Congratulations to the Upper Valley Storm Peewee1 hockey team after dominating at the Spring Classic Hockey Tournament in Hooksett, NH over the weekend of March 23rd-25th.
After a semi-final exit in the Tier 2 NH State tournament, the Peewees were looking to continue their strong season. They did just that with a 10-0 win over Black Ice at 6am on Saturday morning and a 14-0 win over The Green Mountain Knights at 7:20pm.
A tight third game at 8:20am on Sunday saw the Storm run into a tough Berlin Sabres team and an even tougher goaltender who stymied the Storm, keeping them scoreless for the first two periods. It was a great pass from Nolan "The Warlock" Morlock to Ezra "Mighty Mouse" Mock in the neutral zone with speed. Mock carried the puck into the Sabres zone beat the Sabres goalie blocker side off the post and in with just 5 minutes to play in the game. Mock's goal was the only of the match and the eventual game winner.
The win set the Storm for a battle with the Plymouth Predators who beat Berlin 3-2 earlier in the tournament. The Storm came in prepared and a first minute goal by Ozzy DeFelice set the tone for the game as the Storm went up 5-0 in the first 5 minutes.
The Storm were dominant in this one, scoring from all over the ice and capping the weekend with a 10-1 win. Deke "Dangles" Davidson put up 5 goals in this one and took home tournament MVP for the effort while Frank "The Face" Cushing made 5 saves in the win and only allowed 1 goal in 4 contests.
Helping Cushing were was his blueliners who not only played spectacular defense but also contributed offensively this weekend. The core consisted of Jack Clary, Matty Hayes, Lochlan Park and Cayden Van Dolah.
The forwards were tenacious and smart all weekend. As usual they were led by their fearless leaders, Ozzy DeFelice & Ezra Mock, but the speed and tenacity of Sophie Trombley often set the tone. The puck control of Nolan Morlock, Jack "Silky Wilky" Wilkinson & Davidson made it hard for any of their opponents to gain momentum, but overall it was one of the most impressive TEAM efforts of the season.
Unfortunately the Storm were missing Paddy "Smiles" Mooney due to illness, but he was there in spirit.


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Legacy of the USS Tennessee
April 7, 2017 By: Mark Loproto
Many US Navy vessels were present during the attack on Pearl Harbor, but it was the battleships that bore the brunt of the surprise attack. Among the mighty vessels moored within the harbor, lined up perfectly for Japanese bombers to target them, was the USS Tennessee (BB-43). While not as widely recognized as the USS Arizona, the Tennessee's survival during the attack on Pearl Harbor proved paramount to the success of the United States Navy during World War II.
The Life of the Tennessee
Launched in April of 1919, the Tennessee had a rough start when, in 1920 during trial runs, a generator exploded and destroyed a turbine. The ship returned to service in 1921 and was stationed at San Pedro, CA for 19 years. By 1940, the Tennessee received an overhaul and was moved to Pearl Harbor, where she would be moored at Battleship Row at the time of the Japanese surprise attack in December of 1941.
As the Japanese swooped in on the row of battleships in the harbor, the crew of the Tennessee jumped behind the antiaircraft guns onboard and mounted the best defense they were capable of. In the attack, the battleship was struck by two armor-piercing bombs, neither of which detonated completely.
Vessels around the Tennessee sustained heavy damage, and she was essentially trapped by the USS West Virginia. The Tennessee, which suffered five crew deaths, was able to return to service in February of 1942. When she reentered the war, she did so in full force, joining the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on her journey to support the invasion of Guadalcanal.
After the Attack
By mid-1943, the Tennessee was given a new destination: Alaska, where she would work to support the Aleutian Islands campaign. As Japan's Navy wasn't involved, the Tennessee fired on ground forces until the Aleutian Islands were back in American hands.
With much still left to do, after a period of training, the Tennessee and her crew were moved to Betio to participate in the Battle of Tarawa and, in 1944, was ordered to assist in the Marshall Islands, where she continued ground-force bombardment.
US armada moving towards Leyte Island
One of the ship's most notable engagements came in October of 1944, when she was added to the naval force that took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Considered one of the largest naval battles in history, The Tennessee—alongside other battleships including fellow Pearl Harbor survivors the West Virginia, Pennsylvania, California, and Maryland—succeeded in routing the Japanese, securing an Allied victory in the Philippines.
The End of the Tennessee
Having survived multiple battles against the Japanese, and one of the most devastating attacks on American territory, the Tennessee was finally delisted from the Naval Vessel Register on March 1st, 1959.
After a lengthy and illustrious service, the final fate of the Tennessee was to be sold as scrap to the Bethlehem Steel Company.
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How a bioindustrial additive makes old asphalt young again
For most asphalt, there's no such thing as retirement. But there is something like an elixir of youth.
Asphalt is the most recycled product in the United States. Nearly all of the old pavement scraped up when roads are repaved can be put back to work.
But it becomes brittle as it ages, limiting how much can be recycled at one time. The rest is stockpiled faster than we can reuse it. In some places, the piles get so big that they're fitted with signal lights to alert low-flying aircraft.
Cargill is working to change that, incorporating an engineered plant-based additive into asphalt mixes that pushes the limits of how much reclaimed pavement can go back onto the road.
Cargill's Anova rejuvenator rebalances the chemical composition of bitumen, asphalt's petroleum-based liquid binder.
Over time, bitumen degrades. That limits the amount of recycled pavement that can be used in new roads without sacrificing performance. Surface repaving, which makes up most road work in big cities, typically uses only about 20 percent recycled asphalt.
But asphalt mixed with Anova rejuvenator can perform as well or better than standard mixes while using a far greater percentage of recycled content. The result is pavement that's more sustainable and cost-effective.
Anova mixes have already been adopted for many roads around the world. In the last year, a million-plus tons of asphalt pavement used Anova. In the Netherlands, mixes use as much as 85 percent recycled asphalt. In New York and New Jersey, where repaving is a near-constant process, it can be as high as 100 percent.
In other places, local partners want a closer look at how it performs under their own road conditions. In Hopkins, Minnesota, for instance, it's getting a side-by-side test starting this summer in which the county's standard blend of asphalt – about 30 percent recycled content – is laid alongside an Anova mix that used 45 percent.
It's a golden opportunity to see how the different mixes compare when everything else— the weather, the traffic, the underlying road bed — are the same, said Hassan Tabatabaee, global technical manager for Cargill Bioindustrial's Anova Asphalt Solutions.
"This is a lane-to-lane comparison," he said. "It's really important to see how it performs under the same conditions."
The project is small – the mix with more recycled content covered one of four lanes in a 1.1-mile stretch of road. Even that was enough to put 125 tons of additional reclaimed asphalt back onto the road — the equivalent of six full dump trucks. That's in place of more resource-intensive new asphalt.
Had the Anova mix been used to pave the entire project, it would have put more than 500 tons asphalt back onto the road.
The potential to be able to use more recycled asphalt is attractive to Hennepin County Public Works, the local government agency responsible for the project.
"We're always looking at ways to be innovative in maintaining our infrastructure," said Colin Cox, a county spokesman. "This was a great opportunity to look at the mix's longevity, sustainability and how it hold ups over time."
Anova blends will also be put to the paces this year in two high-profile test sites — Minnesota's MnROAD test track and the National Center for Asphalt Technology track at Auburn University in Alabama.
The one-two punch of warm, humid Alabama and punishing winter in Minnesota will give the mixes exposure to the range of conditions recycled asphalt needs to endure, said Susan Listberger, the Cargill product manager for the project.
"If it can make it there, it can make it anywhere," she said.


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March 9, 2015 / Guest Post
Next Year in Jerusalem – Gabrielle Harbowy
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One of the side effects of these guest blogs is that I'm constantly thinking, "Ooh, I want to read that!" as people mention stories and books in the essays and comments. I'm going to try to put together a reading list based on the conversations around each essay, though it may take me a few weeks to pull that together after all of these have been posted.
For now, please welcome Gabrielle Harbowy to the blog, talking about what it was like growing up Jewish, and representation and stereotyping in the genre.
Jewish children are raised with an unusually sophisticated burden: complicity in the Santa Claus lie. "No, he's not real," my mother explained when I was eight, "but it's important to Christian kids to believe that he is, so it's our responsibility to respect that and play along."
