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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Clae Summer '08 Preview
The good people of oki-ni have a little preview of what's to come this summer from Clae. As you can see, the shoes focus on single color make ups and fuse leisure and athletic footwear. After a few years off, Clae has returned strong. These are set for a mid-July release.
Courtesy of Highsnobiety.com
Too dope...Supreme Western Conference Caps
I'll be taking a collection from whoever wants to get me 1 or all of these...
Supreme has just released their Western Conference Caps. This cap comes in 4 colorways: white, black, green, and blue. The cap includes a graphic very similar to the San Antonio Spurs logo, with the "U" in Supreme being replaced by a spur. The graphics on the black and white caps also feature similar color combinations as the Spurs logo. It seems like the folks at Supreme might have a winner in mind for the Western Conference this year.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
I Know Papa John's doesn't have the best pizza, but.....
SUMTER, SC (WIS) - A Sumter man is charged with ordering a pizza and then kidnapping and raping the deliverywoman.
Police arrested 25-year-old Derrick Vaughn Nielsen at around 2:00am Sunday at his home on Cutleaf Drive in Sumter.
Officers say when the 18-year-old victim delivered a pizza to the house late Saturday evening, Nielsen pulled her into the house and raped her.
"It kind of sounded like someone fell down some stairs or was just banging on the walls," said a neighbor.
Neilsen's neighbor said she could hear the commotion through her wall, but didn't know what was going on. She shares a duplex with Neilsen.
She didn't want to be identified because she wants to protect the identities of her children.
"It was heavy enough to make noises against the wall that jolted me and my kids," the woman said.
Police say the victim left Neilsen's house and returned to Papa John's, where she told co-workers what happened and then called the police.
The victim was taken to the hospital for medical treatment. The manager of Papa John's said she has not returned to work since.
Nielsen was located shortly after the incident and was arrested.
Police believe Neilsen and the victim did not know each other, but they say when the pizza was ordered, the caller asked for her specifically by name to make the delivery.
He's now charged with kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct. A judge set the bond at $100,000, and Nielsen hasn't posted yet.
He's currently being held at the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center.
"It does make me feel safer just to know that he is put away and it won't happen again, at least not from him, but it still kinda puts you on edge," says the neighbor.
Posted by Logan Smith
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8240103
Police arrested 25-year-old Derrick Vaughn Nielsen at around 2:00am Sunday at his home on Cutleaf Drive in Sumter.
Officers say when the 18-year-old victim delivered a pizza to the house late Saturday evening, Nielsen pulled her into the house and raped her.
"It kind of sounded like someone fell down some stairs or was just banging on the walls," said a neighbor.
Neilsen's neighbor said she could hear the commotion through her wall, but didn't know what was going on. She shares a duplex with Neilsen.
She didn't want to be identified because she wants to protect the identities of her children.
"It was heavy enough to make noises against the wall that jolted me and my kids," the woman said.
Police say the victim left Neilsen's house and returned to Papa John's, where she told co-workers what happened and then called the police.
The victim was taken to the hospital for medical treatment. The manager of Papa John's said she has not returned to work since.
Nielsen was located shortly after the incident and was arrested.
Police believe Neilsen and the victim did not know each other, but they say when the pizza was ordered, the caller asked for her specifically by name to make the delivery.
He's now charged with kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct. A judge set the bond at $100,000, and Nielsen hasn't posted yet.
He's currently being held at the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center.
"It does make me feel safer just to know that he is put away and it won't happen again, at least not from him, but it still kinda puts you on edge," says the neighbor.
Posted by Logan Smith
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8240103
Housewarming gift for myself...whenever that is
If you have ever been to a Vans event or Vans flagship store in recent years, than you have probably seen the Vans Sk8 Hi Chair, developed and produced by Coarse Toys, known for the life size figures.
Well, now you finally have the chance to purchase one for your own place. Definitely a nice piece of decoration and an extra seat when you have people over. LTD has them in stock.
Courtesy of Highsnobiety.com
I'm soooo all over these. Can you say, "yes please"?
