So, are copies of her work technically rip-offs of other rip-offs?
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A lot of the best songs are totally transparent rip-offs.
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Then there are others, which some critics say are complete rip-offs.
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They came across as bland, try-hard Grand Theft Auto rip-offs.
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Of the two types of tax rip-offs, identity theft is more common.
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Cute and affordable swimwear that's trend-inspired as opposed to trend rip-offs.
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These rip-offs can vary from phony investments to "guaranteed" offers of credit.
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"We were connected," Mr. Hillary said, breezily recalling drug deals and rip-offs.
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And then the competition started, so now you've got to deal with rip-offs.
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These rip offs, both from Asia and design houses like Chanel, undercut local creators.
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But the price we pay for increasing monopolization goes far beyond such corporate rip-offs.
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A few Easter eggs and callbacks (or rip-offs) that I'd like to point out: 1.
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No big deal, except that the system that produces such rip-offs is ripe for the furies.
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Making stunningly splendid films at a time when everyone else was cranking-out simpering "INDEPENDENCE DAY" rip-offs.
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There are some truly egregious rip-offs, sure, but some of the new phones actually look somewhat interesting.
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Encountering endless digital CGI art films (Hito Steyerl rip-offs), cringe-worthy fashion installations (Gosha Rubchinskiy rip-offs), pop-up shops, and deliberately kitsch consumer objects that double as post-conceptual ready-mades, I got the feeling that this is where contemporary art comes to LARP for the libertarian alt-right.
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Even so, drawing the line between rip-offs and inspiration in music has been an interesting challenge for legal systems.
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McDonald's, which ignored our repeated requests for comment, has seen its share of alleged trademark violations and rip-offs worldwide.
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The pop star has accused the store of using her likeness and selling rip-offs of her "7 Rings" video accessories.
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Performed on an electric guitar (or at least a simulated one) the track would easily improve even the worst Mario rip-offs.
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I believe that as a business making money is okay as long as you are not doing what we consider rip offs.
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It enjoyed a brief moment of intense popularity before an army of rip-offs, clones, and competitors rose up to challenge it.
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The fantasy scenes are essentially Crazy Ex-Girlfriend rip-offs (minus the jazzy numbers) that neither detract from nor add to the storyline.
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A self-proclaimed ''beautiful monster'' and thoroughly a Surrealist's Surrealist, Picabia painted arch rip-offs of Impressionism in which lovers resemble smooching gargoyles.
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But bond requirements can be as low as $10,000 in states like Michigan, not enough to cover more than a couple of rip-offs.
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"The reason the cost of rip-offs is so low is because of the working conditions in the country they are produced," Noland reasoned.
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Glitzy and oversexualized Britney Spears rip-offs would often be the go-to for WWE when it assigned theme songs to its female fighters.
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Although they insist the book lacks religious elements, some chapters, most notably "Honor and Help Your Parents," are straight-up Ten Commandment rip-offs.
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"All the extensions I've highlighted are simple rip-offs with a few lines of code and some analytics code added by the 'authors,'" Meshkov wrote.
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Amazon's assistant was one of the big winners of 2016, and next year will be included in everything from Roomba rip-offs to Sonos speakers.
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What was once known as the land of cheap rip-offs may now offer a glimpse of the future — and American companies are taking notice.
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In 69 days of hearings, the inquiry heard shocking tales of brazen rip-offs, callous mistreatment of customers and even taking money from the dead.
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It will have to compete directly with Loop & Tie, which has a gorgeous website but crappy gifts that seem like rip-offs at their price points.
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The standout jokes are the rip-offs: a taxi-driver who "ain't afraid of no ghosts", a hilarious cameo from a familiar face here and there.
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It's easy to write off online scams as penny-ante crimes, small-time rip-offs that infuriate and embarrass victims but don't do them serious harm.
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In that eco-system of tourist rip-offs and foreclosed housing complexes live six-year-old Moonee (Brooklyn Prince) and Halley (Bria Vinaite), her struggling single mother.
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Con artists use fake invoices, office supply rip-offs, and other variations on a scheme to separate small businesses from the working capital they need to flourish.
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LONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The European Union's markets watchdog is to significantly expand its payroll to help crack down on investor rip-offs by going "mystery shopping".
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The rip-offs of her designs on Amazon were blatant: One listing used Ghahremani's photo of a necklace she'd made, which featured her owl illustration in its pendant.
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It's unclear how it will validate new offerings, gauge the expertise of both hosts and guests if activities are life-threatening, or protect against scams and rip-offs.
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Vacation rental rip-offs aren't uncommon; typically, scammers who target this industry post a fake listing and ask vacationers to hand over payment or a deposit in advance.
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Xi'an, home to the famous terracotta warriors (a UNESCO world heritage site), wants to publish recipes for the city's five most famous foods, to guard against distasteful rip-offs.
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Along with that money, tax season also produces tens of thousands of tax rip-offs that cost individual taxpayers and the IRS much time and many millions of dollars.
