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ESEE Knives has taken the best features of bushcraft/survival knives and created the outstanding ESEE-6. The ESEE-6 has become a very popular choice for an all-around wilderness/outdoor knife, and for good reason. With it's 5.75" cutting edge and 3/16" thick 1095 steel blade, it is possibly the best balanced knife ever designed by ESEE Knives. The blade measures 1.56" from cutting edge to spine. The 3/4" finger choil area right behind the cutting edge makes the knife adept at delicate tasks such as carving, making fuzz sticks, or food preparation. The razer sharp cutting edge is sharpened to approximately 20 degrees, and will hold its edge exceptionally well. The blades textured power coat is exceedingly durable, and will not wear off easily. Although it is longer than the ESEE-5, it is lighter; weighing only 12 oz it makes a great carry knife without excessive weight. Like most other ESEE Knives, The ESEE-6 features a full flat grind, making it a great all-purpose cutting and precise slicing tool. Whether you are in the military, a survivalist or an outdoorsman, this knife will soon become your best friend as you experience its superb form & function.
While they are adaptable and may be used for all manner of tasks, the ESEE-3 and ESEE-5 models may be considered to be more "tactical" in design, and the ESEE-4 and ESEE-6 may be considered to be "wilderness" knives. The ESEE-6 features a flat/rounded pommel, rather than the pointed pommel that comes standard on the ESEE-3 and ESEE-5 series. Each knife comes with a lanyard hole in the pommel. With an overall length of 11.75" and a drop point blade style, the ESEE-6 is a great knife for batoning firewood, general woodcraft, or even cleaning of fish. Its design also lends itself very well to field dressing and preparation of large & very large-sized game animals. The ESEE-6 is ideal for situations where a larger knife is needed and is still compact enough to make carrying easy. It's a great knife for camp use and for most any bushcraft needs.
The handles are made of G-10, which is made up of fiberglass soaked in resin then compressed and heated. The technique makes it resistant to liquids and allows it to remain stable under extreme temperature fluctuations.
Improving the handle comfort and style of the ESEE 6 is easily achieved by installing our very popular custom G-10 handle scales, which are available in a wide variety of colors. They feature a palm swell and smooth ergonomic contouring. Our custom scales bolt on easily, and will transform the function, feel, and appearance of your knife.
The ESEE 6 is a multi-functional knife you can stake your life on when it comes to performance & durability. The people behind this knife developed it by experience & practical application... not theory. ESEE Knives is the only knife maker that hires full-time trainers and adventurers to develop and test their products, and conduct training in global wilderness environments.
ESEE Knives' innovative Sheath System provides the user with numerous carry options for tactical and wilderness environments. The high quality Blade-Tech molded plastic sheath is compatible for use in a MOLLE Setup. When this knife is used with the optional MOLLE back, the backer provides additional security for the knife when jumping from aircraft or other extreme activities that may cause it to come loose from the sheath. The sheath screws are made from stainless steel, and the sheath system is fully ambidextrous. The lashing holes facilitate storing a length of 550 paracord by wrapping around the sheath and through the open holes. The attached paracord can be threaded through the molded sheath to form a belt loop, fashioned to create a leg strap, or used as a pommel lanyard
PDF Download: ESEE-6 Sheath Instruction Sheet
This Knife comes with a unique serial number, Blade-Tech Molded Ambidextrous Sheath, Belt Clip Plate, Paracord Lanyard and Cord Lock.
In terms of quality and value, purchasing an ESEE Knife is a decision where you can't go wrong. Since 1997 Randall's Adventure & Training has designed no-nonsense, affordable field knives specifically targeted to military, law enforcement, and the special operations community. They have built a solid reputation. Their knives are carried by countless military personnel, law enforcement agencies, and special operations teams around the world. They have survived years of extreme use, brutal testing, and design refinement. Originally designed to withstand the toughest of harsh situations, ESEE Knives (Randall's Adventure & Training) now have a reputation that is second to none. To top it off, let's not forget ESEE Knives boasts an UNCONDITIONAL No Questions Asked Lifetime warranty, just in case you should manage to destroy your knife (see warranty details below). Buy with confidence, knowing your ESEE Knife purchase carries lasting value.
This ESEE Knife is made from high carbon 1095 steel. And while 1095 is a top choice for professional cutlery designed for hard use, it will rust and stain if not properly cared for - especially on the cutting edge and around the laser engraving. It is the user's responsibility to keep the blades properly lubricated and cleaned. We suggest using a dry film rust inhibitor such as Sentry Solutions MARINE TUF-CLOTH.
ESEE knives are not considered "high production" due to the care that is taken during the manufacturing process. After the steel is laser cut to size, the knives are heat treated (**see note below). Both Micarta and G-10 handle slabs are profiled and radiused on a CNC milling machine, and each set of handles are matched and fitted to a corresponding knife blank. The reason for this is during the laser cutting process there is a certain amount of tolerance, so one knife may be a few thousandths of an inch bigger (or smaller) than the next. By marrying a set of handles to a blank throughout the manufacturing process, the user ends up with a finely fitted knife. The handles slabs are held in place with three screws fastened with Loctite into a barrel nut. When the handles are assembled, a fiber liner is placed between the Micarta or G-10 slab and tang of the knife. The partially serrated knives are made by milling each serration individually with a 3/8" end mill. Unlike a lot of serrations, these are designed to easily cut through fabrics, rope and other flexible materials.
Partially serrated blades are easily sharpened by honing with a flat hone across them in the same manner as you would hone the plain edge. The textured powder coat we use on ESEE knives is a special powder that has an increased amount of resistance to wear and corrosion, while maintaining a smoother feel than oxide or phosphate coatings.
**All ESEE Knives now feature a Rowen Manufacturing heat treat recipe that allows for hardening the blade completely to 57 Rc. while still maintaining flexibility.
No Questions Asked Warranty, from ESEE Knives - Randall's Adventure & Training: "If you screw it up, break it, or cut it in two with a cutting torch, send it back and we'll replace it. Warranty is transferable. In other words, we warranty the knife no matter how many times it's been traded, sold or given away. We don't ask for a sales receipt, date of purchase or where you bought the knife - No fine print and no hassles. We do not warranty against rust or normal wear and tear.
A lot of folks have asked us (ESEE Knives) how we can stay in business offering such great customer service and warranty protection. The answer is simple; we believe that our consumers, as a whole, are honest people. The occasional customers who are dishonest are few and far between, so even if we loose every once in a while due to dishonesty, our reputation of great customer service, regardless of the situation, brings us more good customers."
