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Fun in the shower
Naruto walked as if in a daze next to his teammate Sasuke towards the young Uchiha's house. Naruto had arrived home from training to find his house burnt to the ground.
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Pouring with sweat, Naruto ran through the streets and over the rooftops toward his house. He could smell smoke in the air but didn't know where it came from. He skidded around the corner and stopped suddenly. There was a team of Shinobi surrounding his house, carrying buckets of water and, where his house used to be, was a pile of ashes.
"W…w…what the….?" Stuttered Naruto, walking toward the silver haired Jounin, "Kakashi, what happened to my house?". Kakashi looked down at the young blonde and saw the tears forming in his clear blue eyes. "Electrical fire", Kakashi was as shocked as Naruto to find that his student's house had burnt down. Naruto stared at him and then back at what was left of his house.
"Where do I go now?" muttered Naruto, then he felt a hand on his shoulder. Tears starting to run down his cheeks, Naruto turned to see his raven haired teammate behind him. Naruto sniffed, "yeah Sasuke", Sasuke smiled and said "you're staying at my house until your house is rebuilt".
Naruto was shocked at the offer, considering the hatred that Sasuke seemed to share for Naruto but nodded. He looked once more at the remainder of his house and then followed Sasuke, his mind in a daze from the suddenness from everything.
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Sasuke opened his door and flicked on the lights. Naruto followed him inside and sat on the black leather lounge. Sasuke may hate the blonde but he was still his friend, and he didn't like seeing him in such low spirits so he went off to make something to help Naruto cheer up.
Sasuke walked into the kitchen and made two cups of hot chocolate and then he carried them back to the lounge room. He handed one to Naruto. Naruto smiled up at him, his eyes red rimmed.
"Sasuke, where's the bathroom? I'll go have a shower if that's okay" Naruto said, Sasuke blushed but it faded before Naruto saw. "Sure, upstairs and second door on the left" said Sasuke, pointing upwards. Naruto nodded and then went up the stairs.
Sasuke heard the sound of clothes dropping onto the floor and the water running. Sasuke's pants were growing very tight as he imagined Naruto above his head, wet and naked.
Sasuke jumped up and ran over to the stairs, then he slowly walked up them and then he stopped just outside the slightly open bathroom door. `Okay, I'm just going to the toilet, just the toilet' thought Sasuke and walked into the bathroom.
"SASUKE!" yelled Naruto as he spotted Sasuke walking in. he quickly pulled the shower curtain around the shower, not hiding himself very well. Sasuke walked right over to the toilet, he had forgotten that it was right next to the shower.
He then heard a sigh, spotting a gap in the curtain he peeked through. Sasuke bit back a gasp as his cock hardened and his face grew hot. Through the gap he could see Naruto with water running over his perfectly muscled body, his head bent down and eyes closed. He looked delectable.
Forcing himself to stand up, his foot hit the soap bar that was on the floor where he had left it last night. `Crap' thought Sasuke as he slipped and fell backwards, falling into the curtain and into the tub. He heard a ripping sound as his shirt got caught on the corner of the draw, ripping it off his body.
Then Sasuke's head thumped against the side of the tub and his vision swam for a second before refocusing. He looked up to see a naked Naruto looking down at him, a blush creeping up onto his face. Sasuke stared at how large Naruto was, and how hard, and then glanced away, his face heating up.
Naruto stared down at Sasuke, noting the water rivulets that gleamed in the light on his now shirtless upper body, he also saw that Sasuke was very well developed and those muscles moving with every breath that Sasuke took.
Naruto bent down, not knowing that him being close was torturing Sasuke. "You okay" asked Naruto before he was yanked onto Sasuke's chest and his lips ravished. Sasuke pulled Naruto to him and kissed him, the water still running over their bodies. As he kissed Naruto he dropped one hand to lightly stoke the underside of Naruto's hardened cock.
Naruto groaned as Sasuke's hand wrapped around his manhood and started pumping him with his hand. Continuing his stroking, Sasuke got up and pushed Naruto against the shower wall. Then he removed his hand to kiss Naruto.
Sasuke gasped and pulled back, looking down at the smiling blonde. Naruto's hands were no longer on Sasuke's back. One hand was sliding Sasuke's pants down and the other was playing with his shaft.
Sasuke slipped a hand down and stroked the outside of Naruto's entrance, causing the blonde to groan and rub himself against the raven's hand. Smiling Sasuke slipped in a finger followed quickly by a second. Naruto squirmed but soon forgot the discomfort when Sasuke's other hand resumed its stroking. Sasuke rotated his finger, stretching and preparing the young blonde. Naruto hissed as the Uchiha's fingers probed deep and then thrashed around as they hit his prostate again and again, sending waves of pleasure through his body.
Sasuke kissed the nape of Naruto's neck and pulled back to look at Naruto's exposed tanned ass, wanting to feel himself sheathed in that tight heat he bent over Naruto and pushed in his erection, stopping just inside the blondes entrance to let him get used to it.
Then he threw his head back as he was suddenly sheathed in Naruto's tight ass. The cheeky blonde had pushed himself onto Sasuke's shaft, driving him in all the way to the hilt. Naruto panted as Sasuke's thickness filled him and then he gropaned when the raven started to move against him.
"You're so tight Naruto" murmured Sasuke, pounding into the blonde who was using the wall to hold himself up. Sasuke reached around and started to pleasure the blonde with his hand, pumping and stroking him.
Naruto grinded his hips against Sasuke's hips, causing the Uchiha to cry out as he climaxed. Burying himself deep, he came and filled Naruto to the brim. Naruto screamed as he felt Sasuke's substance filling him and spilling down his legs into the water.
Sasuke pumped his hand harder, "sas….Sasuke…..almost" panted Naruto, pounding himself into Sasuke's hand. The Uchiha removed himself and bent down, ignoring the whimper that escaped Naruto's mouth.
Sasuke grinned up at the blonde before taking Naruto into his mouth. Sasuke swirled his tongue over the tip of Naruto's manhood, he sucked and licked from his tip to Naruto's sac.
Naruto bucked his hips; pushing his cock in as far as he could without choking the raven. Sasuke moaned, sending vibrations up Naruto's shaft and making him climax. Naruto buried his member into Sasuke's sweet mouth and came, Sasuke swallowed it all.
Naruto leaned against the wall, panting. Smiling and sated, Sasuke reached over and turned the water off. He then carried Naruto to his bed and together they slept the rest of the night.
Naruto stayed with Sasuke for three weeks, Sasuke showing Naruto different positions and how to heighten pleasure every night until they fell asleep, exhausted and content. Once Naruto's house was fixed, he packed his stuff and walked out, but as he reached the door he turned around and said "Sasuke, can I move in with you?".
Sasuke just stared at him and nodded, allowing Naruto to give him a scorching kiss and then followed him back to the bedroom, walking in a happy daze and a big grin on his face.
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Al: I finally finished this story, typing wise. *sigh*. Now I have one more to type and then I need to write more.
Any ideas would be appreciated cause my mind has gone blank….for now! ^.^
Ed: Al, you are seriously writing more…….then mind if I join in. Half these stories are mine and we make a great writing team! Yay! Yeah so any other ideas would be great! Yaoi or not…..
