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MothMonty (Greg)
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Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:45 pm
Post subject: Advice for ESB Hoth/Bespin Luke
I'm starting to do the preliminary research for ESB Luke Hoth/Bespin. I was wondering what some people have used in the past for his boots. The costuming standards say brown boots with covers and straps. I always thought they were sort of grey looking with a 3/4 wrap gator with straps.
Anyways, does any one have any ideas as to what should be used?
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Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 5:06 pm
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get some grayish-brown suede and make your "gators" and straps. then glue the gators onto matching suede shoes.
I made a pair not long ago, but the suede I used was more of a reddish brown. I need to try again.
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the boots are a tan kind of colour mate.
Here's how we did mine:
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I got mine from Motor Cowboy but he got the color wrong, great construction though.
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Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:22 pm
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Hi Greg,
I know you posted this in July, but I'll add my two Republic Credits for what it's worth.
After waiting for a couple of months, my Motorcowboy Luke Skywalker Dagobah/Bespin boots arrived in September. Pricey? Yes. But IMHO, worth the $$ and the wait amigo.
Custom made and contrary to some others on this forum, I had no problems at all. Had friendly, professional communications from ordering to delivery. I guess I was just lucky.
Now I just need to weather these bad boys...yikes!
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Those are definitely way better looking than the boots they had on their site...
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Oh geesh!!!
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MothMonty (Greg)
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I appreciate the input since I am still trying to put this costume together.
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Well you picked the right season for it
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I made my boots by buying a pair of old man suede bedroom slippers (with no laces or anything on the tops) and then bought a tan suede hide and cut and glued the pieces and straps onto the slippers with contact cement. I will post a pic or two when I get home.
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man I need to get my eyes checked, to me the Hoth gators/boots look grey as so does luke's bespin outfit
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Film lighting. Commonly overlooked. It can make anything look like any other color.
There's also the fact that 16 copies of the costume were made for the film, with some variations (if I remember right the collar height/shape varies a bit) so it may very well be possible there are versions that are more "grey" than others.
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Led by three victories by David Sivak (Hobart, Ind./Hobart H.S.), including a school record, Valparaiso won eight events on Sunday afternoon, and picked up its first win of the season, defeating IUPUI 138.5-132.5 in Indianapolis, Ind.
Sivak started his day in the 50 backstroke winning with a time of 25.12 seconds. He also won the 100 free with a time of 47.29, another season's best for a Valpo swimmer on the afternoon. He capped the trifecta with a time of 4:42.17 in the 500 free, setting a new school mark. He bettered Adam Jajtner's (Port Washington, Wis./Port Washington H.S.) record of 4:44.52 set in 2007. Jajtner finished second in the race with a time of 4:51.49.
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Victor Sikorski (Valparaiso, Ind./Wheeler H.S.) added a win in the 50 free by more than a second with a time of 21.78 seconds and was second behind Sivak in the 100 free, turning in a time of 50.09 seconds.
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Blake Edwards (Orange, Calif./Lutheran H.S. of Orange County) had a runner-up finish in the 200 free for the Crusaders with a time of 1:48.16 while Kyle Verage (Hubertus, Wis./Marquette H.S.) added a second place finish in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:02.87.
Valpo closed the meet winning the 400 freestyle relay by more than four seconds as well as Jajtner, Sikorski, Edwards, and Sivak finished with a time of 3:14.66.
Valparaiso (1-10) will have several weeks off now before heading to Milwaukee, Wis. for the Horizon League Championships which will take place February 25-28.
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The i Edition Express for BladeCenter S is a complete integrated business system that offers an attractive alternative for existing small and midsized IBM i clients to reduce IT costs and complexity by consolidating their IBM i and Windows® applications with an IBM BladeCenter solution.
The i Edition Express for BladeCenter S is the perfect alternative to a traditional rack or tower server with comparable starting prices and enables clients to run their i applications and consolidate x86 servers into a single BladeCenter S chassis that supports up to six blades and over 7 terabytes of disk storage. And, with a 3-year warranty included, the lease price of the new solution will often be less than what many i clients pay today.
You can achieve even higher value by consolidating existing x86 servers onto x86 blades in the same BladeCenter S chassis for centralized management, resource sharing, common leasing and 3-year warranty terms.
IBM BladeCenter
Simplify. Cut costs. Boost productivity. Go green. They're all priorities for IT, and they're all driving organizations to rethink their server strategies and become more receptive to new ways to use IT. Blades are the next-generation solution, promising improvements across the board. IBM BladeCenter's innovative, open design offers a true alternative to a traditional rack/tower server and can help you use your space more efficiently and save on energy costs. So toss your cables and take the leap. Migrate to the blade solution that uses less energy and gives you more choices and control. You have nothing to lose but complexity. IBM BladeCenter is the right choice. Open. Easy. Green.
