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- Metal proves to be a mainstay niche for guitar makers
- Skater brings her game inline
- Navy News opinions editorials news from Iraq photos reports -…

Metal proves to be a mainstay niche for guitar makers
International Herald Tribune – Aug 27, 2007
But there's something gruesome growing in one corner of town: Halo Custom Guitars Inc. Fueled by a resurgence in heavy metal music and its numerous dark sub-genres Halo makes and sells evil looking instruments with bodies carved to resemble rotting flesh distended eyeballs and bone. The demonically themed guitars primarily find their way into the hands of death metal musicians. Regular heavy metal music can cover the usual topics of scorn and despair while the death metal sub-genre leans heavily on growled vocals and themes such as Satanism and dark mythology. Both are an important niche for electric guitar manufacturers like 5-year-old Halo. It sold 200 guitars its first year in business and now sells 200 to 300 a month in direct sales and another 200 per month to dealers said co-founder Waylon Ford… Fueled by a resurgence in heavy metal music and its numerous dark sub-genres Halo makes and sells evil looking instruments with bodies carved to resemble rotting flesh distended eyeballs and bone. The demonically themed guitars primarily find their way into the hands of death metal musicians. Regular heavy metal music can cover the usual topics of scorn and despair while the death metal sub-genre leans heavily on growled vocals and themes such as Satanism and dark mythology. Both are an important niche for electric guitar manufacturers like 5-year-old Halo. It sold 200 guitars its first year in business and now sells 200 to 300 a month in direct sales and another 200 per month to dealers said co-founder Waylon Ford. Today in Business with Reuters.

Skater brings her game inline
Stuff.co.nz – Aug 27, 2007
“There were only two places available in the team for the world champs. I feel crazy about it” she says. She is as bubbly as she is leggy enthusing about all aspects of the sport from the choreo-graphy and technique to her desire to sneak a little heavy metal music into her routine. It was a demure start for Rene who only started skating because her sister was asthmatic and needed to do an indoor sport. The rink has taken up much of the last six years of her life. Although she lives in New Lynn Rene travels to Panmure five days a week to train for an hour or two each time. Discovering this talent has opened both her world and her view of herself.

Navy News opinions editorials news from Iraq photos reports -…
NavyTimes.com – Aug 27, 2007
)At the Indiana academy 10 who’d been accepted never showed up; 16 were booted the first day for failing drug tests; 29 others fell along the way — some dismissed for misbehaving some leaving on their own due to homesickness. But 49 have hung in there including 18-year-old Lindsey Smith. After dropping out of school two years ago Smith got a job as a receptionist for an ambulance service but soon chucked that and began spending afternoons in the family room watching soap operas and evenings in her bedroom listening to metal music. “I was going nowhere” she said. “Here I’m up doing things. ”James Summers 17 left school at age 15 and got a job at a Subway but fairly quickly saw no future in it. “I was getting bummed out knowing everyone else was moving on” he said.