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Introducing Joss Stone Debuts at Number 2 on Billboard Album Chart and Goes Top 10 in More Than 15 Countries.
British Soul Star's Introducing Joss Stone Is the Highest Chart Debut Ever for a Female British Artist in the SoundScan Era.
Photo: Joss Stone Debuts at # 2 on Billboard Charts. (Photo: Virgin Records, Paul Conroy)
NEW YORK -- With her album's Number 2 debut on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart this week, soul singer and songwriter Joss Stone leads a bona fide British chart invasion by female artists that includes KT Tunstall, Corinne Bailey Rae, Lily Allen, and Amy Winehouse. Introducing Joss Stone, the Grammy-winning star's third album, sold 118,000 copies in its first week, and is not only a personal best for Stone, but the highest-ever chart debut by a female artist from the U.K. since Billboard began deriving chart information from Nielsen SoundScan data in 1992. Worldwide, the album has gone Top 10 in more than 15 countries.
Introducing Joss Stone, which features special guests Common and Lauryn Hill, has received glowing reviews since its release by Virgin Records on March 20th.
Introducing Joss Stone was produced largely by Stone's main musical collaborator, Raphael Saadiq (The Roots, Macy Gray) and features lyrics written or co-written by Stone herself. "It's the first album that is truly me," the 19-year-old Devon, England, native says. "These are my words, and this is who I am as an artist." |GlobalGiants.com|
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NEW YORK -- Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company has released both the front and back covers of the highly anticipated "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," J.K. Rowling's seventh and final Harry Potter book due in stores on July 21st at 12:01 a.m. Once again, the cover art was created by Mary GrandPre, the illustrator of all six previous U.S. editions of the Harry Potter books. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Photo: Chinese president Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin, L-R, shake hands as they pose for a photograph in the State Kremlin Palace at the opening of the Year of China in Russia. (ITAR-TASS / Dmitry Astakhov) |GlobalGiants.com|
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Photo: European Flags flutter at the entrance of the European Commission's Berlaymont building at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 27, 2007.
Police in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Italy launched simultaneous dawn raids today in a corruption investigation involving European public servants. More than 150 police took part in over 30 raids, including at the European Commission's premises and the European Parliament in Brussels, in which investigators seized numerous documents. (GERARD CERLES/AFP/Getty Images) |GlobalGiants.com|
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Demonstrates Zero-Emissions Mail Delivery Vehicles at White House Event.
Photo: Julie Rios, Director of Energy Initiatives, U.S. Postal Service, talks to President Bush about the Postal Service's 30 zero-emissions electric trucks, which deliver mail in New York City. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman looks on.
WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The U.S. Postal Service has a long history of exploring cleaner, more energy-efficient, and more cost- effective ways to deliver the nation's mail. And, as such, it has acquired the nation's largest fleet of alternate-fuel vehicles -- some 38,000 cars, trucks and minivans -- powered by electricity, compressed natural gas, liquid propane gas, ethanol (E85), biodiesel fuel, and hydrogen fuel cells.
To help promote the development of alternate-fuel technologies as well as to encourage the availability of alternate fuels, the Postal Service participated in a White House event today, demonstrating the technology behind a hydrogen fuel-cell minivan and an electric two-ton truck -- both zero- emissions mail-delivery vehicles.
An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the USA, 146 million homes and businesses, six days a week. It has 37,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses. The US Postal Service has annual revenues of $73 billion and delivers more than 46 percent of the world's mail volume. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Animal Planet Special MY DADDY THE CROC HUNTER Premiering Friday, June 8.
Photo: Terri and Bindi Irwin, Copyright Discovery Communications Inc/Best Picture Show 2007. (Discovery Kids Channel)
SILVER SPRING, Md., March 27 -- While most people know Bindi Irwin as The Crocodile Hunter's irrepressible daughter, those closest to her know that she deeply believed in her father's mission to protect wildlife. So in early 2006, Bindi and Steve Irwin began filming BINDI: THE JUNGLE GIRL to help get more children interested in wildlife conservation. Despite Steve's untimely death later that year, Bindi and her mom Terri, with the support of their family, friends and staff at Australia Zoo, decided to carry on Steve's legacy and finish filming the series.
Discovery Kids Channel has now announced that BINDI: THE JUNGLE GIRL premieres Saturday, June 9, at 5 PM ET/PT as a weekly series.
In BINDI: THE JUNGLE GIRL, Bindi introduces viewers to the wonderful world of wildlife from her cozy treehouse set high up in the rainforest. While interacting with a wide variety of animals from koalas to elephants to snakes, Bindi explains how all animals -- both cute and not-so-cute -- need to be respected and protected.
In addition, the night before Bindi's new series premieres on Discovery Kids Channel, Animal Planet presents MY DADDY THE CROC HUNTER, in which Bindi, with her mom's help, hosts her very first special and shares her personal look at growing up with her famous dad, The Crocodile Hunter. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Photo: Aftershocks jolted the west coast of central Japan on Monday, keeping residents on edge a day after a strong earthquake killed one person, injured nearly 200 and flattened homes.
