...Critical Analysis Three October 23, 2014 The Internet Should Have Killed Weird Al. It Only Made Him Stronger Background For the past three decades, Weird Al Yankovic has created parody music and has made a name for himself through his success. Yankovic is known for songs such as I Love Rocky Road based off of Joan Jett’s I love Rock ‘n’ Roll and he has also created the song, White & Nerdy, which was not intended to be based off of Chamillionare’s Ridin (Suddath). Throughout changing customer trends, Yankovic has been able to adapt to the changes and stay competitive in the music industry. In the 1980s, many artists used MTV, the T.V. show, as a medium to promote their music. During the 2000s, Yankovic had to adjust due to a decline in customer watching MTV. By 2006, Yankovic switched over to YouTube as his new advertising medium (Suddath). With the use of YouTube, he created 169 music videos and has 748,032 subscribers (AlyankovicVEVO). The demand for traditional albums has dropped 8.4% in sales; as a result, Mandatory Fun is Yankovic’s last album, which was released in the summer of 2014 (Christman). The music industry is facing a major threat of music theft known as piracy. Illegally acquired music resulted in a drop of revenues from $14.6 billion to $7.7 billion ("For Students Doing Reports"). Due to the music environment constantly changing as well as emerging, Yankovic needs to consider timely business models that present opportunities for him to stay competitive...
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...The strange feeling in my head and I felt I was whirling around dizzy I couldn’t stop and I fell over with a bang. The next minute I was dreaming about…. Aliens when I woke up I saw something, something weird it was a green pale green thing. But before I could see it clearly it disappeared. I found myself stranded in the desert. Hi my name is Lottie by then way and I have red hair and I always get picked on I have a sister but she goes to boarding school I haven’t heard from here since. So I was lost in the forest nowhere was a sound and then I was getting dizzy again It felt like I was getting lifted up in the air but then I fainted. When I woke up I was in a spaceship with those weird blob pale green things. They were aliens I quickly jumped up and noticed I was in space. I saw heaps of meteorites I squealed every time I went near one. Then the aliens were speaking to me. “Lottie save the world push the meteorites” he said in a gloomy voice. He put something weird on my head and pushed me out the door of the spaceship I was doomed. The heart of my beat was getting faster I had to push the meteorite it was my only hope of saving the world. That was it I suddenly realised I was right in front of the meteorite I had to just push it I did I saved the world. The story was everywhere I had saved the...
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...Sometimes someone can be really weird and not understand what is going on in the real life. Just imagine a personbecame a social problem for the state and we had to do something about it by putting the person at a mental hospital. It would not help anyone by it unless someone knows the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem the problem...
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...Weird Worriers of Nepal While attending seminars and conferences as a guest of my friend Arun (a doctor) and another friend Krishna (a reporter) in Nepal during my vacation at star hotels or posh resorts in and around Kathmandu, people I mingled with included the national and international luminaries with thick resume and great influence in the government. They often talked about making Nepal a better place to live. By listening to them, any unsuspecting person would think that they were the real worriers of Nepal. However, that impression dissipated soon after the cocktails that followed. The worriers thought their jobs were done when the power-point presentation or resolute speeches were over. But the brainstorming on the same subject continued with each round of cocktails. The vicious cycle kept going for quite some time, already costing a large chunk of budget even before the project was kicked off. There was always a ghost at those receptions. Honestly, I failed to recognize the ghost during those times. I myself loved cocktails then. I wish I had known the ghost and asked my friend to report about him instead of doing affirmative reporting of such events. I don’t know, however, if it would have made any difference, had the ghost – malnutrition – was reported adequately. Malnutrition muddles Nepal without any limit. According to government sources, a child dies of ailment related to malnutrition every ten minutes. This means up to 50,000 children die per year because...
