NFL Picks: New England Patriots vs NY Giants



Written by Brad Marchetti
Thursday, 27 December 2007

New England Patriots vs NY Giants will be the first ever NFL game to be broadcast on 3 separate TV networks when the Saturday Night prime-time game kicks off . The world will be watching to see if the Pats (10-5 ATS) can complete their perfect regular season against the playoff bound Giants (9-6 ATS). The line opened at New England -13 but as it has been for 90%+ of the season the public's money has backed the Patriots moving the line at SBGglobal.com to New England -13.5. Award winning sports handicapping service EinsteinPicks has a 600% GUARANTEED pick with complete power rating breakdown for the New England Patriots vs NY Giants game.
Both teams have expressed that this game will be played with their starters for a significant amount of time despite both squads already sealed to go to the postseason. The Giants are banged up on both sides of the ball and bettors need to be aware of the status of bulldozing Giants RB Brandon Jacobs who is a difference maker that may sit to rest an ankle injury. The one weakness that the Patriots have shown this year is against the run where they have allowed an alarming 5.3 yards per carry in their last 3 games. NY has a Bullish O-line that could open some holes against New England’s aging D. SBGglobal.com has the TOTAL at 46.5 points.
Eli Manning’s best target in this game will be Amani Toomer who will need to come up with some big plays to gain respect. Manning is 19-19 in TD to INT ratio and he will be facing a Patriots pass-rush that has recorded 46 sacks so he could make some stupid throws. Tom Brady is gunning for the NFL TD record but he can expect to see plenty of pressure against NY”s rabid pass-rush. Laurence Maroney has had a stellar year when healthy averaging 4.8 yards per carry and if he gets going early Brady will be unstoppable with his perfect play-action fakes. In this cold weather game stopping the run will play a factor and the Giants have proven that they have the edge in that department over New England.
Will the Patriots blowout the Giants early causing them to turn to their reserves early? Can Eli Manning play mistake free football for one game? EinsteinPicks insiders have made the most of their NFL connections by hitting 57% of our NFL releases this entire NFL season. Einstein's service just won the best Online Sports Handicapper contest for the month of November. Einstein Picks is busting at the seams ready for this weekend's action with some big NFL releases that are sure to make you significant profits including a play on the New England Patriots vs NY Giants game. Add as favourites (0) Quote this article on your site Views: 710 E-mail

Brooklyn Bridge’s Lights to Go ’Green’

(AP) NEW YORK - The famous necklace lights on the Brooklyn Bridge will go "green" next year as part of several environmental upgrades around the city, officials said Wednesday.

Changing 160 lights on the landmark bridge, which turns 125 years old next year, is expected to cost $500,000. Other city bridges, which first got their lights in the early 1970s, could also get the modern makeover, officials said.

The switch from 100-watt mercury vapor lamps to 24-watt bulbs known as light-emitting diodes will not make the lights noticeably dimmer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Other changes aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions include replacing 25,000 street lights and phasing in new hybrid police and fire vehicles that use gas-electric transmission systems, Bloomberg said. The city also will test three hybrid garbage trucks.
This year, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree also has energy-saving bulbs, and an array of solar panels atop 45 Rockefeller Plaza helps power them.

Last spring, Bloomberg’s administration released a report that found the city’s carbon count was 58.3 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2005. That accounts for nearly 1 percent of all emissions nationwide; the U.S. total was 7.26 billion metric tons that year.

The mayor wants to achieve a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gases citywide by 2030, but the projects outlined Wednesday are part of a short-term plan to see immediate, and more modest, reductions on the way to that larger goal.

The short-term projects are estimated to achieve a greenhouse gas reduction of 34,000 tons a year.

Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, typically last three times longer than the mercury lights, said Jonathan Wish, chief strategic officer at LED Dynamics, which is not affiliated with the city’s project. Most mercury vapor lights endure for 24,000 hours, or about 1,000 days, before burning out, he said.

