As the votes continue to be counted in states with Voter ID laws, it seems increasingly likely that they played a role — perhaps even a decisive one — in Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in key swing states. One city that has attracted special scrutiny is Milwaukee, Wisconsin, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times on Saturday. Wisconsin saw its lowest voter turnout in 20 years during the 2016 presidential election, with voter turnout dropping by 41,000 from the previous presidential election in Milwaukee amidst numerous reports that minority citizens were unable to vote. Trump won Wisconsin by 22,748 votes. “I believe it was voter suppression laws from the state government that crushed turnout,” said Milwaukee County Clerk Joe Czarnezki, one of two officials who oversees local elections, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “They tend to hit hardest on people who are poor, who don’t drive and don’t have a license, who are minorities.”
This is not a consensus view, with University of Florida professor Michael McDonald (who studies voter turnout) observing that to the Los Angeles Times that “African American turnout was down across the board from 2012, and that likely had something to do with Obama not being on the ballot.”
The article also noted that voter turnout had decreased among the black populations in cities like Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Detroit, Michigan, even though they did not have strict voter ID laws. Trump won both of those states by razor-thin margins as well.
Nevertheless, McDonald said he believes that the legal battle over Voter ID laws is “likely not over,” adding that he “would not be surprised to see this go to the Supreme Court.”


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Edited by Ken Mantel
In this ground-breaking book, experts on Inuit art from both sides of the Atlantic provide fascinating insights into how Canadian Government-supported co-operatives have created a market place for emerging artists. Their work transcends ‘native art’ and at its best is art of great quality sought by collectors worldwide.
Chapters cover the Canadian gallery, co-operative and auction scene, while the great collection of sculpture put together by the British collector Bill Johnstone is discussed, as are the noted Claude Baud and Musée des Confluences collections in France. A perceptive chapter looks at the contemporary Inuit art scene, in which the traditional emphasis on naturalistic depictions of Arctic wildlife is giving way, in the emerging generations of artists, to more present-day concerns.
(HB) ISBN 978-1-906593-59-9
(SB) ISBN 978-1-906593-42-1
270 x 210mm
over 250 colour and black & white reproductions

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During our stay in Coimbra we made time to take a day trip out to the old Roman city of Conímbriga. The scenic, forty minute bus ride only costs about €2.50 per ticket, and it dropped us off right at the front gates of the ruins.
These are the most extensive Roman ruins I’ve seen outside of Rome, and they’re not half way done excavating the place.
Conímbriga was originally founded by the Celts (“briga” is Celtic for “citadel”) prior to the 1st century. Once the Romans moved in it grew. A lot. Its location half way between Braga and Lisbon made it a good stopping point for travelers and brought great wealth to the city besides.
Alas, as the Roman empire failed, so too did cities like this one. Successive incursions of Visigoths and Sueves (both Germanic tribes) forced the inhabitants to flee, but not before they cannibalized half the city’s buildings to erect a giant defensive wall.
The new wall worked for a while, but not long enough. Eventually the city was abandoned and the residents fled to Coimbra, which was much easier to defend. The Sueves were the last invaders to sweep through this city.
The grand finale of the whole complex has to be the House of Fountains. This is one of the homes that was sacrificed to the wall, but it’s also in remarkable shape.
The mosaics are fantastic in this house, and on some of the walls you can still see traces of frescoes. It’s magnificent.
But the real treat is the fountain itself. Whoever built it took advantage of the natural slope in the landscape to help build up enough pressure for a working fountain. After excavation and some restorations…the fountain still works.
The only rough side to this day trip was the fact that the return bus arrived six hours after we got there. We had enough time to walk through the ruins twice, visit the museum, eat a nice meal at the cafe, and still have time to spare. If you take the bus, bring a book. Otherwise, hire a car.
Gorgeous mosaic tiles! I love the figure in the center of the first picture!
Bummer you didn’t have a book but so glad it wasn’t raining! 🙂

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Helen Martin: I’m too common to talk a book to death
There is only one person in the world I know who is a member of a regular book club, and that’s my sister (although she calls it a “literary group”).
I assume, with some confidence, that she can’t really be the only one. She can’t be sitting there on her own, arguing with herself. Indeed, she tells me about the other members and the books they read . . . while I sit politely nodding and making supportive noises when required. But I’ve never met them and really, I don’t get it.
It’s one of many differences between us, but a core difference that exhibits itself in all sorts of ways. She’s a “club” person and I’m not.
I like books. I like reading them. I just don’t care what anyone else thinks about them. I have no inclination to argue with other people about what the author was “trying to say” or why he wrote the book in the first place. I don’t want to know if I’m right or wrong in my interpretations. I like it, or I don’t.
Clearly I don’t qualify as middle class. Indeed, until the website grabbed headlines by championing the protocol and guidelines for running book clubs, I had no idea they had such a fundamental role in establishing a woman’s socio-economic identity.
My sister also has a holiday house in St Andrews, so it wouldn’t be surprising to find her at a two-day event the university is hosting gathering international literati to dissect, examine and conduct minute analysis of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books.
If you ask working-class me, the one way to ruin a good book, kill the drama and remove the magic – even from Harry Potter – is to over-analyse it.
I do recall being forced into it for Higher English in 1970. Teachers and examiners seemed to feel supremely confident that they knew exactly what complexities of motivation were going through William Shakespeare’s mind at the very moment when he was scratching out Macbeth with his quill. My suggestion that he was probably thinking “What a right little earner I have here . . . I just need a bit more blood to pull the punters in,” didn’t go down well (though I was cute enough not to write that in the exam).
Asking my teacher, by way of revenge, to explain the mental processes of Stevie Smith, a maverick poet who died in 1971 and who we were also studying at the time, wasn’t a winner either. One of her famous works comprised four lines. “Aloft, In the loft, Sits Croft, He is soft.”
Go analyse that. Perhaps it could keep the St Andrews academics going for a week but it certainly put my English teacher’s gas at a peep.
It’s hardly surprising that while the academic drive to deconstruct and discuss literature ad nauseam is unisex, the middle-class amateur book club is almost invariably an all female affair. Women do like to talk and analyse so that much I can understand, even if it does strip away the pleasure of reading.
It’s the club rules I can’t cope with, a throw-back to Brownies or the Upper Fourth. You must read a certain book each month and be prepared to discuss it with the group over tea and buns. My school days are long gone. I’ll decide what I want to read and when, and however I have created the “screenplay” in my head, is the way I want it to stay in my memory. . . . at least until they bring out the movie.
So I’ll avoid the findings of the St Andrews conference, billed as “an intense series of almost 50 lectures examining the JK Rowling books as literary texts” looking at death, the role of empathy and the influence of CS Lewis and Tolkien; paganism, magic, the use of food and British national identity.
So much for losing yourself in the Hogwarts fantasy.
Who’d have us?
THE political scrapping and squabbling over the wording of the independence referendum seems destined to go on until the moment – whenever that is – the votes are in.
Having not yet arrived at a firm conclusion myself, I have neither the desire nor the ability to sway anyone else. But I am curious about one thing.
If we really are bank-rolled by Westminster; if we really are getting more than our fair share of government grants at the English people’s expense; if it is going to be so impossible for us to survive on our own economically; and if we really are such a small, inconsequential country that we can’t go it alone and will have egg on our saltire-painted faces . . . why are Westminster and the Unionist parties so determined to hang on to us?

