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Throughout this year, the end of which is fast approaching, dire warnings about the magnitude and severity of the swine flu/H1N1 virus swept repeatedly across the United States and much of the world. The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology last summer raised the specter that the H1N1 flu strain could infect nearly one half the population of the entire United States.
In typical knee-jerk fashion, Congress rushed to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to combat the looming catastrophe — appropriating close to $8 billion to fight the H1N1 flu virus this season. The federal government already has spent nearly $6.5 billion purchasing and distributing doses of swine flu/H1N1 vaccine. Tens of millions of doses of the vaccine that was specially developed and rushed through production to meet the perceived threat, were shipped to facilities in all parts of the country — where many millions now sit unused and unwanted. One news network reported recently that perhaps as many as 250 million doses of swine flu vaccine may wind up being thrown away by the end of the flu season early next year.
However, if one attempts to find out exactly what is happening to all that vaccine, one meets a brick wall. How many doses have actually been administered? What is the cost per dose? How many doses are actually stockpiled by the federal government and by the states? Repeated calls to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yielded no meaningful information in answer to queries such as these; Internet searches for specifics were similarly unproductive. These questions are relevant for the taxpayers of this country who have been footing the bill for the government's efforts to meet the threat that it defined, but which now appears not to have materialized. Yet answers are as hard to come by as a Christmas creche on a town square.
The CDC, which earlier this year appeared eager to offer information and opinion highlighting the impending swine flu catastrophe, is now strangely silent when probed about what has happened to all that medicine it said was essential and which it claimed we absolutely had to buy. An organization which prides itself on the ability to define, track and defend against all manner of diseases and other threats to Americans' health, now is unable to answer basic questions about what has happened to billions of dollars worth of vaccines that it said were needed immediately if not sooner.
Could it be the Obama Administration doesn't want the American public — the taxpayers who pay for Washington's spendthrift ways — to know how much money has been wasted already in this effort, and how much will be wasted in the near future on unused and unwanted flu vaccine?
This is the same government that is pressuring Congress to rush through legislation that would give it effective control of virtually the entire American health care system. Accurate information on the degree to which it miscalculated and overreacted to one season's flu problem, wouldn't help that agenda right now, would it?
December 11th, 2009
7:18 am
Unused and unwanted? Where do you get your information? Please link because I don't believe you. Based on my own experiences I can't find the dang vaccine to give it to myself and my kid. Because of a limited supply and a high demand…according the clinics and other vaccine administrators I've called.
This column smells strongly of cray cray.
December 11th, 2009
7:26 am
CDC strangely silent? Uh…what's this?
Oh, it's a whole website dedicated to H1N1.
Supply status unavailable? What's this?
Oh, it's supply tracking site.
December 11th, 2009
7:26 am
Why is my linked-filled post "awaiting moderation"? Hey, it's a conspiracy…Barr doesn't want anyone to see contradictory evidence. Naw…that's cray cray…
December 11th, 2009
7:28 am
December 11th, 2009
7:33 am
It took all of two seconds for me to locate the status of the vaccine supply on the internet. http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/vaccinesupply.htm
Methinks you've been watching too much Fox News lately.
December 11th, 2009
7:35 am
Nono, you can see I've got three posts on here…well, I've actually got another. My second post is actually the links to CDC's H1N1 site, refuting how they're so silent about this. And to the vaccine supply page. But…it's awaiting moderation. Thank you for getting yours through.
December 11th, 2009
7:35 am
First, just because the vaccine is in high demand by the sheeple doesn't mean it is at all needed. That is part of the point Bob is also trying to make. Consider as well that a couple of years ago nations all over the world got suckered into buying millions of doses of Tamiflu against the non-existent bird flu. This drug is only marginally effective against the swine flu but is totally ineffective against the normal seasonal flu. These supplies (which these stupid governments paid billions for) expire this year and next. So then along comes H1N1 conveniently when they need to show that they were not complete idiots and giant wealth transfer vehicles for the profits of big Pharma. A little too convenient if you ask me.
The take home message from all of this is that government cannot be trusted at all. They are owned, lock stock and barrel by big business and use their power to enslave us all for the benefit of their friends.
But let's look back a few years and see that republican governments (like the one Mr. Barr so happily supported) also gave us the big lie of WMD. The Swine Flu of its time. Just another wealth transfer scheme to take money from the hard working taxpayer and give it to the military/congressional/industrial complex.
Wake up folks, government is not your friend, and it doesn't change just because you change the party in power.
December 11th, 2009
7:37 am
I also tried to post just the links with no sarcastic commentary but both times those posts just…DISAPPEARED. They're not even awaiting moderation. They've been booted to whatever spam queue he's got on here. Wonder if the filter includes "H1N1″? Naw….that's cray cray…
December 11th, 2009
7:40 am
BTW, just FYI…the "scare" with H1N1 is that it contains DNA from both the "bird" and "swine" and "people" flu viruses. In other words, it's a mutant. Right now it's not a very dangerous one. But, since it already has bird flu DNA the fear is that it will go back into the birds, pick up the dangerous parts of bird flu…the scary parts…and then voila! We now have a strain of H1N1 that is super dooper deadly AND easily transmitted from human to human.
And that's why they so want us to get vaccinated, hoping to kill it before it goes back to the birds.
December 11th, 2009
7:42 am
Why would anybody with a body temperature of about 98.6 degrees give either themselves or their children a vaccine that was tested on only 500 people?
Maybe you haven't seen the CBS News investigative reporter who has not only been stonewalled by the federal government on data related to Swine Flu, but determined that of all tested who presumably had Swine Flu, the actual numbers were 1-3% of those tested…most had just an upper respiratory infection.
December 11th, 2009
7:43 am
It's a good thing I didn't waste a lot of taxpayer money going after a sex scandal….I mean using a sex scandal to whip up emotions in the American people so I can further my own agenda….yeah, good thing.
