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"But, well, it is an open secret that everyone knew. The transfer [fee] is to be paid this summer. I am very happy at Sevilla, they received me with open arms, and I hope to keep paying them back for many years."
The sale will mean that Liverpool will take a £3m hit on 27-year-old who joined from Celta Vigo in 2013.
That history is just starting for this new drama-filled series.
As in sports, this game is all about getting that “W” and this pack knows how to play the field. Jump into the competitive, fast-paced, glamorous world of “WAGS” when the new series premieres at 10 p.m. ET/PT Tuesday, Aug. 18 on E!. The show follows WWE “Total Divas” on E!.
A lot of them also like to watch Stone Cold Steve Austin. Blank is no diffierent.
Blank, 28, noted Stone Cold Steve Austin as her favorite wrestler growing up -- something which led to the athletic beauty giving the pro wrestling/sports entertainment business a shot and inking a deal with WWE at just 19.
Whether she’s promoting “WAGS” or not, but she is currently promoting “WAGS,” she would love to be a guest on his podcast. Maybe word will reach him.
They share a WWE and sports bond. Austin played football in high school and college. Blank’s athletic background includes competitive gymnastics for 11 years, competitive cheerleading, track and softball while living in (North Florida) Jacksonville. A University Christian School graduate, she attended nearby Florida Community College of Jacksonville, working toward a degree in broadcast journalism.
Many family members (dad, aunt, uncle, cousins, sister) live in Miami. Her father moved to Miami after she graduated high school, and Blank lived there a year.
“I loved Miami,” she said.
Blank spent just six months in college, before WWE came calling.
A very pretty young lady with a great figure, Blank modeled bikinis for Hawaiian Tropic and Venus Swimwear.
Former ECW original and WWE superstar Tommy Dreamer became her big brother, helping her transition into the pro wrestling/sports entertainment world. She began as a ring girl while learning the in-ring wrestling skill.
John Laurinaitis, who signed her, Rob Van Dam, Sandman also assisted in her maturation process. A 19-year-old fresh out of high school involved in the macho world of pro wrestling/sports entertainment, she had lots to learn inside and outside the squared circle.
On the flipside, Blank loved performing.
“I loved coming out through the curtain and hearing the crowd chant your name and scream for you and cheer for you,” said Blank, a former WWE divas champion. “It’s the best feeling. It’s a feeling I can’t explain, but it’s the best feeling in the world.
Blank was into pro wrestling/sports entertainment. Hockey, not so much.
Turnabout is fair play. He did not know much about WWE, a place she called home from 2006-12.
His mom was a huge wrestling fan [Blank giggles], who started watching again when her son started dating Kelly Kelly. Every Monday his mother (her new No.2 fan) made sure to phone Kelly Kelly for the scoop on the superstars and divas of WWE.
The happy couple (Blank and Souray) met through a mutual friend in Tampa, where Blank lived.
That mutual friend will be her maid-of-honor. Wise choice.
Former WWE divas Layla and Maryse [Miz’s wife] are in her wedding party.
The WAGS life has plenty of perks, but the diamonds and mansions don’t come easy. These women are constantly strategizing and fine-tuning their playbooks to keep their place in the line-up among the other WAGS, and to maintain the high-profile celebrity lifestyle that comes along with that role.
In this 8-episode series, E!’s WAGS are faced with tough decisions as players change teams, forcing some to decide whether or not to uproot their lives and move across the country. Additionally these women are constantly working to find ways to balance their own careers and interests with the demands of their partner’s sports schedules.
And while one WAG is planning her magical wedding, another one’s fiancé is getting cold feet. E!’s WAGS are bonded together by long-time friendships, but rank has its privileges in this group, and the competition to rise to the top and be “queen” of the WAGS brings plenty of drama.
Barbie is engaged to Sheldon Souray (most recently of the Anaheim Ducks) and the two are actively planning their January 2016 wedding in Cabo! Barbie is a former WWE Diva known as “Kelly Kelly,” who made her debut at only 19 years old. She performed from 2006-2012, which included being the Diva’s Champion in 2011. As a former athlete herself, she’s not a “typical” WAG, but with the pending wedding, Barbie is very excited to move up the hierarchy chain and legitimize her WAG status.
Autumn met Seyi Ajirotutu of the Philadelphia Eagles in college, and the two are now married with twin girls. After leaving the San Diego Chargers, Seyi recently signed with the Eagles and now Autumn is faced with having to decide whether to uproot her family and turn her life upside down to move to Philly. Autumn has always loved to party and is finding it difficult at times to transition from that life to being a new mom.
