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- What is clozapine?
- What are the possible side effects of clozapine?
- What is the most important information I should know about clozapine?
- What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before taking clozapine?
- How should I take clozapine?
- What happens if I miss a dose?
- What happens if I overdose?
- What should I avoid while taking clozapine?
- What other drugs will affect clozapine?
- Where can I get more information?
What is clozapine?
Clozapine is an antipsychotic medicine works by changing the actions of chemicals in the brain.
Clozapine is used to treat severe schizophrenia, or to reduce the risk of suicidal behavior in people with schizophrenia or similar disorders.
Clozapine is available only from a certified pharmacy under a special program.
Clozapine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
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What are the possible side effects of clozapine?
Get emergency medical help if you have signs of an allergic reaction: hives, skin pain, rash that spreads and causes blistering or peeling; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Serious and sometimes fatal infections may occur during treatment with clozapine. Call your doctor right away if you have signs of infection such as: weakness, fever, swollen gums, sore throat, painful mouth sores, pain when swallowing, skin sores, cold or flu symptoms, cough, trouble breathing.
High doses or long-term use of clozapine can cause a serious movement disorder that may not be reversible. Symptoms of this disorder include uncontrollable muscle movements of your lips, tongue, eyes, face, arms, or legs. The longer you take clozapine, the more likely you are to develop a serious movement disorder. The risk of this side effect is higher in women and older adults.
Also call your doctor at once if you have:
- headache with chest pain and severe dizziness, pounding heartbeats or fluttering in your chest;
- a light-headed feeling, like you might pass out;
- sudden cough, rapid breathing, coughing up blood;
- tight feeling in your neck or jaw, twitching or uncontrollable muscle movements;
- a seizure (blackout-out or convulsions);
- kidney problems--little or no urination, swelling in your feet or ankles, feeling tired or short of breath;
- liver problems--nausea, upper stomach pain, loss of appetite, tiredness, confusion, unusual bleeding, dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes);
- severe nervous system reaction--very stiff (rigid) muscles, high fever, sweating, confusion, fast or uneven heartbeats, tremors, feeling like you might pass out;
- high blood sugar--increased thirst, increased urination, hunger, dry mouth, fruity breath odor, drowsiness, dry skin, blurred vision, weight loss; or
- signs of inflammation in your body--easy bruising or bleeding, severe tingling or numbness, muscle weakness, upper stomach pain, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes), chest pain, new or worsening cough, trouble breathing.
Common side effects may include:
- weight gain;
- tremor, dizziness, spinning sensation;
- headache, drowsiness;
- nausea, constipation;
- dry mouth, or increased salivation;
- blurred vision; or
- fast heart rate, increased sweating.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
What is the most important information I should know about clozapine?
Call your doctor right away if you have: chest pain, trouble breathing, fluttering in your chest, signs of infection (weakness, fever, sore throat, cold or flu symptoms), or if you feel like you might pass out.
Clozapine can cause severe dizziness, slow heartbeats, fainting, or seizures. Do not take more of this medicine than recommended.
Clozapine is not approved for use in psychotic conditions related to dementia. Clozapine may increase the risk of death in older adults with dementia-related conditions.
Clozapine is available only from a certified pharmacy under a special program.
What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before taking clozapine?
You should not take clozapine if you are allergic to it.
Clozapine is not approved for use in psychotic conditions related to dementia. Clozapine may increase the risk of death in older adults with dementia-related conditions.
To make sure clozapine is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have:
- heart disease, high blood pressure, or history of heart attack or stroke (including "mini-stroke");
- a personal or family history of long QT syndrome;
- an electrolyte imbalance (such as low levels of potassium or magnesium in your blood);
- a history of seizures, head injury, or brain tumor;
- diabetes, or risk factors such as being overweight or having a family history of diabetes;
- high cholesterol or triglycerides;
- a bowel obstruction called paralytic ileus;
- liver or kidney disease;
- an enlarged prostate or urination problems;
- glaucoma;
- if you are malnourished or dehydrated; or
- if you smoke.
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment. Taking antipsychotic medication during the last 3 months of pregnancy may cause problems in the newborn, such as withdrawal symptoms, breathing problems, feeding problems, fussiness, tremors, and limp or stiff muscles. However, you may have withdrawal symptoms or other problems if you stop taking your medicine during pregnancy. If you become pregnant while taking clozapine, do not stop taking it without your doctor's advice.
Clozapine can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing baby. You should not breast-feed while you are taking clozapine.
How should I take clozapine?
Follow all directions on your prescription label. Your doctor may occasionally change your dose. Do not use this medicine in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended.
Clozapine can be taken with or without food.
The orally-disintegrating tablet (FazaClo) can be taken without water. Keep the tablet in its blister pack until you are ready to take it. Open the package and peel back the foil. Do not push a tablet through the foil or you may damage the tablet. Use dry hands to remove the tablet and place it in your mouth. Do not swallow the tablet whole. Allow it to dissolve in your mouth without chewing. If desired, you may drink liquid to help swallow the dissolved tablet.
If your doctor has prescribed one-half of an orally-disintegrating tablet, you will need to break the tablet in half. Throw the other half away. Do not save it for later use.
