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New Studio Album 'THIS IS WAR' set to hit November 24 on EMI's Virgin Records.
Following up on their incredibly successful sophomore release, A Beautiful Lie, multi-platinum rock band Thirty Seconds To Mars are hard at work on their highly anticipated upcoming record, "THIS IS WAR" (EMI's Virgin Records) set to hit on November 24th. The album was produced by Flood (U2, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails), Steve Lillywhite (The Rolling Stones, U2) and Thirty Seconds To Mars. First single Kings and Queens at modern rock radio early next month. Fall tour dates will be announced in the coming weeks.
In an innovative and exciting move, Thirty Seconds to Mars' upcoming release, This Is War, will have 2000 different album covers featuring individual photos of fans from around the world. Starting Friday, September 11th at 12pm PDT fans will be able to submit photos to be used for the covers by pointing their browser to www.thirtysecondstomars.com. The first 2000 photos to be uploaded that follow the proper specifications will become album covers. The campaign will run until 2000 usable covers have been uploaded.
Thirty Seconds To Mars' Jared Leto (vocals, guitar, songwriter), SONOR artist Shannon Leto (drums) and Tomo Miličević (guitar) teamed up with their fan community, The Echelon, earlier this year to record sounds for the upcoming record in a groundbreaking event they dubbed, "The Summit". The band invited The Echelon members to travel to Los Angeles to take part in an impromptu recording session at Hollywood's Avalon Club. It was so successful that since then Thirty Seconds to Mars decided to hold summits in 8 more countries across the world (Australia, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, Canada) in order to give their biggest supporters an opportunity to be a part of their new album.
With over 100 million views on YouTube, 40 million plays on MySpace and more than one million fans on iLike/Facebook, Thirty Seconds To Mars have always been quick to embrace digital culture and with the immense success they had with The Summit, decided to use that same digital technology to offer their fans a chance to get involved in the record making process through Twitter as well. The Digital Summit kicked off on Monday, August 10th and through the twitvid.com technology allowed fans to record sounds and vocals from their personal computers and mobile devices for inclusion on the album. The Digital Summit was a top 10 trending topic on Twitter during the two week promotion, garnering sixty thousand page views and 3000 unique sound recordings submitted from fans across the world.
Formed by brothers Jared and Shannon Leto, Thirty Seconds to Mars have won numerous awards and accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV EMA's, an MTV Latin and Asia Award, a Fuse Award, and three Kerrang! Awards. Thirty Seconds to Mars' sophomore record, A Beautiful Lie hit platinum status after almost two years of heavy touring and winning fans over, one by one. The media caught on too, Alternative Press raved that the band "...just might be rock's best-kept secret. He [Jared Leto] sings with a range and ease that makes cathedrals jealous" while the Washington Post exclaimed, "hard-driving guitar riffs and powerful vocals carry this head banging outfit all the way to the rock-race finish line." The record spawned two Top 5 Modern Rock singles, From Yesterday and The Kill and the latter set a radio record for the longest-running hit in the history of Modern Rock radio play when it remained on the national airplay chart for more than 50 weeks following its & peak in 2006. From Yesterday was the band's first < at the format and its epic video was the first American music video ever shot in the People's Republic of China. Thirty Seconds To Mars have over 500 live performances under their belts since the release of A Beautiful Lie, including major festival shows like Lollapalooza in the United States, Holland's Pinkpop Festival and Japan's Summer Sonic, which has earned them a growing, loyal, global fan base.


We've seen many designers this season diving back into their own archives for a little inspiration. It's no wonder, though, especially considering the popularity of 1950s and 1970s fashions. Valextra has done a bit of diving itself, re-invoking a bit of its own 1950s design in a charming new collection of handbags. The B-Cube collection is a very modern interpretation of the iconic Secchiello model, and features a vintage clasp closure. The B-Cube comes in three sizes: small with top handle, medium shoulder bag, and the maxi weekender.
The B-Cube bag is presented in a variety of styles. It is part of the new Capri collection, a line of bicolored, intertwined jute bags glazed with matte resin and trimmed in new vegetal leather. The Capri bag is also available in the complete range of Caju styles. The bag is also available in 'techno' leather. With a rubbery feel and look, 'techno' leather is water and scratch resistant, and available in the signature pergamena white or navy blue.
Probably the most exciting additions to the Valextra line are the new iPad covers. Stylish and chic, the iPad covers are available in a city version of soft calfskin or 'techno' leather, or a summer version that is part of the Capri line.


The STAGE 5 kit combines our adjustable rear shock STAGE 2 suspension package with Striker 4x4 Sprinter 2.0" suspension lift system. The kit improves the ride quality of the van, provides clearance for larger tires and offers additional ground clearance.
Note; this could be omitted with an additional 9/16" (14mm) offset and aftermarket wheels.