Ed and Al: thanks for reading and reviews are welcome! Cya l8r Ed and Al
Ed: and I''m leaving for a while. Colonel Cyclops is sending me on amission with him….i wonder why he always picks me, oh well, I figure it out! Cya Ed
Me: man they seriously like to babble, remind me never to give wither one of them coffee ever again. They just go hypo. Hope you like the story. Cya


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We attended a lovely dinner party recently (where I ate Kale for the first time) and met two lovely couples who were close friends of our hosts. The meal was fabulous and made all the more enjoyable by the varied and animated conversations that had us all wishing that the night could go on forever.
I brought a basket of cookies for our hosts and when deciding on a design for them I came across a wonderful logo that belongs to the owners of a unique little store in Australia offering wonderful and innovative Early Childhood Educational products. I emailed them and told them why I would like to do my rendering of their logo on some cookies and would they grant me their permission. I was so happy when they (Kim and Donna) said yes (for this occasion only as their logo is copyrighted) and today I'm delighted to share with you. There are so many enchanting details on their logo and while I did not render all of them onto my cookies, the Friendship Tree did convey perfectly what I was hoping it would to our dinner hosts, that of *Thank you for extending your branches of friendship over us.*
I used the large rectangular plaque cookie cutter and first piped around the top half of the cookie for the sky and the bottom half for the grass.
When that was dry, I piped the outline for the tree and then flooded it.
Next came the piping and flooding of the cute little mushroom house.
The tree branches were then piped with their unique design of spelling out *The Friendship Tree*
From there all the leaves were added.
Last but not least, I added sanding sugar to all the leaves.
I'm very grateful to Kim and Donna of The Friendship Tree in Australia for allowing me to take inspiration from their logo.

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Spectacular boys golf and track and field performances proved impressive during recent play for Oakdale High athletes. Following is a summary of results.
Oakdale residents Steve Pester and Ron Weaver don't need to stretch their arms across their mustache-clad frames to spin yarns of catching fish 'this' big.
It didn't take long for the 12 underclassmen on Oakdale High's varsity girls soccer team to grasp how strong the upper tier of the Valley Oak League truly is.
Diamonds are forever.
Members of the 400 yard boys freestyle relay team from Oakdale High's 2009 swim program may need to sit down for this.
The painted lines protruding out from Oakdale High's discus circle already awkwardly overlap the edge of the shot put pit.
The only thing missing from last year's boy's golf season was a glass golf shoe that could only fit Oakdale High golfer and current Modesto Junior College standout, Ryan Jones.
Between Bryce Dyrda's no-hit baseball gem, a bounty of doubles tennis success, a spectacular junior varsity softball outing and a 12-0 soccer win, the recent exploits of Oakdale High athletes has been a thrill to follow. Below is a summary of recent action.
The Escalon First Tee program begins its second year at the Escalon Golf Course on Saturday, March 2, with its Open House.
Ronnie Stevens did a lot of things on Sunday, but he had no idea that one of them was an homage to the 1946 Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun.
Katelyn Harden led Hughson High's varsity softball team to a 28-1 season and Sac-Joaquin Section title in 2012, but the UCLA-bound phenom had little luck against the ninth and final hitter in Oakdale's lineup during an oddly-intense matchup at OHS on Feb. 20.
There were rumors that since it is Oakdale High baseball coach Hondo Arpoika's final season as the Mustangs' skip, the Valley Oak League would name him Coach of the Year and the Mustangs champions for the seventh straight year in advance.
Brendt Noon Sr. and Brendt Noon Jr. have to be thinking 2011 Oakdale High graduate Trent Noon should have been named Brendt Noon III.
The best wrestlers in the Sac-Joaquin Section have been systematically whittled down to the top 32 in each weight like hand-carved furniture.
Anna Adams learned to walk before she could crawl.
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The summer is off to a sizzling start but it will not be long before the boys of fall take over Oakdale. Like National Football League (NFL) teams, the Oakdale High School varsity football team is currently prepping for the upcoming season. Several members of the Mustang squad headed up to Placer High School recently to participate in a multi-team training camp.
Two of Oakdale's youth softball players are preparing to make a trip to Orlando, Florida to play in the inaugural ESPN Wide World of Sports All American Games July 13 through July 16. Oakdale youngsters Delainey Everett and Kylie Valente were named as members of the Northwest Regional Under Ten team after a tryout in Woodland, California back in February, and were informed earlier this month that they had made the team.
Five teams participated in the four-day annual Oakdale Baseball Association (OBA) Come As You Are tournament this past week. The action began on Wednesday, June 17 and came to a close on Saturday, June 20 under the lights of Fair Oaks Field at Fair Oaks Elementary School. The 12 and under division ballplayers geared up to play under the blazing afternoon sun and under the cool breeze and lights for their night games and put on a show for their fans, family and friends.
The Oakdale Gators Swim team kicked off the 2015 swim season on Saturday, June 6 at the Oakdale Aquatic Center. The first meet of the season hosted a large number of attendees for the Oakdale Swim Team's recreational group. Children as young as the age of 5 were ready to compete and take to the water, swimming in 25-yard events. The meet concluded shortly after 1:30 p.m.
All three levels of Oakdale High School baseball teams and their players were honored on Tuesday, May 26, saluted for their efforts during the season. Coaches, players, family and friends gathered at the OHS main gym Tuesday evening for the end of the season awards ceremony for the Mustangs.
Oakdale High School junior Hannah Chappell has made a tradition out of advancing to the California State Track and Field State Meet. Chappell, who competes in both the discus and shot put throwing competitions, powered her way to first place in the discus competition this past weekend at the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Meet at Elk Grove. Chappell's first place heave came on her third and final toss which traveled 151-02 feet. It not only made her a Section champion, it also made her a three-time State Meet qualifier.
One way local youngsters were beating the heat was attending the Kickboxing class the Oakdale Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Academy offered at their Last Stand Training Center. The summer classes began on Monday, June 1 and will conclude on Friday, July 31. This unique class offers kickboxing, submission wrestling and anti-bullying tactics.
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IBEROSTAR Quetzal
Our guests reviewsIBEROSTAR Quetzal
Norbert Smid says: about 1 year
This was one of our best holiday, thank you for it!
