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Well I have just seen it all. Brutha Herman Cain has now gotten his wife mixed up in his "PizzaGate" mess.
Mrs. Cain has gone on national television and said that the Herman Cain she knows respects females of all races, shapes, sizes, colors, religions, political affiliations, and overall appearance.
I guess that the PizzaBoy has finally realized that he just got his hand caught in the cookie jar, no pun intended.
Grey's Anatomy Mega Buzz: Is There Still Hope for Meredith and Nathan?
Catherine was ready to "call someone in"
The SWAT team discovers a new version of PCP with ties to an escaped drug dealer who created a version that ravaged the city decades earlier. Tan's personal ties to the case emerge when he brings in his mentor, Ben Mosley, the former lead detective on the (more…)The SWAT team discovers a new version of PCP with ties to an escaped drug dealer who created a version that ravaged the city decades earlier. Tan's personal ties to the case emerge when he brings in his mentor, Ben Mosley, the former lead detective on the original drug case, to help. Also, Chris weighs a major decision regarding her romantic relationship with Kira and Ty, and Hondo's patience is tested by his new familial responsibilities.
Whoopi Goldberg plays a professor whose student (Tisha Campbell) reveals that she has AIDS. Whitley: Jasmine Guy. Mr. Gaines: Lou Myers. Kim: Charnele Brown. Ron: Darryl Bell.
Jon Gregory, editor of win-that-job.com, agrees that narrowing your search according to your passions is a good starting point: “Use that information as a springboard to delve deeply into the sectors that could offer you roles that draw on your talents. Dig in and research. Approach people directly who are already doing the job you might like and ask how they got there.
“It’s common (and very frightening) not to have any idea on career direction at certain stages in your life. Don’t panic, keep calm and take it one step at a time,” he adds.
Many graduates leave university without experience in their chosen field. But experts advise getting a good grounding in the work world while still studying – even if this isn’t in the field you eventually go into. Not only will this stand out on your CV, but it might give you some direction deciding which career to pursue.
Just because you’ve studied arts and humanities at university doesn’t mean you’re limited to certain industries such as teaching, the media, or marketing. Fennell says it’s all about how you position your skills and experience.
Gregory also recommends looking back to your degree to see if there are any relevant crossovers: “Look at some of the individual subjects or modules you’ve taken and think about the transferable skills you have. Try to gain an understanding of the challenges you’ll face in the role and use that information to show how you add value to the job.
It always feels a little strange to add one’s voice to a chorus of hosannas, but I’m going to start by doing just that. Michael Lewis’ Moneyball is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Lewis’ prose is as effortless and winning as ever, his reporting is exceptional, and his account of sabermetrics (loosely speaking, the statistical analysis of baseball) is rigorous and sophisticated. At the same time, I think Moneyball is an easy book to misread. On the surface, it seems to be a paean to the singular genius of Billy Beane—the general manager of the Oakland A’s and the best baseball executive since Branch Rickey. In just a few years, Beane has turned Oakland into a repeat title contender despite working with one of the smallest budgets in the game. Unable to shell out millions for high-priced free agents, Beane has had to make do with young players (whom he can underpay because they have to stay with the A’s until they’ve been in the majors for six years) and veterans whom he can get for a song because their skills are undervalued by other general managers. He’s succeeded with these kinds of players—Lewis calls them “misfit toys”—because, discarding traditional ways of measuring performance and using a host of sabermetric tools, he has done an exceptional job of evaluating talent and of evaluating how much that talent is worth.
For all that, though, I didn’t come away from Moneyball thinking Beane was some kind of visionary with a unique talent for sizing up players and predicting their future. Instead, I came away from it thinking that what he has—and what most baseball executives don’t have—is a much simpler talent: the ability to ignore conventional pieties and listen instead to what concrete evidence tells him.
That may not sound so difficult. But moving against the conventional wisdom is a hard thing to do in any business, and it’s an especially hard thing in an industry as hidebound as baseball is. The way most baseball executives have traditionally done business is a perfect illustration of the power of ideology. Successful ideologies work by making themselves invisible, making their assertions about their world seem natural and common-sensical. As the French critic Roland Barthes put it, ideologies create everything that we think “goes without saying.” That’s how it was in baseball for a very long time (and how, in some respects, it still is today)—there have always been a host of unquestioned assumptions about what made teams successful, about what made players great, about what kinds of strategies worked. These assumptions weren’t really thought of as testable assertions. They were simply taken to be true.