With the exception of the Lite Machete blade, all ESEE branded knives are manufactured in Idaho Falls, Idaho by Rowen Manufacturing. The Cordura MOLLE backs are sewn in Mexico. Izula gear sewn goods are made in Knoxville, TN.
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Welcome to your Sunday read of the week's best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic.
Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich.
Published Dec. 31.
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Penny Arcade by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik.
Published Jan. 4.
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Manly Guys Doing Manly Things by Kelly Turnbull.
Published Dec. 31
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Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira.
Published Jan. 2.
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Brentalfloss the Comic by Brent Black, Andrew Dobson and Dan Roth.
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Virtual Shackles by Jeremy Vinar and Mike Fahmie.
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Another Videogame Webcomic by Phil Chan and Joe Dunn.
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Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi.
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Becky's Sketch Downloads
December is a favorite time for many people, and personally I'm a fan of this season. I do my best to keep it from being stressful, which usually means that I don't overcommit. I might even take a little break from scrapbooking to make more time for gift-making, festivities, and holiday enjoyment.
Once the season is past and you have pictures to work with, here's a new sketch to help you preserve your holiday memories. Or, use it to help get another layout done, even during the busy holiday season. Some of you are using this time to catch up a bit in your albums!
Christmas by Becky Higgins. Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper; Letter stickers and ribbon: American Crafts; Corner-rounder punch and scallop-edge scissors: EK Success; Stamp: Fancy Pants Designs; Paint: Plaid Enterprises; Pen: Zig Writer, EK Success.
To download this sketch—plus additional variations for your sketch binder—click here.
These sketches, and their corresponding scrapbook layouts, appeared in the December 2008 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
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I'm beginning to think ESPN's web editors are fucking with us, and not just because of that "Happy Endings" headline. There was Black Mike Vrabel. Then came two-year-old Matt Gilroy. And now there is Manny Ramirez-in-an-A's uniform as Curtis Glencross. You win, ESPN.com.
Update (4 p.m.): A tipster helpfully notes that Glencross's hometown of Kindersley is in Saskatchewan and not Alberta. I don't think Manny Ramirez is from either of those.
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Harnessing the Multiplier Effect
We often hear that the world's problems compound themselves: chronic poverty leads to political destabilization; inadequate education can contribute to gender discrimination. But what if the opposite were true as well? What if teaching women to read could also fuel local economies? What if habitat preservation could lower unsustainable birthrates?
This idea—that targeted investment in one area could catalyze a chain of ameliatory effects—was among the most important legacies of late Richard Buckminster Fuller, one of the best-known thinkers of the early twentieth century. In an increasingly interconnected world rife with inequality and scarcity, he reasoned, it is both possible and critical to enact solutions with a holistic appreciation of the environment in which you operate.
Today, Fuller's approach is being put into practice by a number of organizations around the globe, through strategies as diverse as social networking and satellite GPS mapping. Four of those groups were recognized last Friday as finalists for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an award of $100,000 granted to a sustainable design project whose benefits carry beyond its immediate objectives.
"Our call for proposals is very broad," said Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Director of the BFI. "We don't define the problem space, the geographic region, or the nature of the solution. We invite entrants to make a case for why their solution a key leverage point to turning the system around - or at least playing a pivotal role in transforming that system."
This year, the prize was awarded to Blue Ventures, a marine conservation organization working with fishing communities along the coast of Madagascar, where rapid population growth has prompted chronic overfishing. Four years ago, Blue Ventures began working with a single village to develop a system of rotating marine sanctuaries in which octopi and fish are give time to repopulate. Today, the system has spread along the coast to over a dozen villages. But the project didn't stop there.
"The enclaves created by the the coastal communities have become a draw for ecotourism, which funnels much-needed cash into the villages," said Al Harris, the organization's founder, during his acceptance speech. The communities have also expanded the model to create land-bound sea-cucumber sanctuaries, he said, adding that the cucumbers fetch a good price as aphrodisiacs in certain international markets.
Blue Ventures was selected from a group of four finalists, each currently undertaking an ambitious and potentially wide-reaching development project somewhere in the world.
Honorable mention this year went to TARA Ashkar, an accelerated literacy-based education program in India, and Frontline SMS, which develops simple communications solutions to network NGOs and activists in low-tech areas.
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Participatory Mapping in the Congo Basin, a project of the Rainforest Foundation UK, was named runner-up for the award. As project coordinator Georges Thierry Handja explained, the project's aim of providing mapping technology to forest communities is a critical first step in advocating for indigenous rights.
"In the Congo Basin, governments own all the land and lease it to foreign corporations to log, to mine, without respect for the people who have lived there for generations" he said. "Our technology literally allows the forest communities to put themselves on the map."
"The project teaches communities to essentially create their own maps depicting their own locations and the resources necessary to their traditional way of life," he said. Where the government's maps show empty forest, the communities create their own maps showing villages, foraging grounds, and important resources, he said. With these maps in hand, they can then make a strong case to their own governments and international monitors against displacement.
And the corollary benefit? "Environmental," says Handja. "Not only are we protecting local communities, but we're protecting the forest itself—it's a proven fact that communities who own their own lands do a better job of protecting natural ecosystems than states or corporations who have appropriated those lands."
- Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Director of the BFI
"There isn't a single problem in the world that exists in isolation," said Thompson. "Today more than at any other point in history, it's one integrated system. That was one of Fuller's big insights, and we want to see more groups putting it into practice."
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San Francisco police have arrested a man suspected of shooting and killing a Muni passenger and Southern California native in an attack they are calling "random" and "unprovoked."
Justin Valdez, 20, was a sophomore at San Francisco State University and hails from Garden Grove. He was shot about 9:50 p.m. Monday as he was getting off a Muni light-rail train.
The next day, Nikhom Thephakaysone, 24, was arrested in connection with the slaying and booked on a homicide charge, the San Francisco Police Department announced Wednesday.
Police said the shooting appears to be random and unprovoked, and that the shooter did not know Valdez, who began classes at SF State last fall and had not yet declared a major.
In a statement Wednesday, university president Les Wong said the slaying is a "tragedy for the entire university."
"This is truly a tragedy for Justin's friends and family, and for the entire university community. I have reached out to Justin's family to offer our heartfelt concern, and to assure them that we stand ready to offer support and assistance at this difficult time."
Valdez had attended Garden Grove High School and lived with his uncle, said Steve Osborne, the victim's high school principal.
Osborne recalled a "passionate and persistent" student who was the president of the school's environmental club and a top competitor in the Garden Grove High aquatics program.
While Valdez was a student, he would talk with Osborne frequently to see about changes to the school's recycling program, the principal said. He also pushed tirelessly to establish a "Lights Out Wednesday" program to cut the school's carbon footprint, according to his former principal.
