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maintain social order by helping
us categorize and typify others; maintain predictability over
Separation of activities
Social order is maintained by defining
boundaries that compartmentalize role
behaviors and normative expectations (family and work, church and casinos)
1. Population size
2. Social differentiation
3. Inequality
Social disorder is a function of three forces:
Large ____________________ are difficult to control as face-to-face
encounters become more problematic; The larger a __________________, the weaker the emotional
attachment among members; The larger a __________________, the more likely sub-cultures
will form which define themselves as different from
Social differentiation
regards the process of
creating differences in culture,
occupational roles, income, family
structure, economic arrangements, etc.; The more __________________ a society, the
greater the likelihood of social disorder.
The more a population grows and a
surplus of resources emerges, the
greater a population's ____________________ among
members; The greater the _________________, the greater
the likelihood of social disorder
____________________ explanations of deviance focus
on genetic predispositions.
____________________ explanations of deviance
focus on personality disorders.
Sociological
explanations of deviance
search for causes outside the individual; Crime is a violation of norms written into law,
and each society has its own laws against
certain types of behavior, but socialization,
subcultural group memberships, or social class
may influence some people to break norms
more than others.
cite that crime and
deviance exists in all societies,
therefore they must serve some vital
purpose or function.
_________________ serves to maintain
boundaries regarding right and
wrong conduct.
Social solidarity
Deviance promotes __________________________________________
by reemphasizing the norms and
values of a society; Members of a society need to know what is deviant so that individuals know what not to do; This strengthens collective sentiments
against infringement of norms.
Deviance is a mechanism for
promoting ____________________; Where crime exists collective
sentiments will be flexible to take on a
new form; Crime sometimes assists in determining
the form of collective sentiments
Strain theory
Robert K. Merton proposed _____________________________________ (also called anomie theory) to
explain deviance; a functionalist theory of
deviance.
Merton's Strain Theory
All societies have culturally defined goals and various legitimate means to achieve such goals; High rates of deviance emerge when legitimate
means are limited—this creates a structural
_____________ between means and goals for those
without the means.
1. Conformists
2. Innovators
3. Ritualists
4. Retreatists
5. Rebels
Merton identified five types of people
regarding deviance:
Conformists
accept both society's goals and the means to attain those goals; Most people are _________________.
accept society's goals, but
do not accept the legitimate means to
reach them
Ritualists
reject society's goals, but
still conform to the legitimate means
to obtain them
Retreatists
reject both society's goals
and the means to attain them
Defines those who rebel against an
existing system in order to create a
new system (where alternative goals
and means are instituted).
KNOW GRAPH ON SLIDE 28
Illegitimate opportunity
theory (IOT)
Sociologists Richard Cloward and Lloyd
Ohlin developed _______________________________________________________________ to explain why social classes
have distinct styles of crime; a functionalist theory that suggests that
differences in styles of crime are due to
differential access to institutionalized means
Illegitimate opportunity structures
_______________________________________________________________ are
opportunities for crimes such as
robbery, burglary, or drug dealing that
are woven into the texture of life; These structures result when legitimate
structures fail.
Urban poor
For the _______________________________ opportunities exist to
make money through "hustles" such as robbery, drug dealing, and other crimes; The "hustler" is a role model because he or she is one of the few who comes close to the
cultural goals of success.
results from an
illegitimate opportunity structure among
higher classes; Such crimes exist in greater numbers than
commonly perceived, and can be very costly; they can involve physical harm and sometimes
Routine activities theory
Marcus Felson and Lawrence E. Cohen
developed _____________________________________________________________ to
understand the causes of crime; states that ineffective
societal controls against crime will lead
to criminals preying upon attractive
targets.
1. Lack of capable guardians
▪ E.g. police, homeowners, security systems
2. Motivated offenders
▪ E.g. teenage boys, the unemployed, drug addicts
3. Suitable targets
▪ Unlocked homes, expensive material possessions, easily
transportable goods
According to routine activities theory, crime and
victimization involves the interaction of three
factors:
emphasizes that resources are not equally (or fairly)
distributed in modern societies; Deviance and criminal behavior is thus
largely a result of the fact that the lower
class does not have the same access to
resources as does the upper class.
1. Why norms of some groups are transformed
into laws thereby creating criminals out of
conflicting groups.
2. Why certain laws are enforced but not others,
thereby making criminals out of those who
violate such laws but not others.
3. Why laws are enforced against certain social
groups, thus creating criminals out of certain
rule violators but not others.
Conflict theory addresses the following:
Those who hold power in society tend to define
its ___________; these ________ often are easier to
adhere to for those in the upper echelon of
Lower class
"Crime" is thus defined by the upper class to
suppress the lower class, therefore those who are
"societal deviants" are often from the ___________________
theories of deviance are based
on the rational-choice ideology that
people conform to rather than deviate
from norms because of the costs involved
with being a deviant.
1. One's level of social integration to others.
2. The degree of time and emotional energy
invested in non-deviant activities.
3. The degree of belief one has in society's
norms.
Utilitarian theories believe deviance is
a function of:
Morality or altruism
A weakness of utilitarian theory is that
it may not account for ______________ or
______________; _________________, _________________, and self-sacrifice all
help maintain normative behavior in
society; Therefore, the utilitarian cost/benefit
analysis may be overly simplistic.
Symbolic interactionist
__________________________________________ theories of
deviance addresses the effects of
positive or negative attributions
placed on acts, individuals, or groups; Acts are neither inherently good or bad;
normality and deviance are socially
Labeling theory
a symbolic interactionist
theory that focuses on the idea that
deviance and conformity result not so
much from what people do, but from how
others respond to those actions.
Self-fulfilling
Societal reactions to negative behavior can
lead one to adopt the values of deviant
subcultures that the labeling process itself
helps to create; Once labeled negatively by others, an
internalized label can lead to negative ______________________________________________________________
1. Denial of responsibility (I didn't do it.)
2. Denial of injury (who really got hurt?)
3. Denial of a victim (she deserved it!)
4. Condemnation of the condemners (who
are you to judge me?)
5. Appeal to higher loyalty (I had to help my friends.)
Gresham Sykes and David Matza cite five "techniques of neutralization" that deviants employ to resist society's
Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey's
______________________________________________________(1966) claims that
deviance is a group phenomenon: "the result of
an excess of definitions favorable to violation of
the law."; Deviance is learned with others in small, intimate
groups; Learning deviance includes learning techniques for
committing crimes, and learning motives, drives,
rationalizations, and attitudes; Deviant behavior is not biological or accidental;
people who deviate associate with and learn from
others who condone deviant activities.
1. Frequency of communication
2. Duration of communication
3. Priority
4. Intensity of differential association
The learning process of differential association
is a function of:
Walter Reckless' __________________________________
believes that everyone is propelled
towards deviance, but two systems of
control work against motivations to
Inner and outer controls
What are the two systems of
control that work against motivations to
deviate?
Inner controls
are our capacity to withstand
temptations toward deviance due to an
internalized morality, integrity, fear of
punishment, and desire to be good.
Outer controls
are external social forces
that influence us not to deviate (e.g.
groups, family, friends, the police).
Social control theory
Travis Hirschi's _____________________________________ seeks not to discover why
people commit deviant acts, but
rather why DON'T people commit
deviant acts?; assumes that deviance is enticing for
Social ties
Actors who do not deviate do so
because of __________________ with
conventional society; If ___________________ are weak, people will be
more likely to deviate from norms; Deviance and delinquency is thus a
function of a lack of ties to conventional
1. Attachment
3. Involvement
4. Belief
Social control theory has four elements:
The more ___________________ one is to normal conventional
members of society (e.g. parents, teachers, clergy)
the less likely one is to deviate.
The more ___________________ one is to conventional social
institutions (e.g. school, family, church) the less
likely one will deviate.
The more _________________ one is in culturally sanctioned
activities (e.g. Little League, Boy/Girl Scouts) the
less likely one will deviate.
