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Miley Cyrus, in yellow blouse, cheers on Britney Spears at the opening night performance of her Piece of Me show at the Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 28, 2013.
Like everyone else who follows popular culture, I've been aware of Madonna, Britney Spears, and more recently Miley Cyrus, as power pop performers who deliberately court "controversy." During the summer of 1999, when I was guest lecturing at The University of Amsterdam, Britney Spears was exploding out of every record store in the city, as well as on The Box, a 24/7 music cable television station that played Britney's hits in heavy rotation. My Dutch students bought her CDs, played them incessantly, and her early hits became instant teen anthems.
Britney Spears was just 18 at the time, but already the ruling pop star of the era, eclipsing Madonna's long reign as the queen of pop, something Madonna was smart enough to acknowledge and embrace, thus assuring her own continued longevity as a performer. Now, Britney Spears is 32 years old, and what seemed easy at 18 is considerably more difficult. Spears went into a well-publicized meltdown a few years back, which seemed to me an utterly genuine cry for help; shaving her head bald on impulse, acting out in public, seemingly unable to handle the undoubted pressures of stardom anymore.
Now, Britney's back, for a two-year residency at the Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, in a glitzy, lavish show entitled Piece of Me, something out of Cirque de Soleil. The show opened to middling reviews this past Friday, December 28, 2013. Spears is committed to doing roughly 90 shows through 2015, with more in the offing if things go well. This is, make no mistake about it, a major production, whether you care for this sort of thing or not. A lot is at stake, not least of which is Britney's continued currency as a pop icon.
It's also very hard work; E! aired a two hour documentary on the pre-production of the show just before it opened, which actually had some substance for a change, illustrating just how many people, how much money, how much rehearsal, how much time, energy, and blood, sweat and years went into creating the entire spectacle.
Performers suffered injuries, dance routines were drilled into Britney's surrounding ensemble in non-stop rehearsals, enormous sets built, elaborate videos shot, and in what seems to me to be a rather questionable choice simply from a safety angle, Britney spends part of the show suspended in the air on wires as an angel, and later swoops out of a giant revolving tree, also with the aid of wires, as her troupe of dancers do everything they possibly can to showcase her to best advantage.
For, truth to be told, Britney's dance work isn't as crisp now as it was in 1999; how could it be? She's older now, and more careful. Watching a video of the entire concert in segments, it's clear that Britney is leaving heavily on her support staff at this point. She needs the spectacle to prop her up, as she rockets through a medley of past hits as well some new material, with an air of detached and somewhat bewildered resignation. This is her job, she needs the money, and if this is what it takes to keep on top, she'll dutifully hit her marks and deliver.
Yet another graduate of the Disney stable, Spears is above all a professional performer, and has been a star since she was a child. Her meltdown was all but inevitable as she morphed from teen idol into adulthood, but now she seems to be grounded in the one true ethic that always gets professionals though anything: work, work, and more work. And I personally have no doubt that she'll get through this two year gig, hopefully bank some cash, and then perhaps consider retiring.
But in the audience on her first night, in one of the front rows, was the new pop tart of the moment, Miley Cyrus, whose recent "provocative" videos "Wrecking Ball" and "Adore You" have grabbed literally hundreds of millions of views on YouTube. She's clearly the next big threat on the horizon. Ostensibly, Miley just came to Britney's show, and that was all.
But in what might be construed as an incredibly smart and yet seemingly generous gesture, Miley stood in the front row throughout Britney's entire opening night performance, not hanging back, but rather singing along to the hits word for word, exhorting the audience to higher peaks of frenzy with shrieks of delight, jumping up and down in time to the music, pumping her fist in the air, at one with the music. It was her show, too.
It was clear to me what was happening; like the famous Madonna/Britney kiss at the VMA awards at Radio City Music Hall on August 28, 2003, in which Madonna both acknowledged and passed the torch to Spears as the next ruling princess of pop, this was the moment when the past met the future. With Miley simultaneously paying court to Britney while also amplifying her own celebrity, the 21 year old pop star was there to pay homage, but also to announce to the world that she, Miley Cyrus, was the new pop diva.
After the show, Britney tweeted "@MileyCyrus Love you so much! Thank you for coming to #PieceOfMe! I adore you :)," and she's right to be grateful; Miley Cyrus really pushed Britney through her all-important first night, and got plenty of publicity for her herself in the process. Help a friend out, and help yourself out at the same time; it's very convenient. It was abundantly clear that a lot was riding on Britney's "comeback," and Miley's fame and energy was certainly an asset.
But as I watched, I wondered; what will Miley feel like when she's 32, and the white-hot blast furnace of pop fame has cooled a bit? Yet another Disney alumnus herself, Miley Cyrus may well find herself doing a residency gig in some other Vegas hotel, as the newest pop diva of the era cheers her on, while also signaling her obsolescence. One day, perhaps, Madonna, Britney and Miley will team up together for a triple threat show, say in 2023 or so, in response to the attention being paid to the next big pop female star, whomever she may be.


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Jenny Baumann's itinerary for her first trip to New York City: Rockefeller Center. The Empire State Building. Central Park. Night court.
In a city synonymous with theaters and nightlife, the 26-year-old from Munich was perched on a scarred wooden bench in a utilitarian room in lower Manhattan on a recent evening, straining to decode — sometimes even to hear — the methodical hubbub of arraignments in one of the nation's busiest courts.
"It's very interesting to hear real cases," Baumann said as she and a friend watched a judge decide whether to set bail for people facing charges ranging from choking a girlfriend to stealing a six-pack of beer. Each case was handled in a matter of minutes amid a hive of clerks shuffling paperwork, police taking retinal scans, defendants and lawyers conferring in a confessional-sized glass booth and court officers occasionally bellowing, "Quiet, please!"
It's one of New York's more peculiar and paradoxical tourist traditions, a place visitors extol on travel websites while many residents hope never to wind up there. To travelers, it's gritty entertainment, hard-knocks education or at least a chance to experience real-life law and order on a New York scale.
Dozens of jurisdictions nationwide hold some court sessions at night, but Manhattan Criminal Court occupies a unique spot in the public's imagination, thanks to TV's "Law & Order" and "Night Court," not to mention arraignments of real-life notables ranging from rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs to French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The court handles more than 100,000 arrests a year, averaging about 70 to 90 cases during the 5 p.m.-1 a.m. night session — and that doesn't count people who got summonses, let alone New York City's four other boroughs.
Established in 1907, Manhattan night court once attracted such spectators as John D. Rockefeller and the then-Duke of Manchester. More recently, it's been noted in tour books.
Night court is so popular that veteran clerk Robert Smith has become an impromptu tour guide for school groups from as far away as Denmark, judges from Japan and individual sightseers he spots in the audience. "I try to make it informative" by explaining the process, he says.
If visitors find allure in night court, insiders understand why. "It is a 'just-off-Broadway show' with a cast of thousands, ever-changing story lines ... real drama, as well as occasional comic relief," says Edward McCarthy, who oversees the Legal Aid Society's defense work there.
But if it can be entertaining to watch, it's fraught and serious work, notes acting State Supreme Court Justice Melissa Jackson, the Criminal Court's supervising judge from 2008 through 2012.
"From the judge's perspective and all of the attorneys' who work so hard, there's nothing amusing about it," she said. "And the stakes are very high."
Adam Jory Waxman and his wife took their 16-year-old son there last month while visiting from the Atlanta area, hoping it would be a lesson in choices and consequences. And it was.
"He saw that people got themselves in trouble and that there wasn't anything they could do about it until a judge made a decision," Waxman said.

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Tallahassee, Fla. - Dozens of internet café owners and employees made the trip to Tallahassee today to fight for their jobs. The state legislature is moving to ban the sweepstakes businesses after a police investigation shut down 51 internet cafes and spawned the resignation of Florida's Lieutenant Governor. As Whitney Ray tells us, before the bust, a ban on internet cafes was dead.
