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A Chico citizen wants the City Council to discuss and then sign a resolution supporting the Second Amendment.
Oh, this will be fun.
I'm not talking about the discussion, though that may be entertaining as well. I'm just talking about the question of whether the council even bothers to discuss the issue at all.
The council doesn't just discuss something. First, the councilors have to discuss whether they will discuss something.
That's what will happen Tuesday. Toby Schindelbeck, a conservative who has been out of the limelight since losing in the City Council election in November, has written a letter to the city. He wants the council to sign a resolution in support of the Second Amendment.
Schindelbeck says he represents an organization called Responsible Gun Owners of Butte County. He said many cities and counties are adopting resolutions in support of the right to bear arms in the wake of increased calls for gun control. He reminds councilors they took an oath to uphold the Constitution and should sign up to support this constitutional right.
The council on Tuesday could decide whether to hold a later meeting to debate the resolution. Or they could just ignore Schindelbeck's request.
It's a tricky question.
Chances are, the left-leaning council has no desire to support or even debate such a resolution. A roomful of gun owners must make them shudder. But the council can't just refuse to discuss it. To ignore a citizen's request would set a bad precedent. So they need a strong rationale for not taking up the issue.
How about this? "We firmly believe in the Second Amendment, but we think this is a debate that belongs in Washington and Sacramento, not Chico. We aren't contemplating any local gun-control laws. If this is about state and federal legislation, any resolution we pass here won't influence politicians in Washington and Sacramento one iota. Besides, we have some big local problems to fix here, like the city manager's proposed restructuring and our community's crime problem. All of our limited resources should be spent on local issues, not national issues."
Most people would buy that argument. Unless they know local history.
This is the same City Council that spent several meetings last year discussing "corporate personhood," another debate that belongs in Washington, not Chico, where instead it's just a bunch of people bloviating three minutes at a time so they can feel like they had some global impact.
And before corporate personhood, there was the council discussion about fair trade agreements. And the Iraq war. And global warming. And a new tobacco tax. And banning slavery. And banning nuclear bombs.
Sensitive to the comments from naysayers like me who believe the city is wasting time on matters beyond its control, people who supported those issues did contortions to try to convince others that the issues were important to discuss at the local level.
I'm anxious to hear how those same people justify ignoring this gun control question, if they do.
I haven't changed my mind. Discussing the Second Amendment at the City Council level makes as much sense as debating corporate personhood — that is, none at all. You might as well also throw in debates Tuesday about the sequester cuts, drones and Obamacare.
The problem is, the council already opened the door. They can't close the door now — especially when a bunch of gun owners are waiting right outside.
Well played, Toby Schindelbeck. Either way, it seems, he's forcing the council to make a political statement. Isn't politics fun?
David Little is editor of the Enterprise-Record and Oroville Mercury-Register. His column appears each Sunday. Email him at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter, @ER_DavidLittle.


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"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." ~ Albert Camus
Pay Your 'Fair Share' of Taxes – to Fund State-Ruination of Society
Column by Scott Lazarowitz.
Exclusive to STR
As another Tax Day comes and goes, and as Congress debates which drunken-sailor spending bill to pass – the Republican drunken-sailor bill or the Democrat drunken-sailor bill – and as they debate whether or not to raise the Debt Ceiling (as though we don't already know the answer), and as America continues on the path toward total destruction, perhaps now is the time to really question just how legitimate the current taxation scheme really is.
Very nice. Its a critical point that the more money government has, the worse off the people are.
Whatever needs doing can and WILL be done by civil society without coercive funding. When coercive funding is used (taxation or theft-via-fiat-currency and legal tender laws) then more and more of what the government does is evil, and whatever good is being done by government is innefficient or worse without true market guidance, which includes especially the right of customers to say "no" with impunity.
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In this undated image released by Seriously Organized, a cluttered closet of Christmas decorations is shown prior to an organizing project. Nikki Havens of Seriously Organized in Bloomington, Minn., recommends starting with your entry hall closet. Small closet or walk-in, it's important to use the most convenient spot in your home to your advantage. (AP Photo/Seriously Organized)
If, like me, you spent this winter hibernating and eating baked goods, your home may have paid the price. Maybe it got a little disorganized, or is starting to look like an episode of "Hoarders."
Spring is a great time to shake off that winter sluggishness and free yourself from clutter.
But where to begin? Spring cleaning can feel overwhelming if your to-do list is more like a to-do novel.
Never fear: Three professional organizers are here to offer three projects you can do in an afternoon each:
Nikki Havens of Seriously Organized in Bloomington, Minn., recommends starting with your entry hall closet. Small closet or walk-in, use the most convenient spot in your home to your advantage. First, identify the coats you actually wear and pull out anything you don't, along with outerwear that's wrong for the season.
"If you have too much stuff, you can't find anything," Havens says.
After culling your coat collection, she suggests using the floor for frequently used shoes, and adding two shelves directly above them. Buy two color-coded bins for each family member and label them with names. (Don't forget the dog, who comes with its own clutter.)
Place the first set of bins on the bottom shelf. These baskets should be used for seasonal accessories, like hats and gloves in the winter or goggles in the summer.
"If you don't use it a couple of times a week it shouldn't be there," Havens says. "Keep two pairs of gloves — you don't need eight."
Use the second shelf of bins for what Havens calls the "clutter control center." From hairbands to finger-painting masterpieces, these tubs are the place to throw odds and ends as you come in the door.
Finally, Havens recommends removing the hanging bar and installing hooks in a diamond-shaped pattern for coats and bags. Kids can take the lower hooks while adults claim the top ones.
Once you've mastered the hall closet, Brooke Butin and Heather Perrilliat of HeatherBrookes in Los Angeles have a plan for tackling your bedroom closet.
The first thing to do is purge, Butin explains. Create a donate pile, a consignment pile and a give-to-friends pile.
Perrilliat suggests trying on anything you haven't worn in a while. You could even invite a friend and turn the chore into a fashion show.
"Not everyone has the budget to buy new clothes," Butin says. "Look for clothes that could get new life from an alteration — you could save a couple hundred dollars by spending 20."
Once you've cleared out the old, take stock of what's left. Seasonal clothes should be boxed up and put in storage. The rest should be placed on matching hangers facing the same direction and categorized by type — i.e., shirts, pants, dresses.
"You have to make your closet function for you," Perrilliat says. "If you're a jeans and T-shirt person, keep those toward the front."
After you've categorized, organize your clothes by color within each category. Use closet tab dividers between categories if you want to go the extra mile. These can be particularly helpful with look-alike items — no more struggling to distinguish skinny jeans from bootcut at 6 in the morning.
Butin advises utilizing vertical space for accessories and shoes. The shelf above the hanging bar can house hat boxes and shoes stored in clear plastic boxes. Side walls can hold hooks for handbags, and a corkboard can display jewelry. Belts get messy quickly, she warns, so rolling them and placing them in a basket is your best bet. You can also keep your go-to shoes in a basket on the floor.
With your closets in order, the last, oft-dreaded task is at hand: organizing files. Most of us would rather clean toilets than take on this project, but it's probably the most important. Luckily, you can kill two anxiety-causing birds with one stone by pulling your tax files as you go.
If you have a filing system in place, Mia Carpiniello of Organizing Philly in Philadelphia suggests pulling out every file and seeing what you can get rid of or consolidate. Consult with an attorney about legal documents, but in general, you can recycle or shred any items you haven't looked at in a year.
Receipts and manuals for items you no longer own and any regular bill statements you don't need for tax or legal reasons should also get the heave-ho. Pull out any tax-related files from the previous year and keep them in a separate pile.
If you don't have a filing system in place, "it's best to make a list of which files you'll need before you create them," Carpiniello says.
