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Post by Dillon on Jun 20, 2015 16:41:45 GMT
^ Considering other artists are performing, I think that there will be enough space for a band, so Avril will probably have a backing band; whether it be her band, or a band that's provided for the event.
I personally would love it if her performance was just her and a guitar player (or piano player). A super stripped down performance would be amazing! I'd prefer that over a full band performance.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 20, 2015 4:10:57 GMT
If her voice is well enough to be recording, then it'll definitely be fine enough for a live performance.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 19, 2015 19:52:36 GMT
If you search "Avril bandaids" in google, this site comes up as one of the first sites listed.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 19, 2015 17:12:09 GMT
KHO was not a permanent part of TBDT but I think she did perform it live a few times. I think you may be thinking of when she performed at select concerts during the Black Star Tour.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 19, 2015 12:10:10 GMT
^ It's possible. KHO and Alice were technically singles too. And she did add Alice the BSTour, but KHO was never added to the TBDTour.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 19, 2015 2:40:31 GMT
Something I have noticed just recently on here, the temp site, is that activity depends a lot on the members and not just Avril. Members can only log on if they have time to. Even if Avril is making headlines left and right with constant news, a member can't come here and discuss it if their real life doesn't allow time for it.
BA's activity does correlate with Avril's activity (e.g. it increases during album promo and decreases after a tour ends), but it definitely depends on members' ability to log on. If everyone had a lot of time to be on BA, we would all discuss anything and everything. As long as I have been on bandaids, it has always extended outside of Avril discussion in every which way. Needless to say, there is always something to talk about here. Yes, maybe some members don't want to discuss non-Avril topics, so they don't and therefore add to the lack of activity by not logging on; but BA's activity level is non source point.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 18, 2015 18:05:25 GMT
Yeah sure go ahead I'm typing it up right now
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Post by Dillon on Jun 18, 2015 16:57:15 GMT
I've been thinking of changing the like to thanks but I'm not sure how and i'm not sure if we should do larger avatars for staff as it's kinda unfair imo but that's just my opinion. I'll PM you with the details. Then you can test it out and see if it's something you want to do.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 18, 2015 16:40:54 GMT
It's awesome that she's performing!! It's been so long since we've heard her sing live.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 18, 2015 2:44:30 GMT
I know how you can make the staff avatars larger than member avatars as well as how to change the likes to thanks, if you're interested in adding some more BA feel to the *temp forum.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 18, 2015 0:53:59 GMT
This made me laugh my ass off!
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Post by Dillon on Jun 16, 2015 3:19:05 GMT
Since Avril and "Fly" are obviously linked to the Special Olympics right now, I figured that I would post about this here. There is a new song that was released in support of the Special Olympics. *NOTE: The new song is not by Avril. If you want to know more, I posted an article about it in the General Discussion board. You can view it here: avrilbandaids.boards.net/post/9507/thread
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Post by Dillon on Jun 16, 2015 3:14:45 GMT
This summer, Los Angeles will welcome 7,000 inspirational athletes from 177 different countries to the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. Supporting children and adults with intellectual disabilities, the World Games is the largest sports and humanitarian event on the globe. To celebrate, The Coca-Cola Company, Founding Partner of Special Olympics, has assembled a star-studded team to record a unified song for the World Games, titled “Reach Up.” The new song debuts today and will be performed during the World Games. ESPN is the official broadcaster of the World Games and will have a three-hour live telecast of the Opening Ceremony beginning at 9 p.m. ET featuring Robin Roberts, co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and ESPN’s Lindsay Czarniak and Kevin Negandhi. “Reach Up” features rock band O.A.R., recording artist Cody Simpson and, accompanied by Breanna Bogucki, a singer and decorated Special Olympics athlete from Illinois who has Autism, and Madison Tevlin, a young Canadian woman with Down syndrome who became a viral sensation earlier this year. Written by Marc Roberge, lead singer of O.A.R., Nathan Chapman and Kevin Kadish the uplifting alternative-rock song encourages people of all abilities to never give up. Inspired by Special Olympics Unified Sports – a program that brings athletes with and without intellectual disabilities together on the same team to compete – “Reach Up” embodies the values of optimism, acceptance and inclusion shared by Coca-Cola and Special Olympics. “In all our lives, we’ve been touched by somebody who may not have been born with all the opportunities we were. At the end of the day, we are all doing the exact same thing - trying to appreciate this daily life that we’re given,” said Marc Roberge, lead singer of O.A.R. “I feel like the lucky one, being able to spend time and learn from two incredible individuals - Madison and Bree - involved with Coca-Cola for something as special and as important as the Special Olympics World Games. ‘Reach Up’ is an anthem. I want people to hear it and feel like they can do anything.” Fans can support Special Olympics by sharing the “Reach Up” music video on social media using the hashtag #ReachUp. Coca-Cola will donate one dollar – up to $100,000 – to Special Olympics for every “Reach Up” video share using the hashtag leading up to the World Games. Fans can listen to “Reach Up” on Spotify and learn more about the musicians’ story on Coca-Cola Journey.The Coca-Cola Company is the Founding Partner and Global Sponsor of Special Olympics, the world’s largest health and sports organization dedicated to people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Since 1968 – Special Olympics’ inception – the Company has maintained a deep commitment to the organization and has provided more than $190 million in support of its programs through product, equipment, donations and marketing support. Music Video: Article Source: www.businesswire.com/...
