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From Ringo Deathstarr to Joanna Gruesome, there's been a real surge these last few years in bands turning to punny wordplay for monikers. Here's 21 – some hilarious, some horrendously cringey…
1Ringo Deathstarr
There's been a real surge in bands these last few years turning to puns for band names. Some are wittily subverse spins on household names and pop culture icons. Others are straight up abysmal. Here's 21 of our favourites, starting with Ringo Deathstarr. Combining Star Wars and The Beatles into one? The wordplay force is truly strong with these Texan rockers.
2Dot Rotten
Stockwell rapper and producer Joseph Ellis-Stevenson didn't have to look far for a name – he just turned right at the Elephant and Castle and headed for fictional Walford, assembling a portmanteau of Eastender Dot Cotton and her black hearted stinking son, Nick! Nive work, Dot Rotten.
3Joy Orbison
In life 'the Big O' Roy Orbison suffered great tragedy – his wife was killed in a motorbike accident and two of his children died in a fire a few years later. Hopefully funky garage DJ Peter O'Grady – aka Joy Orbison – isn't tempting similar deathly misfortune with his punny stage moniker.
4Wevie Stonder
As puns in this gallery go, Skam Records crew Wevie Stonder's name errs towards the tenuous – I mean come on guys, what's a Stonder? If the electronica collective were hellbent on punning the name Stevie, then how about Nevie Sticks? What do you mean you don't know what a Nevie is? It's a, erm, it's a… it's harder than it looks this cunning punning wordplay.
5Camper Van Beethoven
Everything about Camper Van Beethoven's portmanteau says classic, from the wheels to the 18th century German composer. Formed in 1983, the band split at the end of the 80s, though they reformed in '99 and are still spluttering on, a bit like a trusty old VW splitscreen.
6Chet Faker
Chet Faker would be a neat tribute act name in dedication to the trumpeting great from the '50s, but the lauded Australian electronica musician sounds nothing like his near namesake, Chet Baker. Pour enough HP sauce on him and he'll taste just the same though – well it works with Fakin' Bacon anyway…
Something spooky is going on with the names of Ghostbusting actors and alternative bands. First up there was Glasgow indie six-piece Dananananaykroyd giving Dan Ackroyd the weird name treatment, then came Mill Burray (a Bill Murray spoonerism) too. Who you gonna call? Samaritans probably.
8Truman Peyote
1920s-born American novelist Truman Capote is the first celebrated luminarie in this gallery to have his name playfully turned into a naughty drug reference, courtesy of Whitehaus rockers Truman Peyote. He won't be the last.
9The Dead Kennedys
The Dead Kennedys rhymes with Ted Kennedy, the only Kennedy brother who wasn't actually dead at the time when the American hardcore punk pioneers formed in 1979. They could hardly have picked a more inflammatory name, so job well done then! Thankfully the music lived up to the controversy.
10The Dandy Warhols
Portland, Oregon's The Dandy Warhols' preposterously funny punny name certainly helped get the band noticed, and it's a testimony to the music that their fame lasted for more than 15 minutes.
11Brian Jonestown Massacre
Forever woven together with the Dandy Warhols thanks to the movie Dig!, Brian Jonestown Massacre were actually formed way back in 1990, and the fact founder member Anton Newcombe manages to keep going in spite of all the tribulations that life throws at him suggests he's got some of that Rolling Stones grit. But not the one he named the band after.
12Harmonica Lewinsky
You would have thought that taking a name like Harmonica Lewinsky would have been a stain on their career, but the old time blues band have blown their way into the consciousness of many thanks to their penchant for a pisspoor pun.
13Kathleen Turner Overdrive
If the Bachman Turner Overdrive weren't dealt a harsh blow enough being sent up by Smashey and Nicey using 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet' as their theme music, then now they have Cleveland, Ohio rockers Kathleen Turner Overdrive taking their name in vain. And what Kathleen Turner thinks of it we can only begin to imagine…
14Joanna Gruesome
Cardiff's willfully obscure skuzzy pop five-piece Joanna Gruesome are certainly doing rather well given that their weird name came from another singer who is hardly a household name herself. Imagine that, a band outstripping the bigger artist that inspired their appellation? They still have some way to go before they eclipse the queen of twee though.
15Com Truise
Com Truise: This is less a pun and more a spoonerism inspired by diminutive film superstar Tom Cruise. The American electronic musician should beware, though – Tom has sued for far less.
16Dread Zeppelin
It's difficult to say whether Dread Zeppelin were a work of fried brain genius or just plain wrong. Fronted by a 20-stone Las Vegas Elvis impersonator, they played the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style. As you do.
17Cerebral Ballzy
As ballsy names go, Cerebral Ballzy is up there with the best of them – or worst, depending on your stance on making light of debilitating neurological diseases. Oh Honor Titus, you edgy handsome so-and-so.
18Dennis Hopper Choppers
Dennis Hopper was a big screen anti-hero as well as one celluloids' most famous bikers on acid (alongside Peter Fonda), so it makes sense that a band bad to the bone would want to bask in his reputation. Step forward Dennis Hopper Choppers.
19Run DMT
You remember when we told you there'd be another pun with a drug reference in it? The 'DMT' in Run DMT is short for dimethyltryptamine which will get you off your bollocks when vaped at 332.1°C apparently. You won't be doing much running after that.
20Sigmund Droid
Sigmund Droid might be the droids you're looking for if you like noisy grunge duos from Brooklyn named after the godfather of psychoanalysis and the man who coined the term 'the Oedipus Complex'. Which we do.
21Michelle Shocked
Michelle Shocked made her name towards the end of the 80s as a lefty feminist folk singer, but she more than shocked an audience at a gig in the gay heartland of San Francisco last year when she apparently delivered a bizarre, homophobic rant in the name of Jesus. Michelle's bells!


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Learn more about Life Path Number Eleven (11) in numerology and its meaning. Get the chance to understand more about the people/person that holds the number Eleven on their name or in their birth-date.
The Number 11 is the first Master Number, which means it is a number of strength and power. This number should never be reduced to a single digit as it is a special number.
As a Number 11 person, you are usually successful in any goal you want to achieve, rarely failing in anything, you just keep on moving forward and onwards. You have a lot of energy, drive and will power, especially when it comes to your ambitions. You will take calculated risks that almost always give you positive results (much to the chagrin of some).
You are a good communicator and very creative, so you make a great employee (or boss). You are warm and affectionate with your partner, which they appreciate.
