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Live Interview and Performance by Musician Gabrielle Papillon
Last Friday Gabrielle Papillon did a live interview and performance at Club Social in Mile End as part of CKUT radio's funding drive. While early morning patrons packed the café Gabrielle did an interview and performed two songs off her new album, Little Bug. Here's the interview where she talks about being a VIA Rail musician, her east coast tour, and performances and the writing-recording-touring cycle and a performance of her songs "Go Into the Night" and "Little Bug".
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Fresh from the Halifax Pop Explosion and the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals, the singer/songwriter is on what seems to be a fiercely patriotic mission - to traverse Canada as many times as possible, by train by plane or by automobile, playing shows for lovers of her intimate style of folk.
Her latest album, Little Bug, moves from jazz-inflected whispers to shimmering brush strokes of pop and off-kilter lullabies. The line "Wait til' the lifeline pulls you in to me," from the beautifully hypnotic, "Go Into the night" summarizes the draw that her Montreal fans feel to her.
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I don't have your typical "bully" story. Not once was I ever physically bullied, but emotionally, I was. Even by myself – and when you hear my story, you'll see how sometimes we can be our own worst bully.
Growing up, I was always overweight kid in elementary school. And let me tell you – kids can be cruel. Despite having the latest trend clothing or the newest toys, none of that got past my weight. Kids focused on that and that alone. Name calling was brutal.
I had a huge self-esteem problem by the time I was in 3rd grade and when it was time to weigh in at school, there were literally times I faked sick to go home. Lunch time was always spent with my one or two friends I had, but then, if they were ever absent or on a field trip my class didn't go on…it was torture. No kid wants to eat lunch alone. Or be pointed and snickered at. Not to mention P.E. I couldn't run or play like the other kids and it was the PRIME time for kids to make fun of me.
By the start of middle school, I had completed Weight Watchers and was at a normal weight. I loved having friends, cute clothes, and the attention of boys. It was intoxicating. Addicting even. I sailed through middle school. High school was slightly more difficult because I noticed I was gaining weight again. Some days I would literally starve myself seeing if I could get a few pounds off. Other days I would consider going to the bathroom to purge. Every day was a fear I would be the "fat girl" again. This terrified me because this was high school – I was supposed to be having the time of my life. I made it through high school – a little heavier than I would have liked, but still a healthy weight.
When college rolled around, I was stressed and tired and really started gaining weight again. Fast. I would do the crash diets and have success, but I always gained that weight (and more) back. Eventually, I lost all my self-esteem and just stopped caring. I let myself go. Even though I hated myself, it seemed easier than fighting. I ended up dating guys that were bad for me because it was a confidence boost to just have the attention. I went by for years like this. The problem, never out of mind, but pushed back far enough, I was in denial. I would "deal with it one day". Even my doctors knew better than to ask for me to weigh at an appointment – I would automatically tell them "No, thank you, not this time" every time I went. I honestly had no clue what my weight actually was! I didn't want to know.
"One day" finally came when I was 24. I was on the phone with my mom and we had a heart-to-heart and decided I was seriously unhealthy and in danger. I agreed to meet with a bariatric surgeon and have vertical banded gastroplasty. This is a stomach banding procedure where you get a band around the top portion of your stomach and then the rest is stapled off. Unlike the Lap-Band, this is permanent, but does not re-route the intestines like the gastric bypass. I am able to eat only 2 oz. of food at any time and that is it. If I eat too much or too fast, my body will reject it and it won't stay down.
This sounds like the easy way out. Most people say diet, exercise, change your lifestyle. How do you exercise when you can hardly walk? How do you portion control when you are so hungry you feel like your stomach is eating itself? Then people asking, "How did you let this happen?" I had to do something. So I agreed to the surgery.
Keep in mind I am 5'11" tall – but I weighed in at 384 lbs!! How did I get here from the 170 lbs I was at the last time I weighed?! The surgery was scheduled and I can tell you this was NOT the easy way out. I have never been so sick in my life. I spent 2 weeks in the hospital, had pneumonia, blood clots, 2 blood transfusions, had an NG tube (a tube that goes down the nose straight to the stomach to keep it empty and dry). Almost every day I asked my mom if I was dying. And most every day she couldn't look me in the eye and tell me I wasn't. I was that close to dying.
Once I got out of the hospital, my body had to re-learn everything. When you only eat 2 oz, your body goes into shock. The weight starts to come off fast, but there are side effects. I have never been so cold in my life and my hair fell out by the handful. I was afraid to eat out for nearly a year until I learned my new body because I was terrified I might get sick in public. Even today, I hate being asked by waiters if the food isn't good because I barely touched it. I've gotten used to the questions by now and to overhearing people talk that I am secretly bulimic because food doesn't always stay down. It is still worth it.
This all began in May of 2008. My surgeon set a goal weight of 200 lbs for me. I hit that weight in February of 2010. Almost 200 lbs lost. My body was a mess. I hated the way clothes fit because I had so much loose skin. I went under the knife again in February and had an upper and lower tummy tuck. This dropped me down to 190 lbs. I told my surgeon I had a personal goal of 180 lbs, but he said it was unlikely, but if I reached it, great. If not, 190-200 lbs was very healthy considering my height.
I continued to lose weight and I beat my own goal weight by almost 20 lbs. I weigh about 160 lbs now and I feel better than I ever have. I can look in the mirror and see that I am pretty. I can look at clothes and know they look good. But there is still a part of me that thinks I could lose a few more pounds. Just another dress size. I will probably be that way the rest of my life. As a result, I am on strict doctor's orders to not lose more and I will watch it carefully.
