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Post by Dillon on Jun 8, 2015 4:15:54 GMT
has I Don't Give ever been played in any commercials? Coz Im always so familiar with the melody like I heard it before when I was a child "I Don't Give" was featured on the 2003 film, American Wedding. I'm not sure if it was in the actual movie though. Besides that movie, other than the tour edition of Let Go and cd singles of "Complicated", "I Don't Give" wasn't featured anywhere else.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 8, 2015 4:00:34 GMT
If you look towards the bottom on the left side, you can see something of a silver-ish color. It could be a bra strap.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 6, 2015 4:08:56 GMT
Maybe not but its just that we had to see and hear so much about the Chavril stuff during the AL era, it's like... Ok enough already. IDK that's just my feeling about it. Remember that one random time she uploaded a video from the studio when she was with Alex da Kidd? And they even played a snippet of what we presumed to be Candy? I always wonder why she did a studio update only once and it was very randomly. I wish she'd be in the mood to do it more often. It was such a great thing to see. Not to mention that she was sick at the time too. That made her random studio update even more bizarre.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 5, 2015 22:16:57 GMT
SOME WEATHER TERMS EXPLAINED June 5, 2015If you ever thought it was difficult to tell the difference between “partly cloudy” and “mostly sunny,” you’re not alone. Established by the National Weather Service (NWS) according to a loose set of rules, the criteria used to describe different elements of your forecast can be pretty vague. Sky conditions are classified according to how much “opaque cloud coverage” (OCC) is expected that day. While the NWS has apparently not defined “opaque clouds,” they are presumed to be those that can’t be seen through, or more technically, those that are “opaque to terrestrial radiation.”
To qualify as “Sunny,” there can be no more than 25% OCC. “Clear,” on the other hand is sometimes used as synonym for “Sunny,” but is only applied when there is no more than 5% OCC. “Mostly Clear,” which is also a synonym for “Sunny,” is used when there is between 6% and 25% OCC. “Mostly Sunny” and “Partly Cloudy” are apparently interchangeable, and apply when the OCC is between 26% and 50%.”Partly Sunny” and “Mostly Cloudy” can also be synonyms, when the OCC is between 51% and 69%, although “Mostly Cloudy” can be applied for OCC up to 87%. At an OCC of 88% and above, the sky is considered “Cloudy” or “Overcast.”
Note that when there is a “high probability” of precipitation (60% or more), many weather folks skip the sky condition forecast, since it may be inferred to be “Cloudy.” When forecasting the chance of precipitation, the NWS considers the likelihood that there will be at least 0.01 inches of precipitation at one place in the forecast area within (usually) a 12-hour period (called the probability of precipitation or POP).
Words used in the forecast, such as “chance of rain” and “likely,” as well as “isolated” and “scattered,” are considered either “expressions of uncertainty” or “qualifiers” (the last two denote that the entire area will not be affected), and they are tied to ranges of POPs. So, when the probability of precipitation (POP) is between 60% and 70%, the “uncertainty” is low and so the forecast may often include the word “likely,” while when the POP is only 20%, the “uncertainty” is higher, so the phrase “slight chance,” may be used. “Isolated” is used when the POP is between 10% and 29%, while “scattered” is used when the POP is between 30% and 59%. “Occasional,” “intermittent,” and “periods of,” denote a POP of greater than 79%, but also that the precipitation will be “on and off.”