Vigils will be held in Valdez's honor at the high school's pool deck from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday. There will be a "Lights Out for Justin Day" in the coming days, Osborne said.
"It's been devastating for teachers who knew him," Osborne said.
Anyone with information in the case is urged to call San Francisco Police Sgt. Gary Watts at 415-734-3114 or the anonymous tip line at 415-575-4444. Citizens may also text a tip at TIP411 and type SFPD in the subject line.
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Nothing more I have to do
Time I short to reach my lover
But alone I'm feeling blue
Maybe it's not so easy
I will never stop loving you
Because you're deep inside my mind
I need you oh my little baby oh my little darling
Never gonna make a start
You never make me hurt
Baby don't leave me
Let me be your love and flame
It'll always be the same
Never surrender
Take my heart and keep it alive
Maybe one day you'll be mine
So baby never gonna make me a start
So don't refuse my love
Now I'm dreaming out of my mind
While I'm walking on the shore
Looking for a better daylight
Knocking back on heaven's door
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Tag Archives: Life Without Limbs
I Get It Now.
The Top of Mt. Whitney I remember in the months and weeks leading up to my 2011 hike of the PCT, as I prepared, I researched like crazy. I read anything and everything I could get my hands on. Not … Continue reading
Pacific Crest Trail 2011 in Photos (Mexico border to Central Oregon)
Here's a little "start to finish" of my 2011 PCT (almost)thru-hike, pretty much most of these shots were from my iPod Touch (not great quality) and I have a ton from my Canon Powershot that I will add as well. … Continue reading
West to East for Freedom: A Biker's Quest for Healing and Freedom
(Editor's note: I had originally planned to ride the Great Divide Trail this summer to bring awareness to the cause of human trafficking. I've changed direction just a smidgen, but only a smidgen: the cause is still and always will … Continue reading
PCT Food Review: What I liked, Would Do Differently, and Recommend
(This is a little overview of some food ideas I used on my 2011 hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. I did this hike to raise funds and awareness for victims of human trafficking. This coming summer, 2012, I will … Continue reading
Dear Thru-Hike For Freedom friends!
Hello everyone! I wanted to write a letter to all those that subscribed to my blog, THF2, and supported me with notes of encouragement and followed along on my journey this last year. As you may already know, I started … Continue reading
PCT Gear List: A Review from the Rearview
(Please check out my previous post titled "How to be a Sponsored Hiker" if you are thinking about hiking the PCT in this or the following year.) This is a long time coming, but I wanted to get this up … Continue reading
The Oasis Projekt in Detail
The Oasis Project: A Deeper Look (If you're new to my blog, I invite you to look through the menu at the top to see what the buzz has been about up to this point…and thanks for stopping by!) "The … Continue reading
"The Oasis Projekt": How to be a Sponsored Hiker!
As I mentioned in my earlier post from the trail, I've been led to start a non-profit. The name of the organization is The Oasis Projekt, and all the vital aspects of it are beginning to fall into place even … Continue reading
10/13: A Conclusion, and a Start!
Thf2 end post (I had to make a very difficult decision recently, to end my thru-hike and come back to "civilization." After almost 2,000 miles, I felt it was time. I wanted to relate the reasons why and what went in … Continue reading
May 21: The Escape From Idyllwilds' Vortex
5/21/2011 The last few days have gone by in a blur. But like it seems to be that on the PCT, it also seems like a few days has been forever ago. After descending down into the sleepy little woodsy … Continue reading


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Finally a (tentative) fix for the infamous "networkmanagement's kded module crashes when opening kwallet".
Plasma NM 0.9.0.2
SHA256Sum: 9b73b5bef72d010742f2e07ccb46a9c998e575e63fc77900128a9d1c316306f7
Kubuntu package:
299205: Fix hidden wireless network creation.
298895: Do not send empty service field to NetworkManager or it will not create DSL/PPPOE connections.
283105: Remove stale secret requests to prevent crashes.
295545: Fix sorting by "last used" column and make sortings case insensitive in the kcm.
The following languages have more than 80% of strings translated:
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Also read some usefull information about Plasma NM in my past posts.


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This napkin sketch was tweeted earlier this year by Babs Rangaiah of Unilever (@babs26).
The sketch has been attributed to Demetri Martin, the author of a book called This Is A Book.
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Caltrans spends about $2 million a year in replacing stolen copper wiring that powers metering lights, traffic signals, lights on freeway signs and city streetlights.
Spokesman Bob Haus said in the last seven years, the state has spent $27 million on the thorny and expensive problem.
There is no real way to stop the problem completely, but Caltrans has been using aluminum wire instead of copper, moving some equipment to other locations and burying pull boxes, the long, thin, metal cylinders through which the wiring runs.
In the Bay Area, the Bay Area Newspaper Group first reported that a total of 59 meters have been vandalized in over the past year, and Caltrans has replaced the wiring at just 18. It can take three to four months to make repairs, and typically costs $35,000 to fix one meter.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau ranked California fourth in the United States for the most metal theft claims between 2009 and 2011, and probably only a fraction of all thefts are ever reported.
San Jose has spent as much as $160,000 to repair 500 lights. Fremont saw its repair bill jump from $62,000 for stolen streetlight wires three years ago to $438,000 last year, according to the newspaper group.
Why are thieves pilfering the copper? Copper has gone for as much as $4 a pound at salvage yards, almost three times the price four years ago.


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Well, I've done a novelisation of this episode, mostly so I could work on my writing style without needing to worry about plot or anything else. So here it is! I hope you enjoy my take on this episode!
It had been the same for the last few nights.
Always dark and hot, a vague sense of something chasing him as he ran down narrow corridors. Cold fingers just behind him, brushing against his uniform tunic, grasping, trying to pull him back into the darkness. And the voices… Whispering, chattering, but always just beyond his hearing. And then he'd stumble and fall and turn to face his pursuer, but always at that point he'd wake up, his sheets drenched in his own sweat, and his enemy remained unseen.
This night was no different. When Picard woke, he lay in his bed for a moment, composing himself, ignoring the discomfort of the sweat-soaked sheets. Over the years, he'd become quite skilled at pushing his emotions away, into the deep recesses of his mind. For the benefit of his crew, of course. Never let them see that you are anything but completely confident. Always act like you know exactly which path to take. If they saw that you were unsure, they'd lose faith, lose confidence, and in space, that could be fatal.
Picard sighed, then pushed the sheets away. He swung his legs off the bed and pushed himself to his feet before heading towards the bathroom. He shrugged his pyjamas off as he entered, leaving them on the floor, then he activated the sonic shower, standing naked under the beam. He leaned heavily against the wall. Perhaps he should speak to Deanna. He checked the chronometer on the wall. Oh four hundred. He sighed again. Perhaps she'd have time for a quick chat about this before he went on duty.
