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How Do We Start The Process of becoming Problem Solvers?
By Dr. Jazzy
Dr. Jazzy
How do we begin the process of seeking justice for all people, focusing on the people at the bottom first?
What think tanks are focusing on solving this world problem, mistreating people, especially people with
color in their skin?
Cynique
LocationThe great prairie state of Illinois
First of all, we stop thinking of Life as a movie where things follow a plot that ends with the problem being resolved. Random luck plays a part in the course of events. Concrete plans become fluid because of extenuating circumstances which involve solutions to problems giving rise to more problems. Justice is very elusive and Equality is a myth.
Observe the pure primitive society of the animal world, where the law of the jungle prevails and is unwavering. Only the strong survive and sometimes strength involves the ingenuity of symbiosis. For humans, the perfect world will never exist because Life is not fair. IMO
Admittedly, I am an Existentialist. and since nobody else has responded, that is my input. Maybe an optimistic visionary will enlighten us as to how to succeed where others have failed. Praying folks can also chime in.
@Dr. Jazzy, system is screwed. There is very little we can do, within this current system, to provide justice for all people. It was not designed to do that. Ultimately this system will crash and burn, hopefully what emerges, as a result, will be better that what we have now. That is the mostly likely outcome IMHO.
Alternatively, there is a shot at effecting positive change in the current system, but we would have to eliminate all of the corporate monopolies that control our media and effectively our government. But as wealth disparity increases this seems very unlikely.
The Hares had/have a think tank http://aalbc.com/authors/nathan-julia-hare.html
What you you think?
Cynique I would agree with you if you replace "evil" with "strong."
7 hours ago, Troy said:
LOL are you talking about me saying "only the strong survive"? And did you mean to say replace "strong" with "evil" instead of "evil" with "strong"?
Come on, not everybody who survives is evil. And just because people are weak, doesn't mean they aren't evil.
the system is screwed. There is very little we can do, within this current system, to provide justice for all people. It was not designed to do that. Ultimately this system will crash and burn, hopefully what emerges, as a result, will be better that what we have now. That is the mostly likely outcome IMHO.
Will a Bernie victory be a precursor to that scenario? I think the nation will be ripe for upheaval after the upcoming elections but in an article i recently read, the author said that this national unrest is much ado about nothing and that when the smoke clears, everybody will just get on with their lives. Maybe we are in a panic mode because of the MEDIA whipping the population into a frenzy
By doing exactly what we are doing. What is not being acknowledged is the progress that has been made. And the issues ae part of our discussion.
It should be acknowledged that the poorest People of colour are doing better than most.
Yes Cynique people willing to exploit others do quite well in this country, often better than people who would treat others more fairly. The election of Obama was a strong indicator that the country wanted a change. The rise of Trump and the popularity of Bernie is more of the same.
Sure progress has been made but you can't ignore the fact that many of those gains have been reversed. "...the poorest [sic] people of color are doing better than most." You are the "most"? Who are you comparing poor people of color to Del; poor white people, poor people in other countries, poor people of the past??
Posted April 2, 2016 (edited)
The world and the past.
Edited April 3, 2016 by Delano
First we have to define the scope structure frame of the problem.
The Hare's have written many books on many topics about the Black problem, but there is still the question of how is the process of becoming problem solvers to begin, if we cannot come up with a solution to treating all people fair, especially all of the people who need the help the most. Can these dry bones live?
Do you have a solution, Doctor Jazzy? The monumental scope of this problem is mind-boggling. It should be obvious that, if after all this time, the problem hasn't been eliminated, then elimination is not a part of the solution it's part of a self-perpetuating problem.
If we look closely at the Big Picture, we will notice that the world is in a state of flux; variables abound, and human beings vacillate. One thing that is constant is a desire to thrive, Another persistent factor is a vulnerability to corruption. Just because people are deprived, doesn't make them immune to sin. The "have-nots" want to become "haves" so they, too, can wield power and indulge their greed and manipulate justice. If the "have-nots" become the "haves". there's no guarantee that the situation will improve. Whomever is in control is who reaps the benefits of power and the wherewithal to oppress. The way of the world...
I've come to the conclusion that since their organizations and demonstrations and charismatic leaders are just going in circles, Blacks just have to concentrate on their personal sphere of existence, try not to burden themselves with a lot of baggage, and use whatever resources are available for them to get ahead. Millions of them have done this. The newly-elected Democratic candidate for Chicago's Cook County States Attorney is a young black woman who grew up in Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green projects, the child of a single mother drug addict.
I know what I am saying is just hot air to you, Doctor Jazzy. So cool me off with some answers, instead of questions.
Pioneer1
Well first of all, if you're an AfroAmerican........
Stop worring about ALL people.
Because ALL people ain't worried about YOU.
Various groups both inside and outside of America are concerned about thier own plights and the future of their own progeny. Our problems as AfroAmericans are unique and trying to beg everyone to join in with us to help solve some "universal" problem of injustice will just add to the confusion that already exists.
AfroAmericans need to work on getting more economic and political POWER and the justice will come.
The quicker we learn and accept this, the less time will be wasted.
You can sit around "brain storming" solutions all day long, but at the end of the day if you don't have the POWER to enforce any of those solutions and make them work....what good is it?
All that arm-chair philosiphying is worth little more than hyper-active day dreaming unless you have POWER.
CDBurns
LocationMemphis
These are the questions we get all of the time. Everyone discusses the topic, but when I look at it I always come back to the same solution: reestablishing responsibility. The only thing a person really has control over is their own circle. If I start a business and it inspires my mother-in-law to start a business and then my sister-in-law starts a business I've created change in my circle and this has radiated out and it may create more change.
It's like when people ask teachers how can the school system be fixed? My response is better parenting. If a parent isn't capable of being stronger and better, then what will happen? The quick answer is you get a few kids like the Cook County sister who grew up in Cabrini who make it through. What typically happens though is the kids just don't have a real chance when the parenting is not very good. It doesn't take money to be an attentive parent or to do better parenting either. It takes a real understanding that a kid needs to be heard. Is it easier to be an effective parent when you aren't worrying about eating? Of course, but at the same time the Black family has to re-learn cohabitation.
My family was poor just like most kids in my neighborhood. The difference was everyone lived in the apartment and everyone shared parenting duties. So Big Momma, Auntie, and Big Sister all supported Momma when she couldn't be there. The whole house all participated in the child rearing and there wasn't a father around. The only type of guy that was around tended to be the preacher and the reason he was effective is because he worked and held a job as well as ran the church, but today the preachers don't work so the church is not as vital and now, people don't live with each other so kids are really alone when the parents aren't there. There isn't a system of support. You can't trust the next door neighbor and the lack of community and family fails the parenting system.
I guess I'm rambling, but 40 years ago, even the poorest kid in our neighborhood, knew they were going to get one good meal from the church each week and that if things were really tough they could go next door or across the street and eat a little. There weren't any dads around, but there was a community. The community center had free one lunches in the summer and in the fall, people pooled their money together to help out.
You ask how can we fix things? I say it happens from the inside out. As we fix our families, the communities get better and the people get stronger. It's a lot easier said than done.
Cynique that's à tight piece of writing. The difference between the greedy power obsessed and your average person is opportunity. So what you are talking about is more power for the group, that you are a member, and by extension your crew. Which is generally the way. The rebels get corrupted.
On 4/1/2016 at 0:52 PM, Dr. Jazzy said:
The problem that is confusing the people of the world is mistreating people, especially people with
color in their skin? How can we start the process of solving this problem?
Brother Burns
I agree with you in theory that fixing the families is a start in the sense that a more stable home produces more stable children.
However, the West prides itself on individualism and sexual freedom. Which inevitably leads to a substantial amount of out of wedlock births and high divorce rate.
Broken families pretty much comes with the territory of a free and open society.
So unless we make it some sort of LAW that people must marry before having sex, or atleast before having children and then make another LAW forcing the parents to stay together to raise those children.....perhaps we may have to look at changing the very SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE this society was based on to begin with.
Perhaps it's time to REPLACE the "nuclear family" as ideal or standard, and find a new family structure that is more befitting of our current social reality.....no?