"Because of the longevity, they’re not going to have to change these lights for years, and that will save maintenance costs on top of electricity," he said.

In New York, transportation doesn’t account for as much of the total emissions count as pollutants from buildings. In the dense urban environment, building operations and the electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, and steam that they consume make up 79 percent of the total, the city report found.

The city’s short-term plans for improving building operations include replacing interior lighting in some schools, police precincts, sanitation garages, firehouses and other municipal office buildings.

(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights

Christmas Without Lights

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (AP) -- An official with an electric cooperative in Kansas says the utility hopes everyone who lost power in the ice storm more than a week ago will have electricity back by Christmas.
Line crews work to restore electrical power Monday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. But he said that may not be a realistic goal. About 24,000 rural customers in Kansas are still out.
More than 88,000 homes and businesses across the Midwest remained without power early Tuesday. Overnight temperatures in the past week have dipped into the teens.
Rebeca Rascon's two children were bundled up against the brisk wind when she went to report power was still off at her south Oklahoma City home.
Rascon speaks little English, but her 7-year-old son, Josue Velasquez, described the house Monday as "very cold."
"We've got eight days without lights," the boy said. "We just sit on the couch and wait for the lights to come on. More wet and cold weather was on tap for the West early Tuesday as a series of Pacific storm systems push through.
Up to 3 feet of snow was possible above 3,500 feet to 4,000 feet across the California and Oregon coastal ranges, southern Cascades and the Sierras.
Rain showers were expected to spread across southern California and the Four Corners region by Wednesday. More coastal rain and interior snow was forecast Wednesday from the northern California to the Northwest.
Back in the Plains, residents struggling to get by have a new problem to rival dwindling temperatures: dwindling bank accounts. Many have depleted their money on food that has now spoiled, or on hotels.
Some stocked up on food before the storm, while others used money to stay in a hotel, thinking power would be restored within a day or two.
"We've had people using generators who ran out of money for fuel to operate the generators," said Vince Hernandez, chairman of the American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma.
Hundreds of people found a place to sleep and hot meals over the weekend at a temporary shelter established at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City.
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Oklahoma Gas & Electric, the state's largest electric utility, set up temporary walk-up stations in nine central Oklahoma cities for customers to report power failures. Officials are projecting crews to have restoration completed by late Wednesday or Thursday.
Margy Knight, who owns several rental and commercial properties in south Oklahoma City that are without power, said she's getting frustrated with the lack of progress.
"I'm trying real hard not to be tacky," Knight said. "I think they're doing the best they can, but they need more manpower."
Jerry Odom said he's tried to make the best of the situation, attending a Blazers hockey game at the Cox Center and taking a walk through the nearby Oklahoma City Botanical Gardens.
"I'm trying to make a vacation out of it," Odom said. "I'm dealing with it the best I can."
The state medical examiner's office said the ice storm that struck the Midwest and Northeast last week hit Oklahoma hardest, contributing to at least 27 of the 38 total deaths.
In Kansas, restoration of power could be hampered by another storm expected later this week, said Larry Detwiler of the Kansas Electric Cooperatives.
"We all hope for everybody to be back on by Christmas," he said. "I'm not sure that's a realistic goal."

Celebrating Kwanzaa

PreparationThere is a traditionally established way of celebrating Kwanzaa. We should therefore observe these guidelines to make our Kwanzaa the most beautiful and engaging one and to keep the tradition. Without definite guidelines and core values and practices there is no holiday.

First, you should come to the celebration with a profound respect for its values, symbols and practices and do nothing to violate its integrity, beauty and expansive meaning. Secondly, you should not mix the Kwanzaa holiday or its symbols, values and practice with any other culture. This would violate the principles of Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) and thus violate the integrity of the holiday.

Thirdly, choose the best and most beautiful items to celebrate Kwanzaa. This means taking time to plan and select the most beautiful objects of art, colorful African cloth, fresh fruits and vegetables, etc. so that every object used represents African culture and your commitment to the holiday in the best of ways.