Organize files into long-term reference and temporary action files (i.e., invitations and bills). Long-term reference files should live in the file cabinet, whereas temporary files should be stored on your desk and categorized into actions, such as "To pay" or "To respond."
To keep your desk clutter-free, Carpiniello recommends an inbox where you can keep paperwork until you have time to deal with it. Alphabetizing or color-coding files is a personal choice, but all your files should have tabs on the left side instead of in multiple locations — all that scanning from side to side is hard on the eyes.
For all three projects, take stock of how you're doing after three months.
"If you're not keeping it up, it isn't working," Carpiniello says. "Reevaluate your system or move your system. Eventually you'll find the right one."


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Getting Students to Do the Readings
Imagine what you could do in class if almost all of your students did the readings!
It may seem too obvious to mention, but the first thing you must do if you want your students to do the readings for your class is to get your students to buy the required books. At the first class meeting, tell them that they will have to read and possibly even mark up the books daily for a chance at a passing final grade. If they can't or won't buy the books, they should drop your course.
Be realistic in selecting the books, articles, Web pages, and other materials that you assign. Don't choose a reading because you like it. As an expert in the field, you've internalized all the cognitive shortcuts that make it easy reading for you. Consider that your average student's reading ability is probably marginal at best, and his or her love of sophisticated nonfiction less than passionate. Look for readings with graphics and pictures that reinforce the text, and pare down the required pages to the essentials. The less reading assigned, the more likely students will do it. If you're uncertain about the reading level of an assignment, get a quick analysis at www.harrymclaughlin.com/SMOG.htm.
Sell Students on the Readings
Everyone else is trying to sell our students something. Why aren't we? Do not assume that your students think you have their best interests at heart. Explain why you chose the readings you did, as well as their purpose, value, and relevance to the course. Students see this as a sign of respect. Make explicit connections between the readings and in-class activities, written assignments, and exams. Preview and promote the next reading assignment in class, and help students over the hump by letting them start reading key pieces in class. Finally, stop lecturing the readings in class. Extend or update the material in the readings, or clarify what you know students won't grasp on their own. But you can't expect rational people to do the readings if the knowledge will be spoon-fed to them in class the next day.
Teach Reading Strategies
Chances are your students are not familiar with how textbooks and academic publications are structured, so take a little class time for them to peruse the table of contents, the introduction, and the chapter/section layout. Have them identify "road signs" like headings, subheadings, and bold and italicized text. Why send them into foreign territory without a map?
Teach students how an expert reads, and it's not from the the first word to the last. In order to anticipate the content of a particular reading, we often preview it, skimming through the subheadings, graphics, and italicized words on our way to the conclusion, which we typically read first. Thus, we start at the beginning of a piece already knowing its destination and a bit about how it gets there. Why not share this cognitively efficient reading strategy with our students?
Further, expert readers read with a purpose. As a rule, we're looking for something that's useful and important to our work. Students often tackle assigned readings with no purpose at all, so we have to give them one: study questions to answer, for example, or problems to solve (end-of-chapter or our own).
This type of assignment cues students as to what we consider important, something they desperately want to know. We should have them write out and turn in their answers or solutions and give them points for a good faith effort. Additionally, we should have them write out or concept-map a summary of the readings.
Another expert reading method to teach your students is marginalia, which is actually teaching them how to recognize "the main point" of a passage. Lead an in-class exercise on a few pages of an assigned reading in which the students write three to five words next to each paragraph either summarizing or reacting to the material (your choice). Also have them underline a few key words and phrases—no more than 10 percent of the text. Then have them justify their marginalia and underlining choices and compare their choices against yours.
In a similar way, you can teach your students a related reading strategy: highlighting with discernment. In Weimer's (2005) two-class technique, she builds highlighting into the first two reading assignments and moderates two class discussions about what her students highlighted versus what she highlighted. In this way, students learn what an expert's reasons are for distinguishing some text as central and other text as support or elaboration.
Hold Students Accountable for the Readings
If we don't grade students on an assignment, they think we regard it as unimportant. So to communicate to students the value of the readings, we have to assign reading-related activities that are worth points—enough throughout the semester to total at least 20 percent of the final grade.
Since you're grading on a good faith effort, you needn't comment or correct. Just allocate points for students' meeting the reasonable length requirement you set and demonstrating familiarity with the readings. You can grade these activities as complexly as a 3/2/1/0 points system or as simply 1/0. Best of all, grading these efforts not only motivates students to read but also enhance their learning and retention.
One accountability option is written homework, like having students respond in writing to the study questions or problems mentioned above. Students now average only three hours of homework per week for each course, so it's not unreasonable to expect that they can do more. Further, you can extend the homework into in-class activities.
Another effective alternative is the daily quiz on the readings' major points. For online, pre-class administration, many faculty rely on electronic test banks for basic-level multiple-choice items, which essentially grade themselves. If you print out items for an in-class quiz, you can first have students take it individually and turn it in, then have small groups retake it as a unit.
This second step allows for students talk about the readings. For higher-level quizzing that requires thinking beyond recall, you can compose an in-class mini-essay question. To save time, you can dictate it or display it on a slide. Judging a good faith effort will take you only seconds.
Once you stop lecturing the readings, you will have abundant class time for the third possible activity—in-class written exercises that have students restate, apply, summarize, examine, and/or assess the readings. For instance, students can work on problem solutions to turn in or to present to the class. Or they can do any number of writing-to-learn exercises, such as free-writing on the main points in the readings. The key is to make most or all of the task an individual one, so that a non-reader can't hide behind a reader, then to grade the product on a good faith effort.
Finally, you can hold your class accountable with some kind of in-class oral activity on the readings, preferably where you cold-call on students and, again, grade their answer on a good faith effort. You can start with recitation (recall) questions and move into thought-inducing discussion questions, or even simulations and role plays that require the knowledge in the readings. To ensure "random" cold-calling, put each of your students' name on an index card and shuffle the deck. Mark the good-faith "grade" on the card, return the card to the deck, and shuffle again. Don't let anyone feel too safe or get too comfortable!
References & Resources
Adler, M.J. (1940). How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Blue, T. (2003, March 13). "I Don't Know HOW to Read This Book!" The Irascible Professor. Retrieved October 2, 2007 from www.irascibleprofessor.com/comments-03-14-03-epr.htm.
Boyd, D.R. (n.d.). "Using Textbooks Effectively: Getting Students to Read Them." Teaching Resources, Association for Psychological Science. Retrieved October 2, 2007, from www.psychologicalscience.org/teaching/tips/tips_0603.html.
Connor-Greene, P.A. (2000). "Assessing and Promoting Student Learning: Blurring the Line between Teaching and Testing." Teaching of Psychology, 27, 2, 84-88.
Hobson, E.H. (2004). IDEA Paper #40, "Getting Students to Read: Fourteen Tips." Retrieved October 2, 2007, from http://www.idea.ksu.edu/
Maleki, R.B., & Heerman, C.E. (1992). IDEA Paper #26: "Improving Student Reading." Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University, Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development.
McLaughlin, G.H. (2006). "SMOG: Simple Measure of Gobbledygook" (Readability Calculator). Retrieved October 9, 2007 from http://www.readabilityformulas.com/smog-readability-formula.php.
Nathan, R. (2005). My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Rio Salado College. (n.d.). Textbook Study Strategies. Retrieved October 2, 2007, from http://www.riosalado.edu/counseling/academic-success/Pages/Academic-Success-Toolbox.aspx.
Thompson, B. (2002, June 21). "If I Quiz Them, They Will Come." Chronicle of Higher Education, 48, 41, B5.
Weimer, M. (2002). Learner-centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.