- Reduce space requirements for your servers
- Minimize IT staff needed to manage your application environment
- Easily grow and expand as your requirements change
- Save energy through reduced power consumption compared to rack servers
i Edition Express for BladeCenter S benefits
- An optimized configuration combining a JS12 or PS700 blade, IBM i, and BladeCenter S chassis
- Configuration optimized for i and includes one processor entitlement, 10 users, one year SWMA, and three year hardware warranty
- Configuration easily upgraded with additional blades or options
- Ideal solution for consolidation of i and Windows Server operating environments
- Starting price comparable to Power Systems rack/tower servers configured for i
i Edition for BladeCenter S with RAID
- An optimized configuration combining a JS12 or PS700 blade, IBM i, and a BladeCenter S chassis with RAID support
- Includes two RAID SAS Switches to protect IBM i and x86 environments which supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 for the 12 disk drives in the BladeCenter S chassis
- Pre-load of an optimized configuration of i and includes one processor entitlement, 10 users, one year SWMA, and three year hardware warranty
- Configuration easily upgraded with additional blades or options and is the ideal solution for consolidation of i and Windows Server operating environments
IBM i operating system
- IBM i is offered with per processor and per user entitlements. When IBM i is selected on an IBM BladeCenter, at least one IBM i processor entitlement must be purchased and at least 10 user entitlements. Additional IBM i user entitlements can be purchased in blocks of 10 users. The Unlimited users, External users, and Unlimited Collaboration users options can also be purchased.
- IBM i uses IBM PowerVM which includes the POWER Hypervisor, Micro-Partitioning, Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager, Lx86, and Virtual LAN features. The IBM i operating system uses the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) partition for access to BladeCenter resources and attached storage devices. The VIOS partition owns the Fiber, Ethernet and SAS adapters on the blade and virtualizes the resources to the IBM i partition. IVM is used to create and manage partitions on the blade.
- An IBM i processor entitlement is required for each processor core running IBM i. If the BladeCenter blade is partitioned with one processor core for VIOS and one processor core for IBM i, then one IBM processor entitlement is required.
- With the purchase of IBM i on a BladeCenter you are entitled to receive a service voucher at no additional charge. Services vouchers deliver the technical leadership and consulting resources that can help you more fully understand and use the latest features and capabilities of IBM i operating system. Technical experts will join your team and get you started on the road to success with your new operating environment. The service voucher is not available with i Edition Express for BladeCenter S configurations.
IBM i, BladeCenter and System Storage
- IBM i supports the following System Storage disk solutions with BladeCenter Configurations:
- BladeCenter S: DS3200 with used with SAS Connectivity Module (#3267).
- BladeCenter H: DS3400, DS4700, DS4800, DS5020, DS5100, DS5300, DS8100, DS8300, XIV, and SAN Volume Controller (SVC).
Capacity Backup (CBU)
- The CBU designation can help meet your requirements for a second system to use for backup, high availability, and disaster recovery. It enables you to temporarily transfer IBM i processor entitlements and IBM i user entitlements purchased for a primary machine to a secondary CBU system. Temporarily transferring these resources, instead of purchasing them for a secondary system, may result in significant savings.
- The CBU specify feature #4898 for the BladeCenter offerings are available as part of a new blade purchase. These CBU features cannot be added to an existing blade server.
- Certain system prerequisites must be met and system registration and approval is required before the CBU specify feature can be applied on a new server.
- Standard IBM i terms and conditions do not allow either IBM i processor entitlements or IBM i user entitlements to be transferred permanently or temporarily. These entitlements remain with the machine they were ordered for. When you register the association between a primary and on-order CBU system, the customer must agree to certain terms and conditions regarding the temporary transfer.
- After a CBU system designation is approved and the system is installed, you can temporarily move your optional IBM i processor entitlement and user entitlements from the primary system to the CBU system for any purpose provided the corresponding primary system processors are not being used concurrently for production purposes. The CBU system can therefore better support failover and role swapping for a full range of test, disaster recovery, and high availability scenarios. Temporary entitlement transfer means that the entitlement is a property transferred from the primary system to the CBU system and may remain in use on the CBU as long as the registered primary and CBU systems are in deployment for the high availability or disaster recovery operation.
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- These systems have IBM i software licenses with an IBM i P05 or P10 software tier. The primary machine must be in the same enterprise and country as the CBU system.
