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The Age of the Empozzment
One of the reasons why I tend to focus on the religious aspect of the Dissident Right is because I believe that the collapse of religion in the West is THE primary cause of the Western decline. The transformation in values that came about with the ditching of Christianity lead to the Age of the Empozzment with its current societal consequences.
For better or worse, until about the First World War Christianity was the underlying cultural foundation of the West. Since then its secular replacements have attempted to build a new and better world--with the body count as predicted by Neitzsche-- and while we are, admittedly, materially and technologically richer, it's pretty clear to any objective observer that Western civilisation is on a downhill spiral. It's the last round of drinks before the party ends.
I think that there are many even in Neoreactionary circles who would deny this view of Christianity and feel that a Western restoration can come about through some kind of secular program. I wish that this was so since the task would be easier but I think it is impossible. Even the best versions of secularism still run on the "fumes" of Christianity. Equality, one of the foundation beliefs of the modern secular state is a credal belief and not one that is supported by a rational appraisal of the evidence. Rationality in the absence of a creed will therefore, in the long run, push against the notion and once the Christian memory of the West is extinguished so will the notion that all men are equal. I know that there are those who will argue that humanistic notions can be derived from rational deliberations but they're on a fools errand. The Neocons, have a similar view, and quite openly advocate the notion that the modern world is purely a secular product. However, as Havers and Gottfried have shown there was nothing in the rationality of "Athens" which supports our current liberal beliefs. As any good lawyer knows, with enough skill you can make a good argument for anything.
Nietzsche wasn't so stupid and he realised that a post Christian world was going to be was going to be different and not necessarily a world of hugs and kisses. If you want to know why your art is shit, the streets unsafe and degeneracy is advancing in society it has come about from the ditching of Christianity and the embrace of secular values. The "transvaluation of values" comes with consequences.
Recent events in Ireland demonstrate just how profoundly a change in religious attitude affects political outcomes. In what really is a tragedy of European civilisation, what was once a deeply Catholic country has now transformed itself into another secular state. The legalisation of gay marriage for instance, would have been impossible in a country that believed in the Catholic faith. It's another example of politics being downstream from culture.
The process of secularisation does not necessarily have to lead to a kumbayah pozzed state, it could just as easily of lead to a Japanisation of society, where a culturally homogeneous and peaceful society gives rise to affluent herbivores jerking off to paedophillic anime at below replacement rate. Or it could have gone Natsoc and gotten nuked. Yeah, I know, just like all true believers assert, the next time it will be different, but the money is on it not being so: the road to perdition is wide.
Therefore any attempt to restore the world to one which had some semblance of continuity with world prior to the First World War is going to have to involve the rechristianisation of the West. The problem is that, except for the most deludedly optimistic, Christianity has not been able to mount an effective pushback against the pozz.
One of the aims of this blog is to understand why Christianity failed. Like many Trads, I too believed that "relaxation of discipline" which came about in the 1960's, especially with regard to Catholicism was responsible for the decline, but the more I look into this matter the less satisfied I am with this explanation. Robust systems can take a lot of punishment, it's the weak systems which collapse suddenly. The sudden collapse in the 60's can only lead to the conclusion that despite appearances to the contrary religion in the West was in a very parlous state. The smart guys like Blondel and Troelstch saw years ahead what was happening but no one listened.
And I want to make a distinction between Protestantism and Catholicism. As my thinking stands at the moment, I feel that that each was attacked by a different method. Protestantism was effectively destroyed by Modernism directly whereas Catholicism was destroyed a "spiritual failure" largely mediated by clericalism which arose in response to the battle against Modernism. Features which both respective religions regard as their strengths have also been responsible for their inability to mount an effective response to the secular world.
It is my belief that Protestantism, taken as a whole, is beyond reform. I don't say this triumphantly it's just that institutional Protestantism is so thoroughly pozzed that it is unable to recover the critical mass of adherents necessary for societal change. Small elements of Protestantism are probably quite doctrinally sound it's just that they're going to remain on the margins, Christian witnesses unable to do much. On the other hand Catholicism still has enough "mass" to effect social change but unless it reforms, essentially by incorporating some of the 'best bits of Protestantism" it's going to ossify into irrelevancy, with tragic consequences for the West.
Rodney Dangerfield in the role of Aquinas
The ideal vs the real.
On a related note: On finance, the Vatican can still do better.
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A Religious Dissident Right
Rod Dreher--who I don't agree with very much--put up an interesting article which I felt deserved far more comment in this corner of the Web.
What's the Matter with Orthodox Countries?
Rod opines on why Orthodox countries have relatively poorer economic performance than that of the West. Now, I don't really want to get into that debate now but wish to simply to show just how powerful an influence religion has in other areas not traditionally associated with it. Weber said the same thing with his work on the relationship between Protestantism and Capitalism.
From my perspective, religion is the structure upon which a culture is built. Our current religion is Secularism with its essential belief in the irrelevancy of supernatural faith, and the pursuit through reason of health, wealth, pleasure and popularity. Our "slouch to Gomorrah" is primarily as a result of our ditching Christianity for Secularism.
I think it's a truism that politics is downstream from culture. Crappy culture pretty much ensures crappy politics and no matter how you rearrange the political structure it's always going to be a reflection of the prevailing culture. The U.S. founding fathers understood this in a way that Moldbug doesn't. Virtue matters.
This doesn't mean that Secularists can't be virtuous, whatever that means in a secular scheme, it just that virtue, as a Christian would recognise it is a statistical outlier, while in Christianity it is the statistical norm.
What this means that any restoration of the West--if it is going to have any continuity with the past--is going to have to rely on a restoration of Christianity.
The problem is that Christianity has been totally sideswiped by Modernism and has been unable to mount an effective offense against it. Measures which aimed at "liberalising" the Churches so that they would become more "relevant" have proven to be self destructive failure. On the other hand "Traditionalist" doubling down has produced a few defiant outposts but no real growth. Religious capture of state power hasn't worked out in the long term. The "Benedict Option" so favoured by Dreher, works only under the assumption that the rest of society will leave you alone. Unfortunately militant secularism doesn't work like that. Defence does not win wars.
That 's why I think a revival of popular religion is the only long term solution. However a revival of the "old" religion is unlikely to be of any benefit since the old religion, even when it was popular and strong, proved unable to handle the onslaught of Modernism. What will be needed is something "new". And by "new", I don't mean some new or foreign religion to the West. Rather, it will be the old Christianity, practiced differently and with different emphasis.
Personally, I think this new religion is going to develop among the laity, since I feel that in the Catholic Church at least, the clergy are polarized into their respective ideological camps by temperament rather than reason, one group wanting novelty without intellectual rigor and other stuck with the fear that any change is error: whimsy and paralysis. What will unite both of them will be a an opposition to a religious Dissident Right. The liberals will hate it for its attack on Kumbaya Christianity while the Trads will hate it for proposing any change at all.
If this group can reform Christianity we have a chance otherwise I don't see any way out at all.
Neoplatonism, Thomism and Modernism
I thought I would just follow up with a few more thoughts on the subject of Neoplatonism in the Church.
I can't say that I'm a scholar of Church history but what's apparent in a brief survey of it is just how often the spirit/body duality pops up as a heresy. A brief review of Church history shows the the Manichee's, Gnostics, Albeginians, Bogomils and Jansenists. As Chesterton remarked:
What is called the Manichean philosophy has had many forms; indeed it has attacked what is immortal and immutable with a very curious kind of immortal mutability [ED]. It is like the legend of the magician who turns himselfinto a snake or a cloud; and the whole has that nameless note of irresponsibility, which belongs to much of the metaphysics and morals of Asia, from which the Manichean mystery came. But it is always in one way or another a notion that nature is evil; or that evil is at least rooted in nature. The essential point is that as evil has roots in nature, so it has rights in nature. Wrong has as much right to exist as right. As already stated this notion took many forms. Sometimes it was a dualism, which made evil an equal partner with good; so that neither could be called an usurper. More often it was a general idea that demons had made the material world, and if there were any good spirits, they were concerned only with the spiritual world. Later, again, it took the form of Calvinism, which held that God had indeed made the world, but in a special sense, made the evil as well as the good: had made an evil will as well as an evil world.
We'll get to the immutable immortality a bit later but the important thing to recognise that it is a persistently recurring heresy one that the Church has never really been able to stamp out completely. But it's important to understand that just because the Church has actively fought against the error it in the past does not mean that there isn't a well of sympathy within it.
This error then had many forms; but especially, like nearly every error, it had two forms, a fiercer one which was outside the Church and attacking the Church, and a subtler one, which was inside the Church and corrupting the Church. There has never been a time when the Church was not torn between that invasion and that treason.
It's the treason that I'm interested in.
Let me illustrate what exactly I mean with this passage on the subject of Caritas by Pope Benedict.
According to Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity had poisoned eros, which for its part, while not completely succumbing, gradually degenerated into vice.[1] Here the German philosopher was expressing a widely-held perception: doesn't the Church, with all her commandments and prohibitions, turn to bitterness the most precious thing in life?
Nowadays Christianity of the past is often criticized as having been opposed to the body; and it is quite true that tendencies of this sort have always existed. Yet the contemporary way of exalting the body is deceptive. Eros, reduced to pure "sex", has become a commodity, a mere "thing" to be bought and sold, or rather, man himself becomes a commodity.
In philosophical and theological debate, these distinctions have often been radicalized to the point of establishing a clear antithesis between them: descending, oblative love—agape—would be typically Christian, while on the other hand ascending, possessive or covetous love —eros—would be typical of non-Christian, and particularly Greek culture. Were this antithesis to be taken to extremes, the essence of Christianity would be detached from the vital relations fundamental to human existence, and would become a world apart, admirable perhaps, but decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life. Yet eros and agape—ascending love and descending love—can never be completely separated. The more the two, in their different aspects, find a proper unity in the one reality of love, the more the true nature of love in general is realized. Even if eros is at first mainly covetous and ascending, a fascination for the great promise of happiness, in drawing near to the other, it is less and less concerned with itself, increasingly seeks the happiness of the other, is concerned more and more with the beloved, bestows itself and wants to "be there for" the other. The element of agape thus enters into this love, for otherwise eros is impoverished and even loses its own nature. On the other hand, man cannot live by oblative, descending love alone. He cannot always give, he must also receive. Anyone who wishes to give love must also receive love as a gift. Certainly, as the Lord tells us, one can become a source from which rivers of living water flow (cf. Jn 7:37-38). Yet to become such a source, one must constantly drink anew from the original source, which is Jesus Christ, from whose pierced heart flows the love of God (cf. Jn 19:34).
