Last night, I finally beat Secret of Mana.
Thread: Last night, I finally beat Secret of Mana.
...two and a half decades later, lolol. Also, it took me almost 3 months to do, from my initial start to finish... but actually, I liked it rather well. Even though most my play sessions were like a half hour to an hour at a time, and it went on the back-burner for a sizable chunk of December and January (when I went back to Oblivion and Skyrim, for whatever reasons). I always vaguely knew this was the multiplayer JRPG, though it was kinda hidden behind games like Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasies. Way back in the day, I watched my younger cousin running around in it, talking to Santa Claus, etc. I remember there was a member on this site that had a Neko-themed avatar/sig combo, too, though I didn't know he was from this game (or was it a different FF forum? lolol...). I watched the two (short-lived) Game Grumps series of this, etc., etc.
I bought a SNES Classic some time in early November (total impulse buy), and this was the only RPG on it that I hadn't played, so yeah. It is also the only game I've spent a lot of time on on that system. I'll probably spend time on some other games now that I've beaten this, but anyway.
The character designs were also pretty charming. I liked all the goofy enemy mobs in this game the best, to be honest. "Water Thugs," "Duck GI's," "Chobin Hoods," etc. Most of them were totally non-threatening-looking, but oh well. The settings were also pretty cool.
So, pretty much what I'm saying is that the art direction and the sound direction were the two biggest draws for me, for this game.
I found the combat in this game to be really annoying. For a little bit, I was really annoyed by what I thought was a flawed hit detection, but in reality, was just the game rolling a 20-sided dice for me to see if I hit or not. When I realized that, I started to grind more, and that is when the game became a bit more of a chore for me to play. I spent a lot of time in the Todo Village and the surrounding area, grinding. That is one of my clearest memories of this game. That, and the Haunted Forest/Elinee's Castle, the second of which was probably my favorite area in the game. Though it was also the area that made me realize I needed to grind more. Somehow, it just felt the most nostalgic to me. I dunno.
While I rather enjoyed this game, it is no Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy 6. I only have a vague understanding of the story--maybe because it took me so long to beat, but yeah. There were plot points brought up by characters late in the game, as if they'd been gone over before, that made me wonder whether they were covered earlier in the game, and I'd forgotten.
On the other hand, there was apparently a lot of the game that was cut out, too, because it was originally going to be a game for the SNES CD-ROM add-on, or whatever.
This game doesn't inspire really strong emotions in me, I guess. It was fun while it lasted. It's worth playing, if you're into retro gaming at all.
I've wanted to give this game a try ever since I was 8 and saw either an ad or review for it in Gamepro magazine. And now I just looked up the SNES classic and have one coming by Monday. I'll let you know what I think of it.
On a similar note, I still have never beaten Landstalker for Sega Genesis. I borrowed it from a friend in something like 4th grade, got all the way to the end but never beat it before giving it back to him. Maybe a decade ago I bought a copy for myself and have been playing it off and on.
The SNES Classic has a lot of awesome games that I will probably admire as awesome and not actually play, heh... Though there's only like a handful that I haven't put significant time into. Kinda wish Chrono Trigger was on there, too (I had thought it was, for some reason).
I love Secret of Mana, I've been a fan of it for a long time. I even went and got the PS4/PC version which I thought was great imo. They improved the hit detection so that you can actually hit the enemies especially bosses like the Gigas (which was broken for physical attacks in the original.) The remake does have a remastered soundtrack which has a lot of good songs and not so good arrangements, and it also has the option of playing with the original soundtrack and the beautiful thing about it is that the song doesn't get interrupted when you attack enemies. The only other noteworthy features about the remake are: you can up the item limit of what you have in stock or stick with the original 4 of each item, when you visit an inn you get to see conversations with the main characters related to where they are at in the story and gives more background on your party members and the characters in the story. I think I enjoy both the original and the remake the same, people knock the remake so much, but it really isn't garbage like people make it out to be.
With that said and done, I have a question for you Taco, are you interested in checking out the successor Secret of Mana 2/Seiken Densetsu 3? or no?
I'm somewhat interested. I listened to a podcast about Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy Adventure the other night, and they also mentioned Seiken Densetsu 3. They thought it was pretty good, although not as good as Secret of Mana. Sounds like there was a lot of text in that game--which is why it never got an official translation, apparently. If I ever mod my SNES Classic, I might put it on there.
I can give you a rundown of the game if you'd like, I have modded my classic to play through the game and I have cleared it. At the start of the game, you are given the choice to pick 3 out of the 9 playable characters in the game and they each have their own job class and story arc. Depending on who you choose will determine how you will be playing through the game, where you will go, who you'll be fighting against, etc.
What makes this game unique is that when your party levels up, they will be given stat increases and you manually choose how you are going to build up your character stats at each level up. When your party gets strong enough they can undergo a class change, this is the part where Final Fantasy 1 meets the Mana series, you go before someone or something to have your party get a class change to a higher level class. Here's where it differs from FF1, the classes have a light and dark path, also they get to go an extra job class level, but that has an extra requirement - It requires an item related to the class you want to change to because initially it is sealed. Depending on how you train your party determines what kind of skills and abilities you will get. The story is pretty good for what it is, and the hit detection is better than it was in Secret of Mana.
I finished it at least 3 times on snes and I even played remake. The sensations of origin are there. The 3d does not denature the remake and I find it rather successful graphically. Some of the reorchestrations of music are sublime. One regret: there are fewer tactical AI options for NPCs.
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Володимир Пилипович Трі́буц (; , Санкт-Петербург — 30 серпня 1977, Москва) — радянський військово-морський діяч. Адмірал (31.05.1943) Військово-морського флоту СРСР, командувач Червонопрапорного Балтійського флоту (1939—1947). Член Центральної Ревізійної комісії ВКП(б) у 1941—1952 роках. Депутат Верховної Ради СРСР 2-го скликання. Доктор історичних наук (1972).

