At every level from the college ranks up to top-flight professional leagues, such as the NBA and NFL, sports teams rely on motorcoaches to service a considerable portion of their transportation needs.
Because even a hotel-to-airport transfer is a crucial element of any team’s business agenda, the transportation of athletic organizations has become an important market segment of the motorcoach industry.
“The sporting side of the market is one that virtually every motorcoach operator that chooses to be is involved in at some level,” says Steve Kirchner, president of the National Motorcoach Network.
His statement echoes the sentiments of many operators who understand that motorcoaches are in high demand to sports teams, making these teams potentially valuable customers. But how can an operator gain this type of business?
With many traits that separate them from other customers, sports teams represent a challenging aspect of the motorcoach business. Contacting the right people, positioning services against competitors and catering to special requests are some of the issues facing operators that seek to market themselves to sports teams.
As is true for all areas of motorcoach marketing, a business must select a suitable method of spreading awareness about its company among potential clients in the target audience. But before they can choose a strategy, operators should learn more about the business and figure out the costs involved in running a motorcoach for a sports team.
David Foote, CEO of Illini Swallow Lines in Indianapolis, says that operators need to become more sophisticated in how they market and price their product. “You have to know what is going on before you get into this business,” he says. Conferring with experienced operators and asking individual teams for their preferences are good places to start.
Contacting teams directly
Motorcoach operators and sports teams often reach transportation agreements simply by calling each other directly and proposing a deal. “The biggest booking source for charter business right now is the yellow pages,” says Matt Eyre, marketing and research coordinator for Eyre Bus Service Inc. in Glenelg, Md. “If a team thinks they need a bus, they pick up the phone book and look up a bus company.”
According to Thomas Weeks, president of Grand Tours in Lockport, N.Y., sports teams tend to get in a comfort zone with their transportation provider, and communication between the two parties becomes very informal. For years, Grand Tours has handled much of the bus transportation for the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres and the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. “It’s gotten to the point where sometimes the teams will e-mail their usual driver and let him know they need him before they even contact us,” Weeks says.
Using a marketing firm
Another avenue to consider is the use of a third-party marketing company that specializes in linking motorcoach operators with potential customers. The National Motorcoach Network uses an online reservation center to connect companies looking for motorcoach solutions with more than 100 operators nationwide.
“Motorcoach companies come to us because they are intrigued by our reservation center concept,” Kirchner says. “We have affiliated carriers that have cooperated with us in advertising and at trade shows, and they have benefited from our sponsorships and sports marketing efforts.”
Working with a marketing firm saves an operator from having to spend a great deal of time and money scouting out and attracting customers. In addition, it can help smooth out the kinks in a deal before it’s made, which is very beneficial when dealing with demanding sports teams. “We require people who use our reservation center to put their itinerary in writing, forcing them to see that sometimes they have a lot of holes to fill,” Kirchner says.
Conducting mass mailings
Direct mail campaigns are another good way to attract new business in the sports market. The first step is finding the right people to send promotional information to. Most professional teams have a travel secretary or similar position dedicated to handling transportation needs. But with colleges, says Kirchner, the best person to contact is not necessarily who you think it may be.
“It may be the coach or athletic director who signs off on the deal, but the decisions are usually made by business managers long before they ever reach that point,” he says. Many lists, including the National Directory of Collegiate Athletics, with these specific contacts are available for purchase.
For an operator wishing to expand sports team business, a mass mailing campaign should reach a wide range of professional, amateur and collegiate athletic programs, emphasizing specific selling points. Eyre describes how his company, which transports college and professional teams in the Washington, D.C., area, has designed an elaborate marketing campaign that mails creative promotional pieces to sports teams.
“We hit teams with a postcard that has a message, photos and a pull quote,” he says. “They’re very eye-catching and they let teams know that we are out there.” Eyre’s mailing campaign starts well before autumn sports seasons begin and consists of mailings every couple of weeks with a new sports-related message and free gift promotion.
There’s always advertising
Advertising is always a powerful marketing tool in the transportation industry. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of great outlets for directly reaching people in charge of contracting motorcoaches for sports teams. Furthermore, advertising is traditionally expensive.
“In the bus industry, we don’t have a massive advertising budget sitting there that we can do a lot with,” says George Marudas, vice president of sales for Coach USA Los Angeles, the official carrier for UCLA sports teams. “We do a few ads in the intercollegiate directories but most of our new business comes from our reputation.”
Still, there are available opportunities to advertise in the sports transportation market. For example, publications such as collegiate athletic directories, game programs and sports team media guides provide significant advertising space and have a focused readership.
There is also the potential for sponsorship of sporting events, which will attach the name of a company to a major competition or tournament. Some operators like to increase exposure by placing the name of teams they transport on their buses, or in many cases on the motorcoach’s destination sign.
Attending industry events
At trade shows, operators and decision makers for sports programs have the opportunity to meet one another and negotiate for business. For instance, a large number of professionals involved in the management and administration of college athletic departments attend the annual meeting of the College Athletics Business Managers Association.
“People who tend to be purchasing motorcoach services have business managers who attend this show,” Kirchner says. He says that one of the National Motorcoach Network affiliates even handled the transportation of delegates at last year’s trade show.
There are also events that offer an opportunity to promote motorcoach transportation to professional sports teams, including annual meetings of league commissioners and business administrators. Bobby Hull, director of operations for the northeastern region of Coach USA in Paramus, N.J., says that all of the team travel secretaries get together in one room every year at Major League Baseball’s winter meetings.
“Vendors can come in and make presentations to them,” he says. “And if you get one or two of them to like you, they will use your business and recommend it to others.” This may classify as high-pressure sales, but nonetheless it’s an opportunity to gain business and increase industry presence.
Offering a complete package
Most sports teams want as few distractions as possible and thus require a comprehensive transportation deal that doesn’t interfere with their central mission, which is to concentrate on games. “It’s really about the total package we offer,” says Steve Temple, director of sales and marketing for Maineline Tours in South Portland, Maine, a contractor to several college and minor league teams throughout New England. “We find out what teams are looking for in a transportation company and we build a plan around those specific needs and present it to them.”
Like any other customer, athletic programs are generally concerned with cost. In fact, Foote of Illini Swallow Lines says that sports teams seem to want preferential treatment in pricing. “The biggest problem with sports teams of all types is that they tend to want extremely discounted rates. Some professional teams even expect discounted rates,” he says. Although the sports industry is lucrative, you have to be very mindful of the prices you give teams.
It never hurts your offer to throw in pricing breaks, special giveaways or promotional gifts for teams that spend a lot of money. Teams also like to occasionally receive free transportation for family, fans and associates.
An integral part of your whole package should be a good insurance policy, especially when dealing with professional sports teams. “The last thing you want is a quarterback who makes $5 million a year to take a tumble down the steps getting on the bus,” says Weeks of Grand Tours. “That would be a big lawsuit.”
Providing consistency, loyalty
A number of teams and schools use the same motorcoach operators that they have been using for years. They will stick with the operators who give them the most consistency in price and service. “In this business, increases can happen pretty dramatically year to year, so there is a big value to promising that you won’t increase costs more than a set percentage annually,” says Temple.
“There are so many changes going on in the sports market every year that we have to constantly review what we are going to do for the next year,” adds Kirchner. “Organizations change and merge, women’s sports continue to emerge and there are also many issues with team van and vehicle use. So a lot of these issues have impacted the market and our potential for reaching that market.”
It’s important to adjust and adapt to the changes in the industry while remaining loyal to your customer base. The last thing a sports team wants to worry about is a hassle with its transportation provider. They depend on the stability of an operator.
“Once you find a hook with a team, you can continue on for a long time with them,” says Coach USA’s Hull. “We have had a relationship with most of our clients for 10 to 15 years.”
Maintaining a relationship
Hull’s attitude represents one of the strongest themes of successful motorcoach marketing to sports teams — maintaining rapport. Building and then keeping a solid relationship with sports teams pays off in more ways than one. Solid relationships create a solid reputation, which saves money and increases prestige. Additionally, strong relationships lead to countless business-generating referrals and recommendations.
“When you keep your reputation clean and you do the job properly, teams talk about you to other teams, and this swings new business your way,” says Marudas of Coach USA Los Angeles.
When teams search for transportation solutions, the first thing they do is ask other teams where to look. Gaining business this way allows an operator to dedicate limited resources to interests other than marketing.
“Name recognition and word-of-mouth have been our most useful tools to help market ourselves,” says Michele Austin of Wade Tours in Schenectady, N.Y. “Without needing to dedicate a large number of budget dollars to marketing, we have been able to keep a larger budget for maintaining our motorcoaches and our service.”