You respect authority because want to be a person in power yourself, which you will achieve if you want to. You expect others to respect you. You can though be quite selfish and only think about yourself and your desires, not thinking or caring about anyone else. Interestingly, you can be quite gullible, so you need to take care not to be taken in too much by those less scrupulous than you, that think nothing of taking advantage of you, especially in business and relationships.
Kabbalistic Meaning
An alternative meaning
Positive Attributes
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- Affectionate
- Ambitious
- Communicative
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- Keywords: number of strength and power
- Expectations: you always go forward in life and don't let setbacks hold you back from your goals
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- Job: teacher, leader in any area
- Colors: Orange
- Zodiac Sign Association: Gemini

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- The Lord longs to shine His light upon your life.
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- The purpose is that that we would have life and hope stirred up within us.
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PRAYER: Lord, let Your light come and shine on me today. Let Your light, light from Your face, shine on me today, so that I may find my way in the darkest of nights. Amen.


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When it comes to specifying a new compressor, the first thing to bear in mind is that:
Pressure + flow = energy = cost
This is the message coming from Atlas Copco – and as a leading manufacturer of air compressors and associated equipment, they can be relied on to know what they are talking about!
As an authorised distributor of Atlas Copco products, and with many years' experience of supplying compressed air systems, Simm Engineering is committed to offering the best solutions to its customers – which is why Atlas Copco's Go With the Flow campaign has definitely struck a chord.
What is the key message of Go With the Flow?
When a company is considering purchasing an air compressor or compressed air system, the specification is often based on the kW power rating of a compressor's motor.
However, as Atlas Copco's campaign explains, it's much more accurate to measure pressure and flow instead.
Why? Because in some air compressor ranges, the differential in flow rate between two machines within the same kW category can vary by as much as 30% – and their price differential can be as much as 32%.
In fact, Atlas Copco says that on average a massive 50% of air compressors currently in use are believed to be incorrectly sized.
What difference does this make?
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What's the best way to establish pressure and flow?
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Qualifying C corporations have long offered tax benefits to their investors under Section 1202 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), but fluctuations in the benefit and the capital gains tax have limited investors' Section 1202 use. Tax reform under the law commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) may make the Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) Incentive in Section 1202 benefit more appealing for private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) groups. To take advantage of the QSBS Incentive, PE and VC investors need to be aware of how it works, its potential limitations, and the planning opportunities available.
Nearly 30 years ago, Congress passed the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993, which among other things, led to the creation of Section 1202. Under Section 1202, a domestic C corporation can issue QSBS if certain conditions are met.
The QSBS Incentive is designed to attract investments in small businesses, and as such the C corporation issuing the stock must meet the definition of a Qualified Small Business (QSB). The corporation's gross assets must not exceed $50 million between Aug. 9, 1993 (the effective date of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993) and the issuance of the stock. Immediately after the date of issuance, the aggregate gross assets of the corporation—including the consideration received for the issuance of the stock—must not exceed $50 million. Once a C corporation exceeds the $50 million of gross assets threshold, all future issuances will fail to qualify as QSBS.
The C corporation must also conduct qualifying trade or business activities in order to be treated as a QSB. In order to meet this requirement, 80% of the corporation's assets must be used in a qualifying trade or business. A number of business types are excluded from QSB status, including:
The C corporation must remain a C corporation for substantially all of the stockholder's holding period.
In exchange, qualifying investors can exclude a portion of the gain from their investment in QSBS if the stock is held for at least five years. The QSBS exclusion is limited by the higher of $10 million or 10 times the original basis of the QSBS on an investment-by-investment basis. The ceiling for investors is reduced by the aggregate amount of eligible gain taken in prior years, and also faces a per-issuer limitation. Leftover gain that is not excludable from taxable income is taxed at a maximum rate of 28% instead of the 20% for regular long-term capital gains.
As a note, the excludable portion of gain on QSBS can be transferred to non-QSB stock in a tax-free reorganization or recapitalization prior to IPO. QSBS also retains its status upon distribution to partners/members.
Another interesting fact to note is that the alternative minimum tax (AMT) preference for the portion of the gain excluded does not apply to QSBS purchased after Sept. 27, 2010.
The potential gain exclusion available under Section 1202 depends on when the QSBS was acquired. If QSBS was acquired on or before Feb. 17, 2009, the gain exclusion is 50%. If QSBS was acquired after Feb. 17, 2009, but before Sept. 27, 2010, the gain exclusion is 75%. QSBS acquired after Sept. 27, 2001 has a 100% gain exclusion.
Certain requirements must be met in order for PE and VC investors to take advantage of the applicable capital gains exclusion. First, Section 1202 does not apply to corporate taxpayers. Second, the shares of potential QSB stock must be acquired directly from the QSB in an original issuance transaction. The original issuance requirement includes:
PE and VC Investors can receive the QSBS Incentive from a fund that is structured as a partnership when the following conditions are met:
Long-term capital gains rates and the percentage of gain exclusion available under Section 1202 have changed since the passage of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993. These fluctuations, which have at times made the QSBS Incentive less attractive for investors, may be among the culprits for why the benefit has not been heavily used or well-understood.
In 1993, long-term capital gains were taxed at the same rates as ordinary income. The top rate was 28%. Section 1202 permitted qualifying investors to exclude up to 50% of their long-term capital gains at the end of their five-year-holding period. The earliest the 50% exclusion applied was for gains after Aug. 10, 1998. Under the initial benefit, the effective tax rate for QSB capital gains was 14%.
Before 1998 came around, however, the long-term capital gains was reduced to 20%, and a provision was added to Section 1202 that made the 50% of capital gains not subject to the exclusion taxable at a 28% rate. The effective tax rate on QSBS was still 14%, but the lower regular capital gains tax and the AMT adjustment for QSB gain exclusion made the QSB option less appealing for investors. In 2003, the capital gains tax was reduced again to 15%, and at that point, the QSBS Incentive was pretty much irrelevant.
Several years later, Congress tried to reenergize the Section 1202 benefit by bumping up the percentage of QSBS gains that could be excluded to 75% in 2009 and then 100% in 2010. Additionally, with the 100% exclusion, there is no more AMT adjustment. The full QSBS exclusion became a permanent tax benefit under the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act.
The 100% permanent exclusion, and the TCJA changes that could potentially lead to more businesses opting for C corporation entity structures may bring new life to the QSBS Incentive.