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Mrs. Clause visits the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel

Santa and Mrs. Clause stopped by The Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel in East Rutherford, on December 7 and 8, 2007 to celebrate a magical night with children young and old.

Guests checked in on Friday December 7th and were escorted to a deluxe guest room, then everyone gathered around while Mrs. Clause read stories of the holiday season to children young and old. Afterwards, everyone sat back and enjoy a favorite holiday movie while enjoying popcorn and finished with Santa’s favorite, cookies and milk.

The next morning, everyone enjoyed a fabulous breakfast buffet and pictures with Santa.

NEW YORK GIANTS vs. WASHINGTON REDSKINS

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NEW FOR 2007 FOOTBALL SEASONAll parking at Giants Stadium will require a prepaid parking pass for all Jets and Giants games (including preseason). Any ticket holder without a prepaid parking pass will be required to park at an off-site location. NO TAILGATING will be permitted at the off-site parking location or in Parking Deck 23 (Arena side of Complex).
We strongly encourage guests to carpool or take mass transportation if possible due to the various construction projects on the Complex and the impact on available parking.



The parking fees for Jets or Giants games are as follows:$15 (prepaid permit) for parking at the Sports Complex$75 Limos/RV’s ($15 credit will be applied if in possession of a parking permit) $100 for buses ($15 credit will be applied if in possession of a parking permit)For more information on purchasing prepaid parking, please call the Jets at (516) 560-8200 or the Giants at (201) 935-8222.



Shuttle bus service will be provided to ticket holders from and to the offsite parking lots. For shuttle service times and locations, go to GIANTS PARKING INFORMATION or JETS PARKING INFORMATIONFor Guest Services policies on parking, tailgating and general information go to Fan Information - Giants Stadium

Expansion of Javits

Gov. Eliot Spitzer declared in a speech eight months ago that he would build a “thoroughbred” of a convention center in New York City and scrap the $1.8 billion plan he had inherited to expand the black-glass Javits Convention Center on the West Side.
Since then, state officials — struggling with escalating costs, competing demands and limited land — have had to shrink their ambitions, devising a series of alternative plans that provide a far more modest expansion than envisioned three years ago.
Now, in the latest blow to the governor’s ambitions, the city’s hotel association is balking at requests to triple the hotel tax earmarked for the expansion. That could force state and city officials to abandon plans for an expansion and settle instead for simply renovating the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
Last Tuesday, the hotel association, which had sought to expand the Javits Center since it opened in 1986, wrote a letter to state and city officials saying that under no circumstances would its members agree to a penny more than the $1.50-a-night room tax the state started collecting in 2005. State and city officials had suggested raising the tax to $4.50 per night to pay for the increasingly expensive expansion.
If government officials cannot stay within the original budget, the association said, they should just fix the leaky roof on the convention center, install a new air-conditioning system and put on a new facade. Forget about the additional space for exhibits or meeting rooms.
“The hotel association has decided that the project has become much too expensive, and any further contributions from the hotel industry would, in our judgment, be counterproductive,” said Joseph E. Spinnato, president of the Hotel Association of New York City. “The association would rather that the money already budgeted be used to repair and renovate the existing center.”
Trade show operators and producers have also criticized some of the proposals drawn up recently by state and city officials.
When the price tag for one plan soared beyond $3 billion this summer, some producers said it could not be justified. They recommended that officials renovate the Javits Center and consider building a new convention center at Sunnyside Yards in Queens.
“To add marginal square footage and spend $3 billion or $4 billion seems like a prohibitive solution,” said John F. O’Connell Jr., chief operating officer of Freeman, a general contractor that moves many of the trade shows in and out of the Javits Center.
Officials said that they were still reviewing five smaller alternatives with varying amounts of meeting and exhibit space, with price tags ranging from $1.7 billion to $2.7 billion, and that they hoped to wrap up their review in January.
Patrick J. Foye, a co-chairman of the state agency overseeing the expansion project, the Empire State Development Corporation, declined to comment on the hotel association’s letter, saying he did not want to negotiate through the newspapers.
The expansion of the Javits Center, which stretches along 11th Avenue from 34th to 38th Street, was approved by the Legislature in 2004.
The state and city agreed to provide $350 million each, while the hotel industry agreed to the room tax, which enabled the state to raise $645 million in a bond offering.
Manhattan hotels have enjoyed record occupancy and rising room rates in the past five years. One major hotel operator said trade shows accounted for no more than 6 or 8 percent of annual revenues at West Side hotels, and so there is less interest in a very expensive expansion partly financed through a hotel tax.
The original $1.8 billion expansion plan was developed by Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff and Charles A. Gargano, who was Gov. George Pataki’s top economic development official. But it came under fire from trade show producers and their contractors as unworkable.
In March, Governor Spitzer issued his pledge to come up with a bigger and better plan than the previous one — which state officials say had a true cost closer to $3 billion.
In the meantime, the review dragged on, with an estimated $35 million spent on consultants and architectural plans over the past year. The hotel association said $109 million had already been spent on the project.
At the same time, the constantly rising price of construction materials has driven costs up by an estimated $17 million a month.
State and city officials are also dealing with competing demands for space. The hotel industry favors additional meeting rooms to attract trade shows that bring visitors to New York, who book hotel rooms. Javits customers like the Auto Show want more exhibit space for consumer shows that attract more local residents.
State officials say they could raise $1.5 billion more for the plans now under consideration — all of which are smaller than the original — by doubling the hotel tax for the expansion while the state and the city increase their investment by $250 million each.

