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- Exterior Color
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- Interior Color
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- Miles
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Downs Industries is a family owned company that has spent the last 30 years supplying the classic car hobby with some of the best fiberglass components ever produced. With virtually no imperfections, this slick '32 Ford's Downs fiberglass fuselage is a testament to exactly why they've enjoyed such great success. It displays smooth vertical panels that could give an all-steel car a serious run for its money, and presents an arrow straight profile which looks absolutely fantastic under a rich coat of House of Kolor Cobalt Blue paint. Naturally, a body this nice deserves to be seen and celebrated to the highest extent, so the Cobalt Blue basecoat was topped with intense Candy flames, detailed with bright green pinstripes, color sanded, and sealed in a thick and glossy clearcoat shell. Today, with only 1,826 sunny day miles on its complete build, this awesome Hi-Boy roadster combines classic hot rod style with a vivid flair that puts a fresh twist on a proven trophy winning formula.
Everything on this '32 Ford is exceptionally well-done, and it has just the right amount of detail to create a lasting impression. At the front of the car, body-matched frame horns hold a polished spreader bar below a stainless grille and two great looking Ford Model A Twolite headlights. Behind that grille, a stainless topped four-piece steel hood runs to a chopped windshield which is bordered by a show quality chrome frame and small chrome rearview mirrors. At the top of that windshield, a removable Time Machines Unlimited cloth top hangs a small aluminum trimmed glass window above a Cool Cap fuel filler and a pinstriped, electrically operated trunk lid. The profile of the car presents a clean and simple look that is typical of classic fenderless hot rods. The door handles have been shaved, the door hinges are hidden, the flames are uninterrupted, and you can see just enough of the cars mirror-like chrome suspension to be captivated and drawn in. At the back of the car, a familiar billet aluminum tag bracket hangs between traditional round street rod tail lights, and a pair of high quality Megs stainless exhaust tips complement a body matched differential and chrome rear coil overs.
Under the cars solid steel hood, ample power is supplied by a GM Performance Parts Fast Burn 385 V8. Sold as a complete package, this 350 cubic inch, 385 horsepower small block utilizes a forged steel crank, powdered metal connecting rods, flat top hypereutectic pistons, a hydraulic cam, stamped steel self-aligning rocker arms and GMs revolutionary Fast Burn aluminum cylinder heads to create a 9.6 to 1 compression ratio and 385 lb./ft. of torque. At the top of the engine, an aftermarket wing nut cinches a trick stainless air cleaner down on a 4-barrel Edelbrock Performer 650 carburetor which is completely detailed with polished stainless fuel lines, braided hoses and a polished Edelbrock inline fuel filter. Under the carburetor, a polished GM Performance Parts intake manifold sits between finned aluminum valve covers that have been detailed with the same bright red paint that's on the engine block, and polished breathers. At the back of the engine, an HEI distributor sends sparks through red Taylor performance plug wires which snake around ceramic coated shorty headers; and at the front of the engine, a fresh V-belt spins a chrome alternator and a polished water pump that are sandwiched between billet pulleys and billet brackets. As with its fully detailed exterior panels, nothing was missed under the hood of this sharp '32 Ford; and its smooth and clean black engine compartment is finished with ancillary items such as a heavy duty radiator which is complete with an electric fan and chrome flex hoses, stainless brace bars, polished motor mounts, and even small pieces of hood insulation to shield its Candy flame paint from heat generated by the headers.
Underneath this impressive roadster, a chrome front I-beam suspension, which features a five inch drop, combines with a chrome ladder bar rear suspension, which features polished and satin finished coil over shocks, to produce thoroughly modern ride and handling characteristics. At the center of that custom suspension, a brand new Phoenix Transmission Turbo-Hydramatic 700R4 4-speed automatic, which is equipped with a Phoenix Transmission 2,600 RPM stall converter, sends power to a Currie nine inch Posi-traction rear end which carries stout 3.50 gears. Quick stops are provided by a frame mounted power brake booster which sends fluid through stainless steel lines and braided hoses to front 'fake brake' discs and traditional rear drums. A killer soundtrack is provided by the cars ceramic coated true dual exhaust system which looks to be about three inches in diameter and runs from coated shorty headers to polished Magnaflow mufflers and stainless Megs tips. Exceptionally clean and completely detailed for show, the bottom of this Ford includes details such as a gloss black, Oak reinforced floor pan, a complete set of stainless lines and hardware, rugged finned fluid pans, a body matched driveshaft and rear end, and even a trick, polished horn. At the corners of the car, 15 and 17 inch polished aluminum American Racing Torq Thrust II wheels spin 195/60 front and 275/60 rear Goodyear Eagle GT IIs around special order American Racing center caps.
Inside this awesome '32 Ford you'll find a spectacular looking red leather interior that provides a fun and stylish contrast to the cars deep blue exterior panels. The pleated leather bench seat is firm, provides good support and features sturdy two-point racing harnesses. At the sides of that seat, custom pleated door panels, which are equipped with billet aluminum handles, hang next to custom covered kick panels which include two red Kenwood speakers. Below the seat, like-new red carpet flows from the firewall to the back of the cockpit and props color-matched mats next to a chrome emergency brake handle and a chrome shifter with a blue swirl Lucite shift knob. At the front of the car, a smoothed and body-matched dash hangs a full set of Classic Instruments gauges below more stylish pin striping. And at the back of the car, a completely upholstered trunk hides an MP3 compatible, remote controlled AM/FM CD player behind more pleated red panels. Connecting the driver to the road is a polished and color coordinated banjo style steering wheel which rides on a body-matched tilt steering column above stylish billet stalks and mirror-like chrome foot pedals.
Naturally, this cool custom '32 Ford Hi-boy comes with a stack of build receipts and component manuals.
In short, this spectacular '32 Hi-Boy features the best of everything, and is the perfect street rod for someone who wants a fully sorted show stopper. It features an unbeatable combination of classic good looks and modern hot rod technology wrapped in professional build that simply cannot be duplicated for anywhere near our asking price. What more can you ask for?
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- 1932
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- Model Name
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- Single 4 Barrel
- Transmission Type
- 4 Speed Automatic
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- Entertainment System Type
- AM/FM Single CD
- Battery Location
- n/a
- Battery Shut Off
- n/a
- Battery Charger
- n/a
- Power Steering
- No
- Air Conditioning
- No
- Interior Color
- Red
- Seating Type
- Bucket
- Seat Material
- Leather
- Shifter Type
- Floor
- Center Console
- Yes
- Body Style
- Roadster
- Doors
- 2
- Safe Body Color
- Cobalt Blue
- Paint Type
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- Stripes
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- Rear Suspension Type
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- Axle Specification
- Currie 9"
- Front Wheel Specification
- 15x6"
- Rear Wheel Specification
- 17x10"
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- Disc
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- Exhaust Type
- Dual Exhaust
- Muffler Type
- MagnaFlow
- Restoration Status
- Restored
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Here is an interesting picture from the Friars practice yesterday. It seems Batts was sitting out with ice packs on his shoulder (and not wearing football pads). I really hope it's not too serious since Cooley cannot afford to lose anyone early on in the season. Also, Kris Dunn appears to be rehabbing with some sort of wand apparatus. Or maybe he was a ninja turtle for Halloween.
Scott Cordischi of GoLocalProv also noted yesterday that Kris Dunn was seen taking 15-17 foot jumpers in practice on Wednesday which is certainly a good sign.
Friars.com: Men's Basketball Game Notes Vs. Rhode Island College
Gametime is 7PM at the Dunkin' Donuts Center. It will also be televised on COX.
