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Plenty of new research underscores the reality that women are still shouldering, and expected to shoulder, much of the work associated with the home. Credit: Source link The post Gender letter: Does ‘Having It All’ Mean Doing It All? appeared first on Newsa.co.network | Latest News Headlines . The post Gender letter: Does ‘Having It All’ Mean Doing It All? appeared first on Newsa.co.network | Latest News Headlines . source https://newsa.co.network/gender-letter-does-having-it-all-mean-doing-it-all/

The blockbuster community got busted. The movie industry has continued to claim that white actors sell more tickets, despite the smash successes of “Get Out,” “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” all of which featured primarily nonwhite casts. Now, a new study — using data collected from the 2014 Sony Pictures hack — reveals that diversity actually makes bank, and Hollywood execs might be just plain racist. The Sony emails leaked by North Korean hackers revealed intel such as international profit and loss statements, financial statements and emails between executives debating Denzel Washington’s profitability. Using this information, Northeastern University assistant professor Venkat Kuppuswamy and University of Oregon researcher Peter Younkin found conclusively that diversity is more profitable in the US and abroad. “Diversity has a premium both domestically and abroad,” says Kuppuswamy. “Even the argument that foreign box-office figures would be hurt by diverse casting is fa...

Out of necessity, the Texans adapted. Their 20-13 victory against Buffalo on Oct. 14 heralded a philosophical shift. Since then, Houston has attempted the fewest passes in the N.F.L. From studying the Texans, Orlovsky has detected more presnap motions and dual play-action to slow defensive linemen. The Texans’ rushing success has amplified their commitment to play-action passing, and in those circumstances over their last seven games Watson ranks among the league’s best in passer rating, yards per attempt and touchdown passes, according to PFF. Now and beyond, the Texans accept their responsibility to optimize Watson without exposing him to unnecessary danger, a task quarterbacks coach Sean Ryan described as “a happy challenge.” In their parlance, they remind him to recognize when the journey’s over — to duck, slide, fling the ball away, do whatever necessary to evade contact instead of initiate it, as he did in a Week 5 win against Dallas that battered him with a broken rib and a pa...

A researcher has uncovered fascinating new details about the construction of ancient “pyramids” in China. There are over 40 “pyramid” mausoleums in China, which are huge artificial earth hills. Only two of these sites have been partly excavated, according to Giulio Magli of the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, author of a new study on the pyramids. The research, which examines the role of astronomy and Feng Shui in ancient Chinese necropolises, used satellite data and field surveys to collect a wealth of information on the archaeological sites. One of the sites is the pyramid tomb of China’s First Emperor Qin Shi Huang, which is guarded by the famous Terracotta Army. In a study published in the journal Archaeological Research in Asia, Magli notes that the ancient Chinese pyramids fall into two categories. One group of tombs is oriented “with good precision” to the cardinal points of north, south, east and west. In a statement, the researcher explains that, like their count...

Natalie Portman is captivating as a damaged electro-pop star known as Celeste in “Vox Lux,” a flawed, flashy drama from actor/director Brady Corbet (“The Childhood of a Leader”). But she doesn’t appear until nearly an hour into the film, which begins with a prologue on her origins (she’s initially played by Raffey Cassidy, who doubles as the pop icon’s daughter in the second half). A violent high school tragedy sets the teen Celeste and her sister Eleanor (Stacy Martin) on a path to martyrish stardom after a song they compose about it quickly goes viral. Soon afterward, slick management appears in the form of Jude Law as an alternately paternal and predatory handler. Willem Dafoe provides the voice-over, narrating Celeste’s rise to fame as if in a “Behind the Music” special. But the film yields no insights into stardom’s perils that surpass, say, the recent Netflix documentary on Lady Gaga’s life. Like Gaga, Portman’s Celeste is at her most interesting onstage in full glam, givin...

