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Questron Technologies Corporation
based in Mississauga, ONTARIO (CANADA)
We are manufacturers of high quality sample preparation equipment for analytical laboratories. Our product range primarily covers: Microwave Digestion, Block Digestion, Microwave Ashing, Laboratory Automation. We understand the complexity of handling diverse samples and are glad to offer our expertise to analysts. We at Questron are always excited to develop application ...
Aurora Biomed Inc.
based in Vancouver, BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)
Aurora Biomed is a worldwide leader in the design and development of lab automation solutions for life science, environmental science, drug discovery/safety and chemical analysis research. We provide technologies and services which facilitate a higher sample throughput while improving quality, accuracy and precision. Aurora`s product range includes automated ...
Schumann Tanks
based in Wolmirstedt, GERMANY
Schumann Tank & Stahlbau GmbH, Your Specialist for bolted steel tanks and bolted digester tanksSchumann Tank & Stahlbau GmbH has a solid reputation as a supplier of tanks and steel-equipment and represents guarantee of quality and service. Schumann Tank & Stahlbau GmbH works with experienced engineers that can design each type of tank. Our team of specialists are ...
based in Kempston, UNITED KINGDOM
Casella is an ISO 9001-2000 and ISO 14001 certified company with a focus on the development and manufacture of state-of-the-art environmental and workplace monitoring instrumentation. Products include personal air sampling, real-time dust and particulate measurement, personal noise dosimetry, environmental noise measurement and real-time frequency analysis, BOUNDARY ...
Bionomic Industries Inc.
based in Mahwah, NEW JERSEY (USA)
Bionomic Industries' recently redesigned website. We appreciate your interest in our company and hope you find our new site user-friendly, most informative and helpful in solving your present or future air pollution, emission control, product or waste heat recovery application. As the dominant worldwide leader in providing conventional and advanced gas absorption, ...
Macrotek Inc.
based in Markham, ONTARIO (CANADA)
With more than 80 years of experience, Macrotek Engineering offers a variety of air pollution control systems to suite a broad range of environmental requirements. Using some of the most innovative and effective technologies available in the industry, Macrotek provides cost-efficient applications for industrial air purification. Our mission is to produce customized ...
Markland Specialty Engineering Ltd.
based in Georgetown, ONTARIO (CANADA)
Since 1967, Markland Specialty Engineering has been designing and manufacturing process monitoring and control instrumentation that is valued by operators, managers and consultants, in diverse sectors, around the globe. Municipal water & wastewater treatment to measure primary, secondary, return-activated, and backwash sludge. Industrial processing and water & wastewater ...
Encotech, Inc. / Carbon Service and Equipment Company a Division of Encotech, Inc.
based in Eighty Four, PENNSYLVANIA (USA)
Encotech is a leading provider of environmental products, systems, and services. With over 35 years of experience, we offer the best products and support to our customers. With offices in PA, FL, SC and LA, we currently service sites from Maine to Florida and throughout the Central US. We are also involved in project work throughout the world. We design and ...
SRS Crisafulli, Inc.
based in Glendive, MONTANA (USA)
SRS Crisafulli manufactures, sells and services versatile high capacity pumps, dredges, power units, accessories, and spare parts. Crisafulli Products are manufactured in both custom and standard configurations. Dredges, Dredging Services, Flotation Equipment, Irrigation Systems, Lagoon Equipment, Pumps/Centrifugal, Pumps/Lift Station, Pumps/Sludge, Pumps/Submersible, ...
Verderflex Peristaltic Pumps - part of the Verder Group
based in Castleford, UNITED KINGDOM
Verderflex Peristaltic tube and hose pumps from Verder have gained worldwide prominence particularly in dosing applications involving abrasive, highly corrosive, viscous, high density and shear sensitive products within industries such as water and waste water, food & beverage, chemical, biofuel, print & packaging and ceramics. Verderflex peristaltic pumps have a ...
Rota Mining Corporation Natural Zeolite Producer
based in Istanbul, TURKEY
Rota Mining is the worlds leading natural zeolite mineral producer. As a world leader in its field, Rota Mining is committed to setting the standards for the natural zeolite industry.Rota Mining owns high quality clinoptilolite reserves (min. 90% pure) in Manisa / Turkey and produces a wide range of natural zeolite products at the mining and processing plant here. With ...
BKT United
based in Anaheim, CALIFORNIA (USA)
BKT provides biological wastewater treatment, membrane filtration, and energy solutions. We have more than 100 wastewater treatment references (including 130 MGD and 190 MGD facilities under construction) for BNR process, retrofitting, CSOs, and TMDL using biological filtration (BBF) or customizable SBR (BCS) technologies. Our revolutionary anti-fouling membrane system, ...
Gooch Thermal Systems
based in Lebanon, NEW JERSEY (USA)
Gooch Thermal Systems, Inc. is the largest American manufacturer of spiral heat exchangers. We custom-design spiral heat exchangers that are cost-effective, energy saving solutions to difficult heat transfer problems. The spiral heat exchanger is ideal for applications that often foul or plug traditional heat exchangers like the shell & tube or plate heat exchanger. We ...
Albin Pump SAS
based in Goteborg, SWEDEN
The company`s history originates from Albin Verken and is since 1928 an independent company. Albin Pump develops and manufactures sealless pumps that facilitate our customers processes through innovative solutions. The knowledge of development and production of pumps for the industry is built on many years of experience. We take pride in delivering efficient and ...
Analytik Jena AG
based in Jena, GERMANY
Analytik Jena is a leading provider of high-end analytical measuring technology, instruments, and products in the fields of biotechnology and molecular diagnostics and high quality liquid handling and automation technologies.
Permastore Limited
based in Suffolk, UNITED KINGDOM
Permastore Limited is a UK registered company established since 1959 providing substantial experience in the engineering and manufacture of bolted modular tanks & silos. Internationally recognised as the world's leading dedicated Glass-Fused-to-Steel tank & silo manufacturer, Permastore has supplied more than 300,000 structures in over 110 countries worldwide. PERMASTORE ...
LECO Corporation
based in St. Joseph, MICHIGAN (USA)
We introduced the first rapid carbon determinator to the American iron and steel industry, and the LECO name quickly became synonymous with fast, accurate results. Although much has changed over the years, one thing has remained the same—customers around the world still count on LECO for results they can trust. Today, we are proud to provide innovative technology for your ...
