In 1974, Tobe Hooper created the faceless monster Leatherface, armed with a chainsaw he used to cut down unsuspecting teens. Loosely based on the exploits of real-life serial killer Ed Gein, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre became one of the most influential horror movies of all time, inspiring three sequels, a remake and a prequel to the remake.
Almost four decades later, director John Luessenhop picks up where Hooper left off, as outsider Heather (played by Percy Jackson's Alexandra Daddario) receives a mysterious letter informing her she's inherited an estate in Texas from a grandmother she never knew existed. She and boyfriend Ryan (singer-turned-actor Trey Songz) then embark with friends on a road trip to discover Heather's roots and, by extension, the root of evil.
Sympathetic monsters are a hallmark of the horror genre, and Texas Chainsaw 3D attempts to delve a little deeper into the demented mind behind the Leatherface mask. Family and blood ties, a running theme throughout the franchise, manifests here in a blood feud involving Leatherface's family, the cannibalistic Sawyer clan, and the angry lynch mob of hillbillies united against them.
Logic issues plague the script. Decision-making criteria are based not on what makes the most sense, but on what will look the coolest in 3D. During a scene in which Leatherface (capably played by newcomer Dan Yeager) chases Heather at a carnival, she ignores the possibility of getting help from one of the many armed policemen present and instead grabs on to the outside of a Ferris-wheel basket to escape from danger -- a means of escape that would appear rational only to monkeys and Cirque Du Soleil performers.
The characters are shallow and thin, even by genre standards. Screenwriters Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan present the audience with an amalgam of character traits, but no actual characters. In fact, most of the interactions between Heather and her friends feel like a much older writer's version of "what the kids are saying these days," especially when the foursome is trading artificial banter and shouting 'It's a party!' any time one of them decides to turn on some music.
Blessed with at least some semblance of a backstory, Final Girl Daddario, has the most to play with and fares the best. The rest of the cast is not so lucky, particularly Keram Malicki-Sanchez's Kenny, whose only identifiable character trait is that he likes to bake crepes. Not every character has to arc or be interesting, particularly in a horror movie, but it's a little difficult to care about the guy wandering dangerously close to Leatherface's chainsaw when the only thing you know about him is that he's good at making French pancakes.
Most effective is the film's opening, which takes key footage from the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre and burnishes it with a stereoscopic makeover. Rendered in 3D, the brutality of Sally Hardesty's escape from the clutches of the Sawyer clan takes on a gauzy nightmare-like quality that's almost worth the price of admission. But, when the film jumps to the present day, the novelty of the technology quickly wears out its welcome.
Luessenhop modulates the 3D action effectively, creating some good isolated scares, but what made Hooper's film so terrifying was that it looked like a documentary. It felt true. In stark contrast, everything about Texas Chainsaw 3D, from the pretty actors to the slick camera technology to the affected lighting, feels contrived. The result is cool to look at, but barring those moments where the sound has been ratcheted up to "Spinal Tap 11" levels to goose the audience, it isn't scary.
Fans of the franchise will appreciate the respectful homages scattered throughout, from the old Volkswagen bus that Heather and her friends travel in to the cameos from franchise stars Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) and Marilyn Burns (Sally Hardesty). And ultimately, that is what is most disappointing: that the filmmakers clearly love Hooper's masterpiece, but are powerless to make a sequel that has anywhere near the impact. Trotting out series stars and giving a 3D makeover to some of the most famous footage in horror history might engender goodwill, but it also invites comparisons that Texas Chainsaw 3D is ill-equipped to withstand.
Texas Chainsaw 3D opens today nationwide.


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Los sucesos de Casas Viejas, también denominados masacre de Casas Viejas consistieron en un intento de levantamiento campesino contra el Cuartel de la Guardia Civil, que tuvieron lugar entre el 10 y el 12 de enero de 1933 en la pequeña localidad de Casas Viejas, en la provincia de Cádiz, y constituyen uno de los hechos más trágicos de la Segunda República Española. Abrió una enorme crisis política en el primer bienio de la República y fue el inicio de la pérdida de apoyos políticos y sociales que conduciría meses después a la caída del gobierno republicano-socialista de Manuel Azaña y al triunfo de las derechas en las elecciones de noviembre de 1933.

Si se contabilizan los heridos fallecidos posteriormente, resultaron muertos veintiocho campesinos,  dos guardias civiles y uno de asalto. Según el historiador Ricardo Robledo, «hay muchas facetas en la tragedia de Casas Viejas» pero «aquellos sucesos significaron también la cristalización del desencuentro entre el campesinado más pobre y los ideales de la República con su promesa de reforma agraria y [de mejora] de las condiciones de trabajo».

Antecedentes: la insurrección anarquista de enero de 1933

En un Pleno de Regionales de la CNT, celebrado el 1 de diciembre de 1932 en Madrid, el sindicato de ferroviarios solicitó el apoyo para declarar una huelga general en la que se reclamarían aumentos salariales. Al final, los ferroviarios se echaron atrás porque más de la mitad de sus secciones sindicales pensaban que la huelga resultaría un fracaso, pero el Comité de Defensa Regional de Cataluña retomó la idea a propuesta de Juan García Oliver, dispuesto a poner en práctica la "gimnasia revolucionaria", que consistiría en una "acción insurreccional" que impidiera la consolidación de la "República Burguesa". La fecha elegida fue el 8 de enero de 1933.

La insurrección no tuvo un seguimiento muy amplio. El Ejército y la Guardia Civil tomaron posiciones estratégicas en los lugares donde se preveían desórdenes y los dirigentes sindicales fueron detenidos. En algunas barriadas de Barcelona hubo choques entre anarquistas y fuerzas de orden público. Hubo huelgas, incidentes con explosivos y proclamaciones del comunismo libertario en algunas poblaciones de Aragón, como Robres y Belver de Cinca, y la Región de Valencia, como Bugarra, Ribarroja de Turia, Bétera, Jeresa (en la que murieron 4 personas), Benaguacil, Utiel y Pedralba. En esta última localidad murieron un guardia civil y un guardia de asalto durante la insurrección, en la que fue asaltado el Cuartel de la Guardia Civil; cuando la Guardia Civil restableció el orden, el resultado de la insurrección fue también la muerte de diez paisanos.

El Comité Nacional de CNT, que no había convocado la huelga, declaró el 10 de enero que la insurrección había sido «de pura significancia anarquista sin que para nada haya intervenido en ellos el organismo federal», aunque no la condenaban, como tampoco lo hacía el órgano confederal Solidaridad Obrera, para cumplir «con un deber de solidaridad y de conciencia». Pero no era esa su revolución que se hará «con garantías», «a la luz del día».

El diario oficial de la CNT en Madrid, que el día 9 de enero había escrito en su editorial «esa no es nuestra revolución», dos días después afirmaba "Ni vencidos ni humillados" y responsabilizaba de la insurrección a «la política represiva... sectaria de los socialistas que detentan el poder y usan de él contra los intereses de los trabajadores». Las revueltas «existen y aumentarán por razones de injusticia bien patentes». Por eso, «vencida una insurrección surge otra, resuelta una huelga, otra se produce; apaciguado un motín, estalla otro mayor».

Mucho tiempo después, en El eco de los pasos (1978), Juan García Oliver valoró la insurrección anarquista de enero de 1933, de la que se consideraba máximo instigador, como «una de las batallas más serias entre los libertarios y el Estado español… que determinó que los partidos republicanos y el Partido Socialista perdieran su influencia sobre la mayoría de los españoles».

Los sucesos
Una de las provincias donde se produjeron disturbios protagonizados por comités anarquistas locales fue la de Cádiz. El 10 de enero de 1933, el gobierno decidió enviar allí a una compañía de guardias de asalto al mando del capitán Manuel Rojas Feijespán. Cuando el día 11 llegaron a Jerez de la Frontera, fueron informados de que la línea telefónica había sido cortada en Casas Viejas, una población de unos 2000 habitantes cercana a Medina Sidonia y que actualmente es parte del municipio de Benalup-Casas Viejas.