Scouting Rhode Island College: Rhode Island College posted a 23-7 mark during its 2011-12 season, including a 10-4 record in the Little East. The Anchormen i nished tied for second with Western Connecticut and Keene State. The Anchormen also went 14-0 at home. RIC made the Little East Conference championship as a third seed entering the tournament. They advanced to the championship game before being defeated by No. 1 seed Eastern Connecticut in the i nals, 82-60. The team is led by 6-2 senior guard Tahrike Carter. The 2013 All-Little East guard averaged 10.0 ppg, 5.5 rpg and 4.2 apg last season. Head Coach Bob Walsh, a 1994 graduate of Hamilton College and former Friar assistant coach, enters his eighth year at the helm of the Anchormen in 2012-13. He has presided over one of the most successful periods in the program's storied history as RIC has made seven consecutive trips to the postseason and six straight appearances in the NCAA Tournament-one of only i ve teams in the nation to accomplish this feat. Walsh has led RIC to the Sweet 16 three times and the Elite Eight once

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Leave it to a defenseman to figure out how to jump-start the Kings' offense.
Slava Voynov was there to take advantage of a rebound-happy scramble in front of the St. Louis net and scored top shelf to beat Blues goaltender Brian Elliottt in the second period of Game 3.
The Kings needed it.
That was all they needed.
"I was so excited. The emotions go up," Voynov said. "It was a 0-0 game. I was happy not just for me but for everybody."
For Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick, a collective fan base in agony and offensive stars in playoff slumps. Quick benefitted the most. He finally had a smidgeon of support in these playoffs and made 30 saves in a 1-0 victory over the Blues.
The Kings now trail St. Louis 2-1 in the best-of-7 series.
This was a game reminiscent of last year's Kings' run to the Stanley Cup championship, save for a few more goals by the Kings.
This was a 5-on-5 goal - the first of its kind for the Kings in this first-round playoff series - and whether it was from captain Dustin Brown or Jeff Carter or Voynov didn't matter.
This was a dire situation.
This also was a defenseman saving the day. Quick was his usual stingy self in net while saving shots from all over the place, but Voynov's goal, in a series in which goals are so hard to come by, was what mattered most.
"There were a lot of rebounds in front of the net, and I skated down and just shot through bodies," Voynov said.
He also saved the defending champion Kings from facing a 3-0 series deficit.
The Kings had scored a combined two goals in the two previous games, and all their offensive stars were stymied.
"We talk about more shots, but it's a joint attack," Voynov said.
Voynov had a slight limp in his step as he walked into an empty locker room well after the game but it was no big deal, he said. It was just a large red mark on his right thigh where he was hit by a puck on a power play.
That's the mark of a defenseman.
Voynov's goal, the second playoff goal of his career, was assisted by Alec Martinez and Trevor Lewis.
It could change the series. Or maybe it doesn't.
But it was the Kings ensuring they weren't out of this yet.
Without Brown and Anze Kopitar and Mike Richards and Carter and Co. finding that scoring touch fast, Voynov's goal won't matter.
But it could.
The Kings needed offense, desperately so, but coach Darryl Sutter went with seven defensemen Saturday instead of the usual six in the lineup.
That was a head-scracther, but maybe Sutter knew what he was doing after all. He wanted more energy, and he got that, especially on that flurry of shots in which Voynov had the last word.
"There were about nine players in front of the net," Voynov said. "I just saw the left side open."
He lifted the puck, and it sailed over players and into the top corner of the net for a goal that will be remembered if the Kings do the unthinkable and rebound from a 2-0 deficit in the series.
Voynov's goal also lifted a lackluster crowd.
What a difference a year makes.
Last year, Staples Center was rocking as the Kings won the franchise's first Stanley Cup. The energy and atmosphere were palpable.
It was subdued Saturday. Guess being 0-2 through the first two games of the series does that to fans.
Now it's a one-game deficit with Game 4 here Monday.
The Kings had their 60 th consecutive sellout at 18,118, but fans clearly were numb by the early deficit the Kings have found themselves in this postseason.
Voynov got them on their collective feet again. It wasn't the electric atmosphere of last season, but he gave them hope.
A defenseman was the Kings' best offensive weapon.
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Ten prospects to watch in the MWL
Dayton's Hamilton, Rodriguez lead parade of top talent
By John Parker / Special to MLB.com | April 4, 2011 6:00 AM ET
Here's a look at 10 of the Midwest League's top prospects heading into 2011.
Oswaldo Arcia, OF -- Beloit Snappers
Arcia, who won't turn 20 until next month, was named the Appalachian League Player of the Year last season after posting a .375/.424/.672 line and displaying power to all fields. The left-handed hitter's biggest challenge in his first full season will be to cut down on his strikeouts -- last year he fanned 67 times in 64 games and struck out in nearly 24 percent of his plate appearances.
Yordy Cabrera, SS -- Burlington Bees
A second-round Draft choice in 2010, Cabrera made a brief pro debut last summer in the Arizona League, but the Athletics will learn a lot more about him in Burlington. He has a tremendous throwing arm and huge power, which make him intriguing at shortstop and even if he has to move to third base eventually. Beyond that, though, his game is raw and will need to develop in the Midwest League
Nick Castellanos, 3B -- West Michigan Whitecaps
A supplemental first-round Draft pick last June, Castellanos was one of the most highly touted high school players in the country. The 6-foot-4 right-hander has already been tabbed as the second-best prospect in the Tigers organization despite having just seven pro games under his belt. A shortstop in high school, the 19-year-old will spend his first full season adjusting to the hot corner. He recently spoke with MiLB.com.
Few Midwest League players in recent history have the sheer athletic credentials of Hamilton, who averaged 35 points and 10 assists as a high school senior in basketball, signed a letter of intent to play football at Mississippi State and led all Short-Season players with 48 stolen bases (in 69 games) for Billings last season. The switch-hitter's blazing speed is the key to his game and should provide a spark atop the Dragons' batting order.
Zach Lee, RHP -- Great Lakes Loons
Though he has yet to throw a pitch as a pro, Lee is already rated by some as the Dodgers' premier prospect. One of the top high school pitchers in last year's Draft, Lee fell to the 28th overall pick because of his commitment to Louisiana State, where he was to play quarterback as well as pitch. The Dodgers coaxed Lee away from the gridiron with a franchise-record $5.25 million signing bonus. The 6-foot-4 right-hander may not begin the season with the Loons, but expect to see him and his 95-mph fastball sometime this summer.
Carlos Martinez, RHP -- Quad Cities River Bandits
The 19-year-old Martinez was virtually unhittable in the Dominican Summer League last season, posting a 0.76 ERA with 78 strikeouts in 59 innings. He's slated to continue his preparation in extended Spring Training, working with Palm Beach pitching coach Dennis Martinez, before joining the River Bandits later this summer. The young fireballer can touch 97-99 mph with his fastball and comfortably pitches in the mid-90s while showing potential for a plus curveball as well.
Carlos Perez, C -- Lansing Lugnuts
With J.P. Arencibia and Travis d'Arnaud, the Blue Jays are already flush with solid catching prospects. Add 20-year-old Venezuelan Carlos Perez to the mix after he hit .298 with a .396 on-base percentage for Class A Short-Season Auburn last season. Though lacking power, Perez is patient at the plate and effective on the bases, racking up eight triples and seven stolen bases in 66 games with the Doubledays in 2010. He also has a plus arm behind the plate, having thrown out 49 percent of base stealers in the Gulf Coast League in 2009 and 36 percent last year.