Nomadic Systems
based in Langley, BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)
NOMADIC™ is a global leader in the mobile sewage treatment industry. With successful installations everywhere from Siberia to Saudi Arabia, our mobile sewage treatment technology is capable of withstanding any environment in any location around the world. We seek to partner with companies looking for best in the industry mobile sewage treatment expertise.We specialize in ...
Ozzi Kleen Water & Waste Water
based in Kunda Park, AUSTRALIA
Ozzi Kleen water & Waste Water products have been manufactured on the Sunshine Coast in QLD by Suncoast Waste Water Management (SWWM)for more than 15years. As a leader in domestic waster water treatment, Ozzi Kleen sewerage systems are supplies throught Australia to homes not connected to mains sewerage. Ozzi Kleen also offers Greywater treatment systems so homeowners ...
Environmental Leverage Inc.
based in North Aurora, ILLINOIS (USA)
With all the concerns today about environmental liability, some of the Key issues that manufacturers face include: Globalization, Impact of new science and engineering technology, Information systems and e-Commerce, Supply chain management, Sustainability, Energy savings and Environmental performance. At Environmental Leverage all of these issues are important concerns. ...
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Martin Horwood
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|Martin Horwood
|Member of Parliament
for Cheltenham
|In office
5 May 2005 – 30 March 2015
|Preceded by
|Nigel Jones
|Succeeded by
|Alex Chalk
|4,920 (9.3%)
|Personal details
12 October 1962
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
|Political party
|Liberal Democrat
|Dr. Shona Arora
|Alma mater
|The Queen's College, Oxford
Martin Charles Horwood (born 12 October 1962, Cheltenham) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Cheltenham constituency. He was the founder and was the chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples. Martin lost his seat in Parliament in the May 2015 elections gaining only 34% of the vote compared to 46% of the winning candidate Alex Chalk.
Early life[edit]
He was born in St. Paul's, Cheltenham, in 1962. His parents lived first in St. Mark's and then in Leckhampton, where his mother still lives, joining the Cheltenham Young Liberals while still at Cheltenham College in 1979.
Horwood then went on to The Queen's College, Oxford to read Modern History in 1981, and was elected president of the Oxford Student Liberal Society and then chair of the party's national student wing, the Union of Liberal Students.
After graduating and leaving student politics, he worked first in advertising and then in the voluntary sector. In 1990 he moved to Oxford to work for Oxfam. His teams raised tens of millions of pounds for the poor in developing countries, including £2.5m for victims of the Rwanda genocide.
In 1995 he married Dr Shona Arora. They moved to India for a year, Horwood working for Oxfam and Arora for the UN programme on AIDS and a small charity working on sexual health in the slums of Delhi.
Returning to Britain, he became the first Director of Fundraising at the Alzheimer's Society, the care and research charity for people with dementia and their carers. Horwood led the team that won the charity Tesco Charity of the Year, earning millions for the charity nationwide and £16,000 for the Cheltenham branch alone.
He returned home to Cheltenham in 2001 to work for local business Target Direct which works mainly with charity clients. He became their Head of Consultancy.
Since 2015 he has been director of engagement and impact at Development Initiatives.[1]
Parliamentary career[edit]
Horwood stood twice unsuccessfully before gaining election. In 1992 he was defeated by Labour's Andrew Smith at Oxford East. Later he stood for the Cities of London & Westminster in Cities of London and Westminster in 2001, but came third.
Horwood was adopted as parliamentary candidate for Cheltenham following the decision by sitting MP Nigel Jones to stand down. He was elected at the 2005 general election, winning the seat with a majority of 2,303 over the Conservatives.[2]
He was appointed by his party to the select committee scrutinising the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister – now the Department for Communities and Local Government.[3]
In July 2005, then party leader Charles Kennedy appointed Horwood to the Shadow Home Affairs team, before he was promoted by Menzies Campbell to be Shadow Environment Minister, under Chris Huhne, whom Horwood had backed in the party's leadership election.[3] He has spoken in favour of a switch to more green taxation, tougher action to prevent climate change and more investment in bio-fuels and microgeneration[citation needed].
Horwood was the chairman and founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples. Created in 2007, the APPG for Tribal Peoples is composed of over 30 cross-party MPs and peers with the aim of raising parliamentary and public awareness of tribal peoples. Its secretariat is the international indigenous rights organisation, Survival International. The Group meets two or three times a year and one of its main objectives is to press for ratification of ILO Convention 169 on the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples.[4]
Horwood was also the Secretary of the APPG on corporate responsibility.[5]
In March 2009 Horwood was one of several MPs used as examples by the BBC looking at the reliability of Wikipedia. He urged Wikipedia to crack down upon abuses of the open editing facility and "acts of political vandalism".[6]
In May 2010 Horwood was re-elected to serve the constituency of Cheltenham, beating Mark Coote the candidate for the Conservative party by a sizeable majority, claiming over 50% of the votes.[citation needed]
In December 2010, Horwood attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico with fellow Liberal Democrat, then Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne.[7]
- ^ http://devinit.org/#!/post/martin-horwood-appointed-as-director-of-engagement-and-impact-at-development-initiatives
- ^ "BBC NEWS – Election 2005 – Results – Cheltenham". bbc.co.uk.
- ^ a b Biography on Liberal Democrat party website
- ^ All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tribal Peoples website
- ^ [1]
- ^ "BBC NEWS – UK – UK Politics – UK politicians' Wikipedia worries". bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Tuition fees: How Liberal Democrat MPs voted"
External links[edit]
- Martin Horwood MP official constituency website
- Martin Horwood MP profile at the Liberal Democrats
- APPG for Tribal Peoples
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
- Current session contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
- Profile at BBC News Democracy Live
|Parliament of the United Kingdom
|Preceded by
Nigel Jones
|Member of Parliament for Cheltenham
|Succeeded by
Alex Chalk


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PAMPA - Alejandra Lee Chavez, infant daughter of Crystal Lee Chavez of Pampa and Daniel Cano of Reynosa, Mexico, died Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today in Fairview Cemetery with the Rev. Elias Torres, pastor of Iglesia Bautista Emanuel Church, officiating. Arrangements are by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors.