What Beane did was question those unquestioned assumptions. He dismantled the conventional wisdom by asking over and over, in a systematic and rigorous fashion, “Does this make sense?” In other words, does it make sense to value great athletes who can run and hit for average more highly than we value tubby guys who draw lots of walks and hit for power? Does it make sense to draft flame-throwing high-school pitchers because their potential upside is unlimited? Does it make sense to bunt or hit and run?
The curious thing is that the answers to these questions weren’t exactly hard to come by. Beginning in the late 1970s, the writer Bill James—whom you actually used to work with, Rob—had revolutionized the statistical analysis of baseball, demonstrating that much of what we thought we knew about the game was false and, conversely, that certain things about the game were true. (Here’s a list from 1988 of 15 truths that James thought were important to know.) In most industries, the value of information like this would be quickly recognized by the market and acted upon. Competition ensures that good data doesn’t go unnoticed for long. But most of the sabermetric data did go relatively unnoticed for years, until Beane (who, remarkably, hadn’t even heard of Bill James until 1993, five years after James had stopped publishing his seminal Baseball Abstracts)decided to build a team around it.
That, ultimately, is what I like best about Moneyball: It shows that ideas matter. Beane’s a tremendously entertaining character, and he seems like a tough negotiator, too. But he keeps winning not because he’s got great instincts, but because he’s been willing to subordinate his instincts to the scientific method. By Lewis’ account, Beane is hyperemotional as a person. But as a judge of talent, he’s hyperrational. It’s almost as if he lets the data make his decisions for him.
I need to wrap this up, so let me just toss a few questions at you. You’re a sabermetrician and, as a writer for ESPN, you’re someone who deals with baseball people all the time. How do you make sense of the inertia that executives have shown when it comes to incorporating new ideas in baseball? Will all the positive attention that Moneyball is getting from the mainstream press change any of this? And can the A’s keep winning if it does?
NEW YORK — Microsoft is making a cheaper version of its Surface Pro 3 tablet computer in an effort to reach students and budget-conscious families.
Graphic artists, engineers and finance professionals needing to run complex software might still want the company”s higher-end Pro 3, said Dennis Meinhardt, director of program management for Surface. But the Surface 3 should be good for everyday tasks, he said, and brings the Pro 3”s premium feel to a device that will be affordable to more people.
Here”s what you need to know.
Priced at $499 (vs $799 to $1,949 for the Pro 3), the new tablet has a slightly smaller screen — 10.8 inches rather than 12 — a slower processor, and less flexible kickstand — just three angles rather than unlimited positions.
The new Surface model is thinner and lighter, partly because it gets rid of the fan — similar to Apple”s new MacBook laptop. At 214 pixels per inch, the screen resolution is comparable to the Pro 3”s.
Battery life is promised at 10 hours for video playback. The Surface 3 runs the regular version of Windows 8.1, just like the Pro 3. In the past, Microsoft has used a lightweight version called RT in its cheaper tablets. The Surface 3 also has a USB port, a feature that distinguishes the Surface line from most rival tablets.
Microsoft Corp. expects to ship the new device around May 5, with advance orders starting immediately. Versions with LTE cellular access will sell for $100 more at a later date through T-Mobile and Verizon in the U.S., with other carriers expected. Data plans cost extra.
Besides the U.S., the Surface 3 will be available in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Kingdom.
CALGARY — Angel Ilnisky was paying the rent and living with roommates, so she carefully saved up enough money for a five per cent down payment on a house with her partner, Michael Nicholson.
The 29-year-old respiratory therapist at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and her 31-year-old oilfield driller partner worked hard to save, but the pair of first-time homebuyers quickly realized there would be plenty of other costs involved with buying their new home.
There was $300 for a home inspection, $1,000 for the lawyer — the hidden costs of home ownership began to mount.
“You know there are going to be things that come up,” Ilnisky says. Luckily, some hail damage to the roof was covered by the previous owner’s home insurance, so it was totally replaced when they bought it — one less cost to worry about.