Біографія
Походив із селян Мінської губернії. З 1914 року навчався у військово-фельдшерській школі в Кронштадті. Влітку 1917 року разом із маршовою ротою Волинського полку російської армії був направлений на фронт Першої світової війни. У грудні 1917 року закінчив Кронштадтську військово-фельдшерську школу.

У лютому 1918 року добровільно вступив до лав Червоної армії, воював під Нарвою проти німецьких військ. Служив у 1-му Північному летючому загоні матросів Робітничо-селянського Червоного флоту. У травні 1918 —  жовтні 1922 року — лікарський помічник, фельдшер (Астрахансько-Каспійська, Волзько-Каспійська військова флотилія, Астраханський військово-морський госпіталь, ескадрений міноносець «Діяльний», «Ленін»).

У жовтні 1922 — жовтні 1926 року — курсант Військово-морського училища імені Фрунзе.

У жовтні 1926 — вересні 1929 року — командир башти, помічник вахтового, старший вахтовий, начальник лінійного корабля «Паризька Комуна» (Морські Сили Каспійського моря).

Член ВКП(б) з 1928 року.

У вересні 1929 — квітні 1932 року — навчання на військово-морському факультеті Військово-морської академії імені Ворошилова.

У квітні 1932 — 1935 року — старший помічник, в.о. командира лінійного корабля «Марат». У 1935 — січні 1937 року — командир ескадреного міноносця «Яків Свердлов» (Морські Сили Балтійського Моря, Балтійський флот).

У січні — липні 1937 року — начальник відділу бойової підготовки штабу Балтійського флоту.

У липні 1937 — лютому 1938 року — в.о. начальника штабу Балтійського флоту. У лютому 1938 — квітні 1939 року — начальник штабу Балтійського флоту.

З квітня 1939 по березень 1946 року — командувач Балтійського флоту. 28 січня 1940 присвоєно чергове військове звання флагман 1-го рангу, 4 червня 1940 року став віцеадміралом.

У початковий період Німецько-радянської війни керував діями сил флоту, який сприяв сухопутним військам на приморських напрямках, в обороні Таллінна, Ханко, Моонзундського архіпелагу, порушував комунікації противника в Балтійському морі. Організував та очолив перехід в серпні 1941 року сил флоту з Таллінна в Кронштадт і Ленінград.

Брав активну участь в організації та здійсненні оборони Ленінграда, на всіх її етапах (1941—1943): забезпечував взаємодію з сухопутними військами в операціях, що проводилися Червоною Армією; використовував підводні сили флоту для порушення комунікацій ворога в Балтійському морі і для боротьби з важкою і надважкою артилерією супротивника, яка обстрілювала місто.

На флоті з його ініціативи були створені групи морської артилерії, які спільно з артилерією Ленінградського фронту завдавали потужних ударів по ворожих батареях. У 1943—1944 роках брав участь у розробці та проведенні операцій по прориву блокади і розгрому противника в районі Ленінграда, а також в Виборзькій, Свірсько-Петрозаводській наступальних операціях, у ході яких сприяв військам Ленінградського і Карельського фронтів вогнем кораблів і берегової артилерії, висадкою морських тактичних десантів, діями морської авіації.