The decision to take the QSBS Incentive is made at the partner level. The partnership should include a footnote with the information necessary for the partners to determine the amount of gain allocated from the sale of QSBS, including:
Partnerships should also obtain data and representations from the portfolio companies related to specific provisions of Section 1202, including:
Partnerships that receive the QSBS Incentive will have some complexity to work through, because there is no definition of interest in Section 1220 and there are no regulations for Section 1202. The regulations that have been issued for the deferral of gain on QSBS (in Section 1045) limit the deferral based on partners' smallest percentage interest in partnership capital. But, without clear definition around 1202, the meaning of interest is open to some interpretation. A tax advisor may be able to help clarify general partner allocations tax positions.
Before rushing full throttle into qualifying C corporation investments, PE and VC investors may want to evaluate some of the nuances in Section 1202 that could potentially limit them from receiving the full QSBS benefit.
Section 1202 comes with specific rules for redemptions. Investors in a Qualified Small Business that purchases more than a de minimis amount of its own stock and the total value of this stock exceeds 5% of all the company's stock would not be eligible for the QSBS Incentive.
There are certain exceptions to the redemptions rule, including cases where the company automatically buys back stock from a departing employee. A liquidation of a company's stock may also qualify for the QSBS treatment.
Transactions that involve a hedge may not qualify for the QSBS treatment unless the seller in the transaction held the QSBS for five years before the transaction took place.
PE and VC managers should review their current portfolios to determine whether any of their portfolio companies meet the QSB definition. They should also review current year sale transactions to determine if any current year gains might qualify for the Section 1202 exclusion. .
PE and VC managers should also make it a priority to determine if a portfolio company investment might qualify as a QSB during the due diligence process of making such an investment. It can be challenging to gather the appropriate documentation from company personnel to make a QSBS determination years after the initial investment was made.
For qualifying transactions, it is important to review the necessary footnote disclosures that will be reported on investors' Schedule K-1s. PE and VC managers may also want to consider a broader Section 1202 discussion with their partner group to make partners aware of the potential Section 1202 benefits.
A tax professional experienced with the opportunities under Section 1202 can help PE and VC investors determine their eligibility to use the QSBS tax incentive. For more information, please contact us.
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Nordic Cleantech Open
Finalist in Nordic Cleantech Open 2017
The Nordic Cleantech Open aims to strengthen the pipeline of new innovative cleantech startups in the Nordic region. In each cycle, the Top 25 most promising companies are chosen by the jury. Ifoodbag was awarded the third prize in 2017. Here you can learn more about them!
PPI Awards 2016
Finalist in PPI Awards 2016, The Fiber Based Packaging Innovation Award
The PPI Awards are the only global awards that are dedicated to recognizing the achievements of companies, mills and individuals in the pulp and paper sector.!
Svenska Innovationspriset
Finalist i Svenska Innovationspriset 2016
Det är för tionde året i rad som vi uppmärksammar och premierar landets bästa innovationer som nått ett kommersiellt genomslag och människorna som gjort det möjligt.
33-listan 2016
Winner of 33-listan 2016
33-listan utser Sveriges mest lovande unga teknikföretag.
PPI Awards 2015
Finalist in PPI Awards 2015
The PPI Awards are the only global awards that are dedicated to recognizing the achievements of companies, mills and individuals in the pulp and paper sector.
33-listan 2015
Winner of 33-listan 2015
33-listan utser Sveriges mest lovande unga teknikföretag.
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The Winner 2014 of the Venture Cup East Regional Finals of Human & Society
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Klarna Growth Award
Finalist in Klarna Growth Award 2014
The Klarna Growth Award is a competition aimed at business ideas and startups that have the potential to push e-commerce forward. The Klarna Growth Award is for newly established actors in e-commerce as well as start-ups. We evaluate business value and ambition to grow. The aim of the Klarna Growth Award is to highlight innovative business ideas and to empower the people behind them. The Klarna Growth Award is handed out for the fourth consecutive year *by Klarna in cooperation with Nordic e-Commerce Knowledge. The award consists of a prize of 100,000 SEK, training by Nordic e-Commerce Knowledge to a value of 45 000 SEK and mentoring by experts in e-commerce.


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So you want to develop a yoga practice. What does this mean? Developing a yoga practice is all about making time in your day for yoga. Remember that yoga is a connection to the body, mind and spirit. We practice yoga using postures, breath and meditation. When we begin to listen to what we need in the moment and then move with that feeling we start to develop a practice. Turning inward to look at what we need in the present.
Guidelines for your practice:
1. Practice with full awareness: Be open and present in your practice. Listen to the moment.
2. Don't push to far past your edge: We all have an edge. The edge is that point in your body that you have gone too far and could possibly injure yourself. You want to challenge yourself but at the same time be aware of where you need to go in that moment.
3. Breath: Focus on your breath. Move with each inhale and lengthen with each exhale. Take deep breaths when you need to.
4. Don't eat a big meal at least 2-3 hours before your yoga practice.
5. Wear comfortable exercise or other loose clothing so your movements are not restricted.
6. Drink plenty of water after practice to wash out toxins released by the yoga sets.
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Written by Mathew Naismith
Imagine if somehow your positiveness was taken away from you. Most people couldn't mentally, spiritually and physically cope with this because they rely on being positive to live life. Now, what would happen if a spiritual Guru had their positiveness taken away from them? Absolutely nothing in their life would change, probably because a Guru doesn't rely or have any kind of attachment to what is and isn't positive and negative in their life. Imagine how harmonious this would be, were our lives are not determined by any factor pertaining to attachments and desires.
I need to now insert the following exchange I had with someone in relation to my last post, "A Touch of Guru.
What I notice. while not taking any particular view to heart, is today's non spiritual person seems grounded in post modernist thought, while dismissing a natural view of spiritual people throughout history who were much more grounded with a natural reality...and all the questions that entails.
For instance, Yeshua ben Yosef is not who is presented in today's belief. Furthermore, the Christian tradition itself was a natural movement, not a religious diatribe of dos and don'ts.
For instance, Yeshua ben Yosef is not who is presented in today's belief. Furthermore, the Christian tradition itself was a natural movement, not a religious diatribe of dos and don'ts.
My Reply
You seem to be so true to yourself it is nearly unbelievable. To be true to yourself is to observe the world through as little bias as possible, all else is an untrue depiction of yourself and the world around you. A touch of Guru.....
As I am presently writing, take away positiveness from most people, they would crumble. Take away positiveness from a true Guru, nothing would change in there life. I have a funny feeling you comprehend this, not many people would or would want to. Take away positiveness from a false Guru or most western spiritually aware people, they would too crumble, if not more so than non-spiritual people.
