Mr. Simpson, 36 years old, who won a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics and a silver at the 2012 Games, was "trapped under a solid section of the yacht, " said Iain Murray, the Cup's regatta director.

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Making that wide palette fit with a solid rhythm section, and doing so without teetering on the top-heavy, requires a composer skilled in the art of collective bargaining.

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The rotaries and crossfader in the middle section are plastic, but feel solid enough.

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The first thing one notices on the majority of the 171 tracks here is the way the band swings as a whole, whether in the syncopated two-beat of the 1929-30 sessions, which employ a banjo and tuba in the rhythm section, or in the more smoothed-out solid-four grooves of the band in the war years, propelled by guitar and bass in addition to Hines himself.

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From here, it's anyone's guess as to what Apple would do with the information, but you don't have to gaze beyond the 'Events' section in the company's own iPhoto application to get a few solid ideas.

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