Sunday morning's 6.9-magnitude quake, which struck the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) west of Tokyo, destroyed houses, buckled roads, triggered landslides and cut off water and electricity supplies to thousands of homes. (Reuters).
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Siemens will be presenting its railway systems at the UITP (International Union of Public Transport) Congress in Helsinki in May. According to Siemens, its railway systems are environmentally friendly and use less energy. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Photo: The April 2 Special Issue of Newsweek (on newsstands March 26), "Voices of the Fallen," tells the story of the Iraq War in the words of America's dead. In letters, journals and e-mails, the war dead live on, their words testament to the realities of combat. With the bluntness of warriors facing mortal danger, they speak in voices alternately brave, fearful, cynical and tender. Theirs is the human story of war. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Polar bear cub 'Knut' drinks from a pond during the bear's first public presentation at the zoo in Berlin, Germany, Friday 23 March 2007. Hundreds of visitors and journalists attended the event. (Deutsch Presse Agentur) |GlobalGiants.com|
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MIAMI, March 23 -- Milka Duno, the first woman in history to win a major international sportscar race in North America, and CITGO Racing, announced today at Homestead-Miami Speedway that they will compete in the 2007 IndyCar Series with SAMAX Motorsport. Duno will drive the No. 23 CITGO Racing/SAMAX Motorsport Dallara/Honda/Firestone in ten IndyCar Series events this season, including the 91st Indianapolis 500. She also plans to compete at Kansas, Texas, Iowa, Watkins Glen, Nashville, Mid Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Chicago.
CITGO, based in Houston, is a refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals, refined waxes, asphalt and other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Photo: (L-R) Gabriela Ordonez and Rene Solorio.
MIAMI, March 23 -- Spanish Broadcasting System ("SBS") (NASDAQ:SBSA) announced today important upgrades to its portfolio of Internet properties, including the re-launch of its leading entertainment portal www.lamusica.com, as well as the re-branding of all of the Company's radio station Web sites. These strategic initiatives are part of SBS's ongoing Internet strategy, and include sleek upgrades to the look and feel of the Company's Web sites that will serve to enhance the overall entertainment experience for SBS online users.
LaMusica.com is a leading destination for up-to-the-minute Hispanic news and entertainment information. As part of the Web site's re-launch, SBS has completely revamped the site's user interface, including new and improved Internet graphics and links, as well as an upgraded video player, all of which more closely represent the Web site's dynamic appeal. In-line with these upgrades, the Company has appointed former "Mira" magazine photo editor Gabriela Ordonez to head-up the photo department at LaMusica.com.
In addition, with content development lying at the core of the Company's Internet strategy, LaMusica.com has unveiled a new slate of online print, video and music content that more effectively leverages SBS's radio and TV programming and its deep pool of entertainment and news talent. In-line with this initiative, SBS has appointed journalist Rene Solorio to lead LaMusica.com's entertainment news division. Rene is a former editor of the American Publishing Group, and an experienced entertainment journalist in Mexico. In his new role, he will oversee the development of the site's news and entertainment content, while also serving as an editorial contributor to SBS's Miami television station, Mega TV Channel 22.
Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. is the largest publicly traded Hispanic- controlled media and entertainment company in the United States. SBS owns and operates 20 radio stations located in the top Hispanic markets of New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco and Puerto Rico, including the #1 Spanish-language radio station in America, WSKQ-FM in New York City. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Photo: Glass-Bottomed Skywalk Unveiled over Grand Canyon: Visitors who have marveled at the Grand Canyon's vistas will now have a dizzying new option: a glass-bottom observation deck allowing them to gaze into the chasm beneath their feet. The Skywalk, unveiled Tuesday, is being touted as an engineering marvel. The glass-and-steel horseshoe extends 70 feet beyond the canyon's edge with no visible supports above or below. (WENN Photos)
HUALAPAI RESERVATION, Ariz., March 20 -- The new Grand Canyon Skywalk, the u-shaped glass bridge suspended 4,000 feet above the Colorado River, makes it possible for the first time for visitors to take in incomparable views of the western edge of the Grand Canyon. What makes this engineering marvel possible is the durable and ultra-clear glass that was designed and produced by Saint-Gobain, the world's leader in glass technology for more than 300 years.
Saint-Gobain -- which employs 24,000 people in the United States, many of them through its building materials subsidiary CertainTeed -- manufactured the low-iron Diamant(R) glass for the floor of the Skywalk at its Cologne, Germany, plant. It was processed into laminated glass at three of its European subsidiaries. The deck, approximately 10 feet wide and 70 feet deep, is made of laminated tempered glass more than two inches thick, produced in 46 pieces that were shipped directly to the western edge of the canyon. Each piece of glass is held in place by connectors specifically designed by Saint- Gobain for the bridge. The floor glass includes structural interlayers of DuPont SentryGlas(R) Plus for optical clarity and strength.
