Nike Air Max 1 – White – Gorge Green – Light Green

Once the clock strikes midnight on January 1st, 2012, except a nice refresher of Nike Sportswear Air Max releases for the opening season of the year. Sneaker News has already kept you on pace with a ton of upcoming January 2012 Air Max 1 and Air Max 90 releases, but let’s throw this new White/Gorge Green colorway into the mix; it features white sport mesh on the tongue with a Gorge Green mudguard and a light green upper for a nice University of Oregon themed colorway. Currently available at Euro retailer Chmielna 20, these Air Max 1s will likely spread out to other Euro shops soon.

Nike Air Max 2012 – White x Pink x Blue

After getting our first look at the upcoming Nike Air Max 2012 just a few weeks ago, we now get to feast our eyes upon another new colorway. This time around, Nike went for a sort of 3-D effect utilizing white, pink, and blue.

The low top runner is based in white with both pink and blue layers covering he base. Black accents are used on the inner liner, Nike Swoosh, and midsole lining. The shoe is finished off with an ultra comfy blue 360 degree Air Max unit. Check out the photos after the jump.

Nike Air Max Diamond Turf – Black/Varsity Red-White

The old signature shoes of recently inducted NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders continue to drop in new colorways, including this fresh Nike Air Max Diamond Turf currently available at Eastbay. Possibly inspired by Deion's time as a member of the Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers or Cincinnati Reds, the retro Nike training shoes feature a predominantly black nubuck and synthetic upper, accented by Varsity Red on the cross-strap Swoosh logo and inner lining. White and black handle the midsole, while a solid black rubber outsole caps off the look below.

Pick up the newest colorway of this 90s classic at Eastbay today.

How I Became King Of The Swapsies

April was when it all began.

The cold spell broke and moods began to brighten as the school defrosted in the fresh spring sunshine. On the first Sunday of that month the red topped newspapers gave away Panini Italia 90 sticker albums with a starter pack of stickers and newsagents erected cardboard Panini display stands on their shop counters.  And so it was that football stickers entered my life.

STICK WITH PANINI was their slogan when the brothers Panini began selling collectable football stickers in the early Sixties. Before long Umberto and Giuseppe had a lucrative business and were lightening parental pockets beyond their native Italy and across half of Europe. The business model is evil genius in its simplicity. Give away the shiny sticker album then punt out the stickers needed to fill it in sealed packets, masking the identity of the five players within. Each sticker numbered so as to be stuck into the corresponding gap in the album. In 2009 they sold over a billion packs of stickers across one hundred countries, and it wasn't even a World Cup year.

The Panini craze was in full swing within two days and any third year boy who didn't have an album on Monday made damned  sure they were in the game by Tuesday, tooled up and ready to trade.

Twenty four teams competed in Italia 90 and most got a double page spread, seventeen players per nation, plus squad shot and team badge. The team badges were set against a reflective silver foil background and called foileys. Foileys were highly prized. Most countries got a two page spread, but the minor teams had to suffer the indignation of being crammed onto a single page. In these cases, stickers were laid horizontally as each hosted two players.  These minnows were Cameroon, Costa Rica, United Arab Emirates, S. Korea and Egypt. Shame really.

There was also an opening section which included a stadia guide and a series of poses by Ciao, the worst mascot in World Cup history, a block man with a football for a head.  Poor show by comparison to Pique the wide smiled, giant moustache and sombrero sporting Mexican from four years previous.

These totaled another thirty seven blank spaces. A total of four hundred and forty eight sticker-less holes to fill. The math′s is complex, but at twenty pence per packet of six stickers and accounting for the ever decreasing percentage strike rate, I calculated that to complete that album was going to cost me a shed load of money.

As any user of substance regular or otherwise will tell you, as a habit grows you must learn how to feed it above and beyond your own meager means. At first, one only buys occasionally, just for fun. Then one finds oneself indulging all the time, spending all available cash and still requiring further supplies. So what to do then? One must borrow, one must steal, or one must trade.

Swapsies were my first, and to date, most successful stab at dealing. Certain stickers had a higher frequency of occurrence than others. You could hardly give away a David Beasant (England) he was that common. And even though Yong Hwan Chung><Jong Soo Chung (South Korea) popped up in almost every other pack, the Chungs were worth at least three Daves.

Nike Air Max 90 – White/Obsidian Grey

Colorblocking at its finest. The Nike Air Max 90 is set to drop in a familiar colorway with the name that doesn't really give a complete description of the colors. The white/obsidian grey AM90′s feature the traditional materials but also havestrong hits of volt that really make the shoe stand out. Strange that it's left out of the color code but nonetheless, an overall good sneaker. These are available in stores now.

MAX100 x Afew x Nike Air Max 1 - "1-of-1" Pack

Funded via Kickstarter earlier this year, the MAX100 book is a reality, and author Matt Stevens continues to celebrate his big achievement. The Air Max 1 fanatic recently linked up European retailer Afew to create a special "1-of-1" pack, which consists of a NIKEiD make-up of his all-time favorite sneaker, a limited edition t-shirt and custom packaging.

The shoe features a unique MAX100 tongue, as well as custom insoles adorned with artwork from the actual book. That same art can be found along the interior of the shoe box and a graphic on the front of the t-shirt, which is available to a limited run of 50 now at Afew. Read on for a close look at the complete package.

Nike Air Max 2012 Neon/Red colorway will stop traffic

The Nike Air Max series is one of the most popular lines in Nike's training/running brand and come in an almost limitless amount of colorways.  Most are clean and often paired with grey or black for a classy look, but there are those times when Nike's designers go nuts.  And for our first look at the Air Max 2012, we get one of the most obscenely colored kicks I have seen in a long time.  If you need people to know that you like to run, this is perfet for that morning or evening jog and freaking out everybody in sight.

Much like every other shoe in the Nike family coming 2012, the Air Max 2012 will feature a Hyperfuse base for very light and easy ride.  And of course, the Air Max unit is there and is a subdued red.  Then again, anything is subdued in comparison to what is happening up top.

No release date has been given for this specific colorway, but we definitely be featuring more variants as 2012 progresses.

Nike Air Max 90 VT – Midnight Fog

A new colorway of the Nike Air Max 90 Vac Tech has arrived. The Midnight Fog colorway consists of a wool-like material on the upper with a partial speckled midsole with matching laces. The contrast of the laces and midsole really make the sneaker pop from the wool-like upper. These are available in stores now.

Kicks: Nike Air Max 90 “Red Canvas”

Nike's Air Max 90 Red canvas features a bright upper with white on the swoosh, laceplate and midsole for the ultimate contrast. This is a great Christmas style for the holidays. Check out more pics after the jump…

Nike Air Max 90 | January 2012 Preview

Dressing the Air Max 90 in suede, leather and mesh, Nike Sportswear has three colorways of the kicks coming in January. The color choices feature foundations set in grey, black and white with accent options including orange, volt and blue. Look for the three to land at shops in January that include End.

Nike Vac Tech “Anthracite” Lineup

The release of Nike's latest seamless Vac Tech technology gave a blend of the past and future to Nike models. The latest Nike VT lineup will be in a “Anthracite” colorway. The lineup will include iconic models of the Air Force 1 Hi, Nike Dunk High, and the Air Max 90.

This Nike VT lineup will consist of a premium Anthracite-colored suede upper, and the Max Orange accents from the outsole adds the needed contrast. In addition to the premium suede, all three models will also have an all-leather sock liner. Look for the Nike Vac Tech “Anthracite” lineup to release this month at select Nike Sportswear retailers.

American Airlines charts a course through bankruptcy

Last week's Chapter 11 filing by American Airlines (AA) and American Eagle (AE) parent AMR marks the end of the post-deregulation period as well as possibly signalling the beginning of the end of US legacy consolidation as many believe the shedding of American's baggage will position it for the US industry's final merger with the only other independent legacy, US Airways (LCC).

Across the board the feeling is this is the best thing for both AMR and the US industry because it means more capacity cuts. Delta and United are expected to be the principal beneficiaries. JP Morgan expects a 10% capacity cut from American, which translates to a USD1.4 billion, or 1-3% revenue jump for United, Delta Air Lines, US Airways, Alaska Airlines, Southwest and JetBlue in 2012. US Airways was already slated to benefit from the capacity cuts of competitors this quarter.

