Merged duplicate threads.
One of the things I love about our money is the quotations. The $20. features Gabrielle Roy - « Nous connaîtrions-nous seulement un peu nous-mêmes, sans les arts ? » “Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?” from one of my favourite novels, La montagne secrète.
From the wiki article Banknotes of the Canadian Dollar -
The “Canadian Journey” literary excerpts are printed in English and French, with the English versions being:
* $5: The winters of my childhood were long, long seasons. We lived in three places—the school, the church, and the skating-rink—but our real life was on the skating-rink. (Roch Carrier (b. 1937) from his short story Le chandail de hockey (The Hockey Sweater))
* $10: In Flanders Fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place, and in the sky / The larks, still bravely singing, fly / Scarce heard amid the guns below. (John McCrae (1872–1918), from his poem In Flanders Fields)
* $20: Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? (Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983) from her novel La Montagne secrète (The Hidden Mountain))
* $50: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights (from Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948)
* $100: Do we ever remember that somewhere above the sky in some child's dream perhaps Jacques Cartier is still sailing, always on his way always about to discover a new Canada? (Miriam Waddington (1917–2004) from her poem Jacques Cartier in Toronto)
And the best news of this is, maybe a $50 or $100 bill will now become useful denominations. At present, they’re a total waste of time because no one outside a bank will take them.
Spoons
March 16, 2011, 3:57pm
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I don’t think that any previous redesign of Canadian currency had all notes released at the same time–as I recall, the release is typically spread out over a couple of years, and higher-denominations are always released first.
We have to finger across the register break.
Woodwind humour - I’ll leave quietly, now…
Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela:
We have to finger across the register break.
Woodwind humour - I’ll leave quietly, now…
I’m not completely sure what this means, but I laughed anyways.
Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela:
And the best news of this is, maybe a $50 or $100 bill will now become useful denominations. At present, they’re a total waste of time because no one outside a bank will take them.
I’ve seen that with the $100 but in the last year I’ve been using a bank machine that dispenses $50 and I’ve not once had someone give me a difficult time about using one.
Spoons
March 16, 2011, 4:30pm
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You need to reed between the lines.
Oboe, did I get us started on woodwind puns?
From the Wikibooks link on Register Break. Clarinet has the most obvious register break of all the woodwinds.
Crossing the break is a major step in a clarinetist’s journey into accomplishing their instrument. The “break” is the end of the first register (called the chalumeau register) and the second register (called the clarino register). The first necessary thing a clarinetist must do is to know the notes that straddle the break.
* The first note we will learn is the middle A. For this note, leave all keys unpressed except for the key right above where your left index finger should be. Pressing this key alone should produce an A.
* For the next note, B-flat, finger the "A" but press at the same time the long key right above your left thumb. This key is called the register key. This key, pressed in conjunction with the "A" key, should produce a "B-flat." This is the end of the chalumeau register, and the last note before the break.
* The next note, "B" is produced by fingering a low "E" and pressing the register key also. To review a low E, there are two ways to produce this note. Finger all holes and either the bottom right fork key, or the left pinky key.
* To produce the next note, clarion C, finger a low F in conjunction with the register key. To review a low F, there are two ways: cover all holes plus either the top right fork key, or the center pinky key.
Players need to remember that when playing in the clarion register, they should keep their embouchure as free and open as the lower register. Don’t “clamp down” when you get to the next register, because your tone will suffer, and it is easy to squeak this way. A good exercize to demonstrate this is to play a low F. Have someone come while you are playing the F and hold down the register key (so that the instrument goes up to a clarion C). If you feel yourself “clenching down” on your embouchure, you are playing incorrectly. You should feel no difference in your embouchure between the low F and the C.
Next, practice going between the notes that require only keys being pressed (such as B flat or A) and that of the basic notes ( such as C, D, E, F, and G.) After practicing this technique for at least five minutes, now try going from the middle and basic G (no fingers) to the upper C (requires both hands) If you do not yet know how to play an upper C, concoct a fingering chart. In process of going from G to C, you simply put all your fingers down for the C, and lifting them up for the G. After it seems you can do it in your sleep, try moving on to another note, such as middle C, to upper C. After you accomplished C to C, move on to other notes that you think will challenge you. After you sit down and practice these transitions, it should seem seamless to you. If they are not yet seamless, you need more practice.
That should clar. it right up for you…
Man, all these technical terms! (A, B, C, D…)
Can you light a cigar with one?
Only if you want to be gassed by highly-toxic combustion products.
So, not that much different than before.
Baffle
March 16, 2011, 9:19pm
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Finally.
Now I’m impressed that I didn’t even hear about this last year. I’ve been waiting for plastic banknotes ever since visiting Australia in 2003. They are far, far, far better in every way, with no down-sides.
Another reason to go to plastic banknotes:India bank termites eat piles of cash
Here’s a press release from the Bank of Canada:
Canada’s new polymer bank note series will be unveiled on Monday, 20 June 2011. The themes for the entire series, as well as designs, images and security features of the first denominations to be issued—the $100 and $50 notes—will be unveiled by the Honourable James M. Flaherty, Minister of Finance; William J. S. Elliott, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and Mark J. Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada in a ceremony at the Bank of Canada…
Muffin
June 16, 2011, 2:28am
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I wonder when the Canadian Tire Bank notes will go plastic?
This is great news for Canadian drug dealers. Now they can bury even more of their drug proceeds, and they don’t have to worry as much about moisture!
Muffin
June 16, 2011, 10:05am
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Due to the sudden and unexpected volume of cash, the folks at the beer tent at out city’s first dragon boat festival had to dig a hole in the ground under one of the tables to hold the cash while waiting for the person who was doing the bank runs to catch up.
It’s worse, they’re going to a points system with sobs no more bills.
Collectors are very upset about the change.