When I say nuclear it isn't in the traditional sense at all. I'm talking doing what Latinos and Asians do, live in the same home with extended family. People think it's some secret that Asian families build wealth quicker. My experience in Cali and with my next door neighbor here in Memphis is Asians will buy a four bedroom, two bathroom house by pooling resources. 3-4 families live in that one house and they all pay rent. With four families paying the mortgage and sometimes doubling up on the mortgage (in Memphis my mortgage is barely 1000 for a three bedroom two bath on a quarter acre for a 2500 sq/foot house) and the house is paid off in 5-10 years. They then invite family to purchase another house. Are all of them doing this? No, but what they (latinos and Asians) have done is say they aren't worried about what the government or the higher ups can do for them, they are doing for themselves.
My own family is actually looking at doing this here. There is a 500,000 dollar house 6 bedrooms, guest house and all of that. Split level. I'm looking at renting out my current home, and my mother in law, sister in laws and my family are looking into purchasing that house because right now combined our mortgages/rents total right under 4000 per month. We could get this home for right at 3000 and pocket 1000 as a family.
When I say nuclear I'm talking the extended family of coaches, teachers, neighbors that has pretty much deteriorated. What I'm really getting at though is how family members, even poor ones live in six different residents because they can't get or along or have too much drama, etc. When even if that family only made 1000 per month they could share expenses with another family. Right now I'm shooting from the hip and just typing,but I think you get what I'm saying. Our people are so fractured that I don't think we even consider taking three single parents and sharing a house because inevitably we think something would go wrong. On my street in all black and all white Memphis I'm seeing more Latino and Asian families buying property. There are 4 cars in the driveway and slowly those four cars become two cars and another home is purchased. Meanwhile we are sitting around waiting on Obama and the government to kick in and give us reparations and make things equal.
Mel Hopkins
LocationAtlanta Metro
17 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:
perhaps it's time to REPLACE the "nuclear family" as ideal or standard, and find a new family structure that is more befitting of our current social reality.
No need to replace the "nuclear family" as an ideal or standard. Simply make room for other structures. One structure doesn't fit all. I'm not interested in marriage and sorry I did it in the first place. I'm better suited as a single. But I digress. I was my daughters' custodial parent - and I co-parented with my daughters' dad. I didn't need to live in a home where a marriage wasn't conducive to everyone's well-being. Today, I have a peace of mind; my daughters are happy, healthy and successful adults. I'm still not a grandmother, but oh well. My daughters were more concerned about letters behind their name than in front of it. I say this to say - non traditional families are not the source of the downfall in society nor are non-traditional families the downfall of black people in America...
According to the U.S. Census there are still more white people/families living below the poverty level in America than black people. (Not sure, however, if money will make a difference in this scenario) And single black women on average make more money today than they did as 1/2 of a nuclear family. By the way there are more single people today of any race than there are married couples, so there's that.
Here's what I believe is plaguing society... Lust. Not sexual lust but lust in the real sense of the word. Most of society wants to satisfy an unmet emotional need. Many of us only want to feel pleasure. No rejection, no longing, no hurt. No one wants to experience any emotion other than "good". Even me, as I mentioned. Why should I experience the aggravation of marriage when I don't have to... I found more pleasure in backbreaking labor pains, child birth, including a caesarean section and raising my daughters to adults than having to live with and struggle with someone who was raised differently.
Therefore, in an effort to become problem solvers, collectively, we need to grow a vagina. I was going to write "grow a pair" but then I realized testicles are too delicate - only vaginas can take a licking and keep on ticking. Seriously, though it takes grit, fortitude and confidence to solve our own personal problems. Then and only then can we become problem solvers to change the world. And right now we are in short supply of people who are emotionally ready and available to do it.
LOL. Please keep sharing your thoughts with us, Mel. You're such a refreshing addition to the roster. What you say is so true.
I've watched the first two episodes of Dancing with the Stars and I found it really interesting to observe how the celebrity contestants react to the critiques of their performance by the 3 judges. You could see it in the anxious faces of both the males and the females, the effect praise and rejection for their performances had on them. Here they all are, "rich and famous" yet insecure and fragile. It's like they all needed love and approval sooo bad. Another show I watch is Family Feud, because it is so spontaneous and offers such insight into how people's minds work when they have to think on their feet. I have never heard such stupid crazy answers in my life. And Steve Harvey's reaction is so priceless. As dufus as he is, even he is non-plussed. Sometimes the ones who give the most logical answers are those who you least expect to, while the "smart ones" flop.
I also agree with you that marriage is not for everyone and the family does need to be re-defined since the hunters and gatherers' dynamic no longer applies. IMO, there's so much child worship in the current generation of parents and there was a lot of living through their children in the preceding generations. I don't think it's healthy for a mother or her child when the child becomes the center of its mother's universe, or becomes an accessory.
When I was younger I used to wonder why Black people couldn't live together and pool their resources together like the Mexicans or Asians, now I know why.
Blacks from Africa can do it because they're used to it....but those of us born and raised in Western society are to individualistic and need too much "space" to live like that and raise our children in that environment. Most Whites couldn't live like that either, which is why they invented trailer parks...lol.
Now many of our people DID do it temporarily when they came up from down South.
My mother and her sisters and brothers would each come up from Mississippi and stay in an established brother's spare bedroom or basement or whereever and when they got a job (which was plentiful at that time) they'd pay some rent and eventually move out to buy their own home.
But the society and economy was different back then. There was more of a family spirit.
Like I said, even White people born and raised in America or Europe can't live together in groups like Asians and Mexicans do because they aren't used to those type of impoverished social conditions where people are sleeping on top of eachother, using the toilets right behind eachother, and even wearing the same underwear...lol.
We have to gradually get to the point of communal living.
But I do think living in groups WILL be the family of the future.
Sort of like the extended family but only you get to CHOOSE your extentions rather than being born with them.
BTW, at this point of Black economic development....monetary reparations would probably help more Asian and Arab proprietors in the ghetto than the people they were intended to help.
If you notice, I didn't say replace the nuclear family period but replace it as the STANDARD or IDEAL.
I envision a time when just about ALL family types (except those of the pedophilic type) will be permitted in society whether it's extended, nuclear, man with man, woman with woman, man with several women, woman with several men.....or people just by themselves.
However the law of social averages DEMANDS that one type predominates.
As I mentioned to CD, I believe the NEW prevailing family of the future America will be the GROUP FAMILY where you have several men and several women together living under an arrangement and taking care of the children and eachother.
I completely agree. We've been taught that having your own makes you a man/woman.
6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:
This is not an entirely new concept. Back in the '60s, the hippie lifestyle included groups of men and women who all lived together under one roof. These were known as "communes". Of course this was also the era of free love so sex was random and who fathered the resulting children was determined after they were born.
As old and as diverse as humanity is, it's hard to believe there is ANY type of familial or living arrangement that is new under the sun.
The problem...again..is Western Civilization.
Despite it's modernclaims of religious and social freedom, it is still very limiting....constricting...so they tended to stamp out a lot of alternative lifestyles and systems that benefitted those who may not fit into the neat little "Adam and Eve" concept of family life.
I've long seen how the typical "nuclear family" as promoted by Western Society was for the most part unattainable for MOST Black and Brown families. It costs massive amounts of money for one person to make enough to support an entire family and provide a home for them. This has been next to impossible for people in most societies around the world....which is why the extended family is the norm.
But let the average wealthy White American tell it, "other people" are weird because they don't have the wealth and free time maintain a stable family with a picket fence and dog.
The old ideas of what a "family" should be will most certainly be replaced.
I predict the biggest obstacle in the implimentation of alternative family structures won't be moral or religious...I think the biggest obstacle will the the physical infrastructure itself. Most homes in the United States are designed for the nuclear family.
Right now we're brainstorming ideas on how to redesign living units for new housing in Flint that will reflect a more extended family culture offering more bedrooms and a larger "living space" within each house or apartment unit.
Well, Pioneer, where the black underclass is concerned, black families have long been matriarchies, and an argument can be made that this has contributed to the dysfunction of many young black boys. But, a lot does depend on the individual and "the same fire that melts wax, makes steel hard." Many black men raised without a father figure go on to do well, because they're mothers were good at parenting and these males were innately strong.
I've come to realize that many of my beliefs about what and who constitutes a "real man" were formed by philosphies and ethics shaped during a time where strong aggressive men were absolutely NEEDED by society to protect the family from outside intrusion as well as to be called upon by the community to protect it or the nation from outside aggressors (war).
In that settting, ofcourse a strong aggressive very mascuine man would be a necessary component to show young boys how to be the ideal man (ideal for war and fighting).