Superficially, it's typical Catholic teaching and would appear to benign, but if you think about it for a minute, the implications of what Benedict is saying is that without the benefit of Agape, Eros is bad. i.e the natural human proclivity for procreation is a bad thing. Let me illustrate the implications of this by way of analogy. Imagine the human passions as being like horses tied to a chariot, with Eros being a particularly wild steed. What Benedict is saying is that Eros, on its own, is a bad horse because he is so randy all the time that he loses his way. The addition of Agape makes for a more docile horse. What a Thomist would say, on the other hand, is that a randy horse is a good horse, he just needs to be kept firmly in the reigns. What you get with Benedict's vision is a gelding what you get with Thomas's vision is a wild stallion. It's subtle neoplatonism but its there. Nietzsche is vindicated.
"Christian" Eros after the Neoplatonic treatment, gets "transformed" from something bad into something better, beocmeing something of "consideration of the other" and "respect", and draining it of its passion and abandon. Passion are abandon, features inherent in intense erotic love are suspect, it can never be "mere" sex but must have some agape dimension to it as well. Even within a chaste marriage, mere sex need to be expunged, its no wonder that sin is where all the fun is at. Sex becomes a passionless affair because the Neoplatonist thinks that sex should be a passionless affair. Instead of recognising Eros as it is, he constructs Eros as it should be.
Now Benedict explicitly reaffirms the hylomophic conception of man in his encyclical but the problem is that it's not how he treats the subject. Similar things were going on during the Albigensian heresy.
Anyhow, it is historically important to see that Platonic love did somewhat distort both human and divine love, in the theory of the early theologians. Many medieval men, who would indignantly deny the Albigensian doctrine of sterility, were yet in an emotional mood to abandon the body in despair; and some of them to abandon everything in despair.
As Chesterton says the Platonic approach to love distorts it. The point about Christian Neoplatonism is that it seeks to transform human nature, instead of accepting it as it is, since the originial version is "deficient" i.e. bad In that way, Christian Neoplatonism is very much like Blank Slatism which rejects man as he is and seeks to transform into a "New Man". The analogies are clearly there.
An this stuff doesn't just affect the domain of Eros, but it spreads over to other areas where human nature plays a prominent role. Take parochialism for example. Civil and ethic strife exists all over the world because one mob feels that certain limits have been crossed by another. It's a fact of life, present across different cultures and times. But the tendency, particularly post WW2, has to be regard this aspect of human nature as morally suspect. Christian Churches, in particular, have been at the forefront of pushing global migration on the grounds of charitable love of the poor, labeling anyone who opposes the notion as being sinful. Once again, human nature is seen as problematic. ( The secular analogies are eerie)
The interesting question to ask is, what would St Thomas do?
Being speculative here, I imagine he would start off by saying that the parochialism that human beings are born with is good, however God also commands us to be charitable to our neighbors and those in need. Can we find a solution which accommodates both? Let us keep people where they are as we want to avoid inter-racial strife, if possible, and ensure their safety and prosperity where they are. This train of thought is not even entered into by the modern Church men, instead man's natural love of "blood and soil"--Patria-- is immediately denounced as anti-Christian.
As a Christian, I believe in the Devil, and it's becoming apparent to me as to how the game is being played.
1) Firstly, promote doctrinaire religious aesthetes within the hierarchy of the Church who practically, if not explicitly, shape the Church thinking along Neoplatonist lines.
2) Declare normal things sinful or change the norms in such a way to denature their vitality.
3) Encourage the reshaping of the person--"transformation in Christ"--by encouraging the person to shape their personality according to aesthetic ideals with constant negative reference/no reference to reality of our natures. i.e. promote practical Neoplatonism.
4) Set up alternative organisations outside the Church which embrace normality but tie them to some other pathology. i.e. Natsoc, Patria+ murderous hatred of the other. Providing them with a psychic escape, drawing people away from the Church and leading them to sin.
5) Stifle any attempt at reform by appealing to Tradition, making sure that the status quo remains.
Now, the reason why I'm harping on about all this stuff is because I've been trying to understand why the Christian religion has been unable to mount a viable defence against Modernity. In my opinion, the reason is because the motor of modernity is part and parcel of the Neoplatonic tradition of the the Church. Attacking Modernity, it attacks the Neoplatonism within itself, and any successful assault on Modernity is going to rely on shift within Church culture which affirms "pragmatically" the implication of Thomistic teaching.
When commentator Goldenye asked in a previous post,
In my musings as to why we're in this mess, I realized that modernity only appears to come from Western Christianity. Eastern Christianity doesn't appear to have modernity unless it's imported in from the West. What part or parts of Western Christianity cause modernity?
I think the answer lays in the fact Neoplatonism is a tendency rather than explicity declared doctrine, with the doctrine mitigating the Neoplatonic tradition. Thomism gained enough traction to make the scientific revolution ultimately possible but it did it against institutional resistance.
Let me give you an example. The whole Gallileo saga illustrates that battle between Neoplatonism and Thomism in the Church. The Neoplatonists said the Bible says this, the Thomists said but my eyes see that. The Thomistic view eventually won but the Church had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the accept of the reality acknowledged by the Thomistic view. It's quite probable, had Thomism not won, that Christianity would be dead now and that we'd probably be living in some form of fifteenth century hovel.
Modern Trads like to blame the Enlightenment on all our troubles but that's a simplistic view. The Enlightenment was a broad thing, and something I'm generally in favour of. However two malignant strands came out of it. The least malignant of them was Positivism, the more dangerous one was Rousseauean Idealism, and guess where Rousseau got a lot of his ideas from. Interestingly, the expulsion of James Watson from polite society should be seen as a secular version of the Gallileo controversy. Secular idealism trumps scientific fact.
On a final note. Chesterton made the comment that Platonism seems to be a heresy that continually reappears, though in different forms. I agree but disagree with his understanding. I personally believe that this heresy is a consequence of the nature of human cognition and the tendency for cognitive miserliness. Hence, it's continual manifestations across a variety of cultures and times, though with various local modifications. It's very easy to imaging a spirit flesh duality, it's intuitive: Hylomorphism is hard.
I don't think that there are Churchmen secretly squirreling away copies of Plato and worshiping him on clandstine altars, rather Plato was the most explicit exponent of the spirit/flesh duality and people trying to understand the phenomenon of Neoplatonism try to undestand it within the model of human rationality, not recognising that it is a type of System 1 misattribution error. Neoplatonism is a type of cognitive error, and the philosophy comes after the fact.
*Chesterton's quotes are taken from his book on St Thomas Aquinas.
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Reps for Jesus
The Body was no longer what it was when Plato and Porphyry and the old mystics had left it for dead. It had hung upon a gibbet. It had risen from a tomb. It was no longer possible for the soul to despise the senses, which had been the organs of something that was more than man. Plato might despise the flesh; but God had not despised it.
(G.K. Chesterton, St Thomas Aquinas)
While on Twitter the other day, this particular tweet thread caught my eye;
Now, I've got to admit that excesses of any kind are a sign of mental imbalance but the overall tone of that comment, and later ones, suggested that author was disparaging the idea of a "muscular Christianity". Now the point of this post is not to rag on the author of those comments but to point towards what I think is a persistent tendency in Christian thought and one that has caused a lot of untold harm especially with regard to the Christian understanding of man.
Machialvelli, when it came to institutions, was fond of making a distinction between the "formal" and the "real". The formal being that which was publicly expressed and the real was what actually happened. Now Christian, especially Catholic theology, tends to be a formal acknowledgement of the goodness of the created world but in practice there tends to be strong suspicion of it. The Christian "tradition" itself, tends to have a strong Platonic bent to it, emphasising a the flesh/spirit duality, with this duality having an implicit hierarchical aspect to it: the spirit being "higher" than the flesh. Giving weight to this view are certain oft quoted texts in the Bible. So when JG states that a disparaging of the body is one of its strengths he is certainly justified by "tradition" for his view.
Certainly the Bible cautions about following the ways of the flesh, but I really can't find an endorsement of neglecting it entirely or pretending that it doesn't matter. Much like the rider of horse, the role of the spirit is to guide the flesh and not let the horse lead the way. Platonism certainly doesn't dispute this, however the way it approaches the subject it's as if the well being of the horse doesn't matter at all. In fact, especially among the religious ascetics, there seems to be a certain notion that treating the horse badly or neglecting is a virtue. Chesterton recognised this as well;
This Platonic influence could be seen particularly in the fact that "the earlier school of Augustine and even of Anselm had [treated] the soul as the only necessary treasure, wrapped for a time in a negligible napkin." Chesterton even detects in the Greek theological tradition "a sort of dried-up Platonism" that translated into "the last indeed noble abstractions," but too far removed from the concrete world, the consequence being that the Logos of the Byzantine Greeks "was the Word, but not the Word made Flesh." As a result, "the earlier Christian ages had been excessively anti-corporeal and too near the danger line of Manichaean mysticism."
The truth is that the historical Catholic Church began by being Platonist; by being rather too Platonist. Platonism was in that golden Greek air that was breathed by the first great Greek theologians. The Christian Fathers were much more like the Neo-Platonists than were the scholars of the Renaissance; who were only Neo-Neo-Platonists. For Chrysostom or Basil it was as ordinary and normal to think in terms of the Logos, or the Wisdom which is the aim of philosophers, as it is to any men of any religion today to talk about social problems or progress or the economic crisis throughout the world. St. Augustine followed a natural mental evolution when he was a Platonist before he was a Manichean, and a Manichean before he was a Christian. And it was exactly in that last association that the first faint hint, of the danger of being too Platonist, may be seen.
This Platonic tradition had caused serious problems in the Church that there was a serious danger of incursion of Islamic philosphy into Christiandom (I don't want to go into to this now for the sake of brevity). Theologically, the real blow to this NeoPlatonistic view of the person was dealt by the work of St Thomas Aquinas who was able to reconcile Aritistolean hylomorphism with Christianity. i.e the Man was both spirit and flesh. Again, quoting Chesterton,
In a word, St. Thomas was making Christendom more Christian in making it more Aristotelian. This is not a paradox but a plain truism, which can only be missed by those who may know what is meant by an Aristotelian, but have simply forgotten what is meant by a Christian. As compared with a Jew, a Moslem, a Buddhist, a Deist, or most obvious alternatives, a Christian means a man who believes that deity or sanctity has attached to matter or entered the world of the senses.
I really want to emphasise this point, Christianity emphasises that sanctity and matter are conjoined. The view espoused by JB is explicitly rejected by Aquinas. This is why actions of the flesh impact upon the spirit, it's because you dealing with one thing possessing two different qualities rather than two separate discrete things. What we do with our bodies affects our souls. Matter has some dignity.
Now while Christianity, Catholicism in particular, may affirm the teaching of St Thomas, the manichean Neoplatonist tendency is still strong in the Church. Historically, the Church has been quietly supportive of mortification of the flesh in the pursuit of sanctity but has remained rather silent or very hostile on the subject of the perfection of the flesh in pursuit of sanctity. Fasting for Jesus is good but doing reps for Jesus is suspect. But why is fatness less an evil than fornication? Why is the prudent pursuit of physical perfection a morally suspect thing?
Even in the understanding of evil, the tradition of the Church still operates on Neoplatonist lines. The sin of gluttony is "abstracted" into the broader sin of excessive sensuality. Maybe I've not read a lot but I've never seen gluttony pointed out as an offence against the body, a mutilating sin. For a Neoplatonist it doesn't matter since the body is not important. And that's the problem with Neoplatonism it neglects realities for theories. The idea is more important than the substance.
And yet the logical consequence of a Thomistic theology is that prudent perfection of the body should be spiritually beneficial. If the object of Caritas is to perfect the form of the thing considered then its operation on the flesh is to perfect it. Now, for the spergs out there, I'm not advocating bodily perfection at the expense of the all the other facets of life a man must attend to, rather there needs to be a prudent balance, with the recognition that the neglect of the body is a sin. Doing a few reps for Jesus is a corrective.