But that hurdle is not insurmountable. Ten of the past 11 winners played for teams in the South or Southwest. And ultimately, since everyone is from somewhere, regional bias in Heisman voting should cancel itself out — particularly in a year, like this one, when the top points-getters are from different regions. In contrast, Kopkin saw regional bias have a more decisive influence in, say, 1993, when the top three points-getters all hailed from the South. The overall victor, Florida State quarterback Charlie Ward, actually lost his own region to runners-up from Alabama and Tennessee. He stacked his points in other regions, Kopkin speculates, partly thanks to Florida State’s membership in the predominantly Mid-Atlantic Atlantic Coast Conference and the Seminoles’ prodigious number of nationally televised games. If there is a bellwether region, meanwhile, it is the Northeast, which is New England and New York. It contains just 34.6 million people and only six F.B.S. members (and merely...

The Justice Department has not revealed what Huawei was doing to run afoul of the sanctions. Chinese companies regularly do business in Iran, and much of that trade complies with sanctions regulations. The question appears to be whether Huawei sold technology from the United States to Iran or violated sanctions in some other manner. While the case involving Ms. Meng is related to the unauthorized sale of equipment that could violate sanctions against Iran, F.B.I. counterintelligence agents and federal prosecutors began building criminal cases against Huawei’s leadership in 2010, according to a former department official. The effort was led by United States attorneys in offices where Huawei has facilities, including Massachusetts, Alabama, California, New York and Texas — offices that were chosen this fall to lead the Justice Department’s efforts to combat Chinese national security threats. As the F.B.I. looked into Huawei, its investigators grew concerned that company officers were...

Princess Gloria speaks from experience. Despite being raised a Catholic who spent summers with her grand aunt, a Benedictine nun, in the Black Forest, as a young woman she was less than serious about religion. At 19, the young aristocrat met the 11th Prince of Thurn und Taxis, the 53-year-old Johannes, before a Supertramp concert in Munich. In 1980, she married the eccentric and bisexual nobleman, whose family made a fortune as the postal service for the Holy Roman Empire. She then became the It Imperial Girl of the ’80s, hanging out in the clubs with Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol (he “went to church every day,” she says) and really anyone else you can think of. In 1990, her husband died, leaving her as a young widow and mother of three with hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. She got herself a business education, took the ancestral palace public, auctioned off the silver, jewels, wine and some of the art, and saved the family’s fortune. She credits the turnaround to “the grace of...

Get ready to make some noise: Grammy is inviting more people to the party. Last year’s “Best New Artist” winner Alessia Cara joined forces with Shawn Mendes, Janelle Monáe and Apple Music Beats DJ Zane Lowe Friday morning to announce the 2019 Grammy Award nominations. The big news: The Recording Academy has upped the number of nominations in its big four — Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best New Artist — from five to eight “in order to better reflect the many entries in these categories.” The Recording Academy’s 61st annual Grammys telecast airs February 10 on CBS at 8 p.m. Eastern and 5 p.m. Pacific. Until then, check out this full list of nominees; we’re updating in real time so keep checking back: Album of the Year H.E.R. – “H.E.R.” Brandie Carlile, “By the Way, I Forgive You” Drake, “Scorpion Various Artists, “Black Panther: The Album” Kacey Musgraves, “Golden Hour” Post Malone – “Beerbongs & Bentleys” Cardi B – “Invasion of Privac...

After calling Dewey and writing him a letter of explanation, Horne also sent a large “Navy 1968” blanket in place of the parka that never showed up. (Horne graduated in 1968.) His wife, Pam, cross-stitched a note to the blanket that said, “For A Great Win,” and included the date and score of Army’s victory. Horne included an apology. “Honestly, ‘most’ Midshipmen are much more trustworthy,” he wrote. Dewey appreciated the gesture — all of it. “He could’ve just opened that letter I sent to him in 1965, laughed and threw it away,” Dewey said. “But there is honor, and we were trained to be gentlemen, so it makes sense that he didn’t.” Now, all these years later, a friendship is emerging. Betting by the two academies on the Army-Navy game is less formal than it used to be, but that hasn’t deterred Dewey and Horne. The two, who are both 72, have placed a new bet with each other, waging a steak dinner on this Saturday’s Army-Navy game in Philadelphia. Dewey will watch in Santa Barbara w...