Yorman Rodriguez, CF -- Dayton Dragons
Still just 19 years old, the Venezuelan-born Rodriguez already has two seasons in the Reds system under his belt. Last season, his second with Billings in the Pioneer League, he batted .339 while driving in 39 runs in 43 games. With plus speed and a plus arm, Rodriguez joins shortstop Billy Hamilton to give the Dragons of the most athletic lineups in the Minor Leagues.
Donavan Tate, OF -- Fort Wayne TinCaps
The son of former NFL running back Lars Tate, Donavan has struggled with injuries since the Padres made him the third overall pick in the 2009 Draft, luring him away from a two-sport career at the University of North Carolina with a franchise-record $6.25 million signing bonus. The 20-year-old batted .222 with 41 strikeouts in 25 games with the AZL Padres last season but is a five-tool player and still considered among the best prospects in the San Diego system.
LeVon Washington, OF -- Lake County Captains
Washington was initially selected by Tampa Bay in the first round of the 2009 Draft, but did not sign after a contentious negotiation process. The Indians took him in the second round last June and signed him just before the deadline, giving them a speedy and athletic outfielder with an advanced hitting approach. The lefty hitter collected four hits and three RBIs in three Arizona Rookie League games last season and will look to finally make his mark in pro ball in 2011.
John Parker is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Julianne and Navin were married in both an American and Indian ceremony Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston, Mass. on July 6. "From the beautifully landscaped grounds to the multiple breathing greenhouses, our chosen venue was one-of-a-kind," Julianne said. The Indian ceremony was first featuring a vibrant red and orange color scheme while the American ceremony was second featuring a lavender and sage green color scheme. Cocktail hour was in between. One of the bride's favorite moments was "when we recited our personal vows," she said."But then, the next day, my grandmother told me it was one of the best weddings that she had ever been to, and my grandfather was sore from dancing too much." Doesn't that make your heart melt? One of the groom's favorite moments? His bride! The reception was decorated with all white circular tables and chiavari chairs, burlap table runners, and tall floral centerpieces, and table names named after flowers.
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Blake Shelton To Release New Album Next Month
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Blake Shelton has new music on the way. A post on the country star's website says he'll have a new album in stores next month.
Bringing Back the Sunshine is due September 30th. The post includes an image of the cover art, which features a black-and-white photo of a water tower that reads "Ada," the name of the singer's Oklahoma hometown, with rays of sunlight breaking through dark clouds overhead.
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Bringing Back the Sunshine is Shelton's follow up to his 2013 effort, Based on a True Story... That album has yielded five chart-topping hits, including Blake's current single, "My Eyes" featuring Gwen Sebastian.


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Montgomery Gentry honoring local heroes with 'Thank You' campaign
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Montgomery Gentry is looking for some local heroes. The duo's Troy Gentry tells TasteOfCountry.com that they're always proud to support the troops. But he explains that with everything that's been going on in America - such as the Oklahoma tornadoes and the fires in Houston - there are so many more heroes that go without being thanked.
Troy says in addition to local police, firefighters, and other first responders, "it could be a mom, it could be a dad, it could be a teacher," and he and Eddie Montgomery want to celebrate them as well.
As a result they've launched a "Thank You" campaign that allows people to submit names of people who've made a difference, and at every Montgomery Gentry show this year he and Eddie will give that person "a taste of backstage and honor them in their community." Details are available at MontgomeryGentry.com.
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LONG BEACH - Long Beach City College is planning to lay off 55 employees and reduce contracts for 96 positions in an effort to cut $5.1million from its budget, officials announced Wednesday.
LBCC President Eloy Oakley said the cuts are necessary to offset years of declining state revenue. The layoffs will include classified and management staff and will not affect faculty at this time, he said.
In a phone interview on Wednesday, Oakley said the decision for layoffs has been "gut-wrenching."
"It's been a terrible process because we very much value all of our employees who give so much of their lives," he said. "The state of California has made a decision to defund our colleges, and it doesn't leave us much choice. We've tried to get by in the last three years with the hopes that the state would turn itself around, but that hasn't happened."
The layoffs and reductions require approval from the Board of Trustees. The board will consider the matter at its regular meeting on April 24.
Proposed cuts to classified staff include eliminating 43 positions and reducing an additional 96 positions from 12-month to 11- or 10-month contracts. Classified staff are employees who are not required to hold teaching credentials, such as secretaries, custodians, maintenance workers and instructional aids.
Oakley said many of the 96 positions will include instructional aides, whose contracts will be scaled back due to cuts in the number of courses offered in the summer and winter sessions.
This year, LBCC will offer a brief, six-week summer session for 750 students - about 25 percent less than what the college offered three years ago, Oakley said.
Management staff will also be reduced by 12 positions.
The 55 total layoffs amount to about 10 percent of the college's staff.
LBCC this year saw an unanticipated loss of $3.5 million in mid-year state funding cuts. That came on top of a $7.2 million loss in revenue over the past three years. Overall, the college has seen a 7.4 percent reduction in state funding.
Oakley said LBCC is preparing to permanently reduce expenditures by at least $5 million for the 2012-2013 fiscal year.
The college could see an additional loss of $4.8 million in funding if Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed November tax initiative fails to pass, he added. In that worse-case scenario, LBCC will face an additional $4 million to $5 million in cuts in January.
Reductions in staffing are necessary to help balance the college's budget, Oakley said, noting that 87 percent of the budget consists of employee salaries and benefits.
Even with the planned $5.1 million reduction, the college is still facing a $7 million deficit from its $150 million general fund, he added.
"The ($5.1 million) doesn't completely close the gap, but it will help us go forward," he said.
Oakley said LBCC will continue to prepare for additional difficult budgetary choices over the remainder of the year.
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Banning police arrested a man Sunday after he broke into a house, held officers at bay and lit the residence on fire before he was arrested.
Jose Alvarez, 22, of Banning, was booked into Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning on suspicion of arson and burglary.
Police received a call at 5:06 p.m. regarding a man who was throwing rocks and objects at cars and people in the 1900 block of West Ramsey Street.
The man had jumped into a nearby backyard on 21st Street by the time officers arrived. Police spotted him inside a vacant home and ordered him to come out, but he refused.
Police later noticed smoke coming from the home. The man stayed inside the burning residence for several minutes before climbing out a window. He was arrested at the scene.
Cal Fire firefighters came to the home at 5:33 p.m. and contained the blaze by 6:13 p.m., but the home had sustained severe damage.
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CORONA, CA – AVT Inc. said it has awarded exclusive distributorship of its Marley Coffee Automated Stores in Florida's three most populous counties to Mad Chiller Coffee LLC.
The distributorship covers Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, and includes Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton. Owners Chad Miller and Adon Williams, who has operated a Tampa-based vending company, will head up operations at Mad Chiller.
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In recent tv ads and trailers for TRON: Uprising we get a look at Beck fighting against someone that appears to be very simmilar to Rinzler. In the trailer you can hear a rough sounding Rinzler (voiced by Bruce B.) ask Beck "You're not afraid?" Beck responds by simply saying "No" then Rinzler says "You should be" This new tv series just might end up being canon!
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Report: Montana hospital employee discouraged client from reporting sexual assault
HELENA, Mont. — The chief investigator of a state-run hospital in Montana encouraged a mentally disabled woman to recant her accusation that a staffer sexually assaulted her, officials have found.
The investigator, Keith Reeder, also discouraged another Montana Developmental Center employee from taking the woman to a hospital or taking any action that would bring the attention of outside law enforcement, an investigative report into the 2010 allegations said.
