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Poor "American Idol" loser Clay Aiken. He's had to endure countless questions about his sexual preference. At a concert earlier this year, Clay thought it'd be a good idea to give his fans a treat by singing Madonna's "Like A Virgin". Not gay at all!
Aiken now takes it to another level with his homage to JT. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you "Sexy Back." Aikenified.
You go gurl boy.
The fact that your readers/posters are not able to recognize parody or satire is an indication of their intelligence level . Anyone who takes this a a serious rendition of the song needs to be both educated and pitied. Where is their sense of humor?
The funny thing is that he isn't lying. You guys need to get your heads out of your stereotypes and accept it. He's never going to be gay because he isn't.
I have been going through the comments written about Clay. Why be so mean. If you don't like him don't buy his cd or see him in concert.
I saw him in concert, at NJPAC and it was one of the best concerts I have seen, and I seen many.
He was funny, he made fun of himself and remarked about what people say about him. He sang Top 40 songs as a sattire, because the radio does not play his music He addressed all of your nasty critiscism. Which showed me what a great guy and entertainer he truly is.
Funny. Also funny that so many have no idea what the guy is like in real life or what his full show is. They pick one isolated part and try to imply it defines him. Why not then pick the parts where he is totally straight and so into women that it is unreal. He is a southern dork trying to have fun and entertain his fans. He is a good singer, even if not your type. Then ignore him. The following around just to bash is crazy. Lots of people, men included, have attended his shows and laughed their butts off and gotten up and danced and sung along. I doubt their wives who were with them would think they were gay. Some of you people are nuts and pathetic. Ain't the internet grand where you can say all the nasty things you want because you get to protected and anonymous. Get a life and grow up. Bet I could find stupid things about your favorites musicians too, but it just ain't worth the time.
You know, if you people here want to cut Clay down, that's your right. But you haven't a clue what you are talking about. You at least need to know that this was a parody of all these songs. Clay was making light of this supposedly good music and the kind of junk that has filled the radio airwaves for years. His parody is hysterical. You can make fun of him all you want. But he is an extremely talented entertainer and a good and decent person. And nothing you say lessens that fact. Sheesh, you sound like a bunch of 5th grade boys. You are extremely immature at the least and extremely disgusting at the worst. Had my say. Now I'll go back and listen to some great music via Clay's last CD.
okay EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWw ... i get the parody but there was something just plain EWWWW about watching this. and it's got nothing to do with Clay-gay (if he is who knows and who CARES?) it's just that it's hard to watch this and have Justin T's video version in my head. Goes under the heading of THIS IS REALLY WRONG LOL LOL LOL
This comment certainly needs repeating.
"Wow, TMZ and Shoparrizi in particular - do the words obsessed or stalker mean anything to you all? The time you and the other Aiken stalkers spend on him. I recommend intensive deep therapy. Looks like he is out there having fun and making money while you all sit all day behind your computer screens googling anything Aiken on I bet your very fat arses. "
True you creeps show alarming obsessive tendencies
Clay is out there making lot of money much of which he donates. His little spare time is spent with his charities and UNICEF.
While you pathetic things could only wish for 1 % of his talent and character.
What a bunch of losers!!! Get a life of your own!!
Why is there any question to his sexuality? He is so gay it's not even funny. Does he think his fans will desert him if he comes out of the closet? What's the big deal.
Was he also satirizing extremely flamboyant gay men, because...why was he dancing like that?
Oh Clay, you naughty little minx.
LOL at the idiot bloggers without a sense of humor. Get a clue, already!
Sexyback is only a small part of the hilariously funny song medley, and it has the audience rolling on the floor laughing at the concerts. They get it, unlike the TMZ staff which is obviously too dumb to understand what is going on.
I seriously cannot believe this guy... He deny's being gay but obviously he is... He totally made "Sexy Back" into some sick rendition... I've never liked Clay but now, I seriously dislike the dude... He needs to stop being stupid... and Just come out of the closet already..
Anyone remember Keith from Season II? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YWr9Zkvw50
Clay was resurrecting Keith in his parody. If you'd take the time to watch the whole Classics medley with banter, you'd be laughing your asses off.
you don't need to rely on gaydar to know that he's gay, we have photographic webcam screenshot evidence, not once but twice, that he cruises online, supported by the testimony of the guys he hooked up with. the sad thing is it's comments like those found here that keep someone like clay from being open about his sexuality... so much hatred and ignorance ! for his own psychological and spiritual well-being, i just hope clay can find the strength to be who he is and stop trying to hide from the idiots of the world .. who cares what they think ? life is too short.
It figures...you guys take something that is a PARODY (MAYBE CHECK THAT OUT IN THE DICTIONARY. Oh here..I'll do it for you...so you don't have to strain yourselves....
PARODY: "A humourous or burlesque imitation of a literary or musical work or style".)
He was making fun of today's music...You've taken things completely out of context. You guys just do not report anything factual...Amazing. How do you keep your jobs, reporting crap??? I shouldn't respond, cause this is probably the only way you get hits on your site...but you're all a bunch of inept journalists. (and I use that term loosely)


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PV: Shizuma Hanazono
This doesn't even make any sense. I sat on a bench, annoyed by everything. The smiling kids, the happy adults, the happy parents, but most of all, the happy couples. I envied them. I want what they have. I wish I knew how to be in a happy relationship. Nagisa and I were happy, at least, I think we were. We might have been until Sonata came along. God, Sonata. Where do I even begin? She's just all together quite annoying. She's too hyper, and tactless. And quick tempered. And blunt. She is way too blunt. Somethings just need to be rephrased, but not according to her. She's just immature and I hate it. I ABSOLUTELY HATE HAPPY COUPLES. What gives them the right to go around and be cute and happy? I sighed and ate a peanut. I hate peanuts. Why did I even buy these? I threw one at one of the happy couples passing by. It didn't even come close to hitting them. This is not what I had in mind today.
PV: Chikaru Minamoto
"Oh. My. God. Where is EVERYBODY?!" I yelled. "It's 3:00 we needed to have met up already so we could get ready to leave."
"Yeah, where are they? I mean I would expect this from Sonata and Ami. Maybe Shizuma. But Miyuki," Yaya added. "I bet she's looking for us right now."
"What if she left without us!? What if the Sister finds out we left-"
"Calm your anxieties. No one has left this mall and the Sister isn't going to find out. C'mon let's go back to the food court."
"Should we look for Sonata and Shizuma?" I thought.
"Maybe they met up with Miyuki and Ami," Yaya added. We continued walking through the crowded, humid mall. "Or maybe Shizuma and Sonata got sick of each other already," she continued.
"Probably," I laughed. "I don't understand their relationship. They can have perfect chemistry one minute and they hate each other the next."
"Maybe that's what keeps it going..What am I saying? Oh god. Chikaru, you are so weird!"
"Thank you," I grinned. "Well..what should we do? I don't like being lost."
"We aren't lost, we're looking for our friends. We're exactly where we need to be. Besides I bet they're still eating."
"I don't know, Chikaru…Speaking of things I don't know, what ever happened to Nagisa and Tamao? I mean they were supposed to come with us…."
"That's a good point. Maybe, Tamao changed her mind and didn't wanna go. Tamao is indecisive like that," I added. "OH GOD. What if the sister caught them?! WHAT IF SHE KNOWS EVERYTHING?!"
"She doesn't."
"Yaya, how do you know?" I asked her.
"As a matter of fact, I don't, but," she paused for dramatic effect. "If we think positively and only let positive thoughts into the atmosphere then it makes a positive karma."
"Hey, let's go in Forever 12!" I changed the subject.
"Sure," Yaya agreed cheerfully. "We need to catch up with everyone else. I mean, I bet they've bought so much stuff already. All we've bought is food and lotions."
"Noo, we bought perfume too," I added. You can't forget about the perfume.
"I bet Miyuki and Shizuma have bought everything."
"I know, I BET SHE BOUGHT SONATA EVERYTHING TOO, if they haven't pissed each other off yet." We walked in Forever 12 and were greeted with a gust of cool air. "Sweet Jesus, that was needed."
"I know, we chose the absolute worse day to leave school. At least school is air conditioned."
"Would you rather be stuck in Physics right now, instead of buying nice clothing items?" Yaya reasoned. Truthfully, I wouldn't mind it, even though I absolutely suck at Physics. This heat today, is just out of control.
"I would rather be in boring physics than in this heat. I cannot believe it is like," I paused to check my watch, "3:20 already! What are we gonna do? How are we getting back to school. Should we just leave? But, it's super duper mean. Yaya, what should we do?"
"Well, it's not like we have to be back at school tonight," Yaya began.
"What are you getting at here?" I asked while looking through some blouses.
Since you've asked my dear friend," Yaya put her hand on my shoulder. "We could always just all check in to a motel-"
"Hotel. We are checking into a hotel. Remember, we have Miyuki with us," I reminded her. It's times like this I'm glad I know Miyuki. Her family can pretty much get into anywhere. I wonder if she realizes how powerful her last name really is. "I wish I was a Rokujo."