text: In this period of my career I was drawn to explore perhaps the most basic color palette of them all: Black & White. What I wasn’t expecting was a love affair to develop with these colors. This series has taught me that grey is subtle. Grey is powerful. Grey is limitless. It is a continuum to see how far one can push and pull the extremes of light and dark. There’s something to be said about the false simplicity of white and black and everything in between. Grey does not just become the backdrop to a painting – the subject must interact with it, Grey becomes the atmosphere.

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Local border services officer Ugo Bruni was just doing his job when he asked a few questions of a man crossing the border earlier this year, however, it just so happened that his line of questioning led to an arrest and launched an international child pornography investigation.
Thursday night, Bruni was awarded a Crime Stopper’s Peace Officer of the Year Award at an award's dinner at Algoma Water Tower Inn and Suites.
Bruni spoke with SooToday about how the arrest and investigation came about.
Around 10 p.m. on January 27, a man, driving alone, crossed the international border and pulled up to the border crossing booth manned by Bruni, who was just finishing up one of his shifts.
“He looked like a regular joe, talked like a regular fella,” said Bruni. “The story he gave me sounded legit – going to a couple of concerts in the Toronto area. People travel alone; I like travelling alone myself and I didn’t want to judge the fellow, but something just didn’t jive.”
Bruni started asking the man the types questions that he might ask anyone crossing the border
“I asked more questions and the more questions I asked the more things didn’t seem right. Sometimes things just don’t make sense. I may ask the same question a different way, and if he answers it a different way (then I get suspicious). I may ask the same question 4 or 5 questions later, but differently,” said Bruni adding that when he did that to this man “something just didn’t work out.”
Even though it was the end of his shift and he was sort of hoping to just go home, Bruni thought the contradictory answers were enough to hold the man’s identification and order him to pull over for further questioning.
“You can’t just say ‘Ah he did nothing, I’ll let him go’ you have to do your job, that’s what you’re getting paid for and people rely on you to do it eh?” said Bruni.
Inside the border station, immigration officers conducted a more in-depth inspection of the man and found he was a registered sex offender in California and Oklahoma.
This prompted investigators to look further and upon another more detailed inspection of a laptop and cellphone police say they discovered ‘multiple digital child exploitation images’.
Charges were laid by investigators with CBSA’s Criminal Investigation Unit and Sault Ste. Marie City Police Service.
A city police press release from January 31 said the the city’s Technological Crime arrested a man from California “for child pornography related offences”.
The case did not end there.
Investigators used the seized laptop to explore connections with other child pornography creators and distributors.
This has led to an international multi-agency child pornography investigation that potentially extends as far North America and Europe.
“This is just one of those great examples that the men and women don’t just protect the country as a whole but the men and women of Sault Ste. Marie as well," Kris Ruitenbeek, Canadian Border Service Agency chief of operations in Sault Ste. Marie.
Cases like this probably happen about once in a career said Ruitenbeek.
For Bruni, a 29-year border officer veteran who spent his entire career in Sault Ste. Marie, the case is illustrative of how the border officer job has changed over the years.
When he first started in 1989, border guards were basically ‘tax collectors’ he said.
At that time border guards couldn’t even arrest a drunk driver and he says they would have to come up with clever tricks to get them to wait for police to come and arrest them.
In 1999, changes to the Customs Act and the Criminal Code of Canada redefined border guards as ‘peace officers’ with the jurisdiction to investigate offences said Ruitenbeek.
Around 2006 border guards started getting trained in firearms and in 2014 Bruni himself started carrying a gun on duty.
“When I started in 1989 all we had was a date stamp on our belt. Now we’re equipped with pepper spray, a baton, and firearms. I never thought, when I began my career, that I’d be armed. Almost the whole staff now are armed officers,” said Bruni.
Bruni was quite humble at the awards ceremony and simply wanted the world to know how great the CBSA in the Sault are.
“Sure the recognition is cool, but I’m only here to acknowledge everyone else I work with,” he said.
Other Peace Officer of the Year Awards were issued to:
- Deborah Trumble of Algoma Treatment and Remand Centre
- Staff Sergeant Chris Kelly of Anishinabek Police Service
- Conservation Officer Dave Hamlin of Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
- Cpl. Alvin Tang of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Const. Darren Sirie of Sault Ste. Marie Police Service
- Const. Monique Baker of Ontario Provincial Police
- Const. Josh Teresinki of Sault Ste. Marie Police