En la madrugada del 11 de enero, un grupo de campesinos afiliados a la CNT habían iniciado una insurrección en Casas Viejas proclamando el comunismo libertario. Por la mañana rodearon, armados con escopetas y algunas pistolas, el cuartel de la Guardia Civil, donde se encontraban tres guardias y un sargento. Se produjo un intercambio de disparos y el sargento y un guardia resultaron gravemente heridos (el primero moriría al día siguiente; el segundo dos días después).

A las dos de la tarde del 11 de enero, un grupo de doce guardias civiles al mando del sargento Anarte llegaron a Casas Viejas, liberaron a los compañeros que quedaban en el cuartel y ocuparon el pueblo. Temiendo las represalias, muchos vecinos huyeron y otros se encerraron en sus casas. Tres horas después llegó un nuevo grupo de fuerzas de orden público al mando del teniente Gregorio Fernández Artal compuesto por cuatro guardias civiles y doce guardias de asalto. Inmediatamente comenzaron a detener a los presuntos responsables del ataque al cuartel de la Guardia Civil, dos de los cuales, después de ser golpeados, acusaron a dos hijos y al yerno de Francisco Cruz Gutiérrez, apodado "Seisdedos", un carbonero de setenta y dos años que acudía de vez en cuando a la sede del sindicato de la CNT, y que se habían refugiado en su casa, una choza de barro y piedra. Al intentar forzar la puerta de la casa de "Seisdedos", los de dentro empezaron a disparar y un guardia de asalto cayó muerto en la entrada (en algunas versiones se dijo que el guardia fue retenido como rehén y murió después) y otro resultó herido. A las diez de la noche, empezó el asalto a la choza sin éxito. Pasada la medianoche, llegó a Casas Viejas una unidad compuesta de cuarenta (o noventa según otras fuentes) guardias de asalto, al mando del capitán Rojas, que había recibido la orden del Director General de Seguridad en Madrid, Arturo Menéndez, para que se trasladara desde Jerez y acabara con la insurrección, abriendo fuego "sin piedad contra todos los que dispararan contra las tropas".

El capitán Rojas dio orden de disparar con rifles y ametralladoras hacia la choza y después ordenó que la incendiaran. Dos de sus ocupantes, un hombre y una mujer, fueron acribillados cuando salieron huyendo del fuego. Seis personas quedaron calcinadas dentro de la choza (probablemente ya habían muerto acribilladas cuando se inició el incendio), entre ellos "Seisdedos", sus dos hijos, su yerno y su nuera. La única superviviente fue la nieta de "Seisdedos", María Silva Cruz, conocida como "la Libertaria", que logró salvar la vida al salir con un niño en brazos.

Hacia las cuatro de la madrugada del día 12, Rojas y sus hombres se retiraron a la fonda donde habían instalado el cuartel general. Allí fue tomando cuerpo la idea de realizar un escarmiento. El capitán Rojas envió un telegrama al director general de Seguridad con el siguiente texto: "Dos muertos. El resto de los revolucionarios atrapados en las llamas". Rojas ordenó a tres patrullas que detuvieran a los militantes más destacados, dándoles instrucciones para que dispararan ante cualquier mínima resistencia. Mataron al anciano Antonio Barberán Castellar, de setenta y cuatro años, cuando volvió a cerrar su puerta tras la llamada de los guardias y gritó "¡No disparéis! ¡Yo no soy anarquista!". Detuvieron a doce personas y las condujeron esposadas a la choza calcinada de "Seisdedos". Les mostraron el cadáver del guardia de asalto muerto y a continuación el capitán Rojas y los guardias los asesinaron a sangre fría. En la declaración del capitán Rojas a la Comisión Parlamentaria de investigación de los hechos dijo:
 «Poco después abandonaron el pueblo. La masacre había concluido. Diecinueve hombres, dos mujeres y un niño murieron. Tres guardias corrieron la misma suerte. La verdad de los hechos tardó en conocerse, porque las primeras versiones situaban a todos los campesinos muertos en el asalto a la choza de "Seisdedos", pero la Segunda República ya tenía su tragedia», afirma el historiador Julián Casanova. «De otras actuaciones de las tropas, según las últimas investigaciones y aclaraciones de lo sucedido, resultaron muertas dos personas más: Rafael Mateos Vela, por bala, y Joaquina Fernández, que recibió una brutal paliza de la que se derivó su muerte. En total veintiséis personas muertas o veintiocho si se consideran otras dos aquejadas de infarto a consecuencia de la tragedia que vivieron esos días, Vicenta Pérez Monroy, madre de los Pavones, que sí habían participado. Fueron encarcelados y a los pocos días su madre murió de infarto; el otro era Manuel Cruz Montiano, abuelo de algunos fusilados, también de infarto».

Un testigo presencial, guardia de Asalto, escribió jornadas después de los asesinatos que «allí estuvimos hasta el final de la toma, que fue a las cuatro y cinco de la madrugada que se sintieron los últimos tiros».

Las consecuencias
Conocidos los hechos, se produjo un gran escándalo periodístico y parlamentario que conmocionó a la sociedad española. Los sucesos de Casas Viejas se convirtieron en un grave problema político para el gobierno republicano-socialista de Manuel Azaña, que tuvo que aguantar el acoso tanto desde la izquierda como desde la derecha, que en las Cortes presentaron diversas interpelaciones (Diego Martínez Barrio, del Partido Republicano Radical, denominó al gobierno de Azaña de «barro, sangre y lágrimas»). El 2 de febrero el gobierno compareció en las Cortes sobre el asunto, pero en aquel momento ignoraba cómo se habían desarrollado los hechos pues todos los informes que había recibido ocultaban los fusilamientos a sangre fría, por lo que el presidente Azaña respaldó la actuación de las fuerzas de orden público como en ocasiones anteriores:

Ante una nueva interpelación parlamentaria, Azaña hizo responsable a los anarquistas de lo ocurrido:

Los que sí tenían una información fidedigna de lo que había ocurrido eran los miembros del Partido Republicano Radical gracias a su diputado por Cádiz, pero no sólo no la trasladaron al gobierno, sino que desplegaron una campaña para derribarlo y abrir las puertas a uno nuevo presidido por su líder Alejandro Lerroux. El problema era que el gobierno se había fiado de la versión que había dado el capitán Rojas en su entrevista el 29 de enero con el ministro de la Gobernación Santiago Casares Quiroga en la que había negado que se hubiera producido ninguna extralimitación en la actuación de las fuerzas de orden público bajo su mando. Sin embargo, el gobierno empezó a desconfiar y solicitó un informe reservado que le confirmó los fusilamientos a sangre fría y señaló a los guardias de asalto como responsables. Entonces Azaña envió a Cádiz al magistrado del Tribunal Supremo Mariano Granados para que leyese el sumario de la instrucción que estaba llevando a cabo el juez de Medina Sidonia encargado del caso y le informase. Fue así como el gobierno supo que había trece testigos que corroboraban los fusilamientos.

Tras conocerse todos estos hechos la comisión de investigación formada en las Cortes el 24 de febrero (formada por Joan Puig, Manuel Muñoz Martínez, Mariano Ruiz Funes, Gabriel Franco, Joaquín Poza Juncal, Fernando González Uña, Luis Jiménez de Asúa, Miguel García Bravo-Ferrer, Antonio Lara, Juan Botella y Cándido Casanueva), exoneró al gobierno en su informe definitivo hecho público el 15 de marzo. «El Gabinete pudo superar la investigación parlamentaria y dos mociones de confianza en las Cortes, pero ello no impidió que se viera salpicado por un escándalo que, a medio plazo, le sería enormemente perjudicial».

El director general de Seguridad, comandante Arturo Menéndez, fue destituido, ocupando dicha dirección Manuel Andrés Casaus (que murió en San Sebastián en 1934, víctima de un atentado). Arturo Menéndez fue detenido en la noche del 19 de julio de 1936 por los militares sublevados en el tren Barcelona-Madrid, estación de Calatayud. Fue trasladado a Pamplona y fusilado.