General releases are often a hit or miss when it comes to sneakerheads. In some cases, it’s knocked out of the park and that’s what keeps us coming back for more. Recently released to all major athletic stores and e-tailers like Eastbay, the Nike Anthracite pack is just that. The simple color scheme alongside highly detailed accents is eye-catching in a modern yet old school way. The standout sneaker in this pack is the Blazer High, which was recently seen on hip-hop superstar Jay-Z during a concert in California. The other two sneakers that make up this pack are the Air Max LTD and the Vandal Low.
Courtesy of Hypebeast.com
Nike Terminator Quickstrike
Next month will see the release of a three pack of Terminator Highs from Nike represented in part by the five Olympic rings of originally designed in 1913. Details include terry cloth lining and safari print on the heel. If the pack does follow the Olympic Rings logo, look for black and yellow colorways to surface.
Courtesy of Hypebeast.com
Gasoline May Soon Cost a Sawbuck
Gas May Soon Cost a SawbuckBig New Shock at the Pump Forecast by Two AnalystsBy DAN DORFMAN, Special to the Sun April 28, 2008Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions — a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon.
That’s the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil prices, see considerably more pain at the pump than most drivers realize.
Gasoline nationally is in an accelerated upswing, having jumped to $3.58 a gallon from $3.50 in just the past week. In some parts of the country, including New York City and the West Coast, gas is already sporting a price tag above $4 a gallon. There was a pray-in at a Chevron station in San Francisco on Friday led by a minister asking God for cheaper gas, and an Arco gas station in San Mateo, Calif., has already raised its price to a sky-high $4.62.
In Manhattan, at a Mobil gas station at York Avenue and East 61st Street, premium gas is now $4.03 a gallon. Two days ago, it was $3.96. Why such a high price? “Blame the people at STOPEC (he meant OPEC) and the oil companies,” an attendant there told me.
These increases are taking place before the all-important summer driving season, signaling even higher prices ahead.
That’s also the outlook of the Automobile Association of America. “As long as the price of crude oil stays above $100 a barrel, drivers will be forced to pay more and more at the gas pump,” a AAA spokesman, Troy Green, said.
Oil recently hit an all-time high of nearly $120 a barrel, more than double its early 2007 price of about $50 a barrel. It closed Friday at $118.52.
The forecasts calling for a jump to between $7 and $10 a gallon are based on the view that the price of crude is on its way to $200 in two to three years.
Translating this price into dollars and cents at the gas pump, one of our forecasters, the chairman of Houston-based Dune Energy, Alan Gaines, sees gas rising to $7–$8 a gallon. The other, a commodities tracker at Weiss Research in Jupiter, Fla., Sean Brodrick, projects a range of $8 to $10 a gallon.
While $7–$10 a gallon would be ground-breaking in America, these prices would not be trendsetting internationally. For example, European drivers are already shelling out $9 a gallon (which includes a $2-a-gallon tax).
Canadians are also being hit with rising gas prices. They are paying the American-dollar equivalent of $4.92 a gallon, and they’re being told to brace themselves for prices above $5.65 a gallon this summer.
Early last year, with a barrel of oil trading in the low $50s and gasoline nationally selling in a range of $2.30 to $2.50 a gallon, Mr. Gaines — in an impressive display of crystal ball gazing — accurately predicted oil was $100-bound and that gasoline would follow suit by reaching $4 a gallon.
His latest prediction of $200 oil is open to question, since it would undoubtedly create considerable global economic distress. Further, just about every energy expert I talk to cautions me to expect a sizable pullback in oil prices, maybe to between $50 and $70 a barrel, especially if there’s a global economic slowdown.
While Mr. Gaines thinks there could be a temporary decline in the oil price, he’s convinced an overall uptrend is unstoppable. In fact, he thinks his $200 forecast could be conservative, and that perhaps $250 could be reached. His reasoning: a combination of shrinking supply and increasing demand, especially from China, India, and America.
Mr. Brodrick’s $200 oil forecast is largely predicated on a combination of pretty flat supply and rip-roaring demand. Other key catalysts include surging demand in China and India, where auto sales are booming, and major supply disruptions in Nigeria and also in Mexico, our second-largest source of oil imports, where oil production has fallen off a cliff.
