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"I mean when I'm going - when I'm really going - I feel like . like a jockey must feel. He's sitting on his horse, he's got all that speed and power underneath him. He's coming into the stretch, the pressure's on him . and he knows . just feels . when to let it go and how much. It's a great feeling, boy, it's a real great feeling when you're right . and you know you're right."
- Fast Eddie Felson, "The Hustler."
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Gary Stevens doesn't know. He has a plan, of course. It's no secret. Saturday, when he mounts a longshot named Oxbow in the Kentucky Derby, his 19th Derby, Stevens plans on letting the horse run. The one thing - maybe the only thing - Stevens knows about Oxbow is that the horse wants to run. Stevens is on the inside now, and he plans on rushing Oxbow to the front, taking the lead, hugging the rail, pushing the pace, daring any brave jockey to go with him while 150,000 people scream and drink and the colors blur past.
From there? Well, from there Gary Stevens does not know how long it will last.
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It wasn't exactly a bad kind of fear . in truth, he sort of liked it. The fear was a kind of pressure, and pressure sharpened his senses. Pressure spurred his ambition. Pressure gave him an edge. He did not want to make a single mistake. He did not want his instructor to say one negative thing. Gary Stevens had to be perfect.
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"I wouldn't say coming back was important to me," Gary Stevens is saying now. He is standing along the backstretch of Churchill Downs, and it is early morning on the day before the Kentucky Derby. All is motion - horses trotting, water spraying, trainers and owners plotting, lurkers wearing crumpled hats watching it all. A pink sun peeks over the twin spires . it is a postcard.
Gary Stevens is 50 years old. He has been an NBC television announcer and an actor for the past seven years. Now, he's a jockey again. He weighs 113 pounds - down 25 from his broadcasting days. Stevens, in his previous life, won three Kentucky Derbies and five other Triple Crown races and eight Breeders Cup races and nine Santa Anita Derbies and about 5,000 other races. He says those mean nothing now. "Next race," he says.
The thing that made him great, people always said, was that he always seemed to know what was going to happen. It did not matter, the mayhem around him. It did not matter, the conditions, the track, the crowd, the horse's style, the jockeys' maneuvers. He was calm in the middle. He knew.
"I did not NEED to come back," he reiterates now. "It's more like, you know, it was there for the taking. From the time I got the itch last August, I wanted to see if I could be successful again. And if I could be successful, why not?"
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At the three-eighths pole, Gary Stevens chirped. This was 1988. Stevens was riding Winning Colors, a filly, and everyone was waiting for him to make his move. Stevens was just 25 then, but already a star. He had dropped out of high school to ride, and he won his very first start at Les Bois Park near his home in Idaho. He won on Lil' Star - a thoroughbred trained by his father.
Stevens kept winning and winning - first in Idaho, then in California, then wherever he was called to the post. The great trainer D. Wayne Lukas felt sure that Stevens was the jockey who would win him the Kentucky Derby. Going into 1988, Lukas had entered 13 horses in the Kentucky Derby, and he had never won, never come especially close to winning, and it was tearing him apart. Before Winning Colors, he put Stevens on a thoroughbred called Tank's Prospect. They finished seventh. Before Winning Colors, he put Stevens on a horse called On The Line. They finished 10th.
But, yes, that was before Winning Colors. She was an extraordinary filly. She took off at Santa Anita and never stopped - she won by 7« lengths. Winning Colors just had so much speed. The only question was when to unleash it.
"Remember, the three-eighths pole," Lukas had said to Stevens just before the race. Stevens nodded. Lukas retreated to the racing secretary's office to watch in private on TV.
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And then . a fast-closer named Forty Niner came on, gaining, gaining, and the lead dwindled, down to two lengths, one, a half-length, a head. Stevens whipped Winning Colors and whipped again. "You can't get a horse to do more than he can," Stevens often says. But you wonder about that . because, somehow, he knew.
Winning Colors held on. And all the while, all down the stretch, Sports Illustrated's Bill Nack watched Lukas staring at the television and shouting, "Gary! Gary! Gary! Gary! Gary!"
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"I was perfectly happy," Stevens says, and he's talking about his time when he was retired from racing, when he was announcing for NBC and when he was acting in the HBO series "Luck." He says the excitement of doing those kinds of things - the pressure of doing those kinds of things - no, it wasn't very different from riding.
"You had to get it exactly right," he says, "or you looked like a fool. It really was pretty similar to racing. I really was happy doing those things. The comeback wasn't about me needing to race again."
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The knees made him retire the first time. That was 1999. Stevens had just won the Breeders' Cup juvenile on a horse called Anees, but his right knee had swollen so to the size of a basketball, and it hurt so much he could not thing of anything else.