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William Urquhart, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Arts and Sciences - Social Sciences
225-3624 (Fax)
Ketchikan Campus: Paul Bldg
Ph.D., MA, Tulane University
B.S., Oregon State University
William Urquhart's recent doctoral dissertation on school violence and bullying includes ethnographic and statistical studies at a remote Western Alaska village and at an inner-city high school in pre-Katrina New Orleans. This work emphasizes the importance of social account conversations in defining peer group norms for retaliation in disadvantaged areas, and will soon be published in book form as a monograph. His other research interests include Alaskan social problems such as alcoholism and domestic violence, and organizational behavior perspectives on workplace violence. Currently, he is investigating the effect of climatic temperature variation on seasonal domestic violence rate cycles in northern states. He enjoys teaching distance education classes, and some of his course offerings include Theory and Research in Criminology, Social Psychology, and Alaska Social Problems; Deviant Behavior, Organizational Behavior, and Environmental Sociology.
Bill was born and raised in Ketchikan, following four generations of Alaska commercial fishermen, prospectors, and pioneer women. His interest in sociology was piqued through his early experiences commercial fishing with his family, where he observed social change affecting the organizational structure of the industry. Since returning to Alaska from New Orleans in 2002 for dissertation research, Bill has lived in several areas of the state, including time working as an educator and wrestling coach in Western Alaska and in Fairbanks.
In addition to serving as an instructor at UAS, Bill is an independent consultant to several Alaska school districts, working with student information systems and federal and state data reporting. Bill also plays the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipes; he is the Lead Bagpiper with Ketchikan's Misty Thistle Pipes & Drums, and also performs at select solo engagements. Bill enjoys spending his spare time with his wife Frankie, a science teacher in Ketchikan, and their small children, Liam, Neila, and Torran.
Advising contact for all distance-based students in the Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree.


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1 quart strawberries, hulled and halved
1 cup fresh lemon juice
4 cups sugar
Cold water
Lemon slices and whole strawberries for garnish
Place berries in a large saucepan with lemon juice and sugar. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring until sugar dissolves. Let cool.
Strain, pressing with the back of a large spoon to extract juice. Strain again and transfer to refrigerator and chill.
Mix 1 part strawberry syrup with 3 parts water, Pour over ice and garnish.


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UFO Update
Posted by dandare on November 18, 2007
The news from last week, has been largely dominated by the UFO conference, given on the 12 th november,2007. (see here for a link to this). An interesting article to this can be found here , with quite a few links too other sites, videos,ect.
Also Frank Warren has an interesting article, at the American Chronicle "UFOs; keeping Anderson Cooper and CNN honest". He comments on the poor way that the live event was covered by CNN. Also "Expolitics: Your lying eyes" also from the American Chronicle, covers the general coverage from the press as a whole. See also here .
I feel two things will possibly happen as an offshoot of this; there will be more ufo sightings clearly hoaxes, and in relation to this ridicule towards the ufo subject. Also the more extreme, of the ufology community, will start making claims that will not help the cause either. I will write about this in a later blog article.
Other things away from the conference did happen….that i nearly missed.
As the UFO Gulf Breeze incident is 20years old (from 11th november,1987- 1st may 1988…mmm i think) an article from theitem.com is entitled "UFO sightings put Gulf Breeze on the extraterrestrial map". Also the herald tribune mentions the event here . Generally, many believe that it was a hoax from the start.
"Ufo sightings above the sky of Selby" , will be a talk held by Tony Topping, at the community centre, on the 22nd november.
The villageVoice.com seems to have it in for Symington, the Pheonix lights and UFOs in general….see "runnin' scared" for information or lack of for the argument; make sure not to miss the comments at the bottom. For one article about the pheonix lights see here (plus there is information on this site about it).
pasadena star news has information on "close encounters of the rose parade kind" in which "Imagine the interest they could generate this year, especially if they featured presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who acknowledged during a recent Democrat candidates debate that he had seen a UFO. Or Jimmy Carter (ditto). Or former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, who said he was among hundreds who saw a delta-shaped craft with enormous lights silently traverse the sky near Phoenix in 1997" (extract from article).
At the jambar.com, "Students ponder life beyond Earth" in which "Students who took the class last spring at the YSU Metro College in Boardman have formed their own opinions.
Prior to taking the class, former student Tina Fanfer didn't think about life beyond earth" (extract from article).
At PalmBeachCoast.com, "unexplained doesn't mean unbelievable" , and the article is written by someone who is neutral on the subject, although i especiall liked the phrase "science is powerful, but it cannot explain everything".
please visit www.bztoons.com for cartoons for your website (permission is allowed for use on your site).
WFMZ.com has "Local Man's purchase is Out of this world" in which "There are reports of a UFO sighting in Lehigh County. But don't worry, this flying saucer's home-base is Hollywood"…. hehe. The hmmm, sighting details can be seen here and another article can be seen at mcall.com.
A sunderland sighting (see here..posted on the 16th november), was in fact venus, as reported in a seperate article on the same day, here .
On the 15th november,2007 there was "UFo activity above Cyprus", mentioning that "only last week there was a report of a UFO spotted over Limassol town and since an earlier article on UFOs in Cyprus, The Gazette has received many accounts from readers of their unexplained encounters" (extract from article). It also mentions previous UFO sightings.
Yesterday it was reported that "Witness to Roswell flying saucer incident tells his story".
At the summit daily.com "Kucinich is not the only one seeing UFOs" in which Gary Lindstrom adds his take on UFOs.
Other ufo articles of interest are;
"was it a UFO? Two witness believe it was"
"Open letter to governor Symington and james fox"
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Almost 300 people have died after a Malaysia Airlines plane was apparently shot down over Ukraine.
According to reports, nine British citizens were among the 295 people on board Flight MH17 - a Boeing 777-200 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur - which was in transit over the war-torn region when it disappeared from radar screens.
The Foreign Office was unable to confirm the ITV News reports that sources at Malaysia Airlines had said nine Britons were on the flight manifest.
Graphic images showed a pall of smoke, charred wreckage and bodies at the crash scene in eastern Ukraine.
Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "shocked and saddened" by the tragedy, while Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko described it as a "terrorist act".
Mr Cameron added that officials from across Whitehall are meeting to establish the facts, while a spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We are aware of the reports and are urgently working to establish what has happened."
Ukraine has been torn apart by internal strife since the overthrow of the Moscow-backed regime of Viktor Yanukovych, with Russian backed separatists already accused by the authorities in Kiev of shooting down military jets with missiles supplied by Russia.
The Ukrainian government immediately blamed the separatists with President Poroshenko declaring the "armed forces of Ukraine did not take action against any airborne targets".
Anton Gerashenko, an aide to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, said on his Facebook page that the plane was flying at an altitude of 33,000 feet over when it was hit by a missile fired from a Buk launcher, a Soviet era surface-to-air missile system capable of taking down a high altitude aircraft.
A similar launcher was reportedly seen by journalists near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne earlier today.
But a spokesman for the rebels said the plane must have been shot down by Ukrainian government troops.
The incident sparked a fresh international crisis and is bound to put more pressure on Russia to rein in the rebels.
In the aftermath of the plane's destruction Russian president Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Barack Obama spoke by phone.
Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister, said: "I am shocked by reports that an MH plane crashed. We are launching an immediate investigation."
The jet would have been flying at high altitude on an intercontinental flight that took it over the region.
As the drama unfolded, several other passenger jets were flying through Ukrainian airspace on one of the main routes from Europe to Asia for air traffic.
Today's calamity will prompt questions about why the route was still being used given previous incidents.
A UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokesman said: "The Ukrainian authorities are responsible for managing their airspace and the UK or other countries cannot enforce airspace restrictions in the area.
"However, the CAA has previously issued advice to UK airlines on operating in this area and following this incident, Eurocontrol (the European air traffic control body) has issued advice to airlines to plan routes that avoid the area."
This evening, the Department for Transport in London said flights were now being diverted.
