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The Subtle Authoritarianism of the "Liberal Order"
Posted on November 5, 2019 by Loquitur Veritatem
There is a smug kind of person whom I know well, having been trained in the economics of control; having worked for more than thirty years with economists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, and others whose penchant it was to find the "best" solution to every problem; and having known (too many) "right thinking" persons whose first reaction to every disaster, sob story, and inconvenience is that government experts should make it stop (liberty, unintended consequences, and costs are of no importance).
A small sample of the smuggies' certainties: "Efficient" means of transportation (e.g., fast intercity trains, urban light rail) should be provide by government (i.e., taxpayers) because they're obviously the "best" way to move people, the revealed preferences of consumers (and voters) to the contrary notwithstanding. Cities should be zoned to encourage density (because, you know, cities are "cool", "climate change", yadayadyada), the preference of actual people (and evidence against "climate change") to the contrary notwithstanding.
The list goes on and on. You can easily add to it even if you haven't had your morning coffee.
The kind of smug person who holds such views holds them for many reasons: peer influence, virtue-signaling, educated incapacity, public-school and university indoctrination, and good old-fashioned snobbery (the "deplorables" must be made to do what's in their own interest). Most such persons are also financially comfortable — too comfortable, obviously, because they seem to have nothing better to do with their money than to pay the higher taxes that inevitably result from their electoral choices: candidates who believe that government is the answer; bond issues and other ballot measures that enable politicians to spend more money to "fix" things. The less-comfortable contingent (e.g., school teachers and low-level government employees) go along to get along and because they must believe that government is good, just as a young child must believe in Santa Claus.
The agenda and constituency of the "liberal order" parallel those of the so-called liberal international order, which Sumantra Maitra addresses in a review article, "The End Times of the Liberal Order"? (Spectator USA, October 26, 2018):
A liberal order is not natural. Robert Kagan admits as much in his new book, The Jungle Grows Back, when he writes that the 'the creation of the liberal order has been an act of defiance against both history and human nature'. Nor is a liberal order an 'order', or liberal in nature. It is a sort of hegemonic or imperial peace.
Nothing wrong with that, of course; peace, any peace, is important. Unfortunately, it is the liberal part, which causes the problem. An internationalist, utopian worldview, liberalism is full of crusaderly zeal, constantly 'going abroad in search of monsters to destroy'. Liberal internationalists badly want to shape the world. When given the chance, they do manage to shape the world, very badly indeed….
[John] Mearsheimer's The Great Delusion claims that liberalism itself is paradoxical. It supports tolerance, but it is a universalist paradigm, deeply committed to borderless values. There cannot be any compromise or cooperation, because everything, everywhere is an existential battle. This causes conflict both at home and abroad. Domestically, liberalism divides a nation into good and bad people, and leads to a clash of cultures. Internationally, it leads to never-ending wars.
Encore: Domestically, liberalism divides a nation into good and bad people, and leads to a clash of cultures.
The clash of cultures was started and sustained by so-called liberals, the smug people described above. It is they who — firmly believing themselves to be smarter, on the the side of science, and on the side of history — have chosen to be the aggressors in the culture war.
Hillary Clinton's remark about Trump's "deplorables" ripped the mask from the "liberal" pretension to tolerance and reason. Clinton's remark was tantamount to a declaration of war against the self-appointed champion of the "deplorables": Donald Trump. And war it has been. much of it waged by deep-state "liberals" who cannot entertain the possibility that they are on the wrong side of history, and who will do anything — anything — to make history conform to their smug expectations of it.
Joel Kotkin, "Elites Against Western Civilization", City Journal, October 3, 2019 (examples of the smug worldview, from a non-smug academic)
Victor Davis Hanson, "The Globalist Mindset: They Hate You", American Greatness, December 16, 2018 (more, from another non-smug academic)
Victor Davis Hanson, "The Military-Intellegence Complex", American Greatness, November 3, 2019 (even more)
Lyle H. Rossiter Jr., M.D. "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness", Townhall, December 4, 2006 (a psychiatrist's diagnosis confirms mine)
Related pages and posts (focusing on various aspects of delusional "liberalism"):
Abortion Q & A
Economic Growth Since World War II (see especially The Rahn Curve in Action)
Modeling and Science
Spygate (a.k.a. Russiagate)
Hurricane Hysteria
"Tribalists", "Haters", and Psychological Projection
"Science is Real"
"Liberalism": Trying to Have It Both Ways
Understanding the Resistance: The Enemies Within
Intellectuals and Authoritarianism
More Unsettled Science
Leninthink and Left-Think
Not-So-Random Thoughts (XXIV) (especially The Transgender Trap: A Political Nightmare Becomes Reality and Assortative Mating, Income Inequality, and the Crocodile Tears of "Progressives")
Climate Hysteria
Rawls vs. Reality
Posted in Electoral Politics, Enemies: Foreign and Domestic, Leftism - Statism - Democracy, Political Movements & Theories, Politics - Politicians - Government in Action / Tagged authoritarianism, leftism, liberal order, populism
Posted on October 19, 2019 by Loquitur Veritatem
I have just published a new page, "Political Ideologies". Here's the introduction:
Political ideologies proceed in a circle. Beginning arbitrarily with conservatism and moving clockwise, there are roughly the following broad types of ideology: conservatism, anti-statism (libertarianism), and statism. Statism is roughly divided into left-statism ("liberalism"or "progressivism", left-populism) and right-statism (faux conservatism, right-populism). Left-statism and right-statism are distinguishable by their stated goals and constituencies.
By statism, I mean the idea that government should do more than merely defend the people from force and fraud. Conservatism and libertarianism are both anti-statist, but there is a subtle and crucial difference between them, which I will explain.
Not everyone has a coherent ideology of a kind that I discuss below. Far from it. There is much vacillation between left-statism and right-statism. And there is what I call the squishy center of the electorate which is easily swayed by promises and strongly influenced by bandwagon effects. In general, there is what one writer calls clientelism:
the distribution of resources by political power through an agreement in which politicians – the patrons – make this allocation dependent on the political support of the beneficiaries – their clients. Clientelism emerges at the intersection of political power with social and economic activity.
Politicians themselves are prone to stating ideological positions to which they don't adhere, out of moral cowardice and a strong preference for power over principle. Republicans have been especially noteworthy in this respect. Democrats simply try to do what they promise to do — increase the power of government (albeit at vast but unmentioned economic and social cost).
In what follows, I will ignore the squishy center and the politics of expediency. I will focus on the various ideologies, the contrasts between them, and the populist allure of left-statism and right-statism. Because the two statisms are so much alike under the skin, I will start with conservatism and work around the circle to them. Conservatism gets more attention than the other ideologies because it is intellectually richer.
Go here for the rest.