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In 69 days of hearings since February, the inquiry heard shocking tales of rip-offs, callous mistreatment of customers, deception of regulators and even taking money from the dead.
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Because it's always vaguely sad to see something original and popular sag beneath the weight of parodies and rip-offs, and wouldn't you rather not add to that pile?
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It also does a lot of stuff you've seen before — in a less compelling way, but also in a way that makes it better than most other rip-offs.
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He's donating all earnings from his latest book, "Scam Me If You Can," to the AARP, in support of its efforts to educate older Americans about internet rip-offs.
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Horror stories about rip-offs under PFI contracts—including one in which a school had to pay £487 ($650) for a lock—go some way to explaining their bad reputation.
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That may help explain why firms have been slow to exploit new technologies that could allow consumers to differentiate between genuine products and rip-offs with a click of their smartphones.
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This weekend, Apple's App Store head Phil Schiller responded to complaints that spam apps and rip-offs were appearing in the App Store's "New" and "What's Hot" sections for certain categories.
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Lamar Jackson says Amazon is selling clothes that are straight-up rip-offs of his nicknames and persona ... and now, the NFL MVP is suing the corporate giant over it all.
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It's time for Perry to move beyond uninspired, seemingly obvious rip-offs and use his power and influence to make space for the work of artists with something new to say.
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A powerful Royal Commission inquiry this year exposed major misconduct in Australia's financial industry, including allegations of rip-offs, mistreatment of customers, deception of regulators and even taking money from the dead.
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Certainly we want to stop direct rip-offs of artists, but not in a way that interferes with further creativity that involves a little bit of copying and a lot of innovation.
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So he set about building a simple, text-heavy WordPress site where he details the seemingly infinite abundance of online rip-offs, along with advice on how to detect and avoid them.
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Thanks to Trump: Trump doesn't tweet about it much, but it turns out that making it harder for people to avoid financial rip-offs is something of a passion for the Trump administration.
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One of the truly rip-offs, that was a big rip-off but we got rid of it so all of you people -- how many people were you paying for not to have?
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In China's top-tier cities, people have developed a stronger brand sense and were more likely to show a strong dislike for rip-offs, said Hui Wan, a team lead at Euromonitor International.
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Judging by the accuracy and specificity of the rip-offs, the camera app from iOS 7 has a serious claim to being one of the most influential software designs of the past decade.
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Replace Tom Verlaine's voice, replace the grim insistence of those guitars, and you're perilously close to the realms of a sixth-former writing French symbolist rip-offs to unsuccessfully woo a university-aged lover.
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"There are so many rip-offs in this bill that people are going to say this is some kind of new Gilded Age," said Senator Ron Wyden, top Democrat on the Senate Tax Committee.
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The Obama administration is going after a host of perceived rip-offs with the new rules it's unveiling Wednesday for brokers — the men and women who recommend investments for people looking to save for retirement.
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People were also side-eyeing the fact that the brand shamelessly offers rip-offs of some of the best-selling products on the market, including Anastasia Beverly Hills highlighter palettes and Marc Jacobs makeup brushes.
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Initially these acts were little more than Jai Paul rip-offs who took his style wholesale and reproduced it—pretty much 25 percent of the stuff released on Soundcloud in the years 2014/15/16.
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Protecting consumers from rip-offs was always a secondary mission, which in some ways ended up in conflict with the basic safety-and-soundness mission, since tough enforcement of consumer rules can undermine bank profitability.
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And indeed, Free Fall's cast of quirky characters, stark violence, and dark comedy make it actually feel more like one of the numerous Tarantino rip-offs from the '90s than an homage to '70s cinema.
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"If people keep being vocal about [the rip-offs], it will at least draw attention to their brands and hopefully the public will order from one of the companies who had the original idea," Bogart added.
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We have an excellent idea of what corporations could do with such a gift: like Wells Fargo, they might try and make it virtually impossible for customers to prevent small-time rip-offs and change their shady behavior.
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With an influx of third-party rip-offs from China, the sad state of Kickstarter campaigns, and the fact that even historically well-funded crowdfunded products can't make it in the market, gadgets are done for, Farhad says.
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While Nye was more exercised by double-pledging notes and concealing rip-offs inside servicer computing platforms, he included these dodgy signing practices in his reports as a way to reach nonexperts with something they could easily understand.
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From sportswear rip-offs to suspiciously familiar brand names such as "Wumart," China's counterfeit and intellectual property (IP) infringement problem is massive and raising questions around the world about how seriously the country is fighting fakes, according to experts.
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But in the more professional and cut-throat street heroin and crack-selling markets, or in the highly lucrative cocaine smuggling game, it is essential not to be seen by customers or rivals as an easy target for rip-offs.
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And there are also complete rip-offs of the Harry Potter books, including Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Relative Prince, Harry Potter and the Filler of Big, and Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, to name a few.
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So instead of dealing with the episode's most vital and interesting themes (particularly as pertains to the Hosts' intelligence), the show instead spins out a bunch of pointlessly busy plot lines that feel like second-rate rip-offs of Lost.