Sasha is the queen WAG of the group, married to a 5-time All Pro Player from the San Diego Chargers who has a multi-million dollar contract. She was featured in music videos until she met her husband, but now she’s a doting wife and mother to a little girl with another one on the way. However, Sasha still has her own interests as she starts looking into a music career. She also has a children’s clothing line called Wittle Ones, with best friend/business partner Autumn Aijrotutu, which features cute football clothes for kids.
Ashley North is a WAGS descendant (her father was a Major League Baseball player who played for the SF Giants, Oakland A’s and Chicago Cubs), who gets a lot of great advice from her dad on how to navigate this competitive world, including an emphatic warning not to date athletes! However, Ashley chose not to heed his advice – she has been with Dashon Goldson of the Washington Redskins for over 11 years and the two have a young daughter together named Charly. They have been engaged for a year, but Dashon's hesitation with locking in a wedding date is a serious cause for concern. Outside of her "role" as a WAG and mother, Ashley is trying to balance her own career as a celebrity stylist whose clients have included Kevin Hart, Justin Bieber and J Cole among others.
Nicole has been dating Larry English of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for four years now, and she is ready for that ring! She is a gorgeous, successful working model who is always on the road traveling for jobs, having modeled for Old Navy, Gucci, La Senza, Macy’s and more – she was even tapped to appear in Robin Thicke’s “Treats” video. While she prides herself with having her own life, Nicole tries to keep Larry on a short leash as she struggles with the “jersey chasers” who follow these NFL players everywhere they go!
Natalie and Olivia are gorgeous, cousins and best friends who launched a beauty and fashion blog together that proved to be so successful, they are taking it to the next level – but mixing family and business is always a challenge! Natalie's boyfriend is Shaun Phillips who has played for the Denver Broncos, Tennessee Titans and Indianapolis Colts. They have been together for 2 1/2 years and while Shaun is looking to take things to the next level, Natalie is very independent and has to figure out how to balance this relationship with her own career plans, especially now that she has reached “Instafame” with a million Instagram followers! Olivia is single and a hopeless romantic, but will only dates athletes. She has been linked to players from the Denver Broncos, San Diego Chargers and Los Angeles Clippers!
Don’t miss a minute of the action as E! gives you a front row seat to the real competition when “WAGS” premieres 10 p.m. ET/PT Tuesday, Aug. 18.
Follow the show handle @WAGSonE and join the conversation using the hashtag #WAGS.
“WAGS” follows WWE “Total Divas” on E!
E! programming includes core franchises "E! News," "The Soup" and "Fashion Police," popular series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," "Total Divas," "#RichKids of Beverly Hills," "Botched" and "House of DVF," as well as the network's first original scripted series "The Royals." Additionally, E!'s "Live from the Red Carpet" signature events keep fans connected to their favorite stars on pop culture's biggest nights. E! is a network of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience.
E! Entertainment is a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies.
'My customers no longer have access to something that was really helping them.' Officials in Ohio raid CBD sellers, order products removed.
CBD products "embargoed.'' Health officials identified, itemized and removed CBD products from store shelves.
State and local officials have begun cracking down on Ohio retailers selling products infused with cannabidiol, otherwise known as CBD.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture is working with health departments and police agencies throughout the state to "embargo" products containing CBD, according to a statement from the Cincinnati Health Department.
The embargo process involves identifying, itemizing and even removing CBD products from store shelves, according to the statement sent to The Enquirer Monday evening.
Kate Zaidan, owner of Dean's Mediterranean Imports in Cincinnati's Findlay Market, said city health inspectors visited her store Friday and told her to stop selling CBD products or risk having her inventory embargoed.
Touted as a cure-all for numerous ailments, edibles and other non-intoxicating products infused with CBD derived from hemp have become wildly popular.
Last year, CBD sales in the United States approached $900 million and are expected to grow to $2.1 billion by 2020, according to a report by market intelligence firm, Hemp Business Journal.
Under pressure from the health department, Zaidan said she immediately removed all CBD products from her store, which was among seven Cincinnati retail food establishments that were identified as potentially having CBD products for sale and were inspected by health officials.
Three of the facilities either didn’t have CBD products in stock or had discontinued sales; three, including Dean's, removed their products from display; and one facility had its products "embargoed" involuntarily, according to the health department.
The retailers were allowed to keep embargoed items on-site as long as they were not displayed for sale.
Enforcement officials said they were acting in accordance with the state law establishing Ohio's medical marijuana program, which strictly prohibits CBD sales outside the state's 56 licensed dispensaries.
The Ohio Board of Pharmacy - one of three state agencies regulating Ohio's medical marijuana program - reminded retailers of the restrictions in an advisory issued last fall.
At the time, the pharmacy board said it would leave enforcement actions up to the discretion of local authorities.