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Grrl Power #886 – Insert joke about airbags here
by DaveB on October 22, 2020 at 5:00 am
Chapter: Main Story
Characters: maxima, ray cosmos
This sort of thing can only really go down a few ways. Max gets a face to the bosoms, or she takes a crotch or butt to her face. I mean, yes, technically, they could just collide in a less amusing way, but why would I allow that?
I guess this page makes Maxima a Motorboat Eskimo Sister with Dabbler and Cora. An ignominious accolade for her, to be certain.
Not too much else to say about this page, so instead I'll tell you about how I almost forgot to post it. I got to playing Half-Life Alyx last night and I wound up with some serious eye strain, so I wound up going to bed early. Then an hour later I suddenly remembered it was Wednesday night and I had to post the comic. So I almost forgot to post, which I think I've only ever done one other time. Maybe twice.
So my super short review of HL:A and the Vive in general. It makes me excited for the next few generations of VR hardware. The Vive is on the verge of being too low fidelity for me. It has 1080p* screens which sounds adequate, but they're like 3cm from your eyes, so it's lacking compared to a decent gaming monitor, plus the lenses inside the headset are lenticular meaning there's a choppy kind of grain and focus issues at the edges of your vision. I also found it impossible to get it all focused correctly as well. I don't know if that's a limitation of my eyes or the hardware. All that apparently adds up to a lot of eye strain for me.
*Edit: I looked it up and the screens are actually 1440p, so I guess I have to attribute most of the eye strain I suffered to the lenticular lenses and possibly my own prescription issues.
Despite that, it is fantastically immersive. There's just no comparison to even sitting right up on a 60″ TV, much less lounging on your couch or sitting in front of your computer. Being able to move around in an environment and just look around with your head like you would naturally, with the screen taking up almost all of your peripheral vision is pretty amazing. It just makes me wish the display technology was better. Honestly I think the low-res screens might have more to do with managing rendering expectations since as far as I'm aware, anything rendered in VR has to be fully rendered twice, once for each lens. There might be some clever shenanigans they can pull to cut down on some of that processing time needed, but you can't just take a 2D image and split it into two separate 2D images with depth separation for each eye, because that makes everything look like a bunch of parallaxed 2D cutouts.
The controllers are excellent, with finger-level controls. Things like having to manually reload your pistol and rack the slide to chamber the first round in HL:A is great, and also incredibly stressful when monsters are lurching toward you. My biggest complaint about it is the whole setup is missing a piece. Movement. Obviously it's a problem, you can't just sell everyone a 4 way treadmill or something. That would cost as much as the Vive itself at the super cheap end. Immersiveness is the name of the game with VR, but the lack of ambulation tracking means that every game has you teleporting around everywhere, which utterly breaks the immersiveness. The other option is that you use the little thumbsticks on the controller to glide around like you're playing on a console, which may not seem terrible if you do most of your gaming on consoles, but it's very difficult to get used to, and especially hard to manage while you're trying to reload your gun or carry a gas can to set up a trap for a bunch of enemies. Basically every encounter I've had in the game has me standing stock still, because it's too much to try and backpedal and reload at the same time.
Like I said, it's… partially awesome, and kind of sucky, and I hope the next few revisions of hardware deal with some of the issues I have with eye strain. I just don't know what they can to about movement. Hell, sitting in a chair and duct taping a mouse to my foot might work.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like!
└ Tags: cosmos01, max02
Some Ed
I protest. Ray has morals.
Just not ones that are generally accepted to be the "right" morals.
Also, I'm not convinced that souls are really immortal. They just last a lot longer than these brief games or simulations we call "having a life". From our current frame of reference, the death of a soul is as imperceptible as a soul.
Well, that didn't get put on the right post. :/
JunWasHere
I believe that's what dnd players call Lawful Neutral. They have principles. Just not life-valuing or destructive principles.
Sasha Whitefur
Morals, are relative!
Not all relatives have morals
Torrenal
Some say that about my father's brother. But honestly he does have morals.
They spell out 'Me First. Last. And always.'
Has no room for anyone else's interests.
I disagree, it is the nature of the soul to be immortal and indestructible. The western conception of the soul is largely borrowed from Plato, where it came up in regards to his platonic theory of the Form, where everything that exists is merely an echo of some abstract form that exist in the platonic realm of ideas beyond time itself. This eternal nature is necessary for the philosophy Plato used to justify it and built around it. – So, for example, when you build a table to plato you aren't just manipulating wood, rather you're connecting the wood to the platonic ideal of a table, the idea that connects all the things we refer to as 'tables' regardless of what shape or material they happen to be made of, and then you're modifying it with whatever specific properties the table you're crafting has. But, this is important, the table is merely one reflection of The Table, the perfect platonic ideal from which all tables are merely a reference. And further, that this abstract realm of forms was the 'real' world, and our reality was the illusion.
That sounds really out there, and it kind of is, but it's actually something you almost certainly believe to one extent or another, either through religious or scientific philosophy (plato was, after all, quiet the influential guy). – If you look at something like the Hindu gods you can see something that is almost a direct comparison to the platonic theory of forms (though, it should be noted, hinduism predates plato by several thousand years, so it's convergent evolution) with each of their gods being a mere variation on the form of the true platonic ideal of divinity, Brahman. Christianity, on the other hand, also follows the platonic theory of the forms, but this time it IS directly inspired by Plato himself, who's philosophical teachings were incorporated into christianity through many christian theologians/philosophers/historians/leaders/whatever, most notably perhaps being Saint Augustine. And it is indeed PLATO's idea of the soul that can be directly traced to the modern christian conception of such. Certain judeochristian sects would dive even further into that direction, in particular the Kabbalah under judaism, which actually maps out the metaphysical geography of the platonic realm of forms in the form of their Four Worlds (Asiyah, Yetzirah, Beri'ah, Atziluth), and even links the ultimate origin of the platonic realm of forms (and thus, all of existence) to God in the form of Ohr Ein Sof, which can be translated as The Infinite Light of God, which sits at the top of their metaphysical ladder (the sephirotic tree of life) above all concepts, thus being completely featureless, boundless, and omnipotent, due to the very idea of restrictions being something that was only created in the realms below him. – Our physical world in Kaballah is actually the lowest one, Asiyah, and the result of all the worlds above it. (kind of like the GUI of a computer application vs. the Source Code, you only see the former but the latters really calling the shots).
Since Plato's Theory of the Forms is 100% dependent on these abstract ideas being eternal and beyond the physical world entirely, the idea of a soul that we derived from it must also be completely eternal.
With that said, you don't need a soul in your philosophy. While it is certainly a popular choice, it is not a philosophically necessary one, and I might even go so far as to say that Plato's ideas are a bit outdated (I know, shocking for a man 2000 years dead). – If you were to take a more modern secular approach you might say that the soul does not exist, the 'abstract forms' are just a result of the abstract reasoning the human brain uses to categorize the universe rather than an actual part of it, and consciousness is a property of the human brain, thus no soul required. – If you want to come at things from a more religious bent, Buddhism is entirely based around the complete rejection of the existence of any eternal soul, or indeed any consciousness whatsoever, or any eternity for that matter. In fact, they are two out of three of the characteristics the buddha ascribes to ALL existences, in the form of Annata (no mind) and Anicca (Impermanence). – The last one isn't related to this discussion since it's just Dukkha (suffering).
But that doesn't really qualify as a temporary soul, since the idea is that you never had a soul to begin with, you simply perceived the illusion of having one. So people who believed in souls would still believe they were permanent.
Anyway thanks for coming to my TED talk. You've all been great.
Luminous Lead
Calvary means skull. Perhaps you meant cavalry?
George Phillies
Unless, of course, your superhero fight is in the Middle East, and your superhero has just picked up a local mountain — ok small mountain — to hit the enemy over the head with and rescue your party, in which case "here comes the Calvary" is only a bad pun.
Mark Christianson
Anyone else notice the power pack falling out of the stasis gun as it is tossed upward in panels 2-3? I don't think you can pick those up at your local big box store.
Rotorgeek13
You have much better eyesight than I do if you can see that.
I don't see anything of the sort. What the hell are you looking at?
Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo
What part of the panel is it in, because I don't see anything either. Or are you wrongly thinking that the blue lines in the bottom right of panel 2 are a power pack when they are clearly part of the American flag sign???
Sasha Whitwefur (Amber Thompson)
Just under the stasis gun.
Nope, that's part of a different display
Just under what part of the gun??? If you want to support your belief, add some clarification to it. Otherwise you just come across as wrong and not knowing what you are talking about.
Brett Bellmore
I can see how you could think that, but it's just an advertisement on a building.
Sorry at second look, I was wrong!
I bumped the image up to +200% and I think what sort of looks like the power supply coming loose
is actually one of the times square billboards across the street.
I think it is made to drop it, when stolen!
RoyanRannedos
I finally figured out where I've seen Ray Cosmos before:
https://katamari.fandom.com/wiki/The_King_of_All_Cosmos#:~:text=The%20King%20of%20All%20Cosmos%20(Also%20known%20as%20Great%20King,the%20father%20of%20The%20Prince.
IrritableMarine
Apparently the local super criminals watched Star Trek and thought the Terran Empire was a good idea, rob the aliens for weapons then conquer. It will be madness I tell you, goatees as far as the eye can see!
Wyld-One
Xevoarchy: but then, they will want a piece of our action!