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Police fall back after firing tear-gas cannisters into the crowd during rioting in Jalan KS Tubun, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday. (JG Photo/Yudha Baskoro)
Nearly 260 Rioters Arrested in Jakarta; Masterminds Are Still at Large
Jakarta. Police confirmed on Wednesday evening the arrest of nearly 260 protesters participating in the May 22 rally against the result of last month's presidential election, after rioting broke out at three locations in Central and West Jakarta.
They were arrested outside the offices of the Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) and in Gambir, both in Central Jakarta, and in Petamburan, West Jakarta.
"There are 257 suspects who were arrested at the three crime scenes," Jakarta Police spokesman Chief Comr. Argo Yuwono Argo said.
He said those arrested near the Bawaslu offices attacked police officers, destroyed property and tried to force their way into the building.
The suspects arrested in Petamburan allegedly attacked a police dormitory, damaged property and set cars alight, while those arrested in Gambir reportedly attacked a police station and dormitory.
Police found black flags, firecrackers, stones, arrowheads, sickles, mobile phones, Molotov cocktails and envelopes stuffed with cash in the three locations.
"They were ordered [to cause a riot]. There is money in envelopes. There are others who have orchestrated the events," Argo said, adding that there were also names inside the cash envelopes.
The amounts of cash inside the envelopes varied from Rp 200,000 to Rp 500,000 ($14-$35). Police also seized Rp 5 million and $2,760 in cash in separate finds.
Argo said the suspect found with US dollars came from Bima in West Nusa Tenggara, while the Rp 5 million was given to one of the suspects to use as operational funds.
"[The events] were planned, organized; there are funders. Objects were prepared, such as in Petamburan, where rocks and arrowheads were left on the side of the road, in preparation for the protestors' arrival," he said.
Most of the suspects originate from outside Jakarta and are unemployed. Police earlier said they were mainly from Banten, West Java and Central Java.
"Those from West Java went to Sunda Kelapa [in North Jakarta] where they met with several people we are still looking for. They then planned the attack on the police dormitory in Petamburan," Argo said.
Some of the suspects coordinated with and provoked others to join the rioting through a WhatsApp group.
The suspects are facing multiple charges under the Criminal Code, with a maximum penalty of 12 years in prison.
Those who were involved in the riot in Petamburan face an additional charge under Article 187 of the Criminal Code, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment.
Clashes between security forces and protesters were continuing in two locations in Jakarta on Wednesday evening.
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They benefit from privatisation Fat cats who get PFI cream
Published Sat 25 Aug 2001
MOST PEOPLE in Britain are against profit making, according to a MORI poll in the Financial Times last week.
Just 29 percent of people in the survey supported the idea that big companies' profits "make things better" for everyone.
Yet New Labour is still driving through plans to hand over public services to businessmen. The top five vultures with their eyes on our schools and hospitals are:
Taylor Woodrow, whose chairman is Dr Robert Hawley. The firm made �201.5 million profit last year and gave Hawley a salary of �181,000.
The company is bidding for PFI contracts in hospitals, sewerage and councils.
Balfour Beatty, whose top director is Michael Welton. The company made �94 million profit last year, and Welton grabbed �477, 233.
Balfour Beatty already has 11 major PFI projects under its belt and wants lots more.
Carillon, whose chairman is Sir Neville Simms. The company is part of the Tarmac group, which made �41.9 million profit last year. Simms raked in �452,000.
The firm currently has six PFI projects under way, and has deals for a further eight projects. Carillon is shortlisted for 18 other health, prison and Ministry of Defence PFI contracts.
Serco, headed by chief executive Kevin Beeston. It made �37.7 million last year. Beeston's salary was �287,536.
Mowlem, whose top director is Dr Rolf Stomberg. Mowlem made �22.3 million in profit last year. Stomberg's salary was �110,000.
Mowlem has the �138.6 million contract for the South Tees PFI hospital, and a �10 million a year maintenance contract.
It is planning to bid for other projects in more hospitals, London Underground, the Ministry of Defence and schools.
Real job figure revealed
NEW LABOUR boasts that unemployment is falling but figures in the Financial Times last week revealed a truer picture.
There are many people not working who are not eligible for benefits. So they do not claim benefits and do not appear in the statistics.
The number of people who are categorised as "economically inactive" rose by 64,000 in the last quarter.
Had this newly inactive group been counted as unemployed, the unemployment rate would have risen to 5.9 percent from 5.5 percent.
There was a 10 percent rise in the number of men aged 35 to 49 classed as "inactive".
Child deaths on farms
THE TGWU union is including Britain in its campaign against child labour after figures revealed 26 children have been killed on British farms over the last six years.
Farmers are against any ban on child labour, claiming that it would be unrealistic and threaten the future of family-run farms.
It is cheaper for them to encourage their own children and others to work than to hire contractors.
The 26 deaths came from children being hit by moving vehicles, drowning, asphyxiation, contact with machinery and falls from great heights.
A WATER shortage across the world is likely to worsen over the next 25 years, according to environmentalists and scientists at a conference last week.
Some 450 million people in 29 developed and developing countries already face serious water shortages.
The crisis will be made worse because the little fresh water that is left is being polluted by industrial effluent.
World leaders and global institutions like the WTO continue to promote privatisation of water.
Yet such schemes only lead to increased charges and even more people unable to access safe water.
Nuclear rake-off
BRITISH Nuclear Fuels, the company in charge of nuclear sites like Sellafield, is demanding even more public money.
The firm says it cannot make enough profit from the dismantling of radioactive plants and disposing of nuclear waste.
Safety fears about Sellafield have already forced New Labour to delay a planned �1.5 billion sell-off of its 49 percent share in British Nuclear Fuels.
Now the company wants the government to bail it out of its present financial crisis.
Scottish schools scandal
THE BIGGEST privatisation scheme in British schools brought chaos to the start of the school year in Glasgow this week.
Every school where building work was undertaken under the PPP scheme was unfit for pupils to return.
But the Labour-controlled council, desperate not to lose face, brushed aside safety fears.
It insisted on sending 6,700 school children into what in some cases were virtually building sites. Teachers returned to Shawlands Academy last week to prepare for the start of term.
They found unfinished painting work, deep holes in playground and corridor floors and asbestos dumped in polythene bags in the middle of a classroom. There was no flooring in several areas, glass and nails all around, flooding, bare electric cables, emergency exit signs dismantled, and generators in the middle of a playground.
PPP means a code of conduct for teachers that bans them from criticising council policy. Nevertheless Glasgow teachers told Socialist Worker how laptops, PCs, video cameras, audio equipment and other valuable resources had been stolen while subcontractors were in.
One said, "New Labour's privatisation schemes are a form of vandalism. "I'm not at all surprised that that is replicated further down the line by unaccountable subcontractors hired on the cheap."
Teachers in the EIS union at Shawlands Academy refused to put children at risk and defied an instruction by education officials to open the school on Monday. Other schools left in chaos are Hillpark, St Roch's, Bannerman High, Knightswood and Whitehall.
But the local authority has vowed to press ahead with the PFI project for all 29 Glasgow secondary schools, ensuring a hefty profit for the 3E consortium which has the contract.
Long term damage of new labour's policies No grants mean empty colleges
THE government's decision to abolish student grants and impose tuition fees is driving young people away from education.
The number of vacancies at university has hit record levels. Around 6,000 newly created university places are unfilled, on top of the 10,000 places left vacant last year.
Thousands of people, especially those from working class backgrounds, do not go to university because of the fear of running up huge debts. "The spectre of debt does deter a lot of individuals, particularly those from poorer backgrounds," said Richard Brown, chief executive of the Council for Industry and Higher Education.
Just 25 percent of university students are from working class backgrounds, the same level as in the 1960s.
Already two thirds of students work during term time to make ends meet. Because college funding is based on the numbers of students studying, the vacancies crisis will also have an impact on the funds which universities receive.
Last year half the universities in Britain failed to find, enrol and keep the required number of students. This means that half of the universities in Britain now face cuts in their funding.
Even Blair's supporters at the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) have urged the government to introduce a student bursary scheme. The IPPR acknowledged, "Without changes to the system for funding individuals from non-traditional backgrounds progress will remain limited."
Blair is bosses' hot tip
"MY TIP of the month is WS Atkins. The group makes good profits from the government's Private Finance Initiative and Labour's penchant for PFI contracts is increasing.
Under the Conservatives, only 50 such deals were signed over five years. Labour has so far clinched 300 deals worth �9.5 billion." Latest issue of DIRECTOR magazine
Murdoch is the real robber from abroad
THE SUN is running a filthy campaign against a couple from Libya. The paper condemns them for using NHS resources.
Fawzia Abuhelfaia gave birth in Newcastle upon Tyne two weeks ago to sextuplets after arriving to join her husband.
To the Murdoch-owned Sun, she is another example of a "foreigner" robbing from "native British" people.
Yet this same newspaper ran a sympathetic story just two weeks previously about a badly scarred boy from Sierra Leone who was offered free plastic surgery in Britain.
New Labour's health minister Jacqui Smith stepped in to guarantee he would receive treatment after newspapers supported the boy. Nor does the Sun mention that 1,000 British patients travelled to Europe last year to get treatment.
Disgracefully Labour MP Ronnie Campbell has given in to the Sun's attacks and demanded an "investigation" into the Libyan mother.
A MAN drowned on Monday after jumping from a ferry headed for Dover because he was determined not to be sent back to Kosovo.
dock strike over Genoa
AROUND 150 longshoremen (dockers) and 20 iron workers at the US port of Portland in California refused to unload a cargo ship carrying Italian wine and oil last week.
It was a protest in solidarity with demonstrators who had been attacked by the Italian police at the G8 summit in Genoa.
Anti-capitalists had earlier held a picket at the port to explain their case. The fallout from Genoa continues to shake people at the top. Representatives of the World Bank and IMF have agreed to debate with anti-globalisation groups publicly at the organisations' annual meeting in Washington.
The four US-based groups lined up for the debate are Global Justice, Jobs With Justice, 50 Years Is Enough and Essential Action.
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Bee Sellers Hollow is a tributary of Fishing Creek in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately  long and flows through Stillwater. The watershed of Bee Sellers Hollow has an area of . The stream is not considered to be impaired. The surficial geology in the area consists mainly of bedrock, along with alluvium, colluvium, Illinoian Till, and Illinoain Lag.