"This was a really enjoyable stay for us, the rooms are cleans and spacious, the position of the hotel is just perfect, the beach is wondeful and wide. We loved the food, the bars, and all of the staff were very kind with us all the time! The nature in the hotel was so special, we loved being along with the animals!"Rating: 10,0
John Stewart says: about 1 year
"Great resort, no complaints about the food or my room. Issues that bothered me were the volume of the entertainment music; it was far too loud, with the bass turned-up too much, even at the kids entertainment, so we avoided this abuse of our ears. The booming of music could not be avoided even in our rooms. Please do something about this. The thing that annoyed me the most was people saving seats in the shade around the pool and under palapas at the beach. For hours at a time seats were 'saved' with no-one using them thereby just wasting prime spots. In cases where seats are saved but those who saved them are nowhere to be seen, action should be taken to free-up the spots for the use of Iberostar guests who need them. I know this might be difficult to monitor but it partially ruined my holiday, seeing shade seats saved, but unused for a long time by selfish people. "Rating: 7,0
Donna Vetter says: about 1 year
"I vacationed at the Iberostar Quetzal/Toucan in March of 2014. The resort is located in Playa del Carmen and is on a beautiful beach. We went with 2 other couples. Our room was located near the beach on the jungle side of the villa. If you are looking for upscale hotel rooms, this is not the place. The rooms are all in small villas with 3 floors. Every room has a small balcony, and a mini fridge with beer and soda pop. No other liquor was available in the rooms This resort is an Eco resort which means the plant and animal life are respected and preserved. There were monkeys, birds, small rodents and lizards roaming freely. The rooms were not fancy, but the bed was comfortable and the shower is warm. I suggest bringing your own shampoo, conditioner, and hair dryer, as the ones provided were not good. We asked for an extra bath towel and a better hair dryer and we never received either. Our friends experienced the same for room requests. You will spend most of your time outdoors, anyway. There were 4 or 5 buffets which serve all 3 daily meals. You can eat at your leisure at these places. The restaurant by the pool grills hamburgers at noon, which are delicious. Most foods are American style, but there are fajitas and nachos also. They also have self serve ice cream available at the beach restaurants. The lunch buffets by the pool had the same menu daily, which got a little boring, but it was good. It was fun trying foods I usually don't eat at home. At night guests can make reservations at one of the many specialty restaurants. Dress is "dressy casual" at these places. We ate at all except the Italian restaurant. Every place we ate was very good, but the Mexican and the Japanese restaurants were both excellent. You will not be disappointed in the food here. The beach and pools area is excellent. It is clean and well maintained. We walked on the beach every day. And it was not rocky or littered at all. There are activities such as para-sailing and snorkeling available. Some are free, and some are not. The "Star Friends" organize activities daily. Beach volley ball, water aerobics, Zumba classes, Samba lessons, etc. go on daily. All are free and fun. The swim-up bar is adults only. Daniel , the bar tender mixes excellent cocktails. Drinks are available at all pools, the beach and restaurants, as well as several bars and nightclubs on the property. I enjoyed trying new drinks at the pool. The only problem at the pool/beach is that people tend to save chairs, and there are not enough for every person who wants one. Be there early and stay in your beach chair or someone will take it. You will be charge $10.00 if you lose your beach towel. Guests may participate in extra activities. These are fun and safe. I suggest booking these online, as they are more expensive if booked through the hotel. I did snorkeling and swimming with dolphins, and loved it. This hotel offers a free show every night, and they are different Sun. – Sat. We thought some were good and others were great. There are 2 nightclubs with live bands. I would recommend this resort to others, especially families. The Star Friends plan activities for children at the kid's club. The best thing about this resort is the people. Everyone is very friendly and helpful. The employees work days and perform at night. They seem to do whatever it takes to make guests have a wonderful time…which we did! "Rating: 10,0
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Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets (and variations thereof), was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest of the world. From the end of 1954 until the end of 1956 the group would place nine singles into the Top 20, one of those a number one and three more in the Top Ten.
Bandleader Bill Haley had previously been a country performer; after recording a country and western-styled version of "Rocket 88", a rhythm and blues song, he changed musical direction to a new sound which came to be called rock and roll.
Although several members of the Comets became famous, Bill Haley remained the star. With his spit curl and the band's matching plaid dinner jackets and energetic stage behaviour, many fans consider them to be as revolutionary in their time as The Beatles or the Rolling Stones were in theirs.
Following Haley's death, no fewer than six different groups have existed under the Comets name, all claiming (with varying degrees of authority) to be the official continuation of the group led by Haley. As of early 2008, three such groups are still actively performing in the United States and internationally.
Haley began his rock and roll career with a cover of "Rocket 88" recorded for the Philadelphia-based Holiday Records label in 1951 which sold well and was followed up a cover of a 1940s rhythm and blues song called "Rock the Joint" in 1952 (this time for Holiday's sister company, Essex Records). Both songs were released under the increasingly incongruous Saddlemen name. It soon became apparent that a new name was needed to fit the music the band was now playing. A friend of Haley's, making note of the common alternative pronunciation of the name Halley's Comet to rhyme with Bailey, suggested that Haley call his band The Comets. (This event is cited in the Haley biographies Sound and Glory by John Haley and John von Hoelle, and Bill Haley by John Swenson.)
The new name was adopted in the fall of 1952. At that time, the members were Haley, Grande, Williamson, and Lytle. Grande usually played piano on record, but switched to accordion for live shows as it was more portable than a piano and easier to deal with during musical numbers that involved a lot of dancing around. Soon after renaming the band, Haley hired his first drummer, Charlie Higler, though Higler was soon replaced by Dick Boccelli (a.k.a Dick Richards). During this time (and indeed, as late as the fall of 1955), Haley did not have a permanent lead guitar player, choosing to use session musicians on record and either playing lead guitar himself or having Williamson play steel solos, instead.
In early 1954, Haley added Joey Ambrose on tenor sax, and soon after this the band left Essex Records for the larger Decca Records label of New York City. For their first recording session on April 12, 1954, with session musicians Danny Cedrone on electric guitar and Billy Gussak on drums (standing in for Boccelli), Bill Haley and His Comets recorded "Rock Around the Clock". Haley's biggest hit, and one of the most important records in rock and roll history, sales of "Rock Around the Clock" started slow but eventually sold an estimated 25 million copies (per the Guinness Book of World Records) and marked the arrival of a cultural shift.
Initially, "Rock Around the Clock" was only a modest success. Much more impressive was the no seller, "Shake, Rattle and Roll", a somewhat bowdlerized cover version of the Big Joe Turner recording of earlier in 1954. Although Haley's "Shake, Rattle and Roll" never achieved the same level of historical importance as "Rock Around the Clock", it actually predated it as the first major international rock and roll hit, although it did not attain the Number 1 position in the American charts, but became his first Gold Record. When Elvis Presley recorded the song in 1956, he combined Haley's arrangement with Turner's original lyrics but failed to score a substantial hit. Late in 1954, Haley also recorded another hit, "Dim, Dim The Lights", which was significant as the first R&B song recorded by a white artist to cross over to the R&B charts.
The (belated) success of "Rock Around the Clock" is attributed to its use in the soundtrack of the film Blackboard Jungle, which was released in March 1955. The song, which was re-released to coincide with the film, rose to the top of the American musical charts that summer and stayed there for eight weeks, the first rock and roll record to do so.
Ambrose's acrobatic saxophone playing, along with Lytle on the double bass -literally on it, riding it like a pony, and holding it over his head- were highlights of the band's live performances during this time. Their music and their act were part of a tradition in jazz and rhythm and blues, but it all came like a thunderclap to most of their audience. In late 1954, Haley and His Comets appeared in a short subject entitled Round Up of Rhythm, performing three songs. This was the earliest known theatrical rock and roll film release.
In 1955, Lytle, Richards and Ambrose quit the Comets in a salary dispute and formed their own group, The Jodimars. Haley hired several new musicians to take their place: Rudy Pompilli on sax, Al Rex (a former member of the Saddlemen) on double bass, and Ralph Jones on drums; in addition, lead guitarist Franny Beecher, who had been a session musician for Haley since Cedrone's death in the fall of 1954, became a full-time Comet and Haley's first performing lead guitarist. This version of the band became even more popular than the earlier manifestation, and appeared in several motion pictures over the next few years.