What a difference a week makes. Last Tuesday state lawmakers were in no rush to change Florida's gaming laws. Now a bill is moving through the state legislature to close all internet cafes.
The quick action comes just days after investigators raided 51 internet cafes owned by Allied Veterans of the World. According to investigators, the charity made 300 million dollars, but gave just two percent to veterans.
By Monday morning the Senate Committee on Gaming was set to shut down all of Florida's internet cafes.
Café owners and workers wore shirts asking senators to regulate, not eliminate their businesses. But supporters of the ban say quick action is needed.
"The time has come to terminate these and similar gaming operations around the state," said Bill Bunkley with the Florida Baptist Convention.
"It's not an ongoing gambling enterprise. It's an ongoing criminal enterprise," said Lobbyist Ron Book.
The owners, players and supporters of internet cafes testified for over an hour, but in the end they weren't able to change even one vote.
After the vote, the bill's sponsor told reporters, internet cafes are illegal right now, his bill would just clarify existing law.
"Gaming is illegal in the state of Florida unless it is otherwise carved out," said Thrasher.
Friday the House Gaming Committee passed a similar ban. The bills could be ready for a floor vote by the end of the month.
The ban is effective upon becoming law, which means if both chambers pass it and the governor signs it, Internet cafes will be outlawed before the ink on the new law dries.


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World Heavyweight Champion Aug 29th (11) - Oct 30th (11)
EWNCW Champion Nov 28th (11) - Apr 16th (12)
BWA Undisputed World Tag Champions Feb 19th (12) - March 18th (12) (With Ryan Wells)
PWR: Jack Pheonix - The Hardcore King/Knights
No Daniel, We're grateful, Thankyou Daniel Bryan.
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Last Ever IWA Vanities Champion: Juno Mercury
2013: Women's Wrestler of the Year,Juno Mercury (IWA)
2013: Vanity of the Year,Juno Mercury (IWA)
PWR Women's Champion: Juno Mercury
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4 time World Champion
Only 2 time dual World Champion
Won more awards than your best character has had #1 contender matches
APW co-founder
Hall of Famer
Most successful wrestler of all time
1 of the most successful managers of all time
Member of the greatest faction of all time (The Clique)
1/2 of the great tag team of all time (The Infection w/Carlos Alberto Ramon)
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Please don't call me if your neighbor shoots your dog or poisons your cats. Call law enforcement and if they can't do anything about it, then I can't either. For one thing, I am not getting in the middle of a dispute between neighbors. Second, if I interview one neighbor, then I have to interview the other, which never ends well. Third, we don't have an investigative reporter or other resources.
Florida High School sports can be cruel. The FHSAA has decided only eight teams, the state champion from each classification, can finish the season with a win in their respective sport.
It's a subtle reality that for most teams, most seasons are going to end in the worst possible result.
Facing that reality, it never seemed to deter the teams at CHS.
On a regular basis I got to cover the boy's basketball, girls basketball, baseball and softball teams. All four came in with very different expectations.
The 2012 Blue and Gold game may have been the most interesting scoreless event I've ever seen. Head coach Aaron Richardson's choice to make it a glorified practice with jerseys on may have been less dramatic than years past, but it still showed off a lot about the current state of the Chiefland High School football program.
- The backfield has talent (and a lot of it):
The Williston High School baseball team lost its regional championship game Friday night. It was still the best public school in its classification.
I have fiercely defended October as the best month in sports for a long time. The World Series. Pivotal mid-season football games in high school and college. The NFL gets into full swing. Huge chase races in NASCAR. The NBA and NHL seasons begin.
But this April is beginning to change my mind.
The 2012 Chiefland Indians baseball team knew that overcoming the loss of seven seniors, and seven of the team's best players, was not going to be easy. That left them this season with a team that, for the exception of one senior and a few juniors, looked on paper like a JV team.
Recently, it hasn't played anything like junor varisity.
Spirits were high at the Chiefland High School auditorium on Feb. 2. They were supposed to be. A search that captivated the town finally came to a close. The wait was over and Chiefland welcomed a great man for the job.
But it was the second half of the introductory conference that was the most important.
After Aron Richardson spoke and fielded questions, CHS principal Bill Tovine took the stage.
My days are numbered at the Chiefland Citizen. Monday will be my last at the paper as I've accepted a job to become the editor of Gator Country Magazine and GatorCountry.com. It's what is best for my family and career as I try to grow in the Florida media world after moving here from Arkansas a year ago.
Chiefland, and Levy County, will always be special to me. It's a special place with special people with a few, at times, that were a special kind of crazy.
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Category: family genealogy names
Nameberry Leslie Owen searches through the pages of her family history and digs up some interesting–and sometimes surprisingly modern-sounding– colonial treasures.
One of the reasons I became so interested in names is because I discovered the two-volume edition of the Brewster Genealogy in my grandparents' house in Maine. I pored over the pages, discovering unusual family names –Ohel, for example – and names I found beautiful, such as Solace and Wrestling. I discovered ancestors who were famous and who led incredible lives. I discovered information that surprised my family. The books, however, disappeared, much to my great disappointment. But recently, I was able to download a copy of Volume One from the Boston Public Library, and I am back to using it to make lists and rediscoveries.
William and Mary Brewster had five living children, all of whom eventually came to Plymouth, Massachusetts. Elder William Brewster was the religious leader of the colony, the only one who had to leave England (there was an arrest warrant for him, for treason), and it was his tireless work that kept the survivors alive during that first hard winter, according to Governor William Bradford's account in Of Plimouth Plantation. The first names of the Brewsters, who married into the most prestigious New England families, fall into several categories: Puritan virtue names, Biblical names, classic English names, and what I call Stuart/Georgian names.
Here are twelve girls' and twelve boys' names that I've found repeatedly throughout the genealogy and that could hold some interesting possibilities for an adventurous nameberry:
Celinda – one of those Stuart names, like Belinda and Melinda and perhaps a variant of Celeste or Celine.


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While some community organizers have publicly criticized the city of Charleston's involvement, or lack thereof, on its West Side, city officials say they have been invested in the neighborhood.
Earlier this month, the Rev. Matthew Watts, of HOPE Community Development Corp., said during a regional meeting of West Virginia University's diversity committee that he felt the city could only be moved to action on its West Side if it saw the neighborhood as economically valuable.
"What moves this town, what moves every town in America, is money," Watts said during the meeting.
The Gazette also reported Watts said, "it's not popular to take a very strong and strident stand for the West Side of Charleston," because of the city's "indifference."
But City Council members representing the West Side and Mayor Danny Jones say otherwise.
"No, I completely disagree," said Councilman Joe Deneault, who represents Ward 3, in response to Watts' statement. "I've never asked the city administration and my fellow councilmen for any help that hasn't been given."
Deneault, who said his ward has the most vacant houses of any other in the city, said requests he has made haven't gone unanswered. Jones said between 800 and 900 vacant and dilapidated structures have been demolished on the West Side since he came into office in 2003.
"[Watts is] entitled to his opinion," Jones said. "The West Side gets more city resources than any other part of the city. The reason they get the resources is because they need them."
Rod Blackstone, assistant to the mayor, said Watts' "assumption is flawed."
"His assumption is … because not enough city leaders have embraced his particular cause that there's not enough investment on the West Side, and that's not true," Blackstone said.
Citing funding (more than $40 million, according to Jones) of the Charleston-Kanawha Housing Authority's redevelopment projects in public housing on the West Side, Blackstone said those improvements are "absolutely, positively a legacy of this mayor and this administration."
Blackstone also listed Jones' involvement in the Staats Hospital building project, funding for various West Side Main Street projects and work with the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation's West Side grant initiative as examples of the city's dedication to the West Side.
Watts has been critical of the city's work on the West Side before. Watts told the Gazette in December he didn't think the Charleston Urban Renewal Authority was putting enough focus on the area and that redevelopment wasn't happening quickly enough.