Rhuen
Sydney's Chekov's gun is coming into play, talking about aliens being mugged by humans.
But really bring all that fancy tech around, while these guys may have originally been waiting for some alien to say throw away a portable fusion reactor into a trash can, or mug someone in an alley for their translator, quantum camera, or whatever; these alien mercs have presented too great an opportunity to pass up; I mean most their stuff is maybe okay, bolas and pointy sticks made of fancy alloys may fetch a price with the right buyer, but that 2nd tier civilization tech like a stasis gun; you might as well have been ringing the proverbial dinner bell.
Steeeve
I'm ready for… NOT THAT
Keneth
I bought a PSVR a few years ago. One of the first games I got for it was Skyrim VR.
Graphically it's not that impressive. The controls are a bit wonky. Not to mention all the typical Bethesda jankyness.
I loved every minute.
There is just a more impressive sense of scale and place. At times I forgot I was just standing in my living room, flailing my arms around.
My eldest nephew was watching me play one night. I was delving into one of the various ruins, murdering bandits, as you do. He said something that stopped me dead.
"How did you look around the corner? Skyrim doesn't have corner peek. It's that a mod?"
I stopped dead. I hadn't even realized what I had done. I just walked up to a diary and… stuck my head around the corner. When we both realized this it just blew both of our minds.
It's this kind of physicality and presence in VR worlds that is so compelling to me. I can't wait to see what the future brings for VR. (Unless the world explodes before 2020 ends.)
door*
I walked up to a door. Damned autocorrect…
CFsoftie
I assumed you meant "dairy", but yeah, "door" makes more sense in context.
Xaton
and panic puke call back not ready for it XD
FTKnight
Now that is a massive catch 22, how does one apologize for accidently faceplanting into Maxima's boob when does not regret faceplanting into them.
Perhaps: "I'm sorry I was involuntarily flung into your bosoms"? I mean, he's probably regretful that he didn't do it of his own free will, so it's at least kinda true.
Smoutwortel
the smart one and totally his kind of wording.
"i am sorry this happened during a fight, when I have not the time to fully enjoy it"
That seems like the winner to me so far. Though I could also see him saying, "I'm sorry this happened during a fight, when we don't have the time to fully enjoy it."
I mean, it feels like a large part of the people I've known with attitudes similar to his seem to always have this idea that the women enjoy them at least as much as they enjoy the women. That all women love them, except possibly for the ones right here saying these hurtful things.
Shane Powell
that's what has always got me about sexual harassment. if it's a skeeze that you don't like its sexual harassment. if it's the guy you've got the hots for then it's okay.
Sexual Harassment, is wrong, PERIOD! No matter who does it.
WEAREGRID
What you're missing here is that there is a broad swathe of human experience, and many things you do in the privacy of your own home become illegal when considered from other contexts.
The context here is that if someone hits on you and you think they're ugly, it's sexual harassment, if you think theyre hot, it's flirty and "oh my God he might be into me"
Power, attractiveness, social standing, there's a reason this is a well known phenomena, there's a reason women get to pick their mates and men don't.
The other person decides in what spirit your actions are taken, not you, the person doing the action.
I'm not reccomending harassment of any kind, but I also don't reccomend whips and chains unless you're a masochist. If you call flirting harassment it doesn't magically make it harassment, but it does make it a crime just because you feel like it.
Torabi
There are two components to sexual harassment, and they're entirely unrelated: it's sexual, and it's harassment. The specifics of the behavior make it sexual, but have no bearing on it being harassment. What makes a behavior harassment is that it's unwelcome. Some behavior is understood to be unwelcome by default within a culture, while in other cases it's behavior that continues after it has been communicated that it's unwelcome. And that's really what's at the bottom of it all: lack of respect. If you do something to someone after they've told you they don't appreciate it, it communicates that you don't care about their rights or feelings.
okbkcq
50 shades of….
The big problem with it was that for over a century, (or hell, a lot longer, but movies and t.v. don't go back that far, and mass printed books only go back a little further) women were not allowed to say "yes"unless they were married or filthy whores, so well over a century of courting behavior was built around ignoring and working around a series of 'no's until societal requirements had been met, and you could kiss, then began a whole new chain of 'no's to go a step further, and men were expected to somehow know the difference between "polite token protest before we continue" nos , "i'm not sure, please convince me" nos, and "I am genuinely uncomfortable and want to stop" nos. It wasn't until the sexual revolution of the 60s that women started being socially acceptably allowed to say "Yes" and by doing so were able to give a clear, unambiguous "no" that actually meant no. Unfortunately, the conditioning on both sides has stuck, and many women want to be "convinced" and some men feel they still need to BE convincing. It needs to be shaken the fuck off by both sides. No man has ever said "I really like women, I just with they were more ambiguous and confusing in their communication" Women: You are allowed to say YES, you are allowed to say No, but you really need to get a handle on saying "Perhaps, but I want you to put effort into courting me first to earn a YES from me," because men just are not telepathic enough to know when your "no" means maybe, and have to choose between being seen as a pushy creep for trying again, or a wishy-washy wimp for giving up.
I have heard so many love stories in the 40+ age group that started with "he asked me out 5 times before I finally agreed to a date with him" Well that's a lovely tale of persistence, but nowadays a woman can have you arrested and slapped with a restraining order the second time you ask, so young women need to be trained to say some variant of "No, but you can keep asking" if they want him to demonstrate, persistence, otherwise, when men stop asking after that first 'no', it's your turn to ask HIM; it's not wishy-washy, it's not wimpy, it's taking your 'no' at face value and treating you as a human being who is interacting honestly, and not treating you as a less-that-human object to be conquered.
"Baby it's cold outside" was not written as a rape anthem, as so many activists proclaim, but an example of reasonable courtship of the era, where the man answers all of the woman's 'no's until she is allowed to 'give in'. Even the line "Hey, what's in this drink?" didn't imply her drink had been spiked, but quite the opposite, she was verbally signally that she was willing to be convinced by pretending her drink was strong and had lowered her inhibitions. IT would be an unacceptable song to release today, but back then it was a guideline of standard courtship interactions.
Haiiro
Your way of speaking is unwelcome.
Stop harassing me.
If I believed you were serious, and cared about your feelings, I'd stop. Spoiler alert: neither are true. The community here will judge which of us is being reasonable. Feeling harassed is an internal state that only you can know, but it's the community that decides what behavior they collectively will accept or reject. If a bunch of people were to complain about me, then I would probably decide that it wasn't a group of people I wanted to interact with, and would stop commenting.
It wouldn't be the most absurd thing on the internet — western culture has become one of perpetual grievance, where people are extremely upset by the things other people say, do, or like that doesn't involve them at all. Like the occasional person who wanders into the comments section of this very comic to complain that the author is a terrible person and so are all the readers who like his work.
Funny, the explanations you get here are different from the one I normally encounter.
The explanation I normally encounter is:
consent. If explicit consent isn't given it's wrong to do any act that is close to sexual even if you're attractive. It's just easier to get explicit consent if you're attractive.
The normal explanation I get here is because: the subject appreciates it(with or without explicit warning).
Answers probably differ a lot more than I just encountred. I just wanted to share my analys.
There is no social ceremony in place for expressing interest in a woman in a workplace environment. The fact that many couples find each other in the workplace means that it does happen and lends credence to the idea that sexual harassment is determined by how a woman feels about whoever is doing the flirting.
I wasn't aware that there were "social ceremonies" for expressing interest in other people in any environment. The belief that there are suggests to me that such "shortcuts" would only be applicable in a specific environment, in which certain stages of normal relationship are skipped over for the sake of expediency. Attempting to use them in a different environment would come across as rude or overly familiar. That such "shortcuts" are impermissible does not mean there is no valid or acceptable way of expressing interest in another person in a workplace context.
I am baffled by the idea that any particular behavior could be categorized as harassing or not without regard to the feelings of the person the behavior is directed at, and as a result, baffled that "sexual harassment is determined by how a woman feels about whoever is doing the flirting" is seen as novel or surprising, as if it were some secret truth contrary to logic or common knowledge. Is there some source that claims otherwise?
eaglejarl
I think "Would you like to get coffee sometime?" pretty much covers it. The woman can say "That would be great" or "sorry, I have a boyfriend" or "maybe, but I'm booked up for a while" or a host of other things that provide nuance.
Clearly we need to formalize an interaction where any person may give another person a token that says "I find you interesting and attractive," and the other person can hold onto the token and choose how they react, either by presenting the other person a similar token. Sexual harassment in the workplace leads to a hostile work environment, but most people only ever meet people at work, because we commute, we work, we commute, we sleep, we get ready to go back to work. On weekends we recover from working and commuting, and maybe wash the clothes that we're going to wear back to work and possibly do some of the chores that we've been neglecting. TL:DR we need an acceptable, inoffensive, unmistakable but also non-harassing way to indicate interest and reciprocate it.
*either by presenting the other person with a similar token, or by retaining and displaying the token to indicate further attempts would be welcomed. Ran on to the next thought before finishing the last one.
A bit low survival rate, but come on if you just tried to fight a dragon and lost maybe your survival instincts aren't very refined
its both to the point and innuendo, should max chose to interpret it as such.