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I am sort of surprised that he got this particular money gig because he seems to only write weird, Tumblr poetry-infused rip-offs of Green Day songs (no club bangers so far), but I suppose Spring Awakening was set in Germany?
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It is also fair to say that whether Off-White's designs are rip-offs will cease to be a very interesting question, as we sit back and watch more and more youth-craving fashion brands attempt to copy everything else about it.
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Even before that, Diet Prada, the popular Instagram account known for semi-accurately calling out rip-offs in the fashion industry, pointed out that the Off-White logo was nearly identical to a 1965 Glasgow airport design created by a famous UK design group.
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The pitch designed to lure President Donald Trump's critics is one of more than a dozen politically themed advertisements masking consumer rip-offs that ProPublica has identified since launching an effort in September to monitor paid political messages on the world's largest social network.
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Hollywood may be hemorrhaging money this summer as their slew of sequels continue to flop, but that won't stop Mel Gibson from taking a break from starring in Taken rip-offs to direct a sequel to 2004's Jesus torture porn, The Passion of the Christ.
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While there was official merchandise available inside the security gates, there was also a sea of options available on the streets of Cleveland and Philadelphia last month: Everything from handmade originals to parodies of campaign logos, and even rip-offs of "official merchandise" were being hawked everywhere convention-goers looked.
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In an argument filed November 2, Wells Fargo took the stance that all those public apologies from executives about its spate of scandals and rip-offs, all those promises to do right by customers and become a trusted bank again—they were all mere exaggerations no reasonable person could ever possibly have believed.
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More from SmarterTravel: The Worst People You Meet on a Cruise 12 Worst Cruise Rip-Offs and How to Beat Them 10 Cruise Lines Going to Inspiring Lengths to Protect the PlanetRead the original story: 10 Best Cruise Lines for Foodies in 2016 by Avital Andrews, who is a contributor to SmarterTravel.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Costs Shoot Up as a Company Runs the E.R." (front page, July 25): As a retired health care business administrator with 40 years of experience, I commend the Yale School of Management and The Times for spotlighting one of the most egregious rip-offs in the health field.
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" 'What Survives After the "Game of Thrones" Finale' [The New Yorker] "Get ready for the zombie horde: a deluge of high-priced epics, spinoffs, and rip-offs — serialized narratives in the 'Thrones' tradition, duly larded with sexposition and gravitas, fur vests and exotic weapons, each of them aiming to hit the demographic sweet spot.
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The F.B.I. is now widely discredited; the C.I.A. is held in contempt; judges, according to the president, are driven by prejudice and partisanship (when they disagree with him); the media produce fake news; Congress is useless (including both Republicans and Democrats); alliances are essentially rip-offs; the State Department — along with the whole idea of a neutral Civil Service — is unnecessary.
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"The American people support policies to restrain Wall Street abuses and ensure safe and healthy food and products, to protect our air, land, water and wildlife, to ensure safe and fair workplaces, to prevent consumer rip-offs and corporate wrongdoing, to create fair rules of the road for our campaign finance system, to provide access to justice and to ensure continued access to vital health care services," the letter reads.
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While Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE in the debate appeared to claim credit for being smart by paying no income taxes, Sanders joins Clinton in New Hampshire to battle to end financial rip-offs and help young people obtain free or debt-free public college education.
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Boston born Eliza Dushku shot to the top of the Hollywood human pyramid as the Rancho Carne high school cheerleader, Missy Pantone -- who spots the routine rip-offs -- in the spirited 2000 film, "Bring It On." Eliza Dushku had some serious squad goals on the fun flick ... Dushku was cast alongside stars like Kristen Dunst as the Toros' leader, Torrance Shipman, Jesse Bradford as Missy's dreamboat brother, Cliff Pantone and, of course, Gabrielle Union as the Clover's cross-town captain, Isis.
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The film was popular and thus spawned other rip-offs of other major Hollywood productions.
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Guest speaker John Steinberg, a "consumer gadfly" notifying viewers of negative purchases like "record album rip-offs," often appeared.
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Rip offs at budget price. We deserve more than this. I've heard people perking up at Ninjabread Man because of its punny name. Don't be fooled.
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Leamy is the author of two books, Save BIG: Cut Your Top 5 Costs and Save Thousands (2010) and The Savvy Consumer: How to Avoid Scams and Rip-Offs That Cost You Time and Money (2004).
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Most blatant movie rip-offs: The Little Cars (2006). Virgin Media Accessed from 23 September 2012. Disney's legal department was contacted by a reporter through a spokesperson about a potential lawsuit, but Milani did not comment.
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Andrew Leonard,Millennials will not be regulated, Andrew Leonard, Salon.com, 2013.09.20 Evgeny Morozov, Bernard Marszalek, Dean Baker,How AirBnB and Uber Cab are Facilitating Rip-Offs: The Downside of the Sharing Economy (2014.05.28), Dean Baker, CounterPunchHow Uber Disrupts the Taxi Market (2015.02.