The more deeply one ______________ in societal norms,
the less likely one will deviate.
KNOW CHARTS ON SLIDES 54,55,56
Since 1975 the number of prisoners in the
U.S. has increased by over ________%.
By 2013, over ___million people were under
supervision of the criminal justice system.
With more than __ million imprisoned, it is the
first time in U.S. history that more than 1 in 100
are behind bars.
in America are similar to
other industrialized countries;
incarceration rates are very different.
The United States _____________________ a far
greater percentage of its citizens than any
other nation.
KNOW GRAPHS ON SLIDES 59,60, 61
_____________ are the fastest growing
segment of the prison population.
Between 1980 and 2014, the number of
women behind bars increased by ____%.
are incarcerated at disproportionately
high rates compared to others.
Decreased
Crime rates have largely remained the same, or
even _____________________ over the past few decades.
Sentencing policy
Roughly 12% of the rise in incarcerations since 1980
is a result of a rise in crime rates. The remaining 88% of prison sentences are results
of changes in ____________________________________.
Many crimes have mandatory minimum
sentences.
Life prison
Many states have implemented "threestrikes
laws" which carry ____________________
sentences for multiple felony offenses.
_____________ has been severely limited (or
sometimes abolished).
Many more arrests have been ________
Conservative focus
A key reason for increased incarceration
rates stems from America's __________________________________ on crime as a social problem.
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mcg_erika
section 4 & 5
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Criminology Exam #2
parsparikh
Social Institutions II
kaymcdef
Social Institutions I
Astronomy Exam 3
Exam 3 Soc. Part 3
Sociology Exam 2 Part 1
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UNESCO Director-General receives the Mayor of Venice at UNESCO Headquarters
Director-General, Irina Bokova with Mayor of Venice Mr. Luigi Brugnaro
UNESCO Release
Paris, 24 January—The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, received the Mayor of Venice, Mr. Luigi Brugnaro, at UNESCO Headquarters, in the presence of representatives of the Italian government, to discuss the protection of the city of Venice and its Lagoon, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
This meeting follows the Director-General's visit to Venice on 3 and 4 November 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Venice flood.
The discussion focused on measures taken by the Italian authorities and the Municipality of Venice to ensure the long-term protection of the site. The meeting of the World Heritage Committee in July 2016 made a number of recommendations and asked that Italy report on its actions before 1 February 2017.
The Italian authorities reaffirmed their total commitment to respond to the concerns raised by the World Heritage Committee in July 2016 regarding the preservation of the city of Venice. This commitment resulted in the adoption of a new "Pact for Venice", signed on 26 November last, planning for the investment of some 457 million Euros in preservation initiatives in the city and its lagoon over the next four years. In addition, as part of the National Strategic Plan for the Development of Tourism presented by the Ministry of Cultural Activities and Tourism on 16 December last, the objective of which is to put sustainable tourism at the center of national policies, a specific pilot action is planned to monitor and manage tourist flows in Venice.
"Venice is a shared heritage of outstanding universal value. Working hand-in-hand, UNESCO with the Government, the Municipality, and all stakeholders, is the only way forward. This morning the mayor of Venice presented to me in detail the great number of measures taken and the concrete projects that he intends to carry out. I understand the strength of the commitment jointly led by the municipality and the Government . We will continue to move forward in this spirit." said Irina Bokova.
"My presence today is a sign of Venice's trust and commitment to the international cooperation. I have presented this morning to the Director-General the progress made during the last 15 months by the city of Venice, which shows a strong commitment to the revitalization of the city and a clear trend reversal. I hope that this meeting will be the starting point of a cooperation that builds a new vision for Venice in the next 20 years, where all are committed to a better future for young people and future generations." said Mayor Luigi Brugnaro.
The bilateral meeting between the Director-General and the Mayor was followed by working meetings to explore various aspects of the management of the World Heritage site.

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When we last left our hero, Capitalism, he was flexing his muscles, having laid a knockout blow on Mercantilism and turning his pugilistic attention to dominating the entire economy of the Western world and, before long, that of the rest of the planet as well. An offshoot of the power of the fast-growing nascent business class was its reach fully into the phenomenon soon to be called "Imperialism." Undeveloped areas were conquered and their resources, on the cheap, absorbed into the Capitalist maw. "Taking up the white man's burden" was the smarmy, advertised interpretation of this legalized thievery.
The U.S., because of its colonial past, was not originally in the same camp as Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, et. al. It took almost a full century before the U.S.A joined the rapacious pack, picking up a few stray dependencies like the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and Puerto Rico, while keeping a wary eye and military invasion plans on most of Latin America.
A lynchpin of the growing industrialization in the U.S. was the development of railroads that began just prior to the Civil War. Much has been made of the transportation explosion that helped link our scattered settlements on the North American continent. The men who built the railroads were hailed as heroes of progress (although later some of them slipped into the less glamorous category of robber barons). But to listen to certain gurus of American free enterprise, you would think these bravos did it all on their own without any help from (gulp) our U.S. government.
I had evidence of such an attitude provided at a meeting of a group I once belonged to called the Presidents Circle of the National Academy of Sciences. Also a member was Bill Koch, one of the now notorious Koch brothers, two of whom are pouring millions into present-day political campaigns. Bill is not one of these political heavies – he seems to prefer collecting art and sailing (he won the Americas Cup for the U.S. in the past). But his ideology aligns with his brothers, the Koch boys seemingly having had dinned into them the philosophy of their father, a founder of the arch-right wing John Berch Society. In the course of a discussion at the Presidents Circle, Bill Koch made an impassioned plea for returning to "the good old days," when free enterprise had encountered no restraints nor government assistance and he especially lauded those railroad pioneers for their initiative and daring.
However, Bill never mentioned the most salient fact about railroad building in our country – that it all depended on the immense land grants received from the Federal government in Washington, D.C. These gifts were turned into cash as collateral for bonds sold to create the capital necessary for the vast enterprises cropping up all over the country. When I reminded Bill Koch of such Federal help, without which the railroads could not have been built, he sheepishly admitted he had to agree with me and had forgotten that aspect of American Capitalism.
From railroads to oil to steel, the expansion of American industry in the the mid to late 19th century was extraordinary. Given birth ideologically was not only a boastful and brash Capitalist society but what came to be known as "Social Darwinianism," the rule of Survival of the Fittest and the moral superiority of winners, no matter how reprehensible their behavior. Capitalism's harshness in the use of its workers led to the formation of Unions and almost continual labor strife. So extreme were some of the abuses that in 1887, Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act, "the federal governments' first attempt to interfere with the conduct of business." The activity of the railroads in playing favorites in rate cases was specifically cited as causing the impulse for Uncle Sam to level the playing field.
The 1920's saw the climax of prosperity, but following a pattern seen in the U.S. economy since before the Civil War was beset by yo-yo periods of recession and then recovery. The habit of speculation became rooted and the first major Depression arrived in 1929. The walls of wealth came tumbling down and, before long, one third of Americans were out of work once the economy collapsed.
Such rhetoric won Roosevelt the job of Chief Executive and from 1932 until his death in 1945, he labored with eventual success in forming the U.S. into the greatest and fairest economic giant in the world.
Roosevelt's "reform Capitalism" did save the Capitalist system and give it a new lease on life. Other countries, like Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, reacted with totalitarian dictatorships. But the reprieve offered by the New Deal would last only a few decades until attacked by Darwinian forces working to restore a golden age of laissez-faire, which never ever really did exist or whose dependence on governmental subsidies was conveniently forgotten, the way Bill Koch had done.
To preach that Adam Smith's invisible hand – i.e., the market – if left alone will correct every flaw defies common sense and past performance. It is a step down the road to economic hell. But people do forget, as we have seen. Raw Capitalism's rapacious imperative that in selfishness lies salvation once more is experiencing a revival here in the second decade of the 21st century. Whether we can survive another onslaught of needless economic recklessness and its resulting financial inequality remains to be seen.


Fandoms. Fans. Canon. Headcanon. Ship. Fanfiction. Internet!