Posted in Leftism - Statism - Democracy, Liberty - Libertarianism - Rights, Political Movements & Theories, Politics - Politicians - Government in Action / Tagged conservatism, leftism, libertarianism, political ideology, populism, statism / 2 Comments
Why Populism Is Popular
Affluent "elites" are well-insulated from the consequences of the policies that they promote and enact. Sometimes the elites justify those policies because they are "good" for an amorphous aggregation ("the country", "the people", GDP). Thus, for example, elites favor "free trade" and "open borders" because some they (supposedly) result in a net gain in GDP. That the gain is net of the losses incurred by many taxpayers and victims of crime is irrelevant to the elites.
And when elites are promoting "social justice" they favor policies that are best for a particular group, to the exclusion of other groups. It doesn't start that way, but that's how it ends up, because the easiest way to "make things right" for a particular group is to penalize others, as in "affirmative action", "affordable (tax-funded) housing", suppression of speech, etc.
You get the idea. Elites stroke their own egos in the pursuit of abstract measures of "good", and disdain those who are harmed, calling them — among many things — "bitter clingers", "deplorables", and denizens of "flyover country".
I have been guilty of elitism, but I am cured of it. I have joined the no-longer-silent majority. No-longer-silent thanks to Donald Trump — praise be!
(See also "Modern Utilitarianism", "Rethinking Free Trade", and "Rooted in the Real World of Real People".)
Posted in Political Movements & Theories / Tagged populism
True Populism
Populism, according to Wikipedia,
refers to a range of approaches which emphasise the role of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite". There is no single definition of the term, which developed in the 19th century and has been used to mean various things since that time. Few politicians or political groups describe themselves as "populists", and in political discourse the term is often applied to others pejoratively….
[T]he ideational approach … defines populism as an ideology which presents "the people" as a morally good force against "the elite", who are perceived as corrupt and self-serving. Populists differ in how "the people" are defined, but it can be based along class, ethnic, or national lines. Populists typically present "the elite" as comprising the political, economic, cultural, and media establishment, all of which are depicted as a homogenous entity and accused of placing the interests of other groups—such as foreign countries or immigrants—above the interests of "the people". According to this approach, populism is a thin-ideology which is combined with other, more substantial thick ideologies such as nationalism, liberalism, or socialism. Thus, populists can be found at different locations along the left–right political spectrum and there is both left-wing populism and right-wing populism.
Just as "the elite" isn't homogeneous, neither is "the people". True populism therefore demands a decentralized polity, according to the principle of subsidiarity:
[M]atters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. Political decisions should be taken at a local level if possible, rather than by a central authority.
This is a conservative principle because deciding matters locally means that they are usually handled in accordance with social norms that prevail locally, and which reflect local conditions. This is in contrast with one-size-fits-all "solutions" imposed by distant officials who have no appreciation of local knowledge and norms, and who — in any event — are usually hostile to those things.
Subsidiarity is also, in theory, a libertarian principle. Too many self-styled libertarians, however, are quick to abandon the principle in favor of state-imposed rules that favor their views about how "society" should be organized. Thus — and to the detriment of social comity and stability — we have state-imposed abortion, a state-imposed edict to honor same-sex "marriage", state-imposed "tolerance" of unsafe sexual acts, the rending of families by lax divorce laws, and on and on.
It is populist resentment of elite dominance that enabled Trump's electoral victory. "Drain the swamp" is a good part of it. The rest is mainly a desire for the preservation (or restoration) of traditional American culture, the protection of which requires selective immigration and strong defenses.
The principle and spirit of populism — and its enemies — is captured by Bertrand de Jouvenel in his 1945 epic, On Power: The Natural History of its Growth:
Every Power is sure to attack centrifugal tendencies. But the behaviour of democratic Power offers in this respect some peculiar features of a striking kind. It claims its mission to be that of liberating man from the constraints put on him by the old Power, which was the more or less direct descendant of conquest. But that did not stop the Convention from guillotining the Federalists [in the French Revolution], the English Parliament from wiping out, in some of the bloodiest repressions of history, the separatist nationalism in Ireland, or the government at Washington from launching a war such as Europe had never yet seen to crush the attempt of the Southern States to form themselves into a separate unity….
This hostility to the formation of smaller communities is inconsistent with the claim to have inaugurated government of the people by itself, for clearly a government answers more closely to that description in smaller communities than in larger. Only in smaller communities can citizens choose their ruler directly from men whom they know personally. Only in them can justification be found for the encomium pronounced by Montesquieu:
The people is well fitted to choose …. The people knows well whether a man has often seen active service and what successes he has won: therefore it is well equipped to choose a general. It knows whether a judge attends to his duties; whether most people leave his court satisfied; whether or not he is corrupt: therein is knowledge sufficient for it to elect a praetor…. These are all facts which make a public square a better-informed place than the palace of a king.
But the new men whom the popular voice has made masters of the imperium have never shown any inclination to a regime of that kind. It was distasteful to them, as the heirs of the monarchical authority, to fritter away their estate on subordinating themselves. On the contrary, strong in the strength of a new legitimacy, their one aim was to increase it. Against the federalist conception [the Abbe] Sieyès [1748-1836] was their mouthpiece: "… a general administration which, starting from a common centre, will reach uniformly to the remotest parts of the Empire — a body of laws which, through its elements are provided by the body of citizens, takes bodily form at as distant a level as that of the National Assembly, to whom alone it belongs to interpret the general wish, that wish which thereafter falls with all the weight of an irresistible force on those very wills which have joined in the formation of it." [Liberty Press edition (1993), pp. 286-288, links added, emphasis in original]
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Posted in Liberty - Libertarianism - Rights, Political Economy & Civil Society, Political Movements & Theories, Politics - Politicians - Government in Action / Tagged populism, subsidiarity
Is Liberty Possible?
I must begin at the beginning, with my definition of liberty:
A state of liberty exists where people cohabit an extensive geographic area in peaceful, willing coexistence and its concomitant: beneficially cooperative behavior. The condition of peace requires mechanisms for thwarting fraud, coercion, and aggression inside the group, and from without. The condition of willing coexistence requires a combination of mutual restraint and mutual forbearance, that is, a general willingness to accept certain of others' foibles and, in return, to honor certain constraints on one's own behavior — even beyond fraud, coercion, and aggression.
Inherent in that definition, and essential to its fulfillment, are four things:
the general observance of evolved and evolving social norms and, accordingly, their enforcement through social censure
an accountable, minimal state, dedicated to the protection of its citizens and the enforcement of those social norms — and only those norms — that rise to the level of statutory law (e.g., acts that are generally recognized as fraudulent, coercive, and aggressive)
voice, the opportunity for dissent from social norms and laws (though not the right to have one's dissent honored)
exit, the right to leave without penalty.
That we do not have liberty in the United States should be evident in the number of statutes and regulations that a far-from-minimal state imposes on us. With a few exceptions — most notably and laudably in the area of civil rights for blacks — liberty has been in retreat since the onset of the Progressive Era in the early 1890s. For, contrary to Fourth of July oratory, America has descended into statism. And, pace the The Star Spangled Banner, America is the land of the regulator and the home of the regulated.
