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Some makers of television shows and movies need to be lured to shoot in Colorado by state incentives: Witness the folks behind a new flick set to star Ashton Kutcher. But others just show up, including Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman and his wife Beth, who've been in town for the past few week ... More >>
Pablo Francisco is a comedian who has performed all over the world and appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Mad TV. Reknown for his spot-on impressions and high-energy performances, Rodriguez is in town for a weekend of shows that kick off at 7:30pm tonight at the ... More >>
Chalk up another win for Duane "Dog" and Beth Chapman, two of the biggest celebrities from this celebrity-starved state. First, the bounty hunter and his bride took on A&E, the home of Dog the Bounty Hunter for eight seasons, and cut a new deal with CMT -- which just renewed their new show, Dog and ... More >>
The Fritzler family will go down in history as proud, card-carrying Coloradans -- in large part because this LaSalle family has already made its mark in corn. For the past twelve years, the Fritzlers have created epic and (mostly state-centric) corn mazes, the most recent of which honors Broncos sta ... More >>
The sad news broke on Monday, as bartenders and servers started telling their regulars to save the date. After close to three decades, Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue will close on October 14. But at least it will go out with a big party. "Brunch is really popular here, so we'll do that one last tim ... More >>
In May, after A&E canceled Dog the Bounty Hunter's reality series after eight seasons, Duane "Dog" Chapman and wife Beth promised a new chapter in their unlikely career -- and if Saturday's block party in honor of the Denver Dog House's grand opening shows that you can't keep a good dog down. Duane ... More >>
The list of Colorado celebrities is short. John Elway. Don Cheadle. Jessica Biel. John Elway. Amy Adams. Judy Collins. John Elway. Tim Tebow didn't last a season as a Broncos starter; John Denver has been dead more than a decade, even if he keeps getting added to local halls of fame. And then there' ... More >>
As Patricia Calhoun noted earlier today, Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman's A&E reality show has been canceled after eight seasons. We're confident Colorado's favorite Dog will bounce back, and soon. But in the meantime, we're marking the program's passing with our ten most memorable posts abou ... More >>
Our 2010 collection of Colorado photos from the wacky website People of Walmart featured none other than Dog the Bounty Hunter. For our 2011 gallery, the Dog family took some time off. But this year, none other than Mrs. Dog represents, along with plenty of other highly photogenic subjects. Check ou ... More >>
How the presence of an official Dog the Bounty Hunter merchandise store within 3.5 miles of my home has escaped my knowledge until now, I'm not sure. I've always had an affinity for the show, which is unexplainable by any stretch of the trashy imagination. But man, do I fucking love this show. Maybe ... More >>
And you thought you had a crazy year. Getting jiggy with a student at a Baptist school, driving a scooter without a license in Miami, possessing four grams of cocaine in Aspen, threatening to shoot out a Best Buy in Aurora over a video game and literally getting shit on in Boulder -- these are all s ... More >>
Photos below.Our 2011 mug shot showcase rolls on. Yesterday, we shared our picks for the year's ten most intimidating images. Now, cast your eyes on celebrities and notables who earned booking photos of their own, featuring several past and present Denver Broncos (what would Timmy say?), a Ho ... More >>
Big pics below.Friday through Sunday, Colorado Christian University hosts the Western Conservative Summit, an event that's drawn plenty of the right's notables. But how to pick who to see? Sexiness, of course! We've ranked the twenty main speakers in order of smoulder -- and plenty of these ... More >>
Dog in Breck.Update: TMZ has published a video of a melee at a Breckenridge restaurant in which Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman can be seen yelling "Come on, white boy!" at a man who threw a plant at him. It's quickly becoming a web sensation -- but a pro-Dog witness who was at the scen ... More >>
Flickr The prairie dogs of Peña Boulevard are getting evicted. As the Denver Post reports today, RTD is attempting to relocate hundreds of critters living along the route of the future train to Denver International Airport. If they can't find new homes, another option is to kill them and ma ... More >>
Nic Cage's mug.Nicolas Cage apparently got sick of Charlie Sheen hogging all the Hollywood-crazy spotlight, going apeshit this weekend in New Orleans, where he's shooting The Medallion, which sounds like another payday flick for an actor who seems more concerned about paying off his massive I ... More >>
Dog.Duane Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter, is something of a hometown hero -- and also a genuine comment magnet, with posts regularly popping up on new posts and old. Here's a defense of the Dog, from a preview of his E! True Hollywood Story published last May.
Big pic below.Update: As we noted yesterday, no charges were filed in the immediate aftermath of an incident in which a man shot a 140-pound dog after it attacked his greyhound -- and that remains the case at this writing. However, the owner of the dead pet -- a bullmastiff named Flato -- has ... More >>
Duane Chapman.You might recall the hubbub back in 2009 when news broke that Duane "Dog" Chapman and his Dog the Bounty Hunter crew had apparently been shot at while attempting to apprehend a bail jumper in Colorado Springs. But now, the man arrested following the April 21, 2009 incident is su ... More >>
Aside for obvious problems with suspension of disbelief -- how are we going to pretend Chris "The Birdman" Andersen is Santa when we already know he's The Birdman? -- hiring a celebrity to play Kris Kringle can create a slew of dissonance and mildly disturbing associations, particularly if th ... More >>
Bobby Brown.Among the personalities familiar to viewers of Dog the Bounty Hunter is Bobby Brown, who runs two bail-bonds businesses in Colorado Springs. But he'd like to star in a series of his own -- The Missing Piece, in which a team of investigators and psychics, including Brown, will inve ... More >>
Dog and Beth at the Grizzly Rose.Late last month, Dog the Bounty Hunter supported Tom Tancredo at a Grizzly Rose fundraiser -- a kinder, gentler reason for a visit to our fair state than the one at the heart of tonight's season premiere of his long-running A&E reality series. On that trip, he ... More >>
Tom Tancredo.The week started with Tom Tancredo wiping out on his motorcycle. It ended with him effectively wiping Dan Maes off the political map with a September 26 fundraiser that attracted more than a thousand people to the Grizzly Rose -- among them Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and ... More >>
Tom Tancredo.Against all odds, Tom Tancredo seems to be gaining momentum in his third-party gubernatorial run. With pundits essentially writing off Republican nominee Dan Maes, whose recent attempt to raise $500,000 in a day fell over $400,000 short, Tancredo operations manager Cliff Dodge is ... More >>
Duane "Dog" Chapman.Local fave Duane Chapman, better known as Dog the Bounty Hunter, is getting widely varied treatment from a pair of powerful websites. RadarOnline comes to Chapman's defense over a lawsuit filed in Colorado Springs by a man claiming to have been defamed by his on-camera ar ... More >>