Enough. All his life, he'd lived with this pain. He wore a brace when he was seven. Still he rode. He suffered countless injuries, fractures, bone cracks, busted ribs. Still he rode. He made weight, and lived hard. Still he rode. His knee hurt so badly that he went to ride in England, on grass, in the desperate hope that it would soften the ride and ease his pain. The pain was not eased, but once in England, he rode a horse named Blueprint for Queen Elizabeth II.
"Wait until after a furlong before you make your move," she said.
"Yes, your majesty," he said, and he did.
Through it all, he made weight, he shook off the low times, he followed owners suggestions, he gritted his teeth, and he endured the pain, and he rode. And then, finally, the pain was too much. "I'm only 37," he said with tears in his eyes, "and it was just taken away."
Ten months later, he was riding again.
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"When I was announcing with Tom Hammond," Stevens says, "I had the second best seat in the house."
He is waiting to do a spot on The Today Show. All week, he has been doing interviews about his comeback. He says the same thing. "It's great to be back." "I'm exciting about running in the Derby again." "I feel great."
And now, every few seconds, someone new comes up to congratulate him, to wish him luck, to say that they will be betting on him at the Derby. Stevens flashes a big smile, offers a firm handshake, signs an autograph. He's good at this part of the job, always has been good at it - reporters treasure him, fans adore him, owners have wanted him to ride their horses - but it is not what drives him.
"To be honest with you," he says of his seat in the announcing booth, "sometimes, that was the BEST seat in the house."
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In 2003, the year he became an actor, the year he almost died, the ghost of George Woolf enveloped Gary Stevens. They were so alike, Stevens and Woolf, two good-looking jockeys who grew up in horse families, who knew the secrets of Santa Anita, who lived a big life. They called Woolf "The Iceman" because of the cool he displayed in the hottest moments of the race. Ice, of course, was Stevens' temperature too.
Woolf rode Seabiscuit to victory in his famous 1938 match race against War Admiral, and it was this that deeply connected the two jockeys. Sixty-five years later, "Seabiscuit" movie director, Gary Ross, needed someone to play Woolf, and right off, after seeing Stevens for only a second, he said: "That's him."
Stevens was not eager in the beginning. "Pal," he remembered saying to Ross the first time, "you don't have enough money, and I don't have enough time."
In time, Stevens came to realize that Hollywood has plenty of money, and he had plenty of time. He not only played Woolf in Seabiscuit - to rave reviews - he met his future wife, Angie, on the set.
There was a sad ending to George Woolf's life, though. When he was 35, he was running the fourth race at Santa Anita, and he fell from his horse. He died the next day.
And in 2003, at Arlington Park, Gary Stevens fell was thrown from his horse. He was stomped on so hard, his left lung collapsed. The pain he felt was unlike anything he had ever felt before. On the track, then again in the ambulance, he was sure he was going to die.
Less than a month later, he was riding again.
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Friends say Stevens looks happier than he has in a while. It not like he seemed unhappy when he was retired . all the television guys rave about how much they liked working with him. He was funny and thoughtful and worked hard. On television, like on the track, like on the drums, he had to be perfect.
But they say there's something fuller about him now, something hard to describe. It's like his emotions are closer to the surface.
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But Stevens insists it isn't that easy. "I have no idea how long this will last," he says. "I'm not going to lie. I come back to the TV compound, and can't help but think: `Did I do the right thing?'
He thinks about the thrills of his racing days. There were, literally, thousands of them. He thinks about Thunder Gulch at the Kentucky Derby in 1995. That was one of the 10 biggest upsets in Derby history - that little chestnut colt that nobody took seriously powered down the stretch and won by 2« lengths and Stevens just held on for the ride. "I don't know why things happen the way they do," an overjoyed Stevens said after that race, "but you don't ask questions."
He thinks about Victory Gallop, all but beaten at the Belmont by five lengths by the great Real Quiet - so far back that Stevens stood in the saddle and essentially gave up - only then Victory Gallop's stride kicked in, and he rushed forward, and Stevens held on, and they won together by a nose.
A jockey is told: It's never about the last race. It's about the next race. There is always a next race, just a few minutes away, the next horse, the next owner, the next silks, the next race. Gary Stevens lived that way for a long time.
"I don't know how long this will last," he says. "I'm enjoying it now. I think that's what matters. As long as I enjoy it. Right now I feel good. I feel really good.
"But who knows? I can tell you if my knees start barking again, it will end. It can end anytime, really. Hey, I might ride in the Kentucky Derby and decide that's it, and you will see me up in the booth announcing for the Preakness. . One thing you will never see is a story saying that Gary Stevens is retiring. That won't happen."
He smiles and says, "I will call it a leave of absence."