The geographic and economic diversity of the West Side is a challenge, and the area is "too large to lump into one piece," said Ward 7 Councilman Adam Knauff. He said he'd like to see Watts' West Side Revive campaign "better define what the scope of that project is going to be."
"My primary concern here with their program is it seems designed for Mary C. Snow [Elementary School] solely. And I think that the problems that Edgewood Elementary may have is likely to be very different than what Mary C. Snow's are."
Mary C. Snow West Side Elementary ranked 398th out of West Virginia's 494 elementary schools last year, according to standardized test scores. Watts Elementary, J.E. Robbins Elementary (both of which have been consolidated and whose students will attend Edgewood Elementary in the fall) and Grandview Elementary School had similar low scores.
The Legislature approved last year a Community School project for four schools on the West Side to connect schools with social services and implement innovative teaching methods.
More than 90 percent of students at Mary C. Snow come from low-income families, and the school is located in the middle of a Drug Market Intervention Zone — identified by law enforcement as the most crime-ridden part of Charleston.
Knauff said he doesn't agree with media reports that define the West Side as a largely urban area.
"A small percentage of the kids may come from an urban area, but the majority of these kids I wouldn't consider to be urban at all," Knauff said of Edgewood students. "My concern is that if you were to lift the program directly as it's designed for Mary C. Snow and apply that to Edgewood Elementary or Stonewall Jackson, I don't think that would work, because the problems are too different."
While at-large Councilman Andy Richardson, who also serves on the West Side Neighborhood Association, said he doesn't find it unpopular to support the West Side, he also acknowledged areas where he wished more progress was made. Richardson spoke specifically about the city's West Side Plan and "addressing the dilapidated housing and making it livable."
"The housing problem is a serious problem," Richardson said. "We're working on that, but … that's private property, and there are significant issues associated with how to get that fixed."
Councilman Bill Kirk, who represents the part of the West Side and the Sugar Creek area of Charleston, said he wanted to see someone from the mayor's office at West Side Neighborhood Association meetings. Kirk also sits on the organization's board.
"This sounds negative, but nothing gets done unless Danny wants it done," Kirk said.
Kirk said trying to be a liaison to Jones' office "doesn't do any good," because Jones "won't listen to me."
Jones acknowledged his contentious relationship with Kirk and said his office is "not involved too much" with Kirk.
"We're involved in a lot of activities on the West Side, but we haven't done that well with Kirk," Jones said. "He's lashed out at me at a few meetings, just disrespectful, and it doesn't work out very well."
Blackstone attends West Side Main Street meetings, while city planner Geoffrey Plagemann is at neighborhood association meetings every month.
"Just having the mayor personally at a meeting doesn't really get anything done," Deneault said. "What does get something done [is] when his departments act in the interest of the West Side, that's getting something done."
Deneault and several other council members spoke of the Charleston Police Department's efforts to curb crime on the West Side as a sign of the city's dedication to the area.
"I think I'd be remiss not to talk about crime, because obviously the stereotype the West Side has is that it's crime ridden. The efforts of Chief [Brent] Webster are exemplary," Deneault said.
Richardson said he is "encouraged that the West Side is moving forward with positive energy and positive change," but that its success is up to more than government or community organizations.
"It's up to the people of that community to become engaged and committed to making it a better place to live," Richardson said.
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Australia and New Zealand have been announced as co-hosts for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup.
The Rugby League International Federation opted to play it safe in awarding the 15th competition to two of the "big three" ahead of South Africa, the only other bid on the table.
Chairman of the bid committee and RLIF vice-chairman Nigel Wood said: "This was not a simple decision but with fans of international rugby league buoyed by the recent success of RLWC2013, we were determined to get it right.
"Both bids were thoroughly compelling but the joint Australia/New Zealand bid was selected as the one with the greatest chance of success in providing more compelling games in world class environments in front of big, passionate crowds."
It will be the third time the two southern hemisphere rivals have staged the event together, after they were co-hosts in 1968 and 1977.
South Africa, who entered a team in the 1995 and 2008 World Cups, have only a fledging domestic game but argued they could help spread the game internationally and believed, as hosts, they would have been granted government recognition.
"The bid from South Africa was very strong, prepared professionally and clearly demonstrated a passion for rugby league that is growing by the day in that country," Wood said.
Australia successfully staged the 2008 World Cup, managing to generate good crowds and a profit of around £2million which was ploughed back into the international game, but that was topped in 2013 by the effort organised by England and Wales.
A total of 457,483 fans watched the 28 matches in 2013, with sell-outs from Rochdale to Avignon and Halifax to Old Trafford, where the attendance of 74,468 for the final set a new record for international rugby league.
Wednesday's announcement means the England team could be travelling to the southern hemisphere three times in the next four years.
Australia and New Zealand are due to co-host the 2014 Four Nations Series and there are plans to bring back the British and Irish Lions tour in 2016.
The RLIF is expected to announce details of the Four Nations tournament shortly.


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ANN ARBOR - Gage Bryce, a C.S. Mott Children's Hospital patient fighting cancer, will celebrate his 12th birthday Saturday by joining the University of Michigan Marching Band during the halftime performance during Saturday's football game against Ohio State.
The hospital said Gage and his family, who are from Saginaw, have been advocates in Mott's efforts to promote awareness about the funding need for research into childhood cancer through the "Block Out Cancer" initiative.
The details of Gage's role will be kept a secret until Saturday, but are part of the band's show that will highlight the global impact of the University of Michigan through academics, innovation, technology and cultural diversity, says John Pasquale, director of the Michigan Marching Band.
"We hope that Gage can help us celebrate what it means to be a true Michigan victor," Pasquale said.
Gage was diagnosed with cancer about nine years ago, when he was just a toddler. It's a battle the hospital says he's still fighting.
"Our story is one that you don't hear every day, but it's the perfect example of both the shining success doctors have achieved in their fight to block out childhood cancers, and the heartbreaking shortcomings in our current ability to cure them," wrote Gage's mom, Melanie Bird-Bryce, in a blog post for the Block Out Cancer initiative.
Gage has stabilized and the cancer, which once spread throughout his body, is now limited to his skull. The hospital said he's had 46 rounds of chemo, surgery, a bone marrow transplant, clinical trials and more -- but he still has cancer.
"We know that without all that researchers have learned in the past ten years, he wouldn't be alive," said Bird-Bryce. "The treatments have held his cancer back. We are thankful that God has blessed our family and the scientists who have found a way to keep our son alive. But he still has cancer. We still don't know enough. He still isn't cured, and we live with that hanging over our head every day."
Each year, more than 13,000 parents will learn that their child has cancer. Despite all that's been learned, one out of five children diagnosed with cancer do not survive, according to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.
"Despite those alarming statistics, a small percentage of research funds granted by the National Institutes of Health are allocated to researching cancer that affects children," said Valerie P. Castle, chair of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital's Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and a pediatric oncologist. "It remains the number one cause of death in children. We need to do more to find cures and new treatments."
Research has made advances in improving cure rates for children's cancers, which have increased from less than 40 percent to nearly 70 percent.
Future progress is highly dependent on new biological discoveries leading to the development of drugs specifically designed for pediatric cancers. Funding for those efforts is crucial to continuing progress, says Castle.
"C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is home to the largest, cutting-edge pediatric research effort in the state of Michigan. We believe every child deserves a cure, and that's why we established the Center for Childhood Cancer to help us find different, better ways to cure childhood cancers," said Castle.
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Retailers at NRF's convention this week got a citing of Bill Fields, a former Walmart executive who spent 25 years with the company serving in various roles from 1971 to 1996. Today Fields is chairman of a group called China Horizon, a joint venture with the Chinese postal service charged with helping to develop retail and consumption in rural China, and it was the topic of China that Fields addressed during the super session: "Making the retail business dynamic," sponsored by Microsoft.
