Rio Olympics: Kenya's medal Count

Rio Olympics: Kenya's medal Count

Juakali1980 said:
Most police officers huko USA are former veterans.And HOMELESS


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FAQ ABOUT HOMELESS VETERANS

Who are homeless veterans?

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) states that the nation’s homeless veterans are predominantly male, with roughly 9% being female. The majority are single; live in urban areas; and suffer from mental illness, alcohol and/or substance abuse, or co-occurring disorders. About 11% of the adult homeless population are veterans.

Roughly 45% of all homeless veterans are African American or Hispanic, despite only accounting for 10.4% and 3.4% of the U.S. veteran population, respectively.

Homeless veterans are younger on average than the total veteran population. Approximately 9% are between the ages of 18 and 30, and 41% are between the ages of 31 and 50. Conversely, only 5% of all veterans are between the ages of 18 and 30, and less than 23% are between 31 and 50.

America’s homeless veterans have served in World War II, the Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War, Grenada, Panama, Lebanon, Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq (OEF/OIF), and the military’s anti-drug cultivation efforts in South America. Nearly half of homeless veterans served during the Vietnam era. Two-thirds served our country for at least three years, and one-third were stationed in a war zone.
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thats vague, I mean how does that exactly explain anything about mistreatment of minority groups in the military, do they become homeless because the military diacriminates them or? do they get paid less?
I think a posible reason why most black american end up homeless has got something to do with why they join in the first place, most of them might be joining as a way of escaping life in the getto, and while they are there, they send back all the money to the families, while most white families when they come back, they have there brothers and sisters in white collar jobs willing to give them a hand. while this explanation might also point to discrimanation that results into most african america families getting less less opportunity starting from basic public education, it does not point to discrimination in the military,


besides, this is the bonus american athletes make tax free when they win medals in international games, so i doubt they gonna become homeless one day, if they do then it will be there own financial mismanagement, in the US army, in addition the lowest raking officer gets an average of $39,000 a year or roughly $3000 a month and you get housing, 3000 by kenyan standard is a salary for mid manager position on a white collar job re
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Kafrican said:
thats vague, I mean how does that exactly explain anything about mistreatment of minority groups in the military, do they become homeless because the military diacriminates them or? do they get paid less?
I think a posible reason why most black american end up homeless has got something to do with why they join in the first place, most of them might be joining as a way of escaping life in the getto, and while they are there, they send back all the money to the families, while most white families when they come back, they have there brothers and sisters in white collar jobs willing to give them a hand. while this explanation might also point to discrimanation that results into most african america families getting less less opportunity starting from basic public education, it does not point to discrimination in the military,


besides, this is the bonus american athletes make tax free when they win medals in international games, so i doubt they gonna become homeless one day, if they do then it will be there own financial mismanagement, in the US army, in addition the lowest raking officer gets an average of $39,000 a year or roughly $3000 a month and you get housing, 3000 by kenyan standard is a salary for mid manager position on a white collar job re
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They sweet talk them into serving a country that doesnt give a squart about black folks..When they come out of the military,are left in streets homeless.lets end it here and not derail the thread. The medals won at the games don't amount to much but its the corporate sponsors that enable them to make big $$$ . $25k is nothing in the US.

BASIC PAY FOR ACTIVE DUTY SOLDIERS*
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total Army compensation.



#<2 Years Experience 4 Years Experience 6 Years Experience
Private (E1) $18,802.80** — —
Private (E2) $21,078.00 $21,078.00 $21,078.00
Private First Class(E3) $22,165.20 $24,984.00 $24,984.00
Specialist or Corporal (E4) $24,552.00 $27,936.00 $29,800.80
Sergeant (E5) $26,776.80 $31,370.40 $33,573.60
Staff Sergeant (E6) $29,228.40 $34,963.20 $36,403.20

Starting salary is 18000$ in USA..thats a poor persons salary...
 