"Bridge to Captain Picard."
Worf's deep voice pulled him back to reality. If he was being called from the bridge, he thought wryly, duty wasn't going to wait for him. The only bad thing about being a starship captain was that he was never off duty.
Picard turned off the shower. "What is it, Mister Worf?"
"We are receiving a transmission," Worf stated. "It is unintelligible, but seems to originate in the Jouret system."
"Could it be from our colony?"
"Unknown," said Worf. "However, the transmission is not coming from any of the planets."
"Acknowledged," said Picard. "Have the conn set a course to intercept at warp eight and try to unscramble the transmission. I'm on my way."
Leaving the bathroom, Picard replicated a fresh uniform, dressed, and walked out. Just as the door hissed open, he pulled his shoulders back and lifted his chin. To project confidence.
Picard stepped out onto the bridge before the turbolift doors had opened completely. "Report."
At Ops, Data turned to face him. "I have been analysing the transmission," he said. "While I have not yet been able to determine the content, I have determined that it is from a Federation source. The computer is currently running the transmission through a fractal decryption pattern, which should be complete in a few hours."
"Mister Worf?"
"I have been attempting to contact the colony since we received the transmission. I have had no luck. Ivor Prime reports that a data link with Jouret IV was broken approximately half an hour ago, and they haven't been able to re-establish it. I've kept long range sensors concentrated on the Jouret system, but they have not detected anything unusual."
Picard turned to the conn. "Ensign Rager, how long before we arrive at Jouret IV?"
"Ninteen hours, seventeen minutes, sir," she said.
"Increase speed to warp nine."
"Aye, sir."
Even with the Enterprise racing towards the Jouret system at warp nine, it would take them almost fifteen hours to reach it. Time seemed to pass slowly. This was the one thing that Picard hated. The waiting. Sitting with nothing to do, but fully aware of some looming emergency, the time seemed to drag out. And the closer the time for action came, the longer it seemed to drag out. It was enough to drive one mad. After two hours, Picard was contemplating going to his ready room, to rest, maybe try to get some sleep. He'd need to be alert when they reached Jouret IV. True, it could be something as simple as a damaged reactor that cut off power to the colony's communications system, and that last garbled message had been a call for repairs, but in Picard's experience, things were rarely so easy to deal with. There was an old expression: hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. And while he was hoping that the Enterprise would reach orbit and be greeted by a colony that needed a new part for their reactor, he was preparing for anything, from a medical emergency to taking the Enterprise into battle with a heavily armed fleet of Romulan warbirds.
Data's console beeped softly, breaking the boredom that had stifled the bridge. "The computer has finished, sir," said Data. "I believe that the message may be intelligible."
"Play it, Mister Data."
A burst of static came over the speakers, then, barely audible through the white noise, a voice. "…is Commander Hawth … eneral distress … acked by alien vess … to defend! Please assist, repeat …"
The transmission ended abruptly.
"Records indicate that a Commander Hawthorn is in command of the outpost," said Data.
Picard ignored him. "Ensign Rager," he said, "increase speed to maximum."
Captain's log, Stardate 43994.1. The Enterprisehas arrived at Jouret IV in response to a distress signal from one of the Federation's outermost colonies.
The Enterprise had been conducting long range scans of the system for fully five hours before they entered it, and as they grew closer, sensors picked up an emergency log buoy. The distress signal was coming from it. The Enterprise headed straight for the fourth planet, but sensor scans revealed nothing. In this, Picard was not surprised. This close to the Romulan neutral zone, secrecy was of paramount importance, and the fourth planet had been chosen because its atmosphere produced a great deal of interference, rendering all but the most basic sensor scans useless.
And so, with no way to ascertain what had happened from orbit and the colony remaining completely silent, Picard ordered an away team.
William Riker was the last of the team to enter the transporter room. Picard had given him his orders on the bridge before he left. Nothing fancy, just beam down, find out what happened and beam back. No more than ten minutes. And if they couldn't find out, then Picard would order another away team, heavily armed. There would be no risks taken today. So, when Riker came in, the rest of the team – Geordi, Data and Worf – were already standing at the foot of the transporter platform.
"Anything from the surface?" Riker asked. It was a long shot, yes, but he had been holding out hope that somehow the Enterprise had managed to establish contact, or someone on the planet had been able to repair whatever damage they'd experienced.
Worf's expression told him otherwise. "No sir. There have been no communications from the colony for over twelve hours."
"Sensors picking up any signs of life?"
Worf shook his head. "None."
Riker turned to O'Brien, a questioning look.
"The surface environment is safe for transport, Commander," O'Brien told him.
Riker nodded, and the away team stepped up onto the transporter pad. "Energize," he said.
The away team materialised on what was supposed to be a grassy field, the town square in the middle of the colony. But the sky was dark, with a thick cloud of dust hanging on it, and the ground itself was covered with dirt, soil and rocks, some larger than the prefabricated houses that the colonists had lived in. Riker coughed and kicked the ground with his foot. The layer of dust was fairly thin, and where he had kicked it away, he could see grass, still green, just starting to lose its colour and turn brown. He guessed that however the ground had gotten this coating of dust, it had happened at the same time that contact with the colony was lost.
Riker looked around. Wherever he was, it wasn't the colony he had been expecting. Standing in the town square, he should have been seeing the village off to the east, and the science labs, colony operations and the fusion reactor to the west. But there was nothing. He tapped his combadge. "Mister O'Brien, verify these are accurate coordinates for the New Providence colony."
There was a slight pause as O'Brien double checked. "Coordinates verified, sir," he said. "You're at the center of town."
Riker glanced at the rest of the away team. Geordi was looking around, and even though there was concern on his face, Riker knew that the blind engineer was using his visor to try to find some indication as to what happened. Worf was standing in a ready stance, prepared for action, his hand hovering within reach of the phaser on his hip. And Data had a tricorder in his hand, performing scans.
Riker nodded his head, an unmistakable follow me gesture, and he lead the way through the rubble and boulders to the west. It was awkward going across the littering of small stones. As they stepped around a larger than average boulder, they stopped short. Stretching away from them into the distance was a huge great chasm, a great rip in the surface of the planet. As though the crust itself has been scooped out and carried away.
And, as bizarre as this was, Riker had seen it before. Eight thousand light years away, having been flung far from Federation space, the Enterprise had encountered this exact same phenomenon. Riker's blood ran cold. If what had happened in system J-25 had happened here as well, then it could mean only one thing.