Sadly, when ideologies, isms, concepts and beliefs become a fixation, something we have attached our psyche to for security and support, we lose the true nature of these ideologies and isms,
I am often impressed by your psyche because you explain yourself very well, especially on this topic. If you don't mind, I would like to use your reply here in my next post. I won't make any personal reference to you if this makes you feel more comfortable with this.
It is amazing. Ever since I have been mentioning the difference between Eastern and Western thinking, a certain cultural people have stopped interacting with me on quite a huge scale. This is while other cultural people, even other Western cultures, of the world have remained steady. Within their own actions, they have unknowingly proven the points made about the Western mind being easily offended. As it is said, the Western mind is easily offended, even to the point that if you are not praising the western mind, you are attacking it. This is like if you are not positive, you must be negative, the Eastern mind in all of us doesn't think like this.
Extract: Those who make certain words offensive do so because there is something to be gained. For many, to feel offended is to feel important, validated.
It is quite interesting that a predominantly Westernised mind doesn't see itself also being of the Eastern mind. In the West, it is often thought if you are not positive, you are negative, offensive. In the East, you have obvious depictions of yin and yang or like in Hinduism, the importance of a harmonious interaction between the male and female within everything. Of course harmony is constructive while disharmony is destructive but even destruction has its place.
To live in harmony in an earthquake area, you either learn to build better buildings or you move away, thus you have learnt from a negative situation. We often become more enlightened through the negatives than we do the positives, the present state of the world is no different. Of course to learn from the negatives, one must not ignore what the negatives have to teach us while in favour of the positives!! In all honesty, what is the Western mind doing on a huge scale at present? The state of the world simply shows that the Western mind in all of us is simply not learning. The Western mind is even shrugging off thousands of years of life experience; this is like killing off all the old people because they no longer serve any purpose. No matter what the life experience has been, we can learn from it.
This is interesting. If you removed the Western or Eastern mind from the spiritual Guru, you would see a huge difference. Yes, even taking the Western mind away from a spiritual Guru would make a huge difference in their lives, for the Guru is not of one or the other but of all of what is without bias and desire. What makes a Guru a Guru is the harmonious integration of opposite polarities. Try to remember, just because it is an opposite, doesn't mean it is always in opposition. I have lost count how many Westernised minds/people see themselves in opposition to me, it is quite insurmountable, especially from when I started writing about the difference between the Western and Eastern mind. Could you imagine the reaction from the Western mind/people if an Eastern mind/person wrote about the difference between the Western and Eastern mind as I have done!! How offended would have the Western mind/people become then?
I found the following research by psychologist Steven Heine quite interesting.
Extract: UBC cultural psychologist Steven Heine discovered profound differences between Western and Eastern minds. A recipe for prejudice, or just the opposite?


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Now is the best time to be an entrepreneur in the UK according Lord Young, the Prime Minister's former Enterprise Advisor and honorary chairman of Small Business Saturday.
Over four years in his advisory role, Lord Young published several reports reviewing the government's relationships with small firms.
Having been invloved with small business for a long while, he states in the latest report (published in February 2015):
'I found, when I returned to government, that the public sector was just as closed to small firms as it was back in the 80s and I'm delighted that as a result of a great deal of work amongst a large number of people the public sector is being opened up to small firms.'
Claiming that now is 'the golden age for small firms' the latest report also stated that there are currently a record number of small firms in the UK; the figure standing at approximately 5.2 million, a solid increase of 760,000 since 2010.
It also showed 'a record number of people in work' (the figure stood at 30.8 million in February) and that small firms now account for '48% of private sector employment'.
These postive figures are backed by the fact that the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute rank the UK the most entrepreneurial country in Europe and 4th in the world.
Young's links with small firms have informed his position as honorary chairman of Small Business Saturday - an annual event celebrating small businesses (held on the 5th of December), which has become a runaway success with millions of consumers 'shopping small' across the country.
Last year alone 16.5 million people supported their local businesses and the event has raised awareness over its short lifespan with 64% of the UK aware of the campaign.
On Thursday, at the launch of Small Business Saturday's third yearly campaign, Lord Young stated that 'there are far fewer challenges' than there was in the past.
'You can start a business with £5,000 and a mentor. The challenge is you have got to have an idea and focus on it. The whole of business success can be summed up in three words – 'focus', and 'follow through' he told the Guardian.
Lord Young says that the aim is to raise the profile of small businesses,
'The world has changed so much in the last few years – over three quarters of firms in this country don't employ anybody. Wherever you look the world is changing to people working for themselves or in small groups, and the great thing about Small Business Saturday is it appeals very much to retail businesses.'
'I have worked for big companies, I ran one of the top 10 FTSE companies, but the most exciting thing in my life was when I went off and started to work for myself'.
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Butler County will get federal grant money to help pay for the county's new voting system.
Through the Help America Vote Act of 2002, Butler County will receive federal financial assistance in the amount of $211,000.
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"This is reimbursement for the new voting system that the county just recently purchased," county Elections Director Shari Brewer told the Butler County commissioners on Wednesday.
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Well this is pretty interested: was first sounded like there was a ridiculous job in NASA defending us from Aliens, actually sounds like a pretty interesting position. Basically, NASA is hiring to make sure when exploring space, we avoid accidentally contaminating Earth with foreign bacteria or matter from Mars, and vice versa. Not that I think there is anything truly malicious or anything that would make for a science horror film, but invasive species of flora and insects are totally a thing here, so why not be concerned about the same thing across planets.
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Vita Coco, the UK's number one coconut water brand, has announced the UK launch of Vita Coco Pressed. Made from coconut water blended with pieces of freshly pressed coconut for a nuttier and sweeter taste, Vita Coco Pressed has been added to the portfolio to help satisfy the growing demand for coconut water – a category that has already grown to over £120m annual sales in the UK. The move follows the incredible success of Vita Coco Pressed when it launched in the US earlier this year.
The product is the first in a long line of exciting innovations, with Vita Coco Sparkling due to hit shelves in early 2019 also.
Vita Coco Pressed is already available in Sainsbury's and Wholefoods with further national listings going live in the new year. It will be supported by a dedicated national media campaign and plenty of love from the brand's celebrity fans.