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Azin Feizabadi (Iran/Germany) is a filmmaker and visual artist who lives and works in Berlin.
In 2009 Azin launched his ongoing research and production framework entitled A Collective Memory. Swaying between fact and fiction, as well as poetics and immediate politics, the multidisciplinary works within A Collective Memorycreate both political imagination and emancipatory participation. Azin’s films, installations, public interventions, writings and curatorial activities as part of A Collective Memory attempt to produce an alternative historiography based on notions of ‘projection’, ‘specters’ and ‘time travel’, instead of merely foreseeing the past.
Azin is co-founder of the artist group Reloading Images (2006). He has co-edited the Reloading Images Publication Series (2007–2009) as well as a Sharjah Biennial 10 artist book then we went to search of somewhere to stay the night (2011). His works have been screened and exhibited at Berlinale Forum Expanded (2014 and 2012); Beirut in Cairo (2013); Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin (2013); Heidelberger Kunstverein (2012); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2010); Queens Museum, New York (2010); n.b.k. Berlin (2010); Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York (2010); Silkroad Gallery, Tehran (2009); nGbK Berlin (2008); Azad Gallery, Tehran (2007); and 52nd Oberhausen Short Film Festival (2006); among others.
As part of I is A Collective Memory,
nothing of I is contemporary;
I, my love, I am I & I, not a political artist.
In the same manner as I do not speak your language!
I don’t speak any language!
But The Agent of Language, Love and Misunderstanding, I am.


The Band of Heathens
While the Band of Heathens’ new song “Free Again” will keep fans happily humming and tapping, it will probably raise some eyebrows as well. The track — available for free on the band’s website on July 15 — references the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. “It’s sure to be the feel-good hit of the summer,” quips band member Ed Jurdi.
The Band of Heathens, whose new album One Foot in the Ether the webzine AmericanaRoots.com ponders as "the best record of 2009," will appear on PBS' Austin City Limits on November 7 on a bill headlined by Elvis Costello. On the program, the band performs five songs: "Jackson Station," "L.A. County Blues," "Shine a Light," "Golden Calf" and "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone."


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With remarkably low off-axis coloration, the S-Mic 2 is designed to pick up rich, full sounds on set, even in the hands of a novice boom operator.
The S-Mic 2’s body is 100% brass making it both an incredibly strong and durable piece of equipment AND resistant to RF interference.
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The S-Mic 2 has an ultra-low noise floor at 12dB (A-weighted), 24dB (CCIR 268-3). Combined with its anti-RF interference build, the S-Mic 2 is able to be boosted in post with a lot less background noise than other microphones on the market.
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While Lydia unpacks her fryer and sets up, I wander the aisles of the Ushuaia market. It's early, a pearled morning. Vendors are getting their wares ready, a flurry of food and blankets and wood carvings. I should be setting out my sweaters, but I'm looking for something—maybe presents for my nephews, some strange little toys from their strange aunt, gifts for my mother and sister. I need to feel like I belong to my family. This year, more than the others.
Then I see it—a beautiful hand-painted card on a table of cards. All of them are lovely and exact, but this one looks right at me. I know who it's for.
I'll have to wait until Monday to get a stamp.


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|New Picture Book Storytime|
Event Type: Children's Program|
Age Group(s): Children
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 10:30 AM
Listen to The Fox on the Swing by Evelina Daciūtė and make a craft exploring what friendship and happiness mean to you.
Location: Imagination Hub - Children's Room

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Social Security Administration
About the organization
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) announces an open call for résumés from RPCVs and transitioning Peace Corps staff with noncompetitive eligibility (NCE). This is not a guarantee of employment.
The majority of positions at Social Security involve working directly with the public, and positions are located throughout the country. Our Public Contact Representatives receive extensive training and mentoring in Social Security programs and state laws.
Claims Specialists speak with beneficiaries about their rights under Social Security laws; gather facts and evidence to establish eligibility for benefits; make critical decisions to determine benefit amounts to individuals; and use state-of-the-art technology to access and update claims information.
SSA is seeking job applicants with exceptional customer service skills for a Claims Specialist (CS) position in Boston, MA. The CS position is an entry level position for SSA’s online claim division. Incumbents are responsible for providing direct service to the public. They conduct interviews and adjudicate customer’s claims for retirement, survivors and disability benefits. Claims Specialists work with beneficiaries to establish eligibility for payment, offer referral services, and identify and investigate potential program abuse. This is a career ladder position with promotion potential to the GS-11 level. Initial selections are normally made at the GS-5 or GS-7 level.
For GS-5, three years of general experience that demonstrates the ability to analyze problems to identify significant factors, gather pertinent data, and recognize solutions; plan and organize work; and communicate effectively orally and in writing.
For GS-7, one year of specialized experience that equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.
$37,647 - $69,016
Contact email: [email protected]
If interested, email a cover letter and resume to [email protected]
Equal Opportunity Employment
The posting employer has certified that this announcement complies with Peace Corps’ Equal Opportunity Employment policy:
The Peace Corps is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees, Volunteers, and applicants for employment and volunteer service. Peace Corps policy prohibits discrimination and harassment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age (40 or over), disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, parental status, political affiliation, union membership, genetic information, or history of participation in the Equal Employment Opportunity process, grievance procedure, or any authorized complaint procedure.
Does this sound like the position for you?Email to apply


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Gigi adds Mzansi flavour to Amsterdam event
Mzansi's female rapper Gigi Lamayne will add a feather to her cap and fly the South African flag high when she performs in the Netherlands in October.
Gigi will be Mzansi's first female rapper to showcase her talents as an honorary guest and performer when the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) Beats music conference celebrates its 10th anniversary.
The 24-year-old Fufa hitmaker is excited about the achievement.
"I was at a music video shoot when I found out and I just couldn't believe that out of so many talented people, it was me. I'm excited but the greatest gift for most is carrying out something patriotic. I know my country will be proud.
"I am very excited but also truly honoured and humbled to be representing South Africa on a global scale.
I believe this trip will help inspire me and contribute to the completion of my album, due for release in 2020. I am ready to take Gigi to the world and hope they are ready for me," she said.
The ADE Beats is a global networking platform for music talent and professionals that put a strong emphasis on hip-hop, bass and beats.
Every year ADE Beats invites key figures from the international hip-hop, bass and beats scenes to network and build relationships.
As a female trailblazer, Gigi has won six South African Hip Hop Awards gongs and earned her place as the number one independent female hip-hop artist in the country.
Inspired by the likes of Jean Grae, Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur, she said that through the conference she plans to learn about musical integration, different marketing methods and advertising.
"As Amsterdam is such a huge creative district, I hope that this will allow for creative inspiration and ideas going forward to my album drop in the new year."