La CNT lanzó una campaña contra la «política dictatorial y los políticos facciosos», en la que exigía la liberación de presos, la apertura de sindicatos, la libertad de reunión y la libertad de prensa, así como la derogación de las leyes "antiobreras" del 8 de abril de 1932, de Defensa de la República y los Jurados Mixtos. El periódico de la CNT describió los hechos como «una razia de mercenarios de la Legión en un aduar rifeño». La movilización culminó con la convocatoria de una huelga general los días 9 y 10 de mayo de 1933, «advertencia expresiva para los gobernantes que rivalizan en despotismo con las dictaduras fascistas».

El capitán Rojas fue juzgado en mayo de 1934 en Cádiz. En su defensa alegó que había cumplido las instrucciones del director general de Seguridad de no dejar heridos ni prisioneros y culpó al presidente Azaña de todo pues afirmó que este le había dicho: «los tiros, a la barriga». Sus declaraciones solo fueron corroboradas por el comandante Bartolomé Barba Hernández, que a finales de 1933 había sido uno de los fundadores de la organización clandestina militar antirrepublicana Unión Militar Española (UME) que tendría una participación decisiva en el golpe de Estado de julio de 1936 que dio inicio a la guerra civil española. El capitán Rojas fue condenado a 21 años de reclusión por 14 homicidios.

En julio de 1934, 26 campesinos de Casas Viejas fueron juzgados por los delitos de posesión de armas de guerra y ejecución de actos contra las fuerzas armadas. Diez fueron absueltos y, de los restantes, uno condenado a 6 años de prisión, cuatro a 5 años, dos a 3 años, seis a 2 años y tres a 1 año.

La "leyenda negra" de la República (y de Azaña)
Las primeras dudas sobre la versión oficial (que todas las muertes se habían producido en el asalto a la casa de "Seisdedos") aparecieron en una crónica del escritor Ramón J. Sender y del periodista Eduardo de Guzmán que habían ido a Casas Viejas y que fue publicada por el periódico La Tierra. Al año siguiente, Ramón J. Sender publicó un libro con el expresivo título de "Viaje a la aldea del crimen", en el que reconstruyó los hechos a partir de las declaraciones de los campesinos a los investigadores parlamentarios. Sin embargo, en el libro, en el que recopilaba los reportajes que había publicado en el diario La Libertad, siguió responsabilizando al gobierno y a Azaña de lo ocurrido, a pesar de que ya habían sido exonerados por la investigación parlamentaria y por la judicial. Todo ello respondía, según Pilar Mera Costas, a la desilusión de Sender con la República y con la democracia parlamentaria y a su deslizamiento hacia posiciones revolucionarias.

El intento de exculpación del capitán Rojas, apoyado por el capitán Bartolomé Barba Hernández, de que había actuado siguiendo órdenes directas de Manuel Azaña que le habría dicho "Ni heridos ni prisioneros. Los tiros, a la barriga", una acusación que tanto la investigación parlamentaria como la judicial consideraron absolutamente falsa, fue utilizada por los medios y los partidos de derecha para desgastar al gobierno y desprestigiar a la República, convirtiéndose en un elemento clave de la "leyenda negra" que fueron inventando sobre ella y que los vencedores en la guerra civil española no se cansarán de repetir. Lo mismo hizo el anarquismo, incluso en el exilio. Tanto la derecha (y el franquismo) como los anarquistas tuvieron un enorme éxito porque «la sombra de la tragedia nunca abandonó a Azaña». «A pesar de la exculpación judicial y parlamentaria, la opinión pública siguió considerando responsable moral al Consejo de Ministros».

La acusación la lanzó el capitán Rojas cuando los periodistas descubrieron que había mandado fusilar a los prisioneros. El capitán Rojas alegó que en una entrevista que había mantenido a solas con el director general de Seguridad, Arturo Menéndez, este le dijo que no hiciera prisioneros. También alegó que cuando estaba en la cárcel recibió la visita de un ayudante de Azaña, el coronel Hernández Saravia, que le ofreció un millón de pesetas si se callaba. Tampoco había testigos que pudieran corroborarlo. En los careos que mantuvieron tanto Menéndez como Hernández Saravia con Rojas, estos negaron las acusaciones, y Menéndez afirmó que cualquier oficial de policía tenía derecho a pedir una copia por escrito de las órdenes si consideraba que estas infringían la ley. Rojas no dio ninguna explicación sobre este punto.

El capitán Barba Hernández aseguró en el juicio que uno de los ayudantes de Azaña le había dicho, de nuevo sin que hubiera ningún testigo, la frase "los tiros a la barriga". Para el tribunal quedó claro que Rojas y Barba mentían para apoyarse el uno al otro. Lo mismo concluyó el informe final de las Cortes diciendo que "no hay pruebas que permitan la insinuación de que la policía actuó en la represión de acuerdo con órdenes dadas por los miembros del Gobierno"

El capitán Rojas fue liberado de la prisión tras la sublevación militar de julio de 1936, fue admitido en el ejército rebelde con el grado de capitán de artillería y participó en la represión en Granada.

El capitán Bartolomé Barba tampoco fue creído por el tribunal que revisó el proceso a Rojas en 1935 y que confirmó la sentencia. El capitán Barba había sido delegado gubernativo en la Dictadura de Primo de Rivera y uno de los fundadores de la organización derechista UME (Unión Militar Española), que participó en la sublevación militar de julio de 1936. Fue uno de los oficiales que dirigió la represión en Zaragoza durante las primeras semanas de la guerra civil. Durante el Dictadura del general Franco ocupó el cargo de gobernador civil.

El general Cabanellas, director general de la Guardia Civil durante los sucesos de Casas Viejas, mantuvo en el juicio una actitud ambigua que ponía en cuestión la actuación del gobierno. Fue uno de los generales implicados en el golpe de Estado militar de julio de 1936 y presidió la Junta de Defensa Nacional que se hizo cargo inicialmente del poder en la zona sublevada.

El sumario del segundo juicio de junio de 1935, en el que Azaña llegó a tener un careo con Bartolomé Barba, desapareció de los archivos de la Audiencia. En 2008, el periodista e investigador Tano Ramos consiguió localizar una copia en casa de una hija del abogado López Gálvez, encargado de la acusación particular contra Rojas. En esa documentación, que recoge todas las declaraciones de los testigos ante el juez, más allá de la transcripción de lo sucedido en los juicios, Azaña advertía que las órdenes eran las mismas para todo el territorio nacional, y que solo Rojas había actuado de esa manera, a pesar de que la revuelta tuvo otros focos.

Memoria histórica
El 1998 el pleno del Ayuntamiento de Benalup decide cambiar la denominación del pueblo de "Benalup de Sidonia" a "Benalup Casas-Viejas", que desde el suceso se había perdido.

En el año 2006, el Ayuntamiento de Benalup propuso vender el solar donde ocurrieron los sucesos a una constructora para que edificara un hotel de lujo, contra lo cual recibió la disconformidad de numerosos vecinos de la región y el sindicato CNT. Este hotel iba a tomar el nombre de La Libertaria (nieta de Seisdedos), pero, tras las noticias del descontento de los benalupenses, pasaron a llamarle Utopía.

Por una Resolución del 27 de julio de 2009, de la Dirección General de Bienes Culturales, publicada en Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía (BOJA) el 21 de agosto de 2009, se incoó el procedimiento para la inscripción en el Catálogo General del Patrimonio Histórico Andaluz, como Bien de Interés Cultural, con la tipología de Sitio Histórico, del Lugar de los sucesos de Casas Viejas, en Benalup-Casas Viejas (Cádiz). Esto se justificaba en el texto de la resolución de la siguiente forma:

En 2015 se inauguró un "Espacio Conmemorativo" para la memoria de Los Sucesos.

En 2018 se realiza una recreación histórica de los hechos, se publica un nuevo libro sobre el tema y se recibe la donación de materiales del legado de Jerome Mintz.

Filmografía
En 1983, el cineasta José Luis López Del Río trasladó los hechos a la pantalla en la película Casas viejas.