Beth Chapman.Joy Behar must have the Dog the Bounty Hunter residence on speed-dial. Last month on Behar's CNN/Headline News program, Colorado alum Dog commented on Joran van der Sloot -- and last night, his beloved, Beth Chapman, weighed in on Mel Gibson's alleged rants against ex-girlfriend ... More >>
Move over Blues Brothers, Colorado's Bounty Brothers are traveling the world to clean up the criminal element for Christ! For over a decade, Gary Brooks Faulkner and Duane 'Dog' Chapman had worked the crime circuits of Mexico and Pakistan, hunting for separate scofflaws. Each was a seasoned ... More >>
Portrait of the young Dog as a convicted murderer.Those of you who decided to spend your Monday evening watching the final episodes of 24 and Law and Order are probably kicking yourselves over skipping the E! True Hollywood Story portrait of local legend Dog the Bounty Hunter -- as well you s ... More >>
What a Dog.Local fave Duane Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter, will reportedly be the focus of an E! True Hollywood Story episode on Monday, May 24 -- and judging by the quotes released to date, it should be a laugh riot. For instance, here's what Dog says about the days when he was still c ... More >>
Talk about a love triangle.Our friends at TMZ.com share a fresh Hawaiian shot of a very odd trio -- hometown hero Dog the Bounty Hunter (who did his best to keep crash-happy Jerrad Leonard off the streets) and his wife, Beth, snuggling up with none other than George Clooney. TMZ's comment: "S ... More >>
Does this man need your help?Having trouble finding work? You're not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as seen online: Personal assistant to high-profile television personality ... More >>
It's the number 23. Think Jim Carrey is freaked out? Today in Cafe Society: • Delicious Designs: Eat this restaurant, part two. • Katie Mullen's will be hot tonight. • Qdoba pulls the pepper on its chile verde. • Do good when Dos Casas returns to Lola. • Benny's gets ready to open its dri ... More >>
We've got the music in us. Today in Backbeat Online: • 2009 Westword Music Showcase revealed. • Rowboat on the radio today. • The mysterious reappearance of John Baxter. Today in Cafe Society: • Breaking ground on Earth Day. • Mix it up at Trios Enoteca on Sunday. • Ask the Readers: Ch ... More >>
On last night's episode of 30 Rock, the funniest sitcom on network television by a very wide margin, our fair state was the target of two surreal yet amusing zingers. Early on, NBC page Kenneth (Jack McBrayer, to the right of the attached photo) is trying to convince cluelessly vain comic Tracy Jor ... More >>
The January Esquire features profiles of fifty prominent Americans, one pegged to each state, talking about "What I've Learned." And who did the mag pick to represent celebrity-starved Colorado? An elder statesman like Gary Hart? (BTW, he's my dark-horse candidate to return to the U.S. Senate.) ... More >>
It's one thing to embarrass yourself. It's quite another to take an entire city with you.
Foxy Brown out of the hole When you get locked up, no matter how much of a cool cat you are, you have to show the other inmates you're not the one to be messed with. Foxy Brown, who is serving a year at Rikers Island for violating her probation, went a little overboard and tried to show and prove ... More >>
Would you rather have sex with a basset hound or Dog Chapman?
It'll be comforting to many of the bikers in tomorrow's Ride for Recovery that they need not fear the police, DUI, getting busted for drugs or drug paraphernalia.
He might be a cracked-out racist, but at least he's not a rapist.
Blister 66 trashes Christmas. Again.
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Money runs thicker than blood in the bail-bond business.
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Childress "Pleasently Surprised" On Jackson's ProgressPosted by on August 4, 2009 – 11:49 am
The Vikings just concluded their morning practice, working under sunny skies and warm temperatures. The weather has cooperated for the Vikings to this point (knock on wood) and it's also been ideal for fans, who've come out in force to support the Vikings so far during training camp.
"That's a great atmosphere for our guys to come out and practice in every day," Vikings Head Coach Brad Childress said. "The weather has been great, the stands have been full, you can kind of feel the buzz. I think that's great. It's great to have them out there and I know our guys feel their presence."
While meeting with the media following this morning's practice, Childress said he was "pleasently surprised" with QB Tarvaris Jackson, saying he might be able to work on the side during this afternoon's special teams practice. Childress said the QB has progressed "pretty rapidly" and seems to not be "drastically affected" when he's throwing a football on the side.
While Jackson continues to try and get back from his injury, LB E.J. Henderson looks to be as good as ever following a season where he missed 12 games due to a foot ailment.
"He makes two plays in our outside run period (yesterday) that we can't get there," Childress explained. "We've got a hat (blocker) for him, we just can't get there. So, yeah, he's not missing a beat."
The Vikings will have a 1 hour special teams practice this afternoon from about 2-3 and then head back in for more meetings later in the afternoon and into the early evening.
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By PurplePeopleEater on Aug 4, 2009 | Reply
I was disappointed that I didn't get a chance to see TJack practicing the last couple of days, but it's for the best. Sage looked comfortable and accurate while he was in there, but I came to agree with the coaching staff that Booty isn't up to the same level. He appeared to focus on a single receiver too often and overthrew his receivers on deep routes.
While I was watching, it appeared that we have a problem at WR that only the best teams in the NFL need to deal with. It appears that we have more quality players at that position than we can afford to keep on the team. There's no question that Berrian, Harvin and Rice will stay with the team. I'd say that leaves room for 2, or at most 3 more guys. You could go into arguing how players add value at other areas than just WR, like in Special Teams, but since I wasn't viewing that stuff I can't consider those values. Now you want to keep Wade because of his veteran status alongside his quality hands, but I also saw great plays from Allison, Reynaud, and even rookie Nick Moore while Johnson appeared to be a favorite target during practice as he seemed to catch everything thrown his way. It will be interesting to see who the coaches decide they need to cut, but we are sure to part ways with at least 2 of these quality players. We've also got great hands at the Tight End position, namely Shiancoe who I noticed spent time after each practice working on improving his hands with different catching drills.
With all that I saw out there, I am certain that whoever ends up being our #1 QB is going to have some deceptive statistics in his favor.
By Shawn on Aug 4, 2009 | Reply
Please go get another quarterback. I love T-Jack but if he gets hurt who do we turn to. Sage is not going to cut it. Sage is not a proven winner or a proven leader. Two QB's come to mind, Derek Alexander in Cleveland and Michael Vick are both proven winners and leaders, go get one of those guys and lets bring home the Super Bowl Ring!!!