When the forecast temperature is given in a range, it has a particular meaning, as well. For example, “near 40″ means the temperature is expected to be anywhere from 38ºF to 42ºF, “lower 40s” denotes anywhere from 40ºF to 44ºF, “mid 40s” from 43ºF to 47ºF and “upper 40s” from 46ºF to 49ºF. Wind terms are tied to specific ranges too, all related to “sustained wind speed” (SWS), and they can overlap. “Sustained wind” is defined as the average of observed wind speeds over a two-minute period. | |
“High,” “strong” and “damaging” winds are those expected to have SWS of at least 40 miles per hour (mph). “Very windy” denotes when SWS is between 30 and 40 mph, and “windy” between anywhere from 20 to 35 mph. When the SWS is between 15 and 25 mph, “breezy” is used when the weather is mild, and “brisk” or “blustery” are used when it is cold. “Calm” and “light” are used to denote SWS of 5 mph or less. Wind chill incorporates considerations of how much heat a human body will lose to the environment on a cold or windy day. Calculations are estimated at weather conditions at 5 feet above ground level (said to be the typical height of a human face), and begin when SWS reach 3 mph. The NWS provides a chart that shows wind chill for any temperature between 40F and -45F with winds between 5 mph and 60 mph, and it reveals that even a slight wind, with cold temperatures, can have a big effect on wind chill. For example, at 0F with only calm winds of 5 mph, the wind chill is -11F. Likewise, even when temperatures are relatively mild, say at 35F, if the winds are high, say 60 mph, it can make it feel about half the temperature it really is (17F). On the other hand, the heat index reflects the fact that when the humidity reaches a certain point, the perspiration on your skin can’t evaporate, you can’t cool down so easily, and so the apparent temperature feels hotter than it actually is. On that note, the NWS provides a heat index chart as well, which shows temperatures between 80F and 110F and relative humidity (RH) between 40% and 100%. Just as with wind chill, slight changes in a single variable can have a dramatic effect, and when both are high, the heat index becomes dangerous to human health. For example, at 90F and 40% RH, the heat index is only 91F, but if it’s soupy outside, say 95% RH, then the heat index shoots up to 127F.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 5, 2015 22:16:00 GMT
HARRY HOUDINI ON TRIAL June 4, 2015In 1901, the Cologne, Germany newspaper, Rheinishe Zeitung (RZ), published a story titled (translated) “The Unmasking of Houdini,” in which a chief of police, Schutzmann Werner Graff, accused Houdini of attempting to bribe him into rigging an escape from the city’s jail, and of paying another man, Herr Lott, to help him with a phony performance.
Incensed (and facing an existential threat), Houdini hired “the best lawyer of Cologne, Herr Rechtsantwalt Dr. Schreiber” to prosecute a series of slander trials.
Held in Cologne, at the first trial, on February 26, 1902, Graff testified that Houdini had offered him 20 marks in exchange for Graff giving him both his “handcrafted lock” and a duplicate key. Graff also testified that Houdini had another man (named Lott) secretly provide him with a duplicate chain to display, after he would appear to have freed himself from the first chain, although really, according to Graff, he just sawed through it.
Of course Houdini denied the charges and claimed that Graff had, in fact, attempted to deceive Houdini by providing him with an inoperable or “dead” lock, and that, since Lott had warned him of Graff’s deception, Houdini offered Lott some compensation for that information. | |
Witnesses were presented for the defense and the plaintiff, although no clear conclusion could be drawn. To solve the matter definitively, the chairman of the case asked Houdini for a demonstration. Locks, as well as chains, were placed around him. Houdini first banged one lock against a metal plate he had fastened on his leg, which weakened the spring, enabling him to open the lock. Then Houdini and the judge went to a corner of the court (in an attempt for Houdini to keep some of his secrets), where Houdini showed the judge his method for freeing the chains. The judge and jury were convinced, and Houdini won. Undeterred, Graff sought a second trial with a higher court, the Strafkammer, where the second proceeding was held on July 26, 1902, and at which some of the “highest officials of Cologne” testified for the defense. Here, a lock manufactured by master mechanic Kroch, claimed to be of such a construction that once locked “nothing would open it . . . even the key,” was used to chain Houdini. According to contemporary reports, he then: walks into the room selected by the jury where he could work unhindered. In four minutes, with a quiet smile, reenters the court room, and hands the judges the prepared lock opened. Houdini won the second trial, as well. Graff remained unrepentant and pursued the matter with Germany’s highest court, the Oberlandesgericht, where the third trial was held on September 26, 1902. Houdini again prevailed. Graff was found guilty of “openly slandering” Houdini and was fined 30 marks. Houdini was awarded his expenses and an amount to compensate him for lost bookings (both also paid by Graff), as well as “An Honorary Apology” that was to be publicly advertised.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 5, 2015 22:15:09 GMT
MOONSTRUCK June 3, 2015
Our favorite childhood classics make us feel as snug as a bunny in bed. Here’s a look at what’s down the rabbit hole.