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Can your LO write his/her name? A lot of Luke's little friends in preschool were writing their names before the school year ended, but Luke just isn't getting it. Granted, I haven't really worked with him, well, I have a few times, but he'd much rather be running around the house with his trash trucks than sitting still practicing writing. He's the youngest in his class so I'm not worried about it really, but I just thought I'd get an idea of what other July kiddos are doing! Thanks!
Wife to David 06/08/02
Mama to Luke 07/07 & Zack 01/10 & Isaac 5/12 & Jacob 12/15
My DS can write his first middle and last name, etc. but this is because he had interest in learning it. He actually learned it last summer. But there are two kiddos from his class that also struggle with their first name, and they are both summer babies as well. Their preschool teacher didn't seem alarmed by the ones who struggled at all. They still have a full year and will learn many things in that time!
Shelley ~ Mom to Ian 7/07 and Gavin 3/12
Jack sounds just like your son. He is not writing his name at all yet and doesn't show interest in doing so. He is also much happier with his cars. :)
I am just going to wait and see what happens in preschool this year.
Mommy of Jack, 7/20/07
DS got really into writing letters the last month or two of preschool and would write other classmate's names. He wrote his own name like twice. But now that school is out, he has zero interest in writing and won't write any letters even though he knows how. I don't push it because I'm guessing when school starts back up and he's around other kids writing, he will get interested again.
Chrissy + Jayden (July 11, 2007) + Isaac (May 28, 2009)+ Eli (December 23, 2010)
My DS can write his name, and most of the alphabet. He is VERY interested in this, as well workbooks, but also loves running around and being active. My LO prefers the attention of me playing with him, so I take advantage of that time and do worksheets and so forth with him. He does not get (yet) that this is work, although at times does get bored and doesnt want to do it very long...which is obviously OK, I am not going to push it.
Mead makes awesome dry erase letter books for uppercase and lowcase and they have been very helpful. You can get them at Walmart. Also, the Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K is a good start combined with All About Reading Pre-Level 1.
Stefanie - Homeschooling Mom to Molly(3) and Liam(4)
Nope. Dane is not interested in learning to read/write. It may have something to do with the fact he just got glasses less than 6 months ago. DH has tried working with him a couple times. 4 yr preschool should be interesting.
My DD can wirte her name but it is all a mix of upper and lower case letters. We are working on writing this summer but until they can hold a pencil properly it is hard to do.
"I don't understand, is there a gas leak in here."
Kristina isn't in school yet, but she can write her name, my name and DH's name. She's known how to spell them for quite some time. She also has loved doing the name tags for birthday gifts for her friends which has been great because it gives her a chance to write other letters that aren't in any of our names. Obviously, for those I had to spell the names for her and she wrote them. She started a couple of months ago getting really interested in writing, so I just worked with her a bit and she caught on pretty quickly. We also have the LeapFrog Scribble and Write which she plays with in the car that helps teach her how to write.
One and done - proud mama to an amazingly beautiful, funny and smart little girl since '07.
Owen won't do it. I've tried, and tried. He just screams NO at me and walks away.
He starts full day, every day, preschool this fall. His poor teacher will earn her paycheck. :(
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You did forget, didn't you? You forgot it's Valentine's Day. Well, if you're now in the hot seat and you need to produce a valentine for your sweetie, then "Music Under Glass" is here to help you. The series offering tonight at the Domes is (whew!) "Valentine Sweetheart Night," and the sweet sounds will come courtesy of Street Life with Warren Wiegratz. The free photo booth picture opp will prove in coming years that you remembered.
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Jazz organist Melvin Rhyne played with jazz guitar legend Wes Montgomery, and bluesmen B.B. King and T-Bone Walker before coming to Milwaukee, where he inspired a generation of artists - including bop trumpeter Brian Lynch.
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Nigel Wade is a product of Milwaukee.
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'Blue Bayou' is Domes spring floral theme
"Blue Bayou," the spring floral show at the Mitchell Park Domes, 524 S. Layton Blvd., will open March 23 and run through May 27, park officials have announced.
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'The Penelope Project' screens at UWM tonight
Can aging be more meaningful? Are games of bingo all we can expect in our final years? Are there means of engagement that are more relevant to us when the mind and body naturally begin to fail in older age?
"The Penelope Project," a 52-minute documentary, offers some profound alternatives to the common strategies. It that looks at how a theater company joined forces with a long-term care facility to explore a work of art with particular resonance for aging residents. It will be screened tonight at UWM's Union Theater at 7 p.m. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Fun. to headline Marcus Amphitheater June 27
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Amazon is now collecting sales tax in some states in exchange for more distribution centers for same-day shipping options
Amazon is already a major threat to brick-and-mortar competitors with its low prices and easy online shopping method, but now, physical stores have another reason to fear the monster e-tailer: same-day shipping.
Amazon is currently working on same-day shipping methods for customers, which would send a package out only a few hours after the order is placed according to
. How is Amazon doing this? By opening more distribution centers, and putting a lot of money into these new centers to make them efficient. This is likely an expansion of
Amazon's existing Local Express Shipping option
which provides same-day delivery to a handful of large U.S. cities.
Amazon's old way of conducting business was to set up distribution centers in low-cost states and ship the orders to wherever they needed to go. This worked because Amazon didn't have to collect taxes in states that it didn't have a physical presence in, and low-cost states didn't put too much financial strain on the e-tailer.
However, Amazon has been fighting that tax-related battle for awhile now.
The online retailer cut ties with
states like Texas
, where Texas State Comptroller Susan Combs charged Amazon $269 million in unpaid sales taxes, and Illinois, where Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a bill called the Main Street Fairness Act, which would force Amazon to collect sales tax.
In California, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that would require websites that forward shoppers to Amazon to collect sales tax in the state. The law is expected to generate $200 million in revenue, and prompted Amazon to threaten to
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It ended up filing lawsuits in many states like California, Rhode Island, North Carolina and Colorado.
But more recently, Amazon has been backing off on the tax front. It has agreed to collect sales tax in many states, including Texas,
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Amazon has decided to bend on the tax issue because this would allow the company to open more distribution centers within those states. Having more distribution centers means even faster shipping, which is where the same-day shipping idea came from.