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'Blue Milk Special': May the farce be with you
Long, long ago there was a little movie called Star Wars, and it and its two sequels became the highest-grossing movies of all time. Yet, there was a time the interstellar saga wasn't quite as mighty a pop culture juggernaut as it is today. Some time between President Reagan's "Star Wars" SDI initiative and Lucas' CG retooling of his cinematic babies, Star Wars existed primarily in the books, comics and video games that made up the Expanded Universe. Star Wars was a nerdier pursuit, when the true fans followed the adventures of Mara Jade and Admiral Thrawn.
Since the prequel trilogy, Star Wars has barreled back into the mainstream like a hungry Rancor. Merchandise depicting Darth Vader, Yoda and newcomers named Asajj Ventress and Savage Oppress peek from the shelves of every Toys R Us, Walmart and FYE.
If there's something Star Wars fans love to do, however, it's laugh at themselves: For example, Jeffrey Brown has released three books that play around with the idea of Darth Vader as a doting father. Darths & Droids, meanwhile, has turned screenshots of the Star Wars saga into a long role-playing game.
Completed webcomics well worth reading
It seems as if most webcomics are designed to run more or less forever. That's par for the course with comics in general, really: It's not like we really expect Action Comics or Garfield to reach a logical terminus any time soon. That doesn't mean there aren't any great completed narratives in webcomics, however.
Evan Dahm never left his world of Overside. He's chronicled its history with Order of Tales, and he's now continuing the story with Vattu. The latter was recently honored at Small Press Expo with the Ignatz Award for Best Online Comic. The first of the Overside stories may still be the best, though.
Rice Boy, like the follow-up stories, follows the outline of a hero's journey, with the title characgter called away from his mundane life by a wise man (here named The One Electric) to follow a life of adventure. Rice Boy journeys through various strange lands and meets a colorful cast of characters on his way toward an epic battle.
'Gotham' introduces an ice-cold killer
Superheroes are all the rage these days. They've already conquered the multiplex, and now they're poised to conquer the small screen. This could be a good thing or a bad thing. A lot of fans are already a bit wary these days, what with The Flash and Constantine joining Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Arrow as TV shows based on comic properties. And that's not even counting the upcoming Agent Carter, the online streaming projects and the potential Supergirl show. It's cause for both much excitement and much anxiety.
Perhaps nothing carried a bigger bull's eye on its back than FOX's Gotham. Pitched as a look at Gotham before there was a Batman, the show already faced several significant hurdles. There was the fact that it was coming right off the very successful Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy. There were the stories of extensive retooling of the pilot to shoehorn even more villains-before-they-were-villains cameos (Edward Nygma, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman, specifically). And there were the fans who'd been looking forward to a Gotham Central show, but were becoming increasingly disheartened when it became more and more apparent that the show wasn't going to do that.
'Oyster War': webcomics done old-school
After four years and an Eisner nomination, Ben Towles' Oyster War is coming to an end. The webomic is based on an obscure chapter in American history, in which oyster pirates and legal fishermen fought over the rights to the harvest in Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. (Apparently, oysters used to be much larger and way cheaper before overfishing devastated the entire industry.) Don't expect a straight history lesson, however: Towles' version is visually more cartoon; he also embellishes his story with some fantastical elements, like a witch who turns into a seal, and a sea monster.
The old-school aesthetic of Oyster War recalls a style popular during the early 20th century, and the seaside town of Blood's Haven, with its narrow corridors and piers that stretch past the shore, resembles Thimble Theatre's Sweethaven. While backgrounds are simple and minimalistic, close-ups are lovingly textured. The characters are simple cartoony designs: bulbous noses, brush-like mustaches, block-shaped heads and stocky bodies.
'Spinnerette': a touch of glass
The influence behind Sean Lindsay's Spinnerette should be pretty obvious — after all, the webcomic is about a young superhero with spider-based superpowers. Another dead giveaway is her original costume, which looks like something nicked from Julia Carpenter's wardrobe. (In story, it's because she bought some Venom costumes.) Lindsay has a bit of a laugh about that, as he includes a sequence in which Spinnerette receives a cease-and-desist letter from Marvel.
An accident with an experimental laser gives Heather Brown incredible muscle tone, two extra sets of arms and web-shooting abilities. Inconveniently, the latter is anatomically correct and webbing comes right out of her butt. The extra arms are a bit of a problem, too, as they certainly prove problematic to her secret identity. To hide her arms, she must wear a fat suit.
Superhero webcomics have generally been tongue-in-cheek, following less in the footsteps of Jack Kirby and more in the superhero-parody vein of Ben Edlund. Spinnerette is no exception; it's unapologetically up to its ears in cheesecake. If male gaze is a sticking point for you, then you'll probably find a lot to complain about. However, it almost becomes a joke in itself. There is, for example, one supervillain whose main characteristic is being ridiculously stacked (and given that this is Spinnerette we're talking about, that's saying something).
Can you smell what the 'Botched Spot' is cooking?
Once upon a time, during the imaginatively fertile period known as the Monday Night Wars, my sister described pro wrestling to me as superheroes … except in real life! Truly, she knew where my passions lay.
Yet, I was skeptical. What was the appeal of a sport that everyone already knew was (SPOILER ALERT!) totally fake. I decided to take her up on her ostentatious claim and caught an episode of WCW Thunder. While I can't say she was 100 percent correct, she got me hooked on wrestling for life. There was a lot of elements that did cross over: the colorful costumes, the larger-than-life gimmicks, and the bombastic hero and villain speeches. Comics may have gravitated away from the era in which every speech bubble ended in an exclamation point, but wrestling never grew up.
Historically, the backstage realities (called "shoots") and the scripted stories (called "kayfabe") have been kept separate, with the former only made known through sketchy publications nicknamed "dirtsheets." You'd think that, with the rise of the Internet and the availability of information, wrestling would become a relic of the past. Instead, it remains popular. It may actually be a better fit in this decade, as almost all of reality television now treads the same blurry line between "fact" and fiction. When Lina approaches the Rana King on NBC's The Quest, for example, is it a shoot or a kayfabe? Even more insidiously, wrestling has found a way to fake viewer participation, aka the kayfabe of the digital age.
The ironic awfulness off 'Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff'
Not too long ago, I became aware of something called "seapunk." After steampunk and deiselpunk, I had initially thought this was another strange technology-based trend based on the legitimate "cyberpunk" where geeks were far more interested in the aesthetic qualities rather than anything making sense. As it turns out, "seapunk" is far less serious.