the assumption he would feel there is anything to apologise for, or that max would blame him for the landing, doesnt fit either character.
Max had just armored back up, so faceplant was onto bewbs of steel
This brings rise to a question: When Max slides the arrow towards protection, does she actually become hard to the touch or is she firm-but-invulnerable? Would, say, the pressure of a gripping hand or poking finger still dimple her skin? or would face-planting in her boobs break your nose, as if you'd attempted to aggressively motorboat a marble statue?
something like this came up earlier in the comic while talking to Varia (the one who gains various powers by touching people), regarding armored forms. She said some are petromorphic *stiff* while others are just as soft to the touch as any human but have some property to them making them impossibly to cut or damage; with some having a defense aura.
Maxima as I recal has both the tough skin, and when she armored up her featured were said to become more angular as she becomes a bit stiffer; and she also has a defense aura or layers of them; why the Boom Balls type she fought in the parkinglot battle (I forget this character's name) surprised her with an exploding bola that actually got through a few layers of her defense aura to damage her clothes in the immediate area of detonation.
Atomic Bombshell.
Guess a better name to call yourself with that power set than Speed Ball or Boom Boom
Dave, you will need to fix the joke text at the bottom of the page. Calvary is the hill where the crucifixion happened. Cavalry are the mounted combatants that might come to save the day.
Also, you say halfary and halvary, which seem to be plays on Calvary(The Hill), but then completely switch to Halfvalry which seems to be a play on Cavalry(The Combatants) instead. It is all very confusing and, to me at least, makes the joke fall flat.
I'm honestly curious why there haven't been more Rail Shooter games for VR. You'd think a Panzer Dragoon would be right up there as a best-seller.
shapeshedder
Please tell me this leads to Marble Maiden showing up!
Am I the only one thinking "Yay! Someone just tossed Max an Improvised Weapon!"
Four Quatloos says she uses Ray as a club to clear the riot zone.
I think she's shove him aside with less care than she would a vanilla human, but he has clearly demonstrated he is not on the same weight class her current adversary. He's annoying, but technically a civilian, so she'd try to get him out of the conflict before she starts delivering the kind of punches that leave clean, fist shaped holes in tank plating. (no blasting because crowds, and no punching opponents through buildings.)
Ziggrrauglurr
@DaveB (is there any way to actually tag him?).-
Your eyestrain is caused either but misconfiguration (you NEED to know your IPD and set it correctly in the headset), bad seating of the headset , its kind of tricky, and your prescription if you have any. For the last thing there are several providers that can create lenses that slot in the headset with your prescription (even though both the Vive and the Index, allow you to play with your glasses). Before LASIK I played both with and without glasses.-
Finally Alyx has it covered, but most other games require some finetuning in the SuperSampling (that is, rendering the game at a higher resolution than the headset)which improves the visuals a lot.
I recommend that you visit the subreddit r/Vive, r/SteamVR or r/ValveIndex for very good guides and information.
If you want I can get you details on many of the things you need to optimize your experience.
Welcome to the future, we were waiting you. (I've been there since 2016)
I just fucked around with the dials until it was sharp as I could make it, which was still fairly lacking. I don't know what else I can do with it. Don't think I'll use it enough to get what I assume would be $300 worth of prescription Vive lenses. Doubt my insurance covers it. Maybe I can try it with my glasses on, which may help with the focus, but I suspect it'll make the lenticular aliasing more noticable.
They are around 65 bucks, (They are basically inserts, the Vive subreddit might have specific recommendations, you got WidmoVr as the most recommended, or vroptician sites for example)
If you are not using glasses you can move the screen very close to your eyes, which increases the FOV, and for me it reduced the aliasing. (BE careful of moving the screen close to the eyes if you ARE using glasses, you risk scratching it, my dad scratched mine :/)
The IPD is easy to measure, there are lots of methods online, and proper seating of the headset makes a world of difference.
I know it might sound like "eVRangelization" but there are lots of crazy and cool things to do in VR in 2020, from free experiences to some of the greatest games. (How about Alien Isolation or Silent Hill PT in VR, or Quake, or a CounterStrike analogue, heck, even Minecraft)
Luke G.
They make these bowl-shaped "treadmills" for VR. You wear slippy shoes as you "walk" around and the newer ones even tilt the floor around to match the gradient of the environment. https://youtu.be/q_rv-213IjI
A Stop Sign
Reinventing the baby bungee jumper.
See my misplaced response below. VVVV
There are advances in "positioning tech" that are helping create "fake" space. For example, with a enough large space, you can configure your space, to make it so that when you walk in a straight line, you are "slowly" turned around, so you never realize you are turning. Making it possible to "endlessly walk forward"
(Check OpenVR-AdvancedSettings)
brichins
This is one of the most compact solutions I've seen, while still appearing to be pretty effective. That demo video is a little ruined for me though by the smooth futuristic design being side-by-side with a low-poly environment and jerky camera movement. No point throwing so much money at a nice rig like that just for a cartoon world.
Rocketroo
"Hands Up! This is a bust!"
I know stuff like that exists, but I also bet it costs $10,000. I think we're a super long way off from a realistic consumer solution.
I am 900% sure this ended up on the wrong comment. Hilarious.
Hah hah, whoops!
Bikkie
Really helped along by the accidentally accurate price XD
Iarei
Putting everything into speed just to bring herself up to 'slow' put her at a disadvantage in every field. It would have been safer to trust her team and turtle. I understand not wanting to sit with your hands tied while people try to kidnap you, and that she's operating on split-second reflexes though.
gimmethegepgun
Removing a possible hostage from play is also to the benefit of her team, since then they don't need to work around that.
That would imply she knew what the fuck was going on, and that her team hadn't already been taken out
By all rights, Maxi should have been 'stuck' in that same position indefinitely until someone turned the field off, the fact she was able "bring herself up to 'slow'" at all should not have been possible, and she managed to break out of it… until Juggernot punched in
That is what I mean by "split-second reflexes". Unless the stasis field somehow doesn't effect her perception of the passage of time she has to have only experienced a tenth of a relative second of "why is everything blue and blurry" before deciding to slam on the gas.
She is a combat vet, and this is not her first Super Rodeo
Her eyes still work, she can see there is nothing in front of her (or wasn't), so logic dictates that it came from behind or the sides (well, could also have come from above actually) so she was putting everything into speed simply to find out what the fuck was going on
Turtling wouldn't have been safe. She has now way of knowing how well prepared the attackers are, so blindly trusting others to do the job is very dangerous. For all she knows, it was a coordinated ambush and most of her team members are already down.
Also, if the attackers put her in stasis, it's very likely they're not trying to kill her, so making herself vulnerable to that isn't that risky.
Additionally, sitting it out she not only risks being whisked away, but also the lives of her team members. Trading their safety for her own isn't a good deal for a someone like Maxima, even if the benefit wasn't so dubious.
Let's add the x-factor of she would have no way of knowing if this was the only stasis gun they had, we don't know yet how well she could see outside that field or if it was a delayed image. If it was a blind-blur then for all she knew the whole team had already been ghost bustered into submission. She needed to get out of it or remove the threat as quickly as possible.
Yep, that's all a fair expansion on my last sentence. It's worth pointing out though that this is exactly the tac you would use if you wanted to take out Maxima. Put her in a situation where she has to stat-dump to something other than defense and then hit her with something energetic.
The enemy would have to know about her stat-dumping, which they clearly don't, they figured she was just strong and an energy-projector, locals may have seen the video of the bank heist, doubt aliens would have done that much research
Okay, but being stuck in stasis, vulnerable to all sorts of indirect attack, while her team is without support and she has no idea what's going on isn't a great deal either. Once you're in a bad situation like that, you need to take some risks. If she gets whisked away in stasis, she risks a fate worse than death. And if it's an assassination, the quicker she gets out of stasis, the less time her attackers have to set up the BFG.
In the end, while no armor is bad if someone wants to kill her, stuck in stasis is bad in all situations since she has no information and no initiative. Changing that ASAP is paramount.
Valve tested various options for movement beyond the size of your play area. They found that without the subtle cues of physical lateral motion, after about half an hour, players get vertigo and start vomiting. Not optimal.
Something occurred to me a few minutes ago.
Maxima needlessly swam upstream in the Stasis beam, seeing as how she could still move over the ground; meaning she could change her position relative to the earth extending outside the stasis beam and interact with it;
She could have flown straight up and out of its range faster than charging head on into it.
guess chalk that up to her confidence and not thinking ahead all the time in a fight.
Or, the beam could have simply followed her, and considering how slow she was going, remain in it's beam
If she tried to fly 'straight up', she might have been met by a flyer with another gun, or worse, instead, she chose to 'take out the threat' and neutralise what ever was slowing her down
NO ONE was expecting Juggernot to intercept her face with his knuckles, certainly not Torchy, her back up was otherwise engaged
Given how close the alien got with the device, something tells me it has a notoriously short range to begin with. If there was a faster option to exit its range, while also taxing it *still moving quickly, still taxes it*, and once free even if it still has a charge she'd be able to easily move fast enough to disable the device or its user before it could be used again.
She chose to face the threat head on, she had no intel on the device, didn't know if she was taxing it or not, yes it still makes sense she'd go after her assailant, yet the option still existed to try and dodge out of the line of sight. Heck pulling a super drill spin down into the ground *might* have also been an option…not a good one in the real world given sub-structures she could damage; but given the beam would very quickly start to have road material blocking its line of sight; still an option.