Clozapine can lower blood cells that help your body fight infections, especially in women and older adults, and in people who are malnourished or have serious medical problems. This can make it easier for you to develop a serious or life-threatening infection. Your blood will need to be tested often. Your future treatments may be delayed based on the results of these tests.
If you need surgery, tell the surgeon ahead of time that you are using clozapine. You may need to stop using the medicine for a short time.
You should not stop using clozapine suddenly or you could have unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Follow your doctor's instructions about tapering your dose.
Clozapine can have long lasting effects on your body. You may need frequent medical tests for a short time after you stop using this medicine.
Store at room temperature away from moisture and heat.
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What happens if I miss a dose?
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember. Skip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next scheduled dose. Do not take extra medicine to make up the missed dose. If you miss taking clozapine for more than 2 days in a row, call your doctor before you start taking it again.
What happens if I overdose?
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
What should I avoid while taking clozapine?
Clozapine can cause severe dizziness, slow heartbeats, fainting, or seizures. Do not take more of this medicine than recommended. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be alert. Avoid getting up too fast from a sitting or lying position, or you may feel dizzy. Dizziness or severe drowsiness can cause falls, fractures, or other injuries.
Avoid drinking alcohol. Dangerous side effects could occur.
What other drugs will affect clozapine?
Clozapine can cause a serious heart problem, especially if you use certain medicines at the same time. Tell your doctor about all medicines you use, and those you start or stop using during your treatment with clozapine.
Taking clozapine with other drugs that make you sleepy or slow your breathing can cause dangerous or life-threatening side effects. Ask your doctor before taking a sleeping pill, narcotic pain medicine, prescription cough medicine, a muscle relaxer, or medicine for anxiety, depression, or seizures.
Many drugs can interact with clozapine. Not all possible interactions are listed here. Tell your doctor about all your current medicines and any you start or stop using, especially:
- dolasetron, methadone, probucol, tacrolimus;
- an antibiotic--ciprofloxacin, enoxacin, erythromycin, pentamidine, rifampin;
- an antidepressant--citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine, sertraline;
- anti-malaria medication--mefloquine, halofantrine;
- heart rhythm medicine--amiodarone, encainide, flecainide, procainamide, propafenone, quinidine, sotalol;
- medicine to treat a psychiatric disorder--chlorpromazine, droperidol, haloperidol, iloperidone, pimozide, thioridazine, ziprasidone; or
- seizure medication--carbamazepine, phenytoin.
This list is not complete and many other drugs can interact with clozapine. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal products. Give a list of all your medicines to any healthcare provider who treats you.
Where can I get more information?
Your pharmacist can provide more information about clozapine.
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A re-creation of Hiram Bingham III's discovery of the ancient citadel of Machu Picchu, in the Andes Mountains of Peru. Describes Bingham's struggles with rudimentary survival tools and his experiences at the sides of local guides.
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Excerpt: Turn Right At Machu Picchu
As the man dressed head-to-toe in khaki turned the corner and began racewalking uphill in my direction, I had to wonder: had we met before? It certainly seemed unlikely. John Leivers was in his late fifties and spent most of his time exploring in remote parts of the Andes, machete in hand, searching for ancient ruins. The overdeveloped lobe of my brain that processed all sensory data in relation to popular culture noted his passing resemblance to Crocodile Dundee—John wore a vest and a bush hat and greeted me on the sidewalk outside my hotel with a cheery "Hallo, Mark!" that confirmed deep Australian roots—but there was something else strangely familiar about him.
"Sorry about the delay," he said as we shook hands. "Just got back to Cusco last night."
In a general sort of way, John Leivers reminded me of the professional explorers I'd encountered over the years while working as an editor at various adventure travel magazines in New York City—the sorts of men and women who drove dogsleds to the South Pole and combed the ocean floor for sunken treasure. John was extremely fit; dressed as if ready to clamber up the Matterhorn though it was a cloudless, seventy-degree day; and about as unattached as a man could be in the twenty-first century. He had no wife, no children, no house or permanent mailing address, just a cell phone and a Gmail account. He'd been recommended to me as one of the best guides in South America, and it had taken weeks to reach him. But now that he was finally here, sitting down to a late breakfast at my tiny hotel in Cusco, an old colonial city in the middle of the Peruvian Andes, I wasn't quite sure where to begin. Because I didn't exactly have a plan.
We ordered coffees, and John started to tell me about himself, occasionally stopping in the middle of a sentence—"When you're traveling alone, you've got to be absolutely, um, seguro . . . sorry, it's been a little while since I've spoken English"—then patting his ear like a swimmer dislodging water, as if a tenacious Spanish verb were stuck in there. John had started coming to Cusco twenty years ago, when he was working as an extreme-trip leader, driving fearless globetrotters across four continents in an open-backed truck. "Back then the shops were still closed on Sundays and you could go months without seeing an American," he said. During the last decade, a period during which the number of visitors to Cusco had multiplied exponentially because of its position as the gateway to Machu Picchu, John had seen interest in serious adventure dwindle.
"People used to be travelers, Mark," he said, stirring his coffee. "Now they're tourists. People want hotels, cafés, the Internet. They won't even camp!"