Hello there! Hope you are all having a fantastic day today.
Now, I don't know about all of you, but I was a Star Trek fan from the day I was born. I don't think I really had a choice. My parents love watching the Next Generation, so I grew up listening to the soothing voice of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and thinking that space exploration was all about negotiations and peacemaking. I didn't even know that James T Kirk existed until just before these reboot movies started coming out!
The original show premiered in 1966. Just three years after the premiere of one certain Time Lord made his way onto the screen.
Today, both Doctor Who and Star Trek are major science fiction franchises with spin offs and books and massive fandoms spanning generations. Both have been recently rebooted with shiny new cast members and updated CGI.
Serious Trekkies know that Star Trek was actually nearly cancelled in 1968.
Fandom didn't always exist and I think it's important to remember that the concept didn't come about in order to argue over ships and compete on who has the better or more accurate headcanon, or who's the "bigger, better, truer" fan. Fandom began, especially for Star Trek, with the simple desire to connect with other people who enjoyed the same thing, and to share and promote it. In a fandom, you don't need to apologize for how much you love something. We get it. And we're right there with you. Fandom. So live long and prosper!


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Antarctic Mercury Threatens Fish and Birds
Bacteria in Antarctic sea-ice can change mercury into a more toxic form that can contaminate the marine environment, including fish and birds, according to a study published in Nature Microbiology.
Mercury can be released into the environment through volcanic eruptions and re-released from vegetation during bushfires, as well as through human activities such as gold smelting and fossil fuel combustion.
Caitlin Gionfriddo, a PhD candidate at The University of Melbourne who spent 2 months aboard the icebreaker Aurora Australis to collect samples of Antarctic sea-ice during an expedition mounted by the Australian Antarctic Division, says that methylmercury is an even more toxic form that accumulates in the food web.
"Larger fish eat smaller contaminated fish and continuously accumulate methylmercury at harmful levels for human consumption," Gionfriddo said. Methylmercury ingested by people can travel to the brain, causing developmental and physical problems in foetuses, infants and children.
The sea-ice was analysed for different forms of mercury, including methylmercury, as well as the DNA and proteins from sea-ice microorganisms. Team leader Dr John Moreau said that the results confirmed the presence of sea-ice bacteria that could convert mercury into the more toxic methylmercury form.
The findings highlight the importance of eliminating mercury pollution from the environment, and of following current recommendations by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand to limit the consumption of certain types of fish.
"These results are the first to identify a particular genus of bacteria, Nitrospina, as capable of producing methylmercury in Antarctic ice," Moreau said. "The presence of these potential mercury-methylating bacteria raises an interesting question: could they also play a role in forming the methylmercury observed in the oceans worldwide?"
"Mercury has a long lifecycle in the atmosphere, up to a year," said co-author Dr Robyn Schofield. "This means that mercury released through fossil fuel burning from countries over 3000 km away goes up in the atmosphere and ends up in Antarctica."
"The deposition of mercury into the sea occurs all year long but increases during the Antarctic spring, when the sunlight returning causes reactions that boost the amount of mercury that falls onto sea-ice and the ocean," Gionfriddo added.
Moreau added that more needed to be understood about marine mercury pollution, "particularly in a warming climate and when depleted fish stocks means more seafood companies are looking south".


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<< Manifestation le 24 octobre... Au revoir, ma Soeur >>
A propos des "rumeurs" obamesques.
NewsMax.Com a publié une "petite" compilation de toutes choses que nie Obama mais qui sont pourtant largement vérifiables : ses liens avec Ayers, avec l'Acorn, le financement de sa campagne, sa future politique fiscale, ses liens avec des dirigeants de Fannie MAc, ses positions sur l'avortement...
N'en jetez plus, la cour est pleine.
(L'article est en anglais mais facilement compréhensible) . La page originale se trouve ici.
'Smears' About Obama Largely True
By: Lowell Ponte Article Font Size
The Obama campaign says its candidate is a victim of "smears" — and has even created a Web site to fight such attacks.
But a Newsmax investigation finds many of the so-called smears are largely based in truth — and the Obama campaign uses half-truths, clever language, and ad hominem attacks to spin the facts.
Obama's www.FightTheSmears.com focuses mainly on anti-Obama messages being repeated on the Internet and talk radio, the only media where Obama's ideological allies are not dominant.
These "smears" and the Obama rebuttals are often framed in lawyerly language that leaves much wiggle room in the candidate's answers.
FightTheSmears.com also makes no attempt at objectivity, describing Obama's critics as "pushing misleading research and distorted claims" because they are "ideologues" busy "spreading a 'pack of lies' about Barack."
In a section of the site titled, "Who's Behind the Smears?" visitors can see a chart naming seven groups and six individuals with lines that suggest multiple, sinister connections between them.
The people and groups named are real and are members of Washington's small but conservative sphere of power and influence. The Obama conspiracy chart links all of these conservative individuals and groups back to the critics who dogged the "Clinton 1992 Campaign."
This may come as something as a surprise to Hillary Clinton, as many of the "smears" against Obama first surfaced during her heated primary contest with him.
Newsmax reviewed 10 random claims and related rebuttals posted on Obama's ever-changing FightTheSmears.com to gauge their veracity. Here's what we found:
Claim No. 1: Obama's campaign is funded by the rich, big corporations and foreigners.
"Barack Obama was the only major presidential candidate this year to completely reject contributions from The Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs that have dominated our politics for years," the Obama site says of the persistent online criticisms of its fundraising.
"Instead, this campaign has been owned by the more than 3.1 million everyday Americans who have donated in small amounts."
Not so, according to campaign finance records. Nearly half of the $600 million raised by Obama to date has come from wealthy donors and special interests. Obama's allies months ago dropped their ad linking Republican rival "Exxon John" McCain to Big Oil after it came to light that Obama had taken far more money from Exxon-Mobil than McCain.
"The Obama campaign has complied fully with federal election law," claims the Obama site, "including donor eligibility and contribution disclosure requirements."
However, one giant loophole the politicians wrote into the law allows contributions in amounts of $200 or less with no donor identification. Obama claims that $300 million in campaign funds was given by these small donors, and he won't release their names and addresses.
McCain has released his whole donor database, including those who have contributed less than $200.
Critics argue that the other half of Obama's campaign haul — the part not raised from big corporate donors and special interests — came in a small flood of anonymous donations that might be foreign or corrupt, or both.
Claim No. 2: Obama has had a close, ongoing relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.
The Obama site acknowledges that its candidate and Ayers "served on the board of an education-reform organization in the mid-1990s," but maintains most stories about the links between Obama and Ayers are phony or exaggerated.
It does not mention that Obama and Ayers worked together on the board distributing millions of dollars with the aim of radicalizing Chicago schoolchildren.
Nor does the site acknowledge that Obama kicked off his first political campaign in the living room of Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader. (Obama is currently saying it was not the first event. There is no dispute that one of Obama's first political events in his first run for public office was held in Ayers' home.)
There is also no dispute the Weather Underground bombed the Pentagon the Capitol, the home of a New York Supreme Court justice, and a police station, among other targets. FBI agent Larry Grathwohl, who infiltrated the group, has recounted Ayers teaching him how to make bombs and saying, "In the revolution, some innocent people need to die."
"Smear groups and now a desperate McCain campaign are trying to connect Barack to William Ayers using age-old guilt by association techniques . . ." says the Obama Web site.
Actually, McCain and Obama critics are questioning why Obama would continue to associate with a man who, as recently as 2001, said he did not do enough and wished he had bombed more.
Conservatives also note that if Ayers had bombed abortion clinics, the liberal media would brand him a pariah forever. What does it tell us about the liberal media's and Obama's judgment and values that they see nothing wrong with embracing unrepentant terrorist Ayers today?
Claim No. 3: Obama takes advice from executives of troubled mortgage backer Fannie Mae.
