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Hey this is Reuben with Competition Accessories and we just wanted to make a quick video on how you change the face shield out on the Arai helmet. A lot of people get intimidated by Arai helmet face shields because of the side pod they have where you cant see whats going behind it. What we have done on this helmet here is we installed a clear pod so we could give you a better look at the inner workings of the base plate mechanism and show you how it works. Basically to remove the face shield what I want you to see is this little gray lever here, there are one of those on each side of the helmet. When you raise your shield to the top position those will pop out. Now if your helmet is a little older or a little worn out they might not pop all the way out like a brand new helmet. With the face shield all the way up you just need to lift those levers all the way up. Once you have lifted those until they click, to take the shield off is very simple, you are just going to grab it from the top , rotate it back and pull it off. It comes right off really quickly. You will see guys out at the track if you watch racing at all like the isle of man for instance, they will pull into the pits and they swap face shields on or off in just a matter of seconds. It is one of those things you have to get the hang of. To reinstall the shield is a little trickier, there is a horse shoe shape cut out on the end of the shield here, that's going to line up with the top curve on the helmet or the pod and with the clear ones you can see the round tab that its going to slide over. Your going to slide that in on both sides and its not going to really click or anything, you just have to get it down and on to there like that. Once its in I find it easier to have the helmet facing away from you and then you are just going to close the shield. When you close the shield what happens is this opening this cut out right here slides over that little notch right there, so that is what limits the shield as It opens. That's how to change the Arai face shield out, hopefully that helps you out. You can go to our youtube channel if you click on this link in the upper right hand corner and subscribe to us. We have a lot detailed videos on helmets and other products. You can also check us out on facebook and check us out online, see you next time.
Hey guys this is Reuben with Competition Accessories and welcome to our review of the Arai RX-Q. Now if you have been around on our website for a while you may have seen the older Arai RX-Q video we had and it was out of date and I wanted to do a better one, the older one was from before my time so lets get into the details of the Arai RX-Q. Arai calls it the ultimate street helmet, they have taken a lot of inspiration from the RX-7 line or the Corsair V which is their high end race helmets. It is a replacement for the Quantum 2 which was a very popular helmet choice. It is an all new model, if you are in Europe you probably know this one as the Quantum ST. Some specific changes from the Quantum 2 in mainly the head shape. Unfortunately a lot of riders are not happy with that, if you have a very round head shape in other words you have a lot of width to your head and just a very round shape, that's what the Quantum 2 was designed to fit. The RX-Q is an intermediate oval, so if that's your case and you want an Arai helmet the RX-Q is going to be your best bet in that line up. The intermediate oval is what Arai finds to be what most people are most comfortable wearing. You are going to spend anywhere from 500 to 700 dollars on the RX-Q depending on the graphic or the solid that you go with. First of all lets talk about the weight I have a scale we can throw it on and you can see it is fairly average for a motorcycle helmet, it is 3.5 lbs. This helmet is not super heavy but also not super light either. However when you have this on your head, it is designed for comfort, long distance riding, and high performance riding as well. The reason it doesn't feel super heavy when its on your head is it actually has a very low center of gravity and that's thanks to this hyper ridge that is built in along the base of the shell. Arai also does something that is unique that a lot of other helmet manufacturers don't do is they maintain the same shell thickness all the way down to the bottom of the shell. That provides again a low center of gravity but also some additional support and structure in the base of the shell. That hyper ridge also provides an additional level of rigidly along the base of the shell, so if you take a hit along this area on the shell, the shell is designed to spread impact so its going to spread that impact as far as it can so you don't want it to continue down passed the shell. Sometimes you can see a less expensive helmet in a bad crash will leave a crack down in this area here because there is no more support for the shell to continue to spread that impact. This hyper ridge will help transfer that impact back up the helmet so its not transferred to your body. I have a raw shell here that is a unique thing to take a look at and it is an RX-Q shell and it is actually hand laid fiberglass. All Arai helmets are hand made and they have true artisans and craftsman that build these shells to exact specifications. These helmets go through three separate quality control checks throughout there manufacturer and they do some really neat things. Not only that hyper ridge along the base of the shell but also peripheral belting. Anytime you have any kind of hole in the shell for ventilation or for the face shield it is a weak point so they provide additional belting along those areas to provide additional rigidity to the shell so they can manage that impact as best as possible. Another thing you can see is they take the same