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The Nigerian government has lifted restrictions placed on religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.
The previous ban on religious and social gatherings was placed on Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center, Abuja, its capital city, and Ogun state by President Muhammadu Buhari in March.
But during a televised briefing on Monday, the Chairman of Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force, or PTF, on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha announced that mosques, churches, and hotels are now free to open with certain conditions.
Worshippers must wear face masks, maintain social distancing and properly wash or sanitize their hands before joining their congregation.
Hotels are also to maintain the same interventions and limit the capacity of guests they allow in.
Restaurants, bars and other social gatherings are to remain closed. Also, schools are yet to be opened and interstate travel is still banned.
With more than 10,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus as of June 2, the task force on Covid-19 says Nigeria is yet to reach the “peak” of the virus, citing higher cases in Europe and South America.
All decisions made in relation to coronavirus response are based on the thorough assessment of PTF on Covid-19, according to Mustapha.
Some of the recommendations made by the PTF to prevent the spread of Covid-19 as religious institutions and hotels open up include: managed access to markets and locations of economic activity to limit the risk of transmitting Covid-19, mandatory use of face masks and temperature checks in public places, and information campaigns on the dangers of the virus among others.
‘Still a fight for life’
Mustapha says despite easing restrictions, it is still important for Nigerians to observe all guidelines and stay safe to prevent the spread of the virus.
“Covid-19 is still a fight for life,” he said during the briefing. “Our advancement to phase two (of easing restrictions) does not mean that Covid-19 has ended as Nigeria has not reached the peak of confirmed cases.”
According to Mustapha, while making decisions to ease Covid-19 related restrictions, the task force took into consideration the advice of the World Health Organization on the need to improve case finding, testing, isolation and quarantining contacts, which the country is doing.
Other African countries like Ghana, Madagascar and South Africa have also eased their coronavirus-related restrictions.
In April, Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo lifted a three-week lockdown in two cities, Accra and Kumasi, citing the severe impact of restrictions on the poor and vulnerable in the West African nation.
And in South Africa, alcohol is back on sale after a ban was imposed as part of measures to fight Covid-19.
The alcohol ban was in place to allow the police and hospitals to better focus on tackling the virus.
Still, the WHO has warned that as countries continue to ease coronavirus regulations, there is a need to remain vigilant and ramp up testing and surveillance measures to detect any spike in cases.


The part of a computer that executes instructions (programs) is known as ____.
A: CPU (Central Processing Unit)
Software that manages hardware and provides services for other software is called ____.
A: Operating System
Q: Which among these is a low-level programming language?
A: Assembly Language
Q: Which programming language is considered the ‘mother’ of most modern computing languages?
Q: Binary categorizations processed and stored by a computer are known as ____.
Q: What do we mean by ‘Internet’?
A: A global network of networks
Q: Which emerging field combines aspects of computer science and artificial intelligence to create machines capable of mimicking human intelligence?
A: Machine Learning


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Which dairy items are ideal?
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For many Indian-Australians, the past year was a difficult one made worse by a problematic travel ban that stopped them from returning to their own country. But for many in the community who grew up here in Australia, these uncomfortable feelings are nothing new.
It’s an issue that 23-year-old filmmaker Abhishek Parasher tackles in his latest work.
“Growing up in Melbourne, I saw little incidents all around me, like disputes at school, when immigrants simply concede instead of ruffling feathers. There’s a mentality that we’re ‘lucky’ to be here that impedes up from standing up for ourselves,” he told Indian Link.
His short film Across Borders narrates an Indian-Australian family’s uncomfortable experience with an unruly, racist neighbour who moves in next door. The immigrant father, Akash, is a family man who tries to avoid any trouble. To protect his family, he is forced to confront the neighbour – and finds himself worse-off when he does.
“Just because someone might not be a ‘full resident’ doesn’t mean that someone born and raised here is above them. I’d like anyone who watches the film to use the opportunity to think about themes of justice, inferiority, and where they think they fit into this world,” Abhishek elaborated.
Across Borders is set to premiere at Flickerfest Film Festival 2022 as one of the nominees for Best Australian Short Film. It has also been doing the rounds of international film festivals like the Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival (MISAFF) in Canada and Amdabad Film Festival in Gujarat.
“The feedback has been amazing so far,” he grinned. “I’ve received a lot of messages about how much people relate to the trailer and the issue at hand. Racism exists, it’s going to exist, but we should feel confident to stand up for ourselves when we aren’t in the wrong.”
The project was crowdfunded with the support of family and friends through a GoFundMe page, with the crew pitching in for the rest. It was the final project of the Indian-origin filmmaker as part of his Bachelor of Film at SAE Institute.
For Abhishek, whose family hails from Punjab, Across Borders addresses crucial conversations around visa status that are finally receiving attention in the Australian mainstream.
“The film is about more than just Indian-Australians – it’s about anyone who finds themselves in a new country and how they deserve to be respected,” he stated.
Flickerfest Film Festival 2022 begins Friday, 21 January and will run to 30 January. You can book tickets here.


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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
Art is the triumph over chaos.
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
The short story is the literature of the nomad.
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
I believe that writing is an account of the powers of extrication.
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.
Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.
I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views.
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.
Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.
I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.
When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.
Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.
It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.
A page of good prose remains invincible.
Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.


