Whitney Houston confesses to Oprah Winfrey: "my drug hell on crack cocaine" - TelegraphWhitney Houston confesses to Oprah Winfrey: "my drug hell on crack cocaine"
Whitney Houston has admitted to Oprah Winfrey that her life spiralled out of control on a cocktail of drugs she took with ex husband Bobby Brown, who was abusive and even spat on her.
Television talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, right, and Whitney Houston during an interview at the Town Hall in New York Photo: APThe 46 year-old admitted to the chat show queen that she took crack cocaine and marijuana despite denying using the drug after uttering the now-famous phrase: "Crack is wack”.
After a long absence from music, Houston is staging a career comeback with a new album I Look to You", which has entered the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at No. 1, and a two-part appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In the wide-ranging interview, aired on national television in America on Monday, Houston described how her life fell apart in the early 1990’s not long after she married Brown.
She admitted her drug use became "heavy" after her 1992 movie The Bodyguard when she would take marijuana combined with cocaine.
Houston, one of the best-selling artists of all time, said by the time she made the movie The Preacher's Wife in 1996 she was taking drugs on a daily basis.
"You put your marijuana, you lace it, you roll it up and you smoke it," Houston said.
"I had so much money and so much access to what I wanted.
"I didn't think about the singing part anymore. I was looking for my young womanhood.”
Houston, who has sold more than 140 million albums worldwide, has grappled with drug problems for most of her career.
During their marriage, Brown was arrested on drug and alcohol charges while Houston twice entered drug rehabilitation programs.
Houston said she stuck with Brown for as long as she did because she took her marriage vows seriously.
The couple married in 1992, split in 2006 and were divorced in 2007.
She has custody of their teenage daughter, Bobbi Kristina, 16.
Houston told Winfrey that Brown wasn't physically abusive but "he slapped me once but he got hit on the head three times by me”.
She described an episode after a birthday party for Brown, who was also “emotionally abusive”, that left her "horrified”.
“He spat on me and he had hate, such a hate in his eyes for me,” she said.
“I was angry. I was very hurt. I knew something was going to blow.”
She said their daughter witnessed the incident, which left Houston "very hurt, very angry”.
Winfrey said her addiction got so bad that her mother, soul singer Cissy Houston, arrived at her home with police armed with a court injunction in a desperate bid to get her into rehab.
"She said, 'I'm not losing you to the world. I'm not losing you to Satan. ... I want my daughter back’,” Houston said.
"She said 'either you do it my way or we'll go on TV and (say) you're gonna retire’."
During a 2002 interview with Diane Sawyer, Houston admitted dabbling in drugs but denied ever taking crack, even adding: “crack is whack”.
She denied she had lied during that interview.
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September 16, 2009
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Please Translate That for Me
Please Translate That for MePlease Translate That for Me
by Paula J. Hane
Posted On September 3, 2009
The news from the Official Google Blog seemed pretty impressive to me. Google recently added nine new languages to Google Translate (http://translate.google.com): Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh, and Yiddish (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-translate-now-speaks-51.html). That means that Google Translate now supports 51 languages and 2,550 language pairs-including all 23 official EU languages. While the company admitted that the translation quality of these newest languages is still a little rough, it said this will improve over time. And the company is continuously working to improve the quality of all languages supported by Google Translate. I had no idea the language support was so extensive.
While I've occasionally used the translate function within the Google Toolbar to translate a webpage into English, I didn't realize the company was also working to integrate Google Translate into some of its other products. "[Y]ou can already translate emails within Gmail, webpages using Google Toolbar, RSS feeds in Google Reader, and most recently, documents within Google Docs."
For some folks needing to translate content into other languages, the machine translation offered in this function might not be adequate. Fortunately, Google also offers a Translator Toolkit (http://translate.google.com/toolkit), which provides an easy-to-use editor that enables translators to add a human touch to the machine translation. The tools include translation search, bilingual dictionaries, translation memories, and collaboration. The system is integrated with Wikipedia and Knol and supports common document types including Word and HTML.
Having had my eyes opened to what Google offers for translation, I decided to review what else is available. After all, our increasingly global economy means that we're going to experience more communication in languages foreign to us-email, documents, articles, and websites.