To make sure the same-day shipping method is a success, Amazon has poured a lot of money into making these new distribution centers. For instance, the e-tailer invested $130 million into new facilities in New Jersey, $135 million for two new centers in Virginia, $200 million for Texas distribution centers, $150 million in Indiana and another $150 million in Tennessee. But it's not finished yet -- Amazon plans to build as many as 10 distribution centers in California, totaling $500 million in expenses.
Amazon has also made these centers super efficient by purchasing picking robots, which accurately improve shipping times. It is also placing "lockers" at nearby drug stores and convenience stores, where those who live or work nearby can pick up their Amazon purchases from the locker if they wish.
Same-day shipping could really give brick-and-mortar stores (and even other online stores) a run for their money. Not only is Amazon convenient and cheap, but now it's also fast. The e-tailer keeps giving customers more reasons to shop from Amazon instead of competitors like Walmart and Best Buy. It's funny that brick-and-mortar stores complained that Amazon's lack of sales tax collection was unfair, and now that the online shop is collecting taxes, these other stores could still have the disadvantage -- and we'll likely be hearing about it.
In addition to being a major e-tailer, Amazon is becoming more of a tech giant as well with the release of its hit Kindle Fire tablet last November, and the upcoming release of
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RE: Automation is bringing significant societal challenges with it...
@Mint: This is baloney. Stop and think about this, in India I guess there was a time recently where there was a major backlash against backhoes. Why? Because it took jobs away from people with shovels.
That seems pretty backwards and stupid, but it's the argument against all automation extended to it's logical conclusion.
If there is an easier way to do something, it's better. Extend it to your personal life as well, would you rather mow your lawn, or have a hypothetical robot do it for you if it was possible for free? Of course the latter. Now understand that same logic applies on a large scale as well.
The sentiment is that somehow, there wont be jobs left for people to do. That's silly. Look around you, is there work to be done? As long as every single person isn't driving a rolls royce, eating filet mignon, and living in a mansion, plus being on vacation 10 months of the year, then there's plenty of work to do to get to that point.
There's less factory jobs sure, but it's funny how quick people are to blame automation and outsourcing and never mention extremely strict and ever worsening environmental and other regulations, which are the REAL reason there are no factories left in America. Any kind of factory building things with metal is virtually illegal, I mean, the big buzzword is things like ozone, climate change, and all that right? Factories are painted as nothing but polluting smokestacks, so it's no wonder they're driven from America. And then people wonder where the jobs are while every other word on our TV is "climate change".
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The Mavs Season Preview For Smart People
Last year, I wrote this piece a fortnight before Christmas Eve.
I did that because we were just then emerging from the black haze of the NBA's nuclear autumn, just then gearing up for a 66-game grindhouse after the league's owners spent six months practicing the negotiating equivalent of Chinese water torture until, eventually, a suitably large hole atrophied in their employees' bank accounts to compel them to get back to work.
It was an uncertain time. We didn't know how the players would react to the jam-packed schedule, particularly those on an older team like last year's Dallas Mavericks. Nor did we even know much about those Mavs themselves, with a duct-taped roster that patched the holes left by departed heroes like Chandler, Barea, and Stevenson with new faces like Odom, Carter, and West. How good would they be? Could they gel with familiar names like Nowitzki, Terry, and Kidd, who helped earn the mantle of "defending champions" that last year's Mavericks bore? Would the Triangle of Trust's gambit, of building a competitive team but also one that lent itself to cap flexibility the following summer, work?
Some 10 months later, we all know what happened. And what didn't.
Now this season beckons. It does so on time, not just before Christmas but instead right at Halloween. It comes with its own set of questions and while some semblance of normalcy has been restored with the return of a traditional NBA schedule, it certainly doesn't feel that way in Dallas. Not with the Jasons, Kidd and Terry, relocating to the Atlantic Division, a pair of moves that precipitated one of the most radical reshapings of these Mavericks in the Dirk Era. And there's no better place to start our look ahead with just how radically things have changed.
DONUT 1: Roddy Beaubois is the third-longest tenured player on the Mavs roster.
Go ahead and let that marinate for a bit. Roddy B – enigmatic, tantalizing, fragile, 24-year-old Roddy B -- has been here longer than anyone except Dirk, and as long as Shawn Marion. Or, put in the form of a question, Roddy Beaubois would be the third and final person you would ask, "What's it like to have played a season on this team before they won the title?"
Incredible as it seems, those three plus Dominique Jones are all that remain from the team that won the championship two years ago.
More fun with numbers. Last year, Dirk completed his 14th season in Dallas; that's three more than the rest of the roster combined. Remove Dirk from the equation and the early favorites for consistent rotation minutes – Marion, Darren Collison, O.J. Mayo, Chris Kaman, Elton Brand, Delonte West, Vince Carter, and Brandan Wright – have played six seasons collectively in Dallas, with Marion alone comprising half of those.
Indeed, these are strange, strange times in Mavs-land.
DONUT 2: Of course, the same can be said most any time a team recycles its core elements but it rings especially true on a team where most every element of its style was rote.
For over half a decade – an eternity in NBA terms – the 4th quarter offense was the two-man game between Dirk and Terry, a routine that wasn't quite Stockton and Malone's pick-and-roll but not all that far off the mark in both effectiveness and predictability.
Meanwhile, the pieces alongside them became increasingly specialized on the offensive end, making the Mavs as accessible as it comes for those looking to truly understand an NBA team's tendencies. As isolation-heavy as Dallas was with Josh Howard, Jerry Stackhouse, and Devin Harris on board, you could never claim to know exactly what would happen once they had the ball. Fast forward a few seasons and we expected Kidd to go as far as humanly possible to shun the layup; Marion's turnaround push shot that never looks effective yet seemingly always goes in; Stevenson perching himself in the corner, biding his time until someone gave him a chance to put on his three glasses; and Caron Butler stopping and popping his midrange jumper. Those are just four of the more prominent examples; pick a roster player from the past several years and you can reduce their offensive game to one or two tightly constructed sentences.
DONUT 3: That's what made last year especially excruciating.
It wasn't just that this team hovered dangerously close towards mediocrity for whole stretches of the season. It was that, by and large, we knew exactly how things were going to unfold when they took the court because we knew them all so well.
