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Mary Church Terrell
December 31, 1969
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Written by Mary Church Terrell 1615 S St., N.W. Washington, D.C.

How, When, Why and Where Black Becomes White.

“It’s just as easy as falling off a log.” This is what our friend tells us, when he wishes to show that very little effort is required to bring a certain thing to pass. But falling off a log is really a difficult feat, compared with the ease with which colored people in this country are sometimes transformed into white.

At first blush it would seem that a camel with a hump could literally pass through a cambric needle’s eye easier than an individual, tainted with even a drop of the fatal African tincture could palm himself off as a bona fide white man or women in the United States. And yet, colored people are doing this very thing in droves every year. It requires neither voluminous knowledge nor great profundity to comprehend why some colored people are tempted to pursue such a questionable course.

Let us take a colored man, for example, who is fairly well educated and is ambitious to make his way in the world. There are comparatively few trades open to colored people. These are generally overcrowded, which means poor pay. The officials of some labor organizations have never lain awake nights devising ways and means of adding negro workmen to their ranks, even when jobs were much more plentiful than they are to day. Our colored friend determines to be honorable. Several times he has been virtually employed, but he has stated frankly that he is colored. Then his services were quietedly but quickly dispensed with. For a long time he knocks first at one door and then at another, which he finds can be opened only by a white man’s hand. He becomes discouraged. “What a curse it is to be a Negro in this country,” he mutters. Suddenly he looks into his little mirror. He has done that before, perhaps. He has always been identified with the struggling race, but he has a fair skin and straight hair. Something asserts itself. There are those who say that it is his white blood. “What’s the use of trying to row against the tide,” he says. “Nobody but a superman can accomplish the impossible, and I am not a superman.” There is a bitterness in his tone, as he soliloquizes, and discouragement is written on his face. He quickly reaches a decision. He has thought of it before. He has always put it behind him, however, as a last resort, too contemptible and cowardly to be considered seriously. But he is out of work now and he has been in that condition for a long time. Inability to get a good position has become chronic.

The long lingering look in the mirror occurred, let us say, Tuesday evening at eight o’clock. On Wednesday morning at precisely the same hour he is a white man. Made so by virtue of last night’s decision and nature’s gift.

“Impossible”, says one. “That is only a dream or a fairy tale.” But what is done almost every day is not impossible. “Where does he go?” asks another? If the man happens to have a family in the city, and the city is large, he stays right there in many instances. How does he do it? Among other things he ceases to frequent his old resorts. He changes his lodging house, and betakes himself to the portion of the city diametrically opposite to the one in which he formerly lived. His old friends see him no more; that is, they dont if he can help it. When he sees them approaching he makes it convenient to cross to the other side of the street. He isolates himself completely.

He scrapes up acquaintance with some white people, who do not suspect that he has the fatal drop. Finally, he gets a job which pays him well, and which it would be impossible for him either to have or to hold if his employer knew the truth.

Nonsense, you say. If an employer secures the services of a competent man he is not going to stand in his own light by casting him adrift, simply because he is slightly connected with the Negro race. But the facts are against such a supposition. If the employer discovers by hook or crook, that he has employed a colored man by mistake, in 99 cases out of 100 he will discharge him immediately. There are undoubtedly exceptions to this rule, though I, myself, have never heard of one.

I am personally acquainted with three colored women, two of them young and one middle-aged, who are competent and beautiful, and who were discharged from excellent positions simply because the employer discovered that they were “Non-Aryans.”

It must be said to the credit of the women just mentioned that they did not secure their positions under false pretences. They might have deserved their fate if they had. No one of the them labelled herself “colored”, to be sure, when she went to seek the place. Self preservation is still the first law of nature. Each went on her own merits and secured a fine position for the same reason that a white girl would have obtained one, and adopted the same methods that a white girl would use under similar circumstances. Each one was eminently successful in her special work, according to the testimony of the employer.

Curiously enough, two secured positions in department stores in the city in which they were living at the time. In the mean time each one lived with her family, and associated with her colored friends, though the latter did not make themselves especially conspicuous at the respective stores. The middle-aged woman was at the head of the cloak department in a large store in New York city. She held this responsible position for a long time before the awful secret leaked out. When it percolated to her employer, however, she was promptly discharged. The woman is as beautiful as a picture and looks like a Madonna.

One of the young women went first to New York to win her spurs. Armed with a most complimentary recommendation from the large store which employed her in New York, she came to her home in Washington to seek a position here. The proprietor of the Washington establishment was only too glad to secure the services of so competent a young women, and she, too, was placed in the cloak department. She was suddenly discharged one day.

At her request I went to intercede with the proprietor in her behalf, who happened, by the way, to be a Hebrew. It seemed unreasonable and cruel that a Hebrew should discharge any one simply on account of race. He was perfectly honest and frank about the matter. He admitted without hesitation that she was one of the best saleswomen in the store. He regretted deeply that he had been obliged to discharge her.

“But, are you not master in your own store?” I ventured to suggest. “There was no other course to pursue,” he insisted. “For a long time,” said her, “the salesgirls complained, because I had placed a colored girl in the store. I denied that she was colored. They brought me indisputable proofs of the fact. ‘Well, if you dont care to work in the store with Miss Jones,’ said I, ‘you may leave’. After that they told my customers about it. Delegation after delegation of white women came down to protest against my employing a colored saleswoman in the store. They threatened to boycott me, and made things so hot for me that I was forced to dismiss Miss Jones in self defence. Now if my business were in New York, I should keep her anyhow.”

But I thought of the fate of the colored forewoman who had been discharged in the New York department store.

The last of the three cases which came under my observation was similar to the first two. A young colored woman in Washington, who did not show a trace of her African ancestry, was made forewoman in a fashionable tailor establishment for ladies. Her employed discharged her also when he learned that the fatal drop was coursing through her veins somewhere.

It is conceivable that no one of these colored women would have received their “walking papers” if the employed had been unable to fill their places. It is difficult to find a trade, however, in which the workmen are so few that a place can not be filled. These cases will show why some colored people are tempted to be white.

Even though there is absolutely certainty that the chances of success are greater for a colored person who foreswears his race than for the same individual if he remains loyal to it, the vast majority do not yield to the temptation of passing for white. No better proof of this fact could be cited than the case of the young woman with whom I am personally acquainted. She is the daughter of one of the most courageous and prominent colored men whom this country has produced. Though she is not very fair, she could easily pass for white, if she chose to do so. She has a exquisite complexion modelled after the Spanish or French. Her hair and eyes are as black as midnight. She has a superb musical education.

She married a young physician who can also pass for white. They went to an eastern city, where the doctor has a large and growing practice. He suddenly decided that he would shake off the body of the dusky death, so to speak, and cast his lot with the dominant race. When he revealed his plans to his wife, she told him that she would rather live on a small income, if necessary, than have a large one if she were obliged to forsake her family and friends.

The husband could not be shaken from his purpose, and his wife could not be persuaded to turn her back on her family, so they separated. She went South and he remained in the eastern city. When I used to see this accomplished young woman, as I often did, and her little daughter who was as fair as a snowdrop and as pretty as a peach, I could not help wondering how the husband and father could have summoned the strength and courage to bid them good bye.

It is very amusing to see some of the sons and daughters of Ham, after the metamorphosis has become un fait accompli. To some of us who have grown up with them, it is disgusting perhaps, even though we know why they have felt obliged to turn such a racial somersault. “Do you see that man over there?” said one of my friends with whom I happened to be on a street car one day. “Well, that lady sitting beside him is his wife. She is white, but he is colored.”

“Are you sure he is colored?” said I, doubting Thomas like.

“I ought to be,” he answered, “he and I played together as children. We once occupied the same room in the Grand Union Hotel in New York. All of a sudden he decided to be white. He cut himself loose from all his colored friends, acquired white ones and now he is completely over on the other side.” Just then the eyes of the two men met, and they bowed pleasantly to each other.

“That man is an exception,” said my friend. “When the average colored person passes for white, he cuts all his former colored friends dead, for fear of arousing the suspicion of the white ones, I presume.”