Even so, many are wondering whether this comes a little too late for the company to ultimately regain its former position as the US' top airline. Reading between the lines of churlish analyst comments during earning calls, one could make the case they were contemplating what liquidation would do for the rest of the industry.

Boyd Group International CEO, Mike Boyd, rejects the notion that American is not strong enough to emerge from bankruptcy largely because shedding its pension obligations, coupled with debt reduction, made it profitable even with the gas-guzzling jets. Mr Boyd cited liquidity and stated bankruptcy will make it much more cost effective and globally competitive.

He notes United and Delta have more debt than American, although several analysts disagree, placing American's debt at close to USD30 billion.

Bankruptcy is sad for many reasons but in American's case it is sadder still since one can only speculate as to where it would be now had it chosen this course in the post-9/11 period much like its peers. While it tried to cut costs, its competitors put their bankruptcies behind them, merged and created powerful networks that have become a huge competitive mountain American has to climb.

Stubbornly insisting on gaining USD1.6 billion in labour concessions in 2003 to avoid bankruptcy, paying out huge management bonuses a few years later which lost all the bon homie of the 2003 deal, and trying to power through the USD800 million cost disadvantage only postponed the inevitable, proves the old adage that 'nice guys finish last'.

Its cornerstone strategy has proved a failure and its deal with JetBlue is underperforming. In addition, its trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific joint businesses (JBs) are also underperforming.

Give Thanks For This New Nike Air Max 95 Black/Blue Crystal Colorway Today

Today is Thanksgiving. It's a day that gives you the opportunity to give thanks for everything that you have. Friends? Family? Food? Shelter? Clothing? Good company? Yup, you've got all of that covered. But, what about the new Nike Air Max 95 Black/Blue Crystal sneakers? Are you planning to give thanks for them, too?

If not, you definitely should. For starters, there's nothing particularly new about the Air Max 95 design in 2011. So Nike very easily could have left well enough alone and left the Air Max 95s in the colorways that already exist. We'd be just fine with that. But they've stepped outside of their comfort zone here by releasing a solid black-on-black colorway with hints of blue crystal mixed in that make these a must-have for any Air Max 95 head. Secondly, they're created using suede and mesh to make the black really pop. The blue crystal does, too, thanks to its' minimal placement on the sneaker. And, lastly, these are already starting to show up out there at different Nike retailers. That means they shouldn't be too exclusive. If you know where to look, we're confident you can nab a pair.

So, what are you waiting for? Pass the mashed potatoes. Grab a turkey leg. Cut yourself a piece of cornbread. And then bow your head for a few seconds and thank the sneaker gods for giving the world another Air Max 95 colorway to run around in. We promise we'll be doing the same.

'At least I don't own a house that I don't own'

Jarlath Regan - Comedian/Alternative Christmas card creator

Are you a saver or a spender?

I have tried to convince myself this year to be a saver. But in my heart I know what I really am – the worst kind of impulse-buying /fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants /got-to-have-it/ think-about-the-consequences-later spender known to man.

Do you shop around for better value?

No. It feels like money passes through my hands like sand. Any time I go somewhere to get a bargain, like a $5 table in IKEA I wind up stuffing the trolley full of a load of other junk and get stung at the counter for a hundred. I'm starting to hate shops because they know me too well. They know how to push my buttons.

What has been your most extravagant purchase ever and how much did it cost?

I couldn't describe what I buy as extravagant. Most of the junk I buy is under $100. That said, I am cursed with the need to collect sneakers I couldn't afford as a teenager – Nike Air Jordans. I have bought two of the same pairs in the hope I could sell one in 20 years as a collector's item and put my son through college. I know this will never happen.

What purchase have you made that you consider the best value for money?

Last year I sold my old Ford Mondeo, and through a combination of sheer luck and good timing I wound up buying the car of my dreams for $5,000. I still shake my head when I sit on its heated seats on a chilly morning.

Have you ever crossed the Border to shop?

Only to get fireworks for my inner child and Calgel teething solution for my actual child.

Do you haggle over prices?

I do but it gets you nowhere in this country. For all my attempts the only place where I received a positive reaction is the Park Hotel, Kenmare. My wife and I needed a break away a year ago and only had a certain amount to spend. When I haggled with the manager on the phone he was incredibly decent and threw in some extras. It made what would have been a lovely stay absolutely superb.

Has the recession changed your spending habits?

That's like asking an Eskimo if the weather has affected the way he lives. I've had to change just like everyone else. Now we have our baby I've had to accept a lot of my income will be spent on milk that may well be vomited in my face. Which could be a metaphor for the property market on some level.

Do you invest in shares?

Nope. When everyone was telling me to invest in a home I kept telling them that until I had a enough cash to walk in and buy a place outright then I wouldn't be taking the plunge. At least I don't own a house that I dont own.

Cash or card?

Always cash. Am I the only one who gets a sickly weird anxiety when using a Laser card and they ask you: “Do you want cash back?”

What was the last thing you bought and was it good value for money?

I just spent $146 on groceries and it felt like shite value, but what can you do?

Have you ever successfully saved up for a relatively big purchase?

I'm still in the process of accumulating the bin-liner of cash to buy my house outright. The way things are going I might only need a canvas bag full of fivers.

Have you ever lost money?

Every year I went to the Edinburgh Festival up until 2010. I lost $5,000-$8,000 on the whole project. Not through bad ticket sales. It just cost a fortune.

Are you a gambler, and if so have you ever had a big win?

I come from a family that went horse racing every Saturday. In 1992 I won more than ￡150 on a collection of bets on Derby Day at the Curragh. It's not the most I've ever won but when you're 11 and that happens on the first day of your summer holidays, you consider dropping out of school to live the high life.

Is money important to you?

Up until I had my son Mikey it felt like it was the most important thing. Not now.

How much money do you have on you now?

$3.54.

Devin Hester is truly something special

Devin Hester tried to explain it, he really did.

This was five years ago, a week after the Chicago Bears rookie had tied an 87-year-old NFL record with an exhilarating 108-yard return of a missed field goal for a touchdown against the Giants.

He shrugged in his seat. He squirmed a little.

"That's just my mentality," Hester said finally. "Whenever I get my hands on the ball … I think big."

Like so many artists, Hester has difficulty articulating just what it is that makes him so great. Like Picasso, Jordan and Baryshnikov, he prefers to express himself through his work. If you have a few minutes to kill, fire up some of his scintillating runs on YouTube -- seriously, these are not diminishing returns.

Hester returned six kicks for touchdowns in 2006 -- three punts, two kickoffs and that missed field goal -- an NFL record. And then he tied it with six more in 2007. He came into the league as a 5-foot-11, 190-pound cornerback from the University of Miami, but today the Bears regularly deploy him as a wide receiver. He's still returning kicks, though, and in 2011 he's already brought back three.

The word "special" has become a devalued currency in sports, but Hester is worthy of the title. He is probably the most special special-teams player in the history of the National Football League.

The mounting numbers are indisputable:

. Only Hester's mentor, the ethereal Deion Sanders, has more returns for touchdowns -- one more, at 19 -- but nine of them came via interception returns, an opportunity Hester no longer has. Hester actually has 19, but the NFL's accounting system doesn't recognize the breathtaking 92-yard kickoff return against the Colts that opened Super Bowl XLI; Sanders does not have a postseason return.

. Hester is already the league's all-time official leader in kick returns, with 17 -- 12 on punts and five on kickoffs. Brian Mitchell is a distant second with 13.

. The sobering thing? Hester, 29, has achieved all of this in 87 games. Mitchell and Sanders played 223 games and 188 games, respectively.

Odd spaces a window to the past

There are certain spaces that homebuyers crave, like giant kitchens and expansive walk-in closets.

And then there are the spaces that turn up unexpectedly, especially in some older homes — spots like bomb shelters, smokehouses and outhouses.

These can open a window into history, giving a fresh sense of how people once lived. The bomb shelter recalls a time when Americans feared nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union and imagined how to survive in a scorched landscape. The smokehouse tells of a time when Americans didn't buy their meat at the supermarket, but butchered it and smoked it to preserve it.

And the outhouse tells about life before indoor plumbing.