Giles Brook Vita Coco CEO, EMEA says: "The launch of Vita Coco Pressed in the UK is an incredibly exciting milestone for Vita Coco. It's a completely new 'full coconut taste with coconut water benefits' proposition to sit alongside our natural coconut water & fruit flavoured variants. From US data, we can already see that Pressed has the potential to have the same level of success as our core coconut water. What's equally exciting is that over 90% of Pressed sales have come from new, younger consumers. With Natural (1 Litre) Vita Coco being a Top 5 SKU in chilled juice, we're expecting Pressed to break into the Top 10 too."


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Importance Of Aptitude Tests In Architecture Field
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To get a decent job or to earn a name in this world is not easy. You have to work really hard. Since you are an employer, you not just have to work hard on your skills but also have to invest in the employees who are skilled, dynamic and hard working. Your employees make a great part of your business and you alone cannot win any battles.
Since the employees and staff members are the soldiers in your business, make sure you have bet on the right horse. You need to be little more thoughtful about the candidates you are recruiting in your business.
Now if you are into architecture and you are recruiting people for different roles in your business; you need to be tactful in your selection. It is not just about their knowledge or degrees; it is also about the skills they hold. Aptitude is one thing that has to be deep-rooted in everybody.
Importance Of Aptitude Tests In Architecture Field
What type of Architecture test?
Since you are recruiting in the domain of architecture, it gets important that you take Architecture aptitude test. You must employ this test in your recruitment procedure so as to assess the ability of your candidates in this area. Aptitude is defined as an inborn, learned or acquired capability of a person to carry out certain tasks.
Aptitude tests teach many factors like Numerical reasoning, abstract reasoning, verbal reasoning, accuracy, speed, and other similar abilities. When you test your candidates through this aptitude test, you actually get to know everything about their caliber and potential.
Most commonly the aptitude tests do ask the candidates questions about their Skills, Likes, Values, Dislikes and their inborn abilities. The test gages the weakest and the strongest areas in every realm of understanding and the inborn psychometric capability that the candidate may possess. The purpose of this test is to evaluate the candidates in the best possible way. Any aptitude test gages the work-related capability or potential of an applicant, to carry out a particular task in an effective and efficient manner.
Aptitude tests are extensively used by employers and reputed companies to select the right person for right job role without prior practical experience, training or any run inside the job market. There are various types of aptitude tests and these are developed for targeted outcomes, but in general, these can be characterized based on cognitive capability they measure.
The Intelligence Factor
The test measures the capability of the candidates to survive in a competitive environment by making use of effective problem solving, dexterity, quick integration, and strategizing capability. It is a pre-employment test and is getting used in almost all renowned and well-established companies.
These pre-employment tests are referred to screening tests that are administered by the company for testing the cognitive capability, potential work-related skills, bilingual factorizations, motor abilities and so much more, right to the degree of sense of self and personal integrity.
Once you have used an aptitude test in your recruitment procedure as a pre-employment test, a lot of your candidates would get filtered and you would be left with only the quality candidates. The vibrant concept of pre-employment tests is to search out the finest match for the job and screen out the incompetent and unqualified candidates.
Why are these Pre-Employment Tests Important?
The pre-employment tests are the most efficient, cost and time efficient, effective selection instruments for the employers. Most of the employers do not take the candidates who do not perform well in the pre-employment tests.
These pre-employment tests are the need of the modern corporate world. For applicants, it is a way to prove their worth to a would-be employer. Employers do not just test the calibre and potential of these candidates through these tests; they even assess the problem solving and stress managing skills of these candidates too.
Actually, when there is an aptitude test like an architecture test, the candidates get screened in the best possible manner in that area. The employer gets to know about their possible reactions, actions, present-day potential and strengths. On the basis of these pre-employment aptitude tests, many employers make their final decision.
Similarly, since the recruiters don't have much time on their table to spend on each candidate, they take help of these recruitment tests is that these tests measure plenty of candidates in a single shot. All the candidates get assessed and only the best ones make to the next rounds of the recruitments.
Generally, interviews are the final stage of any recruitment procedure. Since these pre-employment tests would measure the candidates, only the good ones would go to the interview level. In this way, a lot of time and effort would be saved. The interviewers would examine only the best talent present in the recruitment drive. In this way, the finest people would make it to the job.
Since these aptitude tests do cover all the important areas of the job or field, they get assessed in the finest manners. Similarly, nobody would able to question or doubt the reliability of these tests because these are designed by the established professionals and there remains no doubt about their effectiveness. The test is neither too tough nor too easy; it is balanced and measures the potential of the candidates.
This was the Article On Importance Of Aptitude Tests In Architecture Field. So, aptitude tests are in different categories and every field can have one of its own kinds. In the architecture field, architecture test stands prudent and effective.
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First taste: Quinta do Noval Nacional 2004
In my recent post about Quinta do Noval 2012 Vintage Port I did say that Quinta do Noval has an idiosyncratic approach to vintage declarations. The 2012 release is not the only recent case (bottle actually!) in point I've had the pleasure to taste. Port houses usually announce vintage Ports at the first opportunity (a couple of years after the vintage) however, Quinta do Noval only declared the existence of Quinta do Noval Nacional 2004 last year. It's from their famed 2ha site of that name whose ungrafted vines were planted in 1925. Below you'll find my tasting note and details about the vintage.
Vintage report
At Noval bud burst occurred mid-March followed by a quick flowering in the end of May due to high temperatures and lack of preciptation.
The beginning of maturation occurred early July, still without any precipitation and with high temperatures.
The maturation was marked by an initial period of very hot and dry weather that preceded 15 August. It was then slowed by cooler temperatures and rain in the second half of August. After this period, with a very hot September and again with help of two days of rain, maturation exploded in the second half of the month to reach very high degrees in sugar content.
The harvest took place on 20 September until 20 October in glorius sun, with the exception of two days of rain towards the end. In general terms, the health conditions of the vintage were excellent which helped the essential sorting of the grapes.
Quinta do Noval Nacional Vintage Port 2004
Lovely minerality and freshness to the youtful nose. Small currant and berry fruit, even cranberry, roll across the palate which has lifted gum cistus, rosemary and liquorice notes. A fine, persistent thread of tannins – a net – weaves its way around the fruit supporting and extending it. An elegant, persistent Port, youthful but broachable and with the balance and underpinning of tannin, acidity and fruit to spin that charm for a good long while yet.
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(Inside Science) -- When unadorned, the robot is but a tiny, tumbling, magnetic cube. But wrap it in a self-folding polymer and Mylar sheet, and it transforms. Donning this origami exoskeleton, the 1/8-inch robot becomes bigger and more powerful, now smoothly scooting around.