"But we're lying to them!"
"I know. But they want us to. Their parents would be mad if you told them, and then they might not let you play with them anymore."
Christmas is everything. It's the most anticipated event of the year. Unless you're a Jewish kid, in which case it's a treat dangled out of reach. A game everyone gets to play…except you.
Sure, there might be one silver and blue star among all the red and green. As a child, I was told that I was supposed to be grateful for, and contented by, that. Yet, Christian decorations appeared all over my life without my consent: on my radio; on the front door of my school or my apartment building, as if they represented everyone inside. To dissent, to say that I didn't want my space representing a belief I didn't share, was to incite backlash.
Jewish children learn early not to rock the boat. If someone wishes you a merry Christmas, it is proper to thank them and improper to correct them.
Because of this, Judaism is not well understood and Christianity remains the default. The "New York immigrant" stereotype is only a small fraction of Jewish history and culture, but the old man who speaks with the Yiddish accent is most modern media's default representation of Jews.
I was writing a piece of Jewish science fiction recently, and I found that most of my response to non-Jewish critique partners came in the form of shooting down my readers' requests to see those stereotypes. They thought the Brooklyn immigrant dialect, the matchmaking yenta, the thriftiness and parental guilt, would make the work more "authentic." It hurt to have to write "STET. We aren't all like that" over and over in the margins. It reinforced the feeling that my cultural heritage was in the margins, too.
Growing up Jewish, I've always been blind to New Testament symbolism. I have read the New Testament, but I haven't internalized it the way someone who grew up with it would have. My husband grew up Catholic, and only by watching him react to media do I realize there's a layer I'm missing. I'm fortunate that he doesn't mind explaining.
If I were to fall into a random piece of fiction, I'd be at a huge disadvantage. My places of worship are few and infrequent. It is unlikely that a small town will have one. Even if it does, it's unlikely to be my denomination. I don't know the Lord's Prayer, so I don't know how I'd prove that I'm not a witch. If a vampire were to attack me, odds are low that I'd conveniently be wearing a cross at my throat.
The first solid representation of Judaism I found in genre fiction brought vampires into my world: "Why is This Night Different" by Janni Lee Simner (in Sisters in Fantasy 2). It's a Passover story in which a vampire is passing a house as its residents proclaim, in accordance with tradition, "Let all who are hungry come and eat" …which certainly counts as an invitation to enter. It was a brilliant use of Judaism taken to its logical extreme in a fantastical context. This wasn't a story with or about a token Jew, or even a token Jewish family. Judaism was integral to the story. It was overwhelming to see myself, my family, a ritual I'd grown up with, on the page. I remember thinking, "You can do that?"
Next, I found Marge Piercy's He, She, and It. Piercy brings the golem legend into science fiction by playing on its parallel to the android, with plenty of Jewish culture and history to provide setting, context, and flavor. Some of it was the result of extensive historical research, but some of it was the kind of flavor that only experience can provide. Someone else in the world knew what it was like to grow up with a grandmother like mine, with holidays I celebrated. I'd been the only Jewish kid in my class—for five years, the only one in my whole school—so I'd never had a friend who grew up with the same rituals and references I did. To find it in a book was to find a friend.
But that's just science fiction and spec fic. In the typical medieval fantasy world, the binary theological options are Christianity on one hand and the author-created pantheon on the other. Though, I do refer any Jewish aspiring dragon-hunter types to Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's wonderful Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals—another formative reference that deserves mention—I still wonder, has any Jew has ever slain a dragon or become a divine healer in epic fantasy?
And it's so tempting to insert one, to make that happen, but I don't want to tokenize people like me for the sake of inclusion. If someone like me is in a story, I want it to have purpose and expose a culture, a worldview, an experience, to people who aren't familiar with it. We see the beasties more often than the people—the dybbuks and golems, without the presence of the culture that gave them form.
What does it say when our monsters get more representation than our people?
There are so many unmined fantastical elements of the real history, culture, and practice of Jewish life, and such a strong Jewish tradition of scholarship and commentary about that which is opaque and unknowable, that it seems natural to take these elements beyond their earthly logical extremes and into the more extreme extremes only possible in speculative fiction.
Speculation, after all, is inherent to Judaism. "Next year in Jerusalem," we say on Passover—we don't know where we'll be a year from now, but we can aspire to be personally and philosophically closer to what we consider important at this time next year than we are today.
Gabrielle Harbowy is an award-nominated editor of fantasy and science fiction, a submissions editor for Apex Magazine, and managing editor of Dragon Moon Press. She co-edited the acclaimed "When the Hero Comes Home" anthology series with Ed Greenwood, and writes a column for the Lambda Literary Review. Her short fiction has appeared in various anthologies, including Carbide Tipped Pens (Tor), and her first novel is forthcoming from Paizo in 2016.
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JoelZ
Are you familiar with this lisT:
https://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/jewishsf.html
I forgot to credit Steven Silver who compiled the list.
Lenora Rose
I had a moment of "Judaism isn't represented?" cluelessness on seeing this post. Then it occurred to me that growing up reading Jane Yolen might give that impression – but she's also ONE person, and it's almost exactly the same as citing Samuel Delany over and over to say black people are already represented in SF/F. One voice is not sufficient, however much a grandmaster she may be. (She is awesome, though). So, I apologize for my thoughtlessness, and thank you for a post which made me reconsider a significant blind spot.
I can also note Marie Brennan's current series (Starting with a Natural History of Dragons) as using a faith obviously based on Judaism instead of Christianity.
mjkl
Thank you for this. Even worse for me were the SF books where there'd be one character with a Jewish last name, not necessarily actually said to be Jewish but given traits from the old stereotypes (big nose, cheap, untrustworthy).
@Lenora – I can't begin to tell you how excited I was when I was reading Natural History of Dragons and suddenly realize the people were Jewish!
A. Pendragyn
I grew up in a very Jewish part of NY and so absorbed bits and pieces via osmosis from my friends and teachers growing up. It was a painful awakening when I moved to the midwest and more than a little upsetting. This is a major reason why I support and want non-stereotype diversity in narratives – because when there isn't, it's really easy to make "those people" the enemy.
Anyway, as Lenora Rose before me mentioned, Marie Brennan's books are good.
lkeke35
I'd never given this idea a lick of thought,until I saw Ivanova on Babylon Five, when I realized that none of the religions I knew about, outside of Christianity, were referenced in Genre shows. That was twenty years ago and I still haven't noticed much difference.
I'm an atheist, too, so when Christianity isn't being referenced, I noticed most people seem to have no religious backgrounds at all. Like there's only two options.
D. D. Webb
I'm afraid this is going to ignite an argument; sorry in advance. But in all honesty, I'm struggling with the inclusion of religion on this otherwise excellent series.
I write a webserial. It's an epic fantasy which uses a lot of very recognizable tropes–y'know, the world of dragons, wizards, elves and demons. My favorite thing is subverting expectations, and my story deconstructs, analyzes and averts a lot of those "classic" story elements. In addition, I've found great satisfaction in expanding my cast beyond the typical high fantasy demographics handed down to us from Tolkien. Working online without the aid of a publisher, I can use all the queer characters and people of color I like, and nobody tells me that won't appeal to readers. No one has ever complained about it, either, which leads me to suspect those industry objections are groundless in the first place. I would like to think, in short, that I'm doing fairly well on the matter of representation.
There are, however, no Jewish characters in my story. Nor Muslim, nor Christian, or anything else we'd recognize as a religious identity. In fact, faith and religion are central themes of the story, but explored entirely through the lens of fictional gods and fictional faiths. I see this as a categorically different issue, in terms of worldbuilding and characterization. It seems to me that a cast (and their story) is weakened by showing only a small slice of the spectrum of human identity, but…when I say things like that, I'm always referring to actual traits of people. Race, sexual identity, even mental illnesses (or conditions like autism that are arguably traits and not disabilities), these are inborn characteristics. Religion isn't.
Religion is ideas, choices, and actions. It is a thing people do, not a thing they are. And with apologies for my bluntness, the fact is that with regard to a given religious action, a person doesn't NEED to, and could stop. If a person finds satisfaction, peace or growth in religion, excellent. It can even become central to their identity–but in the way that a career, or hobby, or choice of partner can be, not in the way of skin color or sexual orientation.