Take a moment to parse through each member of that roster; other than Odom being an unmitigated disaster, did any one of their seasons really surprise you? The only definitive 'yes' is Wright; that the most prominent example came from the 10th guy on the roster says all you really need to know.
DONUT 4: This year?
We know just about nothing, which makes this the most exciting – and terrifying – Mavericks season in recent memory.
I'd love to rattle off a hundred reasons why the recent hysteria of this team possibly missing the playoffs is a total farce, to tell you with all the certainty of the sun rising in the east tomorrow that Dallas will be in the postseason like it has been for the last dozen years. But, for the first time in a long time, I can't. There are too many strong teams in the West and too little information available to us on how these Mavs will play – and, for that matter, how Dirk's knee will hold up – to say that with the conviction we've become accustomed to. Yes, yes, he is handling this surgery with, as Fish says, "hope and humor and defiance.'' But still ... For the first time in a while, there's a chance this team drafts in the lottery.
On the other hand, there's a type of excitement that only comes with facing the unknown. For a very long time we were intimately, almost painfully aware of what made this group tick. At times, it became mundane in the way that some marriages grow stale; the love doesn't dissipate, but some of the spark dims after so many nights together.
Suddenly, there's intrigue. Mystery. Possibility, too.
Of course, those words are open ended. By its very nature possibility is a guarantor of nothing, and the only way something can grow mundane is if you let your guard down long enough for it to first become comfortable and safe. I may have hated Kidd's staunch refusal to go to the rim and his waning lateral quickness, to cherry-pick a low-hanging fruit, but I'll sure as hell miss the venerable assurance he brought to the team's offense. Collison is younger, faster and more explosive – but will he necessarily be better? I'm not sure.
But I'm excited to find out. It's a little scary not having the answers, but it's pretty cool to be able to ask some questions again, too.
DONUT 5: I don't want to disparage anyone who judges this season's success or failure based on how far it gets into the playoffs, or whether it wins a championship.
At the end of the day, everyone's entitled to an opinion and we're all on the same side, so seek your Shangri-La.
I do want to ask you a question, though: Have you heard Cuban, or Donnie, or Carlisle, or Dirk actually say the specific goal this season is to win the title?
It's not like any of them would turn down that scenario, mind you. Implausibly winning a title with what amounts to a second consecutive rent-a-team certainly would not suck. And even this fall, Carlisle does not shy from saying that is the purpose of basketball existence.
"This is Dallas,'' Rick said. "We play for championships here. It's as simple as that.''
But the goal lies in the process of plucking a second star to line up alongside and eventually replace Dirk, and of constructing a new core.
Gone are the days of winning at all costs, because winning at all costs in the new CBA entails constricting your roster flexibility within, which, ironically enough, short circuits your chances of winning to begin with. Cuban understands that better than anyone and implicit in his comments from the summer about the Nets extending themselves into luxury tax territory were instructions to draw a line in the sand between reckless spenders like Brooklyn and judicious spenders like Dallas. This is who they are. That is what we're not.
But ...
DONUT 6: Just like the parts of the roster itself, there's a chance this doesn't work out.
Cap space is illusory; all it does is create the possibility of signing someone, and as Deron Williams reminded us, you don't even get a free flower bouquet for coming up bridesmaid.
As I wrote last year, though, locking up the core of the 2011 squad to new deals buys you a one-way ticket to "an interminable stay in a hotter, nastier luxury tax hell." You do that when you've got Oklahoma City's corps of under-25-year-olds. You don't when the players in question were Dallas' battalion of thirtysomethings.
That hasn't sat well with the contingent of fans that wanted the organization to do right by Dirk by re-signing all of them, cries that rang louder than ever in the aftermath of Tyson Chandler winning the Defensive Player of the Year award in New York. Which, of course, ignores that Dirk's seal of approval is on this whole initiative but more importantly that would have mortgaged five seasons in exchange for a chance at being a power player for two or three, with 'a' – not 'the' – being the operative distinction to make.
Few rational organizations would go down that road in this CBA. (Though what the Lakers are doing creates understandable envy.) Accordingly, by taking that chance – on creating that illusory cap space, on replacing battle-tested veterans with callow youngsters, on jettisoning the anchors of a championship team before they drag the ship down – management is going treading its only feasible path to long term viability.
DONUT 7: If that plan's going work, the goals need to mirror that long-term vision – and as we've already established, that long-term vision is a lot bigger than this year's win total.
But if wins aren't the primary objective, what should be, then?
My thesis is the following:
DONUT 8: This season will be successful if ...
One of Collison or O.J. Mayo becomes a core piece and re-signs in Dallas.
Not the most grandiose of ambitions for a team two seasons removed from a title, I'm aware. Nor am I expecting either to emerge as the second star the organization lusts after, either.
But this team needs more than just a star. It needs impact players who make reasonable money and whose best years are ahead of them. Collison, 25, and Mayo, 24, fit that prospective bill.
When he's running good, like his rookie year as a Hornet or last year's playoffs in Indiana, Collison has proven to be an adept pick-and-roll distributor and defender who can also hits the mid-range shot. And unlike Kidd, he's willing and able to get to the rim.
In the bad times, his decision-making wanes and he gets lost in his own game; the jumper disappears for games at a time; and he gets benched for George Hill.
Unlike his first two stops, Collison is The Man running the point in Dallas. Come season's end, after he's gotten 35 minutes a night in his age 25-season, we're going to know whether he's more of the first guy or the second.
DONUT 9: As for Mayo ...
I covered a lot of it the night he signed (see "The Trouble With OJ'' and while most of that hasn't changed, one thing has.
Mayo, by all accounts, grinded all offseason getting his body into shape and making his game sharp. He says all the right things, most impressively ascribing that improved work ethic to playing with Dirk because, in his estimation, that's what The Uberman deserves.
Only time will tell if this is all window dressing for a concerted contract drive instead of an actual paradigm shift. But spend too much time speculating about his intentions and you're liable to miss out on the wide-angled possibilities – that Dallas has a 24-year-old shooting guard who can really score, and who spent his offseason working out with the second-rounders trying to make the roster plus after moving to the city a month early to better focus on the season.
That's a different O.J. Mayo than the one Memphis let walk and, frankly, one that will likely earn an extended stay in Dallas if he performs to this new standard.