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Don Kaye of Kerrang! praised the band's "confidence and identity", unusual in debut albums. However, the album still received mixed reviews overall. Music journalists often blasted the band as "rip-offs" of grunge acts such as Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.
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Asa Aarons (born Asa Smith, October 20, 1956), co-creator of "Just Ask Asa!", is a consumer reporter and photojournalist. His reports focus on the problems, concerns and realities of everyday life, ranging from false advertising claims to credit card rip-offs and business swindles. Aarons has appeared on television stations in cities including New York City, Detroit and Pittsburgh.
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296-300 He then changed his name from Shukotoff to Shaw, and worked as a pianist and composer. His best-known compositions include "Mobiles", "The Mod Moppet: Seven Nursery Rip-offs", and "Sing a Song of Americans", for which Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benét wrote the lyrics. In the early 1940s he was also the popular music editor for Swank magazine.
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Upon his return to Brazil, Coelho worked as a songwriter, composing lyrics for Elis Regina, Rita Lee, and Brazilian icon Raul Seixas. Composing with Raul led to Coelho being associated with magic and occultism, due to the content of some songs.Biography Official Site of Paulo Coelho. He is often accused that these songs were rip-offs of foreign songs not well known in Brazil at the time.
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The success of Halloween ushered in a slew of rip-offs in the decade following, one of the most notable of these, Friday the 13th, began production already in 1979. The Phantom would also go on to be influential in a lesser extent during the 80s and decades after, mainly due to many other films using copies of his simple sack mask for their killer.
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From 2010 to 2012, she led the European Parliament's negotiations on overhauling European Union roaming regulations.Ian Wishart (March 28, 2012), EU reaches deal to ‘end mobile phone roaming rip-offs’ European Voice. In early 2014, the CSU chose Niebler to be the party list's number 2 for the 2014 European elections, following Markus Ferber.Dave Keating (January 27, 2014), German parties select European Parliament candidates European Voice.
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Vibe. Retrieved October 9, 2008. The production for I'm Serious, was handled by The Neptunes, DJ Toomp, Madvac and The Grand Hustle Team. Despite the album's guests appearances and production team, the album peaked at number 98 and only sold 163,000 copies in the United States. Critics pointed to the fact that many of the tracks sounded the same and that a few were blatant rip-offs.
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No confirmation exists that Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel was influenced by Gladiator.6 Famous Characters You Didn't Know Were Shameless Rip Offs He and co-creator Joe Shuster began developing Superman in 1934. Superman as originally published came from an unnamed planet whose inhabitants were millions of years more evolved than humans. When they reached maturity, "the people of his race became gifted with titanic strength".
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Critics were divided over the puzzles, naming them both "ingenious" and "elementary". Peter Scisco of ComputerLife and FamilyPC's testers criticized some of the puzzles for relying on "reflexes, not logical thinking". Entertainment Weekly rated the game B+, naming the puzzles "unimaginative...Pac-Man rip-offs and dopey jigsaws". Scisco appreciated the nonviolent content and the inclusion of Jessie as a strong female character, but considered the extraterrestrial story too familiar.
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14, 1986): Business News: pE1. A number of these publishers attempted to cash in on current trends — for every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (itself a nod to the popularity of the Uncanny X-Men), there were multitudes of blatant rip-offs like Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, Geriatric Gangrene Jujitsu Gerbils, and Pre-Teen Dirty Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos.Nigel, Mitchell. "5 'Best' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Parodies," Geek Twins (Oct.
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Volcano lifts travellers' prices but rip-offs seem rare BBC News, 20 April 2010 Some costs were covered by compensation from airlines and travel insurance,Holiday volcano ash chaos advice Which?, 21 April 2010 although there were many disputes over payments. Some people incurred large taxicab fares over long distances, such as English actor John Cleese, who took a taxi from Oslo to Brussels and paid €3,000 for the journey.
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Voice actor Hank Azaria has noted that the voice of Simpsons character police chief Clancy Wiggum is an impression of Robinson. This has been explicitly joked about in episodes of the show. In "The Day the Violence Died" (1996), a character states that Chief Wiggum is clearly based on Robinson. In 2008's "Treehouse of Horror XIX", Wiggum and Robinson's ghost each accuse the other of being rip-offs.
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Whilst partly a result of the band striving for mainstream appeal, it was also partly in reaction to the management of Phonogram Records (parent company to the Vertigo label) objecting to two working titles for the album – Songs for the Frustrated Housewife and Thieves, Punks, Rip-Offs & Liars.Mother's Choice – AVSCD020 The album was remastered and reissued in December 2006 by Australian record label Aztec Music on CD with additional tracks.
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Rydell & Quick is a Swedish rock band featuring male vocalist Christer Rydell and female vocalist and saxophonist Malin Quick. Rydell had formed a band with Peer Stappe, Rydell Rip Offs, playing locally, while Quick performed with big bands. The band was originally formed in 1989 after Quick joined Rydell's band on stage with her instrument. The band has toured extensively around Sweden and since 1999 are sponsored by Harley-Davidson.