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...My father died when I was nine years old. My mother knew that he was gone even though she was not with him when it happened, because her mark burned in a way that she said she could not describe and then within seconds it faded and disappeared completely, as if it were never there in the first place. Then, about a week after my his death, my mother woke up to find that she had a new mark, a pale red one that was barely visible, but it was there, and with it came a new soul mate. My father had been gone six years and her mark did not burn any brighter than it did that first morning. Until December last year, that is. We were on a holiday in New York City when my mother’s mark started getting darker. We had been walking down a street lined with shops when she stopped suddenly and winced. She had said that her arm was burning and rolled her sleeve up to find that her mark was a dark red and was shining dimly. She had looked up at me with shock and disbelief evident on her face and back down at her mark. When her mind finally registered what was happening, she frantically looked around, searching for another person nearby who might have received his signal that his soul mate was nearby. After what felt like hours of walking in and out of buildings, we actually found him just down the street from where we had been standing when it all began. From the second they made eye contact with one another, it was as if there was some magnetic force pulling them together. As I step outside...
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...[pic] ICAK-USA Research The Following is a Compilation of Applied Kinesiology Research Papers Published in the Collected Papers of the International College of Applied Kinesiology for the year 2005-2006 -- Edited by Scott Cuthbert, D.C. Functional Systems Approach to Central Nervous System Evaluation Richard Belli, D.C., D.A.C.N.B. ABSTRACT Objective: This study investigates the clinical utility of testing functional systems within the central nervous system, compared to testing individual motor nerves with manual muscle testing. Design: Private practice. Study Subjects: Patients were examined by the treating chiropractor from his existing patient pool. Methods: Chiropractic management was decided on by the treating chiropractor. A series of twelve tests were designed to discover disorders of functional systems within the CNS. The tests described were to evaluate the function of 12 systems: 1) spinal cord, 2) myelencephalon/reticular formation, 3) vagal system, 4) trigeminal motor system-muscles of mastication, 5) vestibulospinal system, and bulbo reticular area, 6) reticular formation, 7) diencephalons and gait locomotion system, 8) mesencephalon, 9) cardiac sympathetic autonomic system, 10) pyramidal system, 11) limbic system, 12) sensory system. Results: This chiropractic approach tests the nervous system after provocation of functional systems...
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...An Introduction to the Design of Mobile Robots SCI 110 South Seattle Community College Fall Quarter 2012 Instructor: Rick Downs, PhD Office: RS 191 Phone Number: 934-6890 Email: rick.downs@seattlecolleges.edu Office Hours: Monday - Thursday: 7:20 - 7:45 am; 2:15 – 3:00 pm Course web site: https://sites.google.com/a/southseattle.edu/rick-downs-sci-110/ Meeting Times: Monday – Thursday from 12:00 - 1:40 pm Location: OLY 200 A. Course Description This course is an introduction to engineering design through the design, construction and programming of mobile robots. Students will work in teams to solve a series of problems that are of increasing complexity by designing and constructing robots from kits and programming their controllers to perform the assigned tasks. No previous computer or engineering knowledge is assumed. Enrollment is limited to 24 students. B. Method of Instruction This is a project-based course where students work in teams on a series of focused exercises that will incrementally introduce them to design issues related to mechanics, sensors, motors, and control of an autonomous mobile robot. Lectures will be used to provide students with the necessary background knowledge prior to their work in the laboratory. We will form groups of three students at the beginning of the quarter. Groups will stay together for the first three projects and then new groups will be formed in the 4th week and the 7th week. To get the most out of this...