A DfT spokesman said: "Flights already airborne are being routed around the area by air traffic control in the region. Pilots around the world have been advised to plan routes that avoid the area by Eurocontrol, the European organisation for the safety of air navigation."
Airliner tracking sites seemed to indicated that traffic was now steering clear of Ukrainian airspace.
A spokeswoman for Virgin Atlantic said two flights this evening would be "slightly diverted".
The two flights are the Heathrow to Dubai route and the Mumbai to Heathrow route.
On Wednesday night the Ukrainian authorities said one of their fighter jets was shot down by an air-to-air missile from a Russian plane and Ukrainian troops were fired upon by missiles from a village inside Russia.
The episodes add to what Ukraine says is mounting evidence that Moscow is directly supporting separatist insurgents in eastern Ukraine who have substantial quantities of powerful weapons.
Ukraine said a military transport plane was shot down on Monday by a missile fired from Russian territory. Security Service chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said he had "unconditional evidence" that Russia was involved in downing that aircraft.
In a tweet Malaysia Airlines said: "Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace. More details to follow."
Boeing, who manufactured the aircraft, said: "We are aware of reports on MH17. We're gathering more information.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with those on board MH17, as well as their families and loved ones. We stand ready to provide assistance."
The incident brings tragedy to Malaysia Airlines for the second time this year.
In March, one of its jets disappeared with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board in one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
It would not be the first time a civilian airliner has been mistakenly shot down.
In 1988, an Iran Air flight from Tehran to Dubai was shot down by the US warship USS Vincennes in the Persian Gulf. All 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew, died.
In 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 from New York to Seoul via Anchorage was shot down by a Soviet military jet near Sakhalin Island in the East Sea. All 269 passengers and crew were killed. The Soviets initially denied knowledge of the incident but later admitted responsibility, claiming that the aircraft was on a spy mission.
A Labour MP called for the House of Commons to delay its summer recess, which is due to begin on July 22, if it is found that the missile used to down the aircraft was supplied by the Russian government.
Bassetlaw MP John Mann said: "This is a very troubling development which raises serious issues that Parliament will want to consider. It cannot do this if it is not sitting. By delaying our recess we will be able to discuss this matter and give it the attention it merits.
"Two hundred and ninety-five innocent people have tragically lost their lives and their families will want to know how and why this has happened.
"Parliamentarians will want to take stock of these tragic events, given that they have serious implications for the future of Europe."


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Task Force Warrior, Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force meet for combative training
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Embassy representatives from eight East African nations joined military leaders from U.S. Africa Command and Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier Jan. 24, for the 2017 East Africa Security Synchronization Conference.
Initiated by the Japanese military, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) supported a joint-nation noncombatant evacuation operation (NEO) exercise and training here, Sept. 29.
The African Union Mission in Somalia's capabilities to provide security in Somalia were recently strengthened when U.S. military members of U.S. Africa Command and Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa delivered nearly 20 vehicles and two storage containers to the Uganda People's Defence Force here, Sept. 25.
A seemingly contrasting fusion of traits - strength and benevolence - appears to run through the veins of UPDF PSYOP military members.
Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa Joint Logistics Operations Center achieved its initial Air Transportation and Refueling Exchange of Service (ATARES) with the Italian military here, June 9. This year, the U.S. forces in Africa join 23 other nations participating in ATARES membership, decreasing administrative procedure and increasing multinational cooperation. This is accomplished by using one C-130 Hercules flying hour as currency.


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"Magical . . . Sacks's fans are in for a treat." –Kirkus
"An explorer of that most wonderous of islands, the human brain," writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, "Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands." Both kinds figure movingly in this book–part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical mystery story–in which Sacks's journeys to a tiny Pacific atoll and the island of Guam become explorations of the time, and the complexities of being human.
"Sacks's total immersion in islands life makes this luminous, beautifully written report a wonderous voyage of discovery. As a travel writer, Sacks ranks with Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin. As an investigator of the mind's mysteries, he is in a class by himself."
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Wisconsin: Post‐Mortem & Predictions
Last night's vote by the Wisconsin‐based portion of the Wisconsin Senate has received enormous attention. The scope of collective bargaining by school district and other government employees has been narrowed, and the state will no longer automatically garnish workers' wages to pay union dues.
This was the right thing to do. But how much of a difference will these changes actually make to the state's bottom line? As I've noted, the presence or absence of collective bargaining is not strongly correlated with school district spending. Instead, unions have won their massively (42%) above‐ market compensation through well‐funded political action; which brings us to the question of automatic paycheck deduction of union dues.
Without automatic dues withdrawals, will public school unions still be able to afford their fantastically successful political activities? There's no reason to doubt it. Given the huge compensation premium public school employees enjoy over their private sector counterparts, they have a powerful incentive to voluntarily keep funding the political action that helped win it.
Indeed, we can see this already in right‐to‐work states like South Carolina. Public school employees there have no collective bargaining rights and there is no automatic union dues withdrawal, but the Palmetto State nevertheless has a teachers' union and an administrators' association that have spent large sums of money on political action. It's worked. Despite not being the wealthiest of states, South Carolina still spends roughly $12,000 per pupil on its public schools, and its public school teachers earn more than the state's median household income. The teacher and administrator groups have also successfully defeated every legislative effort thus far to open up the state's education system to private sector competition and parental choice.
The only way to rein‐in out‐of‐control public school spending is thus to give both families and taxpayers an alternative to the government monopoly status quo. Cut taxes on folks who pay for their own children's education, or who donate to non‐profit scholarship organizations that subsidize private school tuition for the poor. Many states are doing this already on a small scale. By so doing so on a larger scale, families will have much greater choices and taxpayers will reap enormous savings.


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As Washington and Beijing spar this week in a new round of their heavyweight contest for influence in Southeast Asia, the Chinese have diplomatically ducked a number of American punches. But the resumption of hostilities has alarmed local analysts here.
"They are sending a clear cut message to China, that America is back and wants to hold down or roll back China," says Zhu Feng, a professor at Peking University's School of International Studies. "This will not facilitate diplomatic cooperation."
Official Chinese spokesmen have reacted calmly to President Obama's announcement Wednesday that US Marines will be based in northern Australia, closer to the disputed South China Sea than any other US land forces.
In the midst of economic crisis "it is debatable whether now is a good time to be strengthening and expanding military alliances, and whether this accords with regional expectations," was all Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin would say on Wednesday.
The latest in a series of US changes
But the Australian deal, which US officials said should be seen in the context of a rising China, was only the latest illustration of a clearly changing US posture in the Asia Pacific region.
Last week the Pentagon unveiled a new Air Sea Battle concept, which military officials said was needed to counter others' "anti-access and area denial" weapons. They did not say the new concept was targeted at China, but they did not deny that China is the only potential enemy with the sort of capabilities the concept is aimed at.
Then, at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Hawaii, Mr. Obama made progress pushing a free trade Trans Pacific Partnership from which China has been excluded.
In Manila on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took up the cudgels on behalf of the Philippines in its territorial dispute with China. She pledged to help strengthen the Philippines Navy, whose vessels have recently clashed with Chinese boats; she warned China not to intimidate its smaller neighbors; and she called the South China Sea "the West Philippines Sea" in an open espousal of Manila's position on sovereignty.
Chinese fears that Washington is seeking to contain China, and drive a wedge between Beijing and neighboring states "are not new," says Bonnie Glaser, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "But the US has given China lots of reasons to think it's a real strategy."
China has laid sovereignty claims to almost all of the South China Sea, believed to be rich not only in fisheries but in oil and other mineral resources. Those claims conflict with claims to specific islands and atolls by Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Brunei – which have periodically flared up into maritime stand-offs.
Washington says it is neutral in the territorial disputes, and that its interest in the area lies in the security of the shipping lanes that carry $5.3 trillion of world trade each year.