But, really, it doesn't matter much which of Mayo or Collison plays his way into a long-term role with this franchise so long as one of them does. Neither will ever become the best or even second-best guy on a title team but if Mayo becomes a dependable third scorer or Collison a consistent force on the pick-and-roll instead of a flighty one, they become important building blocks – or trading chips.
DONUT 10: So what of secondary goals?
We here at DB.com often speak of the front office's propensity for turning D's and F's into C's, something they have a long track record of succeeding at. Brandon Bass, Barea, Gana Diop, Antoine Wright, and most recently B-Wright are examples of discarded draft day busts they've hauled off other people's scrap heaps and turned into useful cogs.
This year's Mavs won't have anyone that strictly fits that mold, but what that's really about is securing useful rotation talent at a fraction of its actual value.
Cast in that light, Dallas has two rafts of players who it believes exploit those inefficiencies.
In one camp, you've got the low-cost veterans like West, Carter, and new arrival Brand. Total cost this year? A shade over $6.04 million. In a sense, all of them are part of the long-term vision, with each one having an expiring deal that falls in line with "Plan Powder.'' In another sense, none are, with Brand and Carter in their mid-30's and West a 29-year-old with baggage. But any way you slice it its cheap labor that can provide quality minutes with no long-term loss. If any of them play their way into another year in Maverick blue like Carter and West did last year, that's the icing on the cake.
DONUT 11: Then there's the rookies, and that's where things get fun.
There was a DB.com-driven narrative that went around on draft day that the Mavs traded out of 17 largely to pick up some extra savings to buttress Deron to Dallas, and to some extent, I'm sure that played a factor in the decision to move down once the Mavs' main targets were off the board. But the stark truth about the NBA Draft is if you're selecting outside the lottery, the chances of you hitting on a pick are slim. That's not just in Dallas, where the draft has been the domain that's vexed one of the league's best-run front offices; it's everywhere.
And just like playing in the local scratch-game lottery, there's one time-tested way to better your odds – buying more tickets, which the Mavs did when they picked up a valuable pair of early second-round selections.
I'd submit that the goal here ought to be the same as with Collison and Mayo: hope one of them hits, and entrenches himself as a long-term core piece.
Maybe that's Jae Crowder, the preseason star that has quickly earned some of Rick Carlisle's trust.
"He is going to play the same way no matter what,'' Carlisle said in praising Crowder. "He will play the same way whether he is starting or playing 30 seconds or one possession. That's one of the things we love about him. He's a winning kind of player."
Perhaps it's Jared Cunningham and his athleticism that's drawn comparisons to Russell Westbrook, which I'd probably be excited more excited about if we hadn't already spent the past three years hearing the same scuttlebutt about Roddy B with decidedly mixed results. Or it could be Bernard James, who so many seem willing to write off as a PR stunt even though he was the driving force behind one of college basketball's best defenses in Florida State.
Again, it bears repeating that any time you're dealing with picks this far down the draft board, the odds are stacked against you. But with Cunningham on the pittance that is a late first-rounder's salary and Crowder and James signed to non-guaranteed second-round deals, there's almost no downside to Dallas being wrong. Three chances at the money are always better than one, and if even one of these guys hits, Dallas wins big relative to its investment.
If not? Move on to the next craps table.
DONUT 12: Speaking of gambling ...
I'd wager this is the first time since the turn of the century that someone has gone 2,700 words into a Mavericks season preview before discussing the greatest Maverick ever.
But if you've read this far, you know by now that this from an organizational standpoint, this season really isn't about Dirk Nowitzki. It is, in the sense this is Dirk's house until the day he retires and that the front office's urgency to locate that second star hinges on Dirk having two to three more prime years in the tank, which there's no reason to assume can't happen at this point. It is, too, in that like all truly great players, Dirk makes those around him better with the tone he sets in the room and the work ethic he brings to the court; if, for instance, Mayo is truly is a success here, Dirk will be one of the first to get plaudits for that.
Yet for anyone who cares about this team, it will always be about Dirk so long as a No. 41 jersey is draped over his shoulders and until it hangs from the rafters.
And here's the great part about that: as fans, we're playing with house money at this point.
The fact is, everything we could possibly want out of The Athlete Experience, Dirk has delivered. He has amazed us, time and again, from his late game heroics to the sheer physics of how that One-Legged Euro Fadeaway actually works. He's piled on points by the bushel, with enough All-Star games and All NBA teams and an MVP award to gives him one of the best resumes in NBA history. He's provided us with memories, most so overwhelmingly good that you've shared with your friends and will tell of to your kids, or saw with your kids and will pass on to their kids.
He matured in front of us, from a 19-year-old scared German kid who couldn't string together two sentences in English to the 34-year-old married Dallasite that probably sees more Ranger baseball than you do, and definitely watches more FC Dallas games.
He's cared more than most stars have and he's suffered more than most should. But when faced with an opportunity to leave, he didn't.
And after he stayed, he won. When a lot of us probably thought it wasn't going to happen, he finally brought this team a title – and because he cared and he suffered and he stayed through it all, he sobbed afterward. He's never been afraid of letting us know that it all of this matters to him; that this organization, the city and its people matter to him. That he's proud to be here, to live here and to have played here. In a world cordoned off by locker-room walls, it's easy to just play for yourself and your teammates, and to pretend as if that everyone outside that nexus doesn't exist.
But never for a second has Dirk Nowitzki acted as though playing in front of those people isn't one of the great honors in his life.
What more could anyone possibly ask for than all of that?
I realize that all of that sounds like eulogizing even more than rhapsodizing, but if there's one thing to take into a season where the organization's sight line extends far beyond this team's final record, it's a mindset to simply enjoy watching Dirk play a game while he's still capable of doing it better than all but a select handful ever have.
This is a big-picture season for Dallas, with big-picture goals and objectives. If there's ever a year to step back and appreciate watching the best player any of us are likely to see as a Maverick, this is it.
In a matter of days, though, that year starts without him, against a Lakers team that boasts four Dirk-caliber talents at its disposal. On paper, it could be a blowout. In practice, it might not be. Making this all work, on Tuesday (as we watch from Red Rock at our DB.com Get-Together) or soon thereafter, this is a Rick Carlisle specialty.