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A couple weeks ago, as I was scrolling through my instagram feed, I saw that an artist by the name of Leanne was having a sale on her digital doodle commissions, so obviously I scooped up one for myself! This morning, I woke up to a DM of my finished commisson, and yall…it’s perfect! The photo that I submitted to her has so much sentimental value to me. It marks a period of painful transformation, of healing from trauma, and learning from my mistakes.
I had just released all toxicity from my life. Mainly toxic people.
And detox is HARD.
It is a painful, gutwrenching process, coming face to face with your own demons and acknowledging the hurt and pain you caused the ones you love, the ones trying to save you from the toxicity. I felt alone, isolated and unsure who I could trust. I am thankful everyday for the family and friends who came to me with their concerns. It let me know that it wasn’t just in my head, as I was lead to believe. I was trying desperately to find myself, and instead ended up losing myself completely. This photo, this moment in my history, documents when I found myself again. In an endless field of sunflowers. With some incredibly supportive and loving friends by my side offering me strength and love.
It was this moment when I knew that I was going to be okay. That I’m stronger than those who have ever caused me harm. I work everyday to be a better person then I was the day before, and that means a LOT of introspection and looking within. Of realizing and correcting mistakes, breaking patterns. Being vulnerable and openly communicating. Forever thankful for the beautiful, loving and strong people in my circle. And thankful for this photo to be immortalized into this lovely piece of art that I will forever cherish.
With So Much Love,
As we near the 3rd month of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (that feels so surreal to write), I’ve had A LOT OF FEELINGS , as well as a lot of time to process them. At the beginning, along with the intense fear of this virus, I felt a tremendous sense of loss. A crushing feeling of sadness.
Toward the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, I felt optimistic, for once in my life I felt secure in my future and had solid goals I was sure I would hit. After years of being too afraid to put myself out there…. I started a local Fat Positive meetup group, and I finally took the plunge and started writing professionally. I felt financially secure for the first time in my adult life. But then…. the coronavirus took over. Suddenly, my once full calendar was now empty. Of course, for everyone’s best interest and safety, this is the best thing possible. Social distancing for the forseeable future. But I miss feeling busy. I miss challenging myself and writing about people and places that I am passionate about. And I felt majorly selfish about it. But all feelings are valid…that’s what i’ve been telling myself.
I felt an intense feeling of overwhelming anxiety to pivot and change EVERYTHING that I had just become so comfortable and confident doing. So, for my wellbeing, I stopped everything. I gave my mind and body the time it needed to recover. I wish I could say that every day, or that even most days are great, but I still struggle with this, as well as my pre-pandemic anxiety and depression. But I feel in control again, and for me, that’s the glimmer of hope I need to get me through this time. I hope whoever reads this finds their glimmer of hope, too.
We will get through. We are resilient.
Mayra Y. Mejia
*Wrote this a couple years ago on an old blog, but wanted to repost it in my new blog home. Welcome to Mayra Muses!*
I really love plants. Of all kinds. Flowers excite me. I love discovering new uses for plants, herbs, and leaves. Today, while sitting outside being bitten by mosquitoes, I realized that we are just like the plants that were surrounding me.
Some of us are loud, brilliantly colored flowers, commanding to be seen, breathtakingly beautiful and universally admired, bringing joy to the world with just one glance.
Some are robust, built for harsh weather. You can always rely on them to be strong, even if they don’t get watered as much as they should. They survive.
Some of us are wildflowers, who find a place we like, take root, and growing freely, flourish.
Some of us are a little more unassuming, oft-overlooked until you discover that what’s inside has had the cure to what ails you all along.
Maybe we could learn a lot more about ourselves if we paid a little more attention to our surroundings.
I do know one thing for sure…I have always had a weakness for wild flowers


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“Happy to inform that despite the onslaught of #Kalank and #AvengersEndGame our small film #TheTashkentFiles has entered 4th successful week and is running houseful almost everywhere. Thanks for your support” the film maker expresses his gratitude, thanking the audience for strength and support.
Integrating the statistics of “The Tashkent Files” Ratings, Reviews, Critics and Verdicts: 94% Google Reviews, 90% Bookmyshow ratings, 8.5/10 IMDb ratings, 4.7/5 Audience Verdict, 3.4/5 Critics Rating, five stars studded by Bhavik Sangghvi; four by Joginder Tuteja and three by Times Now, Amar Ujala, Zee News and NDTV India; India lauds #TheRightToTruth with Vivek Agnihotri’s “The Tashkent Files”.
“The Tashkent Files” unravel many political secrets behind the mysterious death of former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri in Tashkent. Winning hearts of audience this thriller creates a horripilation, leaving them teary-eyed. Kudos to the film maker, his cast and crew for making such a brave film. Entering the fourth successful week “The Tashkent Files” becomes “The People’s film”
Know what film-critics have to say about this film:
- “’The Tashkent Files’ needs a medal of bravery”- MYIND.
- “Well researched and potent”–ABP news
- “Excellent, a must watch film by all Indians”– Complete Cinema
- “Fabulous work, an eye-opener”– Navbharat Times
“A film not to be missed”– Box-office India
#TheRightToTruth is in the DNA of Indians. Our beloved second Prime Minister died in Tashkent, no postmortem no investigation. The biggest cover-up of the biggest democracy. Unravel many political secrets and learn ‘Who killed Shastri TWICE?’ Watch Vivek Agnihotri’s “The Tashkent Files” streaming in theaters near you.
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Ohio Senate Bill 91 has been introduced by Ohio Senators Michael Skindell and Charleta B. Tavares to “Provide universal health care coverage to Ohioans.” It would be disastrous for the State of Ohio and lead to more expensive and poorer quality health care.
Considering how ineffective the Federal Affordable Care Act has been it is hard to understand how the State of Ohio could do a better job. Universal coverage is not the same as universal access; just ask anyone needing help from an HMO, let alone the government run Veterans Administration.
Single-payer systems aren’t the solution to rising healthcare costs; all health care costs are rising regardless of the system. In fact, many of the countries with the highest spending per capita on health care includes some of the often-cited model countries with socialized care, and once the government gets involved in anything it’s hard to know the total true cost of any program. However, most countries with socialized medicine have discovered that it works best when free market options are incorporated into the plan – such as competitive alternatives and higher co-pays.
It is hard to understand the true costs of social programs at a macroeconomic level, but this bill offers a glimpse of the individual costs for Ohioans. From the proposed bill, emphasis added:
Sec. 3920.28. Funding of the Ohio health care plan shall be obtained from the following sources:
a) Funds made available to the Ohio health care plan pursuant to sections 3920.31 to 3920.33 of the Revised Code;
b) Funds obtained from other federal, state, and local governmental sources and programs;
c) Receipts from taxes levied on employers' payrolls to be paid by employers. The tax rate in the first year shall not exceed three and eighty-five hundredths [3.85%] per cent of the payroll.
d) Receipts from additional taxes levied on businesses' gross receipts. The tax rate in the first year shall not exceed three percent of the gross receipts.
e) Receipts from additional income taxes, equal to six and two-tenths per cent of an individual's compensation in excess of the amount subject to the social security payroll tax;
f) Receipts from additional income taxes, equal to five per cent of all of an individual's Ohio adjusted gross income, less the exemptions allowed under section 5747.025 of the Revised Code, in excess of two hundred thousand dollars.
On top of existing funding, this plan will add a 3.85% employer income tax (meaning less can be spent on salaries), a 3% tax on all business receipts, and additional income tax ranging from 5% to 6.2% depending on one’s tax bracket. These rates are for starters and are only restricted in the first year. Government programs never shrink – health care costs will rise and continue to rise as long as a growing bureaucracy must be supported.
The problem with the US health care system is that the bureaucracy is too expensive – more bureaucracy will only make it worse. Competition is not encouraged. Being able to freely market health care across state lines, let alone international boundaries, would go a long way to lowering health care costs. Reducing regulations and restrictions on the type of plan, services and doctors a person can have would also help.
At least the House and Senate Concurrent Resolutions (HCR6 and SCR5) offer a sensible challenge to S.B. 91, better representing a workable market solution:
“Concurrent Resolution to urge Congress to continue its efforts to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act and to recommend that future federal health care policies pursue free market solutions, restore power to patients, health care [sic] providers, and the states, fund the Medicaid program through block grants to individual states, and permit the sale of health insurance across state lines.”
While always suspicious of trading federal oversight for state oversight, the health of Ohioans is better protected and more affordable when free markets are available to the individual consumer.
Libertarian Platform - 2.10 Health Care
We favor a free-market health care system. We recognize the freedom of individuals to determine the level of health insurance they want (if any), the level of health care they want, the care providers they want, the medicines and treatments they will use and all other aspects of their medical care, including end-of-life decisions. People should be free to purchase health insurance across state lines.
Sources – General Assembly 132
Senate Bill 91 - Provide universal health care coverage to Ohioans
House Concurrent Resolution 5 - Urge Congress to continue Affordable Care Act
House Concurrent Resolution 6 - Urge repeal and replacement of Affordable Care Act
Senate Concurrent Resolution 5 - Encourage full repeal and replacement of Affordable Care Act