"You're kidding!" I said, a little too loudly. I had already checked my e-mail at an Internet café twice that morning. The last time I'd slept in a tent was in 1978, when my father brought an imitation teepee home from Sears and set it up in our backyard.
And that, more or less, was why I was in Cusco. After years of sitting at a computer in New York and sending writers off on assignment to Kilimanjaro and Katmandu—places John knew firsthand—I wanted an adventure of my own. I figured that my near-total lack of outdoor experience was a subject that John and I could discuss once I'd decided whether to go through with this.
"So what sort of trip did you have in mind?" John asked. "Paolo says you're thinking about going after Bingham."
"Yeah, I think so. Something like that."
For most of his life and many decades after his death in 1956, Hiram Bingham was known as the discoverer of Machu Picchu. The story he told in his adventure classic Lost City of the Incas—knock-off editions of which were available in most of the stores that catered to tourists (even on Sundays) in the center of Cusco—was one of the most famous in the annals of exploration. Bingham was a Yale University history lecturer who happened to be passing through Cusco in 1909 when he learned of a four-hundred-year-old unsolved mystery. When the Spanish conquistadors had invaded in the sixteenth century, a group of Incas withdrew to a city in Peru's impenetrable high-altitude cloud forest, carrying the sacred treasures of their empire. This city and its inhabitants had vanished so long ago that as far as most serious scholars were concerned, legends of its existence were about as credible as tales of Atlantis. Bingham thought the experts were wrong, and he scoured obscure texts and maps for clues to its location. In the dramatic climax of Lost City of the Incas, he was on the hunt for this final Inca refuge on July 24, 1911 when he stumbled across the geometric splendor of Machu Picchu instead. The citadel he discovered was so unexpected, so incredible that he wondered, "Would anyone believe what I had found?"
As the hundredth anniversary of Bingham's achievement approached, the explorer was suddenly back in the news. I'd been introduced to John via e-mail through his friend Paolo Greer, an obsessive amateur researcher with an encyclopedic knowledge of Inca history who also happened to be a retired Alaskan pipeline worker living alone in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods outside of Fairbanks. Paolo had found what he claimed was a rare map indicating that someone may have beaten Bingham to the top of Machu Picchu by forty years or more. Almost simultaneously, the former first lady of Peru ignited an international incident by demanding that Yale return artifacts that Bingham had excavated at Machu Picchu, on the grounds that the explorer—she preferred the term "grave robber"—and his employer had violated a legal agreement. Yale and Peru had once planned to jointly open a new museum in Cusco to celebrate the centennial of Bingham's feat. Instead, they were suing each other in U.S. courts.
In the avalanche of news coverage that followed the filing of Peru's lawsuit, questions kept popping up: Had Bingham lied about discovering Machu Picchu? Had he smuggled artifacts out of the country illegally? A woman in Cusco was even claiming that her family still owned the land on which Machu Picchu sits; was it possible that both Yale and the government of Peru were wrong?
As a magazine editor, I knew the revised version of Bingham's tale had the makings of a great story: hero adventurer exposed as villainous fraud. To get a clearer idea of what had really happened on that mountaintop in 1911, I took a day off and rode the train up to Yale. I spent hours in the library, leafing through Bingham's diaries and expedition journals. While holding the little leather-covered notebook in which Bingham had penciled his first impressions of Machu Picchu, any thoughts of the controversies fell away. Far more interesting was the story of how he had gotten to Machu Picchu in the first place. I'd heard that Bingham had inspired the character of Indiana Jones, a connection that was mentioned—without much evidence—in almost every news story about the explorer in the last twenty years. Sitting in the neo-gothic splendor of Yale's Rare Books and Manuscripts Room, the Indy-Bingham connection made sense for the first time. Bingham's search had been a geographic detective story, one that began as a hunt for the Lost City of the Incas but grew into an all-consuming attempt to solve the mystery of why such a spectacular granite city had been built in such a spellbinding location: high on a secluded mountain-ridge, in the misty subtropical zone where the Andes meet the Amazon. Fifty years after Bingham's death, the case had been reopened. And the clues were still out there to be examined by anyone with strong legs and a large block of vacation time.
"What's your take on Bingham?" I asked John.
"Bit of a martini explorer," he said, employing what I later learned was a euphemism for a traveler who fancies himself tough but who really expects a certain level of comfort. "Not very popular in Peru at the moment. But you can't argue with the things he found."
Like every serious explorer in Peru, John had all but memorized Bingham's published accounts of his 1911 expedition. During that summer, Bingham had made not one but three incredible archaeological discoveries, any one of which would have cemented his reputation as a world-class explorer. In his spare time during that visit he had managed to squeeze in the first ascent of Peru's twenty-thousand-foot Mount Coropuna, thought at the time to be the highest unclimbed peak in the Western Hemisphere. Bingham found so many ruins during his three major Peru expeditions that many had since been reclaimed by the wilderness. John had helped organize an expedition a few years earlier to rediscover a site that Bingham had found within view of Machu Picchu, which had gone missing again for ninety years.