Goodnight Moon
“Goodnight light and the red balloon…” Margaret Wise Brown wrote more than 100 books for children, but her most famous is Goodnight Moon, published in 1947. It was a revolutionary book in its time, inspired in part by the poetry of Gertrude Stein. More than four generations of children have nodded off to this classic’s hynpnotic spell, and 11 million copies have been sold since its first printing. But in the beginning, the book’s prospects looked dim.
In its first year, Moon sold a modest 6,000 copies at $1.75 each. That yielded a typical author’s royalty rate of a dime or less per book, earning Brown around $500. Sales declined from there. In 1951 Goodnight Moon sold only 1,300 copies, and there was no reason to believe that sales would ever recover. That may explain why in May the following year, Brown made a whimsical addition to her will: Upon her death, the royalties from her books would go to the three sons of her neighbors, Joan and Albert Clarke, probably figuring they’d get a few dollars a year to blow on toys and bubblegum. But that’s not how it turned out.
Good Neighbor Policy
The Clarke family had provided a measure of stability to Brown, who lived a bohemian life in her nextdoor flat, never marrying and never having kids of her own. Apparently she loved the Clarke children and allocated royalties from various books to each. Her will provided that the middle child, nine-year-old Albert, would receive 100 percent of Goodnight Moon. What happened next was completely unexpected. Four months after writing her will, while on a book tour of Europe in late 1952, the 42-year-old author suffered a coronary embolism and died. | |
It took a few years for Brown’s estate to be settled, and in 1957 the Clarke family learned the peculiar details of her will. In the meantime, though, the situation had already begun to change for Goodnight Moon. As parents across the country and world began telling each other about this “magic” book that put toddlers to sleep, sales grew and the publisher began issuing new printings. The result was that Albert, now 13, learned that his share of the estate was already $17,530 (about $134,000 in today’s money) and still growing robustly. By 1970 Goodnight Moon was selling 20,000 copies a year; in decades that followed, that number jumped into the hundreds of thousands, with total sales reaching four million in 1990. The Plot ThickensYou’d think that a story about a children’s book might have a happy ending; perhaps Albert would use his money wisely and generously. No. In 2000 Joshua Prager tracked Albert Clarke down for the Wall Street Journal, writing that “in the intervening years, the trajectories of Ms. Brown’s book and the boy who inherited it began to diverge with strange symmetry.” Prager describes a life of squandered millions, murderous fistfights, theft, a sequence of broken homes, domestic violence, lost custody of children, clothing bought and thrown away instead of being washed, houses bought and sold at a loss, vagrancy, debt, drug abuse, and arrests on an array of charges ranging from menacing and resisting arrest to criminal possession of a weapon, criminal trespass, assault, and grand larceny. According to Prager, Albert Clarke said he believed-with no supporting evidence or corroboration from any source-that Brown was his real mother, a notion his older brother Austin characterized as “delusional thinking. It’s a fairy tale that makes him feel better.” The Never Ending StoryAustin’s response is understandable: Albert’s most recent six-month royalty check had been $341,000; Austin’s (for Brown’s book The Sailor Dog): $13.88. Their youngest brother Jimmy, also the recipient of small checks, had joined a cult years earlier before committing suicide in 1995. How long will this continue? Thanks to extensions of copyright laws in the 1990s, Albert or his heirs will be receiving royalties for Goodnight Moon-one of the most successful children’s books of all time-until 2043.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 5, 2015 22:14:23 GMT
GANDHI’S LETTERS TO HITLER June 2, 2015By the late 1930s, Gandhi’s method of peaceful non-cooperation had already won significant concessions from the British Raj, including the founding of a national administration and local and national legislative assemblies, albeit still under British oversight. Gandhi, himself, was internationally famous for his various acts of non-violent, civil disobedience, including his 241-mile Salt March, which, while protesting Britain’s monopoly on salt and its high tariff, also galvanized the Indian people against British rule altogether.