I support broader religious representation in the forms of media where it makes sense, which is anything set in our actual world. It seems unhealthy and dishonest to exclude or misrepresent real religious groups if you're going to try to represent real life. But I don't write about the real world. Here I am, a fantasy author reading the blog of a fantasy author, and I come face to face with an implication that the lack of Jewish characters in my work makes me part of a problem.
An author of speculative fiction can create worlds under any rules they like; I could easily make a world where everyone is white and straight. Goodness knows enough authors have done that. But it would feel, to me, inherently prejudiced to do this, which is why I have so much enjoyed this series on representation. It's not a passive omission, but an active elimination–and even in fiction, actively eliminating sections of the population is problematic at best.
Yet, I write a story in which Jewish, Hindu or Scientologist readers aren't going to see that aspect of themselves. Nor will software engineers, NASCAR drivers or air traffic controllers, for exactly the same reason. It's not bigotry, or lack of understanding, or ignorance. Those are just areas of human activity that don't make any sense outside of a specific context; they are not inherently integral to anyone's existence. They're actions, not traits.
If I'm to be honest, I guess what I'm feeling here is resentment. It smarts, being told that I've failed to be inclusive because something a person has chosen to do with their life isn't represented in anything I've written. I sympathize with the person looking for themselves in the stories they read, I think it would be wonderful to see broader representation in all genres, but in particular fantasy–because it's my first love, and because I see a real problem with the lack of representation in it. I do my best to show a wider variety of the human race than my genre has traditionally done. And yes, I know that nothing here was aimed at me; emotional reactions aren't logical. I don't blame Ms. Harbowy or Mr. Hines or anyone for my own stuff, as it seems pretty obvious to me the intentions here were all positive. It should be noted, further, that the question of Jewish identity in particular is more complex than the specific issue I'm discussing here, as that is not only a religion but an ethnicity, and while a person can be one and not the other, they are culturally linked.
When we talk about representation in speculative fiction, there's always somebody who stands up at the back and shouts about "checklists," how requiring authors to include a certain number of characters with different traits will strangle creativity. And we roll our eyes, because nobody's trying to do that and it's an obvious derailing tactic. Sometimes I wonder, though, if we aren't straying into checklist territory. To me, the essential category of consideration is inherent traits that human beings have, things that people are and cannot help.
Religion is not one of those things. It's not fair or reasonable to ask that all personal choices get a slice of the limelight. Some things, in their story representation, are the province of niche stories, and honestly I think that's fair. Traits and actions are different things.
I apologize sincerely if I offended anyone, which was not my intention; I was trying to balance honesty with politeness. I hope everyone can find the stories that speak to them.
While I appreciate your honesty, I'd suggest taking a step back and asking where that resentment is coming from. Nobody told you that you've failed as an author. Nobody said you personally have to change the stories you're writing, or that you have to be able to check off every aspect of humanity that's come up in these guest posts. And nothing in Gabrielle's essay said you were Doing It Wrong.
What is it that's making you feel so defensive? Why does someone talking about how much it meant to her to see this aspect of her identity included in the genre in a thoughtful and positive way make you feel resentful or scolded?
Valid questions, which I've been mulling.
From my perspective on the other side of this issue, it's always seemed to me there's an inevitable element of accusation in calling for more representation. The lack of it in so many genres is tied strongly to societal prejudices; it's an issue that exists because creators have failed to depict humanity in its full scope. Perhaps it's only my issue, but I can't get away from the perception that if someone is let down, it's because someone let them down. And as I said in my post above, the exclusion of lots of kinds of people from much of fantasy isn't a passive thing, however creators may have intended it. When you write a whitewashed story, you've washed a lot of people out of it.
Aside from that, I do and have always drawn a distinction between religion and inborn human traits, and I've long been troubled by protections of religious activity being held on a par with protections against persecution on other grounds. It doesn't seem right to me that a choice of action should warrant the same class of protection as a person's integral characteristics as a human being.
Perhaps at the intersection of these perspectives, I'm troubled by implications here that I'm the only one seeing. I certainly don't hold up my perspective as absolute, but I do think these things are worth considering and discussing.
Perhaps not here, if you don't feel it's appropriate for your comments section. I'll drop the matter if you wish. I think I pretty much said what was on my mind anyway; not much use in fostering an argument.
Re: accusation, I think it depends. There certainly tends to be frustration and even anger about feeling excluded. And you're right about the ongoing failure to really write about the broad range of humanity. I guess I see it as the distinction between "You, D. D. Webb, have FAILED as an author" and "We, as a community of SF/F authors, can do better." So maybe there is an element of accusation there. But I don't feel like it's a personal accusation. And if it's an area where I've fallen short, my takeaway is that it's more for me to think about and learn. But it doesn't mean that a given story was wrong, or that I should go back and include Judaism in the goblin books, for example. (Though it's interesting to think about how that might work, given that universe…)
Anyway, I do see your point about religion being distinct from inborn traits or aspects of a person's identity. But I don't think that takes away the importance of representation, either.
I think you're right; there's a bit of a knee-jerk reaction there that may not be appropriate. You mentioned that in your introduction to the next post in this series, which I personally found helpful. We humans are defensive creatures when we perceive a challenge.
And of course, we can always try to do better.
Kanika Kalra
March 10, 2015 @ 11:53 am
That's an interesting take on representation. Now that I think about it, stories where religion is mentioned at all involve only Christian weddings and Christmas celebrations. I'm not Christian, neither by birth nor by choice, and yet I never thought, "why are the protagonists always Christian?" I suppose I had subconsciously accepted that that's just how it is. That most people are Christian. Now I realise how similar that line of thinking is to "most people are white". That is to say, it is (a) inaccurate, and (b) irrelevant. 'Most' is not the same as 'all'.
Thanks for writing this and helping me realize!
And, oh goodness, my TBR mountain will soon be big enough to crush an entire city if it keeps growing at this rate.
March 10, 2015 @ 12:31 pm
I think we're getting closer to the source of your discomfort.
"I've long been troubled by protections of religious activity being held on a par with protections against persecution on other grounds. It doesn't seem right to me that a choice of action should warrant the same class of protection as a person's integral characteristics as a human being."
You are considering "religion" as a personal philosophical choice. But it is much more than that. It is also a cultural identity and a personal identity. For many, many, many people, religion is an integral part of their personal identity. If you want to understand anything about the religious you're going to have to get your head around that.
For myself, I could no more stop being Jewish than I could stop being heterosexual, or female, or white. Which is to say: I could. I could identify myself as Christian, or gay, or male, and I could even self-identify as another race; only some of these self-defined transitions would be supported by the larger culture around me, however. Converting religion, in this time and place, is perhaps the easiest identity transition I could make, but in other places and times it would be the hardest.
In Iran, for example, some gay men transition to female rather than leave Islam, which forbids homosexuality but accepts heterosexual transgender women. Leaving Islam is a crime punishable by death. In that place, in this time, gender is more mutable than religion.
Here in the US, as gender transition becomes more accepted, it will perhaps someday be argued that remaining female is a choice I am making, just as remaining Jewish is a choice. By your logic, therefore, sexism could be seen as acceptable; why should my personal choice of gender be protected? I could say that my gender reflects something immutable about myself, my concept of myself, my history, my experience of the world, my understanding of that experience. But those are all things that I could say about religion, too, which in your view is also a choice.
I've often used the inverse of this to argue for protections for gay people. The gay rights movement has put a lot of emphasis on the innateness and immutability of sexual orientation in order to appeal to people like yourself who believe that only innate and immutable traits should be protected from bigotry. "Born this way," etc. But sexuality and its expression are much more complex; sexual attractions may change over a person's lifetime, and be expressed in different ways in different cultures and contexts. My argument was that, even if sexuality could be seen as a choice, it should be protected in the same way that religion is: a choice *of conscience,* something that is a deeply personal reckoning and should not be coerced or punished.
Gabrielle Harbowy
I appreciate the comments and the discussion. My intent was not to say "we're/you're doing it wrong" or make it about which flavor of God is the best (personally, I'm an atheist with a very strong tie to a cultural identity), but to share a personal moment in which I highlight and celebrate my own personal discovery of "people like me" in fiction.