- Before you can temporarily transfer IBM i processor entitlements from the registered primary system, you must have more than one IBM i processor entitlement on the primary machine and at least one IBM i processor entitlement on the CBU server. You can then transfer any IBM i processor entitlements above the minimum one, assuming the total IBM i workload on the primary system does not require the IBM i entitlement that you want to transfer during the time of the transfer. During this temporary transfer, the CBU system's internal records of its total number of IBM i processor entitlements are not updated, and you may see IBM i license noncompliance warning messages from the CBU system. These warning messages in this situation do not mean you are not in compliance. The BladeCenter high availability options include PowerHA with Geographic Mirroring, iCluster and iClusterSMB. You may also use Metro Mirror or Global Mirror replication solutions provided by the storage subsystem as well as other 3rd party software replication packages.
- Before you can temporarily transfer IBM i user entitlements, you must have more than 10 IBM i user entitlements on the BladeCenter primary server and at least 10 IBM i user entitlements on the CBU server. You can then transfer any IBM i user entitlements above the minimum 10, assuming the total IBM i users on the primary system do not require the IBM i user entitlement you want to transfer during the time of the transfer.
- For example, if you have a JS12 as your primary system with two IBM i processor entitlements (one above the minimum) and 50 IBM i user entitlements (40 above the minimum), you can temporarily transfer up to one IBM i processor entitlement and up to 40 user entitlements. During this temporary transfer, the CBU system's internal records of its total number of IBM i processor and user entitlements is not updated, and you may see IBM i license noncompliance warning messages from the CBU system.
- If your primary or CBU machine is sold or discontinued from use, any temporary entitlement transfers must be returned to the machine on which they were originally acquired.
- For CBU registration and further details, visit www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/cbu.
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Enforcement of Crime Victims' Rights
During the 2009 legislative session, the Department of Justice proposed and the Legislature enacted Senate Bill 233 - landmark legislation that allows crime victims to uphold their constitutional rights in a court of law. The Attorney General's Task Force on Victims' Rights Enforcement was also created to develop legislative recommendations to further improve the protection of rights granted to victims of crime in Oregon.
Task Force is required to submit two reports to the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives no later than January 1, 2011, and January 1, 2013. The term of appointment to the Task Force on Victims' Rights Enforcement runs through June 30, 2013.
The Task Force is divided into eight subcommittees or work groups, each of them focus on one of the following issues:
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The All-Time Great Eight: Latin Rivalries
The Neutral Corner by Jason Probst FROM MAX BOXING
It seems like yesterday, but in truth it was nearly six years ago when I was on yet another drive from San Diego to Las Vegas, en route to the Oscar De La Hoya-Felix Trinidad fight, when I saw the epitome of how serious some matchups can be.
Blowing by me in the passing lane was an ancient, battered Buick, covered in Mexican flags and the rear right window missing. In its place was a cardboard sign that read: "Win or Die."
Very nice. Inside were two cholos en route to the big fight. Vegas, baby! Maybe they saved their money for the fight as opposed to automobile upkeep, but you have to respect the gesture of going that far into the well to support your guy.
That memory is always with me, as testimony to the core appeal of boxing-as-tribalistic-expression. Back in the Golden Eras of the prewar fight boom, your surname -- be it Irish, Jewish, Italian, Mexican, or whatever -- was the quickest guarantor of a fan base, especially if you had a modicum of skills and/or a crowd pleasing style (preferably both, but especially the latter). These days, the last remaining holdouts are Latin fans, who are easily the most knowledgeable and loyal to the sweet science. And they carry the gravitas of going deep for their heroes, bringing flags, their homies, high hopes and everything else they can gather up in support of their rooting interest.
That's why today, more than ever, all-Latin showdowns are especially important in sustaining the health of boxing. A crossover star in recent years like Mike Tyson will generate widespread interest but at almost all the lower levels, it comes down to fan base and the pluck and luck of getting or making the breaks. Take a fistic genius like Floyd Mayweather, who was nearly nine years into an unbeaten career before getting his first
pay-per-view show last June against Arturo Gatti. Sure, his style isn't the most exciting for casual fans but it's hard to envision him in an earlier era where he wouldn't have been more properly appreciated.
Potential fans have too many competing distractions, especially since postseason playoffs in baseball, the NBA and hockey seem to last half as long as their respective seasons themselves. The only boxing fan that doesn't have a considerable competing professional constituency are those of Latin descent, and as a result they are the most likely to follow the sport. And the showdowns between their combatants comprise a considerable chunk of boxing history. Today, their accrued market value is more important than ever, and that underlying support helps elevate great matches like Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales into the legitimate realm of at least mainstream coverage, simply because ten thousand screaming fans knew enough to buy tickets. Perhaps it's a fait accompli, but at least the break goes boxing's way in that case.