Véase también
 Lugar de los sucesos de Casas Viejas
 Revolución de enero de 1933
 Sucesos de Arnedo
 Sucesos de La Villa de Don Fadrique
 Anarcosindicalismo
 Sucesos de Gilena

Referencias

Bibliografía

Gutiérrez Baena, Salustiano (2017). Los sucesos de Casas Viejas: Crónica de una derrota. Editorial Beceuve.

 Luengo Camacho, José; Antequera, Juan José (introd. y notas): Informe inédito de Casas Viejas. Testimonio de un guardia de Asalto acerca de los sucesos que cambiaron la Historia de España; Sevilla, Facediciones, 2008. 2ª ed. 2010.

 Sender, Ramón J.,Viaje a la aldea del crimen, 1933

Enlaces externos
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 El caso Casas Viejas, reportaje del Diario de Cádiz.
 La evidencia de Casas Viejas Por Ramón J. Sender
 Un hombre sin piedad llegó a Casas Viejas, artículo de Diario de Jerez (2010)
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Revoluciones de España
Historia de la CNT
Sucesos violentos durante la Segunda República Española
España en 1933
Historia de la provincia de Cádiz
Benalup-Casas Viejas
Conflictos en 1933
Rebeliones campesinas en España
Historia de la Guardia Civil (España)

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British rapper breaks women's weight-lifting records while identifying as female to prove a point
If you needed more evidence that we live in one of the dumbest eras, peruse this news item from the Daily Mail:
In a scientific first, researchers claim to have found that differences between men's and women's brains start in the womb. The conclusion is likely to be controversial, with some experts claiming social influences are more important.
But scientists who did brain scans of 118 foetuses in the second half of pregnancy to analyse the links between gender and the connectivity of a developing brain believe the differences are biological.
Professor Moriah Thomason, from New York University Langone, said one of the main differences was in connectivity across distant areas of the brain.
According to the US study, published in the journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, female brains growing in the uterus produced 'long-range' networks.
First of all, the fact that the so-called discovery that men and women are different is a big news item indicates just how far from obvious reality we have drifted in the past decade or so. And secondly, the fact that the journalist covering the story felt it was necessary to add that this "conclusion is likely to be controversial" would be humorous if we weren't all expected to believe this nonsense.
On that note, a British rapper pulled a hilarious stunt earlier this month to prove just how stupid it is to allow biological men identifying as women compete in women's sports. Also from the Daily Mail:
Rapper and Oxford graduate Zuby, stoked the flames of a burning debate when he took to Twitter to demonstrate that male athletes shouldn't compete alongside women. The Southampton native posted a series of videos of himself in a gym apparently 'destroying' various female weight-lifting records.
But he did so whilst 'identifying as a female' as a tongue in cheek response to the issue around biologically male athletes taking part in female competition. The 32-year-old claimed to have broke the women's dead-lift record of 238kg 'without even trying'.
'I keep hearing about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019… So watch me DESTROY the British Women's deadlift record without trying.
'P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight. Don't be a bigot,' he tweeted accompanied by a laughing face emoji.
The rapper's tweet blew up, amassing nearly 1 millions views, owing to the ongoing debate of the participation of transgender athletes in sport…Zuby, who describes himself as a 'recreational lifter', told The Times that the video 'struck a nerve'.
He said: 'It was done in a humorous way, but it made it more real: it showed the fallacies of the arguments on the other side. I have seen people saying there is no inherent biological strength difference between men and women. I posted it being a bit tongue-in-cheek, showing what I think is the obvious absurdity of their argument.'
Following up his initial tweet in which he took on the dead-lift he decided to take on two more records.
'I'll take the squat and bench press records too while I'm at it… May as well. To fight bigotry,' he said.
He was praised widely and said himself that '98%' of the feedback was positive.
Trans activists were understandably outraged by the stunt. Check it out:
I keep hearing about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019…
So watch me DESTROY the British Women's deadlift record without trying.
P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight. Don't be a bigot. 😂 pic.twitter.com/dYRraHCB42
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) February 26, 2019
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No, that is disingenuous. The controversy, as stated in the quote that you posted, is the age old nature vs. nuture debate. Not a discovery that women are different from men but that there may be a biological developmental difference from the fetal stage.
For the record, from the quoted article: "The conclusion is likely to be controversial, with some experts claiming social influences are more important."
And certainly no connection to the weightlifting article you reference afterwards.
The researchers found that the differences between men and women's gender have developed biologically. Who'da thought…
There is no legitimate basis for men to enter women's sports and in allowing them to, based on "feelings", is ultimately going to ruin women's sports
No, "researchers claim to have found that differences between men's and women's brains start in the womb." START in the womb. That is not to say that gender has entirely developed biologically, that is to say that biology has at least some impact on gender.
This is not an exclusive finding, this is a contributory finding.
Besides, this is the Daily Mail, which one should take with an entire truckload of salt.

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Road Trip For NorCal Rockfish & Crab Combo
Posted onNov 13, 2017 at 6:20 AM
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Hey guys, sorry for the late post. I'm up here in San Francisco for the weekend. I came up to fish with my buddies, Nick Lam and Tim Shiau. Tim is a deckhand on Enterprise Sportfishing, and Nick is his buddy that lives up here, but frequently comes down to fish with us in SoCal.
Quick little bit of business before I get into the trip though…
I was wrong.
I wrote last week that Offshore Is Over. Offshore is definitely on its last legs, but it's NOT quite over just yet. I was shocked this week to get the update that the Oceanside 95 got into yellowfin tuna up to 70-pounds on Tuesday. Capt. Rick Slavkin told me they were at San Clemente Island looking for bluefin and yellowtail when the Navy kicked them out. They were headed away from the island when they ran into a school of porpoise and got stopped.
Rick was able to make a day of it picking away a couple at a time and ended up with 18 fish for 32 anglers. One of the readers on the facebook page, Steven Welsh (right), was one of the lucky ones. Capt. Rick said a hot bait on 25-30# test was the ticket to getting bit. Make sure you have that setup on those island trips…just in case. They had another trip going out Friday night, so I'll be curious to see how they did.
Editor's note – they got 93!
San Francisco Rockfish/Crab Combo Trip
So back to this week's trip. Nick and Tim did it last year and it was a complete success. Limits of rockfish, lingcod and DUNGENESS CRAB! I've literally been waiting a year to go on this trip and it did not disappoint. Nick strategically planned our trip to go shortly after the recreational season opened, but before the commercial season started. He said if you do that, you are guaranteed to come home with your limit of 10 of these tasty crustaceans!
We showed up at 5am at Berkeley Marina for a 6am departure aboard El Dorado Sportfishing. Capt. Robert Gallia and his able deckhands Roman and Josh (pictured top preparing the crab traps) would host us for the day.
Roman gave the trip briefing and said we were looking at a long ride out to the Farallon Islands, some rocky outcroppings about 30 miles due west from San Francisco. Once out there, we'd be doing drifts for lingcod and rockfish. They had cut squid for bait, but Nick said to just bring swimbaits and jigs for targeting lings which I did. For the trip, I only brought 2 rod/reel combos – my setup to throw jigs/swimbaits, and a standard double dropper rockfishing rig.
Very first stop of the day, I was lucky to get on what would end up being the runner-up fish of the day, a nice lingcod (maybe 12-13-pounds) using a 7″ swimbait on a 6 oz. head in about 180-feet of water. The rockfishing was typical of the rockfishing we enjoy at Santa Rosa/San Miguel islands on the overnight trips there…better quality rockfish. An added bonus for these trips though is the variety. Exotics like quillbacks, China, canary (left), and golden eye rockfish (no take) all can be caught up here.
By say 1:30, it was time to start heading back. Normally, on a Channel Islands overnight, I'd have some lunch, take pics with the fish, and then nap on the way home. But there was still the matter of the crab…
The boat keeps a stock of traps at sea. It has a commercial crab pot pulling apparatus attached to the starboard side of the boat. It was a small matter of Capt. Robert locating his buoys, the crew grabbing the buoy line, and letting the puller do the heavy lifting of pulling up the pots. I just stood off to the side and watched them go at it. Each pot contained anywhere from say 10-25 crabs lured inside by a deadly combo of squid and fish carcasses leftover from previous fishing trips. At this stage in the season, there were few shorts that got thrown back. Some of the crabs were downright mega in size! As we were about to return home, each passenger was given a mesh bag and the crew put 10 in each. The landing has a crab cooking station outside where you can have them cook your entire bag for $20 before you go home.
The commercial season starts this Wednesday, November 20th, but they will be running these trips through the end of the year. Several passengers told me these trips are an annual ritual that adds a tasty twist to their holiday dinner spread. I'm in. You should give it a try too.
Good luck if you get out there.
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Magyarország a németországi Berlinben megrendezett 1936. évi nyári olimpiai játékok egyik részt vevő nemzete volt, 216 sportolóval vett részt. Berlin közelségét kihasználva a magyar küldöttség létszáma közel négyszeresére emelkedett az előző, az egyesült államokbeli Los Angelesben rendezett olimpiához képest. A magyar versenyzők között így voltak itthoni eredményeik alapján eleve esélytelenek is, végül az olimpia a magyar sport világszerte nagy feltűnést keltő sikerét hozta: Magyarország tizenhat érmet – tíz arany-, egy ezüst- és öt bronzérmet – nyert, és ezzel a nem hivatalos éremtáblázaton a harmadik helyet szerezte meg. A helyezések alapján számított 134 olimpiai pont 23 ponttal több, mint az előző olimpián elért eredmény. A legeredményesebb magyar sportoló, Kabos Endre vívó két aranyérmet nyert. Rajta kívül két érmet nyert még Gerevich Aladár vívó és Csik Ferenc úszó.