December 11th, 2009
7:46 am
Uh, "whatever"…the impeachment of President Clinton was because he LIED to a federal grand jury. Some people you can't even spoonfeed knowledge.
December 11th, 2009
7:46 am
Right….used a sex scandal to get the people's support to further your own agenda….that's what I said.
December 11th, 2009
7:49 am
And "whatever", your assertion that H1N1 is now dangerous and easily transmitted amongst humans is without any basis in fact. The labs had a hard time even getting that virus to grow in labs, which is why they could produce vaccines in sufficient quantity — assuming it was really ever needed.
At $600/test (which is a basic DNA test called "PCR") doctors aren't ordering tests and the federal government has stopped counting so as not to be so thoroughly embarrassed, AGAIN.
December 11th, 2009
7:50 am
No, I didn't say it was NOW dangerous…I am saying that the scientists' fear is that it will become dangerous if it goes back into the birds and mutates again…READ, man, READ!
December 11th, 2009
7:52 am
Your scientists are…global warming alarmists?
December 11th, 2009
8:05 am
Mr. Liberty, what are you doing between 2012 – 2016? Good points all around and I thank you for adding "congressional" to the military-industrial complex. What is the famous quote about the "devil's first order of business was convincing people he does not exist."? The same with the gub-ment. Astute, cogent arguments are dismissed as "conspiracy nut rantings" (thanks 9/11 crowd and "birthers"), while it is "business as usual" for the pimps in DC.
December 11th, 2009
8:14 am
Nice, Dave….when it doubt, go with hyperbole. Strong, time-honored strategy.
December 11th, 2009
8:18 am
I received the swine flu vaccine last week. NO problems with any side effects. Stats published show very little side effects…some high temps and body aches…no flu.
Let the stupid not get their vaccine. Mostly only the children a young adults appear to be affected. Darwin was right!
PS I got it at a CVS and my health insurance paid it in full ($15) as well as the normal vaccine ($25).
December 11th, 2009
8:20 am
FYI, Dave, my scientists are also your scientists….I got that info from talking to neighbors of mine who work in the flu division at CDC.
But here's just plain old social media coverage…which is always the tip of the iceberg:
December 11th, 2009
8:56 am
Oh Lord, here come all the anti-vax nuts.
December 11th, 2009
9:18 am
Another comment, in response to Dave's hyperbolic chamber of nonsense, is "awaiting moderation".
December 11th, 2009
9:36 am
After reading the comments above, I have to conclude Mr. Barr got his "information" from Fox (faux, fake, fraudulent……..) News. I'll bet after reading the responses above, he is sitting there with the same look on his face as when he was punked into believing the cheese he was sharing, and in the process of swallowing, with the "representative from Kazakhstan ", was in fact made from his own wife's breast milk.
December 11th, 2009
9:52 am
First, because this is an evolved strain of the flu, people who believe in Creation science and not in evolution shouldn't take any vaccines. Since the virus doesn't mutate, then the Creationists should not believe in the vaccine, either. Here is a chance to stand up for your beliefs, and to risk your young children as well.
2) To the evolutionists, this allows for the benefit of the human species and out gene pool by killing off the stupid.
3) those who can't find out about where and when the vaccines are given, such as Bob Barr, who can't find out anything about it on the Internet, should also note #2 above.
December 11th, 2009
9:56 am
Slick Willie was right… This is the Biggest Fairy Tale That I Have Ever Seen in My Life"! Thanks to ABC, CBS, NBC , CNN, the Sweds, and a cast of other Socialists! The American Public continues to be soooo naive. When will they see the light?
December 11th, 2009
10:09 am
I was unable to determine how many vaccines have been administered, only what has shipped with the links above. I want to know how much money was wasted on shevled/unused vaccines. They are a few days late delivering vaccines to make a difference anyway.
December 11th, 2009
10:17 am
Bicycles – EVERYBODY knows that to get information about how many doses are administered you have to call the State Health Dept. The only people who really know how many are administerd are the doctors/hospitals. They, in turn, should report to their State Health Dept, who in turn may report to CDC.
CDC may be the world premier health institute but it doesn't have AUTHORITY over State Health Dept. It can only recommend and advise.
December 11th, 2009
10:38 am
Obama and his cronies have been covering up those recovery.org numbers quite nicely so I am sure they are more then capable of covering this up too. An unprecedented disgrace.
December 11th, 2009
10:58 am
grading Bob Barr: A+ for the Grey (Mother) Goose story.
Once upon a time, there were three-hundred-million little swine flu vaccines. They all hid behind a "brick wall" from partisan wolves, so all the huffing and puffing about accountability were in vain.
So the swine flu lives happily ever after.
Bravo, sir.
December 11th, 2009
11:06 am
We now have an administration and congress who only operate in crisis mode. Operating in this mode allows them a lot of wiggle room, especially with budjets. It allows them to attack without a plan, and without all the facts, which is the mode in which they feel most comfortable. This is why Obama is in Copenhagen which is billed as the last chance to save the planet. If we wait six months….life as we know it will cease.
Other than the bank bailouts, which were necessary, almost every other crisis would have been business as usual under most other administrations. However, under the cloak of "crisis" they have been able to spend hundreds of billions on pet projects which have very little impact on the so called crisis at hand.
December 11th, 2009
11:12 am
I disagree, I think the biggest fairytale, and by far the most costly, is going on right now in Copenhagen. This is the ground work for the largest transfer of wealth in history, and it's based on a crisis which is supported by faulty, and fraudulant science.
December 11th, 2009
11:19 am
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December 11th, 2009
11:30 am
I guess I am one of those dumb people that can't find the vaccine anywhere…
Not even places they no longer have restrictions on who gets it.
So, it's entirely plausible 95% of the money we spent is to put vaccines on a shelf?
December 11th, 2009
11:37 am
Bob Barr, does this mean you and your family are not going to get vaccinations for H1N1 and the
"regular" flu? Jess, the crisis that you think we are not in, is really happening. Be sure to tell this
to the millions of people who are out of work.