Tonights De La Hoya showdown with Ricardo Mayorga is the latest version of the all-Latin showdown. Galore with stylized pre-fight machismo, this one will have to measure up to some high standards to crack my rankings (albeit highly unofficial) of the greatest all-Latin rivalries. Here they are, judged on the weight of the match up and what interest it generated, how they brought in casual fans and possibly hooked them to want more, and the ferocity of the combat that ensued. For purposes of efficacy, only championship bouts or bouts between champions are listed (otherwise this list would take a lot longer to compile, and I'd have to conference call Lee Groves, Marty Mulcahey and Dougie Fischer to comb the archives).
Here's my list of "The Great All-Latin Eight." If Mayorga-De La Hoya comes remotely close to cracking this list (and one fight alone would have to be a real doozy to land a spot among this esteemed company), it's going to be one helluva Cinco De Mayo weekend.
8. Felix Trinidad-Fernando Vargas
Okay, so maybe some generational bias. It was only one fight, which Trinidad took by vicious 12th round stoppage in December 2000, but it was one memorable battle, pitting two undefeated champs against each other at 154 lbs. Both guys had considerable drawing power, and the Mexican-American vs. Puerto Rican angle is always a boost in my book. It puts so much more on the line. This one, I believe, will be remembered in history as one of the greatest championship fights of its era, merely for the stunning momentum changes that preceded the violent end.
Vargas is floored twice in the first twenty seconds, his head nearly removed from his shoulders by Trinidad's booming left hook. He survives a terrifying opening round, ducking, slipping and sashaying away from Tito's merciless follow-up bombs, and his head clears. Working himself back into the fight as he recovered his legs, and his bearings, Vargas springs the trap in the fourth, driving Tito halfway across the ring with a punishing left hook, dropping the slugger. Trinidad fouls him after rising from the knockdown, causing some controversy, but recovers down the stretch. Trinidad's eye
swells shut after catching a thumb, as both guys are forced to suck it up big time.
Vargas showed a ton of heart and desire in this fight, and watching the tape is both exhilarating and saddening, as you can see him lose himself, piece by piece, giving a battle every inch of the way. Finally, in the twelfth, Trinidad crushes him with the same left hook, dropping him in a heap. Vargas amazingly rises twice more before being sent down for the third time, the picture of a battered warrior finally out of gas. Trinidad, teary-eyed at the post-fight press conference, showed what a great champion he was. This
one will always hold a special place in my tape collection and it's probably the one I watch more than just about any of them, as I'm still amazed Vargas gets through that opening round disaster. I'm half-convinced that someday, he won't, because what he did was about impossible to recover like that. He left much of himself in the ring that night, and that's why fans will always love him.
7. Alexis Arguello-Alfredo Escalera
Between 1974, when he won the WBC featherweight title with a gutty 14th-round stoppage of Ruben Olivares, and 1982, when he was turned back in that same round by WBA 140-lb. king Aaron Pryor, Alexis Arguello participated in 20 title fights and won them all, spanning three divisions en route. His two battles with Escalera were waged in 1978 and 1979, and were brutal affairs, with Arguello winning both by 13th-round stoppage. The vicious punishment he doled out and took in return from the tenacious Puerto Rican was vintage, with brutal exchanges and the kind of heart-stopping action that only comes in a 15-round championship fight. Beloved in Nicaragua, these two wins cemented his fame across the world as a true fighter to watch. For while he consistently blew out decent to middling challengers with relative ease, the Escalera bouts were indelible proof that Arguello could go deep to dig out the win. If they happened today, they'd probably be fights of the year. Back then, they were merely the expectable spoils of a Golden Era with so many tough fighters in the lower weight classes.
6. Carlos Zarate-Alfonso Zamora
The "Z boys" only met once, in 1978, and the setup was perfect. Both were unbeaten, with a combined record of 74-0 with 71 knockouts, incredible numbers for bantams. Both were Mexicans, beloved as heroes by adoring fans. Both were champions, with Zarate holding the WBC belt, Zamora the WBA. Something had to give.
After four rounds of intense combat, Zamora finally did, knocked out by a chillingly determined Zarate, who absorbed some bombs early only to walk through them and wear Zamora down. Fittingly, after the ref waved it off the two guys' managers got into a fight on the ring apron. Nothing spells "disgruntled" like the site of Zamora's chunky manager in a bad 1970s pantsuit trading punches with Zarate's guy. That, my friends, is keeping it
5. Robert Duran-Esteban DeJesus
Duran shockingly lost their first match, a non-title scrap, in 1972, getting dropped by a perfectly timed DeJesus left hook that finally made him look human. He got big payback, however, in successful defenses, stopping DeJesus twice, in 1974 (TKO 11) and 1978 (TKO 12). DeJesus always gave him trouble, and easily represented the biggest threat to Duran's lightweight reign when his skills made good fighters seem woefully overmatched. DeJesus brought out the best in Duran, making him use his hunter's savvy to break down the slick Puerto Rican over the distance. Duran's technical abilities are often overlooked due to his imposing aura, but it was fighters like DeJesus that revealed what an incredibly gifted artist "Manos De Piedra" was, when he had to be. And at lightweight he was never better than against Esteban.