With his reputation for effective, nonviolent change well established, many implored Gandhi to write to Adolph Hitler, whose increasingly aggressive regime in Germany had them worried that a second world war was imminent. For example, by February 1935, Hitler had ordered the establishment of a German air force, the Luftwaffe, and by March 1936, Hitler had sent troops into the Rhineland – both in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Also in 1936, Hitler had established pacts with Italy and Japan, and in March 1938, Germany invaded Austria.
At this time (1938), Hitler was named Man of the Year by Time magazine. They stated, “Lesser men of the year seemed small indeed beside the Führer.” That said, their reasoning for picking him was not to honor his actions up to that point, but to widely publicize his exploits. They noted, among other knocks against him, “Germany’s 700,000 Jews have been tortured physically, robbed of homes and properties, denied a chance to earn a living, chased off the streets. Now they are being held for ‘ransom,’ a gangster trick through the ages.” They ended their article on their decision to name Hitler the Man of the Year on the ominous note, “To those who watched the closing events of the year it seemed more than probable that the Man of 1938 may make 1939 a year to be remembered.”
Indeed, although Britain and France thought they had “appeased” Hitler’s ambition, and ensured “peace in our time,” with the Munich Pact (that handed only a portion of Czechoslovakia over to Germany) in September 1938, by March 1939, Hitler had breached that agreement by soon occupying the entire country. At this point, finally realizing that Hitler couldn’t be trusted, Britain pledged to defend Poland if Germany invaded the latter. | |
Seeing the writing on the wall, Gandhi sent a short, typewritten letter to Hitler on July 23, 1939, telling the dictator: Dear friend,
Friends have been urging me to write to you for the sake of humanity. But I have resisted their request, because of the feeling that any letter from me would be an impertinence. Something tells me that I must not calculate and that I must make my appeal for whatever it may be worth.
It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay the price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success? Any way I anticipate your forgiveness, if I have erred in writing to you.
I remain, Your sincere friend M.K.Gandhi However, this letter never reached the German Chancellor, as it was, apparently, intercepted by the British government. Shortly thereafter, Germany signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union on August 23, 1939 (which kept the USSR out of the war until 1941), and Britain signed the formal Anglo-Polish Common Defence Pact two days later. Germany then invaded Poland with its Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) on September 1, 1939, and on September 3, 1939, World War II formally began when Britain and France declared war on Germany. Despite facing two powerful enemies, Germany encountered little real resistance during those early months of the war. It tore through the European continent, and by May 1940, Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Norway were all occupied by Nazi forces. The Battle of Britain, which saw the British homeland pummeled by a months-long bombing campaign, began in July 1940. Over the coming months, nearly 30,000 bombs were dropped on London, during which more than 15,000 people were injured or killed. Once again, on December 24, 1940, Gandhi sent a letter to Hitler, this one significantly longer. Again addressing him as “Dear Friend,” Gandhi explained that: “That I address you as a friend is no formality. I own no foes. My business in life has been for the past 33 years to enlist the friendship of the whole of humanity by befriending mankind, irrespective of race, colour or creed.” But, taking a harder line this time, Gandhi chastised the Chancellor: Your own writings and pronouncements . . . leave no room for doubt that many of your acts are monstrous and unbecoming of human dignity. . . . Such are your humiliation of Czechoslovakia, the rape of Poland and the swallowing of Denmark. He also challenged Hitler, noting that although Nazi Germany had lifted the “science of destruction” to a level of “perfection”: It is a marvel to me that you do not see that it is nobody’s monopoly. If not the British, some other power will certainly improve upon your method and beat you with your own weapon. You are leaving no legacy to your people of which they would feel proud. They cannot take pride in a recital of cruel deed, however skilfully planned. I, therefore, appeal to you in the name of humanity to stop the war. Accepted that both men shared a common disdain of Britain, Gandhi continued: We know what the British heel means for us and the non-European races of the world. But we would never wish to end the British rule with German aid. We have found in non-violence a force, which, if organized, can without doubt match itself against a combination of all the most violent forces of the world. He ended with a final appeal: During this season when the hearts of the peoples of Europe yearn for peace . . . is it too much to ask you to make and effort for peace? If this letter ever reached Hitler, it apparently was too much to ask.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 5, 2015 22:13:12 GMT
CAN AMBULANCE DRIVERS GET SPEEDING TICKETS June 1, 2015Subject to the same rules of the road as other drivers, with a few exceptions for emergencies, ambulances can be pulled over and ticketed for speeding and other traffic violations, although it is exceedingly rare.