But in a more refined society such as this where you have a superpower military to protect you from outside enemies and a police force to call on to protect you and your family....both of which now have a large percentage of women.......the role of the aggressive macho man seems to be increasingly dispensible.
Infact, having a violent father who teaches his sons how to be violent may actually be COUNTERPRODCUCTIVE to properly raising successful young men....as the current laws of the land tend to condemn and punish excessive violence rather than reward it as a virtue as in the past.
Perhaps what is really need to help raise a child is the passive/aggressive benefits offered by one parent who is feminine and the other who is masculine....regardless as to the actual SEX of the parents who assume these roles.
Meaning, maybe two women could raise a decent productive boy into manhood just as effectively as a man and woman....provided ONE of those women were feminine and caring and the OTHER woman was more masculine an disciplinary.
It appears that all comments and statements are addressing the symptoms of White Supremacy/Racism.
We see the symptoms, with the pictures submitted by one of your veteran members. The question again
is how do we begin the process of becoming problem solvers. Our ancestors were problem solvers and
then came white supremacy/racism......
Cynthia ....the sharing of mates will not work in a system of white supremacy/racism, it is against the law.
Our ancestors were able to share mates and it was with in our culture.
CD....what do we have....we do not own anything...BET..gone, EBONY/JET...gone, Essence....gone...
Black banks....gone we are pawns on a white supremacy/racism chessboard, how do we begin the problem
solving process to overcome....
Dr. Jazzy,
I think you are looking at ownership on a grand scale in regard to media and mulitmillion dollar businesses. Blacks do not own as much as Whites of course, everyone knows this, but the things we do own, we don't really dive in to support. You keep asking what can we do to overcome? We have had this same discussion on several sections of this message board and I state the same thing over and over. Simply support what is there and watch what happens. If you want Black media do as you are doing right now and share articles and reports from AALBC. Join ARRAY. Take your time and look up Bean Soup Times the website run out of Chicago by a member of the Nation. Take your time and visit as many Black Owned businesses in your city and write about them and tell everyone you know about them. In Memphis we have Tri State Bank which is black owned. We also have a Tri State Defender a Black owned newspaper. I will be the first to admit, I attempted to open a bank account at TSB and bank with them through my business, but although I made a nice amount of dough, they wouldn't give me what I needed to function. That doesn't mean that I don't tell others to go there. I do. I visit the TSD website daily to give them impressions and clicks to support their site with ad revenue. It's the least I can do. I share the stories written and just today responded to an article posted by Troy with an article from the TSD.
Like every thread I'm on I can only talk about what I do and while I'm only one person I know I affect things. If you are affecting things then you are changing things.
I don't think of myself as a pawn and I think it's unfortunate that you do. Consider yourself a rook with the ability to move forward and backward, side to side, and then you can look at each block and take small steps to make things happen. As a rook you can slide one block or 7. The more spaces you move the more you touch. You want to know what the solution is? Every individual needs to learn as much as possible, share as much as possible and support each other and we can overcome. People have to start paying more attention to those things they can control before trying to save the world.
I've been told my way of thinking is too simplistic, but it's my way of making things happen. Each person has to find their path. I hope you find your way to the answer. You also asked what do we have? Much more than we realize brother.
I'm afraid Cynthia is no longer with us.
I suggest you "redirect" all questions you have for her to others qualified to answer them.
Its about deciding. Do you want a solution or followers. There are as many solutions as there are people. Decide and do or sit and watch. It can be the 100th monkey or crabs in a barrel. Just no that if you want to travel this road most aren't interested.
Just no that if you want to travel this road most aren't interested.
Maaaaan, I don't think most people know how REAL this statement is.
I'm truly astounded at how few people tend to be interested in TRULY changing their society and solving their own problems.
They would rather conform to the problem.
God has blessed me to have never had a drug problem.
I didn't understand why people liked getting high and going out of their minds so much.
Then I found out that it's a form of escapism for people who can't stand the reality they're living in.
I was suprised at how many people became drug addicts because of this.
Others are suicidal and see THAT as a way out.
It's weird how so may people would rather kill themselves or turn to drugs and alcohol rather than just atleast TRY to change things.
I don't know if it's because of fear, indifference, confusion, or a mixture of all 3.
We continue to talk about the symptoms because we are continuously mistreated by ourselves
and others... becasue of white supremacy/racism however we continue to wear the mask.
When we remove the mask what is left....the problem or the answer?
18 hours ago, Del said:
let's travel this road most are interested....we want change....
There has been a lot of press lately on the rise in suicides over that past 20 years. I believe the largest increase is among middle aged white men. During the same period the icde rates for Black men has actually gone down.
Some feel that the increase in white suicide is a reaction to the loss of white privilege. While this is devastating to white folks reality, this is par for the course for Black folks--arguably an improvement.
When white folks say "lets take our country back," what they really mean is lets restore white privilege.
Again, racism is a tool of capitalists. We can eradicate racism tomorrow (and we should try), but lets not be naive and believe that oppression will end there.
20 hours ago, Dr. Jazzy said:
More people are more interested in the Nina Simone movie than solving problems or politics or all of the other posts. Although there are a few people that are interested in this topic. It is not the majority.
... certainly not enough to effect meaningful change. Del I'm going to seriously consider to begin to looking outside the US
What will happen is what has always happened nothing much. I haven't lived in the US for over 10 years. In that time more people have said they are thinking about leaving the US.
Thinking is rare and critical thinking is almost extinct. Critical thinking is not the same as criticism although critiquing comes close.
My interested are getting more narrow. There was a time when I used to enjoy being challenging assumptions and by extension beliefs and thinking . That time has expired.
On 23/04/2016 at 11:18 PM, Pioneer1 said:
Yes I do realize it. Which is why I say very little. Put very simply we are Nero as the one man band.
On 4/9/2016 at 8:32 PM, Cynique said:
MO, there's so much child worship in the current generation of parents and there was a lot of living through their children in the preceding generations. I don't think it's healthy for a mother or her child when the child becomes the center of its mother's universe, or becomes an accessory.
"Child worship" thank you so much for this phrase @Cynique ! This is a topic within itself. Not sure when this practice started but I've fallen victim to it. I remember my girls, telling me, "if you love 'Harvard' so much, you should apply and go." That was when I realized I was about to begin the practice of what's you have labeled "Child worship." Looking back now, I can see why I fell victim. My child worship moment happened when the girls were applying to college. I didn't go to the school I wanted to go to because my mother objected. She didn't want me to go away to school. It is only now, I see I was about to repeat the practice but luckily I had raised them to think for themselves. "Generational curses" come to mind. I think @CDBurns alluded to this but solving problems may begin in the home too. Still I believe this all goes back to solving our personal problems first.
On 4/10/2016 at 6:12 PM, Pioneer1 said:
the law of social averages DEMANDS that one type predominates.
I'm not trying to be contrary but anything "socially designed or demanded is constructed and thereby unnatural.
But yes, what you're suggesting indicates natural law and environment demand how our families are structured. Which also may be the key to healing our pathology.
For example, procreation is one of the eight biological life functions but marriage and/or child-rearing is a social construct. The human species tend to care for its young but not necessarily in a two-parent model but a community.
I would have to dig up my notes but I read there are some uncontacted tribes- who still follow the hunter-gatherer model such as Cynique mentioned. Some have existed for 60,000 years untouched by the West. The hunter-gatherers as we've come to know through their artifacts existed as a community.
According to some researchers, hunting-gathering depended on the environment, not necessarily the sex, but it was wholly communal. Along with men, women fished and participated in wild-game hunting when they could.(See: Alphabet vs Goddess by Leonard Shlain, MD) The environment also played a huge part in why some of us left Africa and moved out to other parts of the world but again, they left as a group.
In fact, here in the present, Malcolm Gladwell, in his book "Outliers" talked about how a strong community and environment assisted new immigrants to maintain health and vitality even when money was low. Once they left their community, however, they first suffered poor health then they died.
The family structure that would "win" out, if it was necessary for family to have a main structure, would be "community". Living in close-knit communities is the one structure that allowed us to grow a "healthy" civilization for the last 3 millennia. We've been moving away from that structure and we're suffering.
Most people want CHANGE, but most people don't want to do the work in coming up with and implimenting the solutions.
This demands lot of careful thinking, disposable time, and patience as well as courage....a combination most people don't come equipped with.
