U2’s Kiss The Future Tour

Kiss The Future, U2’s world tour in support of its new album “No Line on the Horizon,” will play stadiums around the world, beginning June 30 in Barcelona, Billboard can exclusively reveal. Details of the tour will be announced March 9.

It’s a groundbreaking tour with production that includes a 360-degree audience configuration, ambitious staging and a cylindrical video screen. “We’re very excited about the idea to go on the road with this album,” the Edge says. “It’s an album that I think is going to translate so well to the live context. The songs we’ve tried in rehearsal are sounding fantastic, so that’s got everyone really fired up.”

U2 will be playing in a setting unique among all previous tours, by any artist. The tour will be global and lengthy. U2 will stay in Europe through Aug. 22, then hit American shores on Sept. 12 with a show at Soldier Field in Chicago. The band will play in North America until Oct. 28 and plans on working the globe until the fall of 2010.

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Per manager Paul McGuinness

“This is going to be a very big tour, the biggest shows we’ve ever done,” he reveals. “We’re going to play stadiums only. Football stadiums. That excludes, for instance, baseball stadiums because the production that we’ve designed is 360º. It’s a stage with the audience on all sides.”

Will the stage be in the centre of the arena?

“Not quite in the centre, it will be towards one end of the field in a typical football stadium, so the places we’re playing will be tiered football stadiums; no flat fields, no festivals, no baseball stadiums. Only big, tiered stadiums.”

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Daylight Saving Time – Or the weekend we dread because we lose an hour of sleep

Reason for Daylight Saving Time:

  • To make better use of daylight.
  • Conserve energy
  • Saves lives because people travel home in the light which is safer.
  • Can prevent crime because people do their errands in the daylight which is safer.
  • Contrary to popular belief, it was not created for farmers nor does it benefit farmers.

History of Daylight Saving Time:

  • First thought of by Benjamin Franklin in his 1784 essay, “An Economical Project”.
  • On March 19, 1918, an Act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States was enacted. Daylight Saving Time was set to begin on March 31, 1918 until the end of World War I.
  • It was repealed in 1919.
  • President Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time during World War II. He called it War Time and it lasted from 1942 to 1945.
  • Daylight Saving Time was not a law after 1945 and some locations still used it, which created difficulties for scheduling.
  • The Uniform Time Act of 1966 was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. It had Daylight Saving Time begin on the last Sunday in April and end on the last Sunday in October. States that wanted to be exempt had to pass a State law to do so.
  • During the energy crisis in the 1970’s, President Nixon signed into law, the Daylight Saving Time Energy Act of 1973. This extended Daylight Saving Time to longer periods in an effort to save energy.
  • In 1986 it was amended to start Daylight Saving Time on the first Sunday in April and kept it ending on the last Sunday in October.
  • April 2005 – Starting in April 2006 Indiana will join 47 other states in observing DST.
  • On August 8, 2005, President Bush signed an energy bill that increased Daylight Saving Time from the second Sunday in March, to the first Sunday in November. (see pros and cons below)

Places in the U.S. and it’s Territories That Do Not Participate in Daylight Savings Time:

  • Hawaii
  • Most of the Eastern Time Zone portion of the State of Indiana (starting in 2006, Indiana will be observing DST)
  • The state of Arizona except for the Navajo Indian Reservation
  • American Samoa
  • Guam
  • Puerto Rico
  • Virgin Islands

Also Associated With Daylight Saving Time:
Change the batteries in your smoke detectors in your home.

Pros and Cons of the Change in Daylight Saving Time in 2007

  • Pros:
  • Energy use will be curtailed.
  • Halloween trick or treaters will get more daylight.
  • Longer “synthetic sunshine”.
  • Cons:
  • Daylight Saving Time may wreak havoc on computers and electronics. Microsoft plans an upgrade for their operating systems but items such as DVD players and VCRs are programmed for the old dates and are not able to be upgraded.
  • Other countries (Canada specifically) feel compelled to change also because their economy is so integrated with the U.S.
  • Airlines are opposed to the changes because of scheduling International flights.
  • Farmers are opposed because of the impact on livestock.

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Uninvited Guest Wildly Disrupts Funeral

LAURENS COUNTY, S,C. — A woman who says she had no connection to a funeral danced in front of the service, waved a wand over the casket, opened it and touched the deceased man and then threw the flowers from the casket at the family, deputies said.

Laurens County deputies responded to reports of a disturbance at the Church of God in Gray Court on Tuesday. Those attending the funeral said that the woman had joined the procession. They said once they were seated inside the church, the woman then danced in front of them near the casket. They said after she waved the wand over the casket and had touched the deceased man, she hit him in the head with the wand.

The family said after the woman threw the flowers from the top of the casket at them, she drove off in a burgundy Toyota with North Carolina plates.

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