"I wish I was Shizuma Hanazono. Think of all the fun you could have as Shizuma," Yaya trailed off. She proves a good point. Shizuma is just- it's not fair. She can get away with absolutely anything and everything. But for the most part, she gets what ever she wants, no questions asked. "So, you seen anything nice?"
Everything in this store was neon. It actually hurt to look at…. "Uh no. I think we should leave, after I look at the nail polish," I proposed.
"Sure," Yaya agreed as if it were the most appealing question in the world. "What color did you have in mind?"
"Well, I was thinking..maybe a hot pink, or a fuchsia? A red? Somewhere in that shade and hue," I explained.
"That seems nice. C'mon I think I saw some nail polish towards the front," she grabbed my wrist and led me to the front. Well, at least Yaya was right. The nail polish was right at the door. You would think they'd kept them further in the store so there's less chance of people stealing them and a loss of profit, but hey, I don't work here. It isn't my job to tell them how to fix their store. Maybe, I'll just take the nail polishes instead, since they're right here. "OH," Yaya said really loud. I waited for her to finish her thought. I guess she was done with her sentence.
"What is it, Yaya?" I asked while trying to read her expression. She looks so disgusted. Maybe her period started? No. That was 2 weeks ago. Yaya pointed outside of the store doors. I followed her finger to the direction, and then I saw them..
PV: Emily Hazenburg
"Mark!" I yelled up the stairs. There are toys everywhere on the floor, mud tracked though out the house, paint spattered on all the walls, and every single light is on in every single room. But most of all everything is pretty much broken. I hate when things are broken. I am literally going to cry. What is wrong with Sonata's fucking devil of a sister and her friends?
"Yes, Em?" Mark finally came down the stairs. He was covered in glue, paint, and feathers. This baby sitting thing is not going to work.
"Have you seen my phone?" I asked him while plucking off a feather from his shoulder.
"Nope. When was the last time you had it?" he asked while he began trying to pluck off the feathers.
"Like 3 hours ago…."
"Oh….Meg probably has it then," he guessed. That is not what I wanted to hear. Meg probably hid it somewhere very inconvenient. I walked over to the house phone. "Meg, cut the wire." Mark added.
"What the fuck?" I absolutely hate Megumi. I wish Mark and I weren't the only one that know she's a closet bitch. "How am I supposed to find my phone, Mark?" I complained.
"I don't know. Can Michelle just come home already? I don't want to deal with this.." Mark groaned. "Emily, where is Megumi?"
Oh hell. That is one thing we cannot afford to do, lose sight of Megumi. That means she and her friends are planning something..right now. While Mark and I just stand at the bottom of the staircase. "I don't know….Maybe we should go to the kitchen.." At least if they come at us, we'll have access to knives. We both took a short walk to the kitchen. "Mark."
"Call my phone."
"What? Emily. Can we deal with your phone later?" he asked.
"No. We cannot. Call my phone," I repeated myself. He sighed but took his phone out of his pocket. He went through his contacts and hit call. Vrrrrrrrrr...Vrrr. Vrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
"Why is your phone on vibrate?!" Mark practically yelled at me.
"Excuse me, but I think we should focus on getting my phone rather than complaining about what setting it's on."
He sighed again. Vrrrrrrrrrrrrr. "I think you're actually getting a phone call.."
"Well, go get it," I replied. He looked at me as if I was speaking French. "Go," I pushed him. He walked around the kitchen until the vibrating stopped.
"Well, the call died, but I found your phone," he said while he leaned over the sink. I walked over to the sink and look inside of it.
"Mark. Did that bitch put my phone in the garbage disposal?"
He looked down the drain before replying: "Yep."
"..Help me get it out-"
"I'm not sticking my hand down the garbage disposal, Emily," He cut me off.
"No one said you had to. Go make yourself useful and go get some tongs." He stalked off and came back with tongs. I yanked them out of his hand and he snatched them right back. I crossed my arms, "Mark. Give me the tongs."
"No, you're being rude."
"Mark. Give. Me. The. Tongs," I asserted myself.
"Say please."
"I don't have to say please to you. Who do you think you are?"
"Who do you think you are? You need to say fucking please."
"No. You need to give me the fucking tongs," I stepped forward.
"If you even think of taking these tongs out of my hand, I will throw you to the ground, Emily. I am not afraid of you," he stepped closer. Vrrrrrrrrrr. Vrrrrrr. Vrrrrrrrr.
"This is fucking retarded," I walked over to the sink and reached down into the drain.
"Be careful," Mark added in a mocking tone.
"Go fuck yourself, seriously-"
"All you had to say is please-"
"All you had to do was give me the damn tongs."
"Whatever, Emily," he sighed. "You're never gonna be able to get your phone out like that," he walked over to the sink. He pulled my arm out of the sink and took the tongs and pulled out my phone.
He dropped my phone in my hands. It was moist and had leftover food on it. It began vibrating in my hands.
"Incoming call. Tokyo, Japan. I wonder who this could be," I said out loud before answering and putting it on speakerphone.
"Is this the Yakonawa residence?" a stern voice asked on the other side of the line. Mark grimaced.
"Y-yes. It is."
"And am I speaking to the guardian of Sonata Yakonawa?"
"..Yes." Okay that's a lie, but "Sonata Yakonawa" will be pretty happy that I was the one that got this call.
"Well, your daughter decided to skip school today and go to the mall."
"Did she?" Why the fuck would she do this? Mark mouthed: 'What the fuck?' We didn't let her leave so she can fuck around. She might as well have stayed out here.
"Yes, and because technically by 12:00 am she is no longer our responsibility, we're leaving the punishing to your discretion."
"I understand, thank you for calling."
"No problem. Have a good evening." The line went dead.
"I'm taking her video games away," Mark stated while he walked to the living room where Sonata's video game things resided.
I'm going to bitch at her. I went through my contacts and called Sonata. She answered on the second ring, "Hello."
PV: Sonata Yakonawa
'Bro. She just called you "Sonata". She neeeeverrrr calls you Sonata.' Ew. I know, meaning she's angry and I think I might need to hang up. 'LOL. Um, don't do that. She will call and call and ugh. Just deal with it. All she can really do is bitch at you." Good point. "Yes, Emily." 'Wow. You're mature. Just play into her games why don't you?' Shut up.
"I just got a call from your school.."
"You. Ditching. To go to the mall," she sounds so angry. 'It's nice to be half way across the world when Emily's mad.'
"I did not."
"Sonata, I'm not fucking stupid."
"I never said you we-"
"I can hear the people in the background," she cut me off.
"Did you really call me just to bitch at me? Because if you did, you're wasting your breath. And if you continue to do so, I will hang up on you."
I heard her sigh on the other line, "Look, if you do it again, I have to tell your mother, and either way, she will eventually find out."
"….Okay. Anything else?"
"Nope. I'm done. I'm wasting my time anyway-"
"Wait, don't be mad-"
"Emmawee, stop it. What's wrong?"
"Your sister is a little shit."
"I know..who do you think she gets it from?"
"No, you're amazing. She is Satan,"
"What did she do?"
"What didn't she do?" she complained. "..she threw my phone in the garbage disposal.."
"Aww. Do you want to yell at her when I get home."
"Oh definitely, because that will work."
"Well, why don't you yell at her then?" I tried.
"She doesn't listen to me-"
"Make her listen to you. You do it anyway, it's your job. Just yell at her or something. If it helps, you can be pretty scary.."
"Whatever..You'll be back soon. Maybe she won't act like such a bitch with you around. Forget it. What about you? How are you?"
"I'm so tired…." I trailed off.
"You ready to come home?" she sounds sympathetic now.
"Yes and no. I guess I'm a little homesick."
"Well, you'll be home soon, for two weeks. That's like half a month…."
"It is. Well, since I can only imagine how expensive long distance calls are, I'm let you go."
"Okay..I love you, Porcupine."
'Ayeee, she ain't mad anymore, Porcupine~' Ew. Go away. "I love you too, Emmawee." I pressed end call.