December 11th, 2009
11:58 am
Jess.. You are right!
My note was talking everything in general with the current administration is a Fairy Tale. Masterfully covered up by the Liberal Media. A 5th grader can see it just by watching one night's news report on either channel.
December 11th, 2009
12:24 pm
Theory: H1N1 was created by the US Federal Government and was released just south of us to combat the very nasty problem that all the drug cartels are presenting us with. Then, when it was quickly brought over the border by immigrants and drug runners, our government pressed the panic button. And everything since then has happened how it happened. Whaddaya think?
December 11th, 2009
12:42 pm
then get your shots you pussies. and pay for it too.
December 11th, 2009
12:57 pm
To find the H1N1 vaccine, you only have to Walgreens' or CVS' website and use their store locator.
Can't guarantee that it'll be very close to your house.
December 11th, 2009
1:04 pm
What's a creche??
December 11th, 2009
1:23 pm
Whatever @ 7:26
I've found it's easier to get posts through moderation if you don't have more than 2 links per post.
December 11th, 2009
2:12 pm
Got the Swine Flu shot. Now I'm sick.
December 11th, 2009
2:35 pm
WHATEVER – do you read the news, do you read the truth. The swine flu is man-made, and one of the biggest farces yet to hit the United States. Who wins on this one – of course, as always, Big Pharm. Maybe the government should look more into big pharm and the corruption they spread, along with the FDA. It's sad, but the American people are so being taken advantage of.
December 11th, 2009
2:45 pm
Wow. More crazy talk from Bob Barr. Totally shocking.
Here's the thing about viruses: WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
Luckilly, the swine flu was not as devastating as some had feared. But to have done nothing and risk a massive pandemic with huge loss of life would have been clinically insane.
And Republicans used to whine about everything that was blamed on George Bush. Right….H1N1 is Obama's fault and it's a conspiracy. What a nut…
December 11th, 2009
3:03 pm
I was not the least bit worried about this flu because I take good care of myself and I never worry about vaccines and whatnot. I am also very fiscally conservative and do not like the idea of government taxing an extremely healthy person such as myself to cover the medical expenses of people who do not have concern for their health.
But to be bitching about 6-8 billion dollars for disease prevention based on the precautionary principle (which is a conservative principle stating that the cost of mitigation is often far less than the costs associated with being unprepared) is asinine and detracts from more serious tragedies of fiscal imprudence such as bailing out corporations and screwing around in the desert.
While I much appreciate Mr. Barr's fiscal prudence and limited government intervention, Mr. Barr would be wise to choose his battles more carefully. Issues of human-health and environmental protection are inherently conservationist and are vastly more important than most other federal spending yet they pale in comparison to other federal spending regarding the amount spent.
December 11th, 2009
3:20 pm
What john said.
December 11th, 2009
3:30 pm
If it was a smallpox outbreak, Barr would be telling us not to waste taxpayer money on the vaccine but just to spend more time hanging out around cows and milk maids instead.
Obviously, the government didn't need to react to the pandemic. Private enterprise stepped in and produced all that vaccine with no taxpayer investment at all. Oh wait. Private enterprise didn't produce any vaccine until the government identified the virus, developed the vaccine and paid private enterprise to produce it. It appears that the virus is not only alive and well but it has infected and killed the philosophies of Ayn Rand, Friedrich A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, the Austrian School, the Chicago School and Alan Greenspan.
10,000 people in the US have died of swine flu so far this year. I think I'll be getting the vaccine next week when it is available at work. I hear it can even make me artistic. I would love to be able to paint.
December 11th, 2009
4:10 pm
Bob, you strike me as somebody who knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing. While it would be nice to have a crystal ball to see into the future, and know for a certainty how serious a flu epidemic may turn out to be. it just can't be done with certainty. Tell me how that is the federal governments fault?
December 11th, 2009
5:43 pm
"Whatever" has had about fifty posts here, of all the same drivel, and he whines, moans, complains, says the same thing over and over again, and still nothing satisfies him. He behaves as a spoiled child.
Regarding H1N1, it appears about to be ranked with Y2K. A non event for most of us.
December 11th, 2009
6:10 pm
Better to have the vaccine and not need it, than need it and not have it.
December 11th, 2009
7:33 pm
My 70 y/o parents were denied vaccines because they were "too old", but the vaccine was given to 1000's of homeless at Turner Field on Thanksgiving . . .


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hotelalphaville-deactivated2012 said: Why's it called "Three Word Phrase"?
It's kind of a joke about how a lot of webcomics have names that are made up of three word phrases, and also it's kind of a dumb self-referential thing ("three word phrase" is a three word phrase). It doesn't really mean anything beyond that, though. A lot of people seem to think that each comic is based on a three word phrase but that is not the case! This is kind of a boring answer! Sorry!


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|Liquid Handling Accessories
Multiple accessories are available for our Liquid Handling Robot Platform either being installed in the working envelope of the system or adjacent to the system with access via a gripper tool.
Dynamic Devices Additional Options:
8 Channel Bulk Fluid Heads– Milliliter Pipetting (50 ul – 25+ ml)
With many applications requiring bulk liquids, we have developed several solutions employing peristaltic pumps, stepper driven syringe pumps and diaphragm pumps. This technology can be integrated directly into a suspended arm for full deck access or in a stand alone integrated device located on the deck.
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MIRO Assay Incubator
The MIRO incubator is a 6 position incubator designed for use in automated systems. The individual pneumatically controlled draws extend in order to be loaded by a gripper tool without the finger set having to actually go into the chamber. The chambers all have the same temperature setting with a range of room temperature up to 60 degrees C.
Nectar Reagent Dispenser
Nectar is a reagent dispenser designed specifically for dispensing into a single 96 or 384 well micro plates. Nectar is for use as remotely controlled in robotic workstation environments that allow multiple independent reagents (up to 8 to be configured in one module, multiple modules can be used per system).