I came across those articles a few days ago.
I'm not sure how Black men compare with other demographics but I DO believe that a lot more Black men are suicidal than the numbers probably lead us to believe.
I believe a lot of these police shootings are actually "suicide by cop" from hopless brothers purposefully putting themselves in fatal situations with the law.
Del I'm going to seriously consider to begin to looking outside the US
I echo Sara's sentiments.....don't go bro.
We need more brothers like you to stay here and as Lauryn Hill would say help "reverse the hypnosis"
Besides, CD Burns doesn't have his passport so if something goes down, somebody has to stay here with our brother......lol.
The family structure that would "win" out, if it was necessary for family to have a main structure, would be "community". Living in close-knit communities is the one structure that allowed us to grow a "healthy" civilization for the last 3 millennia. We've been moving away from that structure and we're suffering.
That's exactly what I'm talking about....mini-communities in the form of group families.
Say a group of about 4 men and 5 women get together and form a unit, an actual "entity" in and of itself made up of individual members but not reliant on any one of them. They have children in that group and that group helps to raise the children. As the children grow up some members leave that group, others join.
But this acts as a more stable environment because it pretty much secures a feminine and masculine presence, financial support, a home, and other necessities for the well being of children. Atleast more so than the nuclear or single parent family structure would.
Plus it works better for the adults involved by not putting too much pressure on one individual to be the primary bread-winner, disciplinarian, or homemaker.


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Statistics for Management (QAM601)-Semester I
January 15, 2021 November 9, 2021 Kim Sharma Amity MBA Assignment Semester 1- August 2020
AMITY (Assignment) MBA Semester 1
Inferential statistics can be defined as a part of statistics related to _______.
a. summarising data
b. organising data
c. research on data
d. sorting data
________ is facilitated by Statistics.
a. data representation
b. comparison
c. easy interpretation
Measures of central tendency are part of which type of statistics?
a. descriptive
b. inferential
The data set 32,41,52,11,53,74,21,44,26,75, has _______ number of modes.
According to the idea of interquartile range, the whole data set is divided into ____ number of parts.
________ can be considered as balancing point of the data.
a. mean
b. mode
c. skewness
________ data requires no order or sequence while collection.
a. nominal
b. ordinal
The most frequent data value is called ______
b. median
c. mode
Dispersion can also be defined as degree of _____
a. spread
b. diversity
c. scatterness
Data collected on weight of students in a class of 50 students is a _________ type of data.
c. discrete
d. continuous
For finding median in continuous series, which amongst the following are of importance?
a. Lower limit of the median class
b. Particular frequency of the median class
c. cumulative frequency preceeding the median class
In continuous type of series, for finding mean, which amongst the following is considered as X variable value?
a. lower limit of the interval
b. upper limit of the interval
c. mid point of the interval
Temperature of 100 patients visited to a doctor's clinic on Sunday can be an example of ________ type of data.
a. grouped
b. ungrouped
c. nominal
d. ordinal
Median as quartiles can be termed as _____
a. Q1
b. Q2
c. Q3
d. Q4
Children – ungrouped
For a continuous data distribution, 10-20 with frequency 3, 20-30 with frequency 5, 30-40 with frequency 7and 40-50 with frequency 1, the value of Q_3 is ________.
c. 35.7
d. 32.6
For a continuous data distribution, 10-20 with frequency 3, 20-30 with frequency 5, 30-40 with frequency 7and 40-50 with frequency 1, the value of quartile deviation is ________.
c. 6.32
Binomial distribution is symmetrical when ____ .
Range or scale of probability is ____.
As per the "Multiplication Rule of Probability", in case of Dependent events P(AB) = P(A) . P(B/A), where P(AB) is called ____________ probability.
a. Joint
b. Marginal
c. Conditional
Normal Distribution is a continuous frequency distribution of _______ range.
As per the "Multiplication Rule of Probability", in case of Dependent events P(AB) = P(A) . P(B/A), where P(A) is called ____________ probability.
According to empirical rule _____ percentage of data lies between one standard deviation of data.
If p represents the probability of success of a player in any game and M represents the sum of money he will receive in case of success
Then his expectation = ______.
Addition rule of probability is P(A union B)= P(A)+P(B) for ______ events.
In an experiment of tossing a coin. If A = getting a head and B = getting a tail. Then A and B are _________ events.
Events are said to be _______ when one does not occur more often than the others.
In which case will the binomial distribution be applied?
Which of the following will present a symmetrical graph when plotted?
Consider an experiment of rolling a fair dice. The probability that both dice show a 4 is ____
Total number of items in the sample space of an event of tossing two coins together is _____.
A table of 4 students has 1 is senior and 3 juniors. The teacher is going to pick 2 students at random from this group to present homework solutions. Probability that both students selected are juniors is _____.
Regarding a certain normal distribution concerning the income of the individuals we are given that mean = 500 rupees and standard deviation = 100 rupees. Find the possibility that an individual selected at random will belong to the income group Rs. 420 to Rs. 570.
Births in a hospital occur randomly at an average rate of 1.8 births per hour. What is the probability of observing 4 births in a given hour at the hospital?
As per the "Multiplication Rule of Probability", in case of Dependent events P(AB) = P(A) . P(B/A), where P(B/A) is called ____________ probability.
condtonal
d. all of these ryt
non exhaustive
p*M
As per the "Multiplication Rule of Probability", in case of Dependent events P(AB) = P(A) . P(B/A), where P(A) is called ____________ probabilit
equally likely
Total number of items in the sample space of an event of tossing two coins together is
B(0.5,10
both of these
In which case amongst the following can we use Poisson Distribution?
Regarding a certain normal distribution concerning the income of the individuals we are given that mean = 500 rupees and standard deviation = 100 rupees. Find the possibility that an individual selected at random will belong to the income group Rs. 420 to Rs. 570
none of these 0.213 0.183 Wrong
What does the 'representativeness' of a sample mean?
a. The size of the sample relative to the population
b. Whether a random or non-random sampling method has been used
c. How closely the sample represents or matches the population on key characteristics
d. The level of non-response bias present within a sample
What is NOT a source of error in survey research?
a. When people provide socially desirable answers
b. Bias introduced by the method of selecting participants
c. Effects of the survey interviewer or questions on respondents
d. The number of questions included in a survey
When might you use stratified sampling?
a. When conducting a household opinion survey
b. When the snowball method is not appropriate
c. When it is difficult or impossible to know who is part of the sampling frame
d. When you want to maintain the proportionality of groups in your sample
The goal of sampling is to select a sample that accurately represents the larger population, taking into account the ________
a. practicalities
b. constraints
Sampling is a process of _________.
a. selecting observations from a larger population
b. arranging data in sequencing
c. data cleansing
d. organising data
What is a 'convenience sample'?
a. Randomly selecting groups to participate
b. Selecting people at random from a population
c. Asking people to nominate others to participate
d. Selecting people based on their willingness or interest in taking part in the project
What's the difference between a statistic and a parameter?
a. A statistic is the R2 value of a regression and a parameter is the regression weight
b. A statistic is an average and the parameter is a weighted average
c. A statistic is an estimate of a population parameter; we compute statistics and estimate parameters
What does a population include?
a. The population is a smaller sample of the larger group
b. The population includes all objects/observations of interest
c. The population is the group of observations that are selected at random
d. The population is a group of employees who report directly to a manager
How is sampling NOT like an experiment?
a. Sampling influences the observations whereas an experiment does not
b. Sampling is the same process as an experiment so there is no difference
c. Sampling is a process within an experiment as part of statistical analysis
d. Sampling does not influence or affect the observations whereas an experiment does
What is 'sampling error'?
a. Forgetting to include everyone in the survey mailing list
b. Inaccuracies in our sample introduced by the methods we use to select participants
c. Sending the survey invitation to people outside your company
d. A way of quantifying the effects of a statistical cluster
What is the critical z-score value for a 95% confidence level?