I'm pleased that it's made people think; that was my aim. Kanika's comment, below, sums up my intent better than I can.
So, I'm definitely not here to preach or scold, or to imply that the first resources I found are the only ones that exist (Of course they're not; this is a tale of my experience, not a scholarly bibliography), or to Call for Action. I'm not up on a soap box, and I don't mean to suggest you're doing it wrong. In fact, when you say you're conscious in your fantasy-writing of including "areas of human activity that don't make any sense outside of a specific context," I think you're doing it right.
Not every piece of fiction has to make every statement. It's just exciting to find the pieces of yourself mirrored (effectively, respectfully) on the page that don't often have a voice there.
Harry Turtledove writes a lot of explicitly Jewish characters in his SF. And even in one fantasy: the hero in "The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump" is Jewish, and vampires are repelled even more by a Star of David. It's a more potent symbol, being older and all.
I love the "Wandering Stars" anthologies. Some of the characters are kinda heavy on the old stereotypes, but nevertheless (as another great Jewish writer said): Jews In Space!
I always had Jewish friends growing up, and a large enough population that the holidays were understood and celebrated in schools (I made a dreidel in kindergarten), so was aghast when I went to college and met a girl who'd grown up no more than 200 miles from me who still didn't know the difference between Jews and Christians.
My dad, whose hobbies were fishing and pissing people off, used to respond to "Merry Christmas" with "And a Happy Hanukkah to you." Just to see the look of confusion and the spluttering unless/until they realized he was kidding (being an atheist from a tent revival family). Made 'em think, though.
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Darwin and Telefónica Tech collaborate on cybersecurity of connected autonomous vehicles
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Communications R&D company Darwin Innovation Group and Telefónica Tech, Telefónica's digital business unit, have signed a strategic agreement to develop a security solution for connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) with technology that combines satellite and terrestrial channels to achieve greater coverage.
The combination of satellite networks and 5G opens up great possibilities for innovation and, in particular, for the use of autonomous vehicles; and it requires its own security solution, so Telefónica Tech's capabilities will be key.
As a result of this agreement, Telefónica Tech's security experts work in coordination with Darwin's development team to perform penetration tests on Darwin's technology using their experience and knowledge in order to solve the identified vulnerabilities.
With Telefónica Tech's help and capabilities, Darwin will be able to ensure that its technology takes cybersecurity into account at the design level and improves identity processes. The resulting cybersecurity shield will span multiple sectors, securing both terrestrial and satellite channels, so that different networks can be used to support each other without compromising security.
Daniela Petrovic, co-founder of Darwin, says: "We are delighted to have Telefónica Tech as our partner in providing security solutions that span satellite and terrestrial communication channels. Providing a security shield for two very different technologies, with different security protocols and integration points, is no small challenge. As with everything we do at Darwin, we embrace new challenges and are confident that with the help of Telefónica Tech we will be able to deliver the ubiquitous and secure communication systems of the future".
María Jesús Almazor, CEO of Cybersecurity & Cloud at Telefónica Tech, stresses that "all technological advances must always be accompanied by robust cybersecurity measures and, of course, this includes critical assets such as autonomous vehicles. This agreement with Darwin will allow us to put our cybersecurity expertise to work to first secure and then enhance, from a completely innovative point of view, the communications and identity processes of these types of vehicles".
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Whole lot o' shakin' going on
To all of my readers in California: I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but you're all gonna die.
I know, I know, I should have told you about this sooner, so you could do something about it, but I didn't even know about it myself until yesterday, and by then it was too late. I mean, just think if everyone had tried to leave the state yesterday evening. The traffic would have been worse even than usual, and where would they all have gone? I mean, it's not like Oregon wants 'em.
If you're wondering what all this is about, I'm referring, of course, to the fact that California is going to be destroyed by an earthquake today. 9.8 on the Richter scale, no less, and caused by the alignment of Mercury and Venus, or something. Scary shit.
How do I know this? Well, there's this article in IN5D Esoteric Metaphysical Spiritual Database, which as authoritative sources go, is pretty much unimpeachable. In it, we learn that Nostradamus predicted this, and since Nostradamus's predictions have proven as accurate as you'd expect given that they're the ravings of an apparently insane man who did most of his writing after a bad acid trip, we should all sit up and pay attention. Here, according to IN5D, is the quatrain in question:
Le tremblement si fort au mois de may,
Saturne, Caper, Jupiter, Mercure au boeuf:
Vénus aussi, Cancer, Mars, en Nonnay,
Tombera gresle lors plus grosse qu'un oeuf.
The trembling so hard in the month of may,
Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus:
Venus also, Cancer, Mars, in Virgo,
Hail will fall larger than an egg.
The site goes on to clarify:
On May 28, 2015 towards the end of the day UTC time, and continuing on May 29, there will be a series of very critical planetary alignments whereby Venus and Mercury are really being charged up on the North-Amerca [sic] / Pacific side.
Wow. Pretty scientific. Bad things happen when Venus and Mercury get "really charged up." Time to get outta Dodge, apparently, not to mention Los Angeles.
Okay, astronomer Phil Plait says we should all calm down. In his wonderful column Bad Astronomy in the magazine Slate, he says:
First, there is simply no way an alignment of planets can cause an earthquake on Earth. It's literally impossible. I've done the math on this before; the maximum combined gravity of all the planets under ideal conditions is still far less than the gravitational influence of the Moon on the Earth, and the Moon at very best has an extremely weak influence on earthquakes.
To put a number on it, because the Moon is so close to us its gravitational pull is 50 times stronger than all the planets in the solar system combined. Remember too that the Moon orbits the Earth on an ellipse, so it gets closer and farther from us every two weeks. The change in its gravity over that time is still more than all the planets combined, yet we don't see catastrophic earthquakes twice a month, let alone aligning with the Moon's phases or physical location in its orbit.
He goes on to say that Mercury and Venus aren't aligning anyhow, at least not the way the prediction claims (I mean, they're always aligned with something; two objects always fall on a straight line, as hath been revealed unto us in the prophecies of Euclid, and said line includes an infinite number of other points). So the whole thing is pretty much a non-starter.
This hasn't stopped it from being shared around on social media, of course. It'd be nice if articles like Phil Plait's would get shared around as often as the idiotic one in IN5D, but that, apparently, is not how things work. People still gravitate toward predictions of doom and destruction, even though said predictions have had an exactly zero success rate.
So my guess is that if you live in California, you have nothing to worry about above and beyond the usual concerns over wildfires, mudslides, droughts, earthquakes, and Kylie Jenner spotting 75 chemtrails in the sky and posting a hysterical claim that they're killing honeybees.
The usual stuff, in other words.
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If you have already purchased a lovely new Samsung Galaxy S4 in the US, you may be wasting no time in frantically searching for a Galaxy S4 bootloader download, to explore the possibilities of unlocking the device. The device ships with a locked bootloader of course, but we have evidence that success has already been found on the AT&T Galaxy S4, albeit with one interesting twist.
The advantages of an open bootloader is there for everyone to see, with the opportunity of custom firmware and various recovery methods often proving too much for consumers to resist. Manufacturers are always finding ways to tighten up security so that custom carrier Android interfaces remain in-tact, but then again, consumers are also getting smarter by the day as we see in this latest instance.
Security researcher Dan Rosenberg is already claiming that the bootloader on the AT&T Galaxy S4 has been cracked open. He has provided a screenshot on his Twitter account to prove his claims, but while the next obvious step would be providing a public download – it doesn't seem as straight forward as that.
He has provided a Q&A explaining that this is solely due to the fact that Verizon has yet to release their Galaxy S4, with a release likely to come on May 30. If Rosenberg were to release the information and download tools to the public, it would then run the risk of Verizon finding a patch to make sure this will not work when they release their version.
He has also confirmed that his current bootloader exploit is 'highly likely' to work on the Verizon Galaxy S4, so it looks like the extended wait until the end of May will be well worth it.
Just how bad do you want a bootloader download though? Are you happy with the current AT&T setup, or will you seek to install custom software as soon as the opportunity becomes available? Verizon may now have a race against time to improve their security anyway, in the hope that they are protected against any attempts to open the bootloader. We'll keep you updated.