As John sipped his coffee, I floated my idea to him. I wanted to retrace Bingham's route through the Andes on the way to discovering Machu Picchu. I also wanted to see three other important sites that he had visited: the mountaintop citadel of Choquequirao, now considered by many to be Machu Picchu's twin city; Vitcos, site of one of the holiest shrines in the Inca empire; and Espiritu Pampa, the long-lost jungle city where the Incas made their last stand against the Spaniards. Exactly how we were going to accomplish this—buses? trains? llamas?—was a detail I hadn't thought through very well.
"Maybe we could hike the Inca Trail," I said. "That way I could get a taste of Bingham's experience, you know, following the road that leads to Machu Picchu." I had mixed feelings about the Inca Trail. For trekkers, hiking it was like making the Hajj to Mecca; you had to do it once in your life. But every story I'd read about the Inca Trail—and when you work at an adventure-travel magazine, you read a lot of stories about the Inca Trail—made it sound as crowded as the George Washington Bridge at rush hour. The best parts of Bingham's books were those sections describing Peru's natural beauty, and I was hoping to get a sense of Peru as Bingham had seen it, if such a thing still existed.
"You know, Mark, all Inca roads lead to Machu Picchu," John said. He reached across the cluttered tabletop for a jam jar. I couldn't help but notice how different our hands were. His had square-cut nails and looked like they'd spent a lifetime hauling lines on a trawler. Mine looked like I'd just visited the salon for a mani-pedi. "If this is Machu Picchu"—here he placed the jar at the center of the table—"and this is Choquequirao"—he aligned the sugar bowl—"then these are Vitcos and Espiritu Pampa." He moved the salt and pepper shakers into position. The four pieces formed a Y shape with Machu Picchu at the bottom.
"There are no roads to most of these places, only trails," John said. "You can still walk pretty much everywhere Bingham went." He reached into one of his vest's many pockets and pulled out a little blue notebook with a plastic cover. "I buy these in Chile—they're essential for traveling in wet areas.
"Now, let's see. You'll need three days in Cusco to acclimatize to the altitude. One day to drive to the trailhead for the hike to Choquequirao. Two days' walk to the ruins. It's not very far but it is a bit steep. Incredible views. We'll have a look around, then continue on to Vitcos—that's about three days of walking. We'll take a good look at the White Rock, a very important religious site that Bingham spent a lot of time trying to figure out. Serious country out there, serious Inca trails. You'll need a good sleeping bag because we'll be spending one night near 15,000 feet. Might get snowed in.
"We'll take a day or two of rest near Vitcos. Then we go down to the jungle, quite a ways down, actually, toward the Amazon basin. Maybe three more days to get there, depending on the weather, which can be a little unpredictable. We get to Espiritu Pampa and walk down the staircase to the lost city. You'll want at least two days there." John paused for a second. "Presumably you want to see Llactapata, too."
"Llacatapata. It's the site Bingham found when he came back to Peru in 1912. I was up there a few years ago. You can look right across the valley to Machu Picchu. Just incredible. It's like what Machu Picchu used to be like before it was cleaned up—hardly been excavated."
"Of course, that Llactapata," I said, trying to guess how the name was spelled so that I could look it up later. "Definitely can't miss that."
"It'll help you get an idea of how the Inca engineers and priests aligned all these sites with the sun and stars. Brilliant stuff."
If John didn't look like a cum laude graduate of the French Foreign Legion, I'd have sworn we were tiptoeing into New Age territory. Cusco was a magnet for mystics. You couldn't swing a crystal without hitting someone wearing feathers who called himself a spiritual healer. The big draw, of course, was Machu Picchu itself. Something about the cloud-swathed ruins in the sky had a dog-whistle effect on the sorts of New Agers who went in for astrological readings, sweat lodges, and Kabbalah bracelets. Travel brochures that arrived in my magazine office always seemed to imply that the stones of Machu Picchu practically glowed with positive energy. There was no single explanation for why the citadel Bingham had found was sacred ground, but that didn't stop thousands of spiritual pilgrims from flocking to the site each year, hoping to experience a personal harmonic convergence.
"All right. So we walk up to Llactapata, come down the far side and we can either take the train to Aguas Calientes"—he looked at me over his notebook—"that's the town at the base of Machu Picchu. Or we can walk along the rails and save the train fare."
"Is that legal?"
"Well, you know how things work in Peru, Mark. It all depends on who you ask."
"Do a lot of people sign up for this sort of trip?"
"We used get a few people every year—serious travelers. Hardly anyone does it anymore."
"How long would it take?"
"About a month. Maybe less if the weather cooperates."
Represented by breakfast condiments, the trip didn't look especially daunting. About a hundred miles of walking by my rough calculations. From the sound of what John had described, we'd go north, cut through the mountains, bear left toward the jungle, double back toward Cusco and then turn right at Machu Picchu. I could handle that. I had only one question.
"I know it's a lot to take in," John said. "Any questions so far?"
I could only think of one. "Is this harder than the Inca Trail?"
For a split second, John looked like he didn't understand me. "Mark, this trek is a lot harder than the Inca Trail."
Excerpt from Turn Right At Machu Picchu © 2011 by Mark Adams published by Dutton. Excerpted with permission from the publisher. All rights reserved.