In fact, the US has consistently supported China's neighbors' demand that China resolve the disputes in a multilateral forum such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), against Beijing's insistence on bilateral negotiations.
The issue will come up again at the East Asian Summit in Bali, Indonesia, on Friday. Obama will be the first US president to attend such a meeting, at the end of a nine day Asia-Pacific visit that has underlined, as he said to the Australian parliament Thursday, that "after a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly, in blood and treasure, the United States is turning our attention to the vast potential of the Asia Pacific region."
Beijing is clearly unhappy with Washington's involvement in South China Sea spats. "Having forces from outside become involved would not help solve the issue and would make it more complicated," warned Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Zhemin this week.
China insists that its policy has remained unchanged – that the details of the disputes should be set aside, and all claimants should jointly exploit any economic resources. Neighbors such as Vietnam and the Philippines complain that Chinese naval vessels have been probing their waters in an increasingly aggressive manner.
Briefing: Indian Ocean as new strategic playing field
A ploy?
Analysts here see such complaints as a ploy. "They have to make the issue hot now and involve the US because in 10 years' time they will have nothing to bargain with China," suggests Jin Canrong, deputy head of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing. "China will be too strong. Time is on China's side, not theirs."
Washington is taking advantage of the disputes "to try to expand militarily in the western Pacific," argues Professor Zhu, stepping up naval cooperation with Manila and Hanoi, selling arms to Indonesia, and basing marines in Australia.
"China's nationalist sentiments are bad," he adds, "but fueling such sentiments is worse and unfortunately that's what America is doing."
From Washington, the view is different. "The main thrust of US policy is really not anti-China," says Ms. Glaser. "It is reassuring friends and allies in the region, to counter the narrative that the US is in decline."
That does not convince the Chinese media, which has made much of South China Sea issues. Even the ruling Communist Party official mouthpiece, the Peoples' Daily, claimed in its overseas edition last week that "everything shows that the United States will provoke the contradictions which exist between countries in this region for its own benefit."
The subdued official response to recent US moves, however, suggests that the Chinese government may be taking a different view.
"The media here are nervous, but the Foreign Ministry people seem to feel more relaxed," points out Professor Jin. "They tend to think that the Obama administration's policy is not containment, but something between engagement and hedging [US bets]," he explains.
At any rate, there is little fear in Beijing of a "cold war" with the US, a phrase bandied around in Washington last week in discussion of the embryonic Air Sea Battle plan.
Though recent US diplomatic and military moves in the region are not friendly, "China will not take any counter-action, there will be no tit for tat," predicts Zhu. "I don't think Beijing would stupidly get into an escalation or into a military race: It's totally unaffordable.
"But this will have a poisonous effect on economic cooperation between China and the US," he worries. "At the moment, the two powers have their backs to each other on a lot of issues," Zhu adds. The last week or so, he believes, "will sap China's will to cooperate."


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This seasonal service commences 21 May and runs through until 22 October to offer visitors to the island new 3 or 4 night short breaks, or a new longer 10 night holiday, complimenting the current 7 night stay.
Outbound services leave Auckland on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, cross the dateline and arrive in Niue around 2pm the day prior. Return services are Tuesday and Friday afternoons, re-crossing the dateline to return visitors back to Auckland late Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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By Milika Sobey of IUCN's Oceania Office.
Last week, I visited Manaoba Island, located in Malaita Province. This was my first visit to rural Solomon Islands since 1988 when I went on a two-week trip to the Western Province to do research in Marovo Lagoon. Little has changed in terms of living standards and access to water and sanitation.
My visit is part of a programme designing process for the Solomon Islands Government. IUCN is working with the United Nationa Development Programme (UNDP) and the Solomon Islands Government to design the water sector adaptation programme to be funded by the Global Environment Facility.
I was accompanied by three local consultants, a representative from UNDP and another from the Ministry of Mines, Energy and Rural Electrification. The trip involved a 30 minute flight to Auki (provincial capital of Malaita), followed by a sea journey of more than three hours in a 23ft fibreglass boat that had a 40hp engine (with no back-up) and carrying nine persons with luggage. Not an ideal situation.
We stayed in Terefalu village, one of four or five villages on the island. There are 26 households and they have one natural well which serves as their source of potable water – it's a 25-minute walk from the village to the well. The villagers dug three other wells to serve as communal bathing and laundry sites. The beaches serve as toilets for the villagers.
We surveyed the water sources, the existing infrastructure for rainwater harvesting and improvements that could be made for water accessibility and storage. A meeting was convened with the villagers so that we could explain the project and discuss challenges that the potential impacts of climate change would bring about. The provincial Minister for Economic Planning also accompanied us to Terefalu, and after talking to him at great length, I got the impression that he and the villagers had resigned themselves to the fact that water would always be an issue for them and that as far as this project was concerned, they would "believe it when they see it". They have been pleading for piped water for the last 40 years but to no avail.
This trip highlighted a few important considerations that need to be taken into account in the selection of pilot sites – including safety, community capacity and accessibility of site.
Manaoba Island is only one of the proposed pilot sites. Others include Gizo and Santa Catalina. Our team has a month to get things into shape as a programme design before we present our ideas back in Honiara to get feedback and suggestions.
Such a trip makes one reflect on the disconnect between the Millennium Development Goals and the reality on the ground. For clean water and basic sanitation to be accessible to all, yes there is a need for infrastructure but there is also a need for a change in mind-sets and the latter is probably the greater challenge.
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You will need to download iCloud for Windows on your PC. Before you do that, you need to set up iCloud on all of your Apple devices. Sign in to iCloud with your Apple ID, then follow the instructions for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or Mac.
Want to access iCloud's latest features? See the recommended system requirements. iCloud requires an Internet connection. iCloud might not be available in all areas and features vary. If you use a Managed Apple ID, iCloud for Windows isn't supported.
Set up iCloud for Windows
- Download iCloud for Windows on your PC.
- Windows 10: Go to the Microsoft Store to download iCloud for Windows.
- Earlier versions of Windows*: Download iCloud for Windows from apple.com.
- If it doesn't install automatically, go to File Explorer and open iCloud Setup.
- Restart your computer.
- Make sure iCloud for Windows is open. If it doesn't open automatically, go to Start, open Apps or Programs, and open iCloud for Windows.
- Enter your Apple ID to sign in to iCloud.
- Choose the features and content that you want to keep up to date across your devices.
- Click Apply.
* If you're not sure which Windows system you use, find out.
Download and share your photos
When you turn on Photos, iCloud for Windows creates a Photos folder in File Explorer called iCloud Photos. iCloud Photos uploads new photos and videos that you add to the iCloud Photos Uploads folder on your PC so you can see them in the Photos app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac, and on iCloud.com. New photos and videos you take automatically download from iCloud Photos. You can also choose to download your entire collection by year.
Use iCloud Photos
You can also share and organize your photos. Shared Albums lets you view, share, and comment on the photos and videos you share with other people. And if you use the latest version of iCloud for Windows, you can pin photos to keep them local to your device. When you unpin them, they upload to iCloud instead.
Find your photos on your PC
On Windows 10:
- In the notification area, click the up arrow in the lower-right corner of your screen.
- Click the Cloud icon .
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Windows 8.1:
- Go to the Start screen.
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Windows 7:
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- Tap Settings > [your name], then select iCloud.
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3 Ways to Style Denim Skirts
Hey there! I don't know about you, but I have been OBSESSED with denim skirts for summer! Denim skirts are definitely a staple for every closet, and you can style them so many different ways for different occasions. Keep reading to see 3 different ways you can style a denim skirt + extra inspo!
Outfit 1: Rock and Roll
I am in LOVE with the denim skirt and graphic tee combo! There are so many adorable graphic tees out there! For my summer wish list, I am on the hunt for more graphic band tees to pair with my skirts! Cause who doesn't love a band tee? I also love the small touch my statement belt adds to the outfit!