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...10 WEIRD BRAND NAMES | Ayds (pronounced as "aids") is an appetite-suppressant candy which enjoyed strong sales in the 1970s and early 1980s and was originally manufactured by the Campana Corporation. It’s available in chocolate, chocolate mint, butterscotch or caramel flavors, and later a peanut butter flavor was introduced. The original packaging used the phrase "Ayds Reducing Plan vitamin and mineral Candy"; a later version used the phrase "appetite suppressant candy". | | Marie Finger Biscuits is a product of McVitie in UK. The packaging is classic McVitie's with the red background and familiar McVitie's logo you would expect from digestive biscuits, penguins, hobnobs, Jaffa cakes and other McVitie's delights. The biscuits resemble thin wafers and have a beautiful pattern all the way around, with the words "rich tea finger" in the middle of each biscuit. | | Noisy butter is a product of Elle & Vire. It is a light, fresh and subtle tasted butter ideal for all uses.Noisy Butter is wrapped in a package tear, there are plate 250g, in cloth. Noisy, butter to taste nutty! Historically, butter Noisy is distributed in the Paris region. | | Sars, made by Golden Circle, is a sarsaparilla (caramel)–flavored drink and is sold in all New Zealand supermarkets (and maybe in other countries where Golden Circle products are found). Unfortunately, it shares its name with the SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus. | | Bone Suckin' Sauce is a Western NC-style tomato...
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...The Weird War It was midnight in the darkest woods in the world and the moon is blood red and there are three soldiers watching for the enemy. Soldier 1 spots something out of the corner of his eye he looks over and it is a 13 foot tall hairy beast. That has 3 inch nails that could rip through a deer. He nudges the soldier that is beside him and says “There is something over there take your rifle and scope it in and see what it is,” the second soldier has a sniper rifle he aims it at the beast and fires. The soldier missed, but just by a few inches. The creature runs off into the woods after a few seconds it comes back for revenge and knocks them out of the watch tower.The third soldier falls and breaks his legs the other soldiers take off...
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...“SeaWorld’s Weird Science” stated, SeaWorld has been going through some difficult times since 2013. The reason why they have been under the microscope is because of what a movie by the name of “Blackfish” said about them. It stated that they have been keeping killer whales caged. The video specifically mentioned a killer whale named Tilikum that is kept for his sperm. Tilikum is approximately 33 years old and has fathered around 31 babies. His sperm is used to generate the majority of SeaWorld’s killer whale population. Also, it was referenced that SeaWorld responded to the film by using science as their primary reasoning for keeping an estimated 50 orcas in captivity. They stated that their purpose for having these mammals living in captivity...
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...head was, “I can’t wait to go home and play outside!” My friend, Brianna, who sat right behind me, chuckled in my ear, “There’s chalk on Ms. B’s butt”. I giggled aloud by accident and received a stern look from my disapproving teacher. It was great day, especially because my mom had packed me an awesome lunch, a turkey and cheese sandwich with a juice box and a rice crispy treat, and I couldn’t wait to eat it. Out of nowhere, a voice crackled over the loud speaker, “Brittany Ciampi, Jamie Natale and Michael Hession – report to the principles office please. Your parents are here to pick you up.” Everyone started to murmur as Brittany, Jamie and Michael stood up. “That’s weird that three people got picked up this early in the day…” I said to myself. I turned to my friend Brianna and said, “Isn’t that weird?” She responded with a quick, “Yeah”. There was a terrible feeling in my stomach, I knew something was going on but I didn’t know what it was yet. Within ten minutes, many more parents arrived at the classroom door to pick up their kids. They all looked frantic, rushing to pick up their child. I kept asking different people in my class, “What’s going on? Why is everyone getting picked up?” I felt nervous and confused; my heart was beating out of my chest. Everything was happening so fast, but it seemed like slow motion. I wanted my mom or dad to come get me...
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...Weird Al’s song “It’s All About the Pentiums”, the movie “Live Free or Die Hard” and the poem “Praise Song for the Day” by Elizabeth Alexander each have a common theme that relates to the computer industry in which describing the need to continually advance towards the future. The poem “Praise Song for the Day” was written by Elizabeth Alexander in 2009 as a tribute to President Obama’s inauguration. There is a lot of directions this poem can go, as far as whom it relates to. The main point is that people are here to help out each other. This is a song in the music industry provided by the artist Weird Al Yankovic. This song is a remix of the Puff Daddy song “It’s All About the Benjamins. This “nerdcore hip-hop” song was released on the album “Running with Scissors” in 1999. (Wikipedia, 2012) Lyrics to Weird Al - "It's All About the Pentiums" The action film Live Free or Die Hard was released in 2007 about computer hacking terrorist and the fight against them. Starring Bruce Willis as a NYPD Detective fighting alongside the FBI to stop the cyber attacks in the United States. (Wikipedia, 2012) Elizabeth Alexander, born in 1962, wrote the poem Praise Song for the Day in 2009 in regards to the Obama inauguration. She speaks about how people go about their normal daily business noticing each other. Everyone is fixing and/or creating something, all while talking with each other in different ways and thinking about what one has said....
