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Three reasons US is better off 40 years after Arab oil embargo
Four decades after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the US has more efficient cars, a strategic oil reserve, and a homegrown energy boom that is reducing its reliance on OPEC oil. But oil prices remain high and some see the nation's newfound resource wealth as a boom that will eventually go bust.
Marty Lederhandler/AP/File
Cars line up in two directions in 1973 at a gas station in New York City. Arab oil exporters inflated prices and cut off supplies beginning forty years ago Wednesday, sending a shockwave through the US economy.
By David J. Unger Staff writer
@dungerdunger
The world has changed. For US energy, that's a good thing.
Forty years after the first Arab oil embargo exposed the risks of dependence on foreign oil, the US has made adjustments to reduce its vulnerability to short-term supply disruptions. Here are three of the biggest changes:
Energy boom: New drilling techniques are coaxing vast amounts of fossil fuels from stubborn shale rock formations in Texas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. The US is producing so much natural gas that it's beginning to export it.
Demand: Americans have dramatically reduced the number of factories and residences that use oil. Transportation remains its biggest vulnerability. Here, too, there's progress, as Americans begin to pare back their driving. When they do drive, it's in cars that on average go twice as far on a single tank of gasoline as the average car did in 1973. Or, they drive in cars that don't run on gasoline at all – opting for electricity or even natural gas as a fuel instead.
Emergency reserves: When Arab oil exporters raised oil prices and then cut off the supply of oil to the West starting 40 years ago Wednesday, there was no backup plan. Today, there is. The International Energy Agency formed in response to the oil embargo, and coordinated a global network of emergency oil supplies in the case of future oil shocks. These strategic reserves have helped to offset the power of the spigot wielded by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
In September, the US dropped to the world's No. 2 importer of oil. It's expected to surpass Russia and Saudi Arabia this year as the world's largest producer of oil and gas combined. After decades of fueling economic growth with the supplies of other nations, the US is increasingly reliant on homegrown energy, and poised to capitalize on global demands.
"The US has improved its global economic and energy security position by increasing US energy self-sufficiency," Guy Caruso, a senior adviser in the energy and national security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, writes in an e-mail. "Nevertheless as part of a globalized oil market the US remains vulnerable to economic damage if oil supplies are disrupted significantly. A disruption anywhere causes economic dislocation everywhere."
It's why the notion of energy independence – popularized by President Nixon in the embargo's aftermath, and co-opted by most every president since – is an elusive one. As long as the US relies on commodities traded on international markets, many analysts say, its energy security will be inextricably linked to the ups and downs of producers and consumers across the globe. US dependence on foreign oil has dropped since peaking in 2005, but it remains a significant portion of total supply. About 45 percent of the crude oil and petroleum products the US consumed in 2011 came from foreign sources, according the US Energy Information Administration. By 2019, imports are projected to account for a third of US petroleum and other liquids consumption.
Dwindling supplies of conventional oil also challenge the rosy outlook of US energy. Having tapped the oil that forms in cracks and pools underground, energy companies increasingly wring oil from source rocks like a sponge. For some, this unconventional oil is an expensive and environmentally risky boom that will bust like any other. For others, production from shale is a long-term game-changer that dramatically redefines where oil comes from across the globe.
"All the easiest oil has been developed," Jack Rafuse, former energy adviser to the Nixon White House and principal of the Rafuse Organization, a Virginia-based energy consulting firm, says in a telephone interview. "... But the US has used much more oil than the world ever knew even existed and continues to do so. That's the way oil reserves work. You keep finding more and developing new technologies."
It's a costly and energy-intensive enterprise, which is one reason oil prices remain historically high in this brave new world of energy. The other is that while demand is flat in the US, it's booming elsewhere. A growing middle class in China and Southeast Asia is embarking on its own love affair with the automobile.
"China will increasingly be vulnerable to volatility in the global oil market as its consumption surges," Jason Bordoff, former energy security adviser to President Obama and director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, writes in an e-mail. "For this reason, China is building a massive strategic petroleum reserve, and over time there will be increasing pressure from North American and European consuming countries for China, which is not a member of the International Energy Agency, to cooperate in the use of strategic stocks to address disruptions in the global oil market."
Supply disruptions in Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Sudan, Yemen, and Syria put upward pressure on prices. A weak dollar has also helped to keep oil prices steadily above $100 and gas prices above $3.
Because unconventional oil is costly to produce, prices per barrel must remain in the $80-to-$100 range to earn a decent return on the investment, according to Mr. Caruso. A sudden drop in those prices could dramatically crimp production from shale formations.
Like any windfall, the question going forward is what to do with the resource wealth. The US has long imposed restrictions on the amount of crude oil it exports in the interest of protecting domestic supplies, but some analysts eye a not-too-distant future where the US profits from selling its crude on the global market.
In natural gas, the US is already turning some of the nation's import terminals into export terminals. After a nearly two-year hiatus, the US Department of Energy has issued permits for three liquefied natural gas export terminals this year, and many expect more on the horizon.
"Forty years later, we have this potential power shift from East back to West because of this tight oil and gas boom and our ability to meet incremental demand," David Goldwyn, former special envoy for international energy affairs under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and president of his own energy analysis firm, says in a telephone interview. "But neither the government, industry, or the public has yet accepted the fact that circumstances have changed.... We only get this huge geopolitical benefit if we connect the US market to the global market" and export.
Not everyone sees it that way. Natural gas prices are dramatically cheaper in the US than abroad, and critics say opening the industry to exports would drive up prices and erode the nation's competitive advantage. It would also further incentivize drilling for natural gas, which is a cleaner fossil fuel than coal but still produces carbon dioxide at a time when many scientists say the atmosphere already has a dangerously high concentration of the heat-trapping gas.
It's why the technique has stirred environmental opposition and remains controversial among the broader public. Forty-four percent of Americans favor the increased use of fracking, according to a September Pew Research poll, while 49 percent oppose it. That's up 11 points from the 38 percent of Americans who opposed increased use of fracking when asked in March.
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Cheekati Rajyam Review Rating: This is the Telugu version of Kamal Haasan's earlier release movie Thoonga Vanam (Thoongavanam).
He managed to release three films this year already and is busy with multiple films which are under pre-production. Kamal released Uttama Villan during the first half of this year which failed to entertain the audience, but the movie grabbed many awards along with critical acclaim.
His next movie Papanasam released recently and was a smashing hit at the box-office. Jeethu Joseph directed the film and Gowthami played the female lead in the film. He is now back with his next film Thoonga Vaanam which released on the eve of Diwali in Tamil and the flick has been receiving exceptional response from the audience.
The Telugu version of the movie has been titled as CheekatiRaajyam which has been slated for release on November 20th all over. Rajesh M Selva is making his directorial debut with this film and Trisha, Prakash Raj, Madhu Shalini, Sampath Raj played the other important roles in the film.
Kamal Haasan came up with a suspense thriller after a long time and the film has been shot in a record number of working days. Kamal shot for the movie for 45 days which is huge among his movies and the complete film has been shot during the night. Rajesh M Selva who has been associated with Kamal Haasan from some time made his directorial debut with this movie.
Trisha, Prakash Raj, and Sampath Raj played the other prominent roles in the flick. Gibran composed the music and this his third consecutive film with Kamal after Uttama Villan and Papanasam. Kamal Haasan produced it on Raajkamal Films International banner.
The film is carrying a huge talk before the release and the theatrical trailer has impressed the audience big time. The expectations are huge on the flick and the flick is expected to open to packed houses all over.
Kamal wrapped the shoot of his recent movie Thoonga Vaanam in a record number of 45 days which is huge among his films. The movie has been shot simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil. The Tamil version of the film has been released on November 10th and the Telugu version titled CheekatiRajyam has been slated for release on November 20th.
The movie has completed the censor formalities recently and it has been awarded U/A certificate with minor voice mutes. CheekatiRajyam has been well appreciated by the censor board members. Kamal himself produced the movie on his own banner Raajkamal Films International banner.
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Q: for loop with two indices in Kotlin It's possible to use for loop with double indices in Java, e.g:
for (int j = 0, k = myArray.length - 1; j < myArray.length; j++, k--)

To iterate myArray elements from the first element using j and from the last element using k simultaneously without using inner loop. How can we do this in Kotlin without using inner loop.