Outfit 2: Classic Jacket
I can't get over how effortless and classy the good ol' leather jacket and jeans look is. I got this leather jacket secondhand for an amazing price! I recently picked up this belt and I love the classy gold loop that pulls it together! For an extra touch, add hoop earrings to match the belt!
Outfit 3: Easy Breezy
For an easy breezy beach look, pair your denim skirt with a strapless top! It's an effortless style that looks amazing with a nice pair of sandals! If you want to dress up the look for an evening out, add a leather jacket and heels for a killer look!
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- Take a risk, pair a skirt with a blazer for a girl-boss look!
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Thomas Hayden at science blog The Last Word On Nothing has a wonderful little interview with Scott Maxwell (@marsroverdriver), who works at JPL as a Mars rover driver. Coolest job ever, right?
I had the honor and pleasure of meeting Maxwell at JPL a few weeks before Curiosity touched down, when I accompanied Miles O'Brien on a shoot about MSL for PBS NewsHour. Loved him, and I love how he describes what makes his job so exhilarating:
I don't think I'll ever forget the first time I drove her. It was just a few meters along a simple path — we wouldn't even bother to yawn at it today — but it was magic to me then, as it's magic to me now. I went home and should have slept, but all I could do was stare at the ceiling, in awe that right then, on Mars, there was a robot doing what I told it to do. It was dead amazing, and that feeling has never left me and I hope it never will.
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When a powerful roadside bomb blew Spc. Marcus Carr's armored vehicle into the air as if it were a toy, people had reason to wonder if he'd survive the blast, let alone walk again.
He suffered a concussion, a traumatic brain injury, two broken legs, a lost spleen and a badly damaged pancreas, but that wasn't all.
There was a fractured pelvis, other broken bones, a severed nerve in his wrist and a ruptured artery behind his jaw that caused a stroke.
On Monday, he stood with two other soldiers as Gen. Lloyd Austin III, the Army's vice chief of staff, pinned the Purple Heart on them. While it was a big deal that the service's No. 2 commander would honor them, Carr, 28, of Roy, Utah, conceded he'd have been happy to receive the medal in his room at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort San Houston, where he has spent the past 18 months.
"The best fortune I could possibly have is being here," Carr said. "How the heck I did survive they have no idea, but I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still kicking."
Soft-spoken, he calls himself humble. Close calls often have that effect on people, and Carr is far from done with his ordeal. Rods now do the work of bones crushed in the July 16, 2011, blast. Parts of his body were blown away. TBI has complicated once-simple tasks like remembering the names of old friends.
A thin black metal wristband ensures he won't forget one buddy, Cpl. Raphael Rodrigues Arruda, who was killed in the explosion. A native of Brazil, he was 21.
"In the very beginning, I was pretty much trapped in my own mind," Carr explained. "It was really hard to talk to people. ... So I pretty much would be giving like one-word answers to a few sentences here and there. Now that's gotten a lot better."
Flanked by his parents, Andrew and Sandy Strong, he had no trouble getting to the ceremony at the Warrior and Family Support Center's Purple Heart Garden, where Austin became the highest-ranking Army officer to pin medals on soldiers in San Antonio this year.
A one-time Iraq commander with the 3rd Infantry Division during the 2003 invasion, Austin pinned medals on Carr, Spc. Christopher Delaney and Pfc. Ryan Thomas, 20.
They are among 58 given medals so far this year at Fort Sam.
"My son's been honored with the Purple Heart, but the soldiers who saved him, they're due plenty of honor themselves, whether they were the guys who set up a perimeter waiting for a helicopter or the actual medics," said his dad, Ron Thomas, a 29-year Oklahoma City police veteran.
A combat engineer, Carr's job was to find buried bombs, and he identified hundreds of them. He'd stay in the Army if he could do the same job — but he can't.
"I'm very proud to receive it," Carr said of his Purple Heart, "and it kind of makes me think of other people who've gotten wounded before me and those who are here and received them and those who are not here."


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How To Compete in King of the Hammers Without Going Broke
So You Wanna Race?
One of the principal complaints about King of the Hammers—any racing really—is its high expense. This complaint is typically followed by references to Ben Napier's Penhall car or Loren Healy's toterhome. Those grumbling seem to forget about Randy Slawson, who won KOH last year in a car he built himself. Although it wasn't built in a two-car garage on a beer budget, Slawson beat plenty of teams who outspent him.
For many, winning isn't even the goal at King of the Hammers. Off-road motorsports are unique in that they allow enthusiasts and small-budget teams to line up beside the biggest names in the sport. This year, I had the opportunity to navigate for Ben Swain in the Homegrown Racing buggy and learn firsthand some of the tricks employed to run in KOH without breaking the bank. Here are the top five tips Swain shared with us during King of the Hammers.
Buy Used
Swain sold his previous rockcrawler to fund a partially completed roller with an LS1 engine, Atlas transfer case, and 1-ton axles. He then completed the car himself, purchasing parts as he found deals on them to keep costs down.
Get a Common Car
The Homegrown Racing buggy uses a Jimmy's 4x4 chassis, the most common foundation for Ultra4 cars racing at King of the Hammers. While not as exotic as some of the IFS cars out there, this platform is well proven and its popularity makes it easy to replace parts as necessary.
Shake Down Your Car
If you show up to King of the Hammers without have your car sorted out, you are just wasting money. Before going to King of the Hammers, Swain raced his buggy in the Dirt Riot series for a full season. Along the way he made major modifications to the car, including ADS bypass shocks at all four corners and a Torq Super 14 Bolt rear axle with an ARB Air Locker.
Get the Best Parts You Can Afford
When you are racing on a budget, the lure of free parts can sometimes be irresistible. The fact is, most of your racing effort will come from your own pocket. If you view this as a money-making venture, you will likely be disappointed. However, if like Swain, you are having fun, it is money well spent. He has chosen components like Nitro Gears and ADS shocks because the companies not only produce high-quality components, they are also at the races and take the time to support and service smaller-budget teams.
Team Up
Swain came to KOH with the Rock Addicts, who all race out of Colorado. With a total of six cars racing, they were able to pool resources when it came to logistics, pitting, tools, and communications. Running common tires and wheels would make it even easier to share resources.


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Ohio's Democratic Party chairman says he expects the organization to file a federal lawsuit over an absentee-ballot measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
State Rep. Chris Redfern, the party's chairman, says Democrats believe the measure violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal protection, along with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The bill would let the secretary of state mail unsolicited applications for general elections and only if the Legislature directed the money for it. Other public officials would be banned from sending the unsolicited applications. Ohio's larger, urban counties traditionally have sent voters such applications.
Republican backers say the change helps achieve consistency across the swing state.
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Swiss immigration to America occurred in several waves. Among the earliest immigrants were Anabaptists, who arrived in the 18th century in search of religious freedom. In the 19th century, more Swiss, both Catholic and Lutheran Reformed, arrived and established Swiss settlements throughout the United States.
For both groups, the procedures for beginning research are similar. First, the researcher should determine the identity of the Swiss-born ancestor, his or her approximate date of birth or marriage in Switzerland, and the date of immigration. Census records, church records, family Bibles, and county histories are all useful tools. The next step, and the foundation for all subsequent research, is to determine the Heimatort, the town or village in Switzerland where the ancestor held citizenship rights. Here one will find most of the vital records of the ancestral family. In Switzerland, residents inherited citizenship rights in specific communities, and these were not necessarily the communities in which they resided. In the ancestral community, citizens voted, paid taxes, and since the 16th century, registered the births of children. Both women and men were considered citizens and often held citizenship rights in communities apart from their spouses.