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Deep into the quest to make actually attending the ETech conference unnecessary, attendees recap everything for the rest of us:
AOL exec Jason Calacanis and VC Fred Wilson recommend spending a homeless year or two. [Calacanis.com]
Technorati engineer Kevin Marks goes manic for microformats. [Epeus' epigone]
Dan Hon coredumps a hefty set of conference notes. [DanHon.com]
He also publishes meticulous notes on danah boyd's "G/localization" talk. Gold star, Dan. [DanHon.com]
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I think of the crazed fan Annie Wilkes in "Misery," whose pathology — her evil, if you will — is the flip side of her desire. Or that quartet of friends in "The Body," walking along the railroad tracks in search of a dead boy, discovering the enigma of the world. There's a human element even to the oddest moments, which grounds these stories and gives them weight. When horror ensues, it comes out of a terrain we recognize, which makes it all the more horrible and true.
King's new novel, "Joyland," operates very much from this territory: a drama that unfolds in miniature. The story of a college student named Devin Jones who spends summer and fall 1973 working at a North Carolina amusement park, it is, like "The Body," told in retrospect, by its sixtysomething narrator looking back.
"When you're twenty-one," Devin observes, "life is a road map. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're … lost." Such a double vision — the 21-year-old actively living through his experience while his older incarnation reflects on it — gives the book an unexpected perspective, even as it reassures us that whatever happens in the novel, Devin will come out alive.
That's a neat trick to pull off in a thriller, and "Joyland" is definitely a thriller, albeit in a minor key. Published by the excellent Hard Case Crime — an imprint devoted to hard-boiled fiction, both reprint and new — it's also an homage, in some sense, to the disposable culture of the early 1970s: pulp novels, LPs and independent amusement parks, such as the one where much of the action here takes place.
It's hard not to see the influence of Donald Westlake, and not just because "Joyland" is dedicated to him; one of the best of Westlake's Parker novels, "Slayground," takes place in a shuttered amusement park, after all. "Joyland," however, is written with a lighter touch, an air of if not nostalgia then wistfulness.
Devin is a lost boy, dumped by his college girlfriend, mourning his mother's death four years earlier, a Maine townie adrift in a Southern beach community where the ghosts of the past assume an almost human form. These ghosts are both metaphorical and actual (a key part of the story turns on the park's Horror House, supposedly haunted by a young woman who was murdered there), but more than anything, they are psychological, markers of Devin's developing sense of self.
This grows only more heightened as the narrative progresses, making "Joyland" a coming-of-age novel as well, although such a process is bittersweet at best. "Those are things that happened once upon a time and long ago," Devin tells us late in the book, "in a magical year when oil sold for eleven dollars a barrel. The year I got my damn heart broke. The year I lost my virginity. … The year I wanted to see a ghost and didn't … although I guess at least one of them saw me."
What King is getting at is what he's always getting at — that life is inexplicable, that joy and sorrow, triumph and tragedy, are all bound up and can assert themselves at any time. This too is a form of haunting, as Devin comes to understand.
"Joyland" has a patina of the supernatural: There is that ghost as well as Devin's friendship with a 10-year-old disabled boy named Mike, who is gifted with an "authentic psychic ability" that is "like touching another world." Still, for all that this helps drive the narrative, it ultimately brings us back to Devin, to the novel's human heart.
In his relationship with Mike — not to mention Mike's mother, Annie, for whom he falls — Devin allows himself to open, to put the past behind him and move on. And in his fascination with the dead girl, which leads to the discovery of a series of related murders, he learns that reality is just a set of surfaces, of facades as flimsy as those in an amusement park house of horrors, behind which are hidden terrors far less easily dismissed.
For King, this is both the stuff of story and more fundamentally the stuff of life. We are all suspended between past and present, between our aspirations and our disappointments. Our consolations, when we find them, are fleeting and small. That's the key, I think, to his appeal as a writer, and, like many of his protagonists, Devin embodies this at the core.
"All I can tell you," he explains, looking back at that long lost summer, "is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a few. That was one of mine, and when I'm blue — when life comes down on me and everything looks tawdry and cheap, the way Joyland Avenue did on a rainy day — I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game."
David Ulin is book critic for the Los Angeles Times.
By Stephen King, Hard Case Crime, 288 pages, $12.95 (paperback)


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"I want to create half the menu that's been successful here, our greatest hits: The Greepointer, the Cherry Jones, etc," Giannone said. "The other part of the menu will be [Pizzablogger's] to create, to spread his wings. He also envisions doing "pie swaps," in which successful pies from the Hampden location will appear on the Greenpoint menu.And what kind of pies might we see from Pizzablogger's part of the menu?"I am not nearly as creative as someone like Paulie, the crew at Roberta's, TXCraig, etc. when it comes to topping combinations or with pie names," Pizzablogger said. "But I will have a few of my own offerings, with the Hampdenite being a definite one in the summer months. It's simple, but people at the Baltimore Farmer's Market loved it: basically a Margherita with aleppo chiles, calabrian chile oil, and heirloom cherry tomatoes. Definitely a pie with lemons on it, which I always make and love. I often finish my lemon pies with Mike's Hot Honey and sometimes pull the pie with about a minute to go and add crushed pine nuts before putting back into the oven to finish. Wintergreen, Baltimore Flats and a few more may pop-up from time to time, including the Crab Chip. No crabs, but it does use an ingredient Paulie dislikes. All of the regular offerings will use baker's yeast like the Greenpoint location. I may ocassionally offer one round pizza that uses natural leavening as a limited quantity offering on certain nights."