If a z-score is 1.96, what does this mean?
a. The score is 1.96 SD above the population mean, which is meaningful
b. The score is 1.96% above the population mean, which is not meaningful
c. The sample mean is 1.96
d. The sample mean ranges between +/- 1.96
When do we use a t-distribution?
a. when it is impractical to calculate z-scores
b. When the sample size is very large
c. For small samples and when the population SD is unknown
d. When we know the population SD
What is the standard error?
a. The error inherent within the sampling method
b. When the p-value exceeds 0.05
c. The standard deviation of the sampling distribution for the statistic
d. The 95% confidence interval
What is the rule of thumb to assume a sampling distribution of a proportion is approximately normal?
a. There must be 30 or more cases in the sample
b. √p(1-p)/n must be less than 1
c. n*p and n(1-p) both at least 10 or more
d. The reliability must be 0.70 or more
What affects the sampling distribution of a proportion?
a. Sample size only
b. The population proportion only
c. The standard error of the proportion
d. Both the sample size and the population proportion
What is the key practical implication of the Central Limit Theorem?
a. A sufficiently large sample can predict the parameters of a population such as a mean and standard deviation
b. It informs how you should sample respondents
c. The smaller the sample, the more accurate our estimates of the population parameters
d. A 'normal' distribution looks like a bell-shaped curve
Other Question
What is NOT a component of a confidence interval.
a. A p-value
b. A statistic
c. A confidence level
d. A margin of error
General equation of the regression line x on y is ________.
b. (x-xbar)=b_yx (y-ybar)
c. (x+xbar)=b_xy (y+ybar)
d. (y-ybar)=b_xy (x-xbar)
If cov (x,y) = 0 is zero, then is ______ correlation.
a. positive
b. negative
In rank correlation coefficient formula, sum of squared differences between the ranks is divided by _______.
a. n(n^2-1)
b. n(n^2+1)
c. n(1-n^2)
d. n(1+n^2)
If cov (x,y) is negative, then variable x ______ as variable y increase.
a. increase
b. decrease
Range of Correlation coefficient is _____.
a. minus infinity to plus infinity
d. zero to plus one
On the basis of change in proportion, which amongst the following is a type of correlation.
a. Simple
Regression line equation is in which form of equation?
a. intercept form of equation
b. point slope form of equation
c. two point form of equation
On the basis of number of variables __________correlation is a type of correlation.
Correlation is denoted by _______
a. r
b. ρ
"If a car increases speed, travel time to a destination decreases", is an example of _______ correlation.
Which amongst the following is not required to find rank correlation coefficient?
a. Difference between ranks
b. Number of items
c. Pearson correlation coefficient
Regression coefficient b_yx can be calculated as _____ * [S.D. (y) / S.D. (x)]
a. rho
d. alpha
Which amongst the following is not required to find Karl pearson coefficient of correlation?
a. Standard deviation
b. variance
c. covariance
Variable of sales dependent upon both advertisement and price variables, can be considerred as an examples of ______ correlation.
b. partial
Following data refers to the years of service (variable X) put in by seven specialized workers in a factory and their monthly incomes (variable Y). X variable values with corresponding Y variable values can be listed as,, 11 years of service with income 700, 7 years of service with income 500, 9 years of service with income 300, 5 years of service with income 200, 8 years of service with income 600, 6 years of service with income 400, 10 years of service with income 800. Regression equation y on x is ______.
a. y=3/4x+1
b. y=4/3x-1
d. y=1-3/4x
Following data refers to the years of service (variable X) put in by seven specialized workers in a factory and their monthly incomes (variable Y). X variable values with corresponding Y variable values can be listed as,, 11 years of service with income 700, 7 years of service with income 500, 9 years of service with income 300, 5 years of service with income 200, 8 years of service with income 600, 6 years of service with income 400, 10 years of service with income 800. Find the correlation coefiicient.
a. -0.45
Following data refers to the years of service (variable X) put in by seven specialized workers in a factory and their monthly incomes (variable Y) in hundreds of rupees. X variable values with corresponding Y variable values can be listed as,, 11 years of service with income 700, 7 years of service with income 500, 9 years of service with income 300, 5 years of service with income 200, 8 years of service with income 600, 6 years of service with income 400, 10 years of service with income 800. Bases on the regression equation y on x, for 12 years of service in the similar field, what would be the recommended salary in hundreds of rupees?
If cov (x,y) is positive, then variable x ______ as variable y increase.
Variables like Advertisement and Sales which would yield a positive correlation, can be considerred as an examples of ______ correlation.
A researcher is comparing two multiple-choice tests with different conditions. In the first test, a typical multiple-choice test is administered. In the second test, alternative choices (i.e. incorrect answers) are randomly assigned to test takers. The results from the two tests are given below.
Regular test Randomized answers
Mean 59.9 44.8
S.D. 10.2 12.7
Question 1 : Can the scatterness of the two distributions be compared, just by looking at the given figures?
a. Yes, as the S.D. is given
b. No, as the mean is not same
d. Can't say
What relative measure of dispersion can be used in order to compare these two distributions?
a. Range
b. Coefficient of quartile deviation
c. Coefficient of variation
Value of coefficient of variation for first type "Regular test" will be ______.
Value of coefficient of variation for first type "Randomized answers" will be ______.
Coefficient of variation is measured in terms of ____.
a. units
b. ratios
c. percentages
Marketing Management (MKTG601)-Semester I
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I have a fear… I fear that I might forget the things and people I love. Waking up one morning and not knowing where I put something, or forgetting someone dear to me.
I suppose it is an irrational fear for now, but the reality remains that I might end up forgetful or without my precious memories. I am unbelievably sentimental and feel utterly distraught when I loose something I cherished or loved. It's never so much about the item as it is about the memory attached to it.
I've had this fear for as long as I remember and therefore I have learned to put methods into place to ensure that I "store" in essence some of the precious moments in my life. My blog lends soothing and reassuring aid in this process. It's a precious file that holds my boring moments, my flopped food ideas, my moments of sadness that I can never share personally with anyone, my moments of bliss and all my indulgences.
It hides my fears and secrets, confessions, hopes and motivations. On days where I wonder why I even bother to blog, I realize that I do it to record the steps in my life that I don't want to forget or loose.


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[John Hiley Addington and Thomas Steele, Joint Paymasters General of the Forces.] Signatures of the two men, with their seals under paper, and signatures of Augustus Hill Bradshaw, William Wood, Thomas Gibbes, to document regarding payment in Ceylon.
John Hiley Addington (1759-1818) and Thomas Steele (1753-1823), Joint Paymasters General of the Forces; William Wood; Thomas Gibbes; Augustus Hill Bradshaw (c.1769-1851) [Ceylon]
'this third day of January, in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and three [1803], and the Forty third year of His Majesty's Reign'.
1p, foolscap 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse. Folded twice. Embossed tax stamp at head. Twenty-three lines of text in a secretarial hand, signed at foot by 'Thos. Steele' and 'J. Hiley Addington', both signatures accompanied by seals under paper. To the left of the signatures: 'Sealed and Delivered being first duly Stamped in the presence of | Wm. Wood'. (Wood was a cashier in the Army Pay Office.) At foot of page: 'Entered in the Office for Auditing the Public Accounts 10th. May 1803 | Thos Gibbes' (Gibbes was a clerk to Lord Sondes at the Office of Auditor of the Imprests) and 'Entered in the Office of the Paymaster General of the Forces the 6th. June 1803. | A. H. Bradshaw'. The document begins: 'Know all Men by these Presents that We the Right Honorable Thomas Steele & John Hiley Addington Paymaster [sic] General of His Majesty's Forces as well within Great Britain as without (that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland excepted) have authorize and empowered and by these presents do authorize and empower Gavin Hamilton Esqre. For Us and in Our Names and stead to pay the Subsistence Contingent and Extraordinary Expences of His Majesty's Forces, and also the Pay of the Staff Officers now and for the time being serving in the Island of Ceylon'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.
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The end of cheap power in Quebec?
QUEBEC CITY, QUEBEC - Things are always changing in Quebec, but for a long time the province's citizens could count on at least one constant — cheap, government-subsidized energy. But with a $4-billion-plus deficit staring it in the face, Jean Charest's Liberal government is looking for ways to save money, and one idea it has floated is to raise the price of electricity at the government-owned Hydro-Québec.
The province had a moratorium in place on rate increases between 1999 and 2003 — since then, home energy prices have grown by 16 per cent. Now it looks like they might climb higher, perhaps significantly.
The Liberal government is considering raising rates by an average of $265 per household per year — doing so could bring in revenues of $1.4 billion. It could also mean the Liberals might be able to avoid other proposed fee increases, including CEGEP tuition hikes and adding toll roads.