Because of this system of inherited citizenship, certain surnames often have associations with specific towns and villages. The following guide to Swiss surnames and the associated communities can help with this search:
Swiss Surnames: A Complete Register [Familienbuch der Schweiz]. 3 vols. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1995. /Gc 929.4 Sw66/ This book lists thousands of Swiss surnames for every canton and includes the name of the Heimatort and the date of association.
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There are a number of ways to find books on Switzerland and Swiss-Americans in the online catalog at www.ACPL.Lib.in.us. Search under "Switzerland" followed by the name of a record type or look under "Swiss-Americans" followed by a specific place, example: Swiss-Americans. Pennsylvania. Also check under the specific town or canton, if known, as well as under the specific family surname for compiled family histories. Dial-up access is available at (260) 489-7087. Also check for Swiss sources in the Family History Library catalog online and on microfiche. For further assistance with our catalog or other catalogs found on the Internet, please see a librarian.
A good place to begin Swiss research is with a guidebook. Those listed below are helpful, despite their publication date. Several offer useful examples of Swiss records and provide some important addresses to Swiss agencies and archives.
Bentz, Edna M. If I Can, You Can Decipher Germanic Records. San Diego, CA: The Author, 1983. /Gc 929 B44i/ A guide for deciphering German script. Includes definitions of Latin words, occupations, and medical terminology.
Gratz, Delbert L. Was isch dini Nahme? What is your name? A Collection of Swiss Family Names. Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 1997. /Gc 929.4 G77wa/
Hall, Charles M. Atlantic Bridge to Germany. vol. 4. Salt Lake City, UT: Heritage International, 1976. /Gc 929 H14a/ Detailed maps and an index to communities in Switzerland.
Nielson, Paul Anthon. Swiss Genealogical Research: An Introductory Guide. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning, 1979. /Gc 929 N55s/ Includes examples of records and handwriting styles. Societe Suisse d'Heraldique. Genealogisches Handbuch zur Schweizer Geschichte. Geneva: Societe, 1945. /Gc 929.794 S013g/ A general guide to Swiss historical and genealogical research, written in German.
Suess, Jared H. Central European Genealogical Terminology. Logan, UT: Everton, 1978. /Gc 929 Su24c/
_________. Handy Guide to Swiss Genealogical Research. Logan, VT: Everton, 1978. /Gc 949.4 Su24h/ Contains an important guide to the Julius Billeter papers in the Family History Library, a voluminous source of compiled Swiss genealogies derived from vital records that are not otherwise available in America.
Thode, Ernest. Address Book for Germanic Genealogy. 6th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997. /Gc 929 T35af 1997/ Addresses and helpful form letters translated into German.
Wellauer, Maralyn. Tracing Your Swiss Roots. Milwaukee: The Author, 1979. /Gc 929 W45ta/ Includes discussions of research procedures and sample records along with a list of all civil record or Zivilstandsamt addresses by town. Since both civil and church records are kept in these offices, the Zivilstandsamt can be an important key for accessing Swiss genealogical information.
Passenger lists can sometimes provide important clues about an ancestor's place of origin. In addition to the sources listed below, check the passenger arrival lists for various U.S. ports available on microfilm.
Bellon, Eugene. Scattered to All the Winds, 1685-1720: Migrations of the Dauphine French Huguenots into Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. West Lafayette, IN: Belle Publications, 1983./Gc 929.141 B41s/ Contains numerous family lists and biographical references.
Burgert, Annette K. A Century of Emigration from Affoltern am Albis, Canton Zurich, Switzerland. Worthington, OH: AKB Publications, 1984, /Gc 974.8 B898c/
_________. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Emigrants from Lachen-Speyerdorf in the Palatinate. Myerstown, PA: AKB Publications, 1989. /Gc 929.13 B91ei/ Includes a 4-page appendixlisting the Swiss origins of members of this Palatine parish church.
_________. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German Speaking Lands; Volume 1: the Northern Kraichgau, Volume 2: The Western Palatinate. Breinigsville, PA: Pennsylvania GermanSociety, 1983-85. /Gc 974.8 P3847p/ The first volume includes numerous references to SwissMennonites who appear in the Kraichgau records. Volume two contains a list of Swiss inRieschweiler Parish, Germany, giving the Swiss village of origin.
_________. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992. /Gc 974.8 B898eig/ Lists many Swiss families who settled in Alsace before immigrating to America.
_________. Notes on Research Sources for 18th Century Emigration from the Swiss Cantons Basel- Land, Basel-Stadt, Bern and Zurich. Myerstown, PA: AKB Publications, n.d. /Gc 974.8 B898n/
Diefenbacher, Karl. Schweizer Einwanderer in Den Kraichgau Nach Dem Dreissigjahrigen Krieg : Mit Ausgewählter Ortsliteratur. Sinsheim, Germany: Heimatverein Kraichgau, 1983. /Gc 943Sch9/ List of Swiss settlers who settled in Germany during the 17th century.
Ehrler, Eduard. Immigrants from Keussnacht, canton Schwyz, Switzerland, 1842-1866. Highland, IL: Felchlia, 1996. /Gc 949.47 Eh88i/
Faust, Albert B. and Gaius M. Brumbaugh. Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies. 1920. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976, reprint./Gc 929.131 F27L/ Includes many emigrants, especially from Zurich, Bern, and Basel.
Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. multi-volume. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981-ongoing /Gc 929.11 F47p, Gc 929.11 F47pa, Gc 929.11 F47pab/ Contains references to millions of immigrants in published sources.
Hamburg Passenger Lists: Direct Lists March 2,1850 - Dec. 31, 1900 and Direct Index April 1, 1855 - April 5, 1901. /microtext/ A record of departures from Hamburg, one of the principal ports ofembarkation for Swiss and other Europeans.
Joder, Karl. "Swiss Emigrants from 1674-1754 who Settled in the Palatinate, Alsace-Lorraine, Baden- Wuerttemberg and Pennsylvania," in Mennonite Family History, vol. 2, no. 4 (Oct. 1983). /periodical/
Pfister, Hans Ulrich. Auswanderung aus dem Knonauer Amt, 1648-1750. Zurich: H. Rohr, 1987. /Gc 929.1494 P48a/ A history, in German, of emigration from the Knonauer area with references to numerous families. Includes a surname index.
Schrader-Muggenthaler, Cornelia. Swiss Emigration Book. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1993 - ongoing. /Gc 929.131 Sch6s/ Lists 18th and 19th century emigrants from Solothurn, Basel, and Aargau. Future volumes will cover other cantons.
Schweizer Einwanderer in den Kraichgau nach dem Dreissigjahrigen Krieg. Sinsheim: Heimatverein Kraichgau, 1983. /Gc 943 Sch9/ Lists of Swiss emigrants to the Kraichgau area following the Thirty Years War, when Swiss comprised about 40% of the population. It includes some remarks in English for the American researcher.
Smith, Clifford Neal. Immigrants to America from France (Haut-Rhin Department) and Western Switzerland, 1859-1866. McNeal, AZ: Westland Publications, 1983. /Gc 929.14 Sm5i/
Swiss records are among the oldest in Europe. For this reason, and because of Switzerland's long history of relative geographic isolation, it is possible to extend many Swiss pedigrees back to the 16th century. Most of the following sources are written in German or French and contain published genealogies of Swiss families, primarily of the predominant Catholic or Lutheran reformed traditions. The researcher should also check the catalog under a specific surname to locate printed genealogies of individual Swiss families.
Archiv fuer Schweizerisches Familienkunde. Zurich: Verlag J. P. Zwicky, 1942-65. /Gc 929.131 Ar25/ Contains histories and ahnentafels of nobility and other prominent Swiss.
Dictionaire Historique et Bibliographique de la Suisse. 65 parts. Neuchatel: Adm. du Dictionaire, 1920-33. /Gc 929.131 D56 and D56a/ An extensive encyclopedia of Swiss biography and geography, written in French. It is particularly useful for its descriptions of towns and villages, which usually include the date of the earliest vital records.