Kelly, I've been meaning to ask you. As I ponder the PG 'brand,' it's impossible to picture a PG without his trademark, front of the house schmoozing. Are you planning on spending much time in the front of the house or will you be sticking to the pizza making and letting the pizzas speak for themselves?
Man I can't wait to see this unfold... I lived in Bawlimore in the Mid 90's and absolutely loved it. I haven't been back but plan on taking the kids and wife there soon.
Wow...high-tech lighting console! Looks like you got your work cut out for you Kelly...have fun!
I dont claim to be as good a people person as Paulie, but I genuinely enjoy meeting people, talking with them, etc.
I'm curious, does Baltimore have anything remotely similar to a PGs? I know that when Paulie opened, Brooklyn had other eclectic pizza places like Roberta's and Franny's, but I'm wondering if Baltimore has anything along these lines?
From the standpoint of interesting and quality, out of the "ordinary" topping combinations, Baltimore has places like Iggies and Joe Squared.
......yes, I will be in the front of the house schmoozing with customers, keeping an eye on the finished pies coming out of the oven for quality control, working the music, etc....
From your interviews, it seems like you're pretty amicable with these owners, but, if any kind of rivalry did develop, from seeing their pies and yours, I'm not sure there'd be much competition Not that there needs to a rivalry, of course. There are many paths towards pizza bliss


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SPN Alum on the Screen Pt. I
The show keeps our boys too hard at work for much else, but the extended cast has been busy, busy, busy. This isn't everyone or everything, by far, but I thought I'd give you a sneak peak at some upcoming projects from SPN alum. Thanks, mostly, to the prodigious Jeffrey Dean Morgan, I'll be doing this in two parts.
Ruby might be dead, but look for Genevieve Cortese in December's American Empire. An indie "film noir, dark comedy of errors" with one heckuva hot cast.
Our beloved Jeffrey Dean Morgan (John Winchester) continues to be one sizzling star with at least six things on the slate.
First up is July's All Good Things. This mystery has Jeffrey playing a detective trying to unravel a missing person's case that could doom the heir to a NY real estate dynasty.
Come August, we'll see him playing the lover of a closeted gay man who inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert of 1969 in Ang Lee's awesome looking, Taking Woodstock.
Then in September, Jeffrey does this thing we wish he'd quit doing--he dies--which acts as the catalyst for his best friend (John Cusack) to return to Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor.
And, OMG, in 2010, he's playing a stalker landlord with an obsession for his new tenant, Hilary Swank, in Invasion of Privacy. (Wicked Jeffrey is just so yummy.)
Also in 2010, Jeffrey's turn as a "twisted, sado-masochistic henchman" in a yet-to-be-titled Beatle Boyin project.
And, finally, his first 2011 project is another graphic novel adaptation in which he'll play a CIA black ops agent who's out to get those responsible for attempting to assassinate his team in The Losers.
Katie Cassidy (former Ruby) has yet to bite the dust on Harper's Island, but even if she never makes it to her wedding day she's got a bright future ahead of her.
First, or maybe never, is the super secret Chris Carter project she filmed. Fencewalker was written, financed and directed by the X-Files scribe who says it's a "coming-of-age semiautobiographical character piece with no supernatural elements." Hmm. Clear as mud, eh? Recently Katie called the script "amazing" and said it was a challenging, emotional role for her and she thought the film would be out at the end of the year. Let's hope so!
This fall she'll return to blonde and the CW when she stars as Ella Flynn, a bi-sexual publicist whose tongue is as sharp as her stilettos in the Melrose Place redux.
And since slasher remakes are all the rage, as Jared and Jensen proved this summer, watch for Katie in next year's A Nightmare on Elm Street where she's sure to fall victim to Freddy Kruger's grisly glove.
Finally, keep your eye out for Samantha Smith (Mary Winchester) in next month's blockbuster Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen where she'll reprise her role as Sarah Lennox. (That's the wife of hot Army Captain William Lennox (Josh Duhamel), in case you didn't remember).
So, which of these grabs your interest? 'Til next time….


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Kevin Garnett had 16 points and Paul Pierce passed former Celtics star Robert Parish for 22nd on the NBA's career scoring list by chipping in 13 points. Pierce has 23,342 points and Parish 23,334.
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The Return From Cam Sur
Its been my dream for quite some time to go the CWC and when the opportunity came around I couldn't resist. CWC is everything I dreamed of and more. The people, the experiences, and the culture is something I will never forget. We had complete reign over the Shang Ra la of wakeboarding.
The people I encountered on my adventure were all very accommodating. I made friends with people from all the over the world. I learned about a place where people cherish the small things and are thankful for the large things in life. CWC is a melting pot of cultures with attendees from all over the world. People who had never heard of Wakeboarding some how made their way to CWC. People who live for wakeboarding found a way to stay longer at CWC.