The man who related the incident told me that at least 100 of his own relatives from South Carolina had moved East, North and West and “gone over on the other side,” as he expressed it.

There is both a humorous and a pathetic side of this metamorphosis of black into white. Several years ago a colored grandmother went to a large city in the Southwest to visit her son who had married a white woman. The grandmother was very fair even in her old age. One day one of her grandsons, who were being prepared for college, came to her in great distress of mind.

“See here, grandma,” said he, “what do you think?” Jack wont consent to go to Harvard. I wouldn’t give a rap to go anywhere else.”

“Where does Jack want to go?” asked the grandmother.

“Jack wants to go to the University of Virginia. He says he wants to go where colored people cant come.”

The feeling of the grandmother who kept a colored boarding house at that time can better be imagined than described.

A colored man who had achieved considerable success dealing in real estate in an eastern city, and who found it more convenient and lucrative to pass over the dead line, was once confronted with the accusation that a dark drop of blood lurked somewhere in his anatomy. He was very indignant, of course. His very life depended upon proving the charge was false. He quickly took the train for New York. When he returned, he bore with him a paper signed by a clergyman, who certified that the colored woman who reared him was his nurse, and not his mother, as had generally been supposed. Unfortunately, however, there happened to live in the same city a woman who had been present at the birth of the prosperous colored real estate dealer. She did not molest him and he went on his metamorphosed way rejoicing. Such instances might be multiplied almost indefinitely.

On account of the “Jim Crow” car laws, the impossibility of securing accommodations at the hotels, and because of other hardships, many fair colored people leave the South every year and move North, where they lose their identity completely. Years ago during slavery, white masters who loved their colored children too dearly to shackle their limbs and dwarf their minds, introduced this fashion of making black white by sending them North or to Europe to be educated as white. Colored people do not deserve the credit for originating this scheme. They learn lessons quickly, however, and are famous for applying them.

It might not create great surprise to learn that it is possible for colored people “who do not look their part” to palm themselves off as white on a northern community. It would astound some, however, to hear that the feat is sometimes performed in the South, where the whites are supposed to have a patent on detecting “the men and brother,” no matter how he may rival the lily in fairness. I heard a very amusing story not long ago, which shows the ease with which the transformation is wrought even in the South.

An exposition was in progress in a certain city below Mason and Dixon’s line. A man, who is colored, but who is fair enough to be mistaken for something else, went to see his sister. She was very enthusiastic about an East Indian with an unpronounceable name, who had astounded the natives by his wonderful feats. The most exclusive lady in that most exclusive white social circle had invited him to her home, where he transported the guests with wonder and joy by his adroitness and marvelous skill.

“Herbert,” said the man’s sister to whom I have just referred, “I want you to meet this clever East Indian so much. Come with me and let me introduce you to him. He is at leisure just about this time.”

They wended their way to his office. “Mr. So-and-So,” said the man’s sister, “let me present my brother, Herbert Rutledge, to you.”

The eyes of the two men met in instant recognition. “Hello, Bert,” said the great East Indian, reaching out his hand, “why we haven’t seen each other for years.”

This case is all the more remarkable, because the East Indian had been born and brought up as colored in that very southern city, and his relatives were still living there. He visited them almost every night after dark, but he grew so bold about it that his friends warned him to exercise more caution and discretion.

Perhaps one of the most remarkable cases in the history of American jurisprudence was caused by this vexed race problem. A well-to-do young white man of French extraction fell desperately in love with a beautiful young colored girl in Tennessee. In spite of the threats and entreaties of his family and friends he married her. He was obliged to take her out of his own State to Arkansaw, where there was no penalty attached to the intermarriage of the races. When the young couple returned home a probable sentence to the penetentiary of seven years stared both in the face.

Without going into full details of this case, it was proved in a court of law that the young colored woman was white. She had been reared all her life by a mulatto aunt with very curly hair. She had attended a college exclusively for colored youth. But, as I have already said, the courts decided that she was white, and white she was for many years in the same city in which she was reared as a colored girl and where she could not possibly walk down town without meeting some of the colored friends with whom she had associated in her youth. She herself attended the public schools for colored children, but her children, who were rather swarthy, want to the white schools.

The “Jim Crow” law as applied to the street cars of New Orleans had been in operation just 15 days when the city criminal court decided it was unconstitutional in that it “compelled conductors to determine which passengers were white and which colored, and this is not in their province or power.”

This very difficulty of distinguishing between white and colored people has caused several railroad companies to part with considerable cash. In one southern state, a few years ago, a wealthy white woman with a rich olive complexion was forced to take a seat in the “Jim Crow” car because the conductor told her he knew she was colored and he was hard to fool. Her husband sued the railroad company for $50,000, but compromised on $20,000.

In Kentucky, a white man was forcibly ejected from a coach set aside for people of his own race and placed in a “Jim Crow” car. The railroad company paid him $10,000 for making such a terrible blunder.

That the courts consider it a disgrace and a misfortune to be colored is shown by the large amounts cheerfully awarded in order to heal the wounded feelings of white people who have been mistaken for colored. A colored man, who is much fairer than the average Caucasian, was once forced out of a “Jim Crow” car, where he was conversing people, in which the conductor insisted he belonged. When he sued the railroad company for this insult one cent was considered sufficient to heal the wounded feelings of a colored man who had been falsely accused of being white.

I have often tried to imagine what must be the feeling of the colored grub during the chrysalis stage, before it develops into a butterfly, which the world shall henceforth call white. If he has a family or dear friends, how long does it take to make up his mind to forsake them the rest of his natural life? The inducements to do so much weigh powerfully with him indeed! The mental process through which such a decision is reached would be interesting to a psychologist, I am sure.

I shall not attempt to discuss how the character of the colored man or woman who pursues such a course is affected. An incident related by one of my friends may throw some light on the subject. Her grandfather, who was a white man, was forced against his will into the confederate army. All of his children were colored, though they showed no trace of belonging to their mother’s race. She was very fair herself.

When he entered the army, this white father took his eldest son with him. The father was killed. After the war the son continued to play the role of the white man which he had assumed when he entered the army with his father. He married into one of the most aristocratic families of a certain southern state. In spite of 40 years of exile from his colored mother’s family, the desire to see his only living brother and his sister’s family, the desire to see his only living brother and his sister’s children became so great that he journeyed East to gratify it.

“The door bell rang one day,” said my friend, “and the maid told me that an old gentleman who refused to give his name wanted to see me on important business. The moment I laid eyes on the stranger,” said she, “I noticed a striking resemblance to my Uncle Spencer, who lived here for years, you know.

“Is this Sarah’s child?” asked the stranger, rising and holding out his hand to me/ ‘Yes’, said I. ‘Well, I am your Uncle John. Surely your mother has told you about me.’

After we reviewed the history of the various members of the family,” said my friend, “he wanted to see my children. ‘Whatever you do, dont tell them who I am,’ said he. He refused flatly to see my husband, for fear he might betray him in some way. ‘My husband is a gentleman,” said I, ‘and he would not harm you if he could.” When he had seen my boy Julius, he lamented deeply that such a fine looking lad should be brought up as colored under the existing conditions of things in this country. ‘All my children do not look like Julius,’ said I. ‘Three of them are darker than he is. Surely you would not advise me to rear half of my children as colored and the other half white.’

“As I looked at this old man,” said she, “I could not help noticing the difference between my handsome, courageous, manly Uncle Spencer, who is just as fair as Uncle John, but who has never deserted his family, and this newly-found uncle who has lived a falsehood nearly all his life. His manner was nervous. He seemed uncertain of himself. About his eyes there was a hunted, haunted, fearsome look, which is said to be characteristic of men who have served a term in the penetentiary. As I noted these points of difference, if I had ever been tempted to rear any of my children as white, I should have been delivered from that temptation immediately.