There really isn't a book out there that fits my situation perfectly, but since SKINNY by Donna Cooner depicts a girl struggling with her weight and recovery, something I became very familiar with, I will be giving away one copy of this book.
1. Before (Weight unknown as I refused to weigh or take full body pictures)
2. Before/After Picture at the Surgeon's Office (Before: 384 lbs, After: 190 lbs)
3. Now (160 lbs)
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The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. Thanks for the chance to win!
- October 31, 2012 at 5:01 PM
- M.A.D. said...
The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle! Thank you for the sweet giveaway, and much hugs & congratulations to Destiny for sharing her incredible weight loss journey! <3
Mary DeBorde M.A.D.
- October 31, 2012 at 5:52 PM
- Destiny said...
Thank you Mary! <3
- October 31, 2012 at 7:16 PM
- Ana Lucía said...
You look incredible Destiny! I'm not entering the giveaway but thank you for sharing your story with us. I can't believe you went through all of that and the surgery sounds brutal. I'm glad you are okay now. <33
- October 31, 2012 at 8:47 PM
- Marmaladelibby (aka Ange) said...
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers. Thank you for telling your story Destiny! Yours has many similarities to mine, but mine has some much darker portions I still struggle with every single day. I met Donna recently, and was blown away that someone else had this voice inside their head that I've always had. I always added the voice to my list of reasons I might not be ok, but have even now been learning how many others have that voice too. Here's to smothering the voice and taking back the control over our body, life and ultimately our futures!
- November 1, 2012 at 12:51 AM
- Allison Kirk said...
I almost cried reading this post. I can so identify with this post. I've always been overweight even at my personal thinnest. I've thought about the surgery but I'm scared both emotionally and physically. Thank you so much for this post!
My fav book of the year: Fault in Our Stars. Perks og Being a Wallflower was teally good too.
- November 1, 2012 at 1:46 AM
- mary ann(RunOnce828) said...
Of Poseidon and The Fault in Our Stars :))
- November 1, 2012 at 5:29 AM
11/22/63 :)
- November 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM
- Angela L said...
Destiny thank you so much for sharing your story. You are a beautiful person inside and out :)
Sad to say I've read quite a bit this year but nothing jumps out at me as a favorite.
- November 1, 2012 at 12:41 PM
- April Hays said...
Thanks for a chance to win....I can so relate to your tory an dwould love the chance to read it. I guess this year my favorites would have to be The Hunger Games.
- November 1, 2012 at 12:48 PM
- Isa said...
Thank you for sharing your story. It's great you feel happy with yourself, the surgery sounds really tough but you've done amazing!
My favourite books this year are The Fault in Our Stars and The Sky is Everywhere. :)
- November 2, 2012 at 12:37 AM
- Kristia said...
wow congrats for all the strength you had to go through with all of it!
My favorite book this year is Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson. Thank you for the international giveaway :)
- November 2, 2012 at 3:31 AM
- Sarah Handrich said...
Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens
- November 2, 2012 at 9:53 PM
- Evie said...
Legend by Marie Lu.
Thanks for this great giveaway!
- November 3, 2012 at 4:48 AM
- Reading Mind / The Loyal Book said...
Such strengh in this story! You are a great person!
As for my favourite book, I'd say The Diviners
- November 3, 2012 at 6:10 AM
- Stina Butcher said...
Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen
- November 3, 2012 at 6:37 PM
- Anubha said...
the fault in our stars and the forever girl
- November 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM
- Theresa Nowaczyk said...
I would have to say Cinder :) Thanks for the giveaway :)
- November 7, 2012 at 9:35 PM
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Peggy Eisenhauer is partner to world-renowned lighting designer, Jules Fisher. They have been in collaboration for 27 years. She has created lighting designs in three primary disciplines: theatre, film, and music.
Eisenhauer began on Broadway as an assistant to designer Richard Nelson and on the road with rock LD Stephen Bickford. She then began assisting Fisher on Broadway in 1985, which became a partnership and studio known as Third Eye. She has an extensive international music-industry touring design background spanning 25 years with such artists as Whitney Houston, Tracy Chapman, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, and Fishbone.
Fisher and Eisenhauer's lighting designs on the film version of Chicago, in collaboration with cinematographer Dion Beebe, were honored with a 2003 Academy Award nomination for Cinematography. Their theatrical lighting is also featured in the films Marci "X", My Week With Marilyn, School of Rock, The Producers, Dreamgirls, Burlesque, and Neil Young Trunk Show.
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I was reading this entry over at In DC Journal about Kerry's gaffe at bringing Mary Cheney into the debate the other night. I found it interesting that, of the people polled on the question, all but one group felt it was wrong. That group was Kerry's die-hard supporters. Even 51% of the Democrats polled thought it was wrong. But that brings me to another crossroads. Is homosexuality a choice, or are you born that way? I've heard and read arguments in favor of both sides of the issue. I've also read what the Bible says about homosexuality. The Bible says having sex with the same gender is wrong. But it does not say that being attracted to the same sex is a choice. Nor does it say you're born that way. Some are of the opinion that you may be born that way, but you don't have to act on it. Sort of like when you are tempted to eat an entire pizza in one sitting. You don't have to do it, even though you may want to. As with premarital sex, it is a temptation that can be avoided with enough willpower. I'm not sure I agree with that belief. I believe the Bible, but the Bible also says that God loves a sinner, even though he hates the sin. As humans, we are tempted all the time, be it by food, sex, taking home office supplies, little white lies, etc. We must learn to resist these temptations. As for homosexuality, that's a little more complex an issue, but with prayer and study, an answer can be found. I'm a heterosexual and happy to be one. I have had many friends who were not. I did not judge them, they did not judge me. After many conversations, we agreed to disagree. Anyone want to chime in here on this topic?