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June 10, 2017
Last night was the final night for Bojan, my favorite casino dealer (so if you are reading this, please send me your email address, I forgot to ask!) He has been on for 10 months so I guess he was happy to be leaving. All of the usual suspects will miss you! Hope to see you “around the world”!
Dublin was our party place – we had an all day outing with Tanya, Drew, Shary, Rob, Tory and Bill – we had a van and a driver, Shea, who took us to all of our destinations.
We started at the Guinness Storehouse, a must when visiting Dublin! The experience has you make your way through a building designed in the shape of a giant pint of Guinness, big enough to hold 12.5 million pints. Their story started 250 years ago and we saw the famous 9000 year lease for the brewery, saw how the beer is brewed, learned about some of their past and present advertising and of course had a proper tasting, followed by our complimentary pint in the top level Gravity Bar – with the view! I learned how to pour and drink it properly but am not a beer convert!
We then moved on to the Jameson Distillery on Bow Street. Here we had a guided tour of the triple distilling that makes Jameson so smooth. We learned about the origins and process, had a tasting comparing three kinds of whiskey – first, without knowing what they were. The first was the Jameson, the second was Scotch – we later found out it was Johnny Walker Black, and the third was Jack Daniels. The purpose was not to say that one is better than the other, but simply to point out the differences in taste. After the tour, we had complimentary drinks. I took my Jameson with ginger ale and lime. Pretty good for someone who never drinks whiskey!
Then it was on to our pub crawl. Shary had done the research and chose the top 4 bars in Dublin for us to visit. We started at the Brazen Head where we had drinks and a pub lunch.
We then moved on to the Temple Bar (since 1840), which is in an area that is called – the Temple Bar! And it is full of bars, bands, singing, etc. We had drinks and joined in the singing. The Temple Bar is the pub with the largest collection of whiskies in Ireland (over 500) and the pub with the largest selection of pub sandwiches (over 100) anywhere in the world. They have also been awarded the title of “Traditional Music Pub of the Year” every year dating back to 2002.
Our last stop was the Palace Bar – we didn’t have time for the 4th one if we wanted to make it back to the ship.
We had a great time, and even though rain was in the forecast and a few drops fell in the morning, the day was glorious as they say in Ireland!
We walked past the famous Trinity College. Here are some of the Saturday sights in Dublin – we will be back!
And, of course, a couple of signs:
Here’s the beautiful lighthouse as we sail out of Dublin.
hi we are back from our May vacation,,then graduations,,,now to catch up on all the great ports you went to while we were away,. We liked Dublin and it seems you did too.mmmmmmmrrrrrrrrr

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Tarlin and Mike are back to celebrate our 50th episode of Running It Back, the Lessons Learned from Sports Podcast. What began as an outlet for us in the midst of the sports-starved days of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has now grown into a real body of work, an oeuvre, and a platform to grow.
We share highlights from our favorite episodes including Mike’s son Matthew’s appearance, Tarlin’s Ode to Tiger, and much more. We let listeners in on our creative process as we learn from the data and spitball what topics to cover next. And of course, there’s plenty of talk of Space Jam, Scottie Pippen memoirs, The Rooney Rule, Black Quarterbacks and more. We even celebrate some great 50s before we wrap.
Thanks to everyone who’s been with us so far. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to keep up with the latest. Visit us at RunningItBack.fm for more as we embark on our next 50. We look forward to you joining us for the ride!
Tarlin and Mike are back, talking solace in basketball this time on the heels of the NBA All-Star weekend in Cleveland. We reminisce over All-Star Weekends from times gone by, including 1988 and 1992 before fast-forwarding back to the present to talk about a dismal Slam Dunk Contest, the 3 Point Shooting Contest, and the display put on by Stephen Curry during the actual All-Star Game on Sunday. In front of most of the 76 Greatest Players of all time and despite those that couldn’t make it, Steph showed to be the star among stars. And the NBA is being transformed in the process.
We look for lessons in the Top 75 and in ESPN’s as the wet jump shot may be replacing the stunning dunk as the signature move in the NBA today. We discuss all of this, riff on variations of the screenplay for Space Jam 3, and even propose five modern players on the Mount Rushmore of the modern game. Listen in. You might hear some surprises.
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Tarlin and Mike are back again with a special bonus episode of Running It Back where we look for lessons learned from the Space Jam franchise coinciding with the recent release of LeBron’s new film, Space Jam: A New Legacy. To start, we give respect and a little tunefulness in honor of the late great Biz Markie, RIP.
Then we begin by digging back into the context around the first Space Jam movie which was fleshed out in The Last Dance documentary which we’ve covered on other shows. We bask in a little 90s nostalgia for MJ’s charisma and a cast of NBA Legends at the time including Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley, Larry Johnson, Mugsy Bogues, and Shawn Bradley.
From there, we jump to the Summer of 2021 and the release of the new Space Jam vehicle featuring LeBron, Diana Taurasi, Clay Thompson among others. How does the new version stack up against the OG Space Jam? What are our thoughts on Don Cheadle’s performance as Al G Rithm in the WB Serververse? What marketing advice do we have for Warner Brothers and who is Mike’s pick to star in Space Jam 3?
Listen in to find out!
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April Holidays of DPRK Commemorated
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Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Seminar, photo exhibition, round-table talks and film show took place in France, Romania and Singapore from April 1 to 5 to commemorate the Day of the Sun and the 13th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.
Displayed in the venues of the functions were famous works of President
Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and photos dealing with their immortal exploits and introducing Mangyongdae.
The chief of the French Group for the Study of the Juche Idea said at the seminar that Kim Il Sung defeated the Japanese and U.S. imperialists and built a powerful socialist country centered on the popular masses, holding high the banner of the Juche idea. This reality goes to prove that the Juche idea serves as a banner of unity and weapon for the anti-imperialist struggle of the world progressives aspiring after independence and guidelines for every country and nation in their efforts to independently shape their lines and creatively achieve progress.
After watching a Korean film "Highest Honor and Greatest Happiness of the Nation", the director of the Singaporean O. C. N. Trade Private Co., Ltd. extended most heartfelt congratulations to Kim Jong Il on the 13th anniversary of his election as NDC chairman. The director wholeheartedly wished him good health, noting that the Korean people are the happiest and most proud people as they are under his wise leadership.
Congratulatory letter and message to Kim Jong Il were adopted at the seminar in France.