Course
Bee Sellers Hollow begins in a valley in the western part of Stillwater, not far from Beecellar Road. It flows east for a few tenths of a mile before turning east-southeast. Several tenths of a mile further downstream, the stream flows away from Beecellar Road and leaves its valley. It then turns south-southeast for several tenths of a mile, crossing Kline Road. After this, it turns east-southeast for a few hundred feet, crossing Pennsylvania Route 487 and reaching its confluence with Fishing Creek near the southern border of Stillwater.

Bee Sellers Hollow joins Fishing Creek  upstream of its mouth.

Hydrology, geography and geology
The elevation near the mouth of Bee Sellers Hollow is  above sea level. The elevation of the stream's source is between  above sea level.

In the upper and middle reaches of Bee Sellers Hollow, the surficial geology consists of colluvium and alluvium along the valley floor. Alluvium contains stratified sand, silt, and gravel, along with some boulders. Colluvium contains clasts made of shale and sandstone. There are also a few patches of Illinoian Till and one patch Illinoian Lag in the watershed. However, most of the surficial geology in the vicinity of the stream consists of bedrock consisting of sandstone and shale.

The valley of Karnes Hollow is in the watershed of Bee Sellers Hollow.

Bee Sellers Hollow is not considered to be impaired.

Watershed
The watershed of Bee Sellers Hollow has an area of . The mouth of the stream's valley is in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Stillwater. However, its source is in the quadrangle of Benton.