Microplate and Tip Stackers
To increase the walk away time of any method, additional microplate or tip stackers can be used to 'feed' the system. Multiple stackers can be used and dedicated to load either plates or tips from the bench top to the deck of the system.
HEPA Certified Hood
Biological HEPA Instrument Hood: Biological instrument hood that provides class 100 HEPA filtered air down across workstation within a plexi glass enclosure. The plexi glass enclosure includes doors that can be opened for convenient user access to workstation. The biological hood sits directly over the entire workstation. Non-critical items such as the peristaltic pump and media bags can remain outside hood area with only sterile tubing running inside the biological chamber.
Self Feeding Reagent Troughs
Any number of these self filling reagents troughs, nicknamed 'gerbil feeders', can be placed around the deck of a liquid handler. The bottles may even be placed outside the tip access area in order to optimize room on the deck, such as off the back or off the side of the deck itself. The bottles can range in size from 200-1000 mL depending on the amount of reagent needed for a walk away run.
Plate Rotator
In applications where plates for tips need to be rotated to be accessed by heads or be processed in Portrait mode, this item can rotate any SBS footprint item 90 degrees. The unit is controlled directly from the software and may be placed anywhere on the deck.


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Why and how might firms respond strategically to violent conflict?
AbstractThe aim of this study is to investigate factors – specifically stakeholder pressures – that may affect the likelihood that firms will respond to violent conflict. Survey and archival data on respondents from 471 multinational and local firms operating in 80 countries were used to explore these issues. Key findings include: (1) local stakeholder pressure is associated with the likelihood that firms will respond directly to violent conflict, collaborating with other organizations or working alone when doing so; and (2) international stakeholder pressure is associated with the likelihood that firms will respond indirectly to violent conflict, collaborating with other organizations or working alone.
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Vietnamese author Kim Thuy's new novel unfolds in the way a flower casts off petals: one small scene after another. Ru is an autobiographical novel in which memories are shuffled back and forth to tell the story of a 10-year-old born in Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive.
Like her story's narrator, Thuy and her family fled South Vietnam in boats, tossed and scattered across the world. They took shelter and struggled to survive in refugee camps, finally winding up in the suburbs of Montreal, where Thuy picked vegetables after school and sewed clothes with other refugees, became an interpreter, then a lawyer and a restaurateur.
Ru won Canada's Governor General's Award, and has been published in 20 countries around the world, and now here in United States, in a translation from the original French. Thuy tells NPR's Scott Simon that the word "ru" has a double meaning. "In French, in old French — nobody uses it anymore — but it means a brook, a very small stream." It's pronounced differently in Vietnamese, she adds, and is commonly used by mothers to soothe their children. "It means a lullaby, or to lull your child to sleep, and I just thought it was such a beautiful word, a poetic word, but used every day."
Thuy began thinking of the book during the weary drives home from her restaurant — she often nodded off at red lights because of the late hours, she says, and after a couple of fender benders, she began making shopping lists in order to stay awake. "And I don't know what happened, maybe it was a longer light or something like that … I turned a book over and started writing, and that's how Ru came to be."
Thuy describes her autobiographical character as being one of the "boat people," Vietnamese refugees who left their homes during and after the war. But she says her family didn't suffer as much as many others. "We were very, very lucky because we spent only four nights at sea and only four months in a camp," compared with some families who ended up in refugee camps for years and endured thefts and assaults. "And we didn't encounter any pirates," she adds. "But, of course, being Vietnamese, I guess … we couldn't be blind about these issues that really existed."
"I was lucky that I was young — I was only 10," she continues. Old enough to be aware of bits and pieces of her experiences, but not old enough to understand the wrenching decision her parents made to leave home with no assurances of safety. "Now that I'm older than my parents when they left, I still wonder how you could make this kind of decision. … I think we expected to die more than to survive … but the pressure was strong enough for them to make the decision to leave, but mostly, the biggest reason was for us to have an education."


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Sengoku review
I'm doing well. I'm a mean son of a Bitchu, but my courtiers are too shit-scared of me to rebel. They scheme endlessly, but my Master of the Guard penetrates their plots with ease. I just wait for them to garner enough support, then expose them to destroy their honour, and order the powerful ones to kill themselves.
I won't be Shogun – my territory is too small and my victories similarly tiny – but my four wives mean I've produced enough offspring that one of my children might be. If someone else doesn't get there first.
Sengoku is a feudal conquest sim set in the Sengoku period of Japan – the same era as Shogun: Total War. You can start as almost any lord, ranging from greats like the Uesgi and Hotokawa clans, to the most minor lord isolated far off Japan's coast with responsibility to a great chain of lieges and about as much chance of becoming Shogun as Jimmy Saville.
What the game doesn't tell you is... well, a lot. You're told you need to own 50% of the country to be Shogun, but Paradox seem to have eschewed the oft-derided tutorial for an in-game help system, which explains the interface as you click on it without revealing much of the core mechanics. A brave/foolhardy choice that will lose them a lot of impatient players. What are we meant to do, read Sun Tzu?
For example: honour is one of the key concepts, built up slowly through such actions as the assignment of titles, donating money to the Emperor, and religious observance. If it drops too low, your vassals rebel or plot. It's like a band where the lead singer has been an arsehole once too often. I had half my home territory rise up and form a new state because my honour was too low from going to war. But the game doesn't tell you what constitutes 'low' honour, or how many other hidden mechanics are at work, and it's not always clear what the honour cost of an action is.
Both you and the AI can take part in plots, scheming against your enemies, allies and overlords – and they against you. One character selects the target, then invites other players to join in. When it works, it's spectacular. All the tools of medieval Japan are at hand to encourage plotting: hostage swaps, ninjas to undermine or assassinate, split inheritances and so on.
Beyond this, the diplomacy system is lightweight: Sengoku is a little more stripped down than Paradox's other dynastic titles. There's no tech tree, for example. Combat is equally rudimentary, consisting of at most three types of unit (spearmen, cavalry or primitive gunmen), and numbers ticking down according to defences and location. The largest army normally wins.