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Tom Guido became the club's manager in 1993. Under him it became the center of San Francisco's garage rock scene, featuring such bands as The Rip Offs, Spoiled Brats, The Trashwomen, The Makers, Tee and Thee Crumpets, The Phantom Surfers, The 5.6.7.8's, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Groovie Ghoulies, The Go-Nuts, Guitar Wolf and many others.Leaders of Men "Part 13 Tom Guido", retrieved October 2014 The club closed in 1999.
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While attending university, Iwata worked for HAL Laboratory as a part-time programmer in 1980. Among their first creations was a peripheral device that enabled older computers to display graphics for video games. With this device, Iwata and members of HAL created multiple games that were "straight rip-offs of Namco’s Rally-X, Galaxian, and others". Despite this, HAL became the first company to establish a license with Namco for developing games.
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Hedorah are examples. After Steven Spielberg's 1975 film Jaws, a number of very similar films (sometimes regarded as outright rip-offs) were produced in the hope of cashing in on its success. Examples are Alligator, Cujo, Day of the Animals, Great White, Grizzly, Humanoids from the Deep, Monster Shark, Orca, The Pack, Piranha, Prophecy, Razorback, Blood Feast, Tentacles, and Tintorera. Roger Corman was a major producer of these films in both decades.
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His first single, "Kid's Blues", was also released in December. Some tracks from Boy from the Stars were performed at the final Sunbury Pop Festival in January 1975, by his all-star backing group, Jim Keays Band. They were joined on-stage by Wheatley, recently returned from the UK, in their last performance together for over ten years. As a member of The Masters Apprentices, Keays had endured rip-offs, where promoters had made considerable profits while they had received little payment.
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In the weekly segment, Connable brought the 82-year-old State Treasurer with him to surprise people at their homes. Connable worked in a special consumer unit called "The On Your Side Team," where he and another reporter, Adam Murphy, answered calls about rip-offs and scams, and helped people get their money back or notified the public about bad businesses. The On Your Side Team turned News19's ratings around after years of being in second and third place.State Newspaper October 2000.
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While admitting his fondness for the group's previous "Beatle rip-offs", Niester opined: "Badfinger would be better off doing twelve of the Beatles' greatest hits and doing them without all this pretension of originality." Other contemporary reviews compared Straight Up to past works by the Beatles in a more favourable light. Beat Instrumental described the album as "a good 'un", and Jim Girard of Scene recognised "Perfection" and "Sometimes" as possible singles and said that Badfinger's "importance lies in their unpretentiousness and commercial potency".
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The film spawned a multimedia franchise consisting of 33 films in total, video games, books, comics, toys and other media. The Godzilla franchise has been recognized by Guinness World Records as being the longest running film franchise in history. Since his debut, Godzilla became an international pop culture icon, inspiring countless rip-offs, imitations, parodies and tributes. The 1954 film is also largely credited, because of Eiji Tsuburaya, for establishing the template for Tokusatsu, a technique of practical special effects filmmaking that would become essential in Japan's film industry since the release of Godzilla.
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Leamy wrote an ABC News Business column from 2006 to 2015. In 2014, she was the host of the YouTube show "Free For All," about free products and services available to consumers. Leamy is the author of two books, Save BIG: Cut Your Top 5 Costs and Save Thousands (2010) and The Savvy Consumer: How to Avoid Scams and Rip- Offs That Cost You Time and Money (2004) and is the recipient of 13 Emmy awards. Leamy is also a professional speaker with membership in the National Speakers Association.
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The Bertrand model can be extended to include product or location differentiation but then the main result – that price is driven down to marginal cost – no longer holds. With search costs, there may be other equilibria apart from the competitive price – the monopoly price or even price dispersion may be equilibria as in the classic "Bargains and Rip- offs" model. The model also ignores capacity constraints. If a single firm does not have the capacity to supply the whole market then the "price equals marginal cost" result may not hold.
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Ilan Manouach holds a BFA from École supérieure des arts Saint-Luc in Brussels. Since 2003, he has published more than a dozen bookworks under the catalogue of a small publishing house based in Brussels, :fr:La Cinquième Couche. He has curated four anthologies bringing together contributions from artists, critics, lawyers and different professionals of the book industry. His work has been described as covering a range of different experimentation within the tradition of comics, from narratives, to rip-offs and appropriations and recently to the invention of a new language, Shapereader.
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Franchise business opportunities rip offs often do not entail a trademark or detailed business plan. The franchise business opportunity typically promises to provide the buyer with equipment that is used to sell products or services to the public, such as vending machines, rack displays, pay phones, or medical billing software, and frequently promises to find the buyer a market for the products or services. Many business opportunities are outright scams that disappear shortly after taking consumers' money. Compliance with The Franchise Rule by business opportunity sellers is low.
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In his first weeks in office, Schneiderman launched a plan to root out fraud and return money illegally stolen from New York taxpayers at no additional cost to the state. This initiative includes a new "Taxpayer Protection Unit" specifically designed to go after corruption in state contracts, pension fund rip-offs, and large-scale tax cheats. Schneiderman has also bolstered the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit by cracking down on fraud in the Medicaid program. Schneiderman was instrumental in pushing for a tougher fraud settlement with large banks over illegal foreclosure practices.