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By Stephanie "Bobbi" Bergman
Dust Puppy, Stef (Iím not talking me here), and Pitr. Not to mention A.J., Miranda, and Erwin, among others. Sound familiar to you? If not, well, good god! And you call yourself a geek.
What Iím talking about is User Friendly, almost the Ďcomputer geeks answer to Dilbert.í We syndicate it here on loonygames, and itís also been going strong over at UserFriendly.org for over a year. Itís an ongoing, at times serialized comic strip about a goofy group of workers at an ISP, and has quickly become a Ďmust readí for geeks everywhere. We decided to sit down with the man behind the strange group at Columbia Internet and find out exactly where User Friendly came from.
Name/rank/serial number? Illiad, cartoon guy, can't read the bar code stamped on the back of my head.
Where did the idea for User Friendly come from? Real life. I work for a high-tech company, and one of its divisions is an ISP.
You surely don't have stormtroopers running into your ISP though...? Don't be surprised if I say I do. I think a lot of people who work in hi-tech can attest to seeing and participating in really strange but fun activities. Like dressing up as your favourite character and shocking people at work.
I have to ask...since one of your characters (MALE characters) has my name...are the names real? (I'm Stef too) The names aren't the same as the real life people's that I base the strip on, but they're reasonably close.
How difficult is it to get a comic done daily? Hmm. It varies. Some days I couldn't draw a single frame if my life depended on it. Other days I can polish off five entire weekday strips and a Sunday strip in ten hours. I think it depends on the mood I'm in. I remember my most productive day yet...I started at 1:00AM and kept drawing and writing until noon. The strips just wrote themselves. I didn't have to think about them at all.
So you print one a day, but do them as you can? Itís not a Ďdraw one, publish oneí kinda thing? Yup, I publish one a day come hell or high water, but I draw when I can. There have been times when midnight is about to roll around and I don't have a strip drawn for the following day. It gets scary then because my mailbox has a tendency to fill up even more than it usually does when I'm late with a strip. But for some reason, the muse (the rotten, miserable sod that he or she is, teasing me like that) visits me at the final hour whenever I'm in a real crunch. Makes me aware that I'm alive. :-)
How are the strips done? Do you draw them, and then scan them? I used to do that, really early on. Now I do everything digitally, with my handy digital tablet. That thing is a real time saver. I do draw everything in hi-res though, so that it's printworthy. I publish the lo-res, 72dpi versions on the web.
How long have you been doing the comic? Since November 1997. It's been more than a year now. The official birthday is November 17, but I had about a dozen strips drawn before I mounted any on the web. I'm not sure what the exact date was when I drew the first User Friendly strip, but it was definitely in early November 1997.
Have you been drawing for a long time? I've been *cartooning* for quite some time, ever since I was about 12. I don't consider myself much of an artist or illustrator in the traditional sense, but I can do some adequate caricatures. Not all cartoonists are artists (like myself), but there are some cartoonists who are artists to the core (such as Berkeley Breathed, the creator of Bloom County and my own personal cartoon god). I'm a better writer than artist.
What are your favorite comic books? Comic books? I prefer the alternate ones, like Moonshadow which only ran for 12 issues, and Preacher which is ongoing still. Bone is also a remarkable piece of work. Or did you mean cartoon strips?
I meant comics there... :) You seem, to me anyway, to be closer in style to a comic (to be collected in trade paperback kinda thing), than an actual strip. Do you agree? Yes and no. I understand why you feel that way because User Friendly is heavily serial in nature. But look at some other strips like Rex Morgan, or Prince Valiant or even For Better or Worse. I do the occasional one-offs (these usually involve Greg doing a tech support call) but I get a lot more satisfaction as a writer when I get involved in a serial story arc. So, there isn't a clear-cut black and white answer to your question. :)
That's true...I guess I've just always been a huge comics fan, but not one of strips...so I'm biasing myself there :) Everyone's biased in one way or another. I think just about anyone will forgive you for it. :)
Whose style do you think you resemble, if anyone? That's hard to answer. I'm certainly heavily influenced by Berke Breathed's writing and pacing style -- he was a master at those two elements as well as the visual one. I'm also influenced by Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, which is in my mind one of the most courageously honest cartoon strips out there. To a lesser degree I'm influenced by Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, a much beloved cartoon in my books.
Would you like to see User Friendly published in print? Are you referring to syndication?
Depends...which form would you like to see it in? I'd love to see it in book form, and I'm happy to say we have an offer on the table from a major book publisher. We're still in negotiations on that. As far as syndication goes -- I'm leery of it, simply because signing the dotted line with a major syndicate means that they own your ass for at least five years, and I do mean that. They literally own your creation, and you have to work to their schedule. Although I've tried very hard to make sure that there's always a new cartoon strip every day, I do it because I want to, not because I have a fifty page contract hanging over my head. Now given all of that, I'm not totally against the idea of syndication, provided that the deal was sweet enough, and I'm not just referring to monetary rewards here. It's a common misconception that getting syndicated means you'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams. In fact, most cartoonists make only a decent living. The few superstars like Scott Adams (Dilbert) and Jim Davis (Garfield) are the ones who make the millions.
I know that's true for comics as well, yet novelists can make a nice salary with one decent book. Do you think that's because of the public's view on comics? ( I remember a movement of sorts a few years back to bring comic art into the mainstream) I'm not sure why that is with regard to comics. I know that getting that "one decent book" published is also a tough grind. Sure, if you're a Danielle Steel or Stephen King, you'll draw a huge advance just by virtue of the power of your name on a book to sell copies, but most novelists need to keep writing to keep earning a decent royalty check. I've been down that road, and I've been published, but I still have a day job. :-) I think one of the reasons why comics don't receive the attention they deserve in North America is because it's been labeled as an item that belongs to children. Of course, I know a great many adults who collect Superman, and Batman, and you can't argue that brilliant comics written and drawn by people like Frank Miller (Dark Knight, Sin City) are for kids.
True. :) One other thing. It really is a cultural problem, because Anime comic books in Japan are read by all age groups and all across all occupations.
What do you think of the 'adult' comics? The Vertigo line, stuff like that? I love them, but I suspect they'll forever remain in the niche markets. I know that geeks love them. I certainly collect enough of them, and I don't see myself stopping any time soon.
Did you ever think User Friendly was going to take off the way it has? I didn't even dream it. I really had no idea that User Friendly would evolve into the phenomenon it has. I've learned a great deal in the last year, and one thing I've finally taken to heart is to stop trying to second guess the audience, especially the audience I have for the comic strip. In a lot of ways I have it really tough, because the typical UFie is someone who is intelligent, articulate, outspoken, and very intolerant of stupid mistakes. On the other hand, I'm lucky to have the audience I do for exactly the same reasons.
What do your co-workers think about being in a comic? At first I think they were mildly insulted, but after a while I could see that they were all really beginning to enjoy it. I do understand why they might have felt a little surprised or taken aback by being drawn into a comic strip, since the situations their alter egos get involved in aren't always flattering. :-) They all took it with remarkably good humour though. I'm sure none of them would ever admit they were ever offended. :-)
Are you a character in it? In a manner of speaking. The character closest to who I am would be A.J. I guess. He does what I do for a living, and he's a game freak like me.
What are your favorite games? That's dangerous territory, since I'm very opinionated when it comes to games and game design. :-) Where did you want to start, computer games, board games or role-playing games?
Computer games :) My all time favorite game would have to be Civilization by Sid Meier. He's a very rare person, a computer programmer with an understanding of good game design. I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of Alpha Centauri, for obvious reasons. As far as first-person shooters go, it's a tie between Half-Life and Thief. Quake rocks, but it rocks because of its amazing technology, not because of the game play. Real-time strategy games don't turn my crank that much, but an exception would be Age of Empires. It has a good feel to it, and it's certainly beautiful.
Now...board games? Advanced Squad Leader, the definitive simulation of WWII squad-level combat. The rulebook is literally hundreds of pages long, and I still have to learn over 60% of it, but it's by and far the finest boardgame ever published. A very close second is Dune, by the now defunct Eon Pastimes, a truly excellent multi-player boardgame based on the book and not on that ridiculous movie. Third place would have to be Diplomacy. That game is an example of excellent design in its purest form. Minimal mechanics, so the game is simple to learn, but it is very difficult to master.
Do you still play them? I know games like Diplomacy can be played by e-mail...it seems most board games are on computer now. Yes, I play them whenever I get a chance. I understand that even Advanced Squad Leader has an online version now. Even so, playing by email or over the net in real time is a last resort for me. I play computer games to relax and escape, whether itís single player or multi player. I play boardgames to socialize, chat and have fun with my friends. As much as I love LAN parties and multi player tournaments, they can't hold a candle to a good interactive boardgame. I mean...think about it. Twelve people sitting in front of their workstations twitching various body parts as they play Quake II CTF doesn't make for much socialization. You might as well be at home.
Role playing games...there's definitely interaction there. Yes, and that's one of the main reasons why I play them. I started playing AD&D like most people, but moved on to other games after that. I even worked for a game design company at one point, I loved RPGs so much. It paid next to nothing, but I was doing what I loved. The same goes for computerized RPGs...they're mostly single person shooters that have a veneer of role-playing painted over the top. I have yet to see a single computer RPG that can capture the richness and depth of a human-run game. And don't even mention Diablo. I have an opinion about that game that would probably get me lynched by Diablo fans everywhere. :-)
Have you ever tried text-based MUDs? (My personal favorite) Ever since I had a modem I've been playing in MUDs and MUSHes, although I don't play much at all nowadays. I even had a go at building a MUD with lambdamoo. It was good fun. But it's still not role-playing like face-to-face role-playing can be.
Last question :) What are your favorite websites? Oooh. Toughie that one. I really prefer the non-commercial sites. I hit slashdot every day, and segfault. Blueís News of course, and halflife.net these days. loonygames of course :). I actually don't spend that much time surfing any more like I used to. Instead, if I need something, I investigate it on the web and then get out. My random surfing time is near zero these days, probably because of these cartoons I have to keep drawing. :-).
- Stephanie "Bobbi" Bergman is an associate editor for loonygames.
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Wappinger territory (in centre, "Wappinges"), from a 1685 reprint of a 1656 map
|(Extinct as a tribe)|
|Regions with significant populations|
|United States ( New York)|
|Eastern Algonquian languages, probably Munsee|
|traditional tribal religion|
|Related ethnic groups|
|Other Algonquian peoples|
In the 17th century, they were primarily based in what is now Dutchess County, New York, and their territory included the east bank of the Hudson along both Putnam and Westchester counties all the way to Manhattan Island to the south, the Mahican territory bounded by the Roeliff-Jansen Kill to the north, and extended east into parts of Connecticut.
- 1 Language
- 2 European relations
- 3 Decline
- 4 Name
- 5 Bands
- 6 Morse's contentions
- 7 Legacy
- 8 Notes
- 9 References
They were most closely related to the Lenape, both being members of the Eastern Algonquian-speaking subgroup of the Algonquian peoples. The Lenape and Wappinger spoke using very similar Delawarean language. They are close enough that a Wappinger speaking in the Munsee Delaware tongue and a Lenape would mostly understand each other.
Their nearest allies were the Mahicans to the north, the Montauketts to the south, and the remaining New England tribes to the east. Like the Lenape, the Wappinger were not organized into cohesive tribes for most of their history; instead, they formed approximately 18 loosely associated bands.
The total population of the Wappinger Confederacy has been estimated at about 13,200 individuals at the beginning of European contact. Their settlements included camps along the major rivers with larger villages located at the river mouths. Despite references to villages and other site types by early European explorers and settlers, few Contact period sites have been identified in southeastern New York (Funk 1976).