Bee Sellers Hollow is mainly located in the western part of the borough of Stillwater. The stream is entirely within that borough.

History and etymology
The valley of Bee Sellers Hollow was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979. Its identifier in the Geographic Names Information System is 1169089.

Bee Sellers Hollow is an unofficially named stream that is named after the valley through which it flows. In the early 20th century, John McHenry kept bees in the area, selling their honey to locals. He kept the bees in a concrete-floor cave known as the Bee Cellar and Bee Sellers Hollow came to be named after this.

See also
Raven Creek, next tributary of Fishing Creek going upstream
List of tributaries of Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)
List of rivers of Pennsylvania

References

Rivers of Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Tributaries of Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)
Rivers of Pennsylvania

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FINA World Aquatics Championships - Day 8
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We are already in Day 8 of the 2019 Gwangju FINA World Aquatics Championships. Yeongju Ahn has highlights of today's events.
July 19th marked the 8th day of the 18th FINA World Championships 2019. South Korea's national team partook in diving and the men's water polo competition is currently underway.
At 5:50 p.m. at Nambu University, the S.Korean men's water polo team began the final match against Montenegro in Group A.
The team lost to powerhouse Serbia 2-22 in the second group match on Thursday. The second straight loss put S.Korea at the bottom of Group A, but they faired slightly better than in their first match against Greece.
It was even more meaningful because Serbia won five gold medals at previous World Championships and also won gold at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
At 7 p.m. at Yeomju Gymnasium, the S.Korean national team will compete in the final of the women's artistic swimming: team free final.
The women's team finished 11th out of 15 teams in the preliminary round of the free combination, joining 12 teams competing in the finals for the first time in 10 years. So far, S.Korea has won


Malayalam channel asianet is easter special shows and films on 5th april 2015. Easter 2015 day on asianet is starting with Easter Gethangal at 8.00 P.M. There will be a special program based on the movie Iyobinte Pusthakam at 9.00 A.M. Asainet will air making of the movie Iyobinte Pusthakam on the easter day. At 9.30 p.m asianet will air the super hit malayalam movie Om Shanti Oshana. This will be a repeate telecast of the movie, they have already premiered the movie during the Onam 2014 season. In Serial House Inn a special program will air at 12.00 Noon, This is a special program With Serial Artistes.
Mathai Kuzhappakkaranalla movie will premier on asianet during Easter day at 1.00 p.m. Avatharam tarring dileep, lakshmi menon will follow this movie at 3.30 P.M. Its the latest malayalam movie of dileep and asianet premiering the movie " Avatharam " on Easter day at 3.30 P.M. Iyobinte Pusthakam is another premier film of Asianet on the easter day at 7.00 P.M. Kabadi Kabadi , Vishnulokam are the late night films of Asianet during the Easter 2015 day. These are the easter special films and programs on Asianet.


I was on Toy Dolls after 13 years again! I totaly forgotten their songs, but after the first chords everything come back in my mind! I feelt real good myself on that show! I recorded almost al of the songs except: Alec's gone, Olga I cannot and one more but I forget their name. I think they playd awesome and sound was great! I liked so much their funny movings! I think if I can catch them again I wil! Enjoy with this 53 min. video and have fun!


Heiberg, MR 2018, US-Spanish Relations after Franco, 1975-1989: The Will of the Weak. The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, Lexington Books, Lanhan, Boulder, New York, London.
Heiberg, M. R., 2018, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books. 240 p. (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series).
Heiberg, M. R., 2013, Københavns Universitet, Det Humanistiske Fakultet. 69 p.
Heiberg, M. R. & Ros Agudo, M., 2006, 1. ed. Barcelona: Crítica. 360 p. (Contrastes).
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Foxglove Antiques is the first stop on James's A Place to Call Home book signing tour! Come join us at Foxglove Antiques on Thursday, September 7 from 4:00 to 8:00. Get a book signed while sipping, snacking and shopping!
Foxglove Antiques is located in Atlanta at 699 Miami Circle Northeast.


CS Lewis is best known in Christian circles for his theological writings. But everyone else knows him for the seven connected stories which he wrote between 1949 and 1954, 'The Chronicles of Narnia'.
Lewis was so bad at math he was prohibited from entry to Oxford. So he joined the war effort and later got entry on veteran grounds.