"John McCain started smearing Obama about non-existent ties to Fannie Mae in some of his deceptive attack ads," says FightTheSmears.com. The site downplays connections between Obama and two former heads of the giant mortgage-backing institution — James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines — whose corruption played a key role in the current financial crisis.
But an editorial in the Aug. 27, 2008, Washington Post described Johnson and Raines, as "members of Mr. Obama's political circle."
Raines advised the Obama campaign on housing matters. Obama chose Johnson to select his vice presidential running mate. But because neither are advising Obama today, this Web site's present-tense claim that he "doesn't [not didn't] take advice from Fannie Mae execs" is technically, if deceptively, true.
Johnson also reportedly helped raise as much as $500,000 for Obama's campaign.
And despite Obama's lack of seniority in the U.S. Senate, he pocketed more than $105,000 in political contributions, the third-highest amount given to any lawmaker, directly from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama's Web site leaves all this unmentioned.
Claim No. 4: Obama has close ties with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a group suspected of massive voter registration fraud.
Obama's site says the candidate was never an ACORN employee and that ACORN "was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive [Obama] ran in 1992."
In defending Obama, the site resorts to smearing former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell — calling him a "discredited Republican voter-suppression guru" — for daring to fight the vote fraud so often associated with operatives of ACORN, among the largest radical groups in the United States.
As Newsmax has documented in ["Clever Obama Tries To Bury ACORN Past,"] Obama's Web site is attempting to deceive when it says Obama was never "hired" to work as a trainer for ACORN's leaders. In fact, he did the work for free from at least 1993 until 2003.
ACORN spokesman Lewis Goldberg acknowledges in the Oct. 11, 2008, New York Times that Obama trained ACORN leaders. And Obama worked as a lawyer for ACORN.
As to heading up Project Vote in Illinois, Obama said during a speech to ACORN leaders last November, "[When] I ran the Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack-dab in the middle of it."
Veteran journalist Karen Tumulty described Project Vote in the Oct. 18, 2004, issue of Time magazine as "a nonpartisan arm of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now" after interviewing its national director.
The co-founder of ACORN, former Students for a Democratic Society official Wade Rathke, described Project Vote as one of ACORN's "family of organizations."
Over the years, ACORN and its front groups, like the one Obama ran in Illinois, have registered more than 4 million voters. When authorities in Virginia checked ACORN registrations, it found that 83 percent were fraudulent or had problems. This, in theory, could mean ACORN may have created the opportunity for stealing more than 3.3 million votes in this November's election, a margin far wider than that by which Obama is likely to win.
Claim No. 5: Obama has shown only wavering support for individual gun-ownership rights.
"During Barack's career in the Illinois and United States Senates, he proudly stood to defend the rights of hunters and sportsmen," says Obama's Web site, "while doing everything he could to protect children — including his own two daughters — from illegal gun violence."
But the National Rifle Association, it continues, "is distributing a dishonest and cowardly flyer that makes confrontational accusations and runs away from verifying them."
Actually, the NRA does a meticulous job of laying out documentation, as Newsmax reported in September ["NRA to Fight Obama Over Gun Rights Flip-Flops,"] to show that Obama has supported handgun confiscation; the handgun ban in Washington, D.C.; a virtual ban on high-powered rifle ammunition; and many other draconian restrictions on Second Amendment rights.
If elected, wrote the NRA, Obama "would be the most anti-gun president in American history."
Claim No. 6: A fervent supporter of abortion rights, Obama supports late-term and partial-birth abortions.
The Obama Web site dismisses such criticism as the work of "radical anti-abortion ideologues running ads against Barack."
But as an Illinois state senator, Obama voted repeatedly against legislation to protect infants who, during a late-term abortion, were "born alive." Such protection, he has argued, already exists in Illinois; it does, but is subject to the abortionist's decision whether such an infant has a good likelihood of survival.
Nurses have reported instances in which surviving aborted babies were left by abortionists to die without water, food, or warmth.
Obama's Web site notes that even the Republican author of one of these bills, former state Sen. Rick Winkel, has written that "none of those who voted against [his bill] favored infanticide."
True, but Obama's site does not quote the rest of Winkel's statement: "[T]heir zeal for pro-choice dogma was clearly the overriding force behind their negative votes rather than concern that my bill would protect babies who are born alive."
Obama has a 100 percent pro-choice voting record according to NARAL Pro-Choice America; his rating from the National Right to Life Committee is zero.
How extreme is Obama on this issue? In the U.S. Senate, he has voted against bills that would prohibit minors from crossing state lines for abortion without parental notification.
"Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old," Obama has said. "I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
Claim No. 7: Obama showed little interest or support for American combat troops during his overseas visits.
Doubts about Obama's true support for the military cropped up during a campaign trip to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Europe.
A widely circulated e-mail, penned by Army Capt. Jeffrey S. Porter, described Obama's visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan: "As the Soldiers lined up to shake his hand, he blew them off . . . He again shunned the opportunity to talk to soldiers to thank them for their service . . . I swear we got more thanks from the NBA basketball players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from [Obama]."
Porter later recanted, sending a follow-up e-mail that said, in part: "After checking my sources, information that was put out in my e-mail was wrong." He did not specify which information was wrong, leading Obama skeptics to suspect that this officer has been disciplined by his superiors.
Heading home, Obama touched down in Germany, where he "was scheduled to visit the American hospitals at Ramstein and Landstuhl." But as The Washington Post reported, Obama "canceled the trips after being told by Pentagon officials that he could only visit in his official capacity as a senator, not as a candidate" and could not have his visits with hospitalized soldiers videotaped by the media.
Prominent liberal mainstream media reporters such as NBC's Andrea Mitchell rushed to defend Obama, saying that the press had never planned to cover his visits to military sickbeds. But Obama canceled both visits and used his free time instead to shoot hoops, with the media recording his best shots.
Claim No. 8: Barack Obama is a Muslim.
FightTheSmears.com states bluntly that Obama is a Christian, not a follower of Islam.
In fact, Barack Hussein Obama's Kenyan father was raised Muslim, though he reportedly was not religious.
His mother divorced and remarried another man, a Muslim from Indonesia. As a youngster in Indonesia, Barack Obama attended two schools and was registered at both as a Muslim. He received religious instruction in both schools as a Muslim, including studying the Quran. According to a childhood friend, Obama occasionally attended services at a local mosque.
Obama's Muslim upbringing has been detailed in a 2007 Los Angeles Times report (reprinted in The Baltimore Sun) headlined "Islam an Unknown Factor in Obama Bid." Middle East expert Daniel Pipes has studied the question of Obama's Muslim faith and says he is "lying" when he says he was never a Muslim.
It's important to note that Obama's Web site does not say he was never a Muslim. But in the past, Obama's site and FightTheSmears.com did make the claim Obama was never a Muslim. Since that claim is obviously false, it is no longer used.
Obama says he became a Christian in his late 20s. He now describes himself as Christian. Until recently, he spent two decades as a member of a Chicago United Church of Christ congregation that embraces Black Liberation theology. Somewhat like the Roman Catholic liberation theology of Latin America, the Chicago UCC church preaches elements of neo-Marxist class warfare. It combines these radical socialist elements with black racialism.
Claim No. 9: As president, Obama would raise taxes dramatically for most Americans.
Millions of Americans recognize that Obama is likely to raise taxes. But like a good conjurer, who tricks you into watching his right hand while doing things with his left, the Obama Web site assures readers with a red herring.
The Illinois senator will not tax your water, as claimed in some fringe e-mails, FightTheSmears.com maintains.
What Obama will do, however, is tax businesses and capital gains more heavily, even though America already has the world's second-highest business taxes.
"Now our opponents tell you not to worry about their tax increases" said former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson at the 2008 Republican National Convention. "They tell you they are not going to tax your family. No, they're just going to tax businesses! So unless you buy something from a business, like groceries or clothes or gasoline . . . or unless you get a paycheck from a big or a small business, don't worry. It's not going to affect you."
During his campaign, Obama has promised to raise various taxes that will fall on most economic classes, including the dividend tax, the FICA tax cap, the capital gains tax, the estate tax, and new taxes on gasoline.
