\Weird Al\" Yankovic" Parodies What was he known for? Yankovic is well known for creating parodies of contemporary radio hits, typically which make up about half of his studio releases. Name one of his parodies Yankovic's parody of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing", What other parodies did he do Yankovic considered that his first true satirical song was "Smells Like Nirvana", What else was good about his parodies Yankovic's humor normally lies more in creating unexpected incongruity between an artist's image and the topic of the song, contrasting the style of the song with its content (
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Yankovic is well known for creating parodies of contemporary radio hits, typically which make up about half of his studio releases. Unlike other parody artists such as Allan Sherman, Yankovic and his band strive to keep the backing music in his parodies the same as the original, transcribing the original song by ear and re-recording the song for the parody. In some cases, in requesting the original band to allow for his parody, the band will offer to help out with the recreation: Dire Straits members Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher perform on "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*", Yankovic's parody of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing", while Imagine Dragons provided Yankovic with advice on how to recreate some of the electronic sounds they used for "Radioactive" in Yankovic's parody "Inactive". Yankovic's career in novelty and comedy music has outlasted many of his "mainstream" parody targets, such as Toni Basil, MC Hammer, and Men Without Hats. Yankovic's continued success (including the top 10 single "White & Nerdy" and album Straight Outta Lynwood in 2006) has enabled him to escape the one-hit wonder stigma often associated with novelty music.  Although many of Yankovic's songs are parodies of contemporary radio hits, it is rare that the song's primary topic lampoons the original artist as a person, or the song itself. Most Yankovic songs consist of the original song's music, with a separate, unrelated set of amusing lyrics. Yankovic's humor normally lies more in creating unexpected incongruity between an artist's image and the topic of the song, contrasting the style of the song with its content (such as the songs "Amish Paradise", "White & Nerdy", and "You're Pitiful"), or in pointing out trends or works which have become pop culture cliches (such as "eBay" and "Don't Download This Song"). Yankovic's parodies are often satirical of popular culture, including television (see The TV Album), movies ("The Saga Begins"), and food (see The Food Album). Yankovic claims he has no intention of writing "serious" music. In his reasoning, "There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline."  Yankovic considered that his first true satirical song was "Smells Like Nirvana", which references unintelligible lyrics in Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". Other satirical songs include "Achy Breaky Song", which refers to the song "Achy Breaky Heart", "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long", which refers to the repetitious lyrics in "Got My Mind Set on You", and "Perform This Way", set to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" that drew inspiration from Lady Gaga's outlandish but confident attitude.  Yankovic is the sole writer for all his songs and, for "legal and personal reasons", does not accept parody submissions or ideas from fans. There exists, however, one exception to this rule: Madonna was reportedly talking with a friend and happened to wonder aloud when Yankovic was going to turn her "Like a Virgin" into "Like a Surgeon". Madonna's friend was a mutual friend of Yankovic's manager, Jay Levey, and eventually Yankovic himself heard the story from Levey. CANNOTANSWER
Yankovic is the sole writer for all his songs and, for "legal and personal reasons", does not accept parody submissions or ideas from fans.
This article lists Sinn Féin's election results in UK parliamentary elections.

Summary of general election performance

Notes
For the 1918 election, MPs are given out of the Ireland total. For subsequent elections, MP totals are for Northern Ireland.

Four Sinn Féin candidates were elected in two constituencies each, so Sinn Féin actually had 69 out of 101 Irish MPs. In what was to become Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin won 3 seats out of a possible 30.

Election results

By-elections 1906–1910

By-elections, 1910–1918

1918 general election

Cork City was a two-seat constituency, and both Sinn Féin candidate were elected.

By-elections, 1918–22

1924 general election

1950 general election

McAteer stood as an independent republican candidate.

1955 general election

By-elections, 1955–59

1959 general election

1964 general election
These Sinn Féin members stood as Independent Republican candidates.

1966 general election
These Sinn Féin members stood as Independent Republican candidates.

By-elections, 1979–83
These Sinn Féin members stood as Anti H-Block candidates.

1983 general election

By-elections, 1983–87

1987 general election

By-elections, 1987–92

1992 general election

1997 general election

By-elections, 1997–2001

2001 general election

2005 general election

2010 general election

By-elections, 2010–15

2015 general election

2017 general election

By-elections, 2017–2019

2019 general election
Sinn Féin did not stand candidates in Belfast East, Belfast South or North Down in order to aid anti-Brexit and anti-Democratic Unionist Party candidates in those constituencies.

Footnotes

References

F. W. S. Craig, Chronology of British Parliamentary By-elections 1833–1987

Sinn Féin
Election results by party in the United Kingdom Jignas Chittibomma (born January 12, 1994) is an Indian archer.  He is noted for being instrumental in India's 2nd-place finish in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Early life
His superlative performance at the schooling age of 14 while studying class IX in Second South Asian Archery championship held in Jamshedpur has brought fame to the entire Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh archery fraternity and also to Volga Archery academy under international coach Lenin, who died in an accident while travelling back home along with his team after receiving accolades and felicitation for winning Silver medal from E. S. L. Narasimhan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh and K. Roshaiah, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, although his team members escaped unhurt.