Those of us lucky enough to have experienced life in small cities, towns, and villages in the 1940s know that something like liberty is possible. Ironically, and tragically, the small-town ethos that undergirds liberty has been the object of pseudo-intellectual scorn since the days of Main Street and Babbit.
Apropos the small-town ethos, I once said:
Think of life in a small town where "eveyone knows everyone else's business." The sense of being "watched" actually tends to foster liberty, in that it discourages crime. As a result, one's life and property generally are safer in small towns than in large cities. By the same token, the sense of being "watched" can seem oppressive; one feels less free to do things that might draw social opprobrium, even if those things do no more than offend others' sensibilities.
Why should everyone in a small town have to put up with small-town mores for the sake of a safer, saner life, you may ask? Well, if you don't like small-town mores, fine, pack up and go to the big city, but don't forget to take your handgun (if you're allowed to have one in the big city), and keep your life and homeowner's insurance paid up. (Alternatively, you can stay in the small town and try, through example and persuasion, to change its mores so that there is greater tolerance of social diversity.)
It seems to me that America began to lose its way as urban political machines came to dominate national politics in the early 1900s. It is true that populism, from which arose Progressivism, had its roots in small-town and rural America. But Progressivism and its later incarnations ("liberalism" a.k.a. "progressivism") have hijacked the anti-elite rhetoric of populism in the service of a different kind of elitism: the "technocratic" regulation of personal and business conduct by puritanical, falsely omniscient bureaucrats.
Even in the unlikely event of a string of electoral victories by a Republican Party restored to its small-government roots, it seems unlikely that America can "go home" again. Urbanization — which leads citizens (wrongly) to believe that government must regulate our daily lives — is irreversible, barring an environmental or industrial catastrophe that throws us back onto the land.
Then there is the deep inculcation of statist habits of thought by schools, universities, the media, and various organizations with "progressive" agendas (e.g., teachers' unions, labor unions, and issue-oriented organizations like AARP). As a result, a truly minimal state is beyond the imagination of most Americans.
Finally, there is the law itself, through which the "progressive" agenda has infiltrated almost every kind of decision made by Americans in their personal and business lives, from cradle to grave and from planting crops to disposing of waste. An electoral and intellectual revolution would have to be accompanied by a legal one, but the wheels of the law grind slowly and often in perverse ways.
Is liberty possible? Liberty, as I define it, seems impossible. All we can hope and fight for are second- or third-best outcomes. I would settle for an America like that of the 1940s and 1950s, with an overlay of equal treatment under the law (but not in private matters) for all citizens — even the putative white-male majority.
Posted in Political Movements & Theories / Tagged liberty, populism, progressivism, rebirth of liberty, small-town ethos
Modernism in the Arts and Politics
Posted on June 2, 2009 by Loquitur Veritatem
David Friedman has a theory about the "modern" movement:
Suppose you are the first city planner in the history of the world. If you are very clever you come up with Cartesian coordinates, making it easy to find any address without a map, let alone a GPS—useful since neither GPS devices nor maps have been invented yet.
Suppose you are the second city planner. Cartesian coordinates have already been done, so you can't make your reputation by doing them again. With luck, you come up with some alternative, perhaps polar coordinates, that works almost as well.
Suppose you are the two hundred and ninetieth city planner in the history of the world. All the good ideas have been used, all the so-so ideas have been used, and you need something new to make your reputation. You design Canberra. That done, you design the Combs building at ANU, the most ingeniously misdesigned building in my personal experience, where after walking around for a few minutes you not only don't know where you are, you don't even know what floor you are on.
I call it the theory of the rising marginal cost of originality—formed long ago when I spent a summer visiting at ANU.
It explains why, to a first approximation, modern art isn't worth looking at, modern music isn't worth listening to, and modern literature and verse not worth reading. Writing a novel like one of Jane Austen's, or a poem like one by Donne or Kipling, only better, is hard. Easier to deliberately adopt a form that nobody else has used, and so guarantee that nobody else has done it better.
In other words, if you can't readily do better than your predecessors, you take the easy way out by doing something different — ugly as it may be. And you call it "progress." As I wrote here:
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the visual, auditory, and verbal arts became an "inside game." Painters, sculptors, composers (of "serious" music), choreographers, and writers of fiction began to create works not for the enjoyment of audiences but for the sake of exploring "new" forms. Given that the various arts had been perfected by the early 1900s, the only way to explore "new" forms was to regress toward primitive ones — toward a lack of structure…. Aside from its baneful influence on many true artists, the regression toward the primitive has enabled persons of inferior talent (and none) to call themselves "artists." Thus modernism is banal when it is not ugly.
Painters, sculptors, etc., have been encouraged in their efforts to explore "new" forms by critics, by advocates of change and rebellion for its own sake (e.g., "liberals" and "bohemians"), and by undiscriminating patrons, anxious to be au courant. Critics have a special stake in modernism because they are needed to "explain" its incomprehensibility and ugliness to the unwashed.
The unwashed have nevertheless rebelled against modernism, and so its practitioners and defenders have responded with condescension, one form of which is the challenge to be "open minded" (i.e., to tolerate the second-rate and nonsensical). A good example of condescension is heard on Composers Datebook, a syndicated feature that runs on some NPR stations. Every Composers Datebook program closes by "reminding you that all music was once new." As if to lump Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven.
All music, painting, sculpture, dance, and literature was once new, but not all of it is good. Much (most?) of what has been produced since 1900 is inferior, self-indulgent crap.
As it was in the arts, so it was in politics. Yes, there was sleaze before 1900, and plenty of it. But presidents, members of Congress, and justices of the Supreme Court generally remained faithful to the Constitution, especially its restraints on the power of the federal government. Then along came populism and "progressivisism" — the twin pillars of political modernism in the United States — and down went liberty and prosperity.
Posted in Culture - Language - The Arts, Political Economy & Civil Society / Tagged arts, Constitution, history, modernism, populism, progressivism


Plunge right into a tradition as deep as the ocean which frames us. A culture characterized by Seminoles and Broadway exhibits. Even most of the "righteous" ones who supposedly oppose the use of the "f-" phrase are actually part of the complementary programming by Darkness to additional empower the phrase. Northwest Voices presents writer and poet writer workshops and readings in collaboration with the Longview Public Library and Washington State Arts Fee.
The AEWRC supplies a multi-faceted set of resources and alternatives for the emerging A&E workforce: a dynamic, net-based mostly database of assets; nose to nose programs and seminars; advocacy for public policies benefiting the A&E workforce; research and knowledge-gathering on the needs of this workforce; alternatives for networking and community building for these staff and the organizations supporting them.
Income is a big factor when it comes to predicting arts or cultural participation rates. Students graduate able to design, develop and supply management for the rising gaming business. In response to this unacceptable state of affairs, the Employee Institute at Cornell ILR has partnered with distinguished assist organizations and unions to create the NYC Arts & Leisure Worker Useful resource Heart.