shape as an egg and that's something Arai has done for years, the rounder the helmet the more strong it is going to be and also your not providing for any means of catching on the pavement or the ground in a form of a crash. The purpose for that is so it will slide right along the ground and wont catch and cause even more injury because of it catching. Even the vents on the top of the helmet and the spoiler on the back are designed to break away in an accident. They are attached with basically and industrial double sided tape so it is stuck on very well for regular use but in accident it will break off. Taking a look at the inside you can see the reinforcement here, they do put on a spoiler and drill holes for the vents. Again just a very very strong shell construction. Last thing I want to talk about on this raw shell is you can see where most helmets have a significant recess where they would install the base plate mechanism for the shield, you may notice all Arai's use this pod system which is essentially a cover over the base plate and that's because the base plate does not sit or does not have a home in the shell. It has a very shallow recess where that goes where as most helmets use all sorts of springs and other things to clip a shield in which requires a little bit more of a detente in the shell itself. Arai's method is to try and keep that round organic shell shape consistent so you don't compromise on the shell strength and protection. The EPS liner is no different it is a one piece EPS liner and the one I have here has several different colors that's not what you would see traditionally from the factory, they usually cover them in a black coating. This one details the different types of foam that are used and you can see its the one piece liner so a lot of times you will see other manufactures claim they have a two piece EPS liner or a multi-density EPS liner where what they have found over the years in all helmets different impacts require different types of foam. When we see a serious impact you want that foam to be able to absorb the impact along with the duration of that impact which is going to require a firmer foam or multiple impacts that Snell 2010 requirement is for it to absorb the same impact multiple times. The liner takes different densities of foam especially along the face shield area and chin bar. The biggest thing with Arai is it is a multiple density one piece liner. They do not use any glue on softer foam they make it so everything works as one and uniformly. Lets talk about the ventilation it is fairly straight forward it does have some really nice features to it. You do have a chin bar vent that directs air up onto the face shield to prevent fogging. There are pinlock shields available for this no anti fogging coating on the inside of this helmet so it will fog up on you if you don't do something about it you can get the pinlock insert and that is just the way Arai has chosen to go with there anti-fog, the advantage there is no anti-fog coating to wear off over time. Arai face shields do run a little bit more money as well. A lot of that is thanks to the face shield vents. The reason they put these vents on the face shield so it does not compromise the safety of the helmet. They know that the shell is already weak due to the eye port so they did not want to take any more away from that shell construction. The vents on the face shield channel the air through air passages that go throughout the helmet. This also vents to your temple area where a lot of helmets fail to direct air. You do have two chimney style vents on the top, it does have ram air type scoops that will push air down into the helmet. If you look at the back of the helmet there are some exhaust vents. This is the most effective way to keep a helmet cool because it draws the warm air right out the back of the helmet by creating an area of low pressure and it acts like a vacuum. You also have some static ports on the back here and it functions by also drawing the warm air right out the helmet. Finally out the base of the neck roll your also getting some exhaust vents, so that air that is pushed in will be able to flow through the entire helmet all the way out the back to keep you comfortable. Lets talk about removing the face shield because there is not a base plate system to use to remove the shield. What you do is you open this all the way and a little gray lever will pop right out. There is one on each side on the shield, all you do is simple pull up on those levers until they click and then once you have done that you can take the face shield and continue rotating it up and it will come right out. Very easy to remove and replace it just takes some practice to get used to it. Finally to replace it you will see there is a notch and you want to point that top corner to the top corner on the pod here. You simply push the shield back in until it does go any further and then close it and that's it so its back in and ready to go. There is no ratcheting system on an Arai face shield its just a smooth friction. Lets take a look at the inside at the features of the Arai RX-Q. First and for most it is a fully removable interior so you can pull this out you can wash it, or replace it if you need too. Another thing you will notice is they have brought over their emergency cheek pad release system from their race helmets, so it provides EMT's a way to remove the helmet without causing further neck injuries. You can see you just pull on that tab and the cheek pad is going to come right out of the helmet. You will see the orange tab has a note to notify emergency staff how to operate it. They can pull those right out while you are still wearing the helmet. What that does is it provides a much larger area for them to remove the helmet without them to cause further neck injury, you can