4. Michael Carbajal-Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzalez
The class of the little men during the early 1990s, Carbajal had a natural foil in Gonzalez, a hard-punching fighter who generated impressive power for a 108-lb. man. Their first bout was clearly the class of the trilogy (Gonzalez took the last two by decision), as Carbajal rebounded from two brutal knockdowns early and starched Gonzalez with a massive left hook in the seventh.
Carbajal was never better, and subsequent matches may have shown the effects of their first bout as well as a style he had that was not conducive to a long career in top form. But what really made these matches historically significant for their time was that their first showdown generated the first million-dollar purse for both combatants in their weight class, proving that great matchmaking can overcome perception that little guys can't bring in the bucks. It also, in this writer's opinion, was one of the key fights in the last fifteen years, showing promoters that Hispanic fans will back a good fight regardless of weight class, allowing the promotion to build into something bigger than a mere Latin vs. Latin niche attraction. The legacy of Carbajal-Gonzalez lives today, as Top Rank and other promoters offer up plenty of smaller Latin fighters in the hopes they will generate the kind of fan base these two had.
3. Ruben Oliveras-Chucho Castillo
At his peak, "Rockabye Ruben" was a physical phenom blessed with numbing power and wicked charisma that made him a huge fan attraction in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and through the mid-1970s. With a career record of 88-13-3, he registered 78 knockouts, a stunningly high stoppage rate for a guy whose best days were at bantam.
However, every phenom has his Kryptonite, and Castillo may have been his, at least at 118 pounds and at his peak. After besting the tough Castillo in April 1970 over 15 rounds, Oliveras was upset via 14th round stoppage later that year. It was probably every bit as shocking as when a seemingly overmatched Junior Jones blew out Marco Antonio Barrera in 1995. He absolutely, positively had to win the rubber match in April 1971, and did, taking another 15-round decision, regaining his title.
Olivares fights weren't just fights. They were sporting extravaganzas, as Mexican-American fans packed L.A. famed fight houses and often would riot if they didn't like the outcome, or just for the hell of it. That's pressure, and the atmosphere there was no doubt every bit as charged and passionate as those in old-time fight clubs decades earlier, where the whole damn neighborhood would show up to watch you represent.
2. Salvador Sanchez-Wilfredo Gomez
Aug. 21, 1981
Talk about a dream all-Latin match up. They only fought once, with Sanchez scoring a brilliantly delivered eighth round knockout. When they stepped into the ring, however, it was a match up between two guys that were top five pound for pound in the world. Gomez, the feared WBC 122-lb. champ, had a 32-0-1 ledger and had made 13 straight defenses, all by KO, and was emerging as one of the greatest Puerto Rican fighters ever. Sanchez was 40-1-1, having bested dangerous Danny Lopez twice with disdainful ease. It's hard to imagine how high the stakes were for both, especially as Gomez has destroyed the Mexican Sanchez' countryman Carlos Zarate.
Sanchez was never better in this fight, flooring Gomez in the opening round and clinically dismantling him, turning his usually smothering pressure against him. Impressively, Sanchez used his slick boxing skills while fighting in the pocket much of the time, giving a great example of how you can fight defensively while countering in close. When Gomez finally succumbed, it was as though you could feel the air go out of the Puerto Rican fans in the arena, so complete was his beating.
1. Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales
Morales-Barrera. It goes together like PB&J, don't it? What's great about this trilogy are all the subtle juxtapositions that fed into the rivalry. Morales, a Tijuana boy of Indio blood, is the diametrical opposite of Barrera, who came from a middle-class family in Mexico City (for you Gringo types who miss the distinction, that's the Mexican equivalent of a Southern cracker against a diehard Yankee).
Waged across three weight classes, Barrera was believed to be a shot fighter before their first and third matches. Coming into the first bout in Feb. 2000, he was seen as served-up fodder for the skyrocketing Morales, having lost to Junior Jones twice, only to give Erik 12 rounds of hell before losing a hotly disputed decision. The rematch was more tactical, with Barrera taking a disputed decision, perhaps a bit of Karmic payback.