The more one investigates the matter the more certain does one become that many whom the world accepts as white are in reality colored, according to established standards in this country. A colored man whose career we all admire likes to say : “The blood of the Negro is so powerful that if a man has only one drop of it and 99 drops of pure Anglo-Saxon, he is called a Negro just the same.”

“If I were white,” said a young woman of my acquaintance, “and despised colored people as the average white American seems to despise them, I should be perfectly miserable, I know. I should constantly tormented by fear that some day I might discover a trace of Negro blood in my veins. I have always sympathized deeply with that young woman who committed suicide in a southern hotel because in settling her estate, the lawyer made the startling discovery that her grandmother had been a slave.”

A colored man who has traveled extensively, and who has made a special study of the subject, related some incidents in my hearing not long ago which border on the sensational. According to him, and he offered proofs to verify his assertions, colored men who are supposed to be white have occupied and are to day occupying some of the highest offices and most desirable positions in the gift of the nation and the states.

I myself could give the names of at least 40 families whom I have known as colored, with some of whom I have been intimately associated, who have crossed the Rubicon of prejudice and are now their way rejoicing “on the other side.”

Mary Church Terrell.


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Azure Cosmos DB

This two-part blog post is a part of a series about how organizations are using Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them. In part one, we explored the challenges that led the Microsoft Azure Advanced Threat Protection team to adopt Azure Cosmos DB and how they’re using it. In part two, we’ll examine the outcomes resulting from the team’s efforts.

Built-in scalability, performance, availability, and more

The Azure Advanced Threat Protection team’s decision to use Azure Cosmos DB for its cloud-based security service has enabled the team to meet all key requirements, including zero database maintenance, uncompromised real-time performance, elastic scalability, high availability, and strong security and compliance. “Azure Cosmos DB gives us everything we need to deliver an enterprise-grade security service that’s capable of supporting the largest companies in the world, including Microsoft itself,” says Yaron Hagai, Principal Group Engineering Manager for Advanced Threat Analytics at Microsoft.

Zero maintenance

A managed database service has saved Hagai’s team immense maintenance efforts, allowing Azure Advanced Threat Protection to stay up and running with only a handful of service engineers. “Azure Advanced Threat Protection saves us from having to patch and upgrade servers, worry about compliance, and so on,” says Hagai. “We also get capabilities like encryption at rest without any work on our part, which further enables us to direct our resources to improving the service instead of keeping it up and running.”

Scaling to support customer growth is just as hands-free. “We use Azure CLI scripts to provision and deprovision clusters in multiple Azure regions—it’s all done automatically, so new clusters for new customers can be deployed easily and when needed,” says Hagai. “Scaling is also automatic. Throughput-based splitting has been especially helpful because it lets our databases scale to support customer growth with zero maintenance from the team.”

Real-time performance

Azure Cosmos DB is delivering the performance needed for an important security service like Azure Advanced Threat Protection. “Since we protect organizations after they have been breached, speed of detection is essential to minimizing the damage that might be done,” explains Hagai. “A high-throughout, super-scalable database lets us support lots of complex queries in real-time, which is what allows us to go from breach to alerting in seconds. The performance provided by Azure Cosmos DB is one more thing that makes it the most production-grade document DB in the market, which is another reason we chose it.”

The following graph shows sustained high throughout for the service’s largest tenant, with a heavy bias towards writes, which happen every 10 minutes as Azure Advanced Threat Protection persists in-memory caches of profiles to Azure Cosmos DB.

Graph showing sustained high throughout for the service’s largest tenant

Elastic scalability

Since Azure Advanced Threat Protection launched in March 2018, its usage has grown exponentially in terms of both users protected and paying organizations. “Azure Cosmos DB allows us to scale constantly, without any friction, which has helped us support a 600 percent growth in our customer base over the past year,” says Hagai. “That same scalability allows us to support larger customer installations than we could with Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics, our on-premises solution. Microsoft’s own internal network is a prime example; it had grown too large to support with a single, on-premises server running Mongo DB, but with Azure Cosmos DB, it’s no problem.”

Scaling up and down to support frequent fluctuations in traffic, as shown in the following graph, is just as painless. “The graph shows traffic for our largest tenant, with the spikes in throughout due to scheduled tasks that produce business telemetry,” he explains. “This is a great example of the auto-scaling benefits of Azure Cosmos DB and how they allow us to automatically scale up individual databases to support a short burst of throughput each day, then automatically scale back down after the telemetries are calculated to minimize our service delivery costs.”

Graph showing traffic for a large tenant with the spikes in throughout due to scheduled tasks that produce business telemetry

Strong security and compliance

Because Azure Advanced Threat Protection is built on Azure Cosmos DB and other Azure services, which themselves have high compliance certifications, it was easy to achieve the same for Azure Advanced Threat Protection. “The access control mechanisms in Azure Cosmos DB allow us to easily secure access and apply advanced JIT policies, helping us keep customer data secure,” says Hagai.

High availability

Although the availability SLA for Azure Cosmos DB is 99.999 percent for multi-region databases, to Hagai, the actual availability they’ve seen in production is even higher. “I had the Azure Cosmos DB team pull some historical availability numbers, and it turns out that the actual availability we’ve seen during April, May, and June of 2019 has been between 99.99995 and 99.99999 percent,” says Hagai. “To us, that’s essentially 100 percent uptime, and another thing we don’t need to worry about.”

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Under plentiful nutrients, PI3P appears to regulate in part the activity of the protein kinase target of rapamycin (TOR), a master regulator of cell growth. Upon nutrient depletion, TOR becomes inactivated and another pool of PI3P regulates the induction of autophagy, a conserved cellular response for the generation of nutrients from self digestion (Figure 1 – left).

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With the adaptable infrastructure of headless commerce, customizations are no longer a big hassle. Many integrations and changes like analytics, SDKs, to accelerate your site performance; PWAs for native mobile-like experience, and AMP pages for mobile-first approach can be done seamlessly even without disturbing the backend system. This leads to a greater degree of personalization experience for your laravel platform.

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Top 7 Essential things required to start B2B eCommerce

Building your B2B eCommerce store is like building a topless mountain. Here will discuss Top 7 Essential things required to start B2B eCommerce

B2B eCommerce is a type of eCommerce where the exchange of goods and services is conducted between companies.

Let’s have a look at B2B eCommerce growth

Alibaba:- Alibaba is the largest B2B eCommerce website. In the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, Chinese e-commerce corporation Alibaba recorded consolidated revenues of 376.8 billion yuan.

IndiaMart:- IndiaMart is the largest B2B marketplace in India. In 2015, the platform generated revenues of 49 million U.S. dollars. IndiaMART estimates that company revenues will reach 328 million U.S. dollars in 2020.

B2B eCommerce Trends

The B2B online retail market is expected to reach double the size of the business-to-consumer (B2C) online market, generating revenues of 6.7 trillion USD by 2020.

Moreover, there will be a rise of 12% in the revenue of the B2B eCommerce by 2020. (BCG, 2017)

B2B Business Model

B2B eCommerce has multiple business parties such as Manufacturer, Distributor, Wholesaler, Retailer.

Manufacturer:-  A manufacturer is a person who makes the final product from raw material to make a profit in their business.

Wholesaler:- A wholesaler is a person who purchases the products in bulk quantity from manufacturers.

Distributor:- A distributor is a person who supplies the products to the retailer.

Retailer:- A retailer is a person who sells the product to the public in small quantities.

Top 7 Essential Things Required to create B2B eCommerce

To create an eCommerce you must have few things which required

Bulk Order:

B2B marketplace mainly focuses on bulk buy and selling of goods. Moreover, with this feature, the buyer can save money by buy products in bulk.

RFQ(Request For Quote):

RFQ is one of the most important features in the B2B marketplace. It is different from the quote. Generally, we do quote for the readymade item and RFQ for customized items.

RFQ where customers can quote their requirements to the seller. However, they have to fill the requirements such as price, quantity, etc.

RFQ is generally required when buyer is looking for the product which is not available on the site.

Quick Order

With the help of a quick order feature, buyers can buy larger numbers of the product very quickly. However, this quick order functionality reduces the number of clicks and reduces the time for the buyers.