Layering on another exoskeleton gives it wheels. A different one turns it into a boat. Yet another one gives it wings that carry it through the air.
"Robots are generally pretty inflexible, since most of the time, each of their parts has a fixed structure and a single defined purpose," said Shuhei Miyashita, a roboticist at York University in the U.K., in an email.
But this kind of origami-inspired transforming robot, which he developed with a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, can switch body types -- and thus functions -- simply by changing outfits.
"It's exciting to imagine robots as a kind of Swiss-army knife that could be used for a range of tasks depending on the different accessories it has," Miyashita wrote. "This could one day have applications in many different areas, from deep-sea construction to disaster-relief operations."
The new robotic system, described today in the journal Science Robotics, is currently restricted to operating atop a raised platform about 10 inches across. Underneath, electromagnets steer the cube, rolling it around like a remote-controlled die. Using the magnets, the researchers drive the cube, dubbed Primer, toward a plastic sheet sitting on a heated pad.
Once the cube settles in place, the heat triggers the sheet to fold by itself along pre-designed creases and envelop the cube. The sheet forms a stabilizing structure that helps the robot move around as magnetic fields propel it forward. This mode, called walk-bot, can then scamper over to another sheet that, depending on its fold design, turns it into a bigger walk-bot, a floating boat, a wheeled vehicle, or a glider -- all still driven with magnetic fields. When the glider is nudged off a ramp, it can soar for more than 4 feet before gently landing on the ground below. To get out of the second exoskeleton, the robot scurries into a pool of water nearby, which dissolves the small arms that hold the outer sheet to the walk-bot.
The magnetic cube Primer is moved by a magnetic field to a sheet of origami that folds around it, "transforming" it into a walking bot. These sheets can be layered on top of one another. Primer then submerges itself in water to molt its "shell." [Credit: Miyashita et al., Sci. Robot. 2, eaao4369 (2017)]
"Having a transforming robot has been a goal that's been in science fiction for a while, and practically speaking, it's very advantageous because you can have a robot that transforms into something well-suited for a task," said Cindy Sung, a roboticist at the University of Pennsylvania.
She wasn't involved in the new research, but, as a graduate student at MIT, she helped design an earlier incarnation of the robot, which starts as a flat sheet and folds into forms that can traverse both land and water. What's new now, she said, is the ability to transform via exoskeletons.
One advantage of self-folding robots is that they can squeeze through tinier openings. And because they start out flat, they're easier to manufacture, given the range of well-established techniques to make 2-D sheets, such as laser cutting, laminating and etching.
In principle, origami exoskeletons could be used in robots of all sizes for any number of applications, including for ferrying heavy gear across a river, Miyashita said. Instead of a cube, the Primer that wears the exoskeletons could be almost anything, like a protein, a cell, an electric motor or even an engine.
But because the current system is relatively constrained, relying on an external magnetic field, heating pads and a pool of water for releasing the exoskeletons, it may be a while before engineers design origami exoskeletons with such a broad range of practical uses. In the nearer future, however, it could be used for minimally invasive medical procedures.
The MIT team has previously shown, using an artificial stomach, how a tiny robot could dislodge a watch battery that someone had swallowed. A second, self-folding robot could then unfold, cover the wound, and apply a drug. A patient would have to swallow the tiny robot, packaged inside a pill made of ice, which a doctor could then control using a magnetic field. Using exoskeletons, a single robot could potentially accomplish multiple, similar tasks inside the body.
"The most direct application would be in biomedicine," Sung said. "I'm not really seeing this system being used in the outside world because you need this magnetic field."
Michael Tolley, a roboticist at the University of California, San Diego, who has previously collaborated with the MIT team, agrees. The magnetic platform could be adapted for a biomedical application, he said, but it's hard to imagine how the robot could be controlled without the platform.
Still, he said, the new robot is a good proof-of-principle. "It's really nice work."


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I was a junior in high school, days away from finals, and having a little trouble sleeping. I got up and read a piece in the previous Sunday's New York Times Magazine about Senator Robert Kennedy's run for the presidency. Martin Luther King had been killed two months earlier. John Kennedy's assassination was on people's minds. I didn't turn on the television for fear of waking my parents, and went back to bed for a bit before my father woke me with the news that Senator Kennedy had been shot in Los Angeles. It hit me hard.
I went to school in tears and kept a transistor radio (remember them) with me to check the news throughout the day. It wasn't good. My Republican social studies teacher had no sympathy (in November she would dance with glee wearing a Nixon button) and, in a town with few Democrats, there weren't a lot of people with whom to bond.
On Thursday morning, my father woke me with the news that Bobby Kennedy had died during the night.
It still brings tears to my eyes when I think about it. This morning when I was driving into work, KNX had a radio announcer talk about being there, interspersed with his actual audio feed of the time. I just started to cry, like it happened today.
About a month ago, people with whom I graduated from high school got in touch with me about a list-serve they set up for our class. The other day, several talked about where we were when we found out John Kennedy was assassinated. I learned about it when I went into my 7th period math class at about 1:45 in the afternoon and one of my classmates announced it. A bit later, the school intercom came on and we all heard a news broadcast that President Kennedy had died. It was a shock for everyone, on a par with Pearl Harbor or, now, the planes going into the World Trade Center.
Robert Kennedy's death didn't hit most people that way, but it did me. Perhaps it was because he had just taken the California primary and it was a matter of seeing such incredible promise smashed beyond repair in a split second. More likely, it was watching someone in a position to do great good being ripped from the scene just after he had worked to calm the country after the murder of Martin Luther King. It was the final crushing loss of hope for my country. Despite any flaws which have been revealed since his death, he had passion, drive, a great desire to help people who were less fortunate than himself, and I doubt he'd ever apologize for being a liberal.
I've got The Ark in vinyl, since I bought it close to 40 years ago, but it is now available on CD. I'd also recommend viewing Emilio Estevez's film Bobby.
Today, there were three lovely pieces by Bobby' children in the New York Times about their father and Patt Morrison did a piece in the Los Angeles Times wondering why the Ambassador Hotel wasn't saved as a place where history took place. Recommended reading, all.
And now, I'm going to take my friend Melinda Snodgrass' advice and have cautious hope for the future of a country where, in 2008, the two leading Democratic candidates for President of the United States were a black man and a white woman and it is still during my lifetime.
2 comments:
- Grey Horse Matters said...