He does not seem to have much of a chance to win in this year's Derby on Oxbow. But, you never know - rain heads for Louisville, the track may soon be mud, the horses are all young and raw and nobody is ever much good at picking the Derby. Only four favorites have won in the last 33 years.
Anyway, it's another ride. Gary Stevens is 50, he's been doing this since he was 17, and he says he will take Oxbow to the front and then hold on to the lead for as long as he can.
"The great thing is that nobody's pressuring me to keep doing this," he says, but you look at him and realize that this isn't entirely true.
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What kind of movies do you like to watch?
I'm a film artist and this Thursday night I'll be doing a talk at "Nerd Nite Orlando" called "Horror Porn Romcoms: The Absurdity of Film Genres" and I would love to do a quick little survey about what kind of movies people enjoy the most and what about a film excites you enough to get you to actually go to the theater or if you are even excited at all.... Get creative, share your love for movies, and maybe even post a genre that you've created- as we all know there are many different ways to categorize the films we love.
Thank you in advance to all those who leave comments, they are very much appreciated and I may even reference some of them in my talk this Thursday night.
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May 7 2013: I usually like to watch movies that I can't predict the plot. Most movies I can, especially action/thriller and romantic comedies. The ones that throw me for a loop and make me go "What!?!" are my favorite, like Inception. I also love movies that make me get emotionally engaged with the characters, like Life is Beautiful. Immersive movies, in a word. Ones that pull me in some how and keep me engaged either mentally or emotionally. Just visual (i.e. action scenes) aren't enough.May 9 2013: That is indeed an interesting question...well the way I see it is that media should mostly promote values and spread culture. I am not saying there shouldn't be any divestisment programmes or shows, but there are so many interesting programmes that are never given on television. Also,gossip or news about this and that star are way too overcasted. And to be more specific,I'll give you an example: whenever I turn on the TV I see shows like" are you smarter than a blonde" or titles like this but I never see anything about youngsters that have done something,or who created something. This is how I see things. And moreover,there is a general complaint about kids/teenagers being more and more interesting in cultural activities. And I believe that these shows on TV help this process.May 8 2013: I love films that linger, the kind that you watch and your left in silence -mentally digesting. I mean that in a powerful impactful way. Films like Samsara, Grave of the FireFlies or this one Time Travel Documentary with Steve Hawking those are the types that had given me that experience. When theres too much thinking in my life, I like to watch Romdramadies (Romantic Drama Comedies), a lot of Korean comedy films follow this route. You just get to experience a full range of emotions; they're cathartic to watch. Then when I'm done with all those emotions I love action movies but action/scifi movies are my ultimate favorite. I watch them like sport games, something about buhdassery and space physically moves me.
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I hate musicals especially if the actors can't really sing. This would have not been the case a couple years back but my roommate in college was a voice performance major and ruined all of those for me. Also, Not crazy about horror movies that are filled with cheap thrills. Actually I really hate those and zombie movies because for some reason they give me nightmares about zombies.
Haha hope this helps. Excited to see you speak tomorrow, Ricardo!
May 9 2013: See you tomorrow, Jersten :)
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May 8 2013: I like to watch those kind of movies which have a good story line, a social message, a few witty dialogues, no melo-drama etc..personally I love the work of Christopher Nolan in films like Inception, Prestige, Insomnia and Memento...I love to watch movies that forced me to use my brain and activate my thought process..but when I am in light hearted mood I watch comedy and hard core action moviesMay 8 2013: I like watching movies that have something to say,that have a message. Unfortunately,I believe television and media don't promote values anymore and the main subjects promoted are denigrating frivolous.Good movies are so rare and if you want to watch them you either have to download them or borrow them. This is a rather sad truth and I strongly believe that something must be done to correct the wrongs society has created. I also think that in order to change society we first have to change ourselves and try to implement a change in the ones around us.
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May 8 2013: This is a very interesting answer. Thank you, Miclaus.
May I ask you a more specific question in relation to your answer, do you think the purpose of media and television is to promote values?
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May 8 2013: Documentaries about wildlife and science, Scifi, and cartoon type movies like Shrek.
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I am a kid at heart and have never stopped learning.May 8 2013: Animation > Thought Provoking > Documentaries > Comedy
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My favorite films are usually comedies or something with a positive or uplifting message. I think it's also important that the plot should keep moving forward.May 7 2013: Here is an extended version of my view on movies: http://kirstiethecrazycatlady.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/reply-to-a-ted-conversation-what-kind-of-movies-do-i-like-and-why/
May 8 2013: Kirstie, I really enjoyed your extended answer. I'm honored that you put so much sincerity and time into this answer. I hope you don't mind if I share your link on twitter and facebook :)May 7 2013: Good question. I love the art form that is film and in general I am not picky on what I like so I guess I should probably start with what I don't like.