According to Roger Watson of Saint-Gobain Glass Exprover, the business which oversees architectural glass export to nations throughout the globe, the Diamant glass in the Skywalk contains a significantly lower amount of iron oxide than regular glass, which means that it is exceptionally clear, appearing virtually invisible to visitors and giving them a completely unobstructed view of the natural wonder.
The glass deck is supported by outer and inner steel beams anchored into solid stone in the wall of the Grand Canyon. The Skywalk is said to support approximately 100 pounds per square foot, can withstand an 8.0 magnitude earthquake, and 100 mph winds.
Headquartered in Paris, Saint-Gobain has more than 200,000 employees throughout the world, including 24,000 in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to its leadership in glass for architectural products, the company is the world's largest supplier of building materials and is a major manufacturer of abrasives, ceramics, and other high-performance materials. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Shows at Detroit Rock City's Legendary Cobo Arena.
Photo: Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band accompanied by Olympia Entertainment representatives.
DETROIT, March 19 -- The City of Detroit proved yet again that it is home to the greatest rock and roll audiences in the world when Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band ended their 50-city tour Saturday, March 17. In front of a lively sold out crowd, Seger enjoyed a return to both his hometown and Cobo Arena. "It was another historic performance at the legendary Cobo Arena," said Bill Lee, Olympia Entertainment's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Eleven-City North American Jaunt Offers Career Retrospective.
Photo: Chris Cornell. Photo by Max Vadukul.
LOS ANGELES, March 19 -- Fresh from the studio and eager to hit the road to promote the June 5th release of his upcoming album, Chris Cornell announced select US tour dates beginning on April 6 in Las Vegas, NV at the Vegas Grand Prix. For the first time onstage, Cornell will dig into the vault performing songs from his 13-album career including Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Audioslave, as well as premiere tracks from his upcoming release Carry On (Suretone/Interscope).
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Photo: Electric car pioneer ZAP released design drawings of a new electric crossover SUV called ZAP-X engineered by Lotus. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Photo: DRIVEN TO DELIVER: (Los Angeles) Deejay-turned-director Frank "the freeway editor" Lozano gets chauffeured to and from his gigs by his line producer Arlene Sacco so he can squeeze in final editing on his "Walking High" documentary on the Compton youth flight school for the speed-filmmaking contest, the 168 Film Festival. |GlobalGiants.com|
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., March 19 -- Always considered lucky when it comes to winning sweepstakes, 69-year-old Robert O'Neill was still surprised that the luck of the Irish was with him Sunday night when he learned that he was the winner of the 2007 HGTV Dream Home located in the Bridger's Cache Community of Winter Park, Colorado. O'Neill, who recently retired as Postmaster in Brandon, Florida, moved to upper East Tennessee to be closer to friends and family. He and his wife of six months were having dinner out with his son's family and friends when HGTV's Joan Steffend came out of the kitchen at a local restaurant bearing the news along with dessert. His surprise at receiving the news was broadcast around the country as part of HGTV Dream Home Giveaway 2007, a live television special that aired on Sunday, March 18, 2007.
O'Neill, whose name was drawn from more than 41 million entries, took home the grand-prize package with a retail value of $2.5 million. In addition to the fully furnished, custom-built Rocky Mountain home that features more than 3,000 square feet of flooring from Lumber Liquidators, the grand prize package includes a matching Doggy Dream Home, an all-new 2007 GMC Acadia and a $250,000 cash prize from LendingTree.com.
One of the most successful consumer promotions in cable TV history, the HGTV Dream Home Giveaway(SM) involves sponsorship from national advertisers including GMC Division, General Motors Corporation, Lumber Liquidators, The Iams Company, LendingTree(R), Inc., Bayer, BISSELL(R) Homecare, Inc., JELD- WEN, Inc., Moen Inc., The Sherwin-Williams Company, Staples, California Closet Company Inc., Ethan Allen, Sub-Zero Freezer Co., Inc. & Wolf Appliance Co and Hunter Fans.
HGTV, America's leader in home and lifestyle programming, is distributed to more than 91 million U.S. households and is one of cable's top-rated networks. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Photo: Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, of KISS, and Scott Mitchell Rosenberg (center), chairman of Platinum Studios, are presented with the Guinness World Records(TM) certificate of "World's Largest Comic Book" for KISS Comics Group's "KISS 4K DESTROYER EDITION" - unveiled at Wizard World Los Angeles. |GlobalGiants.com|
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Photo: In the March 26 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, March 19): "Exercise and The Brain." Newsweek examines the latest research and science that shows exercise can make you smarter. In addition to making your brain run more efficiently, there are clues that it can also stave off the beginnings of Alzheimer's, ADHD and other cognitive disorders. Also: what's next for Attorney General Gonzales and Iraq's Dora Farms, four years after the first U.S. strike. |GlobalGiants.com|
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