Generally speaking, ambulance drivers should observe all traffic laws and regulations; however, some of those laws are waived when the ambulance needs to respond to an emergency (sometimes called “Code 3″). Typical exceptions (which usually apply to other emergency response vehicles like fire trucks as well), include: (1) allowing the vehicle to park or “stand” pretty much anywhere the driver puts it; (2) blowing red lights and stop signs – after ensuring it’s safe to do so (and slowing down); (3) driving in the “wrong” lane or the “wrong” way up a street or through an intersection; and (4) exceeding the maximum speed limit.
Depending on the jurisdiction, with the exception concerning speed, some limit it to 10 miles per hour (mph) over the speed limit, others 15 mph, and still others leave it to the driver’s discretion “so long as (s)he does not endanger life or property.” In addition, again depending on the location, many states and localities require that the vehicle “make use of visual signs,” I.e. have its lights on and some may prefer the siren to be blaring as well. However, even in places where the siren is supposed to be on, medics may choose to turn it off, since the sound may disturb some patients (as one EMT said, it “makes the patient freak out.”) | |
Note that some of the exceptions to the basic traffic laws have vague language, and the interpretation depends on your perspective. According to one EMT whose crew was attempting to reach a site expeditiously, the driver chose to “oppose traffic” (presumably drive the wrong way down the street) for about 300 feet, driving about 15 mph; obviously, that driver made the judgment call that do so was safe. Unfortunately for him, a police officer who observed this made a different judgment call, that it wasn’t, and pulled the ambulance over; while she did not give the ambulance driver a ticket, she did hold it at the location well past the time for the call and, we can only hope, another ambulance was dispatched to the emergency. Since ambulances are expected to behave as other vehicles when not responding to an emergency, if they are approached by an emergency responder, like everyone else, they are expected to pull over too. In a 2009 incident in Oklahoma, an ambulance that did not have its lights or sirens running was pulled over by a state trooper after it failed to give the trooper the right of way when he was attempting to respond to a call. According to the trooper, the ambulance driver also flipped him off, so the trooper pulled him over. It turned out that the ambulance was transporting a patient, but was not running either the lights or the siren in an effort to keep the patient calm. So, as soon as the ambulance stopped, the lead medic emerged from the ambulance to discuss the situation with the trooper, but the latter was too incensed to listen. An altercation ensued, which escalated to the point where the trooper grabbed the medic by the neck. The incident was caught on camera (by the patient’s family who were travelling behind the ambulance), and the trooper was suspended. Historically, the medical community has held to the belief that there is a “golden hour,” in which serious trauma patients who make it to a hospital within 60 minutes of being injured are much more likely to survive, and that the faster the patient makes it to the ER, generally, the better. For example, some say that Princess Diana, who died in 1997, could have been saved had the ambulance not taken 40 minutes to transport her to the hospital (some say it could’ve made the trip in 5 minutes, but took so long due to French emergency procedures). However, recent research is challenging the assumptions behind “faster is better,” in regards to the “EMS interval.” In a 2010 study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, after looking into the time it took over 3,000 trauma patients to make it to the hospital and their outcomes, the study revealed that, extremely counter-intuitively, “shorter intervals did not appear to improve survival.” However, according to the Chairman of the London Ambulance Service, Sigurd Reinton, even a minor delay from things like speed bumps kills numerous people every year by slowing emergency vehicles. This is a notion backed up by a study done by Ronald Bowman in Boulder, Colorado that indicated that for every life saved by various traffic slowing measures like speed bumps, an astounding 85 people die because of this slowing effect on emergency vehicles, whether inherently, like in speed bumps, or by jamming up traffic.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 4, 2015 1:01:30 GMT