Other hits recorded by the band included "See You Later, Alligator" in which Haley's frantic delivery contrasted with the Louisiana languor of the original by Bobby Charles, "Don't Knock the Rock", "Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie", "Rudy's Rock" (the first instrumental hit of the rock and roll era) and "Skinny Minnie".
In 1956, Bill Haley and His Comets appeared in two of the earliest full-length rock and roll movies: Rock Around the Clock, and Don't Knock the Rock.
Overseas, however, Haley and his band continued to be extremely popular, touring the United Kingdom in February 1957, during which Haley and his crew were mobbed by thousands of fans at Waterloo Station in London at an incident dubbed the Second Battle of Waterloo by media. That same year, the Comets toured Australia and in 1958 enjoyed a successful (if riot-dominated) tour of the European mainland. Bill Haley & His Comets were the first major American rock and roll act to tour the world in this way. Elvis who was on duty in Germany visited them backstage at some shows. During an off day in Berlin they performed two songs in the Catarina Valente movie "Hier Bin ich Hier Bleib Ich" (Here I Am Here I Stay).
Back in the U.S., Haley attempted to start his own record label, Clymax, and establish his own stable of performers, most notably Sally Starr TV Hostess (a children's show hostess) and the Matys Brothers. Members of The Comets were commissioned to work as session musicians on many of these recordings, many of which were written or co-written by Haley and/or members of The Comets. The Clymax experiment only lasted about a year. In 1959, Haley's relationship with Decca collapsed and after a final set of instrumental-only recordings in the fall, Haley announced he was leaving Decca for the new Warner Bros. Records label.
In 1960, the band enjoyed its last new hit in the United States with an instrumental version of "Skokiaan" on Decca, although another instrumental for Warner Bros. that same year called "Tamiami" almost became a hit. Meanwhile, Haley and the Comets began recording for Warner Bros. in January, creating a series of critically acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful songs over the next 13–14 months, many in the country and western style. From 1961 to 1969, Haley and His Comets recorded unsuccessful singles for a number of small labels in America such as Newtown Records, Guest Star Records, APT Records, as well as for United Artists. APT Records even went so far as to release a single under the name B.H. Sees Combo in order to trick American radio stations into playing music by the so-called "has been" group. Guest Star Records released an album of Haley recordings under the name Scott Gregory, possibly due to the fact Haley was having major problems with the Internal Revenue Service at the time. In 1964 there was an abortive attempt to return to Decca with a low-selling recording of Jim Lowe's "The Green Door" backed by "Yeah, She's Evil!" a song that would later be recorded by Elvis Presley as "The Meanest Girl in Town" for the soundtrack of his movie, Girl Happy. That song's writer, Joy Byers, also wrote "Stop, Look and Listen" which Haley recorded in 1965 for APT Records; the next year it was again recycled by Elvis, this time for his film, Spinout.
For commercial success in the 1960s, the band had to turn to venues outside the United States. The group continued to be a top concert draw in Europe throughout the 1960s, including a successful stint at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany where they played around the same time the Beatles performed there.
In 1966, the Comets (without Bill Haley) cut an album for Orfeon as session musicians for Big Joe Turner, who had always been an idol to Haley; no joint performance of "Shake, Rattle and Roll" was recorded, however. In a 1974 interview with BBC Radio, Haley said Turner's career was in a slump at this time, so he used his then-considerable influence with Orfeon to get Turner a recording session. The Comets' association with Orfeon/Dimsa ended later that year.
By 1967, as related by Haley in an interview with radio host Red Robinson that same year, the group was "a free agent" without any recording contracts at all, although the band continued to perform regularly in North America and Europe. During this year, Haley -- without the Comets -- recorded a pair of demos in Phoenix, Arizona: a country-western song called "Jealous Heart" for which he was backed by a local mariachi band (and similar in style to the earlier "Jimmy Martinez", and late-60s-style rocker called "Rock on Baby" backed by a group called Superfine Dandelion. Neither recording would be released for 30 years. In 1968, Haley and the Comets recorded a single for the United Artists label, a version of Tom T. Hall's "That's How I Got to Memphis" but no long-term association with the label resulted. In order to revive his recording career, Haley turned to Europe.
In the United States in 1969, promoter Richard Nader launched a series of rock and roll revival concert tours featuring "oldies" acts of the 50s and 60s. One of the first of these shows, held at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden in New York City, resulted in Haley receiving an eight-and-a-half minute standing ovation following his performance, as Nader related in his recorded introduction to Haley's live album Bill Haley's Scrapbook, which was recorded a few weeks later at New York's Bitter End club.
The band appeared in several concert films in the early 1970s, including The London Rock and Roll Show and Let the Good Times Roll. After 1974, tax and management problems prevented Haley from performing in the United States, so he performed in Europe almost exclusively, though he also toured South America in 1975. The band was also kept busy in the studio, recording numerous albums for Sonet and other labels in the 1970s, several with a country music flavor. In 1974, Haley's original Decca recording of "Rock Around the Clock" hit the American sales charts once again thanks to its use in American Graffiti and Happy Days.
The Comets continued to tour on their own during this period.
In 1979, Haley was persuaded to return to performing with the offer of a lucrative contract to tour Europe. An almost completely new group of musicians, mostly British - including Pete Thomas (saxophonist) - were assembled to perform as The Comets, and Haley appeared on many TV shows as well as in the movie Blue Suede Shoes, filmed at one of his London concerts in March 1979. A few days later, a performance in Birmingham was videotaped and aired on UK television; it was released on DVD in 2005. During the March tour, Haley recorded several tracks in London for his next album with Sonet, completing the work that summer at Muscle Shoals in Alabama; released later in the year, the resulting album Everyone Can Rock & Roll was the last release of new recordings by Bill Haley before his death.
In November 1979, Haley and the Comets performed for Queen Elizabeth II, a moment Haley considered the proudest of his career. It was also the last time he performed in Europe and the last time most fans saw him perform "Rock Around the Clock".
In 1980, Bill Haley and His Comets toured South Africa but Haley's health was failing and it was reported that he had a brain tumor. The tour was critically lambasted, but surviving recordings of a performance in Johannesburg show Haley in good spirits and good voice. Nonetheless, according to the Haley News fan club newsletter and the Haley biography Sound and Glory, planned concerts such as a fall 1980 tour of Germany, and proposed recording sessions in New York and Memphis were cancelled -- including a potential reunion with past members of the Comets -- and Haley returned to his home in Harlingen, Texas where he died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack on February 9, 1981.
In April 1981, Bill Haley & His Comets returned to the British musical charts once again when MCA Records (inheritors of the Decca catalog) released "Haley's Golden Medley", a hastily compiled edit of the band's best known hits in the style of the then-popular "Stars on 45" format. The single reached No. 50 in the UK but was not released in the United States.
In 1987, Bill Haley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At that time, supporting bands were not also named to the hall. This policy has since changed and efforts have been under way for several years to have The Comets also named to the Hall. Bill Haley and His Comets have also been inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and, in July 2005, the surviving members of the 1954–55 Comets (see below) represented Haley when Bill Haley and His Comets were inducted into Hollywood's Rockwalk, a ceremony also attended by Haley's second wife and youngest daughter. The Comets placed their handprints in cement; a space was left blank for Haley.