In some cases, the illness at hand is more than mind over matter. In these circumstances, the use of medication can be necessary to assist in healing the mind from symptoms and conditions associated with possible mental illnesses. At Treasure Coast Recovery, we have psychiatric doctors employed on staff to attend to these needs and prescribe correct dosages of non-addictive medication to assist with client's symptoms.
Psychiatry and psychology may sound alike, but are in fact two very different fields of study. Where psychology is the study of mental functions and behaviors, psychiatry pays attention to the medical side of a mental illness. More closely, it's the medical specialty that concentrates on diagnosing and treating the mental illness. A psychiatrist is able to prescribe medications to prevent and treat the illness altogether whereas a psychologist is not.
At Treasure Coast Recovery, we strive to treat addiction at the root of the problem. More often than not these situations mean working with a dual diagnosis client. A dual diagnosis client suffers from both a mental illness and some form of substance abuse issue. With a case of dual diagnosis, both the mental health issue and the drug or alcohol addiction have distinct symptoms that can compromise one's ability to function which can make it difficult to handle life's obstacles and interact with others. Working with a psychiatrist, the client will learn to identify which symptoms are due to drugs or alcohol and which symptoms are caused by mental illness. Used alongside psychological therapies, the combination has proven to be effective in treating the root causes of addiction and in establishing recovery strategies.
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Even over 40, we all still need a little Va Va Voom in our life.
We've had a lot response from you all asking for our tips and tricks for that hairdresser blow wave at home. It's never easy to achieve a bouncy blow wave on yourself, and trust me even we know that as hairdressers. We might make it look easy doing it on other peoples hair, but we struggle too on ourselves. So honestly ladies, you aren't going through this alone.
This video is my daily routine of how I dry my hair, the products I use, and tips on how to create volume at home. This technique works for me and it doesn't take ages so is very easy to do every day. Honestly, I just set my phone up to film me one morning whilst I got ready for the day.
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Legendary seeks to recapture winning ways in Turf Cup
Posted by The Biz | Sep 17, 2015 | Breaking, Maryland, MD Racing, Racing, Top Stories | 0 |
Legendary wins the Japa Racing Association. Photo by Laurie Asseo.
From a Laurel Park release
Trainer Niall Saville entered Legendary for Saturday's $250,000 Commonwealth Cup (G2) at Laurel Park Wednesday, hoping to relive a moment of triumph provided by the British import last September.
Although Legendary had previously won on soft turf, Walter Swinburn's 6-year-old gelding demonstrated a distinct fondness for the firm going of the Laurel Park turf course Sept. 6, 2014 while romping to victory in the $100,000 Japan Racing Association Stakes.
Legendary will need to get his footing when he contends with the likes of Phipps Stable's Mr Speaker and Sam-Son Stable's Up With the Birds, both Grade 1 stakes winners, in Saturday's 1 1/8-mile turf test.
Legendary won't necessarily require a firm course to offer a winning performance Saturday – when the Commonwealth Cup and the $400,000 Commonwealth Derby (G2) will be presented by the Virginia Equine Alliance at Laurel Park – but Saville certainly doesn't want a reoccurrence of the stormy weather conditions that compromised his trainee's performance over a rain-ravaged course in the Arlington Million (G1) Aug. 15.
Severe thunder and lightning and torrential rains enveloped Arlington Park that day before dissipating right before the Million, but the effects on the turf course proved too tough to handle for Legendary, who faded to 12th.
"I should have scratched in the paddock. I didn't realize how bad the ground was," Saville said. "When I watched him go by the first time, I got a bad feeling in my stomach. Put a line through it and go on."
In his previous start over a good Belmont Park course, Legendary pressed and set the pace in the 1 ¼-mile Manhattan (G1) before fading to third behind Slumber – just a head behind runner-up Big Blue Kitten, who went on to win the United Nations (G1) and finish second in the Arlington Million.
"He's been real close to Big Blue Kitten. A mile and an eighth is in our favor. Laurel has the best turf course in the country. It's a fair track," Saville said. "He is going into the race 100 percent. He's a very cool horse."
Legendary, who won two of 13 starts in Europe, won three of his first five U.S. starts, including the Japan Racing Association, before trying graded-stakes company for the first time in the Knickerbocker (G3) at Belmont last October. He registered a solid 1 ¼-length victory over favored Up With the Birds, a Commonwealth Cup entry, and Mshawish, who went on to become a Grade 1 winner. Although he is winless in five subsequent graded-stakes starts, his trainer is confident that his trainee is ready for a peak effort.
"He responds better to harder work. We've been tougher on him for this race, and he's responded well. He is better than he was going into the Million," said Saville, who awarded the return mount to Sheldon Russell.
Mr Speaker won three graded stakes last year, including the Dania Beach (G3) at Gulfstream, the Lexington (G3) on Keeneland's former Polytrack surface and the Belmont Derby Invitational (G1). The Shug McGaughey-trained 4-year-old son of Pulpit won an allowance race at Belmont July 15 two starts back before finishing fourth at Woodbine in his most recent start in the Sky Classic (G2).
New York-based Jose Ortiz has been named to ride Mr Speaker for the first time.
Up With the Birds, who captured the Jamaica Handicap (G1) at Belmont Park two years ago, is scheduled to make his fourth start for trainer Graham Motion Saturday. The veteran turf campaigner launched his 5-year-old campaign with a late-closing third in the 1 1/16-mile Dixie (G2) at Pimlico May 16 prior to a third-place finish in the 1 3/16-mile Arlington Handicap (G3) July 11 and late-fading fourth in the Arlington Million.
"It will be interesting shortening him up," said Motion, who named Trevor McCarthy to ride the son of Stormy Atlantic. "He's done well in all his races, he's always knocking on the door. This is a good spot for him."
Midwest Thoroughbreds, the owner of Arlington Million winner The Pizza Man, is scheduled to be represented by Cut to Order in the Commonwealth Cup. The Jamie Ness-trained 4-year-old is slated to seek his sixth straight victory while making his stakes debut Saturday. Claimed for $12,500 out of a dirt start at Tampa Bay Downs in April, the gelded son of Ready's Image has gone undefeated in subsequent turf starts at Tampa, Pimlico and, most recently, Monmouth Park, where he captured a starter handicap by 2 ¾ lengths at the 1 1/8-mile distance.
Golden Glint is scheduled to make his first start since being claimed by Adam Staple and trainer Mary Eppler for $40,000 out of his last start Aug. 30 on dirt. The son of Medaglia d'Oro is slated to make a return to turf, over which he has won once in three prior starts.
Michael Harrison's Talk Show Man, a multiple stakes winner in Maryland, and William McCarthy's El Jefe Grande, a close third in an optional claiming allowance at Saratoga last time out, round out the field.
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Which celebs grew up in your NJ hometown?
Bergen, Essex, Passaic and Morris counties feature dozens of celebrities who were born and raised in North Jersey.
Which celebs grew up in your NJ hometown? Bergen, Essex, Passaic and Morris counties feature dozens of celebrities who were born and raised in North Jersey. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2yec2wC
Jessica Presinzano, Digital Producer, @presinzanoj Published 1:55 p.m. ET Oct. 11, 2017 | Updated 4:47 p.m. ET Oct. 12, 2017
Sean "Diddy" Combs
Bergen abounds with celebrities from the arts, politics and professional sports athletes, but so do Essex, Passaic and Morris counties. Here's a star-studded list of celebrities who were born and raised in North Jersey.
Past and present residents of the borough include actors Wesley Snipes and Chris Rock, former Mets and Yankees slugger Gary Sheffield, Baltimore Ravens' Chris Canty, former New York Knicks center Patrick Ewing, Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia and actor Michael Nouri. Musical talent Stevie Wonder and hip-hop artist P. Diddy also make the list.
Belleville claims Frank Iero, rhythmn guitarist of My Chemical Romance, as a native.
Esteemed jazz guitarist Al DiMeola grew up in Bergenfield.
Vin Scully, sportscaster known as the play-by-play voice of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball teams, lived here.
Lisa Oz and Dr. Mehmet Oz recently released a new cookbook -The Oz Family Kitchen. For a feature in the Spring 2016 issue of (201) Gold Coast Magazine. ANNE-MARIE CARUSO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER (Photo: Anne-Marie Caruso/NorthJersey.com)
The borough has had its fair share of famous faces move in through the years. Among them: gold-medal figure skater Oksana Baiul, former NFL football player Bruce Elia, singer Gloria Gaynor, former member of heavy metal band Black Sabbath Ray Gillen, boxer Gus Lesnevich, the late U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, actor Joe Pantoliano and last – but certainly not least – health guru Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Vera Ann Farmiga of "Bates Motel" and "The Departed" was born and raised in Clifton. David Chase, "The Sopranos" creator, grew up in Clifton and North Caldwell.
Bruce Harper, former running back and kick returner for the New York Jets, resides in town after growing up in Englewood. Harper directs the Heroes & Cool Kids foundation, which develops children into leaders.
Malcolm Jenkins, safety for the Philadelphia Eagles, was born and raised in East Orange. Cleveland Browns safety Jabrill Peppers calls the city home. After her birth in Newark, Whitney Houston grew up in East Orange and attended Catholic school in Caldwell.
Dick Vitale, ESPN basketball sportscaster was born and Passaic and grew up in East Rutherford.
Geraldo Rivera (WABC Radio/Event Host). (Photo by Jeremy Smith) (Photo: No credit)
Noteworthy names have lived in Edgewater throughout their careers, including television personality Geraldo Rivera. Former New York Yankees Robinson Cano and Chien-Ming Wang have also called the town home. TV chef Produce Pete, sportscaster John Sterling and Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman reside here.
Englewood was the childhood home of actor John Travolta. Author and aviatrix Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born and raised in Englewood and lived here with her husband, pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh. Actor Richard Lewis was a native, while Charles Osgood, host of CBS Sunday Morning, spent his childhood in Englewood. The city has also been home to legendary musicians like Ben E. King, George Benson, The Isley Brothers and Sylvia Robinson, founder of Sugar Hill Records. Dizzy Gillespie settled in Englewood in 1964 and lived here until his death in 1993. Victor Wallace Farris, inventor of the paper milk carton and the paper clip, resided in Englewood.
San Antonio Spurs forward Kyle Anderson was raised in this community.
New York Yankees great and former New York Mets manager Willie Randolph resides here.
Retired New York Jets wide receiver Wayne Chrebet, retired San Diego Chargers defensive tackle Luis Castillo and former Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Miles Austin played football at Garfield High School.
Charlie Tahan (left) and John Lithgow star in "Love Is Strange." (Photo: Sony Pictures Classics )
Actor Charlie Tahan grew up in Glen Rock, as did Kim Barnes Arico, head coach of women's basketball at the University of Michigan.
Former Olympic figure skaters John Zimmerman and Silvia Fontana once called Hackensack home and taught at the Ice House.
Omar Minaya, former general manager of the New York Mets, resides here. U.S. Senator Cory Booker grew up here. The late golf course designer, A.W. Tillinghast, noted for his work at Bethpage State Park, Ridgewood Country Club and Baltusrol Golf Club, to name a few, lived here.
Actor Jason Biggs was born and raised in Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School. Entertainer Arthur Godfrey also lived here.
Actress Elizabeth Gillies was born and raised in Haworth and Brooke Sheilds attended high school there.
TV personality and foodie Anthony Bourdain grew up in Leonia and former NBA coach Phil Jackson raised his family here, as did M*A*S*H star Alan Alda.
Jason Alexander, also known as George Costanza from "Seinfeld" was born in Newark and raised in Livingston.
Brooklyn 99 star Melissa Fumero grew up here.
The legendary musician and inventor of the electric guitar Les Paul called Mahwah home and was known to haunt the aisles of the local Home Depot.
Actors Peter Dinklage of "Game of Thrones" fame and Xander Berkley, who plays Gregory on "The Walking Dead" and grew up in Mendham.
Actress Ann Hathaway grew up in Millburn.
NASA astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, one of the first men to land on the moon, was raised in Montclair following his birth in Glen Ridge.
Devils right winger Kyle Palmieri grew up in Montvale and CNN political correspondent Dana Bash was born and raised there.
Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, was in Fort Myers on Thursday as part of the FGCU Lutgert College of Business W. Thomas Howard Lecture Series. (Photo: Casey Logan/The News-Press)
Author and political commentator Fran Lebowicz, Steve Forbes of Forbes magazine, and Derek Dryman, producer of "Spongebob Squarepants" and "Adventure Time," call Morristown home.
Actor John Amos from "Fresh Prince of Bel Air, " "West Wing" and "Good Times" was born and raised in Newark.
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter spent some of his youth in North Arlington. His grandfather was the head of maintenance at Queen of Peace High School for 36 years.
Former Yankees catcher Thurman Munson resided in Norwood during the mid-1970s. Munson played for the Yankees from 1969 until 1979, won the Golden Glove Award three years in a row and was the first captain named by the team after Lou Gehrig. ESPN SportsCenter anchor Dianna Russini grew up in Norwood and excelled in athletics at Northern Valley Regional High School –
Old Tappan.
Oradell was home to Bill Parcells, NFL Hall of famer and former head coach of the New York Giants, New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys. Walter M. Schirra Jr., the only astronaut to fly in our nation's first three space programs (Mercury, Gemini and Apollo) was also a longtime resident.
Clueless actress Stacey Dash was born in the borough, as was Olympic figure skater Elaine Zayak.
Richard Nixon (Photo: FILE/AP)
The community is known for high-profile occupants, such as former New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin and former president Richard M. Nixon. The late James Gandolfini, star of The Sopranos, grew up here, as did former model and actress Karen Duffy.
The Shirelles members Shirley Alston Reeves (nee, Owens), Doris Kenner-Jackson (nee, Coley), Addie "Micki" Harris McFadden and Beverly Lee grew up in Passaic.
Mike Adams, safety for the Indianapolis Colts and Arizona Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians, rapper Fetty Wap and Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz grew up in Paterson.
Ridgefield Park was the childhood home of Ozzie Nelson, the star, writer and director of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, the second longest-running family sitcom in television history.
Mystery novelist Harlan Coben makes a home here, while comedian Andy Daly, political commentator Guy Benson, actor Michael Zegen and novelist Patricia Engel all grew up in the village. Famed musician Nelson Riddle went to Ridgewood High and Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker called the village home. And what would TV's House be without his esteemed colleague Dr. Watson – we mean Wilson – Ridgewood's own Robert Sean Leonard.
The list of famous people from Teaneck is nearly endless, but here's a sample of the Who's Who of the community.
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Anchorwoman Lori Stokes of ABC's Eyewitness News calls Tenafly home. Actors Lea Michele, star of Glee and Scream Queens, Mira Sorvino, Jay Hughley and Alexie Gilmore spent their childhoods in the community. Actor Tate Donovan also called Tenafly home growing up.
Donna Weinbrecht, Olympic gold medal winner for freestyle skiing, Steve Jobs wife, Emerson Collective founder Laurene Powell Jobs, Lennie Friedman, former NFL linebacker and former Cincinnati Bengals linebacker, Kevin Walker grew up in West Milford. Larry Hand, formerly of the Detroit Lions was born in Paterson, but grew up in West Milford.
Chicago Cubs third baseman Tommy LaStella was born in Westwood and grew up in Closter.
Nick, Frankie, Joe and Kevin Jonas – aka the Jonas Brothers – grew up in Wyckoff, as did professional golfer Morgan Hoffman and professional football player Brian Toal. American Pie actress Tara Reid grew up in Wyckoff and famed NY Yankee Bucky Dent also called the town home.
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The French World Scrabble Championships () is an annual Scrabble tournament that takes place in a different French-speaking country every year. Created in 1972 by Hippolyte Wouters, it was the first of the three World Scrabble Championships to be created, with the English version being created in 1991 and the Spanish version being created in 1997.

