Spirrs Supports Hollywood Unites for Haiti

April 20, 2009 by Spirrs Guy
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Spirrs Coverage of the Inaugural Setanta Cup.

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Press Release:

Setanta Sports, a leading broadcaster of Barclays Premier League soccer in the US and Official Sports Channel of the Field House at Chelsea Piers, announced today that it will be hosting the first annual “Setanta Cup” to celebrate its roll-out into the New York area. This all-day soccer festival will feature tournaments for youth (U-10 to U-14) and adult teams, with proceeds from team registration fees, merchandise sales and raffles going to the nonprofit organization, Hollywood Unites for Haiti and the Chelsea Piers Scholarship Fund.

The day featured a star-studded exhibition match, presenting the world-famous soccer club, Hollywood United Football Club. HUFC’s famed dazzling line-up included:

Anthony LaPaglia (“Without a Trace”), Brandon Routh (“Superman”), Jimmy Jean-Louis (“Heroes”), Steve Jones (“Sex Pistols”), Youri Djorkaeff and Frank LeBoeuf (Former French Players and 1998 FIFA World Cup Winners), Gilles Marini (“Sex and the City”), Ethan Zohn (Co-founder Grassroot Soccer and “Survivor Africa” Winner), Costas Mandylor (“Saw”), Donal Logue (“Life”), Richard Gough (Glasgow Rangers, Scottish International), and Marc Consuelos (World Renown Actor).

But the real highlight of the day was the nonprofit organization all this publicity aimed to promoted, and that was the Hollywood Unites for Haiti Organization, who’s missions is to promote sports and cultural activities for the underprivileged youth of Haiti.

What HUFH’s founder Jimmy Jean-Louis had to say about the event, “Haiti has suffered many set many setbacks in its rich history and yet the Haitian people have never lost the character to face adversity with creativity, resilience and community. Events like the Setanta Cup raise money that will help brighten their hearts and minds of kids and encourage them to build confidence, competence and community.”

To learn more about Hollywood Unites for Haiti, Click Here.

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Looking For Flights Yet?

January 13, 2009 by Spirrs Guy
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So, you’re looking for a flight to South Africa? Prior to my trip over there I spent many hours looking for deals and prices changes from many different sites. My advice is start with what you are used to or the sites that you most frequently book with and one that you are familiar with. Take a look at the prices, schedules, different airlines, stop-overs and transfers. Once you have a good grasp on the overall price range of the ticket for that particular time period then you can begin to shop around and explore other booking websites for some possible deals.

Don’t just settle for the cheapest ticket, ‘cas it might waste a lot of precious travel time.

Here’s what you do:

Look to buy tickets at least 21 day in advance. This will be considered an advanced purchased ticket. As we know they will only go up the closer you near take-off, seeing spikes at 15 days prior and even a bigger one 7 days prior.
Use travel search engines. These are your usual Orbitz, Priceline, Travelocity and cheapOair.com . Use the search engines you are familiar with to get an understanding of what the prices are looking like and overall travel stop, transfers and layovers. NOTE: Search tickets that depart from other local airports around you. Also, try searching tickets with different departing dates.
Next search the search engines that searches the traval search engines. You might have seen new flight and travel search engines that simultaneously search a whole bunch of discounts sites. If you haven’t try Kayak.com for example, they’ll search Hotwire, Priceline, Expedia, Travelosity, and Airfare.com all in one shot.
Search airlines directly. If you see a ticket price that interests you, go directly to that airline website and look up that flight. This can save you some handling and other charges from the travel websites.