It might depend on the starting point. Barry B. Bannister, head of institutional equity strategy at Stifel, tells Peter Eavis of DealBook that the Fed’s main policy rate, the federal funds rate, was in effect significantly lower in the years after the 2008 financial crisis than the actual rate. Call it the shadow rate. “The economists Jing Cynthia Wu and Fan Dora Xia used the yields on government bonds to calculate a shadow fed funds rate. Their intent was to estimate what that rate would have been if it could have fallen below zero,” Mr. Eavis writes. “In the years after the crisis, this shadow rate fell as low as minus 3 percent in May 2014.” Why that matters now. “The Fed has taken the fed funds rate from zero in 2015 to 2.25 percent today. But using the shadow rate, the Fed has effectively taken that rate from minus 3 percent in mid-2014 up to 2.25 percent today, a much greater increase, and one that might now be pressuring the economy.” A note of caution: From a growing G....

Every race meeting, we have around 800,000 to 900,000 people searching for information on our website, and a lot of them spend three or four hours in this mind-game exercise. People have a gaming propensity, so we provide the information which we think is relevant to them and attractive to them, so they engage with our game. Is owning racehorses popular in Hong Kong? Horse ownership is extremely prestigious here. We have more people who want to have a horse than can have a horse. Every year, we can bring in 350 to 400 horses, but we have 1,200 to 1,300 applications for a horse. We did introduce a special replacement permit where you don’t have to go through the normal process. If you retire a horse and you bring in a horse of at least Group 3 quality, you can do this at any time. We have driven the quality up. Hong Kong is unique in that it has no breeding program, so how do you recruit and care for racehorses? It’s a huge education exercise with owners about what types of horses...

Beauty Generation will not be the only horse Moore saddles during the Hong Kong International Races, which also feature the Hong Kong Cup, Sprint and Vase. Collectively, they are worth 93 million Hong Kong dollars ($11.9 million). Moore is the only trainer to have won each of the races at least once, but as a defending champion, Beauty Generation will be the focus from his stable. “One of the things that makes Hong Kong racing great is returning champions like Beauty Generation,” Nader said. “About 98 percent of the horse population here are geldings, so horses have long careers. The fan base can really connect to the top horses, and it is exciting to see a horse like Beauty Generation take on the best in the world.” Moore, who comes from a respected racing family and began training in Hong Kong in 1985, remains a dominant force, but his tenure as a trainer there is nearing its end. Under Hong Kong’s rules of racing, he must retire in 2020. “The retirement age was previously 65, bu...

Big bids . . . they’ve had a few! Personal items belonging to Frank Sinatra and first wife Barbara went up for auction Thursday — some of which quickly fetched more than a half-million dollars. Buyers at Sotheby’s Upper East Side venue and online around the world vied for the chance to own a piece of Ol’ Blue Eyes, with the biggest bidder shelling out $687,000 for a Norman Rockwell painting of Sinatra that the legendary crooner commissioned directly from the legendary artist in 1973. Among other items that went under the gavel was a baseball signed by members of the 1980 LA Dodgers, a concert poster from Sinatra’s historic two-week run of shows at The London Palladium in 1950, and a “USA Drinking Team” jacket that he had made for him and his closest friends. The one Sinatra wore had the word “Coach” stitched in. The collection raked in $3.1 million Thursday, and $7.8 million in total following the sale of Barbara’s items Wednesday, including the 20-carat diamond engagement ring he...

Aretha Franklin’s “Amazing Grace” documentary was long held up from release due to technical and then legal issues. But 46 years after being shot, it premiered at the DOC NYC festival last month, before its weeklong run at Manhattan’s Film Forum, starting Friday. The long delay, insists Franklin’s niece Sabrina Owens, was never about her aunt having creative differences over the movie, which captures the recording of her “Amazing Grace” gospel album at Los Angeles’ New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in 1972. “Aretha always loved the film — she told me that,” says Owens, who is executor of Franklin’s estate. “The issue with her obviously wasn’t the content.” The family gave their blessing for the film’s release after they screened it at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, just weeks after Franklin’s death in August, from pancreatic cancer. “We all thought that, yes, it should be out there,” Owens says. “It’s one thing to hear the album, it’s anoth...