Seeking a High-Tech Way to Put Fresh Colors at the Top of the City

Michael Nagle for The New York Times
The test of the three light systems in the predawn hours on Friday. Two companies will bid for a $5 million contract to supply the new lights for the Empire State Building.
GLENN COLLINS
Published: April 21, 2007
Before most of Manhattan could shake itself out of bed, the great Empire State Building light-show smackdown — an eerily silent rainbow of shifting color high above the city that continued for 71 predawn minutes yesterday — had its finale an hour before sunrise.

Michael Nagle for The New York Times

Tests early on Friday compared three methods of illuminating the Empire State Building. On the building’s left face were its existing lights; in the center, the light-emitting diodes of Color Kinetics; on the right face, those of Philips.

At stake was a $5 million contract to bring 21st-century illumination to the city’s tallest skyscraper. And so, four blocks away from the building that jutted into the clear night sky, in a command center 28 floors above depopulated streets, walkie-talkies squawked as the building’s management witnessed a Kong vs. Godzilla face-off between two lighting behemoths.

“Now that’s a red,” said James T. Connors, the general manager of the Empire State Building Company, observing solid test-pattern blocks of color as they bathed nine floors in light. Primary hues soon yielded to vibrant stripes, spectrum cascades, strobe effects and programmed sequences called “Fourth of July,” “New Year’s Eve” and “Fireworks.”

Above, on the narrow 72nd floor parapet of the skyscraper at Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street — which is ordinarily dark after midnight — the two contenders, Color Kinetics Inc. and Philips Electronics, had installed test stands of high-brightness light-emitting diodes, or L.E.D.’s.

The test marked the beginning of a high-tech future for the landmark skyscraper. For more than a quarter century, the color of the floodlights has been changed by teams of maintenance workers. More than 200 times a year, the workers brave the elements for six hours to install, by hand, colored plastic lenses on 208 10,000-watt upward-facing floodlights on the 72nd and 81st floors, and more lights in the spire.

In the future, the building will be flooded in “intelligent illumination,” employing a new generation of computer-controlled L.E.D.’s capable of producing millions of colors and an infinity of patterns.