Unlike the other variations, seapunk leans far more heavily on the "punk" part. There's a ton of bright colors — teals, purples and greens — plus mermaids, dolphins and other aquatic life.
There's also the inherent silliness, which includes '90s nostalgia. Search "seapunk" on Tumblr (the alleged breeding ground for this microculture) and you run into the sorts of jerky animated GIFs and visual callbacks to Windows 95. While it may not necessarily be aesthetically pleasing, its off-putting, incongruous visuals are part of the charm.
'The XII' takes us into familiar wastelands
There's a theory that the American obsession with the apocalypse stems from Manifest Destiny: As settlers pushed west, they encountered things that would strain the threads tying them to civilization. Storms rolling across the flat plains could be seen from man miles away, and they posed a considerable threat to the livelihoods of entire communities. During the pitch-black night, there would be ominous noises — frightening howls, thunderclaps, maybe even the unexpected sound of a human voice.
There would be precious few things you can do in a world where law is stretched thin, except keep a well-stocked cellar and a loaded shotgun.
That may explain why a lot of North American post-apocalyptic fiction tends to look like the Wild West. While we may think we're too cool for cowboys and Indians, it may have just morphed to satisfy the primal survival instincts of modern thrill-seekers. After all, aren't armored, nomadic warlords just bandits and desperadoes with a shiny new coat of paint? It's probably no accident that The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes dressed a lot like a frontier sheriff, or why the women in Katniss Everdeen's district look as if they stepped out of a little house on the prairie.
Normalcy among the surrealism in 'Opplopolis'
(This post contains spoilers for Opplopolis Proceed at your own caution.)
This week, Kit Roebuck's Opplopolis starts Issue 14 as the entire saga slowly but surely approaching its planned conclusion with Issue 20. It's been a strange journey thus far, full of odd little left turns. There's a moment, for example, that seems to be a visual homage to The Shining. Agnes, an artist, is invited to a high-class celebrity party where she's already a bit out of place; she even needs her clothes ripped to shreds just so she can fit in. Thinking it a public service to the fashion-impaired, manufactured pop celebrity Vesper takes a pair of scissors to the artist's dowdy outfit to create a new dress that shows a bit more skin.
Agnes decides to cut loose a little on the dance floor, but her way to the bathroom she encounters a slightly disturbing sight: When she peeks in an open door, she sees two men wearing animal masks while playing a card game. Eventually, a third person wearing an upside-down cat mask shuts the door in Agnes' face (revealing a word that forms the comic's central mystery).
In 'Widdershins,' bustin' makes you feel good
The female heroes of Kate Ashwin's Widdershins share a lot of personality traits. Harriet "Harry" Barber, for example, is a cool, collected bounty hunter of the pre-Victorian era who's often shown pondering a mystery while puffing smoke from her pipe. She's also a bit of a loner; her face is frequently twisted in a tired scowl, and there's a slight bags under her eyes. There's a little bit of Rorschach in her, too, as interesting clues are greeted with a "hrm." She's definitely the smartest person in the room, but she's also proud. Her reluctance to accept any help is driven, partially, by her need to prove that she and she alone solved the case.
Discovering Boulet with 'Kingdom Lost'
I didn't know who Boulet was until this week. I imagine this statement is going to hang over my head, more damning with the passing of each year, like being a big fan of comics, yet having no idea who Hergé is. You'd be all, "Get out of here, you uncultured swine." Fortunately, we live in an age in which Wikipedia exists. After a few searches it's easy to catch up and go, "Yeah … I'm totally into Boulet." A nervous giggle may or may not follow.
Who is Boulet? It turns out it's the pen name of Gilles Roussel, one of France's earliest and most famous webcomic creators. Bouletcorp has been running since 2004, and its strips have been collected in seven printed volumes.
His talents are also on display in other French print works, such as the sword-and-sorcery parody comic Donjon Zénith. Stateside, Boulet has illustrated Augie & The Green Knight, a children's book written by fellow webcomic creator Zachary Wiener that managed to raise an amazing $384,000 through Kickstarter, totally smashing its humble $30,000 goal. (What's being done with all that extra cash? It's going to fund the printing of 800 copies of the book, which will be donated to libraries.)
Read Kit Roebuck's 'Opplopolis,' now in print form
Kit Roebuck's work first came to my attention with Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life, a webcomic that took advantage of the online format and used creative layouts to heighten the sense of loneliness and isolation.
The saga followed two robots traveling around the solar system, having existential crises and zen-like moments as they savored the different cultures of each planet. The ending, however, provided little in the way of resolution beyond the quest for answers. That isn't criticism: By the time the two robots end up on Pluto, you start to feel as if it couldn't have ended any other way. Much like life, it's the journey that matters.
I get a similar feeling when reading Roebuck's latest work, Opplopolis. While the comic has been available online, with an option to download a copy onto Kindle, Roebuck has recently collected the first 10 issues of his webcomic in a print edition that can be purchased on Amazon. From Roebuck's press release: "Released online in two-page installments since late 2012, Opplopolis has grown to thirteen chapters of a planned twenty, the first ten of which have now been collected into a single, 278-page printed volume."
Revisiting Fleischer Studios' monumental 'Mechanical Monsters'
I recently had the pleasure of rewatching The Mechanical Monsters, the 1941 animated Superman short from Fleischer Studios. I viewed it once before in the early '90s on a cheap video tape that virtually disintegrated after just three uses. However, we're in the new millennium now, and thanks to the dual magic of public domain and YouTube, the Fleischer cartoons are easily accessible for free in the comfort of your own home.
Do remember the "Beware the Gray Ghost" episode of Batman: The Animated Series? Bruce Wayne watches an old serial starring his childhood hero Simon Trent (voiced, in a stroke of genius, by none other than Adam West). He's suddenly transformed into a little kid again, with all the cynicism of adulthood melting away. That was me watching the Fleischer Superman cartoons. I'd searched for these videos for analytical purposes, but instead I walked away with words like "Wow!" and "Gee whiz!" popping into my head.
'Lackadaisy': Aged like fine bootleg moonshine
One of the oldest and most highly acclaimed funny animal webcomics is Tracy J. Butler's Lackadaisy. With origins dating as far back as 1994, when Butler created characters Rocky and Mitzi while still in high school, Lackadaisy took to the Internet in 2006, and has gone on to win several awards, including the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards and the Ursa Major awards. It was also nominated in 2011 for an Eisner for Best Digital Comic.
Lackadaisy also has one of the slowest update schedules. As with many creators, the webcomic is not the artist's primary occupation. She's a digital artist who works on video games, and she updates as often as she can. How often? Well, the last page was updated in April, and the current rate seems to be three to four pages a year.