Fields did not go into detail about his current gig and instead focused on the general consumer environment and market that exists in China today.
"China will be the dominant economic force in the world in my children's lifetime," Fields said.
A lot of people would agree with him on that point considering the world's most populous nation has only the U.S. to overtake at this point and its Gross Domestic Product is expanding at a far more rapid pace that the U.S. America is coming out of a recession and low single-digit economic growth in the years ahead will be considered a triumph while Chinese economy is steaming forward and last year expanded at a rate of 10%, according to Fields. "We are in probably one of the most exciting times we have ever seen."
Aside from the big picture outlook Fields shared, he did peel back the onion to offer a view of how societal changes are influencing consumer demand in ways that will transform the retail industry for decades to come. For example Fields noted that while in the past three decades the trend was to move from rural China to urban China, in recent years that has changed and noted that in 2008, 10 million people went back to rural China from urban China.
"This is the time to build a brand, this is the time to understand that China is the second largest economy in the world," Fields said.


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Orange Grove Energy
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08-AFC-04C (Compliance Proceeding)
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Licensed; In Compliance Phase.
Operational: April 1, 2010
The California Energy Commission approved this project's Application For Certification on April 8, 2009. The Commission monitors the power plant's construction, operation and eventual decommissioning through a compliance proceeding.
Key Dates
- 6/19/2008 - Application for Certification (AFC) filed
- 7/16/2008 - Commission accepts AFC as "data adequate."
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February 24, 2009
Bronx Bummer
The Yankees Stick It to Their Ticketholders
Eleven years ago, I banded together with four of my friends and bought a Yankees partial season-ticket package which gave us a pair of tickets to 15 games of our choice. We were instantly rewarded with the opportunity to frequent a once-in-a-generation ballclub, the 1998 Yankees. Expanding our plan to three seats the following year, we were fortunate enough to attend the World Series clincher, the kind of once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that the vast majority of baseball fans never get to experience first-hand.
With an introduction like that, we were hooked. Our ticket package eventually ballooned to 26 games, the cost per ticket tripled, and friends came and went, but we never had a problem assembling a posse willing to spend their hard-earned cash to fill those seats. We witnessed some amazing baseball, even as Yankee Stadium itself devolved into a less hospitable environment thanks to the increasingly heavy-handed security in the years following 9/11.
Sadly, the days of our ticket group appear to be at an end, with our worst fears about the transition to the new Yankee Stadium not only realized, but surpassed beyond our wildest diminished expectations. Not only was our 26-game flex plan phased out in favor of a 20-game "inflexibility plan" with the choice of dates restricted to an every-fourth-home-game cycle, but the $60 Tier Box seats we had enjoyed for so long were recessed about 30 feet further from the field of play, and the overall capacity for the ballpark decreased from 56,936 to 52,325. When the time came to order our 2009 seats, those facts-spelled out for us in a forebodingly titled relocation program that conjured up images of Stalin sending peasants to Siberian gulags-coupled with a concern for finances due to the growing family obligations of group members, led us to choose the $25 Grandstand seats between the bases instead of the $65 or $75 Terrace seats which would have provided the closest equivalent to our former experience.
As the mere existence of the relocation program suggested, we knew that others would share our plight. A considerable portion of the moderately priced seats that were popular among partial-plan holders at the old stadium are now luxury seats which are priced from $150 to $350. Taking into account the decreased capacity to accommodate a fan base which had set a franchise attendance record with 4,298,655 patrons last year (the third straight year they had drawn four million fans), it was apparent that someone was going to get squeezed.
Nonetheless, we eagerly awaited word on our new tickets, or even an official communication telling us when we might expect to hear about them. All to no avail, until the point last Thursday when we read a clumsy, un-spellchecked memo from the ticket office that Yankee beat reporter Pete Abraham posted on his blog at LoHud.com:
Good Morning, Do [sic] to the overwhelming demand for season tickets, all plans were distributed subject to availability. In the event that the partial plan you requested was not available, you were assigned an alternative plan (subject to availability). From here you have the option to either accept or decline, if you decline (if the plan does not meet your needs or budget) you can go into your my Yankees account (under personal preferences) and mark down that you wish to decline and/ or enter the pool process for your preferred plan, At this point you cannot change your seats or plans unless your [sic] interested in the $350 seats. If you accept then the full payment will be due on Feb 27th which you can pay online or by calling (718) xxx-xxxx. Because of the demand for all season tickets, we stronly [sic] suggest that ticket Licensees accept their initial seat assignments. The demand for many plans will definetely [sic] exceed the available seats locations and if you decline your assignment there may not be any availability in the alternative seat location and/ or plan that you request. If you have any questions or concerns I would suggest to call (718) xxx-xxxx and we can try to assist you. Sincerely, New York Yankees Ticket Operations Yankee Stadium 161st Street & River Avenue Bronx, NY 10451
Say it ain't so, Joe! Prompted by this ominous and pricelessly incompetent memo, still lacking any official communiqu�, and unable to get through on the provided number (callers aren't even put on hold and are instead told via recorded message to call back later before being unceremoniously disconnected), we logged into our account to discover the damage. Instead of being offered our $25 seats, or even anything between the bases, we had been assigned $85 seats in section 107
... right behind the right-field foul pole. Obstructed view, at more than triple the price of what we were prepared to spend. Are you kidding me? No, really, ARE YOU &*^%$#@ KIDDING ME?
Without even discussing the desirability of the particular seats which, to put it politely, are about as far as you can get from the type of ballpark experience that I typically pursue, that kind of monetary outlay is an impossibility for our group, leaving us no choice but to decline the seats, which subjects us to this charming little policy (emphasis in original):
If You Wish to Decline: If you wish to decline your assigned seat location, because you prefer an alternative seat location for the same type of Plan or wish to select an alternative 2009 Plan, you must decline your assignment online by accessing your "My Yankees Account" at www.yankees.com, selecting the "Account Settings" banner and clicking on "Personal Preferences." If you decline your assignment in this manner, we will place you in a Plan pool in accordance with your preferences. Please remember that: (a) all Plan pool participants will be ranked according to seniority when and if participants are being considered for alternative seat locations; and (b) all requests are subject to the inventory that is available at the time each request is fulfilled. If you decline your assignment, the assigned seat location set forth on the enclosed invoice will be immediately forfeited and released into available inventory. There can be no assurance that such assigned seat location or any other requested location and/or Plan will be available to you at a later date. Thus, we strongly suggest that Licensees accept their initial seat assignments because the demand for many Plans will definitely exceed the supply.
In other words, either let us strong-arm you into buying these overpriced and slightly irregular seats, or settle for nothing at all, because there are plenty more suckers where you came from.
It's not entirely clear what's happening here, but one can hazard a guess that the economic crisis has driven down the demand for those $350-per-game seats among the corporate classes, that the average fan is wary that he'll actually be served a large enough quantity of caviar in a Yankees mini-helmet to justify that kind of three-figure expense for a trip to the ballpark, and that the team is shockingly out of touch with a fan base that it's trying to bully into spending beyond their means during hard economic times.
This is hardly the first ugly little fact about the new Yankee Stadium to come to light; tales of the publicly funded new park's fuzzy math go way back, and any fan of good conscience reckoning with the inconvenient truths about the ballpark had plenty of reason to be uneasy.
Still, even if one could block that all out and simply focus on the relationship between one customer's wallet and his ability to put his butt in a seat at this new park, the bottom line is that this is an outrage, a disgrace, a catastrophe on the level of Joe Torre summoning Jeff Weaver from the bullpen in Game Four, a Bambino-rolling-in-his-grave nightmare over the successor to the House that Ruth Built. A chorus four million fans strong should be shouting four- and twelve-letter words at Yankee president Randy Levine and every incompetent front-office numbskull who played a role in this fiasco. A pox on the House that George Built.