A form of artificial intelligence is being used to surface job candidates with the attributes of a perfect fit, even without conventional credentials. Credit: Source link The post A.I. as Talent Scout: Unorthodox Hires, and Maybe Lower Pay appeared first on Newsa Latest News Headlines . The post A.I. as Talent Scout: Unorthodox Hires, and Maybe Lower Pay appeared first on Newsa Latest News Headlines . source https://newsa.co.network/a-i-as-talent-scout-unorthodox-hires-and-maybe-lower-pay/

The draft report did say CBS was justified in firing Mr. Fager for sending a threatening text message to a CBS reporter who had asked him for comment after The New Yorker reported allegations of inappropriate behavior against him. Two days after he sent the text, investigators wrote, they asked him about it and he denied sending any message. After Mr. Fager was presented with a printed version of the text, he “admitted sending it and acknowledged that it could be perceived as threatening.” They wrote that they believed his lying, too, was grounds for dismissal. In his email, Mr. Fager said: “We built a broadcast made up of fine men and women who do quality work. It hasn’t always been perfect and, like anyone who has been in a leadership position, there are things that I would do differently, including the angry text I sent to a CBS reporter. My intent was only to demand fairness in the coverage of a news story, but I regret the manner in which I accomplished that.” The investigator...

They didn’t put a dime in her jukebox, so now she’s suing. Legendary rocker Joan Jett’s record label is suing a payroll software company saying it ripped off her chart-topper “I Love Rock N’ Roll” for a TV ad. The new Manhattan civil suit says Paycom approached Jett’s Blackheart Records Group in July seeking to use the song for an ad campaign. No licensing deal was reached — but just two months later the software company aired a spot tag-lined, “Get your employees rocking with Paycom,” with music that is “virtually identical” to Jett’s 1982 hit, the suit says. “Paycom’s version of ‘I Love Rock N’ Roll’ replicates the instrumentation — snare drum, bass drum, hand claps, bass guitar and multiple overdriven electric guitars — arrangement, and the ‘total sound and feel’ of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ recording of ‘I Love Rock N’ Roll,’” the suit says. “Paycom digitally manipulated its version … to precisely replicate Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ recording in order to unfairly pr...

Thiemo Fetzer, an economics professor at the University of Warwick, has found that a significant number of people voted for Brexit not because they were ideologically opposed to the European Union, but rather because they wanted a way to protest after austerity cuts had left them feeling ignored by the government. Those same voters, he says, are now the most susceptible to doubts about Brexit being the best path forward, suggesting that, for them, pocketbook issues outweigh ideology. Perhaps reflecting those changing attitudes was well-regarded work by Survation, a research firm, that showed support for leaving had fallen around 10 percentage points in Sunderland since the referendum. This was not a traditional opinion poll, however, but an estimate based on responses from 20,000 people nationwide that were combined with information about the demographics and voting history of local areas. At Pop Recs, a music shop and cafe near the bus depot, three people who voted to stay in the E...

Kenneth Brinson, a senior linebacker at Army, and his teammates were 2-10 as freshmen. With a win over Navy, they can close their senior season at 10-2. Credit: Source link The post On College Football: The Beginning Was a Blur, the Ending May be Unforgettable appeared first on Newsa Latest News Headlines . The post On College Football: The Beginning Was a Blur, the Ending May be Unforgettable appeared first on Newsa Latest News Headlines . source https://newsa.co.network/on-college-football-the-beginning-was-a-blur-the-ending-may-be-unforgettable/

Director Rene Perez was in a bar in Spain a few years ago when he spotted a Charles Bronson photo on the wall. He asked the bartender why he didn’t recognize the movie it was from. For good reason, the bartender told him. It wasn’t Charles Bronson. Turns out, it was a picture of Robert Kovacs, a performer at a local Wild West stunt show. Intrigued, Perez met with Kovacs and later flew him from Spain to California to star in last year’s “From Hell to the Wild West.” So began the unlikely career of the Hungarian Charles Bronson. Robert Bronzi, as he’s known, now has a second film, “Death Kiss.” Directed by Perez, it’s an obvious, albeit low-budget homage to Bronson’s 1974 “Death Wish” in which Bronzi plays a mysterious vigilante who protects a mother and her child. “So many people from many countries and all walks of life contact me and say they are huge fans of Bronson and really enjoy what the movie has done,” Bronzi tells The Post from Hungary. “The movie makes them feel like th...