Drones: Observe, describe and analyze plant growth is essential to plant research, and a whole set of high-tech tools are now available for breeders and agronomists to gather more accurate and better information from the testing research field.
Manual data collection takes a lot of time, is prone to human error and subjectivity and thus not always 100% accurate. High Throughput Phenotyping (HTP) devices such as drones represent a great option to tackle those issues.
Drones can take high resolution pictures of your trials to derive many useful traits such as plant counting, plot height, plant health, nutrient deficiency, flowering detection, plant leaf surface (related to plant biomass), etc… Those traits are useful to understand cultivar/nutrient performances in a given environment under test.
Experts in plant measurement and research software editors propose complementary and interfaced solutions to support research departments in settling the complete processing chain of drone captured information and integrating this workflow inside their research information system.
Exporting testing data and preparing drone flight
To ensure a successful drone data collection and get most of the information from data processing, some constraints must be addressed to input in the drone analytics platform all the meta information needed. In preparation to the campaign, the testing team gathers all information about the experiment location, the randomization and the treatments.
Field work preparation can be facilitated through transfers of information between the research information system and the drone analytics platform. According to the traits needed by the research agronomist and the characteristics of the trials,
A list of drones and sensors will be recommended which consists of the best compromise the image quality for your application. Nowadays it is very simple to prepare the drone mission in your office, making the automatically the drones flight plan. Drone flying altitude and way points depends on the selected traits.
Drone image acquisition and processing of testing data
Drone acquisition is very simple: it goes automatically through the field, flying along the field map, and captures the images. Once this step is done, the images are uploaded into the drone data processing platform to be analyzed.
This step is simple and automated as everything has already been defined: data acquisition protocols and data validation. A discussion with the drone experts can be made to understand some of the results and improve the value of the data processed. The obtained traits are then automatically transferred your research information system.
In addition to material characterization (Chlorophyll and vegetation index, plant counting, elevation and volume, organ counting, disease detection…), strong analytics can assess microplot heterogeneity, hence the quality of the trials at the microplot level.
Drone data centralization and analysis in the testing software
To avoid errors, there should be no manual operation between the drone analysis report and the testing software. Agronomists in collaboration of IT experts made possible by an interface connection which makes data transfer safe and fast.
The research IT system receives all traits and centralizes it into its database. Then researchers retrieve all data from different flights in the experiment manager, compare it with other data and analyze it to make their statistical reports, including regression graphs and histograms. With the IT tools the researchers have all information to take the right decisions.
New technologies such as high throughput aerial imaging applied to plant phenotyping enhances researcher’s knowledge therefore enables them to make more informed decisions.