Quite often, homeowners find new uses for oddball spaces. Tom Johnson of Liberty 100 Realty in Waldwick, N.J., recalls selling a house where a secret staircase connected a closet on the first floor with a closet on the second. The owner lined up her shoes on the steps.

A Ridgewood, N.J., Tudor listed by Beth Freed of Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty includes an elevator, which the owners use as a linen closet.

Old bomb shelters are sometimes converted to wine cellars. Ruby and Bobby Kaplan of Teaneck, N.J., store old clothes, toys and household items in theirs. In Bobby Kaplan's words, it's "a nice, cool place for junk."

The shelter is a surprise in the Kaplans' large stucco house, which has been so extensively renovated it looks nearly new. (The seven-bedroom home is on the market for just under $1.5 million because the Kaplans' three children are grown.)

The Cold War hideout has thick concrete walls and a 21/2-foot-diameter corrugated-metal tunnel, which leads beneath the lawn to the outside. Bobby Kaplan recalls that when the couple first moved into the house, he was in the yard with the dog when the dog suddenly vanished. He had fallen into the bomb shelter tunnel, which the family later closed up.

Bomb shelters were built in the 1950s and 1960s as places to escape nuclear fallout. A photo from the National Archives shows a cozy model, with a table covered by a checked cloth, two neatly made bunk beds, and shelves stacked with canned food. Magazines are piled on the table, to help pass the time underground.

And in 1960, Popular Mechanics magazine offered readers advice on how to build a shelter, saying: "An underground shelter having at least three feet of earth or sand over it, plus adequate door and air filter, will give you almost complete protection."

Nickie Lisella's Allendale, N.J., house came with a bomb shelter. "I thought it was cool when we first saw it," says Lisella, a manager with Terrie O'Connor Realtors in Allendale. "I figured if anyone dropped a bomb, we could save our family."

Buyers often are drawn to extra spaces, especially if they're big enough for a variety of uses.

The Nike Hyperdunk 2011 Blake Griffin PE is available now

Wondering what color Hyperdunks Blake Griffin is going to rock when the Clippers take the stage to start their 2011-12 NBA season?  If it's a home game (and it probably will be because the Clippers always have stacked home games early on to make up for their crazy February "Grammy Road Trip"), it will be the white/blue/red colorway you see to your left.  It will have the BG icons on the tongue on the shoe, but it won't have webbed caging on the toe box like its Supreme counterparts.

The Nike Hyperdunk 2011 basketball shoe is designed for the baller who wants exceptional lockdown and responsiveness in a lightweight package that's ready for the game played at all levels. Flywire construction locks the foot down and conforms to the foot to minimize any unnecessary movement inside the shoe. Lightweight Phylon midsole adds impact protection and comfort . 3D reinforced midfoot shank provides torsional rigidity. Solid rubber outsole with herringbone traction pattern offers the ultimate in on-court traction.

Say Hello To Another Super-Clean Pair Of Jordan CMFT Max Air 10 Kicks

I've slept on the Jordan CMFT Max Air 10 sneaker. In theory, these things were practically built for me. They're not exactly a sneakerhead's wet dream. But, if you play ball and you like a good, clean sneaker to wear before and after a game—or you're just looking for a casual alternative to all of the other Air Max sneakers that have become commonplace recently—then these sneakers are for you. I just bought a pair in a cool-grey colorway and I can already envision them slipping into my regular sneaker rotation in no time.

Jordan realizes that it obviously has a winning sneaker. So they've decided to push forth with it and drop another new colorway in the new year. In January, they'll roll out a black/white/varsity red colorway that seems to pay homage to the guy responsible for starting the Jordan brand in the first place. They're not super flashy or anything, but they are the perfect companion to a pair of sweats and a hoody this winter. They also feature a red-and-black checked sockliner that's pretty similar to the one found on the Air Jordan X.

These won't be cheap. Like other Jordan CMFT Max Air sneakers before them, they'll run you about $135 when they drop. But that price is well worth it when you consider that these could easily turn into an everyday sneaker that you wear with just about anything. So make sure you save some of your Christmas cash this year to get a pair.

Region enjoying a warm moment

It was a day for playgrounds, for jogging in shorts and T-shirts, and even, for a few brave souls, a day for wading in the ocean, as temperatures soared into the 60s yesterday.

Though the calendar showed December looming, the thoughts of many across the region turned to picnics and beach walks, more than post-Thanksgiving Christmas shopping.

At Sullivan's, the landmark hot dog stand on Castle Island, it was a momentous day for manager Jim Barron - yesterday was his last day serving the public after 45 years on the job there. But he hardly had time to contemplate the milestone, as he faced down a July-sized crowd in a line that extended outside the propped double doors.

"I don't remember a November this nice in 45 years," Barron, 59, said during a cigarette break at a picnic table out back, as jets rumbled and gulls screamed overhead.

Boston hit a high of 63 at 2:30 p.m. yesterday, short of the record of 67 recorded in 1946, but well above normal late-November highs in the 40s, according to the National Weather Service. Warmer than normal weather was expected to continue through Tuesday, with temperatures due to descend to a more seasonable chilliness Wednesday, just in time for December's arrival the following day.

"Enjoy the moment and bask in the sunshine," advised National Weather Service meteorologist Alan Dunham.

Across the region, people did just that, tossing Frisbees to dogs, flocking to hiking trails, and dragging bicycles outside. Holiday-minded homeowners seized the opportunity to hoist decorations to the rooftops without battling biting winds.

The burst of balmy weather arrived almost a month after a freak October storm dumped an early load of snow on central and western Massachusetts. Some state parks in the region, including Robinson State Park in Agawam, Chicopee State Park, and the Nashua River Trail, remain closed as a result of the extensive tree damage caused by the storm. Trails in Mount Holyoke State Range Park are also closed until further notice.

The state Department of Conservation and Recreation advised hikers to call ahead to other parks to check conditions, which could include hazards caused by branches hanging over trails and roads.

At Blue Hills Reservation in Milton yesterday, hikers in T-shirts and shorts reveled in the warmth.

"We're just out here burning off that turkey dinner," said Matt Caliri, 43, of Braintree, standing near a trail. "We've never seen this many people and dogs out here."

In Lynn, residents Richard Leelman and Fred Currier watched their German shepherds, Max and Hercules, romp on the grass at Red Rock Park with the ocean glittering behind them.

"You can't plan for this," said Leelman. "You've got to seize the day. It's carpe diem to the nth degree."

Two 8-year-olds from Arlington felt the same way. At the end of an outing to Castle Island in South Boston, they kicked off their shoes, rolled up their pants, and waded knee-deep into the ocean, describing the freak springtime weather as "wonderful."

"And kind of weird," their 5-year-old companion added thoughtfully from the beach, digging her bare toes into the damp sand.

Equally pleased was 71-year-old Ron Bertocchi, who kicked back in the front seat of his pale green Lincoln Town Car to lounge and catch some rays by the water in South Boston.

"We all cherish this weather," he said. "We don't get it often in New England, so we grab it."

In Worcester, the mercury hit 59 yesterday, not enough to topple the century-old record of 64 degrees, recorded in 1895, according to the National Weather Service.

1,000 strike at Apple supplier in China: rights group

Hundreds of police officers, some in riot gear, deployed after staff at the factory in the manufacturing hub of Shenzhen walked out on Tuesday and blocked a highway to protest long working hours, China Labour Watch said.

Staff at the plant commonly worked 100 to 120 hours of overtime a month and said they also suffered a high rate of workplace injuries, mass layoffs of older workers and frequent verbal abuse by managers, the US-based group said.

The plant, which employs 3,000 people in the Pearl River Delta — home to millions of Chinese migrant workers — is owned by Taiwan’s Jingyuan Computer Group, which supplies components to Apple and IBM.

The strike ended after the company promised to reduce the amount of overtime, the rights organisation said in a statement. No one at the factory could immediately be reached for comment.

It was the latest in a recent spate of worker action in China, where strikes have historically been relatively rare as the country lacks truly independent trade unions.

More than 400 female workers at a bra factory in Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, cut off the power and downed tools this week after a manager told one to “jump off a roof and go to hell”.

And last week, more than 7,000 workers at a factory in nearby Dongguan making New Balance, Adidas and Nike shoes went on strike, clashing with police in a protest over layoffs and wage cuts.