Flying straight up; if the beam had to compensate, it would likely have a harder time doing so for the target moving further away, using more energy not to use to contain but to extend. If anything walking upstream actually helped the device compensate *not by much likely* but still.
The only good reason I can think of to tank the beam like she was, would be to keep this threat focused on her and prevent it from being used on anyone behind her or nearby should she have found another direction to break free from.
Yorp
Her flight and speed share the same power pool. Her super speed was directly countering the stasis effect, which allowed time to progress for her. And above Maxima said that doing so required cranking the speed up to the limit. Importantly what got her out of the field was draining the battery. Which was the direct result of a temporal contest, powered by an ultra tech battery on one side, versus Maxima's geode juice on the other.
Now let's speculate what would happen if an F35 flew by and one of Torchy's colleagues fired another, fully charged, stasis gun at it. I contest that the aircraft would stop in mid-air, even if it had been travelling at top speed. Because, without time progressing for the plane, it would not be able to move. Further there would be no more drain on the gun's battery whether it was freezing an F35 in the air or one parked on the ground. Either way time is stopped.
Following this logic, for every point that Maxima diverted from her super speed time would get progressively closer to being frozen again. She may well have even tried doing as you suggested, but quickly realised that the outside world was becoming more and more blurred as time was progressing faster for the rest of the world. And would have realised that it would take very little effort, even for normal reflexes, to simply raise the gun and track her snail-like flight.
Likewise for any other attempt to move at right angles to the gun wielder. But beating the snot out of Torchy would provide a lasting solution to the problem. Which did require closing the distance (as Maxima could not have safely predicted the results of any attempted ranged attack, and she would be mindful of all the civilians around).
The stasis gun doesn't stop time. It just slows it down a whole lot in a projected zone. Fire the gun at a plane, that plane is still flying, all the same forces keeping it up that usually apply. It's just got a bubble of really slow time around it. Most things can't be accelerated to go at a million times faster than normal (or whatever the slowdown projected by the gun is) so it looks as if they're stopped. Crank that up to a few trillion times (or whatever the more complex systems of the stasis pod can handle) and nothing much at all is going to happen even if a year passes outside, even for Max.
Though of course, there really shouldn't be any exchange of anything across the boundary. Otherwise you'd have molecules part way across going at two different time speeds at once, and that just seems crazy.
This is an interesting observation. The tearing apart of O2 and N2 molecules at the boundary would nicely explain the FLRZLRR sound.
Are we assuming her flight speed and ground speed are separate?
The thing is she is moving fast, and covering distance, relative to the Earth, moving towards her target; we don't know the gun's range, and since she can move relative to the Earth, interacting with the ground that extends beyond the stasis field, the same holds true with the air around her. So if she went straight up, and if the gun has a limited range, she could potentially have taxed it enough and moved far enough away to break free from it faster than marching up stream of the beam.
Now above I did mention in response to Guesticus a good reason for her to decide not to. But that doesn't say should the conditions have been different that she wouldn't have this other option.
Fairly sure flight speed and ground speed are the same, just with flight she is not restricted to, well, being on the ground: she could run at Mach 20, but that would wear out her boots faster than losing contact with the ground
And yes, will concede that flying up was an option, but she had, as someone else mentioned, no way of knowing if that was the only source of the stasis, if she took out Torchy and she was still slowed down, that at least meant there was one less threat and the stasis would be weaker (having lost one of the sources)
Plus, Maxi still has a temper, so… dealing with threats with her fists does tend to happen more than she would like to admit :)
Did Ray just imply he knows English?
scantrontb
only that he's done what most people do first when they learn a new language: learn the swear words first and THEN how to talk the a normal person… though in HIS case I'd say he learns the equivalent of all the flowery, flattering, female-wooing words and phrases first… and let's his translator take care of the rest of the conversation…
It gives me some hope for the human race that you distinguish between swearing and talking like a normal person, but I'm not certain it's reflective of reality.
Last time Maxima distributed her power set it went in big steps of 50%(primary reason why she did fall so fast when Vehemence was strangling her(otherwise muscle could have saved her a hard hit on the ground). Does this thought process of Max mean she had a basic half in defence?
Does this mean mister super muscles can shake up Maxima with 50% defence, because if that
is the case he's a serious foe.
cohibasmoker
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Roosterhead
Are Maxima's ears normally that pointy? I feel like I recall a detail about that but not clearly. Can someone help me with this?
Yes, they are.
Yes, she has always been the Golden Elf of Doom
The first time I specifically remember it being mentioned by the characters is at the Twilight Council meeting.
https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-566-surprise-billionaire/ teleportation can be countred with magic.
I don't think Dave need worry too much about magic countering his VR teleportation.
I just found it and was caught of guard by this pretty relevant trivia about the grrlverse
Kristopher Tiberius Haven
"Calvary? More like… halfary. Halvary? Halfvalry. He's ineffective, see?"
Incorrect on ALL counts. Spelling error. CALvary, is where Jesus died. CAValry, is what I did as a Soldier in the Army.
VERY common mistake, no worries. I had battle buddies, who were ALSO Cavalry Scouts in my own unit, who could not remember the right spelling to save their own freaking skins. X-D
Calvary = Jesus.
Cavalry = Cav Scout. :-)
Higgy
I find the "Who's Who" block's lack of a pic and a name for Super-Strong Black-Ops-Looking Dude disturbing.
How soon until Super-Strong Black-Ops-Looking Dude has an official name? Might I nominate "Torpedo"? o_o
elfguy
How about "Knuckles?"
Juggernot
I going to guess that he's not going to need one. Because Max is about to make him irrelevant to the future of the comic.
The rule is that new characters require both a speaking part (duly qualified) and to actually be introduced. This villain clearly lacks the etiquette to be elevated to said worthy status.
Even Sydney trying to nominate nicknames did not get those on the Who's Who.
Well, Sydney's suggestions WERE a bit ridiculous. But then again, ridiculousness alone doesn't disqualify a character or his/her name from Who's Who; For Whom the Death Tolls, anyone? :-D
(Please don't give Torpedo/Knuckles/whatever a ridiculous name, Dave! Please, please, please….)
I would not be surprised if this group were a special unit, black ops, or private contractors sent in to sneak off some alien tech, dig from trash, pick pocket, mug if need be; and seeing this ludicrously advanced tech being demonstrated right in front of them being able to slow down an S-class with super speed that much; implying anyone below or without super speed would be rendered immobile; became a primary target they could not pass up.
and has been passed off, so this guy's job is to get out or keep Archon and anyone else busy while his team mate(s) get the tech to a safe place,
considering how few supers there were; if these aren't just local mobsters and are a black ops type team; or another of the crawling out of the wood works there are more supers than thought; then I would not be surprised if Maxima recognizes this guy.
if his job is to grab tech, he's not going to stand around and fight Maxima. Maybe throwing Ray was a ploy to get him some escape time.
Joe England
So he wouldn't be as offended if she wasn't "beautiful"? Man, outer space society is not as progressive as I would have expected.
It is almost tautological to say that we value things we find beautiful more than things we don't.
Cue the old, philosophical "Squashing a butterfly versus squashing a cockroach" dilemma.
Crestlinger
Well there Are worse ways to go and unexpected motorboat on Her of all people would be a hell of a crowning life achievement for someone like him.
Kol Drake
I seem to remember a pie chart for Maxima's power balance.
Might you post it with her stats or refer back to that early page?
Mmm, pies.
*licks lips, whilst looking around for them*
Hey, I've seen enough anime to know where this is going …
Holding hands, lewdly? in public!!!!
Oh no, far worse than that!
"I'm going to put my foot in her purse!" –Dick Sullivan, 3rd Rock From the Sun
(Wish I could find a clip of this scene – it's (mostly) not a euphemism.
Tentacles, surprise new power the symbiote unleashes phallic / ovipositor tentacles.
ZeeGee
Oh, dear. Max is going to kill Mr. Toque, Ray, or both. Either way there is going to be excessive violence.
Lathis
You know what, for a somewhat sleazy new cars salesman type, Ray is still proving himself more charismatic and likeable than a surprising number of the main cast. He's definitely a smoother operator than Dabbler, and seems to be actually asking for consent before doing anything, unlike said Dabbler. He might be sleazy, but he's got a gentleman side as well. He definitely doesn't deserve the retaliatory violence that many seem to be implying.
he grabbed at the zipper on Maxima's coat without consent.
…as a Victorian gentleman might take a lady's hand to kiss it, and he asked before proceeding as said gentleman might not. All this said, to repel Xuriel elevates sleaze to cosmic levels.
The villain throws Ray head first at something harder than Ray's head. Max is the only possible target. Max, seeing incoming, stands slightly, enough that Ray can hit something relatively soft.
TheUnplanner
Even at minimum armor, Max's boobs are as hard as the rest of her, at least if something comes flying at them that fast. That's gotta hurt. Hard to feel bad for the guy, though. He was totally asking for it, getting super mercs and alien mercs.
*between super mercs and alien mercs
Wouldn't the correct sound effect for face-planting in Maxima's bust be 'clang'? What's this "floomp" business?
Padded T
He collided with me!
She isn't made of metal.
Scott's Folly
November 22, 2020, 9:49 am	| # | Reply
…And Ray falls for one of the oldest failings in the book. Monologuing.
Rennis_Tora
November 25, 2021, 12:37 am	| # | Reply
I'll say this much for Ray, an attempt was made.
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Q: Booking System in Java Its a cinema booking system. My system has 2 different types of Room (common room and 3D room) and a class of reservations (with name, age and date).
public class Room {

