Question #1:

Is there a correlation between Atheism and Intelligence or Wealth?

Interesting article not attacking Religions, just going by the numbers....i believe in something greater than myself, but can think for myself also.

Atheists are heavily concentrated in economically developed countries, particularly the social democracies of Europe. In underdeveloped countries, there are virtually no atheists. Atheism is thus a peculiarly modern phenomenon. Why do modern conditions produce atheism?
First, as to the distribution of atheism in the world, a clear pattern can be discerned. In sub-Saharan Africa there is almost no atheism (Zuckerman, 2007). Belief in God declines in more developed countries and is concentrated in Europe in countries such as Sweden (64% nonbelievers), Denmark (48%), France (44%) and Germany (42%). In contrast, the incidence of atheism in most sub-Saharan countries is below 1%.
The question of why economically developed countries turn to atheism has been batted around by anthropologists for about eighty years. Anthropologist James Fraser proposed that scientific prediction and control of nature supplants religion as a means of controlling uncertainty in our lives. This hunch is supported by data showing that the more educated countries have higher levels of non belief and there are strong correlations between atheism and intelligence (see my earlier post on this).
Atheists are more likely to be college-educated people who live in cities and they are highly concentrated in the social democracies of Europe. Atheism thus blossoms amid affluence where most people feel economically secure. But why?
It seems that people turn to religion as a salve for the difficulties and uncertainties of their lives. In social democracies, there is less fear and uncertainty about the future because social welfare programs provide a safety net and better health care means that fewer people can expect to die young. People who are less vulnerable to the hostile forces of nature feel more in control of their lives and less in need of religion.
In addition to being the opium of the people (as Karl Marx contemptuously phrased it), religion may also promote fertility, particularly by promoting marriage, according to copious data reviewed by Sanderson (2008). Large families are preferred in agricultural countries as a source of free labor. In developed "atheist" countries, women have exceptionally small families and do not need religion helping them to raise large families.
Even the psychological functions of religion face stiff competition today. In modern societies, when people experience psychological difficulties they turn to their doctor, psychologist, or psychiatrist. They want a scientific fix and prefer the real psychotropic medicines dished out by physicians to the metaphorical opiates offered by religion.
Moreover, sport psychologists find that sports spectatorship provides much the same kind of social, and spiritual, benefits as people obtain from church membership. In a previous post, I made the case that sports is replacing religion. Precisely the same argument can be made for other forms of entertainment with which spectators become deeply involved. Indeed, religion is striking back by trying to compete in popular media, such as televangelism and Christian rock and by hosting live secular entertainment in church.
The reasons that churches lose ground in developed countries can be summarized in market terms. First, with better science, and with government safety nets, and smaller families, there is less fear and uncertainty in people's daily lives and hence less of a market for religion. At the same time many alternative products are being offered, such as psychotropic medicines and electronic entertainment that have fewer strings attached and that do not require slavish conformity to unscientific beliefs.

References
Sanderson, S. K. (2008). Adaptation, evolution, and religion. Religion, 38, 141-156.
Zuckerman, P. (2007). Atheism: Contemporary numbers and patterns. In M. Martin (ed.), The Cambridge companion to atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book is not held by any U.S. Library.

Question #2:

Teen marketing Business?

Hello, I just need an idea or two, I plan on going to college into marketing and or business admin/management. I'm really into starting my own company after working as a sales associate for about a year now. I've been looking into things like social media networking services, but i feel as if my low amount of experience will prove to be useful, and make it difficult to start. Is there any way I could either specialize in something not requiring licensing. I plan on starting it as an llc for expansion purposes. I'm 16 and my age is irrelevant because I can be mature and professional when I choose to be, unlike my peers. I don't even know if i want it to be internet based. Give me any ideas!!!! I'll do it locally as a start if that is what it takes. Please get back to me asap thanks!

Question #3:

Could you please read my article and tell me if it is understandable or not?

If it is revenue generating enterprise, how does generate profit and is not revenue generation enterprise how does YouTube survive.