The Yankees deserve every pixel of bad publicity they receive over this, every blankety-blank karmic quantum of bad yankety-blank karma. My friends and I are hardly the only customers wronged in such a fashion; an informal discussion with a few other longtime Yankees ticket holders who write for various sites (including this one) reveals similarly shoddy treatment. Indeed, all of us who have something at stake short of a full-season ticket package are being screwed because the Yankees have bungled this so badly that they can't possibly fulfill the demand. So naturally, their impulse is to trample the loyal customers who helped carry them past the three million and four million attendance milestones over the past decade. This is a story worth illuminating, not only to fellow Yankee fans who may commiserate about finding themselves up the same fetid creek, but to baseball fans everywhere.
Those of you who snicker and mock Yankee fans for some perceived sense of entitlement may wish to dismiss this story as one of those "only in New York" tales, like alligators in the sewers. You may find some karmic justification for this travesty via the team's bloated payroll or their inability to shake free from wave after wave of the steroids scandal. Certainly, your claims about the Evil Empire in the Bronx gain even more traction as the multiple facets of this abomination come to light. But just remember that if this is happening here, it can happen in your city as well. Even the green cathedrals of Wrigley Field and Fenway Park will someday fall to the wrecking ball, and when you emerge from the rubble with a lesser opportunity to visit your new ballpark, you'll have plenty of company.
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This is hardly an "only in New York" thing. Similar shenanigans occur with pretty much every major sports franchise when they get a new stadium. Count the number of empty club level seats next time you see a Washington Redskins game ... and that one was built during the height of the boom market!
Feb 24, 2009 09:45 AM
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Nyah nyah. I weap tears of joy when hearing that Yankee fans get a chance to feel the same way about their abhorrent franchise that the rest of us do. Will you stop telling us how many titles they've won now? Will you stop telling us that it wasn't the free agents who did it? Will you stop claiming that "A-Rod isn't a real Yankee like Posada and Jeter."?
Feb 24, 2009 09:52 AM
Peter Hood
Sounds awfully like the Toronto maple Leaf Hockey club with one huge difference. The Leafs know they can find 20,000 rears to put into the seats for 40 games a year so pricing is maxed out. Can't pay for season tickets, too too bad ... there's lots more who can and will. Unfortunately, the Leafs don't have the same commitment to putting a very good team together as the Yankees and the club is horrible and has been so for decades.
Feb 24, 2009 09:56 AM
The real solution is to let Florida buy half of Yankee stadium and YES network and move the Marlins to NY. Then Yankee fans, like the Marlins owner, could be accommodated every day of the season for a reasonable price. Half could watch the NL Yankees and half could watch the AL Yankees.
Feb 24, 2009 09:56 AM
When the Lakers moved from the Forum to Staples I had the same thing happen. We went from great corner seats to twice as expensive seats behind the basket where you couldn't see if someone 5'8 sat in front of you.
Feb 24, 2009 09:59 AM
hate to say it, but good for the Yankees. Second only to air travel, sports tickets are the most underpriced commodity on the market today. Want proof? The scalping industry. Teams are simply selling tickets too cheap, and no amount of hand-wringing about the loyal fan base can change that. The Yankees are doing what they should do here: maximize revenue. And yes, that leaves "long-time fans" out in the cold. But there will certainly be another sucker waiting in line for that ticket. If there isn't--don't worry! The price will come down until there is one.
Feb 24, 2009 10:06 AM
which is not to say, of course, that they get a free pass for handling the situation so poorly. That memo is ridiculous and they should at least have communicated more clearly with potential customers in case they do eventually need you to come back to the stadium.
Feb 24, 2009 10:07 AM
There's no golden rule that states a sports franchise must act like any other profit-maximizing business. There are plenty of other organizational models out there, which more efficiently balance the costs and benefits of running and following a sports team.
Feb 24, 2009 10:24 AM
Ben Solow
But more importantly...why would any sports franchise NOT act like a profit-maximizing business? It is... you know... a business after all. The only scenario in which I can conceive of it making sense for a sports team not to increase ticket prices when there's excess demand is if you've got a sports team owned by a fan's trust, as is occasionally the case in British football (more often in the lower leagues).
Feb 24, 2009 14:52 PM
Ummm...maybe when they borrowed 600 million from the public coffers to build their castle that only plutocrats can afford-and that after writing off the cost of the tickets?
Feb 24, 2009 18:31 PM
Unless the public got an ownership stake in the team (which they didn't), the team doesn't have any greater obligation to keep games affordable in a publicly-financed stadium than in a privately-financed one. At least not in economic terms. You could argue that they **should** try to keep things affordable, but that isn't really the right paradigm for what is a private-sector, profit-maximizing enterprise.
Feb 25, 2009 08:21 AM
If the commissioner had a shred of concern for the vast majority of baseball fans, he could institute rules whereby, say, every team must provide a significant number of decent seats (read: infield and/or lower level) under $10 for every game, or no seat can be sold for more than $20, or fans must be allowed to move from upper deck or outfield seats to any vacant seat of their choice after the sixth inning, or scalping (whether through stub-hub or on the street) is not only strictly punishable by law but technologically impossible (photo-ids with ticket sales or something that would brand the ticket buyer to his/her tickets), etc. Baseball is not a competitive industry. It's based on monopoly power and as someone else pointed out, an increasing portion of the revenue doesn't even come from ticket sales in the first place. So the industry as a whole has very little to lose by including more fans in the process.
Feb 25, 2009 09:39 AM
I think this is only true in certain markets and/or for certain games. A lot of teams are using a variable price structure to try to capture differing demand (regular, value and premium game pricing) but that's really the best a team can do over an 81 game schedule to try to capture demand efficiently......specially when you have to consider your team might be out of the running in September and people would rather stay home.
Feb 24, 2009 14:33 PM
My only beef with this notion is that the price of alienating lots of longtime fans, while probably unquantifiable, is doubtless high.
Feb 24, 2009 15:14 PM
Feb 24, 2009 10:15 AM
Jay, I think you are under the delusion that the Yankees owe you something. The Yanks just signed up for $425M to three guys this off-season. They intend to pay those guys and still make a serious profit. They believe they can make more money at the new prices than the old. If that involves you not being at the stadium then so be it.
Feb 24, 2009 10:17 AM
I'm sorry to hear that, Jay. Your earnest devotion to the Bronx Bombers is abundantly evident and you deserve better. Nonetheless, there are 29 other teams you could support. This might be a good opportunity to make the switch.
Feb 24, 2009 10:18 AM
I grew up a Dodgers fan and I remain one, but when I moved to New York 14 years ago - the first time I'd ever lived in a big-league city - I too wanted to follow baseball up close. I was pleasantly surprised how attainable Yankees tickets were, and there really was no comparison between that park and Shea aesthetically, not that I didn't enjoy the times I went to the latter.
Feb 25, 2009 10:00 AM
This is how businesses are run now. No longer is customer loyalty valued. All that matters is running some spreadsheets and finding ways to maximize pricing.
Feb 24, 2009 10:29 AM
This item illustrates how a team can afford to pay out 3 of the top 6 contracts in 2009 and 5 of the top 10 in 2008. That's fine, they're entitled to compete under the rules, but fans of the teams that lost their star players in free agency to the Yankees aren't going to deliver the sympathy you're looking for.
Feb 24, 2009 10:40 AM
I got news for you, Jay: The Cubs are already doing the same thing to their fan base, without bothering to tear down the POS that is Wrigley Field. At least you get screwed because of a new stadium - Cubs fans just get screwed.
Feb 24, 2009 10:44 AM
Ryan V.
I'm a Red Sox fan, and yet even I find myself outraged by this. In the past, I've found myself the target of many an insufferable Yankee fan and their braindead "1918" chants. However, NO fan base should ever be subjected to this type of shoddy treatment. You would think that MLB teams would realize that it's the fans that pay the bills and treat them accordingly, rather than with the contempt that seems evident here.
Feb 24, 2009 10:46 AM
I'm more outraged by the lack of an index in BP, The Book. We subscribers pay the bills and should be treated accordingly.