In addition to cracking down on sellers, the state agriculture department has also been working with local health officials to investigate suppliers.
Agriculture officials said they recently informed Queen City Hemp, based in Over-the-Rhine, that its CBD Seltzer water hadn't been properly inspected by its Division of Food Safety as required under the law.
Officials are trying to determine "if they (Queen City) knew they were supposed to have their product inspected'' said Mark Bruce, a department spokesman.
Queen City CEO Nick Balzer declined comment Monday and would not say whether he believed his company had been singled out for inspection.
Balzer was one of a number of CBD suppliers to publicly defy the pharmacy board advisory, telling The Enquirer last year he believed his products did not fall under the purview of state regulators because they're derived from industrial hemp.
Hemp is a cannabis plant. But unlike the cannabis plants used to produce mood-altering medical marijuana products, hemp is not psychoactive and contains only trace amounts of THC - the compound that gets you high.
CBD derived from hemp is also protected under the 2018 Farm Bill, which allows hemp and hemp products to be produced and sold throughout the United States.
Each state must submit a plan to license and regulate hemp and have it approved by the USDA before hemp can be grown.
But Ohio has not set regulations for hemp under the 2018 law.
In the meantime, the state's medical marijuana regulators insist they have ultimate authority over CBD sales and production because state law doesn't distinguish hemp from other cannabis plants.
With an estimated $ 10 billion to flow back in the Indian defence market through the offset route, the Union Cabinet has approved guidelines for defence public sector units to set up joint venture companies with “fairness and transparency” in selecting the partner.
One of the first beneficiaries of the new policy will be Bangalore-based Bharat Electronics Ltd, whose joint venture with French armament major Thales was put on hold pending the Cabinet approval of the new policy as proposed by the Defence Ministry, sources told Deccan Herald.
As per the guidelines approved by the Cabinet on Thursday, DPSUs will retain the “affirmative rights” for taking key decisions in the JV companies.
Following a controversy in the selection of joint venture (JV) partner by Mumbai-based Mazgaon Dock Ltd, the Defence Ministry temporarily stopped clearing all JV proposals and drafted a guidelines to enhance fairness and transparency in identifying the JV partner, define the scope of the JV, having an exit option for defence PSUs and regular reporting on the functioning of the JV to the ministry.
Last year, India’s largest warship manufacturer Mumbai-based Mazgaon Dock Ltd and Gujarat-based Pipavav Shipyard announced the formation of a 50-50 joint venture for sharing the work on the warship-building contracts received by MDL, whose order book value is close to Rs 1 lakh crore.
But other private shipyards like Larsen and Toubro and ABG Shipyard protested alleging that MDL did not provide a level-playing field.
Another private shipyard, Bharati even refused to acknowledge the announcement and wrote a letter to MDL asking for the deadline for the submission of proposals for the joint venture even after the announcement of the partnership. Once the complaints reached the ministry, the Defence Ministry decided to fully examine the issue and come up with the guidelines. All defence PSUs were asked to put their JV proposals on hold till the new guideline receives Cabinet approval. India has emerged as one of the world's largest military markets where deals worth billions are on the table.
One of the biggest defence deals will be purchase of 126 fighter jets from French company Dassault Aviation at a cost of $ 10 billion. And if the Indian Air Force decides to give a follow on order of 63 more similar fighters, the deal will be close to $ 20 billion.
Other multi-billion dollar deals in the pipeline include purchasing of artillery guns, a large number of medium-lift, heavy-lift and attack helicopters and a six more diesel-electric submarines in addition to six Scorpene submarines, which are being manufactured at MDL.
Year-round college? Sign me up.
Going to college in the good old summer time may sound like punishment for an out-of-control social life. But to a growing number of students and administrators, summer is their open-secret advantage.
Take, for instance, Greg Talbot. Most freshmen will arrive wide-eyed at the University of Florida in Gainesville a few weeks from now. Not Mr. Talbot. He got a jump start by enrolling in summer classes in June. Now he's on campus, primed, and ready for his second semester.
Then there's John Xuereb, a senior at West Chester (Pa.) University who will graduate in three years instead of four. The savings: $10,000, all thanks to summer classes.
Oh, and don't forget the "free lunch." This summer was the third year in a row West Chester offered free room and board to help lure 1,229 (up from 970 last year) undergraduates back for summer classes.
Higher education is notoriously slow to embrace change. Tradition says that September-to-May is the time to learn. But prompted by everything from improving bottom-line efficiency to making more courses available to all students, colleges and universities nationwide are tossing convention aside and offering a slew of new for-credit summer classes.
The swiftness with which summer is being utilized for more solid undergraduate studies suggests that a 12-month academic year could become widespread early next century, some say.