    int number;
    int capacity;
    List<Reservations> reservation = new ArrayList();

// constructor

    public Room(int number, int capacity, List<Reservations> reservation) {
        this.number = number;
        this.capacity = capacity;
        this.reservation = reservation;
    }
}

public class Reservations {

    String name;
    int age;
    Date date;

    public Reservations(String name, int age, Date date) {
        this.name = name;
        this.age = age;
        this.date = date;
    }
}

public class CommonRoom extends Room{

    public CommonRoom(int number, int capacity, List<Reservations> reservation) {
        super(number, capacity, reservation);
}

public class 3DRoom extends Room{

    public 3DRoom(int number, int capacity, List<Reservations> reservation) {
        super(number, capacity, reservation);
}

How can I make a reservation for Common Rooms and 3D Rooms? Because the list only store type Reservations, and I need to store CommonRooms and 3DRooms.

A: I suspect your question is too broad for Stack Overflow. But your code currently looks confused in terms of design so I'll offer some thoughts.
Firstly, why would the Room (the theatre where the films are screened) be responsible for handling its own reservations? Wouldn't it be better to have a BoxOffice class which handles the reservations for the whole cinema?
Secondly, what does a Room (theatre) actually need to do? If we move the handling of tickets to a BoxOffice, then keeping track of reservations would also be handled there. Each Room would just need to be able to return the name of the room, the capacity of the room, the seat map for the room (if you want to allow customers to pre-book a specific seat) and any special features (such as support for 3D movies, fancy surround sound, etc).
Thirdly, is there any real difference between a standard theatre and a 3D theatre in terms of your booking software? Probably not, and in fact a BoxOffice would need to be able to keep track of reservations, remaining capacity, and specific seat numbers still available, regardless of which type of theatre is being booked. (Don't forget that each theatre will show several different movie showings each day, so you'd need a MovieScreening type too which the BoxOffice links to reservations.) So there's probably no good reason to use inheritance to define Room and then CommonRoom and 3DRoom and it would be cleaner to simply have Room and use a name field and a supportedFeatures field to differentiate the different theatres in your cinema, allowing all of them to fit within the same List<Room> or Map<MovieScreening, Room> without worrying about the mess caused by subclasses.
If this is in fact just a homework exercise where your tutor is trying to get you to show off an example of using inheritance, then ignore all of this advice. But be aware that inheritance is more often a curse than a benefit, and there's usually a better way of structuring your type hierarchy.

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FADER Mix: DJ Spinz
DJ Spinz, the Atlanta producer and people-connector who introduced the world to "U.O.E.N.O." in March, via a compilation tape for his HPG production crew, will DJ a million parties this summer. His FADER mix, featuring seasonal offerings from young talent like Migos, Rome Fortune and Rich Homie Quan, is a taste of what he'll play, and an easy way to be the star selector of your own cookout or pool party. See the full tracklist after the interview below; for more on DJ Spinz, check out his 2012 Beat Construction interview.
Download: DJ Spinz' FADER Mix
What's the hottest rap record of the summer? "U.O.E.N.O." is a huge record, breaking into the top 10. One of my producers, Childish Major, from my company HPG produced that record, so I felt that was the best way to start off the mix; to represent us, to represent the A-town, to represent my team. "U.O.E.N.O." is like a breath of fresh air. It's not really 808 driven. It's a cool ass melody, it's something different. It's not your typical southern record. The rest of the mix was just how I would do if I was playing out: high-energy, good, southern, Atlanta music.
I love how Future modifies the melody at the song's close. Future's a genius, man. A lot of people sit in the studio and try and write hit records and Future doesn't even write. He hears it, and you know, he goes, and pours his heart out on the track and he paints a picture. When artists are at that level in their career and they can paint pictures, it's vividly in their head. They're on another type of plane, they're not on the same planet as most people out here trying to buy hits.
Having put out a track your camp was proud of, were you disappointed in Rick Ross' verse and the controversy it brought to the song? I felt like it was a perfect record. I did not agree with that line but everyone has their own freedom of speech. I'm glad it's doing well and it didn't all the way stop the momentum of the record.Controversy is gonna make the song more popular in one light and it's gonna hurt it in another light. You gotta take the good with the bad.
Not all great producers are great DJs. Is it important for a producer to know how to DJ? I mean, I feel that way. I was definitely a DJ before I was a producer, I've been DJing for 10 years, it's like second nature to me. It definitely plays a big role in my production. DJing is about crowd control, and production is just a deeper form of that. When I'm making a beat, I'm thinking about how a club would react to it, or how a group of people would react to it. That's my first instinct when I'm making something. From being in the club for years and years and doing radio and understanding how people react to different sounds, it just gives you an edge.
Why'd you put Migos on the mix so many times? They're the hottest buzzing group in the city right now, no question. They got the streets right now. How Future came a year or two ago and just flooded the clubs with nothing but good street music, that's what they're doing now. It's like a young, fresh batch of new talent. I know myself I'm playing at least five or six Migos records every time I touch the turntables. I put out a record I produced with them called "Undelay," it's going crazy right now. One of the producers that's signed to us at HPG, Dun Deal, he did a record with them called "Hannah Montana" which I think is a huge record. They're important to what we've got going on.
What's the benefit of working with other producers in a group, like you've done with your HPG crew? Creative people need to collaborate. It's part of what makes everything go. You can be on your high horse and do whatever, but we got this chemistry down here. These my partners, these my friends, these the people I kick it with. Everybody tries to, but nobody makes music like Atlanta music. We might just be cooking out, but we might go upstairs and make beats. It's moreso just kicking it with my partners type of thing, it's not like, I gotta fuck with this nigga cause he hot type shit. We just happen to have the sound that people are fucking with. I'm glad people fuck with it, because I love making music, and I'm gonna make a lot of it, and if people fuck with it, I appreciate that.
What are you looking forward to this summer? I'm gonna keep making music, it's my first love. Hopefully I'll DJ a couple cool parties, come back to New York. Hopefully I'll be in everybody's city. In Atlanta we might cook out, we might go to the mall, go to the studio. I might pull up on my partners, go to their crib. We like to kick it here. It's a real relaxed vibe.
What food do you like to cook and how do you cook it? I don't eat beef or pork. I like spaghetti. I know that's basic as fuck. I like fucking spaghetti. I also like making different chicken dishes. You can grill it. Sometimes I put it in the oven, bake it. When I'm feeling ratchet I fry it.
UOENO – Rocko Ft. Future
Nacho$ - Rocko
O'Neal – Que
Undelay – Migos
Showout Remix – Juicy J. Ft. Pimp C and T.I.
No Hook – OJ Da Juiceman
Fema – Migos
Bando – Migos
FDB – Young Dro
That Make Me - Waka Flocka Flame
Ceelo – Future Ft. Wale
Raised in the South – Ludacris Ft. Young Jeezy
Karate Chop – Future
Chosen One- Future Ft. Rocko
Kat!e – DJ Carnage Ft. Kate got Bandz
Young N*gga – Que Ft. Migos
50K – Waka Flocka Flame ft. T.I.
Killin' it – Casino & Slice 9
Come Up Off That – DJ Scream ft. Juicy J., The Migos, and Project Pat
Another Country – Ca$h Out ft. Future
Don't Look Like That – Rich Homie Quan ft. Ca$h Out
Get the Guap – Rome Fortune
Hello – FKI
Hands on You – Future
No Love – Future
Memories Back Then – T.I. ft. Kris Stephens, B.O.B, and Kendrick Lamar
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I'm glad you had fun and I'm even more glad you're back. Perhaps I should go internet-free sometime as well.
Mm-hm. What a wonderful two weeks that must have been. I think that what works for me is chunks of internet-free time, interspersed with chunks of internet-obsessing times. I can't do it in moderation. But those free chunks end up helping me be way more productive!
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It is nice to take an electronics break, isn't it?
Going Internet-free is nice for short periods of time, but not something I would do all the time. I am too dependent on it for keeping in touch with friends and getting information. But I think the breaks give a chance to reassess which of that information I need and which I don't.
Welcome home!!!!! Two weeks in Vermont sounds like a slice of heaven. I've never been but can only imagine. It's always nice to take a break from our technology driven world.
I've been trying to have "computer free Sundays" at our house. It's been mostly good, expect for when I need a bit of information: how to make my favorite pudding, the hours to the library, a phone number. That's when I realize how much I rely on getting info so quickly.


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Northleaf leads debt financing of Encore Textile add-on deal
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Northleaf Capital Partners late last month led and arranged senior and mezzanine debt facilities backing the acquisition of Emerald Textiles LLC by Encore Textile Services LLC.
No financial terms were disclosed. Both companies in the transaction are U.S. providers of outsourced linen management services to the healthcare and hospitality industries.
Encore is a portfolio company of U.S. private equity firm Highland Avenue Capital Partners.
Based in Toronto, Northleaf is a private equity, infrastructure and private credit investment firm.
Northleaf Announces Investment in Encore Textile Services
TORONTO (July 31, 2018) – Northleaf Capital Partners ("Northleaf") has led and arranged the senior and mezzanine debt facilities to support the acquisition of Emerald Textiles LLC ("Emerald") by Encore Textile Services LLC ("Encore"), a portfolio company of Highland Avenue Capital Partners, LLC ("Highland Avenue"). Encore and Emerald provide outsourced linen management services to the healthcare and hospitality industries, and their combination will create one of the leading healthcare laundry services providers in California and Nevada.
"The Northleaf team was able to move quickly and creatively to provide a comprehensive customized capital structure solution enabling a transformative transaction for Encore. We are excited to partner with Northleaf as we position Encore for the next stage of growth," said Chris Sznewajs, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Highland Avenue.
"We are delighted to partner with Highland Avenue and Encore to facilitate the next step in the company's growth," said Mike Morris, Director at Northleaf. "Encore and Emerald both have outstanding reputations in the market, and we believe this transaction will create enormous benefits for the businesses and their customers."
This transaction highlights Northleaf's flexible approach to private markets investing, leveraging the firm's integrated platform. Northleaf has the ability to provide senior debt, hybrid capital and equity capital to support owners of private, middle market companies in building value.
Matt Shafer, Managing Director at Northleaf, added: "We are very pleased that Encore and Highland Avenue chose Northleaf to provide a one-stop financing solution to facilitate such a compelling strategic transaction."
About Northleaf Capital Partners
Northleaf Capital Partners is an independent global private markets fund manager with more than US$10 billion in private equity, private credit and infrastructure commitments under management on behalf of public , corporate and multi-employer pension plans, endowments, foundations, financial institutions and family offices. Northleaf's 110-person team, located in Toronto, Montreal, London, New York, Chicago, Menlo Park and Melbourne, is focused exclusively on sourcing, evaluating and managing private markets investments globally. Northleaf's current portfolio includes more than 250 active investments in 14 countries. For more information on Northleaf, please visit www.northleafcapital.com.
About Highland Avenue
Highland Avenue Capital Partners, founded by Chris Sznewajs and Chris Bryan, is a Los Angeles-based private investment firm with deep expertise in operations and growth enhancement in the middle market. Highland Avenue acquires controlling interests in businesses across multiple industries including industrials, building products, healthcare services and business services. Highland Avenue, in conjunction with its operating executives, partners with exceptional management teams to assist businesses in unlocking value and reaching their full potential. For more information, please visit www.highlandavefunds.com.
About Encore
Encore Textile Services LLC is a leading outsourced linen management services provider to the healthcare and hospitality industries.
Investor and media inquiries:
Nadine Cannata
nadine.cannata@northleafcapital.com
Transaction-related inquiries:
Director, Private Credit
michael.morris@northleafcapital.com
Matthew Shafer
Managing Director, Private Equity
matthew.shafer@northleafcapital.com