The simple building system is slow and expensive, often taking years, and enemy ninjas can destroy guilds or religious locations with ease. Despite this, the actual map of Japan is easily the best thing in the game, packing in more easily-digestible information than an edible library.
The first few times I tried Sengoku, I was lost, but the more I played this game, the more I enjoyed it.
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27 July 1953
Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia
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|Greg Pead
27 July 1953
Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia
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|Lulu Serious (c. 1988–2007)
Yahoo Serious (born 27 July 1953), born Greg Pead[1] (name-change by deed poll in 1980), is an Australian film actor, director and score composer. He is best known for his 1988 comedy Young Einstein. He also created Reckless Kelly in 1993 and Mr. Accident in 2000. Serious writes, directs, produces, stars in, and has composed the scores for his movies.
Yahoo Serious was born in Cardiff, City of Lake Macquarie in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, Australia. He went to Glendale East Public School and Cardiff High School, then worked as a tyre fitter to pay for his tuition at the National Art School in Sydney. After being expelled, Serious co-wrote, co-produced, and directed his first film at age 21, a documentary called Coaltown which explored the social and political history of coal mining. The following year, his television series Lifestyle won the Australian Penguin Award for Best Educational Documentary.
In 1988, Serious co-wrote, produced, and directed Young Einstein, an intentionally inaccurate movie portraying Albert Einstein as a young farmer in Tasmania who derives the formula E=mc² while trying to discover a means of creating beer bubbles, splitting the lager atom in the process. After leaving the apple isle for Sydney on the mainland to patent his discovery, he goes on to develop rock music and surfing, romances Marie Curie, and saves Paris from an atomic bomb. The movie was an international hit[citation needed], propelling Serious to stardom.
In 1993, Serious released his next film, Reckless Kelly, a satire about a modern descendant of the notorious Australian bank robber Ned Kelly who also becomes a movie star in Hollywood. While Reckless Kelly was a hit in Australia, it failed outside of the country and ended Serious's bid for mainstream international popularity. In 2000, Yahoo Serious released his third film Mr. Accident, about the most accident-prone man in the world. Like Reckless Kelly, the film was not a commercial success.
Yahoo Serious received an honorary doctorate from the University of Newcastle in 1996.[2]
Serious was also one of the guest stars at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
He is also a director of The Kokoda Track Foundation, and has trekked the Kokoda Track a number of times. As of December 2008 he is working on his 4th feature, a war movie about the Kokoda Track campaign.[3] He is currently working on a film with Rove McManus titled 'Cookies From Outerspace.'[citation needed]
Shortly after the production of Young Einstein, Yahoo Serious married Lulu Pinkus. Their relationship ended in 2007.[4]
In August 2000, Yahoo Serious tried to sue the search engine Yahoo! for trademark infringement. The case was thrown out because Serious could not prove that he sells products or services under the name "Yahoo" and therefore could not prove that he suffered harm or confusion due to the search engine.[5]


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Provides vital background information and the latest major NLRB and court decisions. This clearly written book focuses on contemporary labor relations law. It offers a thorough examination of how the law of labor relations operates within the socio-economic environment; the impact of the law and its constant changes on collective bargaining; and the rights and obligations of labor unions, employers, employees and the public. For human resource directors, management and labor attorneys.
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Jack is back! Please spoil the return of 24! — David Although he's been on the lam for four years, Jack comes out of hiding to stop the assassination of the U.S. president in London. And as you might guess, he's promptly captured the minute he shows his face. But Jack's not that rusty. In fact, there's a very specific reason Jack allows himself to get caught — and it involves a familiar face. Unfortunately, Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski), a Bauer-esque CIA operative looking to prove her worth, wastes little time standing in the way of the blessed reunion. Say it with me: Dammit!
Please tell me Cobie Smulders is going to stay on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. full-time! — Cara The good news:read more
Pretty Little Liars' Alison DiLaurentis is officially alive.
During the show's annual Halloween special, fans' suspicions were confirmed when Alison (Sasha Pieterse) suddenly revealed herself to the girls in Ravenswood. But their reunion was short-lived when Alison gave a quick warning about someone she's terrified of and then disappeared. Before Aria (Lucy Hale), Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Emily (Shay Mitchell) and Hanna (Ashley Benson) could ask questions they were left in the dark dying to find out, among many things, who has been tormenting their friend, why she can't come home yet and if she wasn't the girl that got buried, then who was?
If there's one thing that will help Jamie Reagan (Will Estes) get over the death of his partner Vinny last season, it's a hot new partner.
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BLUE BLOODS is a drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Chief of Police and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs his family, even when dealing with the politics that plagued his unapologetically bold father, Henry, during his stint as Chief. A source of pride and concern for Frank is his eldest son, Danny, a seasoned detective, family man, and Iraqi War vet who on occasion uses dubious tactics to solve cases. The sole Reagan woman in the family, Erin, is a N.Y. Assistant D.A. and newly single parent who also serves as the legal compass for her siblings and father. Jamie is the youngest Reagan, fresh out of Harvard Law and the family's "golden boy" however, unable to deny the family tradition, Jamie decided to give up a lucrative future in law and is now a newly minted cop, a career change seemingly supported by his beautiful girlfriend, Sydney Davenport, a first-year lawyer. Jamie's life takes an abrupt turn when he's asked to become part of a clandestine police investigation even his father knows nothing about, and one that could impact the family's legacy.
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Pretty Little Liars' fourth season is already off to a crazy start, but we wouldn't expect anything less after three seasons of nonstop WTF-ery. The ABC Family drama has so many twists, turns and shark-jumps that it's easy to forget some of its biggest jaw-droppers.
Let's take an absurd trip down memory lane and look back on the 10 most ridiculous PLL moments of all time.
"Those b----es are finally going to get what they deserve." Or will they?