He also called for the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010, which will automatically raise taxes on most Americans. By letting the Bush cuts expire, Obama would produce a $2 trillion tax increase that some economists predict will rumble through the already weakened economy like an earthquake.
Claim No. 10: Obama was born outside the United States and is ineligible for the presidency.
The Obama Web site dismisses the claim that the candidate was born anywhere but in the United States as "completely false" and "groundless."
As proof, the Obama's campaign has produced a "certificate of live birth" from Hawaii indicating that Barack Hussein Obama II was born Aug. 4, 1961. Critics, however say the document could have easily been forged and is not a substitute for a certified birth certificate.
No reporter has been allowed to see the original certificate of live birth or its certificate number, which is blacked out on copies of it on the Obama site.
Skeptics note that Obama's "Father's Race" is identified on this document as "African," a geographic and modern politically correct term rather than a 1961 racial designation. The standard term used on American birth certificates until the U.S. Census changed it in 1980 would have been "Negro."
Former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, Philip J. Berg, a Democrat with mixed credibility (he has supported conspiracy theories involving 9/11), has filed a lawsuit to force Obama to produce a certified copy of his birth certificate. According to Berg, Obama's paternal grandmother has said she was present at his birth in Kenya, after which his mother promptly returned with her baby to the United States.
If that is true, Obama could be constitutionally ineligible to be president.
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Q'en pensent les néo-conservateurs ?! Et pourtant, ce n'est pas l'"islamiste" Obama qui est au pouvoir !!http://fr.news.yahoo.com/2/20081028/twl-afghanistan-les-etats-unis-envisagen-3caf257.html
Je ne vote pas Obama parce que je suis français. Si j'étais américain, je ne voterais pas Obama parce qu'il est noir mais parce qu'il propose une politique en rupture avec la politique calamiteuse de Bush. C'est clair ? D'ailleurs, si Obama perd cette élection et c'est fort possible, c'est parce qu'une partie de l'électorat démocrate ne votera pas pour lui parce qu'il est noir. C'est triste mais c'est ainsi.
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Je ne sais pas ce que vous voulez insinuer avec votre KKK, mais ce que je sais, c'est que les gens comme vous qui ne cessez de vous retrancher derriere un suppose racisme chez les autres etes les pires racistes.Je sais que vous votez Obama parce que pour vous gauchistes, c'est le premier metis qui..., ou la premiere femme qui..., ou le premier gay qui....ou le premier enfant qui,..., ou le premier asiatique qui...., etc., bref, les causes sont toujours bassement materielles, la couleur de la peau, le sexe, l'orientation sexuelle...Moi, ce sont les competences et les idees qui m'interessent ! Si Obama avait les idees de McCain, je voterais pour Obama.Ce qui est dingue et montre votre mauvaise foi c'est que vous dites que les Noirs votant pour Obama ne sont pas motives par la couleur de la peau du candidat par contre vous etes pret a accuser de racisme tous les Blancs votant pour McCain.La ou moi je regarde l'ame des Hommes, vous, vous ne regardez que la couleur de la peau, et apres, vous avez l'outrecuidance de me traiter de raciste ! Un monde !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
L'article ne dit pas qu'il ne faut pas voter pour Obama parce qu'il est musulman mais parce qu'il cacherait ses origines.
Or, quelqu'un qui dissimule ses origines pourrait bien dissimuler autre chose.
Le fait que Obama ait pas mal de squelettes dans son placard n'est quasiment pas soulevé par la presse mondiale. Et on peut légitimement se demander pourquoi ?
Personnellement, je me fous de savoir si le sieur Obama est musulman, hindou, athé.. Ce que je lui reproche c'est d'avancer masqué, c'est de cacher ses convictions marxistes et surtout d'encourager la real politik à la Carter.
Quand au fait que des noirs votent pour lui uniquement à cause de sa couleur de peau, cela ne me fait ni chaud ni froid. Mais reconnaissez que voter pour quelqu'un sans s'interesser à ses idées est assez effrayant.
@FoxRenard,Il faut que vous vous mettiez dans le crâne que le temps du Ku Klux Klan est révolu et c'est tant mieux. D'ailleurs, Obama a été élevé par des blancs, ce qui est un signe fort pour une Amérique multi-raciale. Au parti républicain, des noirs ont aussi montré qu'ils pouvaient prendre des postes de responsabilité. Dire que les noirs votent Obama parce qu'ils sont racistes, c'est très osé. Vous êtes vraiment à court d'arguments. Vous n'avez qu'un langage de haine et d'intolérance.


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In advance of the 53rd session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, IOF has issued the following statement, which has been provided to ambassadors and their missions in New York.
On March 6, 2020, the UN Commission on Population and Development issued its initial draft ("zero draft") resolution on the theme "Population, food security, nutrition and sustainable development" in advance of its upcoming annual session scheduled to begin March 30. The International Organization for the Family applauds the Commission's efforts to end malnutrition and hunger, and particularly commends recognition of "the special nutritional needs among young pregnant women" (OP11). At the same time, IOF urges focus on the family as the key to development, and calls for deletion of certain language whose effect would be to undermine family.
Of the draft's only two occurrences of the word "family," the first is part of a laudable plea to end child marriage and ensure "that all young women have the opportunity to grow into adulthood before starting a family" (OP11). The second occurrence is dramatically different: a reference to "family planning" in a paragraph calling for "universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights" (OP12). The danger of such language was underscored in a Joint Statement on Universal Health Coverage made to last year's General Assembly by twenty-one nations: the United States of America, Bahrain, Belarus, Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Poland, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. They declared, inter alia:
"We believe that health of women, men, children and adolescents supports and improves the overall health of our families and communities, and that the family is the foundational institution of society and thus should be supported and strengthened…. To make the most meaningful progress without delay or dissension, we respectfully call upon Member States to join us in concentrating on topics that unite rather than divide on the critical issues… We do not support references to ambiguous terms and expressions, such as sexual and reproductive health and rights in U.N. documents, because they can undermine the critical role of the family and promote practices, like abortion, in circumstances that do not enjoy international consensus and which can be misinterpreted by U.N. agencies."
To undermine the family would be to undermine the very development the Commission is seeking to effectuate, for, as is well established, the family is "the fundamental agent for sustainable social, economic, and cultural development" (the Doha Declaration), "the main instrument of societal transformation" (Ambassador Iftekhar Chowdhury to GA, 6 December 2004), and "a vital partner" in efforts to achieve international development goals (statement of Secretary-General to GA, 6 December 2004).
We further call attention to the statement by Group of Friends of the Family made prior to the 2015 summit on the Sustainable Development Goals: "We reaffirm [the truth recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights] that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. We believe that genuine and effective sustainable development may not be achieved without the family…. We call for systematic mainstreaming of the family across the Post-2015 Development."
As the delegates to this year's Commission proceed to produce the final draft of the resolution, IOF urges deletion of the counterproductive language relating to "sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights," and calls for express recognition and protection of the family as the indispensable key to development.
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Republicans block Democrats' amendments, approve Sean Hannity invitation to relocate in TN
The House Republican supermajority voted to block floor debate Monday night on a resolution urging conservative talk show host Sean Hannity to move to Tennessee, derailing Democrats' efforts to poke fun at the proposal.
Rep. Andy Holt's resolution urging Hannity and "like-minded New Yorkers" to move to Tennessee (HJR642) had drawn Democratic criticism in committee. As a prelude to the measure's consideration on the House floor, four Democrats had filed amendments adding to language in the "preamble" section of the resolution, which presents reasons for passage, traditionally beginning with the word "whereas."
Two amendments criticized, directly or indirectly, Knoxville's Sen. Stacey Campfield and Holt and another the Republican supermajority in general for opposing Medicaid expansion.
