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August 13, 2012 10:25

MTV remake will also contain storylines "tweaked" from the original British TV series

The US version of The Inbetweeners will feature "made up" swear words, the show's executive producers have revealed.

MTV's remake of the hit E4 sitcom - which relocates the action from Rudge Park Comprehensive to a typical American high school - premieres in the US on August 20. Last month (July), a trailer for the remake appeared on YouTube, prompting an angry response from fans of the original British TV show.

Commenting on YouTube, one fan predicted that the US remake will miss the distinctive British vocabulary from the original, writing: "It just doesn't translate....twat...knob....clunge....div....shag....bollocks...all staple phrases of English humour, almost completely absent from the American vocabulary, which, let's face it, made the characters who they were! Total shite!"

However, in an interview with Collider, executive producers Aaron Kaplan and Brad Copeland have insisted that the remake retains the show's trademark rudeness. Kaplan explained: "Well, America likes to be offended as well. Like anything else, it's a challenge.That's one of the things that Brad and I and MTV loved about the original.In spite of how offensive it could be, it was incredibly sweet.We made up a lot of original words that we can get past standards."

Copeland also revealed that the remake will feature a mix of completely new scripts and storylines based on the original British TV series. He explained: "With [our] first season, out of 12 episodes, six borrow skewed versions of their plots. We have plots that we really enjoyed from the series, that we wanted to put in, but we had to tweak them a little bit just to fit in with the American sensibility."

However, if the remake gets renewed for future seasons, Copeland predicted that it will become less reliant on the original. He added: "I think the six episodes that we did on our own this season worked really, really well. It definitely gave us a launchpad to now transition into our own story, and to take these universal themes and characters from the original British version and make it our own, somewhat like The Office did."

The original British version of The Inbetweeners, starring Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas, ran for three seasons as an E4 sitcom before spawning a spin-off film. In June, it was reported that the show's British creators are now producing an American teen film "inspired by" The Inbetweeners Movie.

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Jesus Jones, a UK (plus Chicago) based outfit were influential in the early 1990s with such hit singles as 'Right Here, Right Now' and 'International Bright Young Thing'. As with many bands in the 1990s, things move on, and having lost a traditional record contract, with all the organisation and marketing behind it, they formed a small indie label to keep things 'ticking over'. To relaunch their music careers in the public eye, and to raise cash to plough back into their indie label organisation (future touring/marketing costs a lot money) they have released in 2011 an album of favourites, rarities and remixes called - The Collection.

It comes in a professionally designed 2 cd set, with colourful attractive labelling you would have expected from a major label, but not necessarily from an independent, and a massive 36 tracks - 18 per cd ! Their website Jesus Jones currently offers signed copies from the band members, but on a time limited basis. Excellent value for money.

CD1 - focuses on a mixture of fan favourites (+ remixes) and more obscure tracks (to prevent overlap with previous released cds)
CD2 - focuses on a mixture of previously unreleased demos and rarities

They have announced that they have started to record new material for a future album release. We wish them well in their 'rebooted' career.

12-08-2012 10:33 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigned with his new running mate Sunday. Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan joined Romney in Mooresville, North Carolina. (Aug. 12)

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Social networking, in some form or another, has been around for as long as man. It's not hard to imagine cave dwellers who shared a common bond gathering together for a conversation about the day's events - even if grunting and elaborate charades was the only means of communication.

Perhaps the first person to identify and label a form of social networking was Auguste Comte back in 1853. He observed that one person in a certain social system were interconnected with others in the same system.

It was an observation way ahead of its time, and good old Auguste didn't even have a modem.

Wikipedia, the online mecca for information both accurate and questionable, defines a modern social network as: A social structure which, in general, facilitates communication between a group of individuals or organizations, that are related by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as: a special or common interest; shared values; visions, ideas, or perhaps ideals; financial exchange, friendship, kinship, dislike, conflict or trade.

Auguste was, indeed, way ahead of the curve. But since this column is more about technology, let's fast forward more than a few decades and all the way to the 1970s.

Other than just disco, which is the best invention man (or woman) ever created, folks started piecing together integrated circuits and a bunch of wires to make their own, early, personal computers.

Trying to find a way to communicate over standard telephone lines, a couple of kids in the Chicago area found a marriage between hardware and software for the first bulletin board system. The modem allowed data transfer from one point to another.

Hobbyists all over the world started to create their own BBS systems and users would dial into the centralized computer to share files, post messages and create new software.

As the young hobbyists grew older, they recognized a possible business opportunity. CompuServe and America Online came to the forefront in the 1980s, and file sharing, e-mail and data transfers became more and more popular. Groups of like-minded computer users would often create their own chat rooms inside the online communities.

As the Internet boom continued, the ideas took another leap forward. Instead of creating a chat room or social network inside AOL or CompuServe, the idea of using a dedicated Web site was born. Yahoo! and a host of other services hit the scene in the 1990s and Yahoo! Groups became a gathering place for many.

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Unlike several of its peers (cough, Facebook and Zynga), business-networking powerhouse LinkedIn knocked its most recent earnings announcement out of the park. The market paid attention, sending its share sharply upward after the report. This most recent earnings season has really helped to more clearly define the real winners and losers of the most recent generation of Web-based IPOs.

After the world's most-hyped IPO turned out to be a dud, most investors probably don't even want to think about shares of Facebook. But there are things every investor needs to know about this company. We've outlined them in our newest premium research report. There is a lot more to this company than meets the eye, so read up on whether there is anything to "like" about it today, and we'll tell you whether we think Facebook deserves a place in your portfolio. Access your report by clicking here.

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