Raymond James Analysts Now Covering Ubiquiti Networks Stock

Ubiquiti Networks in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday. They set an “outperform” rating on the stock.

Separately, analysts at Pacific Crest initiated coverage on shares of Ubiquiti Networks in a research note to investors on Wednesday. They set an “outperform” rating on the stock. Analysts at ThinkEquity initiated coverage on shares of Ubiquiti Networks in a research note to investors on Wednesday. They set a “buy” rating on the stock. Also, analysts at UBS AG initiated coverage on shares of Ubiquiti Networks in a research note to investors on Wednesday. They set a “buy” rating on the stock.

Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells broadband wireless solutions worldwide. The Company offers a portfolio of wireless networking products and solutions, including systems, high performance radios, antennas and management tools, designed for wireless networking and other applications in the unlicensed radio frequency (RF) spectrum. The Company offers solutions that incorporate its RF technology, antenna design and firmware technologies, which it refers to as AirTechnologies. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2010 (fiscal 2010), Ubiquiti introduced a number of products based on its AirTechnologies, including its AirMax systems. In fiscal 2010, 802.11 standard systems and AirMax systems together accounted for 82% of the Company's revenue.

Shares of Ubiquiti Networks traded down 3.60% during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $19.80. Ubiquiti Networks has a 52 week low of $16.25 and a 52 week high of $23.04. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $19.61 and its 200-day moving average is $19.61. The company has a market cap of $1.233 billion.

Nike Air Force 1 'Ultimate Spider-Man' custom by Proof Culture

Proof Culture's Flight Crew has produced another awesome custom variation of the Nike Air Force 1.  This time we are treated to rendition of the rebooted "Ultimate Spider-Man" character that generated a ton of buzz the past few months.  While it remains to be seen if the new kid playing Spidey will go the way of Ben Reilly (yeah, I read that in 1996 and swore off comic books afterwards it was that bad) or if he will be accepted by the fan base.  Either way, the shoes look amazing, tongue firmly in cheek.

Flight Crew does not mess around when it comes to their custom jobs.  It is a meticulous process that any artist will appreciate.  Check out the Flight Crew custom sneaker site here.

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A costly ripple from Thai floods

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A bad dream is playing out in Thailand and turning into an unpleasant and costly reality for Midlands computer retailers and repair shops.

The Southeast Asian country, which is grappling with the effects of devastating flooding and evacuations from its largest cities, is home to many of the world's largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers, including Western Digital, Seagate Technology and Toshiba Corp.

Over the last three months, floodwaters have crippled hard drive manufacturing facilities, bringing hard disk drive and component production to little more than a trickle. Hard disk drives are about the size of a small book and serve as the main storage components in computers, holding information about the machine's operating system and other software.

Analysts and computer store owners who serve Nebraska and Iowa say the shortfall of hard drives is going to take its toll on the holiday shopping season and could last well into 2012. The issue could mean disappointment or lighter wallets for consumers planning to give certain electronic gifts.

"It's a nightmare scenario for us," said Thor Schrock, owner and CEO of Schrock Innovations, a computer retailer and repair shop with locations in Omaha, Papillion and Lincoln. "And it's only going to get worse."

At the beginning of November, Schrock said, hard disk drives already were becoming so expensive at wholesale prices that he spent $27,000 at Office Max and bought as many hard drives as he could.

"We cleared out three of their warehouses," Schrock said. "In order to get to the end of November, we needed more hard disk drives."

Hard drive prices have doubled since mid-October, Schrock said.

He said there may not even be enough available hard drives to maintain a predictable inventory, especially of low-priced netbooks.

"As a computer retailer, this is our big time of the year, and if we can't get hard drives, we can't sell computers," Schrock said. "And if we can't sell computers, we can't service computer parts, either."

Fang Zhang, an iSuppli analyst, wrote in a research note that Western Digital will likely be knocked from the No. 1 perch of hard disk drive producers because of the flooding. Zhang also predicts that the shortage will become more serious at the end of 2011 and pour into 2012, at least through the first quarter.

During that time, shipments are expected to decrease 30 percent, causing prices to soar, Zhang said.

Darby Deeds, owner of Computers To Go in Bellevue, said in mid-October he made an order for 500-gigabyte hard drives, which are used to build and repair computers, for $40 apiece. As of Friday, the same drives carried a price tag of $99.

Across the board, consumers buying computers as gifts this holiday season should expect that to translate into at least a 10 percent price hike on all computer purchases, he said.


With that inflation sending the prices of PCs upward, Deeds said he has noticed that his sales to business clients, which include some sales to Offutt Air Force Base, haven't slowed. He expects that to continue through the shortfall.

"Their reaction has been — 'We've got to have it,'" Deeds said. "They're not changing anything."

General retail consumers, however, are exhibiting more patience, Deeds said.

That spells bad news for Nebraska Furniture Mart, one of the area's largest electronics retailers.

Bob Batt, executive vice president at the Berkshire Hathaway-owned Furniture Mart, said the disaster in Thailand reminds him of the catastrophic earthquakes and tsunami that blasted Japan and disrupted electronics supply chains earlier this year.

"We're not expecting good things," Batt said. "We're monitoring the situation and will take the appropriate action. It's that kind of a deal. Time will tell."

Computer companies that have been pinched by weak demand in the United States and Europe are bracing for the hard drive shortage to compound those issues.

Analysts have said that the drives that are available will first go to companies with top priority, like Dell and Hewlett-Packard, for example.

Still, those producers remain concerned. In a statement, Dell said that it anticipates hitting the low end of its fourth-quarter revenue projections because of the disaster in Thailand.

The industry prioritization, however, means companies like Acer and Asustek, both of which make cheaper netbooks and desktops for consumers with a tighter budget, are more likely to get shorted in the supply chain.

Boeing fortunes make sharp turnaround with new orders

Boeing is starting to fly right.

An Indonesian airline's commitment to buy $21.7 billion worth of new planes is the latest good news for the company after a year when some things could have gone better.

Earlier this week, Emirates Airlines ordered $18 billion worth of 777s. Both deals come shortly after Boeing finally began delivering its two newest planes, the next-generation 787 and the latest version of the iconic 747.

Just a year ago, the outlook was dicier.

The new 787 was already running nearly three years late when an electrical fire on a test plane in November 2010 forced it to suspend flight tests. The revamped 747 was running late, too. And Airbus announced plans to put a new engine on its A320, making the plane more fuel efficient and a more potent competitor to Boeing's 737.

The Airbus move forced Boeing to switch gears and offer a new-engine version of its 737 rather than build an all-new plane as it had originally expected to do.

Boeing needed some successes, and it found them in Asia and the Middle East, where rising wealth is turning more people into travellers.

Boeing expects demand for 11,450 planes in the Asia-Pacific region over the next 20 years, more than in any other part of the world. That number includes planes made by Boeing and competitors such as Airbus and new entrants into the market. Airbus has already booked 1,268 firm orders for its A320neo, so named for its "new engine option."

The commitment by Indonesia's Lion Air announced on Thursday is for 230 Boeing 737s. Lion Air also has options for 150 more planes, valued at $14 billion, bringing the deal's total potential value to $35 billion.

The order would be Boeing's largest ever in terms of both volume and dollars.

"This order is a big deal," RBC Capital Markets analyst Robert Stallard wrote in a research note to clients. The deal "gives a meaningful boost to Boeing's backlog."

Most of the planes are the 737 Max, a new version of Boeing's most popular plane with more fuel-efficient engines. It won't be delivered to its first customer until 2017. Boeing has said it has about 600 commitments for the 737 Max.

But the Lion Air deal is not a certainty. The airline still has to finalize the order, and it's struggling. The Jakarta Post reported in August that Lion Air was ordered to ground 13 planes so it would have more in reserve because it had too many late flights.

"There's always a risk that a deal's going to fall through," Citi analyst Jason Gursky said. "It's a brutal industry, and when we go through periods of slower economic growth, there will be failures. It's Boeing's job to pick the winners and losers. But I think they're pretty agnostic right now as to who they sell to."

Gursky said Boeing went on "order holiday" in 2011 because it didn't have a product to sell. That has changed now that it decided to put a new engine on the 737. He expects Boeing's deliveries to increase by 27 per cent next year, compared with a 9 per cent increase at Airbus.

