Jason John LeBlond (born August 2, 1977) is an American curator, gallerist, and producer based in New York City. LeBlond is the former Creative Director of Museum Masters International aka MMI, an Art Exhibition and Merchandising company which has represented world renowned names such as Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Tamara de Lempicka and many more. Since 2010 Jason has been associated with the Christopher Henry Gallery in Nolita, New York City. As both the gallery's Assistant Director and Curator, LeBlond has been responsible for group shows which have included "T MINUS 20 Artist T-Shirts" July 2010 and "THE END" August 2011. LeBlond's curatorial projects have featured notable artists such as: Olek, Dev Harlan, Ron English, Maripol, Scooter LaForge, Kevin Baker, and Jordan Eagles. LeBlond co-founded IGNITE Licensing in 2010 with Ves Pitts, in order to represent and market emerging artists and their products. His exhibitions have often featured a wearable art component.
John Letasky (born December 6, 1976, in Billings, Montana) is an American sportswriter and columnist. Letasky is currently the Club Boxing, MMA and prep wrestling beat writer for the Billings Gazette. He also covers various other sports for the Gazette, including state prep football. In the summer Letasky has written the Gazette fishing report. He is well known throughout the state of Montana and is better known by his nickname "Chopper."
Biography
Letasky graduated from Rocky Mountain College with honors, holding a degree in English and History. In June 2003, he coined the term "jet leg" (as opposed to "jet lag") in describing a baseball pitcher's discomfort while sitting on a plane. Letasky is also known to interview himself on occasion.
Letasky has interviewed various World Wrestling Entertainment stars including Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, Shawn Michaels, John Cena, and Eric Bischoff. Letasky has also interviewed Montana boxer Todd Foster.
Red Wire
Letasky was one of the first writers for a Montana Newspaper (and first for the Gazette) to have an online-exclusive column. From 2002-03 Gazette online readers could get Letasky's take on various local and national sports issues in a column entitled Red Wire.
Red Wire re-launched as Red Wire II on March 30, 2009 on the since failed My.BillingsGazette.com portal project.
Notable Achievements
*ABC Bowling Pride Award (Best Dressed, Well-Mannered) - 2002
*In 2006 contributed information on Montana wrestlers to The American High School Wrestling Yearbook.
Biography
Letasky graduated from Rocky Mountain College with honors, holding a degree in English and History. In June 2003, he coined the term "jet leg" (as opposed to "jet lag") in describing a baseball pitcher's discomfort while sitting on a plane. Letasky is also known to interview himself on occasion.
Letasky has interviewed various World Wrestling Entertainment stars including Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, Shawn Michaels, John Cena, and Eric Bischoff. Letasky has also interviewed Montana boxer Todd Foster.
Red Wire
Letasky was one of the first writers for a Montana Newspaper (and first for the Gazette) to have an online-exclusive column. From 2002-03 Gazette online readers could get Letasky's take on various local and national sports issues in a column entitled Red Wire.
Red Wire re-launched as Red Wire II on March 30, 2009 on the since failed My.BillingsGazette.com portal project.
Notable Achievements
*ABC Bowling Pride Award (Best Dressed, Well-Mannered) - 2002
*In 2006 contributed information on Montana wrestlers to The American High School Wrestling Yearbook.
BlueTie, Inc. is a Rochester, NY-based company that provides hosted e-mail services and collaboration tools.
History
BlueTie was established in 1999 by David Koretz—BlueTie Founder and Director, founder of Mykonos Software and Adventive—and Tom Golisano, founder and Chairman of Paychex.
Services
BlueTie Collaboration is an Ajax-based Web application, that provides email and collaboration tools through a single user interface and is distributed via the software as a service (SaaS) model. BlueTie has patented several advanced UI and design enhancement technologies including SimpleClick
Recognition
BlueTie has been recognized through numerous awards including Forbes' Best of the Web award for three consecutive years, the 2007 AdTech LimeLight Award, and was selected by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia Top 100 Winners for 2008.