But when the resolution came up, House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada promptly called "previous question" – which means the matter goes immediately to a vote with no debate and no consideration of amendments. Casada's motion was approved by more than the necessary two-thirds majority with 69 of the House's 71 Republicans voting for it. The resolution itself was then approved 73-22 without discussion and sent to the Senate.
Rep. Joe Towns, D-Memphis, who had filed the amendment on Medicaid expansion, said afterward that the move was "a direct way of trying to censure what's being said on the House floor" that he takes "real offense to it."
"This is not the way a democracy is supposed to be – shutting off conversation at the base," Towns said.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner said he hopes the move is not setting a precedent for Republicans avoiding votes on proposals from the minority.
The four amendments:
–"WHEREAS, Tennessee is proud to be the home of New York native, conservative icon, and star of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Senator Stacey Campfield of Knoxville." Campfield is a New York native whose legislative efforts have drawn attention from the Comedy Central TV shows.
–"WHEREAS, Tennessee's Republican governor recognized the importance of our citizens' liberty and freedom when he vetoed legislation aimed at curtailing our first amendment rights." The reference is to Haslam's veto of a Holt-sponsored bill that would have required anyone making a video or photograph of animal abuse to notify law enforcement officers promptly – a measure critics said would have hampered investigations into abuse of Tennessee walking horses.
–"WHEREAS, Tennessee, unlike New York, will soon offer voters the chance to purchase their wine in grocery stores;"
— Towns' amendment says that "unlike the state of New York, Tennessee's Republican majority… ignored the will of the people and decided to send" $2.5 million a day in federal funds to other states in order to deny up to 350,000 "working men and women access to quality, affordable healthcare." (Note: Full text HERE.)
The first "whereas clauses" in Holt's actual resolution declares that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "made inflammatory and insulting remarks about conservatives living in the Empire State." Other clauses hail Tennessee for having low taxes as "a bastion of conservatism, family values, small government, personal responsibility, and Second Amendment rights and has long disdained the debilitating effects of liberalism" and "a place where people want to live, free of high taxes, big government, and obnoxious New York attitudes."
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Comedy routine from the revue "A to Z" (although re-enacted outside rather than in the theatre).
"Times were indeed stirring for Stefano. (George Carney)" L/S of George Carney standing beside a little cart on wheels - presumably a mobile ice cream cart. The cart has faces painted on it. Jump cut to a closer shot of George. Fast motion of George stirring and scooping his ice cream. A short man comes up to the cart. "Ah wanta 'topper-up' guvnor." George gives him a scoop of ice cream. "Enter Bill - the Tough." A larger man enters the scene, a discussion ensues. "Ere wotjermean? I giv'yer 'arf a dollar." They have a little argument then Bill grabs the cash box and runs off, the short man gives chase.
George spots a policeman. He explains what has happened. The policeman takes out his notebook and writes notes. C/U of George gesticulating. Expansive gestures and facial expressions. He counts off with his fingers and says: "De name is Stefano Peppino Giuseppe Marco Marcelina del Beppo." He stops and thinks. The policeman says: "Don't you worry about the Tough, Mr Stefano - and - the - rest. He's run right on to "Knock-out Brown's beat. He'll catch him - he's the terror of the toughs." A very tall policeman suddenly appears holding Bill by the scruff of the neck. George shakes his hand and takes back his cash box. George points at Bill and gives the thumbs up sign. The policeman wags his finger at the tough and says "You nahsty (sic) man - I'll tell your mother about you." The policeman hits him on the shoulder - he is a bit of a camp policeman! The policeman walks off taking the tough by the ear. End.
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Bettors lining up to take shot at DraftKings Sports Betting National Championship
By Dave Tuley (VSiN.com senior reporter) Follow @ViewFromVegas
DraftKings is hosting its inaugural Sports Betting National Championship on Friday through Sunday in New Jersey with a $10,000 buy-in and a guaranteed $1 million first-place prize, but it's turning into a true national event.
Poker legend Phil Hellmuth is coming from California. Several professional gamblers/sports bettors from Las Vegas are going, including David Miller, Anthony Curtis and Frank Betti as well as VSiN's very own Gill Alexander and Kenny White. And another professional gambler, Randy McKay (VSiN's 2017 Fan of the year) flew in from North Dakota on Wednesday morning.
"I haven't been able to travel to other states where sports betting has recently become legalizes, so I kinda wanted to see what kinds of options are available in New Jersey," said McKay, who will be celebrating his 49th birthday on Saturday (and really hopes to be celebrating Sunday night!). "The title would be great, but what really makes the trip worth it is there's a good chance it's going to be an overlay."
The entry fee is $10,000 with $5,000 going to the prize pool and $5,000 being used as a live bankroll on each entrant's DraftKings sports betting app. Players must make all their wagers on the app from within New Jersey's state borders. They can play any sports that's available on the app on Friday and Saturday (must bet a minimum of $1,000 by the end of Saturday's betting day), but Sunday's menu will only include the two NFL divisional playoff games (minimum wager of $2,000). The other great thing about this type of contest is you get to keep your final bankroll in your account, even if you don't finish in the money (and, of course, any contest winnings are a bonus on top of your earnings).
As of early Friday afternoon, John Avello, director of race & sports operations at DraftKings, said there were 242 entrants signed up (Even though the contest officially started on Friday, Avello reminds interested contestants that no plays are required on Friday and that registration will remain open until 1 p.m. ET Saturday). There is a $300 administrative fee taken out of each entry, but with the guaranteed $2.5 million prize pool, it would take more than 531 entrants to make their nut.
"We're perfectly fine with taking a loss on this contest this year," Avello said. "These things take time to build, so for anyone that's already planning to bet $5,000 this weekend, why wouldn't you take a shot at the added money in the prize pool?"
Before joining DraftKings this past fall after 39 years in the Las Vegas gambling industry, Avello had tons of experience hosting contests from his 15-year tenure as race & sports director at Bally's and then the last 13 years at Wynn Las Vegas, including hosting horse racing's National Handicapping Championship at Bally's from 2003-2007.
Contest details are available at draftkings.com/sbnc. Avello said the $10,000 entry fee can be wired or sent through PayPal; he advises interested players to email vip@draftkings.com to get personalized assistance in going through the registration process as well as hotel accommodations. He also said that those who prefer to bring $10,000 in cash must deposit at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.
That's the x-factor in this running of this tournament: we can guesstimate that a couple dozen sports gamblers/advantage players will fly in from Vegas with the lure of the overlay, but we have no idea how many from New Jersey and its surrounding states will be signing up at the last minute (note: Scott Panza, of Stamford, Conn., who just won $409,000 for finishing second in the SuperContest at the Westgate SuperBook, said he's part of a group entry in the SBNC).
While entrants can make their wagers on the app from anywhere within Jersey's borders, DraftKings is also renting a warehouse at 217 16th Street in Jersey City for contestants to watch the games Saturday and Sunday with food and beverage service, along with a live leaderboard. Non-participants can also get in for $100, which includes food and beverages. Avello said the leaderboard will also be available online and players can view other players' bets 30 minutes after they make them. That certainly adds another element of strategy to the SBNC.
While the contestants I contacted didn't want to reveal their specific strategies, Panza said: "It's going to be very interesting to see how everyone plays this. It's not like the SuperContest that has a lot of history. There's only the four NFL games, so I'm sure some people who consider themselves college or pro basketball experts will be betting a lot of those, but then do you make big bets on a few games or bet a bunch of parlays? It should be an exciting contest."
Sports Betting National Championship Payouts
1st place $1,000,000
2nd place $350,000
3rd place $250,000
4th place $175,000
6th-7th place $75,000
8th-10th place $50,000
11th-15th place $25,000
*Guaranteed $2.5 million purse; payoffs based on 531 or fewer entrants.


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We have been writing archaeology and history books for many years. We have given separate pages on this website to our more recent books, Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England, Jack Tar, The Handbook of British Archaeology, The War for All the Oceans, Trafalgar, Empires of the Plain, The Keys of Egypt and The Little Book of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. The following section gives information on all our other books, many of which are still in print, while others can be obtained secondhand or through your local library service.