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4 ‘militants’ surrender in Ashulia
Published : 16 Jul 2017, 14:32
Four suspected militants have surrendered before the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) during a drive of the elite force in an Ashulia residence at Savar, on the outskirts of the capital.
RAB members cordoned off the area early Sunday suspecting it to be a militant den.
Sounds of gunshots were also heard in regular intervals in the morning around 11:30am.
RAB media and legal wing director Mufti Mahmood Khan at noon told reporters that four suspected militants have surrendered.
Earlier in the morning, the RAB official said elite force men fenced off the house around 1:00am on Sunday.
The RAB media and legal wing director further said, “The area has been evacuated. We will begin a drive shortly.”
The owner of the house, Ibrahim, was also under RAB custody for interrogation, he added.
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Desiree on the IssuesFighting for Our Families
Desiree Tims will go to bat for her fellow Ohioans. She will work to make sure that regions like Dayton receive the federal resources and investments needed to help families recover after the tornadoes, quality jobs with great pay, access to health care that works, and schools that will prepare Ohioans for a modern workforce. Read more to see where she stands on the issues, then sign up to help Desiree get elected to Congress and fight for our families!
I strongly believe that healthcare should be accessible and affordable to all, which is why we must provide a public option. This will allow more people to access high-quality, affordable healthcare while allowing those who have insurance they like through their employer to keep it, especially during a global pandemic. While we fight for better healthcare, we need to protect the provisions in the Affordable Care Act that have allowed Americans to gain coverage that they otherwise never would have had, including requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions.
Education is a life-long process. I believe that a national universal preschool program is the first step into getting out children the proper education that they deserve. As they get older, I firmly believe that we must incentivize college education as an option by not making it a life-debt sentence. We can do this by capping student loan interest rates and providing more federal college grants, while exploring innovative ideas into making community colleges free.
If we are going to say education is important, our budgets should reflect that. So I am calling for our teachers to take home more money. We also need to ensure that our education system is supported in a holistic way with more counselors and other wrap-around services.
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Congress passed a tax bill that gave 83% percent of benefits to the top 1% paid for by the rest of hardworking people like us. The Republican tax bill added to the deficit, which has increased 50% during the Trump era.
I am union strong. I know unions have been the backbone of the middle class for decades. In our community, unions have led to safer working conditions, and better pay.
It’s important that workers have the right to collectively bargain with their employers. And I strongly oppose “right-to-work” laws that cripple workers’ opportunity to receive fair wages.
Our farmers are losing profits and livelihoods under trade agreements and everyday consumers are forced to pay the price increase for bad deals. I will work to ensure that trade agreements include strong protections for Americans, whether they sell crops and products or make online purchases.
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Our bail and penal system are broken. They create a never-ending cycle of crime and poverty. We need to pass laws that get rid of cash bail on a national level, provide funding for community policing models, ensure every police officer has a body camera while on duty, and outlaw private prison systems.
Communities across the country are struggling to ensure they provide clean water. That’s why I will support reinvestment in clean water systems. Desiree knows that it’s critically important to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the lands we cherish for a better tomorrow for our children.
Our veterans put their lives on the line for our freedom. We must support our veterans in every way we can as they transition back to civilian life. Our VA system needs to be overhauled so that our veterans’ care is the top priority.I will fight to ensure our veterans have the educational opportunities they need to succeed. And we need Congress to pass legislation that creates more jobs, so our veterans have more opportunities for employment.
Climate change is real and we need to invest in clean energy programs now. By investing in wind and solar, we can not only ensure our earth lasts longer, but we can also create new jobs as well.
Assault Weapons Ban: Mass shootings, murders, and gun violence are at an all-time high. When Dayton made the news in the aftermath of the mass shooting,I, like everyone in our community, was devastated. The gunman was able to kill nine individuals and wound 27 in less than 32 seconds because he used a high capacity assault weapon designed to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible. I will ban these gun sales in America. Military-style assault weapons do not belong in our backyards.
Universal Background Checks: More than 90% of Americans believe in background checks and that includes 90% of Ohioans. I will fight for universal background checks and will vote for a uniform background check for gun sales.
Red Flag Laws: I strongly support red flag laws that will allow law enforcement, after judicial review, to intervene and remove guns from someone who poses a threat to themselves or someone they love—until and unless they can prove the danger to no longer be a threat.
Farmers, Agricultural and Rural Communities -
I worked on the reauthorization of the 2012 Farm Bill and understands the need to protect our family farms. Currently, our farmers are forced to participate in business and farming practices that are unsustainable. Climate change is hurting our farmers’ crops.
I also support increased federal investment to address the digital divide in rural communities.
Wright Patterson Airforce Base
In addition to fully funding Wright-Patt, we must create a pipeline of opportunities for students and graduates of our local high schools and colleges. As cybersecurity continues to be a growing concern across the country, the Miami Valley is poised to lead our country’s national security. We can create private sector job growth with WPAFB as our hub and feed our high school students and college grads to these jobs through apprenticeships, internships, and specialized jobs for local residents. Moreover, when I am elected, I will join the House Majority and have leadership roles in committees like the House Armed Services.
Campaign Finance Reform
Our elections are under attack by large corporations and big money organizations like the NRA. I strongly favor overturning Citizens United and returning our democracy to the people. I am a strong supporter of H.R. 1, which would expand voting rights and enact campaign finance reform to make our democracy stronger. I have been endorsed by End Citizens United and am proudly rejecting corporate PAC money because I want to be responsible for the hardworking families of Southwest Ohio.
It is no secret that our immigration system needs serious reform. I am strongly against the immoral actions and inhumane treatment of children in cages on our border. I support a pathway to citizenship for kids who were brought to this country through no fault of their own. I am also strongly in favor of the DREAM Act.
I will continue to fight for equality and inclusion for all Americans. I will be a proactive ally to ensure that no one faces discrimination for who they are or who they love.I also enthusiastically support the Equality Act.
Desiree supports the right of women to have access to safe and legal abortion. A woman’s right to choose is simply that—her right. Desiree will fight to protect Roe v. Wade.
Get to know Desiree
Watch and listen as Desiree recalls an emotional memory of coming to age and realizing the inequality that had been part of her education. That experience left an indelible print on her memory, and would eventually lead her to this moment.
Desiree Tims will go to bat for her fellow Ohioans. She will work to make sure that regions like Dayton receive the federal resources and investments needed to help families recover after the tornadoes, quality jobs with great pay, access to health care that works, and schools that will prepare Ohioans for a modern workforce.
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Feb. 24, 2000
MILLINGTON, Tenn. – Senior righthander Scott Cavey allowed just one hit over the first six innings and sophomore catcher Paul O’Toole collected three RBI in his debut as the Irish leadoff hitter, as the No. 23-ranked Notre Dame baseball team opened its season Thursday with a 6-0 victory over Air Force, in the first game of the Service Academies Classic, at USA Baseball Stadium.
Cavey’s 78-pitch outing included six strikeouts and eight groundouts, with one hit and one walk allowed during his 20 batters faced. The lanky righthander retired the final 10 batters he faced, after yielding a two-out double to leadoff hitter Brian LaBasco in the third inning. Air Force (7-6) already had a played a dozen games but failed to score versus Cavey, with Falcons junior righthander Michael Tufte turning in a solid effort of his own through the first six innings.
The Irish broke things open with four runs in the top of the seventh and final inning. Freshman rightfielder Brian Stavisky sparked the rally with the first hit of his Irish career, sending a 1-1 pitch into right-center before legging out a triple. Two batters later, sophomore DH Matt Strickroth delivered on an 0-2 count, drilling a single to the left of the first baseman with a drawn-in infield.
Notre Dame kept the rally going, as senior second baseman Jeff Perconte went the other way on a 1-1 pitch, sending it over the leaping shortstop LaBasco. The Irish then returned to the top of the order and O’Toole, who hit in the No. 2 spot for most of 1999 before switching spots with classmate Steve Stanley. The second-year catcher worked to a 2-1 count before smacking a two-run triple down the rightfield line, ending what had been an effective day for Tufte.
Sophomore third baseman Andrew Bushey capped the big inning with a two-out, 1-1 single through the right side of the infield.
Tufte (1-2) allowed five earned runs on eight hits and one walk, with five strikeouts.
The Irish capitalized on a one-out error in the fifth inning, when first baseman Ryan Carville dropped the ball on a routine grounder by Strickroth. After a stolen base, Perconte brought home the runner by lifting a 1-0 pitch over the head of drawn-in leftfielder Geremy Goldsberry. O’Toole followed with a first-pitch single to left that scored Perconte from second base.
Air Force’s best chance came in the second inning, when Goldsberry drew a full-count walk before moving up on a pair of groundouts. But Cavey struck out Carville to end the inning.
LaBasco could have managed a triple on his two-out hit in the third inning, but he stumbled prior to touching the first-base bag. Cavey then struck out Brendan Shannon on four pitches and the Falcons managed no more baserunners the rest of the way.
Junior lefthander Mike Naumann closed the game for the Irish, with a flyout, groundout and strikeout in the seventh.
NOTES: ND’s batting order included five left-handed bats in the first six spots, plus the switch-hitting Perconte in the No. 9 spot … the opening day lineup was as follows: O’Toole, Stanley, Bushey, righthanded-hitting junior shortstop Alec Porzel, senior first baseman Jeff Felker, Stavisky, senior leftfielder Matt Nussbaum, Strickroth and Perconte … the four-day, six-team tournament continues on Friday, with games between Army-Air Force and Navy-Ohio State before the much anticipated ND-OSU game at 3:00 CST (the day’s final game features Memphis vs. Army) … junior All-American Aaron Heilman will take the mound for the Irish while OSU is expected to counter with sophomore righthander E.J. Laretta (his `99 stats included a 10-3 record and 3.77 ERA, with 59 strikeouts, 18 walks and 86 hits allowed in 86 innings).
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I received the following press release from Ms. Lila Brown, regarding a new doll collection by Madame Alexander created exclusively for the Sisterhood Boutique. The dolls elegantly promote sisterhood.
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October 11, 2009
A new African-American sorority doll inspired by sisterhood has been created exclusively for The Sisterhood Boutique by the Madame Alexander Doll Company. Ivy Rose is a "first" for the Alexander Doll Company.
The creation of the Ivy Rose doll collection hopes to unify women who like creator and founder, Rochelle McAllister, desire a purpose driven lifestyle and a natural appreciation for fashion and style.
The three dolls for the 2009 Pretty As Is collection are named Ivy Rose, Ivy, and Rose. Like the first Ivy Rose doll created in 2008, each aspect of the 2009 collection has been meticulously considered as each doll is hand-crafted by Alexander Doll Company. This exquisite heirloom doll is perfect for sorority sisters, gift giving, and doll collectors alike. Ivy Rose, Ivy and Rose, celebrate the diversity of beauty within the sisterhood of women. Pretty, takes on many forms, the bonds we honor and the ties that bind us help us to realize pretty is physical, mental, and emotional and as created beings we are “Pretty As Is,” says McAllister as she created the collection’s concept.View the Pretty as Is video here.
Vote for your favorite Pretty as Is doll here.
For more information about the Pretty As Is collection from the Sisterhood Boutique, visit http://sisterhoodboutique.com/ and follow Ivy Rose on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/IvyRoseDoll.
About The Sisterhood Boutique
The initial concept for The Sisterhood Boutique came about when Rochelle McAllister was preparing to apply to business school. The process of preparing essays allowed her to dream big and to realize her passion lies somewhere between the world of fashion and the universe of femininity. McAllister seeks to build a company that combines her personal affections with her eclectic and entrepreneurial spirit. Through The Sisterhood Boutique and the dolls we create, McAllister’s aim is to inspire the next generation of women entrepreneurs. Additionally, it is her hope to collaborate with other women who like her, in addition to being purpose driven, also have a natural appreciation for fashion and style. We actively seek to build business relationships with like minded individuals.
McAllister is currently a first-year law student at Howard University School of Law. She received her MBA from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University in 2006 and her Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Oakwood University in 1998. Ms. McAllister was initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. on January 26, 1997 and currently resides in Silver Spring, MD.
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Thirty years after the song “Be My Lady” have been one of the most favourite love songs of OPM and as the rise of the Concert King Martin Nievera, PolyEast Records celebrates a legendary career with the release of the album MARTIN NIEVERA 3D: Tatlong Dekada.
The new album represents Martin’s every aspect of his career – from recording to touring to endorsements to best-selling albums. “Here’s a CD of 15 newly written songs just to add more magic to OPM. I’m just so proud of this album because it’s going to celebrate my 30 years in the business without having to look back. Let’s just say, today is first day of the rest of my career,” Nievera said.
As the album celebrates Nievera’s achievements of the past and the promise of the future, MARTIN NIEVERA 3D: Tatlong Dekada is now available in stores released by PolyEast Records which comes with a CD plus DVD– collecting music videos of Nievera’s monumental anthems that played a pivotal role in his musical history.
Being Nievera’s home label since his album Chasing Time in 2002, PolyEast Records has put together an outstanding collection featuring Nievera’s classic signature sound with 15 original songs and three classic remakes.
The first single taken from the highly anticipated new album is entitled IPADARAMA written by the award-winning composer Kiko Salazar and currently being played on local radios.
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Nievera also recorded three remakes which run the gamut of his varied stylistic approach and what Nievera has been known for, for the past years. “Remakes became my new therapy… to bring back new life to old songs” Nievera said. Remakes include the song “Pangako”, originally by Ogie Alcasid, was used in the teleserye “Walang Hanggan”; Paul Anka’s “Times of Your Life” with Nievera’s version from the hit teleserye Lorenzo’s Time; and a timeless collaboration with Vina Morales in teleserye’s A Beautiful Affair’s song “After All” which was originally popularized by Peter Cetera in the 80s.
As testament to the genre that Nievera spawned thirty years ago, he has indelibly etched in Philippine music history and popular culture being OPM’s Concert King. Nievera’s first-ever album was Martin…Take One in 1982, sparked an incredible run of success that made him chart over 26 albums since then and became one of the highest selling OPM artists until now. “In my 30 years in the music business, I think I’ve had more failures, misses than hits. I think I am a success because of my failures.”
Nievera recently finished his stint being a judge/mentor on the recently concluded reality talent show XFactor on ABS-CBN and he shared “I think the next step is putting more emphasis on OPM by coming out with songs written by Filipinos, sung by Filipinos…I think I’ve to try develop ‘dreamers’ and I’ve learned a lot being a judge/mentor on XFactor… I want to teach these new singers to have a dream”
For hundreds of thousands of fans who have sung and celebrated with OPM’s concert king, Nievera has been a constant factor in their lives. Now here’s how he would like to thank all the fans who have been supporting him over the past 30 years. MARTIN NIEVERA 3D: Tatlong Dekada is now available in stores nationwide released by PolyEast Records. Special thanks to Discovery Suites.
MARTIN NIEVERA 3D: Tatlong Dekada is also available for download at www.MyMusicStore.com.ph and www.iTunes.com. For more information you may visit our website www.polyeastrecords.com, ‘Like’ us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Instagram.
- WALA NANG MAGAGAWA
- FAR AWAY
- ONLY IN MY DREAMS
- AFTER ALL THIS TIME
- CARRY ON
- ARE WE REALLY PRAYING
- PANGARAP KO AY MAGPAKAILANMAN
- TAKE OFF
- IKAW KAILANMAN
- ON MY OWN
- PANGAKO from the teleserye – “WALANG HANGGAN
- PAG-IBIG KO’Y IKAW
- AFTER ALL from the Teleserye – “A BEAUTIFUL AFFAIR” duet with Vina Morales
- TIMES OF YOUR LIFE from the teleserye “ LORENZO’S TIME”
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1. IISA PA LAMANG
2. YOU’RE ALL I NEED
3. MAYBE THIS TIME
4. PASKO NA SINTA KO
5. HARD HABIT TO BREAK
6. RIGHT HERE WAITING
7. WHEN I MET YOU
8. GOODBYE – Duet with Pops Fernandez
9. JUST THE WAY YO ARE
10. TIMES OF YOURLIFE
11. NEVER SAY GOODBYE
12. HANGGANG NGAYON
13. THE PROMISE
14. YOU ARE MY SONG
15. YOU’RE MY EVERYTHING