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City Under Siege 2010 Review: An Action Sci-Fi and Thriller From Benny Chan
Action / Aventure Science / Sci-Fi Thriller / Horror
December 8, 2020 Reviewer
There are good films and there are bad films, and then there's City Under Siege. Benny Chan's action/sci-fi/whatever thriller is a prime example of the age-old clash between ideas and imagination. Basically, a filmmaker has lots of ideas but lacks the imagination to pull them off convincingly or even competently. Chan, who serves as producer/director/co-screenwriter, is obviously the driving force behind City Under Siege. And he fumbles the ball so spectacularly that entertainment is an unavoidable byproduct. Is City Under Siege a good movie? Absolutely not. But it's got giggles, that's for sure.
Aaron Kwok stars as Sunny, a professional clown who dreams of being a star dagger thrower and generally acts like a complete tool. Sunny is an optimistic, childish and totally daft dope who's routinely ridiculed by the circus' other performers. A ridiculously evil bunch led by Cheung (Collin Chou). Given Sunny's annoying behavior, one wonders how he's managed to reach adulthood without earning regular beatings from normal folks who've had enough of his aggravating shenanigans. Kwok plays Sunny in a cute, innocent and borderline creepy manner – an embarrassing acting mode that Kwok should have phased out of his repertoire in the early nineties. If City Under Siege (Toan Thanh Gioi Bi) shows us anything, it's that Kwok still lacks restraint as an actor.
Back to the plot: the film opens with a Mainland-pandering flashback depicting inhumane experiments by the Japanese army, who use an experimental gas to turn people into super strong mutants with a predilection for violence. Years later, Sunny and Cheung's band of evil circus performers happen across the buried lab in Malaysia and bust it open thinking that it contains gold.
Bingo, they get a faceful of gas, sending them on the road to veins-bursting mutation. Everyone gets buff out and loses their hair. Such that they end up looking like refugees from a Rick Baker convention. Sunny is the lone lucky one, as he possesses antibodies that allow him to ingest the gas without turning ugly. All the mutants end up back in Hong Kong, with Cheung's gang pillaging and ravaging because they're greedy and evil, and Sunny acting stupid because, well, he's stupid. Eventually they clash, meaning it's time for a mutant-vs-mutant throwdown that could destroy half the city.
That's when Sunny and Cheung fight with – get ready for this – flying daggers! Yes, everyone is super-strong and can stop bullets with their flesh. And the weapons of choice are circus-approved throwing daggers. Why Benny Chan decided that mutants should battle it out with blades is never fully explained. Though it does allow for pseudo-meaningful dialogue about how every flying dagger needs a target, ergo a person should run their life like a dagger and aim for their own target. Or something.
There's also lip service about how one should be a good person and not a greedy one. A theme brought out by Angel (Shu Qi), a reporter who learns not to be a cynical exploiter of dopey mutants when she's replaced at her job by this year's model (Chrissie Chau, in a barely there role). Angel also learns to care for Sunny, which is only believable because he's hot. And not because he has a remotely tolerable personality.
Rounding out the film's major themes is love. Suen (Wu Jing or Ngo Kinh) and Ching (Zhang Jingchu) are two mainland cops specializing in mutant crimes. And when not mutant busting they double as lovers. Suen sometimes cares more for mutant hunting than his girlfriend. Despite the fact that they're suppose to marry in less than a month. Duh, obviously something will happen that screws up their happily ever after.
Meanwhile, evil mutant Cheung's thirst for material goods hitches a snag when he reveals his long-held ardor for Angel. And he even delivers his own soliloquy about how lonely he really is. As Cheung, Collin Chou gives Aaron Kwok some stiff competition for that overacting award, but he gets extra points for getting all misty while looking like the Toxic Avenger. This stuff obviously isn't affecting. But somehow Benny Chan seems to think it is. Which ends up making City Under Siege even more ridiculously hilarious.
Basically, City Under Siege is a complete mess. The lead character is insipid and uninteresting. The storyline is poorly developed, and the emotional subplots are laughable and unconvincing. As a narrative film, City Under Siege gets an F for "fail". And packs in far too many concepts and storylines, ultimately ending up as an unwieldy mess. However, its over-the-top crappiness ends up making it somewhat special. This is a strange, strange movie that's obviously not quality. But it's so bizarre and ill-conceived that entertainment is possible. Besides the mystifying ideas and crazy overacting.
There's also Wu Jing, who's so over-the-top awesome in the early going that he looks like he's gunning for his own spinoff film. Wu's coolness takes a hit when he's require to cry. But before that he's the film's badass supreme. Also, Shu Qi and Zhang Jingchu aren't bad in their roles, and some of the kung-fu action is decent. There's also Aaron Kwok and his crazy overacting – and hey, if entertainment has a name, it's Aaron Kwok.
The star, however, is Benny Chan. Good with action, clumsy with emotions, Chan pretty much shows his limitations with City Under Siege. Using his hitmaking power to announce himself as the action version of Jingle Ma. Like Ma, Chan is not an auteur, so why these guys have to write, produce and direct is a mystery that can't be explained. At least the action film (phim hanh dong di nhan) does possess one killer idea: Mainland-approved mutant busters Suen and Ching use a combination of kick-ass kung-fu and acupuncture needles to subdue mutants who are obviously their physical superiors.
Seeing Wu Jing and Zhang Jingchu athletically take on mutants while stabbing them here and there with needles is fun stuff. And Chan could have easily used that concept to craft a modern update on the supernatural kung-fu costume films of the eighties and nineties. However, with City Under Siege, Chan just had to mix in crappy make-up effects, needless dagger throwing. Evil circus performers, emoting mutants. And an overacting Aaron Kwok. For God's sake, why? Probably because Benny Chan wanted it that way. People who bankroll Benny Chan's movies: maybe not everything he wants is a good thing.
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Gulftainer fast-tracks medical supply consignments
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Filed on April 3, 2020
Gulftainer has launched an interim and complimentary 'Express Service Lane' initiative to prioritise the delivery of medical supply consignments at its ports across the UAE.
The move is part of the company's commitment to accelerating logistical procedures and fast-tracking the availability of medical supplies to consumers across the nation. Through this effort, Gulftainer seeks to support the preventive measures and national initiatives launched by the UAE government in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the initiative, Sharjah Container Terminal (SCT) is also actively encouraging customers to use its secured digital payment methods while benefiting from convenient and seamless online processing of transactions.
Speaking on the new initiative, Peter Richards, group CEO, Gulftainer, said: "The prompt and efficient delivery of medical equipment and supplies plays a crucial role in ensuring the health of the nation - particularly during these unprecedented times when the world is battling a pandemic. The Express Service Lane enables our ports across UAE to expedite critical supplies and get them to the brave caregivers in the community in the shortest time possible."
He added: "We are fully aligned with the government's safety guidelines and have introduced additional precautionary health, hygiene and safety measures across all operations, including safe-distancing, sanitisation, and training and education for all operational staff. Our operational protocols have been enhanced to ensure maximum safety for all members of the logistics community including but not limited to vessel crewmembers, on dock labour, and truckers across the UAE."
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Q: Visio will not save changes when I reorder pages in C# I am trying to reorder the pages in Visio using VSTO(C# addin). The code below does this. The "pageList" is a Linq list of Visio Page objects. The "movement" variable is telling the loop how many times to move the index position of the page in the list. The Move method takes a list, the index of the item I want to move, and which direction.The Move Method moves it by 1 either Up or Down.
for (int i = 1; i <= movement; i++)
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Next is after I shuffle around the pages in the list, I then change their actual index in Visio according to the position they are in. Visio indexing starts at a base of 1 instead of 0.
for (int i = pageList.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
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When I run this, it performs the indexing correctly. The example I have below, shows that the page "Women 144" is at index 5(it was orignally at index 16). So visually it looks good. But when I save Visio, close it down, and reopen the document, the page "Women 144" is now at index 9 for some reason. Is there something I'm missing? Why was it good before, but now not?