Raymond Bachand, Quebec's finance minister, says raising energy fees is the simplest way to get the needed money: "If we have a choice of [how to use]... Hydro-Québec, do we use it to reduce our [energy] rates or do we use it to pay for the health services?"
But opposition leaders are rallying against any rate hikes. "The sad thing here is that [the Charest government] wants to take more money from those who already give their money honestly," says Jean-Martin Aussant, spokesman for the Parti Québécois. "We think it's a shame that we've gotten to this point."
Aussant thinks the government can cut the deficit without any cost to taxpayers, simply by increasing efficiency at Hydro-Québec — a program he claims could save $2 billion. Cracking down on tax evasion across the province could create another $900-million windfall, he says.
And, of course, the PQ sees Ottawa as the ultimate villain. Aussant says the feds owe Quebec $8 billion in federal transfers, money that Charest refuses to fight for. "[Charest] doesn't want to be on bad terms with his friends," says Aussant. "Everybody knows his dream is to be prime minister of Canada, not Quebec."
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Commodities continue to climb with several commodities making new highs for the year. The equities market continues to push higher with 3rd quarter earnings coming in better than expected. This good news has aroused more investors to put what's left of their money back into the market which has been the fuel for this recent rally in stocks.
The market continued to make a new yearly high last week, company earning are better than expected and more retail investors (average working people) are dumping their money back into the market again because EVERY thing is going up in value and all they need to do is buy something. When it's this easy to make money in the investment/trading world something drastic usually happens not long thereafter.
Here are a few charts for this week in precious metals and energy.
Gold stocks have performed well in the recent couple weeks. I figure we will see some sideways price action before another leg higher. The question is how far will this pullback go?
As you can see there are two trend lines which make for solid support levels. I will be looking for a low risk setup around those levels.
Gold had a great pop higher the first week of October but now it looks ready for some sideways chop. I tend to look at precious metal stocks as a leading indicator for trading gold so before we put more money to work in GLD I want a buy signal for gold stocks also.
Silver SLV and gold GLD generally move together with silver being the more volatile of the two on a percentage basis. As you can see from the chart below the support trend lines are much father away from the current price. If you don't want to give back too much of your gain then raising your stops is a safe call. But if you get taken out of your position you should be looking to get back in at a lower price on the first sign of a bounce/reversal to the upside.
It does not matter which sector or commodity I am following it is important to analyze the stocks for that sector or commodity. These are as close as you can get to a leading indicator for possible trade setups.
In my opinion, it looks like energy stocks are about to have a pullback. The trend is still up, so I am not looking to short, rather I am tightening my stops to lock in some profits if we get a sharp pullback. Then I will be entering long again on the first sign up a reversal back up.
Oil had a great run last week and from the simple analysis above (energy stocks) I have a feeling we could see a quick one day sell off. This is common with USO and buying at the close after a long high volume sell off can provide an excellent trading opportunity.
Natural gas continues in a bear market rally as it tests our resistance trend line on Friday. I do feel that gas has bottomed and we will see much higher prices in the future. That being said, I still think we need some time for this commodity to bottom (form a base).
Depending on the price action of natural gas this week, we may have a low risk entry point with my trading model. I will keep members posted.
In short, I feel the market is ready for a multi month correction, but with solid 3rd quarter earnings, new money is being dumped into stocks and commodities as investor confidence rises. This is extending the rally making it even more over bought in my opinion.
That being said, I will not be shorting the market or stocks anytime soon. This market can continue higher because average investors are putting their money back into the market. If the market does actually top in the coming weeks, there will be plenty of time to short the market using leveraged ETFs. I am still long the market and applying tight stops to my positions.
Chris Vermeulen is Founder of the popular trading site TheGoldAndOilGuy.com. There he shares his highly successful, low-risk trading method. For 6 years Chris has been a leader in teaching others to skillfully trade in gold, oil, and silver in both bull and bear markets. Subscribers to his service depend on Chris' uniquely consistent investment opportunities that carry exceptionally low risk and high return.


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This fight is for everything.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
Fuck the extremist election deniers. What's money for if not for keeping them out of office?
Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?
Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
It's time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.
You don't get rid of your umbrella while it's still raining.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
Eh, that's media spin. biden's health is fine and he's doing a good job.
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Your tax dollars at work
by DougJ | July 13, 2011 9:40 am | 29 Comments
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The federal government has been effectively subsidizing News Corp. for years:
After digging through News Corp.'s financial disclosures, Johnston reports that based on the company's $10.4 billion profits during that time period, the company would have been expected to pay $3.6 billion at the 35 percent corporate tax rate. But instead the company managed to collect $4.8 billion in income tax refunds, "all or nearly all from the U.S. government."
For the visual learners among us, Reuters compiled this handy chart.
And exactly how did News Corp. go about turning an income tax profit over the past four years? According to the report, by using these three tricks of the trade: "aggressive use" of intra-company transactions that moves profits to global tax-free locations and losses to heavily taxed areas; buying companies with tax losses; and by maximizing the benefits of tax deferrals.
That might sound remarkably boring to those of us who never splurged for Turbo Tax Premier, so we'll repeat the takeaway: Instead of paying $3.6 billion in corporate income taxes over the past four years, the company actually received refunds worth $4.8 billion, a total worth nearly half of News Corp.'s pre-tax profits over the same period.
The British let this crazy Australian fuck rule their country for 30 years. He doesn't full control of this country yet — it's time to make sure he doesn't get it.
Update. Reuters has withdrawn the story, saying it was wrong.
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But making sure Grandma gives the cat food to the cat: soshalizm!
Gee, I wonder why the Republicans are fighting tooth and nail against closing those offshore tax havens? Couldn't be because their propaganda outfit exploits the hell out of those loopholes.
There are people who will say that Murdoch is just a sympton, not the disease. I have to respectfully disagree with this assessment. The Murdoch organization is the disease, not the only one, but the most dangerous one by far.
Han's Solo
That's free market economics for you right there!
But don't you see? They HAVE to take the government welfare so they can use it to complain about people who are on government welfare! It is all so simple.
Also too, what Fox "news" financial "experts" don't tell you is that the "invisible hand of the market" is a highly skilled pick pocket that survives by robbing the American people.
Elizabelle
agree with beltane at 3
I don't get why we need to allow businesses, particularly corporations, to own other businesses.
The British let this crazy Australian fuck rule their country for 30 years. He doesn't full control of this country yet—it's time to make sure he doesn't get it.
I'd say Murdoch had more control of the British government system than he does ours, but has more control in terms of popular support and loyalty here than he does there.
Which is why, sorry to keep concern-trolling, but I'm a skeptic of anything serious being accomplished on this side of the ocean.
This is just one of the schemes Murdoch has for forcing people to pay him without their knowing it. If you get cable TV, part of your monthly fee goes to News Corp. for the Fox News feed, whether you watch Fox or not. Even if you are a liberal, you are paying O'Reilly's salary if you have cable.
bondirotta
oh yes he does
Comrade Javamanphil
A whole bunch of people so poor they can use the EIC to pay $0 in federal income tax (please don't mention social security or medicare) vote for Democrats. So, as you can see, both sides do it! Also, too, stop attacking Jake Tapper's sister organization. It's uncivil. (And by "It's", I mean the truth.)
Judas Escargot
At 80 years old, the world will be rid of Murdoch soon enough, and he must know this. So IMO all this scrambling is to protect his son.
So here's hoping the son falls, too. I want to see that foul, toxic dynasty utterly destroyed and ground into the dust for all time.
Yep. Because it will be oh-so-partisan for the government to do something about a "fair and balanced" TV network that lies to it's viewers and steals from the taxpayers.
Mudge
But..but..but Orrin Hatch is angry that people who make $20,000 a year don't pay income taxes! I eagerly await his press release about Newscorp.
DougJ in Damascus
In the absence of something explosive — phone hacking into 9/11 victims voicemail or some such — I think you are probably right.
birthmarker
I'm with you, Chris, sound and fury signifying nothing. I can only hope I am wrong.
I was in Europe last year and I didn't understand why what seemed to be the straight-up American version of Fox News was on every hotel TV. (Didn't watch enough to see if they mixed it up for the European audience.)
May my soul never be so dead that I watch Fox News.
With negative tax rates, News Corp must be a freak'n jobs machine. We can't raise their taxes to non-negative levels or we'll totally destroy the economy.