Two years later, the hospital staffer, Allen Whetstone, is serving a five-year prison term after pleading guilty to sexual assault. Reeder still works for the hospital for the developmentally disabled after state health officials cleared him of wrongdoing.
"I never covered up anything," Reeder said Thursday in a brief interview.
Department of Public Health and Human Services spokesman Jon Ebelt said his agency conducted its own probe in 2010 that found Reeder "complied with department policy and conducted himself in a professional manner."
Jefferson County Attorney Matt Johnson said his office examined whether Reeder could be charged with not reporting a sexual assault, but he was uncertain there was enough evidence against him and hoped the health department would address those personnel issues in some way.
"I would have to say I'm not sure if they were addressed adequately or not," Johnson said.
In May 2010, a 29-year-old patient at the hospital told an employee that Whetstone assaulted her when they were alone in a secluded room, according to the investigative report.
Whetstone, who was her work supervisor, gave the patient a bag of Skittles and told her to keep silent or he would get in trouble. The patient told another hospital employee, and the report ended up with Reeder, the hospital's chief investigator and client protection specialist.
Reeder met briefly with the patient before he told Leigh Ann Holmes, a qualified mental retardation professional, that the woman had recanted the allegation.
Later, the woman told a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy that Reeder told her to take back the story and said that if she was lying, she would be moved to a special locked-down part of the campus. She became worried that her request to move into group housing would be denied and she also worried about the fate of Whetstone, whom she had called her friend.
"She said Reeder told her to change her story because Whetstone could get into a lot of trouble and maybe even lose his job," the investigative report said.
Reeder was placed on administrative leave while the health department looked into the allegations against him.
Holmes told investigators that Reeder discouraged her from driving the woman to a Helena hospital, saying the rape examination would be too traumatic for her. He also discouraged her from taking any other action that would bring the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office into the investigation, according to the report.
Investigators said Reeder had rejected previous allegations of sexual abuse against Whetstone in 2006 and 2008 as being inconclusive. At one point, Reeder was warned not to interview any more possible victims before forensic interviewers spoke to them or it "would be considered obstruction of a criminal investigation."
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HOUSTON -- The Cleveland Indians broke out of their offensive slump in a big way on Saturday night.
Now manager Terry Francona is hoping his team can keep it up.
Jason Giambi, Mark Reynolds and Carlos Santana homered, leading the Indians to a 19-6 victory over the Houston Astros.
"We did a good job tonight," Francona said. "The idea now is to be consistent. You're certainly not going to put up those kind of numbers nightly, but try to bounce back tomorrow and go get them again."
Giambi had five RBIs and Reynolds drove in four runs, but Scott Kazmir was unable to get the win in his first major league appearance since he recorded five outs in a start for the Los Angeles Angels at Kansas City on April 3, 2011. The left-hander allowed six runs and seven hits in 3 1/3 innings.
Cleveland roughed up Philip Humber (0-4) and finished with 22 hits while stopping a five-game slide. It was the highest scoring game for the Indians since a 19-1 victory at Kansas City on May 16, 2011, and their most hits since they had 25 in a 22-4 win at the New York Yankees on April 18, 2009.
Humber recorded just one out on the eve of the anniversary of his perfect game. He was charged with eight runs and eight hits.
"It's tough to make any adjustments," he said. "It seemed like they were jumping on the first thing I threw over the plate every time and hitting the ball hard."
The Indians managed just 11 runs and 33 hits during their losing streak. The 42-year-old Giambi was 1-for-12 for a .083 batting average coming into the game. His big day raised his average to .188.
Corey Kluber (1-0) pitched four innings of two-hit ball to get the win.
Brandon Barnes hit a two-run homer and Brandon Laird had a solo shot, but it wasn't nearly enough for Houston.
The Indians had nine consecutive batters reach with one out in the first. Giambi belted a two-run double and Reynolds hit a three-run shot.
"I think it helps guys feel better about themselves," Francona said. "I thought they did a good job of that going into the game, but I do think it helps guys loosen up a little bit."
Indians shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera left in the middle of the first inning with a bruised left wrist. Francona said he was injured about five minutes before the game when he slipped down the stairs in the dugout and broke his fall with his left hand. X-rays were negative, and Francona said he was already feeling better after the game.
Cleveland added six more runs in the second, taking advantage of two errors by Houston. Dallas Keuchel also walked Michael Brantley to force home a run.
Nick Swisher tied a career high with four hits, including a career-best three of Cleveland's seven doubles, and Brantley added three RBIs.
"It was finally nice to go out there and relax and know we were in control of the game and just have some fun," Reynolds said. "It's what we talked about before the game was just to have fun."
It was the most runs and hits allowed by Houston since Colorado had 25 hits in a 19-3 victory on Sept. 25, 2011.
Kazmir pitched last season in nearby Sugar Land, Texas for the Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League before signing a minor league contract with the Indians in January.
The 29-year-old started the season on the disabled list with a rib cage strain. He grew up in Houston and Saturday was his first career game at Minute Maid Park.
"I was a little jittery, I definitely had some nerves going," he said. "Overall, stuff I can take out of this start and bring into my next start is what not to do, I guess. I just kind of never really got into the swing of things, the flow of the game throughout my whole outing."
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Chipmunks Christmas (2012)
This mid-priced title draws upon the two volumes of Christmas with the Chipmunks, which were issued in the early '60s and quickly became seasonal ... Show synopsis This mid-priced title draws upon the two volumes of Christmas with the Chipmunks, which were issued in the early '60s and quickly became seasonal traditions for kids of all ages, although in the wake of Beatlemania many thought that the Chipmunks were a clever rodent-related rip on the Fab Four. In reality, the name was actually suggested by the children of multimedia mastermind Ross Bagdasarian. In fact, the moniker dated back to his 1958 hit novelty platter, "Witch Doctor." Although fictitious, the names of the primary characters, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore, were a nod to Liberty Records higher-ups Al Bennett (Alvin) and Si Waronker (Simon) as well as the label's sound engineer, Ted Keep (Theodore). These three typical adolescent vermin were cared for by the bachelor/father human personality named Dave Seville. The concept even spawned a weekly prime-time animated television program called The Alvin Show , which aired from October 14, 1961, through September 12, 1962, on CBS-TV. In terms of musicality, the vari-speed manipulated recording may seem a tad trite (or exceedingly nerve-grating) to modern listeners. However, what better way to introduce the joys of traditional holiday music than with an infectiously funny and at times simply silly trio of highly identifiable icons, who are also a child's emotional and psychological peers. A cursory glance at the track listing reveals a host of familiar favorites such as "Deck the Halls," "Up on the House-Top," "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town," "All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)," and Bagdasarian's "Wonderful Day," as well as the one that started it all, "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)." ~ Lindsay Planer, Rovi
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Look at what you can make out of 'Minecraft.' Just look at it.
Neither the idea nor the mods necessary are by me—I just went some lengths in order to get it to run with 'Minecraft 1.8.1,' the latest version. Actually two nights ago I was browsing videos of photorealistic mods for GTA4 when YouTube suggested AnonimusSVer's video called '↑Photorealistic Minecraft! Shaders + HD Texture Pack + Physics Mod (GTX 760).' It completely stunned me. Instantly I loved the absurd idea of a 3D-world completely made of cubes, but clad in photorealism, and the strange atmosphere it creates. So I set out to recreate it, which needed some research and searching around.
