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So basically, aside from a few oddities more people still watch mens tennis.
This is making up a argument out of thin air for the sake of it.
Yes. The value of the work done is how you are basing this all off of. So hence if men generate more value ( money, spectators, publicity ) They should be rewarded more.
It is economics. They pull in more endorsements and more spectators. It is like asking why Kohli should be paid more than Rahane. It has nothing to do with gender.
What's your favorite Whitney Houston song?
Fans are still reeling over the passing of pop superstar Whitney Houston on Saturday at the much-too-young age of 48 ... and the circumstances around her death keep getting stranger.
TMZ reports that multiple medicine bottles were found in Houston's hotel room, including ibuprofen, Xanax (an anti-depressant), Midol and Amoxicillin (for treating bacterial infections).
Houston's body was found in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, just hours before she was supposed to appear at a pre-Grammy gala. A law enforcement official told FoxNews.com that it may have been a lethal combination of alcohol and prescription drugs that killed the singer.
SODAHEAD SLIDESHOW: What's your favorite Whitney Houston song?
Houston had been seen at several events leading up to the Grammys with her 18-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, from her marriage to ex-husband Bobby Brown. While some reports say Houston was looking disheveled, partying and behaving erratically, others say there was no sign of impending trouble on the set of he...
"There was no evidence in working with her on 'Sparkle' that there was any struggle in her life," Bishop T.D. Jakes, a Texas minister and "Sparkle" producer, told The Associated Press. "She just left a deep impression on everybody." In November, the singer told "Access Hollywood" that she had "matured."
"There'll be the ups and downs and all-arounds. Your belief and faith and determination (is what keep me going)... it is a blessing I have a mother that is very strong and family that constantly tell me they love me."
Houston's tragic death got us reminiscing about some of her biggest hits from the '80s and '90s. From her inspiring 1986 ballad "Greatest Love of All" to her signature cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," let us know: What's your favorite Whitney Houston song?
Cape Town – Twitter was abuzz on Sunday following the decision by the head of the World Health Organisation to withdraw his appointment of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as a “goodwill ambassador”.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he decided to rescind his appointment of Mugabe, 93, after listening to the flood of outrage and concerns voiced by international leaders and health experts.
Ghebreyesus said his decision was in the “best interests” of the UN agency and that he had consulted with the Zimbabwe government about his decision.
An AFP report said that the WHO boss had faced mounting pressure to reverse the decision, including from some of the leading voices in global public health.
“The Mugabe appointment, coming at the end of (Tedros’s) first 100 days, was a misstep,” the director of the Global Health Institute at Harvard University, Ashish K Jha, said in an email shortly before the WHO decision was announced.
“Reversing will actually be a strong sign that the leadership listens and is willing to be responsive to views of the global public,” he added.
The US ambassador to the United Nations during Barack Obama’s administration, Samantha Power, tweeted: “Tedros will surely revoke terrible apptmt of Mugabe as goodwill ambassador, but damage is done.
Multiple critics noted that Mugabe, who is 93 and in increasingly fragile health, travels abroad for medical care because Zimbabwe’s health care system has been so severely decimated.
Tedros is the former health minister of Ethiopia.
His election as the first African leader of WHO was billed as a key moment for the continent, where much of organisation’s work is based.
But his decision to honour one of Africa’s most controversial leaders has raised questions about his leadership just four months into his tenure.
Volunteers with the Museum of Northern California Art placed a temporary sign Nov. 21 on the front lawn of the old Veterans Memorial Building at 900 The Esplanade. Permanent signage will replace it once the building is occupied by monca. Confident the sign is both level and plumb are Richard Macias (left) and Paul Lieb...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 \| 9:19 a.m.
A double-fatal crash has shut down U.S. 93 in both directions this morning northeast of Las Vegas, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
The highway is closed between Interstate 15 and State Route 168, the patrol said. All lanes are closed and traffic is being diverted onto 168 near Coyote Springs, the patrols said.
