With Beau Bokan as the front man and an awesome new single and album, it shows that Blessthefall are moving forward since former frontman, Craig Mabbit left the band. This happened in the middle of their 07 European tour, during this time the band seemed to go on autopilot.

The band said that it was not an easy task finding a replacement for Mabbit, but it seems that Bokan is able to sing as well as rock. The most important thing is fitting in with the band, and it seems as if they have gelled.

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At first people thought that he might have suffered a stroke at some stage, but according to a number of Internet sources, he has Bell’s palsy or facial paralysis. This condition is temporary, but it does take some time to correct itself.

I know what you are thinking, how is this news. But you have to admit, this is the most exciting thing about McCain, well apart from him trying to back out of his Presidential campaign.

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We can report that only Depp has signed up so far for the fourth outing of the movie franchise. Co-stars Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley have always insisted they will not return for a fourth time with the franchise. Who cares anyway, we only want to see Pirates of the Caribbean 4 for one person, and that is Captain Jack Sparrow.

Johnny Depp is certainly a busy man at the moment, as well as returning for Pirates of the Caribbean 4; he will also play “Tonto in Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Lone Ranger” and the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland.

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Both men told Lieutenant Josh Shumpert, of the South Congaree Police Department, that once they slid down the wing of the plane they had to jump on each other to put the flames out. Both men were in shock and pain, but they were worried about their friends who were still on the plane.

Doctors have said that both Travis Barker and DJ AM have second and third degree burns, but will make a full recover. The four who died are pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31; co-pilot James Bland, 52, Barker’s assistant, Chris Baker, 29, and bodyguard, Charles Still, 25.

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However; resolving this issue has only lit the fuse for more high-stake moments in this new season of Criminal Minds. The first episode of season 4 really got off to a great start, so it might be a little hard for the show to keep its momentum through the rest of the season.

Do you agree with me that Its Fast and Furious was the best season opener yet, looks like those writers are truly on form.

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Since the Dive of Death, people have now been asking the question: Is Criss Angel Dead. As yet there seems to be no answer which has left many people a little frustrated. In a statement made by Kurt Angle it read “It blew my mind, my nerves were shot. I thought it was a stunt that definitely went wrong. I saw him chained; I saw him in the car and saw him go over (the edge). I thought ‘Oh my god, this is a tragedy, something went wrong’.”

What do you think happened to Criss Angel, I know one thing, he puts David Blaine to shame.

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My answer is simple: this is the kind of thing which happens when the bureaucracy becomes politicized, and government appointments are made for political instead of professional reasons.

For more than 2,000 years, when China was ruled by an imperial bureaucracy, China had a complex system of imperial exams to insure that anyone who passed could enter the government bureaucracy. This bureaucracy was largely apolitical, except for the most senior appointments in the imperial court or on the provincial level. Most were just professional officials, and would serve their masters, whoever they were.

With the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, and with the foundation of new China in 1949, the party organization affected all levels of the bureaucracy. Endless political movements until 1978 politicized the whole society, not just the bureaucracy. Appointments were made for political reasons instead of professional capabilities. Sometimes, professional qualifications were completely ignored.

The tainted milk scandal is an example of what happens when political considerations override business, health and even ethical concerns. This is what happens when government officials are judged by how much investment they attract and how many jobs they create. Then there is a natural tendency to cover up any information which draws a conflicting picture. What should be a health and ethical issue instead becomes a political issue.

The problem now in China is that there is a severe shortage of people who are apolitical professionals, not politicians. How do they fit in, even survive, in a completely politicized bureaucracy? Does the government have the energy and will to depoliticize the bureaucracy, and create a professional bureaucracy which will fulfill the needs of modern Chinese society?

That is the question for the next stage of Chinese reforms.

What I do not get is his stupid stunts, I have often thought of them as a waste of time, like his current Dive of Death. This is where he has to hang upside-down for sixty hours, what is the point. It has to be one of the boring ones of his stunts so far.

What some people do not know is, Blaine was seen standing up three times an hour for 15 minutes, we are not sure if this is true or not. If it is true then David Blaine’s Dive of Death is proof that he has finally lost the plot.

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Over the next year, all the bad decisions made by China’s economic planners over the past 30 years will show through. These include:

• The decision to become overly dependent on the US as an export market, and buying US treasuries to effectively buy this single captive market and continue to sell it goods far beyond its capacity to pay for China’s exports.
• Somewhere along the line, a decision was made to jumpstart China’s economy and put it on the fast-track of economic development. To a large extent, this has happened. But China’s economy is like a body builder whose upper body strength is massive, but has toothpick legs. More incidents like the melamine milk incidents will become common, simply because the government is not equipped to handle incidents of this kind.
• China, unfortunately, has a reputation for cheap, low-quality products, in spite of the successful Beijing Olympics. For the most part, Chinese companies do not have the talent to work up the value chain creating better products. (There are some, but they are too few to make a significant difference.) This takes time to build.
• Exports will slow, and the Chinese domestic market will not pick up the slack fast enough to prevent major unemployment problems, especially among university graduates.
• The wealth gap between the rich and poor will widen dangerously, and real estate prices, which are already falling, will fall even more.

China became addicted to US orders and the US dollar the same way Americans became addicted to Chinese junk products. (This is a generalization; many goods are not junk. But the general image is of, well, junk.) For both sides, it was a dream which was too good to be true.

Now it’s over, and the Beijing Olympics are turning into the final hurrah for that period.

If you would like a well-presented systematic presentation, my friend Corbett Wall has written an interesting piece.

The fat days are over, and we are in for a tough 20-30 years ahead.