Published as a colour illustrated hardback in 1991 by The Apple Press, this book has also appeared under other imprints, including The Burlington Press and more recently Grange Books. As its title suggests, it is an ideal starting point for those wanting to get to know the Roman world, and many of the colour photographs were taken by ourselves. Out of all our books, it is the one most often borrowed in public libraries! It is also available in Spanish as El Imperio Romano: Historia, cultura y arte, in French as Les romains: culture et mythes and in German as Die Römer: Kultur und Mythen.
This guidebook with its rather stuffy title (not ours!) was published in 1992 by The Dovecote Press. It is an illustrated guide to the prehistoric, Roman and medieval sites of the county of Somerset in south-west England, with directions, car parking, factual descriptions, opening times, and information on access for disabled visitors. We visited each site personally, which was an excellent way to get to know the county.
This is a small publication issued by the Council for British Archaeology in 1990. We wrote it after attending many badly organised conferences and lectures where the speaker was ill-prepared! The highlight of the publication must surely be the ten cartoons by Bill Tidy. 'Whilst this new CBA practical handbook aimed at a broad readership will not, I am sure, bring to an end every disastrous occasion, it should help raise standards if organizers and speakers alike read it … The final comment should be kept for Bill Tidy whose excellent cartoons have brought a sense of humour to this helpful handbook, and which, I hope, will encourage people to read it' (Richard J Brewer, Post-Medieval Archaeology). This same review in Post-Medieval Archaeology was also illustrated by a cartoon drawn by Tom Daly of the National Museum of Wales.
This was published as a colour illustrated hardback in 1990 by The Apple Press, but has also appeared under other imprints, including Grange Books. Each chapter deals with the different reasons why prehistoric and historic sites were abandoned – such as through warfare or natural disaster.
Originally published as a colour illustrated hardback in 1989 by The Apple Press, this has also appeared under other imprints such as The Burlington Press and more recently Grange Books. We were initially horrified that the publishers gave us just four weeks to write the book, but we managed to complete it in the allotted time, basing it on a series of adult education classes we had fortuitously just given. The book has become very popular as a starting point for students in archaeology, and it is borrowed widely in public libraries. Many of the colour photographs were taken by ourselves.
This book was published in hardback in 1989 by Cambridge University Press in the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology series. We decided to write the book because of the low standard of illustrations published in many archaeological journals and books, and each chapter deals with a different aspect such as recording buildings, drawing on site, drawing artefacts, and drawing for publication. Always fiendishly expensive, particularly considering that archaeological illustrators are generally poorly paid, the book was never made available in paperback and was out-of-print for a while, with secondhand copies virtually impossible to obtain. CUP has now (twenty years on) reissued the book as a paperback. It has not been updated, but still contains much that will be of value to illustrators.
This was a 92-page illustrated book published in 1986 by the Beddington, Carshalton and Wallington Archaeological Society. The Beddington sewage works near Croydon was once operated by having sewage sludge spread over its many acres of farmland – hence the title of the book. Much of the land was redundant and its destruction threatened by gravel extraction in the early 1980s, and so we began a process of looking for the Roman bath-house which was known to exist on the site. With the help of many volunteer workers, a Roman villa complex was also found, as well as a prehistoric settlement. This 'popular' account of the rescue excavation was written primarily for the local people who took a keen interest in the project.
This A4 monograph was written by Roy Adkins with Dr Ralph Jackson of the British Museum and was published as the museum's very first occasional paper (ISBN 0861590007). Numerous Neolithic axes, several thousand years old, have been found in the River Thames, quite often discovered through dredging. Some were deliberately deposited for ritual reasons, others were accidentally lost, and the purpose of this publication was to discuss these finds and give a catalogue, as well as scale drawings of all the axes. It has 64 pages of text and a further 84 pages of illustrations of the actual axes in museums.


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Q: What is the probability that the next integer will be the last in a fixed series of unknown length? Basically, an economics class exercise caused me to wonder about this basic probability question which must have been solved before.
Imagine that an unknown positive integer n is picked, and then another person counts until n. If this person counts up to k, what is the EV of n in terms of k? Or, what is the probability your next m numbers will include n?
Is there any way of estimating this? It seems intuitive to me that if you count until 1,000,000 you should have more confidence that n will not be in the next three integers than if you counted to 10. It seems that we might not have enough information to do the EV calculation, but I'm not sure. What I think might be true is that the probability we will hit n in our next m numbers is at most m/(m+n). The trouble I have is that since we don't know how n is picked, we can't say that n is distributed in any particular way. If anyone has any thoughts I'd be happy to hear.

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The radio advertising scene in Malaysia
Radio as a media in Malaysia is one of the most popular ones with other mass media like television and newspapers. Malaysians tune in to the radio throughout the day with the most listeners recorded for the rush hours between 6.00am and 10.00am and 4.00pm to 8.00pm daily. This is when most people are driving to and from their work place while there are many other time when Malaysians are listening to the radio as well which determines the target group for marketers.
Background and profile
In total, there are 53 radio stations in the country. In an average week, 90% of the listeners are 10 years old and above which as mentioned most of them are listening during the peak hours of the day. The total number of listeners throughout the week is consistent throughout the country.
Types of stations
There are in general 2 main types of radio stations. Those that is available in a particular language and cuts across various genres and format radio stations. Where this is concerned, the former are commonly offered by public or privately owned media owners while the latter are offered by the likes of AMP Radio Networks.
Privately owned radio stations total at 21 stations which is run by Media Prima who owns Fly FM, Hot FM and One FM which are in English, Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese languages respectively, Suara Johor, Star RFM which operates 4 stations as well as others like Bernama, BFM Media and Husa Network.
On the other hand, AMP Radio Stations operate 7 format radio stations which are Era FM and Sinar FM which are in Bahasa Malaysia, Hitz.FM, Mix FM and Lite FM which are in English Language, My FM which is in Chinese and THR which is in Tamil.
All the radio stations cater to a specific group of target group where their programmes are classified under the likes of news or talks, adult contemporary, country, hot adult contemporary, contemporary hit radio, classic rock and golden oldies.
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Which station to use and when?
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Remember that old horror movie The Fly? You know, the one where Vincent Price steps inside a teleportation machine but he doesn't know there's a fly in there with him so when he comes out of the machine, he turns into a horrible human-fly monster? Well, basically, that's what Taco Bell's latest limited time only offering is – except with way more avocado ranch sauce.
I keep trying to think of a more dignified way to describe the Loaded Taco Burrito, but the same sentence keeps popping up in my mind: "uh, guys, this is just a pureed taco wrapped up in a tortilla." This may very well be the least inspired Taco Bell L-T-O of all time, but does the actual taste of the product offset its astonishing uncreativity?
First things first, the burrito is BIG. It's easily twice the girth of the chain's cheesy bean and rice burrito and it is absolutely stuffed with seasoned beef (really, enough to qualify for a double portion, maybe even a triple load.) The flour tortilla itself also seems larger and more flavorful than the ones the restaurant uses for its rank and file burritos, so that's a nice touch, too.
As far as the other contents of the Loaded Taco Burrito, we're primarily working with the all the usual supreme fixins: you've got some crispy lettuce in there, some diced tomatoes, some shredded semi-spicy cheese, a hearty dollop of sour cream and a big old squirtin' of the Bell's proprietary avocado ranch dressing (although you can always sub that out for one of the chain's other dressings.) However, I want you to take a real close look at the interior contents of the LTB – notice anything peculiar?
No, your eyes aren't fooling you. My local Bell decided to go rogue and replace the advertised crispy red tortilla strips with what is unmistakably – both visually and gustatorily – a regular old crunched up taco shell.
Normally, I would raise a great big stink about such brazen displays of franchisee rebelliousness, but I actually think it works better – conceptually and taste-wise – than it does with the tortilla strips included. And to think, some people say there's no more ingenuity in the American workplace!