Unit Pricing:

These unit prices are a feature that can change the buying decision of the buyer.

The unit pricing is a very important factor for the buyers to compare the pricing with the other similar type of products.

Minimum Order Quantities:

Many of B2B store provides this functionality on their product to ensure that you remain in the profit.

In some of the products, you can not sell small quantities due to high shipping charges.

That is why you have to set MOQ so that you can gain profit.

Website design is the most important to successfully growth of your e-commerce website.

Create a design that is user-friendly so that end-user can easily access the e-commerce platform.

It is a transaction management system that handles the transaction between two parties.

Escrow is used to verify the funds sent by the buyer and keep the fund safe for the seller.

It makes the transaction more secure by keeping the payment in the escrow account and only release after all conditions and agreements met.

Escrow also checks and verifies that the product is delivered or not to the buyer.

           Let’s discuss how escrow will work

Step 1

Buyer and Seller both agree on the product price.

Step 2

All the detail of the transaction added by the buyer.

Step 3

The buyer will pay to the escrow agent.

Step 4

Escrow agent verifies the payment, and information to the seller that payment has been secured.

Step 5

The seller will ship the product to the buyer.

Step 6

The escrow agent will verify the shipment, that the product has been delivered or not.

Step 7

After verifies the shipment, the Escrow Agent will release payment to the seller.

Build your B2B eCommerce

There are two ways to create your B2B eCommerce like the one you can create on the opensource platform or you can choose the SaaS platform such as BigCommerce, Volusion, Bagisto-Laravel multi-tenant SaaS Module, etc.

As there are lots of opensource platforms to create B2B eCommerce such as Magneto 2, WooCommerce, Opencart, Bagisto, etc.

Therefore, for easy customization and developing a basic eCommerce shop you can also make use of platforms such as Bagisto and Opencart. Bagisto is a Laravel based eCommerce platform.

In conclusion, Laravel is the most popular php framework, which has elegant syntax. That is to say, laravel makes the development process simple without sacrificing application functionality.

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Panago Pizza Fundraiser

Dear Parents;
The Ballenas Music department presents a fundraising program that will save you money – and provide a stress-free meal at home. Panago Pizza sells certificates for $10.00 (including GST) which are good for any medium pizza – the regular prices for multi-topping medium pizzas range from $13.00 to $16.00. Panago certificates are purchased for $6.00- so you make $4.00/certificate.

The only conditions on using the certificates are: Orders are pick-up only.

Certificates will expire 90 days from date of issue.

Certificates can be used at ANY Panago location. The closest location is across from the Dairy Queen in Parksville at 102 Island Hwy E.

Students are to take orders from customers using the attached sample coupon. Certificates will be available for students to purchase from my office in the musicroom for distribution to customers. All sales are final. Payment may be in the form of cash or cheque made out to Ballenas Secondary School. Participating students will receive an accumulated $1200.00 profit from this fundraiser!

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Ballet fans will love this ballet video of the 3rd Act Wedding pas de deux from Don Quixote featuring dancers Leonid Sarafanov and Olesya Novikova.  This video is believed to have been recorded in 2006 and is copyright of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The beginning of this video features about 2 minutes of the “flower march” which is the music leading up to the grand pas de deux.  It shows other artists of the Mariinsky displaying excellent technique and artistry that leads way for Kitri and Basil’s pas de deux.  Also, before Basil’s variation, there is another flower girl solo.

Olesya and Leonid dance this beautifully and command attention with their beautiful lines and technique. Olesya’s Kitri variation is definitely of the “easier” variety but of course dances beautifully, while Leonid soars around the stage with his incredible and technically difficult jumps.  The pair is definitely regarded as clean and beautiful dancers.

This page features a ballet video titled Don Quixote Pas de Deux with Leonid Sarafanov and Olesya Novikova. The ballet dancers appearing in this ballet video include Leonid Sarafanov, Olesya Novikova.


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Where to Go for Bottomless Brunch in Baltimore

by Jennifer Waldera on Jul 19, 2016 in Roundups

While everyone might love those pics from the dinner table, is there anything more Insta-worthy than that poached egg spilling its yolk? And what’s even better than being able to snap that? Getting to do it over it unlimited beverages, naturally.

It’s with that spirit that we offer a list of some of the best spots to both dine well and drink bottomlessly. (We’re referring to the drinks - try to keep your pants on!)

This classy downtown Italian spot from Bryan Voltaggio of Top Chef fame just kicked off its brunch this summer, with 3 courses for $25 and $20 bottomless cocktails. 11:30 AM - 4:30 PM. (614 Water St; 410-528-0200)

Mexican inspired dishes including enchiladas, huevos rancheros, and interesting omelets, a variety of guacamole options, and tacos grace the brunch menu at this waterfront spot in Fell’s Point, alongside sweeter options like ancho cinnamon French toast with banana rum caramel and red velvet pancakes with maple cream cheese fondue to accompany the $13 bottomless Bloody Marys, Bloody Marias, or mimosas. 11 AM - 3 PM brunch during the week,  10 AM - 3 PM on the weekend. (1629 Thames St; 410-563-8800)

Bluegrass Tavern
$12 mimosas are being poured at this Fed Hill spot for weekend brunch. Enjoy them with creative starters like apple fritters, crawfish hushpuppies, and country poutine, or larger plates like the cheesesteak omelet, jerk chicken and waffles, or banana pancakes with bourbon glazed bananas. Lunch-style bites like burgers, salads, and a fried chicken sandwich (hot or not) are on the menu as well. 10 am - 3 pm. (1500 S Hanover St; 410-244-5101)

Bistro Rx
$10 Bottomless Bloody Marys, mimosas, and screwdrivers are poured at this corner spot adjacent to Patterson Park with a menu featuring shrimp and grits as well as a breakfast flatbread and burger. 9 am - 2 pm every Saturday, 9 am - 3 pm every Sunday. (2901 E Baltimore St; 410-276-0820)

Bond Street Social
This brunch destination has an impressively large menu, from quiche and benedicts to mac and cheese bites to a duck confit hash with a bottomless menu of mimosas and Bloody Marys that run from $13 to $20. (901 S Bond St; 443-449-6234)

Cava Mezze
In Harbor East, this popular place is the go-to for what we think of as a dim sum-style Greek brunch with as many mimosas as you could want. For $30, get small plate after small plate of sweets like to-die-for banana fritters and heavenly Nutella waffles or get savory bites like smoked salmon or lamb benedicts, gyro hash, or pasta and eggs. While the mimosas aren’t technically “bottomless,” with the $30 brunch they’re a penny each, so unless you don’t have another dime or two, they basically are. 10 AM - 3:30 PM on Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM on Sunday. (1302 Fleet St; 443-499-9090)

Don’t Know Tavern
This Fed Hill tavern features one of the lowest priced bottomless deals in the city, with $10 bloodys and mimosas. Soak up that goodness with their spiced rum battered French toast or English muffins topped with mini crab cakes, poached eggs, and house made Old Bay hollandaise sauce, among a bunch of other serious brunch-worthy options. 10 AM - 2 PM. (1453 Light St; 410-539-0231)

Huck’s American Craft
Grab $14 all you can drink mimosas, Bloody Marys, screwdrivers, bloody Bohs and Natty Boh at this corner spot on the cusp of Canton and Brewer’s Hill. Since they serve breakfast all week, there are plenty of standards, but their weekend brunch also includes inventive dishes like the Texas Straw Hat featuring a cast iron pan layered with Fritos, chili con carne, fondue, bacon, sausage, and New York aged cheddar topped with an over easy egg, diced sweet onions, Peter Piper’s pickled peppers, and sour cream. Is the way to end a hangover or prevent it? 10 AM - 3 PM. (3728 Hudson St; 443-438-3380)