Robert Juet, an officer on the "Half Moon", provides an account in his journal of some of the lower Hudson Valley Native Americans. In his entries for September 4 and 5, 1609, he states:
"This day the people of the country came aboord of us, seeming very glad of our comming, and brought greene tobacco, and gave us of it for knives and beads. They goe in deere skins loose, well dressed. They have yellow copper. They desire cloathes, and are very civill. They have great store of maize or Indian wheate whereof they make good bread. The country is full of great and tall oakes. This day [September 5, 1609] many of the people came aboord, some in mantles of feathers, and some in skinnes of divers sorts of good furres. Some women also came to us with hempe. They had red copper tabacco pipes and other things of copper they did wear about their neckes. At night they went on land againe, so wee rode very quite, but durst not trust them" (Juet 1959:28).
David Pieterz De Vries recorded another description of the Wappinger who resided around Fort Amsterdam:
"The Indians about here are tolerably stout, have black hair with a long, lock which they let hang on one side of the head. Their hair is shorn on the top of the head like a cock's comb. Their clothing is a coat of beaver skins over the body, with the fur inside in winter and outside in summer; they have, also, sometimes a bear's hide, or a coat of the skins of wild cats, or hefspanen [probably raccoon], which is an animal most as hairy as a wild cat, and is also very good to eat. They also wear coats of turkey feathers, which they know how to put together. Their pride is to paint their faces strangely with red or black lead, so that they look like fiends. Some of the women are very well featured, having long countenances. Their hair hangs loose from their head; they are very foul and dirty; they sometimes paint their faces, and draw a black ring around their eyes."
As the Dutch began to settle in the area, they pressured the Connecticut Wappinger to sell their lands and seek refuge with other Algonquian-speaking tribes. The western bands, however, stood their ground amidst rising tensions.
During Kieft's War in 1643, the remaining Wappinger bands united against the Dutch, attacking settlements throughout New Netherland. Allied with their trading partners, the powerful Mohawk, the Dutch defeated the Wappinger by 1645. The Mohawk and Dutch killed more than 1500 Wappinger in the two years of the war. This was a devastating toll for the Wappinger, whose population in 1600 was estimated at 3,000.
The Wappinger faced the Dutch again in the 1655 Peach Tree War, a three-day engagement which left an estimated 100 settlers and 60 Wappinger dead, and strained relations further between the two groups. After the war, the confederation broke apart, and many of the surviving Wappinger left their native lands for the protection of neighboring tribes.
In 1765, the remaining Wappinger in Dutchess County sued the Philipse family for control of the land but lost. In the aftermath the Philipses raised rents on European-American tenant farmers, sparking riots across the region.
Nimham and some forty braves fell in the Battle of Kingsbridge fighting against the British on August 30, 1778. It proved an irrecoverable blow to the tribe.
From that time the Wappingers ceased to have a name in history. A few scattered remnants still remained, and as late as 1811, a small band had their dwelling place on a low tract of land by the side of a brook, under a high hill, in the northern part of the town of Kent."
Many Wappinger served in the Stockbridge Militia during the American Revolution. Following the war, most of the surviving Wappinger moved west to join the Algonquian Stockbridge-Munsee tribe in Ohio. Later they were removed to Wisconsin. Today, members of the federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Nation reside mostly in Wisconsin.
Following their service on behalf of the American cause in the Revolution, loss of their leader Daniel Nimham, and subsequent irrecoverable loss of their land, the tribe became scattered. A very few were still found in Kent as late as 1811.
The Wappinger are also known as the Wappink, Wappings, Wappingers, Wappingoes, Wawpings, Pomptons, Wapings, Opings, Opines, Massaco, Menunkatuck, Naugatuck, Nochpeem, Wangunk Wappans, Wappings, Wappinghs, Wapanoos, Wappanoos, Wappinoo, Wappenos, Wappinoes, Wappinex, Wappinx, Wapingeis, Wabinga, Wabingies, Wapingoes, Wapings, Wappinges, Wapinger and Wappenger.
The origins of the name Wappinger is debated. While the present-day spelling appeared as early as 1643, countless alternate phonetic spellings were also used by early European settlers well into the late 19th century. Anthropologist Ives Goddard suggests the Munsee language-word wápinkw, meaning "opossum", might be related. No evidence supports the folk etymology of the name coming from a word meaning "easterner," as suggested by Edward Manning Ruttenber in 1906. and John Reed Swanton in 1952.
The suggested bands, or sachemships of the Wappinger has been described as including:
- Wappinger proper, who lived on the east side of the Hudson River, in present-day Dutchess County, New York
- Hammonasset, an eastern group at the mouth of the Connecticut River, in present-day Middlesex County, Connecticut
- Menunkatuck, along the coast in present-day New Haven County, Connecticut
- Nochpeem, in southern portions of present-day Dutchess County, New York
- Paugusset, along the Housatonic River, present-day eastern Fairfield and western New Haven counties of Connecticut
- Poquonock, western present-day Hartford County, Connecticut
- Quinnipiac, in central New Haven County, Connecticut
- Sicaog, in present-day Hartford County, Connecticut
- Sintsink, also Sinsink, Sinck Sinck, and Sint Sinck, origin of today's Sing Sing in Ossining, east of the Hudson River in present-day Westchester County, New York
- Siwanoy, coastal Westchester County, New York, into southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut
- Tankiteke, central coastal Fairfield County, Connecticut north into Putnam County and Dutchess County, New York
- Tunxis, southwestern Hartford County, Connecticut
- Wecquaesgeek (Wiechquaeskeck, Wickquasgeck, Weckquaesgeek), southwestern Westchester County, New York
The following content comes from: Freemasonry in the American Revolution, Sidney Morse, 1924, and contains numerous contentions, including the introduction of Brazilian Amazonian Indians into the Hudson Valley:
The 1685 Dutch map of New Netherland places the Wappani tribe as one of many family tribes of the Tawakoni (Taconic) that lived in the Fishkill highlands.
The Towakoni tribe of which the Wappani belonged was a larger family of the Lenape. The Woarani family held the highlands of Pawling NY, and Nochpeem held the highlands of Kent NY, just below the Wappani highlands of Fishkill (See: Map of Nava Belgii Nieuw)
In 1805, 200 years after the stated 3000 person population General Clinton and Sullivan of the British forces destroyed 40 Indian Towns, their crops, fruit trees, and burned over 100,000 bushels of corn from Elmira to Genesse valley New York. This places the Indian Population well above 3000 considering the work force to maintain 40 stationary farming towns, and the various fields that supplied the vegetables. The Wappani as one small band of the Towakani of Southern NY, NJ and PA. may have had 3000 members living upon one mountain top region of Fishkill, however The Towakani tribe had Family tribes upon every mountain throughout the region which is completely over looked. Further the Towakani adopted their Woarani neighbors who were relocated by the Dutch Privateer sailors into Pawling to run the iron furnaces. The Woarani (pronounced Gwuarani ) originated in the Brazil/Paraguay region of South America. The Towakoni tribe of the Lenape was known for teaching healers or medicine through spirituality.
Putnam County New York is known as the Stone chamber capital of the world and boasts over 300 known and intact stone chambers, massive effigies and man made lakes of the once vibrant Towakani tribes.
The Wappinger are the namesake of several areas in New York, including:
- Town of Wappinger
- Village of Wappingers Falls
- Wappinger Creek
- Wappinger Trail, Briarcliff Manor, New York
- Sebeok 1977, p. 380.
- Boesch, Eugene, J., Native Americans of Putnam County
- Ruttenber, E.M. (1906). "Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: Their location and the probable meaning of some of them". Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association - the Annual Meeting, with Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members. New York State Historical Association. 7th Annual: 40 (RA1–PA38). Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. p. 256.
- Trelease, Allen (1997). Indian Affairs in Colonial New York. ISBN 0-8032-9431-X.
- Swanton 1952, p. 47.
- Cook 1976:74
- Eugene J. Boesch, Native Americans of Putnam County
- MacCracken 1956:266
- Boyle, David (1896). "Short Historical and Journale Notes by David Pietersz, De Vries, 1665". Annual Archæological Report. Toronto: Warwick Bros. & Rutter. 1894–95: 75.
- "Wappinger". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2010. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- Axelrod, Alan (2008). Profiles in Folly. Sterling Publishing Company. pp. 229–236. ISBN 1-4027-4768-3.
- Reitano, Joanne R. (2006). The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present. CRC Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 0-415-97849-1.
- Kammen, Michael (1996). Colonial New York: A History. Oxford University Press. p. 302. ISBN 0-19-510779-9.
- Steele, Ian K. (2000). The Human Tradition in the American Revolution. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 85–91. ISBN 0-8420-2748-3.
- Vaughan, Alden (2006). Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776. Cambridge University Press. p. 177. ISBN 0-521-86594-8.
- Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties New York, Press of the A. V. Haight Co., Poughkeepsie, New York, 1912; pp. 62-79  "In this fray the power of the tribe was forever broken. More than forty of the Indians were killed or desperately wounded."
- Historical and Genealogical Record Dutchess and Putnam Counties New York, Press of the A. V. Haight Co., Poughkeepsie, New York, 1912; pp. 62-79  "From that time the Wappingers ceased to have a name in history. A few scattered remnants still remained, and as late as 1811, a small band had their dwelling place on a low tract of land by the side of a brook, under a high hill, in the northern part of the town of Kent."
- Goddard 1978, p. 238.
- Sebeok 1977, p. 307.
- Sebeok 1977, p. 310.
- Sebeok 1977, p. 309.
- Sebeok 1977, p. 325.
- Brodhead, John Romeyn, Agent (1986) [First Pub. 1855]. O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. London documents: XVII-XXIV. 1707-1733. Documents relative to the colonial history of the State of New York procured in Holland, England and France. Vol. 5. Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons & Co. ISBN 0-665-53988-6. OL7024110M. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- Hodge, Frederick Webb, ed. (October 1912). Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Part 2 (2nd ed.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. pp. 913, 1167, 1169. ISBN 978-1-4286-4558-5. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
- Pritchard, Evan T. (April 12, 2002). Native New Yorkers, the legacy of the Algonquin people of New York. Council Oaks Distribution. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-57178-107-9. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
- Bright, William (November 30, 2007). Native American placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 548. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
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- Vasiliev, Ren (2004). From Abbotts to Zurich: New York State Placenames. Syracuse University Press. p. 233. ISBN 0-8156-0798-9.
- Swanton 1952:Tankitele mainly in Fairfield County, Connecticut, between Five Mile River and Fairfield, extending inland to Danbury and even into Putnam and Dutchess Counties
- Cohen, Doris Darlington. "The Weckquaesgeek" (PDF). Ardsley Historical Society.
- Morse, Sidney (1924). Freemasonry in the American Revolution. p. 111.
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- Sebeok, Thomas, ed. (1977). Native Languages of the Americas, Volume 2. Springer. p. 380. ISBN 978-1-4757-1562-0.
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TRAININGTribal Prosecutors Symposium
New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs, Inc. presents:
Tribal Prosecutors Symposium
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~MCLEs will be offered and paid for by the conference
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Model Victims’ Rights Laws in Tribal Codes
Neurobiology of Trauma in Sex Crimes Cases
Shandi Campbell, JD, has worked in the area of domestic violence since 2009, and is licensed to practice law in the State of Oklahoma, as well as eight tribal courts and has handled several cases concerning the checker-boarded jurisdiction between state and tribal courts in Oklahoma. Campbell has co-authored an article on the topic of sexual assault laws in Oklahoma Indian Country titled: Application of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act in Oklahoma Indian Country, 81 Oklahoma Bar Journal 383- 386 (2010). She has served as the staff attorney for the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma civil-legal program where she works to provide legal assistance to victims of domestic violence, family violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Campbell has also served as a contract attorney for the NAAV CIRCLE Project, which provides a holistic representation for victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking through collaboration between attorney and tribal advocate.
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This project is supported by subgrant 2019-WF-519 awarded by the NMCVRC for the STOP Formula Grant Program. The opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed in the publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NMCVRC or the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