I dislike movies where there is a overly irritating main character. For me this is most chick flicks as inmost of these movies I find the main character unrealistic and normally a little degrading to women, which I only like if it is also funny. Poor acting is also extremely clear in a film and will quickly pull it down, however I am a fan of horror where there is allot of this so if there is enough happening where I don't really need to connect to the character the acting does not matter much. Then I would say mad writing badly or bad timing from the director can be big problems in movies. If the movie doesn't flow well it can really put of the audiences concentration. Same if too much is happening in the film to the point where the audience can't take it in. I like a complex film but the bits in movies that give me shivers are the small little gestures and glances between characters or when the director takes a moment to just show some of the setting around the character, there is allot of that in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and I think that is what made that such a special film. The last film that can move a film from ok to down right terrible is if it takes itself to seriously. I hate the Twilight Saga but found Eclipse ok as it really seem to be poking fun at it's self at points so having some humour at the movie's expense can make it seem more humble.
I love it when a movie is so good even the music or just a clip from the trailer can make me shiver. As I said this is normally though small moments where it is clear allot of time has been taken but can also be though big epic moments where I feel my seat shake from the excitement. I also love when creators do something new with an idea. This is why I love independent film. Overall if it can catch my imagination I love it.
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I love comedy films, I like to laugh at physical comedy, and everyday humor.
I also like thriller and suspense, but only if the ending is not predictable, if I can predict it, then it wasn't suspense
And I found a new love for movies that tell secrets, exposes, seems to be alot of those coming out lately.
And who doesn't like their fave comic books coming to life?May 7 2013: I won't pretend to be super sophisticated. I like simple comedy. I like to laugh at other people's pain. Movies are like modern Greek catharsis to me, helping me through the rainy days.
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May 7 2013: This is one of my favorite TED Talks, which I think is connected to your question: http://www.ted.com/talks/shekhar_kapur_we_are_the_stories_we_tell_ourselves.html
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And here are all forty-three talks tagged "film." http://www.ted.com/talks/tags/film. You may find some useful material there.
I don't go to the movies, so my tastes are not relevant, I think. I am typically interested in complex characters rather than characters who are simple caricatures (such as all good or all evil). The younger generation here leans toward movies like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
May 8 2013: Thank you! I'll check out that playlist.May 7 2013: Hey Ricardo,
the movies I love are the ones that make me question my own existence. They're the kind that wake me up and motivate me to think. I love foreign films, animé, cult films, and sci-fi, especially if there is an element of truth woven through the plot.May 7 2013: I prefer realistic movies that focus primarily on plot or character development. I apologize that this is not a genre-specific answer, but I tend to enjoy movies that meet this criteria irrespective of their genre in many cases. I have noticed that older and independent movies tend to adhere to my preferred standards much better than newer major motion pictures. Many aspects about popular movies frustrate, annoy, or bore me to the point where I'm unable to derive any appreciation or entertainment from the film. I find that older and independent films take more time to create believable plots and characters, without having to rely on CG and special effects to capture and maintain the audience's attention.
Again, I'm sorry if this was not the sort of answer you had hoped for. Best of luck with your presentation!
May 7 2013: Don't apologize, your answer is actually related to some points that I'll be making on Thursday. Thank you for your input.May 12 2013: historicalMay 10 2013: Thank you to all those that have commented. I have really enjoyed reading your in-depth and sincere responses. Although my talk at "Nerd Nite" is complete, lets keep this conversation going!May 10 2013: I like comedies and crime thrillers.May 7 2013: All great input so far, you guys have no idea how useful it is. Thank you and keep 'em coming!


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I purchased a 120 watt Scroll Saw to cut out my curved ali shapes.
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I have a Hegner saw, and it has a built in chuck vise. Similar to yours. Couldn't do without it.
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They are a nice unit.
Mine is a Hafco made in China.
Expensive but rough finished.
Works fine though and the 120 watt motor is powerfull enough.
I would love to get a Excalibur but here they cost $1000.00 so out of my price range.
JiGrip it and Rip it
Hey Chewinggum,
Do you use a foot control with your scroll saw?
A few times when internally cutting I have lifted my right hand off the work piece to switch the machine off and the blade has caught and broken in the blink of an eye.
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Yes, I put my own on-off foot switch on mine. I built a low table that I can sit down at and saw, with foot switch on the floor. It is not variable on the foot, I set the speed on the machine and then just use the foot control for starting and stopping.
JDOld Miller Swinger 180 Buzzbox
Miller Diversion 165
1945 Craftsman Atlas Lathe
Smithy Lathe/Mill
I have ordered a foot control but it will take a few weeks to get here than I have to get a sparky to wire it.
Still worth the wait as the sound a blade makes when it breaks is shocking.