A: Kotlin doesn't provide a way to permit what you attempt to do.
Because I imagine your case is purely for exemple, I purpose you two solutions:
1. The good old way
The most optimized for the exemple you give.
for (i in a.indices) {
    val j = a.size - 1 - i
    println("($i, $j)")
}

(0, 3)(1, 2)(2, 1)(3, 0)

See code snippet on play.kotlinlang.org
2. The .zip() way
Can be usefull on some contexts, the zip method combine two lists of the same size on one list of Tuples which can be used after directly.
val indices = a.indices;
for (i in indices.zip(indices.reversed())) {
    println(i)
}

(0, 3)(1, 2)(2, 1)(3, 0)

See code snippet on play.kotlinlang.org

A: You don't need an inner loop. Just create an additional variable inside for loop.
for(j in myArray.indices) {
    val k = myArray.size - 1 - j
    // Use j and k here
}

Or alternatively,
var k = myArray.size - 1
for(j in myArray.indices) {
    // Use j and k here
    k--
}

A: generateSequence() is powerful alternative for complex loops. Not so fast as pure for/while loop but very flexible and easy.
generateSequence(
    0 to myArray.size - 1 // initial values
) {
    it.first + 1 to it.second - 1 // new values after each iteration
}.takeWhile {
    it.first < myArray.size // limit
}.forEach { (j, k) ->
    println("$j $k")
}

And yes, it's good idea to not iterate second variable but calculate it from first (if applicable), as suggested in other answers.

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Pediatric Gastroenterology at Health Sciences Centre
The Section of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics & Child Health in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, and Shared Health, Child Health Program invite applications for a pediatric gastroenterologist, commencing October 1, 2019. This will be a geographical full-time, contingent position at the rank of Assistant Professor or higher commensurate on qualifications and experience. The position encompasses inpatient and ambulatory patient care responsibility and requires individuals with clinical and teaching skills to further the aims of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, research, and tertiary care medicine.
Candidates must have senior specialty qualifications in Pediatrics in the country of current practice and must be eligible for registration with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba. Certification in Pediatric Gastroenterology by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada is preferred.
Compensation is derived from fee-for-service income plus an annual supplementary payment as per Doctor's Manitoba agreement.
Health Sciences Centre – Winnipeg MB
physicianrecruitment@wrha.mb.ca
Physicians may be eligible for a recruitment incentive. Please contact physicianrecruitment@wrha.mb.ca for further information.
The University of Manitoba and Shared Health are strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from women, racialized persons/persons of colour, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations and genders, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.
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Y'all knew my break from reading Stephen King wouldn't last long! This may be my last King book for the year — it's certainly the one on my to-read list for this year… there's only a few left now! Next up is Misery: about a writer that is held captive by his #1 fan. Popularized by the film starring Kathy Bates, I was excited to work my way through this one. I also rented the movie (because why not?) to compare. King's work has always stuck with me, and I'm glad I finally read Misery. It might not be my favorite, but Annie Wilkes is a stand-out, unforgettable character.
Many already know the story, but to recap for those that don't, Misery is about a writer, (as so many King books are) Paul Sheldon, who has a car accident while driving in a snow storm and is saved coincidentally by a big burly woman, Annie Wilkes, who happens to be his number one fan. She also just happens to be cockadoody crazy. Annie nurses Paul back to a some-what better health than before. As a kind of sick payment, she forces Paul to write a sequel to her favorite book series he wrote. In the meantime, she's got him hooked on pain killers and confined to a single room.
I love books that get a reaction from me, and I found myself really cringing at some parts: especially the iconic *SPOILER* axe-to-the foot *END SPOILER* scene. Also appreciated was the background on Annie through her scrapbook. In fact, I would have loved reading even more, especially with her family, her college days, knocking off all those people in the hospital, her marriage… Long illness, short illness, whatever the case, Annie is one dirty bird that I can't get enough of. Can there be a prequel please?? Yes, the premise of the book is interesting, but I find it to be more of a character study on poor Annie here. How often do you read a book that's like a moving portrait of a person?
This book made me think about those times I've blathered on in front of authors I've met. Honestly, hanging around someone day in and day out for nearly a year like in Misery would tarnish their image for me. Once you realize authors, (celebrities, etc) are really just people, and they live boring lives just like the rest of us, it's just not as exciting anymore. So let's keep things exciting! Let authors roam free!
Verdict: READ THE BOOK. Though the movie was good in its own way, this is yet another Stephen King book that lives a better life on the page than on the screen. Absent from the movie are the cut-a-ways to Paul's in-progress novel, Misery's Return, which I found oddly fascinating. And what happened to the axe? Instead it's a sledgehammer? Hey, at least Annie Wilkes is still cooky, somehow lovable, yet despicable. Kathy Bates made the movie. I don't often say this of adaptations to the screen, but Misery the movie was a very watered down version of the book. It's like weak tea. It's still tea, you still get the smell and taste of tea, it's just not as flavorful. Misery the book ranks high on my most-liked King book list. The movie… needs to be steeped longer!
Technically I listened to this book, and the audio is amazing. Brilliant job!