Musical Performances by LCC choirs and bands consisting of of scholars and community members presented on the end of each educational quarter. The programming is failing, and soon it can come to the public consciousness that the Earth is gasping its final breaths.
It equally creates the scope to permit the performing arts to proceed to operate as a cradle for experimentation, creativity and innovation, because the very important core of the cultural and creative industry sector. BCIT Broadcast and Media Communications Part-time Studies programs.


Dresses are fabulous, but skirtsA skirt is a tube- or cone-shaped garment that hangs from the waist or hips and covers all or part of the legs. The hemline of skirts can vary from micro to floor-length and can vary according to cultural conceptions of modesty and aesthetics as well as the wearer's personal taste, which can be influenced by such factors as fashion and social context. Most skirts are self-standing garments, but some skirt-looking panels may be part of another garment such as leggings, shorts, and swimsuits. oh skirts! They are so versatile and so much fun to style! Chicwish has always been known for its beautiful skirt collection, and here we are going to show you 5 ways to style winter skirts.
It might be a little over the top to wear this whole outfit, but if you want to make an entrance, this would be a perfect choice.
The neutral earth tone brings out the most feminine part in us. This outfit is perfect for a business day followed by a romantic date night.
When cute little white shirt meets with black skirt, you know you're gonna catch a lot of eyes on the street and enjoy a beautiful day wherever you go!
Let's dress down a little for a while with these cozy grid sweaterA sweater (American English) is a knitted garment intended to cover the torso and arms. A sweater is either a pullover or a cardigan, distinguished in that cardigans open at the front while pullovers do not. In British English, a pullover may also be called a jumper or jersey, and there is no hypernym equivalent to sweater covering both pullovers and cardigans. and wool-blend skirt.
Essential plaid checks and a dark green sweater, nerdy? I believe the correct word you're looking for is 'classy'!


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From the Personal Representative June 15, 2021
Date: June 14, 2021Author: Ron Blaisdell
I would like to start off by again sharing with you the guidelines for a new Membership Initiative titled "Sign 3, Get One Free!" Our Valley has agreed to participate in this initiative. The concept is that any member of the Valley who signs as top line signer on three (3) or more petitions in the agreed upon calendar year, that brother's (i.e., the signer's) dues, including the Supreme Council's per capita, will be waived in the following year. Only the per capita will be waived by the Supreme Council. Please think it through and take advantage of the benefit to you of participating in the "Sign 3, Get One Free" initiative.
Mark your calendars for the June 25th meeting. To cap off the first six months of the year, our June 25th meeting will be open and feature "The Ring Ceremony" to officially welcome those Brothers who joined us by way of our Spring Reunion. We will also conduct the "Knighting Ceremony" for those new 32° Masters of the Royal Secret who desire to join and be knighted a member of the Knights of Saint Andrew. Additionally, this meeting marks the official visit of our Deputy Ill. Rick Hoover, 33°, and a program presented by Kirsten and/or Kim from our Central Florida Clinic. Our Valley Trustee, along with myself and our General Secretary look forward to having you join us for this meeting. If you desire presenting your donation directly to our Deputy, you will be afforded an opportunity to do so during the Foundation part of the program. Our Deputy will be pleased to receive it from you during his visit. Please make your check out to Scottish Rite Foundation of Florida, U.S.A. Inc. Dinner will be available at 6:30pm, followed by the evening's festivities which will take place at 7:30pm in the Lodge Room.
We continue taking advantage of technology and the regular utilization of the Zoom Video Conferencing for Executive Committee meetings, and for our newly started Master Craftsman study group. If you are interested in participating in this monthly study group, please do not wait to contact Ill. Keith at the Valley office via 407-657-4550 or via email at GenSecOrl@gmail.com. He will ensure you are added to the mailing list and receive all invitations. Participating in a study group enhances the Master Craftsman experience for everyone, and starts the building of a fraternal friendship between those brothers who participate.
The June '21 Short Talk Bulletin titled "Scottish Rite Leaders Promote Masonic Tenets for Our Time." Comments from David A. Glattly, Sovereign Grand Commander, Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction titled "We Need More Masons:" and from James D. Cole, Grand Commander, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction titled "Together on a Trampoline." I encourage you to get a copy and give it a read. Working with our Craft (or Blue) Lodges benefits us all.
You are encouraged to read the Scottish Rite Journal when received. The Grand Commander's article always contains a message and call to action. Several enhancements have been made such as a section on "Bible Study for Freemasons;" a story of a historic figure from the past; "Chips from the Quarry;" and other articles and stories you may find informative and educational. Do not forget, the SR Journal can also be received electronically. Just visit your app store online and type in Scottish Rite Journal.
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There is a very large body of literature devoted to thinking about how the "quality" of qualitative research should be assessed. From writing several decades ago in which the concepts of "validity" and "reliability" were redefined and applied to qualitative research (e.g., Goetz & LeCompte, 1983; LeCompte & Goetz, 1992), methodologists have argued for the rejection in qualitative inquiry (e.g., "validity", Wolcott, 1990), re-conceptualized such terms as "validity," (e.g., Lather, 1993; Scheurich, 2001), and proliferated new terms such as "crystallization" (Ellingson, 2009, 2011). It can be difficult for anyone new to conducting qualitative research to figure out where to begin when so much has been written. Here are a few ways to begin to think about what quality means in qualitative research. It's useful to recognize that there is much disagreement among scholars as to how standards of evidence should be applied in qualitative inquiry (Freeman et. al, 2007). Further, the use of terminology has changed over time. For example, the application of the concepts "external reliability" and "internal reliability" is now rare in methodological writing about qualitative inquiry. Of course this also depends on the discipline in which qualitative studies are conducted, and the research design used.
Here are some strategies that newcomers to qualitative inquiry might use in thinking about the assessment of "quality" in a qualitative study.
Look at what established scholars in a particular discipline do in their research. What terms are used? How are these evident in research? What are the hallmarks of "quality" in published research in the top journals in the field? Frequently journal editors include articles and editorials to do with what they expect in an article reporting findings from a high-quality study. Look out for these kinds of articles in peer-reviewed journals in your discipline.
Look at what established writers in a particular methodological tradition do. For example, even though "narrative inquiry" encompasses a family of approaches to doing research, narrative scholars have written about what is needed to do a quality narrative study (e.g., Polkinghorne, 2007; Riessman, 2008); as have autoethnographers (Gingrich-Philbrook, 2013). Therefore, whatever research design and methodological approach one hopes to use, it is useful to examine what methodologists in that tradition write about the topic of "quality" criteria.
Consider how different traditions of qualitative inquiry are based on different assumptions about what counts as evidence, and what kinds of assertions might be made. When reading debates about the issue of quality, one might then consider what ontological and epistemological assumptions underlie an author's argument. How do these differ across traditions?