Explore 'Scary Go Round's' origins with 'Expecting to Fly'
I admit, I'm something of a lapsed reader when it comes to John Allison's Scary Go Round, which was one of my favorite webcomics for the longest time. There was Allison's cheeky and very British humor that treated mystical horrors with a heaping dollop of cartoonishness, and the thrill of following his evolving art style.
Scary Go Round started at Joey Manley's Modern Tales site, when it featured a simpler and gentler computer-generated style created with Adobe Illustrator. In 2005, Allison switched to hand-drawn art that was more angular, boldly whimsical and thickly inked.
Both styles were very appealing, although they affected the humor in different ways. The earlier art was more low key: when eventual main character Shelley Winters becomes a zombie, part of the humor stems from how it's brushed off as a minor nuisance. Later, Allison is more willing to embrace the maniacal ridiculousness. Basically, it went from being Friends to something out of Edgar Wright's Three Flavour Cornetto Trilogy.


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|Mike Flynt, the 59-year-old 'Senior' helps team win after 37-year football layoff
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|Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:29
Playing left end on kicking plays, the 59-year-old grandfather held his own all night, most importantly during the field goal that gave Sul Ross State a 45-42 victory over Texas Lutheran in three overtimes Saturday night.
With his wife, three kids, grandson and a legion of new fans watching, Flynt kept his defender from getting into the backfield, then turned, jumped and pumped his fist. He quickly wound up lost in a teamwide pile celebrating their second straight win in extra periods.
``I'm so happy for my teammates; they're the ones who won the game,'' Flynt said. ``I've been at a lot of great schools and experienced a lot of this stuff. These guys, they're learning every bit of this.''
Flynt might be an AARP member and only six years from Medicare, but he's in good enough shape to butt heads with kids one-third his age - or, about the same age as his youngest daughter.
While he's giving new meaning to being a college ``senior,'' he's not the oldest player ever. There was a 60-year-old for Ashland (Ohio) in 1997, but that guy went in for one snap late in a blowout. Flynt is truly part of his Division III team, with expectations to eventually get in at his old position, linebacker. The Lobos have four games left and he expects to play in them all.
Flynt got in for nine snaps, including one waived off by penalty. He stood up his rusher several times and got in a nice chip block once. Out of respect or admiration, opposing coach Dennis Parker never tried taking advantage of the old man. Yes, Flynt is two years older than Parker and eight years older than his own coach.
Afterward, Flynt went to the player he blocked most of the night to shake his hand.
``I just told him he played a great game,'' Flynt said. ``He was always talking, always coming hard. I appreciate that.''
Most importantly, Flynt came out of it feeling fine. The groin injury and pinched nerve that sidelined him the first five weeks, and limited him to special teams this time, weren't a problem.
Then again, with all the adrenaline surging, he probably wouldn't have felt anything anyway.
``I've enjoyed every bit of this,'' he said. ``Stepping out on the field was kind of the exclamation point on this. ... We're going to enjoy this. We'll be back tomorrow night, get the soreness out and we'll try to run the table.''


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Facebook Engagement Among Brands Is Actually Up, Report Says
Gotta hand it to the #brands.
Buzz over new and improved products has helped Google surpass Apple in Impact Media Value, making it the Top Global Brand according to General Sentiment's Global Brands Report for Q2 2012. Impact Media Value assigns a dollar value to the amount of buzz over a company in online news and social media, regardless of sentiment. Google scored $756.6 million in brand value, compared to former leader Apple's $594.3 million.
Facebook started out as a way for friends to connect and interact online. Yet, as the startup grew from a few thousand users at New England colleges to hundreds of millions around the world, it quickly became a place where businesses could interact more intimately with their customers. In the past few years, big brands have started taking social media seriously, and Facebook marketing is a big part of the plan for many companies.
Just a month ago we talked about real-time search engines, verified accounts, trending Twitter giveaways, sponsored tweets, and Twitter chat as the five trends that you should be watching right now. While each of those trends is still something to keep on your radar, the rate of evolution and change on Twitter is practically real-time. As such, we thought we'd update our list and chronicle five more important Twitter trends to watch like a hawk.
Tom Smith is the founder of Trendstream, a company that specializes in providing research and consultancy on social media, web and mobile. He formerly worked as Head of Consumer Futures at Universal McCann. I recently wrote the post, "Why big brands struggle with social media" right here on Mashable. Unsurprisingly, it prompted lots of debate about the role for brands in the social media space. There was, however, one line of thought that got me thinking.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 19, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) announced Tuesday they have introduced a comprehensive "Shareholder Bill of Rights" that will increase accountability and oversight at publicly traded corporations. The legislation, which incorporates some proposals already being considered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is aimed at empowering shareholders in order to curb the types of excessive risk-taking and runaway executive compensation that contributed to the nation's economic recession.
"When you buy stock in a company, it should come with some peace of mind that the business is being run responsibly," Schumer said. "During this recession, the leadership at some of the nation's most renowned companies took too many risks and too much in salary, while their shareholders had too little say. This legislation will give stockholders the ability to apply the emergency brakes the next time the company management appears to be heading off a cliff. Millions of Americans who invested in the stock market have seen their safety net shredded by the risky behavior of corporate executives. When these companies go bust, it doesn't just deplete the retirement savings of American workers, it can have disastrous ripple effects on the entire economy."
"Accountability to shareholders and investors is key to restoring confidence in our capital markets," Cantwell said. "Too many hard working Americans have seen their pension savings disappear because of the current financial crisis. Financial institutions and corporate boards of directors took excessive risks with shareholders' savings and lost, but these same executives are now walking away with lavish compensation packages. This legislation will give those shareholders and pension fund investors a voice in the corporate board room so they can make sure the directors for the corporations they own are working for shareholders' best long-term interests not just executives' short-term gain. Institutional investors, like CalPERS and the Washington State Investment Board are responsible for the pension security of our public employees, teachers, school employees, law enforcement officers, firefighters and judges. Once this legislation is enacted, these institutional investors will have the tools they need to protect these workers' assets."
The "Shareholders' Bill of Rights" comes amid a recession brought on in part by risky corporate behavior that went unchecked by company boards. The results have been calamitous. In 2009, the stock market dipped below 7,000 points for the first time since 1997 and, prior to its mild recovery in recent months, had lost more than 50 percent of its value compared to its 2007 high. Earlier this year, the once venerable insurance firm, AIG, recorded the largest quarterly loss in U.S. history. In turn, U.S. workers who report being "very confident" about their retirement savings hit the lowest level (13 percent) in the history of the Retirement Confidence Survey. In addition, a study by Hewitt Associates showed that the median 401(k) plan balance dipped from $79,600 in 2007 to $57,200 by the end of last year. The Federal Reserve estimates the total decline in household wealth to be around $11.2 trillion.