У результаті мінних постановок в зоні дії Балтійського флоту ВМС Німеччини паралізували дії Балтійського флоту. Втрати, понесені в цей час флотом не були подолані до кінця війни.

Надалі керував силами флоту в десантній операції по оволодінню островами Моонзундского архіпелагу, по наданню сприяння приморським флангам в наступальних операціях в Прибалтиці, Східній Пруссії і Східній Померанії.

З березня 1946 до січня 1947 року командував Північно-Балтійський флотом, з січня по травень 1947 року — 8-м Військово-морським флотом СРСР.

У травні 1947 — червні 1948 року — заступник головнокомандувача військ Далекого Сходу із військово-морських сил. У червні 1948 року відкликаний до Москви. У вересні 1948 — січні 1949 року — начальник Управління військово-морських навчальних закладів і старший морський начальник у Ленінграді. У березні 1949 — грудні 1951 року — начальник гідрографічного управління ВМФ СРСР. У червні — вересні 1948 та січні — березні 1949 року залишався в розпорядженні головнокомандувача ВМФ.

З січня 1952 року перейшов на посаду начальника кафедри і факультету Вищої військової академії імені Ворошилова. Спочатку — начальник кафедри надводних кораблів, з серпня 1953 року —начальник кафедри тактики вищих сполук, з грудня 1953 по липень 1956 року — начальник військово-морського факультету. З липня 1956 по серпень 1957 року —начальник групи дослідження оперативно-тактичних проблем Головного штабу ВМФ. До лютого 1961 року — адмірал-інспектор інспекції ВМФ Головної інспекції МО СРСР. Після виходу у відставку в 1961 році керував сектором Всесоюзного інституту наукової і технічної інформації. Доктор історичних наук (1970 рік).

Нагороди
 два ордени Леніна (1940, 21.02.1945)
 орден Жовтневої Революції (1970)
 чотири ордени Червоного Прапора (22.02.1943, 3.11.1944, 1944, 1948)
 два ордени Ушакова I ст. (22.07.1944, 28.06.1945)
 орден Нахімова І ст. (24.05.1945)
 орден Червоної Зірки (23.12.1935)
 Хрест Грюнвальда І ст. (Польща) (21.05.1946)
 Хрест Хоробрих (Польща) (19.12.1968)
 медалі
 іменна зброя (маузер, 1930)

Примітки

Література

Посилання
 Олег Стрижак. Секреты Балтийского подплава

Учасники Громадянської війни в Росії
Учасники Другої світової війни
Уродженці Санкт-Петербурга
Померли в Москві
Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 2-го скликання

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Q: CSS3 vs Javascript only transforms Impressed by the Apple Safari 360 demo
https://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/threesixty.php
It seems to work in Firefox as well.
Can anyone summarize the pros and cons of using CSSonly vs javascript for animations and transforms?

A: My personal opinion is that, using a house as an analogy, HTML is for laying the foundations, CSS is for painting the rooms, and JS is for renovations. If you want to add a water feature, the CSS would be responsible for the appearance of the feature, but the JS would be what makes the water move through it.
Similarly, I could make a clock using CSS and have it rotate using a simple CSS animation (lasting 12 hours for the hour hand, 1 hour for the minute hand, and 1 minute for the second hand), but I would much rather make it in JavaScript as JS would be able to check the user's clock and keep itself in sync. In particular this is important if the browser lags due to the user having too much open on their computer, or just an old computer in general.
Also, I'm pretty sure CSS has to be re-evaluated several hundred times a second for animations, whereas with JS you can explicitly set the framerate to something more reasonable, such as an interval of 250ms for 4 frames per second (more than enough for clocks and progress bars) or 25ms (40fps) for more advanced animations (used occasionally in my sites since they're games). With that kind of control you can manage the efficiency of your site and so on.
On the other hand, CSS transforms are very useful - that's because they affect the appearance of the element, as CSS should. Then, using JS to control them, it's possible to create very complex animations with minimal code (for example in the aforementioned game, there is an entire sequence which would be completely impossible in pure CSS, but is made very easy in JS using CSS transforms).
It's all about using the right tool for the right job.