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Georgia Bulldogs Men's Lacrosse Team Trounces Kennesaw State ------<#)
The Georgia men's club lacrosse team improved to 2-0 for the 2013 season on Sunday, when the Bulldogs defeated the Kennesaw State Owls in an MCLA game at Sprayberry High School in Marietta.
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As promised, the Georgia men's lacrosse team stepped up its in-game tweeting following yesterday's season-opening victory, which was much appreciated. This afternoon, the Red and Black were in Marietta to take on Kennesaw State at Sprayberry High School, the alma mater of Georgia junior defender Jake Cooper. Although the Owls leapt out to an early lead, the Bulldogs tied it up on a goal by Saturday's leading Georgia scorer, senior attacker Trent Dean, with 10:30 remaining in the opening period.
Sophomore attacker Daniel O'Meara scored to give Georgia the lead, then freshman midfielder Kyle Reed notched an assist on the goal by Dean that put the Athenians up by a 3-1 margin. Dean's third goal, O'Meara's second, and sophomore midfielder George Walker's first quickly made the score 6-1, and junior midfielder Conner Reed extended the Bulldogs' edge to six goals with nine and a half minutes remaining before the break.
Kennesaw State narrowed the gap, but Georgia maintained the pressure for the balance of the half, moving out in front, 9-2, on a Walker goal for which senior midfielder Matt Dumbleton was credited with an assist. The Bulldogs stretched their lead to eight on freshman attacker Karthik Bhat's first collegiate goal, and the score stood at 11-2 at the end of the third quarter.
There were eight minutes left in the game when Bhat scored again, and freshman attacker Ben Louderback joined his fellow rookie in notching his first goal as a collegian late in the final period. Another freshman, midfielder Kevin Doran, closed out the scoring with the goal in the final minute that made it 15-3 in favor of the Red and Black as the rain began to fall. As had been the case the day before, the Athenians scored four goals in the first quarter and four more in the fourth.
As evidenced by the substantial scoring by the rookies, especially in the second half, the Georgia underclassmen represented the Bulldogs well today, including sophomore midfielder Harrison Cassada. Next up for the Red and Black will be their first true road game, as the Georgia Bulldogs will take on the Florida Gators in Gainesville next Saturday, February 16. Both SELC stalwarts are among the unranked teams receiving votes in the latest MCLA poll.


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Electronic systems are vulnerable to sabotage and disruption
Posted on 24 January 2013 by admin
Shipping's electronic technology is vulnerable to sabotage and accidental disruption
Craig Eason in Lloyds List Tuesday 22 January 2013
MODERN vessels rely increasingly on electronic navigation systems, most of which have a strong reliance on global navigation satellite systems, writes Craig Eason in Stockholm .
Trials are beginning next month on how a back-up system, e-loran, can be integrated into bridge systems to improve reliability, given how easy it is to jam a GNSS signal.
GNSS includes the best-known system, Global Satellite Positioning, and the high-profile European Galileo programme and the Russian Glonass.
India, Japan and China also have their own systems that are either operational or in the making.
For a number of years the General Lighthouse Authority and the Royal Institute of Navigation has been warning of the ease with which vessels can have their navigational satellite signals disrupted by handy, cheap and easy-to-acquire jammers.
Things have hardly changed. Although, as there are increased commercial interests ashore that have also become reliant on GPS for both timings and positions, the problem of over-reliance remains serious, particularly in the maritime world.
David Last, former president of the Royal Institute of Navigation, says the maritime world has not thought through the implications of GPS failure on vessels and has certainly not incorporated this into its training and procedures.
Shipping is going through a process where all commercial vessels are required to have electronic chart display and information system installed. If a vessel has two Ecdis, it can become a paperless vessel, meaning it can navigate without the traditional paper charts.
The problem has been the navigation officers' increased reliance on the technology and not on traditional navigational skills.
Supportive of the development of modern navigation technology, Professor Last says there remains a strong need for the industry to have back-up for GPS signals.
GLA has for many years been trying out a land-based long-range radio signal transmission, e-loran. The system is now up and running in Dover and will be trialled on board the new ferry Spirit of Britain .
GLA will also conduct a failure of signal exercise on one of its vessels in February. Galatea will again have its GPS signal deliberately jammed to test whether inbuilt e-loran signal receivers will seamlessly take over.
Prof Last was surprised to see which systems failed when the GLA undertook earlier exercises to disrupt a GPS signal. He warns that often the GPS signal disruption is not detected, leading navigation equipment to give incorrect yet plausible information that may not be easily noticed.
The failures were not limited to the Ecdis; a host of other systems were disrupted that have GPS receivers inbuilt, such as automatic identification signal transmission, radar, gyro and satellite communication systems, even ships' clocks, dynamic positioning systems and helipad stabilization systems.
There is always the risk of malicious disruption targeting a vessel's GPS but also — and this is being seen more frequently — small GPS jammers installed in stolen luxury cars being shipped out of the UK in a container. That jammer can then disrupt the GPS signals of surrounding vessels.
Also seen abroad is deliberate military jamming, with North Korea occasionally jamming GPS signals in South Korea, causing maritime disruption. South Korea is reported to be considering e-loran as a back up to counter this.