The crash involved four vehicles, the patrol said. Photos showed a semitractor-trailer, a pickup truck and two cars with damage.
The patrol advised motorists to use caution in the area.
It was unknown when the road would reopen.
We know so many of you are waiting for the next piece of official Final Fantasy 7 Remake news from Square-Enix or Sony. With PlayStation Experience 2017 fast approaching many of you have been expecting to see a new FF7 Remake trailer at the event.
Sadly though, unless Sony are being really cruel it looks like we may have to wait until 2018 to see the next portion of gameplay for the highly anticipated title.
Sony has just released a full list of all of the exhibitors who will be attending PSX 2017. There are some huge names on the list including the the likes of Activision, Naughty Dog, Capcom, Ubisoft, Quantic Dream, EA and Insomniac Games.
Missing from the list though is Square-Enix and it could mean that not only will we not see any Final Fantasy VII Remake related reveals, but Kingdom Hearts 3 which fans are also desperate to hear news of.
You can see the full list yourself here over at Sony’s blog if you are interested, but let’s just secretly hope that it is all part of Sony’s evil plan and Square-Enix will still be there right at the end.
In an event where we have seen some amazing reveals down the years recently, are you disappointed that it could be another event without seeing new footage for Final Fantasy 7 Remake?
Let us know your thoughts on this in our discussion section below.
Canada was one of the first countries to go completely crazy for Facebook and now the social network is saying we’re leading the charge with mobile usage, too.
There are 19 million Canadians who access Facebook at least once a month and 14 million who log in every single day, says Jordan Banks, the head of Facebook Canada.
Those numbers haven’t really changed since the summer, when Banks last gave an update on user counts, but mobile is growing.
The number of users who log in with a phone or tablet at least once a month is now at 15 million, up about 15 per cent from 13 million.
And the number of mobile users accessing Facebook daily is up about six per cent to 10 million, from 9.4 million in August.
“Essentially we’re getting 50 per cent of the Canadian population on Facebook every day and the exciting part for us as marketers is that when you look at the composition of how those people are accessing Facebook, it’s more increasingly on a mobile device than ever before,” says Banks.
There’s a reason Banks is excited about Canadians’ increasing use of apps.
Facebook reported that in the fourth quarter of last year, mobile ads generated 53 per cent of its revenues. It also marked the first quarter that it saw mobile revenues cross $1 billion (U.S.).
“We’re now making more money on mobile devices than we are on PCs and this mobile revolution is really taking hold in no other country as aggressively as it is in Canada,” Banks says, noting that growing smartphone ownership has made Facebook all the more addictive.
“You look at Internet usage in Canada, one out of every five minutes is spent on Facebook (according to measurement firm comScore) and predominantly on the Facebook app.
While many users continue to complain about seeing ads in their news feed, Banks says the ratio of placing one advertisement among every 20 posts isn’t hurting engagement numbers.
And that’s because Facebook’s algorithms are doing a good job of finding relevant matches for advertisers and users, he says.
“Lots of times you’ll talk to people and they’ll say, ‘I don’t even see ads, where are your ads?’ and that to us is the greatest compliment because ultimately what we’re trying to do with ads is make them not loud and obnoxious and intrusive,” he says.
Facebook says about 70 per cent of its North American users who log in monthly have willingly connected with a local business. And Banks says most Canadian businesses are now using Facebook for marketing.
MERRIAM, Kan. — And now, a report from the Midwest, where a gangly hope has arrived in the form of children enrobed in various assortments of khakis and blazers, because six teenage boys are running for governor of the state of Kansas.
The would-be boy governors of Kansas. This was a funny concept for a while, and then it became absurd, and then a national tragedy happened and it became not funny but actually an emotion approaching tender, even aching.
But on the Monday before Valentine’s Day, as a half-dozen minors vied for the highest office of a state that had never bothered to codify any gubernatorial age requirements, it was still absurd. And so on that afternoon, while a suburban mom named Carrie Stracy debated whether to make meatloaf or use up the salmon in t...