Unlike the English and Spanish versions, the French World Championships are made up of various tournaments, somewhat like the World Series of Poker. The "Main Event" is the Elite tournament which has existed since 1972, and was first won by the tournament's creator Hippolyte Wouters.

List of tournaments

World Championships

Elite: Each national federation has a specified number of places in the Elite division in different age categories: Up to 16, 16-18, 18-25, 25-62, 62-72 and 72+. Each of these age categories has its own World Champion, but the individual World Champion is the player that wins the tournament. The tournament is a duplicate tournament where players do not play matches, but play every move with the same letters and board configuration as every other player and try to get the maximum score by playing the highest scoring move every time. Players play 7 games of 2 minutes per move.
Paires: Duplicate Scrabble in pairs, with two players discussing and submitting their solution together. 4 games are played with two minutes per move, followed by 2 games with just one minute per move. Players can form mixed pair, i.e. not both from the same country.
Blitz: A normal duplicate tournament but with 4 games with just one minute per move for all four games.
Classique (match play): Players play 17 games, two players to a board with the final standings being judged by games won and total points scored minus the total number of points scored by the player's opponents. The top two players in the standings play a best-of-three final to determine the World Champion. The tournament is very popular with Arab players as Duplicate Scrabble is less popular in the Arab World than it is in Europe.

Other tournaments

Some other tournaments are organised during the week which do not crown a World Champion but do have a winner:

 Open classique: a matchplay Scrabble tournament open to players who have not already qualified for the Elite world championship. The winner qualifies for the Elite.
Open duplicate: an open duplicate tournament which anyone can compete in. Players who are qualified for the Elite are barred from competing in the Open under the rules of the International Federation.
Défi mondial: A duplicate game reserved for qualified players. The game is a normal duplicate game, apart from any player who misses the highest scoring solution is eliminated. This process continues until there is only one player remaining. To make things harder, the game starts at 80 seconds per move and goes down to 60 then 40 seconds per move.
Défi des jeunes: the same as the Défi mondial but for players aged under 18. Another notable difference is that each player can miss the highest scoring move once before being eliminated.

History of the Championships

The French World Scrabble Championships started off as a small tournament in Cannes with just 7 players, and at the time, was not considered to be a World Championship. The tournament moved each year and more and more players which led to other tournaments being created at the same venue. The Elite tournament was at first dominated by Belgian players, with 5 of the first 7 championships being won by Belgian players. After three French winners in 1979, 80 and 81 the tournament was taken over by Michel Duguet of France who won the tournament 5 times in 7 years, while finishing second twice in that period. Duguet also set various championship records by dropping just 12 points in 5 games, which is 99.71%. After winning the Elite World Championship for a 5th time he retired from Scrabble and took up contract bridge and became one of the best players in the world, competing in both the French national championships and the European team championships.

After Duguet's retirement the French domination of the championships continued, with in total 12 championships in a row being won by France. Indeed, France also took second place every year during that ran, apart from in 1990 when Christian Pierre of Belgium finished second. In 1991 it was Christian Pierre who won Belgium's first title since 1978 and continued to win the title a total of 5 times in 8 years, matching what Duguet did in the 1980s. In 2002 and 2003 Jean Pierre Hellebaut became the first Swiss winner of the tournament. In fact he was born in Belgium and had previously finished second in the Belgian national championship in 1991 but after moving to Switzerland, won the World Championship 2 years in a row, a feat only accomplished before that by Duguet and Pierre. Antonin Michel has since dominated the Elite World Championships, having won the tournament twice in 2005 and 2007 and having finished second in 2001 and 2006.

The pairs event has been mainly dominated by France; Michel Duguet holds the record with five titles while Antonin Michel and Franck Maniquant (also of France) are just behind with 4 titles. Two African players have won the title - Ndongo Samba Sylla and Mactar Sylla of Senegal - these two are in fact brothers.

The blitz is a relatively recent event, added in 2001 and 5 of the 8 championships have been won by Antonin Michel. The four other winners and Florian Lévy and Franck Maniquant of France, and Ndongo Samba Sylla and Mactar Sylla of Senegal.

The match play tournament known as le Championnat du monde de Scrabble classique was brought in during 2006 and has been systematically dominated by African players, showing that the traditional form of Scrabble is more popular in Africa than the duplicate one. In 2008 in Dakar, 7 of the top 10 players were African, the three exceptions being Pascal Astresses, Antonin Michel and Hervé Bohbot all from France. More recently, the 2015 event saw Africans claim six of the top 10 places, and in 2016 the top three players and seven of the top 10 were Africans.

List of winners of the Elite (duplicate individual) tournament

List of winners of the Classique (matchplay) tournament

References

External links
 Article about the 2008 World Championships on bbc.co.uk
 FISF.net the site of the International French language Federation.
 Montpellier 2010 Official site of the world championships in Montpellier, includes a list of all previous winners 1972-2010.
 FFSC en direct retransmission via the Internet of major French language tournaments.
 French World Scrabble Championships on the French Wikipedia.

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Recurring events established in 1972
World Scrabble Championships


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The game of Rampage was incredibly simple. Take control of a giant monster and destroy a skyscraper faster than your opponent. Save for grabbing a few screaming, helpless humans and fighting off the military, that was about it. However, in an age when brand recognition is the most important thing and a game of red and white pegs can become a $200 million alien invasion movie, it makes as much sense as anything else that New Line Cinema is now developing Rampage for the big screen.
According to The Hollywood Reporter producer John Rickard, who worked on A Nightmare on Elm Street, Final Destination, Horrible Bosses and next year's Bryan Singer film Jack the Giant Killer, is spearheading the project. He'll soon start meeting with writers to flush out a story.
In the game, a middle age man, young girl and old man mutate into a gorilla, lizard and werewolf and destroy buildings while fighting off the military. The movie would use the title and game's visuals to "make a smartly-budgeted monster movie in the vein and tone of Ghostbusters and Independence Day" but wouldn't necessarily adhere to that premise.
If Hollywood can make a movie out of Battleship, they can make a movie out of Rampage. And if Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim is a hit for Warner Bros., they'll be happy to have another giant monster movie at an advanced stage of development.
Though the game itself was upgraded for several different home console systems, many of you probably have never seen or played Rampage. After all, it was at its biggest in the late Eighties and early Nineties. Here's a little game play footage for you to enjoy.