They also avoided $800 in moving costs by not hiring a company and doing it themselves by renting a U-Haul and getting some friends to pitch in.
“Thank God for good friends,” she says, adding free pizza and beer helped entice enough hands for the actual move-in day in September. A few items didn’t make it, but once the truck was unloaded, it suddenly dawned on them that room in a new house meant not enough furniture to fill the space.
Things such as furniture, decorations and electronics will all come with time. Studies show the first year of home ownership is especially costly, according to Tom Bzowey, vice-president of home and auto insurance for RBC Royal Bank.
“Especially for people buying their first home, there always seems to be unanticipated costs,” Bzowey says.
More than half (56 per cent) of people in a recent RBC Insurance poll said they aren’t confident they will be able to completely furnish their new home during the first month and 44 per cent said they are unsure what the total costs will be to settle into their new home.
Aside from getting friends to help with the move, there are other ways to prepare for the hidden costs of buying a new home and to save where possible.
Bzowey recommends that buyers create a checklist by going through every added expense in addition to the actual property and work it into the budget. By saving in advance and by planning for these costs, buyers can save that money before they buy and avoid any nasty surprises.
A buyer’s hidden costs — whether it’s their first home or third home — tend to be quite elevated for the first couple of years.
“We really encourage people to just get on top of that before they move so they don’t have any stress associated with . . . all of that kind of stuff,” he says.
Ilnisky and Nicholson bought a newer home they can keep for years instead of a typical starter home, but they are both still aware that things like the hot water tank or furnace may need replacing unexpectedly — adding potentially even more costs associated with home ownership.
“We wanted to make sure we had a backup fund just in case anything like that happens,” says Ilnisky, who shopped around for things such as life insurance, comparing prices and offers on everything from lawyers to home inspectors to insurance.
She also took advantage of an offer through her bank with RBC Insurance that allows her to delay payments on her home insurance for a year, but still gives her full coverage. “You shop around the find the best deal, but . . . with them putting off the insurance for the first year, it’s one less expense,” says Ilnisky, who bundled it with her other investments to bring the total cost down.
Bzowey also advises buyers to remember the non-monetary, emotional costs associated with the inherent stress of buying and then moving into a new home.
“The way that breaks down to dollar and cents is that it is stressful and any time we’re under stress we’re vulnerable to missing some of the details,” he says.
If you don’t plan in advance for the costs of buying, aside from the home, then you leave yourself open to problems that could potentially derail your homebuying plans.
Knowing in advance what you can qualify on for a mortgage is only a starting point; you need to take every cost into consideration.
Some practical tips beyond the purely financial elements to buying a home include shedding some old junk when you move by donating unused items, along with making some boxes marked to open first that include important financial documents and basic things you need throughout the day.
No matter how many details there are to deal with, Ilnisky says she would take the plunge into home ownership again if she had to do it all over.
• Home insurance is often required by your mortgage lender and provides protection against loss or damage of your property and its contents and liability claims.
Life insurance and any related types of insurance (such as disability or critical illness) helps ensure money is there to pay the mortgage if something happens to your spouse or loved one.
Mortgage loan insurance is required if your down payment is less than 20 per cent of the purchase price.
• Appraisal fees may be required if the lending institution requests that your property be appraised.
• Legal fees include reviewing the offer, drawing up the title deed, conducting a title search and preparing and registering the mortgage.
— A property survey may be required to verify the location of the property’s boundaries, measurements and structures and any registered or visible easements or encroachments on the property.
• A home inspection could help evaluate any structural and mechanical problems with the property before you purchase.
• Furniture is the most obvious additional move-in expense, as people buy new items to go with their new space and are usually made over the first one or two years.
• Top new home purchases are window coverings (59 per cent), home furniture (53 per cent) and decorating supplies (36 per cent). Luxury items like a pool table (one per cent) or hot tub (five per cent) are much lower on their list.
• Almost all of those surveyed (91 per cent) agree that moving costs can result in more stress than unpacking or adjusting to a new neighbourhood.
• Almost three-quarters (72 per cent) of women and 60 per cent of men would be excited about organizing their new home.