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Well, of course you could always eat pizza…but unfortunately that's not very agreeable with wanting a lean bikini body. It could be your "reward" meal for the week (always one of my favorite choices), or you could try these bad boys and not feel the slightest bit guilty.
They seriously taste just like pizza. It's almost freaky.
Whole Foods sells them or you can search "Go Raw Flax Snax" on Amazon…they sell them and have other flavors as well, but I've only had the pizza flavor so I can't speak of the others. But I bet they're tasty.
Moving on…this morning I did an at-home circuit workout that will be up tomorrow for Be Fit Friday! I loved it.
Also, high of 91 degrees today!! Maybe I'm crazy but I'm excited about that. It's been too cold for too long and I am ready for summer! I don't work Fridays in the summer so I'm pumped to hit the pool manana :)
No hot coffee for me today. I'm having cold overnight oats for breakfast mixed with some cinnamon, protein powder, and banana.
My mid-morning snack is a grapefruit and I'm already excited about it…I'm on such a grapefruit kick, I really can't get enough.
This is technically my Friday so just gotta get through today and it's the weekend. Lots to be done (as usual!)
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The Boston Celtics famously had success against the new-fangled Miami Heat in the season series between the two teams, who will re-engage for a second-round NBA Playoffs series on Sunday. The Celtics kicked off the regular season with a damning win, a 88-80 victory in which Chris Bosh was bullied to just eight points on 3-11 shooting and Dwyane Wade was held to 4-16 shooting. Essentially, the Celtics looked at Miami's incredible arsenal, corked it and laughed in triumph.
The teams met back up in Miami two weeks later; the result was similar, though each offense picked up. Boston won 112-107, with LeBron James again breaking the 30-point barrier but with Wade again struggling (2-12 shooting). After the game, Paul Pierce famously tweeted a crack mocking LeBron's "taking my talents to South Beach" line. The teams met against Feb. 13 in Boston with first place in the East on the line. The Celtics won 85-82. Dominance was so established.
The teams did meet again in April, with the No. 2 seed and home court advantage in this very series on the line. Miami blew the doors off, winning by 23. Boston immediately conceded the No. 2 position, resting some of his starters for the final week of the season. That loss now comes home to roost, with the Heat playing the tone-setting first two games of the series at home.
There's little evidence teams who win season series do better in the playoffs once you account for quality. As Mike Prada wrote Friday, Wade's struggles against Boston are the real issue to worry about; Bosh seemed to crack the Celtics' defense in the last two games of the season series (a team-high 24 in February, 13 on 5-8 shooting in April), and LeBron has racked up big totals all season. On the other end, Rajon Rondo stands the biggest chance of causing real problems for the Heat defense, but in the regular season series, he averaged just 7.5 points on 37 percent shooting with 12 assists per game.
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I just saw a link on the NBA site saying Derek Fisher has a partially torn tendon in his right foot. He's still going to try to play it out but it's an injury that would normally sideline a player six-eight weeks. Also with Kobe in Technical Foul trouble, this could be bad news for the Lakers.
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By Wainwright Jeffers - bio | email ALBANY, GA (WALB) – The Minority Association of Pre-Med Students treated the community to their first health fair.
They held it in the Hyper Gym at Albany State University.
Students with an interest in medicine help conduct tests under the supervision of doctors. It was all free.
Attendees were screened diabetes, HIV, and received information about the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
"It's a wonderful thing when you have kids who are really excited and want to do something to reach out and help others, and often all the need is a little bit of direction to show them how to do it and make it happen," said Dr. Londa Walden, Community Health Fair Organizer.
The students also collected money for the Red Cross Haiti relief efforts.
It was hosted by the Griffin-Jordan Minority Assoc. of Pre-Med Students.
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BURGAW, NC (WECT) - Though aviation isn't a topic often taught in schools, children interested in flying were able to learn about planes Saturday in Burgaw.
"It's a dream come true," said 15-year-old Zach Parks who has always wanted to fly. "It's the first time I've been flying."
Until Saturday, Zach and many other children had only seen small planes on the history channel, but with the generosity from pilots in the local Experimental Aircraft Association, the kids went on rides they won't soon forget.
"Helping any young person see the world from a different perspective you get above the ground and look at the planet you live on," said Karen Ellison, a young eagles coordinator. "You have a totally different appreciation for where we live and the quality of life we have."
For Zach, there was a time when he didn't know if he would ever get to look at the earth from above. In 2007, the Laney High School Freshman was diagnosed with Leukemia.
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When treatment is over and the Leukemia has officially departed, Zach says he hopes to get his pilots license and depart on his own plane.