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First, nuclear weapons are not very good for seizing disputed objects, like territory. It would make little sense, for example, for Pakistan to try to take Kashmir by launching an offensive nuclear attack against Indian forces there. Doing so would kill ethno-religious kin and could render portions of the land uninhabitable.
Instead, Pakistan would be more likely to say (or insinuate) something like "Give us Kashmir or we will attack New Delhi." But this brings us to a second point: carrying out a coercive nuclear threat would be tremendously costly. A state that launched a nuclear attack to achieve a coercive objective – that is, to obtain something it didn't have already – would provoke an enormous international backlash. The consequences could include economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation, efforts by neighbors to acquire their own nuclear weapons, and even military interventions against the coercer.
Of course, the costs of enacting a threat are only one part of the equation, and these costs might be worth paying if one's survival were at risk. But states making coercive threats rarely face such dire circumstances. Indeed, a key feature of coercion is that the coercer is seeking something that it has already been living without – such as a piece of disputed territory, monetary reparations, or reversal of an unfavorable policy. While these stakes are hardly trivial, in most cases they are not so vital to the coercer's security as to outweigh the inevitable backlash that would follow an offensive nuclear strike. Pakistan would desperately like to acquire Kashmir, but having lived without it for decades, Pakistan's survival hardly depends on possessing it. The very nature of coercion thus works against the credibility of nuclear coercive threats.
A simple prediction follows from our argument: nuclear powers should be no more successful, on average, when trying to coerce their adversaries. Our study tested this proposition by examining compellent threats in international crises. (A compellent threat, as originally conceived by Thomas Schelling, is a coercive demand designed to compel an adversary to change the status quo.) Specifically, we set out to determine whether nuclear states make more effective compellent threats than nonnuclear states.
After looking at more than 200 compellent threats, we found that nuclear states issue successful threats just 20 percent of the time, while nonnuclear coercers succeed more than 30 percent of the time. These results also hold when we apply more advanced statistical techniques and control for confounding variables. This is not the pattern we would see if nuclear weapons are useful tools of coercion.
The recent experience of the United States bears this logic out well. Consider how many American coercive threats have failed in the last quarter-century: Panama (1989), Iraq (1990-91 and 2003), Afghanistan (1998 and 2001), and Serbia (1999), for starters. One might also include implicit threats against North Korea and Iran on this list. By contrast, U.S. coercive successes during this period are few and far between, including just Haiti (1994) and Iraq (temporarily, in 1997). In all of these cases, the United States possessed a diverse nuclear arsenal and nuclear superiority over its opponent. Yet most of these threats were unsuccessful.
A recent article by Matthew Kroenig, in the same issue of International Organization, appears to challenge our findings. Kroenig argues that nuclear weapons do convey advantages in crisis bargaining, but only when a state has nuclear superiority – that is, when it has more nuclear weapons than its opponent. After analyzing 20 crises, he reports "a powerful relationship between nuclear superiority and victory in nuclear crises" (p. 143). Our study of 200 threats, by contrast, found no such relationship.
A closer look at Kroenig's evidence, however, reveals that it is actually quite supportive of our argument. First, according to the International Crisis Behavior project, the nuclear-superior side actually "won" just 10 of the 20 crises that Kroenig evaluates, losing or settling for a stalemate in the other 10. (See the table below.) In other words, the effect of nuclear superiority basically amounts to a coin flip: on average, the side with nuclear superiority fares about as well as the side without it.
*Kroenig recodes this case to be a Soviet victory and therefore a victory for nuclear superiority, but the creators of this dataset coded the outcome as a stalemate, not a Soviet victory.
Second, many of the "victories" for nuclear-superior states in Kroenig's data are successes for deterrence, not coercion. For example, Kroenig counts the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait crisis as a "victory" for the United States over China. During this crisis, China conducted military exercises in the East China Sea and issued hostile statements towards the government in Taipei, mainly to prevent pro-independence moves by the Taiwanese government. To protect Taiwan, the United States deployed an aircraft carrier and other ships to the Strait. Kroenig counts this as a U.S. victory, presumably because China did not attack Taiwan. But even if American nuclear superiority contributed to this outcome – which we doubt – the effect of the U.S. nuclear arsenal was to deter, not coerce.
Overall, Kroenig's study provides little reason to doubt our conclusion that nuclear (and nuclear-superior) states have no particular advantage in coercive bargaining.
All of this implies that fears about Iranian nuclear blackmail are at least somewhat overblown. A nuclear Iran might indeed attempt to use its nuclear arsenal for coercive purposes, but history suggests that it is unlikely to succeed. Coercive nuclear threats have rarely worked in the past, and we see no reason to expect that pattern to change in the future.
The US-Iraq Conflict: A War of Rivalry?
reach statistical significance. (I should note that the tests also exclude many obvious controls, like regime type). The only variable that consistently reaches statistical significance in Table 1 is a variable they call "resolve," which actually measures whether a state engages in a show of force during the crisis. This failure to present almost any meaningful results in the published article is not very helpful.
I want to clarify that F&S are not responding to K's post. They are responding to his article, just as K is responding to the F&S research note. They have an opportunity to rebut each other's *posts* if they so desire.
Indeed, I moved their piece forward precisely to reduce the likelihood that readers would think that Part II is a rebuttal of Part I.
However you dice it, slice it, nuclear weapons are good for deterrence only, not coercion. Somebody's law: "Nations with nuclear weapons don't get attacked." Except for some terrorism, maybe. I think that's the governing rationale in Teheran.


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Q: ASP.NET Core Web app Signature input failling https://asp.net-hacker.rocks/2018/06/05/signature-pad.html
So i was using the link above as a reference for my project to get signature/s from users, but when i copy the code, it has errors in "SignatureDataUrl" both in cshtml and cshtml.cs. I tried resolving it by adding public string SignatureDataUrl { get; private set; } in .cs, but when i run it, it does not write anything on the field. Can someone help me resolve this error and i want the signature data to save in my db if possible, Thanks :).
Code/s for Signature.cshtml
@model TestApp01.Pages.Clients.SignatureModel
@{
    ViewData["Title"] = "Signature";
}

@section Scripts{

}

<form method="POST">

        <canvas width="500" height="400" id="signature"
                style="border:1px solid black"></canvas>

        <button type="button" id="accept"
                class="btn btn-primary">
            Accept signature
        </button>
        <button type="submit" id="save"
                class="btn btn-primary">
            Save
        </button>

        <input type="text" asp-for="@Model.SignatureDataUrl">

</form>

Signature.cshtml.cs
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages;

namespace TestApp01.Pages.Clients
{
    public class SignatureModel : PageModel
    {
        public string SignatureDataUrl { get; private set; }

        public void OnGet()
        {
        }
        public void OnPost()
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(SignatureDataUrl)) return;

            var base64Signature = SignatureDataUrl.Split(",")[1];
            var binarySignature = Convert.FromBase64String(base64Signature);

            System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes("Signature.png", binarySignature);
        }