Jimmy’s Famous Seafood
Any brunch entree (except for the steak and eggs, for which there is an upcharge) can be paired with unlimited bloodys and mimosas for $19.99. The menu features a hangover-curing cheesy and spicy breakfast pizza, plenty of standards, and a decadent Chesapeake benedict (with creamy crab dip instead of hollandaise). Don’t see something you want? Jimmy’s is famous for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is accommodating their diners. At a recent brunch, they were happy to serve their soft shell crab sandwich brunch style upon request - with an egg on it. 10 AM - 2 PM. (6526 Holabird Ave; 410-633-4040)

Kooper’s Tavern
Every Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM - 3 PM, Kooper’s is serving omelets, pancakes, French toast, Belgian waffles, and $13.00 Bottomless Bloody Marys, screwdrivers and mimosas in the heart of Fell’s Point. (1702 Thames St; 410-563-5423)

Little Havana
This waterfront mainstay offers one entree and bottomless bloodys or mimosas for $20.99. Grab chilaquiles, huevos rancheros, and omelets on the breakfast end of things, or if you’re feeling more like lunch, there are plenty of salads, burgers, and (of course) their Cuban sandwich. 11 AM - 3 PM. (1325 Key Hwy; 410-837-9903)

Mt. Washington Tavern
Bottomless mimosas, manmosas, and Tavern Bloody Marys are on the menu for just $15 alongside options like oysters and eggs, omelets, benedicts, truffle fries, and cauliflower bites. Open at 11 AM on Saturdays and 10 AM on Sundays. (5700 Newbury St; 410-367-6903)

Myth and Moonshine
Known for their Farmer’s Market inspired brunch, this Boston Street spot sports $12 bottomless mimosas and Bloody Marys for one of the longest running bottomless brunches in the city. 10 AM - 4 PM. (2300 Boston St; 410-777-5502)

Papi’s Tacos
This popular taco stop just off Broadway in Fell’s Point offers $12 all you can drink Bloody Marys and Marias, Mexican bellinis, Dos Equis Amber, and drafts to wash down their breakfast-slanted quesadillas, burritos, enchiladas, and tostadas as well as French toast and churros for those with a sweet tooth. 10 AM - 3 PM. (1703 Aliceanna St; 410-299-8480)

Plug Ugly’s
At this popular pub on the Square in Canton, $15 bottomless Bloody Marys and mimosas grace the menu that features anything from lighter items incorporating fruit and yogurt to benedicts, egg scramble skillets and sandwiches. 10 AM - 2 PM. (2908 O'Donnell St; 410-563-8459)

The Point in Fells
The Point incorporates a few more drinks outside of the norm with their brunch specials offering $13 bottomless Bloody Marys, screwdrivers, mimosas, sangria, and Natty Boh drafts with a lunch or brunch purchase. Get fancy with your brunch and grab the filet mignon with jumbo lump crab meat, grilled asparagus, a sunny side up egg, hollandaise, and crispy onion straws or choose something simpler like the other egg dishes, burgers, sandwiches, or crabby tots. 10 am - 4 pm. (1738 Thames St; 410-327-7264)

Red Star Tavern
$10 Bottomless Bloody Marys and mimosas are a steal in Fell’s Point at this space, which is just a little off the typical path. Blackberry French toast is a perfect accompaniment to the mimosas, while the spicy bloodys will wash down benedicts and chilaquiles. 10 PM - 2 PM. (906 S Wolfe St; 410-675-0212)

RowHouse Grille
Settle in for $14 mimosas to swill alongside sausage gravy and biscuits and a variety of breakfast tacos, or try one of the punny-named dishes like Hugh’s Your Daddy Cream Chipped Beef or Challah Back French Toast. Saturday Limited brunch served 11 AM – 3 PM, Sunday full brunch menu served 10 AM – 3 PM. (1400 Light St; 443-438-7289)

Rusty Scupper
This Baltimore mainstay features a Sunday live jazz brunch buffet featuring made to order omelets, hand-carved meats, a waffle station, raw bar items, cheeses, desserts, and a whole slew of other brunchy items for $43 per person and $16 for children. 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM. Reservations are recommended. (402 Key Hwy; 410-727-3678)

Bottomless mimosas, screwdrivers, and Bloody Marys are on special at Slainte for $13, and not just on the weekends. Get in your soccer and rugby and nosh on with plenty of basics as well as items like breakfast mac and cheese with rashers and eggs, Irish favorites like a Breakfast Boxty, and a traditional Irish breakfast featuring black and white puddings alongside eggs, beans, rashers, mushrooms and tomatoes. Weekdays 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM,  weekends 7:00 AM - 1:00 PM. (1700 Thames St; 410-563-6600)

One of the earliest openers for bottomless brunch, Smaltimore starts at 9 AM with bottomless Bohs, bloodys, and mimosas to 12 PM for $10. The menu offers a variety of egg options, corned beef hash, and a breakfast burrito. 9 AM - 12 PM. (2522 Fait Ave; 410-522-1421)

8 Ball Meatball
New-ish to Fell’s Point, 8 Ball Meatball was quick to get in on the brunch game in Baltimore. Bottomless mimosas and Bloody Marys are $13 and the food menu offers small plates like a bacon deep fried egg served over meatball potato hash or glazed doughnut balls with berry compote for dipping, and larger dishes including omelets, a benedict, and their meatball-inspired riff on biscuits and gravy. 10 AM - 3 PM. (814 S Broadway; 443-759-5315)

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While there is plenty of power and privilege to go around in each play, passion elevates the casts of “Othello” and “Red Velvet” — both stories of black men with a modicum of power and privilege in white society — to emotional heights that nearly drown theatergoers. There is an energy consistently coming off the Cumston Hall stage this year that has been absent in previous seasons. Magic is the only word to describe what’s happening.

“Othello,” directed by Catherine Weidner, starts the great tragedy focused on reputation, honor, betrayal, loyalty, assumptions and misread signals at the emotional high most productions end on. Othello the Moor is a soldier whose ability to focus intently on a military maneuver proves his downfall when he becomes obsessed with the question of his wife Desdemona’s fidelity.

Iago, the man who believes he rightfully should lead the troops rather than Othello, manipulates the facts and the Moor’s emotions until passionate love turns into violent anger. In a less thoughtful production, it would have been easy to label Iago a racist but Weidner takes away that option by casting black actors as Othello (Wardell Clark) and Iago (Ryan Vincent Anderson). Audiences must dig deeper to find Iago’s motive. Anderson’s portrayal is anchored more in class and an unwritten military command code than skin color.

“Red Velvet,” directed by Jennifer Nelson, tells the story of African-American actor Ira Aldridge, who had a successful career in Europe in the mid-19th century. The title refers to the red velvet the vast majority of the curtains in theaters were made of when Aldridge was acting.

The play, told in a flashback, centers on an imagined event when Aldridge (Ryan Vincent Anderson) takes over the role of Othello from a dying Edmund Kean, the premiere Shakespearean actor of his day, at the Theatre Royal in London’s Covent Garden. The blowback from Aldridge’s passionate performance with the white actress playing Desdemona sends him into exile on the Continent.

Six of the company’s 17 actors perform in both “Othello” and “Red Velvet.” The artful casting allows an actor’s portrayal in one show inform his performance in the other. Theater manager Pierre Laporte’s (Brad Wilson) concern for the impact Aldridge’s performance has on his backers echoes Casio’s famous musing on reputation in “Othello.” When Anderson as Aldridge rehearses his Othello, theatergoers seeing both shows gets a glimpse of the kind of general Iago might have been.

Of the two shows, “Othello” packs the mightiest emotional punch. Leading the cast is Wardell Clark as the Moor, who gives a stunning and very physical performance. Each of Iago’s lies physically pains this Othello as if each one were a blow.

Clark’s passion is so raw the audience can almost taste the bitterness of the betrayal Othello is tricked into believing. When Othello learns that it was Iago — not Desdemona — who was untrue, the anguish spews out of Clark and pins theatergoers to their seats.

Anderson’s Aldridge is a deeply layered actor whose interactions with his costars about how to portray certain sections of the play rings true to the modern rehearsal process. His hurt and inability to understand why critics and backers are outraged by his performance are as palpable as Clark’s passion in his portrayal of Othello.