We didn't have enough time to explore Cam Sur too its fullest but we were able to explore some of the area. We were able to experience downtown Naga in the middle of the day on a Sunday in the Market. We traveled to the nearby Hot Springs in search of rejuvenation and the fountain of youth. We got to ride in every form of crazy contraption of transportation.
On our final night our new friends put on a family style bar-b-que of sorts. We all gathered around the table to eat and drink like long time friends. We counted over 11 different countries in attendance. Some of us could speak little to no English and some of us talked with funny accents. Some of the attendees had never rode a wakeboard before attending CWC and others were long time Pros. We set around talking about our cultures, our experiences and showed off our battles scars we acquired while at CWC. It was a glorious example of the power Wakeboarding has in bringing people together.
When we finally left CWC, the good byes were harder then expected as it seemed we had all become good friends in the 2 weeks time and after spending 16 hours a day together it would be sad to leave. There are so many people I wish I could thank for all the hospitality that they showed us while we were there. I will never forget each sunrise and each sunset. The people who basked in the sun between those hours and the water that cooled our spirits. The philippines is a magical place that everyone should experience at some point in their life.
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Wauka Mountain school's Ag Day
The election is over and we know who our president and members of Congress are going to be. Let's take a few minutes and look at some of the other winners and losers in Georgia politics.
Winner: Gov. Nathan Deal. After he took a beating on the T-SPLOST transportation sales tax, the governor recovered to lead the charge on the charter school constitutional amendment, approved by more than 58 percent of the state's voters.
Besides the morale boost he received from winning that issue, Deal also set himself up to benefit handsomely when he cranks up his 2014 campaign for another four years in the governor's mansion.
With a state commission to approve charter schools and spend millions of dollars in tax funds on them, you will see a gold rush of out-of-state companies signing lucrative contracts to manage the new schools.
These companies contributed heavily to the campaign to approve the charter school amendment, so I think they will be more than happy to help out Deal in his campaign for a second term.
Loser: State school Superintendent John Barge. In opposing the charter school constitutional amendment, Barge was trying to uphold his constitutional duty to support the state's public school systems.
Barge's opposition to the amendment angered Deal and influential legislators like House Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones and House Majority Leader Ed Lindsey. They are going to come after him with a vengeance, and if they can't abolish the office of state school superintendent they will surely pass new laws stripping Barge of his administrative powers.
Barge will at least be able to ask Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle for advice on what a public official does when his enemies have neutered him.
Winner: Georgia Republican Party. GOP voters delivered the state's electoral votes to Mitt Romney and it looks like Republicans will also have "supermajority" control of two-thirds of the seats in the General Assembly.
While Republicans are in good shape to command state politics for another eight or 10 years, election results show that they may have maxed out on how far you can go by relying only on white voters.
There were several House races that Republican consultants figured they would take, only to see Democrats win surprising victories. A Republican incumbent, Rep. Mike Cheokas of Americus, also came within 208 votes of being upset by his Democratic challenger.
Winners: Stan Wise and Chuck Eaton. The two incumbents on the Public Service Commission both won another term on the panel that regulates utility giants Georgia Power and Atlanta Gas Light.
Wise had token opposition and won with more than 65 percent of the vote. Eaton had more serious opposition from Democrat Steve Oppenheimer but still made it through with just over 52 percent of the statewide vote.
Their next term may not be quite as easy as the last one, however.
Georgia Power could have some sizeable cost overruns on the nuclear reactors it is building at Plant Vogtle. Wise and Eaton will have to vote on whether the utility can pass along these cost increases to its customers in the form of higher bills, or whether the utility's shareholders should assume part of the financial risk.
If the commissioners decide in Georgia Power's favor, they're going to have a lot of explaining to do to angry ratepayers.
Possible loser: Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Chambliss and his "Gang of Six" in the U.S. Senate have long been trying to work out a deal on reducing the massive federal deficit.
With the re-election of a Democratic president, it's more likely that a deal would have to include some kind of tax increase — and that's something a large number of Chambliss' supporters would never forgive. He would find himself under attack on every talk show and conservative website in the country.
Chambliss would also be setting himself up for a strong Republican primary challenge in 2014 from Rep. Tom Price, who will have a ton of money he's raised from the health care industry.
It may be that Chambliss is a genius who can work out a deficit deal and still hold off opposition from a challenger like Price. It's more likely that the results of last week's elections will eventually convince him it's time to retire from elective politics.
Tom Crawford is editor of The Georgia Report at gareport.com. His column appears Wednesdays and at gainesvilletimes.com/viewpoint.


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ROME — Are you stoned?
That's the message Pope Francis seemed to be sending lawmakers Friday, saying the growing worldwide trend toward legalizing recreational drugs is a very, very bad idea.
"Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise," he told participants at the International Drug Enforcement Conference in Rome.
The Pope's call isn't shocking. Francis has spoken of the dangers of drug use before.
But it lends his voice and the authority of the Catholic Church to the growing worldwide debate over legalizing or at least decriminalizing some recreational drugs, most notably marijuana.
Colorado and Washington have made marijuana use legal, and several other states, cities and countries have decriminalized its use or have announced plans to do so.
Uruguay passed a law in December to create a regulated marijuana marketplace. Jamaican officials said this month that they plan to modify that nation's laws to decriminalize pot use and possession.