'Why does she refer to you as "Porcupine"? They aren't even cute. You don't even like pet names. What the hell? And how does "Emmawee" count as any type of affectionate anything. It sounds like how someone with down syndrome would say her name.' You are so unromantic that it hurts. It's none of your business. Keep out of my relationships, would ya? And for the record, I love pet names. 'Mhm. I see how it is. Speaking of "relationships" what ever happened to our good friend, Shizuma?' Up until now, she hadn't even crossed my mind. She probably off somewhere all butt hurt and what not. I sat down on a bench facing the upstairs balcony. Ew. The people look like ants. 'Hey, its cooling down a little." It is..Oh wow. This is nice. I began counting how many families pass by downstairs. 'We should probably look for Shizuma...' Uh, you can go. I'm gonna enjoy myself a little longer. 'What the hell time is it?" Probably like 3ish. I looked at my phone. 3:45pm. Well. Maybe we should start looking for everyone else. Or, maybe I'll just sit right here so I don't get lost. 'What are you gonna say to Shizuma when you find her, or rather, when she finds you?' Not a damn thing. I have nothing to say. I did nothing wrong. 'Well. Shizuma definitely feels differently-' Then let her. I don't care. 'And the best girlfriend award goes to you.' What am I supposed to say to her? 'What would you say to Emily?' Shizuma is not Emily. Shizuma will never be Emily and vise versa. They are two different people. 'Ugh, well. Is Shizuma still invited to Cali?' Of course she is..why wouldn't she be? 'YOU GUYS WERE JUST FUCKING FIGHTING. Actually, you guys bickered..all damn day.' So what? Because I'm mad, I'm suddenly going to take the promise back? 'Yes...' Okay.. Well. No, she can come. She can do whatever she wants. I don't really care. 'This should be good. Welp, I'm not gonna waste anymore time bringing up Shizuma, just for the pure fact that she is boring. Instead, we can talk about how hilarious it'll be when Emily and Shizuma finally meet.' Isn't that technically still talking about Shizuma? 'Yes and no. Yes because her name was mentioned, but no, because Emily is also in the equation. Speaking of equations, how do you expect to balance this?' Balance what? There's nothing to balance. 'So what happens if Emily wants to take you somewhere, but Shizuma wants to take you somewhere as well? Who do you go with?' That's easy. Emily. Because it's friends before relationships...right? 'No, we're looking at relationship versus relationship. Let's say Emily wants to take you to the movies or something. Let us also say that Shizuma wants to do the same. Then what?' They can share. 'Shizuma can share?' ...Emily can share. She's mature..ish. 'Who exactly are we comparing her to?' Shizuma. 'Okay, well Shizuma is overly egotistical. She thinks she's the best thing since a loaf of bread. But she's straightforward most of the time and I, for one, appreciate that. And then, we have Emily, who can be as stubborn as a fucking donkey and won't bring anything to your attention and whines a lot….about shit that happened like 12 years ago or something.' Very true..They could easily bump heads. 'Shizuma and Emily fighting….I would love to see that.' Shut up.
PV: Ami Futari
I have never been so embarrassed in my life. Oh god. Kill me, please. Yaya and Chikaru walked on each side of me. Miyuki walked ahead of me. The thing that's killing me most is that she won't even say anything. Ugh. This is such shit. I pulled out my phone and texted the words 'Hey' to Sonata.
A few seconds later she texts ' Hi c: ' Why a smiley at the end? She's either having the time of her life or just put that out of habit. 'So, where are you?' I texted her.
'Sitting on some bench….I don't really know where the hell I am :c'
'Where's Shizuma?'
'I don't fucking know -.-' she texted me 3 seconds later.
They must have gotten into another argument or something. 'What happened?'
'Shizuma was being a bitch again and being all sdfasghdjqukwjdncvkldmak. Ugh. I hate her. Whatever. It's like almost 4:00. What are we gonna do? It literally will take us way too long to get back to school.'
Okay, she is bringing up some good points. How are we supposed to get home? And how are we supposed to find Shizuma? 'You have no clue where she might be? Is there anyway to get in contact with her or anything. I have no idea how we're supposed to get home.'
'Well, if Shizuma had a phone, maybe we could call her -.- Oh, and just so you know, the sister knows we skipped school.'
GOD FUCKING DAMN IT. 'Did she call everyone's house?' I'm really not trying to get in trouble because of this, considering today pretty much sucked.
'I have no idea. But she called mine.'
Oh my gosh. Is she in trouble? Oh no. WHAT IF HER MOTHER KNOWS. SHE WILL KILL US ALL WHEN WE GET TO CALIFORNIA. WHAT IF MY MOM KNOWS? WHAT IF EVERYONE KNOWS? 'Does Michelle know? Are you okay?'
'Lmao. No, my mom does not know. Emily is the one that got the call. I'm fine. ARE YOU OKAY? Where are you? We should like leave soon..'
'Well, we're all downstairs near the fountain. Where are you? Okay, I got it. You tell us where you are and I'll send Miyuki to find you, and Shizuma. I'm….well, we can talk about it later. We really should be leaving.' "Miyuki?" I said her name in hopes of getting her attention. She looked over her shoulder. "Could you maybe go look for Shizuma and Sonata? I don't know this mall, because I'm not exactly from Tokyo. We should be leaving anyway, so…." I tried to proposed the plan as appealing as I could. "Also take my phone and we'll call you from Yaya or Chikaru's phone. My phone already has Sonata's number so you could call her and have her direct you to her."
She sighed, "Sure, Ami. Why not?" she said as she took my phone and stalked away. Okay. Whatever. I don't even care. We all continued walking. "Yaya….Chikaru, what exactly is the plan? We can't make it to school by 6:00 and you know it."
"Hotel. Miyuki can get us in. It'll be a nice one. I hope it has a view," Yaya answered.
"Oh. What about tomorrow? We need to get our stuff tomorrow," I reminded her.
"So do we. We can go tomorrow and get our things. I'm not sure if you guys would want to go at the same time as us, but to answer your question, tomorrow you could go pick up your things. What time is your flight?"
"In the evening," I answered.
"Then you have time," Yaya concluded. So, since Miyuki went to go get the other two what should we do.
PV: Miyuki Rokujo
I staggered in the opposite direction of everyone else while holding stupid Ami's stupid phone. I wish Ami would have told me that the iced tea I ordered wasn't just iced tea. I can't even think straight, though I had to appreciate the weather change. My hair isn't as tangled but it still isn't straight. I'd rather my hair be straight than..natural. This is exhausting, and I'm sick of being here. I went through Ami's contacts and called Sonata. "H-hello."
"Sonata?" I asked.
"Miyuki?" she asked.
"Where are you?"
"Do you know what store you're near? Do you see anything?"
"I see..Ami, Chikaru and Yaya.. I'm near….some toy store."
"Can you see a fountain?"
"..No. I cannot see a fountain. I see a big puzzle thing that's downstairs.."
"I know, exactly where you are. Just stay where you are and I'll come get you."
"Bye," I hung up. I got in the elevator and went to the second floor. I should definitely look for Shizuma. The phone vibrated in my cardigan pocket. I reached in my pocket and answered it.
"Miyuki," I hear Ami's voice through the ear piece.
"I found Shizuma."
"Where? Is she with you?"
"No. She is sitting on a bench, right behind Sonata. I don't think they realize they're that close to each other."
"Alright. I'll get them both," and with that I hung up. I wonder what happened between those two, but at the same time, I think I already know. Where are we gonna go? We are obviously not going back to school. What hotel shall we stay in? Maybe we should all go do something since we aren't going to school. Maybe go out to eat or see a movie of some sort. I wonder what movies are out. I can see Shizuma now and as Ami had said, she was sitting right behind Sonata, who had her head down. She was probably doing something on her phone.
"Miyuki," Shizuma called out as soon as she saw me. Sonata continued whatever she was doing even though I'm pretty damn sure she heard Shizuma.
I walked over to her, "Shizuma," I greeted her.
"Where's everyone else. We should get going," She began a discussion. It seems like everyone is sick of this mall.
"Everyone else is downstairs. I need to get Sonata and then we can go," I explained.
"Ugh, do we have to get Sonata? I mean, c'mon?" Now I know Sonata heard that.
"Yes. We do. Why wouldn't we?" I have a feeling I should not have asked this question.
"Because Sonata is soooo annoying. She's just this awkward little cunt and she guarantees a horrible time. I bet if I had spent the day with you I would have had an amazing time. She has this uncanny way of ruining everything. If she's unhappy, everyone has to be unhappy."
Wow. Okay. I'm 120% sure Sonata heard every word Shizuma just said. I wish she would react or something, just so I could be sure. And as if I said that thought out loud, Sonata reached over the bench, grabbed one of Shizuma's two bags and threw it off the balcony. "O-oh," was all I could manage to say.
Shizuma pivoted on one foot, "Did you just throw my stuff off the balcony?"
Sonata had a smug look on her face, "What?"
"Did. You. Throw. My. Bags. Off. The. Balcony," Shizuma enunciated each word with such harshness that I flinched.
"Hold up, lemme check," Sonata smirked. What is she going to do? Oh god. She grabbed Shizuma's other bag and threw it off the balcony and then turn to face her. "..Yeah. I threw your bags off the balcony."
"Well, why would you do that?!" Shizuma raised her voice.
"You're making it seem like it's that big of a deal," she answered nonchalantly.
"Because it is! The things I spent money on were in those bags."
"You're making it seem like you can't go buy them again. Quit making a big fucking deal out of nothing."
"You did not just swear at me."
"Yes, I just fucking did."
"What the hell is wrong with you?! Where do you get off throwing someone else's things off a balcony?"
"Where do you get off talking about someone like that behind there back, and I mean that literally and figuratively."
"You're making it seem like I said something mean. I only stated the truth."
