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Custom Made: Mass Appeal
Custom Made, originally comprised of emcees Sinister Six, Bluff, Element, Skandalous Scoobs and Aneek, are a West Coast based Hip-Hop collective first formed back in 2003. Due to unforeseen circumstances, and following the release of their ‘official’ debut, L.A. State of Mind, group member Six found himself facing serious incarceration. Not letting that obstacle be a major deterrence, Custom Made instead persevered and soon went on to put out their popular Street Cinema mix-tape series. After aligning themselves with indie powerhouse, Babygrande Records, the rap entity eventually dropped their critically praised Sidewalk Mindtalk: The Best of the Custom Made Mixtapes offering in late ‘06. With Aneek deflecting to the East Coast, and Six’s current lock down status, the, now down to a, musical trio are finally readying the launch of their highly anticipated sophomore opus, Original Dynasty.
Scoobs: This is the Original Dynasty. We kept this album all crew. Everyone was on the album, from the founding members to the extended fam, so it was only right that we titled the record Original Dynasty. The only person that couldn’t make the record was Six, due to his incarceration.
Element: I think this differs from past releases because we have been growing and developing our style, and redefining our techniques. We’ve been going through a lot of situations that have been giving us more confidence. This is a more updated and complete project.
Scoobs: I would have to say that Original Dynasty is our best release yet. This release shows a more mature side of the group. People are going to be able to see how much we’ve grown from our first release up to Original Dynasty. We’ve always been real personal with our music, but this is our most personal project to date. We put our lives on these tracks and it shows. We basically combined a lot of elements from our previous projects and worked them into this one. The production on this release is more soulful as well. We’re still bringing you that hardcore Hip-Hop we’re known for, but this album has more concepts and more storytelling. Overall, it’s a very well rounded album from the entire group.

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Stk was the hot spot for dinner last night in Hollywood. The night brought out Oscar winners, ex models and Reality show rejects. Reese Witherspoon made it a night out for a good dinner along with ex-supermodel turned trophy wife Cindy Crawford.
Other stars spotted at this location included attention seekers Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt along with Brittany Gastineau and Paula Abdul.
Tennis ace Maria Sharapova celebrated her 21st Birthday at Tenjune nightclub last night with special guests Anna Wintour, Vera Wang and Dave Annable, among others.
Tuesday night at TAO Las Vegas saw actress Mena Suvari having dinner with two male guests including her new boyfriend Simone Sestito.
Okay for starters Spencer and Heidi are not stars, they are not celebrities. They are just to people that SUCK BALLS.
I was at Tao Restaurant having dinner when Mena Suvari was there. She looked awesome!
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DANNY SCHOFIELD earned a standing ovation after marking his last Town appearance at the Galpharm with a goal.
And Andy Booth celebrated his new one-year contract with a trademark header to set the seal on a convincing victory.
With new management team Stan Ternent and Ronnie Jepson watching from the directors’ box, Walsall were never really in it as Gerry Murphy’s charges chalked up a third straight win and fourth successive clean sheet under the caretaker boss.
“It’s a case of putting round pegs in round holes really,” explained Murphy, who makes it all sound so simple.
It makes you wonder where Town, who remain 12th in the table, might have been had they switched to three centre-backs earlier in the season.
Only once did the Midlanders, who were under the guidance of Jimmy Mullen after Richard Money’s resignation as manager earlier in the week, really threaten.
That was in the 69th minute, when former Barnsley midfielder Kevin Betsy brought a good save from Matt Glennon with a well-struck shot from the edge of the area.
Mullen strung five across the centre to match Town, but in a slow burner of a match, the home team – with James Berrett back in the holding role and Jon Worthington, who returned from suspension, tackling as though his life depended on it – were far more effective.
They had the lion’s share of the possession, and chances.
While Walsall’s three first-half efforts, from Michael Dobson, Alex Nicholls and Betsy, all went wide, their goalkeeper Clayton Ince pulled off three decent saves before finally being beaten.
First the Trinidad and Tobago international denied Booth as he headed goalwards from Joe Skarz’s 31st-minute cross (the 18-year-old was preferred to Robbie Williams at left wing-back).
Less than 60 seconds later, he reached high to pluck Rob Page’s long-range effort out of the air.

examiner.co.uk

THEY came, they conquered and they returned over the rough Koro Seas to their homes in Cakaudrove.
For 13-year-olds Alisi Nabuli and Eveni Vunibola of Vaturova Koroalu High School, their first first-ever Fiji Finals competition will be one to remember.
Nabuli clinched the sub junior girls 800 metre while Vunibola grabbed the boy’s title, grabbing two gold medals for the school in a space of four minutes.
“This is the first time I’m competing at the Games and winning gold is a very happy moment for me,” Vunibola said after finishing the race in 2 minutes 36.01 seconds.
“I’m thankful to my coach Misses Gavidi. She told me before the race that God would lead me through the race.
“When I was running, I was always thinking to myself that I would take a gold medal home.
“My parents aren’t here with me and I would like to thank them for their prayers while I’m away.”
He said he entered the race with a plan which enabled him to win the gold.
“The opposition was strong but my game plan was to run the first lap at three-quarter pace and then give it my all on the last.
“Now, I’m looking forward to returning to Suva next year to compete again.”
For Vaturova, she paid tribute where due.
“I’m really happy. When I was running, I was only thinking of Jesus all the time,” she said.
“I had prepared well for the race and I would like to thank my parents back home in Vaturova.”
She finished the race in 2mins 36.01secs.
Alisha Dickinson of Natabua won the junior girls title while Isireli Raseisei of RKS won the boys. The Inter girls was won by Salote Mereula of Navosa.
800m finals results: Girls Sub-junior: Alisi Nabuli (Vaturova) 2:36.01, Maria Lailai (Nadogo) 2:40.60, Apikali Waqavono (Adi Maopa) 2:42.47, Junior: Alisha Dickinson (Nata-bua) 2:24.97, Mere Tuverata (Wainimala) 2:25.50, Seraseini Nailolo (ACS) 2:26.64; Intermediate: Salote Mereula (Navosa) 2:22.81, Salote Naiula (Nadarivatu) 2:26.49, Dirase Uluilagi (St Bedes) 2:27.08; Senior: Anameli Lewanacagi (SGS) 2:27.36, Maca Naioba (Lomaivuna) 2:28.47, Josivini Kasana (ACS) 2:28.58.

