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Lack of a major East Coast team in the game has to account for the significant price drop. Give the Steelers fans credit (SB 40), of all the teams in the NFL, their fans would be the most inclined not to think twice to take out a second mortgage on the house to be able to support their team in the big game. Text: Posted on Wed, Jan. 31, 2007 $1,500: Super Bowl ticket prices cheaper BY DOUGLAS HANKS firstname.lastname@example.com Good news, sports fans: Super Bowl ticket prices are dropping fast. The bad news: Experts say $1,500 per seat will still qualify as a bargain on game day. Stung by over-hyped demand for this Super Bowl, brokers have watched ticket prices drop from record levels this week to the point that some think tickets may be cheaper at Dolphin Stadium on Sunday than at frigid Detroit last year. ''Yesterday, the bottom just dropped out and the market crashed,'' Don Vaccaro said Wednesday as corner seats in the upper-level end zone were selling for $2,200 apiece on his company's website, ticketliquidator.com. Two days earlier, he said, the same seats sold for $3,200. Other brokers weren't so grim but agreed that a miscalculation of fans' eagerness has turned Super Bowl XLI into a buyers' market. Some hotels expecting to be sold out on game weekend instead are cutting prices and lifting minimum-stay requirements, travel brokers and hotel executives said. At South Beach's Cavalier Hotel, within view of ESPN's temporary beachside studio, owner Ralph Abravaya suddenly found himself facing an empty hotel for Super Bowl. Two months ago, a Boston travel broker paid $75,000 to reserve all 45 rooms at the Cavalier for the weekend. 'He called Monday and said, `I thought I'd get the Chicago fans to take all the rooms.' But he couldn't,'' Abravaya said. The broker forfeited his money, and now rooms once advertised at $450 a night are down to $299, about $100 more than rate for next weekend. Ticket brokers report a similar reckoning. After a Jan. 21 conference win gave the Chicago Bears their first Super Bowl appearance since 1986, prices shot up as brokers and ticket holders predicted huge fan demand from the Windy City. Ticket reseller Stubhub.com reported the average Super Bowl seat cost $4,447 one week ago -- about $1,400 more than the average for Detroit's Super Bowl XL. Those record prices apparently soured many fans -- and even with prices dropping, brokers say business hasn't rebounded enough. ''I wish this had happened two weeks ago,'' said Robert Tuchman, president of TSE Sports & Entertainment. ``I think people go online, they look at the price of the ticket, and they're scared away.'' Ticketsnow.com reported inventory of about 2,400 tickets at the start of the week, up 40 percent from just three days earlier. At ticketliquidator.com, there were 1,700 tickets for sale -- compared to 600 last year on the Wednesday before Detroit's Super Bowl. Stubhub.com showed only a slight price drop this week -- down to $4,427 -- but spokesman Sean Pate said the average figure masks a steep decline in the cost for Super Bowl's cheapest seats. ''The low end for tickets is really looking up,'' Pate said, noting that upper end zone tickets selling for $3,800 last week now can be had for $2,400. ``If people are looking for relative bargains, they're starting to pop up.'' But as with stocks, today's bear market for Super Bowl tickets can give way to tomorrow's rally. When prices are unusually high, brokers often stall in buying the inventory they need in hopes that the market will soften. That can lead to a ticket-buying frenzy just days before the game. ''You can see that price shoot back up to $3,500,'' said Mike Domek, chairman of the company that runs ticketsnow.com. Then again, if demand stays soft, Domek sees a chance of tickets dipping as low as $1,500 apiece. ''I think there's a 20 percent chance of that happening,'' he said. That's still a hefty mark-up for tickets with a face value of $600 to $700, and reflects the rabid demand every Super Bowl generates among sports fans and Corporate America. With roughly 75,000 seats all but guaranteed to sell out and another 50,000 people expected for the festivities, many hotels are charging premium rates and reporting little to no vacancy. Domek's advice: if you're going to wait past Friday, really wait and see what the ticket prices are Sunday morning. Most websites have agents and brokers set up in offices and hotel rooms near the stadium for last-minute sales. James Velco, a chief technology officer from Chicago, is hoping for a sell-off. Eating a late breakfast with wife Amy at South Beach's Pelican Cafe on Wednesday, Velco said they had decided to extend their South Florida stay on the chance they could see the Bears on Sunday. They hadn't bought tickets yet, citing prices. ''I'm not paying $2,000 for a nosebleed,'' James said .