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Your Ultimate Guide to Hiking and Camping in Tahoe National Forest

This guide introduces you to three types of camping. Rent a kayak (or bring your own) and explore the shoreline of Lake Tahoe for an exclusive “boat-in” camping experience, drive to one of dozens of developed campgrounds, or backpack into the backcountry of Tahoe National Forest.

Tahoe National Forest Kayaking

The southern shore of Lake Tahoe on the California side offers famous Emerald Bay Boat Camp sites. This is a great paddle opportunity for the while family. The nearly 10-mile route takes you beneath tall waterfalls with views of the Sierra Nevada. There are several launch sites in the area. There are commercial boats near Emerald Bay, so the water can be choppy in their wakes.

Camping includes 20 tent sites (boat-in only), public restrooms and hiking trailheads. You can camp anywhere along the beach in the large bay. Bring your own water, and be sure to get a map online or at the National Forest Visitor Center.

Car Camping

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Campgrounds range from a few tent sites to 250 developed sites with RV camping, developed bathrooms with showers, and higher fees to match. Some Tahoe campgrounds have full toilets, others use vault toilets, and still others are primitive.

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Moore’s Law

If you are in the technology sector you are probably familiar with Moore’s law, which describes the exponential advances in computing hardware that have occurred over the past 50 years.  Specifically, Gordon Moore, who was one of the co-founders of Intel, observed that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubled every two years.  There have been several adaptations of Moore’s law in other computing sectors.  For example, Butter’s Law describes how the amount of data coming out of an optical fiber doubles every nine months.  Kryder’s Law explains the exponential increases in hard disk cost per unit of information.  Similar metrics have been demonstrated for pixels per dollar in digital cameras and RAM storage capacity.

Recap of GG3SC

In my last post on Wheel of Fortune and Technology Marketing, I introduced a concept called GG3SC which described on the popular use of industry buzzwords in technology marketing literature.  GG3SC refers to the six most popular buzzwords being used in the IT services sector in 2009 – Global, Green, Software-as-a-Service, Social Networking, Services Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing.  GG3SC, of course, is a compilation of the first letters from each of the six buzzwords.  Since every vendor uses these same terms to describe their offering, the inclusion of these buzzwords has become undifferentiated and relatively pointless.  The GG3SC principle would be that unless otherwise stated, readers of technology marketing literature should assume that the vendor’s products adhere to all six buzzwords.  This would save both marketers and end-customers precious time by eliminating the approximately 1/3 of all marketing content which contains the same undifferentiated positioning.   Wheel of Fortune took a similar approach when it started to give its contestants the letters RSTLNE during the bonus round rather than going through a selection process that resulted in the same choices 99% of the time.

Introducing Sajak’s Law

I have observed a principle in the technology marketing sector, which I would like to name Sajak’s law.  Pat Sajak is, of course, the host of the popular game show Wheel of Fortune.  Pat also hosted a late night talk show on CBS in the early 1990s and perhaps, most importantly had a cameo appearance in Airplane II.  Sajak’s Law states that the time it takes technology vendors to embrace new buzzwords in their marketing literature is cut in half every year.

Pat Sajak

Following the introduction of a new concept such as SOA by industry thought leaders, there is a mad rush by technology vendors to adopt the new terminology into their messaging and positioning.  In an effort to be viewed as the leader in the latest trend, vendors begin bombarding their customers with aggressive promotions around the latest buzzword terms.  The process happens so quickly that few customers actually have time to filter the noise to determine the true meaning of new terms.  After a few months, the terms cease to have any value, because every vendor claims to have adopted the principles.

Unfortunately, the problem will only get worse as the agility of technology marketing organizations is only likely to increase as time passes, consistent with the Sajak’s Law concept I introduced above.  Until then a GG3SC rule might be the only option.

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  1. October 2, 2013 at 8:53 AM

    Hi would you mind stating which blog platform you’re using?
    I’m planning to start my own blog soon but I’m having a tough time choosing between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal.

    The reason I ask is because your design seems different then
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      October 7, 2013 at 3:53 AM

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8. Raising the tension – not strings

I’ve noticed while working through the Goess theorbo manuscript that a few pieces increase the tension before the final cadence. It’s something many composers have done before and after the 17th century, even now, but it is worth focussing in on how they did it back in the late 17th century.

I’ve mentioned in post #5 on Interpreting the French Courante the use of a hemiola in this unattributed courante. It’s the long bar in the second-last line:

Instead of two bars of 3/4 timing (giving 6/4) we have a 3/2 bar, showing three groups of minims. This changes the heavier beats from one every three beats to one every two beats, quickening the heart rate as it were. This is a great way to build up tension before the final cadence, which now brings even a greater degree of release and calm. Here’s its sound file:

Hautement or Hotman (both spellings appear in the Goess MS) seems to enjoy playing with our expectations as his compositions draw to a close. Notice the odd rhythm in the third-last bar, which actually starts at the end of the second-last line:

If we count eight quavers in a bar, numbers 3 and 7 are tied over, giving an odd limp to the rhythm compared to what has been going on in the rest of the piece. It’s like he has deliberately set out to trip up the dancers!

Here’s a recording to help you hear its impact:

Another way to wind up the tension is to introduce a deliberate dissonant note, surely designed to wake up any sleepy listener. Notice anything odd in this piece, again by Hautemant:

Here’s the score:

It’s that letter e at the start of the last bar of the fourth line. It has a squiggle after it, which might mean vibrato – I’m not certain. When I first played it – reading at a slower pace – I assumed it was a mistake, and looked for an alternative. One of the most common mistakes in tablature is for the scribe to place a letter on a wrong string, often adjacent to the intended string. So I tried the e on the second string – even worse! Then on the fourth string – just as dissonant with the bass.

The bass is actually doing something eminently sensible and acceptable: walking from the second note of the major scale to the dominant note before dropping to the tonic for the final chord.

If you play the melody on its own, that letter seems perfectly acceptable, arguably even sensible, as a chromatic lower auxiliary – in fact it sounds beautiful.

So, two acceptable lines coming together to clash horribly – there is humour here, I think. And placed just before the final cadence – a now familiar trope.

To sum up, we’ve seen three ways to increase the tension before the final cadence: hemiola, a rhythm at odds with the rest of the piece, and a deliberately dissonant harmony. Not all compositions in Goess do this, but some do. So listen out for such devices in especially the French baroque, as they do seem to have enjoyed them!

5. Interpreting the French Courante

The above is a very melodic and enjoyable-to-play courante for théorbe de pièces by Germain Pinel from the Goess Theorbo manuscript. The Goess MS comes from the second half of the 17th century, we are not sure exactly when.

So, how to interpret a French courante? The Italian courante is certainly much easier to interpret, with it’s generally running 16th notes or semiquavers, sometime 8th notes or quavers (see how multilingual I am?!). The Italian Corrente likes to flow with the wind, and is often one of the faster movements of the suite. The French courante tends to be more rhythmically complex, but is often played at a medium to fairly fast pace. However, consider the following quotations, taken from Peter Croton’s excellent “Performing Baroque Music on the Lute & Theorbo“:

“One of the most common myths today, even among some early music specialists, is that the courante is fast” – Peter Croton, 2016

“lovely and tender…sweet hope…something heartfelt, something longing, and also something joyful” Johann Mattheson, 1739

“This piece is ordinarily made up of a measure with three slow beats” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1768

“…the noble courante, slow and majestic” Rémond de Saint-Mard, 1741

“…it is beaten in a very slow three” Jean-Pierre Freillon-Poncein, 1700

“a very slow dance that inspires an air of nobility more than the other dances” Pierre Rameau, 1725

“the sarabande is actually a slow menuet, and the courante a very slow sarabande” Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert, 1752

All of these quotations are from the early to mid 18th century, a little later – maybe twenty years or so – than the assumed date of the Goess manuscript. The main tenor is that the courante is a slow to medium piece, sweet and tender, even slower than the sarabande. Yes, the sarabande is said to have started life as a fast dance before slowing down over time. But these comments are mostly from within Bach’s active lifetime, when we expect the sarabande to sound the slowest and most heartfelt moment of the suite.