Yesterday’s test began at 3:58 a.m. Floors 72 to 81 on the western face were illuminated: Color Kinetics on the northern portion of the face, and Philips to the south.
The competition demonstrates “nothing less than the digitalization of an entire major industry, replacing archaic mechanical illumination with smarter lighting,” said William Sims, president of Color Kinetics Inc. of Boston, which has lighted the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles International Airport and the Broadway musical “Wicked.”

The new L.E.D.’s “would allow us to showcase the building in many new ways,” said Mr. Connors in the command center at West 38th Street and Broadway.

Lighting is part of a years-long, $400 million refurbishment of the building’s infrastructure and interiors that, he hopes, will “positively affect the perception of the commercial aspects of the building,” which has 102 public floors and was visited by four million tourists last year.
Lighting at the Empire, as its employees call the building, has long marked a complex annual ritual: blue and white for Hanukkah, red and green for the December holiday season, yellow and white for spring, and green for St. Patrick’s Day. Often the calendar has been punctuated by special events, as when the building went blue in honor of the passing of Frank Sinatra, Ol’ Blue Eyes. And it has been lights-out for decades during migratory seasons for birds.

The skyscraper’s lights were first turned on by President Herbert Hoover on May 1, 1931, when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. By 1956, revolving beacons, called Freedom Lights, were installed to symbolize peace. Floodlights washed the side of the building in white for the 1964 World’s Fair, and colors arrived in 1976 for the Bicentennial.

In January, at a previous face-off, both companies were sent back to the drawing board to improve their colors, especially white. This time, “we were psyched and excited” about the test, said Govi V. Rao, general manager of Philips’s North American solid-state lighting division. The company, which is based in Amsterdam, has lighted such places as Buckingham Palace in London and Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul.

The test lights — light-emitting silicon chips encased in plastic and glass lenses less than an inch wide — are grouped in frames, and can be switched on and off thousands of times a second in various computer-controlled sequences that the brain interprets as distinct colors.
The lights are expected to last 5 to 10 years; they have cut the cost of illuminating other buildings 10 to 50 percent.

Mr. Connors said the test was a success, and that “the L.E.D.’s outperformed the floodlights,” but he reserved opinion on the winner, which will not be decided until the companies bid for the job. Installation could begin as early as the fall for a debut in 2008.

As a beacon, the building has a civic role, Mr. Connors emphasized, and “we’re not planning for this to be a billboard or a commercial venue.”

But the new illumination “would give us the flexibility to change colors at the push of a few buttons,” he said, on a computer console, laptop, or even a hand-held computer. “The building could change color on the hour, so that you could have a clock tower without a clock. Or we could have a light show — in sync with music that could be simulcast on radio.”

Not every New Yorker may welcome a transformation from the stately former lighting. Ric Burns, the filmmaker who directed the World Trade Center documentary “The Center of the World,” said, “It’s scary to think that we could have a zebra-striped or a leopard-spotted Empire State Building. However, if they do something garish and vulgar, the people will make their voice felt.”

He added: “But when they changed the lighting on the George Washington Bridge, it was fantastic. And if you’ve seen the Eiffel Tower sparkling with lights — it takes your breath away.”

Blogging: The Future of Corporate PR

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Whereas blogs started out as the new Geocities, a simple way for users to propagate very simple messages, entertainment reviews, photos and such, they now play host to content as insightful and vital as anything else on the web. Ultimately they’ve come to find substantial penetration across the web with great depth of interactivity. Pew released a study that says 7 percent of internet users, or 8 million Americans now post blogs, and 32 million read them. Of the 32 million that read them, 12% post comments.

Not only are blogs increasing their penetration of the web audience, they’re also picking up steam as a highly interactive and compelling channel whereby readers exhibit an enormous degree of ownership. On blogs, people freely exchange ideas, opinions, recipes, mp3s and more. Blogs are becoming as multimedia-oriented, if not more so, as any other web content. The type of relationships forged by Flickr and Blogger, ones which easily integrate photos and text, further suggests that blogs may be the new Geocities. The only difference is that people actually care about this Geocities.