The "Shareholder Bill of Rights" includes the following provisions to empower shareholders and rein in excessive risk-taking by runaway corporate executives:
1. It requires that all public companies hold an advisory shareholder vote on executive compensation. By allowing shareholders to have a "say on pay," companies are far less likely to award compensation packages that are excessively lavish or tied to risk-taking that is not good for the long-term health of the firm.
2. It instructs the SEC to issue rules allowing shareholders to have access to the proxy form if they want to nominate directors to the board. In order to make a nomination, shareholders will have to have owned at least 1% of a public company's shares for at least two years. Schumer and Cantwell said it is essential that long-term shareholders have a real voice in selecting the men and women who sit on the boards of the companies they own.
3. It requires board directors to receive at least 50% of the vote in uncontested elections in order remain on the board. It makes no sense for board members to be re-elected if a majority of shareholders cast their ballots against them.
4. It requires all board directors to face re-election annually. Schumer and Cantwell said there is no reason that directors at a well-run company should fear facing their shareholders every year. So-called "staggered boards" just serve to insulate board members from the consequences of their decisions.
5. It requires public companies to split the jobs of CEO and Chairman of the Board, and requires the Chairman to be an independent director. It is vital that the Chairman of the Board, who sets the board's agenda, should be someone who works closely with the CEO, but also brings a different perspective to the table.
6. It requires that public companies create a board risk committee. Today, the oversight of how companies manage their risks is most often a responsibility of the audit committee, which has enough responsibilities already without also having to focus on risk. By creating separate risk committees, boards will never again be able to say they did not understand the risks that the firms they oversee were taking.
The introduction of the "Shareholders' Bill of Rights" comes as the Securities and Exchange Commission considers giving shareholders greater power to nominate directors to corporate boards. Even though such action would represent a lawful exercise of the SEC's authority, the business community is already threatening lawsuits if any steps are taken. Schumer and Cantwell's legislation would give this proposed change the force of law and eliminate any debates over the agency's authority.
The "Shareholders' Bill of Rights" is supported by nearly 20 major pension funds, labor unions, and consumer groups such as the Consumer Federation of America. Schumer was joined at the announcement of the bill Tuesday by top officials from CalPERS, the nation's largest public pension fund; the Council of Institutional Investors, the main association of public, union and corporate pension funds, who together have assets that exceed $3 trillion; and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), which is one of the nation's largest unions.
"We applaud your leadership in the advocacy of shareowner rights in America and the ongoing effort to improve board accountability to shareowners," said Joe Dear, Chief Investment Officer for CalPERS, in a letter to Schumer this week. "We believe that stronger investor oversight is critically needed to restore trust and confidence in the integrity of the U.S. capital markets."
"With these rights, stockholders will be able to protect themselves from the egregious CEO compensation practices that promote excessive risk taking and to hold directors accountable for their failure to monitor corporate decision making. Had these rights been in place years ago, they would have helped protect working families invested in the market through their pension systems and savings plan from the $11 trillion in wealth that has been destroyed by the economic meltdown," said Richard Ferlauto, AFSCME's Director of Corporate Governance and Pension Investment.
"Investor confidence is vital to maintaining a healthy and efficient marketplace, and that confidence has been sorely shaken," said New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, who is the sole trustee of the $122 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund. "Senator Schumer's efforts will give shareholders a greater voice in the nominating and electing of directors and the compensation of executives. This will help rebuild the sound, accountable management that is essential to restoring confidence in the public equity markets. Investors should have a stronger say over the behavior of corporate boards. The levels of oversight, risk management, and accountability should be calibrated to promote long-term shareholder value. As a long-term investor, the New York State Common Retirement Fund supports strengthening corporate governance provisions and bolstering shareholder rights."
Below is a list of individuals and organizations that support the "Shareholder Bill of Rights."
List of Supporting Organizations and Individuals
Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association
Connecticut State Employees Retirement System
The Consumer Federation of America
The Council of Institutional Investors
Massachusetts Pension Reserve Investment Management Board
Nell Minow, The Corporate Library
New Jersey Division of Investment
New State Investment Council (NJ)
New York City Board of Education Retirement System
New York City Employees Retirement System
New York City Fire Department Pension Fund
New York City Police Pension Fund
New York City Teachers Retirement System
New York State Common Retirement Fund
Service Employees International Union
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There is an increasing trend towards more urban cycling. Cycling is already playing a vital role in tackling the global problems of congestion, obesity and climate change. This summer, the conference "Velo-city Global" will be bringing together cycling experts, professionals and urban trendsetters from all over the world here to Copenhagen, a city of cyclists. The conference, is celebrating 30 years of Velo-city conferences co-hosted by different cities and the European Cyclists' Federation by going global for the first time. From June 22-25, 2010, the conference in Copenhagen will highlight the bicycle's potential to enhance the quality of urban life around the world. Available video includes soundbites and general views.
When It's About Money: Don't just save for your child's education
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Many a times parents overlook other goals as they are too busy focusing on just one goal, that is on their child's education. They are too emotionally involved in achieving this particular goal that they forget planning for their retirement and saving for other emergencies.


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Corporate security directors are often presented with a host of challenges when it comes to brand protection and IP enforcement. In many cases, CEO, CFOs, and other corporate executives do not see the need to fund antipiracy programs, regarding them as an unnecessary cost rather than a priority to protect the company's brand and recover lost sales. In today's climate of limited budgets, security managers are under pressure to articulate a sound business justification and a return on investment (ROI) for all programs.
Demonstrating that counterfeit items in the market represent a potentially displaced sale of genuine product requires reliable data. An impact assessment that examines market potential, the availability of counterfeits, and current sales of genuine products can help to provide such data. For example, the software industry estimates piracy rates by looking at the number of new computers shipped versus the number of genuine software operating systems sold and activated—the discrepancy is an indicator of pirated software installations since in most cases software operating systems (Original Equipment Manufacture versions) are installed at the factory. A sudden decrease in sales of a genuine product in a given market is another indication that piracy may be a factor and is often pointed out by sales personnel or distributors. Aggressive IP enforcement is not only a necessary deterrent but can also be a potential source of revenue to fund anti-counterfeiting programs through civil asset forfeiture and out of court settlements, while at the same time preserving brand integrity.