"That's why we think this year is going to be the year of Boeing," he said.

Even before Lion Air announced its plans, Boeing has been ramping up production to try to meet demand for the 737 as well as the 777, a larger plane used mostly on international routes. It already has a backlog of 2,191 737s that have been ordered by airlines around the world but not yet built.

Boeing already completes about one 737 every day in Renton, Wash. It is raising that to 42 per month in 2014. It has not yet said whether the 737 Max will be assembled in Renton or somewhere else, perhaps in South Carolina, where it is opening a second assembly line for its new 787.

Boeing already employs some 80,000 people in Washington state. Gursky, the analyst, has written that the biggest risk to Boeing's planned rate increases appears to be its ability to hire the thousands of new workers it will need.

Lion Air already has orders for 125 more Boeing 737-900ERs. Its fleet currently stands at 73 planes, according to Airfleets.net. Sixty-five of those are Boeing 737s.

Also Thursday, Boeing said that aircraft leasing company Aviation Capital Group had ordered 20 of its 737-800s and committed to buy 35 of the planned 737 Max.

Shares of Chicago-based Boeing fell 25 cents Thursday to close at $66.09.

Max Air Says Plane Lost Four Tyres, Didn't Crash Land

Max Air Airlines has denied media reporting suggesting that one of its planes carrying over 500 pilgrims from Jeddah crash landed on Monday at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kan o.

The denial was contained in a statement yesterday by the airlines' secretary, Shehu Wada.

It said, "As against the wide spread that the Boeing 747 belonging to Max Air Ltd carrying over 500 pilgrims from Jeddah crash landed in Kano, the management hereby release detail of the occurrence.

"DBM one of the Max Air Ltd Aircraft carrying 511 Adamawa State Pilgrims from Jeddah scheduled to land at Yola Airport was denied access at the airport because of some technical issues experienced by the Airport at night. Thus, the Aircraft had to make a detour to the Aminu Kano International Airport Kano.

"However while taxing, the airplane lost 4 of its tyres and with the wealth of experience of our pilot (a FAA rated), he was able to bring the plane to a halt with minimal damage on the rims of the aircraft. The rims damaged have been replaced by our experts from GMF Garuda and the Aircraft is back to shape.

"We are using this medium to further pledge our commitment for optimal safety."

Meet the 10 best shoes in the history of basketball

What are the best shoes in the history of basketball? It is certainly a complicated question, but according to a consensus made in the USA, these are the 10 best shoes that have been used in that sport.

The list begins with the wonderful Shaqnosis Reebok, with its striking black and white colors that will undoubtedly give the feeling of "hypnotize", continued by the Grant Hill Fila Ninety6 ninth. At number eight are the Nike Air Max Penny I, Nike and others followed in this case, the Zoom Kobe V in purple with black and yellow at number seven.

Then the number six is ??the Reebok Pumps, which noventero design completely white in color with orange and blue make them a jewel of the nineties. The classic Converse with the fifth place, followed by Foamposite One, Reebok The Question in fourth and third respectively.

Second are the Nike Jordan I, to finally give way to first place, the Nike Air Jordan XI.

Deer Track North Course owners still planning redevelopment

The former Deer Track North Course was pulled out of a foreclosure sale last week, and one of its co-owners said he expects to retain ownership of the property and still intends to develop it.

The National Bank of South Carolina has a mortgage lien against the course's owners of nearly $2.93 million stemming from a $2.6 million loan in 2006. The course was on the list of foreclosed properties to be auctioned on Nov. 7, but the bank pulled it from the sale.

“We're negotiating with the bank on the note,” said co-owner McCray Smith. “The foreclosure was what the bank had to do and we're doing what we have to do.

“… Like I've said before, we're going to develop that property.”

The bank's attorney in the case, Tara Nauful of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A., could not be reached.

The course was originally scheduled to be auctioned off on July 5 after the bank foreclosed on Smith and co-owner Jerry Pettus.

The sale was canceled after the owners filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the course in late June, but the case was dismissed on Aug. 19 and officially closed on Oct. 24, reinstituting the foreclosure.

United States Bankruptcy Judge George R. Hodges dismissed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, granting a motion by Synovus Banks – The National Bank of South Carolina is a division of Synovus – seeking dismissal.

The case was filed in the Western District of North Carolina after Deertrack Investors LLC – the entity that owns the course – merged with Woodend LLC, another of Smith and Pettus' companies that owns property in North Carolina. The bankruptcy was filed under Woodend.

Hodges ruled the continuance of the Chapter 11 case would be “objectively futile,” and he found the filing to be in “bad faith.”

In his decision, Hodges wrote: “Deertrack has no current business operations, other than the pursuit of litigation. Deertrack has no revenues, no employees, no going concern to preserve. … Quite simply there is nothing to reorganize

“Additionally, a review of the debtor's schedules show that the merged debtor is not operating any business and has no cash flow. Without a reliable source income, debtor cannot sustain a plan of reorganization to pay Synovus and other secured creditors.”

In the bankruptcy, the Horry County Treasurer submitted a claim for $8,287.12, and a bank submitted a claim for $437,000 stemming from property owned by Woodend LLC

Hodges added: “The timing of this bankruptcy was strategically aimed at forestalling foreclosure and hindering the collection efforts of Synovus.”

Smith said he is prepared to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in South Carolina if it becomes necessary.

Smith and Pettus purchased the course in March 2006 for $8 million, according to court documents, and closed it six month later with intentions of redeveloping the property.

But Horry County Council changed the zoning against the will of its owners from R-7 primarily to a less-dense R-3 at the behest of homeowners in November 2006, and homeowners have a class-action suit against the course owners arguing that there is an easement on the property preventing redevelopment.

Two judges have ruled Smith and Pettus are free to redevelop the land, but the rulings were appealed and the homeowner lawsuit remains active. Smith said an appeal hearing is scheduled in the next two months. Smith also has a countersuit against the homeowners.

Sammy Truett of Surfside Beach and potential partners Dr. Brian Adler and Linwood Foster have been interested in purchasing the 183-acre property and reopening the golf course. They were prepared to attend the July 5 auction.

But Truett said if the course ever makes it to auction and the bank bids at least $2.6 million to protect its interest, his group would be eliminated from contention. Truett's group had negotiated with bank officials prior to the bankruptcy filing.

“I can tell you if the price is $2.6 million we're out. The numbers don't work,” Truett said. “We're not even close to $2.6 million and when we were negotiating with them before we weren't even close.

“… We still think it's a viable project but it's been dragging on for a couple years. Our fire is not burning [to reopen the course] as much as it was six months ago.”

A Night at The Montalbán

Isn't this supposed to be No Fun November? That's certainly what I thought this morning. The forecast of rain had preemptively dampened my mood, and I had already accepted the fact that I'd have to work most of the weekend, in a grit-your-teeth, get-stuck-in kind of way. I was also already pretty tired, having gotten up at 7:30 to help man our fundraising event for USC Boxing. And so I trudged into the all-too-familiar confines of the law library on this, a bleak Saturday morning, resigned to putting in a solid six hours or so into reading and outlining before watching what was likely to be a one-sided beating in the form of a boxing mismatch.

To borrow one of Larry Merchant's quotes, though: we live in the “theatre of the unexpected.” The dreaded rain never materialized, so after an hour of studying I decided to head down to the tailgate to grab a quick bite. Of course, they were pretty much out of food but had plenty of beer (on a somewhat related note, I've had way too much free beer these past two days). After a few more drinks, some conversation, and a little peer pressure, I decided to make the only rational and responsible choice I had as a USC student – my half-hour study break turned into attending my first USC football game. Oops.

It was a lot of fun and definitely a good time, and I got to hang out with the 2Ls while Nima walked me through the rules and rituals of a USC football game. I'm not the biggest fan of American football, but it was fun to experience the event, and I was impressed by the passion and fervor of the crowd. It's probably the closest thing to an American equivalent of soccer matches in most parts of the world. The game itself was entertaining – especially the trick plays that USC ran – but the huge lead meant that by later in the second half, both the drama and the crowd had started to evaporate.