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During the press conference announcing the choice of Elizabeth Buffum Chace as the first female subject of a statue in the State House, Secretary of State Edward S. Inman, III said, "We hope to make this an annual undertaking, and continue to tell the story of the mothers, daughters, and sisters of the Ocean State."
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YF-17 Cobra First Flight
June 11, 2012 | J. Terry White
Thirty-eight years ago this month, the No. 1 USAF/Northrop YF-17 Cobra Lightweight Fighter (LWF) prototype made its maiden flight from Edwards Air Force Base, California. Northrop Chief Test Pilot Henry E. "Hank" Chouteau was at the controls of the agile twin-engine jet.
The Lightweight Fighter (LWF) Technology Program was a United States Air Force (USAF) effort to develop a reduced-cost, highly maneuverable combat aircraft. The LWF Program, which began in 1971, ultimately resulted in a competitive fly-off between the Northrup YF-17 and General Dynamics YF-16 in 1974.
The Northrop YF-17 Cobra measured 56 ft in length and had a wingspan of 35 ft. Gross Take-Off Weight (GTOW) was 34,280 lbs. Power was provided by twin General Electric YJ101-100 afterburning turbofans, each generating 14,400 lbs of thrust. The aircraft had a maximum design speed of Mach 1.95, an unrefueled range of 2,600 nm and a service ceiling of 50,000 ft.
The accent on agility and maneuverability led designers to configure the YF-17 with leading edge strakes and twin vertical tails. The leading edge strakes helped alleviate asymmetric vortex shedding and the associated induced yawing moment at high angle-of-attack. Similarly, the twin vertical tails provided enhanced directional stability at high angle-of-attack flight conditions.
YF-17 Ship No. 1 (S/N 72-1569) first took to the air on Sunday, 09 June 1974. The aircraft displayed impressive performance, agility and handling qualitities. On Tuesday, 11 June 1974, the Cobra exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. This marked the first time in United States aviation history that an aircraft did so without using afterburner.
On Wednesday, 21 August 1974, YF-17 Ship No. 2 (72-1570) joined the Northrop LWF flight test force. Together, these two airframes flew 288 flight test sorties for a total of 345 flight hours. During the test program, the Cobra hit Mach 1.95, pulled 9.4 g's and achieved a maximum altitude beyond 50,000 ft. The jet handled like a dream and lived-up to its advance billing in virtually every way.
Despite the YF-17's great promise, it did not win the LWF fly-off with the YF-16. Competitions of this sort are often between equals and the final decision can go either way. Nuanced political factors and the like often determine the final outcome. Such was the case in this situation. Both aircraft were exceptional, but only one could be declared the winner.
Happily for American aviation, the YF-17 story did not end with the LWF loss. Indeed, the YF-17's merits were so obvious to the aviation community that it received new life with the United States Navy. In May of 1975, the team of Northrop and McDonnell Douglas secured the Navy Air Combat Fighter (NAVF) contract to produce a remarkable aircraft that was a direct descendant of the YF-17 Cobra. We know that aircraft today as the F/A-18 Hornet.


Happy August everyone! Wow, how this year is flying by. I saw school buses in my neighborhood last week practicing their routes. School starts soon and autumn is just around the corner. My youngest child will be starting college soon which is both exciting and bittersweet. Small things like seeing the school buses remind me that we are experiencing milestones in our life. Our last child going off to college means we will soon be empty nesters. Again, Wow! What milestones are happening in your life? Have you experienced the passing of a beloved pet or have you added a new pet family member ? Celebrate life and share your experiences. I'd love to hear from you!
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Former CPB, BBG Chair Ken Tomlinson Dies
Controversial figurehead was 69
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Kenneth Tomlinson, former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, died May 1, according to BBG. He was 69.
BBG is the independent federal agency overseeing all government-supported U.S. civilian international media including VOA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks--Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa--Radio Free Asia, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting Radio and TV Martí.
Tomlinson was tapped by President George W. Bush to chair BBG in 2002 and remained through 2007. He had been a VOA director from 1982 to 1984 and a board member of the Board for International Broadcasting, the predecessor of BBG, from 1987 through 1994. Under his watch, BBG launched Arabic-language channel Alhurra TV and expanded programming for Afghanistan and Iran.
He was CPB chair from 2002 to 2005.
Tomlinson's tenures atop CPB and BBG were marked by controversy and investigations that he called partisan attacks. Democrats unsuccessfully tried to oust him from the BBG board. He was accused of hiring a friend as a contractor, using government resources to support his horse racing business, working on CPB matters at BBG, asking for compensation from both BBG and CPB for the same hours, and working more hours than allowed by law.
"It was well known and accepted by all that, because of the importance of what I was doing in the war on terror, that I would be working more than 130 days a year," Tomlinson told B&C at the time. "I was appointed to serve on two boards and I believe I was the first person in history to be chairman of two boards at the same time. I made diligent efforts to bill each board only for the work I did for each."
Tomlinson resigned his CPB board chairmanship in 2005. During his contentious two-year term, he drew fire from the Hill, and eventually from a CPB Inspector General's report sought by congressional Democrats, for allegedly using political litmus tests for new hires and for his efforts to add more conservative programming to noncommercial TV and radio to balance what he said was a liberal bias there. Tomlinson countered that the IG investigation was not objective.
He remained atop BBG, though his term expired in 2004. He was renominated by the President in 2005, but the committee held up considering the nomination while the various investigations were being undertaken. He eventually left BBG in 2007, asking the President not to renominate him.
"Ken Tomlinson brought a tremendous amount of journalistic experience to his work here, and that showed in his achievements," said BBG Chairman Jeff Shell in a statement. "He was well regarded by many for having a keen sense of the news. He launched important projects in response to the information needs of audiences abroad."
Tomlinson, a veteran print journalist, began his career as a reporter for The Richmond Times-Dispatch in 1965, moving to Reader's Digest and eventually becoming editor-in-chief, retiring from the magazine in 1996.
He is survived by his wife, Rebecca Moore Tomlinson, and two sons.
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Perfecta News
Inc. Magazine Unveils 36th Annual List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc. 5000
For the 2nd Time, Perfecta Appears on the Inc. 5000 list, Ranking No. 315 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 1,388%.
Springfield, VA September 1, 2017 – Inc. magazine today ranked Perfecta NO. 315 on its 36th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment— its independent small and midsized businesses. Companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Domino's Pizza, Pandora, Timberland, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees of the Inc. 5000.
"Perfecta is honored to be included in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies for a second consecutive year" says Perfecta's Founder and CEO, George Zoulias. "This recognition speaks to our staff's dedication to developing high-quality and innovative solutions. A large part of our success and growth is thanks to our loyal clients who continuously allow us to support their goals and missions."
The 2017 Inc. 5000, unveiled online at Inc.com and with the top 500 companies featured in the September issue of Inc. (available on newsstands August 16) is the most competitive crop in the list's history. The average company on the list achieved a mind-boggling three-year average growth of 481%. The Inc. 5000's aggregate revenue is $206 billion, and the companies on the list collectively generated 619,500 jobs over the past three years. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
"The Inc. 5000 is the most persuasive evidence I know that the American Dream is still alive," says Inc. President and Editor-In-Chief Eric Schurenberg. "The founders and CEOs of the Inc. 5000 tell us they think determination, risk taking, and vision were the keys to their success, and I believe them."
About Inc.
Founded in 1979 and acquired in 2005 by Mansueto Ventures, Inc. is the only major brand dedicated exclusively to owners and managers of growing private companies, with the aim to deliver real solutions for today's innovative company builders. Winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in both 2014 and 2012. Total monthly audience reach for the brand has grown significantly from 2,000,000 in 2010 to over 18,000,000 today. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
Perfecta, formerly Perfecta Federal, is a leading provider of ISR-C solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense, federal agencies, and commercial clients. Perfecta develops and integrates advanced media, enterprise telecommunication and cyber security products. Perfecta was ranked 394 in the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies in America in 2016. Perfecta is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that is ISO 9001-certified and has a DCAA-certified accounting system. Perfecta is a prime contractor under SeaPort-e® contract vehicle.
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