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'Boris asked me to do it': Donald Trump says he invited parents of Harry Dunn to meet their son's killer Anne Sacoolas at the White House 'only because Boris Johnson asked him to'
Donald Trump says that he asked the parents of Harry Dunn to meet their son's killer at the White House because Boris Johnson asked him to do so. The US President said that he arranged for the family to come to Washington DC last night after the Prime Minister spoke with him and says Harry's grieving parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, had initially wanted to meet Anne Sacoolas. 'I spoke with Boris,' he said. 'He asked me if I'd do that and I did it. Unfortunately, they wanted to meet with her but when we had everybody together they decided not to meet, perhaps they had lawyers involved by that time, I don't know. The people were lovely, they were very nice. They were desperately sad.' Mr Trump repeatedly asked them to meet the American diplomat's wife as she waited outside the Oval Office and when they resisted he told them: 'She's here so let's get some healing'. The Republican said today: 'My meeting with the family was beautiful in a certain way. They did not want to meet with the person in question but we had a very good meeting, they're very nice people.' This evening, a Downing Street spokesman… Read full this story
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Greetings from sunny Orlando, Florida! (yeah, it's pouring rain right now.) The offseason is thankfully more than halfway over, and though I won't be experiencing the utter joy of Minutemen hockey in person until January (I've got that home-and-home with Blowell marked on my calendar), I've been able to follow the offseason online here and there. Of course many rightful thanks go to Rocks and his fabulous work at Fear the Triangle, but we're finally getting some official information out of the UMassAthletics camp; specifically, the 2010-2011 roster, which is now available for your viewing pleasure.
Now, as one might expect, there are a lot of unfamiliar names on that roster. A LOT. If you haven't been keeping up with FtT's offseason coverage of the newcomers, now's your chance to take a look at the last month or two's worth of reporting he's done, which includes seeing some of the guys in person. We can't claim to offer anywhere near that level of in-depth analysis of these players yet, but obviously a big theme of the season will be Matt and Derek's (and, eventually, my) first impressions of the freshman class. I see a lot of potential with this freshman class, especially with a solid, veteran backstop in Dainton to anchor the team, but a lot is going to ride on a) how NCAA-ready the new guys are (and how many can break out the way Jimmy and Casey did their freshman year), and b) whether the remaining old guys, like Langeraap, Concannon and Keane among others, can finally realize their potential, much like Will Ortiz did last year.
I'm not as worried as many people are about the defense; I think Kublin-Mikey will be better than people realize, I like Donnellan and I think Rowe played well down the stretch last year, and I like (at least on paper) the incoming guys like Phillips and Hanley. But the offense has a ton of question marks, although I do like that these incoming freshmen, like Gracel and Power, are being described with words like "scrappy" and "gritty," things the trying-to-get-way-too-fancy-too-often UMass offense has lacked in recent years.
Realistically, we should have expectations of a season much like last year's men's basketball team, minus the coaching problems but also with the senior leadership and scoring of Harris replaced by the goaltending of Dainton. Both can keep a team in the game by themselves, but both need more than just potential around them if the season will be a success. A big help to the Minutemen is that, unlike the bball team last year, the coach is certainly not still learning his craft. Toot, in the final year of his contract, has his work cut out for him, but if the immediate success of the team rests on the coach's ability to get the best out of freshmen, I'd put way more stock in Toot than in DK.
Having said that, it's impossible to overlook the amount of sheer talent this team has lost since the end of last season. It would take a great number of these freshmen reaching their potential right away, the upperclassmen significantly improving, and a little bit of luck for this team to contend for a Hockey East title this year. A little bit of luck and we might be talking home ice, but I'd be satisfied with a 5th or 6th place finish with momentum going forward and with a handful of the new guys establishing themselves in the league. I also think missing the HEA playoffs would be a huge disappointment this year, given a senior goaltender and how bad teams like Providence (because they're Providence) and Lowell (whose "best team ever" lost about a jillion players, including their two goalies, to graduation, and also because we hate them with a fiery passion) figure to be. Is it possible? Sure. But our motto is "stay positive" for a reason.
And as I type that, the sun's coming back out down here in Orlando, so I'll leave you with that for now. No matter what happens with this team, we'll be there for the ride and we're delighted to have you with us. Help us out and spread the word on campus, and let's make Fight Mass truly by-the-students, for-the-students this year. Until then, continue to enjoy your summer, and…is it October yet?
Sitting here at my job I cant help but to laught out loud at the remarks. Let the anti-Lowell sentiment come forth this year to it's full potential.
You lost all credibility when you said Donnellan played well down the stretch last season. He played about 4 games all year.
Well, no, YOU lost all credibility when you demonstrated your inability to read an and comprehend an English sentence. "I like Donnellan and I think Rowe played well down the stretch last season" is a sentence which in no way remarks on how much playing time Donnellan had, but rather makes comments on two of last year's freshmen defenders (Donnellan, who I believe played well in his limited time but who fell behind others on Toot's depth chart for whatever reason) and Rowe (who got quite a bit of ice time and improved as the year went on).
Err, I screwed up the parentheses there at the end, but my point stands.


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'Zexit': London's South Africans unite against Zuma
By Darin Graham
South Africans living in the UK hit London's Trafalgar Square calling for President Jacob Zuma to step down, on Saturday, April 8.
Demonstrators gathered outside South Africa House, famous for the golden springbok above its entrance.
The protest came after hundreds of thousands marched across South Africa on Friday – with reports of the biggest demonstrations the nation has seen since its first democratic vote in 1994.
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'We handed a petition to the High Commission in London, and we've had a really good turn out,' says Will Van Der Merwe, Democratic Alliance Abroad Chairperson. 'Probably about six hundred plus people in solidarity with the marches in South Africa.'
The country's political crisis has intensified over recent weeks as major cabinet reshuffles took place.
Two credit rating agencies slashed South Africa to junk status after the sacking of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan last week.
The sacking pushed key ANC partners to join the calls for Mr Zuma to step down, but he is not due to go until his term runs out in 2019.
Mr Zuma dodged further calls for him to step down by powerful bodies in the country, such as unions and the South African communist party.
The president also got the backing of a committee in parliament, who could have otherwise had him sacked.
'People came out and expressed themselves in numbers,' says Ramadimetje Lucy Mashigo, Chair and founder of South Africans in the UK.
'We are hoping that people at home will get the message that we are in distress as much as they are in distress with the situation.'
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One demonstrator, Diba Batso, came down to protest against President Zuma because of the recent downgrading of South Africa's credit rating.
'It's going to affect the poorest of the poor,' she said.
Mashigo, who represented the ANC at the event said that she hopes the ANC will reflect on the recent controversy in South Africa's political sphere.
'It's a wake up call to us at the ANC.' she said. 'We need to look at how we can work things better, to satisfy the people who put the ANC into government.'