see the neck roll comes right off as well. Now you see how much larger that opening will be so they can slide the helmet right off of your head. One thing that is unique about Arai helmets as well is when you pull the cheek pads out that is actually the raw shell, they actually put the EPS foam liner on the cheek pads itself. This is going to do a really good job at absorbing impact and you can see it is labeled 30mm which is the size of the cheek pads. Of course you can go up or down with the size depending on how they fit for you. What Arai has that is very unique is two things a facial contour system and a customizable cheek pad. There is a thin piece of foam here that can be removed or taken off. This helps for better fitment with the helmet if it is causing you be uncomfortable and it causes any pressure points. This is one way of customizing the fit of the helmet without having to go out and by brand new cheek pads. You will also notice they use different densities of foam throughout the construction of the cheek pad and they use their facial contour system. What this actually does is craddle you face and makes for better fitment of the helmet. You can remove the liners of the chin strap as well they just have a little yellow snap at the top, this is another area if your sweating a lot you want to be able to clean these up. The crown liner itself is attached with a couple of snaps and Arai uses a very low profile snap design. You will see some manufacturers have more larger snaps and that can get uncomfortable at times. The snaps from Arai actually stick to the snaps in the EPS liner and they run flush to the shell. You are getting very high levels of construction here with lots of different types of material to absorb moisture and wick it away from your head and also provide for lots of ventilation. They do this so when air does come inside the helmet it has a lot of space to transfer to your head and keep you comfortable. Last but not least you can see the interior here as I mentioned it is painted black for the factory model so it does look nice and finished. One thing you might be able to see here is you can see the exhaust port for that intake vent for vent on the face shield. This will direct air through a tunnel and down around to the side of your temple. You see the cheek pad is attached with a nice secure attachment point and it goes right into the shell itself. Last but not least you do have a small chin spoiler built in which you may think is kind of on the smaller side but what is really neat is you can extend it. Little attention to detail like this is what sets Arai different from other manufacturers and im not saying that there arent other good helmet manufacturers, definitely shop around and watch other product videos but the attention to detail that Arai puts into safety its very apparent in their construction. They are going for safety above all else. They don't look for any modern wild designs they look for safety first. You get a lot of bang for the buck even though it is a lot of bucks, Arai helmets will last you a long time. If you have any questions about them we have a lot of experienced people on the phone here at Competition Accessories and you can give us a call or shoot us an email, leave us a comment on our youtube channel and we will get back to you. Don't forget to like our facebook page and also if you subscribe to our youtube channel you with stay up to date with all of our product and video reviews. Last but not least even though this is expensive you can also earn up to 5% comp a cash back on future purchases. Thanks for watching this review of the Arai RX-Q and we will see you next time.
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Completely new helmet based on Corsair V shell
Same wider eyeport opening as Corsair V
Same face shield as the Corsair V
Intermediate Oval Fit (same head shape as Quantum 2)
Slightly different feel due to new cheek pads.
New cheek pads come down further and cradle the head better.
Made of a different density material which results in an extremely comfortable and quiet helmet
Advanced ventilation
Smaller, More Aerodynamic shell shape
Hyper-Ridge circles lower shell to improve strength and aerodynamics
Retractable chin spoiler
Emergency Cheek Pad Removal system along with removable neck roll
One piece bottom edge trim
Race helmet for the street
5 unique size shells (XS, S, M/L, XL, XXL).
Weight :1597 grams (3 lbs. 8-1/4 oz)
Meets or exceeds SNELL M2010 and DOT specifications
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Wine adds dimension to a punch instantly. This drink incorporates sparkling Shiraz, and is a good recipe to have in your repertoire -- it can be made in minutes.
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- 3/4 cup fresh lemon juice (from about 6 lemons)
- 2 bottles sparkling Shiraz
- 3 liters club soda
- 1 1/2 cups St. Germain Elderflower liqueur
Brush mint with egg white. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup sugar, and let dry on a wire rack. Mix lemon juice and remaining sugar in a large punch bowl, stirring until sugar dissolves. Add Shiraz, club soda, and liqueur. Serve with ice, and garnish with sugared mint sprigs.
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SpringHill Suites by Marriott Charleston Downtown Riverview sits on the Ashley River, just a 10-minute drive from historic Charleston City. Once in the city center, guests can see where the American Civil War began, and explore other sights such as Charleston Harbor and the South Carolina Aquarium.
Free breakfast and pool
Shuttle service is available at this property for a surcharge, and must be scheduled with the front desk. Recreational facilities include a heated outdoor saltwater pool, spa tub, and a fitness center. A free breakfast gets every day off to the right start.