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Q: Best way to extract text from a 1.3GB text file using PHP? I have a 1.3GB text file that I need to extract some information from in PHP. I have researched it and have come up with a few various ways to do what I need to do, but as always am after a little clarification on which method would be best or if another better exists that I do not know about?
The information I need in the text file is only the first 40 characters of each line, and there are around 17million lines in the file. The 40 characters from each line will be inserted into a database.
The methods I have are below;
// REMOVE TIME LIMIT
set_time_limit(0);
// REMOVE MEMORY LIMIT
ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');
// OPEN FILE
$handle = @fopen('C:\Users\Carl\Downloads\test.txt', 'r');
if($handle) {
    while(($buffer = fgets($handle)) !== false) {
        $insert[] = substr($buffer, 0, 40);
    }
    if(!feof($handle)) {
        // END OF FILE
    }
    fclose($handle);
}

Above is read each line at a time and get the data, I have all the database inserts sorted, doing 50 inserts at a time ten times over in a transaction.
The next method is the same as above really but calling file() to store all the lines in an array before doing a foreach to get the data? I am not sure about this method though as the array would essentially have over 17 million values.
Another method would be to extract only part of the file, rewrite the file with the unused data, and after that part has been executed recall the script using a header call?
What would be the best way in terms of getting this done in the most quick and efficient manner? Or is there a better way to approach this that I have thought of?
Also I plan to use this script with wamp, but running it in a browser while testing has caused problems with timeout even with setting script time out to 0. Is there a way I can execute the script to run without accessing the page through a browser?

A: You have it good so far, don't use "file()" function as it would most probably hit RAM usage limit and terminate your script.
I wouldn't even accumulate stuff into "insert[]" array, as that would waste RAM as well. If you can, insert into the database right away.
BTW, there is a nice tool called "cut" that you could use to process the file.
cut -c1-40 file.txt

You could even redirect cut's stdout to some PHP script that inserts into database.
cut -c1-40 file.txt | php -f inserter.php

inserter.php could then read lines from php://stdin and insert into DB.
"cut" is a standard tool available on all Linuxes, if you use Windows you can get it with MinGW shell, or as part of msystools (if you use git) or install native win32 app using gnuWin32.

A: Why are you doing this in PHP when your RDBMS almost certainly has bulk import functionality built in? MySQL, for example, has LOAD DATA INFILE:
LOAD DATA INFILE 'data.txt'
INTO TABLE `some_table`
  FIELDS TERMINATED BY ''
  LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';
  ( @line )
SET `some_column` = LEFT( @line, 40 );

One query.
MySQL also has the mysqlimport utility that wraps this functionality from the command line.

A: None of the above. The problem with the using fgets() is it does not work as you expect. When the maximum characters is reached, then the next call to fgets() will continue on the same line. You have correctly identified the problem with using file(). The third method is an interesting idea, and you could pull it off with other solutions as well.
That said, your first idea of using fgets() is pretty close, however we need to slightly modify its behaviour. Here's a customized version that will work as you'd expect:
function fgetl($fp, $len) {
    $l = 0;
    $buffer = '';
    while (false !== ($c = fgetc($fp)) && PHP_EOL !== $c) {
        if ($l < $len)
            $buffer .= $c;
        ++$l;
    }
    if (0 === $l && false === $c) {
        return false;
    }
    return $buffer;
}

Execute the insert operation immediately or you will waste memory. Make sure you are using prepared statements to insert this many rows; this will drastically reduce execution time. You don't want to submit the full query on each insert when you can only submit the data.


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How the EU health claims process could impact US
05-May-2009 - Last updated on 19-Aug-2020 at 07:57 GMT
Related tags: Health claims, United states, Europe, European union
How will the new health claims system in Europe impact the state of play in the North American market? Lorraine Heller speaks to a leading international ingredients supplier about the potential marketing and regulatory implications.
According to Bas van Buijtenen, VP at DSM Nutritional Products Europe, a culture of mass health claims rejections in Europe would significantly restrict the market in Europe. This, in turn, could generate a re-evaluation of business practices and product positioning across the Atlantic.
However, this is not yet the end of the road, he said.
"I'm still optimistic that there will be some more common sense in the European approach and that some of the things that we've been seeing today are not necessarily the final word."
Related topics: Regulation, Product claims

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Lancaster Moravian Church has a long tradition of beautiful music included in each and every service. Four members of their bells ringers generously donated their time and talents to perform at Moravian Center Adult Day on December 15th. Jan Stein, Addison Rymar, Gianna Miranda and Diane Herber performed several pieces and educated us all on the history of bell ringing and the intricate production of the bells themselves.