"Shizuma you are such an ass hole-"
"And you're such a fucking cunt!" Shizuma shoved Sonata back. Oh god. Now they're touching. Why must they touch?
"Don't you put your hands on me," Sonata pushed her back. WHY?! WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?
Shizuma grabbed Sonata by the arm and slammed her against the balcony. "You are not going to push me-"
"You're not gonna put your hands on me..This is waste of time Shizuma, just get over it and go get your bags.."
"No! No! NO! I am not going to get my bags that you threw off the balcony!" Shizuma is practically screaming at Sonata. This is not good.
"You want them. Go get them. Your wasting time.." Sonata remained calm and composed as she did this whole time. She hasn't really raised her voice at all, at least, not as much as she should have. Maybe that's what's pissing Shizuma off the most.
"YOU'RE THE WASTE OF TIME!" Okay, that was just uncalled for. I don't know what Shizuma is trying to do here. "You have done nothing, but make everyone's life a living hell since you got here! Why don't you just leave?! No one wants you here!"She reached in Sonata shirt and yanked something off her neck. "I can't believe I actually liked you. You're such a bitch. A selfish, rude, childish vulgar bitch. For once in your life could you just grow the fuck up!"
Sonata was shaking and her eyes were getting watery. Way to go, Shizuma. Way to go. "Fuck you, Shizuma," Sonata's voice was cracking.
"No. Fuck you, Sonata," Shizuma let her arm go but still had her against the balcony. Sonata lowered her head in defeat and began sobbing.
"Wow. Nice job, Shizuma," I said sarcastically.
"If she wasn't being such a bitch!-"
"No, Shizuma. You do not do that to people," I stood my ground. She glared back at me.
"Whatever, Miyuki," she shrugged and walked over towards me. "So are we going to leave now? I'd like to."
It is just about pointless to even try to talk some sense into Shizuma when she's like this. Sonata continued her light sobbing at the balcony. "Sonata," I called. "We're going to leave now." She didn't respond. "Would you like me to call Ami?" I tried. Maybe Ami could comfort her or something. She shook her head and wiped some tears away. "We should meet up with the others and leave, I think we're all done here," I said to no one in particular. Shizuma crossed her arms. Sonata reluctantly walked over to me. I laid my hand on her shoulder in hopes that it would be some what comforting, though it probably wasn't. It's official, today sucked.
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Alright, who the fuck is over here throwing motherfucking shoes off a balcony in this bitch? I rubbed my head, which was throbbing from being hit in the head with a stiletto. I am so fucking angry right now. What are we even supposed to do about this stuff? I want to scream and go punch something.
"Huh, I wonder whose stuff this is.." Chikaru thought out loud looked through the two bags hoping to find some type of identification. But of course she wouldn't. It's a shopping bag, not a purse. I sighed loudly. "We should probably go to Miyuki, 'cause I'm so done here," Chikaru added.
"Amen. I saw them upstairs, maybe they're still there," I speculated. Man, I hope so. I want to just go to a hotel or something and just sleep my stupid life away. We took the escalator to the top floor.
"What hotel did you guys have in mind?" I asked.
"I was thinking The Ritz-Carlton Tokyo," Yaya answered.
"Maybe the Dai-Ichi Hotel Tokyo?" Chikaru added.
Yaya and Chikaru both looked at each other simultaneously before squeeing, "OR FOUR SEASONS HOTEL TOKYO AT MARUNOUCH!"
"Um, where?" I scratched my head. It really sucks not being from here. I bet it sucks even more for Sonata.
"It is only the nicest, most expensive hotel in all of Tokyo," Yaya explained.
"Miyuki's mom works there, so we should have no trouble getting in," Chikaru continued where Yaya left off.
I particularly don't care for expensive things unless they're game consoles or something, but I'm not gonna ruin their high. I'm pretty sure by "works there" they mean, she actually works for like the corporation or something. Probably some really high position, as well. We finally made it to the top of the escalator and began walking towards where they would be. "How many rooms will we check into? Like what did you two have in mind?" I asked.
"Well, I am absolutely positive that everyone is sick of each other," Chikaru answered. "For example, I can bet that Shizuma and Sonata are just done with each other, and as you and Miyuki, well….that's left up to you. But, just know, when you two were kissing..it didn't look like you were sick of each other."
I regret asking this question at all. Why? Why the hell did she bring that up? Ugh. Ugh UGH. I rolled my eyes. There is absolutely no come back for that. Chikaru is right. It didn't seem like she hated me, but I would rather not bring up that experience.
Chikaru, who noticed my attitude change, added, "We'll be checking into 3 rooms. Two people to each room obviously." I wish she would have just said that instead of….Wait. Is that them? Is Sonata..crying? What happened? I waved at her. She just looked away. She looks flat out miserable. I looked to Miyuki who just face palmed. What the hell did Shizuma do?
"What the hell happened?" This question came from Yaya who assessed the situation.
"She," Shizuma pointed at Sonata, "Threw my things off the balcony." Yaya looked at the bags Chikaru was carrying. Chikaru had already made the connection and started walking towards Shizuma to give her the bags. I walked over to my sad friend and hugged her. "Ugh, can we go now?" Shizuma asked. The "ugh" clearly being said towards me and Sonata. Before I could call Shizuma a bitch, Miyuki cut in.
"Yes, Shizuma, we are leaving now," she sighed. Today fucking sucked. I'm ready to go to California, and leave this stupid day behind.
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Hi there. As you can see I kind of changed the format, I underlined each persons point of view type thing, because I reread this whole fanfiction (except for that one chapter, I think chapter 6 or something), and its hard to notice the perspective change, so I hope it helps. I'm le happy that I got to write in Emily's perspective. There's a lot more to come, with more secretive le shit. (I know I said a secret was coming before (like 5 chapters ago) but i lied. But this time, I'm serious.) Hmm, what else...this chapter is relatively short because I just don't really know how I would continue it. I'll be working on chapter 19 asap. Also I apologize for switching around chapters and what not, it is probably annoying to some people but I feel like I should not already be on chapter 18. Oh well. This is going to be a longer story than I expected, but I'm determined to finish.
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In the old Ames summer league, Julo scored 40+ one night and they asked how he did it. His reply was something like, "Easy. I play against midgets."
Originally Posted by J-Diggy Couple memories of Julo: 1. I remember him beating OU/Billy Tubbs by rebounding his own missed free throw and putting it in. Tubbs said after the game that the "30 year old freshman" was pretty good. He did have a receding hair line even at 18/19. 2. Floyd got hired and Julo said at a Cyclone Club outing, "We don't like to play defense, we like to run and gone and shoot the ball." This is after Floyd had spoken and talked about his value the ball/defense first philosophy. 3. Floyd said after a game that he put .8 (or something like that) on the dry erase board in the locker room and asked the team if they knew what that was. No one knew. Answer: Julo's rebounds per game. Julo had like 12 or 14 boards that night. Also quite the character. Would see him riding around campus on this rickety old bike that looked two sizes too small....always an amusing site. That horrible bike he had also usually had flat tires. So picture him in his almost 7' gangly body riding an undersized old bike with flat tires. It would make a kind of screaching noise too. I crossed paths with him regularly on my way too class, always brightened up the long walk on those freezing cold days.
"You have great authority in your quotes, if you ascribe them to someone else." -Some Guy
I often see Julo at various ISU sporting events. He is a great example of how college sports have benefits beyond the actual playing of games. He would have never come to Iowa if it wasn't for B-ball. He used his free education, stuck around, and is now a fully contributing resident of Iowa. Plus I suspect he is a good alumni too!
Does anybody else remember the picture the register ran after Kansas came to town and they took a photo from up in Hilton's rafters looking down at the basket and captured Julo, Loren Meyer and Raef Lafrentz going for a rebound. Man that was a cool photo does anybody have a copy of it. On another note I believe Raef lives in Adel now.
Originally Posted by jay moe I remember the game he had against Iowa when he drained a bunch of 3's. I think he, Loren, and Freddy were freshmen then. I was at that game @ Carver..the one memory that struck with me was pregame......Julius shooting three's on the IOWA side with hawkeye players unusual to see that
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Canada Company
The country does not alter the race
Former type | Land Settlement |
Industry | Resettlement from Britain and Europe to Upper Canada |
Fate | Dissolved |
Founded | 6th Geo IV, c.75 |
Founder(s) | John Galt |
Defunct | 1953 |
Headquarters |
England: No. 13, St. Helen's Place, Bishopsgate Street, London. Guelph, Upper Canada |
Number of locations | Huron Tract, Queen's Bush, Clergy Reserves |
Area served | Upper Canada |
Key people | John Galt, William Dunlop, Thomas Mercer Jones, William Allan, Daniel Lizars |
Services | Land, roads, mills |
Total equity | 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km2) of land |
The Canada Company was a large private chartered British land development company, incorporated by an act of British parliament, 6th Geo IV, c. 75,[1] on July 27, 1825, to aid the colonization of Upper Canada. Canada Company assisted emigrants by providing good ships, low fares, implements and tools, and inexpensive land. Scottish novelist John Galt was the company's first Canadian superintendent. The government of Upper Canada sold the company 10,000 km² of land for 341 000 pounds. Slightly less than half of the land that was purchased comprised what would become the Huron Tract,located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, the remainder, located in other areas of Upper Canada, became Clergy reserves under the control of the Clergy Corporation. Galt selected Guelph, Ontario as the company's headquarters. The company surveyed and subdivided this massive area, built roads, mills, and schools and advertised it to buyers in Europe. The company then assisted in the migration of new settlers, bringing them to the area by means of a boat, which the company also owned, on Lake Ontario.