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The townspeople later find the cows and confront them, before witnessing them commit mass suicide. During practice for the bull-riding contest, Cartman hits his head and believes himself to be a Vietnamese prostitute named Ming Lee. The boys enter him in the contest anyway and he wins the grand prize; Kenny is killed when a bull's horn stabs him through his head. The carny decides to just let the boys buy the dolls with their $5,000 rather than having them play for them. The boys discover that the dolls aren’t authentic but cheap rip-offs.
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When he was an adult, he tricked an old lady into giving him her life's savings which she thought was for a stray-dog home. With that money, he bought his warehouses in Manhattan and started his business of dealing in smuggled goods and designer rip-offs. After the Shorings Bank incident, he was hypnotized by Rocky to be kind and good. He was also hypnotized by Molly Moon (in the first book) to have a German accent, as his original Chicago accent might be recognized by police (he told the police about the Shorings Bank incident on the phone).
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Although Ultraman is the first series to feature an Ultraman character, it is the second installment in the Ultra Series, following Ultra Q. This is signified in the Japanese show opening by the Ultra Q logo exploding into the Ultraman logo. Ultraman and its titular hero became a major pop culture phenomena in Japan, spawning dozens of sequels, spin-offs, rip-offs, imitators, parodies and tributes. Ultraman went on to generate in merchandising revenue from 1966 to 1987 (equivalent to more than adjusted for inflation) and become the world's third top-selling licensed character by the 1980s (largely due to his popularity in Asia).
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Scheimer also noted his version of the Snow White as the story's actual heroine as it is she who rescues the prince in an inversion of the traditional version. Lord Maliss was based on Basil Rathbone. However, the Walt Disney Productions chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg and spokesman Tom Deegan regarded the projects as "blatant rip-offs" of their properties. This led to a lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company in 1987 following the release of Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, Afterwards Filmation promised their characters would not resemble the ones from the Disney version and changed the title of the film to Happily Ever After.
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A majority of the children surveyed feel that these kinds of microtransaction systems in their online games are complete rip-offs. 76% of them also believe that these online games purposely try to squeeze as much money as possible from them when they play the game. About half of the children expressed that they need to spend money on the game in order for it to be fun to them; this is due to many of these games' features, which are modes that the children want to play and experience, being locked behind microtransaction paywalls. As such, there is a large gap between the gaming experiences that non-paying players have and the experiences that paying players have.
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Carr argued that this created what he called: "the most comprehensive tort reform that any government has developed ... at the expense of the plaintiff lawyers who had fed on a culture of rorts and rip-offs". Carr noted in his diary: "It's not worth being Premier unless you can take privileges off the undeserving." However the fact that the law effectively made it impossible to claim for any injury worth less than around $60,000 was criticised by New South Wales Chief Justice James Spigelman and others. Spigelman argued that it effectively "eliminates small claims" entirely, giving "people the right to be negligent and injure someone up to a given level before they become liable".
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The song mimicked both the musical and lyrical features of Dylan's songwriting (particularly "Like a Rolling Stone") as well as Dylan's singing style to the point of homage or even parody. In the original liner notes of the Nuggets compilation album, Lenny Kaye states of this song: "There are some who say that Mouse does Dylan's Highway 61 period better than the Master himself". Another reviewer remarked: "['A Public Execution'] is to Dylan what the Knickerbockers' 'Lies' is to the Beatles: one of the few rip-offs so utterly accurate that it could easily fool listeners into mistaking it for the original article".Promotional copy for The Fraternity Years CD, Yahoo Shopping website.
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It's Dylanesque characteristics continue with Weiss's lead vocal, described by music historian Richie Unterberger as being "like vintage Dylan, a grinning, surrealistic, half-spoken rant" that boasted about being better-off without a woman. Weiss's homage, borderline parody, to Dylan concludes with an enthusiastic yowl, again, a detail featured on "Like a Rolling Stone". Unterberger goes on to characterize "A Public Execution" as "one of the few rip-offs so utterly accurate that it could easily fool listeners into believing it was the original article". Arguably, the tune is among the most accurate Dylan imitations to emerge from the era, not even replicated by Mouse and the Traps on their later recordings.
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Captain America appeared in the 1973 Turkish cult superhero film 3 Dev Adam (3 Giant Men) directed by T. Fikret Uçak and written by Doğan Tamer based on the characters created by Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Joe Simon and Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, featuring Aytekin Akkaya as Captain America and Yavuz Selekman as Santo called to Istanbul on a special mission to stop the villainous Spider-Man and his criminal gang. The film, which went on nationwide general release across the country on November 1, 1973, was completely unauthorized by the copyright owners of the characters depicted. The film was popular and thus spawned other rip-offs of other major Hollywood productions.