In the Pretty Little Liars Season 3 finale, Mona (Janel Parrish) is determined to take down Aria (Lucy Hale), Spencer (Troian Bellisario), Hanna (Ashley Benson) and Emily (Shay Mitchell) once and for all, and it appears she may have some help from the inside.
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"If [Spencer] is on the A team, which it looks like she is, then that would mean that Mona is now her boss," Parrish tells TVGuide.com. "The characters have definitely swapped a little bit. Mona is the new Spencer -- she's smart and in charge and nothing seems to faze her -- while Spencer was slowly spiraling out of control and now she's broken and on the A team."
But is Spencer really on the A team? Or is she simply infiltrating the band of black hoodies to find out intel, specifically if Toby (Keegan Allen) is really dead and the identity of the mysterious Red Coat?
"Someone has been controlling Mona," Parrish says. "This woman appears to be blonde, and a lot of people are speculating it's CeCe (Vanessa Ray), but also keep in mind is that while Mona is taking orders from this person, she was also in a mental hospital! So maybe she doesn't quite know who she was speaking to."
[The following story contains spoilers from the midseason finale of Pretty Little Liars. Read at your own risk.]
Pretty Little Liars executive producer Marlene King warned us that the midseason finale would include a major shock, but that didn't keep our jaws from hitting the floor when we learned in the final seconds of the episode that Toby Cavanaugh (Keegan Allen) was the betrayer.
ABC Family is launching a new weekly spin-off web series Pretty Dirty Secrets, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. The eight episodes will begin immediately following the Aug. 28th finale and continue to take place in Rosewood until the show's Halloween episode in October.
Bummed that Donna is still not back at Pearson Hardman yet on Suits?Thursday's flashback episode ought to assuage some of that pain. The highly anticipated hour — titled "Rewind" — brings us back to 2007 when things were peachy-keen between Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Donna (Sarah Rafferty), the days of Hardman (David Costabile) at the firm were numbered, and Mike (Patrick J. Adams) was, um, high on life.Check out our six teases for what to look forward to in the episode.
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Speed: the elusive feeling, that utterly satisfying sensation of fastness. It's the number one reason so many of us are drawn to this automotive pastime.
You could deny it, sure, but then you wouldn't be entirely honest with yourself, would you? Whether you lust to drive a 500-hp Lamborghini or prefer a 50-hp Austin-Healy Sprite, the end game is usually the same: pursuit of that sensation of rapid motion, speed (whether or not you're actually going fast is a different matter entirely).
There's just one problem: the posted speed limit. Given, you don't have to deal with them if you live on the Isle of Man, the one place on Earth where there is no generally accepted speed limit, or if you're blessed with access to roughly half the German autobahnen that remain unrestricted at the top end. Otherwise, you're a gambling man (or woman). And speed, as it happens, can be detrimental to your good standing as a responsible motorist. Don't ask me how I know.
All things considered, driving a fast car fast in any one of the fifty United States of America could be one of the more frustrating and frightening proposals you're likely to face as an automotive enthusiast. But what if you could, nearly literally, fly under the radar? See speed traps coming before they see you? Listen in on big brother as he attempts to listen in on you?
Enter the Performance Outfitters Group R8 Raptor. This car is purpose- built to drive fast-really fast-and stay utterly off the radar while doing it. The car's owner-a shadowy individual who we'll call Mr. R-had it assembled for one specific task: taking the top spot and requisite bragging rights in that exhibition of speed, excess and debauchery known as Bullrun.
As I type, with the event still two weeks hence, we have no idea if he'll be successful. But given the tools at his disposal, I'd say nobody has got a better chance. And even if it all goes south, Mr. R has certainly stirred things up. The R8 Raptor has become something of a legend by now on the East Coast.
Performance Outfitters Group out of Stamford, Conn., got the nod when it came time to do the work. An unknown number of man hours have been invested into the project to date.
At first glance it may look nothing more than your basic R8. You'll note the lack of a contrasting "sideblade" panel; move in a little closer and you'll note the paint is a custom matte-finish black. Outwardly, this car is probably about as subtle as an R8 can get.
To accomplish the paint job, every exterior panel was removed and the interior was gutted. The latter was a necessary step anyway to make room for the host of electronics modifications planned for the project-more on that in a minute. The panels were also stripped of their R8 badging, and the side markers and all three taillamps were smoked.
Reportedly, when the time came to decide on an entry for the 2009 Bullrun rally, Mr. R had narrowed the field to two vehicles: the R8, and a Ferrari F430 Scuderia. While few would doubt the 430's on-track prowess, the R8 won out mainly over comfort and ergonomics, as well as the option of reliably supercharging the R8's 4.2-liter FSI power unit. At the time of the initial teardown, the R8 wore white paint and no other performance modifications outside of a Milltek exhaust.
Performance Engine Software, PES, out of Shouthampton, Penn., was tapped to provide a means of forced induction: supercharger assembly with integrated intake manifold, intercooling provisions, and the requisite support software. PES claims, unofficially at this point, an approximate 103-hp gain over the stock peak power figure. With the free-flowing Milltek pipes in place, Performance Outfitters Group estimates this R8, only the second such supercharged example in the United States, to put down around 558 hp and 437 lb-ft of torque (corrected for measurement at the crank).
The exterior was reassembled with custom CAD-designed "R8 Raptor" badges (named after the USAF's newest superjet, the F22) were applied. The wheels were replaced with 20-inch HRE M47s wrapped in Michelin Pilot Sport 2 rubber. The HRE alloys were endowed with custom R8 center caps, and the Milltek exhaust tips were custom powdercoated black.
What makes this car special, however, is really what you can't immediately see. The interior is a technical work of art, a triumph of reverse engineering. I remember a quote from the original Knight Rider where David Hasslehoff refers to KITT's interior as something akin to "Darth Vader's bathroom."
There's no toilet inside this R8, so I won't reckon it approximates Vader's privy. But it does make the Knight Rider TransAm interior look like so much 1980s high-tech baloney. The amount of technology sunk into this cockpit basically makes the Raptor a high-speed mobile command center. Which, essentially, it is.