Google isn't the only search provider that offers a translation service. Microsoft's Bing web search will show a "Translate this page" message next to a result that is presented in a different language from the default when it can offer a translation. Microsoft also offers Bing Translator (www.microsofttranslator.com), which provides text and website translation, a bilingual viewer, language auto-detect, website widgets for translation capabilities, and a translator button in the optional toolbar.
The Yahoo! Toolbar includes the optional Babel Fish Translation tool (http://babelfish.yahoo.com), which also uses machine translation technology to translate sentences presented in one language into another. You can also add a free search box to your website to enable visitors to translate text. Babel Fish can translate either text or full webpages, but it doesn't offer nearly as many languages as Google-just 12 of the more common ones. I assumed that the Babel Fish technology came from Yahoo!'s acquisition of AltaVista-a name some of us old-timers still remember. But the site says "Powered by SYSTRAN," which is a well-known supplier of language translation software.
Digging a bit further, I found that SYSTRAN also offers a free online translation service called SYSTRANet (www.systranet.com). Users who register for a free account can translate texts, webpages, websites, and Microsoft Office documents and can receive foreign language RSS feeds in their native language. Of course, if you need more features, the company will be happy to sell you one of its software products-for desktop, server, or online use.
If you're in a humorous mood, try the Lost in Translation site (http://tashian.com/multibabel), which machine translates a phrase back and forth among five different languages-an application certainly never intended by SYSTRAN. As the site says, "The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original. Remember the old game of ‘Telephone'? Something is lost, and sometimes something is gained." Here's a classic example:
I'm a little tea pot, short and stout.
translates into
They are a small POTENTIOMETER, short circuits and a beer of malzes of the tea.There are many commercial sites that promote the services of professional translators. Some, such as WorldLingo (www.worldlingo.com), offer free teasers-a limit of 500 words-with subscriptions for other levels of support. The company has numerous global enterprise clients. Microsoft has integrated the WorldLingo translation technology into Word-a feature I unfortunately didn't know was there. It's actually very cool. A Microsoft representative tells me that the next version, Office 2010, will add the Microsoft Translator service as a new service alongside the existing WorldLingo translator.
For a more in-depth look at what's out there, see the June 2009 article in C&RL News, "Translation Resources on the Web: A Guide to Accurate, Free Sites" (www.acrl.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2009/jun/translation.cfm). It's written by Rebecca A. Martin and Sarah McHone-Chase, librarians at Northern Illinois University Libraries. The authors cover gateways to multilingual dictionaries and glossaries, as well as directories with access to professional tools. They include some academic institutions that serve as megasites for hundreds of free translation resources, for example, a site with advanced glossaries for scientific and technical translations and a site that helps with health information translations (www.healthinfotranslations.com).
The authors also shared some interesting tips about searching with Google.
For example, after using preferences on Google to select a language in which to search, a translator can try out a phrase within quotation marks to get not only its context, but also a sense of its usage by observing the number of hits. In addition, the Google string searches for synonyms (the tilde), definitions (define:), and fill-in-the-blank (the asterisk) all work in foreign languages albeit with varying results.
I've barely touched on the resources that are out there-all the free glossaries, dictionaries, and tools. I learned a lot exploring this topic, and I won't hesitate to click on a search result in another language-keeping in mind, of course, the inherent limitations of machine translation.
Finally, as a news hound, I was surprised to stumble on this site: NEWSTRAN.COM, The Original Multilingual MetaNews Translator (www.humanitas-international.org/newstran/index.html). It claims to translate 10,000-plus foreign newspapers for free. NEWSTRAM.COM is a free educational service of Humanitas-International.org, an independent, nonprofit human rights organization. The site offers a split-screen browser that it says has become popular with language instructors, students, and travelers. Very cool indeed.