A comfy bed and free WiFi
WiFi is free in all suites, making it easy for guests to surf the Web and check emails. For entertainment, there's cable TV, while mini-fridges, microwaves, and coffeemakers make it easy to stay alert and refreshed. Comfy signature bedding promotes a good night's sleep.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, SpringHill Suites by Marriott Charleston Downtown Riverview provides a spa tub and a fitness center. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access. Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. 2 meeting rooms are available. This business-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, coffee/tea in the lobby, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby.
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Charleston Downtown Riverview is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 4
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Big Finale Brings The Batcave...
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HeroClix players everywhere have been eagerly looking forward to May, because that month brings the epic finale to the No Man's Land tournament series! Players have battled their way across Gotham City in this event based on the 1999 comic storyline of the same name in which a massive earthquake shatters the city and gangs fight over the resulting blocks. Each month's tournament has pitted players against one another in different Gotham City locales, with great new versions of some of the Dark Knight's most iconic villains as exclusive prizes and cool gadgets for the Utility Belt resource dial given away for participation. All of that has led up to this, and for Month 6 WizKids has pulled out all the stops. First off, participating players will receive not one but two items, Handcuffs and the Batman Cowl. First place, second place, and the fellowship winner will go home with the exclusive Joker and Harley Quinn duo figure, while the overall winner will also get the epic Batcave resource dial! Even that's not all. In each month players have been aligned with different Gotham City gangs; the three leaders of the winning gang will also receive a special Penguin that can be played as a normal figure or as a resource dial too. Oh, and there's a really fun map where all of the Month 6 action will take place, the Dockside Amusement Park. Let's take a look through the entire Month 6 prize kit.
There are certain things that go hand in hand with Batman, like the Batmobile, Utility Belt, Batarang, etc. One of the most iconic is also the Batcave, which grew from a simple underground crime lab in 1943 to the incredibly huge and jam-packed base/hangar/lab/hospital/museum and so much more that we've all come to know and love. As with most of Batman's repertoire, the Batcave can pretty much do anything that's required of it by the character and the story, from storing endless vehicles to providing Bruce Wayne with the latest cutting edge tech. The centerpiece of the cave is the Batcomputer, possibly the most sophisticated computing machine on the planet (or beyond?), which is again capable of pretty much anything. And who, pray tell, manages all of the goings on in the Batcave? It's none other than Bruce Wayne's magical butler/assistant/confidant/healer Alfred Pennyworth. Now how does all of that translate into HeroClix? Here comes the Batcave.
Simply put, the 'cave is one of the most impressive HeroClix pieces... ever. It starts with a 6x3 dial base, the kind generally used for the largest colossal figures. Perched on that is a huge chunk of the Batcave, an uneven rocky base with a great detailed texture. Mounted in, on, and around the rock foundation are several iconic Batcave elements including the central command center with the Batcomputer and the Dark Knight's chair, an elevated perch where Bruce can prepare for action, a Bat symbol platform, a mini Bat Signal, and a cool staircase linking several of the levels. There is an incredible amount of sculpted detail throughout, from the cross-hatched stairs to the mini screens surrounding the main monitor and the multitude of control surfaces beneath them. The sculpting goes all the way around too, with paneling and more rocky elements on the reverse. In addition to the overall setting there's even an Alfred Pennyworth figure standing at attention near Bruce's chair, holding a tray of medical equipment and ready to assist the Batman any way he can!
Most of the structure is painted a shiny silver, while the rock below it is a grayish brown. On one side the platform is a matte gray, while on the other the symbol is shiny black and yellow. Meanwhile, in the center of the cave the screens and control panels are a mixture of blue hues with a sleek, high tech look. Alfred is his usual stoic self in his black suit and white shirt, elegantly trimmed facial hair, and a silver tray kitted out with white and silver items.
The Batcave looks incredible, so now let's see what it does on the battlefield. Classified as a resource (like the Infinity Gauntlet and Utility Belt before it and the Penguin from the same month), the cave has four dials on its base and comes with a folding pamphlet-style rules card. At 85 points the Batcave joins your force and is assigned to a character (you can even include the Utility Belt with a Costume and up to six Items for free!), and additional ones for only 10 points more. Doing so activates the Batcave Computer segment of the cave. Or, you can play it at 100 points to get the Computer and Alfred Pennyworth. The cave itself is placed in your starting area and doesn't move, but that doesn't mean it sits there helpless. Both the Batcave Computer and Alfred have their own dials and act just like any other character!