The Borg had reached Federation space.


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Additionally, with this being a World Cup year, Doshi anticipates 2014 will "be a strong year for EA's "FIFA" franchise." Doshi also highlighted EA's gains in the digital sales and mobile games. as digital revenue now accounts for more than 40% of the company's total sales, and mobile games make up about 10% of revenue.
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Hello lovelies! First of all, I apologize for not getting back to your comments. I slipped and fell on my ballet flats as I'm going to the doctor ( an ironic thing to happen, i say) and I've been recuperating my sore arm and hip these past few days. I've been browsing the 2011 s/s collections and I admit, Dolce and Gabbana's sexy lace dresses are my favorite. White lace for me evokes a romantic casual mood so I was inspired to dress up in my own lace dress for meeting with friends.
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Hi everyone, I hope you are all well and doing lots of stitching!
Here is my completed Country Cottage Needlework - Ice Cream Sundae finish, it was such an easy stitch, I think I am going to be doing quite a few of these designs as I really enjoyed stitching this.
Don't you think the colours are just yummy?
I have posted quite a few pictures for you to get a good close up view and get a real feel for the design.
Gosh, I could just eat some Ice Cream!
You can buy the pattern from Sew and So in England here
and here in America, just scroll down the pages and you will find the pattern.
Stitching news
It looks like my exchange to Yana has got lost in the post, I am sooooo disappointed. I am going to wait a couple more weeks to see if it finally arrives, if not I shall have to make another one, which is so annoying!
I have started another exchange, but this one is for a lady in England, I do not think I will be as worried when I send that, but I will be using recorded delivery!
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I'd probably have to nail it down to one group, The Beatles. There are other favorites that are close...but not that close...behind them.
As for what types of music I enjoy, well - that's such a wide spectrum, it's hard to pick just one. I enjoy just about anything, from classical music to jump blues, big band, bluegrass to Celtic (bagpipes make me get misty-eyed!), etc. I especially enjoy listening to the buskers on the streets. Unless they're completely crappy, they'll always get a few bucks out of me.
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So, I was about to buy some Burt's Bees facial moisturizer etc today and then I decided maybe I should try to make my own or read up on it first.
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One hundred years after Theodore Roosevelt proposed studying the European model of nationalized health insurance, America has finally listened. Instead of a direct route to the Bismarck-style system in which the population is divided among multiple private payers, Americans opted for a voluntary employer-based system.
It took nearly fifty years after Roosevelt for the country to provide elderly retirees and extremely poor Americans coverage with Medicare and Medicaid. All the while, federal employees, the military, and veterans were placed into other risk pools. Still, most Americans either obtained their health insurance through the benevolence of "the progressive employer" or went without.
The uninsured were left at the mercy of a for-profit insurance industry designed to do one thing: deliver profits for shareholders. That is the system we have inherited, largely unchanged, until recently.
The Affordable Care Act, recently affirmed by the Supreme Court, will require that almost all Americans obtain health insurance. But it falls far short of ensuring universal health care in the United States. While the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act is a step in the right direction, the rational and universal health care system envisioned by Roosevelt requires several additional reforms.
•Demanding quality. Patients and payers must demand the highest quality and the best evidence-based medical care from hospitals and physicians. While this proposition likely includes pay-for-performance, quality initiatives should focus on validity and provider buy-in in the near term before placing significant financial risk on physicians and facilities.
•Demanding time. Today's frenetic pace of 15-minute office visits and office hours revolving around the physician's schedule does little to benefit the patient. Instead, it likely leads to over-testing, unscheduled visits to urgent care centers and emergency rooms, and frustrated patients. One of the greatest remedies a physician can offer his or her patient is time.
Our health care system must incentivize time with doctors, specifically, time that is convenient to patients. Insurers need to start paying physicians more money whenever they see patients after 5p.m., on the weekends, or in their homes.
•Exchanging information. One of the most unnerving aspects of working in the health care system is that information is spread across multiple platforms and is unnecessarily difficult to access for health care providers. This delays care, results in duplication, and is dangerous to patients when providers must practice without sufficient information. Patients and providers alike should demand a repository of medical information that is easily accessible, secure and constantly available to facilitate the practice of medicine while minimizing duplication.
•Community level controls. A one-size-fits-all national approach to health reform will not adequately benefit patients in all corners of this vast and diverse country. Communities, whether at the state, county, or municipal level, should be the locus for much of reform's outreach efforts. At a minimum, each state should control and narrowly tailor health care decisions to its population.
•A universal risk pool. A bold step toward universal health care requires the consolidation of risk pools. Health insurance, like any other type of insurance, works best whenever the risk is spread across a broad population. The presence of more than six major federal health programs, countless state and local health programs, and dozens of private health insurers partitions the public into smaller and smaller subsets, which makes adequate spreading of risk unnecessarily difficult. Ultimately, risk should be spread across broad communities, such as entire states, as is happening in Vermont.
•Eliminating the profit motive. Lastly, the profit motive must be removed from health care. While physicians and nurses should receive fair compensation for service to their patients, institutions such as hospitals and insurers should never profit from of the misfortunes of another human being. The non-profit model worked well in the early days of private health insurance; the discriminatory practices of modern day insurers only surfaced upon the arrival of their for-profit cohorts.
Several Western capitalist societies already possess a private, non-for-profit health insurance sector. We would be wise to look to these nations, Switzerland and Germany especially, as a roadmap to universal health care in the United States.
Dr. Cedric Dark is an emergency room physician at St. Agnes Hospital and founder and executive editor of Policy Prescriptions. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @policyrx.


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03/26/2009 (09:31PM - 10:00PM) (Thursday) : WHILE JACK'S (ALEC BALDWIN) 50TH BIRTHDAY INSPIRES HIM TO RECREATE HAPPY MOMENTS FROM HIS PAST, TRACY (TRACY MORGAN) DECIDES TO FULFILL A CHILDHOOD DREAM. DENNIS DUFFY (DEAN WINTERS) RETURNS WITH A HEARTFELT CONFESSION FOR LIZ (TINA FEY) AND SURPRISINGLY JENNA (JANE KRAKOWSKI) TOO.
While Jack (Baldwin) plans the perfect 50th birthday party for himself he watches old home videos that inspire him to recreate one of the happiest moments he had as a young boy. Liz's (Fey) ex-boyfriend Dennis "The Beeper King" (Winters) decides to come clean to Liz about an addiction, stirring up drama between Liz and Jenna (Krakowski). Kenneth (Jack McBrayer) and Pete (Scott Adsit) team up to make Tracy's (Morgan) childhood dream come true. Also stars Judah Friedlander, Keith Powell and Katrina Bowden.