The fact that there is so much literature written on the assessment of quality of qualitative research speaks to the importance of this topic. For example, I was surprised by the amount of new writing on this topic when I updated this partial list of references (see SOE Bibliography) that my colleagues and I had compiled some years ago. Clearly, researchers are still innovating on this topic, and have much more to say. For those researchers beginning a first project, and struggling to make sense of what the "right" thing to do might be, I would suggest that you start where you are. That is, think about what is valued in your discipline and among the community of scholars in which you hope to situate your own work. Once you read more in this literature, you will find that scholars change their views over time; so it is likely that your own views on this topic will not remain static.
Ellingson, L. L. (2009). Engaging crystallization in qualitative research: An introduction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Ellingson, L. L. (2011). Analysis and representation across the continuum. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of qualitative research (4th ed., pp. 595-610). Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
Gingrich-Philbrook, C. (2013). Evaluating (evaluations of) autoethnography. In S. H. Jones, T. E. Adams, & C. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of autoethnography (pp. 609-626). Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Goetz, J. & LeCompte, M. D. (1984). Ethnography and qualitative design in educational research. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
Lather, Patti. (1993). Fertile obsession: Validity after poststructuralism. Sociological Quarterly, 34(4), 673-693.
LeCompte, Margaret D., and Goetz, Judith Preissle (1992). Problems of reliability and validity in ethnographic research. Review of Educational Research, 52(1), 31-60.
Riessman, C. K. (2008). Narrative methods for the human sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Scheurich, J. J. (2001). Research method in the postmodern. Philadelphia, PA: Routledge.
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Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak has achieved world-class notice for Malaysia which none of the five previous Prime Ministers, including his father Tun Razak, had ever done in five decades – international notoriety as one of world's top countries infamous for global corruption.
Wherever one goes in the world, Malaysia is now equated with the notorious and infamous RM55 billion 1MDB scandal – which has been described last week by the international financial news agency, Bloomberg, as one of the "world's biggest financial scandals".
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How many zeroes do we have in our bank accounts? RM100 is two zeroes, RM1,000 is three zeroes, RM10,000 is four zeroes and RM100,000 is five zeroes.
The overwhelming majority of Malaysians will not even have five zeroes in their bank accounts, even if they have property or assets worth five zeroes.
Having bank accounts of more than six zeroes (millionaires) will be beyond the reach of ordinary Malaysians, but RM55 billion or RM55,000,000,000 is to have 10 zeroes – a completely unthinkable sum of money.
Hidden in the RM55 billion 1MDB scandal is Najib's RM4.2 billion "donation" scandal, and I don't think there is a single leader in the democratic world that believes in democracy, good governance, accountability and transparency who has huge sums of money involving nine zeroes deposited into his private banking accounts and refusing to account for them!
The RM55 billion 1MDB scandal is so humongous that if divided among 42,837 voters in Sungai Besar, every voter would get RM1.3 million!
Najib knows that the 1MDB scandal is his Achilles' heel, which is why he is abusing and misusing his powers to sweep the issue under the carpet in the country, including sacking the Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Senior UMNO Minister for Rural and Regional Development, Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal, the Attorney-General Tan Sri Gani Patail in his crackdown against critics and opponents, which include immediate transfers for government servants, shutdown of independent media, arrests and prosecution of critics under a variety of repressive laws, whether Sedition Act, Penal Code, Printing Presses and Publications Act or Multimedia Communications Act.
This is also why Najib had hijacked the Sarawak general election so that he could hail the landslide victory of Barisan Nasional in Sarawak on May 7 as his personal victory – although everybody knows that it was more the "Adenan Satem effect" than the "Najib effect" which resulted in Sarawak Barisan Nasional winning 72 out of the 82 State Assembly seats in Sarawak.
But Najib's boast and euphoria about getting a powerful vote of confidence from the voters of Sarawak was very short-lived, as it could only last 17 days – as on May 24, he was brought back to the reality of the 1MDB scandal when two foreign countries, Switzerland and Singapore, closed down banks and initiated criminal proceedings against bankers implicated in the embezzlement, money-laundering and corruption offences connected with the 1MDB scandal.
Singapore and Switzerland are only among at least half a dozen countries which have launched investigations into embezzlement, money-laundering and corruption involving the Malaysian national sovereign fund, 1MDB, in their respective jurisdictions as more financial institutions and individuals are ensnared in the 1MDB international web of labyrinthine ownership structure of "shell-companies" to hide the real identity of the beneficial owners – all of which will be exposed to the glare of publicity when prosecutions and punitive actions are taken by the respective regulatory agencies in the weeks and months to come.
With the impending Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar parliamentary by-elections next month, Najib's strategists are working overtime to ensure that the 1MDB global corruption scandal would not feature prominently in the two by-elections, which explains for the unprecedented action by the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said in Parliament on Thursday to move a Ministerial motion to give priority to PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang's hudud private member's bill motion.
We must not fall into this Najib-Hadi political trap, as 1MDB global scandal must be one of the foremost issues in the two by-elections, as Malaysians have a right to expect the Prime Minister to use the two by-elections to give full and satisfactory explanation about the RM55 billion 1MDB global scandal and not be distracted by the the Najib-Hadi gambit.
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A centrifugal pump is a machine that uses rotation to impart velocity to a liquid and then converts that velocity into flow.
Let's break that definition down into its components so that we can consider each one in turn:
A centrifugal pump is a machine.
A centrifugal pump uses rotation to impart velocity to a liquid.
A centrifugal pump converts velocity into flow.
"A centrifugal pump is a machine." Every centrifugal pump includes an assembly of mechanical components that make operation of the pump possible. This mechanical assembly includes the pump shaft mounted on bearings, the sealing mechanism that keeps the pump from leaking excessively, structural components designed to handle the stresses and loads imposed on the pump during operation, and wear surfaces that allow the pump to be repaired and returned to its original specifications.
"A centrifugal pump uses rotation to impart velocity to a liquid." Every centrifugal pump includes an impeller. The impeller is the hydraulic component that rotates to impart velocity to the pumped liquid.
"A centrifugal pump converts velocity into flow." Every centrifugal pump includes a casing. The casing is the hydraulic component that captures the velocity imparted by the impeller and directs the pumped liquid to the pump discharge point.
At the most fundamental level, a centrifugal pump consists of just these three components:
An impeller that rotates and imparts velocity to a liquid.
A casing that captures the velocity generated by the impeller and transforms that velocity into a stable flow.
An assembly of mechanical components that makes it possible for the impeller to be rotated within the pump casing.
Centrifugal Pump Impellers
The impeller of a centrifugal pump is rotated rapidly to impart velocity to a pumped liquid.
If you've never seen a pump impeller before, visualize a boat propeller.
When a boat propeller is rotated it imparts velocity to the liquid around it. As the liquid moves, that velocity forces the propeller to move forward in the water.
Now imagine what would happen if the boat were anchored in place, firmly enough to prevent the boat from moving. Next imagine that the velocity generated by the boat propeller were contained and controlled so that a stream of water was created that you could direct where you pleased.
In effect, what we've just described is a centrifugal pump – in fact, an axial-flow pump resembles what we've just described to a significant degree.