The Batcave Computer and Alfred Pennyworth both come equipped with the Batman Ally and Hypertime Team Abilities, while the Computer has a comprehensive trait giving it the feel of a high tech system created by Batman and embedded in a cave. With no movement it strikes with a potential 8 range and the Sharpshooter ability, and features powers including Plasticity, Penetrating/Psychic Blast, Pulse Wave, Quake, Invulnerability, Toughness, and Shape Change.
Alfred, on the other hand, has a short dial focused on healing with Willpower, a special power granting Support that works even if enemies are adjacent, and a final click power that sacrifices this Alfred to field one of his versions from the Batman set! Finally, the base has Offense and Defense dials that grant bonus powers, Team Abilities, and special features to characters assigned the resource and deny powers to (and otherwise hinder) opposing characters targeting them. For a complete in-depth look at the Batcave, check out HeroClix.com.
While only the winner of Month 6 will walk away with the Batcave, there are several other prize figures in contention. Foremost is the new power couple of HeroClix, The Joker and Harley Quinn! The quintessential Batman villain, the Joker is endlessly mysterious and brutally chaotic. He first appeared in the pages of Batman #1 in 1940 and has been tormenting the Dark Knight and Gotham City ever since. The Clown Prince of Crime uses a wide variety of lethal jokes and dirty tricks in addition to an army of thugs and henchmen, but his most loyal ally has always been Harley Quinn. A psychiatrist working at Arkham Asylum, Dr. Harleen Quinzel found herself seduced by the Joker and became his costumed sidekick. Her name naturally suggested a jester identity and the name Harley Quinn, leading to her iconic red, black, and white costume. Together there's nothing these crazies can't accomplish, unless of course Batman shows up.
Joker and Harley have appeared numerous times in HeroClix, but never together as a duo until now. The two make a great couple with Joker gleefully stretching out his hand to unveil his latest death trap while his loyal sidekick clutches him closely. The madman leans on his trusty cane while wearing his crazy finest, a suit complete with sculpted tails, vest with buttons, lapels, cuffs, and more. Meanwhile, Harley cozies up to her puddin' with one hand at his back and the other on his, one leg tucked against him and her face staring up at his adoringly. The colors couldn't be more contrasting (and appropriate), with Joker's purple suit, orange vest, light green shirt, dark green tie and hair, red button and lipstick, and white gloves and face paint. Quinn wears her black, red, and white harlequin outfit with nicely detailed diamond patterns on her arms and legs. Both figures have excellently sculpted faces that are completed with great paint jobs, especially Harley's with her perfect mask, lipstick, and eyes.
As the first duo of Joker and Harley, this figure packs a lot of interesting and fun features into one dial. The pair costs a sizeable 178 points and immediately you'll notice the Batman Enemy Team Ability, Duo symbol, Indomitable symbol, and 4 range with two targets. While that may seem like a lot of points for a duo with seven clicks of life, check out that trait; "I'll Protect You Mistah J" says that once per game when the duo would be knocked out it comes back to life on click one (now with Earthbound to represent Joker returning without his ally)! Decent speed values are covered by a full dial of a special power granting Stealth and Plasticity, just daring enemies to get up close where J&H can dish out the pain. They've got very good attack values and start with two clicks of the "Diabolical Death Trap" power that locks down opponents and on subsequent rounds lets you damage them for free! After the traps are done the duo switches to Blades/Claws/Fangs and later Poison. As two nuts the duo doesn't focus much on defense; that track has slouching numbers but some Regeneration at the end. Finally Joker and Harley have relatively low damage numbers but several powers that make the output stick with a double Perplex (then regular after the resurrection) special power and Exploit Weakness, plus of course the Death Traps. Add some Joker Thugs or Hired Henchmen who share Joker & Harley's Arkham Asylum keyword and you've got a pretty fun team!
As a fun addition to the No Man's Land tournament series, participating players have been representing their chosen "gangs" (from the comic storyline). The highest-ranking players in the winning gang will receive the Penguin prize figure in Month 6, bringing another fun version of Oswald Cobblepot to the game! Another of Batman's longest running foes, the fowl villain first appeared in 1941's Detective Comics #58. No bird-brain, the Penguin is a criminal genius and mastermind, one of the few Gotham rogues who seems to spend more time actually trying to build his empire than torment Batman with crazy stunts. In No Man's Land specifically Cobblepot ran an import and trading company bringing in not just weapons and luxury items but food and other necessities when no one else could.