Often the sudden appearance of a particular counterfeit product on the market, a dramatic drop in sales, or a major seizure by law enforcement alerts the corporate leadership to the need for greater antipiracy enforcement. Unfortunately, when such an incident occurs, people often react by reaching for very costly "Band Aid" solutions. Instead, having an effective antipiracy program in place that consists of sustained enforcement effort and consumer education is a much better corporate strategy in the longer term. An added benefit of this approach is that law enforcement agencies are more inclined to work with companies that have well-developed programs and demonstrate a serious commitment to antipiracy enforcement.
The Assessment Phase
Because most managers need facts and figures to support budget and resource requests, an initial assessment is recommended to determine the scope and magnitude of the problem. Depending upon the type of product and the brand, on-site visits to sales outlets as well as Internet searches for the company's products are critical. The latter has increasingly become a means of "direct- to - customer" sales and has changed the business model for counterfeiters, by eliminating the need for wholesale distributors.
One large organized crime group that operated from Russia sold thousands of "burned" or copied CDs of software programs directly to retail customers in the U.S. via the Internet, thereby circumventing wholesale distributors. They used thousands of affiliate sites as well as spam tactics to generate sales. Pirated or counterfeit software and games are sold in shops, flea markets, or so called swap meets, which are essentially the same as flea markets. Pirated goods are also offered on the Internet through independent web sites or auction sites. An online search for cheap software will produce hundreds of results. Other types of products such as batteries, razor blades, or car parts are often available on business-to-business (B-to-B) sites, while counterfeit or unapproved generic pharmaceuticals are sold on both B-to-B sites and illegal online pharmacies.
Many sites selling pirated goods are hosted in countries where cybercrime and IP enforcement are almost non-existent, making it very difficult to identify, much less go after the criminals. There are many companies that perform Internet searches, often called "web crawling", to help locate where the imposter products are being sold. The searches are based upon specific search terms or logos or both provided by the IP rights holder. One often finds that spamming and the sale of counterfeit items and pornography on the Internet are ultimately controlled by the same organizations. It is important to find a search company with expertise and reliable baseline data in a specific industry to avoid the expense and time in the learning process.
In order to get an accurate picture of the size and nature of your company's piracy problem you should have an experienced antipiracy investigator conduct a series of test purchases (TPs) from sales outlets and Internet sellers. Based upon guidance provided by the brand owner, the investigator should gather specific information regarding the seller, the product, the make, the model, the design, the title, the version, and other key characteristics, including product authenticity.
Proper product authentication by the IP holder is critical, since sales are not limited to counterfeits. So called "grey market" items that have been diverted from the intended distribution channel are one of the many challenging issues in the brand protection domain. The TP is designed to obtain samples and to determine origin, price, quantity, quality, accepted payment methods, shipping, and return policies. Once there is enough information to permit a good sampling of the products most often pirated, an analysis and interpretation of the data should be conducted with an eye towards identifying commonalities and vulnerabilities. They may be in violation of laws other than those related to copyright and trademark infringement.
For example, is the seller of your company's pirated product also liable for wire fraud and money laundering offenses or involved with the sale of child pornography? These additional factors often make them more attractive targets for a law enforcement investigation. But it is important to remember that the initial goal is to assess risk and damages and not to conduct an investigation—that can come later. Some key considerations one should consider: Is there a health and safety risk? Are the products high-quality copies designed to deceive or cheap knock-offs? To what extent are they displacing sales of genuine products? What are the estimated losses of legitimate sales and which products and markets are most impacted? Are the products perhaps original equipment manufacturer (OEM) versions or stolen or fraudulently obtained genuine items?
If so, this may be an indication of an integrity problem within the distribution chain and with third-party manufacturers, distributors, or transporters and at some point a complete audit of manufacturing plants and distributors may be advisable. One company, for example, uncovered a huge problem with "leakage" of genuine products from its supply chain because they were leaving the plant marked as "scrap." An investigation revealed that several warehouse employees had been compromised by an organized criminal group. Thanks to good liaison and private-public cooperation with the FBI, the case was thoroughly investigated and the organized criminal gang was brought to justice. In addition, the company recovered some of its losses by bringing civil action against a third party manufacturer.
This case also pointed to an internal management problem. The account representatives for the third-party manufacturing plant had failed to conduct regular audits as prescribed in their vendor contracts. Such audits would have discovered that the use of raw materials did not correspond with the amount of finished product and that the plant had failed to properly account for the destruction of surplus goods. In another case, during the closing of a plant, numerous master "stampers" for digital media, each with a value in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, had gone missing and were being sold for a high price on the illicit market. Thanks to an FBI informant and good liaison efforts the stampers were prevented from getting into the hands of counterfeiters.
One of the challenges in the assessment phase is obtaining reliable information concerning counterfeiting or piracy. Sharing and comparing trend information with various internal corporate entities can often provide useful information and insights. An internal company survey might also surface good information about piracy and lets employees know that the company is protecting its valuable IP. Coordination with the legal, sales, marketing, product development, packaging, and manufacturing teams is highly recommended and is indicative of a holistic approach to antipiracy. Corporate stakeholders can also become allies in the quest for executive support and budget for antipiracy operations. As the program develops, an antipiracy advisory board comprised of key company players and stake holders ensures that proper information sharing and coordination across the company are being accomplished.
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More and more I find myself having nothing better to do than to drink tea and watch our street, idly noticing who is out and about and who is not.
It's been 75 years since I last kept so close a watch on traffic. In the Dirty Thirties (I do keep harping on those times, but they shaped me) our amusements were all homemade, from scratch, and one game that my brothers and I invented was "collecting" car licence plates.
From our place we could see for half a mile both up and down the public road, and the first one to spy the plume of dust signalling another approaching car ran for a close-up look at the licence plate.
At first, the object was to see who could score the most provinces and states. Then, when new sightings of those tailed off, we began recording the different letter combinations prefixing the numerals on Ontario plates. In those days, car owners received a new set of "markers" each year, and the pair of letters preceding the numbers was indicative of the issuing office. For a while — perhaps only during the year when our competition raged most fiercely — plates issued in Parry Sound bore the prefix JR. Legging it all the way from the barnyard to the roadside only to register yet another dirt-common JR was a big disappointment.
Going back still farther, to when homesteads were being newly carved out of the Parry Sound bush, and traffic on the rural road system was sparse, the passing scene was even more closely watched. Just seeing a sleigh or wagon come and go provided a distraction in a humdrum day. Who is it? Where are they going, and why? Might they even stop here?
It connected the settler, however fleetingly, with the world lying beyond his lonely clearing. I remember an old-timer, who had arrived in the Dunchurch area as a child of early settlers, recalling one memorable day when no fewer than "three rigs" (or was it six) passed through the community.