I hate to close a review by saying something as mundane and nondescriptive as "well, basically, you're getting what it looks like," but in the case of the LTB, it really does sorta' review itself. The taco shell chunks/tortilla strips may be a bit superfluous for some consumers, but you really can't complain about getting a double – leaning closer to triple – beef burrito.
Pros: It's basically a double beef burrito at a discounted price. You can have a lot of fun mixing and matching house dressings. It's definitely a filling little product.
Cons: All in all, it really doesn't taste that much different from the chain's other burritos. It's impossible to eat it without getting seasoned beef juice all over everything. All those nights laying wide awake, wondering how in the hell they're going to make a Loaded Burrito Taco work.
Well, it was only a matter of time, I suppose: Taco Bell has finally taken it's Naked Chicken Chalupa national.
For those of you not in the know, the product's first trial run was in Bakersfield, California, in 2015, with a second go-at-it in Kansas City, Missouri, last year. And while Taco Bell has hit us with a LOT of unusual menu offerings over the years (three words, folks: Cap'n Crunch Delights) a lot of people on social media thought T.B. was hoaxing 'em this time around – I mean, really, a chicken chalupa?
No, it's not a chalupa with chicken in it. The chicken itself is the chalupa. And if the same mad geniuses who brought us the Beefy Fritos Crunch Burritos and Waffle Tacos decided it was nigh time for Americans to eat a giant rolled up chicken patty with lettuce and avocado ranch dressing inside it, then by golly, it's probably time to for us to eat some giant rolled up chicken patties with lettuce and avocado ranch dressing inside it.
Like the Doritos Locos Tacos, each Naked Chicken Chalupa comes with its own snazzy (and sturdy) paper holder. The chicken shell/patty itself is pretty darn big – about four ounces of rolled up breaded white meat, speckled with some traditional Mexican herbs and spices. There's definitely some heat to it, but for those of you with tamer tastebuds, it probably won't torch your tongue that much.
All in all, it's a pretty satisfying product that doesn't taste anywhere near as weird as you'd imagine. In fact, you really don't even feel the missing tortilla or hard shell after a couple of bites, and thankfully, the chicken patty isn't oily or greasy so you don't have to worry about poultry juice staining your khakis.
While Taco Bell's breaded chicken can't compete with the grand lions of fast food chicken sandwiches (Chick-fil-A, you have nothing to worry about here), the shell does have a very robust flavor and is surprisingly juicy. Nor does it taste terribly salty, which has always been my biggest complaint with the lower-tier fast food chicken patties out there.
Your mileage may vary on the avocado ranch dressing – I would've preferred a spicier chipotle sauce – but believe it or not, this thing doesn't taste all that much different from your standard chicken taco.
Huh. Who would've thought the absolute strangest thing about quite possibly the strangest Taco Bell L-T-O offering ever would be just how peculiarly normal it actually is?
Pros: The chicken shell is big, juicy and flavorful. You can eat it without getting grease on everything within a one-mile radius. The avocado ranch dressing adds a nice little zing.
Cons: It really doesn't taste that much different from a regular chicken taco. A couple of other in-house dressings probably would've been better choices. Staying up all night wondering what would've happened if I had asked the manager to put grilled chicken inside my chicken chalupa.
For being their titular item, I rarely find myself craving Taco Bell's tacos. While I'm a lover of their items, the standard crunchy taco has always felt skimpy. A paltry line of beef, a cascade of limp lettuce, and a sprinkling of unmelted cheese – it's forgettable.
So thankfully, the Bell has pumped them up for their latest iteration. Taco Bell's Double Stack Tacos bulk up their classic standard tacos by wrapping the corn exterior with a flour tortilla, slathered in sauce and cheese. With an extra layer, each one is hefty – especially for a $1 item. Two of these could make a comfortable meal, something that can't be said for the Bell's un-enhanced tacos.
First up is Cool Habanero. The taco is the same as you'd expect, but with a generous hit of sour cream. Around it is wrapped a flour tortilla with a spray of habanero sauce, alongside melted cheese. The intention is for the sour cream to counteract the spice, though the balance isn't quite there. There's more sour cream than habanero by a healthy margin, and the sauce isn't all that potent. As a full bite, it came off blander than most Taco Bell items.
The Nacho Crunch Double Stack adds a layer of red tortilla strips to the basic taco, then surrounds it with a duet of nacho and shredded cheese. If you've lost count, that gives this one item three different forms of tortilla – and three total servings of cheese. Predictably, it tastes like tortilla and cheese.
The meat and lettuce are lost in this fatty carb bomb, smothered in gooey yellow. It's puzzling why this option dodges the habanero sauce of the other two tacos, which would've given this a needed a kick of flavor.
Most interesting of the trio is Spicy Sweet, featuring a sweet chili sauce unique to the item. The red sauce has a loose texture, saturated with chili flakes. It's very sweet, but was applied conservatively across the meat. While the first bite was initially heavy on sugar, it was countered by the savory beef.
Once the habanero sauce broke through, all three flavors really clicked. The sweet chili sauce has a light heat of its own, and a bit of a fruit jam flavor. This tasty blend is spread a bit thin, though. Between the lettuce, corn tortilla, flour tortilla, and double helping of cheese – the serving of meat and sauces feels underwhelming.
Overall, the Double Stacked Tacos are mostly notable for their price. The Nacho Crunch and Cool Habanero tacos are cheaper and bulkier than their counterparts – making them a solid pickup. Spicy Sweet is the real highlight though, and is definitely worth a try.
Pros: Very hearty for the price, while delivering classic Taco Bell flavor. Spicy Sweet variety is unique, and nails the sweet/savory/hot mix. Spices up otherwise boring tacos.
Cons: Cool Habanero needs more heat. Nacho Crunch should be Haberno Crunch. All three could use more meat.
In 2012, Taco Bell offered XXL Steak Nachos that featured steak, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, a three-cheese blend, refried beans, and nacho cheese sauce on tortilla chips.
In 2015, the chain sold their BOSS Nachos that featured steak, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, a three-cheese blend, refried beans, and nacho cheese sauce on tortilla chips.
This year, Taco Bell has, for a limited time, Steakhouse Queso Nachos that come with — say it with me now — steak, sour cream, guacamole, pico de gallo, a three-cheese blend, refried beans, and…not nacho cheese sauce on tortilla chips.
I've always liked Taco Bell's limited time only nachos because they come in a container large enough that I can imagine I'm eating nachos from a trough. I just put my hands behind my back, like I'm bobbing for apples or throwing up into a toilet, and then just dig in.
The nachos' highlight was the queso. It's such a simple ingredient, but it added a nice creamy, cheesy, and spicy kick to everything. Okay, not everything. While the queso itself was great, the amount on the chips wasn't. Maybe a third of them were topped with it, and that's disappointing because it's a step up from the nacho cheese sauce.
If I had to pick a lowlight it would be the tortilla chips. Under sections that had lots of toppings, the chips sucked whatever moisture they could and quickly got soggy. About half of the chips were in this condition by the time I got to eat them after a five minute car ride home. But I shouldn't be surprised since that is the nature of nachos.
As for the steak, sour cream, pico de gallo, three-cheese blend, and refried beans, all of which I've had (and you've had) in other menu items, my only complaints about them are not having enough of the tender, marinated steak to justify the high price, not having as much refried beans as the other toppings, and how unnecessary the three-cheese blend is because it doesn't stand out at all with the other ingredients.
Overall, if you liked the previous steak nachos, I think these are a slight improvement thanks to the queso. And I'm sure you'll like the future version of these nachos in 2017 or 2018 when they're called Doubledilla Nachos or Great Steak Nachos.
Pros: Queso is a step up from the nacho cheese sauce. Large serving. Being able to pretend I'm eating nachos from a trough. Tender steak. Not exactly like the previous limited time only nachos.
Cons: Would've like more queso. The nature of nachos. Not having the food science that allows chips to remain crunchy longer than the flavor of Fruit Stripe gum. Not enough steak to justify price. Needs more refried beans. Useless three-cheese blend.