History
BlueTie was established in 1999 by David Koretz—BlueTie Founder and Director, founder of Mykonos Software and Adventive—and Tom Golisano, founder and Chairman of Paychex.
Services
BlueTie Collaboration is an Ajax-based Web application, that provides email and collaboration tools through a single user interface and is distributed via the software as a service (SaaS) model. BlueTie has patented several advanced UI and design enhancement technologies including SimpleClick
Recognition
BlueTie has been recognized through numerous awards including Forbes' Best of the Web award for three consecutive years, the 2007 AdTech LimeLight Award, and was selected by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia Top 100 Winners for 2008.
iWorld of Cars is a online game for Windows. It features cross-compatibility with World of Cars Online, Cars the Video Game, Cars Mater-National, and Cars 2 The Video Game.
Gameplay
The gameplay in iWorld of Cars will be fairly similar to World of Cars Online. With the inclusion of two new cameras and if you want to play the game in 2D or 3D. It also features new maps and new roads that were not present in World of Cars Online but present in the offline video game series. The game also for the first time in the Cars video game series features a day-night cycle and maybe a change in weather.
Carburetor County Locations
The game will consist of 11 locations:
1 - Ornament Valley
2 - Radiator Springs
3 - Redhood Valley
4 - Tailfin Pass
5 - Tired Flats
6 - Double Clutch Gulch
7 - Overheat Peak
8 - Lava Dunes
9 - Fire Desert
10 - Snowhood Valley
11 - Fillmore's Fields
Some areas are getting dropped from WOC like Willy's Butte. Willy's Butte will become a part of Radiator Springs.
Carburetor County Races
iWOC's Carburetor County features 11 locations, but it features 11 - 22 races. Some races that will return will be: Willy's Butte Rally, Carburetor County Speedway, Fillmore's Fields Rally, and Twisted Tailfin' Trails. New ones are being made.
Career Races
iWOC will have three different kinds of career races: Piston Cup, World Grand Prix, and International World Racing Series.
Each series will have a "rival" or opponent car that you have to beat in every race. The opponent car doesn't change, it stays the same throughout a particular career series.
Piston Cup Opponent Car - Chick Hicks
World Grand Prix Opponent Car - Francesco Bernoulli
International World Racing Series Opponent Car - Turner McTurnpike
Teams
iWOC Teams options interact with real life team racing in the Piston Cup, World Grand Prix, and International World Racing Series. The lap length is between 3 - 400 laps long and its all multiplayer, never single player. But within the team, the player can hire new cars, fire cars, or promote cars.
Watching Races
In iWOC, a new feature is watching races. You may think this new idea is boring, but it really isn't because you can watch races in all three career racing series. Here you can buy tickets, watch races, buy stuff, and leave whenever you want to. By the way, tickets and the stuff have a price on them as a reminder.
Piston Cup Races/Season
1 - Tailgator Speedway
2 - Palm Mile Speedway
3 - Big Heartland Speedway
4 - Backfire Canyon Speedway
5 - Gasket International Superspeedway
6 - Petroleum City Superspeedway
7 - Ice Blizzard Raceway
8 - Motor Speedway of the South
9 - Los Angeles International Speedway
The first five races in the Piston Cup are Season 1 while the other four races are Season 2 and take place at different times and months.
World Grand Prix Races
The World Grand Prix races/season are not yet finalized.
International World Racing Series
The series is not finalized but the races are.
Races: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and the Artic
Car Bodies & Sub-Bodies
In iWOC players will have a choice from 5 main bodies or 10 sub-bodies.
Main Bodies - Corvette Style, Boxy Style, Carerra Style , Hybrid Style, Electric Style
Sub-Bodies - Stingray Style, Camaro Style, Cadillac Style, DB5 Style, Sedan Style, Sports Car Style, Prius Style, Ford Hybrid Style, G-Wiz Style, and Lotus Style
Hauler and Trailer
For the first time in iWOC, players can interact with their hauler and trailer. The hauler is from two different world body types and the trailer is three different types .