In a centrifugal pump you have an impeller rotating rapidly and imparting velocity to the liquid in the pump just as a boat propeller imparts velocity to the water in a lake. The casing is the part of the arrangement that takes that velocity, contains it, controls is, and sends it along in a useful direction.
Every impeller has 1 or more vanes that extend from the center, or hub, of the impeller out towards the outer diameter. As the impeller turns, centrifugal force causes the liquid to move rapidly from the center of the impeller, along the vanes, and then exit the impeller at the outermost diameter. The result is that the pumped liquid exits the perimeter of the impeller at a very high velocity.
There are many different types of centrifugal pump impellers. The most common types of pump impellers are discussed in our article Fundamental Pump Components: Volutes, Casings, and Impellers.
Centrifugal Pump Casings
The centrifugal pump casing is the component of the pump that converts all of the velocity created by the rotating impeller into a controlled and stable flow and directs it out of the pump through the discharge point.
The most common type of casing is called a volute and it looks similar to a snail shell.
Image from A Brief Introduction to Centrifugal Pumps by Joe Evans, Ph.D
The impeller is placed within the volute. However, as you may have noticed in the image above, the impeller is not typically centered in the volute.
Instead, the impeller is positioned so that the outer diameter of the impeller is closest to the volute at the point just past the discharge. This point where the impeller is closest to the volute is called the cutwater.
Beginning from the cutwater, as we move around the impeller, the distance between the volute and impeller gradually increases until we reach the discharge point. This steady expansion of the area around the impeller means that pressure will build moving from the smallest clearance to the greatest and the increasing pressure will push the liquid out of the discharge point.
We've just touched briefly on the topic of pump casing design in this article. Additional information about the most common types of pump casings can be found in our article Fundamental Pump Components: Volutes, Casings, and Impellers.
Centrifugal Pumping Units
Centrifugal pumps aren't much use on their own. They need to be combined with other equipment to be useful. The combination of equipment that renders a centrifugal pump operable is referred to as a pumping unit.
At a minimum, a centrifugal pumping unit includes at least two components: a pump and a driver.
In the majority of cases, the driver in a centrifugal pumping system is an electric motor. However, that isn't always the case. Pumps can also be driven by other drivers such as natural gas engines or even steam turbines.
The most common pumping unit combines a centrifugal pump driven by an electric motor.
The image above is of a close-coupled end-suction pump. This is the simplest and most common type of centrifugal pumping unit. In this type of pumping unit the impeller actually mounts on the end of the motor shaft and the pump casing mounts right onto the face of the motor. With a close-coupled pumping unit, the motor bearings and shaft comprise the majority of the mechanical portion of the pump.
Another common pump design is the frame-mounted end-suction pump. With a frame-mounted end-suction pump, the pump does include a complete mechanical assembly and is coupled to a driver, both of which are mounted on a shared baseplate.
This is far from an exhaustive list of possible pumping unit configurations. In the article on common pump designs we'll dive into other common pumping unit configurations. For the time being, the point to take away is that a pumping unit consists of a centrifugal pump and a driver, such as an electric motor, and may also include additional components such as baseplates and couplings depending on the design of the pump.
Every centrifugal pump consists of an impeller, a casing, and an assembly of mechanical components that make it possible for the impeller to rotate within the casing. The impeller rotates rapidly imparting velocity to a liquid. The velocity is converted into pressure and flow by the casing.
Centrifugal pumps must be combined with a driver into a centrifugal pumping unit in order to be useful. Centrifugal pumping units vary in complexity from the simplest and most common – an end-suction pump close-coupled to an electric motor – to complex custom-engineered multi-million dollar units that consist of many individual components.


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Inuit find a future in the dirty secrets of Canada's largest Cold War radar station
April 2, 2013 April 6, 2017 - by Margo PfeiffMargo Pfeiff Updated 12:34, Apr. 6, 2017 | Published 9:00, Apr. 2, 2013
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On an eastern swell of Baffin Island, shotgun-toting Mosesee Akpalialuk carefully drives his ATV along the perimeter of a vast grid of gigantic black bags, each filled with a metric ton of PCB-laced soil. "They're a great hiding spot for bears," explains his boss, Harry Flaherty, from a nearby perch. The fifty-four-year-old from Grise Fiord is president of Qikiqtaaluk Corporation (QC), an Inuit-owned conglomerate contracted by the Department of National Defence to finish cleaning up DYE-Main, Arctic Canada's largest and most contaminated former Cold War radar station.
Over half a century ago, Qikiqtani Inuit helped the United States Air Force build DYE-Main across 8,000 hectares of treeless tundra, overlooking the iceberg-dotted waters of Davis Strait. Lower Site consisted of an airstrip, a hangar, barracks, storehouses, and so on. Fifteen winding kilometres away, at the edge of a steep cliff, Upper Site featured a golf ball–shaped radar dome and adjacent antennae known as billboards, as well as a complex for the supporting communications equipment. Some 200 Federal Electric employees kept the site up and running year round, part of a radar fence that stretched from Alaska to Iceland to detect incoming Soviet bombers.
Like the Hudson's Bay Company and the RCMP presence before it, the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line shaped life in the North, attracting settlement to shabby camps that eventually grew into communities like Qikiqtarjuaq and Hall Beach. With the development of submarine-launched cruise missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles in the late '50s, and then more sophisticated radar technology in the early '60s, most of the bases would soon become redundant. By 1993, all sixty-three were decommissioned or refitted for a more modern, efficient US-Canada defence system. Legions of battery-powered vehicles and construction machines were simply driven onto the sea ice to vanish with the spring thaw. Hundreds of thousands of fuel drums bled hydrocarbons and antifreeze into an environment browsed by animals that were hunted by Inuit.
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French game developers reinvent Inuit myth
Beata Kruszynski
The Inuit sea goddess Sedna often acts as a gauge for human morality. In some legends, violations of hunting, birth, or death customs manifest as knots and noxious parasites in her hair. As her locks become increasingly polluted, her anger grows and she withholds her animal bounty from hunters as punishment. Six years ago, indie game developers in France refashioned the goddess as a giant penguin (and transported her to the South Pole) to create the quirky, environmentally conscious Penguins Arena: Sedna's World. In it, she incites players to do battle in a world destroyed by global warming and pollution, where only one tribe of penguins can survive. Her traditional role in coastal tellings of the legend is far more passive: she sulks in an underwater lair until a shaman is sent to appease her by combing out her hair.
—Rose Hendrie
Canada was left to clean up the mess on forty-two of the bases, which were split evenly between DND and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. (The US government pitched in an estimated $92 million, roughly 14 percent of the reported total cost.) The efforts started in earnest in the mid-'90s, with a mandate to employ mostly Inuit. QC, then mainly involved in offshore fisheries and real estate, developed considerable expertise in remediation at the Dew Line's Fox-C and similar former military sites. In 2012, it beat ten companies—four of them with significant Inuit ownership—in a bid for the $16-million contract to complete the final two years of work at DYE-Main.