More factors include the ever-present danger of additional supply disruptions from volatile countries in the Middle East that are not our allies, and the unwillingness of SUV-loving Americans to trim their unquenchable thirst for foreign oil. Likewise, for the first time, emerging markets this year will use more oil than America.
To Mr. Brodrick, it all adds up to an ongoing energy bull market. His favorite plays are the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund ; United States Natural Gas Fund LP; Apache Corp.; Occidental Petroleum; Anadarko Petroleum, and Schlumberger.
http://www2.nysun.com/article/75363
By DAN DORFMAN
Special to the Sun
April 28, 2008
That’s the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil prices, see considerably more pain at the pump than most drivers realize.
Gasoline nationally is in an accelerated upswing, having jumped to $3.58 a gallon from $3.50 in just the past week. In some parts of the country, including New York City and the West Coast, gas is already sporting a price tag above $4 a gallon. There was a pray-in at a Chevron station in San Francisco on Friday led by a minister asking God for cheaper gas, and an Arco gas station in San Mateo, Calif., has already raised its price to a sky-high $4.62.
In Manhattan, at a Mobil gas station at York Avenue and East 61st Street, premium gas is now $4.03 a gallon. Two days ago, it was $3.96. Why such a high price? “Blame the people at STOPEC (he meant OPEC) and the oil companies,” an attendant there told me.
These increases are taking place before the all-important summer driving season, signaling even higher prices ahead.
That’s also the outlook of the Automobile Association of America. “As long as the price of crude oil stays above $100 a barrel, drivers will be forced to pay more and more at the gas pump,” a AAA spokesman, Troy Green, said.
Oil recently hit an all-time high of nearly $120 a barrel, more than double its early 2007 price of about $50 a barrel. It closed Friday at $118.52.
The forecasts calling for a jump to between $7 and $10 a gallon are based on the view that the price of crude is on its way to $200 in two to three years.
Translating this price into dollars and cents at the gas pump, one of our forecasters, the chairman of Houston-based Dune Energy, Alan Gaines, sees gas rising to $7–$8 a gallon. The other, a commodities tracker at Weiss Research in Jupiter, Fla., Sean Brodrick, projects a range of $8 to $10 a gallon.
While $7–$10 a gallon would be ground-breaking in America, these prices would not be trendsetting internationally. For example, European drivers are already shelling out $9 a gallon (which includes a $2-a-gallon tax).
Canadians are also being hit with rising gas prices. They are paying the American-dollar equivalent of $4.92 a gallon, and they’re being told to brace themselves for prices above $5.65 a gallon this summer.
Early last year, with a barrel of oil trading in the low $50s and gasoline nationally selling in a range of $2.30 to $2.50 a gallon, Mr. Gaines — in an impressive display of crystal ball gazing — accurately predicted oil was $100-bound and that gasoline would follow suit by reaching $4 a gallon.
His latest prediction of $200 oil is open to question, since it would undoubtedly create considerable global economic distress. Further, just about every energy expert I talk to cautions me to expect a sizable pullback in oil prices, maybe to between $50 and $70 a barrel, especially if there’s a global economic slowdown.
While Mr. Gaines thinks there could be a temporary decline in the oil price, he’s convinced an overall uptrend is unstoppable. In fact, he thinks his $200 forecast could be conservative, and that perhaps $250 could be reached. His reasoning: a combination of shrinking supply and increasing demand, especially from China, India, and America.
Mr. Brodrick’s $200 oil forecast is largely predicated on a combination of pretty flat supply and rip-roaring demand. Other key catalysts include surging demand in China and India, where auto sales are booming, and major supply disruptions in Nigeria and also in Mexico, our second-largest source of oil imports, where oil production has fallen off a cliff.
More factors include the ever-present danger of additional supply disruptions from volatile countries in the Middle East that are not our allies, and the unwillingness of SUV-loving Americans to trim their unquenchable thirst for foreign oil. Likewise, for the first time, emerging markets this year will use more oil than America.
To Mr. Brodrick, it all adds up to an ongoing energy bull market. His favorite plays are the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund ; United States Natural Gas Fund LP; Apache Corp.; Occidental Petroleum; Anadarko Petroleum, and Schlumberger.
http://www2.nysun.com/article/75363
By DAN DORFMAN
Special to the Sun
April 28, 2008
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