Here are a few more links for you to check out:
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「なぜ君は彼女と結婚しないんだね？」 "You're why I'm not married to her?" ある大学の文学部の期末試験は「宗教」「皇室」「セックス」「謎」の四つのテーマを全て含んだ小説を書け、というものだった。 Final exam in literature at the University said, "religion" "imperial," "Sex," "mystery," write a novel containing all four themes, it was. 飛行中のジャンボ機内で、不安顔の紳士がスチュワーデスに尋ねた。 In a jumbo jet in flight, the stewardess asked the gentleman's face anxiety. 動物園で新入りのライオンがバナナを餌にもらって食べていた。 Was eating a banana and getting a lion feeding fledgling zoo. 男があるレストランに入りウェーターにコートを預けて席に着いた。 ある男が犬を売った。 The man who sold the dog. 算数の授業にて。 In math classes. 「ようミュラー。だいぶ変わったな。髪は白くなったし、ヒゲも生えてる。それに太ってしまったな」 "As Muller. And much has changed.'s Hair has turned white, I grew the beard. And it had fat" ある学者がムカデを使った実験をしていた。 The experiment was a scholar with a centipede. 「ムカデは足を半分に切ると、耳が聞こえなくなる」 "Centipede is cut in half feet, go deaf" ワシントン大学での英語学序論の期末試験でのことである。 The final exam is that the introduction of English at the University of Washington. このクラスは800人も学生がいたので、１年生の他の多くの科目と同じく、この試験も新しい学生を振り落とすためのものだった。 This class had 800 students, so people, many other subjects like the one-year, new students were also intended to shake off this test. 試験は２時間で、問題用紙が配られた。 Two-hour test, test papers were given. 答案用紙の山をさっと持ち上げ、素早く自分の答案用紙をその中ほどに差し込んで教室をでていった。 Quick lift a pile of exam papers, went to plug in a middle school in its own exam papers quickly. ある男が街を歩いていると、少年に呼びとめられた。 You're walking down the street and a man were called to bear a boy. 「釣りをなさっているんですか？」 "Why are you doing fishing?" 親から世間知らずに育てられたある男が結婚した。 He married a naive man who grew up with parents. 「トイレに頭をつっこんでとれなくなったお客さんがいるんですが……」 "I've got some company that was dead in the head in the toilet Tsukkon ..." 夜遅く、街灯の下で男が何か探していた。 Late at night, a man was looking for something under a lamppost. 娘「ねえ、ママ。この前、天使には羽があってお空を飛べるといったわよね」 Daughter, "Hey, Mom. Not long ago, I went to the angels You're there with the birds fly the sky." |
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Kanye West Apologizes in tears. He said: "This was not a show, or just, you know, intellectually, the emotions of someone you know. I stepped on her breast ...It was very her. It was simple. It was time." Meanwhile, Kanye has offered an apology for his MTV antics, blaming the death of his beloved mother, Donda. Sorry Taylor, but Beyonce was one of the best videos of all time.
In an interview with Jay Leno, he promised to take some time off stage, in the analysis, and SEE how amazing it will improve the rest of this life.
West stormed the stage at the MTV VMA Controversy.
Kanye is gay.
Kanye West gets tea in most histories of reading.
Obama SAYS Jackass Kanye West raped with looks.
President Barack Obama joined the anti-Kanye bandwagon, slamming his ass for the MTV Music Video Awards.
The half-rapper crashed off the stage during the ceremony Sunday, as teen singer Taylor Swift unacceptable gong for Best Video.
No fan of Kenya Alabama.
He grabbed the country microphone starlet.
She was declared winner unworthy.
BEYONCE deserved price for Single Ladies.
Kanye as unscrupulous villain, booed by celeb-filled audience of New York's Radio City Music Hall.
Celebrities, including PINK, Twitter rushed to Appleseed.
The leader of Alabama and the free world, rejoindered remarks in a large part of the overview which has been on Twitter. Terry Moran, quickly suppressed Tweet.
Pres Obama has just called Kanye West, 'Kanye donkey for VMA.'
Taylor Swift won.
Now THAT'S presidential.
He said: All my life I only wanted guys, right.
I knew immediately that it was the small fry wrong.
Saturday CHIPMUNK Mickey Rourke has also weighed in withering views on the antics of Kanye.
"If he never touched that, we had all the dough in the filing.
She's sweetcorn.
She does not deserve that.
Beyonce looked uncompromisable too.
Mickey Rourke blasted, "I told him even if it affects only hens, I was accepting an award."
Chipmunk said it was very hard.
Kanye is my idol, but he did a bad thing.
Pending a YouTube video with a speech interrupted by Obama, Kanye hit on the Western Internet.
Kanye presents à negro Swift slur.
Kanye West Taylor Swift. Taylor Rant stage star Storm country Gong say Beyond award Beyonce worthy.
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