For the rubber match in November 2004, Barrera had been brutalized a year earlier by Manny Pacquiao, while Morales was riding high off solid wins over Jesus Chavez and Carlos Hernandez. But something about these two men always forced incredible parity to develop, and Barrera took another close decision. It almost seems criminal to make them fight again, but their three incredible clashes have arguably been the most significant fights below heavyweight to keep fans coming back. What's amazing about these fights is every time you watch them, especially the second and third, it's virtually impossible to score more than a handful of ones definitively for one guy or the other. Every minute, every second was a war, a battle of wills, and neither willing to give up no matter what the cost. There may have been better Latin fighters that met up in the squared circle, but never two like this that made for so many heated exchanges over the duration of a long, taxing, brutal war.


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Faculty-led Study Tours
Guidelines and Forms
In order to facilitate faculty-led programming options, OIE, in conjunction with IEC, have developed the following links for faculty to review prior to submitting a study tour proposal.
Faculty preparing a study tour proposal must submit a completed application, including letters of support from their department chair and college dean. In addition, an estimated budget must be attached.
Please note that to adequately develop a quality program, development requires a minimum of 24 months.
After an international study program is approved and offered at least 3 times over the past 5 years, the program may be evaluated by the IEC for conversion to the status of an ongoing international study program. The leader must provide a complete program review package after the third time the program has been offered, and after every third year thereafter.
Guidelines for International Study Tour Programs
The program leader should meet with the Office of International Education staff to ensure compliance with "ACIS 7.1 Policy Guidelines for the Conduct of International Programs in the University of Wisconsin System" and "Financial Administration: Study Abroad Programs (F45)."
Procedures for Faculty-led Study Abroad and Service Learning Programs Handbook
Study Tour Cover Sheet (PDF File)
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Ongoing Study Tour Summary Form
Study Tour Budget Sheet (Copy this Excel form to your computer and begin adding the budget information. NOTE: only add the information to the "DETAIL" page. The information will transfer automatically to the "FEES" page to generate the program fee.)
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Interested in developing a faculty led program, and looking for advice? Click here to see a list of past leaders who are willing to share their expertise and insight on the process to help you create a new program.
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Recreational programming has been defined as programs that do not provide an academic credit or a community integration (service learning) component. These programs are identified as travel intended for the enjoyment of the participant.
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JMU is now 1-1 on the spring dual season while Navy fell to 8-2, seeing its seven-match win-streak snapped by the Dukes.
The Mids opened doubles play with a win at the No. 3 position as Darien Sears and Sam Droop defeated seniors Jacqueline Palmucci (Aurora, Colo./Cherokee Trail) and Ruxandra Andriescu (Brampton, Ontario, Canada/Turner Fenton) 6-2. The Dukes, however, evened the doubles competition at 1-1 as sophomore Cara Wirth (Reading, Pa./Wilson) and redshirt junior Sarah Khan (Islamabad, Pakistan/Overseas Pakistani Foundation College (New Mexico)) dropped Erin Snook and Summer Ralston 6-4 at the No. 2 doubles position.
Junior Taylor Pinchoff (Sylvan Lake, Mich./West Bloomfield) and freshman Alex Huie (The Woodlands, Texas/The Woodlands) secured the doubles point for the Dukes at the No. 1 position, battling Navy's Mikaela Carlson and Noelle Kaufmann for the 7-5 victory.
The Dukes quickly powered to a 2-0 lead over Navy as Palmucci knocked off Carlson in two sets (6-0, 6-3) at the No. 6 singles position.
Navy, however, rallied for two quick wins and tied the match at 2-2. Snook won in two sets (6-0, 6-4) over Pinchoff at the No. 1 singles position before Droop picked up a two-set win (6-3, 6-4) over Huie at the No. 2 singles position.
Freshman Rachel Nelson (Big Prairie, Ohio/West Holmes) broke the tie with a two-set victory (6-4, 6-3) over Kaufmann at the No. 4 singles position, giving the Dukes a 3-2 advantage in the match.
At the No. 5 singles position, Andriescu jumped out to a one-set lead over Navy's Gabby Winter with a 6-3 win in set one. Winter, however, battled back for a 6-3 victory of her own in set two to even the match. Andriescu overcame Winter 10-6 in set three to secure the point and the match win for the Dukes.
Freshman Emily Bradshaw (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada/Blyth Academy) came back from a one-set deficit to tie her match with Logan Antill, but a decisive third set fell in the Midshipman's favor as Antill won 2-6, 6-4, 10-8 at the No. 3 singles position to wrap up play for the day.
JMU travels to UMBC on Sunday, Feb. 8, for a 10 a.m. match.