YouTube is revenue generating enterprise because its main income come from advertisement and partnership with television channels and film industry. Every advertisement that you see on YouTube videos come from a company or business people that pay YouTube to show their advertisement right before the video starts. If you take into consideration that all YouTube videos show advertisements, you can imagine its huge profit. YouTube belongs to Google which has AdSense one of the most important incomes from Google; therefore, Google has implemented AdSense on YouTube to generate income just clicking on advertisements post. Another profit from YouTube is partnerships with television and film industry. Many television and film companies have agree to share movies rights on YouTube. In fact, recently YouTube has change its interface and offer new services such as movies display, right now you can buy YouTube credits to watch movies, where obviously the company receive profit for posting movies on its web site as well as your payment. However, it is not just profit for YouTube, the company has revolutionary the way people watch media and contribute to social needs, having streamline video have open opportunities to entrepreneurs that want to show their amateur films or even make an internet video program discussing political or economic topics. People have freedom to share their opinions and show their creativity regarding multimedia cost, education has been a huge plus for YouTube whereas everyone can learn how to play guitar or even how to learn karate, not matter where you live or your social status, you can access YouTube worldwide.

Use Porter’s forces and apply to YouTube

Traditional competitors: YouTube have many competitors, but most of them are small, others have being taken out of the market such as megaupload and many more are at risk to being taken out of the business because of copy right infringements. Perhaps right now Apple store and YouTube are not straight competitors, but in the future they will compete each other in order to get the movie and television market.

New Market Entrance: Video Stream business is going to change in the future, it will not just become a video sharing business, but it will turn to be the future of the television, rather than being paying cable TV people will have to pay YouTube subscriptions in order to watch movies and television programs. Having all this, the new market entrance will become extremely difficult due to copyrights infringements and get the partnership with big companies to show their media products or buying the movies’ copyright to display the movies if that is the case.

Substitute product or services: YouTube has to keep and implement new services to remain number one; the company should keep its entrepreneurship side allowing young people to upload their own material to the web site. Also, YouTube is implementing a professional side with big industries, as mentioned before YouTube offers subscriptions to watch its movies as many times as you want and probably in the future YouTube will offer services such as live channels and movies releases on Blu-ray or 3D technologies.

Customers: YouTube already acquire most customers in the world that enjoy watching videos in the web site, in order to keep its regular customers YouTube has to keep its free video sharing option and to attract new customers the company has to implemented a new category such pay services. Would be better for YouTube to make other web site focus on different customer’s profiles?

Suppliers: In this case film makers, television shows and regular people will become YouTube suppliers. YouTube can benefit their suppliers specially the ones with lower resources like middle class and working class people to make them loyal to the web site allowing them to still displaying their material. Additionally, YouTube should not charge them because it will stop innovation, creativity and of course customers.


any recommendations? puntuation? grammar mistakes? just write your point of view thank you

Question #4:

What should I do with my life?

I need a new job but...

I am painfully shy. How shy am I? I once pooped into a grocery bag so I wouldn't have to leave my bedroom when my parents invited guests over. True story. Any job that involves customer service is clearly out of the question.

Fast-paced, high-stress jobs are not for me. I need the opportunity to set and go at my own pace. Deadlines paralyze me. When the Corporate Overlords bring down their whip, my performance suffers and my progress slows down to a standstill.

Now that I've successfully eliminated 99.9% of the job market, I should mention that I am also artistic. I can't help it. I was born this way. When I was a wee embryo in the womb, the right lobe of my brain grew so large it was forced to devour the left lobe for nourishment. I already asked my doctor if there was anything he could do to treat my artism, and he said, “Not legally.”

My creative tendencies make it impossible for me to have a typical 9-5 job. It seems that my career choices are limited to the arts. I recently took an in-depth career personality test and was totally underwhelmed by the results:

1. Musician. (I could never be a musician. I can't even read sheet music.)
2. Fine arts instructor. (That would involve being around other people. No thanks.)
3. Author (Possibly. Maybe. But first I have to make my writing stop sucking so much.)