And after reading Marliz's comment, yeah...I need to hear that rap live I'd love to hear Bitchin Summer live, but I think that she would probably botch the rap part. We all know how Avril started pronouncing stuff weird in her live performances during the GL and AL eras. I think she did a pretty good job with the Girfriend Remix rap during the TBDTour, but now she would probably sing it weird. Avril Lavigne - Botchin Summer (Live)
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Post by Dillon on Jun 4, 2015 0:52:12 GMT
for GL, RCA made her go back to studio with Max Martin and delayed the album almost a year, until they finally agreed to add 4/12 songs from the "hitmaker" Avril wrote a total of 12 songs with Max Martin? I know that they wrote "Dancing Crazy" together and it was given to Miranda Cosgrove, but I didn't know they did 12 songs together.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 3, 2015 15:35:51 GMT
^ To think, if GL had been released in 2009, then everything that happened after GL wouldn't have happened exactly as it has. If GL had been released in 2009, then Avril's life would have been slightly different and she could have therefore never have been in a position to get Lyme Disease.
I guess that I am kind of grateful for the way things turned out, because otherwise Avril wouldn't have worked with Chad in the studio. I'm glad that Avril was able to find someone she loves and cares for so much. It's so crazy to think that if AL had been released in 2012, then she wouldn't have worked with Chad in that situation either. Even though GL and AL weren't released as Avril had originally envisioned, at least she fell in love along the way.
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Post by Dillon on Jun 3, 2015 15:18:09 GMT
I could see how releasing the video would maybe just make people miss the "old" Avril. But I also personally would have loved seeing it, for nostalgia reasons and I'm sure a lot of fans would. A lot of us really loved the Complicated throwback in HTNGU. Not to mention that 17 is just too good not to have a video. I wish she could have done something like Beyoncé did, where each song had a video. There was a lot of potential for all or most of the AL songs to have videos which I think would have been very cool. It's like FTP not getting its video all over again. I wish FTP's video shoot hadn't been cancelled; if its video had been shot, it could have been a more proper single.
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Post by Dillon on May 31, 2015 14:49:50 GMT
What does he mean by he got her 10% writing credit? You can't give someone writing credit if they didn't write the song! I believe that she wrote it; whenever she has been asked about it, she has never denied that she wrote it. Just watch her talk about it in the Howard Stern interview. It starts at 27:56 I agree with Howard, she should definitely perform it live some time; she would need to learn the words first though Something we all know she isn't always best at. I love when she said that her demo probably sounded like ass - hilarious
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Post by Dillon on May 31, 2015 14:30:28 GMT
It is quite ridiculous how they cannot give any updates about BA's progress. I can only think of two reasons why they wouldn't want to give us an update: either the upgrade is still in the same stage as it was when they gave the last update, or the upgrade isn't happening at all and they are cowardly avoiding telling us.
Either way, like Bogo said, an email barely takes any time and effort. Regardless of what the current progress of the update, it would be very considerate of them to answer back instead of rudely ignoring you.
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