The company's mismanagement and corruption, and its close alliance with the Tory elites, known as the Family Compact was an important contributing factor to the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837.The company was dissolved on December 18, 1953.
Company Structure[edit]
The formal structure of the Canada Company was put into place August 24, 1826 by the company Court of Directors. John Galt, as secretary, had the first order of business. Tabling an abstract of the charter, Galt declared the name to be "The Canada Company" with directors and secretary as served on the Provisional Committee and listed in the charter.[2]
Board of Directors – August 19, 1826[edit]
In the mid-19th century, a company board of directors was controlled by the shareholders. The general meeting of the shareholders was considered to be the primary authority.[3] Canada Company shareholders holding 24 shares were eligible to become directors.[2]
The chairman is the leader of the board of directors. The chairman conducts company business in an orderly fashion.[4] The chairman's duties often include representing the company to the outside world as its spokesperson.
Auditors were under contract with the Canada Company to verify their books for compliance with rules of the day and report the results to the Board of Directors. The Canada Company was to distribute the results to other interested parties.[5]
The company secretary performs a variety of tasks crucial to the smooth daily operations of the company. Beyond the day to day operations, the secretary maintains the register of directors and secretary, issues share certificates and records transfers of shares and arranges for charges to be registered and recorded.[6]
The Canada Company solicitors mediated the rights and duties among shareholders, creditors and directors.
Conditions of Directorships[edit]
At the first meeting of the board, it was declared that four directors would rotate off the Company beginning in 1829.
Canada Company personnel[edit]
Company Directors[edit]
- John Galt • (1824–1829) • Founder (1824–26), secretary (1824–1832), and first superindentent (1827–1829).[7]
- William Allan • (1829–1841) • Commissioner of the Canada Company. Appointed to replace John Galt.
- Frederick Widder • (1839–1864) • Commissioner replacing William Allan.[8]
- Thomas Mercer Jones • (1829–1852) • Commissioner of the Canada Company .
- William Benjamin Robinson • (1852-1865; Senior Commissioner after 1865) • Commissioner of the Canada Company.[9]
- Dr. William "Tiger" Dunlop • Held positions of Warden of the Forests and later superintendent of the Canada Company.
People influential in Canada Company affairs[edit]
- Richard Alexander Tucker.
- In 1841 Richard Tucker was Provincial Secretary of Upper Canada and had considerable influence over decisions made concerning the Company in its early years.
- In 1818 Sir Pegegrine Maitland was appointed lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada. He became associated with the Family Compact. His authoritarian leadership style was one of the causes of the Rebellion of 1837.
- Bishop Macdonnell. Roman Catholic Bishop attacked by William Lyon Mackenzie.
- Alexander Macdonell was a Roman Catholic Scotsman who accepted the government promise of 200 acres (0.81 km2) in Upper Canada to every soldier who emigrated. He had been the chaplain of a Catholic Scottish Glengarry regiment. Macdonell was a conservative legislative councillor from 1831 leading the mainly Irish settlers against the Reform movement and Mackenzie.
- Bishop Strachan. Protagonist in the Clergy Reserves issue.
- An executive councillor in 1817 and legislative councillor in 1820 in the government of Upper Canada, Bishop Strachan sought special status for the Anglican church.
Dissolution of the Canada Company[edit]
By 1938, the Canada Company held just over 20,000 acres (81 km2) acres of unsold land, while the company shares were valued at 10 shillings. It had become a land company in the process of liquidation.[2] The land remaining unsold would become an Ontario Provincial Park—Pinery Provincial Park. In 1951 the Pinery land and other remaining Company land parcels were sold.
- Cameron, James (1967). The early days in Guelph: Guelph and the Canada Company. Guelph Ont.: self-published.
- Canada Company, London. Charter of incorporation: 19th August, 1826. London: Printed by Waterlow and Sons.
- Coleman, Thelma (1978). The Canada Company. Stratford Ont.: County of Perth ;Perth County Historical Board ;Cumming Publishers. ISBN 978-0-88988-029-0.
- Hall, Roger (1973). The Canada Company, 1826–1843. Cambridge Eng.: University of Cambridge.
- Karr, Clarence (1974). The Canada Land Company : the Early Years, an Experiment in Colonization 1823–1843. Toronto: Ontario Historical Society.
- Lee, Robert C. (2004). The Canada Company and the Huron Tract 1826–1853: Personalities, Profits and Politics. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books.
- Lizars, Robina (1972). In the days of the Canada company: the story of the settlement of the Huron tract and a view of the social life of the period. 1825–1850. Toronto: Reprinted: Coles.
- Timothy, H. B. (1984). The Galts, a Canadian odyssey. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-8457-9.
See also[edit]
- British-American Land Company, the Lower Canada equivalent of the Canada Company
- Huron Tract
- Family Compact
- William "Tiger" Dunlop, MP
- Robert Graham Dunlop, MP
- ^ Text of Canada Company Statute, at canadiana.org
- ^ a b c Robert C. Lee, The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826–1853. Toronto, Ont.: Natural Heritage, 2004. Appendix C pp. 226–233.
- ^ Gower, Principles of Company Law (6th ed.), citing Isle of Wight Railway v Tahourdin (1883) 25 Ch D 320.
- ^ Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 10th edition, Perseus Books Group, Cambridge MA, 2000
- ^ "The Function of Auditors". Retrieved September 16, 2010.
- ^ "Company Secretary". Retrieved September 16, 2010.
- ^ Hall, Roger; Nick Whistler. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online – GALT, JOHN". 2000 University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ Wilson, Alan. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online – WIDDER, FREDERICK". 2000 University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
- ^ Jarvis, Julia. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online – ROBINSON, WILLIAM BENJAMIN". 2003- University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
Further reading[edit]
- "Archives of Ontario Canada Company fonds". Retrieved 2010-12-12.
- Government of Canada, Library and Archives Canada. "Moving here, staying here: The Canadian immigrant experience". Retrieved 2010-12-12.


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Realpage Inc. Stock Downgraded (RP)
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- The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Software industry and the overall market, REALPAGE INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- REALPAGE INC's earnings have gone downhill when comparing its most recently reported quarter with the same quarter a year earlier. The company has reported a trend of declining earnings per share over the past year. However, the consensus estimate suggests that this trend should reverse in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, REALPAGE INC reported poor results of -$0.03 versus $0.00 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($0.48 versus -$0.03).
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Steam power plants, whether they are coal or nuclear, use heat to make electricity. They operate like a giant tea kettle, turning water into steam which is then used to turn a generator to make electricity. The only difference between coal and nuclear power plants is that nuclear plants use uranium as the fuel to produce the heat instead of coal.
In a nuclear power plant reactor, water is heated by a process called nuclear fission.
Heated water travels from the reactor to the steam generators.
The steam then spins the turbines, which are tied to the generators, which produce electricity.
A series of barriers and safety systems within the plant keeps radioactivity from normal operations inside. The building that contains radioactive fuel and the reactor has thick concrete and steel walls and flooring. The building, or containment, acts as a barrier. It surrounds the reactor and other equipment in contact with highly radioactive materials. The containment structure extends well below the ground. The reactor vessel, where fission takes place, is a thick steel cylinder that contains the fuel assemblies.
All nuclear plants are conservatively designed and built with many safety systems and emergency back-ups.
As a nuclear plant, Palisades uses mildly enriched uranium as a fuel to heat water and produce steam that turns turbines to produce electricity.
The uranium is contained as pellets in bundles of fuel rods submerged in water inside the steel-reinforced reactor vessel. Subatomic particles, neutrons, strike the uranium nuclei in a controlled reaction called fission. As the nuclei split, heat is released, which boils water and produces steam for the turbines.
Operators control the rate of the reaction (and the amount of heat produced) by raising and lowering control rods inside the uranium bundles. The control rods are made of a material that absorbs neutrons and can be lowered completely into the bundles when it is necessary to shut the reactor down.
Spent nuclear fuel is stored safely on-site in federally approved dry casks awaiting shipment to a federal nuclear waste repository in Nevada. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates it will begin taking spent fuel by 2010.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulates all nuclear plants, including the issuance of operating licenses. Inspections and tests are performed routinely as a requirement for maintaining an operating license. Periodic training sessions keep Palisades operators familiar with new or changed regulations and procedures.