We left in the fourth quarter with the score at 40-10 and I silently hoped that it wouldn't be a foreshadowing of the Pacquiao fight at night. After picking up some of the guys on the USC Boxing team and briefly waging war on my mortal enemy (aka LA traffic), we finally got to Hollywood. The Montalbán is a theatre with an old and decorated history in Los Angeles, but still a relatively small building; it didn't catch my eye when we got there and were trying to figure out where to go. It turned out to be pretty simple though: just follow everyone else. A huge line of people of all shapes, sizes, and colors clad in their assortment of red and blue Manny Pacquiao gear allowed me to make the Holmesian deduction that we had arrived at the right place. Apparently they had been lining up for hours before the doors even opened at 7pm. I overheard one of the Nike staff say that over 1600 people had “RSVP'd” on Facebook to try to get in.

Luckily, as members of the USC Boxing Team we had been specially invited by a Nike rep (Nike Boxing sponsors only one fighter – Pacquiao) and got to stand in the thankfully far shorter VIP line. As we were waiting for the doors to open, a huge Nike Sportswear customization truck was parked in front, stocked with customizable MP product. Some of the things they were selling were the Pacquiao Air Trainer 1.3 Max Breathe ($175) and an rumored and exclusive Nike MP hoodie, of which only 111 were made and one of which Manny wore to the weigh-in yesterday. To purchase it, you had to be present at one of the four locations across the country selling it on fight night and be willing to part with a cool $250 to get it. Of course, they were sold out long before we got there, but I did end up getting a Pacquiao t-shirt, dropping $30 like a high roller.

We got in right away through the VIP line and wandered throughout the place, which was decked out in Pacquiao memorabilia: shoes, gloves, hoodies, robes, championship belts, bags, framed pictures, and much more. There was an unlimited amount of free vitamin water, smart water, and other bottled beverages, but when we went up to the VIP lounge area, we found out they had a bar serving free beer! There was food, of course, along with a DJ, and other forms of entertainment/promotion. There was a photobooth where you could take a picture with the same background as Manny's photo in the promotion poster, and computers set up where you could play around with NikeID and customize different Nike gear.

We finally made our way to the second floor at the VIP seating area and sat down facing a huge HD screen flanked by two smaller ones. We caught the end of the Breidis “the Khanqueror” Prescott vs. Mike Alvarado, which was a great fight. Alvarado came from behind to rally and knock Prescott out with a series of vicious uppercuts, and the action fight pumped up everyone watching. The atrocious Bradley-Casamayor bout slightly deflated the atmosphere until it was mercifully stopped by the ref in the 7th. It's sickening to think that Bradley earned $1.1 million for this “fight” as a contractual HBO comeback date (and making it from the pay-per-views) when he turned down a much better offer to fight Khan in July.

Cole & Weber United, Seattle's First Ad Agency, Celebrates 80 Years

Cole & Weber United, Seattle's first ad agency, celebrates its 80th Anniversary this month. The agency has played a key role in the growth of the Northwest's most well-known brands both past and present including: Boeing, Alaska Airlines, Weyerhauser, Microsoft, Tree Top, Darigold, Washington's Lottery, Nike, and Westin.

Originally founded in 1931 by Arlyn Cole, Mac Wilkins, and George Weber as Wilkins & Cole Advertising, the founders had the goal of bringing Madison Avenue to the West Coast. A few years later the name was changed to Cole & Weber as the agency grew and spurred its clients' growth. The agency's reputation and work has caught the eye of the industry both nationally and internationally. Its iconic Goose campaign for Wein Air Alaska (Alaska Airlines) has a place at the National Air and Space Museum, a TV commercial they created for Seattle Art Museum is installed at the MOMA Museum, and the International Olympic Committee has enlisted them to create its global youth campaign, which utilizes social media and specifically, facebook, to engage the next generation of Olympic viewers.

Mike Doherty, CEO of Cole & Weber said, "We're proud and excited to celebrate our founders, our heritage and the clients that made it all possible on this momentous occasion. While our founders pioneered marketing in the great Northwest, we aim to honor them by pioneering marketing in the ever-changing ad landscape."

Cole & Weber has evolved beyond traditional advertising to become a full-service creativity company helping clients all over the world build experiences that involve people with their brands.

"I had the pleasure of working with Cole & Weber for nearly a decade," said Saga Shoffner, an executive at Nike, a former client of Cole & Weber. "In that time, we didn't just create ads together -- we created experiences like Nike Goddess that brought new audiences into the brand and programs like the United Countries of Baseball that ignited a conversation among fans -- igniting a movement around Nike baseball fans that hadn't existed for a while."

To commemorate the anniversary, Cole & Weber "celebrated creativity" with several events. The agency staged panels featuring well-known industry creative directors who built their careers at Cole & Weber. Panel participants included Jim Elliot, Chief Creative Officer of Y&R, Tedd Baseler, CEO of St. Michelle Wine Estates, Scott Bedbury, CEO of Brandstream Inc, among many others. The agency also hosted a "Brew ha ha" for employees and industry colleagues at Elysian Fields in Pioneer Square.

Jerry West's Dream Game

As the N.B.A. lockout continues to eat its way through the season, the principal view of pro basketball, despite some recent advertisements by Nike attempting to convince us otherwise, is of a stalled and bloated financial beast, made up of wealthy squabblers deadlocked over abstractly large amounts of money. The whole thing, to use a current formulation, feels very 1%—more boardroom than locker room, and not much to do with the redeeming qualities of sport.

Funny, then, that a measure of relief, at least for this fan, would come from Jerry West, whose jaunty silhouette has adorned the N.B.A. logo since 1969. Though West achieved greatness as a player—first as an All-American for his home-state West Virginia Mountaineers, then later as co-captain of the 1960 Olympic team, and as a fourteen-season flag bearer for the Los Angeles Lakers—his greatest successes may have been cemented as an executive, most notably for a nearly twenty-season run as the general manager of the Lakers, beginning with the Showtime glory years of the eighties and ending in 2000. West was a Hall of Fame player, but as an executive assembler and massager of talent, he was, according to many around the league, unparalleled.

His new memoir, “West by West,” is deeply thoughtful in a way rare among books by former athletes. West never tries to separate money out of the game. In a brief passage from his playing days, for example, he recalls a flashpoint in the N.B.A.'s labor history, when before the 1964 All-Star Game in Boston, he and his fellow players threatened to boycott the game unless progress was made with owners toward a pension deal. He remembers it as an uncomfortable but necessary stand, perhaps in a way that today's players may look back at the summer of 2011, though that seems unlikely. And much of the book, written with Jonathan Coleman, is devoted to West's life as a basketball businessman—from his complicated relationship to Lakers owner Jerry Buss to the ins and outs of keeping players (James Worthy) or begging ownership to send others away (Dennis Rodman) to the deal that brought head coach Phil Jackson to Los Angeles.

The relief, then, isn't that West is some amateur purist standing against the complex business of basketball. Instead, it comes from a chapter near the end of the book that unites those two ideas. During a bout of sleeplessness—the book is as much about depression, self-doubt, and insomnia as it is about basketball—West gives his mind over to the construction of the perfect game, played by two rosters built from the best players across the years.

West is seventy-three, but here he dreams with the gusto of a boy, imagining the precise and improbable conditions of a world wherein anything is possible: the location is Madison Square Garden on a mid-afternoon in May. Playoff time, maybe Game Seven. The stands are full of his favorite fans living and dead: Jack Nicholson, Spike Lee, Frank Sinatra, Monet, and Picasso, along with West's high-school English teacher, his friends, family, and others. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama agree to set next to each other. Old-fashioned organ music fills the dead air; no laser-light shows or T-shirt cannons. The rules of the game are amended, back to those in place the days when West played, and other more improbable rules are laid down as well: players are all in their primes, they have undergone the same contemporary conditioning programs, they've arrived at the game flying in coach, and they've travelled alone. “No entourage, no bodyguards, no publicists, no Twittering.”

His old teammates Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain are there. So is his nemesis, Bill Russell. Magic and Bird square off one last time. Shaq lumbers through the paint. The younger generation is represented by Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Dwyane Wade. Building a pair of dream rosters is the great general-manager fantasy, a test of his skills as an evaluator of talent. And in a way, this kind of thinking about basketball—puzzling over historical and statistical possibilities, comparing players across eras, optimizing talent—has also become a significant part of the fan experience: in fantasy leagues, in basements, and on barstools. Perhaps it always has been; today's advanced computer metrics and inky box scores from the fifties both inspire the same kind of day-dreaming. Yet the difference between all of us and Jerry West, for example, is that West can realistically imagine how he would fit into his dream game. He makes one of the teams.