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Grand Theft Auto:
What I Want To See In The Next Version
Ever since the first game was released back in 1997, Grand Theft Auto. gained a lot of fans. With it's mix of comic-strip violence, casual profanities and explicit themes, Grand Theft Auto was really a game that was ahead of it's time and it still continues to be the benchmark as far as gaming goes.
With the most recent release of Grand Theft Auto 5, many (myself included) probably thought that the most auditious and spectacular version so far. The sheer scale, detail and level of things to do throughout the game is matched by no other game I have ever played. And with the recent releases on the latest next gen consoles, the game is probably at peak of it's virtual reality powers both in terms of game-play and graphics.
However, there are a few things that I personally would love to see in the next episode of the game. Below are the top 5 things I would like to see:
1 – Take Over The Train
On previous versions of GTA, taking over the train was no problem at all. All you did was wait for the train to arrive at the station and then press the button that you would normally press whenever you wanted to hijack a vehicle. Of course, if you hijacked the train, you would get an instant 5 star rating – just thing of the chaos you could cause!
2 – Go To Restaurants
One of the most successful versions of GTA is definitely GTA San Andreas, which practically allows you to customise most aspects within the game. One of the biggest things you can customise is your characters weight, so if you wanted to become a fat bastard, all you had to do was go to the local burger shot and eat till you threw up. How nice!?
3 – Go On Dates
Going to restaurants kind of leads on to my next feature I would like to see, being able to go on dates with girls (or boys if your character is that way inclined, afterall we do live in progressive society). Although you can pick up some of the girls in the strip clubs, it would also add an extra dimension if you could take out that person. Another feature could be to have a dating app or even the ability to search for escorts by location like this popular escorts website. And then later, you can hook up, go for a date and then maybe even go back to your apartment for some quality action.
4 – Go To The Gym
Come on, looking back at GTA San Andreas, there was nothing better than going for a hard session in the gym. Doing a few reps on the weights then instantly looking like Shaun T from those Insanity commercials. And then throwing all your hard work away when you decided to go on a binge eating session.
5 – Record Movies!
One of the most enjoyable things I have watched recently on youtube is all the custom made GTA 4 videos using the PC mod add-on. If readers have ever played the Driver series of games, one of the best things in that game was the ability to perform, direct and edit your very own car chase movie. If the GTA series brought this feature into the next game, it really will be the best game ever!
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It is a classic game which was developed in 1980. Up to date, it is measured to be one the most popular video games. The game turned a staple of popular culture in the 1980s. It led to the establishment of an animated TV show, and the sale of countless merchandise. Pac-Man sold over $2.5 billion before 1990.
The game featured the Donkey Kong character, who was often regarded as a cult classic in the 1990s. The game was created by Rare in 1994. Since its production, the game has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. This made it to be the second best-selling SNES game ever produced. The game featured pre-rendered spirits that created a 3D effect on the game.
It is the most successful racing game ever produced. As at October 2009, the game had sold over 100 million pieces. It is the most successful racing game franchise. It was initially developed in 1994 as a game for 5th generation gaming consoles. Later, developments allowed the game to be played on 7th generation gaming consoles.
Gold Miner is a puzzle game that you can play right in your browser. The goal of the game is to collect all sized gold nuggets and jewels in the level and avoid barrels with gunpowder if you can.
It is a fighting game which was originally released for arcades in 1991. Street Fighter II is a multi-player game with characters having unique fighting skills. Its gross revenue from sales as at 1993 was over $1.5 billion. The game had over $14 million copies sold because of its Super NES and Driver Console gaming ports.
Video Games Online Popularity
Are More People Playing Video Games Online?
Playing games online is a popular activity among people of all ages. Both men and women can be found playing video games using the Internet and global participation this activity grows more every day. People who were born in the new millennium are more likely to have played a video game on the Web at least once, than those who were born in previous decades, such as the 1990s. Better, More Realistic Graphics Make Playing Video Games on the Web Appealing.
Gamers who have been playing for years can attest to the fact that gaming technology changes rapidly. People who were not attracted to the simpler graphics that were present in the video games of decades past can now enjoy playing in environments that are rich with details. Effects that are used to render characters even simulate rustling leaves and flowing water.
Video Games Are Now More Interactive
The Sony Xbox and Wii have made gaming more interactive than ever before. People who hated the idea of having to sit still in order to play can now play games online that require them to move around. The Wii allows users to jump, wave their arms and move their entire body so it attracts users who enjoy movement.
Video Game Popularity Growing Due to the Social Aspect
Gamers like meeting up with friends online and this has encouraged more people to become involved in gaming and spend hours playing. They can connect with individuals from many different countries and in some cases, people have been able to improve their skills in other languages just by playing online a few hours each week.
Popularity Among Women Growing With Games Catered to Females
More games nowadays are catered to women. Building games such as Minecraft and Farmville allow players to use skills that they rely on in the real world. They have to plan, use resources from their environment to build homes and weapons and must also work with others when necessary to achieve victory. Candy Crush is just one of the visually stimulating games online that appeal to a larger female audience because of its design.
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Accident report that follows was sent to CNFAIC. We are thankful for the positive outcome and the willingness for the person involved to share their story.
Location: Approximately 1/8th mile below Marmot Meadows on the Harding Ice Field trail.
Avalanche: 4' deep, 30' wide, running 600'. Failed in old/new snow interface.
The hiker reported he was familiar with the Harding Ice Field trial and that the route was easy to find and follow. He had checked the weather noting that it was forecasted to snow and that Saturday would be a nice day. The plan was to hike up the Harding Ice Field trail on snowshoes and camp somewhere near the ice. The snow got deeper as the hiker climbing in elevation. About an 1/8th of a mile below marmot meadows he came upon a drift snow that he could not climb over. He reports the snow was up to his thighs with snowshoes on. He shoveled through the drift and continued 300 yards further and ran into another drift. The hiker said he had a bad feeling in his gut but decided to keep going. While shoveling though new and old harder snow he took a step with his right foot and felt the slope give way. He reports being on the flank of the slide and his snowshoes were caught. He estimates traveling about 200 yards, hitting three trees on the way down. He hit his left shoulder, ribs then head. His snowshoes were the only thing buried when he came to a stop.
The hiker was able to dig out his snowshoes and walk back up to the crown to retrieve his pack. He hiked down the trail and camped near Exit Glacier before hiking out the next day. He went to the doctor and was diagnosed with a mild concussion and bruises.
Hiker carried a shovel, had intermediate avalanche training and was an experienced mountaineer.
No red flags observed by hiker.


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A reconversion ceremony in Ved Nagar, Agra, organised by the Dharam Jagran Samiti on December 8. Photo: By Special Arrangement
Celebrating the "homecoming" in Agra. Photo: PTI
The reconversion programmes of the Dharam Jagran Samiti and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad are part of a massive expansion plan of the Sangh Parivar.
BEFORE the botched "reconversion" initiative at Ved Nagar in Agra in Uttar Pradesh led to the cancellation of its grand ghar wapsi programme scheduled for December 25, Dharam Jagran Samiti (DJS) leader Rajeshwar Singh Solanki had spelt out its ambitious plan to create a "pure and constructive society in Bharat". Speaking to a group of mediapersons in Delhi, Solanki said that the objective of the DJS was to ensure that there were no Christians or Muslims in the country by the end of 2021. He added that this did not mean that all Christians and Muslims would be sent out of the country. "But they have to understand that they were originally Hindus and, keeping that in mind, adhere to Hindu values and way of life."
Solanki's comment was supplemented by Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Praveen Togadia at different functions in Ahmedabad and Mumbai. His contention was not just that all Christians and Muslims of India were originally Hindus but also that Hindus inhabited large parts of the rest of the world. In Togadia's opinion, Arabia, Africa and Europe were Hindu areas, and the number of Hindus once stood at 700 crore. Reeling out more statistics, he claimed that this population had now shrunk to 100 crore.
Togadia said there was a time when Hindus accounted for 30 per cent of the population in Bangladesh, which was just 8 per cent now. "In Pakistan, the number of Hindus has come down to 1 per cent from 10 per cent. This process has got cemented in Kashmir too and is spreading in States such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala. It is the duty of patriotic Hindus to unleash efforts to stop this process," he said.