Regardless of how it winds up, it's the first game of 82 as well as our first set of clues as to what these Mavericks might become, and it begs one final question:
Are you ready?
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Majority of employees have unpaid family leave benefit
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Roughly two-thirds of employees in the private sector and State and local governments could receive unpaid family leave, recent data reveal.
In 1994, unpaid family leave was almost universally available (93 percent) for full-time employees of State and local governments, while medium and large employers reported in 1995 that 84 percent of full-timers were eligible for unpaid family leave. In 1996, unpaid family leave was available to 48 percent of full-time employees in small private establishments.
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Small employers provided an average of slightly more than 12 weeks of unpaid family leave per year. This compared to about 14 weeks per year for medium and large employers, and almost 28 weeks per year for State and local governments.
The availability of unpaid family leave was affected by the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act. This federal law requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for a variety of conditions. Other State laws with more generous coverage or fewer restrictions also affect the incidence of unpaid family leave.
Data on unpaid family leave and other employee benefits are available from the BLS Employee Benefits Survey. Small employers are defined as those with fewer than 100 employees. Medium and large employers are those with 100 or more employees. For additional information, see "Unpaid Family Leave" (PDF 21K), Compensation and Working Conditions, Winter 1998.
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Unfortunately toxic exposure on-the-job can take many forms and may not show up until after a prolonged exposure. A job may involve handling potentially hazardous materials or a toxin can spill, exposing workers to unusually high levels of dangerous substances. If you've suffered as the result of exposure to toxic chemicals, contact a Jacksonville workers' comp lawyer at Farah & Farah.
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Like most of us, director Tim Sullivan collected trading cards as a kid. What better way to pay homage to his childhood passion than with a series of ten virtual trading cards of the Victims from his upcoming flick 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams?
MovieWeb has the exclusive look at all ten of the cards, but you can check out our two favorites below (click either to see the rest). Check out all the fun facts and film quotes. Like the movie itself, these cards are quite unconventional. And don't worry — A set of the Maniacs will follow soon!
2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams stars Bill Moseley, Lin Shaye, Nivek Ogre, Courtney Peldon, Ashley Peldon, Adam Robitel, Ahmed Best, Trevor Wright, Andrea Leon, Ryan Fleming, Dylan Edrington, Christa Campbell, Amy Baniecki, and Tony Todd. Look for the DVD and the Blu-ray on July 20th from First Look Studios. The film's soundtrack, a perfect companion, will be available the very same day.
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The songwriters' club is a bit like an open mic with a few key differences. This group exists for songwriter's who would like to interact with other songwriters. It is similar to an open mic, but with the added benefit of discussion.
You can come and play a song or just watch and listen.
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If you're a songwriter looking to connect with other songwriter's and get some dialogue happening, this group is for you! A club like this allows us to get to know other local songwriters, and learn from one another.
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What we've got brewing over in Los Angeles is the closest thing we've had to the Showtime Lakers since the Show ended and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired in 1989. It's hard to argue that there could be anything less than a show every night in Staples Center as L.A. has become the talk of the NBA.
Sure, there are a lot of moving parts yet to put together and Dwight Howard's back is keeping him out of the game until...well until we hear anything about Dwight Howard's back getting better so a lot of things need to fall into place before we can really call it a revitalization of Showtime.
What is Showtime, however? At the core what was the build of the team that won five titles in the 80s and really set the wheels in motion for the basketball revolution. Michael Jordan shoved basketball into the eyes of every child around the world in awe of what a single man can do, but Showtime put basketball into the mainstream and paved the way for what basketball is today.
Superstars became super-duper-stars and the media microscope that constantly held Hollywood in a petri dish was both a curse and a blessing. It exposed every pimple and magnified every point of pride, effectively turning the Lakers into the talk of the country.
Rivalries were born, fuel was fed to old rivalries and basketball during the 80s became this point of reference that everyone points back to remembering fondly. The game would have been great without Showtime in the 80s, but the Lakers just put it all over the top.
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Don't forget about the Denver Nuggets.
With the Miami Heat rolling and looking to out-streak the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers, the Nuggets have taken a back seat in the media mobile.
In spite of the LeBron James-led contingent burying everything else, though, Denver has managed to put the entire NBA on notice.
The message?
We're not going anywhere.
Beating a dead horse or surfing a crowded wave is often frowned upon. When talking about the Nuggets, it's not. No matter how many times it's said (or written), the success-by-committee mantra Denver embodies never gets old, annoying or even lessens in significance.
Call Ty Lawson and Andre Iguodala, among others, what you like, the Nuggets aren't considered a team built around any one or two (or three) stars. They didn't have any representation at the All-Star Game, and after a 13-12 start through the first 25 games of the season, they were the biggest disappointment outside of the Lakers.
Since Game 25, however, the Nuggets are 36-10, tied with the Heat for the most wins in the Association. They're also second in winning percentage (78.3), behind Miami and ahead of the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder.
Selling Denver short is no longer possible. Not when the Nuggets have more wins than any other team in the Western Conference in that 46-game span.
Underestimating their play when pitted against that of the Heat is inane as well. Miami has the same number of wins (36) since their 25th contest, and that's with a 26-game winning streak still alive and well.
And not even that does the Nuggets ample justice.
Since going into the All-Star break at 33-21, George Karl's selfless soldiers are scoring 108.6 points per game, the second-most in the league behind the Sacramento Kings.
Their defense has picked up as well. Though they're allowing 101 points per game on the season (24th), they're relinquishing just 99.6 since the break.
During this winning streak of theirs, the Nuggets are also outscoring opponents by an average of 10.2 points per game.
By comparison, the Heat are a plus-11.8 per game in their 26 straight victories.
Better? Yes. Over the course of a longer stretch? Also yes. Similar to that of Denver's, though? Again, yes.
Just ask the Clippers, whom they manhandled for the seventh victory of their current streak.
Ask the Thunder, whom they've beaten twice in their last 15 games.
Ask the Memphis Grizzlies, who saw the Nuggets beat them at their own game in an 87-80 loss for Denver's 11th straight victory.
Ask the Chicago Bulls. Or the New York Knicks. Or the Los Angeles Lakers.
Ask any other team in the NBA, really. They all officially know what the Nuggets are capable of.