Flaherty reports that the PCB-filled bags represent just a fraction of DYE-Main's most contaminated waste, awaiting pickup by sealift ship to a waste treatment facility in Saint-Ambroise, Quebec. At Upper Site, the largely automated North Warning System is housed in a building where technicians once sat in front of blipping screens, occasionally breaking for fresh air and barrel rolling competitions. Lieutenant Colonel Dave Eagles, manager for the DEW Line Clean-up Project, was horrified on his first visit to find the hillside littered with the rusting drums. He also notes the "glacier of garbage," a dump 100 metres long and twenty metres deep, below Upper Site, which occupied workers for years, scraping, thawing, and moving the debris.
Eagles, a forty-year veteran who has been posted all over the world, says progress is slow partly because the climate affords such a small window of opportunity: "Also, locals wanted to make the most of the jobs." He works closely with Natalie Plato, who is overseeing remediation for what is now called Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada. "The North works differently," she explains. "We didn't want a spike of work and then none, so we do one site at a time for steady Inuit employment."
Flaherty's crew at DYE-Main is currently 85 percent Inuit, achieved through aggressive recruitment drives across the territory. "We do lose trained staff to heftier paycheques in the mining industry," acknowledges Jeremiah Groves, a director for one of QC's divisions. "But since our projects are seasonal, we're supportive when our employees find full-time work. In Nunavut, it's more about raising the game than about competition." All the better to meet future challenges and seize future opportunities. Indeed, when one of North America's biggest environmental cleanups draws to a close in September 2013, five or six major companies owned or operated by Inuit, and up to sixty smaller Inuit subcontractors, will be well positioned for the coming boom in Arctic mining.
At the edge of Upper Site, Geteoni Kopalie helps roll heavy-duty plastic liner across an 8,000-square-metre landfill. Except for the North Warning System, the broad expanse of tundra has largely been returned to its natural state, a powerful link between the Arctic's past and its future. "My grandfather Joseph worked on the DEW Line in the mid-'50s, driving a dozer," the young Inuk says. "He helped build it, and now I'm helping to take it down."
This appeared in the April 2013 issue.
Margo Pfeiff
TaggedArcticIndigenous
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De website is niet meer toegankelijk sinds november 2007. Edward Shishkin, een werknemer van Namesys, zei in januari 2008 tegen CNET dat de commerciële activiteit van Namesys gestaakt was.

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Phew. Phew. Pheeeeeew. We have successfully accomplished three major tasks on our giant season-long "to do" list, and I can now let out three giant whopping sighs of relief. In the past two weeks we slaughtered, processed, and sold 90 chickens for the first time, we had our first CSA box pick up, and have finally moved our cabin into its final resting place. Each of these events provided yours truly with plenty of anxiety, and each one warrants a little attention.
Let's start with the chickens. We had been raising these chickens from day one knowing we would be slaughtering them ourselves. The idea of slaughtering and processing chickens was not causing me anxiety; in fact I was looking forward to taking part in this ritual so I could better understand what it is I was actually putting into my mouth and body on a regular basis. The logistics of processing 90 chickens in two days, with (on average) three people working, was what worried me. We had to lug in a giant container of potable water since we haven't had the farm well tested. We had to rent equipment (kill cones, a giant scalder, and a cool contraption that pulls the feathers out). We had to set everything up so we made sure to capture all of the offal for the compost pile, and keep everything sanitary throughout the process. I am happy to report that other than a few hiccups (like over-scalding a few chickens, and Andrew starting a fire), things went really well.
I have to admit that I did not actually kill any chickens. I was going to try, but between the fear I might not do it right the first time, and that I might cut myself in the process, I left it to Andrew. Instead I spent the days slicing into them and scooping out their insides. I am actually quite skilled at this now, and take pride in doing it well. Just like most difficult things in life, once I got good at it I rather started to enjoy it! There is something innately satisfying in preparing nutritious food, and while I get that healthy vibe all day with the veggies, I feel more connected to the great circle of life when I am dealing with a creature I raised for its meat.
Our second great accomplishment was having our first CSA pick up day. If you're not familiar with a CSA, read my previous post for the run down. Each week our members get a full box of produce, and I think this first week went off quite well! We have been extremely lucky this spring with warm, sunny weather and our vegetables and strawberries are going gangbusters. The boxes were stuffed with gorgeous, bright, colorful vegetables including butterhead lettuce, carrots, radishes, cucumbers, zucchini, strawberries and much more. Throughout the day on Friday our members arrived, many with small children. We chatted, they visited our pigs and goats, and I felt a wonderful connection to this community, despite having only been here for four months.
Last but certainly not least, we moved our "tiny" house into its permanent location (assuming it doesn't roll away!). Of course when I say "we" I mean Andrew and Eric moved the house. Four different pieces of heavy machinery were put to work pulling, pushing, angling, adjusting, nudging, and heaving before everything was just right. I didn't think I would have anxiety about the house moving, but when they actually started to move it my stomach jumped into my throat. There were a few moans and groans from the house and I could just visualize it tumbling down and smashing into pieces, taking Zephyr out for good measure (does that make me a pessimist?). Fortunately Andrew and Eric are extremely capable and creative, and everything went swimmingly, even if it did take three hours!
I'd like to report that now we can relax a little and enjoy the fruits of our labor, but you know better than that. We're farmers! We have to make sure we have delicious boxes ready every week until November 1st. We still have to finish working on the house so we can actually live in it, although I feel confident things will start moving along rapidly now that we can see how amazing our views will be. In the meantime you will find me huffing along with my fingers in the dirt, pausing now and again to squint up at the sky and wonder when the rain will come so I don't have to drag sprinkler hoses around the whole farm. Can you believe this Cali girl just said that? Washington has certainly gotten itself underneath my fingernails, and I like that just fine.
Can't you see I'm working here?
We have several new calves at the farm. There is something so irresistible about baby animals!
I ADORE this little doeling. She is so affectionate and we have quality time every day. Since two of her brothers have gone missing, I am terrified of losing her too.
We're not messing around here!
We went fishing on a little lake near our farm. This was the biggest catch of the day.
Zephyr wouldn't get in the boat so we ditched him.
Every day we take the goats out and tie them off to weed for us, which keeps them out of our vegetables. Every night we walk them back to their pen. Laney (foreground) is our most difficult and I always get stuck dragging her around!
Thanks Micha! You and Andrew have made a beautiful life for yourselves!
Just came up to check out the farm…and got to meet you two! Hope to order beef. Pat and Tom W.


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Loving your blog so much! Your crochet and colour sense is spectacular! I hope I am done as many lovely things when I am 60 – what a life!
So enjoying your blog! Your crocheting and sense of colour is spectacular. I hope I will be doing things like what you do when I am 60 – what a life!
I knew you would Valerie!!
You found it in abundance!
Thanks so much for your entry and for joining in all year – you have made some really fascinating entries. Hope you can join us in 2019 – I'm really looking forward to seeing what you find.