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Q: Redirect output from javascript to HTML I have javascript function that calculates the distance between 'My Location' and another location whose coordinates are fetches from a Data Base. Now, i'm using php to extract data from the database and display the data in a HTML table. I also call the javascript using php. The function executes fine and I get the desired result. However, I now want to redirect this output from the function into the HTML table.
Here is my code:

<?php
$i = 0;
$result = mysqli_query($con,$query);
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
                    {
                        $name = $row['NAME'];
                        $img = $row['IMAGE_SRC'];
                        $addr = $row['ADDRESS'];
                        $location = $row['LOCATION'];
                        $coordinates = $row['COORDINATES'];

                        echo "";
                    ?>

                                    <img src="<?php echo $img.".jpg"?>" height="100" width="100">

                                    <?php echo $name?>

                                    <?php echo "";?>

                                    <?php echo $location?>

                    <?php
                        $i=$i+1;
                    }
                ?>

venue_list is the id of the table in which the data is displayed. Although the function gets executed alright, I am not able to obtain the output in the corresponding table row. Awaiting a solution. Thanks.

A: rows[i] thing seems incorrect.
try giving the td's different id's if youre creasting them by using a loop anyways. makes it easier to access them.


The adidas Excel IV backpack is ideal for work, school, or sports. The spaciousness of the four zippered pockets allows you to easily tote your laptop and books from place to place. And dual mesh water bottle side pockets make carrying your choice of hydration a breeze.
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How long should you spend warming up? 5-10 minutes is preferred gradually building up intensity towards the level that you want to achieve during your workout. This gets the blood flowing through the muscles that you will be using and loosening up the soft tissue so you don't tear or strain anything. Same for cool down - gradually slowing down the heart rate and help with recovery so you can exercise just as hard in the next workout. Watch the rest of the video for a warm up and cool down routine!