Penguin appears here as he did during No Man's Land, dressed in his stately white-on-white tuxedo and resting on his opulent throne. Cobblepot sits with his right foot over his left leg, and both hands clutch his trademark umbrella across his lap. The figure's sculpt includes plenty of clothing details like creases, bowtie, lapels, shoes, boutonniere, and more. Penguin's head sculpt captures the crime boss perfectly with his odd features, monocle, pointy hair, and devious smile. Meanwhile, the little man's throne has varying textures for the different materials of the chair and neat decorations in the design. As mentioned Cobblepot's suit is a pristine white, broken only by the deep red of his flower. Black is used on the umbrella and Oswald's hair and eyes, while his monocle is shiny silver. The throne is gold (of course) with plush red cushions.
Not one of the most physically imposing villains, Penguin has appeared previously in HeroClix between 26 and 70 points. This new version can be played normally as a 51 point character complete with the Batman Enemy Team Ability and a slight range of 2. Cobblepot has a pretty varied power set starting with Mind Control, Energy Shield/Deflection, and Exploit Weakness; on his second click he drops the latter two in favor of Blades/Claws/Fangs. The next two clicks feature Toughness and Close Combat Expert as Penguin proves his mettle before he switches to Blades/Claws/Fangs and Mastermind for two clicks with Exploit Weakness appearing as well on the last. He has solid attack values and with his various powers can dish out a good deal of damage. Perfect for this No Man's Land version, the crime lord has the Gotham Underworld and Ruler keywords for team building. But, that's not all. Instead of fighting the good fight this Penguin can sit back and provide support for your team as a resource dial! This 10 point addition can grant four powers (Force Blast, Energy Shield/Deflection, Toughness, and Outwit) one at a time to a friendly character, as well as some interesting combat value modifications as shown on his dial. After using him in this way you roll a die that determines which click he ends up on for your next turn, or if he is KO'd and removed from the game. For only 10 points it's a fun dial to add to your force, and a nice representation of Penguin helping from behind the scenes.
For participating players the Month 6 kit offers not one but two prizes that everyone will receive. Both are items that can be used on their own as Relics or as Resources attached to the Utility Belt. The first is probably the most highly anticipated Belt object, the Batman Cowl costume! Like the Suit of Sorrows that came before it, the Cowl rests on a small clear plastic stand, while this time representing Batman's iconic mask and cape on a dummy. The physical piece looks great with lots of creases and the elements you expect like the pointed hemline and familiar shape of the cowl. As a 5 point Relic it can be picked up on a roll of 4-6 to grant a character the Batman Ally Team Ability; if the character already had it he now gets the additional benefit of having lines of fire blocked when standing next to a wall or higher elevated terrain on your opponents' turns! Alternatively, you can place the Batman Cowl inside the center column of your Utility Belt, in which case it grants the same benefits to the character assigned the resource dial.
Besides the Cowl players in Month 6 will go home with the Handcuffs object, another pouch item like those given out in previous No Man's Land events. The physical item looks like the familiar yellow pouch, this time opened up with angular handcuffs sticking out of it. Separate from the Belt the Handcuffs are a 5 point Relic requiring a roll of 4-6 to pick up. Once rolled for, they give a character Plasticity with the added bonus that opposing adjacent characters modify their attack values by -1. When attached to the Utility Belt the Handcuffs let a character make a close combat attack (via a close combat action) that does no damage; instead, that character can do nothing but use power actions to roll to get out of the handcuffs on 4-6!
Not necessarily associated with fun and good times, even Gotham City's hot spots are abandoned and decrepit if the Dockside Amusement Park map is any evidence. The location of No Man's Land Month 6 tournament, the Amusement Park is an outdoor/indoor map featuring a ticket booth, Tunnel of Love ride, Ferris wheel, house of mirrors, and a kid's ride. All of the above are dirty and in disrepair with lights out and huge cobwebs. Players start in opposite corners, one adjacent to the Love ride and utilizing the elevated ticket booth and the other entirely elevated within the other ride's space. The outdoor areas have some water terrain peeking through the dockside surfaces, more elevated terrain, blocking (Ferris wheel), and some hindering where the ground is cracked and overgrown. The Tunnel of Love building has a meandering water track, hindering machinery and signs, and elevated control booths. Finally, the house of mirrors is a maze of walls with an elevated viewing platform. The variety of terrain (outdoor and indoor) on this map will make for very interesting games.