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Overview of Church Records
| Church Records
This article is part of a series.
|Overview of Church Records
|Types of Church Records
|Finding Church Records
|List of Selected Denominations
|List of Useful Church References
This article originally appeared in "Church Records" by Elizabeth Crabtree Wells, MA, MLS in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
Church records are a rich resource for the genealogical and historical researcher. In many parts of the country, church records predate civil records. They therefore document vital events, giving birth, marriage, and death information that might otherwise be lost. Besides providing names and dates, church records may reveal relationships between people and depict a family's status in the community. In addition, entries of a personal nature are not uncommon, and these can offer a glimpse into an ancestor's character or habits.
If church records are so valuable a tool, why do researchers often neglect these records? Perhaps the answer lies in the historical complexity of religious organization, evidenced by a large number of denominations. The Columbia Encyclopedia identifies more than two hundred religious denominations under the main heading 'Protestantism.'<ref>Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., s.v. 'Protestantism.' New York: Columbia University Press, 2001'05.</ref> Furthermore, the majority of these denominations have undergone many changes'splits or mergers resulting in the formation of various branches or sects'or philosophical differences that, when unresolved, have ended with the demise of a denomination or sect. To further complicate matters, the records created about the members of a denomination may be housed locally, regionally, or nationally. These conditions can make the identifying of an individual church and the locating of its records quite difficult.
Another factor that contributes to the under use of church records is terminology. Churches use a unique vocabulary to describe who they are and what they do. Sometimes the same concept is described with different terms by different denominations. An example may be taken from denominational hierarchy. Baptist churches join together in associations, Lutherans and Presbyterians form synods, Methodists unite in conferences, and Episcopalian and Roman Catholic churches are linked to the diocese. Knowing these differences in terms helps to identify the records to explore.
Even within records, terms can differ. In some congregations, the arrival and removal of members were regularly recorded. While these records can be especially helpful in providing information about a member's old and new communities, and making it possible to track members from one location to another, they are often called by different names and are thus frequently overlooked. The Society of Friends typically called them certificates of removal, Baptists called them letters of admission, some called them letters of transfer, and some called them dismissions. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints they are certificates of membership.
Confusion over terminology also applies when one tries to interpret entries within a particular record. For example, marriage dispensations in the Roman Catholic Church authorize a priest to perform the marriage ceremony despite the presence of conditions that normally forbade this. The religious law that was being circumvented will be identified in the dispensation papers. Two laws are 'Disparity of Cult or Worship' and 'Affinity.' Knowing that 'Disparity' forbids marriage of a Catholic to a nonbaptized person and that 'Affinity' forbids marrying the third cousin or any near-blood relative of one's deceased husband or wife helps the researcher understand more about the people who were to be wed. It is worth noting that the most frequently requested dispensation was from publication of the banns. Banns were the formal church announcement of an intended marriage, made on a specific number of Sundays prior to the marriage.
Finally, the practice of many ethnic groups to maintain congregational records in their native language can present an obstacle for a researcher who does not read or understand that language. Particularly in the decades following the establishment of a church by an immigrant group, it is possible to find church records in Dutch, German, Polish, Spanish, and so on. Many old Catholic parish registers were written in Latin. With logic and a dual-language dictionary, the record can usually be deciphered. In some cases, the services of a translator may be needed.
Despite these many obstacles and challenges, a search of church records is becoming less formidable with each passing year. Today's technology has merged with years of records preservation by archivists, curators, and researchers to make records more readily available. Improved access and knowing how religion developed in America enables a seeker to more fully utilize this important source.
Church records vary a great deal in content and emphasis according to the basic theology and the social role of each denomination. Studying the background of the 'Old Country' churches helps us to better understand the organization of the 'New World' churches. One useful distinction is between 'state' churches and so-called 'free' churches.
State Churches and Free Churches
The 'state' churches were those European churches in which every Christian in the state or kingdom was considered a member. Because of doctrinal differences and the concept of the church's place in the political arena, the state church records took on a different degree of importance and significance to the local congregation and to the civil community. The keeping of parish registers in countries with state churches was obligatory. This task usually fell to the pastor or the parish priest.
In contrast to the 'state' church, the 'free' or 'gathered' churches emphatically rejected inclusive and obligatory membership in the church from birth. Rather, only those who had been 'born again' in Christ and baptized as an adult could be considered true members of the church. While the records of the state church required noting the birth of a child and his or her baptism, the records of the free church may have only mentioned a birth, perhaps as an occasion for celebration by the congregation; the free church focused instead on the importance of the person's rebirth in Christ and his or her conduct. These details were carefully recorded, while other events of the congregation were noted solely at the discretion of the church clerk.
Theology was not the only factor that determined the types of records to be kept. Sometimes it was the local church clerk or official who would decide what events would be worth recording. In Scandinavia and many German states, the Lutheran church was the established church. The Lutheran pastor was a quasi-public official who was the authorized recorder of births, deaths, and marriages. Similarly, in England, a 1538 Act of Parliament required all ministers of the Church of England to record baptisms, marriages, and burials in their parishes. In 1597, another parliamentary act reinforced the original law, requiring that duplicates of parish records be sent annually to the bishop of the pertinent diocese (thereby creating the valuable bishops' transcripts). Pastors were also official record keepers in Scotland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and certain German states where Calvinism became the established faith.
In areas of Europe where Roman Catholicism was the established faith, parish priests were the official recorders of baptisms, marriages, and burials. These priests were accountable to more than local parliaments, however. In 1563, the church's Council of Trent issued a decree requiring proof of baptism before marriage. Subsequent decrees reinforced this edict, notably that of Pope Paul V in 1614, which made parish registers obligatory.
Churches in America
This distinction between 'state' or 'free' church in the Old Country came with the immigrants who ventured to the New World. The churches established by these newcomers reflected the clergy, the doctrine, and the record-keeping practices of the congregations back home.
In most of the American colonies, state churches were established. In New England, the Congregational church generally held sway. To the South (Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina), the Church of England (Protestant Episcopal) became the established church. There were, however, important exceptions. Maryland, though originally founded as a haven for Roman Catholics, was for a time Anglican. And in New Netherland (now New York), as long as the Dutch were in control, the Dutch Reformed Church (the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church until 1867 and now the Reformed Church in America) was the established church. It was the only Christian denomination that could hold public worship. The Dutch minister married nearly every couple and baptized nearly every child in the city prior to the English takeover in 1664.
Some of these established churches functioned on a colonial or state level until well after the American Revolution. But the variety of immigrant groups, each with their own religious preferences, ultimately defeated most attempts to impose religious uniformity.