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Is privatisation next in Labor's tattered playbook?
Even after 30 years, voters loathe privatisation. That may prove a potent weapon for Labor if it is prepared to dump its history on the issue.
Bernard Keane,
As some of us suggested last week, the Prime Minister's sojourn in western Sydney and her focus on foreign workers and gun crime appears to have delivered some short-term respite for the government.
But the Prime Minister's difficulty is she needs to keep creating circuit-breakers and knocking the political conversation off-course and onto what she wants to talk about. So what next?
Well, the issue of privatisation remains a potentially potent one for a beleaguered federal government.
Polling yesterday from Essential Research again confirmed the depth of public animosity toward privatisation, with 58% of voters believing privatisation is a bad idea. And while Liberal voters were most likely to support privatisation and Greens the least, in practice there was little difference: 54% of Liberal voters think privatisation is a bad idea compared to 70% of Greens voters. There are few economic issues where there is so little difference between voters of different parties.
And support for privatisation is particularly, and unsurprisingly, low in Queensland, where just 15% of voters think it's a good idea.
In late 2011, Essential asked voters how they felt about the big economic reforms of the last 30 years, and whether they wanted to reverse any. The responses suggested there were three kinds of reforms: those that the public enthusiastically supported (compulsory superannuation and Medicare), ones they had mixed views on, but by and large supported (the GST, floating the dollar, free trade agreements) and ones they think were bad — the privatisation of Telstra, Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank.
In fact such was the antipathy to those privatisations that there was net support for buying back all three — the only major reforms voters wanted to reverse. Even the once-loathed GST, after more than a decade, has embedded itself in the national psyche. But not privatisation. It's the economic reform that has never stuck with the electorate.
The basis for the dislike of privatisation is simple: voters don't think there are any benefits to themselves or even to governments — they think most of the benefits flow to private companies.
At best, this is a huge failure by both the political class and the private owners of major assets like Qantas and Telstra. Privatisations are ostensibly for the benefit of voters, who obtain better services provided more efficiently by the private sector, and indirectly via greater economic efficiency. Voters, however, tend only to see Qantas systematically debauching its services and trashing its brand, or Telstra behaving like a profit-obsessed monopolist rather than just an engineering-obsessed monopolist, or the Commonwealth Bank gouging its customers.
The issue should thus be a fruitful one for Labor to exploit. The federal Coalition remains committed to the sale of Medibank Private (an eminently sensible policy) and the Queensland government has just unveiled a health policy focused on outsourcing and privatising health services, even before Peter Costello's Commission of Audit spruiked selling everything else north of the border.
Labor's problem, of course, is its own long history of privatisation. Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank were its privatisations. Its current policy is to eventually privatise the NBN. The NSW party tore itself apart over electricity privatisations. The Bligh government boldly embraced privatisation to shore up its financial position, and was punished with an historic loss. Bligh's adoption of privatisation remains a sore point within the federal party, where it was regarded as both damaging to Labor's brand and electorally suicidal.
As with its campaign on 457 visas, a Labor campaign on privatisation would be a partial repudiation of its commitment to an open market economy, although it could rhetorically distinguish between privatisating core infrastructure and outsourcing traditional government services. But this is a government very much in short-term mode at the moment.
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Holden Back
'Even after' is, I think, the wrong construction. It might be better framed as 'having experienced the results of privatisation over thirty years' people are not impressed.
As for 'outsourcing', let's start with various IT train-wrecks (cost or performance, which failure is worse?) across the jurisdictions. Or maybe transport ticketing systems . . .
Hunt, Ian
Bernard, repudiation of privatisation is not opposition to an open market economy. It is repudiation of the neo-liberal agenda, which has fastened ideologically on the welfare theorms of neo-classical economics. This ideology urges not only open markets where they work well, as with the more or less competitive markets for electronic goods, computers, cars etc, but pathetically tries to extend markets and an ideology of capitalist management into areas where markets are not very competitive and do not work very well.
This farce is played out, with encouragement from the federal bureaucracy, in universities, which get no advantage from being run as though they are businesses, with grossly overpaid executives and top down management directed by people who do not really know what they are managing.This is not to deny that some institutions, such as the Post Office, can operate well along business lines.
The same applies to privatisation. Replacement of a government monopoly with a private monopoly has only one effect: customers tend to get gouged with higher prices and employees tend to have their wages and conditions beaten down. So the public is quite right about privatisation being simply for the benefit of private investors.
This is not so say that privatisation never works. Private competitive tendering to operate facilities can work but its main effect is again to lower wages and conditions of employees and to diminish public control of the facility, since the operators are only bound by contract conditions.
So, the Queensland public has got it largely right. Privatisation is usually a hand out to private interests at public expense.
The NBN network need never be privatised. That the ALP plans to do this is a sign that they are captive to neo-liberal ideology, which Latham recently bowed to, no doubt to let Murdoch know that he might be an acceptable future Labor leader, who will never need to be hounded out of office by that loss making propaganda rag, the Australian, and its offshoot, the Daily Telegraph.
The sad thing is that the necessary spending to keep Australia out of recession after the GFC is now viewed by many as the Australian set out to show it by never mentioning any of its successes and beating up any shortcomings (when governments act, they must be 100% successful, which is a much higher standard than private businesses set). Even the worst managed of the programs, to employ unskilled workers to put insulation in roofs, has shown down the track benefits, as the fall in demand for electricity has shown.
So, yes, repudiation of privatisation might be a good idea for Labor, but they too seem to be in the grip of neo-liberal ideology, and so might not take this opportunity, even if it would improve their chances in the election, if only neo-liberal ideologists like Murdoch don't attack them for all they worth. After all, the barrage at the beginning of the year did put a dent in the ALP vote and we can expect the same when the election looms. Crises, chaos, incompetence will all be beat up for all they are worth.
exasperated77
Holden Back, I agree. Perhaps Crikey could writean article eplaining exactly where privatisation has ever improved services for voters. Increased competition (in telecommunications) is one matter but Quantas,CBA, and electricity privatisation its hard to see any compelling benefit to privatisation
Is there such a thing as a privatised service that is more efficient and cheaper than the government owned service. At best they're just as bad.
When we privatised the commonwealth bank we lost the only "honest broker" in the field and frankly, at least the engineering obsessed Telecom left us some very high quality infrastructure not to mention all the technical staff that Telecom used to train.
Kampbell
Has the I.P.A. taken over Bernard Keane? As I stare at my now tripled power bill since the freedom and joy of privatisation of our power supply I will never be convinced of the benefits of selling the farm forever to pay down short term debt.
The private sector is not the answer.