    }


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Caryn Chappell in Calibrate by Karen Kaeja, 2018 TOAF. Photo: Andrew Williamson
*All performances will take place at The Cascading Beer Garden by Henderson Brewing Co.
By Chason Yeboah
Zone E Next to The Archer
Enter into a portal of comfort and acceptance. Remove yourself from the pressures of our world. A world where shame is a toxin, one fed to us through social ingestion. Consumed by us, created by us. Once exposed to this toxin the afflicted may heal in 4 stages: The Spewing, The Shedding, The Reflection and The Embracing.
In this installation, we will find 5 personifications of shame in their last two stages: The Reflection and the Embracing. Pass through the gateway into the crocheted womb, come home to the comfort of "The Mothers" who will be placed within to remind us what it means to have shame, and in doing so, embracing who we are as individuals in a world that sometimes strives to strip us of our individuality. Get comfortable and tell the mothers your shame.
Chason Yeboah is an Afro-Caribbean, Toronto-born artist. Many of her works touch on themes of identity, representation, self-love and body-positivity. She is well-known in Toronto for her handcrafted, nude, crocheted dolls called Knot Naked dolls. Each one is anatomically correct and representational of different body types; they come in a variety of skin tones and sizes. These dolls were made to represent the under-represented, and the marginalized, and created to remove the shame from nudity. Some of the dolls you may find in her collection include representations of trans folks, amputees, mastectomy survivors and more! Apart from her crocheted dolls, Chason uses her art and her exhibition spaces as a community building tool; her art booths in the past have been marked as a safe space and she opens the floor for open and honest discussions about body insecurities, representation and the like.
Join Chason for an Artist Talk about Home Birth.
CMYK Geodesic Sphere
By Jonathon Anderson
At the top of The Cascading Beer Garden by Henderson Brewing Co.
The CMYK Geodesic Sphere is a conceptual metaphor for the unparalleled strength of unwalled humanity - equitable, diverse, yet inclusive. Aesthetically, CMYK suggests a non-objective spatial complexity through perceptual effects of light and colour. In concert, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black produce a stark contrast of foreground and background to warp the viewer's nature of perception and defy the optical rationalities that connect seeing and understanding.
Jonathon Anderson is an Associate Professor of Interior Design and Director of the FCAD Creative Technology Lab at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Furniture Design from Savannah College of Art & Design and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Southern Illinois University. His work explores how industrial manufacturing and CNC technologies influence the design and making processes. As a result, the work is characterized by innovative and explorative methods that result in interconnected design, fine art, and technology solutions. From this non-traditional process emerges a provocative, complex design language that visually communicates at varied scales and emphasizes corporeal and phenomenological experiences. To Jonathon, making is not only a practice but a form of critical thinking.
By Anandam Dance Theatre; Choreography by Brandy Leary
The Cascading Beer Garden by Henderson Brewing Co.
Saturday, July 13 and Sunday, July 14 at 2pm and 4:30 pm
Creating a human glacier in the urban landscape, Glaciology evokes the permanent effects of human and ecological conflicts through the past centuries in the wake of colonization, unstable governments, wars and unsustainable economies through overlapping and contrasting these images and ideas with the indelible power of glacial movements across landscapes.
ĀNANDAṀ creates and presents dance shaped by values of presence and collective inquiry; inclusive of diverse bodies and movement practices; and receptive to a multitude of viewpoints on the dancing body.
Artistic Director, Brandy Leary's artistic practice is influenced by dance, martial arts, ritual, circus, theatre, and installation, and a belief in performance as transformative for both dancer and audience, integrating practices and perspectives from South Asian and European/North American performing arts.
Brandy Leary creates contemporary performances through the body with an artistic practice informed by dance, martial arts, ritual, circus, and theatre. Her works have been produced and performed in Canada, Europe, India, the Arctic, South Africa and the USA in theatres, urban environments, public space, festivals, museums, art galleries and isolated landscapes. She is active as a performer, choreographer, collaborator, curator and Artistic Director of Anandam Dancetheatre. She has lived between Canada and India for the past 18 years; training, collaborating and creating (both explicitly and implicitly) in the traditional Indian performing languages of Seraikella and Mayurbhanj Chhau (dance), Kalarippayattu (martial art) and Rope Mallakhamb (aerial rope).
Composition: James Bunton
Performers: Denise Solleza, Brandy Leary, Hans Wolfgramm, Robert Kingsbury, LoBil, Lara Ebata, Mary-Margaret Scrimger, Jessica, Karuhanga, Greg Wong, Atri Nundy, Rachana Joshi, Tanveer Alam
StreetARToronto Live Painting
A joint project of StreetARToronto (StART), Artusiasm, Civic Hall Toronto and TOAF
Toronto is home to some of the best mural, street and graffiti artists and art in the world. These artists and artworks have transformed Toronto's public streets, laneways and parks into a city-wide art gallery! PLUS, watch an action-packed live painting performance by some of Toronto's beloved graffiti artists courtesy of our friends at StreetARToronto (StART) all weekend.
Read about the incredible artists who will be painting on-site throughout the weekend.
Musical Performance by Pantayo
Friday, July 12, 5:00pm
Pantayo is an all-women lo-fi R&B gong punk queer collective based in Toronto. They combine percussive metallophones and drums from kulintang traditions of Southern Philippines and synth-based electro grooves.
Past notable projects include performances at Vancouver New Music, Halifax Jazz Festival, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Canada150, X Avant Festival, Wavelength Festival; kulintang gong/percussion workshops with Girls Rock Camp Toronto in partnership with Toronto Public Library and at Tone Deaf Festival Kingston. Pantayo has been featured in Noisey (2016), CBC Music for International Women's Day 2017, a cover story in Musicworks Magazine in Summer/Fall 2017, Now Magazine's Toronto musicians to watch in 2018: Indie Edition, and Vancouver's The Georgia Straight in 2019.
StreetARToronto Photography Exhibit
Toronto is home to some of the best mural, street and graffiti artists and art in the world. These artists and artworks have transformed Toronto's public streets, laneways and parks into a city-wide art gallery! At this exhibit you can explore, and in some cases purchase professional, canvas and gatorboard-mounted photographs of some of the amazing street art located throughout Toronto. The current exhibit features StART projects by Indigenous Artists and Advisors from 2012-2018, as well as a selection of StART murals created during the 2018 painting season.
StreetARToronto (StART) is a suite of innovative programs designed specifically for streets and public spaces.
You can see more StART work using the StreetARToronto Map at streetartoronto.ca. Each entry on the map features the artist responsible for painting each mural and the stories and themes behind each unique and beautiful artwork. Individually and collectively StART projects are designed to celebrate the City of Toronto motto Diversity Our Strength and foster a greater sense of belonging among all. www.toronto.ca/streetart


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VIDEO: Heartland Institute Reluctantly Stands by Denial of Cigarette Smoking Risks
posted at 3:37 pm by Nick Surgey
Before the Heartland Institute became famous for its leading role in climate change denial, the group spent many years working to defend the tobacco industry. Just as the group is now known for its over the top attacks on climate scientists, Heartland once played a large role in criticizing public health experts and others calling attention to the dangers of cigarette smoking.
At a mining conference in Denver earlier this month, Republic Report spoke to the Heartland president Joe Bast about his past support for the tobacco industry. In an opinion column titled "Five Lies About Tobacco," Bast once repeatedly claimed that health concerns regarding cigarette smoking were overblown and worth ignoring. At first, Bast denied that he had ever dismissed concerns about smoking and disputed the quote we read to him.
"In 1998, you wrote in a Heartland op-ed that smoking cigarettes has little to no adverse health effects," we noted. "Do you stand by that?"
"No, I never wrote that," replied Bast. "Why would I have written something like that?" Bast asked to see the op-ed, and promised to "contest" it.
Later, Republic Report returned and read Bast's op-ed to him. Watch the video below:
After reading his op-ed to him — which claimed moderate smoking is not deadly and has "few, if any adverse health effects" — Bast then reaffirmed his comments, but hedged, arguing that he meant "one or two cigarettes a day or week." We read another line from his piece, which at the time claimed up to seven cigarettes a day does not raise the risk of lung cancer. Bast again confirmed his sentiment.
Heartland has gone to great lengths to argue that its attacks on public health or climate science are not motivated by the vast amounts of funding it receives from industry groups. But again, the tobacco wars are an instructive reminder of Heartland's agenda.
After litigation forced the disclosure of thousands of tobacco company documents, many Heartland letters to companies such as Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds were exposed to the public.
"Heartland does many things that benefit Philip Morris' bottom line," Bast once wrote to Roy Marden, the Manager of Industry Affairs for Philip Morris Management in a letter seeking $35,000 in contributions for Heartland from the tobacco company.
His evidence? A litany of reports, opinion pieces, and new articles placed by Heartland in defense of the tobacco industry and in opposition to those seeking to highlight the health risks associated with smoking.
"Heartland has devoted considerable attention to defending tobacco," wrote Bast in the letter. He pointed to several examples, including "two of my essays, titled 'Five Lies About Tobacco' and 'Joe Camel is Innocent.'"


The Census Bureau has released the latest estimates from the American Community Survey for all cities in California with a population of 60,000 or more with sufficient data to estimate the percent in labor force. We have crunched the numbers and the rankings are in. See the 142 places in California with the highest percent in labor force below, and the lowest percent in labor force places at the bottom of the list.
People in the labor force include those employed as a civilian or the armed forces plus those that are unemployed and looking for work. Students that aren't working, home makers, retirees, and institutionalized people are not included in the labor force. Having a high percentage of people in the labor force can help local governments because of an increase in amount of tax revenue and fewer costs for social programs.
The California percent in labor force from the latest estimates is 63.7% and has risen 0.6% from 63.3%.
This year saw several big changes. Mountain View, CA rose from #6 to #1, Santa Barbara, CA rose from #52 to #2, San Francisco, CA rose from #10 to #4, Redwood City, CA fell from #1 to #5, and Tustin, CA fell from #2 to #6.
Bellflower, CA saw the biggest percentage increase in percent in labor force at 13.9%, and Merced, CA saw the largest percentage decrease at -11.2%.