First I installed the 'GLSL Shaders Mod' and then 'Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders' (SEUS)—the result blew me from my chair already. Next I patched the profile now created in the Minecraft-launcher with the 'MCPatcher HD fix.' Finally I installed the 'LB photo realism x256' resource pack. And that's it, but …
… if you do all that, your 'Minecraft' may well crash on you. Very likely, indeed. To avoid that ↑first make sure that you've got the latest 'Java Runtime Environment' installed. Then, and this is crucial as the textures already are of some size, ↑allocate more RAM to the Minecraft-profile you are using. I allocated a healthy 8GB of RAM to the modded and patched profile. It now runs absolutely fluent and despite of all the modding I can see ten chunks far without any problems whatsoever. [I take it for granted that your graphics drivers are up-to-date ;o]
See below for due credit, complete information, and links for all mods and software employed.
The following three pictures show the exact same view. The first one as vanilla 'Minecraft' gives it to you. The second one as the 'SEUS' ultra shader renders the default textures. For the third one I combined the shader with Scuttle's photorealism textures … just look at it.
Meanwhile everybody playing '↵Watch Dogs' (Ubisoft Montreal 2014) seems to know about the dealer's showroom in ↑The Loop where you can easily steal a ↑Scafati GT, the most lamborghini-ish of all ↑cars in the game. There are videos on YouTube and more information around the Net explaining the feat. Just walk into the store, enter a car, drive it through the glass panes of one of the floor-to-ceiling windows, and off you go. I already had driven two Scafati GTs, stolen on the street, but nevertheless wanted to see the showroom.
When I reached it in an orange ↑336-TT—it already was that dirty when I picked it up at a Motel's parking lot—I saw that there were only two cars on display in the vast room. Which gave me an idea …
How about filling up the showroom with sportscars, instead of stealing them from there? There's no ↵suitcase to be found at the station, so something else has to be done in the game.
The 336-TT to my eye is a mix out of a Porsche 959/969, 911 and an Opel GT—but the front's shape definitely resembles a Lamborghini Miura. So it makes a nice pair with the Diablo/Gallardo and something else mix the Scafati GT is. Both being orange was a lucky coincidence. … the guy on the left doesn't like orange or just has no sense at all for automotive history.
Having the first two arranged nicely I set out to get the next sportscar. But when I returned with it, both orange cars had disappeared. Instead there was only one red Scafati GT now. As someone has said in a comment somewhere—it's not ↑GTA, and there's no place for storing cars. Well, let's see …
Here you can see me just having delivered number three. Meanwhile it got dark and rain poured. The trick seems to be not to walk too far away from the showroom. As The Loop is a glitzy and wealthy 'hood, chances are that you'll find sportscars in close vicinity.
The best I could achieve was to get six cars into the showroom. The two Scafati GTs which already were there, a red and a black one; a silvergrey ↑Boxberg R1; two ↑Sunrims, one red and one yellowish green: and a ↑Papavero Stealth Edition. The green Sunrim was the end of the streak, because the police followed me after I had stolen it by dragging its possessor from the steering wheel. After my release from custody the cars of course were gone again. In the ↑words of the immortal Freddie Mercury: 'I'm gonna go go go there's no stopping meeee' …
Once more I managed to cram six cars into the showroom. See how neatly I parked them in order to get more cars into my indoor parking lot? You guessed it, they disappeared. Enough is enough, I am leaving this place—I heard that there's a Papavero dealership in the ↑Mad Mile—maybe their showroom is more stable …
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Artist and composer ↑Ben[jamin] Grosser, currently teaching at the School of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, two days ago has published his fine article "↓What do metrics want? How quantification prescribes social interaction on Facebook." Here's the abstract:
The Facebook interface is filled with numbers that count users' friends, comments, and "likes." By combining theories of agency in artworks and materials with a software studies analysis of quantifications in the Facebook interface, this paper examines how these metrics prescribe sociality within the site's online social network. That prescription starts with the transformation of the human need for personal worth, within the confines of capitalism, into an insatiable "desire for more." Audit culture and business ontology enculturate a reliance on quantification to evaluate whether that desire has been fulfilled. These conditions compel Facebook's users to reimagine both self and friendship in quantitative terms, and situates them within a graphopticon, a self-induced audit of metricated social performance where the many watch the metrics of the many. The theoretical analyses presented are further considered and examined in practice using the author's artistic software, Facebook Demetricator. In use by thousands worldwide since late 2012, this software removes all metrics from the Facebook interface, inviting the site's users to try the system without the numbers and to see how that removal changes their experience. Feedback from users of Facebook Demetricator illuminates how metrics activate the "desire for more," driving users to want more "likes," more comments, and more friends. Further, the metrics lead users to craft self-imposed rules around the numbers that guide them on how, when, and with whom to interact. Facebook Demetricator, through its removal of the metrics, both reveals and eases these patterns of prescribed sociality, enabling a social media culture less dependent on quantification.
In addition to his substantial contributions to science (see Bogolyubov, Mikhailov & Yushkevich 2007) the eminent swiss mathematician and physicist ↑Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) also wrote texts accessible to the general public. Eulers didactics are absolutely admirable because you can dive into both 'Elements of Algebra' (1770) and 'Letters of Euler on different subjects in physics and philosophy addressed to a german princess' (1768-1774) without presuppositions, without any previous knowledge whatsoever. His 'Elements of Algebra' begin at virtually nothing and then build up to unforeseen heights. Here is in full the beginning of chapter one of section one of part one, which simply is headed 'Of mathematics in general:'
1. Whatever is capable of increase or diminution, is called magnitude, or quantity.
A sum of money therefore is a quantity, since we may increase it or diminish it. It is the same with a weight, and other things of this nature.
2. From this definition, it is evident that the different kinds of magnitude must be so various, as to render it difficult to enumerate them and this is the origin of the different branches of Mathematics, each being employed on a particular kind of magnitude. Mathematics, in general, is the science of quantity; or, the science which investigates the means of measuring quantity.
3. Now, we cannot measure or determine any quantity, except by considering some other quantity of the same kind as known, and point out their mutual relation. If it were proposed, for example, to determine the quantity of a sum of money, we should take some known piece of money, as a louis, a crown, a ducat, or some other coin, and show how many of these pieces are contained in a given sum. In the same manner, if it were proposed to determine the quantity of a weight, we should take a certain known weight; for example, a pound, and ounce, &c., and then show how many times one of these weights is contained in that which we are endeavouring to ascertain. If we wished to measure any length, or extension, we should make use of some known length, such as a foot.
4. So that the determination, or the measure of magnitude of all kinds, is reduced to this: fix at pleasure upon any one known magnitude of the same species with that which is to be determined, and consider it as the measure or unit; then, determine the proportion of the proposed magnitude to this known measure. This proportion is always expressed by numbers; so that a number is nothing but the proportion of one magnitude to another, arbitrarily assumed a unit.
5. From this it appears that all magnitudes may be expressed by numbers; and that the foundation of all the Mathematical Sciences must be laid in a complete treatise on the science of numbers, and in an accurate examination of the different possible methods of calculation. (Euler 1822 [1770]: 1-2 | bold emphasis mine)
Now compare this to what ↑Henri Poincaré wrote on 'science and hypothesis'—for the full passage of the text see ↵poincaré on sts:
[…] the position held by hypothesis was seen ; it was recognised that it is as necessary to the experimenter as it is to the mathematician.