Ok. I'll be honest. I would LOVE to have a creative career, I just don't know where to start. It's impossible for me to settle on only one artistic medium. I love them all.

Yahoo Answerers, my fate is now in your hands. What should I do with my life? Please be careful with how you respond. Your answer could determine whether I become a prominent photographer or a penny-pinching panhandler...

*Career coaches willing to go pro-bono are especially welcome to answer. ;(

Question #5:

Job opportunity, What should I do?

I have a very stable position with a company and have been here for about 9 years.

However, it is in print media (Outdoor/Action Sports Industry) and I do not see a future here. Over the past couple years, I have taken about a $10,000 paycut and things have gotten tight.

I have been approached approached by a major manufacturer in the sporting products (Camp stoves, GPS tracking devices, etc.... about a marketing position with their company and it pays about 20,000 more than what I am currently making, had great benefits, etc....

However, Here is the problem. It is a new position with a company that has a huge amount of vertical potential but the position only has a 1 year guaranteed contract?

I can stay where i am and be questioning my future or I could (if offered) take a position with a 1 year certainty?

what would you recommend I do?

I am posting this on marriage and divorce as it may effect my relationship.

Question #6:

What's the best thing about working in Internet Marketing?

When most people find out what we do for a living they are generally fascinated by it as a choice of career and are desperate to know how we earn money online.

One of the most common questions we get asked about our business is what is the best thing about working in Internet Marketing? Firstly I will always answer the freedom of being our own bosses and having the ability to do what we want. Secondly its having the income to be able to do what we want as we lead a very nice lifestyle that has been provided by Internet Marketing. And finally thirdly one of my favourite parts of working in Internet is checking out affiliate accounts when we wake up in the morning. Any Internet Marketing expert will also identify this as an exciting part of the job! For instance the other day I checked an account that I hadn’t checked for a while and logged in to see that I had a very healthy balance and had earned a whopping £130.55 in commissions for just one day, from just one website that I had just left to build (please see below). Of course I wouldn’t want to mislead anyone and say this happens every day for this particular site however the truth is that it is a site that I worked hard on a few years ago and just left it to mature and now it brings in a healthy profit.

At Max Web Media we are passionate about training and developing new Internet Marketers and we provide all the tools in order for you to make this dream your reality. Therefore please contact us if you wish to discuss how to get started!

www.maxwebmedia.co.uk

Question #7:

GMAT Practice Round 7?

The following appeared in a memorandum from the business department of the Apogee Company.

“When the Apogee Company had all its operations in one location, it was more profitable than it is today. Therefore, the Apogee Company should close down its
field offices and conduct all its operations from a single location. Such centralization would improve profitability by cutting costs and helping the company maintain better supervision of all employees.”

Discuss how well reasoned... etc.


Apogee Company believes that centralizing its operations in a single location results in better profitability than branching out its presence multiple locations. Apogee’s main argument behind this lies with two factors: by centralizing all of its operations business in one location, Apogee can (1) cut costs and (2) maintain better supervision of all employees. However, empirical evidences show that centralizing a company’s operations in a single location is not always profitable. In fact, we see in the United States that many companies who has most or all of their business operations in a single location is continuously losing profit and can no longer compete against offshore outsourcing competitors.

General Motors is one great example that shows how a predominant company can quickly lose its profit and increase costs compared to its competitors by centralizing its operations unit in a single location. Still having most of its manufacturing plants in Detroit, Michigan, General Motors truly centralized most, if not all of its operations business in Detroit Michigan. While, its competitors diversified their operations by outsourcing manufacturing business, General Motors, continues to operate its plants in the United States. Each consecutive years, General Motors’ profit goes down, not mainly due to its weak revenue, but from its high operating costs in the United States. General Motors’ example clearly shows how an extreme centralization can lead to increased cost and lowered profit in a company.