Blogging is grass-roots, it’s viral, it’s trusted. Just as corporations began to seed message boards and newsgroups with self-serving contents and interactions, they’re now co-opting the blogosphere as well. Blogs are becoming an indispensable part of corporate outreach, and are becoming further refined for preemptive strikes against customer backlash and brand flare-ups. Just as Google and Microsoft have come to represent the changing of the guard, from government-intervention anti-trust Big Brother to a kinder, gentler, darling of Wall Street Big Brother, they also represent two companies that have taken to the blogosphere in completely disparate ways. One company has the right idea, the other does not.

Ironically it’s Microsoft that’s got the right idea on how to ply their corporate blog. Microsoft lured a celebrity blogger away from NEC, a Japanese technology company based in Silicon Valley, incidentally the prime breeding grounds for Microsoft-detractors. This man, Robert Scoble, posts his blogs independently from Microsoft and their servers, though he also happens to hold the working title of “Technical Evangelist” at Microsoft. Robert Scoble and his blog ‘Scoblizer’ have succeeded for Microsoft where no PR agency could, and that’s by giving Microsoft a softer, more human face (not quite the adorable Haley Joel Osment robot from AI, more like “Sonny” from I, Robot). He’s so disarmed his readership with his honest, mostly non-partisan coverage, that when he does come to Microsoft’s defense, he can make his claim and people not only listen openly, they often concede the point.

Google, on the other hand, has launched a blog that does little to foster a bi-lateral exchange of ideas. Their corporate blog appears to be little more than a sign-in book for employees, with the occasional congratulatory note from the department of Computer Science Department, UCLA. But there doesn’t appear to be any rhyme or reason to the blog’s design, let alone the content. Perhaps most importantly, because reader response is conveyed through emails, the channel welcomes neither a free exchange of ideas across party lines nor answers those concerns on the site. As for externally-hosted, less official Google blogs, we all remember how well that panned out.

So how should blogs be explored on the corporate side? By intent blogs are about open conversations, where brands attract consumers with compelling (and allegedly honest) content about their companies, culture, products, and customer service policies. The forum represents a mix of PR, marketing, and focus group testing. Jonathan Carson, president and chief executive officer of word-of-mouth research and planning firm BuzzMetrics, said that a client recently confessed that the blogosphere was fast becoming a better litmus test of consumer sentiment than even Consumer Reports magazine. Brands need to create these platforms in a laissez-faire manner, as if they have no more a personal investment in the dialogue that transpires than do the consumers. They’ll want to contribute daily in order to keep the lines of communication open, but they’ll also want to sanitize the community contents to eliminate link-farming and self-serving trackbacks.

Blogging is an opportunity for companies to aggressively engage consumers on their terms, with plenty of notice to craft a proper response. Does that suggest a Trojan horse used to subvert the customer? Maybe. But does that imply the customer isn’t being served and in the end won’t get what they want out of that relationship? Of course not…Look at the closely monitored pharmaceutical space: brands like Pfizer are not just limited in terms of what they can write in these blogs, but if a consumer complains of a drug side effect, Pfizer’s legally responsible to track that person down and make them report that side effect to the government. Let’s repeat that - Pfizer not only reads your postings, but they’re liable to respond and direct the consumer towards the proper authorities.

How can that be bad?

Randy Schwartz is Director of Strategic Development at Reprise Media.

KIDZ BOP WORLD TOUR The Theater at IZOD CENTER
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The ultimate rock music party for kids featuring popular music they love - clean, safe and fun for the whole family! With a live rock band, music sung by kids for kids, dancing and autograph signing, it's the ultimate kid-friendly music event. And the only rock concert where kids are the stars!

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HANUKKAH CELEBRATION

All are invited to "Hanukkah on the Hudson - Lights, Latkes and Live Music" on Dec. 11 at the Bayonne Jewish Community Center, located at 1050 Kennedy Blvd. between 44th and 45th Streets. The event is presented by the Bayonne JCC, HudsonJewish and volunteers from several synagogues.