Feb 24, 2009 11:02 AM
If you don't like it, don't buy them. Thats solves the problem on multiple levels and makes your statement louder than any article could.
Feb 24, 2009 11:04 AM
Also Bogomil, this is not how the Yankees afford a high payroll, that doesn't even make sense. They afford a high payroll by being a wildly popular brand, largely in part because they win quite a bit.
Feb 24, 2009 11:05 AM
As a cub fan with a share of a partial season ticket package, I fear this day is coming for me too. I started buying the "night and weekend games" plan back in 1999. In the ten years the price per ticket has doubled, the number of games has also increased, the total cost has just about tripled.
Feb 24, 2009 11:16 AM
Is the "relocation program' for re-education?
Feb 24, 2009 11:29 AM
On the other side of the table, I let my Nationals season tickets go because both prices and demand went down so much that I know I can walk to the stadium 20 times a year and see them for less than I would have paid.
Feb 24, 2009 11:38 AM
I don't know if they still do this given the legalization of scalping, but Camden Yards always had a "no scalping zone," in which anyone could buy or sell tickets for face value or less. I used to always be able to find great seats there, often at less than face value.
Feb 24, 2009 14:16 PM
I haven't gone to a game in years. I used to go once per season to see a Yanks-Sox game. But it was getting harder and harder to get tickets. Given the hassle of getting to/from the Stadium (I'm in central CT), I stopped going. I'd rather watch on YES... even if it means listening to Michael Kay.
Feb 24, 2009 11:42 AM
Of course both Boston and Chicago will replace their parks with much larger stadia, likely minimizing the impact of the move on existing season ticket holders.
Feb 24, 2009 12:07 PM
Matt Kory
I'm not sure why it's a forgone conclusion that both of those will be replaced. Many old non-stadia buildings are preserved long past the roughly 100 years of age of both Wrigley Field and Fenway Park. Both receive lots of use, but I'm not sure why that means they'll both be destroyed in the foreseeable future.
Feb 24, 2009 12:58 PM
Not to worry. By 2010, the state of the economy will ensure that the Yanks don't get near 4mm attendees and season ticket holders will be dropping like flies. You'll be back in good seats in 2011. Just watch the YES network for awhile and save that money.
Feb 24, 2009 12:11 PM
As I read the memo from the Yankees ticket office, I couldn't help but think that George Costanza is back working in the front office. He was typing that memo between bites of calzone.
Feb 24, 2009 12:16 PM
And at this exact moment -- why, I'm grateful to be an Angels fan. Thank you, Arte, for never being a jerk.
Feb 24, 2009 13:36 PM
Well, maybe not quite never. "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim?" That's once right there.
Feb 24, 2009 13:58 PM
In fact, the silly, legalistic name is a perfect example of why Arte's a great owner. Ridiculous? Of course, but the point was to meet a legal requirement (the name Anaheim had to fit into the team's name somewhere) while impressing on potential advertisers that the team played in the Los Angeles market, the second biggest TV market in the country. That focus -- extracting money from advertisers rather than directly with ticket prices -- helps to keep Angels tickets one of the best values in the majors if not all of sports. Not only is Arte a good owner, he's a shrewd one, too.
Feb 24, 2009 14:45 PM
Karl Barth
Living in Philly, we know the experience of Jay and Yankee fans. Our new ballpark was an excuse for the Phils to gouge us massively. Every ticket went up at least $5 that first year. And the way they allocated the seats, well, let's just say they didn't handle it particularly well.
Feb 24, 2009 13:57 PM
This is only one of many slights and abuses that make me wish I'd grown up a fan of a different team. Though that run up to the millenium continues to go a long way.
Feb 24, 2009 14:39 PM
For all the empty rhetoric about baseball being America's game, the game of the middle class et. all, it's amazing these are the people being priced out of attending ballgames.
Feb 24, 2009 15:01 PM
Dan Malkiel
The notion that teams can maximize revenue by charging as much for tickets as the market will bear is myopic. Teams make most of their money not from ticket sales, but from TV contracts, merchandising, etc. By pricing out all but the rich, the Yankees risk alienating a large segment of their fan base and losing money on these other fronts.
Feb 24, 2009 15:03 PM
Charging $85 for those seats is highway robbery, and will likely *still* be highway robbery ten years from now. The same seats in the smaller, perpetually-sold-out Fenway Park are about half that.
Feb 24, 2009 15:16 PM
C'mon down to Nats Park, Jay. Decent seats here are apt to stay relatively affordable for awhile. (After Bowden goes, look out. :) )
Feb 24, 2009 17:43 PM
Let me get this straight. You root for the Evil Empire, yet you're surprised that your new ballpark is... an evil ballpark? [looks at camera, puts pinky finger to lower lip]
Feb 24, 2009 19:15 PM
Sports teams don't care about the fans because they sell the majority of the high priced ticket packages to Corporations, who then deduct the expense from their corporate income tax. So, in some ways you are actually subsidizing the higher ticket prices without any of the benfits.
Feb 25, 2009 01:02 AM
Move to Pittsburgh, become Pirates fans. That'll make it really easy to get cheap season tickets where ever the heck you like, there are full season ticket plans that charge $4.93 per seat. It's amazing how low the ticket prices are when nobody likes or cares about your team, besides about 10,000 loyal fans. You'll have to put with some really bad baseball, but hey, great seats for less than 10% of the foul pole section there.
Feb 25, 2009 05:29 AM
Maximizing revenue doesn't necessarily mean maximizing attendance. The Yanks didn't just pull the new stadium's capacity out of a hat. The economic models they used no doubt showed decreased supply of seats wouldn't adversely affect ticket demand. Whether that assumption holds up over time will be interesting to see.
Feb 25, 2009 08:00 AM
Part of what you have to consider too, is that the season tickets holder are more likely to keep their tickets when the team goes into the tank.
Feb 25, 2009 08:44 AM
Richard Bergstrom
At least they didn't charge you a service fee for reassigning your seats, nor a convenience fee for placing your seats behind a protective barrier like a foul pole.
Feb 25, 2009 07:58 AM
Hopefully this becomes the final straw in stadium construction. Why would any governement waste government funds for something so clearly foolish.
Feb 25, 2009 11:12 AM
Also, perhaps finally some of the more stringent and militant Yankee fans with their lingo of 'us' and 'we', will finally realize that the team does not care about them in any way except from a financial standpoint. Is it worth fighting with Red Sox fans in the stands over a team that cares so little about you?
Feb 25, 2009 11:15 AM
Jared Cross
On this related topic, does anyone know when Yankees single-game tickets come on sale??
Feb 25, 2009 20:24 PM
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His team-mates are happy to be playing for Darlington and his manager would rather not be anywhere else. When Alan White reflects on his three different spells with Quakers, he admits the differences to now and the most recent previous occasion could not be more stark.
And the experienced defender is well placed to judge what makes for successful dressing room dynamic having been in the game for close to two decades.
He came through the ranks at Middlesbrough and, now 37, he's back with Darlington having been lured back to his hometown team for a third time by Martin Gray and is enjoying being part of a promotion push.
They are fifth in the Evo-Stik First Division and on Saturday could leapfrog second-placed Bamber Bridge, who travel to Heritage Park for a crunch clash that comes just as Quakers run into some good form.
Last Saturday's success - a 4-1 win at table-topping Warrington Town, which ended the hosts' 17-game undefeated run - means Darlington are putting together a set of results that suggests they are not out of the title race just yet.
It all feels so very different to the turmoil White encountered under Steve Staunton's leadership in 2009-10, when Darlington dropped out of the Football League.
"It was terrible. Horrible," said White, who first joined the club under Dave Penney's management in 2007. "People ask what it was like. We had lads like Stevie Foster, Ricky Ravenhill, Tim Ryan, Gregg Blundell and Tommy Wright. We had such a good bunch of lads, a good team and we were so close and I'm still mates with them now. Those two years were fantastic.