Fox' war on Media Matters' tax-exempt status just got even funnier.
@Judas: the real question is what happens after Murdoch. Will the rats scatter, will there be a destabilizing fight for control among his kids, or has his influence on the culture and operations of News Corp been so strong that the organization will live on continuing to operate as a vast criminal enterprise?
the real question is what happens after Murdoch. Will the rats scatter, will there be a destabilizing fight for control among his kids, or has his influence on the culture and operations of News Corp been so strong that the organization will live on continuing to operate as a vast criminal enterprise?
No arguments on any of these points from me… Murdoch seems to have been taking the King Lear/Ran route in trying to divvy up his holdings among his multitude of offspring ahead of time.
Culturally, I think Murdoch::NewsCorp as Steve Jobs::Apple. The company will certainly survive the eventual passing or retirement of its founder, but will lose a lot of its 'flavor' in the transition.
Only time can tell such things.
I don't get why people get upset, when a corporation or individual works within the existing rules to minimize their tax liability or gets a refund?
The problem isn't the company acting unethically, because they aren't. They are following the laws as written.
The problem would then be with the laws.
gypsy howell
And who writes the laws? The people who get legally paid off by companies like NewsCorp. And why is it legal to essentially bribe our politicians here in the US to write laws like this? Because it was made legal by laws written by the people who get paid off by companies like NewsCorp.
jim filyaw
how does newscorp's tax refund compare with the federal allocation for p.b.s.?
And who writes the laws?
Congressmen and women.
As angry as you are at companies, they still can't vote an elected official into or out of office. We aren't totally power less, when dealing with Congresscritters.
The real problem is most people know very little about the tax code and all the deductions that can be available, so they don't know what exactly to complain about.
The people who get legally paid off by companies like NewsCorp.
Or middle class homeowners, who would vote any elected official out of office in a heartbeat, if Congress rescinded the Home Mortgage Interest deduction.
I mean is it really fair that a person, who pays interest on a mortgage should be given preferential tax treatment versus someone who rents or owns their home outright?
There's a lot in the tax code that benefits people that isn't exactly fair to everyone.
The bigger issue with how News Corp. handled its tax situation, in my opinion, is having dummy offices in the Cayman islands or wherever and using them as tax havens to avoid paying taxes.
That's trying to circumvent U.S. law, by parking your cash in a foreign bank account, rather than a U.S. bank account.
I can understand not wanting to tax foreign operations, because a company would be paying taxes twice. For example, Ford's European division pays taxes for income in Europe. There's no reason to pay income on those sales in the U.S., even though it would report those sales as income in its consolidated financial statements. That'd be double taxing someone, just because they have an office in the U.S.
On the other hand, if you really don't do any business in the Cayman islands and are just using it as a tax haven, I think there should be some way to capture taxes on that income.
Quiddity
@gene108: The "problem" is that Fox News has been attacking GE for not paying taxes (along with snide remarks about Immelt).
Fox is guilty of political hypocrisy. That's the "unethical" charge that sticks.
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What I find interesting about all this is how similar it is to the way strong-arm dictators fall. They can rule a country for 30 or 40 years on strong arm tactics and fear alone. But once there's a chink in the armor or health starts to fail or any sign of weakness, suddenly opposition starts to gain traction from a lot of different directions and everything falls apart very quickly.
News Corp's been ripping us off for years. Why no news or outrage about it until now? Because suddenly Murdoch is seen as weak instead of invincible.
@ gene108: some of the anger is misdirected — it ought to be at the laws and lawmakers, but we humans tend to take nearly any mental shortcut we can.
Plus there are people who will deliberately encourage one to take that shortcut: if you hate News Corp, you're going to state it in a way that makes one want to hate News Corp too.
But a fair amount of it ought to be directed at News Corp, and I think I can lay a pretty safe bet that they had a hand in lobbying for the laws that allow them to do this. The lack of ethics comes not once the law is written; it comes well before.
P.S. Throw in the fact that News Corp is a major media player and the ethical considerations get more interesting — they can influence lawmakers not only with money, but with the shaping of public opinion, in a way that say, the makers of ball bearings can't.
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Rupert Murdoch is American, not Australian. He's been American since the 1980s.
Why does DougJ hate immigrants?
The federal government did not subsidize this company or have it pay no taxes.
Because. And also SHUT UP.


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Q: Decide if the polynomial $x^2-7$ is irreducible over $\mathbb Q, \mathbb R, \mathbb C$. I am trying to understand irreducibility of polynomials
and I am trying to solve the following question:

Decide if the polynomial $x^2-7$ is irreducible over $\mathbb Q, \mathbb R, \mathbb C$.

For Q
I tried to use the Eisenstein's Criterion,
7/7, but 7^2/7 is not, I believe it's irreducible over Q
For R is reducible
(x-sqrt{7})(x+sqrt{7})
For C
Not sure
Thanks in advance for your time.

A: The given polynomial is
$$x^2 - 7.$$
Since it is a two degree polynomial having no root in $\mathbb{Q}$, it is irreducible over $\mathbb{Q}$.
But,
$$x^2-7=(x+\sqrt7)(x-\sqrt7)$$
So, it is reducible over $\mathbb{R}$.
Now, $\mathbb{R}$ is subset of $\mathbb{C}$ so
$\sqrt7$, $-\sqrt7$ are also elements in $\mathbb{C}$
$$\sqrt7=\sqrt7 + 0i$$
Hence, any polynomial which is reducible over $\mathbb{R}$ must be reducible over $\mathbb{C}$, too.

A: The unique factorization is $x^2-7 = (x-\sqrt 7)(x+\sqrt 7)$.
By this uniqueness, $x^2-7$ is irreducible over $\Bbb Q$, but factors completely over $\Bbb R,\Bbb C$.

A: Especially for $\mathbb{C}$ you should read about the fundamental theorem of Algebra which says that a polynomial of degree k has excactly k roots contained in $\mathbb{C}$. Thats why we say that the set of complex numbers is algebraic closed.

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View Poll Results: Is this class worth $295?
I am fairly new to the world of spearfishing, and am ready to step up my game. To be honest I am terrible at holding my breath. My static PR is 1:34 and when I am diving I am usually only under for about 30 seconds! I want to take the FII Deep Freediving Instruction class with Daniel Koval, but it's $295, and that seams to be on the lower end of the price range for these things. Has anyone taken this class or a comparable one that they would be interested in reviewing. Are these worth it?
P.S. I already posted this under California Spearfishing, but I thought I might get some more info from here.
I am taking the level 1 FII course in Florida in two weeks. Just a quick background, I have been spearfishing since I was 14 years old (28 now). My comfortable depth diving is about 65-70 feet, with about 1:30+ dive time. I consider myself a safe diver, and never push my limits (in my own opinion). With that being said, I consider myself a beginner and can only speculate how terrible my technique really is. I am looking forward to learning from someone who is 10X the diver I am, and also am looking forward to improving the safety in which I dive.
In short.. Yes. There is not doubt that you will enjoy and learn a lot.
Well said.. Who are you taking a class with?
Nice! Andrew is a solid guy! I'm glad you're going to be learning from him!!
Daniel is an awesome dude and a good instructor. I was kind of in the same boat as you with breath hold. Now my static breath hold is just under 4 mins and I dove down to 60ft. Worth it.
I'm taking level 2 in July. I took level 1 about 3 years ago. I've been trying to advance through diving with very skilled and safe divers but I have finally realized that I need to take the class. Now that I've paid the deposit and am committed, I'm super pumped. I'm excited about taking my diving to the next level, especially in terms of safety.
The real question is, How much do you think your life is worth. Is it anywhere near a measly 300 dollars?
Well said... I always say in my classes, "I've love to spearfish and freediving, but I love my family a whole lot more!" $300 is a drop in the bucket!
Just want to say please be careful and always be safety conscious. Just because you learned how to hold your breath for a long time and dive deeper than sixty feet, doesn't mean you can now do that anytime, anywhere. I know some members on here don't like the idea of pushing your limits in class and then applying that outside while spearfishing. Remember to always dive well within your limits especially after taking the class. No one is superman.
As with Jstiver, I just took the FII lvl 1 with Andrew at Nautilus. Awesome class, and for the folks in FL, a great dude! I have been spearing for a few years and picked up good and bad habits by watching my buddies and youtube videos, but never learning what my body's capabilities and limits are, let alone safety. Having completed the course, now I know and can help others be safe and be a more natural presence in the water.


