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Jennifer Aniston opens up about ‘The Bounty Hunter’

Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her experience while filming her soon-to-be released action flick ‘The Bounty Hunter’.
In the film Aniston, 41, steps into the shoes of investigative journalist Nicole Hurley who has jumped bail to go after a story and ends up on the run from her bounty hunting ex-hubby Milo Boyd, played by [...]

Matt Pond: The Dark Leaves

MATT POND TO RELEASE THE DARK LEAVES APRIL 6

Matt Pond

From a cabin in the woods outside of Bearsville, NY – where there’s not much to do but watch the grass grow up with the coyotes, deer, turkeys and bears – Matt Pond (The Wooden Birds) let go of all those studio entanglements and hacked off a piece of his own fate. Trusting in the flicker at the end of the tunnel, Pond will release The Dark Leaves April 6.

After almost giving up on the world outside the woods, Pond, with the invaluable aid of Chris Hansen (engineer, co-producer), returns with this new effort. Additionally, Matt and Chris composed the motion picture soundtrack for the feature film “Lebanon,” premiering Spring.

Download the first single, “Starting,” here.

The Dark Leaves Track Listing

1 Starting
2 Running Wild
3 Specks
4 Remains
5 Sparrows
6 Brooklyn Fawn
7 Ruins
8 Winter Fawn
9 The Dark Leaves Theme
10 First Song


Missing North Dakota College Students Found Dead

:{ This is the ending no one was hoping for. Three college softball players found dead after their sport utility vehicle went into a pond on a North Dakota farm during a stargazing trip likely drove straight into a sinkhole pond in the dark, authorities said Wednesday.

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China’s struggling smaller firms: Small fish in a big pond

They do more for China’s economy than big firms—but get less help

CHINA’S massive, state-backed firms are becoming ever more visible on the world stage, but the country can trace a great deal of its recent economic success to countless small and medium enterprises. Today, as China continues to grapple with the effects of the global slowdown, these smaller firms are enduring a large share of the economic pain.

Virtually non-existent in 1979 when China took its first steps away from central-planning orthodoxy, its smaller companies numbered around 1m by 1990 and 8m by 2001. Today they total around 60m. The smallest have just a handful of workers, and the largest of the medium-sized ones, according to the government’s definitions, employ no more than 2,000 people. Yet together they account for 60% of China’s GDP and half its tax revenues. More than 95% are privately owned and, since they are largely free of the political and bureaucratic friction that plagues larger enterprises, they are among the most creative and nimble of China’s economic actors. They are responsible for 66% of the country’s patent applications and more than 80% of its new products. …