So, curbing my natural instinct, I tried a slow run through when I was first learning the piece. Here is a phone recording, warts and all:

Well, I don’t know what you think of it, but to my ears it has some nice moments, but is too slow and lacks any rhythmic definition. I want to hear the rhythm of the dance more, but the danger there is in playing any dance piece too fast. Here is a medium-paced interpretation:

I tried to combine both a vocal and a dance quality, the former because the piece certainly has a strong melodic contour, is quite singable, and the latter because it is after all a dance. I did try a very strict rhythmical version, but it did nothing for me. I’m reminded of an instruction at the head of a reel by Nathaniel Gow, a late 18th-century Scots violinist: “Slow unless danced to”.

But let’s take a look at another courante from the same manuscript:

This is a very melodic courante, reaching high up the chanterelle in the A section and containing a hemiola in the B section. Let’s look at what makes this piece tick.

The first full bar has a long note on the second beat, as do the majority of bars throughout the piece. The first full bar in the B section obfuscates this accent by placing it on the end of a slur – assuming slurs always sound strong to weak. But for the most part the B section has accents on the second beat: one TWO three, etc, which is a feature of some sarabandes and mazurkas.

Note the hemiola starting at the end of the B section’s second line. It is more clear to see in the other version inscribed in the manuscript, actually an earlier version. Here it is as the second bar in the second-last line:

Note that it has three groups of two beats each. So, instead of two bars of three beats each, we have one bar of six beats, divided into three groups of two beats. This feature can be seen in many courantes, and harks back to the branle and the galliard. I’m not a dance expert, so suggest that those interested in this aspect of the courante should read this webpage: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/409098/530682

It is important that we interpreters accent this rhythmical change, as it builds up tension before the final cadence.

It is also worth noting the notational differences between the two versions, both inscribed by the same hand:

The minim (half note) in the first full bar has an upper auxiliary ornament added in the second version (remember, I presented you the scores in reverse order from the manuscript, so the “second version” is the first on this page). This places a dissonance on this rhythmically important second beat. In my most recent reading of this courante, I saved this dissonance for the repeat.

The bar lines in the second version are preserved for the end of each line, whereas in the first version, three end-of-line bars are incomplete. This might be an attempt by the scribe to clarify the rhythm, though it does render the visual impact of the hemiola less clear.

The eighth full bar of the B section has two important changes – I’ll leave them to you to study. And the penultimate bar has three thumb strokes in all.

So, we have a lot of rhythmical information to digest, and also not entirely unrelated to rhythmical accents is the decision to be made about the tempo of our performance. And we should consider its place within a suite – though the dances are not presented as such in the manuscript. Usually a courante lies between an allemande and a sarabande, neither of which are usually played fast. In some French sources we see an allemande gay, in which case a slower courante might balance better, especially if the following sarabande is of the older, faster type. Context.

In conclusion, you could try seeing how slow you could play both courantes while still articulating the rhythmical accents. To be honest, I find myself playing them now at a medium pace, not slow nor fast, singing yet steadfast. I still find it hard to envisage the French courante as being a “a very slow sarabande,” to again quote Jean-Baptiste d’Alembert…but tomorrow is another day…

Rob Mackillop
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April, 2021


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Stamp of Ownership

One of the most common demonic false doctrines in existence is this: God no longer puts a stamp of ownership on his property … so saved people are not sealed with the Holy Spirit. What a great tactic … make people think God expects his people to do it on their own.

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See The Cliffside Rose–Flash Fiction Contest

For the last week, readers voted here and at our sister WordPress blog to determine the top three winners of The Cliffside Rose Flash Fiction Contest with the combined totals. With some brilliant entries, this was no easy task, but three entries tied at the top.

And the winners are . . .

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Dixie was conflicted about being on The Bachelor, but she wanted the chance to meet her Prince. And that she did. Thor was very CALIENTE and had cheese-grater abs. The problem was, that he was a spy in Russia during the Olympics and they were ‘on’ to him. Putin blamed Thor for the 5th ring not lighting up during the opening ceremonies and was not happy. Thor was about to give Dixie the FINAL ROSE. If she accepted the rose, she would enter the program with him (no TVs allowed in the witness protection program), if she didn’t, she would have to let him go, forever. After much pondering, Dixie decided that she could NOT miss the Oscars, and opted for the RED CARPET rather than the RED ROSE. She kissed him goodbye and ran home to watch the E channel. Thor was devastated and jumped off the cliff.

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Michelle Morrison:  You Want to WHAT?

After six years in witness protection, Diane was free. She moved home and reconnected with loved ones. She rescued a dog and named her Dixie, and they had lovely walks by the cliff near her house.

Diane met Peter. It was love. Peter seemed smitten also. “You’re special,” he told her.

She smiled. “So are you.”

Diane and Peter went for walks by the cliff. They watched the sun go down and threw sticks for Dixie. Peter gave Diane a rose each month.

At the fourth month, Peter gave Diane four roses and said, “I’m sorry, I’ve met someone else.”

“What is this?” Diane asked. “You’re unhappy?”

“It’s not you, it’s me; we can still be friends.” Peter said.

Diane beat Peter to death with the cheese grater she always carried. She left the roses by the body. The judge ruled justifiable homicide and she got probation.

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“You said it didn’t matter.”

Tom flexed his jaw and refused to look away.

“The court cares. Think of our daughter. What life will she lead if you refuse witness protection?”

Dixie swallowed the dry mountain air. Had he brought her to these uncomfortable heights just to tell her to do what she’d refused four times?

She slammed the roses into his chest. They fell to the ground, petals still intact.

“The entire evening was an act so I’d warm up and give in.”

“No, I –”

She turned away. “Take us home.” She hated the thought of wrapping her arms around him on his motorcycle.

His sigh trickled her neck. She stiffened.

“I can’t.”

He grabbed and pulled her towards a waiting car. “Sorry. I’m not letting you get the fucking mafia on us.”

She screamed. She struggled. The cliffs scraped her skin bloody like a cheese grater.

Each of you has won a copy of USA Today Bestseller Vicki Hinze‘s clever tale of death and romance, Down and Dead in Dixie.

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I will forward your emails to the awesome Vicki Hinze, and she will get in touch with you to send your your prize.

A Big Thank You to all of the participants.

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VICTORIA -- The British Columbia government is launching a compulsory skilled trades certification system that it says will strengthen economic recovery, while supporting higher-paying, more stable jobs.

Premier John Horgan says he recognizes that it will be a big change for workers and employers and the transformation won't happen overnight.

The government says certification will happen in phases starting with 10 initial trades from the electrical, mechanical and automotive disciplines, meaning people will be required to be a certified journeyperson or a registered apprentice to work in those areas.

Once a trade has been designated for certification, the province says workers will have at least one year to either register as an apprentice or challenge an exam.

The government is aiming to introduce legislation next spring to support the implementation of the new certification system, with the first changes expected in the electrical and mechanical trades by 2023 and in automotive by 2025.

Advanced Education Minister Anne Kang says recognizing workers' skill through certification will attract more people to the trades amid labour shortages.

“Certification recognizes the professionalism of tradespeople ... and ensures equity-deserving groups and every person who wants a rewarding career in the trades can access the highest level of education and training,” Kang says in a statement.

About 73,000 job openings are expected in the trades in B.C. through to 2029 with about 77 per cent of those replacing retiring workers.

Certification will help fill those roles and “build prestige” around careers in the trades, the province says.

B.C. removed the requirement that tradespeople be certified in 2003, making it the only jurisdiction in Canada without a system for compulsory credentials.

The decision to re-launch certification was based on recommendations from a stakeholder advisory group that includes representatives from industry associations, labour and post-secondary institutions.

A public engagement process happening now through the fall will seek input on key aspects of the change, including how to help current trades workers get certified.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 11, 2021.