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An estimated 800 people around Nashville volunteered their time Monday as part of Dr. Martin Luther King's National Day of Service.Volunteers worked on nearly three dozen community projects as part of the two-day event.Eleven fire halls received a lot of help with volunteers painting walls on a day they typically have off from work."It's a big deal for them to come out and give up a holiday," said Capt. Ken Caruthers of Engine 13, near the Sylvan Park area of Nashville. He continued, "It really means a lot. It means the community is willing to come and stand behind the people that stand behind them everyday."Caruthers said his fire hall had not had a new coat of paint since it opened in 1991. Among the hundreds of volunteers of was Corinne Bergeron of Jackson National Life Insurance Company."We had a bunch out on Saturday as well, so we really encourage it throughout the year," she told News 2 while rolling a wall with paint. "We offer volunteer opportunities every week."The volunteers included Mayor Karl Dean whose office, along with Hands On Nashville, coordinated the efforts at the various projects citywide. "Dr. King was all about service, he was all about giving back to the community, and this is a way people can help and make this a better city." said the mayor. A release from the mayor's office said "Nashville ranks at No. 14 of the 51 largest cities in the United States in terms of volunteerism, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service's Volunteering and Civic Life in America 2012 report."
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Every time I see last post JC5100, I have to click on it.... Pure comedy.
Seeing as tight end is not a focal point of the offense....
The tight end position is full of mediocrity. This was a pretty good draft for TEs, so I was bummed we couldn't grab a good prospect this year. Hopefully we find a good one in next year's draft. Until then, we'll just have to get by on mediocrity.


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SPACE -- That's how far this lockout has taken us. These are the reaches to which we've been driven. The cold, lifeless, seemingly endless expanse of boredom and desolation that is Netflix instant viewing. Luc Besson (Creator of The Fifth Element) brings us Lockout, a film starring Guy Pierce (Memento) as Snow, an ex-CIA operative who could charitably be called wise-cracking. This is mostly evidenced by the way he talks about fucking his interrogator's mom while getting punched in the face. Actual dialogue:
INTERROGATOR: "What was his name?"
SNOW: "His name was 'Fuck You.'"
INTERROGATOR: "Really." (with sarcasm)
SNOW: "Yeah, he was Asian."
*Punch to the face.
WASHINGTON, D.C., 2079 (184 years before the events of The Fifth Element) -- The first scene is basically Snow getting beaten up and flashing back to a bathroom fight scene straight out of the new Casino Royale movie, the opening fight scene of which was a flashback as well, if I remember correctly. In said flashback, he gets a call on his cellular phone; he's been double-crossed, says some guy named "Mace." There's a chase scene. So far I think this whole thing is just the 2006 Casino Royale. He delivers a sensitive briefcase to Mace, but is captured in doing so.
Back to the future: The president's hot, blonde daughter is, naturally, inspecting the highest-security prison in the world. Except it's not in the world. IT'S IN SPACE. This is SuperMax-MS1, where all the inmates are rapists, murderers, Scottish, and frozen in stasis. The president's daughter is investigating the treatment of the incarcerated; there have been reports that going into stasis may have nasty side effects like damage to the cerebral cortex, increased aggression, and going completely fucking insane (psychosis). There are rumors that this facility is experimenting on prisoners to find a viable stasis for travel into deep space. One of the crazy prisoners is awoken so that the president's daughter can interview him and we're treated to the first engaging acting of the film, from some guy that's not quite Robert Carlyle. For all I know it could just be Gary Oldman playing Robert Carlyle playing a madman a la The Beach. Well of course Not Quite Robert Carlyle steals someone's gun and releases every last one of the 497 inmates of the penal colony, including the Poor Man's Gerard Butler, who is his brother and appears to be cold-blooded and craftier than most. Turns out not everybody goes batshit insane when they're frozen; the staff just happened to pick the most batshit insane person possible for the first-daughter to interview. Good choice, Guys.
Snow is offered his freedom in return for infiltrating MS1 and rescuing the president's daughter. He plays it cool, chats it up with the ladies, doesn't seem interested, but then someone tells him Mace is imprisoned there, so he gets in a space suit, jumps onto the space prison, and climbs on-board. Once he's in, he's got to get to her before she suffocates, because some dumb-ass shoots a control panel to lock himself and the president's daughter in what I thought was an escape pod, but that guy shoots himself in the head to preserve oxygen for her, so at least that was cool. She's unconscious by the time Snow gets there and he has to revive her by stabbing her through the eyeball with a needle into her brain. The needle is "self-guiding," so I guess that explains why she doesn't suffer any damage to her eye or anything. I can't decide if this clears the bar set by The Rock, in which Nicholas Cage has to stab a needle into his own heart, or not. Then Snow has an anti-gravity battle in which he and some dude are suspended in a shaft above an anti-gravity...thing. Or maybe it's a gravity-generating thing, I don't know how gravity works in space buildings.
Snow and the president's daughter butt heads, letting you know they're totally gonna do it in the end, and it turns out she can handle a gun ("I thought you were a democrat!" he quips!). They get what info they need from Mace, but it's not until they watch the penal colony collide with and demolish the International Space Station that we're told that MS1 is falling out of orbit and, of course, is going to land directly on the Eastern Sea Board of the United States. Also, Mace dies.
So Snow effectively completes his mission, putting the daughter (I really don't remember her name) on the only escape pod, which only has room for one for some reason, and sends her off. But she's an empowered, modern woman of the future. She's too headstrong to be so easily handled, so she re-appears, saying she couldn't go because that would doom the other hostages. She really pulls a power play on this Snow guy--let's him know she's not just along for the ride.