Eight of the Nuggets' 15 consecutive victories have come against opponents above .500. Nine of them have come at the Pepsi Center, where they're tied with the Heat for best home record in the league (32-3).
Some will look to their near-losses against the Kings and Philadelphia 76ers as a sign of potential futility. Ugly as those victories were, though, they came without Ty Lawson and Wilson Chandler, the former of which is their leading scorer.
Denver also knows those wins were brutal, or even lucky, as some would postulate (via Benjamin Hochman of the Denver Post):
Danilo Gallinari, radiating defeat, slouched and said softly after Saturday's game: "It's something we can learn from."
And the Nuggets won Saturday's game, against the Kings.
Even though the Nuggets are winning, they're not pleased with the way they're winning. There have been a lot of lulls lately, with Denver pulling out victories late.
That's accountability. That's awareness.
That's the mark of a great team.
When the season ends, the Nuggets will have faced the fifth-toughest schedule in the league. Yet, even now, they're 49-22, the third-best record in the Western Conference.
They also rank in the top five of points (105.9), rebounds (45.1), assists (24.3), field-goal percentage (47.7) and offensive efficiency (110.1).
Do you know how many other teams can say the same?
Zero. Zilch. None.
How far will the Nuggets go in the playoffs?
Clad with eight players scoring eight or more points a game, they're one of the most potent, most deadly attacks in the Association. Not just over the last 15 games, but overall.
"Every day we can get a little bit better or a little bit mentally tougher or a little bit more aware of what we have to improve on," Karl said (via Hochman).
Forgive the rest of the league for not sharing in your hopes, George.
An even "better" Nuggets convocation is something no outfit in the NBA wants to see or can afford to see right now.
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|It Took a Couple Decades, But the Music Business Looks Like It's Okay Again
|Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:47PM
|After Breaches At Other Services, Spotify Is Resetting Users' Passwords
|Friday August 26, 2016 @04:47PM
|Spotify Is Burying Tracks From Musicians Who Give Exclusives To Apple and Tidal
|Thursday July 21, 2016 @07:46PM
|Spotify Is Now Selling Your Information To Advertisers
|Friday July 01, 2016 @02:09PM
|Apple Slams Spotify For Asking For 'Preferential Treatment'
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|Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music
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Capcom Shows Leon-Inspired Styles
You, too can look like Leon Kennedy might.
For a limited time -- December 3 through December 27 -- Capcom will take orders for a selection of fashions inspired by Resident Evil 4 hero Leon Kennedy. They're not replicas of his outfit featured in the game. Rather, Capcom sought to commission a line of casual clothes that "satisfies Leone's style policy." Here, then, are some examples.
Among the shirts on offer is this interesting Iron Cross design from Machine Head, available in the black shown above or a dark red color instead. Either version is priced at 6,090 (almost $60)
For colder weather, Leon sports this army-surplus style sweater, with a red and gray pattern on the shoulders around the collar. Designed by Virus 2005, it's available at a steep 15,540 yen ($152).
Leon's stylish pre-stressed jeans, also produced by Machine Head, feature a keen insert label in back and come priced at a cool 23,100 yen ($225)
Big spenders can secure Leon's jeans about their waist with Leon's belt, designed by Isamu Katayama, done up in a snappy diamond snakeskin pattern. It'll tack on a price of 21,000 yen ($205) to the price of the pants.
Finally, complete the ensemble with...well, whatever these are. Gloves by an outfit calling itself "Toilet," with gray-on-black palms and a skeleton motif on the back. Priced at 14,490 yen ($142) for the Resident Evil fan who has everything.
All of the above are of course available only in Japan, but then we'd suggest psychiatric aid for anyone interested in shelling out for them in the first place.
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Halofreak.....?Posted: Dec 08, 2004 12:00AM PST by Ghost_Candy
Yeah. People like you don't usually play anything BUT Halo. You don't count. ResidentEvil4 is awesome. And the makers put A LOT of effort into it. Do you read game reviews at all? Or are you too busy shooting at people in blue jumpsuits In your mom's basement? If you did, you'd realize that RE4 is gonna' kick donkey behind! Don't heckle Capcom just because they have Japanese roots. They've got a different way of commercialization than we do, but you've got no room Mr. Halo.... That game has sold X-box all on it's own. Commercialed much here?[ For teenage-early 20's guys. ] The clothing style however, well....let's just say not everyone is a Leon. ^u^ Nor has his fundage.
i don't really see itPosted: Dec 07, 2004 12:00AM PST by skribble3k
you know... i've been looking at these things for about five minutes and am rather confused. why would you apy that much for one, and two... i really dont see how it looks lika anything leon has worn in either RE2 or RE4. At times, i hate marketing.
its not too badPosted: Dec 06, 2004 12:00AM PST by brick_city81
its nice stuff, and if you've ever been to japan, most nice clothes do cost much much more than you would expect.
Not too surprised at the prices.Posted: Dec 06, 2004 12:00AM PST by MAConcep00
Well, at least they're still consistent with the expensive hobby of video games. =P <p>I wasn't really big on cosplaying, anyway....But, I know for sure that you can get stuff like this for a fraction of the price.
uhhhPosted: Dec 05, 2004 12:00AM PST by Epteamisgo
Umm.....Posted: Dec 05, 2004 12:00AM PST by bloodwake100
Okay... sure.... I really want to pay that much? NO. I think I will keep to buying overalls and red T-Shirts and face moustaches to wear with my custom made red Mario hat, or better yet, just wear gaming t-shirts that go at the cheap, easy price of about $20 or less.
Wow, Leon?Posted: Dec 04, 2004 12:00AM PST by ViewtifulSean
Hmm, what a fashion mistake by Leon. :P It somehow doesn't look bad in the game, but...um yeah O_o I'm a huge ass fan of the RE series,but I"m not that dedicated :(
Gender-benderPosted: Dec 03, 2004 12:00AM PST by ViewtifulSnuggles
Yay! Now I can look like Leon! Even though I'm a girl...


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That's a very thoughtful statement.
Palin at one point had the power to single-handedly turn this country around. She chose not to do so. Sure, the MSM made things very difficult for her. But ultimately it was Palin herself who let her power slip away.
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Her power did slip away somewhat, but it's only partially her fault. Far too many folks in this country have the attention span of a chicken on meth..........


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travel planning