Rumor

A rumor or rumour (see spelling differences) is "a tall tale of explanations of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern". However, a review of the research on rumor conducted by Pendleton in 1998 found that research across sociology, psychology, and communication studies had widely varying definitions of rumor.

In the social sciences, a rumor involves some kind of a statement whose veracity is not quickly or ever confirmed. In addition, some scholars have identified rumor as a subset of propaganda.

Rumors are also often discussed with regard to "misinformation" and "disinformation" (the former often seen as simply false and the latter seen as deliberately false, though usually from a government source given to the media or a foreign government). Rumors thus have often been viewed as particular forms of other communication concepts.

Early work

French and German social science research on rumor locates the modern scholarly definition of it to the pioneering work of the German William Stern in 1902. Stern experimented on rumor involving a "chain of subjects" who passed a story from "mouth to ear" without the right to repeat or explain it. He found that the story was shortened and changed by the time it reached the end of the chain. His student was another pioneer in the field, Gordon Allport.

List of The Proud Family episodes

The Proud Family is an American animated television series about an African-American family. Originally piloted for Nickelodeon, it was eventually picked up by the Disney Channel in 2001. The show was created by Bruce W. Smith, and is produced by his studio, Jambalaya Studios.

While basically a sitcom, The Proud Family presents young audiences with different daily situations that many teenagers might have to face during their teenage and adult years. Although The Proud Family has ended with the final episode, a made-for-TV The Proud Family Movie was released on August 19, 2005.

Series overview

Season 1 (2001–02)

Season 2 (2002–03)

Season 3 (2004–05)

References

Rumors (EP)

Rumors is the second major label extended play from American rapper Jake Miller, which was released on July 8, 2015, by Warner Bros. Records. The EP consisted of 5 songs and was released without previous announcement for digital download. It charted in Billboard 200, peaking 118 and selling 8,000 copies in its first week.

Singles

Miller released "Rumors" as the lead single from the EP, which video was directed by Edgar Esteves. He also released a promotional video for the track "Selfish Girls" featuring some fans. On September 9, 2015; Miller premiered a music video for the track "Sunshine", a tribute to his close childhood friend Dylan Andrew Schopp, who died by suicide on February 12, 2015. The "Yellow Lights" music video which was shoot on August 13, 2015 at a desert in California was released on October 6, 2015.

Track listing

Charts

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Taffy (candy)

Taffy, or chews, are a type of candy similar to toffee. Taffy is often sold alongside bubblegum and hard candy. Taffy is made by stretching or pulling a sticky mass of boiled sugar, butter or vegetable oil, flavorings, and coloring until it becomes aerated (meaning that tiny air bubbles are produced, resulting in a light, fluffy and chewy candy). When this process is complete, the taffy is rolled, cut into small pastel-coloured pieces and wrapped in wax paper to keep it soft. It usually has a fruity flavor, but other flavors are common as well, including molasses and the classic unflavored taffy.

Salt water taffy was a noted invention of Atlantic City, New Jersey, and became a common souvenir of many coastal resort towns. Modern commercial taffy is made primarily from corn syrup, glycerin and butter. The pulling process, which makes the candy lighter and chewier, consists of stretching out the mixture, folding it over and stretching it out again. Although it is called "salt water" taffy, it does not include any salt water in its manufacture at all. In the nearby Philadelphia regional dialect, the term "taffy", without "salt water" before it, used to refer to a lollipop or sucker.

Taffy (song)

"Taffy" is a song written and sung by Lisa Loeb. The song was recorded in 1995. It is featured on her album Tails, and her 2006 greatest hits album, The Very Best of Lisa Loeb.

It is about a boyfriend who always lies: the expression is saying that he likes to stretch the truth, which is basically lying.

Although the song was not a very successful single, it was moderately successful on radio. It peaked at #6 on U.S Billboard Bubbling Under The Hot 100 in early 1996, and the single's video was popular on VH1 and MTV. The song charted in the New Zealand RIANZ Top 40 at #39.

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Taffy (singer)

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Taffy (born Katherine Quaye, 1963, New York) was an American 1980s Hi-NRG and Italo disco singer, known for her hit, "I Love My Radio".

The song, produced by Claudio Cecchetto, who was also behind all her previous hits in Italy, was released in the United Kingdom by Rhythm King's Transglobal Records (both part of Mute Records in those days) and was originally a hit in Italy in 1985. The song's sentiments were about a disc jockey broadcasting in the early hours. However as very few radio stations in the United Kingdom broadcast after midnight in the late 1980s, this reference in the record was changed. A re-recorded version called "I Love My Radio (Dee Jay's Radio)" was released instead. This is the version that reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart.

Singles