While the new laws were unpopular enough to unseat incumbents, Mr. Merry said, they contained a seed of McKinley’s tariff evolution. As the United States was beginning to export more goods, he was becoming a believer in trade reciprocity. “Reciprocity was the idea that we believe in high tariffs, but we also see that America is becoming this machine of productivity, both farm goods and industrial goods,” Mr. Merry said. “He came around because he began to see the merit and the need in America becoming a trading nation.” 1897-1901 By the time he was sworn in as president in 1897, after a turn as governor of Ohio, McKinley’s trade views were starting to shift, and they were reflected in another trade law that year. “There was a reciprocity element to the 1890 bill, but it never got much attention and he insisted it be in the 1897 bill,” Mr. Merry said. McKinley was becoming an advocate of lowering trade barriers through reciprocal agreements. Both the 1890 and 1897 b...

You’re not going crazy if you think your go-to coffee dollar menu order seems more expensive than it used to be, as a new study suggests that America’s biggest fast-food chains are indeed hiking prices. According to a report from food research group Datassential, the median price of a fast-food hamburger in the US has leaped 54 percent through the last decade to about $6.95. Similarly, the median price of a chicken sandwich was reported to be up 27 percent, as per Bloomberg, with both sums surpassing inflation during that period. Why? Chains like Chick-fil-A, McDonald’s and Burger King are simply trying to keep up with their fast-casual competitors like Shake Shack and Applebee’s, Today reports, which are successfully charging customers more for what’s billed to be a higher-quality product. “Consumer dining behaviors and habits are lending themselves to increased costs and rising prices,” global restaurant consultant Aaron Allen told the outlet. “You used to go to fas...

In addition to her husband, Dr. Schwartz is survived by their daughter, Emma; their son, Eli; her mother; her brother, Mark; and her sister, Susan Schwartz. In 2011, Dr. Schwartz and her husband were named directors of the Center for Medicine and Media, which is supported by, among others, the National Institutes of Health. She, Dr. Woloshin and Dr. Welch collaborated on the books “Know Your Chances” (2009) and “Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health” (2011). “Lisa never lost her capacity to be truly angry about corruption, misinformation and lack of scientific rigor in the system,” Robert E. Drake, a fellow Geisel School professor, said in his eulogy. She warned that too many people were being treated on the basis of CT scans even though, she said, the scans cannot distinguish a progressive cancer from a nonprogressive one. In 1999, she criticized the imminent issue of a postage stamp that said “Prostate Cancer Awareness: Annual Checkups and Tests...

Scientists may have found a reason why you can’t stop pinching the cheeks of adorable babies. Researchers at Yale University describe this phenomenon as “cute aggression.” They studied the brains of 52 participants via electrophysiology and found that people has a strong reaction to pets and humans with more infantile features. “The Yale researchers initially found that people reported feeling cute aggression more in response to baby animals versus adult animals,” Katherine Stavropoulos, a special education professor at the University of California, wrote in a press release. “But even beyond that, people reported feeling cute aggression more in response to picture of human babies that had been digitally enhanced to appear more infantile, and therefore ‘more cute,’ by enlarging features like their eyes, cheeks, and foreheads.” The study also saw that respondents felt more overwhelmed and wanted to take care of cute baby animals over less cute adult animals. Stavropoulos argues that...

Under the proposed law, most abortions up to nine weeks of pregnancy would be conducted with pills prescribed and monitored by general practitioners. Beyond that time, women would have to go to hospital obstetrics departments. Brendan Crowley, an anti-abortion doctor, said that many of his colleagues, including some who disagree with him on abortion, shared the view that a general practice was not the appropriate place to provide abortions. Many primary care doctors lack the necessary training, he said, and already operate with too few resources and too many patients. “We accept the democratic vote in May,” Dr. Crowley said. “We accept this is happening and we are not trying to be obstructive. But the large proportion of G.P.s would prefer an external clinic setting for abortions.” But Mike Thompson, a leader of Start, a doctors’ group that favors abortion rights, said he believed that anti-abortion doctors had a political reason for wanting to limit abortion to specializ...