Regarding the “Kansas Experiment,” a tax cut enacted by former governor Sam Brownback (R) that left the state topsy-turvy with ballooning class sizes and shuttered social programs — “I am most certainly against that,” Tyler said.
Tyler was a long way from his party’s nomination, but he did have a slogan — “A Republican for the Next Generation” — and he did have a website, and he did have an 11-year-old sister named Sadie who had taken to wearing a pale blue T-shirt reading “Ruzich for Governor,” especially when she heard company was coming.
Tyler was technically the second teenage gubernatorial candidate to join the race. The first was Jack Bergeson, a 16-year-old Democrat from Wichita, who declared partly to offer a full-throated Obamacare defense — the Affordable Care Act helped his family — back in the summer of 2017. Tyler heard of Jack through social...
The third teenage candidate was Ethan Randleas, a 17-year-old Wichita Libertarian. The fourth was Dominic Scavuzzo, 17, a Republican from Kansas City; Scavuzzo’s classmate Joseph Tutera, 16, became the fifth a few weeks later. The sixth was Aaron Coleman, 17, a Green Party candidate, although several of the others conf...
Still, it could be said with certainty that either five or six teenage boys were running for governor in the state of Kansas.
They had come to mean something. They had come to reflect the morass of the country. Fifteen months ago, Donald Trump had won the presidency based on the idea that politics were so corrupt, Americans could only trust an outsider with no experience. But Trump’s popularity had never expanded much outside of his base, and...
The aspiring boy governors had been to debates. Granted interviews. They traveled in a pack dressed in their best sport coats — the kind parents buy teenage sons, with room to grow in the sleeves, giving the illusion that the candidates themselves were proper-sized; it was their clothing that was too big.
At around 4:30 p.m., Carrie knocked on her son’s door frame.
“Did you find someone?” she asked.
A few hours before, a producer from Soledad O’Brien’s news show, “Matter of Fact,” had called, inviting Tyler to Washington for the show Thursday morning. The producer offered the stipulation that Tyler needed an adult chaperon. Carrie said she could chaperon while Tyler’s stepdad watched Sadie, but offered the additio...
Eventually, with no luck, Tyler pulled on his parka and drove to the store, rationalizing that it would be harder for co-workers to turn him down in person. “I’ll just wander,” he decided, scanning the aisles and spotting a kid in an apron.
The swap arranged, Tyler grabbed a Sprite and took it to a register where an older woman named Sherry was rubbing her lower back.
“Tyler!” she said, perking up as she scanned the soda.
One of the things Tyler appreciated about HyVee was how he got to interact with people of all ages. He liked his colleagues, how they came from different walks of life.
The next morning, Tyler got up and drove to a nearby Steak ’n Shake. The aspiring boy governors had been invited to debate each other in a little town called Hillsboro, and Tyler planned to carpool with Dominic.
“Got it,” said Dominic, whose gubernatorial preparation had involved working at his mom’s frozen yogurt shop and joining his school Spanish club.
Dominic laughed. A byproduct of the boy governors’ youth: outsiders had begun to think of them as a unit, as if they all belonged to the same political party, called “Young.” But they believed in different things.
Tyler was the most liberal of the Republican candidates. He supported “LGBTQ-plus rights.” He supported protecting the Ogallala Aquifer, the water table beneath the Great Plains states. At debates, Tyler often found himself tangling with Ethan the libertarian, who opposed him on almost every issue.
The only thing that they agreed on was that the lawmakers making decisions about the state’s education didn’t have to go to the state’s schools. And that the politicians running the country weren’t the ones who were going to inherit it. Wasn’t it a civic responsibility for the teenagers to become politically involved?
If they didn’t change things, who would?
“Have all the TV people been reaching out to you?” Dominic asked as they drove past flat fields and rusty water towers. Dominic told Tyler he’d gotten a call from Lionsgate.