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Juakali1980 said:
Sad how she had to fly to Kenya first before going to her Middle East Country....Change the law..You cant compete in the Olympics or International sporting events if YOU HAVE DUAL CITIZENSHIP....You must give up one..
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Msichana huyo ni mpumbavu mkubwa nashangaa mbona hakupigwa marufuku JKIA
 
bagamoyo said:
Ni kweli unavyosema na kama uchambuzi wa kina ulivyofanyika katika thread hii Jamiiforums/Kenya toka kwa wadau mbalimbali kisayansi/kirekodi kuonesha Tanzania inaweza kufanya vizuri na hawa vijana wapya umri miaka 23/24 kina Alphonse Felix Simbu na wenzake watangara ktk mashindano ya marathon kama ya Grand Prix Monaco, Boston, Berlin n.k Sasa kizazi kipya cha wakimbiaji hodari wa marathon duniani toka Tanzania kipo tayari kuonesha makeke yake kupimana uhodari na wa- Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda n.k
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Hamna Tanzania iko nyuma kikweli....hakuna mnalolojua pengine muziki tu
 
BTW, what happened to one of our silver medals, one seems to be missing since they are saying we have six silvers
 

2016 Rio Olympics Aftermath: NBC Blames Millennials for Low Ratings

NBC's primetime viewership was down by 25 percent among 18-to-49-year-old age group for the Summer Olympics.
2016 Rio Olympics Aftermath: NBC Blames Millennials for Low Ratings

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It's just a few days after the Rio Olympics, and the numbers are out: NBC reported a huge drop in ratings stacked up against Summer Games in London four years ago. According to Bloomberg News, primetime viewers dropped 17 percent, and the highly coveted 18-to-49-year-old age group, the viewers advertisers love the most, dropped a full quarter, 25 percent less than 2012.

So what happened, exactly? It's not like the Olympics didn't have plenty of big names and big stories, from Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps supposedly competing in the Games for the last time, to newer, younger stars like Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, the men's basketball team stacked with NBA all-stars and all the drama that comes with the two weeks of competition. The Games were exactly what the Summer Olympics are supposed to be: a fun time watching sports in the normally boring-ass month of August when all you've got to look forward to is your hot commute to work and dog day

As Jeff Andrews at Voactiv pointed out, NBC sort of thought this kind of thing could happen, pointing to a "nightmare" scenario for the Games that the network paid $12 billion to host until 2032: "We wake up someday and the ratings are down 20 percent," Burke said at a conference in June. The nightmare came true, and Burke prophesied who the Freddy Krueger in the really bad dream would be: "[M]y prediction would be that millennials had been in a Facebook bubble or a Snapchat bubble and the Olympics have come, and they didn't know it."

While other sports, like the Super Bowl and various other playoffs and championships still pull in big numbers, it has some wondering how one of the biggest broadcast networks could come out with such poor numbers. Is there something NBC did to scare off the millenials? Are the Olympics just not as interesting anymore? Do the youth of today have no pride in their country?

No. It's none of those things. NBC can't blame the low ratings on the first twentysomething they find; it's not a generational thing that you can blame on the dude with the weird haircut who keeps Snapchatting selfies of himself out into the ether. Nope, it's squarely on NBC. They paid that insane amount of money for the rights to the Games, and they chose not to air some of the marquee events live, opting to try and make certain competitions that may have taken place hours earlier as Must See TV. You could really picture the whole idea being baked up Jack Donaghy and a few other executives in expensive suits as part of a 30 Rock episode plot line, a bunch of clueless rich guys making up for what they lack in a clue with plenty of hubris. They think that it would be fine to post something that happened earlier in the day on nighttime television, hardly taking into account that something that happened five hours earlier may have just as well taken place in the 1990s with the way news and information spreads. Sure, there were some people crying, "Spoiler alert!" at people who mentioned wins before they were on TV but, for the most part, people young and old watched the Olympics. Just not the way the network that owns the broadcast rights to the Games would have preferred.

Yet somehow, for some reason, NBC thought that wouldn't matter. It seemed they felt they could hold back the breaking news alerts, people checking sports sites, and Twitter, which seemed to do really well during the Olympics. Add to the fact that more than a few of those people were probably tweeting about the poor quality of the NBC live stream, and you probably start getting a clearer idea as to what the problem was. It wasn't the Olympics or the quality of the competition (both were pretty stellar), and it wasn't your younger cousin who keeps making jokes about somebody named Harambe; it's squarely on NBC for making a multi-billion dollar investment and not quite figuring out what to do with it.
 
HOPE THEY LEARN..that their coverage was so biased..Its an American network and they are so full of themselves..Anybody who posted any video of any event,THEY HAD THEM TAKEN DOWN CITING COPYRIGHT CRAP...
 
The most curious thing about the overall medal count is the no. 2. How did they do it?
 
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