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Crawley, 39, and the former football player, 32, opened up about life outside of The Bachelorette bubble during a joint interview on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast on Friday, November 6. One day earlier, fans watched in awe as Moss proposed to the Bachelor Winter Games alum after less than two weeks. After bowing out of the reality show early, Crawley took her fiancé to visit her mom, who has been receiving care for Alzheimer’s and dementia at a facility in Sacramento, California.
“It’s brutal. Dementia’s brutal,” Crawley said on the podcast. “There was a moment where we’re going through this process where people don’t know we’re [engaged] and we can’t talk about it or anything like that. Obviously, this season there was not hometown [visits] but … it was when they were just allowing window visits with my mom because of COVID. But he had come up and had a talk with my mom.”
Though the hairstylist’s mom suffers from conditions that get “rapidly worse” over time, Moss was still able to spark a connection.
“She was like, ‘Where do you live?’ And he said ‘New York,'” Crawley remembered. “And she’s like, ‘Are you taking my daughter to New York with you?’ And he said, ‘Nope. We’re keeping her right here in Sacramento with you.'”
Crawley lost her father, James, to brain cancer in 2004 and has since spoken openly about her special bond with her mom. Watching the South Dakota native spend time with the woman who raised her only made Crawley more certain that she’d found her perfect match.
“Things like that are just reconfirming everything that I have been looking for and that I wanted in a man,” the Bachelor alum explained on Friday. “Somebody that will understand this and real life stuff. The fun stuff aside, I always said I want a guy who will be around for the hard stuff, for the nitty gritty, for when it’s not pretty, for when it’s not easy, and he’s just embodied that.”
The duo made an instant connection after meeting on night one of season 16 of The Bachelorette. Though many fans have questioned whether their chemistry will last, Moss revealed that there was never a doubt in his mind that he would spend the rest of his life with Crawley.
“After we had our first group date, in my mind and in my heart, everything was already written,” he said during an interview with Good Morning America on Friday. “So, everything after the fact validated that … I said from the beginning, ‘There was never a time I wouldn’t be there for you.’ And my heart was so full. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Never a second thought.”