According to many leaders and activists of the DJS and the VHP, the views expressed by Solanki and Togadia have always been part of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS)-led Sangh Parivar's ideological perspective, but the period after June 2014 has been designated organisationally as "vistaar ka samay", or the period of expansion. These activists themselves say the organisational initiative at this juncture is inspired by the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to power at the Centre under Narendra Modi.
Larger scheme
There are several other signals to show that the reconversion exercises of the DJS and the VHP are part of a larger scheme by the RSS and its affiliates in the Sangh Parivar. The Mumbai conference, in which Togadia held forth on the 700-crore Hindu population of the world, was attended, among others, by RSS sahkaryavah (joint general secretary) Dattatreya Hosabale and senior VHP leader Ashok Singhal.
Sangh Parivar insiders say that the "vistaar ka samay" concept was finalised at a meeting organised under the stewardship of the RSS. This meeting, held in Nagpur between November 7 and 9, was attended by over 1,200 Sangh Parivar activists. Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat, sarkaryawah Bhaiyaji Joshi and sah-sarkaryawah Krishna Gopal led the discussions. A special plan for "Dharam Jagran" (religious awakening) was formulated here. A special team of 58 RSS pracharaks was created with senior RSS leader Mukund Rao Panshikar as its convener to coordinate and oversee activities on this front.
Sangh Parivar insiders say that the conclave of 2,200 sants and mahants in Vaishali in Bihar from December 13 to 15 and the ghar wapsi programme for 4,000 people that was scheduled to be held in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, on December 25 were considered to be an inauguration of sorts of the Dharam Jagran initiative. Even as the Vaishali meeting went according to plan, the Aligarh programme had to be cancelled following the controversy generated by the reconversion initiative in Agra (story on page 23).
However, DJS leaders, including Solanki, assert that the plans formulated for 2015 are on course. One of the main programmes for 2015 is a massive conclave scheduled to be held in August in Nashik, Maharashtra. Plans are on to bring together from across the country over 50,000 persons who have "come back home". These persons would take a holy dip in the Godavari at the time of the Kumbh Mela in Nashik.
Sangh Parivar insiders point out that the DJS has been active across the country, particularly in the northern and western regions, over the past 15 years and has "brought back home" approximately four lakh families. "In Uttar Pradesh alone, over one lakh people have returned to the fold in the past five years. A large number of Muslims in Beawar district of Rajasthan and thousands of Christians in Solapur in Maharashtra have returned home," Solanki told the group of journalists in Delhi. DJS activists say that though the activities of the organisation had been reported off and on in the media all these years, there has been an increased focus on it in the past six months for obvious reasons.
According to Solanki, in the past one and a half decades, the organisation's functioning depended in subtle ways on the region and the target group. He stated that the DJS and associate organisations adopted different strategies in different States and had over 200 specialised projects on this front. While the DJS leader refused to explain the nuances of these specialised projects, other activists involved in these operations told Frontline that these were essentially meant to address caste issues that came up while reconverting from Islam or Christianity.
"Those who return home are not accepted easily by the existing leaders of different Hindu communities. About five years ago, a whole village of Thakur Muslims who wanted to come back were literally prevented by the Thakur leaders of Saharanpur [Uttar Pradesh]. So, the DJS has special task forces to convince community leaders. This is also part of the awareness programme, and the targeted communities include upper castes such as Rajput and Brahmins, Other Backward Classes like Yadav, Kurmi and Lodh, and most backward and Dalit communities such as Valmiki, Meena, Meo and Nat," said the DJS leader.
The DJS has also admitted to a financial component in the reconversion programmes. According to a fundraising pamphlet circulated by the DJS in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the organisation requires Rs.1 lakh to convert a Muslim and Rs.3 lakh to convert a Christian. The difference apparently is because the Christian community has better financial support from the Church and related organisations than the Muslim community. Whatever the merit of this argument, there is little doubt that despite claims to the contrary, the DJS follows the allurement path that it accuses Christian missionaries and Islamist jehadists of practising.
Funds and the U.S. connection
The DJS and its associates raise funds locally and internationally. The association between the DJS and the United States-based International Development Relief Fund (IDRF) is well recorded, especially in relation to its activities in Bihar and Jharkhand. Several DJS activists told Frontline that new funding avenues have been opened through organisations such as the Hindu Unity Front, which has units in the U.S., the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. Organisations such as the Overseas Friends of the BJP and the VHP's international units also support the DJS. This funding has become more intensive after the formation of the Modi government.
At the field level, the DJS works closely with Sangh Parivar affiliates such as the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, the Ekal Vidyalaya, the Sewa Bharati, the Vivekananda Kendra, the Bharat Kalyan Parishad and the Friends of Tribal Society, some of which have been found responsible for the forced conversions of tribal Christians in Odisha and Madhya Pradesh.
Of course, the DJS is not overtly seen in the company of the BJP, but the two organisations often converge on a thematic point. The DJS initiates reconversions, and when a controversy crops up it calls for the banning of all conversions. At this juncture, the BJP leaders too actively advocate this argument. This phenomenon was witnessed several times in the last decade. It came to the fore again in the wake of the Agra reconversion controversy.
According to DJS activists, the most important qualitative difference in their efforts now is the focus on Muslims for reconversions. "There is little doubt that there would be greater logistical and organisational assistance when we have a friendly government. Now it is a friendly government with greater confidence because of the majority it has. But qualitatively, there is a new twist. Throughout the last 15 years of the DJS, the focus was primarily on Christian ghar wapsi. But now there is an enhanced emphasis on getting Muslims to come back home," said a Meerut-based DJS activist.
He and many other Sangh Parivar associates are emphatic that the project will continue with the new focus despite the setback caused by the Agra controversy and the cancellation of the Aligarh event. As a number of them based out of Delh, Agra and Aligarh signify, it is just one step backward to take many steps forward.
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Turkey's banking system may face "serious problems" with profitability if loan demand continues to weaken, Huseyin Aydin, the chief executive of state-run Ziraat Bank and the head of the Banks Association of Turkey, said on Thursday.
"Some have talked about a drop in the loan offering appetite of banks. Here the point is actually a weakening in loan demand. Banks need to raise revenue to strengthen their equity capital. They need to create a volume for when profit margins decline to be able to make returns. Turkey's banks may face serious problems in profiting if the demand stays low," Aydin said in a meeting in Istanbul, Reuters reported.
"There isn't a decrease in our appetite in 2016, but there is a drop in loan demand," he added.
Aydin's words came after Prime Minister Binali Yildirim criticized lenders in a speech last week, asking them to give voice to the real sector and stop loan sharking.
The treasury will not take money from banks forever, Yildirim said, adding that banks' main mission must be to pour money into the real economy.
At the same meeting, Garanti Bank CEO Fuat Erbil said the Turkish economy had remained resilient despite many unexpected domestic and foreign developments, but loan growth has however not been at desired levels.
"Consumer loans have dropped in real terms. Another key factor which marks this year is a slowdown in investment loans," Erbil added.
However, he emphasized that there has been a strong growth in deposits for the first time in a while.
Turkish lira slipped to a historic low against the US dollar Friday as anticipation of a rate hike from the Federal Reserve saw the American currency appreciate across the globe.
It dipped to 3.127 against the US dollar.
The currency of the world's largest economy strengthened considerably recently with the US dollar index, which measures strength of six major currencies against the dollar, hitting a high of 98.50 points in the last eight months.
Analysts believe the drop was largely due to the rising geopolitical tension in its region, especially in Iraq and Syria, besides the surging likelihood of a rate hike from the US Federal Reserve, which would limit the capital flow to emerging economies such as Turkey.


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The Unsolved Murder of "Dutch Leah" - 80 Years On
This Sunday 8th May 2016, Murder Mile Walks marks the 80th anniversary of the brutal murder of the Soho prostitute Constance May Hinds alias "Dutch Leah" in her second floor lodgings at 66 Old Compton Street. Her death was attributed to Soho's very own "Jack the Ripper", a man who was never identified or caught, and dubbed by the press as "The Soho Strangler". And so, 80 years on…
…the murder of "Dutch Leah" remains unsolved.