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A former New Jersey official serving a federal sentence for accepting $30,000 in bribes was charged today with trying to hire a hitman to murder his wife, authorities said.
Richard Kaplan, 58, is a former New Brunswick city construction inspector and zoning officer who is serving a 30-month sentence in Cumberland County after he pleaded guilty last year to taking bribes from contractors.
Kaplan wanted his wife dead because she was divorcing him, said Christopher J. Christie, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.
Shortly after arriving at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton last spring, Kaplan asked a fellow inmate if he knew anyone who could kill his wife, Christie said.
According to court papers, Kaplan said he would pay up to $30,000 for the slaying, which he wanted to be staged as a car accident.
Last month, during a meeting at the prison with a "hit man" who was actually an undercover FBI agent, Kaplan offered a downpayment of $2,000 and said he would pay the balance when he was out on furlough for his wife’s funeral, Christie said.
Kaplan chose a Boston Market restaurant in New Brunswick as the location where his accountant delivered the first installment.
Kaplan told the unsuspecting accountant that the man he was meeting was a private investigator hired "to check up on her in case I need something on her for my divorce," according to court documents
"If not for an undercover FBI agent stepping into Kaplan’s plot, it’s clear that he intended to carry it out," Christie said. "That makes him an extremely unrepentant felon who has now compounded his troubles."

philly.com

SAN FRANCISCO - Ten minutes before showtime, the crowd is already spilling out the doors of San Francisco’s Axis Cafe. A high-energy buzz fills the air - until the star of the evening steps on-stage and fires up his PowerPoint presentation.
A hush descends upon the crowd in the Potrero Hill venue as Terrence Deacon, a University of California-Berkeley biological anthropology professor, begins holding forth on Fibonacci numbers and finches. As audience members sip tomato-basil soup, they’re also listening intently and thinking ahead to the Q&A section where they’ll ask questions like, “What was that about the lazy gene?”
The scene at the Axis Cafe on a recent Wednesday night is part of San Francisco’s monthly “Ask a Scientist” salon, where science buffs and average Joes alike gather to get the lowdown on everything from brain development, to global warming, to the physics of monster waves.
The combination of a casual setting that includes beverages and articulate scientists who don’t assign homework seems to have struck a chord not just with geeks. The “cafe scientifique” movement that began in England a decade ago has spread to science cafes around the world, in coffeehouses, bars, even bowling alleys.
The San Francisco Bay Area alone boasts five such salons, as well as special math and science events sponsored by Berkeley’s Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the local American Chemical Society and other groups.
Recent events included Deacon’s language development talk in San Francisco, a “Darwin and Buddha” discussion in Sebastopol, Calif., - where the science cafe meets every week - and Alan Alda of M*A*S*H and Scientific American Frontiers fame, waxing eloquent on M*A*S*H and curved space in Berkeley.
It’s been a delightful, though dizzying whirl for Juliana Gallin, the graphic designer who launched Ask a Scientist five years ago, before she’d even heard of the European movement.

azcentral.com

The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 proved to be a tantalizing affair for amateur astronomers.
The full moon that normally paints the Dakota Wesleyan University campus with pale silver light was barely visible to members of Michael Farney’s honors astronomy class Wednesday night.
The students who filled the front deck at Farney’s 1313 W. University Ave. home and peered into a small telescope had to be satisfied with partial views of the eclipse as the moon played a coy game of hide-and-seek behind ribbed veils of clouds.
Dakota Wesleyan University Professor Mike Farney, right, hosted an eclipse viewing party Wednesday for his honors astronomy class. The students, from left, are Seth LaBounty, Rose Decker, Kara Robertson, Shannon Mack and Wade Schoenfelder. (Ross Dolan/Republic)
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the full moon passes into Earth’s shadow and is blocked from the sun’s rays that normally illuminate it. During an eclipse, the sun, Earth and moon line up, leaving a darkened moon visible to observers on the night side of the planet. Clouds obscured a bonus viewing of Saturn’s rings.
Viewings were brief during Wednesday’s zero-degree temperatures.
“It’s cold out,” said a cheery Farney, “but we have seen a little bit of the eclipse.”
The rest of the time, students retreated indoors to hang with Farney’s cats who, displaying typical feline intelligence, stayed out of the cold.
Around 9 p.m. students confirmed that the eclipse was indeed total and, satisfied, quickly retreated indoors for brownies and other refreshments.
“By sheer luck the eclipse happened right in the middle of class,” said Farney. The five-member “Worlds Real and Imagined” astronomy class meets from 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesdays.
“You can’t beat that for scheduling,” he said.
Wednesday’s total eclipse lasted about an hour. Earth’s shadow blotted out the moon beginning around 7 p.m. on the West Coast and 10 p.m. on the East Coast. West Coast skygazers missed the start of the eclipse because it occurred before moonrise. Wednesday’s event was the last total lunar eclipse until Dec. 20, 2010. Last year there were two.
Later this year, in August, there will be a total solar eclipse and a partial lunar eclipse.
— The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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