Start with GPS; the R8 Raptor incorporates no fewer than five separate GPS devices, four of them able to interface directly with the cockpit inhabitants. One: Garmin 855T molded into the A-pillar. Two: Thinkpad laptop folded into the glovebox by way of a custom sliding and locking tray. Three: Apple iPhone molded into the driver's sunvisor (what Performance Outfitters Group techs lovingly refer to as the "iVisor"). Four: Alpine IVA-W505 touchscreen head unit mounted in place of the factory MMI display screen. And five: a GPS locator device that can be accessed from any external computer (with the appropriate credentials) and which updates the vehicle's real-time position every three seconds using Google Maps.
To stay a few steps ahead of the authorities-or at the very least, to stay abreast of their activities-the Raptor is equipped with a Uniden BCD996T digital police scanner and Uniden BC RH96 remote head mounted in the new, all custom interior headliner. This R8 is also armed with a Passport 9500ci, with all-band radar detection and 360-degree laser shifting technology-pretty much the daddy of all radar/laser detectors, with its display located in the rearview mirror and its controls residing in a custom pod where the ashtray was.
To keep in contact with its immediate surroundings, the Raptor is also fitted with a Cobra 75 WXST CB radio. Performance Outfitters Group actually pulled the radio apart and added an additional microphone for the PA system (for saying hi to your adoring public, or for shouting at slow movers to kindly make way). There's also a switch to activate the police siren (yes, the Raptor has one of those too).
The custom headliner, engineered by Performance Outfitters Group fabricator Pedro Negron (who reportedly dedicated several hundred hours to the interior, and who also molded the center dash and designed the iVisor), incorporates pods at each upper corner of the windshield for the Whelan TIR3 flashers, one red, one blue.
Negron also supplied the custom center-dash surround, modeled after the contours of the factory unit, which houses the Alpine head unit and the new various control switches. The custom A-pillar, along with duties to wire the whole monstrosity, were undertaken by Performance Outfitters Group fabricator Jon Bacco.
In the lighting department, the R8 Raptor incorporates two clusters of white Whelan TIR3 "burst" lights: an array of six stealthily embedded in the trapezoidal Audi grille, and eight located on the underside of the speed-deployed rear wing. These are to encourage slow-moving traffic in front of the car to dive out of the way, or to discourage fast-moving tailgaters at the rear. Each light cluster can be operated independently of the others, or all at once using a pre-programmed "show" mode.
If the lights fail to modify ambient traffic patterns, the R8 Raptor is also equipped with a Hella industrial airhorn-attached to a toggle switch so the factory horn can also be selected-as well as the aforementioned PA system.
There are other various points of interest inside the car, too many to cover in great detail. The factory speakers have been replaced with Morel ELATE components with a subwoofer mounted centrally between the driver's and passenger's seats; cameras are mounted in the A-pillar, one trained on the cockpit, one pointed outside the car, to capture the whole event digitally; a motorized waste bin (dubbed the "Raptor Compactor") at the rear of the center console; an accessory panel beneath the bin offering 12 and 120-volt, Ethernet and composite audio/video hot links; red LED "fighter lights" and reading lights embedded in the headliner; a Zeitronix digital display gauge monitoring the PES forced induction system; Autonet WiFi for mobile high-speed Internet access.
It's enough to make your head spin. But is it enough to win the Bullrun? We'll know by the time this makes it to print. Of course, Mr. R has a few other tricks up his sleeve that are being kept mum until the big day-maybe even forever. And speculation swirls; there's even word that he has contracted a helicopter to pre-run the course for him. But at this point, it's all still speculation.
Rumor has it that after the rally he'll be returning to Performance Outfitters to turn the car back to "mostly stock." We're calling it a ruse. Whether or not Mr. R takes the prize at Bullrun, there's still one more record he may see fit to tackle. And this seems just the tool to tackle it.
N.Y. to L.A., anyone?
Performance Outfitters Group R8 Raptor LayoutLongitudinal mid-engine, all-wheel drive
Engine4.2-liter V8, dohc, 32-valve. PES supercharger system and software, Milltek exhaust
TransmissionSix-speed manual
Wheels and TiresHRE M47, 8.5x20 (f), 11x20 (r)Michelin Pilot Sport 2, 235/30 (f), 305/25 (r)
ExteriorCustom matte paint, smoked markers/taillights, Whelan TIR3 LED burst lights front and rear, custom R8 Raptor badging
InteriorCustom suede upholstery, Garmin 855T GPS molded into A-pillar, Apple iPhone molded into driver's sunvisor, custom fiberglass dash panel, Passport 9500ci radar/laser scanner, Uniden BCD996T police scanner with headliner-mounted head, Alpine IVA-W505, Cobra 75 WXST CB radio, motorized "Raptor Compactor" waste bin, Autonet WiFi Internet with antenna booster, glovebox-mounted Thinkpad laptop, custom LEDs in headliner and door panels, Morel ELATE speakers, Zeitronix LCD gauge
Performance*Peak Power: 558 hpPeak Torque: 437 lb-ft* Performance Outfitters Group est.


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The Ford Hall Forum at Suffolk University presents "Trade-Offs: Can Free Be Fair?"
The discussion features Rodney North, communications consultant/former Board Chair of Equal Exchange and co-owner of the largest fair trade enterprise in North America, and Donald Boudreaux, professor of Economics at George Mason University and former president of the libertarian think tank Foundation for Economic Education.
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Sean Riley said...
OK. Let's get basic. Here's my two main characters' descriptions.
Baron Ligradi DeMontafe, Undead Warrior.
"Proud and regal, if wide-eyed and wild, Baron Ligradi DeMontafe takes care with his appearance, raking his straw-dry hair into some semblance of regal grace, keeping his skin clean (if thin and translucent). A steady treatment of Goblin Rocket Fuel has finally begun to kill off the maggots in his chin somewhat, even as the skin hangs loose from the jawbone. Traces of white buildup along the joints in his arms seem to hint at some crude repair of bone damage. His glowing yellow eyes manage to convey a crazed imagination and intelligence above high cheekbones and proud bearing."