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Humanoids from the Deep is a 1980s updating of similarly plotted genre films made in the 1950s and 1960s Del Tenney's The Horror of Party Beach (1964) in particularwith the addition of graphic violence and nudity. The film was a modest financial success for New World Pictures. Critical reviews were mostly negative. Paul Taylor said in Time Out, "Despite the sex of the director, a more blatant endorsement of exploitation cinema's current anti-women slant would be hard to find; Peeters also lies on the gore pretty thick amid the usual visceral drive-in hooks and rip-offs from genre hits; and with the humor of an offering like Piranha entirely absent, this turns out to be a nasty piece of work all round".
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Lacey also instituted the DA's bimonthly Fraud Alerts to educate the public about common fraud schemes targeting seniors, including counterfeit drug scams and Medicare rip-offs. In 2015, Lacey announced the creation of the Conviction Review Unit, dedicated to pursuing the innocence claims of people imprisoned for serious felonies, if new evidence is discovered. When new evidence warrants it, a formal investigation is opened to review details of the case, and the case is presented to the Conviction Review Committee, who will decide whether they doubt the original conviction. In 2017, Lacey launched the Notario Fraud Unit with the goal of prosecuting those involved in immigration service scams who pose as either attorneys, special agents, or government workers who could expedite the processing of legal documents.
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In the early 2000s, many companies flooded the internet with açaí advertising, many of them with counterfeit testimonials and products. In 2009, açaí scams were ranked #1 on the US FTC's "scams and rip-offs" list, so that by 2011 sales of açaí flattened as the fad waned. Açaí was promoted heavily for its antioxidants, and many false claims were and are made, including a reversal of diabetes and other chronic illnesses, as well as expanding size of the penis and increasing men's sexual virility."Reality check" According to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest thousands of consumers have had trouble stopping recurrent charges on their credit cards when they cancel free trials of some açai-based products.
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The recordings for the concept album had coinciding setbacks, which resulted in the departure of Jander, who therefore only contributed some parts of the vocals. By the time the album was released in early 1999, bass player Chaos joined Nagelfar. After the release, Lacher ended Kettenhund Records because he lacked time to go on with the label and was a bit demoralised by "rip offs" in the scene,Björn Springorum: Nagelfar "Hetzjagd Auf Der NagelfÄhre", 26 March 2002, accessed on 19 November 2012. so the band had to look for a new one. Lacher, whom the band considered a friend,Mirgilus: The Ruins of Beverast , August 2005, accessed on 19 November 2012. was stabbed to death in a discothèque in Bremen in December 2001.
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However, when Gaston begs for his life, the Beast decides to be the better man and have mercy, and climbs back up to Belle. Ungrateful and unrepentant, Gaston stabs the Beast in the back when he sees him embracing Belle, but loses his balance when the Beast swings his arm backwards at him; consequently, Gaston falls to his death. Gaston has appeared in the television series Disney's House of Mouse, and was voiced again by White. The character also makes sporadic appearances in Sing Me a Story with Belle, mostly acting as a comedic foil, always stating "No one (insert action) like Gaston!" while walking by, rudely interrupting people's conversations and this phrase is frequently used as rip-offs by other characters.
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On a distant planet called Dakkam (whose name has been described as "ridiculously similar" to 'Daxam'Metropolis Marvels: 18 Marvel Characters That Are Just Superman Rip-Offs, by Octavio Karbank, at Comic Book Resources; published May 16, 2018; retrieved November 18, 2018), a scientist named Hektu (based on Jor-El) believes that his world will be destroyed when their sun goes nova. He and his wife, Soja have an infant son named Wundarr, whom they plan to save from their world's destruction. They place him aboard a ship that is able to maintain his life support as long as necessary, and then launch him into outer space. Hektu and Soja later make flight and are captured and executed by the Internal Security Force to prevent them from alarming the populace.
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The Colonel appeared first in the pilot episode, "Whither Canada?" in a documentary-formatted sketch, to help describe the Allied Forces involvement in joke warfare during World War II. He appears four times in "Owl-Stretching Time", protesting rip offs of the British army's slogan, "It's a Man's Life in the Modern Army." The Colonel appears most frequently in "Full Frontal Nudity". In this episode, the Colonel is writing in his office when he is suddenly approached by Private Watkins (played by Eric Idle), a young soldier who has been in the army for one day, claiming he wants to leave as it's dangerous and people get killed. They're interrupted by the entrance of two gangsters, Dino and Luigi Vercotti, who attempt an outrageously obvious protection racket, hoping to extort money from the Colonel in exchange for agreeing to protect his army.
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Originally, it was proposed that the comic was to have been called Action 76, with the intention that the title would then increment each year, but this idea was dropped and it was named simply Action. Many of the stories in Action were what Mills called "dead cribs", essentially rip-offs of popular films, books and comic heroes. Rather than being a straight copy, the "cribs" in Action had their own slant on the idea. For example, Hook Jaw combined environmental issues with the graphic gore and shark anti-hero of Steven Spielberg's film Jaws (1975), a huge box-office success, whilst Hellman of Hammer Force was a Warlord/Battle-style World War II adventure told from the point of view of a German Panzer tank commander, as had been popularised by the grisly novels of Sven Hassel.