The passing parade might even make the local paper, as an item in the March 30, 1899, edition of the North Star illustrates. In his or her weekly submission, the paper's correspondent for "South McKellar" reported, "Two shantymen and a Jew peddler passed through here last week."
South McKellar embraced the Hurdville vicinity, thinly populated and hardly the most fertile ground for a news correspondent to cultivate. Needing a line or two to pad the week's column, the scribe remembered those nameless itinerants and tossed them in.
And I'm glad that he or she did, for such seemingly minor details paint human faces into the otherwise mundane landscape of history.
"Jew peddlers" (often as not men of Assyrian or Lebanese, or for that matter Scottish, extraction) regularly patrolled our rural roads in those times. Mostly they got about by buggy or cutter, although some of them trudged the rural byways on foot, carrying huge packs on their backs. They targeted two demographics, farmsteads lying along the road, and lumber camps scattered in the backwoods.
At a farm, the peddler dealt mostly with the housewife, who, from what I've heard, usually welcomed his arrival. When he spread his wares — items of clothing, an array of "notions" related to sewing and mending, patent medicines, and so on — on the kitchen floor, she was sure to find something that she needed and could afford.
The peddler's lumber camp clients were exclusively male and his trade mostly clothing: woollen socks and mitts, horsehide outer mitts, heavy-duty underwear, and mackinaw pants. Jackknives and pocket watches also sold well in the camps.
The passing "shantymen" glimpsed by the South McKellar correspondent would be loggers outbound from lumber camps where they had spent the winter. They would be identifiable by their dress — mackinaw jacket and trousers and moccasin-like "shoepacks" for footwear — and by the "turkeys," sacks containing extra clothing and other personal effects, slung over their backs.
These men might also have carried axes. His axe was as special to a professional lumberjack as is his instrument to a classical violinist. A keen-bladed axe "hung" just to the user's liking made the day's work easier, thus many loggers brought their own to camp in place of trusting the house brand.
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Amiodarone Rhabdomyolysis Risk
Amiodarone is normally prescribed for atrial fibrillation and other common heart conditions.
However, the FDA only approved amiodarone for more severe disorders called ventricular arrhythmias as a treatment of last resort.
Various adverse side effects have been reported as a result of taking heart drug Amiodarone (cordarone), including rhabdomyolysis.
Taking other statin drugs while also taking amiodarone may also increase the risk of developing rhabdomyolysis, a severe skeletal muscle injury.
From 1997 to 2002, the FDA Medwatch reported over 3,900 adverse events associated with amiodarone, including 452 deaths.
The FDA continues to receive reports of patients on the amiodarone and simvastatin combination that develop rhabdomyolysis, which can lead to kidney failure or death.
Most of these reported injuries were severe enough to require while others involved blindness or permanent damage to lungs, liver, thyroid or the nervous system.
Causes of death include:
- Respiratory failure due to lung damage
- liver failure
- kidney failure
- failure of multiple organs (e.g. lung, liver and kidney)
- congestive heart failure
- heart arrhythmias (including sinus arrest, ventricular tachycardia, cardiogenic shock, and torsades de pointes)
- stroke and bone marrow depression
Amiodarone has been approved for problems with the ventricles (large pumping chambers) of the heart, but not for fibrillation (quivering) of the atria (small chambers of the heart).
In October 2003, the FDA asked Wyeth to issue an advisory on amiodarone concerning its toxicity and off-label use.
In January 2005, the FDA and Wyeth notified health care providers of the new medication guide to be dispensed with every prescription of amiodarone and its generic equivalents.
The medication guide states that amiodarone can cause serious side effects that can lead to death including:
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Simvastatin, a medication (statin) for lowering cholesterol, is often prescribed for treating coronary heart disease and reducing heart attack risk.
In conjunction with amiodarone, simvastatin side effects include life-threatening rhabdomyolysis.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Senator Barack Obama is coming to Madison this week.
A campaign spokesman for the Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate says Obama will be at UW-Madison's Kohl Center for a rally on Tuesday.
That would mark his first Wisconsin campaign stop of the year.
The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
Obama is locked in a landmark struggle with New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.
In related news, Clinton's campaign says she has accepted an invitation to debate at Marquette University in Milwaukee. Obama's campaign hasn't said whether Obama will participate.
Clinton's campaign says no date has been set for the debate.
Wisconsin's primary is February 19th.
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I know, I know, you had just begun to get Jason Derulo's hit single In My Head out of your, well, head, but there was no way we could let the song's official remix go by, especially when it features Nicki Minaj, the femcee everyone either loves or loves to hate. On the remix version J.R. Rotem's originally rock oriented production is tweaked slightly and given a softer, more electronic feel, while Jason retouches his vocals to essentially the same effect. And then, of course, there's the Nicki guest verse, which in true Minaj fashion includes some quasi-schizophrenic vocal stylings and off beat references. So now the question is clear: Did Nicki somehow manage to make In My Head even more memorable, or was the track catchier without her? Let the debate begin Booth. And for the four people out there who don't already know, the original version of In My Head can be found on the young crooner's self-titled album Jason Derulo, available now.
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Here on the Percona MySQL Support team, we often see issues where a customer is complaining about replication delays – and many times the problem ends up being tied to MySQL replication slave lag. This of course is nothing new for MySQL users and we've had a few posts here on the MySQL Performance Blog […]
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With Microsoft Corp.'s appointment of John Thompson as chairman to replace co-founder Bill Gates, the world's largest software maker is looking to the veteran technology executive as the main outside voice in its new leadership structure.
Microsoft Corp. Chairman John Thompson, who led the recent search for a new chief executive officer that resulted in the appointment of Satya Nadella, said the challenge facing the software maker is how to direct the company's ample resources in the right direction.
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Rams QB Sam Bradford suffers torn ACL
It was feared Sunday night that Sam Bradford had suffered a torn ACL after being run out of bounds by Panthers safety Mike Mitchell in St. Louis' loss on Sunday.
Now, the bad news has been confirmed.
An MRI confirmed that #Rams QB Sam Bradford suffered a torn Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL). He will miss the remainder of the 2013 season.— St. Louis Rams (@STLouisRams) October 21, 2013
That leaves Kellen Clemens -- the only quarterback on the active roster -- as the temporary starter , though it's assumed the Rams will begin looking at the free agent market to find another quarterback (it won't, however, be Tim Tebow, because coach Jeff Fisher won't consider it).
The St. Louis Dispatch reports that Bradford will undergo surgery next month.
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