So who was "Dutch Leah", why was she killed, why was her murder attributed to "The Soho Strangler" and – more importantly – who killed her? Murder Mile Walks investigates.
Born Constance May Hinds in 1912 to mother Kathleen Hinds (a career criminal, convicted thief, alcoholic and prostitute) and an unknown father, Constance had a tough upbringing, which didn't get any easier the older she got. By the tender age of 18 years old, she'd been married twice, dated a slew of unsavoury characters, was forced to give her own daughter up for adoption, and had eight convictions for prostitution, which funded her rampant alcoholism.
Nicknamed "Dutch Leah", Constance Hinds was born and raised in London, and had no connection to Holland at all, except having – like most London-born prostitutes – adopted a street-name that made her sound more "exotic" than she really was. By 1936, the year of her death, "Dutch Leah" was known by a range of non-de-plumes including Leah Hinds, Connie Smith, Connie May Hinds, Constance Smith, and was affectionately known as "Stilts Leah" on account of her love of wearing very high heels. But with arrears spiralling, she frequently moved from shabby lodging to hideous hovel, leaving a trail of angry debtors behind her.
On the evening of the 8th May 1936, "Dutch Leah" – having partied a little too hard and drank a little too much in a local Soho gin palace– was last seen entering her lodgings at 66 Old Compton Street with a "gentleman friend". The next morning, her diminutive husband - Stanley King – knocked on the door, but got no reply. Not having a key, and fearing the worst, he procured the help of a passing labourer called Addams, who broke down the door.
Stanley found his wife lying on their matrimonial bed. Her dress was rucked up around her midriff, her genitals exposed, as if she was awaiting a customer - but no sex had taken place - instead she'd been violently strangled with a thin copper wire, and her head had been brutally bashed in with a rusty flat iron, splitting her skull wide open.
So, who was this "gentleman friend" she was last seen with? Was he "The Soho Strangler?" Unfortunately, no-one knows, as the man dubbed "The Soho Strangler" was never caught. What we do know is that her "gentleman friend" was "tall, slim, clean shaven, foreign, had long hair and a slouching gait, and he wore a dark raincoat… but not a hat (unusual for the period)". Three sets of finger prints were found in the room by Police; Dutch Leah's. Stanley King's… and one other - never identified.
And that is all the evidence we have. Unfortunately, in 1936, forensic science was still in its formative years, with Home Office Pathologist Sir Bernard Spilbury's "murder kit" (a suitcase for evidence gathering) only introduced a few years earlier. Which is why no corroborative evidence exists on many of London's earlier and most infamous murder cases – especially "Jack the Ripper" - as during the birth of the Police Force, "beat officers" were effectively little more than untrained "moral guardians", who – upon discovering a murder – would often reposition the body, remove the murder weapon, and would have the blood-soaked street washed down for fear of offending the public's moral decency.
So, was "Dutch Leah" murdered by "The Soho Strangler"?
No. Of course she wasn't. "The Soho Strangler" is just a name; a convenient yet slightly sensational character, created by eager-journalists, during the early days of tabloid, to sell newspapers. Just as they had done fifty years earlier in the "Jack the Ripper" case. With literacy amongst the British working class starting to blossom, newspapers had stopped being the preserve of the educated elite, and tabloid news born, with an eye towards sensational stories to lure the "less educated" readers in.
So, there wasn't a "Soho Strangler"? It's possible, but unlikely. As with the Jack the Ripper case, there are as many similarities as there are dissimilarities between each of the victims, which can easily skew your perception of "who killed who", either one way or another. So, let's look at what the Press purported to be "facts":
Fact #1: "All four victims of the Soho Strangler were prostitutes"? Incorrect. Although Paulette "French Marie" Estelle, Josephine "French Fifi" Martin and Constance "Dutch Leah" Hinds all worked in the sex trade, the third victim – Marie Jeanette Cotton – had no prior convictions for soliciting, no pimp and (unlike the others) no known street name.
Fact #2: "All four of the victims of the Soho Strangler were murdered in Soho?" No. The first victim of the man dubbed "The Soho Strangler" by the Press was actually murdered in Bath Row… which was in Euston, one and a half miles away.
Fact #3: "All four Soho Strangler victims were strangled?" – Yes, all were strangled, but each in a different way, which suggests they weren't strangled by the same perpetrator.
"French Marie" was strangled using an electrical flex, her room was then set on fire
"French Fifi" was strangled using her own silk stockings, she was not mutilated in any way
Marie Jeanette Cotton was strangled using her own scarf, her tongue was then cut off
"Dutch Leah" was strangled using a copper wire, her head was then bashed in
And although, when a serial killer kills there's usually a definite escalation in violence as their compulsion to kill takes over, this escalation in violence could just as easily be a coincidence, especially given the long gaps between each killing. "French Marie" on 16th August 1935, "French Fifi" Martin on 4th November 1935, Marie Jeanette Cotton on 16th April 1936 and "Dutch Leah" on 8th May 1936.
Three facts, purported by the Press, all with big gaping holes.
Still that didn't stop unscrupulous tabloids like The Mirror proclaiming "Maniac's Three Soho Victims! Girl's Friends Fear to Talk", even though they seemed to find enough "friends" willing to talk in the article itself, even though the Police confirmed that they could find "no clear link between either of the women".
The Press had also wrongly attributed the "Soho Strangler" murders to Soho's very own Kings of Sleaze and the pimps of the West End's red-light district (1920's to the mid 1930's) Roger Vernon and his partner "Red Max" Kassel (photo on right). Unfortunately, their proof is easily dispelled.
Fact #4: Although Roger Vernon and "Red Max" were Soho pimps – just like most illicit relationships between pimps and prostitutes, very little connection is provable or ever written down.
Fact #5: Yes, "Red Max" had a fondness for strangling, hence he was the Police's number one suspect in the strangulation of "French Fifi" who lived & died in his flat, but…
Fact #6: …although "Red Max" was a Soho pimp, and the prime suspect in the murder of the Soho Strangler's second victim, before murders #3 (Marie Jeanette Cotton) and #4 "Dutch Leah", Red Max Kassel was already dead and Roger Vernon was in prison.
So, if we remove this whole myth about "The Soho Strangler" and what facts are we left with?
"Dutch Leah" was a Soho prostitute, with prior convictions
"Dutch Leah" recently moved into 66 Old Compton Street with Stanley King
"Dutch Leah" was an alcoholic with an unpredictable temper
"Dutch Leah" regularly changed her name, owing to a slew of bad debts
"Dutch Leah" was last seen with a "gentleman friend" / punter
"Dutch Leah" had made enemies and that "she had it coming"
"Dutch Leah's" death was violent, bloody and (very possibly) personal
So, who was her "gentleman guest", the last person to have seen "Dutch Leah" alive? Well based on his description - "tall, slim, clean shaven, foreign, had long hair and a slouching gait, and he wore a dark raincoat… but not a hat" – he doesn't fit the profile of Stanley King (her husband), Red Max or Roger Vernon (her pimps), nor Jim Rich (her ex-husband).
And if she was murdered by a punter – given that prostitution is a notoriously dangerous profession – why was she not raped, and not robbed? Was "Dutch Leah's" murder the work of someone with an intolerable hatred for prostitutes, a vendetta against "Dutch Leah" herself, or simply - given the severity of her murder – had a severe mental illness, such as Neurosyphilis (a common illness of that era, the symptoms of which include headaches, mood swings, hallucinations and violent rages)?
Unfortunately, we shall never know.
And yet, one piece of the puzzle still perplexes me? Stanley King, "Dutch Leah's" husband had to break down the door of their second floor flat on 66 Old Compton Street (see photo on left), as he "didn't have a key"? But with the "Dutch Leah's" key still in her handbag, the door must have been locked from the inside? So, if that's true, how did her killer escape? Her flat's two stories up, with nothing to grip onto?
Had the British tabloid press chosen to accurately investigate the murders of "French Marie", "French Fifi", Marie Jeanette Cotton and "Dutch Leah", instead of concocting a sensational if slightly ludicrous story such as "The Soho Strangler", then maybe these murders would be solved today? Instead they sold an eager public a lie, to sell newspapers, just as they'd done fifty years earlier in the Jack the Ripper case. And so, 80 years on…
…the murder of "Dutch Leah" remains unsolved.