There, see? One paragraph. Not even a very long one. But that gives you all you need to know -- The man's clearly off his rocker, he's falling apart at the seems, he's a crazy genius. Beautiful. Let's rock with Fulthruttle, my Gnomish Rogue.
"A young adult, Fulthruttle never really grew into a gnomish frame -- Meaning she's very tiny indeed, not quite hitting three foot tall. Her green hair is braided to keep it out of her face, and a small smattering of freckles compliments her expressive green eyes, which flick back and forth swiftly whenever she's nervous, which is very often indeed. She tends to wear very little makeup, but does enhance her appearance with a tiny bit of pink lip gloss. Her tendency to bite her nails has left her with ragged, unattractive fingertips.
If she is not wearing long-sleeved shirts, which is rare, the Icon of the Technology can be seen tattooed on her right shoulder."
Not quite as good, I have to say -- But I've yet to update this one. Still, there's the basics of her. Very small, nervous and fidgety.
Both of my mains are engineers. What can I say?
Still, that's my basic formula: One paragraph, two at the most. Keep them short. Be descriptive, and memorable, but don't overdo it. This is how you rock an RP description. Remember, every second someone spends reading your description is a second they're not roleplaying with you.
Three feet is short for a gnome? I thought that was about average? I mean, humans are around five-and-a-half to six feet, and dwarves average about a foot shorter than that, with gnomes, judging by a side-by-side with the other races, seeming barely clearing three-and-a-half (excluding the hair).
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@ Ametrine
Gnome females, according to WoWWiki, range from 2'10 - 3'6". At 2'11", Fulthruttle's on the smallish size.


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Korea Times: Koreas may brace for imminent military clashes: think tank
The risk of conflict remains serious on the Korean Peninsula, especially near their western sea border, as the South Korean government maintains a tough policy line towards the North ahead of a year of general and presidential elections, an international security think tank said Thursday.
The International Crisis Group (ICG), a nongovernmental research institute, warned that "relations on the peninsula remain tense… The disputed maritime area remains a flashpoint that could spark new clashes."
The two Koreas had several naval skirmishes in the Yellow Sea around the Northern Limit Line (NLL), which Seoul views as the sea border but Pyongyang refuses to accept.
In 2010, a submarine from the North torpedoed a South Korean warship patrolling the area, killing 46 sailors, followed by a deadly shelling across the NLL.
The Brussels-based ICG, however, said South Korea seems to be shifting towards a more conciliatory stance as it enters an election season.
"North-South relations have played a role in past polls: both sides have attempted to use insecurity to influence results," Daniel Pinkston, ICG's North East Asia deputy project director, said in a report.
Although voters tend to favor more hawkish policies in times of insecurity, the South's conservative ruling party is facing the paradox that voters may blame President Lee Myung-bak's tough policy for the increased tensions, he added.
Robert Templer, the organization's Asia program director, also said, "North Korea policy is not a prominent issue for the average voter unless a sudden and serious inter-Korean crisis emerges around the time of the elections."


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KNOXVILLE (WATE) - What do Carrie Underwood, Maroon 5, the Doobie Brothers and Arnold Schwarzenegger have in common?
They all have leased tour buses custom made through Russell Coach Company in Knoxville.
Owner Rob Russell started the company on Rutledge Pike after gaining some valuable experience.
"I did some college. It didn't work out real well, so I hit the road accumulating quite a few miles under my belt driving rock and roll buses," he said.
Russell, who grew up in Knoxville, says he learned a lot through that driving job.
In fact, his first job was driving Tammy Wynette, someone Russell says wasn't scared to hand out a few driving tips.
"She said in the middle of the night there is no one around, that is when we travel, if you are in right lane, end up in left lane and end back up in right lane" Russell remembered. "Straighten the curve. That way when we are sleeping we don't feel it so much."
Russell says that job driving Wynette and his work with local radio station WIVK helped him gain the knowledge to start his own entertainer bus leasing company.
"My very last job I had before is started the company was at WIVK," he said. "I had met some people that way. I had also been driving for a limo company here, and I would do some of the upper end clients and run back and forth to the private airports, and that kind of things."
Russell purchased his first coach in 1995 and started his own company.
"My mom and dad loaned me $25,000, which was 10 percent down on that coach," Russell said.
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Russell showed off the inside of his most expensive project to date, a $1.2 million motor home.
His company purchases bus shells. Except for the engine, his workers custom build nearly every feature, all the way down to the electrical and plumbing.
Russell says his company may be small compared to the competition, but that he does not limit what options he offers his customers.
"My motto has kind of been if someone has worked hard their whole life and they have the disposable income that is well into the million dollar range, who am I to tell them what all I will let them do," he said. "So as long as they can sit down with my design person and take time we will build it exactly the way they want."
Russell said it can take as long as 16 weeks to custom build a luxury home on wheels.
He currently owns five entertainer buses and has custom built more than 20 coaches.
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Karmaloop TV went behind the scenes with actress/model/singer Sara Paxton at a recent photo shoot for Antenna Magazine. The actress (who recently starred in the summer flick Shark Night 3D) dished about her diverse cultural background, her early career, and her California home.
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Luxirie has just released their holiday collection, unveiling colorful and fun pieces that embody edgy street style. Wishing to create an ad campaign that accurately reflects the overall vibe of their new collection, the brand turned to LoveMade for their most recent ad campaign. We had the chance to shoot a couple of question's LoveMade's...
Impromptu Photoshoot
With sunny weather comes bright ideas. Last weekend was beautiful, and it inspired us to get creative and hold an impromptu photoshoot. With a few accessories and inventive props (IE: Jeni, pay your rent on time!) we threw together a totally awesome yet very simple photoshoot. All you need are a couple of good friends...