So of course she immediately capitulates to the bad guys and gives away their position to save the hostages and, once their location is known, Not Quite Robert Carlyle shoots and kills every last hostage. Good one, Lady. Real smooth. But then in the next scene we find out that the staff totally was experimenting on inmates, so their deaths aren't regrettable, after all! Hooray!
At this point, the US government is sending an entire armada of space ships to destroy the space prison and one flies through the center of it a la Return of the Jedi and drops a time bomb on it that has a visible count-down clock and everything, you know, just in case you are on the outside of the space ship and need to know how much of the thirty seconds on the bomb has elapsed so you can hurry up your prayers. Not Quite Robert Carlyle stabs the Poor Man's Gerard Butler and the space prison explodes. Boom.
So anyway our two protagonists parachute from space to Earth and everything works out cool and she gets the briefcase for him and exonerates him and I don't see why she had to do that anyway because her dad's the fucking president and can pardon whomever the hell he wants and I'm pretty sure it's revealed that Snow had the secret information on his person the whole time, anyway, but there's one final twist that I shall not reveal and in the end it's clear the two main characters are going to have sex and all is well!
I give this movie three stars out of five (3/5), once adjusted for Netflix Instant Viewing expectations. It's probably only a 2/5 on a true scale. There's some amount of charm that Guy Pierce misses when he tries to do the Bruce Willis-style sarcasm. He comes off as more bitterly unhelpful than playfully bemused. The film goes to some lengths to paint Snow as a 'bad boy' ("You're a relic, Snow! Nobody smokes cigarettes anymore!"), but it never quite works. The other actors hold their own and the over-the-top premise follows the expected action formula closely with enough special effects that it's still a pretty enjoyable movie if you're trying to waste your Sunday in bed. Which I was. Also I never figured out why it was called "Lockout," except that there was no hockey. The End.


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"I felt that somehow being a revolutionary intellectual might be a goal to which one might aspire, for surely there was no real reason why one should remain in the academic world – that is, remain an intellectual – and at the same time not be revolutionary."
- Dr. Walter Rodney, "Walter Rodney Speaks" (Rodney, 1990)
Holistic community can exist among the subjugated beyond rhetoric and ideals. I find the possibility quite refreshing, even accounting for the paradoxical means in which it may be attained. The oppressed, the people with soul, forced to function within the confines of a troubled and artificial framework set on affirming itself as authentic find themselves in an ironically opportune position.
Everyday life amongst the trivialized serves to perpetuate the hindering of progress, further suppresses cultivation, and fetters whatever humanity is left. Yet still we find our predicament morally advantageous for the simple fact that despite numerous efforts, these artificial perceptions and ideals will never fit. We the subjugated find success in our failed attempts to apply fabricated and linear definitions to our very multidimensional realities. When the "self-other" dichotomy is brought about, we are the other, and in striving to be someone else's definition of self we have always had ourselves, their other, to fall back on. Such is the nature of development by contradiction.
At the expense of the oppressed, the oppressor seeks comfort, coziness, profit, and riches. However, fragmentation, passivity, and denial disguised as the former are the only rewards of these efforts. It only helps this misperception of reality that the world created for you agrees with your rightful place at the top, which makes fragmentation, passivity, and denial look to be much more than empty goals, and rather attractive ones. Success is gauged by one's transcendence into this holy trinity of ineffectiveness.
The chief motivating factor of this discourse is the daily interaction with my peers who have identified themselves as being in solidarity with the subjugated, but seek comfort through the same vacuous means as the colonizer, the oppressor. The academic elite, our Kennesaw State, Clark Atlanta, Temple, Georgia State and Emory Universities, our Morehouse, Spelman, and Smith Colleges. The group tasked with the cultivation and understanding of sound theoretical ideals finding comfort in denial and ineffectiveness is problematic. This group, within the framework of this discussion, I liken to a group highlighted by Frantz Fanon as the "Colonized Intellectuals" (Fanon, 1965)
Within the halls of the institution this group, of which I am a member, functions with "bourgeois swinishness" (Cesaire, 1972) as the fundamental rule, having mistaken upward mobility as the end all of progress, casting aside a more comprehensive means of pressing forward: cultivating the ability to apply sound theoretical frameworks in a practical/equitable way, in cooperation with the working class.
The colonized intellectual finds comfort in an education that is fundamentally hypocritical. Hypocritical in the sense that the general claim, or I would like to think so, is one of a focus on community yet everything in practice works to conserve an impractical system of relations among the two subgroups of oppressed. An education that takes refuge in hypocrisy is doomed to be ineffective, or rather effective in the sense that it perpetuates the status quo and hinders any sort of substantive and sustainable development within the individual and society.
On objectivity: At times, the safety that the heart seeks is in indifference. Choosing to function (whether poorly or not) from an objective standpoint is to choose indifference, and to choose indifference is to choose irresponsibility. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of a network of inescapable mutuality he was alluding to the interrelated network between you and I, whether one identifies as an intellectual, laymen, politician, factory worker, farmer, teacher, artist, etc.
The fact of the matter is that when our collective heart seeks comfort in indifference and yearns for a veil of deceit we have chosen to remove ourselves from the equation. We have chosen to remain ineffective; in essence we have taken a step away from the environment where "grounding", the foundation of humanity and civilization, is possible. We, the individuals who function within the institution, must maintain a more inclusive and holistic model of development, because "it is not the head of a civilization that begins to rot, it is the heart." (Cesaire, 1972) As we continue to advance in the abstract, our hearts go malnourished. This too, is development by contradiction. If we are to aspire to bring forth the questions we seek to be answered, we must be thorough and tempered with humility because being anything else will misguide the practice and in effect, hamper development.