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Bulk bag of counterfeit Viagra The spread of counterfeit goods (commonly called "knock-offs" or "rip-offs") has become global in recent years and the range of goods subject to infringement has increased significantly. Apparel and accessories accounted for over 50 percent of the counterfeit goods seized by U.S Customs and Border Control. According to the study of Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (CIB) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), counterfeit goods make up 5 to 7% of world trade; however, these figures cannot be substantiated due to the secretive nature of the industry.ICC Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (1997), Countering Counterfeiting: A Guide to Protecting and Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights, United Kingdom. A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development indicates that up to US$200 Billion of international trade could have been in counterfeit and illegally copied goods in 2005.
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In fact, these hidden charges, such as currency conversion fees and foreign ATM access charges, are cited as the top "travel rip-offs" experienced by travellers. The Herald Sun's 'One in three travellers return from holiday owing more than $2000 on credit cards' - December 2013 There is no maximum to debt-lag attributed debt, although it is largely limited by an individual's credit limit and ability to accrue debt. Inversely, there is no limit to the amount of time it takes to resolve debt-lag as repayment habits, compound interest charges and the ability to continually accrue debt even after the trip is complete can make the debt rollover perpetually. Over a third of people would holiday again before paying down their debt-lag induced debt,The Sunday Age's 'Holiday Spending's Big Hurt' on 1 December 2013 lengthening the duration of this condition.
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Together, they recorded a six-song demo consisting of "old blues rip-offs and words made up on the spot" with minimal equipment. After sending the demo to a dozen record labels, they accepted an offer in 2002 from a small indie label in Los Angeles named Alive, because it was "the only label that would sign [them] without having to see [them] first". According to an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, the group's name "the Black Keys" came from an acquaintance diagnosed with schizophrenia, Alfred McMoore. He would leave incoherent messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers as "black keys" such as "D flat" when he was upset with them. On March 20, 2002, the duo played their first live show at Cleveland's Beachland Ballroom and Tavern to an audience of approximately eight people.
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" Roman Cooney of the Calgary Herald noted that while the film is "not the bloodbath other movies of its ilk have been, several of the murder scenes are so painfully gruesome as to be tasteless and more than merely distressing," and added that the plot is "convenient rather than complex, relying on a cast of characterless individuals like so many dominoes waiting to be toppled." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times echoed similar sentiments, writing that Halloween II represented "a fall from greatness" that "doesn't even attempt to do justice to the original." He also commented, "Instead, it tries to outdo all the other violent Halloween rip-offs of the last several years." The Arizona Republics Michael Maza assessed the film as continuing part of the prominent slasher trend, noting that Carpenter and Hill appear to be "picking up a few tricks from their imitators (most notably Friday the 13th).
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248 In a retrospective of the first season in Entertainment Weekly, "Ghost in the Machine" was rated a D+. The episode's premise and the COS system were described as "unacknowledged 2001 rip-offs", while the presence of Deep Throat was called "gratuitous"; with both cited, along with an "absence of humor", as the episode's main detractions. Keith Phipps, writing for The A.V. Club, was more favourable to the episode, rating it a B-. He felt that the similarities to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Demon Seed were effective, adding, however, that although the plot worked well, it had dated poorly. Matt Haigh, writing for Den of Geek, reviewed the episode negatively, feeling that the plot was "formulaic", and that it "simply [has] not stood the test of time". However, Haigh felt that Deep Throat's appearance was a highlight of the episode, and praised Mark Snow's score as "extremely atmospheric".
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In early 1968 Wheatley was hired as the bass player in a new line-up of the Melbourne-based pop-rock band the Masters Apprentices, then one of Australia's most popular groups. Wheatley's four-year tenure with the group, which lasted until shortly before their demise in 1972, included the recording of many of their most successful songs including the hit singles "Turn Up Your Radio" (1970) and "Because I Love You" (1971) as well as the 1971 LP Choice Cuts, which was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London. It was during Wheatley's tenure in the Masters that he learned at first hand about the highly exploitative nature of the Australian pop industry at that time. The band endured many "rip-offs" and in their later career they suffered greatly from poor management decisions and inadequate support from their record labels, problems which eventually led to the group's demise in 1972.
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In late 1974 Birtles, Goble, Pellicci and Shorrock met with talent manager Glenn Wheatley (former bass player of the Masters Apprentices) in London. With Wheatley as manager, they agreed to reconvene in Melbourne in early 1975. Due to the indifferent reception they had each received in the UK, they decided their new band would establish itself in the United States. Wheatley's first-hand experiences of the rip-offs in the 1960s music scene, combined with working in music management in the UK and the US in the early 1970s, allowed him to help the Little River Band become the first Australian group to enjoy consistent commercial and chart success in the US. Little River, on a trip by the fledgling band from Melbourne to Geelong, inspired Glenn Shorrock to suggest the band name After their return to Australia, the members began rehearsing in February 1975, still using the name of Mississippi. On 20 March 1975 they played their first official gig at Martini's Hotel in Carlton.
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