A Haitian boy received a life-saving treatment after a series of miraculous encounters – with a Christian missionary, a Jewish doctor, and a Muslim family – but it wasn’t easy. It started when Barclay Stuart, a missionary from Calvary Chapel Brighton in Colorado, met John Olivier, a nine-year-old native of Haiti better known as “Little John,” on two separate trips, and he made it his mission late last year to help him get treatment for a growing, life-threatening tumor that was affecting his speech and the way his teeth were aligned. “I told God that I obviously can’t do this on my own and that if He helped Little John, that I would humbly serve and do whatever He asked of me,” Stuart told Fox News. Before he left even left the Port-au-Prince airport, he got an answer. In the cafeteria, Stuart bumped into a tall man who was part of a medical humanitarian group, Medical Aid to Haiti, who explained they had an oral surgeon on their trip this year. “We have a boy that needs a miracl...

The economy is growing, but not all Americans are reaping the benefits — and many are still living in hunger. One in 10 adults (nearly 15 million people) and one in six children in the US have gone to bed hungry at some point in the past 3 years, according to a report from anti-hunger nonprofit Hunger Free America released Wednesday. Nearly 8 percent of older Americans (adults 60 years and older) lived in “food insecure” households during the same time period. One in 10 seniors age 60 and older rely on food stamps, a previous study from Food and Research Action Center concluded. The Hunger Free America report examined hunger in America between the years of 2014 and 2017, when the economy was “still booming,” Joel Berg, chief executive officer of Hunger Free America said, and found that hunger rates have yet to return to pre-recession levels. “We can only imagine how much more suffering there will be when the next inevitable recession or depression occurs if we don’t fix the struct...

Planet Earth has added a few more friends to its list of 8.7 million-known species. Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences officially identified 229 new plants and animals in 2018 — more than doubling the 85 discovered in 2017. Over a dozen scientists from the Academy and several dozen international collaborators have identified 120 new wasps, 34 sea slugs, 28 ants, 19 fish, seven flowering plants, seven spiders, four eels, three sharks, two water bears, one frog, one snake and one seahorse. “Biodiversity scientists estimate that less than 10 percent of species on Earth have been discovered,” Dr. Shannon Bennett, the Academy’s chief of science, said in a statement. “Each species discovery may hold the key to groundbreaking innovations in science, technology, or society and helps us better understand the diversity of life that makes up thriving ecosystems.” One discovery left researchers so excited they barely noticed an approaching predator. Academy scientists explorin...

A man who went into the hospital with heart problems ended up literally coughing up a lung. The 36-year-old was admitted to University of California San Francisco Medical Center with heart failure. The patient had a pacemaker fitted due to a history of poor cardiovascular health, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. During his first week of treatment, he began coughing violently, according to reports. And in the midst of one coughing fit he hawked up a bronchial tree – a series of tubes that distribute air to the lungs. The unnamed patient died a week later. The journal says he had a rare ejection fraction deficiency – a term for how much blood is pumped with each contraction. His was around 50 percent less than the normal rate. During the week, he had been coughing up blood and mucus, increasing the strain on his lungs. Doctors were treating him with oxygen tanks. You can’t actually cough up a whole human lung, which is too large to fit through the trachea. But...

Pig hearts could soon be transplanted into humans with cardiovascular issues after a breakthrough study. Scientists kept two baboons alive for more than six months after the hog heart op — three times longer than the previous best effort. The monkeys were still healthy when the experiment ended and experts say the success of the research could lead to similar procedures on human patients. In the study, published in the journal Nature, scientists genetically-modified the pig hearts to reduce the risk of an immune reaction. The baboons were also given drugs to prevent rejection and stop the donated organ growing too big. Previous transplant experiments between species had lasted just 57 days. But one of the baboons studied by a University of Munich team led by surgeon Bruno Reichart was still going strong after 195. Christopher McGregor, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at University College London, hailed the study as a “significant landmark.” And Professor Jeremy Pearson, of the Bri...