"Life-long learning means full-time, year-round class schedules," says Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers in Washington.
"A decade ago you might have only anecdotal examples of serious summer programs," Nassirian says. "But the higher-education community is responding." One indicator of the growth of summer programs is that about 80 percent of American public universities and colleges now offer summer enrollment to freshmen, compared with roughly 50 percent in the decade prior to that, says Stanley Henderson, associate vice president for enrollment management at the University of Cincinnati.
Some colleges have long had substantial summer programs for high school students. And most public universities long ago began renting empty dorms to pro football teams, conferences, or anyone who wanted a few soft summer courses. It was an easy way to earn extra cash. Yet with a surge of applications causing long waiting lists at some universities, the idea of raising cash and enrollment capacity by aiming summer classes at a schools' own undergraduates has taken off.
"It basically expands our university capacity," says Elizabeth Capaldi, provost of the University of Florida, of the computer system and expanded summer schedule. "We're not completely full in summer. If we had a bigger budget we would do more. We already turn down many students who are terrific. The more we can do with summer the better."
A few years ago, long lines of students waited to register for courses at the University of Florida, but often discovered that popular courses during the regular academic year were filled by the time they made it to the front. So the university put in place sophisticated computer enrollment-management software, not unlike that used by the airline industry, to fill seats at optimum time and price. Expanding course offerings across the summer to help smooth out bottlenecks was key.
Today the lines are gone. Students register in their dorm rooms using a Web site. The computer guarantees each will get a seat - although it may allocate them to summer classes at least one year, something public university students in Florida are required to do by law.
Dr. Capaldi and other University of Florida officials speak of emulating in higher education the "just-in-time" processes of American manufacturing that assure efficiency: minimizing inventory, maximizing productivity, and customizing products to the needs of consumers. Admitting new freshman year-round is key, so 2,259 were accepted last summer, and 135 last spring.
Besides making possible nontraditional enrollment seasons, Capaldi says expanding the university's summer offerings and adding computerized registration has allowed students more flexibility, too. Since many must work year-round to earn money for tuition, studying in the summer allows a student to spread course loads across the entire year. They adopt a "lesser level of intensity," she says. And because they pay per credit hour, the cost is the same.
Steven Katona, president of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, says expanding his school's summer programs to include undergraduate classes was a step toward "intellectual continuity."
West Chester University officials also say their summer "free room and board" program has been a smash hit. It has pulled in hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the big plus is that it helps assure students they can graduate in four years even if they fall behind.
"It's giving them a chance to catch up or go a course or two ahead to help them graduate on time," says Thomas Purce, assistant vice president for student affairs at West Chester.
Mr. Xuereb agrees. "There's a lot packed into the three weeks or a month, so you have to be on the ball," he says. "I think more students should take advantage of the summer if they can. The free room and board doesn't hurt, either."
Numerous Seattle business owners have been putting up “no-parking” signs to ward off the homeless people living in RVs near their property. They’ve recently been informed by the city via letter that such signs are a “public nuisance” and must be removed.
The parking signs in question were ones that informed people that they’ll be towed if they park there, and that only back-in-angle parking is allowed. SDOT threatened Hoffman with citation, and said the owners would have to pay for the removal of the signs.
Having the RVs towed has been a legal grey area ever since a King County Superior Court Judge ruled that a vehicle could be considered a home, and that moving them forcibly violated the state’s homestead act.
Hoffman believes his own 14th amendment rights concerning equal protection under the law are being violated. He says SDOT hasn’t returned any of his phone calls since he’s received the letter, and he’s concerned about the numerous derelict RVs populating the SoDo area, along with the garbage and related crime they leave behind.
“They’ve caused damage to nearby buildings, they’ve blown up before. It’s really dangerous, the drugs, the prostitution, everything else that’s going on there,” he said.
Hoffman previously clashed with the city over the RVs parked at two Jewish cemeteries overseen by the Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath Synagogue board, which led to garbage, needles, and prostitution on the grounds. The $230,000 claim of homeless-related damage was rejected by the city.
For now, Hoffman approaches the vehicles and asks them to leave, mentioning they will be towed if they don’t. He hasn’t heard back from the city as of yet, and plans to keep the signs up.
“You guys can come down and make me pull down the signs,” he said.
MyNorthwest also reached out to SDOT for comment, but has yet to hear back.
If you're a Canadian and you own a cell phone, you probably don't need an official report to tell you that you're paying way over the odds.
A glance at your monthly phone bill should be more than enough to remind you that Canadians really do pay some of the highest prices in the industrialized world for this basic necessity of modern day life.
Further confirmation of this recently arrived in the form of the 2015 Wall Report, an official price comparison analysis jointly commissioned by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and Industry Canada.

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