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Racing Schedule Announced For 2018 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days- Motorcycle News
Motorcycle News - Racing Schedule Announced For 2018 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days
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If you're a fan of motorcycles new and old, and actually enjoy a motorcycle being ridden hard, the AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days is a must-see event. VMD consists of everything from a swap meet to a number of different racing disciplines. You can see the schedule below.
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Motorcycle enthusiasts and racers will experience three days of action-packed motorcycle competition during the 2018 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days on July 6-8 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio.
Vintage and post-vintage competition will be held in hare scrambles, motocross, trials, flat track and road racing.
"The AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days racing program celebrates motorcycling's competitive heritage," said AMA Director of Racing Kevin Crowther. "Our program provides an opportunity for vintage motorcycle enthusiasts to enter their vintage machines in a variety of racing disciplines, as well as opportunities for youth to experience motorcycling history in a fun, family-oriented environment. So, drag that old dirt bike out of your garage, buy one off the Internet or even hit up the swap meet at the event. Line up and race, and regardless of where you finish, you'll no doubt make memories that will last a lifetime."
Class winners in the trials, hare scramble, motocross and road racing disciplines will be recognized and AMA National Champions will receive a highly-coveted AMA National No. 1 plate. The flat track race, which is set to take place at the Ashland County Fairgrounds, is the sixth round of the AMA Vintage Flat Track Series.
In addition, two outstanding riders will earn the AMA Off-Road Vintage Grand Championship and the AMA Senior Off-Road Vintage Grand Championship for excelling in expert-level eligible classes.
Other updates to the racing program at this year's AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days include the addition of youth classes to the road racing events.
AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days will see the return of pit bike racing and the holeshot challenge competition. Pit bike racing is scheduled for July 6-7, while the holeshot challenge rounds out the day's racing action on July 7.
For a full list of classes and information on racing events at the 2018 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, visit www.amavintagemotorcycledays.com.
To be a part of the racing at the 2018 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days, visit www.amavintagemotorcycledays.com/page/vintage-racing-2018 before July 1, to register to race.
AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days raises funds for the nonprofit AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame.
Begun in 1990, the event has been held at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course since 1995. The track is a superb location for the event, accommodating road racing, trials, hare scrambles and motocross, in addition to a full slate of noncompetition events.
Tickets are available for purchase online at www.amavintagemotorcycledays.com or at the gate during the event. A weekend pass is $60, a single-day admission for Friday or Saturday is $40 and a single-day admission for Sunday is $35. Kids 12 and under get in free.
AMA members can receive a $15 discount through May 31 by visiting www.americanmotorcyclist.com/Events/AMA-Vintage-Motorcycle-Days-Tickets.
Sites are available for tent camping and motorhomes.
Proceeds from AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days benefit the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. The mission of the Hall of Fame, located on the AMA campus in Pickerington, Ohio, is to tell the stories and preserve the history of motorcycling's legends and heroes. For more information, call (614) 856-2222, or visit the Hall of Fame's website at www.motorcyclemuseum.org.
Keep up to date on event announcements by liking and following AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days on Facebook www.facebook.com/AMAVintageMotorcycleDays and using #AMAVMD on Instagram and Twitter.
Those attending AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days will be able to sign up for special text alerts during the event weekend.
2018 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days Summary Racing Schedule (Subject to change)
Thursday, July 5: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Noon-5 p.m.: Road Race Registration (Lower Paddock Tech Garage)
2-5 p.m.: Road Race Technical Inspection (Lower Paddock Tech Garage)
2-5 p.m.: Motocross Registration/Hare Scrambles Registration/Tech Inspection (Off-Road Admin Trailer near The Hanger)
Friday, July 6: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
7 a.m.-5 p.m.: Road Race Registration/Tech Inspection (Lower Paddock Tech Garage)
7 a.m.-9 a.m.: Hare Scrambles Registration/Tech Inspection (Off-Road Admin Trailer near The Hangar)
8 a.m.: Road Race Mandatory Rider Briefing (Lower Paddock base of Tower)
8:30 a.m.: Road Race Track Inspection
9 a.m.: Road Race Practice Begins
Hare Scrambles Youth Vintage Classes Race Begins
10 a.m.: Hare Scrambles Evolution 2/Evolution 3 Classes Race
Noon-5 p.m.: Motocross Registration (Off-Road Admin Trailer near The Hanger)
Noon: Hare Scrambles Vintage/Evolution/Evolution 1 Classes Race Begins
1:30-5 p.m.: Road Race Practice Resumes (Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch Break)
2 p.m.: Hare Scrambles Non-Current Classes Race
3 -5 p.m.: Pit Bike Racing Registration (Mid-Ohio Infield)
4 p.m.: (Tentative) Hare Scrambles Awards Presentation (30 minutes after racing concludes in The Hangar)
5:30 p.m.: Pit Bike Racing Practice (Mid-Ohio Infield)
6 p.m.: Pit Bike Racing Begins (Mid-Ohio Infield)
Saturday, July 7: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
7-9 a.m.: Motocross Registration/Tech Inspection (Off-Road Admin Trailer near The Hangar)
7 a.m.-1 p.m.: Road Race Registration (Lower Paddock Tech Garage)
7-10:45 a.m.: Road Race Technical Inspection
8-11 a.m.: Road Race Practice Begins
8 a.m.: Motocross Mandatory Rider Briefing (The Hangar)
8:30 a.m.: Motocross Vintage/Evolution/Evolution 1 Classes Practice Begins
9:30 a.m.: Motocross Vintage/Evolution/Evolution 1 Classes Racing Begins
Noon-3 p.m.: Trials Registration/Tech Inspection
12:30 p.m.: Road Racing Begins (11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lunch Break)
1-3 p.m.: Flat Track Registration (Ashland County Fairgrounds – Gate 5, Baney Road)
3-5 p.m.: Pit Bike Registration (Off-Road Admin Trailer near The Hanger)
3:30 p.m.: Flat Track Mandatory Riders Briefing (Ashland County Fairgrounds)
4:00 p.m.: Flat Track Practice Begins (Ashland County Fairgrounds)
4 p.m.: (Tentative) Motocross Awards Presentation (30 minutes after racing concludes in The Hangar)
5-7 p.m.: Holeshot Challenge Registration (Off-Road Admin Trailer near The Hangar)
5:30 p.m.: Pit Bike Practice (Off-Road Area)
6 p.m.: Pit Bike Racing (Off-Road Area)
6-8:00 p.m.: Racing Bike Show Set-Up/Registration (The Hanger)
6:30 p.m.: Flat Track Heat Races Begin (Ashland County Fairgrounds)
7:30 p.m.: Holeshot Challenge Racing Begins (Motocross Starting Gate)
8:30 p.m.: Flat Track Finals Begin (Ashland County Fairgrounds)
Sunday, July 8: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
7-8 p.m.: Road Race Registration (Lower Paddock Tech Garage)
7-8:30 a.m.: Motocross Registration/Tech Inspection (Off-Road Admin Trailer near The Hangar)
7-9 a.m.: Trials Registration/Tech Inspection
7-9:15 a.m.: Road Race Technical Inspection
8-9:50 a.m.: Road Race Practice Begins
8:30 a.m.: Motocross Evolution 2/Evolution 3/Non-Current Classes Practice
9:15 a.m.: Trials Mandatory Rider Meeting (The Hangar)
9:30 a.m.: Trials, Motocross (Evolution 2/Evolution 3/Non-Current Classes only) Racing Begins
10 a.m.: Road Racing Begins
12:30 p.m.: Road Racing Resumes (11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Lunch Break)
1:30 p.m.: Trials Competition Ends
(Tentative) Trials Awards Presentation (30 minutes after racing concludes in The Hangar)
Pit Bike Registration (Off-Road Admin Trailer near The Hangar)5 p.m.: (Tentative) Motocross Awards Presentation (30 minutes after racing concludes in The Hangar)
5:30 p.m. (Tentative): Road Race Awards (Road Racing Podium by Pit Lane Lower Paddock)
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For the Benefit of Bernie
Everyone's favorite member of Doc Emmett Brown's Hair Club for Men is back:
And he he's been tweeting:
"What sense is that?" That's a fair question.
For the benefit of Bernie:
col·lat·er·al
kəˈladərəl,kəˈlatrəl/
1. something pledged as security for repayment of a loan, to be forfeited in the event of a default.
synonyms: security, surety, guarantee, guaranty, insurance, indemnity, indemnification; backing
"she put up her house as collateral for the loan"
2. something that you don't have with a student loan.
1. a possibility of harm or damage against which something is insured. the possibility of financial loss.
"project finance is essentially an exercise in risk management"
2. a primary component of student loans.
And that's how it makes sense.