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You can get foot switches with a power cord and receptacle already connected to them. You just plug your saw into the receptacle on the foot switch and then plug the foot switch into the wall. There are two types of these foot switches. One type is only on when your foot is on it (the dead man type) and the other requires you to step on it once to turn it on and then step on it again to turn it back off. For my use I prefer the first (dead man) type, so I have to hold my foot on it for the tool to run. I also use these on my router table, drill press, and sometimes with the table saw and the band saw. They are a great safety feature. Here are the ones that I use http://www.ptreeusa.com/band_saw_acc.htm About 1/2 way down the page you will see both types listed.
Miller MM252
Miller Bobcat 225NT
Miller DialArc HF & DIY Cooler
2 Miller Digital Elite and 3 Fixed Shade Helmets
2 O/A torch sets
DeWalt 18 volt 1/2" Driver/Drill
DeWalt 18 volt 6 1/2" Metal Saw
DeWalt Porta Band & SWAG Offroad V3 Table
Milwaukee 8" Dry Cut Saw
Milwaukee 14" Dry Cut Chop Saw / Delta Stand
Milwaukee 9" Grinder
2 Milwaukee 4 1/2" Grinders
Milwaukee Hole Hawg 1/2" Drill
Wallace 5 Ton Gantry
Too many hand tools
Thanks Charley,
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I had to slot a 16mm thick chunk of 6061 ali today.
I could have milled it but it would take to long to set up so I just drilled two holes and scroll sawed the bit in between.
Not as accurate as a mill but it got the job done and I did not even break a blade.
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4) Training . The current system is horrible.
Only players under 24 improve now . That shouldn't be the case , depending on the player they can improve/learn even after that age . That shouldn't be as usual but it should still remain an option. Furthermore i want a more dynamic feel between training - stats and actual performance(match engine) . I want my striker that had amazing form and scored showing good composure in the last six game and he is training in those areas to improve in those areas. I also want training to have more to do with tactics than now.
I totaly agree with youabout training thing. Players who play regulary should improve no matter how old they are.
Thing that bothers me is how they improve. I belive that stats like stamina, strenght, work rate...should improve all the time as person grows (everybody is stronger when he is 29 then 19 years old) but pace and accelaration is differnent. That should SI have in mind.
Another strange thing in training is that is absolutly in-active. We do nothing!!! In Europe coaches (managers) do train their squad. It would be nice to have option for preperation for next match, making a game plan (even include your skipper and few more players in that, like in reality). I think that would bring a hole new dimension to the game. And I also belive that winning matches should be more hard. (Sorry everybody who disagree!!!)
One more thing about improvement that you were mentioning. Maybe players should not improve so quickly. The solution might be in morale and form (which I think are "allmost useless" right now). I will give a example or two: we all know that Adriano is a great player but he is really struggling right now. We can say that his morale is really really low. In the game he plays normally he scores a few goals and everything is normal again. That should not be the case, morale snould not change so quickly becouse things are more complicated in life. On the other hand we have the case of Zlatan IbrahimoviÄ who was a great talent but just needed time to adopt his temerament to Serie A football. Now he is playing the game of his life.
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The northernmost of the Central American nations, Guatemala is the size of Tennessee. Its neighbors are Mexico on the north and west, and Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador on the east. The country consists of three main regions—the cool highlands with the heaviest population, the tropical area along the Pacific and Caribbean coasts, and the tropical jungle in the northern lowlands (known as the Petén).
Constitutional democratic republic.
Once the site of the impressive ancient Mayan civilization, Guatemala was conquered by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado in 1524 and became a republic in 1839 after the United Provinces of Central America collapsed. From 1898 to 1920, dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera ran the country, and from 1931 to 1944, Gen. Jorge Ubico Castaneda served as strongman.
Protracted Civil War Results in Huge Number of Civilian Deaths
After Ubico's overthrow in 1944 by the "October Revolutionaries," a group of left-leaning students and professionals, liberal-democratic coalitions led by Juan José Arévalo (1945–1951) and Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán (1951–1954) instituted social and political reforms that strengthened the peasantry and urban workers at the expense of the military and big landowners, like the U.S.-owned United Fruit Company. With covert U.S. backing, Col. Carlos Castillo Armas led a coup in 1954, and Arbenz took refuge in Mexico. A series of repressive regimes followed, and by 1960 the country was plunged into a civil war between military governments, right-wing vigilante groups, and leftist rebels that would last 36 years, the longest civil war in Latin American history. Death squads murdered an estimated 50,000 leftists and political opponents during the 1970s. In 1977, the U.S. cut off military aid to the country because of its egregious human rights abuses. The indigenous Mayan Indians were singled out for special brutality by the right-wing death squads. By the end of the war, 200,000 citizens were dead.