I remember all the things you are describing, all the assassinations, all the feelings of despair and hopelessness for this country. While it's a good thing the democratic parties two candidates show how far we have come, it also shows how behind we still are. The media coverage of Hillary's and Obama's campaigns were so unfair and one sided and favored one candidate over another. I can't help but feel a little disappointed even though it is now 2008, it sure doesn't feel like all that much progress has been made. Women are still second class citizens in most of the country.
- June 5, 2008 at 12:48 PM
- M. C. Valada said...
Watching and listening to the commentators this morning just reinforces what you've said. Many are the men who fought tooth and nail for the Presidential nomination and then wound up on the same ticket. I don't recall any garbage about "giving up principles" to chose a VP who might help win the election for the party. There is very much a double standard at play.
Early in this cycle there were prognostications that blacks wouldn't vote for Obama and women wouldn't vote for Hillary. Wrong on both counts. But far fewer men appeared to be willing to vote for Hillary than were willing to vote for any man running.
I will support Barak Obama for President, no matter who he choses for his VP, because the alternative is just too awful to contemplate. But I do expect it to be a bloody fight, because the Republicans always play divide and conquer. It's a strategy, along with fear-mongering, which has worked for them for a very long time.
- June 5, 2008 at 3:31 PM


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HAMBURG, Iowa-2019 has been an unforgettable year in Fremont County, Iowa. In Hamburg, floodwaters invaded here in March, and again in May. The March flood event knocked out levees in the county and left water standing over Highway 333 south of town. Access to Interstate 29 is still not available as the Iowa DOT is repairing the road.
This weekend the town will pause to celebrate the 67th annual Popcorn Day. At the Colonial Theater, Jodi Hendrickson is working to get the place ready to open on Saturday. The plan is to show the movie "Toy Story 4" to kids who come in celebrating popcorn days.
"We have a big parade, we have children's games in the morning, we have a softball tournament, annual softball tournament, all kinds of activities from early morning until evening, and a lot of alumni come back," said Herdickson. "I can remember on popcorn day my parents kicking me off at the theater and then this is where we the kids congregated."
There is much yet to do before the weekend. The seats are not yet installed, the old seats were ruined in the flood. They hope to get the concession stand up and running. The non-profit theater charges $2.00 for a movie ticket, often getting movies which were recently released.
"I do have a plan A, a plan B, plan A is a course to have everything done, as you can see were not going to get that done by Friday," said Hendrickson. "But we do have the projector working we have the screen down and we are going to get this cleaned up so at least the kids can come in."
On Tuesday the Hesco Barriers were removed on Main Street-opening that up for the first time since March. The barrier remains in place east and west of Main.
Some residents may not be around for Popcorn Day, as over 70 homes are not habitable after the flood. Some are staying in makeshift quarters, one resident said she was going to a nearby State Park to shower.
Governor Kim Reynolds will be the Grand Marshall for the Popcorn Day Parade.
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The No. 8 Ohio State men's basketball team is coming off its second-largest defeat of the season, and its second in-conference loss at the hands of Penn State Thursday.
The 23-point defeat to the Nittany Lions might be fresh in their minds, but the Buckeyes (22-6, 13-2 Big Ten) must move forward into another Big Ten showdown, this time in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Ohio State is heading to the Crisler Center to face off against No. 22 Michigan (21-7, 10-5 Big Ten) at 1 p.m. Sunday, with Michigan State and Purdue breathing down the Buckeyes' necks in the battle for first place in the Big Ten.
Projected Starters
G – Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman – Senior, 6-foot-4, 190 lbs, 11.7 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 3.2 apg
G – Charles Matthews – Junior, 6-foot-6, 200 lbs, 13.8 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 2.7 apg
F – Moritz Wagner – Junior, 6-foot-11, 245 lbs, 14.6 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 0.7 apg
G/F – Duncan Robinson – Fifth-year, 6-foot-8, 215 lbs, 9.3 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 1.3 apg
G – Zavier Simpson – Sophomore, 6-foot-0, 185 lbs, 6.5 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 3.7 apg
Ohio State
F – Jae'Sean Tate – Senior, 6-foot-4, 230 lbs, 12.4 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 2.9 apg
F – Keita Bates-Diop – Redshirt junior, 6-foot-7, 235 lbs, 19.6 ppg, 8.8 rpg, 1.6 apg
F – Kaleb Wesson – Freshman, 6-foot-9, 270 lbs, 11.0 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 1.0 apg
G – C.J. Jackson – Junior, 6-foot-1, 175 lbs, 12.5 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 4.1 apg
F – Andre Wesson – Sophomore, 6-foot-6, 220 lbs, 2.6 ppg, 1.7 rpg, 1.0 apg
Scouting Michigan
The Wolverines hold a 14-1 record at home, and have won their last five games at the Crisler Center. Their only loss at home came in a one-point defeat to then-No.5 Purdue on Jan. 9.
Michigan's 9.32 turnovers per game is the second-lowest in the nation. It is led by Abdur-Rahkman, whose 6.00 assist-to-turnover ratio is No. 1 in the NCAA.
The 6-foot-11 Wagner, the team's scoring leader at 14.6 per game, is shooting 53.3 percent from the field and at 39.8 percent from behind the arc. Wagner's 43 3-pointers is the most in the NCAA by any player 6-foot-11 or taller.
The Wolverines have beat a highly ranked opponent before, topping then-No.4 Michigan State, 82-72, on Jan. 13 to hand the Spartans their only home less thus far.
The Buckeyes took care of business the last time they faced Michigan, defeating the Wolverines 71-62 in the Schottenstein Center Dec. 4 on the back of a 17-3 run to start the second half. They were down by as much as 20 earlier in the game.
For Ohio State, the focus must be on finding scoring against Michigan's stifling defense, which ranks No. 10 in points allowed at 63.5 per game. Bates-Diop and Jackson led the Buckeye offense in the previous matchup against the Wolverines, scoring 18 and 17 points, respectively.
But against Penn State Thursday, the entire team struggled to generate offense, with Bates-Diop and Jackson finishing with 10 and 13, respectively. They were the only players in double figures against the Nittany Lions.
The Buckeyes are coming off their most embarrassing defeat of the season, in which they recorded their lowest point total while shooting only 38.9 percent from the field. However, Ohio State can quickly regain lost momentum in its quest to win the Big Ten with a victory against their bitter in-conference rival Sunday.


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Nothing brings people together like a good sitcom. Since the '50s, they have offered a brief break from reality with good laughs and beloved characters. As television has evolved, though, so has the genre. What once was a half hour of simple, family friendly hijinks is now often a more multilayered comedy with complex characters and storylines.