That beaded fabric is beautiful. I have given most of my really old clothes away but I do still have a 'nightdress' made from a silk parachute that I have worn in a play to look grecian and I think on other similar occasions..
So good to be able to wear old favourites again and for fun!
I gave most of my saved treasures, including a pair of high waisted bell bottoms to my 15 year old Granddaughter. She wears the same size I wore back then so the clothes fit her well. She wore the jeans to death! I also gave her my Grandmother's "jean" jacket. (actually a light weight denim jacket reminiscent of Rosie the Riviter style) My Grandmother is of course her Great Great Grandmother! And she treasures it! Some things I just eventually tossed. But it's great fun to see my Granddaughter enjoying my old things! So many memories back to life in a new way!
Wow – how wonderful for your Granddaughter to have such functional and treasured family items.
I love that collection of scarves — very bohemian! I've had so much fun participating in this year's challenge, and I look forward to 2019!
Not even at Christmas? Hope you find some!
It's pretty low-key and country here. However, I have heard that nearby, there's a house that's really decked out with lights. I'll see if I can get a picture of it.
So glad someone else has hung onto their past dresses. I have a suitcase full!
I knew under that calm exterior there was a glitzy lady. Fun.
Very impressed that you have kept that lovely dress. Still thinking of my Glitz.
I'm tempted to get thse zips replaced to see if it would fit any of my granddaughters, but the material is a bit too synthetic really – it has a Bri-Nylon feel to it – euurghh!
The turquoise shawl is draped over the banisters where it glistens in the sunlight from a nearby window, I love it but feel it could be put to better use.
Thanks so much for your post – it is wonderful!!! and FULL of gorgeous glitz!


Posted by Street-Luge.com on Friday, February 11th 2011, 01:05 PM.
NASCAR.com wrote: Circumstances shuffled Andy Lally into a championship-winning career in sports car racing, but a mutual commitment between TRG Motorsports owner Kevin Buckler and his lead driver have resulted in Lally's lifelong dream coming true via a guaranteed start in the Daytona 500.
Read the entire story on nascar.com.
Andy says he will be tweeting most of the weekend. Keep tabs on him by following his twitter page!
Posted by Street-Luge.com on Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 12:24 PM.
Goldendale, WA, USA- Andy Lally capped off a crazy coast to coast racing weekend with three race wins. His week began at Maryhill with the practice sessions on Wednesday and Thursday morning. After the Thursday AM session he quickly drove to Portland to catch a flight to Florida so he could race his #66 TRG Porsche GT3 at Daytona International Raceway in the Rolex Sports Car Series. Andy had a great weekend at Daytona earning the GT class victory over his longtime rival Joey Hand in Saturday's Brumos Porsche 250. After the race, Lally made another quick dash to the airport to get back to Portland. He arrived back in Goldendale around midnight for some sleep before Sunday's Maryhill Festival of Speed finals.
Since Lally had missed both qualification runs, he was forced to start from the back of the pack in both the Street Luge and Classic Luge races. Conditions at the track were hot and very windy. The wind especially affected the Street Luges off the start where it was difficult to get a good push because of the headwind. The wind also sped up the pace significantly in the Skatera straightaway leading into the difficult Seismic Cowzer Corner.
The Street Luge race began with the quarterfinals round. The only upset in the round occured when third place qualifier Christian Conaway came through Seismic Cowzer Corner with a bit too much speed and clipped the hay bales on the exit allowing Chris McBride to come passed moving him into the Semi-finals.
The first Semi-Final heat included Matthias Lang, Chris Hicks, Kyle Castaneda, Will Condon, Ryan Everlsey and Simon Godfrey. Lang, Hicks and Castaneda used their superior pushes to get out in front. The trio never looked back. Behind them a great battle ensued between Condon and Everlsey for fourth place.
The second Semi-Final included Mike McIntyre, Kolby Parks, Will Stephenson, Chris McBride, Louis Roy and Andy Lally. The race started with Lally, Stephenson and McIntyre pushing their way into the top three positions with the others close behind. Mcintyre passed Stephenson going in the first never-ending corner. Parks then began to slowly close the gap with Stephenson for the third and final transfer spot. Parks went for a inside pass on the Gate turn and Stephenson shut the door. Video from Parks helmet camera showed that Parks foot actually went under Stephenson's board and narrowly missed his back wheels. From that point Parks lost momentum and could not recover.
In the finals it would be two time Maryhill winner Matthias Lang, defending Maryhill winner Andy Lally, multiple time Maryhill podium finisher Mike Mcintyre and Chris Hicks, Kyle Castaneda and Will Stephenson who were looking for their first ever Maryhil podium. Off the start the order was Lang, Hicks, Lally, Mcintyre, Stephenson and Castaneda. As the battle for the top four got very close and into draft train Stephenson and Castaneda fell behind and wouldn't be able to catch up.
Lally then passed Hicks for second coming into the first Never-ending corner. Hicks was then passed by Mcintyre coming out of the Ambulance turn while the whole group inched closer and closer to Lang. Coming into the turn before Cowzer, Lang has a slight slide which allowed Lally to get a run on the inside coming into Cowzer. Lang then took a line which that was too tight for the speed he was carrying and slammed into the outside straw bales. Lally then cruised to the finish line with Mcintyre in second and Hicks coming though in third for is first podium in two years.
It was an incredible weekend for Lally earning three victories on two different coasts. Everyone at Maryhill was really stoked to see Andy's commitment to gravity sports and amazed by his awesome performance. In each class he worked his through the brackets to earn a place in both finals. From there nothing could stop him.
Posted by Street-Luge.com on Friday, May 28th 2010, 02:45 PM.
The 2010 IGSA World Cup Series kicks off its summer tour next month (June 30th) in Maryhill, Washington. Registration is still open for the opening round - but spots are sure to be filling up fast. Following Maryhill, the summer series continues in Germany, France, Italy, and the Czech Republic. Finally, the World Cup series will conclude later in the year with races in Brazil, Australia and South Africa.
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Madaba Mosaics are best known for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics, especially a large Byzantine-era mosaic map of the Holy Land. The first mosaics were discovered during the building of new houses using bricks from older buildings. The new inhabitants of Madaba, made conscious of the importance of the mosaics by their priests, made sure that they took care of and preserved all the mosaics that came to light.
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A hand-beaded collar by Kowani of the Thakiwaki tribe – A symbol of our early friendship with the native people of Beertown. Though there aren't many people of Thakiwaki decent in the Beertown region today, we honor their memory.
The Original B&T Beer Recipe – It could be argued that the deliciousness indicated on this crucial piece of paper is the only reason any of us are here today.
Water from the Thakiwaki River – The water of our beloved river that was so pure that Thompson and Bramblethorpe decided to settle here to open their brewery.
A Bible from one of Beertown's founding families, the Fassbinders – This family bible contains all the births, marriages and deaths in the Fassbinder family; some of the earliest records of the town we have. Ada Dorothy Beckner (nee Fassbinder) was permitted in 1951 to write in the births and deaths of her three children.


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