Apogee also believes that centralizing its operations business in a one location can lead to better supervision of all Apogee employees. However, companies like Google have taught us that a company does not have to have a single operations hub to effectively supervise its employees. Google does not require fixed 9-5 working hours for its employees. In fact, Google also does not require its employees to even show up to a company. As long as the employees finish their jobs under a deadline and effectively communicate within the organization, Google allows employees to work from anywhere at any time. Because of such policy, Google has been named as the best company to work for in the United States, and incentive-tized its employees to work hard and succeed under less pressure. As a result, Google saw huge expansion in Android and social media market under effective employees, who were under flexible, yet diversified operating units.

Apogee’s main concern of centralizing all of its operating units in a single location will seriously harm Apogee’s profit forecast if the company continues to believe centralizing will cut costs and lead to a better supervision of employees. Instead, Apogee must look at cheaper outsourcing methods to cut costs, and a ways to boost employees work performance and communications through incentives.

Question #8:

Do you need a degree in Interior Design to become an interior designer?

I'm a junior in college studying digital media and film production however I've recently became extremely interested in interior designing. Since I'm already in my junior year, it would be difficult to swtich my major however I will consider it if it's necessary.
But could I become an interior designer without a degree in it?
Also, is it worth switching my major if I must? How is the job market, ect.
Honest answers, please. Thanks!

Question #9:

Are our governments and authorities the single biggest threat to the average person?

I am not a fool and have never been a conspiracy theorist, I have spent a couple of years fully researching this and the conclusion I am coming to is very disturbing. It began when I started researching social services after media reports that babies were being snatched and sold for adoption in the UK. At first I thought I was uncovering a target scandal where eager social workers were taking babies which should have stayed with family in order to reach targets and obtain bonuses which was shocking enough but nothing could have prepared me for where my research was going to lead me.

Although there has been child protection for hundreds of years it was not until the 1958 that the government became mandated to fund child protection and the social services as we know it was born, Social services popped up globally each service a carbon copy of the next one. Now what I used to believe was a service which rescued children from abusive homes has revealed itself to be a global eugenics policy which is getting worse. Children are being taken from poor families or parents who have suffered a mental illness. Risk of future emotional harm and economic well being are common buzzwords. There is a massive wealth of information on this subject online these days thanks to the work of many researchers who have uncovered the truth.

In the late 19th century a book hypothesizing that certain behaviors could be categorized as abnormal was written, the book contained half a dozen mental illnesses. In 1952 this book was taken and rewritten, the DSM was born. These doctors took half a dozen proposed illnesses and came back with 106 disorders, none of which can be proven or dis-proven, there is no scientific basis for the disorders. How it works is the top dog psychiatrists hold a conference and they vote for the disorders that they want in the book, homosexuality used to be in there as did hysteria in women due to their wandering wombs. These were removed later under political pressure. So what we have here are not disorders but politically motivated agendas. Homosexuality was never an illness and neither are the majority of these disorders. All this is, is a method of control over the population to the point where people, children adults and elderly are being poisoned by drugs which offer no cure only side effects.The drug companies are getting very rich, those taking the drugs are effectively being poisoned and the government has so much more control. Imagine having your new born baby taken away from you because of an illness that there is no scientific evidence for and no way to test to be sure. Just off the word of a doctor on the payroll of the authorities. Well thousands of families are having this happen to them every year. Their children are adopted, massive profits are made from the sale of the children and sadly many are neglected, abused and even killed.

More and more reports about the safety of vaccines are floating about, parents are concerned about what vaccines they give their children and what vaccines they have themselves. However worried parents who decide they do not want their children injected with a potentially lethal concoction of drugs are being referred to social services and threatened with loosing their children.

Some baby food here in the UK, marketed as a suitable alternative to breast milk contains poisons such as arsenic and cadmium, fifty times the amount of heavy metal intake compared to breast milk. More and more reports are coming out about the poisoning of our water, food and air. These are not conspiracy theories just google the stuff I am talking about and research for yourself everything I am talking about is being heavily documented. I could go on and on about the various way poisons are making their way into everyday household items, damaging us slowly over the long term.

Now the governments know exactly what is going on, with the help of media, celebs, propaganda et al combined with societies inclination to ostracize anyone foolish enough to say these things and of course with the DSM labeling those who speak out as mentally ill detaining, drugging and electrocuting people the government have set this so well that there is little chance people will realize the truth until it is too late.