2010 Common wealth game
He is noted as the youngest archer in India's team and being instrumental in winning team silver medal in Commonwealth Games of 2010 that was held at New Delhi in India  by defeating South Africa with 226–224 in semifinal and settled for silver medal by losing to England in final with 229-231 points. Jignas was instrumental in entering final by scoring 78 points out of 80

(8 Arrows) in semi final and scored a record of 79 points out of 80(8 Arrows) to win silver medal by the Indian team comprising Ritul Chatterjee and Chinna alias Raju Sridhar. Jignas is also credited for being youngest boy at the age of 14 years to participate in all Sub Junior, Junior and Senior Nationals in one single year between 2007 and 2008 held in India and Turkey. He is also credited for being youngest boy of 16 years old to play in Senior Archery world cup held in Croatia in 2010.

Personal Details
Jignas was born on January 12, 1994, to  Sri. Ch.V. Rajasekhar an Irrigation Engineer and Smt. Ch. Nalini at Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh.

His fine skills were first noticed by his father when he was shooting darts accurately and took up archery at the age of 8 in May 2002 as he has facilities for archery training in his native place, although he was actually interested in
shooting. His Father and Mother both being sports persons, encouraged and supported him right from his youth in sports despite high cost of Archery equipment.

Participated Events
 Won 5 Gold Medals at Sub Juniors 49th National Schools held at Sangli in Maharashtra during 2004 and stood national first.
 Won 1 Silver Medal at Sub Juniors 50th National Schools held at Kolkata in West Bengal during 2005 and stood national second.
 Won 1 Bronze Medal at Sub Juniors 51st National Schools held at Amravati in Maharashtra during 2006 and stood national third.
 Won 1 Bronze Medal at Sub Juniors National Archery Championship held at Raipur in Chhattisgarh during 2007 and stood national sixth.
 Won 4 Gold Medals, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze at Sub Juniors National Archery Championship held at Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh during 2007 and stood national first.
 Won 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Medal at Juniors National Archery Championship held at Amravati in Maharashtra during 2007 and stood national third. This also secured an opportunity to represent India at International stage.
 Stood 3rd in both 30 meters and 90 meters and 4th in 50 meters in South Asian Junior Archery Championship held at Tata Nagar in Jamshedpur.
 Participated in Youth World Championship and stood 15th in Cadet rank held at Antalya in Turkey.
 Participated in Senior National Archery Championship held at Tata Nagar in Jamshedpur during 2008 and stood national twenty first.
 Won 2 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals at Junior National Archery Championship held at Raipur in Chhattisgarh during 2009 and stood national first and also became national champion.
 Won 1 Team Bronze Medal at Senior National Archery Championship held at Guwahati in Assam in 2010.
 Participated and stood 65th in Achery World Cup held at Porec in Croatia in 2010.
 Won 1 Team Silver Medal in Commonwealth Games 2010 held at New Delhi in India.

References

External links
 http://jeetlocwg.in/site/ch-jignas/
 https://web.archive.org/web/20101027083125/http://www.ndtv.com/article/sports/archery-coach-lenin-dies-in-accident-cwg-medallist-unhurt-61976
 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20101027083125/http://www.ndtv.com/article/sports/archery-coach-lenin-dies-in-accident-cwg-medallist-unhurt-61976
 
 
 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20100420065842/http://connect.in.com/commonwealth-games/profile-543083.html
 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/107092/former-india-archer-lenin-dies.html
 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/article/043C6Qq2NCeY2?q=Commonwealth+Games
 https://web.archive.org/web/20120311101942/http://www.timesnow.tv/Vijaywada-Archery-coach-dies-in-car-mishap/articleshow/4356751.cms

Living people
Telugu people
1994 births
Commonwealth Games medallists in archery
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for India
Indian male archers
Archers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games The Independent Labour Network was a left-wing political organisation in the United Kingdom.

It was founded in 1998 by MEPs Ken Coates and Hugh Kerr following their expulsion from the Labour Party.  They stood candidates in the 1999 European Parliament election and were involved in setting up first local branches of the Socialist Alliance, then the national organisation.  The Leeds North East Constituency Labour Party supported the ILN and as a result were threatened with disaffiliation from the Labour Party, many of its members forming the Leeds Left Alliance.

The organisation attracted few votes in the 1999 European Parliament election, and had disbanded by 2003.

External links
Independent Labour Network (inactive)
Article from What Next? critical of the ILN

Political parties established in 1998
Defunct socialist parties in the United Kingdom
1998 establishments in the United Kingdom
Labour parties