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Who can deny some sunshine, boat blown hair and jumping in the lake? But this summer had me thinking that some of my best memories in Deep Creek actually aren’t on the lake. There are so many fun things to do besides that lake so I figured I’d share my favorites!
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Our trip to Nashville, TN
Todays’ blog post is a flashback Friday, because well, life has been crazy busy! This post is from the original blog that I had and is all about our trip to Nashville, TN.
Hawaii- Part Two
I hope you enjoyed my first post about our trip to Hawaii. Next, we booked an Airbnb and took the scenic route to the North Shore.
Hawaii- Part One
Aloha!! Here is a quick recap of a few of my favorite activities around the Waikiki area!


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Under perfect winter conditions with snowbanks and beautiful weather, the city of Rovaniemi hosted the Arctic Rally Finland 26-28 February.
This was the first time the WRC visited a wintery Finland and a total of 10 stages were contested around the hometown of Santa Claus. Ole Christian Veiby and Jonas Andersson were competing in a Hyundai i20 R5 with Red Grey Team and Hyundai Motorsport. Including names as WRC-drivers Andreas Mikkelsen and Esapekka Lappi, there was an impressive entry list for the WRC2 category.
- That’s the first ever WRC Arctic Rally Finland over, and what an event it has been! Amazing superfast winter roads, perfect weather conditions, it’s been an adventure to compete on these stages. In the end we finish 5th in the WRC2. It was a demanding weekend for us, we had an issue already on the Friday with a throttle that got stuck and we lost a bit more than a minute on that. It was a challenge with traction on Saturday, but we worked hard on the set up and in the end, we were close enough to the pace of the leaders. Happy to get 3 bonus points from the power stage, that’s good for the championship!
Ole Christian and Jonas finished in a strong 5th O/A in the WRC2 category and claimed 3 extra bonus points after setting the 3rd fastest time on the Power Stage.
WRC2 overall classification Arctic Rally Finland
1 Lappi, VW Polo
2 Mikkelsen, Skoda +47,7
3 Gryazin, VW Polo +1.30,3
4 Brynildsen, Skoda +2.44,9
5 Veiby, Hyundai +2.54,2
6 Prokop, Ford +7.00,1