Following the American Revolution, traditional record-keeping practices changed to accommodate a more mobile society, intent on westward movement. As families left the established Eastern seaboard, they sometimes left the traditional church as well, adopting a pioneer spirit that included a different religious fervor. Churches along the migration routes still featured the established denominations, but they were decidedly less dominant. Instead, the more open, less restrictive, and less formal evangelical movements prevailed. Baptist, Church of God, Methodist, and Presbyterian took hold and flourished.
Despite their religious preferences, these pioneers did not always have the luxury of their particular clergy. For example, a Methodist in Louisiana could have married in a Congregationalist Church. A Kentucky Episcopalian may have been buried by a circuit-riding Baptist or Presbyterian preacher. If these events were not documented by a civil authority, they may have been noted in the records of the closest local congregation or painstakingly scripted into the diary of an itinerant minister. Your ancestor's records may have been kept but perhaps not in the county, parish, or congregation where you expect to find them.
While there are numerous and widely variant religious groups in the United States, there are at least five types of records that are kept by almost all churches. These are records of (1) baptism and christening, (2) marriage, (3) death and burial, (4) confirmation, and (5) membership. Although the format and emphasis may vary among the denominations, there are some universal characteristics of these record types.


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How slow are you going for snow to build up on your car?
Again, Vawlkus +1. My thoughts exactly. He would also need to drive cold car so that snow doesn't simply melt and slide off.
Really? Too hard too imagine? Come by Toronto on the 401.
Remember it doesn't require a feet of snow on the roof to make it inconvenient. Even a few mm of snow build up on the roof can cause problems when passengers open the door.
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Remember it doesn't require a feet of snow on the roof to make it inconvenient. Even a few mm of snow build up on the roof can cause problems when passengers open the door"
Thats the same with normal doors tho as well. Snow buildup falls into the car at some point, its kind of inevitable. But if people are going to try and open the falcon wing doors with like 6" or a foot of snow on the roof are either really ignorant, or just plain lazy...
I acknowledge that it will be MORE of an issue with the falcon wings, but IMO its not that huge of a deal.
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"I acknowledge that it will be MORE of an issue with the falcon wings, but IMO its not that huge of a deal."
You phrased it well.
First I did have some doubts regarding the Falcon Wing doors, but since I have spoken to Karl (Tesla Motors, at the Get Amped tour in Antwerp, Belgium) I am not that concerned any more. It will be a matter of getting used to it. And it looks great.
I agree as well!!
On the side note, how do the door handles operate on the X? It doesnt look like the front handles pop out.
Are they using an electric pop out mechanism?
Ive been trying to find a single video online that shows a person unlocking and opening the front doors and couldnt find any.
I hope they have soft close doors as an option going forward on both the S and X.
With the frameless doors, I wouldnt want my passengers slamming them. One of my favourite features on my BMW. My 7 year old can effortlessly close the door everytime without ever having to slam it under any condition (windy, hill slope etc)
Its cheap too! BMW charges about $600 for the option.
The door handles on the X will retract the same way as the S. The placement is just a little different to make it flow better and to look like a single piece, since the door opens up and the handle does not nee to be toward the rear of the door, and yes, they are using an electric pop out mechanism.
The rear doors of the Model X will be motorized, so for passengers in the rear, door slamming should not be a problem.
The front doors do not open "up". They're standard front-hinged doors. Only the passenger doors are falconized.
I was talking about the door HANDLES. The front door handles go all the way to the edge so i cant imagine how they would pop out like the model s. it would make it too weak to have it linked to only one side.
I have yet to see a person open the front doors on video.
I believe they are just push activated (for the prototype) which probably pops the door open.
The model s handles need support on both sides when they pop out. Once again, the X shows the front handles as being flush with the edge of the door.
Hmm i think the outside of the handle extends to the edge but the actual handle is not at the edge. This would make sense flor having them pop open.
Sorry for the confusion !
I guess I left out that the rear doors open up, but I thought that was logical, since I added that the handle does not need to go at the back (referring to but not metioning the back door), but I see how a statement like that could be misconstrued. Anyway, tn7n your last post is correct. What I said before about 'flow' is what I see as the reason behind the design.
You can see in the following video that the handles do not pop out on the Falcon doors: http://vimeo.com/38751508
Thanks Alex for the Video :) I was just referring to the front doors. I can't find a reason why Tesla should have the handles pop out for the fw doors.
Same reason they do on the MS. It's sexy.
Don't you hate it when you're driving behind an SUV or Van in the winter and a big block of snow and/or ice flies off its roof and smashes into your car? Worse yet, when it breaks your windshield. Or the very worst case, when it breaks through the windshield and kills the occupants of your car? Not hyperbole, it happens. That's why some states have laws requiring drivers to remove snow and ice from their vehicles. If that's not a good enough reason for Model X drivers to brush the snow off, how about range? Weight and aero-drag from snow on your roof will reduce your mileage. I grew up in the Cleveland area and drove vans for many years. We had lots of snow. It doesn't build up on top of moving vehicle, especially with a warm interior, except in pretty extreme conditions, so opening the falcon doors is unlikely to result in an avalanche of snow coming into the X. Not saying that no snow will ever come in, but that's true of almost any car. I think the problem is over stated here. A little common sense and responsible snow brushing and the X should be just fine. Or, how about an optional huge snow wiper/brush for the roof of the X for those that can't work a brush with a 2-4 foot long telescoping handle?
Does that make you Lush2? ;)
Just replying to get the conversation going (I support the Model X and Tesla 200%).
1. FW doors cannot be closed or opened at the speed of regular doors where you can pretty much HELP prevent snow/rain from getting into the car.
By the time the FW doors open/close, your seats will be soaked in the rain or you'll get some snow in the car + on top of ur occupants when it is snowing REALLY hard.
2. It wouldn't make sense to put the door handles on the FW doors as they GO UP and using a handle to bring them up would be awkward (BUT THE HANDLES ARE ONE OF THE SEXIEST THINGS ABOUT THE MODEL S :D)
3. I Hope Aluminum Running boards on the side are an option for smaller occupants to get in/out.
4. The BMW i3 is a flop. Only has 4 bucket seats in the back. (I threw this in to stir up conversation lol )
I really do not feel that too much snow or rain will get it. A lot more thought went into the design that one might think.
Also, the car is not going to be very high. It is essentially a car, and not an SUV. Also, with the active air suspension, the car is lowered when turned off and can be lowered on demand using the controls on the touch screen.
As for the door handle, I have not seen it in person, so I cannot speculate on it.
Falcon doors are the same as a hatchback. How much rain/snow gets into the car when the rear hatch is open? I've had Outbacks and Audi Avants for the last 15 yrs and no issue there.