PRINCE Harry's American actress wife Meghan Markle was married to film producer Trevor Engelson years before she became a Duchess.
Trevor Engelson was born on October 23, 1976, in New York.
He began his career in the film industry as a production assistant, before working his way up the ladder.
Trevor is now a film producer and is most famous for the 9/11 romance movie Remember Me, starring Robert Pattinson.
He is also a manager for screenwriters, actors, novelists, and film directors in Los Angeles, California.
What is Trevor Engelson’s relationship with Prince Harry’s wife Meghan Markle?
Trevor is the ex-husband of Prince Harry’s wife Meghan Markle - now the Duchess of Sussex.
He met Meghan back in 2004 and began dating.
After being together for six years, they got engaged in 2010.
When did Trevor Engelson and Meghan Markle get married?
Trevor and Meghan tied the knot on September 10, 2011, at the Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
One said: “The ceremony was over very quickly, in about 15 minutes.
Why did Trevor and Meghan get divorced?
The source added that a long distance relationship didn’t work for Meghan and Trevor, adding: "They really battled with long distances.
Royal biographer Andrew Morton revealed in his new book, Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, the Suits actress posted back her wedding and engagement rings to Engelson after ending their marriage “out of the blue”.
In June 2018, just a few weeks after the Royal Wedding, The Sun on Sunday revealed how Engelson had proposed to his girlfriend Tracey Kurland.
Meghan's ex has been dating the 31-year-old health and nutrition expert for at least a year.
In October 2018 it was reported that Trevor has had his own fairytale ending after marrying an heiress worth $281 million five months after Meghan wed Prince Harry.
He tied the knot with Tracey Kurland, 32, after a year of dating.
The couple got hitched in a low-key wedding at a private home in exclusive Hidden Hills, California, DailyMailTV reports.
In Instagram pictures the bride can be seen wearing an off-the-shoulder, midi-length white dress.
A retired Episcopal bishop was among more than 50 protesters arrested during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York.
Bishop George Packard, who was once a military chaplain in Iraq, joined other protesters climbing over a chain-link fence.
They were trying to set up a new camp on property belonging to Trinity Church. Officials at the Episcopal church have supported the movement but said their property was not available to be occupied.
The former bishop, who was wearing a magenta cassock and attended the demonstration with his wife, was led away in handcuffs.
Just before the protest he had written on the internet: "What awaits us I do not know. I do know that for me, and the OWS, I know no violence is intended, only peaceful disobedience if it comes to that."
His wife Brook said later: "I am heartened to know he looked pretty happy in the paddy wagon."
Gideon Oliver, president of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, said between five and 10 members of the clergy were among those arrested.
The demonstrators gathered partly to mark the three-month anniversary of the US Occupy movement, and in an attempt to set up a new base.
Their original Occupy Wall Street camp in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park was shut down by police last month.
The protest movement against financial inequality spread to cities throughout the United States and other countries, but many camps have since been closed.
Almost anyone may run for mayor of Evansville without approval from party bosses or anyone else. For a minute, it might have been Mike Talarzyk.
EVANSVILLE — Almost anyone may run for mayor of Evansville without approval from anyone — but the filing deadline is noon Friday, and no challenger for Mayor Lloyd Winnecke has emerged.
For a minute, it might have been Mike Talarzyk.
Talarzyk, a 39-year-old bus driver for Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation, said he seriously considered filing for mayor as a Democrat but ultimately abandoned the idea. Instead, Talarzyk filed for one of three at-large seats on the City Council.
"I saw it was uncontested, and last year when I went to the polls to vote, I was disappointed," he said. "There was no one running for anything. It was more like a waste of time because I was eventually voting for the people who were already on the ticket, you know?
"I'd been hearing, 'No one's running, no one's running, no one's running,' and so I considered throwing my hat in the ring just so there was a contested (race.)"
But Talarzyk, who hasn't been politically active, ultimately thought better of it. Republican Winnecke has at least $614,000 cash on hand, an army of volunteers, a professional campaign organization and the support of many prominent Democrats.
The mountain was a little too high to climb.
"At this time I thought maybe getting a little bit of experience under my belt would probably be the best thing," Talarzyk said. "Maybe I should take it a little bit slower and work my way up."