When Dr. Walter Rodney was grounding in Jamaica he was devoting himself to theory derived from and tempered with practice, while providing useful insights from what he had learned and formulated having been immersed in the institution. Unfortunately, the practices of Dr. Rodney are the exception generally not the usual procedure.
In conclusion I re-pose the original question with an addition: What is the role of the intelligentsia in revolution? The definition of "Revolution" free of the confines of exoticism and empty eloquence, begins primarily with the individual. I am simply a man, and no man is in the place to judge his brother, for that designation belongs to a higher power. I posit such an idea not as a condemnation of my brethren, but rather in the hopes that this idea evokes the insight necessary to begin revolution in the place that it must in order to be sustainable, the individual. When there is a claim of humanity within the foundation, a claim beyond flowery language, a claim that can be seen in both theory and practice, only then do we begin to move in a manner that can be described as progress.
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Khalfani Lawson
Kennesaw State University
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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - A collision that injured two people on a motorcycle in the Yakima River Canyon involved a marked Kittitas County sheriff's patrol car.
The Washington State Patrol says Deputy Mark Rickey was making a U-turn Saturday on Highway 821 near Selah when he collided with the motorcycle.
The deputy was not injured. A Selah couple on the cycle, 24-year-old Donald Sadler and 25-year-old Mahannah Sadler, were taken to a Yakima hospital. A friend told Yakima Herald-Republic (http://bit.ly/12kdpou ) the two are recovering from broken bones.
Three other motorcycles in a group had passed the patrol car before it started to turn in front of the Sadlers' motorcycle.
No citations have been issued as the Washington State Patrol is still investigating.
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The Safe Amount of Tylenol / Acetaminophen
Tylenol, which relieves pain, cold and flu symptoms alike, is one of the most commonly taken over-the-counter medicine today. Over eight billion capsules of Tylenol are taken each year. Tylenol is the brand name of the pill's active ingredient: acetaminophen. Acetaminophen acts as both an analgesic (pain reliever) and antipyretic (fever reducer). The Food and Drug Administration has confirmed the link between acetaminophen and liver damage, a deadly side effect backed up by decades of scientific research.
The FDA has recently ordered pharmaceutical companies to limit the amount of acetaminophen per dose or pill to 325 milligrams (mg). Some medications still contain up to 750 mg of acetaminophen per dose.
The FDA says you can help reduce the risk of adverse effects from acetaminophen by:
- taking opioid/acetaminophen combination medicines only as prescribed by a doctor
- not taking more of an acetaminophen-containing medicine than directed
- carefully reading all labels for prescription and over-the-counter medicines
- asking the pharmacist if your prescription pain medicine contains acetaminophen
- not taking more than one product that contains acetaminophen at any given time
- not drinking alcohol when taking acetaminophen
- stopping your medicine and seeking medical help immediately if you
- experience allergic reactions such as swelling of the face, mouth, and throat; difficulty breathing; itching; or rash
- think you have taken more acetaminophen than directed
- not taking more acetaminophen than the maximum daily dose of 4,000 milligrams (4 grams)
Extra strength Tylenol capsules currently contain 500 mg acetaminophen—more than 35% more than the recommended single dose. The instructions recommend a user not exceed 8 capsules in a 24 hour time frame. Vicodin also contains 500 mg per pill. Percocet can contain up to 650 mg per pill, double the single recommended dose. Regular Tylenol contains the safe amount of 325 mg acetaminophen, and its instructions recommend not exceeding 12 capsules in a 24-hour timeframe.
If you drink more than two alcoholic drinks per day you should cut the dosage in half. Alcohol increases the oxidation process and reduces the amount of glutathione within the liver. However, if you are not a chronic user of alcohol and consume a large amount in a single dose, the liver will be busy oxidizing the alcohol and not the acetaminophen. Caffeine can also negatively affect the cells in the liver. Caffeine increases the amount of NAPQI produced within the liver. However, it would take a very high dose of caffeine to produce such an effect.
Check the drug information on the box or bottle to see if your medication contains a safe amount of acetaminophen. If it does not, talk to your doctor. Do not stop taking your prescription pain medicine without approval from your doctor.


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J.Z. Wang, J. Li, G. Wiederhold, "SIMPLIcity: Semantics-Sensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 947-963, September, 2001.
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—The need for efficient content-based image retrieval has increased tremendously in many application areas such as biomedicine, military, commerce, education, and Web image classification and searching. We present here SIMPLIcity (Semantics-sensitive Integrated Matching for Picture LIbraries), an image retrieval system, which uses semantics classification methods, a wavelet-based approach for feature extraction, and integrated region matching based upon image segmentation. As in other region-based retrieval systems, an image is represented by a set of regions, roughly corresponding to objects, which are characterized by color, texture, shape, and location. The system classifies images into semantic categories, such as textured-nontextured, graph-photograph. Potentially, the categorization enhances retrieval by permitting semantically-adaptive searching methods and narrowing down the searching range in a database. A measure for the overall similarity between images is developed using a region-matching scheme that integrates properties of all the regions in the images. Compared with retrieval based on individual regions, the overall similarity approach 1) reduces the adverse effect of inaccurate segmentation, 2) helps to clarify the semantics of a particular region, and 3) enables a
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BANGALORE, INDIA: A decade ago, there were about 400 million people on the Internet; today, there are nearly 2 billion, more than 940 million people around the world have 3G mobile phone subscriptions, and more than 500 million use Facebook.