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uredili: George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross
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legends. He writes with his eye on the object, free from conventional bias. The Frankish town was "a network of filthy narrow lanes, swarming with beggars" (p. 39); the Christianity taught to the Saxons was "a dry collection of dogmas and anathemas. Its preaching was composed of invectives against the old worships; its catechism of barren formulae" (p. 105); the Slavonic tribes were not a part of the Empire but merely a "sphere of influence" (p. 208); the capitularies were "a medley of scattered suggestions, reflections and commands," and not one-tenth of them were ever put into execution (p. 221). Sometimes the reader is struck by a word or a phrase which is not familiar in American usage: for example, span (past of spin), deteriorate (used as a transitive verb), "the more part are." As a rule the style is simple and agreeable. The illustrations are abundant, well chosen and well executed; the source of each is given, as it should be. There is one map of Europe in black and white, and there are small maps of the various countries in the Empire, but these are very sketchy as can be seen from the location of towns in the map of Brittany (opp. p. 264). The book is provided with contents, index, genealogy and chronological table. Yale University.
CLIVE DAY.
Das Sparen, Sein Wesen und Seine Volkswirtschaftliche Wirkung. Dr. Karl Freiherr v. Manteuffel. pp. 147.
Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1900
Dr. Manteuffel's monograph is a critical discussion of the theories of savings. By savings, the author means (p. 4) the creation of new capital through abstinence. He quotes (p. 6) as aptly expressing his conception, the words of Adam Smith: "Parsimony and not industry is the immediate cause of the increase of capital. Industry indeed provides the subject which parsimony accumulates. But whatever industry might acquire, if parsimony did not save and store up, the capital would never be the greater." He devotes the second part of the thesis to an elaborate excursus into the psychology of savings, distinguishing three motives: the ethical motive (p. 31), saving from temperance; the native motive (p. 32), saving from instinct, and the economic motive (p. 34), saving from desire of profit. Throughout this discussion, the writer is in open agreement with Roscher, whose influence is here as elsewhere very apparent by the frequent foot references to the "Grundlagen der Nationalökono
mie." The third division is by far the most valuable part of the work, treating historically the various theories of savings. He traces minutely and in a scholarly style the development of the underconsumption theories from the publication of Bernard de Mandeville's Fable of the bees. Melon, Forbonnais, James Steuart and Sonnenfels as well as Smith, Maitland, Proudhon, Blank, Vidal, Herkner, Kirchmann and Hertzka figure in this historical sketch. He especially criticises the views of Herkner (p. 68) and Kirchmann (p. 83), and in general all the underconsumption theories (p. 94), denying (p. 100) the possibility of overcapitalization. The essay closes with a positive Sparpolitik, warmly advocating all of Roscher's proposals to encourage saving among the poorer classes of the people. Two features, especially emphasized, are the postal savings bank system, and the plan of the graded interest-rate, decreasing in amount with increased size of deposit and thus establishing a differential in favor of very small savings.
The one defect-almost impossible to avoid in a monograph of this sort arises in isolating the subject of saving from the general theory of population with which it is so vitally intertwined. More saving on the part of the poorer members of society means after all less nourishing food, more ill health and the accompanying higher death-rate. Many will doubtless feel that the dictum of the Italian is unanswered, that the best savings bank for the laboring man is his stomach.
Yale University.
JOHN PEASE NORTON.
RECENT LITERATURE.
The translation of Professor Ladislas Zaleski's monograph on the philosophy of objective law into French under the title "Le Pouvoir et Le Droit" (Paris, Librarie C. Reinwald, 1899), not only puts within reach in brief compass the views of the more important writers on the philosophy of law, but in addition serves to remind one, first, of the work already accomplished by the Russian writers on the theory of law, and second, of the insignificant position now occupied in the philosophy of law by the once dominant theory of "natural rights" and of "natural law." In the historical part of the work, the author treats critically the historical school of law as affected by evolutionary utilitarianism of the school of Ihering, but dismisses from consideration the theory of "droit naturel et d'autres théories metaphysiques car leur caractère erroné a été suffisamment établi dans la science."—a striking commentary on the present position of that principle of law, which in the hands. of Grotius and his disciples contributed so much toward the development of International Law, and again in the hands of Locke, Rousseau and others to a revolution on two continents. The work consists of three parts: (1) an examination of utilitarianism as the basis of law, as developed in the writings of Bentham, Mill, Spencer, Darwin and Weissmann; (2) a critical history of the two leading schools above mentioned from the time of Savigny's "Beruf unserer Zeit" (1814) to the present time, together with summary statements of the views of the principal writers on law, of the English, French, Italian, and Russian schools; and (3) a detailed statement of the author's views which he names "'une théorie générale utilitaire évolutioniste du droit." The author has given his chief attention to the doctrines of the German jurists who, as Lightwood shows, have failed to distinguish or see the desirability of separating the domain of morals from that of law. It is not strange, therefore, that M. Zaleski, failing to understand or appreciate the work of the analytical school of jurists, concludes that "la réunion de deux domaines de la morale et droit -c'est l'idéal auquel nous aspirons."
Dr. John R. Commons, under the title "Representative Democracy" (New York: Bureau of Economic Research), has collected a series of essays contributed to various publications to which he has added two others that appear here for the first time. The central theme of the work is well expressed in the title. Dr. Commons has dis
covered the reason for the so-called failure of democracy and is ready with a remedy. His remedy is, in a word, the representation of interests rather than of majorities. Each group of interests with unity of purpose sufficient to organize a party would, under the author's plan, be entitled to its share of representation in the legislature. This is to be supplemented by the initiative and the referendum, in order that any group above a certain size may propose legislation, or may call for a vote on any act approved by the legislature before it takes effect. The fundamental defect of all of Dr. Commons' devices is that they depend for their efficacy, not upon men but upon machinery. We already have the referendum largely in use in connection with the ratification of constitutional amendments in many of the States. The strikingly small per cent. of voters who care to express their convictions on such occasions is a continual warning to those who depend, primarily, upon any other method of improving our political life than that of elevating the morale of the citizens.
The American Academy of Political and Social Science has published (McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1900) the addresses delivered at its fourth annual meeting under the title "Corporations and Public Welfare." The series of addresses are grouped under four heads: I. The Control of Public-Service Corporations; II. The Influence of Corporations on Political Life; III. Combination of Capital as a Factor in Industrial Progress; IV. The Future of Protection.
The Academy, in its last two annual meetings, has reached a standard of excellence which it will find difficult to maintain, and other similar organizations to surpass. The strongest group of papers is, undoubtedly, that which is given the position of honor in the text. Of these Professor Gray's, on "The Control of Gas Companies," is at the same time of the greatest popular interest and of the highest scientific value.
The series of papers on the "Combination of Capital" are in economic value distinctly below those read at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association at Ithaca, in December, 1899; from the practical side, however, they must be rated of at least equal importance. Mr. Dill, whose practical experience with corporations gives his words peculiar weight, has developed a new dictum by which the industrial progress of the future is to be judged, viz., "The industrial movement must stand or fall by the proposition whether industrials are or are not to become an investment for the
small capitalist." This is worthy to be put beside Professor Sidney Sherwood's statement in his address before the American Economic Association at Ithaca, New York, December, 1899: "The successful management of legitimate industry means adequate wages and dividends, no less than lowered prices to the consumer. It is the ability to maintain the proper balance between these three forces which will decide the ultimate fate of the trust as a form of industrial organization." The character of the speakers, representing as they did both economics and politics on the practical as well as the academic side, emphasizes the fact that in the face of our new and exacting problems in industry, finance and government, we are likely to see in the future a greater solidarity of interests accompanied by a much more active coöperation in their solution.
Professor A. Garelli of Turin in his "Il Diritto Internazionale Tributario" (Turin, Roux Frassati e Co.) has undertaken the development of a hitherto neglected phase of private international law that relating to taxation. The migration of capital and capitalists, residence of wealthy people abroad and the circulation of capital across national boundaries raises many perplexing problems of taxation. In this first part of his work he discusses the general theory of the taxation of such property by the states which have a chance to strike it if they choose to do so. The forms of such taxation whether direct or indirect, on income or expenditure, its incidence, and the status of the persons whether resident foreigners or citizens living abroad, are all fully discussed. A later installment will examine the actual practice of modern states in dealing with this problem.
The eighth number, dated 1900, of Neefe's "Statistisches Jahrbuch deutscher Städte" contains the usual carefully prepared tables and well digested text on a large variety of topics connected with city life as well as new material on the finances of German cities and on the liquor traffic. It would be difficult to suggest any improvement in form or any additions to the now complete array of subjects covered by the year-book. A full subject index to the first eight numbers, 1890-1900, is appended to the volume.
"Die Entwickelung der Preise des Städtischen und Ländlichen Immobiliarbesitzes zu Halle (Saale) und im Saalkreise," by Dr. Carl Steinbrück (Jena, Fischer, 1900, Conrad's Sammlung nationalökonomischer und statistischer Abhandlungen, X) gives the results of a careful study of the changes in the price of city real estate and farm land in a small district of central Germany during the past
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On December 19, 2011, Mr. kazuhiro mori, the Vice President of Hitachi. Ltd. inspected the Dongfang Hitachi (CD) Electrical Control Equipment Co., Ltd.(DHC).
Vice President Sen has taken a very keen interest in the development of DHC, and this was the third inspection he paid to the company to give guidance. After hearing reports from the leaders of the company, Vice President Sen was greatly satisfied with the company's innovations in product development and market exploration, he readily picked up the pen and wrote in the guestbook of the company: "Innovating in undertakings and leading the times ".
Visitors accompanied with the Vice President were: Mr. kokubo kenichi, the General Manager of Hitachi (China) Co., Ltd. and other relevant personnel from International Electricity Operation Headquarters of Hitachi. Ltd. and Electricity Department of Hitachi (China) Co., Ltd. Liang Zhilong, the Chairman of DHC, Ma Jingsong, the General Manager, and Zhao Qiang, the Chief Accountant of the DHC also accompanied with Vice President Sen to inspect the production line of the company.
After reporting and inspecting, Vice President Sen sent a new-type overhead projector produced by the Hitachi on behalf of Hitachi. Ltd. as a gift to the DHC, while Chairman Liang also gave presents in return on behalf of DHC.