On the other side is the Dockside Amusement Park: Post-Cataclysm indoor/outdoor map, revealed during the tournament when a player gets 2 or 3 on the quake roll. While the other months featured destruction and chaos following the earthquake, in this case the Amusement Park has been taken over by Joker and remade in his image. The landscape and terrain has remained mostly the same, though now everything features a fresh coat of purple and green paint with Joker faces everywhere. Some neat specific changes include the Tunnel of Love boats having moved on their tracks, a variety of jack in the box Jokers have popped open throughout the park, mirrors have been smashed and walls broken in the house of mirrors, the ticket booth has been renamed "Joker World," and the kid's ride has rotated.
Just like the finale of the Infinity Gauntlet tournament series last year, No Man's Land Month 6 is going to be an epic event! Expect packed houses as players show up to get the quintessential Batman Cowl item for their Utility Belts and fight hard for the amazing Batcave resource as well as the Joker & Harley Quinn duo. If your venue is anything like mine the gang war has reached a fever pitch (around here Killer Croc has just pulled ahead of Joker and it's down to Month 6 to determine the winner) and no one's sure who will go home with the Penguin either! These tournaments will take place in May with players building 600 point teams from figures in the last few Batman-related sets and No Man's Land itself, so expect to see lots of Bat Allies and Utility Belts. Good luck, and have a great time!
For a complete in-depth look at the Batcave resource, check out HeroClix.com.
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Review and Photos by Scott Rubin
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced yesterday that it has appointed one of its longtime lawyers, Tony West, as the new acting associate attorney general. The appointment, which West will take over in two weeks, puts him in the No. 3 position at the DOJ.
Currently, as the head of the department's civil division, West has led the effort to overturn the controversial immigration laws that Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and Utah recently passed. In his new role as acting associate attorney general, West will manage a broad range of issues, including civil rights, environment and natural resources, tax and civil litigation.
In 1993, West took his first position with the DOJ as special assistant to the deputy general during the Clinton administration. He later went on to become an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California. In 2001, he took a partner position at Morrison & Foerster before returning to the DOJ as head of the civil division when President Obama took office in January 2009.
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NORWALK - Hoping to prevent violent crimes committed with stolen firearms, the local station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department wants residents to turn in unwanted guns so they can be destroyed in an annual gun melt.
Residents will not be held responsible if the gun is stolen or has serial numbers altered or removed, said Capt. Patrick Maxwell of the Norwalk Sheriff's Station.
Between Jan. 1 and Oct. 15, sheriff's deputies responded to 29 residential burglaries with 72 guns stolen, Maxwell said.
"It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out a lot of these firearms will be used in future violent crimes or sold to another crook," Maxwell said.
"My goal is to get these guns off the streets."
Some of those guns might have been unwanted. Residents can have unwanted guns in their homes for a variety of reasons - the gun owner died, went to prison or moved out, Maxwell said.
The guns can be relinquished in two ways:
• Residents in Norwalk, La Mirada and unincorporated Whittier can call the Norwalk sheriff's station and a deputy will go to the home and retrieve it;
• Or, gun owners can bring the weapon - locked in the trunk - to the sheriff's station and tell deputies a gun is in the trunk for the gun melt. The deputy will retrieve the gun from the trunk, Maxwell said.
The weapons will be melted down at Rancho Cucamonga's Gerdau Steel Mill. Last year, more than 8,000 weapons collected by 20 law enforcement agencies were melted.
The guns are converted into steel reinforcing bar for upgrades in freeways and bridges in California, Arizona and Nevada, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca.


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Officer class, but Riewoldt needs captain in waiting
The demands of the modern-day AFL dictate all clubs need captains with high credentials.
CHRIS Judd is handing over the captaincy, to either Marc Murphy or Andrew Carrazzo, partly because he is tired of a job that he never sought but twice was forced by circumstances to accept.
Chris Newman is passing the parcel - hopefully vetted by the Punt Road bomb squad - to Trent Cotchin. Newman's end-of-season explanation echoed a famed election slogan. ''I just think it's time,'' he said. ''Mentally, it might be a good one for me, too.''
Newman observed then that he ''probably wouldn't have made the decision if I didn't feel like there were some guys who are able to step into my shoes and do an even better job''.
For ''some guys'', read Cotchin. Brett Deledio is the only other conceivable candidate but he is not cut from the same cloth as Cotchin. That said, one could argue, as Leigh Matthews has, that Richmond is taking a punt by promoting a 22-year-old to a role that has become so much more demanding.