I could just go on and on, things happening in America, military preparing for war with US citizens, indefinite detention without trail, massive people holding pens and even reports of mass grave sites all being put into motion over there. The US government have paid compensation to those they sterilized in a eugenics program in the 70s. This has always been the agenda nothing has changed.

Question #10:

Looking for a blog/website partner?

Hi, I am writing this in regards about looking for a partner to start a tech blog/website. I am also looking to offer a drop shipping service selling cellphones but thats down the road. I am a 26 year old tech junkie and am half way through with my Bachelors of Business Science. I have just started a blog (phonejunkie.org) and also a YouTube channel (youtube.com/mikephonejunkie) at the beginning of this month. I am a beginner in the blogging industry but I am a veteran with the tech industry and my specialty is with the wireless industry. Even though I am a beginner with blogging and websites, I am a person who will use every resource possible to achieve my goal. I do not give up and I take this very serious. I spend many hours and a great amount of money to achieve my long term goal. If I do not know how to do something then I am not afraid to ask someone for help, attend a seminar, or even pay for a service.

I have been in a previous partnership/business that lasted a couple years with a guy that sold cell phones and I would do reviews on phones but he ended up getting married, didn't have time to do this anymore, and moved to Germany. I still have some contacts with AT&T Media Relations and with a local Best Buy that would allow me to put a deposit down on a phone and return it in 10 days to allow me to do a review. I have been able to use the marketing knowledge I have learned through school to be able to reach out and develop relationships with businesses. The current problem I am having is keeping up on my blog, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, etc. I believe though with some help we could make this happen. Big blogs like iMore.com, engadget.com, and blogs like that started out with 3 or more people all providing equal amounts of work.

Currently I have about 2400 followers on twitter, 550 connections on LinkedIn, 530 likes on Facebook, and 500 subscribers on YouTube. That is all within a month and I will keep achieving higher numbers and would hopefully be able to achieve this with another person who enjoys this as much as I do. I am open to ideas and hopefully the person(s) that I get involved with will take this seriously and not just give up. I need someone who will do what ever it takes and is willing to accept a slow start. I am ready for your e-mails. E-mail me at mike@phonejunkie.org

Thank you, have a great day

Question #11:

I'm in the market for a new lens for my Nikon DSLR...?

...and I want to be able to get a DOF like this:

Click Here

I only have my kit lens that came with my D3000 and I've read all the book and all the websites but no matter what I do or how hard I try, it never turns out like this. It's too dark, blurry - sometimes it aaalmost there, but not quite...

What lens would you recommend? I'm nervous about laying down a lot of money for a lens that might still disappoint. Help?

Question #12:

Website Design & Social Media Marketing - www.Fazes.co.uk?

Does anyone know of any other website design package services that offer a fully inclusive service for under £8.99 per week? If so who are they!
www.FazesWebsiteDesign.com

Question #13:

Ratio Comparison Problems?

Hi,
just a few questions.
Re-asked for lack of answers.
This is a question from a practitioners' standpoint, not a theorists' (joeyv).


1. Market Adaptation: US --> Foreign markets
The Gurus' (Buffett, Lynch, Graham, etc) methodologies were designed specifically for US stocks.
How do i adapt the ratios and criteria for foreign markets that have traded at historically different ratios from the S&P, DJI etc?

2. Reference Period:
How do i tell if something is historically "cheap"?

e.g. XYZ has historically traded at far higher PE ratios.
Comparing to historical P/E, XYZ is a BUY, but when looking at it in light of it's strategic prospects, its quite bad with the possibility the new P/E might be here to stay or get worse. :|

3. No realistic peers to compare with: ---> No accurate industry comparisons
When comparing ratios, many of the firms have no realistic peers with similar revenue compositions, or comparable geographies.

e.g. a Singaporean newspaper firm with a very diverse revenue composition has no realistic peers because of the unique situation (media is essentially state-controlled), revenue composition (firm does media, property development, website management and a bunch of other things).