A succession of military juntas dominated during the civil war, until a new constitution was passed and civilian Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo was elected and took office in 1986. He was followed by Jorge Serrano Elías in 1991. In 1993, Serrano moved to dissolve Congress and the supreme court and suspend constitutional rights, but the military deposed Serrano and allowed the inauguration of Ramiro de Leon Carpio, the former attorney general for human rights. A peace agreement was finally signed in Dec. 1996 by President Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen.
Army Blamed for Most of the Abuses in Civil War
In 1999, a Guatemalan truth commission blamed the army for 93% of the atrocities and the rebels (the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit) for 3%. The former guerrillas apologized for their crimes, and President Clinton apologized for U.S. support of the right-wing military governments. The army has not acknowledged its guilt. Alfonso Portillo Cabrera, closely associated with the former dictatorship of Efrain Rios Montt (1982–1983), became president in Jan. 2000. In Aug. 2000, Portillo apologized for the former government's human rights abuses and pledged to prosecute those responsible and compensate victims.
Guatemala Signs Several Trade Agreements
To stimulate the economy, Guatemala, along with El Salvador and Honduras, signed a free trade agreement with Mexico in June 2000. In Aug. 2001, plans for tax increases prompted widespread, and often violent, protests.
In July 2003, the country's highest court ruled that former coup leader and military dictator Rios Montt, responsible for the massacre of tens of thousands of civilians during the civil war, was eligible to run for president in November. The ruling conflicted with the constitution, which bans anyone who seized power in a coup from running for the presidency. But in November, Rios Montt was soundly defeated by two candidates, conservative Oscar Berger and center-leftist Alvaro Colom. In the runoff election in December, Berger was elected president.
In 2005, the government ratified a free-trade agreement (CAFTA) with the U.S.
Three Salvadoran politicians, all members of the Central American Parliament, and their driver were found murdered on a road near Guatemala City in Feb. 2007. Four Guatemalan police officers were arrested in connection with the murders and later shot dead in their prison cells. Three other officers were named as suspects. Guatemala's security minister, the national police chief, and the director of the country's prisons all resigned in the scandal.
Fourteen candidates, including 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú, competed in the first round of presidential elections in September 2007. Otto Pérez Molina, a former general, and businessman Álvaro Colom advanced to the second round. After a vitriolic campaign, Álvaro Colom, of the National Unity for Hope party, defeated Otto Pérez Molina in the presidential election on November 4, 2007, 52% to 47%.
Pérez Molina Elected President On His Second Try
After coming in second in 2007, Otto Pérez Molina was elected president in November 2011, receiving 53.7% of the vote. Pérez Molina beat Manuel Baldizón, a young businessman who was running as a fresh, populist alternative. The leader of the right-wing Patriot Party, Pérez Molina's election was a sign that voters desired change, going against their current centre-left government.
Even though Pérez Molina won the 2011 election, he was seen as a divisive figure during his campaign. A former general, Pérez Molina played a prominent role during the country's civil war. In July 2011, Waqib Kej, a Guatemalan indigenous organization, sent a letter to the United Nations accusing Pérez Molina of genocide and torture in 1982, during the civil war. Some voters feared him for his role in the war and because of the allegations against him. Others did not want the reminder of the country's 1960–96 civil war, in which there were mass murders and approximately 200,000 people died. The first ex-soldier elected since democracy was restored in 1986, Pérez Molina vowed to fight hard against organized crime. This was a huge selling point with some voters because Guatemala has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
7.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Guatemala
On November 7, 2012, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocks Guatemala. At least 48 people were killed. With at least 150 seriously injured and 23 people missing, government officials said the death toll would likely rise. Houses were destroyed. Schools, roads, and government buildings were damaged. When a prison wall collapsed, 98 inmates had to be transferred to another jail. At a news conference, President Molina said, "This is the largest earthquake we have had since the one in 1976."
San Marcos, near the border of Mexico, was the hardest hit. Tremors from the earthquake were felt as far as Mexico City and San Salvador. President Molina placed the San Marcos area under a high disaster alert and traveled there to see the damage.
Court Throws Out Montt's Genocide Conviction
On May 20, 2013, the highest court in Guatemala overturned the genocide conviction of General Efraín Ríos Montt. The ruling was a legal victory for Montt, the former dictator, and a defeat for human rights advocates who saw the original conviction as a positive sign that the country's courts would punish Guatemala's most powerful for illegal activity.
Montt had been in prison since a three-panel tribunal found him guilty on May 10, 2013. He had been found guilty as commander in chief for several rapes and massacres as well as the displacement of the Maya-Ixil community while he ruled in 1982 and 1983. He had been sentenced to 80 years in prison, but the latest ruling meant he would return to house arrest. Montt had been under house arrest since January 2012 when the case against him started.