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Experts used sensors to measure pollution from 7.30am to 9.30am and 2pm to 4pm outside St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary in Guildford, Surrey.
The main pollution source was morning school run cars — with levels of dangerous small particles almost triple those at other times.
Prof Prashant Kumar, of the University of Surrey, said pollution could hang around “long after” drop off and last into morning playtime.
The air quality expert said there was less pollution during the afternoon as most pick-ups were off-site and many kids stayed for after-school activities.
Prof Kumar urged schools to provide off-site parking, drop-off points and to plant hedges to block dirty air.
He said: “The findings will be of great concern to parents locally and further afield.
“It goes without saying that our children's health and wellbeing is of the highest priority in society and that is why we must protect them from the dangers of air pollution.”
Head Neil Lewin also urged parents to “think again” about their school run trips to help cut pollution.
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Thales Technical Unit Control and Display Systems (CDS) uses electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) simulation to reduce testing costs on each new cockpit instrument. EMC is a major design challenge in cockpit instruments because they have a clear face which makes them difficult to shield. FLO/EMC electromagnetic simulation software from Flomerics enables Thales engineers to evaluate its products’ radiated emissions and susceptibility during the early design stages. “We use FLO/EMC to identify and fix EMC problems prior to the prototype stage, usually by improving the shielding,” said Julien Blanc, EMC specialist for Thales CDS. “As a result, this eliminates the need for late-stage design changes which in turn saves money by avoiding the need for modification of prototypes and additional testing.”
Thales is a leading international electronics and systems group that employs 60,000 people in 50 countries. Thales makes a wide range of cockpit and display systems for military and commercial aircraft. EMC is usually a major concern in the design of these systems. For example, engineers need to ensure that emissions from the display do not interfere with radio communications or radar-based collision detection systems. In the past, these concerns were addressed by building prototypes and testing them for EMC compliance. This often required expensive fixes on the existing design. In any case, the prototype had to be modified or re-built from scratch and the testing process had to be repeated. This was expensive and in some cases had an impact on the product launch date.
To improve the design process, Thales evaluated several different electromagnetic simulation methods. “We evaluated the major calculation methods and the leading software packages,” Blanc said. “We selected FLO/EMC because its predictions consistently matched our physical testing results and it is easy to use.” For example, in a recent experimental study, FLO/EMC predicted that radiated emissions at 160 MHz would be 33 dBmV/m in the far field and 95 dBmV in the near field. Actual measurements were 35 dBmV/m in the far field and 92 dBmV in the near field. FLO/EMC uses the Transmission Line Matrix (TLM) method for solving Maxwell’s equations, which solves for all frequencies of interest in a single calculation and therefore captures the full broadband response of the system in one simulation cycle.
In a recent application, calculated resonant frequencies for a cockpit instrument perfectly matched the test results for the same polarization. This insight quickly led to the design change of putting conductive material on vertical slits in the side cover of the cockpit instrument. Re-running the simulation showed that this solved the problem. The result was that the very first prototype met EMC specifications. “We have used FLO/EMC to simulate seven recent products and in each case we have found and fixed EMC problems in the qualification stage,” Blanc said. “Fixing problems in the early stages of the project is much less expensive because it avoids the need for building and testing additional prototypes to evaluate potential fixes.”