[…] we should examine with the utmost care the role of hypothesis ; we shall then recognise not only that it is necessary, but that in most cases it is legitimate. We shall also see that there are several kinds of hypotheses; that some are verifiable, and when once confirmed by experiment become truths of great fertility; that others may be useful to us in fixing our ideas; and finally, that others are hypotheses only in appearance, and reduce to definitions or to conventions in disguise. The latter are to be met with especially in mathematics , and in the sciences to which it is applied. From them, indeed, the sciences derive their rigour ; such conventions are the result of the unrestricted activity of the mind, which in this domain recognises no obstacle. For here the mind may affirms because it lays down its own laws ; but let us clearly understand that while these laws are imposed on our science, which otherwise could not exist, they are not imposed on Nature.
[…] the aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relations between things; outside those relations there is no reality knowable. (Poincaré 1905 [1902]: xxi-xxiv)
And for the sake of it, here is the German original of the above Euler-quote, 'Von den mathematischen Wissenschaften überhaupt:':
Erstlich wird alles dasjenige eine Größe genennt, welches einer Vermehrung oder einer Verminderung fähig ist, oder wozu sich noch etwas hinzusetzen oder davon wegnehmen läßt.
Diesemnach ist eine Summa Gelds eine Größe, weil sich dazu setzen und hinweg nehmen läßt.
Ingleichen ist auch ein Gewicht eine Größe und dergleichen mehr.
Es giebt also sehr viel verschiedene Arten von Größen, welche sich nicht wohl herzehlen laßen; und daher entstehen die verschiedene Theile der Mathematic, deren eine jegliche mit einer besondern Art von Größen beschäftiget ist, indem die Mathematic überhaupt nichts anders ist als eine Wißenschaft der Größen, und welche Mittel ausfündig macht, wie man dieselben ausmeßen soll.
Es läßt sich aber eine Größe nicht anders bestimmen oder ausmeßen, als daß man eine Größe von eben derselben Art als bekannt annimt, und das Verhältniß anzeiget, worinnen eine jegliche Größe, von eben der Art, gegen derselben steht.
Also wann die Größe einer Summa Gelds bestimmt werden soll, so wird ein gewißes Stück Geld als z. E. ein Gulden, ein Rubel, ein Thaler, oder ein Ducaten und dergleichen für bekannt angenommen, und angezeigt wie viel dergleichen Stücke in gemeldeter Summa Gelds enthalten sind.
Eben so wann die Größe eines Gewichts bestirnt werden soll, so wird ein gewißes Gewicht als z. E. ein Pfund, ein Centner, oder ein Loth und dergleichen für bekannt angenommen, und angezeigt wie viel derselben in dem vorigen Gewicht enthalten sind.
Soll aber eine Länge oder eine Weite ausgemeßen werden, so pfleget man sich darzu einer gewißen bekannten Länge, welche ein Fuß genennet wird, zu bedienen.
Bey Bestimmungen, oder Ausmeßungen der Größen von allen Arten, kommt es also darauf an, daß erstlich eine gewiße bekannte Größe von gleicher Art fest gesetzet werde (welche das Maaß, oder die Einheit, genennet wird) und also von unserer Willkühr lediglich abhängt; hernach daß man bestimme in was für einem Verhältniß die vorgegebene Größe gegen dieses Maaß stehe, welches jederzeit durch Zahlen angezeigt wird, so daß eine Zahl nichts anders ist als das Verhältniß, worinnen eine Größe gegen eine andere, welche für die Einheit angenommen wird, steht.
Hieraus ist klar, daß sich alle Größen, durch Zahlen ausdrücken laßen, und also der Grund aller Mathematischen Wißenschaften darin gesetzt werden muß, daß man die Lehre von den Zahlen, und alle Rechnungs-Arten, so dabey vorkommen können, genau in Erwegung ziehe, und vollständig abhandele.
Obviously I am not at all informed, let alone up to date—granted. But then again this wasn't really to be expected. Not that I'd have any time for it whatsoever, but nevertheless last Saturday I suddenly decided that it was high time to finally play 'Grand Theft Auto V' (GTA 5 | Rockstar 2013 [sort of 2013])—in a minute I'll come back to why I so suddenly longed for GTA 5. As I like having my games on physical data storage media, neatly arranged on the shelf, I set out towards my regular shop. The game already hit the store-shelves in September 2013, so my hopes were high that I'd get it at a heavy discount. Even triple-A titles like that rapidly drop prizes and currently you can get e.g. 'Dishonored' (Arkane Studios 2012), 'Assasin's Creed III' (Ubisoft Montreal 2012a), or 'Far Cry 3' (Ubisoft Montreal 2012b) as absolute bargains. Already from just halfways through the shop I could identify the distinctive GTA design on the cover of a dozen or so boxes displayed on the according shelf. When I stood right in front of it I gasped and thought, 'that I do call a prize-drop!' as the GTA 5 box said € 5,-. Very much in doubt, and restraining myself from looking if they offered GTA 4 for € 4,-, I picked up the case and read … 'pre-order box.' My, my, those marketing- and shop-keeping geniusses these days—displaying pre-order boxes for a game that was released more than a year ago. Toodle-oo … wait a minute, it also says '27th January,' but GTA 5 was released in September '13 … and then it dawned on me. Quickly checking the Wikipedia-entry on my phone confirmed my worsed fears: Back then it was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and towards the end of January 2015 they will release it for the PC. And there they went, my hopes for getting a triple-A title on a bargain. In January they will charge us PC-gamers the full prize for a game 16 months old. But then again I still am playing 'Quake Live' (QL | id Software 2010), which essentially is 'Quake III Arena' (Q3A | id Software 1999), a meanwhile 15 years old game.
Inevitably the price for the PC-version of GTA 5 naturally will drop, too—so what? Why then does that bother me at all? Because of two reasons on slightly different but interconnected levels.
First, the universes of especially big, story-driven games are mythical territories in which the members of the gaming scenes collectively partake. (Knorr 2012a, b, c) It's not only the action and the storyline, but all kinds of artistic content and the atmosphere a game generates which are embraced. This embracing works together with, acts out and adds upon an inner universe—a personal conglomeration of ambiences, sentiments, æsthetics, and narrative content, built from a lifetime of digesting popular culture, and of assimilating its modes of representation into ones own conceptions of life. Titles like those of the GTA-series are among those at the forefront of this, because they are choke-full with allusions and citations. This looms an ever larger associative universe and weaves its fabric tighter and tighter. The tradition of ↵easter eggs, little or bigger things within the gameworld, ↵intentionally hidden there to be discovered by the players is one of these qualities. And here's the problem. Especially in open-world games exploring is decisive. Exploring the vast game world and then sharing the explorations and experiences with others online. Well, everything in GTA 5 is already found and done—by the console jockeys. The vast number of let's-play-, stunt-, and easter-egg-videos at YouTube is ample testimony of that. Of course I could ignore everything on GTA 5 at YouTube and the Net in general, but that's not the way titles like that are played. Just like most of the people do not never talk about movies or TV-series they've seen. Quite to the contrary. Talking about movies and learning more about them and their backgrounds from a variety [pun not intended] of sources is an essential dimension of how media are 'consumed.' The same is true for computer games and much of the interaction around them naturally happens online. Since September 2013 PC-gamers are shut out from this interaction in respect to GTA 5. Well, now you could say: Why haven't you bought a console? Which leads me to my second point.
Of course I could've bought a console, or all of them. I did not, mainly because I do not like them very much, I prefer the PC. But my personal preferences are not important here—if at all then only a portion of their backgrounds. The PC is an open all-purpose system. Beyond that my main machine was especially built to cope with high-end games. Now, I've already got an all-purpose machine which is superior to most other systems when it comes to running games … why should I buy a special-purpose machine which is inferior, too [for the moment I do not take into account specialities like the Wii- or Kinect-technology]? The only reason would be because parts of the industry urge me to do so. E.g. by not publishing certain game titles for PC.