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Joe Hildebrand: Pollies eat junk food to make them seem normal
SOMETIMES the smaller moments of the election campaign can turn into the biggest of all - and it can all come down to one sausage.
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Tony Abbott chomps into a raw brown onion
Bill Shorten eats a sausage sandwich Picture: Mick TsikasSource:Supplied
John Brogden may be the only politician in history to have been beaten by a sausage roll.
The year was 2003 and the little-known Liberal leader was up against the eccentric Labor titan Bob Carr running for his third consecutive premiership at the NSW state election.
Carr had almost twice the approval rating of the baby-faced Brogden, who was new, naïve and unknown. And his hero was Bobby Kennedy, which placed him about two steps to the left of the Labor Right.
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In short, the conservatives were muddy and muddled while Labor was direct and disciplined. The campaign had walkover written all over it. A long, boring walkover.
Stuck on the campaign trail and struggling for a story, a young gun reporter from The Daily Telegraph decided to spice things up.
At one of the innumerable whistlestops she invited the notoriously health-conscious Carr to partake in a sausage roll. The premier, whose diet consisted largely of eggwhite omelettes, responded in typical form.
"Sausage rolls are disgusting," he pronounced in his superior Shakespearean cadence. "They are fat encased in fat."
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As a result The Tele had its front page and everyone should have gone home happy but unfortunately it didn't end there.
Sensing an opportunity for some cut-through, Brogden declared himself in favour of the humble sausage roll.
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Pretty soon he was scoffing one for the cameras but instead of looking down-to-earth he just ended up looking a bit silly.
Worse still, he gave Carr an opportunity to come over the top and declare himself for the far more popular meat pie. It was classic wedge politics — indeed at one point it looked like there might be some actual wedges involved.
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From that moment Brogden's last remaining premiership hopes were over. As it turns out, it really is a long way to the top if you want a sausage roll.
Food in politics is a serious business. Indeed, it is probably the only profession in which sometimes the food eats you. One wrong bite and next thing you know you've been chewed up and spat out.
Part of this is the great egalitarian nature of Australian political life. We like to imagine that our politicians all think that they are better than us and we need to constantly reduce them to our level.
In other words, they need to eat and sh*t like the rest of us. If we're going to be the recipients of the latter we're going to damn well keep a close eye on the former.
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At least this way we can figure out if they really are just like us as they always claim or if they really are an alien species just as we always suspected.
Unfortunately for the politicians, the results always lean towards Option B.
The most famous act of political consumption was in fact not technically eating at all, not was it performed by someone who was technically a politician at the time. Nonetheless it was so impressive that the voting public waived both technicalities and made the man who did it Australia's longest serving Labor prime minister.
This was of course Bob Hawke's record-breaking effort of drinking a yard glass of beer in just 11 seconds while a student at Oxford in the 1950s. It was a feat which he himself said probably endeared him more to the Australian electorate than any of his political accomplishments.
Former Australian Prime Minister, The Hon. Bob Hawke, is adored by Australians for his ability to drink big beers quickly. Picture: Justin LloydSource:News Corp Australia
Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke skoles a beer during the 2nd day of the Sydney Test on Friday, January 5, 2018.Source:Supplied
Yes, we concluded, he may be an alien freak. But he was our kind of alien freak.
Sadly it was all downhill from there. Paul Keating preferred cappuccinos to Carlton Draught and the electorate never really warmed to him as much as his espresso machine did.
John Howard was also very food-conscious but in his trademark steady and sensible way. The second longest-serving PM in Australian history had one very simple piece of advice for would-be leaders: Never miss a meal.
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It might be basic but it's also brilliant. Politicians work absurd hours in absurd places and have to do absurd things. If you forget to eat your three-square it's very easy to get hangry, and — as Bruce Banner almost said — you don't want to see me when I'm hangry.
Indeed, Howard's successor might never have lost his job if he'd taken that advice — or at least been able to take it. The workaholic Kevin Rudd reportedly blew up on his prime ministerial jet when he couldn't get a proper dinner on an evening flight back from Papua New Guinea.
Obviously every tabloid editor's dream was the headline "STEAKS ON A PLANE" but sadly documents indicated Kevin only wanted a bit of chicken or fish.
Rudd's rather sudden successor Julia Gillard also entered the food fray during the 2010 election campaign by eating a PM pie from a Pakenham pie maker — which is not so much a meal as a 17th century nursery rhyme. And of course this image was used in countless articles and social media posts afterwards as her eating humble pie after one transgression or another.
But no newspaper caption writer or social media scribe could have predicted that bounty that was to come when Tony Abbott decided to bite into a raw onion for reasons that can only be described as "best known to himself".