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VANCOUVER -- Mounties in Surrey say they've seized more than 200 grams of fentanyl, several imitation firearms and a sword during recent traffic stops in the city.

The first incident happened on June 4 around 4:40 p.m., when frontline officers stopped a driver near the intersection of 94 Avenue and King George Boulevard.

"During their interaction with the driver, the officers observed items consistent with drug trafficking and arrested the driver and passenger," Surrey RCMP said in a news release issued Thursday.

Upon further investigation, officers found seven imitation firearms, a pistol magazine with live ammunition inside, a knife and a sword. They also seized multiple packages of drugs, containing a total of 157 grams of suspected fentanyl, police said.

The 34-year-old man and 34-year-old woman were released at the scene after their arrest, police said, adding that a report would be forwarded to the BC Prosecution Service.

A few days later, the Surrey RCMP gang enforcement team conducted another traffic stop, which yielded similar results.

The second incident happened at 6:50 p.m. on June 8 near the intersection of 176 Street and Fraser Highway in Cloverdale.

Officers pulled over a vehicle and "saw evidence of weapons possession" as they talked with the driver, according to another news release from Surrey RCMP, also issued on Thursday.

Police arrested the driver and seized a holster, two starter pistols, a large canister of bear mace, multiple knives and $1,200 in cash. They also seized two plastic bags containing drugs, including 89 grams of suspected fentanyl and 58 grams of suspected methamphetamine, police said.

The driver was issued violation tickets for Motor Vehicle Act offences and released from custody, police said.

"He was also served a warning letter as the registered owner of a vehicle involved in crime, that in the future if this vehicle is involved in criminal activity, it will be seized as offence-related property," police said in their release.


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Friday, June 22, 2018

RBA: CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER in Vancouver - June 22nd

At 10am on June 22-2018, Cole Gaerber found an adult male Chestnut-sided Warbler at Jericho Park in Vancouver. The  bird was foraging and moving along the tall trees south of the tennis courts.

This is the third Chestnut-sided Warbler currently in the province the others being in Malcolm Island and Powell River.

This is the 69th record for the province of BC.

The bird was relocated at 12:30pm singing in willows between the duck pond and the south end of the rugby field and is still being viewed by multiple observers as of 4:45pm.

Map to exact location of where bird was last seen HERE

The bird was not seen from 5-9:30pm, despite multiple observers looking. It was also not relocated on June 23rd.

Adult male Chestnut-sided Warbler in Vancouver - Photo: Cole Gaerber

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Used tea bags were dried before commencing the delicate extraction of tea. The resulting tissue like fabric was flattened and individually hand dyed. These mini canvases were then brought together and layered to provide a William Turner inspired backdrop.
An adaptation of a famous tea party, the silhouette image is created solely from reclaimed tealeaves. The viewer may only see two subjects at the table but looking closer will find an Australian inspired theme repeating in the wings – how many characters are really at this event? Is this really a Tea Party 4 Two? Or Ten?


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When Technology Replaces the Holy Spirit

Leaving pieces behind, in my opinion, is the most difficult aspect of sermon preparation. Yet for the sake of clarity and precision, some must be left on the cutting room floor. The following is one of those.

While preparing to preach on the incarnation, I wanted to show how God becoming flesh proves that our physical bodies are important and not innately evil. Two threads emerged from this general idea. One addressed the need to both enjoy the pleasures of our physical existence and to discipline ourselves against abusing those same enjoyments. The other targeted how, like the people of Babel, we use technology to try to transcend our bodies. Ultimately, the first felt more cohesive to the rest of the sermon, so the second one was scrapped. Yet the idea of technology replacing the role of the Spirit in our lives is worth sharing (and considering), so here it is.

To have a physical body means being limited. The people of Babel understood this all too well. After learning how to form strong and durable bricks, they began to use this new technology to build a tower. This proto-skyscraper was meant to ascend into the heavens; it was to be their stairway to the throne of God, a means of making a name for themselves. They not only wrongly believed that they could transcend their earthly limitations; they also believed that God was small enough to be reached by human effort. God, of course, displays their tininess by stooping down to disassemble their tower and scatter them across the earth.

Unfortunately, the spirit of Babel has never left us. Today, more than ever, we continue to use technology with the hope of breaking free from our fleshly limitations. We keep creating towers to the heavens, attempting to transcend any need of our Creator, while also trying to stay united together in the midst of a world broken by sin.

Consider a few examples.

Electric lights break us free from the tyranny of day and night. For millennia, our bodies were guided by the patterns of our Circadian Rhythm, but now we create our own schedules. We dictate the best time to sleep and stay awake.

Cars and planes liberate us from the confines of distance. Being able to drive across town at any moment or fly across country (and even oceans) within 24 hours has expanded our village of family and friends onto a much wider area. Unfortunately, the actual village lifestyle of the past is vanishing into a memory. Although we may be able to drive to one another’s home at any time, it’s quite a different practice than “just dropping by to say hi” while on a walk through the neighborhood.

Phones and social media guard us against solitude and seclusion. They ensure that we are never truly alone, yet they also ensure that a significant portion of our communications happen through a buffer. Face-to-face conversation was once called simply conversation, but we now speak to one another primarily without all the nonverbals of facial expressions and body posture, which thankfully were never very important for conversation anyway (side note: since you can’t see my face… yes, that is sarcasm).

Modern medicine protects us from the pain and discomfort of symptoms. Unfortunately, the prevalence of pain medication seems to ignore the reality that pain is warning signal for something that has gone wrong. We treat headaches and stomach pains without much consideration as to what our body is trying to tell us. We snuff out cold and flu symptoms without pondering why our immune system was weak enough to allow such pathogens to survive so long.

Grocery stores assure us that food is plentiful and easily accessible. This appearance is by design, since we are more likely to buy produce if the display is fully stocked. Of course, this leads to grocery stores forming 10% of the 133 billion pounds of food (or 1/3 of all that is produced) that we throw away. All of this is to say nothing about our consumption without all the mess of having to grow or kill whatever we eat.

The list could go on.

Our modern lifestyle gives us greater comfort and luxury than any ancient royalty could ever possess. We live in an unprecedented time of technological advancement in history. And none of these things are wrong or sinful in and of themselves. Having too much food is certainly a better problem than not having enough. Even two decades ago, medicine would not have been advanced enough to save my dad’s life after his accident. Electricity, transportation, and communications have made our vast network of civilization possible. But neither was the development of brickmaking the sin of Babel; their sin was attempting to be gods, trying to transcend free from their physical limitations. Similarly, whenever we use technology to sedate the hungers and needs of our flesh entirely, we end up rejecting God as our Provider and Creator. Our gadgets help us perpetuate the lie that we can save ourselves.

But God alone offers us both the sustenance and transcendence that we crave. In fact, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 plays out like an anti-Babel. The tower was an attempt to reach the heavens, but the indwelling Spirit truly carries our prayers to the very throne of God. The people of Babel were united by a common language, but the Spirit forms us into a new people from every nation, tribe, and language on earth. The people of Babel wanted to make a name for themselves, but the Spirit enables us to joyously glorify the Triune God. Also, by the Spirit, we are reminded that we will one day be given glorified bodies as we dwell with God and His new creation for all eternity.
Through the Spirit, we both transcend this present reality while simultaneously becoming more firmly embodied in it. In fact, we could simply say that by the ordaining of the Father, through the work of Christ, and by the empowering of the Spirit, we are entering back into reality itself, communion with God, which then empowers us to be united with one another. The Spirit connects us and gives deeper meaning to our lives than technology ever can.

Sadly, technology will continue to be used as a substitute for the Holy Spirit to break us free from the limitations of our bodies. But, as Christ’s followers, we must reject this and keep technology within its place. We must use it to cultivate and subdue both the earth and ourselves, but it cannot save us. It cannot bridge the hostility caused by our sin. It cannot take us beyond the limits of our flesh.

Use technology to serve you, not save you.

And embrace the limits of your body. They are displaying your need for the Creator.

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