So in the general case, if you can't define a peer group, what do you compare against?
15 hours ago - 3 days left
ROFLMAO joeyv!
hahahahahaha :D

Question #14:

What will Alberta look like after peak oil?

Alberta's ego is larger than Texas' 'cause they have more oil right? But how much of this oil is recoverable at reasonable prices that the market will bear remains to be seen. Currently the oil sands are an incredibly inefficient operation that requires an input of 2 units of energy for every 3 extracted...to say nothing of the environmental impact in the immediate area and the world at large. To be a single resource economy is never healthy but people refuse to learn from the lessons of the past (migrants and immigrants moving into the province with good jobs unable to find any accommodation in boom times, followed by foreclosures, bankruptcies and suicides during the subsequent busts) Edmonton and Calgary are 2 sizeable metropolitan (mainly sprawl) areas situated in the middle of nowhere whose medium to long term existence seems unsustainable. The profits from oil are not going to last forever and then what? Does the whole province revert to being a frozen wasteland?

Question #15:

APA Citation for No Author Journal article?

Working on a references list in APA style. I have a journal article (not peer reviewed) from an online database & it has no author. The internet is giving me conflicting examples, if any, on how to cite this correctly.

according to son of a citation machine the citation would be

(2011). Four steps to enhance your marketing strategy with social media. PT in Motion, 3(4), 13. doi: Academic Search Complete

the "PT in Motion" would be italics
is this correct?

Question #16:

Can Black People Be Racist ?

We are in the future. Black people have taken over the world. All the wealth and power whites had is gone and has been taken from them by black people.

You are white :

EMPLOYMENT : White people are the last hired, first fired. Because white people are not as good as the black people. Besides, everyone knows how whites do not like to work hard. Just look at their unemployment rate!

CRIME : The police are mostly black. We are not serious about fighting crime in your poor white neighbourhood since it is not black people who are getting hurt. Besides, everyone knows how violent white people are. Just look at their crime rate!

EDUCATION : Schools are taught and run by black people. When you and other white parents push white history. You are told that white people have never invented anything of note, never built a civilisation, never done anything and that you were just savages in Europe besides having a white history month is racist because we don't have a black history month.

Plus you are told that white schools are bad because whites are bad students. Besides, spending more tax money on white students would be a complete waste. Just look at their IQs

MAGAZINES : Nearly all the women are black. Maxim and Vogue are the same way. Because everyone knows black women are the most desirable, most beautiful women on earth. When you read 100 most beautiful women's list, they will be 95% black with odd darker skinned white girl thrown in and we will "Wow !! She's so pretty for a white girl !!"

WHITE WOMEN : Most wear their hair black and have an afro. Some wear brown contacts to cover their blue eyes and therefore prettier.

HISTORY : At school you mainly just learn black history. Because only black history matters. You are made to learn the famous sayings of the black heroes who took over the world for the greater glory of black people. You learn all the great things black scientists and inventors have done.

FOOD : Restaurants and markets sell mainly Afro-carribean food.

MEDIA : On television nearly everyone is black. The lead character in Hollywood films is almost always a black man. The people who win the Oscar are pretty much always black people. Whites mostly play supporting characters that are not fleshed out – or worse, are stereotypes that black people have about white people.

BOOKS : Nearly all the books are written by black people for the black people. Not just novels but books about Europe, cooking, hair care, history, politics and so on.

I find it helps shed light on white privilege to do a little role reversal because the above situation is the current situation only for white people. This is why I have to laugh when whites claim blacks people can be and are racist. And remember white people, there is no going back home, no escaping, and it lasts your whole lifetime from the time you were little.

Question #17:

Proof: Pacquiao or Mayweather PPV King? Here are the facts?

By John F. McKenna (McJack): World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) has topped WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) in Pay Per View (PPV) buys for his last three fights. In addition Pacquiao’s live gate attendance far exceeds Mayweather during the same time span.


Manny’s last fight in November against Juan Manuel Marquez drew 1.41 million PPV buys, while Floyd’s fight last September against Victor Ortiz drew 1.25 PPV buys.
Floyd’s fight with Marquez in 2009 drew 1 million PPV buys.