The sitcom, or situation comedy, has taken many forms over the years. Whether it be a housewife trying to make it as a performer alongside her husband, a group of employees and patrons at a local Bostonian bar, or the mundane lives of the employees at a paper company, the familiar genre of comedy remains a staple of American television. While easily recognizable, the sitcom remains hard to define, allowing it to change and evolve with the times.
When looking at television across history, it can be hard to believe that today's sitcoms are even in the same genre as those in the '50s. Advances in television have allowed shows like "Brooklyn 99" and "One Day at a Time" to be filmed in better quality and to have more diversity, both on-screen and off.
The 1950s featured one of America's first, and most popular, sitcoms "I Love Lucy." The show followed Lucy Ricardo, a housewife in New York, as she tried to make it into show business, alongside her bandleader husband, Ricky. Even though the show played into sexist stereotypes that were popular in the '50s, it is still loved by fans today and was voted one of the best TV shows of all time in a survey done by ABC News and People Magazine.
In the 1960s, sitcoms such as "The Andy Griffith Show" gained popularity. The show followed Andy Taylor, a widowed sheriff, and other townspeople in a small community in North Carolina. In its last season, "The Andy Griffith Show" ranked as the number one show on television at the time it aired, according to ratings from Nielsen Media Research. Part of the reason it was so popular was because it stayed away from controversial issues, such as racism and sexism. The all-white cast kept to the middle lane, never trying to make a statement
Not all sitcoms at the time took the same stance as "The Andy Griffith Show" when it came to unfavorable topics. "All in the Family," which aired in the '70s, was dedicated to depicting issues such as racism, antisemitism, homosexuality, and women's rights. These issues were made more palatable to the audience because they were tied in with comedy. Because of this, the Writers Guild of America ranked "All in the Family" as one of the best TV series ever written
The 1980s and 90s had many popular, long-running sitcoms such as "Cheers," "The Cosby Show," and "Friends." While "Cheers" and "Friends" are both beloved and highly acclaimed, neither really broke the mold when it came to diversity or discussion of controversial issues.
Even though it may not deliver on the diversity, "Cheers" has no trouble bringing in the laughs. While some shows from the '80s can fall flat when it comes to today's standards, the comedy on "Cheers" stands the test of time, mostly due to the amazing performances from the ensemble cast.
Despite the negativity now surrounding the show because of Bill Cosby's sexual assault convictions, "The Cosby Show" deserves a mention because it brought some much-needed diversity to sitcoms. Even though it had a shorter run than "Cheers" and "Friends," "The Cosby Show" was not any less popular. It spent five consecutive seasons as the number one show on television, according to Nielsen ratings, only one of two shows in history to do so. On top of this popularity, the sitcom's portrayal of a stable, African-American family also made history. It broke the mold of the typical sitcom at the time, which was usually made up of a majority white cast. "The Cosby Show" helped demonstrate that sitcoms with a predominantly African-American can still be successful
The early 2000s to today have seen a large variety of sitcoms. One of the biggest differences in sitcoms today compared to ones from the 20th century is the use of single-camera (no live audience or laugh track) instead of multi-camera (filmed in front of a live audience). While there still are sitcoms today that use multi-camera, such as "The Big Bang Theory" and "One Day at a Time," the majority uses single-camera. The "mockumentary" style of filming also became popular with shows like "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation."
Not only has the style of filming changed, the type of people making sitcoms has too. Even though television still has a long way to go when it comes to diversity, it has made great strides since the '50s.
"One Day at a Time" follows a Cuban-American family living in California. The mom, Penelope, is a veteran and in the first season her daughter, Elena, comes out as a lesbian. The show handles issues such as homophobia, immigration, and racism with a care and sensitivity that is not often seen on television. The depiction of these topics serves as a great contrast to the show's lighter moments.
"Brooklyn 99," a sitcom about a police precinct in New York, is another show with a diverse cast of characters. It has two black men in positions of power, one of whom is an out gay man, and two Latina women, one of whom came out as bisexual in the most recent season. Not only is "Brooklyn 99" diverse, it is also one of the funniest shows on television. It's not hard to see why, with "Saturday Night Live" alumnus Andy Samberg heading the cast and Michael Schur, creator of "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation," as one of the co-creators. The cancellation of the showafter its fifth season was met with outrage from fans across the world. Luckily, "Brooklyn 99" did not stay down for long, as it was picked up by NBC barely a day later and fans now wait excitedly for the sixth season.
The sitcom has changed a lot since its beginnings in the 1950s. It is hard to say what will come next in the genre, but hopefully it can continue to evolve with the times. No matter what, it is comforting to know that there will always be a half-hour of comedy available whenever a laugh is needed.


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Washington Post Publisher Fred Ryan issues new statement on Jason Rezaian's 500th day in prison https://t.co/H5ZvvmOU05 #FreeJason— Washington Post PR (@WashPostPR) December 3, 2015
President Hassan Rouhani indicated that Tehran might free the Americans held in Iran if Washington releases Iranians held in the United States. "If the Americans take the appropriate steps and set them free, certainly the right environment will be open and the right circumstances will be created for us to do everything within our power and our purview to bring about the swiftest freedom for the Americans held in Iran as well," Rouhani told CNN on Sept. 27, 2015, when he was in New York for the U.N. General Assembly.
While #JasonRezaian still in prison, Iran arrested another Iranian-American in Tehran, Siamak Namazi, re reports. pic.twitter.com/N7A87h5SJq— Omid Memarian (@Omid_M) October 22, 2015


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patch email client
does anybody know a way to modify or patch some system files, to have the email client showing emails like in the composing window? I really do not like the white background, while other apps shows it dark.
The webview in general (SilicaWebView is apparently what they use here) can be made transparent with experimental.transparentBackground setting to true. Though I am not sure if the e-mail apps .qml files are stored somewhere easily editable (I guess they put it in the binary directly). In general its isn't a good idea to make it transparent for e-mails however as many mails especially html mails are optimized for a white background.leszek ( 2016-03-01 23:08:31 +0300 )edit
Hmmm, I just looked arround the browser engine, it is a gecko engine, so if I create a file ~/.mozilla/mozembed/chrome/userContent.css I can customize the look of the browser....sadly the email client do not use this for the html view :-( I just tried this view for the browser...it does work well: link text
For the email client I will look further, even if the html mails are optimized for white background. With css, you could reoptimize it ;-)poddl ( 2016-03-01 23:45:17 +0300 )edit