The Comets, featuring musicians who performed with Haley in 1954–1955, reunited in 1987 and are still touring the world as of 2007, playing showrooms in the United States and Europe. They have also recorded a half-dozen albums for small labels in Europe and the United States. This version of the group has also been credited as Bill Haley's Original Comets, and in circumstances where the use of the Comets name is in dispute, A Tribute to Bill Haley and The Original Band. The basic line-up of this group from 1987 to May 2006 consisted of Marshall Lytle (bass), Joey Ambrose (sax), Johnny Grande (piano), Dick Richards (drums) and Franny Beecher (guitar). British singer Jacko Buddin augmented the group on vocals during most of their European tours, with Lytle taking over on vocals for US/Canadian tours beginning in 2000 and full-time in Europe in the mid-2000s. Since they connected with Klaus Kettner's Rock It Concerts (Germany) in 1991 they have played hundreds of shows all over Europe, dozens of TV shows and in March 2007 pre-opened the Bill-Haley-Museum in Munich, Germany (www.rockithydra.de).
Two additional groups claim the name Bill Haley's Comets and have extensively toured in the United States since forming in the 1980s: one featuring Haley's 1965–68 drummer John "Bam-Bam" Lane, the other run by Al Rappa who played bass for Haley off-and-on between late 1959 and early 1969 (some media promotion for Rappa erroneously states that he joined the group in 1956). Both these musicians claim trademark ownership of the Bill Haley's Comets name; this dates back to Lane and Rappa (during a period when they worked together as one band) winning a trademark infringement lawsuit against the aforementioned Joey Rand group in 1989. Both Rappa and Lane's bands have, from time to time, recruited other former Comets for their line-ups (for example, in 2005, Rappa joined forces with Joey Welz), but for the most part the bandleaders are the only regular members who have worked with Bill Haley directly.
In March and July 2005, the members of the 1954–55 group, now billed as simply The Comets after decades of controversy over the use of the name, made several high-profile concert appearances in New York City and Los Angeles organized by Martin Lewis as part of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of rock and roll, the release of Blackboard Jungle, the 50th anniversary of "Rock Around the Clock" hitting Number 1, and the 80th birthday of Bill Haley. During a July 6, 2005 concert at the Viper Room in West Hollywood, The Comets were joined on stage for one song by Gina Haley, the youngest daughter of Bill Haley; at a similar appearance in March they were joined by Haley's eldest son, John W. Haley.
In 2006, The 1954–55 Comets spent much of the year in residence at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri (their second season at the theater is scheduled to begin on March 30, 2007). Meanwhile, the John Lane edition of Bill Haley's Comets recorded a new album in Tennessee in early 2006 which has yet to be released.
On June 2, 2006, Johnny Grande, keyboardist with the 1954–55 Comets and an original founding member of the band, died after a short illness. The following month, 85-year-old guitarist Franny Beecher announced his retirement, though he was at one point announced as participating in an early 2007 tour of Germany. The three remaining original Comets (Lytle, Richards, and Ambrose) continue to perform in Branson with new musicians taking over the keyboard and lead guitar positions. During September 2006, PBS in the United States aired a series of programs videotaped in Branson during the spring of 2006; these shows include the last recorded performances of the complete Original Comets line-up including Grande.
John "Bam-Bam" Lane died on February 18, 2007 but his edition of Bill Haley's Comets is expected to continue touring, with the 2006 recordings to be released in Lane's memory.
On October 27, 2007 ex Comets guitar player Bill Turner opened the afore mentioned Bill-Haley-Museum in Munich, Germany.
Several tribute bands patterning themselves after The Comets are also active in Europe, including Phil Haley and His Comments in Great Britain, and the Bill Haley and His Comets Revival (also known as Bill Haley's New Comets) in Germany.
Bill Haley & His Comets recorded many singles and albums. The following list references only their original release and does not include compilation albums or single reissues. This list does not include releases on which the Comets worked as session musicians and only includes releases during Haley's lifetime.
As Bill Haley & His Comets (and name variations thereof)
Other notable album releases by the group included Rock with Bill Haley and the Comets (Essex 102; 1954), Shake, Rattle and Roll (Decca DL5560; 1955), Rock Around the Clock (Decca DL8225; 1956) and Rockin' the Joint (Decca DL8775; 1958). These were all compilations of previously issued material.
Notable discoveries that have been commercially released have included:
A number of recordings exist in the hands of private collectors and remain to be commercially released, including a number of privately made live recordings of several 1960s and 1970s concerts, and a number of rehearsal recordings from 1960. To date, however, no one has discovered any alternative takes of any of Haley's most famous recordings of the 1950s, in particular "Rock Around the Clock" and "Shake, Rattle and Roll".
The group has also appeared as guest stars on a number of other recordings by Andy Lee Lang, Schurli Weiss and others.
In addition, Haley and the Comets also scored chart hits in Latin America during the period 1961–1966 with recordings such as "Twist Español", "Florida Twist" and "Land of a Thousand Dances". Reportedly, "Chick Safari", a 1960 recording, reached the No. 1 position on the Indian musical charts. Both the single "Florida Twist" and the Twist LP Record went to No. 1 in Mexico.


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Captain Keven Mealamu will lead out the Blues for the first time in almost three months when they face the Western Force at Eden Park on Saturday.
The inclusion of Mealamu, who returns after recovering from a recurring calf injury, in the starting XV is one of four changes to the Blues side that took on the Chiefs in Week 15.
While Mealamu makes a welcome return, the Blues' injury woes have continued as outside backs Rudi Wulf and David Raikuna became the latest players to join the club's casualty list.
Ex-Blues star Orene Ai'i returns to where it all began as he looks set to make his first appearance in Blues colours since 2004, while promising New Zealand Sevens player Charles Piutau starts at full-back for his Super Rugby debut with less than a week's training under his belt.
There is also a call-up for lock Andrew Van der Heijden who will start against the Force, filling the void for the injured Ali Williams and Filo Paulo who has been suspended for the rest of the season.
Piri Weepu will start at half-back ahead of Alby Mathewson, while fellow All Black Ma'a Nonu is refreshed and raring to make an impact after enjoying a rare five-week break during the June Test window.
The Force have named a revamped back-row. Angus Cottrell returns to the side at openside flanker, while No.8 Lachlan McCaffery earns his promotion to the starting team from the bench.
Pocock's absence (groin) opens the way for Nathan Sharpe to resume his captaincy of the side - a position he held for the Force's first six seasons.
The other changes see ex-Blues centre Winston Stanley earn a call-up to face his former side, and Brett Sheehan return at nine for Josh Holmes.
The Force will feature a number of changes in their reserves with former Fijian Warriors representative Anare Koliavu joining prop Ruan Smith and lock Ollie Atkins in the quest for their Super Rugby debuts.
Hooker Ben Whittaker has been called into the matchday 22 replacing Elvis Taione, while Australian U20 fly-half Kyle Godwin will make his first appearance in the Force squad since returning from the IRB Junior World Championship in South Africa last month.