Seven years ago ↵John Romero perfectly expressed what I more or less thought at that time, too:
Next-gen console is big but its future isn't too bright with the emergence of cheap PC multi-core processors and the big change the PC industry will go through during the next 5 years to accommodate the new multi-core-centric hardware designs. My prediction is that the game console in the vein of the PS3 and XBOX 360 is going to either undergo a massive rethink or go away altogether.
Well, either that massive rethink has taken place or we were both dead wrong. Leaving the rethink aside, what has happened, and what was not taken in consideration at all back then, is the strategy of creating ever more closed systems instead of open ones, and consolidating them by the powers of the market. The blatant example of course is Apple's closed technological ecosystem iPhone, iPad, iTunes which has begun to swallow their lap- and desktop computers and operating systems, too. Fabulous hardware intentionally crippled. And consoles are closed ecosystems by design. There interpretative flexibility is smaller and creativity dwindles because practices of appropriation like e.g. modding (Knorr 2012c) are made harder. But still there's the PC. Hell, yes, but if I want to play an A-list title, no matter if I officially downloaded it or bought it on DVD, I have to log on to closed ecosystems like Games for Windows, Uplay, Rockstar Social Club, or whatyouhave. If, and only if, the title is out for PC at all.
Erh … didn't think that that would develop into such a rant :) There's way more to it, but I'll leave it at that for the time being, I think.
After the disappointment 'Batman: Arkham Origins' (Warner Bros. Games Montreal 2013) was [and ↑Jaz is with me here, giving good reasons, why it was disappointing], Rocksteady Studios is at the helm again and 'Batman: Arkham Knight' (Rocksteady 2015) is scheduled for release on 02 June 2015. After their glorious games 'Batman: Arkham Asylum' (2009) and 'Batman: Arkham City' (2011) I am absolutely convinced that Rocksteady will do it again. Just like The Creative Assembly just recently saved the Alien-franchise with the fantastic 'Alien: Isolation' (2014) after Gearbox Software nearly had ruined it with the godawful 'Aliens: Colonial Marines' (2013).
But I digress. What I really want to talk about, again, is the ever growing impact of what I call the ↵cyberpunk discourse—up to it hijacking other genres. For example the cyberpunk discourse infested the zombie genre [see ↵omega legend for that, and, more elaborated, including computer games, and just recently printed, Knorr 2014].
And there's yet more hijacking.
Have you noticed that today's two biggest superhero franchises from the two big comic book universes, Marvel and DC, are about superheroes without any superpowers whatsoever? Instead, both Iron Man and Batman heavily rely on technology. With Iron Man it's obvious. His superhuman abilities are due to his exoskeleton armour. It's all the suit as Steve 'Captain America' Rogers (Chris Evans) ↑tried to point out to Tony 'Iron Man' Stark (Robert Downey jr.) in 'The Avengers' (Whedon 2012):
Steve Rogers: Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?
Tony Stark: Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
Steve Rogers: I know guys with none of that worth ten of you. I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you.
Tony Stark: I think I would just cut the wire.
Steve Rogers: Always a way out … You know, you may not be a threat, but you better stop pretending to be a hero.
Tony Stark: A hero? Like you? You're a lab rat, Rogers. Everything special about you came out of a bottle!
Both their superhero personas are products of technology. And here's yet more to it, too. To the list of what Tony Stark sees himself to be we could add 'potential alcoholic' and 'troubled personality' among other things. In a nutshell, despite of his armour's fine design he's not a streamlined hero, but a hardboiled character. So is Bruce 'Batman' Wayne. His deeply traumatized noir personality is drastically rendered in Christopher Nolan's dark movie trilogy (2005, 2008, 2012) which truly made the franchise into what it now is [↵hugo strange gives a bit of further background].
But back from the depths of hardboiled film noir character psychology to the, equally deep-reaching, surfaces of design. Reviewing the until now available still and moving images from 'Batman: Arkham Knight' gave me the impression that Batman gets ever more similar to Iron Man. Compare Batman's new costume, a suit of armour really, to the ↑Iron Man Suit Mark VII designed by Phil Saunders and digitally sculpted by Josh Herman for 'The Avengers' movie:
Watch the 'Arkham Knight' announce trailer '↑Father to Son' and the gameplay trailer '↑Evening the Odds' to see more of the suit and its exoskeletal robotic qualities in operation. And to see the Batmobile. It really is the vehicle which drove cyberpunkish posthumanism ideas deep down into 'Arkham Knight.' Very revealing in this respect is what Dax Ginn, Brand Marketing Producer at Rocksteady Studios, ↑said at E3 2014:
And then bringing in the Batmobile at any time. You know, we wanted to make sure that the Batmobile feels like an extension of Batman's abilities, that augments Batman's abilities—but is only ever like a second away, a button-press away. You want to be driving, one button-press and it's there, and you seamlessly transition into it. You want to get out of it, you just eject out at any time. So that kind of interplay between man and machine was really the heart and soul of the entire design of the game. (from 00:00:58 on | bold emphasis mine)
Back in August 2006 here at xirdalium I wrote ↵an entry [worthwhile, lots of associations] on Gareth Branwyn's and Peter Sugarman's 1991 HyperCard classic '↑Beyond cyberpunk' [← that's a link to the complete web version]. Now Gareth has published his book 'Borg like me' (Branwyn 2014a) containing a treasure trove of his writing from the past three decades, including an essay (Branwyn 2014b) on the making-of of 'Beyond cyberpunk'. Boingboing has ↑said essay online, and here are some excerpts [water on my mills]:
Peter [Sugarman] and I [Gareth Branwyn] began having regular phone conversations about hypermedia and how it might change the nature of storytelling, media delivery, and information organization and navigation. I'd always been struck by [anthropologist and] cyberneticist ↑Gregory Bateson's idea of forever being mindful to balance "rigor and imagination" in one's pursuit of knowledge. It seemed to Peter and me that hypermedia provided a perfect environment to pursue ideas deeply and rigorously, while engineering in fun, whimsy, and a sense of the unexpected—a kind of orchestrated chaos, a vibrant little media ecology. We began kicking around ideas for a collaborative HyperCard project we could do together. […]
At the time (1990), the Internet was not yet in the media spotlight. So-called cyberculture (where these near-future speculative worlds met the bleeding edge of real-life technoculture) was in its heyday, but known only on the cultural fringes. We could sense that all things "cyber" were about to bust into the mainstream and we wanted to chart the course cyberculture had taken, from its sci-fi and early hacker roots, through the Internet, and soon, we suspected, into everyday, mainstream life.
Well, here it is—to my knowledge the first ↑English-language review of my book 'Cyberanthropology' (2011) [which is in German]. ↑Annika Pissin of Lunds Universitet's project ↑Digital China was so kind as to write a fine review in ↑the project's blog :)
Here's the ↵collection of all the reviews I'm aware of.
It's been almost eight years that I ↵last quoted ↑Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, here at xirdalium. On 1st August 2006 I republished the following sentence from ↑his blog:
When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going [to] end in the USA.
Well, it's more than high time again. Here's what ↑thenextweb wrote recently:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, has come out in support of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, saying that the PRISM surveillance program leak did the world a favor. As a guest editor on the BBC's Radio 4 Today program, Berners-Lee called Snowden a "really important part of the system."
In ↑another article at the BBC I found this:
Mr Snowden [speaking via video link in Austin at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in early March 2014] received a warm reception from the audience, and the question-and-answer session included words of praise in an email from internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who said his actions were "profoundly in the public interest".