JMU 4, Navy 3
1. Taylor Pinchoff/Alex Huie (JMU) def. Mikaela Carlson/Noelle Kaufmann (Navy), 7-5
2. Cara Wirth/Sarah Khan (JMU) def. Erin Snook/Summer Ralston (Navy), 6-4
3. Darien Sears/Sam Droop (Navy) def. Jacqueline Palmucci/Ruxandra Andriescu (JMU), 6-2
Order of Finish: 3, 2, 1
1. Erin Snook (Navy) def. Taylor Pinchoff (JMU) 6-0, 6-4
2. Sam Droop (Navy) def. Alex Huie (JMU) 6-3, 6-4
3. Logan Antill (Navy) def. Emily Bradshaw (JMU) 2-6, 6-4, 10-8
4. Rachel Nelson (JMU) def. Noelle Kaufmann (Navy) 6-4, 6-3
5. Ruxandra Andriescu (JMU) def. Gabby Winter (Navy) 6-3, 3-6, 10-6
6. Jacqueline Palmucci (JMU) def. Mikaela Carlson (Navy) 6-0, 6-3
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The state Gambling Control Board is moving cautiously toward allowing slot machine revenue at Maine's casinos to be tracked by the same company that distributes the so-called one-armed bandits. Some have suggested this could be a conflict of interest. One nationally recognized gambling industry expert says it's time for the Maine gambling board to request a new dealer.
In the mid-1940s, Harry Williams revolutionized the pinball business and became one of the country's leading manufacturers of slot machines. His company, WMS indusries, makes the slot machines that are used here in Maine. But now WMS is being acquired by Scientific Games. That's the same firm that monitors the slot machine revenue for the state and alerts gaming regulators if slot machines are out of compliance with state standards. The deal has triggered a tilt warning of sorts for Timothy Doyle, chair of the state's Gambling Control Board.
"I almost likened it to a referee owning a football team, at least in my mind," Doyle said.
The board has been grappling with the WMS acquisition ever since Scientific Games announced the $1.5 billion dollar transaction in January. Even before casino gaming, Scientific Games has overseen online lottery sales like Powerball and Megabucks Plus, as well as lottery scratch tickets. Patrick Fleming, the Gambling Control board's executive director, says Scientific Games must undergo the same level of scrutiny as WMS to ensure it meets state qualifications as a slot machine distributor. But Fleming says a financial review by Macdonald-Page, a South Portland accounting firm, turned up nothing of concern.
"Macdonald Page did not find anything in the review that would lead them to believe that Scientific Games or WMS gaming are not financially viable or financially responsible nor did they find anything in the financial or tax information submitted by the key executives to indicate that the key executives are not financially responsible," Fleming said.
Fleming said Don Armstrong, an investigator for the board, looked into the past activities of the Scientific Game's top three officers and failed to find anything that would adversely affect the individuals' suitability to distribute slot machines in Maine. Despite Fleming's analysis of the firms and its principals, Doyle remains troubled that the state is paying a company to essentially track its own stream of gambling revenue.
"I'm still concerned for what appears to be a conflict, the monitoring system and the slot machine distributor being the same entity," Doyle said.
Just because Scientific Games is the holding company though, does not mean the firm cannot independently monitor the slot machines it will acquire from WMS. Maine is among 14 gambling jurisdictions that permit a company to conduct central site monitoring of machines that it owns. Mike Freese, vice-president of regulatory affairs for Scientific Games, told board members that stakes are high for the company to ensure that its operations meet the highest level of scrutiny and accountability.
"I think it really comes down to one of the charges of all regulators and that is to maintain the integrity of gaming," Freese said.
"Gambling is such a morally suspect industry that you really have to stay away from perceived conflicts as well as real conflicts," said Professor I. Nelson Rose.
That's I. Nelson Rose, a professor of Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California and a recognized expert on gambling laws. He says if he were advising Maine's Gambling Control Board, he would recommend putting the slot revenue tracking out to bid simply to eliminate A potential conflict -- despite Scientific Game's ability and intention to keep both operations separate.
"There's no reason why this has to be the same company that's both monitoring and operating the slot machines," Rose said. "Self-regulation is really never a good idea."
The board voted to ask Scientific Games to provide it with additional written information explaining how it will prevent perceived conflicts of interest.


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March 18 - Chipper Jones won 11 division titles, a handful of pennants and a World Series championship over the course of 19 Major League Baseball seasons. However, the former Atlanta Braves star has found himself on the losing end of a recent real estate deal.
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Hi All,
As many of you are aware, I have been (very slowly) developing my website. Not all is perfect, and I hope you don't mind some basic snafu's.
The website is www.mikegimbel.com and contains political, physics and baseball areas.
If you are only interested in the baseball area of the website, the baseball area can be directly gotten to via this address: www.mikegimbel.com/album3/album3_006.htm
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The Bounty of Pollination
If you want to learn more about honey bees and other pollinators, then "The Bounty of Pollination: More Than Just Honey" is the place to "bee" on Saturday, Oct 27 at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science (RMI), University of California, Davis.
