Human Rights Day, in which the US side criticized China's human rights situation.
Qin said China has scored remarkable achievements in the field of human rights protection. The Chinese people fully enjoy human rights and freedom according to law.
"The Chinese government and people expressed their strong opposition and firmly opposed to the US government's practice in the name of the so-called human rights issue that wantonly assaulted China," said the spokesman.
The United States itself has severe problems of violating human rights, and it is being strictly criticized by the international society as it refused the investigation of a special rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Commission, said Qin.
"However, the US government still intentionally depicted itself as a human rights guard, often criticizing other countries' human rights 'problems' with the attempt to shift others' attention," Qin said.
"While these political tricks have already been penetrated by the public and what the US side has done is just the opposite to what it wishes," he added.
"As the year is drawing to an end, we suggest the US side should take a clear consideration of the situation and make self-reflection on its own human rights problems, "said the spokesman.
The US government is well advised to give up its double standard on human rights and readjust the mistaken practices of interfere in the internal affairs of other countries on the pretext of human rights issue, Qin said.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour implicitly criticized the United States on Wednesday for violating the global ban on torture, saying the absolute ban on torture is becoming a casualty of the so-called "war on terror" through loosened legal definition, secret detention, hand-over of prisoners without adequate safeguards and other practices.
40% food contain more aluminium than standard
BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Forty percent of food stuffs in China contain more aluminium than allowed under the national standard, the Beijing News reported here Monday.
Many foods contain 2 to 9 times more aluminium than the recommended amount, the paper quoted the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention as saying.
The center has investigated the aluminium content in various foods in 12 provinces and autonomous regions in China the paper said.
A typical person in China consumes 34 milligrams of aluminium in their daily diet. This is within the limits set up by the World Health Organization for adults but it could but dangerous for kids, the paper said.
"Too much aluminium will cause neurological diseases and a loss of calcium," Yu Kang, a noted professor with Beijing Union Medical College Hospital was quoted by the paper as saying.
A diet that is high in aluminium "can hindered a child's intellectual development and physical growth," Yu added.
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