And here's the whole Tim Berners-Lee on guest editing Today at BBCR4Today, from 26 December 2013:
Here is a passage from chapter two of ↑Glenn Greenwald's excellent newest book "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State" (2014), which I've recently read:
Finally, Snowden gave me an answer that felt vibrant and real. "The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs," he said. "If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real."
How had he developed this measure for assessing his worth? Where did he derive this belief that he could only be acting morally if he was willing to sacrifice his own interests for the sake of the greater good?
"From a lot of different places, a lot of experiences," Snowden said. He had grown up reading large amounts of Greek mythology and was influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which, he noted, "finds common threads among the stories we all share." The primary lesson he took away from that the book was that "it is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them." People are only that which their actions define them as being. "I don't want to be a person who remains afraid to act in defense of my principles."
This theme, this moral construct for evaluating one's identity and worth, was one he repeatedly encountered on his intellectual path, including, he explained with a hint of embarrassment, from video games. The lesson Snowden had learned from immersion in video games, he said, was that just one person, even the most powerless, can confront great injustice. "The protagonist is often an ordinary person, who finds himself faced with grave injustices from powerful forces and has the choice to flee in fear or to fight for his beliefs. And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries."
He wasn't the first person I'd heard claiming video games had been instrumental in shaping their worldview. Years earlier, I might have scoffed, but I'd come to accept that, for Snowden's generation, they played no less serious a role in molding political consciousness, moral reasoning, and an understanding of one's place in the world than literature, television, and film. They, too, often present complex moral dilemmas and provoke contemplation, especially for people beginning to question what they've been taught. (Greenwald 2014: chpt. 2)


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I recently put a significant number of miles on a two courtesy F30s, one a 2012 and another a 2013. The 2013 did not have any options other than met paint. I believe the MSRP was about $38K. The 2012 had the Tech Package, Power Seats and a Sunroof which put it about $40,400 MSRP. The base price on the 2012 was $35K. I thnk the price on the 13 was increased to account for the standard power seat.
Here are some differences I noticed relative to my X1 S-Drive X-Line w/paddle shifters:
Here are some virtues of the F30 over the X1: has more comfortable base seats; softer and more lateral support. Rear center overhead lighting (LED) is useful; seems brighter than the side lights in the X1. Still has the micro temperature adjustment in the center dash. Has foot lighting under the 4 doors when open. Definitely has less wind noise and better gas mileage on the freeway. I'd say at least 2 MPG better. Rear seat room is significantly more spacious, width and length. It also has adjustable (temp and direction) rear HVAC vents. LED lighting in the trunk (not sure if I like this better but will keep the battery from draining when open). Engine noise was more subdued than the X1 especially in the 2013; I couldn't hear the diesel like clatter at all and at the same time the intake seem to ahve more grunt noise. Perhaps intake noise is piped in to the cabin? One feature that I found on the 2012 was a power montior which indicates peak HP and torque used in the prior past 15 seconds or so. I found this feature when I turned the traction control completely off. Not sure if this feature is associated wth the Tech Package, but it's nothing to desire anyway, just a toy. I do like the Sport setting for the throttle and steering, but the there is no choice not to engage the sport mode in the transmission at the same time. Also it seems you can't turn traction control completely off in Sport mode.
Negatives: much more softly spring and dampended than the standard X1 suspension. Too soft IMHO. The softger ride may be partially due to the taller tire sidewalls used on the 17" wheels since my has the 18". The front suspensions seems to transmit more road noise than the X1. The
equipped on the 2013 were more comfortable than the Perelli Cinturo (sp?) on the 2012. The X1 has one more 12V outlet in the center compartment whereas the F30 only has the USB connection under the center compartment. The 2012 did not seem to have any more standard freatures as a base X1 other than i-Drive and Sport mode for the steering and throttle response; don't like how the screen sticks up in the middle of the dash anyway. The 2013 has the power seats but cost is reflected in the base price. The steering wheel is much better in the X1 than the F30 base. The leather feels like sand paper and it much skinnier than the sport wheel in the X1. The CC is on the streering wheel buttons instead of a dedicated stock which I prefer. The X1 also has the alarm standard. The HVAC did not have an ALL button to coordinate the temp on both sides. Overall I did NOT feel the interior was of better quality than the X1. I like the design of the X1 dash much better and the trim (wood or silver) on door panels are not as nicely placed. The dash layout reminded me of an American car... The switch gear for the HVAC seem lower in quality. Can't access the radio w/o the use of the i-Drive. My X1 transmission seems to shift faster and more sharply than both the F30, but they were equipped with the paddles ( which means no Sport Transmission in the F30). Not sure if the transmission are any different, prob just software, but the Standard F30 seems to have a softer shift if not also a little slower in D or Manual. Steering felt a little lighter than my EPS Servo equipped X1 and it did not seem to tighten up with speed like my Servo X1. It appears to tighten with Sport Mode only. The Head-up display in the Tech Pkg car was hideous IMHO. I had to turn it off because it was distracting and giving me a headache. It's useless anyway; who needs to know their speed at every second. I'd rather have a tach displayed. Shifter is larger and not as nice more black plastic and less silver metal. The sifter did feel better for manual shifting tough because it's taller. The trunk is about the same size (based on the family luggage I had), but the X1 is more flexible in height so I could fit a bit more.
The 2013 instrument cluster is slightly different than the 12. The 13 has an analogue MPG gauge like in the X1 and the 12 has digital one. I like the analog much better. The gear indicator is also harder to read on the 12. I think it's on the left dial instead of btwn the two main dials.
Needless to say I was glad to jump back into my X1. It feels much more like a sports car even though the CG is higher. It feels more controlled when driven agressively.
Hopefully this review is helpful for those pondering btwn the two cars. Keep in mind that I'm comparting cars that are very close in cost. Not sure how an F30 with Sport Line / M Sport would compare.
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The Top 5 Southern AZ Weekend Trips — as voted on by Experience AZ readers:
1326 W. Highway 92, #9,
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(520) 432-5421
Bisbee was founded in 1880 and has since evolved into an artist colony and retirement community emphasizing monthly events and tourism. Travelers from all over the world come to Bisbee to savor its unique charm … a blend of creativity, friendliness, style, romance and adventure wrapped in the splendor of the Old West.
P.O. Box 1866,
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(520) 398-2704
Located in the Santa Cruz River Valley, Tubac has a 250-year-old Spanish history. Tubac is the perfect shoppers' paradise with more than 80 galleries and shops that feature hand-crafted items, sculpture, paintings, clothing and some of Southern Arizona's best import shops. Tubac is also the gateway to birding, hiking, and mountain biking.
P.O. Box 813,
Tombstone, AZ 85638
(520) 457-3884
The name Tombstone creates images of gunfights and dusty streets, whiskey and Faro games, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and a plethora of old Western movie scenes. Tombstone has been called "The Town Too Tough to Die."
100 S. Church Ave.,
Tucson, AZ 85701
(800) 638-8350
Although a growing metropolis, Tucson is rich with history and culture. Whether you come to visit the Old Tucson Studios, the Kitt Peak National Observatory, hike a trail or two at Saguaro National Park, or visit the University of Arizona's campus, Tucson makes for a memorable day trip.
P.O. Box 607,
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Sonoita: "A short drive from where you are, to where you want to be." Located in the heart of Arizona's Wine Country, head to Sonoita for its nine, award-winning wineries, go horseback riding or bicycling, or simply take the trip to surround yourself with the views of breathtaking mountain peaks and rolling hills.
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