Blues: 15 Charles Piutau, 14 Lachie Munro, 13 Francis Saili, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Rene Ranger, 10 Michael Hobbs, 9 Piri Weepu, 8 Luke Braid, 7 Daniel Braid, 6 Steven Luatua, 5 Andrew Van der Heijden, 4 Liaki Moli, 3 Tevita Mailau, 2 Keven Mealamu, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Tom McCartney, 17 Angus Ta'avao, 18 Chris Lowrey, 19 Peter Saili, 20 Alby Mathewson, 21 Orene Ai'i, 22 Hadleigh Parkes.
Western Force: 15 Alfie Mafi, 14 Nick Cummins, 13 Will Tupou, 12 Winston Stanley, 11 Napolioni Nalaga, 10 Ben Seymour, 9 Brett Sheehan, 8 Lachlan McCaffery, 7 Angus Cottrell, 6 Richard Brown, 5 Nathan Sharpe (c), 4 Toby Lynn, 3 Salesi Manu, 2 Nathan Charles, 1 Pek Cowan.
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About Our Neck Rests
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Finer Recliner Products
CURVE Model 1
CURVE Model 2
CURVE Model 3
Embroidery - How to Decide
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Welcome to The Finer Recliner, micro-manufacturer of unique aftermarket recumbent CURVE neck rests, side mount kits and other accessories. It's our goal to bring a new level of comfort to your riding experience and do it in a fun and creative way that lets you truly personalize your ride. Hopefully all the information is here to help you make your selections, but please feel free to contact me with any questions or special requests.
Recumbent accessories for:
• ICE • Catrike • Trident • Greenspeed • Steintrike
• HP Velotechnik • Sun • Edge e2 • Hase • ...and more
Recumbent Neck Rests
Custom Embroidery
Tail Lights
Custom Applications
Side Mount
Finer Recliner News and Stuff
Here's a small sample of recent customers' embroidery creations. Check
for LOADS more examples, and
for helpful information about how to create your own unique embroidery.
Wondering whether you really need a neck rest, take a look at the Bentrideronline thread,
"How necessary is a head/neck rest on a trike?"
Neck Rest Kits
NEW MODEL 3 CURVE kit
with slide mount is now available. The slide mount was originally designed for the Greenspeed Magnum so that the neck rest mount wouldn't interfere with the rear rack when the seat back was reclined at a more severe angle. Its been tested on a Greenspeed GTO, where there's little room between the upper seat brace tube and the rear rack, and BROL's version of Ming the Merciless, the arch-dispenser of justice, the arbiter of "out of order", the infamous Blue Coyote (aka Cornell) has also tested the Model 3 on his ICE trike where it can be center-mounted without interfering with the rear fender or rack. So far it has gotten a "thumbs up" from the testers.
What's especially neat about this new prototype model is that the design is a collaboration with Pat Franz of TerraCycle, who's making the circular clamps that secure the slide tower to the seat brace tube. I'm hoping this is just the first of several opportunities to work with Pat and use some of his incredible high-quality accessories.
How's this prototype different from a Model 2 CURVE kit?
It doesn't use a mtb stem for the base mount; it's lighter; vertical adjustment can be done very quickly by hand using the quick release clamp...no tools needed; there's no extra tube showing; for storing you can quickly remove the neck rest and "T" tower without tools; it's a center mount...and I think it looks great.
What's not different?
Same great CURVE neck rest, the same (actually a bit more) total adjustability, same great location for mounting tail lights, and it's rock-solid.
Poly wicking Riding Jerseys in long and short sleeves embroidered with your image.
Ball Caps and Runners Caps
embroidered with your image.
Here's a great way to take the wait tim
e out of custom embroid
...AND answer the question, "How come you ride a trike?" This image
has been so popular we're now keeping these embroidered covers in
stock in 5 Bright, Candy-colored combinations. Now you can just order
one when you order your CURVE...no extra waiting time. Just let us
know which color you'd like when you fill out your order. And the
additional good news is that this embroidery is only $20.
If you look carefully at this recent batch of neck rest covers you'll see a half-dozen sporting the
Hampton's Edge
logo. That's because Regis and Cindy have outfitted their entire Catrike rental fleet with CURVE kits.
So if you're anywhere near Floral City, Florida, want to ride the beautiful Withlacoochee Trail and either can't or don't want to bring your trikes, you're in luck. You can rent a Catrike from Regis and Cindy, and try out a CURVE kit while you enjoy a wonderful ride on one of Florida's best bike trails.
After your ride check out their great trike selection and enjoy customer service at its best!
We have near-unbeatable deals on
1 watt
PlanetBike Superflash Turbos, Portland Design Works Radbot 1000s and Danger Zones, and
2 watt
Cygolite Hotshot USB rechargeable lights.
Your CURVE kit "L" and "T" towers are the perfect mounting spot, and
because they don't weigh much there's no extra ship charge when you order other gear. Check them out
Check them ut here.
While I get lots of really nice comments about the CURVE kits, I've occasionally heard that they make it hard to fit a trike into a hatchback. They're the tallest part of the trike and in some cases will simply get in the way of fitting the trike into the back of the car.
So I came up with what I hope is a real improvement. Check out this link and see what's coming to all Model 2 CURVE kits.
All Model 2 kits are now coming with the new
Quick Release mtb stem base.
We're off to TOT in Kellogg, Idaho.
We'll be closed and most likely not checking emails from 6/25 - 7/3. I'll get to all email messages as quickly as I can when we return.
In the meantime enjoy the summer weather and get in some great rides.
- Steve
Near endless possibilities to personalize your trike...and a friend's.
Here's an ingenious innovation that also happens to look great. Steven (FlyingLow on BROL) came up with a neat way to mount a rack on his rear-suspended Catrike Road using a CURVE kit as his base. The rack is an Axiom Flip Flop. It also comes in a DLX model which includes side braces if you're using a tail trunk with drop-down side panniers. Mounted to the CURVE it independent of the suspended rear end. Great job, Steven.


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Gardeners are hardy, creative folk. We don't scare easy.
Think it was the second heat wave of the season. The day of the tour, dark clouds alternately threatened and acted-out by throwing ten or twenty minute tantrums of heavy sheets of rain on gardens that had been meticulously prepared for the day. When the storms were quiet, they left behind humidity that hovered like an over protective mom. And staggering heat. But still the gardeners strolled to look.
Even with the naughty skies, gardeners came out, some wearing wellies and carrying umbrellas, to see and to learn.
The Cumberland County Master Gardener Garden Tour was held back in June and nearly 250 came to tour gardens through out the West Shore. Each garden had its special appeal and each garden offered educational displays. I took away ideas from each. I also loved meeting so many other fab gardeners and talking my favorite plant raps.
But seeing the gardens and the creativity of each of the gardeners firmed-up something that had been percolating in my head for a long time. I like it when my brain finally makes sense of something.
I'm at core an artist. While I can equally easily navigate both the left and the right sides of my brain, the left takes the lead every once in a blue moon.
And so in my 20's when I first got the gardening bug, this new passion of mine didn't fit my idea of an "acceptable hobby" for an "artist." Wasn't in my self-image. I WAY got over it though.
But as I meet more and more gardeners and I see more of their gardens, I see how very wrong I was. I see all gardeners are artists.
I've come to know accomplished gardeners who make their living in the arts; like the fab horticulturalist who welds antique keys together for trellises and garden gates. There is the landscape designer who is also a mosaic artist and accomplished photographer preparing work for a show in DC next year.