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Forza Motorsport My Review
By DeViL6x6, May 6, 2005 in Computer Gaming
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------First off I would like to say I do not understand why every game that tries to be excellent has to be a "something" killer. Has to be a GTA killer, has to be a Halo killer, has to be a GT killer... In my book to be a "___" killer you must fully own the competition in each and every way, not just be better, and not be separate but equal. Given that and given the superb quality of GT4 on so many fronts I dismiss Forza as a GT4 killer right off the bat and hopefully that lets me be a little more fair in my review. Now as much as I would like to not even bring GT4 into this picture, it pretty much has to be brought up as the creators of Forza openly acknowledge their admiration of the GT series and hence it's more than safe to assume that Forza and GT4 stem from similar roots; making it all but impossible to mention one without the other. So with minimal bashing and maximum open-mindedness here are my thoughts on Forza: Graphics: Get this one out of the way first. Forza has the kind of graphics that are technically excellent and grow on you, but right off the bat disappointed me. Something about the modeling, the choice of color palette and item design (trees and bushes mostly) feels stale and dead. I honestly can't quite pinpoint what it is about the graphics in Forza, but like so may Dreamcast games which really should have looked incredible but just didn't quite, Forzas opening impressions were very good but not grandiose... Until you really get into it and get to notice the details that is. Upon hitting my first night race all this talk about multiple lighting sources and real time particle effects became startlingly clear... multiple street lamps cast overlapping and interfering shadows, opponent headlights wash against other cars and add to the dizzyingly dynamic light show and when you finally get comfortable enough with your car to start looking at more than just the road you notice the great details that must be what's taking the muscle that forces the game to 30fps instead of 60. It's these subtle details that more than make up for what I feel was a poor and sanitized artistic style chosen to represent the game. For me Forzas graphics are like a simple but finely crafted Italian suite. At first glance it looks nice. But wear it and the care and attention paid to each little thing slowly makes itself known. GT4 feels more to me like a sporty track outfit, which easily catches your eye at a distance, offers lots of flash and initial wow, but which eventually reveals small flaws in workmanship that become noticeably annoying. Neither game has it down 100% if you ask me and neither is bad at all, they are just going to be enjoyed differently by people who enjoy different aspects of the category. Outside of the racing in the menu system and garage/tuning etc the graphics are clean but simple and somehow feel lacking. While not as flashy as I would like the menus do a good job in a utilitarian way of presenting the information you need when you need it. Neither a plus nor a minus overall. In the end I feel the stylish menus in many other games (the GT series included) are a nice flare, but I can't give much credit here because it's not he menus that I bought the game for. For me, Forza is my choice because I am in this game for a sim, and realism in all it's facets is important, I think those 30fps traded for some of this attention to detail is a fair tradeoff. Sound: First off when doing serious racing I prefer to have no music going. I like to hear the car, hear the motor, hear the wheels on the road and the clutch. I somehow don't think that pro racers crank their stereos during a race and I think it adds to the effect to turn off in game music. That said I did sample the in game music for Forza and something is very wrong here. All I can say is I hope that to make budget to license damage on those snazzy top end cars, they cut way back on music licensing and handed us some cheapo crap on purpose, because if someone thought this was a good soundtrack, someone was sorely wrong. Fortunately this is made up for by what is touted to be a very polished use of the custom soundtrack (I say touted because while I did try it and it worked well, again I turned off music pretty early on so I can't judge too much). I think custom soundtracks are one of the best ideas to hit video gaming because lets face it, even in a game like Midnight Club 3 which has an awesome soundtrack which is pretty much tailored to the demographic most likely to enjoy that game, no soundtrack works for everyone. Some songs you are not going to like and some you are going to wish were there. You certainly have a CD of the music you like, toss that on your Xbox and you have the perfect soundtrack. How many games can you say have the absolutely perfect soundtrack? For me it's only the ones with custom soundtrack options. Menu sounds and the such are about on par, nothing stood out as particularly exciting outside the actual races so I kind of give those a nice job since they don't get in the way and don't bog down load time with lots of big fancy sound files. But the important part: in game sounds. Here some serious work was done and it's much appreciated. Actually off the bat I didn't like the car sounds or tire sounds all too much, until I realized I had my stereo setup wrong for the type of sound I was trying to playback. Once setup right the car sounds were very lively and like everyone else says you can indeed hear almost every upgrade made to your car changing the audio feedback you get from your engine. Outside your car opponents are pretty well separated in the surround sound and the audio is definitely well done enough that you don't ever feel the game is letting you down or failing to give you useful audio information. Tire squeals and crashing into walls or other cars still doesn't sound quite lifelike to me (but I have not been in many real life crash situations so....) but they do sound believable and certainly have no major flaws in quality or implementation. Within a few minutes I was easily able to gauge my shifts without having to so much as glance at the tach, and when the course put a particular strain on your car I could always hear the engine reacting properly, straining, revving and winding down so naturally that I almost don't notice it. That's just how I like it, realistic but not intrusive. A little tweaking to the sound separation in 5.1 would have been nice but overall I give very high marks for sound all around. I also like the sounds of GT4 but notice subtle nuances in Forza that I fail to in GT4 (and these are ones I am looking for and fail to notice). GT4 does have a better soundtrack but again, custom soundtrack. In the sound category I have to say that neither game fails enough to get dinged munch in marks, but I think Forza gets the slight edge as the sounds I am concerned about are in game sounds and Forza just feels a little more in depth and solid in that category. Control: As a very important part of the game I will be delving a little more into GT4 comparison here. For one thing in driving games where controllers are almost always going to be sub par to wheels I am going to give a review on the input method as well as the games internal controls. Controllers: This one is a toughie because it's hard to think anyone serious about gaming wouldn't splurge spend the extra $100 or so bucks for the DFP wheel on PS2, and some kind of wheel on Xbox but then it's not a given. So overall I have to say I have always found the Xbox controller to be superior to the PS2 for driving games. Analog triggers and tight responsive sticks are a hands down winner and a game has to control pretty poorly to compensate for the huge hardware advantage the Xbox has to make them even. So in almost every racing game, the Xbox controller *BLEEP* control in favor of the Xbox, and in this case Forza is just easier to play than GT4 with standard controllers. When it comes to wheels sadly the Xbox does not support Force Feedback and everything I hear about the Fanatec wheel points to it being not worth the money. I have tried the DFP and I am torn on it. For me the DFP is the perfect mate for GT4. Why? Because it does exactly what I feel GT4 does: Achieves near perfection in the areas it accels at, and completely leaves out the other areas. DFP has AWESOME force feedback that makes controlling the game so much better. Feeling the road, the bumps and the different driving conditions is awesome. DFP has NO self centering effect. Why this was left out completely confuses me. I thought everyone knew by now steering wheels have to self center to some extent. What gives? So in much the same