Just announced at Norway Event... Model X will have towing capabilities ... That's two reservations from within my family right there...
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A week after harrowing riots in London that spread to other British cities, the voice of a first-generation Muslim whose son was killed may prove to be the most eloquent cry for sanity.
Hours after failing to revive his son Haroon and two others killed in Birmingham by a car that drove at high speed into a sidewalk crowd, Tariq Jahan, born in Pakistan, was able to stand before a crowd bent on revenge, and say, "I lost my son. Blacks, Asians, whites: We all live in the same community. Why do we have to kill one another? Why are we doing this? Step forward if you want to lose your sons. Otherwise, calm down and go home, please."
Mr. Jahan's few hundred words shot out of the multiethnic Birmingham neighborhood, lighting up the Twitter and YouTube worlds and becoming a kind of anthem of sober reflection for all Brits, forged out of pain and loss.
Jahan is getting credit for reaching average people in a way that political leaders have been unable to. His story and his deeds are getting daily play here; a Financial Times editorial, "Disunited Kingdom," found Jahan's example the "most inspiring" from a "torrid week" and a "reminder of the obligations of community."
"Tariq Jahan's dignified pleas for calm, in spite of his own loss, have helped diffuse tensions," says Paul Bickley of Theos, a London think tank on religion and society. "Cities and towns across the UK will need many more people of faith to build solidarity over the coming months."
Jahan was in a crowd that was protecting shops in a Muslim community when he heard a car crashing. He first tried to help two brothers and then found that his son was the third victim. He tried first aid, and whispered to Haroon to stay alive while an ambulance arrived. But the 21-year-old did not survive. Jahan later read from prepared notes to an angry crowd, backed by local leaders of different races. (Listen to his speech here.)
Cameron chides a 'broken society'
British leaders today fought to define why and how violence could spontaneously combust in London and Britain for three days of looting. Prime Minister David Cameron blamed fatherless families and lax schooling. Today, he called the riots evidence of a "slow-motion moral collapse" that will require tough policing. Opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband has blamed a culture of wealth and banking that is alien and impossible for youths to participate in, and criticized politicians for a lack of leadership and for offering "knee-jerk gimmicks" in now trying to deal with the problem.
Yet in the uneasy calm on the streets today, and amid the high-level bickering, Jahan is in some ways the Rodney King of Britain, even if he had no role in the riots.
In 1991, Los Angeles police officers were caught on camera brutally beating Mr. King, an African-American, after he led them on a high-speed car chase. Despite public outrage over the beating, a jury cleared the officers of almost all charges in April 1992, sparking five-day riots across the city that left 54 people dead and caused millions of dollars in damages. But King's later spontaneous plea, "I mean, why can't we all just get along," seemed an antidote to raw feelings.
The British media swarmed for details on the unlikely hero, Jahan. It turns out he is the kind of person, both a devout Muslim and an ardent British patriot, that the often embattled immigrant community has long said are typical but rarely noticed. He is a delivery man of Pakistani and Indian parentage. As a young man he was found solace in a radical cleric, but later rejected the message and found his own sense of self and peace in doing good for others in his Muslim community.
"A vast majority of first-generation Pakistani Muslim immigrants came here to live with the hope of leading peaceful, prosperous lives, and see it as in their interests to hold communities together," notes Mr. Buckley of Theos. "Although the riots have not been racially motivated, they have threatened to exacerbate tensions between different communities."
Jahan gave a news conference last week thanking young people for apparently hearing his message (he had initially expressed doubt that younger people would listen) and on Sunday presided over a memorial service at Summerfield Park in Birmingham.
At some very basic level, the sudden rioting appears to have been a mass uprising of have-nots vs. haves, with an old grudge against British police in the background. It was sparked by the shooting of a young man in the Tottenham area of London by police who earlier identified him as a gun carrier, though it appears he did not fire a weapon at police. (The official police explanation is pending an investigation.)
Why did it happen?
Yet as it spread, the anger and looting cut across vast differences in ages, race, class, and locales and has defied easy explanations.
One of the first looters to appear in court was a teacher's assistant. At the sales counter of a Waterstone's book store in London, copies of William Golding's novel of anarchy, "Lord of the Flies" were on sale. The riot debate may have knocked out historian David Starkey from his TV commentary role after he praised British fascist leader Enoch Powell and said that "black culture" and whites who "have become black" were responsible.
Adding to the Tory argument of family breakdown and the Labour view of disparity of wealth, the riots have been variously attributed to spiritual vacuity, nihilism, a lack of hope or stake in the future, or pent-up anger while British elites were at beachside villas in Italy and Spain.
One possible explanation for the spread of looting beyond London is the use of riots to settle older local scores. The British riots, in this view, quickly became an excuse for gangs to fight each other with impunity.
This may be one explanation behind the killing of Jahan's son Haroon. He and other young Muslims were protecting shops in Birmingham against looting by other ethnic groups, mainly said to be African-Caribbean, with whom there have been tensions.
In Jahan's initial plea for peace he called Haroon a "good lad" who "stood up for the community," and later added that, "I miss him dearly, but two days from now the whole world will forget – no one will care."
In this, Britain may have shown that Jahan was mistaken.
Meanwhile, one immediate dispute in the post-riot fallout is whether to hire American "supercop" William Bratton, who had success in New York and Los Angeles with limiting gang homicide, and who appears eager to come. Mr. Cameron has favored the idea but Home Secretary Theresa May and Police Association chief Sir Hugh Orde have said the US and UK are too different. Mr. Bratton told the Guardian today he would be willing to change his passport to take a top job, but odds are he may be retained as an adviser.


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Economic growth in the Arab countries of the Middle East, excluding Iraq, averaged 5.1 percent in 2000 thanks to higher oil prices, a UN report said Tuesday.
Hazem Biblawi, secretary general of the Beirut-based United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), said the estimated 2000 growth compared with only 2.6 percent in 1999 and 1.7 percent in 1998.
Presenting an ESCWA report, Biblawi said the growth was due "principally to the improvement in petroleum revenues due to rises in production and prices."
The ESCWA is made up of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Syria and Yemen, as well as the Palestinian territories.
Total oil revenues rose 70.8 percent from a year earlier to 166 billion dollars, the report said.
Consequently, the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait) posted the strongest growth, averaging 5.8 percent.
Egypt, Jordan and Yemen posted 3.2 percent growth rates, Syria was at 1.5 percent growth and Lebanon at a rate of 1.0 percent.
The Palestinian territories saw a decline in growth of 3.5 percent due to the Israeli blockade on their economy.
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