Neighbors who are Shakespearean actors have gardens that put mine to shame. I've met a painter who does Halloween art and is hired by companies all over the US to carve pumpkins for them; and man, SHE can grow anything. (story on this witch to come soon) There is a wonderful Guggenheim Fellow photographer among my gardening friends. Three local art teachers I know are rocking gardeners, too.
But even without the street cred of fancy shows or awards, there is art in the plantings of gardeners. And I saw the art elevated in the gardens of the Cumberland County Master Gardeners.
I didn't get to see all the gardens. I visited the beautiful gardens of Master Gardner's Barb Lumby, Jay and Carol Crist, and Shirley Stark. I'd stopped by Lori Hegedus' garden before she had finished up preparing so I could do a preview story for the event. I took photos of each of the gardens and here is a slide show. I must say, my video doesn't capture the beauty of each of the spaces, but here's a peak anyway. I'm hoping the show inspires you to join the tour next year!


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Watch your favorite ABC Family shows on your iPhone and iPad with ABC Family
Thanks for the article Leanna. ABC Go offers some great shows and of course the ABC live feature. If you don't live in US, you can use UnoTelly or similar tools to access it in your country.
Just go in to your settings ... Then general....software update..... Then your update will be there and push install now.
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Just one hit to her credit and Deepika Padukone is already creating waves in the film circuit. Be it with Ranbir Kapoor or without him, the actress has already become the cynosure of all eyes. Deepika Padukone unveiled the first look of her forthoming venture Chandni Chowk To China at a suburban multiplex. The film seems promising and will feature Deepika in different avtaars all through the film.Deepika Padukone" src="http://www.india-forums.com/bollywood/images/uploads/Deepika_Padukone_big_08.jpg" align="right" border="">
Not only fans thronged to just have a look at the actress but
also there was pandemonium when the photographers went to click pictures of her.
Security guards behaved very unruly and created ruckus. A frightened Deepika
took shelter in the theatre halls and refused to come out after watching all
these. The makers had to finally cajole the actress and bring her to face the
shutterbugs once again.
Chandni Chowk to China is a R S Entertainment and Warner Bros film. It is being produced by Rohan Sippy and directed by Nikhil Advani. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakraborty, Ranvir Shorey and Masumeh Makhija. But looking at the Deepika craze among the audience, the makers must have been thinking about depending on Deepika only for striking the hit string.
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akshey films just bekhar film his style same as all film i dont like aksheys film
only gonna watch this movie for akshay
it will make the most good lookings couple of boolywood ever.
deepika n akshay RULES!!
wow, with akshay
this is a def. must watch
love deepika and ashay equally
after a long time, gonna see akshay with someone else
he's usually with katrina
looking forward to the movie.
wow with akshay...then i have to watch this one...!!! and he's not going to be in a movie with kareena, priyanka or katrina...!!
with akshay?? wow! I am so used to seeing akshay with priyanka and Katrina all the time this would be different!
i wanna watch chandni chowk to china for akshay....!!
if theres a reason to watch this film..its Akshay Kumar..and not Deepika Padukone..
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I am putting together a list for our supplemental draft if everyone would send me their complete roster I can compile a list for the supplemental draft.
I have rosters from: Goferphan, Mojo, Lost, Jensen, ISU2008, Trusty, TLV, Avallone, Stiffy, Wrastler118, eazee, Scholttke and Wiltz(I should have my own)
Found a line-up from way back for Grips. So, if I made some mistakes. Deal with it.
Right now my list is about 100% complete.


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"Murderdrome" Comic Banned From App Store. Duh...
People are remarkable. We can spend time figuring out precisely what we're not allowed to do. Spend even more time doing it. Then spend triple that complaining when we suffer the foreseeable and reasonable consequences of our informed and deliberate actions. Heck, Dr. Phil has amassed a money-bin throwing us up on TV for just such spectacle.
Witness all the PR flackery and blog blustering (present posting included!) going on about the strategic geniuses who decided to go ahead and make an iPhone App Store-optimized engine for navigating and displaying specially formatted comic books.
Was their debut feature a family friendly installment of the Tremendous Super-Spider? Nope. It was "Murderdrome" and it was rejected. Find out why after the jump!
The App Store's policy -- which is part of the License Agreement the writers/developers agreed to when they got the iPhone SDK -- expressly states: "Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple's reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users."
Is this a good policy, as Lying in the Gutters rightly points out:
"...you need to have a credit card to download content. And, say, viewers are able to download the "300" movie."
Maybe, maybe not. TV and Movies are mature mediums with a parental guidance system that is well understood in the market and long inoculated against the most extremist of faux-puritanical propaganda (wardrobe malfunctions not withstanding). App Store is a brand new platform delivery model, likely in the sights of every hyper-litigious, uber-manipulative fringe group, and Apple is undoubtedly playing is safe as a result.
Will "Murderdrome" ever make it onto the App Store? Probably some day, maybe even soon-ish. LITG, however, points out that it might be better to get the comic reader App up separately, and then establish downloads for content, like eBooks.
Er... Could it be that was the plan all along? Let's face it: a killer comic reader (and admittedly, this one looks sweet), would definitely be in high demand, especially if Marvel or DC ever decided to explore the mobile internet delivery model for their content. A nice little well-manufactured controversy could bring a lot of attention to an App that wants to own that space, now couldn't it?
As an artist, I'd like to believe in vision without compromise, pushing boundaries, and finding new outlets for creative expression. As a blogger, however, I've grown just a little more jaded, especially when press releases seem so ready to fly...
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"Murderdrome" Comic Banned From App Store. Duh...
I'm all in favor of free expression, but I can see Apple wanting to CYA in favor of a ratings system. I agree with the suggestion that the e-ComicBook reader should have been written first with downloadable content. In fact, I would prefer that just so I can maybe get back into comic books ;)
All in all, I don't like it, but I can't throw much blame in the direction of Cupertino.
Mike, stick to what you know. Free expression does not entitle you to the use of someone else's microphone (or App Store). Insinuating that those who don't share your flawed conclusions are corrupt is childish and blatant psychologizing.


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UFC 136 had some great fights. Frankie Edgar retained his belt and Jose aldo was taken the distance in the closest fights he has ever fought. (he also got to keep his belt). But the fight that stuck out the most to me was Leonard Garcia vs. Nam Phan.
Leonard Garcia is a great fighter to watch. He known throwing big powerful punches and having a lot of heart. He puts everything hes got in his punches and will keep punching till its over. Nam Phan on the other hand has a completely diffrent style. Phan is more of a technical fighter. He punches at about 65% power and while to those not expirenced in fight trainning might look down on this, it won him this fight.
In the first round Leonard was controlling the fight. He was throwing powerful punches and kicks at Phan when ever he got the chance. Phan took some hits but stayed on him picking his punches more carefully. About halfway through the round Phan had Garcia up against the cage and landed some nice combos on Garcia, throwing to the head and the body. Garcia got away just to have Phan land another punch which knocked Garcia to the ground. (there was a chance it was more of a slip).
In round two is where things got interesting. While Leonard was tired and breathing heavly from the big punches; Phan, who kept his punchs at medium power, was still in good shape. Phan Dominated round two. Phan kept on Garcia hitting him with combos and vicious body shots, and while he wasnt knocking Garcia out, he was racking up points. His medium power punches aloud him to stay on Garcia for the whole round and still have energy for round 3.