There will be Israeli dancing taught by a professional instructor, a live performance by The Gordys and children's activities for younger guests. The lighting of the Hanukkah menorah will be led by Rabbi Gordon Gladstone of Temple Beth Am. Kosher pizza and potato latkes will be served.

The children's event begins at 6 p.m., the adult and family event at 7 p.m. and the candle lighting at 7:30 p.m. There will be music and dancing all night. The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 3-13. Admission is free for children under 3.

Advance reservations are requested. Please email your name, address, phone number and number of tickets -specifying child or adult - to Reservations@HudsonJewish.org.

UpComing Concerts at the Meadowlands

UPCOMING CONCERT INFORMATION:

TOBY KEITHwith Jack Ingram & special guests Carter's Chord, Mica Roberts & Trailer ChoirFriday, February 15 at 7:30 PMIZOD CENTERTicket Prices: $68, $35, $27Don't miss Toby Keith's "Big Dog Daddy Tour." Toby is one of the most accomplished entertainers in country music and will put on a show you're not going to want to miss.Tickets for this event go on sale Saturday, December 1 at 10 AM. There is no Meadowlands All AccessSM presale for this event.
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Reserved Parking ($25 - regular parking is $12) is available for this event and can be purchased in the "Would You Like to Add" section of the Ticketmaster purchase page. This section is located after the "Shipping Method" section on the event page.

VAN HALENThursday, March 13 at 7:30 PMIZOD CENTERTicket Prices: $149.50, $79.50, $49.50
After a sold out show on November 3rd, VAN HALEN is returning to the IZOD CENTER on March 13th 2008. The band is performing with their original lead vocalist, David Lee Roth for the first time in over 22 years. Joining the lineup on bass guitar and background vocals is Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen's 16 year old son. The band will perform Classic hits from their first 6 albums.
Tickets for this event go on sale Monday, December 3 at 10 AM. There is no Meadowlands All AccessSM presale for this event. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS(If link is not active, go to meadowlands.com)
Reserved Parking ($25 - regular parking is $12) is available for this event and can be purchased in the "Would You Like to Add" section of the Ticketmaster purchase page. This section is located after the "Shipping Method" section on the event page.

EVANESCENCETuesday, December 4 at 7:30 PMThe Theater at IZOD CENTERTicket Prices: $41
Grammy award winner Evanescence comes to The Theater on December 4. Experience Amy Lee and Evanescence as they rock the Meadowlands performing hits from their current album "The Open Door."
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KIDZ BOP WORLD TOURDecember 6The Theater at IZOD CENTERbuy tickets more information

ANDREA BOCELLIDecember 8IZOD CENTERbuy ticketsmore information

BARRY MANILOWDecember 10IZOD CENTERbuy ticketsmore informationTRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRAWinter Tour 2007December 15IZOD CENTERbuy ticketsmore information

WWE presents SMACKDOWN/ECW LIVE!December 27IZOD CENTERbuy ticketsmore information


MONSTER JAMTruck racing and freestyleFebruary 1 & 2IZOD CENTERbuy ticketsmore information

ACQUIRE THE FIREFebruary 8 & 9IZOD CENTERmore information

SPICE GIRLSFebruary 13IZOD CENTERbuy ticketsmore information

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERSMAGIC AS EVER 2008 WORLD TOURFebruary 16 & 18IZOD CENTERbuy ticketsmore information

IRON MAIDENMarch 14IZOD CENTERbuy ticketsmore information
All acts, dates, times and ticket prices are subject to change.PRESALEA presale offers a selection of tickets in advance of the public sale. It is an opportunity for you to decide whether you want to buy during the presale or wait for the public sale.WEBSITETo view upcoming events at the IZOD Center, Giants Stadium and Meadowlands Racetrack or to find out more about Meadowlands All AccessSM, visit www.meadowlands.comGROUP SALESGroup Seating and special discounts available for certain events. Call 201-460-4370 or email

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