The Hauler: The Hauler would be your "truck" that will take you to Career Races around the USA and the World. You can name him whatever you want but not anything offensive or defensive.
The Trailer: The trailer is your little motorhome where you can interact with most of your stuff that you buy. Here in the trailer, you can watch TV like weather, news, and even stats and leaderboards without pausing the game. You can either ride the journey out or skip the destination entirely.
Main Menu
iWOC Main Menu is very extensive, but it breaks things down in a very simple way. Since the game is a economic-racing MMORPG style simulator, it does what it can do. Besides the Main Menu allows you to turn the 3D on or off.
Companies
In iWOC, players can start their very own company. Within the players company, they can manage it, take over companies by liquidating and merging, sell stuff, play the Cars World Stock Market, and hire Cars or Trucks to deliver the goods. Good types are Regular and Spy. Players can also edit their companies by adding new buildings, a sign, a flagpole and other good things to keep the company running prosperous and profitable.
Economy
The economy part of iWOC is vital to make your company prosperous. The best way to make your company prosperous is by looking at where you can sell the most stuff back and forth continuously and see how well its doing. The key below tells you what it actually means and how you should ship the cargo:
Red Prices: Lowest prices. Always should be shipped to orange, yellow, or green areas.
Orange prices: Average prices. Always should be shipped to yellow or green areas.
Yellow Prices: Moderate prices. Always should be shipped to green areas
Green Prices: Highest Prices. Always should not be shipped to red, orange, or yellow
Red Prices are between $0 - $30 USA. Orange Prices are between $31 - $70 USA. Yellow Prices are between $71 - $125 USA and Green Prices are between $126 - $225 USA.
You also have a role with the Cars World Stock Market in a way that you can take out loans , buy back stock, buy stock, change dividend, buy or sell shares from your company. You can also look at what part of the map is going to be, basically, either the most profitable or least profitable. So, planning your strategy is very important and always should be your highest priority.
Tuning
iWOC brings tuning to the game in a new unique way. The tuning aspect of the game allows you to tweak your car to the max and also add new tuner parts to the car like: Boost Canisters, LED Lights, Subwoofers , and Colored Flames.
Different Shops in iWOC
There are 4 different shops in iWOC:
1 - Performance Shops
2 - Body Shops
3 - Graphic Shops
4 - Tuner Shops [deals with the "coolness" of your car]
Garage/Home
The garage/home in iWOC is where your car can also live. It holds essential equipment like a gas station or recharging station to refuel your car. You can also decorate not just the outside, but the inside of your home as well.
Spy Equipment
WOC first kicked off the online Spy equipment with a camera, a laptop, lasers, and laser fences. But in iWOC, this is gonna be expanded with guns, disguises, parachutes, and a whole lot more. Price may vary.
Fizzy Fuels
Fizzy Fuels will return to iWOC even the ones from WOC. There will be also new ones to make and instead of wasting a Fizzy Fuel, you can pick what Fizzy Fuel you want from a menu showing you what Fizzy Fuels that you have in your Fizzy Fuel inventory.
Rules of iWOC
Last and most important part of iWorld of Cars Online is the rules. The rules are broken down below:
Dating: 1 day ban
Hacking: 3 day ban
Glitching: 5 hour ban
Spamming: 3 hour ban
Bugging People: 1 hour ban
Violating 3rd Party Terms: 5 day ban
Violating Game Rights of Use: 4 day ban
Being "annoying" to other Cars : 30 minute ban
Chat
The chat part of iWOC is how you connect to other players. You can private chat them, public chat, team chat, or even chat through the IPS System. The chat will also detect any cuss words and give you a few warnings. After a few warnings, you will not be banned, but muted for at least 10 minutes. The chat also returns SpeedChat from WOC but you can add your own words into SpeedChat's Dictionary. The Main Chat in iWOC and IPS also use this dictionary feature too.