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Pleasure Domes with Parking
December 24, 2012 | by Aaron Gilbreath
We're out this week, but we're re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we're away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year!
Because my grandfather owned a men's clothing store and my dad briefly worked for him, I spent a lot of my childhood in malls. Hanging around malls is already a tradition in Phoenix, Arizona, where I grew up. It's as central to life as driving and eating Mexican food, a habit stemming from a mix of materialism, a reflexive tendency to "pass time," and a very practical need for air conditioning. But it was also a habit born of an era when malls adorned themselves in gaudy architecture and country-and-western motifs, presented themselves as shopping experiences rather than just places to shop, and capitalized on Americans' aspirations toward glitz and glamour. I can't enter one of the predictable, interchangeable modern retail spaces without thinking of the heyday of the mall, a period when, to borrow the title of a Time magazine article, malls were "Pleasure-Domes with Parking."
I saw none of these touches of class in person. I was born in 1975, and by then malls had changed. As I experienced it, my Grandpa Shapiro's store, The Habber Dasher, was adjacent to the food court, an echoey hall enlivened by the greasy orange aroma of Pizza D'Amore and the sweet froth of Orange Julius, as well as Kay Bee Toys, the Red Baron video-game arcade, and the movie theater. My time at the mall was spent buying shockingly lifelike diecast metal cap guns at Kay Bee and then eating free samples of slow-cooked meat from the tiny gyro stall, staring in horror at the hard, sunken eyes of the whole smoked fish in Miracle Mile Deli's cold case, or looking up at the tall escalator that led into UA Cinema. When I walked through the open, indoor plaza where Santa Claus sat in a huge Styrofoam Wonderland, surrounded by polymer wads of fake snow while the sun shone outside, I had no clue that malls could be anything but what they were then, that they had any history at all.
In fact, shopping arcades and centers existed in the Western World as early as the 1920s. The classic, fully enclosed form now known in America as "the mall" debuted in Edina, Minnesota, in 1956. An Austrian-American architect named Victor Gruen designed the so-called Southdale Center, and it became the de facto prototype for a wave of enclosed, temperature-controlled shopping complexes structured around big name "anchors" and interior garden spaces. Read More »
Part 3: Time's a Goon
December 27, 2011 | by Clancy Martin
We're out this week, but we're re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2011 while we're away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year!
The final installment of a three-part saga. Martin is hitchhiking from Kansas City, Missouri, to New York City in order to catch the last day of Christian Marclay's The Clock at the Paula Cooper Gallery. Read Part 1 and Part 2 here.
"You got a way of making a man get to talking, friend," Sam told me. We had slowly worked our way into his life story, which involved him being adopted by Tennesseans who were somehow heirs or related to heirs of the Pepsi-Cola fortune, dropping out of Emory University, working part-time as an industrial air-conditioning chemical cleaning salesman, and then opening his own air-conditioning cleaning company, which in less than five years and with several hospital, university, and prison contracts across the Southeastern and now Midwestern states had turned him into an independent multimillionaire. But he was having "woman troubles"—I had gotten lucky with that lie—"because, to tell you the honest God's truth, Clancy, and I ain't proud to say it, I've got wives in four different states. Kids with two of them, and the third one's pregnant. Even with my income it's spreading it a bit thin. Thank the good Lord for my trust fund." I knew if I kept Sam talking we'd sail right past Newark, and sure enough, when we got to his turn he was in the middle of the sad love story of Sam and Sally, and the fight they'd had in Bali last year when she realized all of the international calls he'd been making late at night "for business"—I shook my head with the great sympathy and genuine feeling of brotherly love one married man has for another in such situations—and as we approached the truck stop where he planned on leaving me (I was close enough now that I figured I would just call a cab, it couldn't cost more than a hundred dollars), he said, "Where'd you say you're headed again? Hell, we made it in half the time we figured." Sam does not believe in letting the speedometer drop below "a C note." Most of the way he was swooping between cars on the highway as though they were parked and we were a very low flying F-16. Time slows drunkenly at that speed, especially in an opulent, muscular truck, with a charismatic Korean chatting amiably beside you while you cling with sore fingers to the handle of the door, the soft tones of the iPod switching randomly from Gun Club to Elvis to Gyptian to Chopin's Nocturnes.
"Far as we've come I guess I can take you right into Brooklyn." The truck stop is already a mile behind us. "I sure as hell hope we don't get snarled up in some Friday traffic. Course it's not even rush hour yet, and we're headed into the city, not the other way 'round. But I'm gonna be cursing your name when I'm driving back the other way. Hell, you look like you could use a favor. You're in a bigger hurry than I am." And back to Sally, who morphs seamlessly into Joanne, who I'm trying to keep straight from Christine, and wondering how many times Sam has said the wrong name in bed.
A Week in Culture: Radhika Jones, Part 2
September 2, 2010 | by Radhika Jones
This is the second installment of Jones' culture diary. Click here to read part 1.
Morning I put in some book requests, per last night's TLS: Tom McCarthy's new book C, which is out September 7, and his first novel, Remainder, which I meant to read after the great piece Zadie Smith wrote in the New York Review of Books a couple of years ago, "Two Paths for the Novel," about McCarthy and Joseph O'Neill. Meetings and a quick edit eat up much of the morning.
Lunch with a favorite literary agent—one of those agents who turns out to represent all the writers you're hearing great things about. We fill each other in on what we've been reading. I make a mental note to pack Rosecrans Baldwin's You Lost Me There in the vacation bag.
Afternoon Gilbert sends me a 5 P.M. pick-me-up, in the form of the YouTube video for Cee Lo's hilarious single "F--k You." I love the typography! Thanks, Gilbert. I start working on my book review, which is to say, I write a sentence that may or may not be the lede.
Trailer break! The Social Network. I am bizarrely excited to see this movie1, which stars Jesse Eisenberg and his hoodie. And now onward to the trailer for the fake Twitter movie, which looks even more awesome.
In the NYT, I read a piece on the Shakespeare Quarterly opening up its traditional peer review system to open review online. As a former (recovering?) academic, I like this idea.
Remainder arrives. I check out the Literary Saloon, which leads me to New York's twenty most anticipated books of the season, and to a piece about Barnes and Noble, also in New York, by Andrew Rice. Paris Review alert! One of NY Mag's most anticipated fiction books is Danielle Evans' Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. We published Danielle's first short story, "Virgins" (issue 182), which went on to be selected for Best American Short Stories. And Andrew Rice had a great piece of nonfiction, "The Book of Wilson," from his travels in Uganda, in issue 177.
I also read "Dear Prudence" on Slate. This is the only advice column I ever read. I'm not exactly sure why—I'm not sure why I read it, and I'm not sure why it's the only one2 I read. And I don't have time to puzzle it out, so it'll be one of the many things in life I just chalk up to mystery appeal.
Evening Bhangra class. A few years ago (actually, about six years ago, yikes), my friend Sailaja and I started taking bhangra classes. We had no dance background, and I have the flexibility of a No. 2 pencil. But our teacher, Ambika3, is brilliant, and after a year or so we had become, as Sailaja put it, not great bhangra dancers but passable bhangra students. Which we thought was pretty impressive!
Home and slightly wired from exercise, so Max and I pop in the third episode of Foyle's War. Bedtime (re)reading: an essay on pain from Atul Gawande4's book Complications. Read More »
- I wonder if Harvard will start showing it during first-year orientation instead of Love Story.
- Although my all-time favorite Slate column is from the nineties—the Shopping Avenger. He avenged consumer wrongs, until he got caught in a U-Haul spiral from which he never emerged, which anyone who has ever rented from U-Haul can understand. O Shopping Avenger. I miss you, and I try to make you proud.
- Last year Ambika took off for Nigeria to make films, but I knew that if I waited patiently and went on an exercise strike, she'd come back. And she has. And tonight is our first class.
- Have been on a Gawande rereading binge since his wonderful end-of-life care piece in The New Yorker a few weeks back.
A Week in Culture: Radhika Jones, Editor
September 1, 2010 | by Radhika Jones
MORNING Tea1 and the NYT Editor's Choice on the iPad. Morning commute: F train, relatively uncrowded because it's the end of August. Reading survey reveals it's a periodical-dominated morning: the Times, the WSJ, the Metro, the Post, and two people facing off with The New Yorker. I pull out my advanced reader's copy of Skippy Dies, which I am in the middle of, and which is so absorbing2 that I need to be careful not to miss my stop.
Second cup of tea steeping in office kitchen. Delightful news via memo left under my door: from now on, the motion-sensor light in my office will only come on if I push it. I hate the fluorescent light, but until now have been powerless to disengage it. Now I will just never turn it on!
Wake up computer and look at Time.com to see what my colleagues have been up to overnight. Also look at the NYTimes Web site, and the Guardian, and Talking Points Memo. And a few book blogs, an old Paris Review habit I've reignited in these slightly news-slow summer months—which is how I come across the sad story of the death of VQR's managing editor.