"When I came to the club a second time in 2009-10 on loan the atmosphere around the training ground was crap. There were cliques here, there were some lads that didn't get on with other lads, some of them didn't like the manager.
"I didn't want to take sides so I was in the middle of it, but it was a horrible atmosphere and I didn't enjoy it at all.
"The difference this time is that you've got lads here who want to play for the club and a manager who wants to be the manager of Darlington Football Club - it's not just a stepping stone, he wants to be here.
"He's committed, his coaching staff are committed and there's people behind the scenes who are doing things properly - there isn't one bloke who can give the thumbs up or down to say whether he wants the club to survive or not.
"There's a future here and it's a nice place. There's a big difference in camaraderie in the changing room now compared to when I was here with Steve Staunton."
After the trauma of 2009-10, White did the rounds with time at Stalybridge, Gateshead and Blyth before spending last season with Harrogate Town and, now that he's in amateur football, is working as an instructor in the gym at Headlam Hall.
And having spent the bulk of his playing career in the Football Legaue with clubs including Luton Town, Colchester and Notts County, among his roles at Darlington is to help instruct the defence.
"I think Martin brought me in to organise things and to try and toughen up the team a bit," he said.
"I'm there to try and make sure we don't lose shape and discipline, but they all know what they're doing.
"Sometimes they might lose their shape or start complicating matters. We could be 2-0 up and they might start to mess around and stop doing the right things, which is what Martin is trying to tell them."
The Evo-Stik First Division is the lowest level of the game White has dropped to - Harrogate are two levels above in the Conference North - and the defender admits there is a drop in standard.
"It's different," he said. "You're playing against lads who aren't as fit and teams that are a bit more direct. The technical side is not as good, it's not as quick and the referees are terrible, but you get used to that.
"You can tell the difference. The tempo of the game isn't the same and strength in depth of the league is weaker than Harrogate's league.
"We should beat most teams we play every week and there's two or three that we're going to have a proper match with. But in the leagues above every game is tough."
At 37, though, won't it soon be time to call it a day?
"Sometimes you think about knocking it on the head because your legs ache the next day, but I'm alright, I'm in decent nick. I'm fit, I'm injury-free and the moment I pack in I know for a fact I'll wish I'd played an extra year. So why not keep playing and keep going.
"Some lads get injured, some lads fall out of love with the game. But I still love it. I enjoy training and the matches.
"Being the older one, lads listen to you. These lads want to listen and want to learn and I get a buzz out of that.
"I've got experience of playing at a higher level and there's lads here who want to go higher. Amar Purewal has asked me before what he needs to do to take that step, what does he need to bring into his game. With him he's got the technical ability, he just needs to be a bit tougher. That Tim Ryan attitude, you've got to be horrible, but it's great that the lad wants to learn."
However, the tough defender does have one gripe about his return to the club - their pink away shirts.
"It's not my thing," he said. "Whenever I play against a team in pink I love it - it makes me think that I've already won because they can't be happy wearing pink.
"I hope next year we don't have it because it doesn't suit me at all!"
* Darlington are to play a Sunderland XI at Heritage Park on Wednesday December 18. The game will be Steven Johnson's farewell match as he is to leave Quakers due to work commitments.
* Ray Simpson will be signing copies of his Book, In The Dying Seconds ,on Saturday 9.30-11am at Quaker Retail in Darlington's covered market.


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Given all the concern about our team's woeful shooting ability, I thought this would interest some of yall.
I've always been of the mindset that, when it really comes down to it, most people can basically either shoot or they can't, but it's nice to see a high-profile case of a shooting coach making someone significantly better in such a short time by changing technique.
So hey Marquis, give this guy a call.
(My favorite line in here is the shooting coach's description of what's it was like working with Steve Kerr.)
Parker's improved jumper could score him Finals MVP award
By John Hollinger
ESPN Insider
CLEVELAND -- Two years ago, the San Antonio Spurs won an NBA title. But Tony Parker wasn't necessarily happy.
Then 23 years old, the point guard had been a bit player in the deciding seventh game, as Parker's inability to connect from outside against the Pistons' mighty defense limited him to a 3-for-11, eight-point performance. The Spurs periodically sat Parker and used a combo of Brent Barry and Manu Ginobili to play the point in that series, and after Game 7, writers debated whether the Spurs would even bring Parker back the next year.
Parker has silenced his critics with his inspired play in the Finals.
The 2007 Finals couldn't be more different. The French flash is likely to be named series MVP if the Spurs close things out in Thursday's Game 4, after Parker again made a couple of big shots down the stretch to win Game 3 -- including a rare 3-pointer with a minute left to hold the Cavs at bay.
That's no accident. It's the culmination of a two-year process that saw him completely rebuild his jump shot and then torment Cleveland with the new weapon in this year's Finals.
Right after the 2005 Finals, Parker made the decision that he wanted to improve. He didn't care that he was a world champion point guard making near-max money and dating a hugely popular TV star; he was frustrated that his shaky jump shot was having such a negative impact on his game.
Enter Chip Engelland. Hired that offseason as a shooting coach by the Spurs after he'd previously plied his trade in Denver, Engelland helped rebuild Parker's jump shot piece by piece. The slingshot-like set shot that Parker entered the league with -- now gone forever -- was replaced by a smoother jumper that has repeatedly made the Cavaliers pay for going under the screen to take away his driving lanes.
For Parker, it was the right coach at the right time.
"Timing is important," Engelland said, "because when you play in the NBA, you always think you're just going to keep getting better. [But] the NBA is hard, and then you plateau, and that timing is good [for fixing a shot]."
And there was definitely some fixing to do.
"In the first few years [of Parker's career], whenever he'd shoot it, I just figured it was going to be a turnover, same as a turnover -- there's no way that's going in," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "But in the last year and a half when he shoots it, I actually think it's going to go in, so he's changed me quite a bit. But that's due to his work and Chip Engelland, who's really worked hard on him."
"Tony, even though he won a championship that year, wanted to get better," Engelland said. "That's where I give him a ton of credit. His summer time, he wanted to work at something he's not good at. That's uncomfortable."
They had to start from the bottom up, and that required Engelland to establish trust with Parker before he could start working on his jumper. Former Spurs GM and current Cavs GM Danny Ferry said Engelland's patience with players is one of his greatest assets -- that he'd focus on developing the relationship so that players would trust his advice on fixing the shot.
Parker's hard work is paying off big time for the Spurs.
"We got to know each other first," Engelland said. "We did a lot of talking with him, where he wanted to go. Tony wants to be great. So [I said] what it takes -- he has to have a consistent jump shot and his free throw has to improve.
"I think the most important thing, and this is true for every player, their shot is personal. Whether it's a 12-year-old girl or an [NBA player], it's their own shot. It's theirs, it's personal. When I talk to a player at any level ... I don't come in and disrespect their shot."
That helps him establish a rapport with his pupils, and from there he can start tweaking. One of the key examples Engelland used to help Parker come to grips with rebuilding his jumper was Tiger Woods. Parker is a huge Tiger fan, and once he learned Tiger redid his whole swing after crushing the field in the Masters for his first major victory, that made Parker far more receptive to the idea of working on his own game.
"It takes a lot of trust," Engelland said. "It's hard to want to get better at something."
An important first step was getting Parker to abandon the 3-point shot. After going 8-for-45 on that shot in the 2005 postseason, perhaps it didn't require much convincing. Parker went from taking 153 3-pointers in the 2004-05 regular season to just 36 last season and 38 this season.
Focusing on short jumpers, Engelland went to work on Parker: "We started with the basics, the very basics: balance, hand placement on the ball, follow through, what he watches, his target. He's done it great. He did a good job listening, practicing. It's not easy to do."