Related
Since iWOC is related to Cars 2 the Video Game, Cars the Video Game, Cars Mater-National, and WOC, but it also has another relation: IPS.
IPS will be a chat-based relation to iWOC. Players will be able to chat through IPS or into the game.
Links
http://iwoco.webs.com/
Gameplay
The gameplay in iWorld of Cars will be fairly similar to World of Cars Online. With the inclusion of two new cameras and if you want to play the game in 2D or 3D. It also features new maps and new roads that were not present in World of Cars Online but present in the offline video game series. The game also for the first time in the Cars video game series features a day-night cycle and maybe a change in weather.
Carburetor County Locations
The game will consist of 11 locations:
1 - Ornament Valley
2 - Radiator Springs
3 - Redhood Valley
4 - Tailfin Pass
5 - Tired Flats
6 - Double Clutch Gulch
7 - Overheat Peak
8 - Lava Dunes
9 - Fire Desert
10 - Snowhood Valley
11 - Fillmore's Fields
Some areas are getting dropped from WOC like Willy's Butte. Willy's Butte will become a part of Radiator Springs.
Carburetor County Races
iWOC's Carburetor County features 11 locations, but it features 11 - 22 races. Some races that will return will be: Willy's Butte Rally, Carburetor County Speedway, Fillmore's Fields Rally, and Twisted Tailfin' Trails. New ones are being made.
Career Races
iWOC will have three different kinds of career races: Piston Cup, World Grand Prix, and International World Racing Series.
Each series will have a "rival" or opponent car that you have to beat in every race. The opponent car doesn't change, it stays the same throughout a particular career series.
Piston Cup Opponent Car - Chick Hicks
World Grand Prix Opponent Car - Francesco Bernoulli
International World Racing Series Opponent Car - Turner McTurnpike
Teams
iWOC Teams options interact with real life team racing in the Piston Cup, World Grand Prix, and International World Racing Series. The lap length is between 3 - 400 laps long and its all multiplayer, never single player. But within the team, the player can hire new cars, fire cars, or promote cars.
Watching Races
In iWOC, a new feature is watching races. You may think this new idea is boring, but it really isn't because you can watch races in all three career racing series. Here you can buy tickets, watch races, buy stuff, and leave whenever you want to. By the way, tickets and the stuff have a price on them as a reminder.
Piston Cup Races/Season
1 - Tailgator Speedway
2 - Palm Mile Speedway
3 - Big Heartland Speedway
4 - Backfire Canyon Speedway
5 - Gasket International Superspeedway
6 - Petroleum City Superspeedway
7 - Ice Blizzard Raceway
8 - Motor Speedway of the South
9 - Los Angeles International Speedway
The first five races in the Piston Cup are Season 1 while the other four races are Season 2 and take place at different times and months.
World Grand Prix Races
The World Grand Prix races/season are not yet finalized.
International World Racing Series
The series is not finalized but the races are.
Races: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and the Artic
Car Bodies & Sub-Bodies
In iWOC players will have a choice from 5 main bodies or 10 sub-bodies.
Main Bodies - Corvette Style, Boxy Style, Carerra Style , Hybrid Style, Electric Style
Sub-Bodies - Stingray Style, Camaro Style, Cadillac Style, DB5 Style, Sedan Style, Sports Car Style, Prius Style, Ford Hybrid Style, G-Wiz Style, and Lotus Style
Hauler and Trailer
For the first time in iWOC, players can interact with their hauler and trailer. The hauler is from two different world body types and the trailer is three different types .
The Hauler: The Hauler would be your "truck" that will take you to Career Races around the USA and the World. You can name him whatever you want but not anything offensive or defensive.