Pacquiao’s fight with Antonio Margarito in 2010 drew 1.5 million PPV buys, while Mayweather’s fight Shane Mosley drew 1.4 million PPV buys. Despite Mosley being perceived as a shot fighter, Pacquiao drew 1.3 million PPV buys in their May 2011 fight.

In total Pacquiao’s last three fights have drawn 3.86 million PPV buys, while Mayweather’s last three fights have pulled in 3.65 million PPV buys. In summation Pacquiao drew in 210,000 more PPV buys than Mayweather did. When you take into account the higher number of PPV buys that Pacquiao’s fights have drawn it translates into a cool $10,000,000 in cash.

It is true that the Floyd Mayweather – Oscar De La Hoya fight in May 2007 drew a record 2.4 million PPV hits. Many boxing observers largely attribute the high PPV numbers in that fight to the extreme popularity of the Golden Boy, Oscar De La Hoya and the fact that it was held on the Cinco De Mayo holiday.

But Pacquiao’s recent higher PPV numbers only tell part of the story. In the same three fights Pacquiao sold out the venues, while Mayweather’s last three fights were not sold out. In addition, when Manny Pacquiao fights at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas a significantly higher number of high rollers from Asia fly into Vegas for his fights. The economic impact in Las Vegas for a Pacquiao fight far outstrips that of any other fighter.

In a study by CSE, an integrated sports and marketing firm, Pacquiao is one of only two boxers in the 2012 Power Rankings of the most powerful athletes in the world. Manny is ranked at number 28. Mayweather is ranked 49th in the same study. Both on and off field accomplishments are taken into account in the rankings. Endorsements and media presence figure heavily in the rankings.

So Floydiots and Flomos, what's your excuse now? Let's hear your new excuses and accusations.

Question #18:

Where should I go to college?

I'm only a sophomore, so I haven't taken the ACT yet. My goal for the ACT is a 30 or above. I don't plan on taking the SAT, unless I need to. I've maintained a 4.0 throughout high school so far, and I've joined a fair amount of clubs. I also play soccer, but I don't necessarily plan on playing soccer in college unless it's a Division 2 or 3 school.

I want to go to a school that's medium-sized or feels like it's own community, but isn't too large or too small. I need to go to a school close enough (an hour or less away) to a large city with stuff to do! I don't mind diversity, but I don't want to be the only white person. I do not want to go to school in the south! So far, I'm thinking East Coast, Midwest, or maybe out west, like California, Colorado, Washington, or Oregon, though I haven't been there. A college with a good study abroad program would be cool.
Careers/fields I'm considering include: advertising, marketing, international business, law, sport's agent, or anything that includes presenting information in a digitally creative way.

Thanks for reading all of this and giving your input!
Right now, I'm looking at Bentley University, Bradley University, and Alma College, but I don't want to limit my options!

Question #19:

How is this possible?

I received a YouTube spam message from my own account that I did not write. The subject was:
Music Producer available for business plan, marketing plan, budget plan review, analysis, editing and corrections. Make sure you have all your ducks in a row
The message was:
Let me help you with your plan, your layouts and your solicitations to fund the project with the right correct budget, the right information and the best approach to getting it all done.

Here is my short bio.....Loren Weisman is an accomplished music producer, author and media consultant. He is the author of "The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business." Loren has been a part of over 400 albums as a drummer and producer, TV productions credits for three major networks as well as serving as a media consultant for many businesses in and out of the entertainment field.

Enjoy, the following video and feel free to add me

Question #20:

Which is the best tablet in the market?

I want to buy a tablet that's worth the money. My choices come down to the Transformer 1, transformer prime, and galaxy tab 10.1. I'm leaning to the original transformer, what do you think? I know that the prime has quadcore, but i heard it has wifi and gps issues, and I don't play games so the quadcore is kind of useless for me.
I just want to surf the web, watch video, emails, pictures, and social media, those kind of stuff...what sdo you think would be best for me





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