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When I first posted that, I was chided for belittling the candidate. And (I was told) Bernie understands the economics of it perfectly well. The problem with the responses of Bernie's supporters is that they appear to be projecting. They assume he understands the economics and they fill in the copious blanks to explain what he really means. This is apparently defined as what they think he means, such as that he's approaching this from the perspective of the people and not the banks. But communication is the candidate's job, and I remain unconvinced that these eloquent expressions of 'real' meaning are contained in Bernie's message.
Perhaps the medium is the problem. After all, you're not going to say much that's profound on Twitter.
Then again... naaaah.... it's still his job to demonstrate his competence. And since I'm an equal-opportunity critic, I find that my guilt remains disengaged. As this is the worst selection of Presidential candidates ever presented, disregarding party entirely, I see no reason to hold back on Bernie's account.
Sanders' tweet borders on pandering in that it ignores the fact that the bankers' perspective is reasonable. "Where's the sense...?" he asks. The sense is obvious, not merely from a profit-making perspective, but from the perspective of keeping the lending institutions solvent so that loans can continue to be made. This is every bit as much in the interest of the public as the banks.
The Real Problem
One thing that would make the loans less risky, and therefore cheaper, is if fewer people defaulted. But often people take on loans to pay for an education that is either not completed (sometimes due to the fact that they're uninterested or unsuited for academics) or because the returns on that investment are non-existent. This last is in direct opposition to what they were promised by people who sell education for a living.
More higher education does not solve either of these problems, and neither does "free" education (in reality, spreading the costs to others). You're still paying for formal education of people who either do not really want it, or will not benefit from it. Taking them out of the system entirely, however, would reduce the economic strain on the system.
A Better Society
One commenter noted that the existing system is not good social policy. "In effect," he says, "you're purposefully holding the population back from bettering society and themselves." And let's ignore for a moment the hubris required to set one's self up as the arbiter of what makes another human being "better".
If we were to stay on-topic -- Bernie's tweet about interest rates -- and we took "the existing system" to mean the banking system charging more interest for more risk, then this isn't true in the slightest. Increased risk means loss, and in order to be sustainable, this loss must be covered by redistribution among those who did not forfeit. This is exactly what higher interest rates do. You don't get to magically dispel the costs by pretending they don't exist or by hiding them in the bookkeeping. There is no "holding back" involved in making those real costs visible.
If instead we took "the existing system" to mean the concept of you paying for that which is valuable to you, then I don't think that's true, either. Even when we look at it through Socialist eyes and proclaim that "Society" will pay for that which is valuable to the collective, we find that "more higher education" is a terribly unsatisfactory goal. Yet it is the simplistic goal of those socialists who overwhelmingly populate academia.
It is the common trope of those who sell education for a living that you must have their product to be successful, regardless of how you define success. We should approach this claim with the same skepticism with which we approach the claims of anyone who sells anything. While Learning is a wondrous and powerful thing, Education salesmen reflexively conflate "learning" with "college". This is a dangerous fallacy. While there may always be a benefit to the former (and I see no need to argue against it), there is not always a benefit to the latter. There are many paths to learning that don't involve buying their specific product.
But the truth is, if "Society" were to truly operate in its best interests rather than according to the dictates of those who have placed themselves in positions of influence, we would find that less education would be more valuable to the collective. The academicians get it wrong in a big way, and that's why we see stories like this: Why a BA is Now a Ticket to A Job in a Coffee Shop. More and more, college degrees are "required" by lazy HR managers for jobs that actually require no college-level skills. Lower level workers are thereby frozen out of jobs that they are skilled enough to do. These are the people who have placed no stress on the system, have cost society nothing, and who would immediately be productive were they allowed to be. But they are forced out of jobs and onto welfare roles by those who made the self-fulfilling prophecy. College grads who were promised success if they only pursued a diploma are disgruntled to find that this now earns them minimum wage. The Socialists peddling education as a panacea have done little but inflate the cost of higher education while devaluing the diploma and costing society untold billions of dollars in wasted effort and lost opportunity costs.
For decades now, we have let the socialist elite dictate that what makes a person "better" in their eyes should be universally applied to all. Their mistake has raised the cost of education to unsustainable levels. Now these socialists hope to improve the mess they created by decreeing that it should continue at the cost of all. Would it not be better for the collective itself to act to set both the cost and the value of an education rather than depend on the flawed premises of those who peddle the product? There is a mechanism for this, and it's called the Free Market. When it is subverted, as it has been; ruin is the result, as we have experienced.
A Mo' Better Society
Arguably, a better society arises when people are not shamed into pursuing goals which are not their own and when the rest of us bother to appreciate people for more than their social status as measured in years of formal education. Personally, I would find this trend, which began when I was very small, to smack of snobbery were it not now so prevalent due to the result of decades of indoctrination. It is this institutionalized snobbery that prevents us from examining the premise more closely.
Success is personal, and covers a broad spectrum. We don't even have to go to high-profile examples of mega-successful high-school grads and college dropouts like Bill Gates & Paul Allen (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Oprah Winfrey (Oprah), Michael Dell (Dell Computers), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jack Taylor (Enterprise Rent-a-Car), Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook), Peter Thiel (PayPal), Matt Mullenweg (WordPress), Arash Ferdowsi (DropBox), Ty Warner (Beanie Babies), Aaron Levie (Box), Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos), Stacey Ferreira (MySocialCloud.com), David Karp (Tumblr), Pete Cashmore (Mashable), Daniel Ek (Spotify), Danielle Morrill (Twilio), Jeffrey Kalmikoff (Threadless), Sahil Lavingia (Pinterest), Zach Sims (Codecademy), Ben Milne (Dwolla), David Neeleman (JetBlue Airways), Susan Lyne (AOL), Evan Williams (Blogger), Gabe Newell (Microsoft, Valve), John Mackey (Whole Foods), or Sophia Amoruso (Nasty Gal).
Consider instead the small business entrepreneur who lives just a quarter of a mile from me. He owns car washes, a convenience store, office complexes, strip malls, storage units, a recycling business... all on a high school education. And, he started with nothing but personal drive and a desire to try anything that might make a legitimate profit without regard to whether it was "beneath" him. Or the electrician, apprenticed to his dad, who earns more than a university professor. Or my plumber, who I'm very happy to report makes more than my doctor, since my plumber makes house calls. Or the guy who a couple of decades ago used to fill my furnace's kerosene tank on short notice on cold winter days, who now lives in a three-story mansion. He started out pumping gas. These are not random examples; they're friends and relatives who will recognize themselves here. These folks got the education that they needed to succeed. But "education" doesn't necessarily mean college or university, and it doesn't mean debt. They focused on their interests and put them to work.
The point here is not that you are going to have a wonderful life if you don't go to college; but that you can... just as you can be miserable and broke with a college degree, serving up candied coffee at Starbucks.
When we push people into the system when they are uninterested or unsuited, we run the very real risk of turning successes into failures. Paying for those failures does not prevent them. The comfortably well-off folks above could easily have been dejected college drop-outs if they had bought into the proposition that this expense defined their chances of success.
And the mega-rich who did drop out...? They did so because they were bright enough to reject the proposition outright.
Labels: Bernie Sanders, Economics, Education, Explaining The Obvious, Libertarianism, Politics
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