We are in the midst of unprecedented technology evolution, with multiple technology disruptions/trends transforming the way business is conducted. Today's world is characterized by increasingly fast transformations, boundless interconnectedness and prevalent interdependencies.
Technology trends such as big data, mobile technology, cloud computing, social media are transforming the ways in which organizations and individuals engage with one another, be it in sales, marketing, infrastructure or operations. Younger consumers are more connected, demanding and vocal as never before. The large and growing proportion of 'digital babies' are technology savvy and demand personalized services and interactions through a range of information channels.
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Examples of how sales departments are using cloud-based CRM packages and marketing departments are increasing social media use are abound. This trend will only accelerate as different departments adopt more and more cloud and mobile technologies. Companies with granular insight into each of their Facebook users, including their demographics, interests, influence, and friends network can offer customers and prospective customers personalized messaging based on demographics, psychographics, behavior, and likes/dislikes.
The rise of mobile computing is incredible in sheer scale and its breadth of adoption - cutting across age groups, economic classes and geographies. Consumer interest in smartphones, tablets and untraditional connected devices such as set-top boxes, telematics, video games and embedded appliances is growing faster than with any other product segment.
Every domain which is consumer centric will have to lend itself to this evolution. It is critical for organizations to be agile - in decision making, thinking, assimilating and taking these solutions to clients that are transforming business and technology, in other words, to turn these disruptions into opportunities to improve business and maximize profitability. Companies who embrace these 'disruptions' and make the most of these exciting opportunities will be better placed to move their business forward.
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(02/05/13) - Could there be more victims? Tuesday, the sexual assault trial for a former Saginaw Township catholic school athletic director was delayed - again.
In April, 72-year-old Gary Moreland was accused of sexually assaulting a distant relative two decades ago.
Last month, the case was to be settled with a plea agreement, but that didn't happen.
Tuesday, Moreland's trial was set to start, but, once again, a delay.
Seventy-two-year-old Gary Moreland was back in court with a new attorney. It was last month when Moreland was in court, expecting a plea agreement and to be sentenced in the same proceeding. He's charged with first degree sexual conduct against someone under the age of 13, a distant relative.
Judge Janet Boes called the plea agreement and sentencing arrangement highly unusual and the deal was scrapped. Assistant Prosecutor Jennifer Barnes also said more potential victims have come forward.
Moreland's new attorney, Matt Reyes, says he hasn't seen any evidence there are other victims.
"They are rumor more than anything else, and I anticipate the investigation is ongoing, and maybe there will be something, but let's face it, we are a year into this," Reyes said.
Moreland was criminally charged last April. Reyes says Moreland was willing to enter into a plea agreement last month to get the criminal allegations behind him.
"He has dedicated his life to public service, he has worked hard, it's unfortunate that these old allegations come up at these times," Reyes said.
Barnes says potential victims, which includes two former St. Thomas Aquinas school students and two former employees of Moreland's clown company, are being interviewed. Reyes says Moreland maintains his innocence.
"Mr. Moreland, throughout the course of this, has denied any wrongdoing whatsoever. He certainly is looking forward to his day in court and getting an opportunity to get his side out, that he has done nothing wrong," Reyes said.
At Tuesday's adjournment, Judge Boes says she wants to get a status on where the criminal case stands in about three weeks.
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Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 Composer Portraits series with a multi-faceted exploration of the work of Jean-Baptiste Barrière featuring Raphaële Kennedy, soprano Camilla Hoitenga, flute Margaret Lancaster, flute Aliisa Neige Barrière, violin and Nathan Davis, percussion. The show is today, March 29, 2014, 8:00 p.m at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University (2960 Broadway at 116th Street). Tickets are $20-$30 and for Students with valid ID: $12-$18.
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Jean-Baptiste Barrière was born in Paris in 1958. His studies included music, art history, philosophy, and mathematical logic. In 1998, he joined IRCAM in Paris, directing Musical Research, Education, and Production; he left in 1998 to concentrate on personal projects focusing on the interaction between music and image. His piece Chréode (1983) won the Prix de la Musique Numérique of the Concours International of Bourges in 1983 (CD Wergo). He composed the music of several multimedia shows, including 100 Objects to Represent the World by Peter Greenaway, which premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1997. Barrière has also composed the music of several virtual reality and interactive installations by Maurice Benayoun, including Worldskin (Prix Ars Electronica 1998). He developed Reality Checks, a cycle of installations and performances questioning the concept of identity in the digital age. He directed the CD-ROM, Prisma: The Musical Universe of Kaija Saariaho (Grand Prix Multimédia Charles Cros 2000), and regularly realizes visual concerts of Saariaho's music, including her opera L'Amour de loin, performed in Berlin and Paris in 2006 by Kent Nagano and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin. He directed visuals for concert versions of operas such as Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise with Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (which won the 24th Grand Prix du Conseil des arts of Montréal), and with Myung Whun Chung and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France in 2008; and Alban Berg'sWozzeck with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia of London in 2009. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he was a Visiting Professor in the music department of Columbia University, and this year he is the Composer-in-Residence for the music department's Computer Music Center.