On deck for this morning: signing off on finished magazine pages; ideas meeting; edits for next week. Also opening all the mail that has piled up in the last few weeks. I should open my mail every day. Then it would not pile up. I know that, but sometimes I rebel3, and this time it has gotten so bad that random colleagues have begun stopping by my office and offering to help me open it. I am the office Collyer Brother.
Morning meeting over. Half an hour until next meeting. Office gloriously unfluorescent. Work takes on low-lit, romantic flavor.
E-mail from my brother wondering which Scrabble app he should download so we can play together. I want to play with him, but he lives in Andover, Mass., so if we are to play, I will have to join Facebook4.
Open InCopy. I love InCopy. It lets me work in layout, and secretly I've always wanted to be a graphic designer. This reminds me that I never saw that documentary Helvetica, all about the font. Turn on iPad and add Helvetica to Netflix queue. It's available for instant viewing! Maybe I will watch it this weekend.
Meetings meetings meetings. Lunch!
AFTERNOON Back at my desk after Italian food and a lovely chat with an entertainment publicist who fills me in on a few fall movies. Caitlin Roper (of Paris Review fame) alerts me to a tweet from Bill Burton saying the President just bought a copy of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. I'm going to go ahead and assume that's because we put Franzen on the cover of Time. President Obama, if you need any more book recommendations, feel free to call me directly. I think you'd really like David Mitchell.
Heroically refrain from reading Skippy Dies during multicolor wheel spin while waiting for InCopy file to open.
Culturally with-it colleague Gilbert Cruz drops by, ostensibly with a work question but actually to recommend I watch the Free Willy horror movie recut on YouTube. It's fantastic. Then we watch The Shining recut as romantic comedy. Then, because I am a Harry Potter fan, I must read "Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Gitmo" on time.com, about the books on offer for Guantanamo detainees.
Call neighborhood bookstore, BookCourt on Court Street, to see about the first Paul Murray book. They don't have it, alas. Meanwhile, twilight is coming on, and it's kind of dark in here. May need to buy an office lamp.
LATER Writing headlines is hard.
LATER STILL I'm done for the day. Skippy and I are reunited!
EVENING Friday nights were made for catching up on Top Chef. Life before DVR—I've blocked it from my memory. Read More »
- P.G. Tips, half teaspoon sugar, half teaspoon honey, splash of milk.
- It's Paul Murray's second novel, out August 31 in the U.S., and I am going to review it for Time.
- Against myself? The post office? All the publishers who put out books and mail them to me?
- I didn't join at the beginning, and then I missed the second through eighth waves of enthusiasm and proselytizing. I figured I would just continue blithely through life, Facebook-free, forgetting people's birthdays. But now… Scrabble. Will it be my downfall? This is one of those luxurious dilemmas we face in the developed world.
Variations of R. Crumb
June 17, 2010 | by Caitlin Roper
R. Crumb is the subject of the first Paris Review Art of Comics interview. "I used myself as a character in the introductory page of the first few issues of Zap Comix, showed myself in a wacky cartoon, R. Crumb, the cartoonist." His self-portraits, like the artist, have aged well.


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Facebook Glitch Exposed Private Chats
You've probably heard by now from several different sources that Facebook had another security glitch that exposed the private chats as well as a few other items, such as pending friend requests. This has been picked up by lots of sources, even the Wall Street Journal has been covering this.
Is your personal information suddenly flapping in the breeze?
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Reptile Rampage| Lake Forest |
Spend the day getting up close and personal with some amazing and fascinating reptiles from all over the world. Visitors can meet over 150 animals including "Bubba" the famous American Alligator, the Wildlife Discovery Center's celebrated rattlesnake collection, lizards, snakes of all shapes and sizes, turtles, crocodilians, tortoises, frogs and much more. Visitors will also have the chance to talk with some of the Midwest's most knowledgeable reptile enthusiasts from the Herpetological Societies of Chicago, St. Louis and Madison; Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Cold Blooded Creatures; the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum; the Grove Nature Center and more. In addition to the many reptiles on display, there will be children's activities, kid-friendly tattoos, a Scout Patch challenge ($5 extra for the patch), a silent auction, food and refreshments.
Where: Lake Forest Recreation Center - Lake Forest
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: $9, $6 kids, free kids under 3
Maple Sugaring Days at Naper Settlement| Naperville |
Learn the time-honored method of collecting sap the old-fashioned way and try a maple treat.
Where: Naper Settlement - Naperville
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. March 8, 1-4 p.m. March 9
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: $12, $10 seniors, $8 kids 4-12, free residents
Chicagoland Kids Expo & Fun Fair| Schaumburg |
Features more than 100 exhibits of family friendly products and services, costumed characters, inflatable rides, video games, face painting, a petting zoo, stage performances and much more.
Where: Renaissance Convention Center - Schaumburg
When: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. March 8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. March 9
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: $10, $5 kids, free kids under 3. Check website for discounts.
Worm Composting for Families| Skokie |
Worms are nature's recyclers, breaking down everything from grass clippings to banana peels. See how worm composting keeps food out of the landfill and results in a nutrient-rich, organic soil amendment. Meet the worms that live in the Nature Center's worm bin, receive handout materials, and make your own worm bin to take home.
Where: Emily Oaks Nature Center
When: 2-3:30 p.m.
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: $30 Skokie residents, $38 non-residents (fee is per family)
Neighborhoods of the World| Chicago |
Navy Pier honors Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods and cultural diversity with this weekly performance series. Enjoy authentic live music, dance performances, cuisine and folk art from various ethnic Chicago communities.
Where: Navy Pier - Chicago
When: Noon-3 p.m. Sundays. Feb. 16 and March 2-April 13.
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free
The Orchid Show| Glencoe |
A showcase of unusual and stunning orchids that gives
visitors the opportunity to learn about one of the largest, most
diverse and revered flowering plant families. Special activities
include a Garden Shop kiosk offering orchid items for purchase,
orchid vendors on the weekends, a free story time in the Lenhardt
Library on Mondays, and family weekend classes that
include making ice cream with the vanilla orchid seed and making a
tropical terrarium.
Where: Chicago Botanic Garden
When: Purchase timed tickets online
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Check website
Weekend Family Classes| Glencoe |
Explore cool things about nature and plants with your family on Saturdays and Sundays. Classes include a variety of hands-on activities and projects for kids 4-10, accompanied by an adult.
Where: Chicago Botanic Garden
When: 9:30-11 a.m. or 1-2:30 p.m.
Ages: Preschool, Elementary
Cost: $22 kids, free adults
Hold a Baby Lamb| Hampshire |
Farm is open weekends in March, April and May for holding the baby lambs, goats, chicks, piglet and feeding the calf. Watch the sheep shearing. Enjoy the farm experience. Don't forget your camera.
Where: Enjoy Pioneer Farm
When: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: $5; $12 family (up to 4 people), $20 family (5 or more)
Festival of the Sugar Maples| Marengo |
Learn the history of maple sugaring and evolution of the sap collection process, then taste Coral Woods maple syrup. Tours start every 15 minutes, last an hour, and involve a half-mile hike. Dress for the weather. On Sunday, you can stop for breakfast before or after the Festival, at the Marengo United Methodist Church, 119 E. Washington, Marengo (March 16) or Donley's, 8512 South Union Rd., Union (March 9). Breakfast is $6 adults and $3 kids, and is served from 7 a.m.-noon.
Where: Coral Woods Conservation Area
When: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Festival is free; Pancake Breakfast $6, $3 kids
Solar Lit Trails| Libertyville |
With small solar lights to guide their way, hikers, skiers and snowshoers traverse the Solar Lit Trails at Pleasant Valley, Woodstock (half mile beginner loop) or Hickory Grove Highlands, Cary (1 mile intermediate loop).
Where: Lake County Forest Preserves
When: until 9 p.m. daily
Ages: Family/All Ages
Cost: Free


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Daylight Savings Time
Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday, March 9th, so plan a hearty, healthful breakfast to help you spring forward with ease!
Get your body revved up and ready to go with a balanced meal including protein, carbohydrates and plenty of fruits and vegetables. Try a veggie omelet with whole grain toast, or even a quick smoothie made with yogurt, fruit and a handful of spinach.
Whatever you choose, just be sure not to skip the most important meal of the day. It might be tempting if you're in a hurry, but if you don't fill your tank, you'll be running on empty by mid-morning.
Save with this week's Eating Healthy on a Budget recipe, featuring items from our current circular.
Not just for breakfast or brunch, this complete-meal casserole is great for dinner as well. To round out the food groups, include sliced oranges for dessert.
Lightly coat a 13x9-inch casserole dish with oil or cooking spray.
Slice sausage links into rounds about ¼-inch thick. Heat a skillet over medium heat and brown sausage, transfer to casserole dish.
In same skillet, heat oil and add onion and celery. Cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add to casserole dish.
Add broccoli florets to skillet and heat just until thawed. Add to casserole dish.