The Trailer: The trailer is your little motorhome where you can interact with most of your stuff that you buy. Here in the trailer, you can watch TV like weather, news, and even stats and leaderboards without pausing the game. You can either ride the journey out or skip the destination entirely.
Main Menu
iWOC Main Menu is very extensive, but it breaks things down in a very simple way. Since the game is a economic-racing MMORPG style simulator, it does what it can do. Besides the Main Menu allows you to turn the 3D on or off.
Companies
In iWOC, players can start their very own company. Within the players company, they can manage it, take over companies by liquidating and merging, sell stuff, play the Cars World Stock Market, and hire Cars or Trucks to deliver the goods. Good types are Regular and Spy. Players can also edit their companies by adding new buildings, a sign, a flagpole and other good things to keep the company running prosperous and profitable.
Economy
The economy part of iWOC is vital to make your company prosperous. The best way to make your company prosperous is by looking at where you can sell the most stuff back and forth continuously and see how well its doing. The key below tells you what it actually means and how you should ship the cargo:
Red Prices: Lowest prices. Always should be shipped to orange, yellow, or green areas.
Orange prices: Average prices. Always should be shipped to yellow or green areas.
Yellow Prices: Moderate prices. Always should be shipped to green areas
Green Prices: Highest Prices. Always should not be shipped to red, orange, or yellow
Red Prices are between $0 - $30 USA. Orange Prices are between $31 - $70 USA. Yellow Prices are between $71 - $125 USA and Green Prices are between $126 - $225 USA.
You also have a role with the Cars World Stock Market in a way that you can take out loans , buy back stock, buy stock, change dividend, buy or sell shares from your company. You can also look at what part of the map is going to be, basically, either the most profitable or least profitable. So, planning your strategy is very important and always should be your highest priority.
Tuning
iWOC brings tuning to the game in a new unique way. The tuning aspect of the game allows you to tweak your car to the max and also add new tuner parts to the car like: Boost Canisters, LED Lights, Subwoofers , and Colored Flames.
Different Shops in iWOC
There are 4 different shops in iWOC:
1 - Performance Shops
2 - Body Shops
3 - Graphic Shops
4 - Tuner Shops [deals with the "coolness" of your car]
Garage/Home
The garage/home in iWOC is where your car can also live. It holds essential equipment like a gas station or recharging station to refuel your car. You can also decorate not just the outside, but the inside of your home as well.
Spy Equipment
WOC first kicked off the online Spy equipment with a camera, a laptop, lasers, and laser fences. But in iWOC, this is gonna be expanded with guns, disguises, parachutes, and a whole lot more. Price may vary.
Fizzy Fuels
Fizzy Fuels will return to iWOC even the ones from WOC. There will be also new ones to make and instead of wasting a Fizzy Fuel, you can pick what Fizzy Fuel you want from a menu showing you what Fizzy Fuels that you have in your Fizzy Fuel inventory.
Rules of iWOC
Last and most important part of iWorld of Cars Online is the rules. The rules are broken down below:
Dating: 1 day ban
Hacking: 3 day ban
Glitching: 5 hour ban
Spamming: 3 hour ban
Bugging People: 1 hour ban
Violating 3rd Party Terms: 5 day ban
Violating Game Rights of Use: 4 day ban
Being "annoying" to other Cars : 30 minute ban
Chat
The chat part of iWOC is how you connect to other players. You can private chat them, public chat, team chat, or even chat through the IPS System. The chat will also detect any cuss words and give you a few warnings. After a few warnings, you will not be banned, but muted for at least 10 minutes. The chat also returns SpeedChat from WOC but you can add your own words into SpeedChat's Dictionary. The Main Chat in iWOC and IPS also use this dictionary feature too.
Related
Since iWOC is related to Cars 2 the Video Game, Cars the Video Game, Cars Mater-National, and WOC, but it also has another relation: IPS.
IPS will be a chat-based relation to iWOC. Players will be able to chat through IPS or into the game.
Links
http://iwoco.webs.com/