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Aliisa Neige Barrière (b. 1995) was born into a French-Finnish family in Paris, where her music studies have included violin, piano, chamber music, and choral as well as orchestral conducting. She studied violin with Renee Jolles in New York at the Preparatory Division of Mannes College of Music (2011-12), and as a winner of the Concerto Competition she played the first movement of the Khachaturian concerto in March 2012 at Symphony Space, New York. Apart from her studies at Mannes, she was a member of the Face The Music ensemble, directed by Jennifer Undercofler, dedicated to performing only music by living composers. In 2012, she continued her studies in Paris, in the 'Cycle de Perfectionnement' for young performers, playing violin and piano. Her recent engagements have included solo appearances as well as conducting. Aliisa won the New School Competition in New York and was awarded a full scholarship for four years of studies at Mannes College of Music, where she has studied since September 2013 with Lewis Kaplan (violin), Michael Adelson (conducting), and Todd Philips (chamber music). She is also a member of the Mannes Baroque Players, under the direction of Nancy Wilson. She plays a 1717 violin by Claude Pierray.
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WASHINGTON, Ill. -- The city of Washington is taking a big step in its goal of cleaning up 100 percent of the almost $90 million in damage left by the November tornado.
City administrator Tim Gleason announced demolition of the Georgetown Common apartments will begin on Monday.
He said this area was a big concern of the city's because of the large amount of debris in a small area.
While residents are glad to finally see it cleared up -- they do have some concerns.
"Right now all the critters are content because they aren't being disturbed. But once the contractor comes in and starts tearing down they won't have a place to call home," said Washington resident Cindy Shaver. "So we're afraid they're going to come up over the hill and invade our neighborhood."
City officials said they will be speaking with the contractor about that issue before demolition begins.
And that's not the only progress the city has made.
More than 600 permits have been issued -- about half of the number of homes damaged or destroyed in the tornado.
But Gleason said there are about 250 residents the city has not heard from; and about 24 of those properties look like they haven't been touched at all.
He said the city will intervene if they don't hear from the property owners soon.
"Even if the permit is not pulled, the resident signaling what their plans are -- realizing that could change -- that's what I want to know along with providing a safe property," Gleason said.
Mayor Gary Manier did say some good news regarding state funding is coming within the week.


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South coast star quits with broken heart
1:20pm Sunday 27th May 2012 in General Sport
South coast star Kelly Sotherton has admitted to being "heartbroken" after confirming her retirement through injury two months before she hoped to compete at the London Olympics.
The 35-year-old former Commonwealth Games champion and Olympic bronze medal-winning heptathlete officially called time on her career today, a little over a week after undergoing an operation to remove part of a disc from her back.
It brings to an end an ambitious but ultimately doomed attempt to return to top-level competition in the heptathlon, an event a previous back injury had caused her to abandon in 2010 in favour of the 400 metres.
The Isle of Wight-born athlete said: "After losing my funding at the end of the 2011 season, having been forced to concentrate on the 400m for a year because of injury, I decided if I was going to do this myself then I would have one final shot at my first love - the heptathlon - and really go for the chance to compete at a home Olympics.
"Sadly it wasn't meant to be and the body didn't quite hold out long enough for me.
"I'm heartbroken if I'm honest but I'm looking forward to the new challenges that lie ahead instead knowing that I gave everything I could to make it to what should be one of the greatest Olympics in history."
Sotherton had been attempting to meet the Olympic qualifying standard at an IAAF Combined Events Challenge in Italy earlier this month when she broke down during the 200m.
By the time she had surgery, she knew the injury would leave her insufficient time to get back on track before the British squad is announced, ending the quest.
Retirement brings the curtain down on a career highlighted by the bronze medal at the Athens Olympics and the Commonwealth title in Melbourne in 2006. Sotherton also won bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, and finished fourth at the Olympics in Beijing four years ago.
In the pentathlon, Sotherton won silver at the World Indoors in Valencia in 2008 to go with European Indoor silvers in Madrid from 2005 and Birmingham from 2007.
"I'm so proud to have represented my country and to have won an Olympic medal, among other accolades, and am grateful to all the support I have received over the years from those around me," Sotherton added.
"I'd particularly like to thank my coach of eight years, Aston Moore, who has stuck by me through thick and thin.
"It's a really exciting time for sport in this country so I'm looking forward to enjoying it over the next few months."
She will perhaps equally be remembered for her forthright views, not least on doping as she publicly criticised the readmission into the sport of Ukrainian Lyudmyla Blonska after a failed doping test.
Sotherton's reaction brought disapproval only for her to be vindicated when Blonska failed a second doping test in Beijing.
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If you want to make the playoffs, that is fine. I get it, you don't want to lose, Orlando typically is not a lottery based franchise, why should I go to the game, etc.
My retort: Did you watch last night???
As a fan, I would lose every single game if it guaranteed me one of these three players. They made mistakes(Randle lots of TO's, Wiggins early foul trouble, and Parker fouled out), but they absolutely dominated their respective games. Randle and Parker more so, but Wiggins took over the second half. For those who say scouts can be wrong, nuh uh. Not with these three. The Harrison twins, yeah they may be wrong on them, but Wiggins, Parker and Randle will not fail in the NBA. If they do, whatever franchise and head coach failed them.
I don't know who is the number one pick, and in reality you can not go wrong with any of them. But if you want to make the 8th seed to be annihilated by the Pacers/Heat/whoever fine. I would rather take my lumps get a legit franchise player and move forward with that player.