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I haven't posted in a while and I apologize. I was in New York and when I got back to Tallahassee I returned to a whole ton of work that needs to be done by Monday morning at 9:00a.
First things first: New York was fabulous. I had never been and I completely loved it. I visited with my friend Joe and my old friend Kristen who I hadn't seen in four years. The conference was really fun too. I don't know much about musical theatre that is older than 1980 and the conversation was mostly situateed in the time period before that so I learned a lot. It made me want to commit much more to investigating musical theatre as I continue to write. My paper was very well received. It probably won't be published or anything, but it was cool to give a paper and get as much positive response as I did.
Theatre I saw while in New York: The Adding Machine, a musical version of the play by Elmer Rice. It was absolutely superb. I also saw Passing Strange, which is a kind of rock-concert/musical narrative about a black man's coming of age in Culver City, Amsterdam and then Berlin. It totally rocked and I loved it. And last but certainly not least, I saw a concert version of Paul Simon's musical The Capeman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The music from The Capeman is sensational, heavily influenced by Puerto Rican music and was performed by nineteen singers and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra. Paul Simon himself even came out to do a song and then again for the encore. It was awesome.
Now that I am back I am busy writing a paper that interrogates the notion of Latino "identity." It has to be standard length (15-20 pages), and it is due Monday morning. But there are lots of other things to do here, too. Our new play festival at FSU, New Horizons, is going up this weekend and I want to attend the various nights of that, and the Technical Directors have a huge party in the woods tonight which they call Meatfest. It's basically an enormous barbecue in the middle of the fucking forest. So I am trying to finish my paper, but I am a little more interested in having fun. Graduation is April 25th and I will be done with most of my work on the 15th. I want this semester to be over!
One more thing: I may be directing a Shakespeare show in Tallahassee this summer. A bunch of the students are getting together and planning it and I am meeting with them about it later today. So we shall see...


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SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — On Tuesday, Feb. 16, Seton Hall University gave back to the volunteers of the South Orange Rescue Squad with a donation of $10,263. The check was presented to Rescue Squad Capt. Dan Cohen by Tracy Gottlieb, vice president of student services, and Patrick Linfante, assistant vice president for public safety and security.
“I’m here to say thank you,” Gottlieb said, according to a release. “Every year, we rely heavily on the rescue squad, and we’re very grateful. The partnership between the rescue squad and the police and fire departments of South Orange and Public Safety is invaluable to us. We very much want to continue to work with the rescue squad moving forward.”
Cohen echoed the appreciation for the partnership between the university and outside emergency services.
“Sharing South Orange with Seton Hall University is a huge advantage for us,” Cohen said. “Volunteer Emergency Medical Services is fading in some towns, but being near Seton Hall helps us not to fade away and provides a constant stream of new member volunteers.”
Linfante also expressed his appreciation for South Orange’s emergency services.
“We have a great working relationship with the rescue squad, police and fire department,” Linfante said. “They are here constantly — between fire drills and patrols — and we very much appreciate that presence.”
Student volunteers are vital to the everyday operations of the rescue squad, Cohen said. The squad is entirely volunteer, with approximately 40 current members, including seven Seton Hall students and several alumni.
“Volunteering on the South Orange Rescue Squad provides students with a great sense of giving back. It allows them to give back to Seton Hall and to the South Orange community,” Cohen said.
Anyone who is interested in volunteering can contact the South Orange Rescue Squad at [email protected] or visit the website at www.southorangerescuesquad.org.


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West Ham United will learn today if they are to face charges over the transfers of Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez. The Premier League's legal department has been investigating the contracts and registration documents surrounding the pair's move from Corinthians on transfer-deadline day last August. If charges are brought, a three-person disciplinary commission will be convened consisting of a QC or retired judge, an independent football figure and another with judicial experience such as a retired policeman.
The league has been considering indicting the relegation-threatened Hammers under rules U6 and U18, governing club contracts and conflicts of interest, because of the opacity of the ownership of the players, who are linked with the Media Sports Investment organisation formerly run by Kia Joorabchian.
The stiffest penalty allowable would be expulsion from the competition, though there is no precedent for that. A points deduction or fine would also be a possibility but West Ham would appeal against any punitive measure. There is a feeling at Upton Park that the current owners had no part in the transfers and should therefore not be held responsible.
In any case, the board would insist that the club acted in good faith and that it submitted to the league whatever documents it believed were necessary, allowing the transfers to be ratified and registered. Eggert Magnusson stated in his first media appearance as West Ham's chairman that the club would never enter into a similar transfer arrangement on his watch.
Mascherano joined Liverpool in January - in a deal that was also subjected to intense Premier League scrutiny - while Tevez has failed to score in any of his 19 appearances for West Ham.