way that GT4 pays incredible attention to graphical polish and a solid game engine, but completely ignores important features like collisions and damage, the DFP is a dream come true in force feedback that lacks the most basic element of self centering. That and when you try to rotate 900 degrees you pretty much punch yourself in the nuts twice. This leaves me with the MadCatzs MC2 for Xbox (which bTW comes in a multi format version that works on PS2, Xbox and GC for the same price so... duh get that one) which I find to be the absolute best value wheel because not only does it self center, has an easily reachable stick shift and a (somewhat) working tach.. it has the only pedals I have ever driven with that feel like real car pedals!! No more pushing in some forced arch away from your body, just step down and go! Since I so hate the lack of self centering in the DFP, I have to give both wheel and controller support to Forza on the Xbox as being the best feeling way to control a game. In game control: Both GT4 and Forza are top notch racers and respond quite well. Again this is where I point out that neither is a killer of the other, and at best one is marginally better. To be honest I like how GT4 controls a lot, and I don't find fault with it even if it's got a technically less sophisticated physics engine. However Forzas in game control does seem to offer a bit more detail, if you will, in the nuances of how the cars control. After racing some Forza with a few different cars with different mods, then going back to GT4 I noticed a distinct lack of fine detail in some of the controls between significantly different cars. While nothing was glaring to me, it sort of felt like GT4 grouped cars and gave each group a similar control feel while Forza really did figure out each car individually. Not to say GT4 has poor differentiation in control between cars, just that Forza feels a hair more intricate. Technically I would probably have to give this category to Forza also, but really it doesn't matter a lot because both games control VERY well and it's really picking nits if you ask me to find flaws in control for either of them (I am sure that will be shot down by the hardcore gear heads). Game play: And this is obviously the most important one (is anyone still reading this far in?). I am going to come right out and say it on this one Forza is hands down the best racing simulator I have played on a console ever. All graphics, sound and control quips aside, the meat of the game; the real reason we all bought this, is that it provides an immense level of pure satisfaction in achievement because it's so well rounded and solid that you never feel you won or lost due to anything but skill (and maybe a little luck). I can't begin to describe how much of a thorn in my side it is when games do not punish you for driving poorly. I don't mean send you off track for a bit or point you in the wrong directly, I mean when your car does not suffer because you chose to be too brazen or just foolish it does not make sense to me and completely cancels out any chance of me really considering it a sim. Being punished is awesome but ONLY if you deserve to be punished which is the other major gripe I (and pretty much everyone that bothers to have a gripe with the standard slew of games) have, which is rail driving AI. A racing simulator should simulate racing, not just driving. Racing includes the interaction with the other racers and it bothers me no end that in almost every other game out there computer drivers show little to no acknowledgement of your existence. In the first 30 minutes of Forza I witnessed more intelligent AI racing than I can recall seeing in any other console racer to date. Whether it's opponents slowing down behind you when you screw up to try and not hit you, choosing opportune times to draft and pass, knowing when to be aggressive and when not to, and even responding to your driving style everything in Forzas AI screams "Why wasn't this done years ago!!!? It SOO makes the game!". Forza is the first time I have been able to race and feel like I should drive how I feel I should drive and let the opponents worry about themselves. No more "must brake this corner this way so I don't get hit by the rail driving opponents" and no more "idiot opponent driver running me off the road when he has no reason to other than I am in his line". In real life you have to defend your position, but you do not do so at the cost of damaging your car or risking an accident. Finally Forza provides AI that for the most part realizes that and try's to beat you using real racing strategy rather than some preset actions it is going to do whether you are in the way or not. The best way I can think to explain this is the AI for the most part plays like you would want real human competitors to play, and very rarely makes you wonder "WTF was he doing!?" I have to note that at times the AI does bump you into a spin when there is no reason to, and does get a little fluky at times. But it is the exception by far and not the rule and tends to happen mostly off the line when cars are bunched together and vying for early position. Because you can restart easily at any time in the race I find it easy to overlook this problem because 9/10 when the computer screws me it's off the line, I restart and usually have a clean start next race. I don't view this as cheating, I view it as fixing a small glitch in an AI otherwise far ahead of the competition. In game racing aside, game play from a details standpoint is awesome. I am glad there are no licensing issues (if you can't drive well, turn on SL and it will help dramatically, no need to suffer through hours of slow *bottom* driving) and it's about time some of the menu actions were streamlined like they are in Forza. Tokyo Extreme Racer on Dreamcast epitomized my hatred for the tuning process as it was always over a full minute between a tune and getting to test-drive it. Forza has now put live tuning in place and its a MIRACLE!! It's like the difference between digital cameras and film. No more trying to remember what you did and how it effected stuff, it's now all streamlined and you can immediately see your results. This greatly reduces the frustrating time trying hit or miss changes to my car and it feels ever bit as good to find the perfect setup. Add to that the fact that you can save different setups for your car and load them at the beginning of the race, even restart the race and load a different setup and that's just buttah. Another huge leap in menu navigation is that not only does the game tell you right when you are choosing races whether or not you have cars that can participate in that race, it tells you how many (so you know if you should check your garage pre race) and if you go into the race you can just grab another car without having to back out of the menus! This seems like a small thing but man did it feel good having it there. I am not going to touch on the Driveatar or LIVE because I don't like Driveatar type stuff (didn't like spec and so don' use it enough to comment. If I do take to it I may update this review at a later date (because its not long enough now) and sadly I do not have LIVE, but this game may well be what forces me to shell out the bux for a live account as competing the career mode against real people... I can almost taste it. Conclusion: So how do I say Forza is hands down the best racing game but also say it's not a GT4 killer? Because like I said before, Forza does not fully own GT4. Forza is like my Steak but GT4 is like my pizza. Don't ask me to give up either one, but given the option it's gonna be steak 90% of the time. I think Forza could use a little more graphical polish, maybe a change in art style, but most importantly more content. I appreciate that the tracks Forza has are all fun to race, and almost all the cars are truly interesting to drive and in that light GT4s extra content feels like fluff filling as some of the tracks are just not fun and a lot of the cars are novelty collector items but not really desirable drivers; but I think they could have packed some more cars and more tracks into Forza and I suspect it's $$$ that held that part back. If that is all and we can see more tracks and cars via download or at least Forza 2 has a little bit bigger a stable I would consider Forza almost perfect, and possibly a GT killer. But for now I am very happy to say Forza is excellent all around, and if you truly are looking for a fun, reachable driving simulator Forza Motorsport is the cream of the crop. If you only have a PS2 and you are happy with your GT4, then good. But if you are on the line or have a few extra bucks to burn, pick up Forza and a MadCatz wheel and you will not be disappointed. A final note: I can't stress enough how much you NEED to drive with no driving