Round 3 started off with Leonard much more composed. His held back on the power a bit and threw more in combos. Then at 3:50 Garcia hit Phan with a powerful right hand. Phan was knocked down and was able to get back up but was clearly very hurt. This is where Garcia should have come in and finished the fight. Unforetunetly he was exhausted. Phan spent the next minute or so backing away from Garcia trying to regain composure. If Garcia had kept control of his punches through out the fight he could have easily finished him here. Instead they clinched up on the cage which allowed Phan to get his head right. While Garcia needed technique for most of the fight this is where Phan needed heart. Garcia was tired. He was breathing heavily and his hands were dropping. I think If Phan could have turned up the power he could have knocked garcia out. Instead Phan got the take down. Phan is strictly a stand up fighter. He got points for the take down but as usual he just hugged Garcia till the ref stood them up. This allowed Garcia to catch is breath and Garcia made somewhat of a comeback in the last minutes of the fight. The fight went to the judges where they unanimously voted the bout 28-29 Phan.
In this fight technique won the battle. Phan use good technique and controlled his power which allowed him to stay on Garcia for most of the fight. Garcia had more heart in this fight. He kept punching and he never backed away, but when the time came for the finish he was too tired to do so. Each fighters problem is the others solution. While Garcia only throws power punches and needs to tone it back on focus on technique, Nam needs to learn how to get go and throw everything into his punches. In the end heart if good, but it doesnt beat simply good technique.


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Today is going to be overloaded with politicking and philosophizing in attempts to capture some form of inherent depth. I did so myself years ago for a college compendium and, while it was generally well received, I won't be posting it here. This is not because I don't stand by the positions taken, largely I do, but because it's been long enough that I can recognize my own words for the "seen it all" 21 year old who wrote them.
Still, it's been over a year since I made a news post, so why not? Fortunately one recent night my mind wouldn't let my body go to sleep until I'd written down everything in it. What sparked this, I don't remember. It was probably one of a hundred easy political arguments on the boards. This is going to be more a loose collection than any grand attempt because frankly I don't feel in a place to say anything grand about this.
I think it's the length of time since that prompted me to write this. It's been 13 years, the age you're supposed to be to get a Newgrounds account. More so, it's been long enough for a generation of youth to come and pass. There are people up and running and sometimes coherent who were little. I compare this to people my age and the Challenger explosion. You're aware this happened in your lifetime. You may have some vague memory of seeing it on tv, or of seeing Punky Brewster see it on tv http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0680568/ but there's not a visceral connection to it. It's a thing that happened in the world. Not to brag, but I was disconnected before it was cool.
The following recollection is going to be purposefully terse. I was sitting in the school cafeteria watching a dvd of Friends on my laptop. Yes, laptops could run dvds that far back and I liked the show so shut up. I was tucked in a corner near the power outlet and when I peaked out of my cave the room was full of people watching the tv. That was three sentences. I claim no experience.
What happened after is a matter of record. Everything from questionable choices by leaders, wars we're still in and those "What if America wasn't America?" ads that stopped running around the time the Patriot Act passed. http://www.adforum.com/creative-work/ad/player/34445792 I used to have a conspiracy theory that in some 1984 turn of events this very mention of sedition was removed. Later I calmed down and thought that the run time for the campaign had passed. The real answer I realize now is horrible and mundane enough for both. They lost.
That's the part where I get angry. It all comes down to anger. We'll get to that. I'll remember that because we remember anger. Memory and anger are why I get angry now. I get angry because in today's world with demands on government transparency, foreign intervention and the rights to privacy, people are only angry now. Yes, times change and yes, hindsight is 20/20. What that doesn't change is that for what happened then people are angry now.
Changing times are why I was so hopeful when 24 came back. Jack Bauer was a hero of the shock and awe era who would extract answers any way he had to because ultimately he was on the right side. Throwing him into an anti-drone story with the supporting cast of wikileaks could have been really clever. They could have showed how his ways were past or how little the difference the new coat of paint made. It would have helped if they didn't go completely Chloe with the dragon tattoo. Ultimately I didn't watch it through, but I can't be mad at anything with Stephen Fry in it. Was it good?
So we've covered anger. That was easy because, like I said, we remember anger. Even in moments where we aren't proud of what we did we remember being angry and learning from it. Something we forget is the path to anger. Not to give the prequels too much credit but there's one thing Yoda got right. Anger embeds itself and evolves into hate and from there, suffering. But what is it that leads to anger? It's fear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnFr-DOPf8
Fear isn't a reaction. Fear is vulnerability. So it's easy for us to gloss over in ourselves and as a collected mass. Something that happens to the countries on the news happened to us and could happen again. We were afraid. We were so afraid of the world and ourselves that we couldn't stomach reminders of things like airplanes, New York, or the day after Monday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Clear_Channel_memorandum The music stands out to me because I was 20 at the time and music meant a lot to me. This was years before Katy Perry shocked the world by showing us we were still shocked by experimental lesbianism and cured me of ever needing to hear a new song again.
There was a block of music videos MTV kept looping for a few days after. I'm not going to make the easy joke, but you go ahead. It was an understandable thing to do. They were a New York based network after all. Among the songs were The Clash with "Rock the Casbah" (not a literal call to rock Casbahs) and Bob Marley's "One Love." Did you even know there was a music video of One Love? I didn't until hearing it about 30 times over the course of a week. You learn something every day, even from oversimplified pleas to feel alright. There's also the part about giving praise to the Lord that people don't seem to remember. Keep it in church, you long dead counter culture icon.
Before closing this overall I want to say something personal. I don't pretend to be in the heart and mind of anyone but myself but there's one thing I have to say before this calling out of rage and entropy ends. What I have to say is, I get it. I got it a year ago when Boston was hit. The attack on Boston wasn't as orchestrated and didn't cost a fraction of the innocent lives lost in New York, but I get it. I live in Massachusetts. I've been to Boston more times than I can count. I have childhood memories in Boston. I've made mistakes I'll question for the rest of my life in Boston. I've fallen in and made love in Boston. So when those bombs went off, when someone hurt MY city, I got it. Any animal I've called people I'm just as capable of being.
Is there a point to all this? Is there more truth in the meditations of David Letterman after the attacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBLgp1qTCTg or the call to recovery from the Onion? http://www.theonion.com/articles/a-shattered-nation-longs-to-care-about-stupid-bull,216/ I don't know. There's a lot out there but don't let yourself be fooled. When you're presented with a well spoken, panoramic surface view it's easy to mistake the overload for meaning. Here's a picture of my dog in her Halloween costume.
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Nightlife in St. Thomas
St. Thomas Nightlife
On any given night, especially in season, you can find steel-pan bands, rock and roll, piano music, jazz, broken-bottle dancing (actual dancing atop broken glass), disco, and karaoke. Pick up a free copy of the bright yellow St. Thomas–St. John This Week magazine (www.virginislandsthisweek.com) when you arrive (it can be found at the airport,
in stores, and in hotel lobbies). The back pages lists who's playing where. The Friday edition of the Daily News carries complete listings for the upcoming weekend.
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