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Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is generally called talk therapy, and it’s one of the most commonly-used treatment, especially for stress and anxiety conditions. CBT functions by aiding you determine unfavorable thoughts as well as actions, so you can challenge their legitimacy. Then it can assist change these negative thoughts with more reasonable ones. As you resolve the full scope of unfavorable ideas that create anxiety in your life, you can develop a much more favorable as well as realistic frame of mind to assist you encounter anxiety-provoking situations with greater simplicity and convenience.
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Acceptance and also Commitment Therapy is developed to aid individuals discover and also practice mindfulness, so they can approve things as they are. Healthy and balanced acceptance indicates seeing things from a reasonable, non-judgmental viewpoint. In mindfulness practice, you focus on the info you receive from your 5 senses to assist you stay grounded in the here and now. This additionally aids you test the feelings of extreme dread that anxiousness typically prompts. When you recognize you’re not in danger, you can aid protect against frustrating feelings and future strikes from taking over your mind and body
Biofeedback is a sort of mind-body treatment in which you discover to identify and also regulate your physical actions to anxiety. An experienced therapist areas sensors on you to tape your body’s responses to demanding stimuli. After that, with method, you can discover to reduce your heart price and breathing and unwind your muscles whenever you begin to really feel anxiousness. This type of treatment will take time, yet it can be valuable for certain individuals.
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Dialectical behavior modification (DBT) is extremely efficient in instructing people to deal with the frustrating feelings that generally result in stress and anxiety. The concept behind this method includes an unusual mystery: it recommends that you need to accept points as they are to move toward transforming them.
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Talking about personal matters can be difficult to do even when talking to someone that you understand well. That can make it feel harder when talking to a total stranger.
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When one of the women returns home unexpectedly from California, all three are forced to examine their choices, loves, and lives, which have proved surprising, and in some ways, precarious. So much for St. Valentine - if the saint has taught them anything about love - it's be careful what you wish for . . .
But real love is always a work in progress - and Vonnie, Abby and Diana must learn they need to open their eyes and more especially their hearts - because St. Valentine has some unfinished business with them . . .
The Love Book tells the story of three friends, Vonnie, Abby and Diana, who first meet at boarding school and strike up a close friendship. During a school trip to Dublin they head to St. Valentine's shrine to leave their wishes for their future loves. As part of the pledge they make a pact to meet up at the same time of year every ten years to see whether their wishes have come true.
But it's quite some years, almost thirty years, before the three of them are together again as Vonnie had left Ireland suddenly to live in America leaving just Abby and Diana in regular contact with each other. However the three women do eventually meet up again when Vonnie returns to Ireland for work enabling them to catch up with everything that's happened to them in the interim, but have their lives turned out the way they wanted them to?
The three women's stories were interwoven throughout the book with chapters for each of them, as well as chapters for several other characters, plus an element of mystery with the chapters entitled 'The Affair'. We get to find out about the events that led up to Vonnie's sudden disappearance all those years ago, as well as seeing the problems that they've all been dealing with in their relationships, but it's not clear until towards the end who it is that is having the affair.
This is one of those books that once I started reading I did not want to put down, I carried it with me everywhere and read a few chapters whenever I had a few minutes to spare. Having read all of Fiona O'Brien's previous books, I can safely say that this is her best book to date and I cannot wait to read more by her in the future.
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Eden Hazard Latest – Saga Takes Another Twist After PSG Flirting
The Eden Hazard transfer merry-go-round has taken another twist after the player was quoted in the Daily Mirror flirting with a move to PSG. Where will he end up?
The Eden Hazard transfer saga has taken another twist today after the player was quoted in the Daily Mirror flirting with a move to PSG.
Lille’s Belgian wonderkid has been filling the gossip columns for over 18 months now, with all the top Premier League clubs linked with a move at one stage or another. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd and Man City have all been credited with interest in recent months (source: Daily Mirror).
The Daily Mail claimed Chelsea were closing in on the 21-year-old 10 days ago, but the quotes in the Mirror today suggest he could now be keen on a move to French giants PSG:
“Of course, the interest from Paris is tempting. Paris Saint-Germain are a great club,”
“And especially with a coach like [Carlo] Ancelotti, that makes you even more keen. Only God know where I will be playing my football in 2012 though.” he’s quoted as saying in the Mirror.
It can’t be a coincidence that Hazard is now flirting with mega-rich PSG. Last summer it seemed like he wanted to join the club of his “dreams” or one that played great football. But the more this saga goes on, the more it looks like he’s looking for the biggest pay cheque on offer.
What next? Is he going to reveal he’s a life-long Anzhi Makhachkala fan and follow Samuel Eto’o to Russia to bank £300k a week? Maybe tomorrow we’ll hear that he would be interested in joining Anelka in China at Shanghai Shenhua?
With all due respect to PSG and French football, talents like Hazard deserve to be playing at the very top and the Belgian will have a lot better options to choose from than remaining in Ligue 1. If he did move to PSG, it would be purely down to money.
Of course, teams like City, United, Chelsea, Real, etc, will offer him a small fortune as well, so i’m not sure why he’s even considering PSG. In the end, i hope he makes the best footballing decision and not one based on money, and from a personal point of view i’d love to see him in the Premier League.
It looks like the club that does end up winning this ‘race’, will have to wait until the summer though as it’s highly unlikely Hazard will be moving before the end of the season. But i’m sure there will be a few more twists and turns before this transfer saga is finally settled.
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But the show is pretty nice about it, and even gives one dude a puppy in exchange for his unwanted gift card.
Every year around this time, Ellen DeGeneres catches audience members who attended her "12 Days of Giveaways" selling their unwanted gifts on Craigslist.
Of course, the comedian doesn't go around busting these unsuspecting people herself. She has a team of trusty employees -- including her writer, Adam Yenser, and someone dressed in an absolutely absurd reindeer costume -- do the dirty work for her.
"You'd think that people would learn by now and stop doing this, but they have not," Ellen told her audience on Thursday's show. "So once again, I set up a sting operation. We emailed them and told them we're interested in buying their stuff -- but really, it was my writer, Adam, along with Comet and a camera crew."
Adam, Comet and Ellen's camera crew then proceeded to flag down a man trying to sell his mattress, a mom giving away her daughter's trip to Cancun, a woman looking to pawn her big-screen TV, and a dude trying to trade a gift card. That lucky guy got a puppy instead -- although we can't quite believe they let him keep it after the camera stopped rolling.


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New single "In the Streets" by eastcoast rapper / producer duo Tone Chop and Frost Gamble, the third to be released from their album "Respect Is Earned Not Given" out on September 29th through 22 Entertainment following "Walk the Walk" ft Kool G Rap and "Guillotine Chop" ft Planet Asia and White Rhino.
Detroit rapper ZotheJerk and NY State producer Frost Gamble, now resident in Winnipeg, release their new album "Black Beach" on Friday May 26th through 22 Entertainment.
Zo's powerful social commentary on the experience of today's "Black America" is complimented by Frost's production, infused with a mixture of soul, electronica and straight hip hop bangers to catch the mood swings.
A one time signee to the late Proof's Ironfist label and recipient of a "Humanitarian of the Year Award" for work in the community, Zo has delivered a robust and intelligent narrative reinforced by the contributions of featured artists including Slaughterhouse frontman KXNG Crooked, Brand Nubian's Sadat X, Boldy James and legendary Random Axe member Guilty Simpson.
The official album stream has been released on Soundcloud
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2 – America Made Me
3 – My Negus ft Guilty Simpson
4 – If ft Boldy James
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10 – Mother Of My Child ft Dustin Davie
11 – Whispers In The Wind ft KXNG Crooked
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13 – Keep Me Safe (co:produced by S.One)
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