Interesting. Normally these are articles are nothing but quotes from brokers trying to scare people into buying now before prices go up. I'm planning to be in Arizona next year without expectation of getting into the Super Bowl but if things play out...
I tried to get tickets in Jacksonville and the Eagle fans were paying over $3,000 a seat! You would think that the COlts fans would be jumping at there one and only shot at the Superbowl.
I think one to look at is how much inventory there is when Thursday rolls around. By Thursday night, it's getting late for people to travel, so the demand will mostly be confined to people already in the city. There were about 900 auctions on ebay this morning, which was a good indication that tickets were crashing. What happens is that people get scared off from planning to go by the extremely high prices two weeks before the game, but then all of the sudden, after the championship games, there's a huge new infusion of tickets because just under 40 percent of the tickets go to the two teams and so supply is low until then. I think the effect will be even more pronounced in Phoenix, which is not a city that's incredibly easy to get to from anywhere but California unless you make advance plans. Interestingly, there seems to have been a bit of a rebound this afternoon. At 10:00 a.m., they were out there in the $1500 to $1750 range, now it's back up to $2000. (I've been watching this closely because I really want to try to go next year.) Looks like there's still way more supply than demand, and the problem for brokers is that they are such a high cost item and counterfeiting is such a problem that street-corner sales probably are not feasible to get rid of huge amounts of inventory.
Pats fans are truly rabid and a Pats/Bears bowl would have brought record prices. Indy fans are either broke, not plentiful or really not fanatical enough to blow $5,000 + to go to a Superbowl. Me on the other hand - i am fanatical and nuts and broke (now) having been to them all except '86!!


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Arisa - Se Vedo Te (2014)
Artist: Arisa
Title Of Album: Se Vedo Te
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Warner
Genre: Pop
Quality: Mp3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 39:30 Min
Total Size: 101 Mb
1. L'ultima volta
2. Chissà cosa diresti
3. La cosa più importante
4. Se vedo te
5. Lentamente (il primo che passa)
6. Quante parole che non dici
7. Sinceramente
8. Dici che non mi trovi mai
9. Dimmi se adesso mi vedi
10. Controvento
11. Stai bene su di me
Arisa is an Italian pop singer whose debut single, "Sincerita," was a chart-topping smash hit upon its release in 2009. Born Rosalba Pippa on August 20, 1982, in Genoa, Italy, she was offered a major-label recording contract with Warner Music after winning the Mia Martini award, a first-place prize for newcomers at the Sanremo Music Festival. Her award-winning song entry in the festival, "Sincerita," was released as a single in 2009 and went straight to number one on the Italian charts. The full-length album, Sincerita (2009), was released shortly thereafter and was a Top Five hit. Both the single and album also charted in neighboring Switzerland. In addition to the smash hit title track, the album includes the follow-up single "Io Sono."
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Mr. Cohen received his bachelor's degree from Middlebury College, his master's degree in History from Duke University and his Juris Doctor from Duke University Law School, where he was a moot court champion. He is a member of the bars of New York and Massachusetts.
Mr. Cohen is committed to pro bono work. He serves on the board of or acts as outside counsel to several prominent nonprofit entities, including New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Lawyers Without Borders and Jericho Project. He successfully led a team of Gibson Dunn attorneys in representing all plaintiffs in a high-profile immigration civil rights case (Barrera v. Boughton) in Connecticut federal court, which resulted in the largest settlement in history for such claims, for which Gibson Dunn was awarded the National Legal Aid & Defender Association's 2010 Beacon of Justice Award, and The New York Times noted the accomplishment in an editorial, and his team received the National Law Journal's Hot Pro Bono 2012 designation.
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I used to play the tenor saxophone through high school and into college. During our concerts we always had microphones set up for the soloists. Personally, I think at least in a concert setting, it is better for the player to just play louder without the help of a microphone.
If you are in the audience and the band is playing in front of you, but you are hearing a soloist's instrument coming from a speaker behind you, it can be distracting.
We did a couple recordings where I had to use normal saxophone mics on a stand, and ones that were mounted on the bell of the horn. I didn't like the sound from the mounted microphone at all. It didn't capture all of the tones of the instrument.


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