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Post by Dillon on Jun 14, 2015 22:48:27 GMT
THE TRUTH ABOUT KENNEDY AND THE JELLY-FILLED DOUGHNUT June 12, 2015Myth: John F. Kennedy blundered in one of his most famous speeches, saying in German “I am a jelly-filled doughnut” instead of what he meant (in the figurative sense) “I am a person from Berlin”.
As German professor Reinhold Aman stated about this:“Ich bin ein Berliner means ‘I am a Berliner’ or ‘a male person/native of Berlin’ and absolutely nothing else! … No intelligent native speaker of German tittered in Berlin when J.F.K. spoke, just as no native speaker of German, or one who does know this language, would titter if someone said, ‘Ich bin ein Wiener’, or Hamburger or Frankfurter.” Yet another linguist, Jürgen Eichhoff, in his paper covering the misconception stated, “‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ is not only correct, but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say.”
The fact that this is a myth shouldn’t be a surprise to many because if “Ich bin ein Berliner” had been interpreted, “I am a jelly-filled doughnut”, it likely would have been major comedic news at the time. The reality was, though, that the first known record of anyone interpreting it as such wasn’t until 1983, in the novel Berlin Game, 20 years after the speech was made: | A Berliner Doughnut |
‘Ich bin ein Berliner,’ I said. It was a joke. A Berliner is a doughnut. The day after President Kennedy made his famous proclamation, Berlin cartoonists had a field day with talking doughnuts. In a review of the book, the New York Times decided to take this statement as true, even though the book is a fictional novel and no such cartoonists’ works from that time seem to actually exist. Since then, this common misconception has made its rounds through various major news organizations, including CNN, the BBC, and Time Magazine, among many others. You’ll even occasionally hear native English speaking German language instructors spread this myth, but you won’t hear a native German speaker interpreting the statement as such. The misconception primary stems from Kennedy’s use of the indefinite article “ein”, rather than saying just “Ich bin Berliner”, as well as the fact that a “Berliner” is also known, mainly in far western parts of Western Germany at the time, as the name of a certain type of pastry created in Berlin around the 16th century. Of course, a Berliner is also someone who is from or lives in Berlin. Those from Berlin more commonly called that type of pastry a Berliner Pfannkuchen (“Berlin pancake”) or just Pfannkuchen. Besides the fact that the person who translated that line for Kennedy, Robert Lochner, grew up in Berlin and was the one time Chief U.S. German interpreter in Western Germany, Kennedy also practiced the speech several times beforehand, including in front of other native German speakers, such as Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, who saw no problem with the wording because his use of “ein” is actually correct in this context. Had he said “Ich bin Berliner”, he would have been saying he was literally a citizen of Berlin, which isn’t true at all, nor the sentiment he was trying to express (more or less, “I was not born here and do not live here, but I am one of you.”) Because he was speaking metaphorically, adding the indefinite article “ein”, “Ich bin ein Berliner” made that explicit. So to be doubly clear, including or excluding the “ein” here is the difference between “I am (literally) from Berlin” vs. “I am (like someone) from Berlin.” Now because he was speaking figuratively, it is possible to interpret his “Ich bin ein Berliner” as “I am a jelly-filled doughnut”; the problem of course is context, which is always important in interpreting language. In this famous speech, he used that “Ich bin ein Berliner” statement twice, as follows: Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was ‘civis Romanus sum’ [‘I am a Roman citizen’]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Berliner!”… All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner!” (full text of the speech here) In neither case was he speaking of food and given he was a human being and the explicit reference he was making, nobody interpreted him as saying “I am a jelly-filled doughnut”, just as no one would interpret a person saying “I am a New Yorker” as meaning they are a magazine, burrito, or a town car. The speech itself was meant to show support for the people of Berlin after the construction of the Berlin Wall and with the threat the USSR posed to them. And contrary to what you’ll read in that original New York Times editorial covering this supposed gaff, no one laughed when he said it. Rather, some 400,000+ people strong cheered. You can watch the full speech below and see for yourself:
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Post by Dillon on Jun 14, 2015 22:47:35 GMT
THE LEGENDARY TOILETS OF SINGAPORE AND THE FLUSHING LAW June 10, 2015Over the years the city of Singapore has been described by many as one of the cleanest on Earth with roads and toilets being “clean enough to eat off“, which is perhaps to be expected from a city where it’s illegal not to flush a public toilet.