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The chorus of Cretan fishermen. Pictures: Clive Barda
Idomeneo
Garsington Opera
Wormsley Estate, Stokenchurch
SO familiar are most people with Mozart's three Da Ponte operas - The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte, plus his famous last effort, The Magic Flute, that it is easy to overlook what preceded.
The answer is some 15 operas, or parts of operas, of which the most outstanding of these is Idomeneo, re di Creta, one of several operas with a classical setting, and so consistently superb it easily stands on a par with those mentioned, and with his later Roman opera, La Clemenza di Tito.
Idomeneo was first seen in Munich (in 178 1, when Mozart was all but 25) and was even then a success. It's puzzling to note that it was not seen in Britain till Glasgow introduced it in 1934. Glyndebourne followed suit in 1951, Sadler's Wells in 1962 and Covent Garden not till 1978 - four years before the Met in New York.
It's equally difficult to see why, even now, it's not a more regular part of the European mainstream repertoire. However, Britain has done better than most. The Royal Opera recently returned to it with a production by the excellent Martin Kušej; Grange Park put it on in 2012; and there was a very presentable staging by Opera North in Leeds just a few years back.
However, the present season (2015-16) has seen a paltry three revivals in Germany, just one or two nights each, and one production in Poland. A mere eight evenings, but no more, in an entire season.
Toby Spence in the title role
But now comes Garsington Opera, (formerly located at a hillside manor east of Oxford and now in a spectacular new construction just behind the Chiltern Ridge), with a production of astounding power and impact, much of the excitement and drama thanks to producer Tim Albery's inventive and immensely consistent direction - not least the manoeuvring around the stage of some 26 chorus members - and to an arresting and rather daring design by Hannah Clark.
Who is the central character in Idomeneo? As Albery presents it, it is, in effect, the sea. The title character is the king of Crete, one of the Greek allies who on his return from Troy suffers, Odysseus-like, more than his fair share of disaster from the violence of the Aegean, initiated by the angry god Neptune. And the impact of the set and costumes makes this clear.
Clad in navy boiler suits, the chorus are depicted as any-period fisher folk who know the dangers of their trade. A vast poster-like picture of a potentially violent-looking ocean forms the visual centrepiece. Fishing nets and rowing oars form an initial backdrop. But above all, two massive green-blue Portakabin-like containers, which are quite dramatically and artfully used to create internal changes of scene, dominate the stage, alternating from imprisoning bedroom to seafaring vessel to royal throne room.
Mozart's libretto, by the Salzburg-based Giovanni Battista Varesco (1735-1805), who later worked with the composer on an opera entitled The Cairo Goose (later abandoned), opens the door to numerous magnificent exchanges, some of which are highly dramatic recitative rather than arias as such. And it was the handling of the recitative, often swift, always expressive, accompanied - perhaps unusually, but extremely effectively - by piano that created some of the best musical effects. There was no lapse in the intensity at any point.
The role of the storm-battered ruler fell to tenor Toby Spence, for many years one of the most delightful tenors on the English dramatic stage, able to bring youthful spirit and (here) mature command to numerous roles, and who emerged from an orange lifejacket to confirm his glorious talents with an extraordinary burst of coloratura, amazingly controlled, forceful and assertive, yet strikingly expressive.The only surprise was that his Idomeneo seemed wholly incapable of taking control of the situation. And with good reason: tortured by his experiences at sea, and completely despairing at the divine injunction that he sacrifice his own son - the first being he encountered upon landing, we see him at the end, utterly desolate and isolated, his rule shattered, his life's work destroyed; a truly depressed, pitiful looking figure.
The great choruses of despair, conversely of praise to Neptune, were resplendently sung (chorus master: Susanna Stranders): impassioned, superbly unified, and where needed, really vigorous. One could possibly be irritated by so many shiftings of blue-clad figures - some a bit like recent stagings of Bach's Passions; but the detail of Tim Albery's direction, creating a vast swathe or kaleidoscope of different blockings and loose formations, to communicate anguish, loyalty, sympathy, support, dejection, and a range of mutually supportive activities which included the burying in a smashed-up container of black body bags containing those who had perished of an Oedipus-like plague - nastily depicted by the vomiting of a blue (possibly sea-like) liquid, as if all had ingested bad squid.
Caitlin Hulcup as Idamante and Louise Alder as Ilia
These boiler suited figures, massing together, in fact perfectly suggested the poverty and emptiness, drudgery, tedium and exhaustion of life on Crete, and their hapless dependence on the initiative and leadership of the monarch.
Two characters appear late in the story who play a key role in the dénouement: Robert Murray's High Priest, who looks to all intents and purposes like yet another fisherman - (and perhaps, in those days when the seaside community was stretched, a necessary doubling, a leader drawn from the multitude); and then the awesome voice of Neptune himself (Nicholas Masters), who appeared on stage as an eerie, somewhat slithery figure. But worth picking out among the lesser parts are the two points where Mozart allocates salient roles to a miniature semi-chorus. Two male voices (Bradley Smith, Benjamin Lewis) sang a Trojan duo; and three appealing Cretan figures were Annabel Mountford, Hazel McBain and Elizabeth Lynch, who produced some of the most attractive gentle singing of the evening: beautifully eloquent and finessed, the effect of these voices from the chorus suggested it might be a device Mozart could have used here more often.
But two younger royal characters, pitted against one another, both head over heels in love, the one with the Trojan princess Ilia (some of Mozart's finest lighter writing in the opera, tenderly sung by Louise Alder), the other possessively determined to trap Idomeneo's son Idamante, produced the most stunning and scintillating performances. The first was Caitlin Hulcup, whose very first notes, dazzlingly projected, created an astounding effect as Idamante, the son of Idomeneo, who his father has unwittingly undertaken to sacrifice to Neptune in return for his safe return by sea; every passage of aria or recitative was utterly gorgeous.
Meanwhile Rebecca von Lipinski as the bossy Elettra (Elektra) whose aspirations are shattered and who emerges as the most tragic figure of all in the end, produced three of the most amazing arias from Mozart's remarkable score. These two were surely hard to better: Idamante has some of the loveliest, most passionate writing in all Mozart; and Elettra, whose determination to trap Idamante in a loveless marriage are dashed, leaving her in desperation, concludes with one of the most explosive and shattering of all the forceful operas in Mozart. Absolutely knockout.
Roderic Dunnett
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Home About History Letters Baily To Street Letter 1940
Transcript of a letter from William Lloyd Baily to Fletcher Street dated 1/20/1940. The original letter in the Papers of William Lloyd Baily in the archives of the Acdemy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
It is surmised that this letter was in response to a request from Street in preparation of the 50th anniversary of the DVOC.
Haverford 1/20/1940
J. Fletcher Street
Dear Fletcher,
You have given me a task which would be easier to tell than to explain in writing – "How and why the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club came into being". I do not want to try to make this an historical record but I think it quite necessary to emphasize the background from which the club derived its inspiration.
At the outset it might be well to keep in mind mention that for a number of years following the Wilson, Audubon, Cassin period, organized ornithology work in Phila. was at a standstill, though there were individuals always at work, who should be given the credit of linking up the past with the present.
In the late seventies there were a number of Bird enthusiasts near Philadelphia who lived afield and began collecting, though without any mutual organized plan. Sam Rhoads had started to collect and soon after Geo. Morris collected with him. Spencer Trotter my dear neighbor and boyhood companion began his trips to the park and country beyond, starting his collection while in his teens. I began collecting eggs about the same time. I knew all these men and just remember the late Will Collins who frequently collected with Trotter.
In 1881 when I was at Haverford College a bird club of six members was formed including Will Haines, Harry Stokes, Alfred Garrett, Alan Cope, Will Gommery and myself, all collegians except Alan Cope of Germantown. We had postals printed with a list of the common birds, and these were filled out from week to week and sent to me for tabulation. But the club was short-lived and soon disintegrated, owing to graduation and the starting of business of its members.
However I had so thoroughly contracted the fever that I kept on with my hobby and by 1885 when I joined the Am. Ornith. Union, I had six or eight hundred bird skins, collected from Western Penna, Maine, Canada and the Jersey Coast. Rhoads, Morris and Trotter also had accumulated large collections and were already men of more than local fame. None of us however had waked up to the advantage of organization, prepared as we were for such an auspicious event soon to happen and welcomed when it came, with unanimous enthusiasm.
It happened in December 1889 that I entered the employ of Wilson Bros, Architects, and one day my bird hobby boiled over within the hearing of J. Harris Reed, when I found he to was interested in birds, and though he had not acquired the habit of keeping notes, he had done some collecting of birds, which his friend Charlie Voelker, a past master as a taxidermist, had mounted for him. Voelker was also a keen observer.
Reed became much enthused, when I showed him my yearly lists and after wards my bird skins as well as samples of postals used by the late bird club at Haverford.
He forthwith purchased a note book and began to report lists from Tinicum, a locality I was glad to hear from.
In early January 1890 Reed and I decided to ask Rhoads, Morris and Trotter and also Reed's friend Voelker to join us in keeping of combined lists, which the heartily agreed to do, and the postal method was started. This did not prove intimate enough, and they all accepted with enthusiasm an invitation to meet on January 22nd at my father's house, 1624 Arch Street, Philadelphia. After a most harmonious meeting, we agreed tp form an active Ornithological Society. Rhoads was appointed temporary secretary + your humble servant chairman. Rhoads was asked to prepare a constitution, which was presented at the next meeting a week hence when Voelker turned up making the sixth member. It was at this meeting that the name of Witmer Stone was suggested by Trotter, who was working with him, I believe, under the Jessup Fund at the Academy.
I should mention here that Rhoads, Stone and I had all joined the A.O.U in 1885, Morris in '87 + Trotter in '88. Stone joined us at the third meeting on Feb. 3rd 1980, making the seventh member. The constitution and by-laws were adopted and the wheels of the club were set in motion, Dr. Trotter furnishing us with the name of "Delaware Valley Ornithological Club."
I feel that you will agree with me that no more fortunate selection of such men as Trotter, Rhoads and Morris and finally our guiding light Witmer Stone, could have been found, all men of the highest integrity and well seasoned in their favorite hobby. As the years have rolled by, the selection of men of similar caliber has maintained the high standard of the membership and secured of the D.V.O.C the envious place which it has held among Bird Clubs from the very beginning.
Very truly yours
Wm. L. Baily