When it's your moment to shine, you want to do your absolute best —especially when that moment is happening publicly in front of a crowd of people. Let's just say you're performing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a band, and your job is to play the cymbals. What happens if your instrument breaks? How do you recover from the embarrassment and keep the party going?

In a video uploaded to YouTube, Andrew Pawelczyk of the Eisenhower Junior High School band in Illinois awaits his moment to play the cymbals, when the unthinkable happens. The cymbal in his right hand breaks and falls to the ground. At first Andrew appears shocked and unsure of how to recover. But then, brilliantly, he does not miss a beat and decides the best plan is to honor his country by saluting our nation's flag as his band mates continue to play the national anthem.

Andrew's story was also shared on the social news site Reddit and quickly voted up by users to the front page. People were not just impressed by Andrew's

It's the end of May, and to many people around the world, that signals weekends filled with graduations and weddings. People are searching for the best presents for those reaching these milestones. When it comes to weddings, one woman's gift is making waves around the Web.

As reported by Gay Star News, 72-year-old Sherri Gray, from Nashville, Tennessee, wrote and recorded a support song as a gift to her niece Shannon and her fiancée, Lisa, for their upcoming wedding. Gray uploaded a video of her singing the song to YouTube. While playing the piano and sporting a T-shirt that reads, "Straight But Not Narrow," she belts out the tune, "What If We Are Just Like You? (Shannon and Lisa's Song)." "The world will bless the wedding of a woman to a man. While he and he and she and she are told they never can. We laugh, we cry, we die and live. We try to fit. We work. We give. We have a goal. We have a soul."

In the description of the video, Gray wrote, "I wrote this song about equal rights not

Traveling across the country or the world via any modern mode of transportation is a time-consuming affair. It can also be really annoying with the long lines, crying babies, armrest hogs, cramped space, etc. Would it not be the most awesome invention ever if some new type of transportation could cut that travel time significantly?

Get ready, because it may only be a few years from becoming a reality. A company called ET3 has plans in the works for the Evacuated Tube Transport, a high-speed transportation tube that uses magnetic levitation. The ETT can travel at speeds of up to 4,000 miles per hour, and each tube seats a maximum of six people and comes with a baggage compartment. How does it go so fast? It's airless and frictionless and could have you from New York to Los Angeles in 45 minutes, as opposed to the nearly five hours a direct flight would take. It could even have you depart from New York and be in Beijing in two hours.

The tubes would be set up like freeways to prevent