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We played the other day and it was in the mid 90's and brutal and this course has very little shade or wooded holes. I seen these stay cool towel or what ever there called,just wanted to know if anyone tried one of these and if they worked? Thye say you just pour water on it and it gets cold? Maybe but how long would this last when the sun is beating down on you? Or if you know of any other ideas or products that work?
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1st you get a pullcart, add a car battery,then a power converter, and a small window air conditioning unit. ;) The stay cool towel things work for an hour or so, then you have to re-wet them.
Stop to the bathroom and soak your shirt and hat.
The easiest way is to have enough water and pour it onto your head. As it evaporates you will stay cooler. I did this yesterday. But you need a bit of extra water. Really no need for any special towel or anything.
water, sunblock, wear a hat, avoid caffeine, where light colors, carry less plastic
Ditto on the hat, light colored clothes. Change the water to ice water. Get a cart so you don't gave to carry your bag. Add a cooler to the cart with cold packs and cold drinks (cold packs can be placed on neck or head to help you stay cool). Take an umbrella for portable shade. Slow down and my favorite.....
Play Old Man Disc Golf,
I avoid ice water because drinking something very cold on a hot day will give me a stomach ache. I do believe in carrying less discs. I picked up someone else's bag the other day and was very happy that it wasn't mine. Mine weighed probably a third of what the other bag weighed.
I also acclimate myself to the heat because my apartment has no AC and I don't use it in the car either. But water is really your best friend especially if you have extra to pour on your head.
The hotter it is the less disc I carry also, usually no more then 12. This also leave room for extra water bottles, I also freeze one or two bottles so I have cold water at the end of round, and also using it like an ice pack to cool of my neck, face...
I spend as much time in the shade as I can, even if its more of a walk. Trucker hats are better to keep your head cool then a normal hat. I like lightweight loose clothing, even better the drifits. The little soft rubber fans are great also, water bottle ones are even better.
Hat,hydration,water,(gatorade/zipfizz)added bonus the last 2.SWFL disc golf player,many have umbrellas and carts to carry discs,coolers,etc.lighten the bag as mentioned,wearing a watered down headband around neck.soaks up sweat and add water as needed.Standing in the shade as much as possible works wonders when available,sit on that chair you carry or get one!Play old man disc golf as Peter mentioned ,haha.gotta love it.Started throwing in '57,now @ 60 yrs young and still enjoy throwing/watching a frisbee/disc in the air.
Play the woods more,LOL.
my Dad works for a Roads department and spends much of his summers out in the Sun WHILE laying down 400 degree Tar. He started using these cooling neck band things that go around your neck. The premise being cooling the big arteries in your neck will help cool the rest of your body. My Dad SWEARS by them and keeps at least 2 in his lunch box. They are along the lines of something like this :
Jeff,same idea that I use.Bandana was the word I was trying to think of,ha.soak mine in cold water,place in a freezer baggie,ring out excess water and tie around neck. mine is cheaper,haha.another product I missed merchandizing.
Lol. You got start getting your Patent applications in, Ed! :)
The one my Dad uses has little beads inside that soak up the water and then he freezes them over night. Even Frozen, they stay pliable. He throws them in his lunch box and two of them will stay cold all day long. It's a pretty cool product. I wish I could remember the brand he has.
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let him walk.... way too inconsistent.
Smith is still very immature, I can see him getting his 6 year deal and feel like he doesn't have to put forth a great effort... I wouldn't be apposed to giving him 6-7million a year, but I would set up the contract like you suggest, this way he has that "better perform or forget getting next years 7 million" looming over his head.
currently the 19th ranked competitive eater in the world
He isnt great.
I don't think 7 mil is unreasonable and I wouldn't be opposed to resigning him for that. But you also certainly have to weigh the options and see where the market lies and how he compares to some of the guys coming out this year in the draft. Maybe you use that 7 per year to help sign a Michael Johnson. Then you can draft a Milliner (if there) or Banks in the 1st. Or look at Trufant, Rhoades, Poyer, Hawthorne etc in the 2nd.
I'd resign Smith, extend Carroll while he's still cheap as he is a good option as a #4 CB on the boundary, one that is still trying to improve every year and then I'd draft a guy like Trufant in the 2nd round and figure out between Patterson, Marshall and whoever else we tried back there who I'm keeping as my #2/#3 guy to battle with Trufant. Jimmy Wilson still a wildcard but not one I'm depending on. He sticks as that CB/Safety/Special Teamer for now.
Agree with the folks that think signing in the 6-7 ballpark is reasonable. Those who say let him walk, are destined to miss him next year.
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if they moved to LA i would! I live there!
if they moved to LA i would! I live there!
if the city runs them out of town , shame on them , let the city suffer. yes
I grew up with them just down the street. I've seen them at the Orange Bowl and JRS many times.