assists and in manual. Driving assist dampens the feel of every car to an almost unrecognizable point and almost totally kills the point of this game and automatic is just horrible in hard turns and won't let you really feel the power of your car. Yes you will go flying off the track a lot and it's going to involve some painfully slow cornering but you will really appreciate this game 100% more if you play it like it was meant to be played. Take a few free laps with the SL turned on and no driving assists, drive the first lap REALLY slowly to the point of stupidity, you should be going so slow you have no problem staying on the track the whole way around. Then next lap pick it up a little, and keep doing that until you get to full speed laps. This is FAR more effective that speeding through the track too fast and trying to figure out how much earlier you should bake next time, trust me on this I have watched and helped lots of people learn how to play driving sims correctly and this is by far the best way to go about it. If you decide you like this game more than a passing fad (which if you are into racing I don't see how you won't) do yourself a BIG favor and go grab one of those MadCatz MC2 wheels from Target or Walmart or something (get the red one, the yellow one seems to have a really week spring in it) and give it a solid hour of play (this is an hour after you are good with the controller, not just your first hour). Don't give up on driving with a wheel when you go careening all over the track. I guarantee that if you put a solid hour of trying and you were a decent driver before you will never look back. Nothing is quite like leaning on the break pedal, blipping the throttle and aggressively downshifting through a turn while trying to hold the wheel just right the whole way. And if you don't like it, take it back. But at €60,- for a wheel that is VERY comfortable to use and covers Xbox, PS2, and GC all in one I think it's as solid an investment as Forza.
redsox58 0
Wow, that has to be the longest review I have ever read. I like it alot. I thought it was helpful and very informative. I will most certainly buy this game now. I have been waiting for a good GT4esque game to come to Xbox for awhile now.
LikMeBalleFM 0
I`ll have to agree with at least 85% of what you wrote.
I`ll just state it like this "I am an absolute GT fan but trust me
I want Foza too verry verry verry much" , thinkin about gething an Xbox just for the game
FissileBread 0
I was thinking about picking up this game but I instead chose midnight club 3. After reading your very informative review, however, I might consider going out to pick up this one also...
enve19 0
Unfotunately i havent had the chance to play GT4 yet, ive heard a lot of great reviews about it.I have Forza and was eager for its release due to the hype it was getting from reviews i'd read.When i finally got it and played it, i was slighty disappointed, although the gameplay and graphics are very realistic i felt it just lacked something that all good racing games have. Excitement.
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Really awesome review!I agree most of what you said, but there were a few things I had to disagree.The bottom line is though Forza has to be one of the best if not THE BEST racing game ever.
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You're the Worst Review: The Workaholic's Dilemma
(Episode 4.04)
By Matt Brennan | September 20, 2017 | 10:30pm
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I finally understand why I feel such kinship with Lindsay (Kether Donohue), and it's not just because we love junk food and dick. In "This Is Just Marketing," the stylist's assistant dispenses with the fear that she'll "shit work" as her boss does, propelled by a fear that's far more acute: "I never want to feel that way again," she says to Priscilla (Kathleen Rose Perkins) of cradling her infant niece. "I never want to care about something that might go away. So, I choose for my job to be my everything." Lindsay can't have a very long employment history if she believes that jobs don't "go away," but she stumbles upon an honest point: At the office, or on the page, it seems plausible to go through life without dropping one's defenses. If you distract yourself with meetings, phone calls, to-do lists, tasks, according to this logic, you can ward off the magical feeling she describes—and with it the fear that it will one day be lost.
Unspoken in Lindsay's monologue—a rare flourish for You're the Worst, certainly when set against that climactic montage—is the pall Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) cast over the episode. Theirs is the experience Lindsay wants to avoid. Once hardened against the slightest sentiment, both became vulnerable to pain through the ease of affection; now, Jimmy's whipping up cottage cheese-and-water smoothies as a substitute for milk and Gretchen's eating liquor-store lunches of beef jerky and 40-oz. micheladas. Neither is ready to feel any way, except drunk, or lonely, or angry, or blue, and I imagine Lindsay looking at them and saying, "No thanks." Especially after Edgar (Desmin Borges) joins in on the "comeback" of negging ("like pubes and racism"): Along with the moment in which she comforts Tallulah, his come-on is proof that she's susceptible to such feelings, and her instinctive reaction is to shut it down, fast.
Were it not for Edgar acting the cad in the aforementioned montage, I'd be more certain in my belief that he's not negging her, not really. His own monologue has the air of a face-to-face love letter, with its poetic embrace of his fuck buddy's flaws, and he delivers it with more conviction than any stupid skit—either he's suddenly a much more skillful performer than You're the Worst has let on, or there's honest emotion beneath his words' surface. (Then again, I may simply find the idea of "negging," with its "pick-up artist" origins, too repugnant for a series as sharp-witted as this, and for a character as sympathetic. Maybe the point is that dating apps turn men into rancid, right-swiping assholes? That our culture is one in which this is "the game"? Now I feel like punching a TV show in the neck, so I'll stop, but if you're reading this, Stephen Falk? I'm going to need reassurance.) I suppose, since so much of the episode comes through Lindsay's perspective, that the real purpose of the scene is her weak-kneed response: When you haven't felt love, as she admits she hasn't, being treated like trash starts to feel like a kiss.
When you have, as it happens, life's no bargain, either. You might, for instance, dedicate your novel to the person you jilted, and then find it marketed to "horny airport women" by the imprint Silk Sheets. (Jimmy's arc offers the episode's best line, courtesy of the terrific Merrin Dungey. After revealing the cover of Jimmy's novel—phallic bombs, a Union Jack, a halved peach—the publisher's head of marketing describes an imagined reader lighting candles and slipping into a bath: "She'll squirt so hard that tub will overflow!") Alternately, you might find yourself on a friend's podcast discussing your broken engagement, drawing inspiration from a woman so frustrated with marriage and child-rearing that she dreams of living her life out loud where the sea meets the sky. (Gretchen's arc offers the episode's second-best line, as Janet Varney's soused Becca attempts to recite ad copy: "Are you ever in the mood for a spinach and fried leaf frittoto?") You might strip down at a reading for the warmth of the crowd, or plot the most scintillating revenge against your ex. You might be desperate to find a replacement for that heart-swelling feeling you had and then lost. But the truth is, there is none. There is the feeling Lindsay describes and there is its absence, and when you're in either place everything else sounds wrong. Like your cat started barking.
You're the Worst is not the series to point to one or another path as the "right" one; it is a comic air raid on the popular understanding of romance, an emotional siege on your entire psyche. But Lindsay is the ultimate unreliable narrator. It's not just that she's wrong about Priscilla, who ends the monologue with a record-scratch interruption. It's that work is no protection against love or pain, affection or rejection, hope or disappointment: At the office, or on the page, other people still have a way of sneaking under our armor. As Jimmy discovers, both the having and the losing tend to insinuate themselves into everything, always marching in when we least expect it. "For Gretchen," his dedication reads. Thank you for being alone with me." It might be just marketing, but it rings true to me.
Matt Brennan is the TV editor of Paste Magazine. He tweets about what he's watching @thefilmgoer.
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