The reason why toilets in Singapore are so insanely clean can be traced back to the work of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first and arguably most popular prime minister. Kuan Yew rose to power in 1959 and continued to serve as Singapore’s leader for 31 years until he decided to step down in 1990. When Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, Kuan Yew is noted as being instrumental to the the small city-state being able to so quickly transform itself from being a “poor port from the bottom rungs of the third world” to being one of the most profitable and prosperous economies on the planet.
Kuan Yew accomplished this through a series of reforms aimed at making the country an overall nicer place to live including:
- Enacting legislation to make prosecuting corrupt officials easier as well as “relentlessly pursuing” corruption wherever he encountered it.
- Paying civil servants decent wages to ensure the jobs would be tempting to Singapore’s best and brightest and giving them bonuses based on how well the Singapore’s economy does on a yearly basis.
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- Inviting foreign corporations to set up shop in his country to create reliable employment for his citizens and foster international relations.
- Establishing the Housing and Development Board to help house residents without homes into newly built apartments. Further, unlike most nation’s public housing, Singapore’s is quite nice, places people actually want to live.
- Drafting legislation to plant tress and clean up the cities waterways and rivers which were notably filthy. Kuan Yew was so serious about making Singapore cleaner, he famously promised that if his dream wasn’t a reality by 1986 and he was still in charge, that he’d personally hunt down whomever was responsible for the failure and shoot them. Because he wasn’t playing around.
- Creating the Water Planning Unit, which was tasked with helping the country become less dependent on water from Malaysia, which was threatening to cut off their water supply after Singapore gained independence. This initiative, like so many others he enacted, was a resounding success, with Time magazine later calling Singapore “the global paragon of water conservation.” In fact, their system is so efficient that they even can, and do, process non-potable waste-water into high-purity drinking water.
[/i] [/ul] By far Kuan Yew’s most infamous policies though were his incredibly strict rules in regards to public cleanliness, most if not all of which carry hefty fines if you’re caught breaking them. For example, not flushing a public toilet is considered a crime in Singapore and if you’re caught flouting it, you will be given an on the spot fine of about 150 dollars, more if you’re a repeat offender. Likewise, littering carries an equally heavy fine of about 300 dollars or more, depending on the size of the item. Smaller items like candy wrappers usually incur a lesser fine, whilst things like soda cans can net you a trip to court and even a caning if you’re caught. Kuan Yew’s biggest bugbear, however, was chewing gum; he hated it with such a passion that since the 1990s, gum has been outright banned in the country. This was later (partially) repealed in 2004 and gum is now okay to be brought into the country in small quantities and dentists are allowed to prescribe it for certain medical conditions. While this may seem a tad extreme, Kuan Yew’s annoyance with gum chewing wasn’t without precedent. You see, prior to the ban in 1992, the government was spending upwards of 150,000 dollars a year to clean it up and vandals were using it to disrupt the sensors on the country’s newly built subway trains, stopping their doors from shutting and in the process causing huge delays. After the ban, cases of such gum littering plummeted and the associated costs of cleaning it up dropped to negligible levels. If you’re wondering how exactly Singapore enforces these dozens of laws, it’s mostly accomplished using hundreds of undercover police officers who have the power to issue on the spot fines to anyone seen flouting them. Officers are known to check toilets after they’ve been used and even install security cameras if they receive multiple complaints on a particular toilet, to catch offenders in the act. Perhaps our favourite Singapore cleanliness fact is that many of Singapore’s elevators have “Urine Detection Devices” which will lock the doors of an elevator and summon the police to your location to arrest you if it detects that you’re relieving yourself in one. All of this may seem excessive, but the results really speak for themselves; today, Singapore is largely considered one of the world’s leading economies and the city itself is one of the most industrious, safe, clean, nicest to live and richest on Earth. In fact, Singapore is currently enjoying 16 consecutive years on the top spot of the “world’s most livable cities“, and is also generally considered the world’s best city for businesses. Not bad for a place that was up until about 50 years ago or so described as a “ swampy land mass“.
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