And public opinion has rapidly shifted toward softer policies on marijuana use, particularly.
In January, a CNN/ORC International survey found 55 percent of respondents wanted to see marijuana made legal. That's up from 16 percent in 1987, according to the CNN poll and numbers from the General Social Survey.
But Francis said such policies are "not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail to produce the desired effects."
"To think that harm can be reduced by permitting drug addicts to use narcotics in no way resolves the problem," he said.


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Investors still favoring bonds over stocksSeptember 13, 2012: 1:54 PM ET
The summer may be over, but investors continued to pull money from the stock market in the latest week, as they waited on central banks to take steps to stimulate the global economy.
During the week ended Sept. 5, U.S. stock mutual funds bled another $2.9 billion, according to the Investment Company Institute, bringing the 2012 outflow total to more than $79 billion. By comparison, those funds lost in the neighborhood of $70 billion during the first eight months of 2011, and just $52 billion during the first eight months of 2010.
The outflows from stocks could ease in the coming weeks, however, as the European Central Bank and Federal Reserve have recently unveiled new stimulus program.
Last Thursday, ECB president Mario Draghi said the central bank is prepared to make "outright monetary transactions," or OMTs, in the secondary bond market.
The Fed followed up this week, launching a third round of bond purchases, or QE3. Specifically, the Fed plans to buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month. And the end date remains up in the air, as the Fed will re-evaluate the strength of the economy in coming months.


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Fiber to the Home Council Americas asks the FCC for matching grant program to help communities develop gigabit networks.
Communities are finding that ultra high-speed networks are helping create jobs and contribute to the local tax base. On Tuesday, July 23, nonprofit organization Fiber to the Home Council Americas (FTTH Council) petitioned the FCC to develop a "Gigabit Communities Race to the Top" program to provide local governments and communities with matching grants of up to $10 million each to help them deploy a gigabit network.
According to the FTTH Council, the program is modeled after the Obama administration's "Race to the Top" education grants which allocate funding for states that create education innovation and reform.
Heather Gold, FTTH Council President, said during a press conference call that the council anticipates the FCC awarding 15 grants each year over the next five years, eventually leading to a "critical mass" of gigabit communities.
"Today the Fiber to the Home Council is asking the FCC to take the next step in making these ultra high-speed networks a reality by establishing a competitive Gigabit Communities Race to the Top program," Gold said during the call. "This program will provide critical seed capital for gigabit network programs, which will be used to develop new models of infrastructure investment and jumpstart the development of ultra high-speed applications essential to economic and social development."
Officials involved with the rollout of the Kansas City, Kan., Google fiber project talked about how their gigabit fiber network has influenced change in the community. Through a well-publicized Google contest, Kansas City (both Kansas and Missouri) were awarded the project in 2011 after being selected from more than 1,100 applicant cities.
"It's evident from the [Google fiber] contest itself with over 1,100 cities applying, that more and more cities every day are realizing that fiber-to-the-home connectivity is a really essential kind of infrastructure for cities," said former Kansas City, Kan., Mayor Joe Reardon. "Much like we think of with curbs and sidewalks and sewers -- the kind of backbone that cities install in order to create positive economic and community development."
Since the Kansas City Google fiber deployment, Google has announced high-speed fiber projects in other cities, including Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah. Many other cities are pursuing gigabit networks on their own.
Tom Crawford, the chief financial officer of Ann Arbor, Mich., said a high-speed gigabit deployment could help his city compete on an international level. Currently, that is challenging, he said, since many other countries including South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong have a significant number of high-speed Internet deployments.
Since Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan, also has a significant workforce that has remote jobs or work from home, Crawford thinks the city could significantly benefit from a gigabit network.
"We feel strongly we need to help by some way get this infrastructure built to enable the economy to move forward," Crawford said.
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Phoenix, AZ – August 14, 2009 – (RealEstateRama) — Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced that he has filed a lawsuit and obtained a temporary restraining order to stop the perpetrators of an alleged fraud that claimed a homeowner's property qualified for a "property tax reduction review." The official-looking advertisement appeared to be an attempt to scam homeowners who were looking to reduce their property tax bill.
The lawsuit names Property Tax Review Board, Inc., a Granada Hill, Calif.-based company; Property Tax Review Board's President and CEO Michael McConville, of Simi Valley, Calif., and Carmen Mercer, of Tombstone, owner of the Post Office box included in the solicitation.
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The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in Maricopa County Superior Court, alleges that the solicitations distributed by defendants McConville and Property Tax Review Board are completely fraudulent and deceptive because the deadline for appealing 2009 property valuations has lapsed. It further alleges that the defendants led consumers to believe they were conducting a legitimate business when, in fact, they were accepting monies for services that they cannot perform.
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– Require the defendants to refund to consumers who mailed in payment for defendants services;
– Pay a fine of $10,000 for each violation of the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act.
Earlier today, Mercer, who is a well-known activist for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps., turned over to U.S. Postal Inspectors the Post Office box and the more than 1,000 responses she has received. Mercer, who has cooperated with investigators, claimed she was asked to open the Post Office box by a friend and that she did not know its intended purpose.
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