But a contemporary of both Newman and Judd's, Nick Riewoldt, is likely to retain the captaincy at St Kilda, which sees little point in forcing the skipper to hand over to another player from the same generation.
The Saints don't have a clear cut younger successor, such as Cotchin or Murphy, who is ready to grab the baton and sprint. Brendon Goddard, a possible bridge, is gone and wasn't seen as the optimum choice anyway.
So Saint Nick, who is contracted for two seasons, may have to run another lap, probably for the next 12 months.
To push Riewoldt out and then give the captaincy to Leigh Montagna or Nick Dal Santo - or even giving a 33-year-old Lenny Hayes a 12-month reward for heroism - would represent status quo anyway; the team would remain driven by the Riewoldt generation, which has been highly successful by all measures - this is the only club to have won 12 games or more for 10 seasons consecutively - except THE one.
Saints fans don't need reminding of the litany of recruiting mishaps, in trading and drafting, that have deprived them of players in the 23 to 27-year-old band. Ben McEvoy and James Gwilt can play and are in the right demographic, but neither has done enough, as footballers and particularly as leaders, to earn the mandate of their peers and coaches.
In the 2013 AFL, in which leadership groups act like a jury and are expected to forge a magical winning ''culture'', captaincy can sound like military service or admission to a management consultant cult. The wonder is not that Dane Swan quit Collingwood's leadership group this time last year, but that the laconic ''Swanny'' was ever part of it.
Clubs worked out over the past decade that the best players weren't necessarily the ideal leaders, an obvious insight that led the Swans to appoint their formative, culture-shaping skipper Stuart Maxfield.
In recent times, there have been two main species of captains. One I would call ''officer class''. As the name suggests, the officer class skipper is articulate and leads by example; while not necessarily aloof, or remote, there's a palpable sense that he is above the fray. Unlike most players, he is at ease speaking to a microphone, to a sponsor or briefing the club's board. He establishes high standards and, with senior teammates, ensures that they are enforced.
Tom Harley, James Hird, Nathan Buckley, Sam Mitchell, Matthew Lloyd and, perhaps, Judd are or were officer class captains.
The second species could be called ''One of the boys''. These captains are never above the fray. If there is drinking going on, they will be pissed off to be missing it, partly because they enjoy it, but also because they have the rare talent of controlling teammates in social settings. They are not as media-adept as the officer class captain, or at handling the hierarchies.
What they have is the ability to galvanise the group and, once they've matured, to impose limits on off-field excess. They are invariably hard-nosed players, with a good feel for player 41 on the list.
Luke Hodge, Jonathan Brown, Mark Ricciuto, Stephen Kernahan, Michael Voss and - the apotheosis of ''one of the boys'' captaincy, Wayne Carey - are examples of the earthy, first among equals - captain. While there are hybrids and others who don't fit these types, you'll find most skippers lean towards one or the other; Hawthorn has veered from extremes of both.
Riewoldt is consumate officer class. He is tough on teammates and even tougher on himself and absolutely full-bore in professionalism and devotion. For a time, in St Kilda's troubled 2011, it appeared as though the leadership duties had overwhelmed Riewoldt, as he chose to be the front man for a team that was dealing with everything from grand final trauma and embarrassing material from a teenage girl to players taking sleeping pills in New Zealand.
Riewoldt's way is to stand up, take responsibility, be forthright and upright. He tries to have a presence. The worry in 2011 was that these issues were dragging him down on the field.
But Riewoldt stayed the course and Scott Watters stuck with him, on the grounds that stability was needed in a list that was to have radical surgery over 12 months, as the core players aged. Riewoldt responded with his best season since 2009 and the view of club insiders is that the team responsibilities actually helped him to forget about his own woes and recapture form.
The Saints have left it up to Riewoldt to decide. He is happy to do the job, but equally, wouldn't quibble if a handover was deemed timely.
But this is not the time and Seaford is not the place.
Jake Niall is a senior sports writer at 'The Age' specialising mainly in coverage of the AFL. He writes a weekly column for 'The Sunday Age' and has been on staff with 'The Age' or 'Sunday Age' since 1995. Jake, who combines original news with commentary, match-based writing, features and analysis, has won a number of awards, including the Alf Brown award for the best performer in AFL media in 2012, the Melbourne Press Club's 2007 Quill award for best sports story in any medium and a Walkley award, shared with colleagues Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie, Caroline Wilson and John Silvester, for best coverage of a major issue (Essendon scandal) in 2013.
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