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This week Element has it’s hands full putting on a number of events. On Wednesday there is an Elemental Awareness game of s.k.a.t.e. in Yorba Linda, CA. Friday features the second annual Paint a Deck Get a Deck in Watts, CA. And on Saturday the 4th Active board shop presents an Element team demo and signing. The demo will be at Active in Chino, and the signing at Active in Irvine. the whole team will be on hand including Colt Cannon, Chris Senn, Jake Rupp, Jeremy Ray, Tosh Townsend and that guy with the show on Mtv.

Pro skater Neil Heddings and his girlfriend, Christine “Pinky” Rams, were charged with beating his son Marcus to death and have been in jail for close two years now. They are scheduled to stand trial on first-degree murder charges February 1st in Riverside County. This LA times report digs a little deeper into the matter.

The Globe Wild Card Series Final and final stop of the Gallas Skate Jam took place on Sunday November 21, 2004 at the Torrance Skatepark in Torrance, California. Globe would like to congratulate the two winning finalists of the Globe Wildcard Series on their wins. Uriel Lubcke from Denver, Colorado took first place, and Andrew Cannon from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania took home second. Both winners will receive wildcard entries into the ‘invitation only’ Globe World Cup Australia in February 2005.
For the gals, thirteen year old Lacey Baker from Covina, California skated away with the grand prize, securing her a spot to compete in the ‘invitation only’ Australian Gallaz Skate Jam.
Source: Press Release

We should’ve known better and checked our facts more accurately before posting a “Top 3″ submission from an outside source (a dude claiming Agent 725) in regards to rumours of three skate companies going out of business. Lance Mountain had emailed us to inform us that his company The Firm is alive and well.
Lance writes: I’m sorry the rumors are not true, after 30 years of skating I wont be stopping what I love, especially with all the junk out there that’s suppose to be a skateboard team or our competition, they will be long gone before I stop skateboarding. Does any of these companies stand for anything or is there a purpose for them? There are lots of good companies and skateboarders out there only time tells who was great.
So show support of those companies and brands that have been around through the tough times and the good times, not those trying to cash in quick while the market is ripe. Skateboarding is yours…go get some.
Our apologies Lance.

The Nike SB team is flying south for winter with pens and skate sticks as they travel through the South East and make appearances at the following skateshops and skateparks. Check them out if you can.
Stratosphere
(signing at 6:00 pm, Nov.29th)
1141 Euclid Ave NE
Atlanta, Ga
30307
(404)-521-3510
M.I.A
(signing at 5:30 pm, Dec. 1st)
229 9th St
Miami Beach, Fl
33139
(786)-621-3511
SPoT/Skatepark of Tampa
(Demo/signing at 5:00pm, Dec.4th)
4215 East Columbus Drive
Tampa, FL
33605

If you live anywhere near the Rancho Cucamonga Epicenter you’ll want to run, not walk (or better yet skate really fast), to the first all Flip team demo stateside since 96′. Skating will be Mark Aplleyard, Geoff Rowley, Arto Saari, Tom Penny, and Bastien Salabanzi. Sounds like it’s going to go off. Also, TWS has posed this mini-interview with Rowley throwing down some past demo stories.