Michael J Buchanan-Dunne is a writer, crime historian and tour-guide who runs Murder Mile Walks, a guided tour of Soho's most notorious murder cases, hailed as "one of the top ten quirky & unusual things to do in London" and featuring 18 murderers, 3 serial killers, across 21 locations, totalling 75 deaths, over just a one mile walk.
www.murdermiletours.com
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Started by Cat, November 2, 2022
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A game called 'Martha Is Dead'. That's according to a company which analysed social media talk, reviews and other stuff to come to that conclusion. I've never even heard of it. Here's the link for those interested: https://www.cbr.com/martha-is-dead-worst-game-of-2022/
So, what's your worst of 2022?
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It's been much too dry and intellectual...
It's been much too dry and intellectual, and could do with an infusion of random drivel. I'll get to work.
Something I'm not qualified to answer as I'm still playing years-old PS4 games.
But, it does allow you to avoid clunkers like this one.
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On 11/1/2022 at 10:49 PM, Cat said:
That game sounds dumb😄😄🥹
F For Fake
If I should ever end up in the virtual stockade, I demand that the thread be open to comments, so I can have digital tomatoes thrown at me. I'm sure I'd deserve it!
On 11/2/2022 at 12:35 AM, Ken Aldred said:
One year old? Pshaw! I finally fired up Halo Guardians last week, thinking "I really should finally play this new-ish Halo game,", only to realize that it came out in 2017! yikes! I bought it at a black friday sale last year, and it still took me another year to get around to opening it up. I picked up Halo Infinite last week in yet another Black Friday sale, so maybe I'll get to that sometime in the next five years.
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On 11/24/2022 at 2:37 AM, F For Fake said:
That reminds me that I still haven't played the Infinite campaign. The multiplayer is... well it's alright. The customisation is terrible, because everything is locked behind a paywall. At least with Halo 5 they gave me free packs of cards to get started so I did have some gear. I will confess I did buy cat-ears on Infinite though, just to annoy people when I killed them.
On 12/4/2022 at 8:51 PM, Cat said:
And see, I'm a campaign-only kind of guy. I don't enjoy online gaming, it's way too competitive for me. I recall having a good time with Halo 2 and especially Halo 3 with a close group of friends, playing online. But playing with strangers? Ugh, makes me nervous ha No thanks. So, I'm sure I miss out on a lot of what people love about the Halo games, but I've always enjoyed the campaigns on their own.
On 12/6/2022 at 12:23 AM, F For Fake said:
I'm not big on multiplayer either. But when you don't know anybody online anymore, and don't want to start the campaign just yet, but want to sample the game, you kinda have to try the multi. I'm not brilliant by any example, in fact I'm easy pickings. But I can enjoy myself for a few minutes, checking out the level design and other people's armours. Then I get sick of being killed and go do something else.
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Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell pushed to 2014 Oscar consideration
Sarah Polley's shockingly intimate documentary Stories We Tell will sit out 2013 Academy Awards
By Peter HowellMovie Critic
Thu., Sept. 27, 2012timer1 min. read
Sarah Polley will have to wait until 2014 to find out if Oscar voters agree with the critical raves for Stories We Tell, her shockingly intimate personal documentary.
Roadside Attractions, the film's U.S. distributor, has opted to wait out the current awards season, which will culminate with the Oscar ceremony on Feb. 24, 2013.
It will instead submit Stories We Tell in contention for the 2014 awards, Roadside spokesperson David Pollick told the Star.
"We are excited to release Stories We Tell in mid-2013, with a plan to focus on awards after the film has been established in the U.S. theatrical market," he said Wednesday via email.
All of this will happen long after the Canadian release of Stories We Tell, which is scheduled for Oct. 12.
Films seeking Oscar consideration require a U.S. theatrical release of at least one week in New York and Los Angeles theatres during the calendar year preceding the ceremony.
Polley's documentary, her third feature as writer and director, has been drawing raves on the festival circuit this fall, include TIFF earlier this month.
The film chronicles the eye-opening results of her years of research into family rumours about her late mother and the circumstances of Polley's birth.
Polley said she supports Roadside's awards strategy: "I feel their plan is the best overall strategy for the film."


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The Global Respectful Maternity Care Council, a robust community of maternal health researchers, practitioners, advocates, policymakers and programmers, convened by White Ribbon Alliance, is proud to launch the updated Respectful Maternity Care Charter: Universal Rights of Women and Newbornsas the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women presents her report to the UN General Assembly.
A record 128 member states, non-governmental organizations, independent institutions and academics made submissions to the report, titled, "A human rights-based approach to mistreatment and violence against women in reproductive health services with a focus on childbirth and obstetric violence," providing an excel-lent opportunity to more fully align the Respectful Maternity Care Charter: Universal Rights of Mothers and Newborns with the human rights laws on which it is grounded.
This work builds on the original Charter which has raised awareness and created policy change worldwide. The Charter and new set of materials are meant to help you and your partners educate, inform and advocate for all women to receive respectful care during pregnancy and childbirth. We envision a world where all women and girls realize their right to quality health and well-being.
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In 2011, the Council released the groundbreaking Respectful Maternity Care Charter, which has been widely recognized as a pioneering document, firmly establishing respectful maternity care as a human right.
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Members of the Global Respectful Maternity Care Council came together to update this charter, which clarifies and articulates the rights of women and newborns while receiving maternity care within a healthcare facility. It delineates how human rights are implicated during the time of pregnancy and childbirth and affirms the basic inalienable rights of women and their newborns. Many of these rights are clearly established in international law and have been interpreted and applied to issues arising during pregnancy, childbirth and in relation to the care provided immediately after birth. These rights are well-known and articulated in separate human rights conventions, however, to affirm adherence to them during pregnancy and child-birth, we have brought them together in one document with that singular focus.
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Car Bomb Kills 17 in Tightly Controlled Syria
By Nada Raad
Sept. 28, 2008 5:49 pm ET
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A powerful car bomb ripped through a neighborhood of southern Damascus Saturday morning, killing more than a dozen people, state media reported.
The blast threatened to rattle the authoritarian regime of President Bashar Assad, just as he emerges from a period of diplomatic isolation.
A car laden with 440 pounds of explosives detonated at 8:45 a.m. on Al Mohalak Street, in southern Damascus, killing 17 and injuring 14, according to Syria's state TV and press agency. The thoroughfare leads to the Sayeda Zeinab shrine, which typically attracts Shiite pilgrims, many from outside the country.
Al Jazeera TV reported that security officials had cordoned off the area, and journalists were prevented from approaching the scene of the explosion. Arab TV broadcast pictures of mangled cars, shattered glass and damage to buildings near the blast. No images of the dead or injured were broadcast.
Syrian Interior Minister Bassam Abdul-Majid called the bombing a "terrorist act." He told state TV that all victims were civilians, but he didn't say who authorities believe might be behind the blast, according to the Associated Press.


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All military past and present will be recognized before the event.
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Regardless I love that he is a creepy creature!
Here is stage two of some canvases drying on the art room floor, had to crop it so you can't see the chaos of working in a tiny space that also houses all hubby's clothes.......couldn't quite crop out his laundry basket!
I will show them again when they are done, possibly in the next post...........I really should be quilting that tree skirt tho!
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On 3 June 2015 the UNU Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) will organize a side event at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Bonn Climate Change Conference, to present outcomes from the International Savanna Fire Management Initiative, a UNU-IAS project testing how Northern Australia's experience of savanna burning projects can be used in other counties.
The event, Preliminary Results of the International Savanna Fire Management Initiative, will involve a range of partners involved in development and implementation of the project, and will provide an opportunity for other countries to seek input and share information about their own fire management contexts, as well as to become involved in the project. A summary report will be presented, sharing preliminary draft outcomes of the project.
The event will be co-organized with the Government of Australia and Natural Justice.
This initiative, a UNU-IAS project funded by the Australian Government, draws from the successful Australian experience of methodology-based, community-led savanna fire management that, through the sale of carbon credits generated, has created income for remote indigenous communities, reduced emissions and protected biodiversity in the tropical north of Australia.
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>> postprocessing (mastering), but not to repair anything.
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