The last time I could imagine making any team was when I was a kid, shooting alone at a hoop after school as the evening turned to night. Basketball, despite being a team game, is in many ways a lonely sport, as much about boring solitary repetitions as it is about feats of athletic grace. The outside shot, for instance, is constructed by persistence and time. Most anyone who has spent hours taking jumper after jumper at the elbow has felt his mind wander to grander accomplishments. To the final seconds, down by one, the ball in your hands with the game on the line. Soon, the scenarios grow more baroque, the odds more dire, and begin to incorporate all the particulars of a real game. For me, that would start spinning out into the names of my teammates, their backstories, to entire games, and even to seasons. This was the real fantasy basketball, before cap space, Player Efficiency Rating, or labor negotiations meant anything to me. I lost myself in stories, and forgot to practice my backspin.

Madonna's sons David Banda and Rocco wear matching outfits on night out in New York

They've spent the last five years getting used to one another.

And it seems the brotherly bond between Madonna's two sons is as strong as that of biological brothers.

Rocco, 11, and the pop star's adopted Malawian son David Banda, 6, both stepped out all in white for an evening out in New York with their mother, sisters Mercy and Lourdes and Madonna's boyfriend Brahim Zaibat.

David was dressed like a rather smart young man in a white cap, long-sleeved polo top, jeans and Nike air max trainers.

While his brother went for more of a 'street' look with his hooded top, tracksuit bottoms, baseball cap and trainers. He added a black rucksack to the ensemble for that authentic hip-hop look.

Meanwhile their mother stuck with her favoured black wearing a three-quarter length jacket with a pair of grey tracksuit bottoms.

The 53-year-old appeared a little camera shy as she walked hand-in-hand with her adopted son, David.

At one stage David, who was adopted in 2006, took a piggy back from Madonna's beau Brahim, proving how close the dancer has become to her family.

And little Mercy, who is six years of age, was carried along by the family's nanny.

Lourdes, the oldest of the children, wore a fitted leather biker jacket with a leopard print top, black jeans and heels.

The 15-year-old has her own fashion line, which she runs with her mother.

And now, with teen label Material Girl already a success, Madonna has announced the launch of a second label, Truth or Dare.

This time, though, she will be focusing on an older audience, with a target market of women aged 27-50.

The 'lifestyle brand' is due to launch next year with a fragrance and accessories.

An image of the bottle was released today - a minimalist, hexagonal white bottle with gold cap and simple, geometric logo.

Shoes, handbags and lingerie are expected to follow.

Madonna said that she had been approached many times in the past to create her own brand, but only now was the timing right.

She told WWD: 'Over the past several years, I have been approached countless times to create my own brand.

'The timing is right and I have found great partners in Iconix, who can help translate my vision to reality.'

Meet Isaiah Scott, the child behind the Air Jordan IV Doernbecher

Nike has posted a video featuring the designer behind the Air Jordan IV "Doernbecher," Isaiah Scott.  As a patient at Doernbecher Childern's Hospital, his love of the game of basketball made him an ideal candidate to team up with some of Nike's finest designers to produce a one-of-a-kind shoe that could only come from the imagination of a child.

Using unique materials and colorways, Scott produced an Air Jordan IV that is sure to turn some heads and inspire others that they can overcome obstacles in their way.  In the video, Scott recalls the story of why he chose Superman to be on the shoe thanks to Nate Robinson and Dwight Howard.  Scott's position touched Warner Bros. so much that when Nike asked them if it was okay to put the Superman logo on the shoe, they more than willing to acquiesce.

Nike has also posted video profiles of the other patients tapped to design some unique kicks and you can check them all out here.  All proceeds from the sale of these limited edition shoes will go to the Doernbecher Childern' Hospital.  And while the designs are definitely not for everybody, people should at least take the time and consider donating to the hospital as well.

Why are these people running back and forth?

The extent of my soccer experience goes as follows. I was 6 years old; wearing a green peewee soccer jersey stained with orange juice, trying to remember which goal I was supposed to kick the ball into with my lanky, uncoordinated legs. I always thought the main rule of soccer was that when my parents cheered from their lawn chairs and took me to Baskin Robbins post game, I knew I did something right. If Mom and Dad pretended like they didn't know me during the game but still took me to Baskin Robbins, I questioned my skills a little.
Like so many other Americans, I didn't know the first thing about soccer. I knew players couldn't use their hands, I realized that the goalies wear random colors and I knew that David Beckham is married to Posh Spice.

I'm embarrassed to say that I had never attended a Hofstra soccer game until Tuesday, when the men's team took on Penn State, a Big Ten school.

Notebook in hand, I decided to use this game as an opportunity to learn as much as I could about the game in nine innings - which I soon learned was actually two halves of 45 minutes each. Like a true student journalist, I did my research. With the help of Max Sass, The Chronicle's Editor in Chief and former Sports Editor, senior midfielder Gareth James and head coach Richard Nuttall, I believe I racked up enough information to actually follow the happenings of the game.

Pregame

It's cold. Should I have worn this red pea coat? People might realize I'd rather talk fashion than football. They just announced the starting lineup. The only name I recognized was Shaun Foster, and that's because I liked the scarf he wore on the back cover of the The Chronicle.

Start of Game

It's freezing. Considering running back to dorm for additional clothing. Oh well, the game is about to get started. Max is throwing out facts rapidly at me as I write in chicken scratch and try to watch the game at the same time.  I learn about the number of players on the pitch and the boundaries – basic stuff, I know, but to me it's a whole new language.

15th Minute

I adjust my scarf to cover nearly half my face. I learn about fouls and the free kicks – either direct or indirect – that follow. I decide that my favorite part of the game is when a player is getting ready for his free kick and the rest of both teams are attempting to inch closer and closer to the ball. Call me biased, but every time a group of strapping young lads are together in a huddle…sweating…all jacked and buff, I just - okay focus Alexi.

30th Minute

I am knowledgeable enough to realize that the Nittany Lions have possession much more frequently than the Pride. It's really awesome that so many other Hofstra athletes came out to support the team. They are all wrapped in blue and yellow blankets and seem warm and toasty – clearly these athletes have done this before.

Half Time

Mmm, watery hot cocoa for a mere $2.50.  There's no score and no Max talking in my ear for the first time in 45 minutes.  I think I'm starting to get the hang of this.  I recognize what is expected of the midfielders, forwards, defenders and goalkeeper. I'm still not sure what position I was playing when I was 6.

67th Minute

Penn State scored a goal. They lead 1-NIL, that's right NIL, not zero – that's what you're supposed to call it in soccer. Max is screaming at the referee after he gave a yellow card to midfielder Chris Griebsch. "Someone give the ref a yellow card!" Max yells at the top of his lungs. Now I'm cold and embarrassed.

82nd Minute

GOOOAAAALLLLLL!   Hofstra defender Tyler Botte deflected one into the back of the net off the Griebsch free kick.  All tied up at one!  Did I just think that? Wow, this game is getting clearer. But my toes are getting colder. Boat shoes were a bad decision.

End of Regulation

Hofstra and Penn State are all tied up. Here, I learn about the complex, but ever important off sides rule. From what I gathered, any time an offensive player is not in possession of the ball and goes behind the last defender (excluding the goalie) on the opposing team, he is considered off sides and any goal he scores thereafter is null. Max tells me this is one of the more difficult concepts. I think I've officially graduated from the peewee level.

Overtime

Both teams are working hard to score that glorifying overtime goal.  One of the players on Penn State has a severely ripped sock, resulting from a collision with a Hofstra player. Didn't his mother pack him a change? My mother always did. Not today though, I think my toes are falling off.

End of Game

The game ends in a tie. The Hofstra players are pleased by a hard fought game. I walked onto the field afterwards – after a brief questioning from a Public Safety Officer of course – and spoke with some of the players about the most important aspects of soccer.

"If you know the off sides rule, you'll really understand a lot," said coach Richard Nuttall as his young daughter ran up to him, only to be lifted in the air. So cute.