“Lionsgate?” Tyler repeated. He wasn’t sure about the people wanting to make movies. It was hard enough to be taken seriously without bringing Hollywood into the mix. Especially for the Republican candidates. While Jack, the 16-year-old Democrat, had been invited to participate in events with the party’s older candidat...
On a more serious note, he wanted to talk about governmental transparency, he told the reporters. On a more serious note, he wanted to talk about how his party could connect more with young people. On a more serious note, could they have a conversation about net neutrality, and how he saw its repeal as a way of taxing ...
Tyler and Dominic arrived at the Hillsboro debate a few minutes late, victims of a faulty GPS, and by the time they got to the high school auditorium, Ethan and Jack’s running mate, Alexander Cline, were already onstage (Alexander later described Jack’s absence as an “unavoidable scheduling conflict,” not mentioning ma...
“That’s why you subsidize them,” offered Tyler, joining him on the stage.
“Tyler, do you plan on keeping conceal-carry laws the same? If not, what do you plan on doing to change them?
After the debate, the candidates posed for a photo, and then Dominic and Tyler drove home and Tyler went to his job and spent the next five hours standing at a cash register, ringing up ice cream tubs and packages of frozen chicken.
Tyler and his mother were driving to the airport the next day, Valentine’s Day, when his phone buzzed with a news alert: Police were seeking an active school shooter in a Florida town called Parkland.
By the time they checked in for their flight to Washington, Tyler’s phone told him the death toll was rising. He thought about his own school. What if the shooter had been there, and Tyler had been caught, hiding for his life? Or what if, because he’d skipped his last class to make it to the airport, he’d been safe whi...
By the next morning, the teenage students of Parkland were already making their voices heard. Tyler watched as David Hogg went on CNN and implored lawmakers: “We’re children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action.” There were videos of bloody bodies on Snapchat, and Tyler was putting on his blazer and g...
Jack had been invited, too, and the two sat in armchairs across from their interviewer, who for once didn’t ask whether they were old enough to drive.
Tyler and Jack told her they both believed in gun-control measures.
Did Tyler realize, O’Brien asked, that this put him in opposition with most Republicans?
Tyler had bags under his eyes, and AP exams he needed to register for, and he needed to be back in Kansas by that evening because he had to be in school the next morning. His voice was a little hoarse.
Was that the right answer to have given on national television? He wasn’t sure. It was what he believed. Why couldn’t any of the adult politicians seem to say what they believed, he wondered. The kids were all saying what they believed. Whatever the consequences, the kids believed in something.
Tyler spent the rest of the week following the news back home in Kansas, along with all of the other boy governors.
In quieter moments, when he wasn’t trying to spin things, he admitted that his chances of winning were not very good. But then again, he would turn 18 by the time the primaries rolled around this summer. And because of that, he at least had already registered to vote.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CN) – Missouri jailers accused a pregnant woman of lying about contractions and forced her to travel three hours in a van while shackled, chained, bleeding and vomiting, she claims in court.
Megon Riedel sued Jackson County and three Doe jailers on Thursday, for cruel and unusual punishment she received as an inmate at Jackson County Detention Center.
Riedel claims that on Oct. 4, 2012, a doctor at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City told a jail guard who had taken her to the hospital that she was in early stages of labor and that the jail needed to have plan in place in case she went into labor and needed immediate medical attention. Riedel was in her late third t...
At 5 a.m. the next day, as Riedel was bleeding vaginally and having frequent contractions, guards ordered her to pack her belongings and forced her to walk unassisted to the van. She says she had to stop every few steps due to pain and contractions.
“Hurry up,” one officer said, accusing her of lying about her contractions and pain.
The jailers then shackled and chained her while she was in labor and drove her to the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correction Center (WERDCC) in Vandalia, Mo., three and a half hours away.
During the 200-mile ride, Riedel says, she pleaded that she was in labor and needed to be taken to a hospital. She continued to bleed vaginally and vomited in the back of the van.
The staff member immediately called for medical attention, and Riedel was rushed to a hospital, where she delivered her baby that same day.

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