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London 2012 bid star Amber Charles calls for UK Sport to restore funding for British Basketball
January 30 - Amber Charles, who memorably proved one of the stars of the successful London 2012 bid presentation in Singapore eight years ago, has pleaded with UK Sport to reconsider their decision to cut funding for British Basketball with the two organisations having met to discuss the issue today.
The East Londoner was just 15-years-old when she joined the London 2012 bid team, headed by Sebastian Coe, in Singapore and she was credited with being one of the shining stars in the cities' presentation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Charles had ambitions to represent Team GB in basketball at Rio 2016 but fears that her dream could be over unless UK Sport reverse their decision to cut funding.
British Basketball was the biggest loser in UK Sport's Rio 2016 funding announcement that followed London 2012 as it saw its four-year funding of £8.6 million ($13.6 million/€10.6 million) in the lead-up London 2012 fall to zero.
"As many of you may remember I was an Ambassador for the London 2012 Olympic bid back in 2005," said Charles in a letter to UK Sport.
"I was just 15 at the time and as you can imagine being alongside David Beckham, Lord Coe and people like Denise Lewis was an incredible experience for a young girl from East London.
"These are memories which are precious to me and will stay with me forever.
"Almost eight years on and I am now studying in my final year of University in Tennessee on a basketball scholarship.
"London 2012 made me even more determined to follow my dreams and my ambition now - as it was even back then in 2005 - is to make the GB basketball team for Rio 2016.
"But I am utterly dismayed and shocked by the decision by UK Sport to cut funding to the GB Basketball programme to zero.
"I just do not understand how all the great work of the 2012 Games - with so much focus on legacy – can then mean my sport being cast aside so soon after London 2012.
"Without UK Sport funding, GB Basketball is dead and my dream to compete in Rio 2016 is over.
"I please urge you to do whatever you can to help reverse the short sighted decision by UK Sport and help to keep the inspiration of London 2012 alive for young people like me."
Amber Charles has pleaded with UK Sport to reconsider their decision to cut funding for British Basketball
Basketball was one of several sports that presented to UK Sport today in a bid to see their funding restored.
Handball, volleyball, wheelchair fencing and wrestling were the other disciplines stating their case to UK Sport as they asked the high performance agency to restore their funding after having it axed in the Rio 2016 announcement last year.
The other governing body to challenge December's financial award is British Triathlon, which despite a 3.9 per cent increase, believes the Brownlee brothers' Olympic gold and bronze medals merited a more favourable award.
Each national governing body was granted a 30-40-minute slot in front of the UK Sport Board to make their case while they will learn whether they have been successful or not by Friday (February 1).
Depending on the outcome of this meeting, the sports will decide about lodging a formal appeal, which would be heard by the Sport Dispute Resolution Panel.
"We would like to thank the Board of UK Sport for giving us this opportunity to present our case," said British Basketball performance chairman Roger Moreland after the meeting.
"We have believed all along that we have a strong and compelling case for basketball and we are grateful for all the fantastic support we have received so far.
"We will wait to hear from UK Sport before making a decision about a formal appeal but we feel confident and optimistic about the outcome after today's presentation."
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The 2017 Victory Motorcycles line-up introduces new colours and LED headlights, but streamlines its range from 15 to an even dozen.
They have axed three cruisers, including the '5os hotrod style Jackpot, the Hammer 8 Ball, but not the Hammer S and sadly the Judge muscle cruiser.
In Australia there are only 14 current models, because we don't yet import the Empulse TT electric motorcycle which this year gets increased power.
There is no word yet from Victory Motorcycles Australia on when the new models will arrive or colour choices.
The new 1200cc Octane muscle cruiser now comes in four colours, instead of just black. There is now a steel grey, gloss black, pearl white and gloss black with gold stripe graphics.
Gunner now comes in suede titanium metallic or suede sagebrush green metallic, Vegas in sunset red, Vegas 8-Ball in gloss black, Hammer S in gloss black with white stripes and High-Ball in a new suede black with black-wall tyres or a new suede nuclear sunset orange with white-wall tyres.
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Neurology A lack of suitable neuro-rehabilitation services from hospital to home is having a negative impact on those surviving brain injuries, says Barbara O'Connell, CEO, ABI Ireland.
More and more people are surviving brain injury because of advances in medicine and technology. This reality is now putting pressure on the Irish healthcare system as there is a dearth in suitable neuro-rehabilitation services across the pathway from hospital to home for the person with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
In Ireland it is estimated that approximately 10,000-13,000 people a year survive and live with a brain injury. There is no epidemiological data available on ABI in Ireland so very little is known about this group and their needs within the healthcare system. Due to the lack of services, ABI survivors are largely left to exist. Where there are services, they are patchy, underdeveloped and under-resourced. People with ABI wait an inordinate amount of time to gain access to specialist rehabilitation and many never get access at all. Current Government policy has failed to deliver any change in the lives of people with ABI and their families.
The reality is that ABI is a largely hidden problem in society. Those living with an ABI experience a range of impairments. Depending on what part of the brain is injured the person may have challenges in understanding, thinking, perceptions, planning and managing emotional and behavioural responses. People with ABI and their families are forced to live in the margins of our society. Many, often as young as 25 years, are consigned to live in highly inappropriate settings due to the lack of suitable services, such as nursing homes and community hospitals or at home where families are not coping. Others live with the impact of brain injury which is largely hidden, with the person looking perfectly well yet very debilitated in terms of being able to function. Many people with ABI are unable to move from the acute hospital because of the lack of post-acute and community supports available. In current health policy terms these people are now referred to as "delayed discharges".
Comprehensive and seamless neuro-rehabilitation services from the acute hospital and back to the community is the solution to enabling the survivor of a brain injury to regain function and to relearn the skills of life again. Neuro-rehabilitation is a new and emerging field in health policy in Ireland. International research has provided evidence to prove that it is highly effective in terms of the outcomes for the person and is a cost effective solution to the issues that arise for the person as a result of brain injury.
There is a need to increase public awareness of ABI and enhance the understanding of what life is like with a brain injury. There is also a need to engage in political and public advocacy to ensure that the services are properly resourced, that people can move through the pathway seamlessly and go back to their communities and lead meaningful lives. A national advocacy campaign launched this year by Acquired Brain Injury Ireland in the form of an ABI Manifesto (Don't Save Me Then Leave Me. Rehab is a Right Not a Request) is calling on the Government to recognise this group and to introduce a programme of investment for those with ABI and to implement the current policy on neuro-rehabilitation.


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David Haye Eyes December Return, Says "I'm not an average athlete"
Brila 0 May 11, 2017 1:41 pm
Veteran British boxer David Haye believes his return to action will come far sooner than people expect.
The former undisputed cruiserweight and WBA heavyweight champion last fought in March, when he badly damaged his Achilles tendon during a shock and bizarre 11th-round defeat to domestic rival Tony Bellew at London's O2 Arena.
Haye underwent surgery in the aftermath of his third professional defeat and, despite the 36-year-old's defiant claims to the contrary, many questioned if he would now be forced to permanently retire having previously gone three-and-a-half years without fighting between 2012-2016 due to serious shoulder problems.
A rapidly recovering Haye shed his protective boot last week and the Londoner now finds himself on holiday in the Far East, where he is testing himself by walking along the Great Wall of China – a decision that led trainer Shane McGuigan to affectionately label him as a "mad man".
1 week out of the boot. I'm taking on The Great Wall of China. Waiting for the physio to call as soon as he sees this video. 😂 pic.twitter.com/I6wUOXwNXK
— David Haye (@mrdavidhaye) May 10, 2017
Updating fans on his progress via a social media post sent on Wednesday (10 May), Haye claimed he was "not an average athlete" and would be back in the ring much faster than others first thought.
"I wanted to come and test myself," he said.
"It's been a week since I've been out of the boot and I'm feeling good, no pain. I'm going to make a full recovery and I'm going to be fighting way quicker than people anticipate. I'm not an average athlete, believe me. I can do things others can only dream of."
"The Hayemaker" revealed over the weekend that he hoped to fight again by December and a rematch against Bellew is presumably still top of his agenda.
However, the Evertonian could be set for a shot at the WBC heavyweight title after clashing with undefeated American Deontay Wilder before Anthony Joshua's stunning unification victory over Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium.
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