They are to me MY Miami Dolphins.
If they move, particularly out of state, they will be just some other team. I will end my support of the team, & the NFL and I will never again spend a single dime in the State of Florida or purchase any product or service owned by whoever the owner of the team who moved it may be at the time.
In the grand scheme of things, I'm just a nobody, but this nobody will not be involved.
"15 of the top 20 attendance figures in the NFL were in Los Angeles. The Rams also set the all-time attendance record with over 102,000 fans packing the Coliseum. While Los Angeles and Southern California loves baseball and basketball, the huge crowds that attend football games in LA are proof enough that the city of Angels is indeed a football town. The Rams drew well above the NFL average during their existence and the USC and UCLA football programs draw well above 60 and 70 thousand fans on a regular basis. On top of the overwhelming support for the local teams, the Los Angeles area produces many college football and NFL stars. As a matter of fact, the Pac-12 conference's success has a lot to do with the vast amount of football talent in the Los Angeles area."
on top of that , this town hated the raiders , evenstill
"The Raiders would often reach crowds of 80,000/90,000 mark when visiting teams like the 49ers, Chargers, and Rams and their fans came to the Coliseum. During those games, at least half of the fans were cheering for the "visiting" team."
Honestly... with the way the world is changing and everything that is going on.. I'd probably stop watching NFL altogether. If the Dolphins moved to another state i'd not even tune in anymore. I understand, on the business side of things you want to get the most out of your product and if Ross and Dee feel they can get it somewhere else then so be it... The truth is.. Professional football is just a game. We as fans made it into a powerhouse of a business with our own money. Football players don't save lives or build homes for less fortunate people. They just play a game with a leather ball for millions of dollars....
So, no I would not watch the game as they wouldn't be my local team any longer. I'm not really a fan of the NFL.. I'm a MIAMI Dolphins fan.
No no & no!!!!!!!!
Yo yo yo, homedawg, LA has exactly the same fanbase as Miami. They support winners and have no patience for perennial losers. Agree with that fan mindset or not, that's just hw it is. You have to know your market. They can both put up with a losing team every once in a while, but if a team isn't a legitimate contender for a championship more often than not, then they have better things to do. The Rams sucked for years and nobody went until they started competing. Once that ended, that awesome fanbase was gone again. Raiders got popular for a bit when the idiot thugbase latched on so they could pimp the black and silver look for a while, but even that died off and the team went back home.
And it's not even limited to football. Nobody even knew where the Clippers played until they started winning. Then they had to google it so they could make an appearance at the new hot ticket in town, of course, not until halftime just like Lakers fans, but they showed! Once they start to suck again, they might as well put where they play on Apple maps, because nobody will care enough to actually find it.
The football dollars in that town will continue to go to USC and UCLA until whatever team ends up there (Chargers or Raiders...again) starts winning, and only then.


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Jérôme de Bontin Named Chairman
The Rush BOD named Jérôme de Bontin as Chairman of Rush Soccer yesterday Thursday, October 20, 2011. Jérôme de Bontin (pictured with fellow Rush BOD member Gerard Houllier) studied in the U.S. with a B.A. in economics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Jérôme currently is a member of the US Soccer Foundation Investment Committee and is a trustee after having served on its Board and Executive Board for many years and having chaired its Development Committee. He has served as President of AS Monaco, one of the most successful clubs in French soccer, before resigning in 2009.
Founded in 1997, Rush Soccer is the largest soccer club in the world. In July of 2009, Rush expanded to its first international club in South Africa. To date, Rush is in four continents and 16 countries and a membership of a little over 39,000.
"Jérôme is a very respected individual in the world of soccer. He knows the game both domestic and international. I am extremely pleased," says Tim Schulz President & C.E.O. of Rush Soccer.
Jérôme was instrumental in securing the partnership with AJ Auxerre, which expires by the end of this year. Jérôme plans are to move in a different direction, "I have several objectives for Rush, one of which is to secure a partnership with a world renown club. I am confident we will be able to accomplish this in the near future." Jérôme goes on further to say, "The Rush has an aggressive plan and I am pleased to be part of that vision." Jérôme further adds, "I believe that with its 34,000 registered players Rush Soccer can have a significant impact in payer development in our country. We are proud to have many of our players being selected to the US Soccer Federation National pools but our goal is to continuously improve our coaching programs and train better and better male and female players for the future success and growth of the sport in the USA. Our strategy is to embrace as many players as possible, at any age, from all origins and social backgrounds, while providing our most committed players with an opportunity to become the best at what they do and to eventually compete internationally".
Erik Bushey, Technical Director for Colorado Rush, "He is big in the soccer arena and we are lucky to have his services and expertise. He brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Jérôme has opened many doors for our players and we are honored to have him accept the Chair position."
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