Galiffe, J. A. Genealogiques des les Familles Genevoises. 7 vols. Geneva: J. Barbezat, 1829-95. /Gc 929.131 G13n/ Contains the pedigrees of hundreds of French-speaking Swiss from Geneva canton.
Magee, Joan. The Swiss in Ontario. Windsor, Ontario: Electa Books, 1991. /Gc 971.3 M27s/
Moos, Mario von. Bibliography of Swiss Genealogy. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993. /Gc 929.131 M78b/ An extensive bibliography of more than 9,000 books and articles of Swiss genealogies arranged alphabetically by surname.
Rohrbach, Lewis Bunker. Men of Bern : the 1798 Bürgerverzeichnisse of Canton Bern, Switzerland. Rockport, ME: Picton Press, 1999. /Gc 949.4 M52/ Muster roll and census of men in Canton Bern in 1798.
Schweizerisches Familienbuch. Zurich: Verlag Genealogisches Institut, 1945-49. /Gc 929.131 Sch9/ Genealogies of hundreds of Swiss families, written in German and unindexed.
Schweizerisches Geschlechterbuch. multi-volume. Zurich: Verlag Genealogisches Institut, 1905-65. /Gc 929.131 Sch94/ Similar to the above work, also not indexed.
Steinach, Adelrich. Swiss Colonists in 19th Century America. 2nd ed. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1995. /Gc 929.131 St34s/ Biographies of hundreds of 19th century Swiss in America.
Anabaptists, including Amish and Mennonites, represent the predominant Swiss immigrant group in America in the 18th century. Because of religious persecution in Switzerland, these sects kept few church records, but often privately maintained extensive family genealogies. The following sources contain information about Swiss and Swiss-American Anabaptist genealogies.
Cross, Harold E. Index to Selected Amish Genealogies. Baltimore: Division of Medical Genetics, 1970. /Gc 016.92911 C88i/ Indexes hundreds of published genealogies.
Eshelman, H. Frank. Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969./Gc 974.8 Es3h 1969/
Gingerich, Hugh F. Amish and Amish-Mennonite Genealogies. Gordonville, PA: Pequea Publishers, 1986. /Gc 929.102 Am5g/ Genealogies of selected Swiss-Amish families in America.
Gratz, Delbert L. Bernese Anabaptists and Their American Descendants. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1953. /Gc 929.102 M52g/ A historical study of Anabaptists from Canton Bern and their settlements in America.
Miller, J. Virgil. Both Sides of the Ocean: Amish-Mennonites from Switzerland to America. Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 2002. /Gc 929.102 Am5mi/
Zurcher, Isaac. Anabaptist-Mennonite names in Switzerland. Reprinted from: The Mennonite Quarterly Review, LXII (October 1988). /Gc 949.4 Z87an/
Grants of arms to noble and burgher families can usually be traced in Swiss archives. References to these grants and the associated families have been published in various sources. The following are among the most useful:
Archivum Heraldicum. 69 volumes, 1887-1969 /Gc 929.794 Ar2/ A serial publication with extensive information about Swiss heraldry, including depictions of arms and pedigrees of armigerous families. Between 1887 and 1894, the serial was published under the title Archives Heraldiques et Sigillographiques Suisses. From 1895 to 1953, it was known as Archives Heraldiques Suisses - Schweizer Archiv fuer Heraldik.
Christen, Hans Rudolf. Emmentaler Geschlechter- und Wappenbuch. Münsingen-Bern: Fischer Media Verlag, 1998. /Gc 949.4 C462e/ Guide to arms and families of Canton Bern.
Merz, Walther. Wappenrolle van Zurich. Zurich: Grell Fussli Verlag, 1927. /Gc 929.794 An8w / Genealogies of armigerous families from Canton Zurich with depictions of their coats of arms.
Rietstap, J. B. Armorial General. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. /Gc 929.6 R44ae, R44ara and R44arb/ 2 volumes, with a 9-volume supplement. An extensive record of arms for European families, including Switzerland.
The Swiss have kept records of births, marriages, and deaths from the 16th century, and for some towns even earlier. The church records of a few cantons have been microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, but many others have not and hence are not available except in Switzerland. Microfilming efforts in Switzerland are ongoing, however, and the researcher should check with the relevant canton archives in Switzerland or in the Zivilstandsamt of the town of citizenship for records and a list of professional researchers. One must keep in mind that the vital records are maintained in the Heimatort, not necessarily the place of actual residence. The following sources may offer some assistance in locating vital records:
Family History Library Catalog. /www.FamilySearch.org/ Includes a description of all book and microform holdings of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, including vital records and the Billeter Papers mentioned earlier. Check the catalog for the surname and for the town of interest. Most microfilm can be ordered at a Family History Library branch or at the Allen County Public Library for a nominal fee.
Imhof, Peter W. Verzeichnis der Kirchenbücher des Kantons Bern = Repertoire des Registres Paroissiaux du Canton de Berne. s.l.: Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Familienforschung/Société Suisse d'études généalogiques, 1997. /Gc 949.4 Im3v/ Lists surviving parish registers.
International Genealogical Index. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992-. /microfiche and online at www.FamilySearch.org/ Includes thousands of vital records from Switzerland, including extracts of records from cantons that are not otherwise available at the Family History Library.
The Genealogy Department receives numerous periodicals, some of which contain references to Swiss subjects and families. The more significant include: Swiss-American Historical Review, Swiss Connection, Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, and Mennonite Family History. Check the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) for references to articles on Switzerland or specific Swiss families.
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Back in Action takes players to the fictitious country of Arulco, where a ruthless dictator has seized power and only a small group of rebels stand to resist him. Tasked with freeing the island from the dictator's iron grip, players will command rebel and mercenary forces while using tactical, diplomatic and economic tools to keep troops supplied and ready for the next flight, all while commanding them directly in nail-biting battles.
Before we talk about the patch changes we wanted to mention that the first DLC is called "Shades of Red", which will be available shortly. No further details were provided yet.
Added Features
• Added hard difficulty level as option on game start. Modifies enemy strength, income and starting funds.
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Enemies have to be revealed via line of sight in tactical mode.
Sound sources are marked in tactical view as well as on the minimap
• Added two new achievements for tactical mode and higher difficulty.
• Added option to level recruited militia up via the location UI on the world map.
• Added options to distribute militia via location UI (evenly across all combat zones, focused on a single combat zone)
• Added sector inventory, accessible via Character Detail Screen
Always accessible in friendly sectors
Automatically includes all containers that have been opened and all enemy drops that have been spotted by the player
Accessible for militia recruitment and trading with NPCs
• Added item exchange via Drag & Drop in Character Details Screen. Illegible mercs are marked red. • Within hostile sectors mercs need to be within 5m distance to be able to exchange items.
• Stamina is reduced when returning to the strategic map when squads travelled great distances in the tactical view
• Current ammo saved for each weapon, weapons are unloaded when being handed over to militia. • Militia will hand weapons back unloaded to prevent players cheating ammo via the militia equip screen
• NPC Traders restock their inventory over time (rules can be modified via characters.txt)
• Targeting line indicates best range of weapon and chance to hit via color from green (good) to red (bad)
• Camera scrolling possible by moving the cursor to the border of the screen in fullscreen mode
• Added Sound FX for melee attacks
• Putting away a fire arm for non-combat actions (e.g. heal) will no longer reset the firemode of the weapon
• Added scrollbar in mail list window
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• Fixed some exploits that allowed to duplicate items via item exchange
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• Fixed regeneration of HP on world map, HP lost due to wounds takes longer to regenerate
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• Fixed crash in tutorial
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• Fixed mail list not being cleared when starting a new game
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