Add bread cubes and cheese to casserole dish and toss to combine with other ingredients.
In a measuring cup combine milk, eggs and pepper. Whisk to combine and pour over casserole. Toss gently to evenly distribute ingredients. Cover with plastic and refrigerate overnight.
Remove the tray from the oven and let the packets sit 5 minutes longer.
To cook, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove plastic before placing in oven. Bake until lightly browned, about 45–55 minutes. Remove and let rest about 5 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley and serve.
Nutrition information per serving: 300 calories, 11g fat, 5g saturated fat, 115mg cholesterol, 530mg sodium, 29g carbohydrate, 3g fiber, 20g protein
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Cuisines: | Seafood |
Sittings: | Dinner |
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Cost: | ($30-$49.99 per person) |
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Todd English's bluezoo Signature Dining restaurant at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort creates coastal gourmet dishes for dinner that primarily feature fresh seafood. Savor succulent raw or cooked shellfish, swordfish, tuna, salmon and Chilean sea bass. The menu is replete with creative veal and pork dishes for palates that are more land-bound.
Complement the meal with a vintage from the formidable wine list, as Todd English's bluezoo is a multi-time recipient of Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence. If a cocktail is more your taste, try the Maytag Martini with blue cheese-stuffed olives, or the Bellini with Prosecco sparkling wine and fresh white peach purree in a dazzling chilled flute.
Wrap up your extraordinary meal with an exquisite chocolaty or fruity dessert, such as the Maracaibo chocolate cream pudding with peanut ice cream, or warm blueberry buttermilk tart. A selection of delicious dessert wines and ports is also available.
With a menu created by internationally acclaimed chef Todd English and an exotic underwater-themed decor designed by renowned architect Jeffery Beers, you can be sure that the food and interior design in this Signature Dining restaurant are works of art!
- To make reservations, book online or call (407) WDW-DINE or (407) 939-3463 up to 180 days prior to your visit. Be sure to plan ahead. Same day booking after 4pm may be done by calling location at (407) 934-1111.
- To request Private Dining Rooms, or to reserve a table for 11 or more, please call (407) 934-1717. Parking validation available.
- Location does not offer Complimentary cakes. To request a customized cake or a Kosher Meal please call (407) 934-1717 at least 4 days in advanced.
- Menu items, pricing and hours are subject to change without notice. If applicable, a gratuity of 18% will be automatically added for parties of 6 or more.
- This dining facility does not accept Disney room charges, the Disney Dining Plan, or Disney Gift Cards.
- This experience takes place in a non-smoking environment.
- This location can accommodate most special dietary needs. Advance notice may be required and cancellation fees may apply. Please indicate any special dietary need at time of reservation booking.
- Dress Code Guidelines:
Men: Khakis, slacks, jeans, dress shorts, collared shirts. Sport coats are optional.
Ladies: Capris, skirts, dresses, jeans, dress shorts. Not permitted in dining room: Tank tops, swimwear, hats for gentleman, cut offs, or torn clothing. While T-shirts are now allowed, the policy remains that T-shirts with offensive language or graphics are not acceptable. - A cancellation policy applies and may result in charges if you cancel with insufficient notice. Specific policies related to this facility will be detailed at time of reservation booking.
- Price range based on average Guest check, not including alcohol, tax and tip.
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Join Portland Parks & Recreation's Adaptive and Inclusive Recreation (AIR) program at our Adaptive Bike Day Clinic on Sunday, June 3 at the Eastbank Esplanade, from 9 am - 1 pm.
Several types of adaptive bikes will be available for you to try out! Enjoy beautiful views of the city while gaining skills on how to ride these two, three and four wheeled cycles. Everyone is welcome to try the cycles.There is no cost to attend, and there are free prizes at the door! Bicycle helmets are required when operating the bikes. The Bike Gallery will also be be offering free clinics on flat repairs and shifting techniques.
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Amos Winbush III, CEO of CyberSynchs, a company which offers software that provides backup and synchronization of mobile devices. Winbush, who at 27, is a member of the BE Next generation, is considered as one of the top young entrepreneurial minds in the country, earning the Innovator of the Year Award at the 2010 Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference. Following that recognition, Winbush's company was included in Entrepreneur Magazine's "100 Brilliant Ideas" and named to Inc. Magazine's "30 Under 30" list of young entrepreneurs. Born in 1983 in Shreveport, Louisiana, Amos Winbush is an entrepreneur, singer & songwriter with a long list of accomplishments. Prior to creating CyberSynchs, Amos performed as the opening solo act on various tours with several popular recording artists, including Erykah Badu, Joe and Carl Thomas. In addition, Amos has two EP recordings, "Babylon of the Orient" and His much anticipated follow up remix "Babylon of the Occident." In June of 2008, Amos launched a new chapter in his career when he founded CyberSynchs – a mobile technology company dedicated to preserving and protecting smart phone data. The inspiration behind CyberSynchs came about when Amos' smart phone crashed resulting in thousands of essential files being lost. When he realized that no solution existed, Amos set out to design and build a universal wireless solution that allows users to back up and retrieve their mobile content. Amos' vision for CyberSynchs is to develop a service that would synchronize mobile data wirelessly across platforms and store mobile content to the CyberSynchs server. Users would easily retrieve of information from any internet-enabled computer. CyberSynchs.com was launched November of 2008 and received noteworthy attention from the press as well as a large and growing number of user registrations. Amos and his team believes that "One second wasted worrying about how to retrieve lost mobile content is one second too long".
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HOUSTON (AP) — A shooting on a Texas community college campus wounded three people Tuesday and sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lockdown, officials said.
Harris County Sheriff's Maj. Armando Tello said authorities had detained a person of interest.
Authorities also thought there could be a second shooter, according to a law enforcement official in Washington who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the ongoing case.
Aerial footage from local television stations showed police cars and ambulances parked on the Lone Star College System campus about 20 miles north of downtown Houston. Emergency personnel could be seen tending to people on stretchers, while others ran from a building led by officers.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office had no immediate details, but college spokesman Jed Young confirmed the campus was put on lockdown following reports of a shooter. The college issued an alert on its website telling students and faculty to take immediate shelter or avoid the campus.
Melinda Muse, spokeswoman for the Harris County Health System, said two people were taken to Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital Emergency Center following the shooting.
Tello said three people had been injured.
Cody Harris, 20, he said he was in a classroom with about six or seven other students waiting for a psychology class to start when he heard eight shots. He and other students looked at each other, said "I guess we should get out of here," and fled.
"I was just worried about getting out," Harris said. "I called my grandmother and asked her to pick me up."
The Lone Star College System has an enrollment of 90,000 students and six college campuses, according to its website.
Along with the college, four nearby schools in the Aldine Independent School District went into lockdown, a district spokesman said.
Lone Star student Daniel Flores, 19, said he was in a tutoring lab on the second floor doing homework when he heard what he heard six to seven shots.
"I didn't think they were shots," he said. "It sounded like someone was kicking a door."
About 60 people were in the lab, and they began running out of the room once they realized the sound was gunfire, he said. They fled to a nearby student services center, where authorities kept them there for about 30 minutes before letting them go.
Associated Press writer Eileen Sullivan contributed to this report from Washington.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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llpp is a MuPDF-based PDF pager.
Tags | |
Licenses | GPL |
Operating Systems | Linux FreeBSD |
Implementation | OpenGL mupdf OCaml C Freetype |
Release Notes: This release has bugfixes, better keyboard handling (keypad, neo layout, etc.), a remote interface, some features for SyncTex integration, and has been synced with post-1.2 mupdf.
Release Notes: This release adds bugfixes.
Release Notes: Synced with MuPDF 1.0. Split columns mode. Hints mode a la Conkeror. Ensures that things run under Cygwin's X and XQuartz.
Release Notes: The dependency on GLUT was removed. Key mappings can now be modified by the user. Keyboard link navigation was added.
Release Notes: Multi-column mode(including bird's eye). Ghyll scroll. There is a video with build and use instructions.
I am not sure if this is the correct place for this but is there any way to add a print command?
It seems there is no way to use arrow keys to change pages keeping the page centered,
The manual does not recognise q and / commands which is a pity
A configuration file under ~/.config or a richer cli would be nice
There is no bug tracker, please report any problems via e-mail. Btw it's a
a miracle that i saw your comment at all, leave alone a day after it was
Oh, is not like the actual key bindings are bad or something like that, is just that I have reconfigured the key bindings for all programs I currently use (mcabber, alpine, canto, etc) and the only one which key bindings are different are llpp, so it would be nicer if I could reconfigure it, but, as I said, there is nothing wrong with the actual key bindings.
ps, I will try, when I got some time, to look at the code and create a patch por it.
ps2: btw, there is some bugtracker or a place to send bugs and patches? I couldn't find one, thats why I'm using the comments space for it
There is no way to change the key bindings, and i do get requests to add them from time to time, but mainly from VInclined users. As an emacs user myself i
fail to see any glaring omissions in the current ones though, what do you have
in mind?