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...Parody Music Parody music used to have a serious intent in the 16th century, and Italian music theorist Pietro Cerone even created a few general guidelines on how to create parodies. However, in the modern world, parody music is made by distorting music, changing the lyrics or mimicking the artistes’ style, often in a humorous way, and is sometimes used to mock at artistes, movies or random things in life. Parody music is generally easy to create therefore people enjoy expressing their creativity and thoughts through it, especially in America whereby freedom of speech is considered an integral American value. Unlike composing music from scratch, parodists just have to change the style or meaning of an original song, which is fun and entertaining. It has become so common that you could find parodies of almost any songs on YouTube. For example, the widely known Disney song, “Let It Go”, has its lyrics changed in many different parodies in America to express their own views, be it in terms of studies, jobs, relationships, or life itself. It is a quick and hassle-free way for Americans to express whatever, wherever and whenever they want easily. Parody music also allows comedian-wannabes to gain popularity unconventionally. With the decline in music television and onset of social media in America and everywhere else around the world, it allows Americans who aspire to be “celebrities” to gain worldwide recognition by using tunes of famous songs and putting in nonsensical lyrics...
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...playing softball at the school, each one of them vying for their team to win. And the fact that my dog stole my cookie has left me discombobulated and not being able to focus on a single sentence, as I long for that cookie, with its not-so-subtle sugary flavor. I even put blue food coloring on the dough so I could have a blue cookie and nope my dog ate it. Thanks jasper. He steals everything though. We’ve tried everything, but he still steals. He even sole one of those metal sponges! And not only does he steal everything (and I’m not lying, he steals everything), he eats it too! HE ATE A METAL, WIRE SPONGE. HOW DID THAT FEEL GOING DOWN HIS ESOPHOGAS. I BET NOT THAT GOOD. ANYWAYS, I FORGOT TO TURN CAPS LOCK OFF. And ‘off’ is such a weird word. It can be used in many ways, and it can be used as opposites of itself. Examples: “I turned the water off so the sink wouldn’t overflow.” Which means you made the water stop running. “My alarm went off late this morning and I was late for work.” That means that your alarm went on late. See? You can use “off” as both “on” and “off”;...
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...Twenty years earlier, he explains, he and his friend had dinner at a restaurant called "Big Joe" Brady's, which used to be located where the hardware store stands. The officer confirms that this was the site of the restaurant up until five years earlier, when it was torn down. At the time of their last meal together, the man continues, he was eighteen years old and his friend Jimmy was twenty. The two had grown up together and were the closest of friends, but the man was leaving the next morning to go out to the West to find his fortune, and Jimmy was the type of person who would never leave New York. After eating their dinner that night, they agreed that no matter where they were or what they were doing, they would both do all they could to return to that same spot at that exact same time, ten o'clock, exactly twenty years later. The officer expresses interest, asking why they had been in contact so seldom over the past twenty years. The man briefly explains that he has been busy in the West trying to make his fortune. He checks the time on his watch, which is adorned with diamonds, indicating that he has been successful in his business endeavors. The time is three minutes before ten o'clock, the precise moment that they are scheduled to meet. The officer stays a few minutes more, and it is after ten o'clock when he says goodbye and leaves. The man waits twenty minutes more. Finally, another man approaches, bundled up against the light rain that has started to fall. The...
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