One of the keys was changing Parker's thumb position on the ball. Engelland said when Parker shoots a floater -- something he does as well as anyone in the league -- his thumb is in the correct position, at nearly a right angle to the rest of his hand, so that he can keep control over the ball. But on his jumper, the thumb often was close by his fingers, and as a result the ball would frequently come off the side of his hand.
Thanks to that fix and others like it, the results have been obvious, and not just in the last three games. Parker had never shot better than 33.3 percent on 3-pointers, or 75.5 percent on free throws before this season. This year those two numbers were way up -- 39.5 percent from downtown, albeit on fewer attempts, and an impressive 78.3 percent from the stripe.
Dig a little deeper, and you'll see Parker's midrange game has improved, too. His percentages on 2-pointers that aren't layups, and on 2-pointers that are outside the key, have both improved under Engelland's tutelage (see chart).
Tony Parker: Improvement by shot type
Free throw % /// 65.0 // 70.7 // 78.3 // +13.3
Non-layup 2s % /// 36.8 // 39.7 // 40.8 // +4.0
2-point jumper % /// 39.3 // 41.6 // 41.2 // +1.9
2-point jumper att. /// 24 // 43 // 53 // 391 // +147
3-point % /// 27.6 // 30.6 // 39.5 // +11.9
3-point att. /// 153 // 36 // 38 // -115
And this is despite the fact that he's attempting far more of both types of shots than he used to -- something that usually brings percentages down. In 2004-05, only 21.7 percent of his shot attempts were from that distance. But with his increasing confidence in his ability to knock the shot down, that increased to 31.1 percent last season and 35.8 percent this year.
Parker's newfound consistency is turning the scouting report against him upside down. Previously, teams would dare him to shoot from outside and focus on taking away his drives to the basket. But his rebuilt shooting stroke has left opponents in a quandary.
"Against Phoenix, they tried to do the same strategy," Parker said. "They put Shawn Marion on me and he was going under, and I start knocking down shots and then they have to come out. And that's when you penetrate again, and that's when you try to get back to the basket and get some stuff going for my teammates or for myself. The whole key is to make sure I shoot with confidence."
So with Parker burning the Cavs from outside -- even throwing in a rare triple in crunch time to help hold off Cleveland -- Engelland was feeling like a proud parent after Game 3. "I'm happy for him," Engelland said. "I just like his consistency. ... He's just been solid in the playoffs. ... I think that's what coach Popovich wants -- he's so talented that he just wants for him to be consistent."
Parker isn't Engelland's only client. Engelland got his start in the business working with ex-Spurs guard Steve Kerr -- "like being the Maytag repairman," Engelland joked -- and worked with Grant Hill and several Nuggets before coming to San Antonio. Since joining the Spurs, he's also helped rebuild the jumpers of two other historically wayward shooters who have had strong playoffs -- Fabricio Oberto and Jacque Vaughn.
But his most famous client at this point is Parker, because he's shining on the league's biggest stage and brimming with confidence.
"I feel a lot more comfortable," Parker said. "I think that's what one of my limits was, you know, early in my career. I always had, like, great games and then they'd adapt, and I don't think I was shooting well enough from the outside to be consistent in a series. I think the last two years, you know, all the work I put in with Chip, I feel very comfortable and I've got a lot more confidence to knock down that shot."
He'd better get comfortable being an NBA Finals MVP, too. Because despite Parker's series-long protestations that this is Tim Duncan's team, his rebuilt jumper is about to put him in the history books alongside some of the game's greatest stars.
John Hollinger writes for ESPN Insider.


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Been a while but since I posted a question, but I have continued to work on my throw. My question is rather simple. Is the "keyturn" that Blake as well as others describe wrist extension? I am not sure where to find the keyturn post but it refers to moving your hand at the last second in a keyturning motion. This helps tremendously with getting that nose down after keeping your arm loose for the majority of the throw. Thanks


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Stern was talking about that, also. During halftime of game 6. What did he say he wanted to do to fix the problem?
Make the games on T.V. more interactive and get more of the games on HD T.V. and what not.
I play NBA Live and Madden, but would I say they're funner than the real thing. HELL NO.
The video games will never match the realness of sports. They will never be accurate.
Does Steve Nash, in real life, hit 4 three's in a row, while being contested? NO. What I just said, happens in NBA Live all the time, 'star' players almost always make their shots and it is very unrealistic.
The day I chose to play Madden over watching the Colts, or NBA Live over watching the Pacers, is the day I put a gun to my head and pull the trigger.


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CINCINNATI -- With a franchise-record 31 points in the second quarter, the Cincinnati Bengals snapped a two-game losing streak with a 41-20 win against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium.
The Bengals (7-4) returned a fumble and a blocked punt for touchdowns as they rallied from a 13-0 deficit against the Browns (4-6) and maintained control of the AFC North division lead. Cincinnati managed just 108 yards offense and three first downs in the first half but broke the franchise record for most points scored in any quarter on the strength of its defense and special teams.
The Bengals ended the game with 224 yards, while Cleveland managed 330 yards but turned the ball over four times.
Outside linebacker James Harrison started Cincinnati's rally with an interception of quarterback Jason Campbell off a tipped pass in the final minute of the first quarter. Harrison returned the interception 21 yards, bulling his way into the end zone for an apparent touchdown but the score was negated by a penalty. Quarterback Andy Dalton threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jermaine Gresham on the first play of the second quarter.
Cincinnati rookie safety Shawn Williams deflected a punt by Spencer Lanning on the Browns' next possession, giving the Bengals a first down at Cleveland's 38. Dalton got his second touchdown pass of the game on a 6-yard throw to Mohamed Sanu with 11:49 left in the half. The Bengals upped the lead to 21-13 when Tony Dye returned a blocked punt by rookie Jayson DiManche 24 yards for his first career touchdown. Dye was signed off of the practice squad on Saturday and was playing in his first NFL game.
Linebacker Vontaze Burfict stripped the ball from Browns' running back Chris Ogbonnaya on a swing pass, picked up the loose ball and returned it 13 yards for his first career score, giving the Bengals a 28-13 lead with 2:45 left in the half.
Mike Nugent's 41-yard field goal with one second left in the half gave the Bengals their franchise record.
Billy Cundiff made field goals of 20 and 28 yards in the first quarter to give Cleveland a 6-0 lead but the Browns missed out on touchdown opportunities on both drives. They had a first-and-goal at the 2 before having to settle for Cundiff's 20-yard field goal. Cornerback Joe Haden intercepted a Dalton pass and returned it 15 yards to the Cincinnati 14 but the Bengals again forced a field goal attempt.
Haden took care of business himself on Cincinnati's next possession, returning a Dalton pass 29 yards for a touchdown to give the Browns a 13-0 lead.
It was the first touchdown scored by an opponent against the Bengals at home since Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw a touchdown pass to James Jones in the third quarter in Week 3, a span of nine quarters.
Dalton finished the game 13-of-27 for 93 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions. It is the first time in Dalton's career he has played an entire game and not thrown for 100 yards or more. Campbell ended the game 27-of-56 for 248 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions. The Bengals sacked him four times.
NOTES: The 41 points scored by Cincinnati are the most this season allowed by Cleveland. Detroit and Green Bay previously scored 31 points. ... Cleveland Browns QB Jason Campbell hadn't thrown an interception in 98 pass attempts before LB James Harrison's interception in the first quarter. ... The Bengals last scored as many as 28 points in a quarter on Nov. 19, 1989, against Detroit. ... The Bengals have blocked three kicks this season, the most for them since 1991. ... LB Craig Robertson (knee) and DL Armonty Bryant (ankle) did not return after suffering injuries for Cleveland. ... The last time the Bengals and Browns played a game this late in a season as the top two teams in a division was Oct. 29, 1995. Both teams were 3-4 and in a three-way tie with Pittsburgh for first place in the AFC Central... Cincinnati has its bye next week. Its next game is at San Diego on Dec. 1. Cleveland hosts Pittsburgh next Sunday.


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