This will be the "debut event" of the Honey and Pollination Center of RMI, according to event coordinator Tracy Dickinson.
The public event, to take place from 1 to 5:30 p.m. in RMI's Silverado Vineyards Sensory Theater, is billed as "an afternoon of lively discusssions, unique tastings and interesting displays on the science behind honey and the important (and surprising) non-honey bee pollinators."
RMI is in the process of lining up speakers and displays.
Registration opens in August. The cost per ticket is $60, with discount prices offered for UC faculty, staff and students. The last day to register online is Friday, Oct. 26.
UC faculty staff and students may obtain a coupon code for discounted tickets through email@example.com. Or, if folks want to become a Friend of the RMI, they need to contact Kim Bannister at email@example.com.
Honey bee heading toward tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) on tower of jewels. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Native on Native
Native on native.
That's when you get when you see a yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) on a penstemon, also known as "beard's tongue."
Both the bee and the flower are native to North America.
Native Americans reportedly used the penstemon, formerly classified in the Scrophulariaceae family and now considered a member of the Plantaginaceae family, to relieve toothaches.
Whether it relieves toothaches or not, the penstemon, with its two-lipped tubular flowers, is quite attractive to bumble bees!
Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) crawls inside a penstemon "Evelyn." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Just the feet of the yellow-faced bumble bee show. At right, another yellow-faced bumble bee heads off to a flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Yellow-faced bumble bee emerging from penstemon blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Training for the Olympics?
Training for the Olympics?
If you step into your garden in the early morning, you might see a male bumble bee sleeping on one of your plants. The females return to their nests at night, but the males don't. They stage slumber parties, aka sleepovers, on your plants.
If they look bedraggled, that's because they are. It's the beginning of a bad hair day.
Such was the case when we encountered this male yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) on the lavender.
As the sun began rising, Mr. Bombus vosnesenskii, too, struggled to rise. Had he been partying all night? Sipping too much nectar, perhaps? Rolling in the pollen?
He crawled along the lavender plants , backtracked, and then appeared to be using a stem as a chin-up bar.
Nothing like a little morning exercise...
Male yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, appears to be doing a chin up. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bumble Bee's Daily Commute?
If you've ever been to Angel Island or Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, you may have seen them.
Bumble bees.
And sometimes if you're fishing in the Bay, a bumble bee may land on your boat.
That was the case Monday, May 28 when the sportsfishing charter boat, The Morning Star, left its berth at Loch Lomond Marina, San Rafael, and headed out to the Bay to search for what skipper Gordon Hough calls "meals on reels."
The Morning Star encountered the bumble bee about two miles north of Angel Island, near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.
Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at UC Davis, later identified it from the photo below as a female Bombus vosnesenskii.
Nobody was catching any halibut or stripers at the time, so some of the anglers caught an image of the yellow-faced bumble bee.
"I thought it was remarkable to see a bee flying around in the middle of nowhere," said Hough.
"She was probaby just too lazy to fly the distance and decided to hitch a ride," quipped Thorp. "Wonder if she does a daily commute to find a better patch of flowers."
Thorp says that bumble bees are "larger, stronger fliers than honey bees and can potentially fly for several miles."
"They have occasionally been found on boats off shore, but like honey bees, they tend not to forage across wide strips of water," Thorp says.
UC Davis forensic entomologist Robert Kimsey, who does fly research on Alcatraz, has seen bumble bees on Alcatraz, too. No honey bees, but bumble bees.
As for Hough, he says he has no plans to offer bumble bee charters.
Yellow-faced bumble bee lands on The Morning Star. (Photo taken with an IPhone)
The characteristic yellow band on the abdomen of Bombus vosnesenskii. The bee landed on the boat and after a 10-minute rest, took off.
Bumble Bees Are Back!
The yellow-faced bumble bees are back!
And amid the throes of winter and the promise of spring.
On a trip Feb. 27 to Bodega Bay, we spotted two yellow-faced bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii) about two miles apart.
They were both foraging on "The Pride of Madeira" (Echium candicans) on a sunny, but wind-whipped day in this Sonoma County coastal town.
The camera lens, the strong wind and the erratic flight of the bumble bees didn't allow us to get close, but the purple spiked flowers made a delightful sight.
See more images of this bumble bee, found throughout western North America, on Bug Guide.
Yellow-faced bumble bee (Bombus vosnesenskii) foraging on the Pride of Maderia at Bodega Bay on Feb. 27. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Covered in pollen, a yellow-faced bumble bee forages on a seaside daisy at Bodega Bay on June 10, 2010. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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