I then stood in a circle with Max, Shaun Foster and Chris Griebsch as we disscussed the game and things around campus. I really felt like I was one of the gang.

I then asked Gareth James, who had earned his first career start that evening, what was the number one most important fact to remember about soccer.

"You're shivering," he said in a not-so-subtle New Zealand accent. Max hands me his scarf. I guess being a ‘tough' member of the crowd has officially been ruled out.

"But seriously, soccer teams need good cooperation and communication," Gareth added. "The really great teams are not necessarily the ones with the most skills, they are the ones with the best communication."

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Oh, man. You just knew this was coming, didn't you? Although the NBA lockout is threatening to cancel the first half of the NBA season, there are a handful of pro basketball superstars who are still rolling out their signature sneakers this fall. It's business as usual for guys like Derrick Rose, who just dropped his new Adidas signature sneaker, adiZero Rose 2, LeBron James, who is stepping out in the Nike LeBron 9 these days, and Carmelo Anthony, who is moving forward with his new Jordan Melo 8. Amar'e Stoudemire has gotten a little bit lost in the sauce with his Nike Air Max Sweep Thru, but he's got a new gimmicky video that might just do the trick and get folks excited about his sneaker.

In the clip, the New York Knicks center applies for a job at Foot Locker and goes through the interview process. He explains why he would be a great Foot Locker employee, shows how he would sell a sneaker, and eventually gets the opportunity to…well, you'll just have to watch and see, won't you?

How are they supposed to sell their sneakers to all of the kids out there when they can't wear them on the court and show them off every night? Well, if this is any indication, they're going to have to get there and promote them and, more importantly, find creative ways to make the public aware of the fact that they've dropped a new sneaker recently. Viral videos are a good way to go to get that done.

We're not sure if Stoudemire nailed his attempt here. But, if nothing else, it's just that: An attempt. With all of the free time Stoudemire and his fellow NBA stars have, they'll have to continue making attempts like it to make the general public aware of their sneakers if they have any chance of selling out Foot Lockers all across the country. Otherwise, they might really be applying for $8/hour jobs to help their income keep rolling in during the lockout.

Okay, okay. Maybe it won't ever get that bad. But, unlike past years, it's definitely going to be a challenge selling basketball sneakers without any actual basketball on TV. Good luck, fellas. It looks like you might need it.

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The annual political party conference season in Britain, drawn to a conclusion in 2011 by the SNP in Perth, has always been a trade-off between public participation and public relations.

These days, the number of actual decisions taken by activists and representatives is minimal, while the amount of time spent on smooth-talking via television, radio, webcasting and blogging has risen exponentially – particularly as far as the ‘big three' Westminster parties are concerned.

(The Greens and Plaid Cymru are mostly ignored by the major media commentators. But this year the SNP have been impossible to sideline, as they are in government in Scotland, and are leading the charge over a referendum on Scottish independence or ‘devo max'.)

The real aim of these yearly jamborees, one ‘big three' organiser suggested in an unguarded, metaphorically mixed moment, is to “keep the troops' chins up” while “not letting too many cats out of the bag”.

So bad vibes and dodgy felines are a definite no-no. But unfortunately that advice appeared not quite to have reached home secretary Theresa May as she strode to the podium at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

“I'm not making this up,” she declared, while suggesting that an illegal Bolivian immigrant had been allowed to stay in Britain, aided by the Human Rights Act, because he had a cat. It turned out that he was an overstayer, not an illegal entrant, and that the moggy – though given a walk-on part by the judge in a jocular aside – was hardly decisive. But the tale still went down well with the party faithful because it reinforced what they wanted to believe.

Far from being upbraided for her creativity with la verité, it was Mrs May's critic, justice secretary Ken Clarke, who found himself chided for not unreasonably suggesting that this attempt to rubbish legal process was unhelpful and artless.

Then again, we should not forget that it is that nice Mr Clarke who has overseen massive cuts and wholesale restrictions to civil legal aid, following the precedent set by the previous Labour government. These changes will very severely inhibit both the quantity and quality of justice available to poor and vulnerable people in England and Wales.

Sadly, this has not hit the headlines with anything like the force of the home secretary's caricatured cat – illustrating the way in which the major party conference circuses have mostly become purveyors of smoke signals via the media, rather than bread and roses for the people.

What is to be done? Some have suggested abandoning these annual charades, others their radical resculpting. “Party conferences as we know them are completely broken and unless reform is kicked into gear straight away they are in serious risk of abolition,” declares elections expert Gareth Knight.

Few are confident that party managers are really willing to let democracy flourish again in their theatres of power. But the expansion of ‘grassroots zones' on the fringes indicates paths by which ordinary members might attempt to wrest some control from the apparatchiks.

The problem, as Knight points out, is that the success of the fringe in grabbing attention depends upon the health of the core around which they are organised. So maybe breakaway movements will be needed. Or even attention to the inventive chaos of the Greens, whose leader Caroline Lucas made perhaps the most politically substantial speech of conference season – to an audience touchingly unmanicured for television.

Certainly the Occupy protests, environmental movements and civic revolutions across the globe are suggesting that there is a whole world of politics available outwith the narrow party perspectives that still dominate the electoral machinery of Western democracies.

Party posturing is looking increasingly irrelevant. A spirit of change coming from a very different direction is in the air.

Piece of Mind - A tribute to 25 years

Today, I turn 25 years old. (Oh.. thank you. You are too kind. Stop, please...)

As a tribute to myself and the changing world, this week I like to provide an overview of some of the ways our world has changed in the past quarter century.

1. The StairMaster: Every day fools like you and me no longer have to just pine after the bodies of people like Arnold Schwarzenegger (specifically, his body in Pumping Iron). We can have our own hot bod by doing Real Work with Real Results, thanks to the StairMaster 4000 PT introduced in Nashville, TN in 1986.

2. Purell Hand Sanitizer: Sure we were scared of germs before, but one of the lesser known facts is that the market took off after 9/11 during national fears of avian flu. Thanks Gojo in Akron, Ohio.

3. Drivers License: I learned to drive a car in 2002. During Drivers Ed, we drove all around town looking for two cars that were close enough together to practice parallel parking. Finally, Mr. Bauman gave up and had us bretend there were two cars. Wisdom since then: why didn't we just use cones??

4. Disposable Contacts: (which I am wearing right now as I write this...) This slick, invisible invention hit the US in 1995. Since I was behind the times until last year, I still have fond memories of Jr. High basketball games and yelling stop, No one move! when either my glasses or rigid-gas-permeable contacts (what eye doctors would now call the dinosaurs of contact lenses) flew off my face or out of my eyes. This typically ended in 10 awkward girls shuffling on their hands and knees across the floor, parents returning from the bathroom and wondering what the heck was going on, and one bored referee, just thankful he was getting paid.

5. High-Tech Footwear: White canvas Keds, youare a thing of the past. In 1985, Nike launched Air Jordans, followed by Reeboks The Pump. We have been stylin ever since. I proud to say that I too owned Nike Womens Air Swoopes, in honor of WMBA star Sheryl Swoopes.

6. Writing: Okay, obviously not invented after 1986. However, I learned to love writing in my 6th grade Science Class. If you have enjoyed any of my columns, you can thank Mrs. Stone.

7. PowerPoint: Can't remember the first time you had to sit through a boring text-filled slide show... well, now you know. PowerPoint was invented by Forethought and released in 1987. Windows unveiled its version in 1990 and changed the game of public speaking. Sidenote: You can buy books on how to Make Your PowerPoint Presentation More Interesting. I only know this because an ex-boyfriend checked one out from the library and would read it in the evenings. Thats what is known as a real breaker.

8. Lettuce in a bag: Fresh Express out of Salinas, CA introduced a high tech plastic bag in 1989 to keep our iceberg lettuces super-fresh. That was only the beginning of bagged/pre-packaged/individualized food. My personal favorite is suction wrapped cucumbers. On my more pessimistic days, I associate them with the american Dream.

9. iPods: You know the story.

10. Birth: I was born, thanks to some chilly night of passion and procreation in early 1986.

So, as you eat bagged lettuce with your sterilized hands and pump your muscles hard on the StairMaster, be thankful for all the things known and unknown that make this world a little better, or at least amusing to live in.

Now, wheres my cake.

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