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Doesn’t matter how old you are, how young you are, just find your damn passion and run with it, plus…kitties!! Thus I give to you, faithful readership, a video filled with win. :)
F♯ major or F-sh
arp major is a major scale based on F♯, consisting of the pitches F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, and E♯. Its key signature has six sharps.
Its relative minor is D♯ minor, and its parallel minor is F♯ minor. Its enharmonic equivalent is G♭ major.
F-sharp major is the key of the minuet in Joseph Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony, of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Op. 78, of Chopin’s Barcarolle, of Liszt‘s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, of Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony, of Erich Korngold’s Symphony Op. 40, and of Scriabin‘s Fourth Sonata. The key was the favourite tonality of Olivier Messiaen, who used it repeatedly throughout his work to express his most exciting or transcendent moods, most notably in the Turangalîla Symphony.
In a few scores, the F-sharp major key signature in the bass clef is written with the sharp for the A on the top line.
The CBC Signature Series is hosted by Paolo Pietropaolo.
Oh right, its only bad for dudes to get their autonomy infringed on. So sorry double XXers.
The most remarkable ability that could be attributed to me at the age of fifteen was having not crushed my skull or lost a significant amount of my digits doing stupid shit. Ms.Yousafzai has considerably less going for her, but is doing considerably more. She is fighting for right for children to be educated.
This is what she wrote:
On 15 June fourteen girls were murdered in Pakistan simply because they wanted an education. Many people know my story but there are stories every day of children fighting for an education. The basic right to education is under attack around the world.
We need change now and I need your help to achieve it.
You can help me and girls and boys across the world. We are asking the United Nations General Assembly to fund new teachers, schools, books and recommit to getting every girl and boy in school by December 2015.
This July 12th is my 16th birthday and I am personally delivering this petition to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
I became a victim of terrorism after I spoke out in favour of education of girls. These innocent girls killed in Pakistan have nothing to do with politics and only wanted to empower themselves through education.
If we want to bring change, if we want progress, if we want development, if we want the education of girls, we should be united. We should not wait. We should do it now.
Go sign the petition. I did. Take the 30 seconds and get it done.
Common sense and human behaviour are two concepts that, when seen in concert, should be looked upon with some skepticism. Take for instance the idea that when there is road construction and one lane is closed you should get over to the other lane ASAP as to not cause traffic congestion. Seems like common sense, no?
Well it is wrong.
“Leon James, professor of driving psychology at the University of Hawaii, says the notion that “merging early is better” is responsible for the typical congestion caused by lane reductions on highways and roads.
“A lot of drivers think that if they merge into the open lane as early as possible, that they are helping to keep traffic moving. But all it really does is create an empty lane without any cars in it, and a crawling, grid-locked lane opposite,” says James.
“People think it’s courteous and makes them feel good without realizing that they are in fact causing a lot of trouble for everybody on the road.”
Merging hundreds of metres before a construction zone begins can result in a chain reaction of drivers in the open lane having to slam their brakes, thus generating what researchers call a traffic wave.
Traffic waves can impact driving conditions up to 30 kilometres before the actual merging point on busy highways, says James.
Sadly, this is completely my behaviour on the road. I would rather switch earlier and go slower than deal with trying to get into the correct lane at the last second.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation introduced the zipper merge in 2002 and has been expanding its use throughout the state every year. Additional signage is added for several miles prior to a major construction site that tells drivers to stay in both lanes and when it is time to merge.
Extra warning and clear instructions a farther distance from the construction site is key to the system, says James. “It gives drivers the time they need to prepare mentally for the changes ahead” rather than being thrown into disarray by a sudden need to merge.
According to their website, it has reduced congestion by up to 40 per cent on Minnesota’s busiest freeways and helped to reduce traffic accidents in construction zones.
It seems like sound idea, plus I hate the lane cheaters that gun it in the open lane and then try and get in, that is just annoying. I wonder if the zipper merge system addresses that problem?
“Previously, we had most of the people in one lane in a big, long line and you would have the odd person racing up to the front and trying to cut in at the last minute. It’s that difference in speeds that has proven to cause traffic jams and be unsafe,” says Gardiner.
The city is working with regional police to ensure that drivers who are not allowing other cars to merge at the proper time are ticketed or at least warned that they are legally required to do so.
No statistical data was collected on the original project, but Gardiner says the city is starting a new project at a different construction site that is expected to last weeks or months, giving the city enough time to measure how well the zipper merge is working.
Fascinating stuff. As an additional benefit it plays well into how I am used to driving, so it looks zipper merging at least for me, is the way to go.
A couple nights ago I was wading about the web, waiting for sleepiness to find me when I came across this video. It exhibits the most beautiful project I’ve seen to in a very long time.
On the surface, it is a colossal exercise of empathy and caring for those in desperate need of support. On top of that, and I think much more important, is the awareness it must spread to the community. The bridge highlights a problem and inspires people to think about it, identify with sufferers, and help in preventative measures. It’s a wonderful thing.
Hymns suck. And I don’t just mean in moral or rational sense, though they definitely suck in those areas as well. I mean musically. They are absolutely wretched. As a fledgeling choral singer, I’m aware of some wonderfully fantastic religious based pieces that are beautiful to listen to and sing, filled with ludicrous immorality though they may be. But those pieces aren’t for the congregation. They are much to difficult and stimulating. No. The order of the day is simplicity and monotony to lull the brain to sleep, priming it for whatever indoctrinated message pasted nakedly across the song. Repetitive droning is key to drilling ugly ideas into the poor minds of parishioners. Of course, if you don’t buy into the B.S, then all you get is a hellishly dull experience that you wouldn’t call ‘music’ even at your most cynical.
If you haven’t checked out the godless comedy of Mitchell and Webb yet, I highly recommend you do so. Today’s viewing, from Series 4:Episode 3, according to David of Mitchell, presents a satirical look at not only the plodding tediousness of hymns, but also the inherent offensiveness of religion, no matter how happy a face they try to draw on it.
In our name, let us mock.
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