Tony Abbott eating an onion during a visit to Charlton Farm Produce at Moriarty.Source:Supplied
The only possible explanation I can come up with is that it's one of those things you go through life assuming everybody does only to find out that nobody does it except you, like eating bananas upside down or masturbating with shoelaces…
Er, I've said too much.
Appalling stuff from opposition leader Bill Shorten. Picture: Mick Tsikas.Source:Supplied
But none of that is as sick as Bill Shorten's attempt to eat a sausage sandwich sideways, a move that suddenly turned Bunnings into bi-curious. Never before has a whole nation shouted "What the?!?!?!?" in such perfect unison.
Of course Shorten has had his fair share of epicurean disasters. In 2012 he had a run in with a pie shop owner who didn't have a hot pie ready for him. When she offered to heat one up in the microwave but warned it would be "soft", Bill's fuse appeared to shorten. The pie shop owner claims she said she liked Julia Gillard.
Shorten said he thought he heard her say: "The pies are soft, like Julia Gillard" — a rather odd declaration for a Chinese-born Labor supporter.
At any rate, Bill felt duty bound to defend his boss's honour, only to accidentally knife his boss instead of the pie less than 12 months later.
Still, one person who did definitely knife the pie was Malcolm Turnbull, who outraged the nation in 2018 by consuming the Aussie staple with cutlery. This, I kid you not, made international news.
Which brings us to, er, 2018 again. A year in which the new prime minister Scott Morrison made national headlines for successfully eating a pie.
Turnbull eats a pie with a knife a fork.Source:Instagram
Yes, the story of ScoMo's culinary adventures was reported by Australia's number one news site — this one! — and my beloved alma mater The Daily Telegraph under the headline: "Scott Morrison tackles local pie with ease".
And I have to declare, despite all my contractual obligations and without fear or favour to my employer, that I could not endorse it more.
Because after a decade of the cyclonic merry-go-round of prime ministerial assassinations and policy paralysis this is the best we have to hope for: A PM who can eat a pie without embarrassing the nation.
Now if only we could find the sauce.
Joe Hildebrand is the editor-at-large for news.com.au. Continue the conversation on Twitter.
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The forex trading week has come and gone. Time to take a look at what was driving forex price action. Were you able to profit from any of this week's top movers?
Half of the top 10 movers of the week are Kiwi pairs, with the Kiwi showing weakness in all of 'em. The main theme this week therefore appears to be Kiwi weakness. Aside from that, we also have Greenback strength as a major theme. So, what was driving forex price action on these and the other currencies?
The Greenback was the one currency to rule them all this week. And Greenback bulls can thank the U.S. Fed for that.
As y'all can see in the chart above, the Greenback was range-bound while slightly trading lower ahead of the last FOMC statement of the year. And when the Fed finally announced its monetary policy decision, the Greenback spiked higher across the board. What happened?
Forex Gump already has the most important details, so read his write-up here, if you're interested. The gist of it all, though, is that the Fed finally hiked after an entire year. The rate hike itself was not a surprise, but the Fed's upbeat outlook on the labor market and growth, and more importantly, the Fed's upgraded rate hike projections were not expected.
The Fed now projects 2-3 25 bps rate hikes in 2017, which is more than the 1-2 rate hikes projected during the September FOMC statement. Furthermore, the Q&A portion of the presser reveals that some Fed officials upgraded their rate hike projections because of the expected fiscal stimulus under Trump.
Yellen didn't appear to be one of these Fed officials. But when she was questioned on whether more fiscal stimulus could lead to an overheating of the U.S. economy, Yellen answered that she believes that fiscal stimulus is not needed at this point.
The implication here is that the unwanted fiscal stimulus could lead to an overheating of the economy, which may then force the Fed to hike faster as a response. And so far, only "Some of the participants, but not all of the participants" have considered this scenario, so the Fed could potentially hike faster than projected. This assumes that Trump pushes through with his fiscal stimulus of course.
In summary, the upbeat economic outlook, the extra rate hike in 2017, and hints at the possibility of hiking at an even faster rate than projected fueled demand for the Greenback across the board.
After that, the Greenback then kinda traded sideways on Friday, with diverging price action near the end. Makes you wonder if the Greenback's strength will persist next week, huh?
The higher-yielding Kiwi had a good run from Monday to most of Wednesday, thanks to the prevalence of risk appetite during the week. However, it got clobbered really hard during the FOMC statement and everything was just downhill from there. What's up with that, yo?
There were no apparent catalysts and market analysts aren't really talking about the Kiwi's weakness much. However, it is highly likely that we're seeing U.S. dollar dynamics in play again.
This "narrowing of interest rate differentials" mostly means a Fed rate hike, with the rationale being that a Fed rate hike (or hikes) would pull investors away from New Zealand while enticing more investors to go to the U.S., causing NZD/USD to tank, which would then pull down the other Kiwi pairs.
Those four points were originally applied to the Kiwi's positive reaction to the NFP report, but they are even more relevant to the FOMC statement. You see, the search for higher yet relatively safe yield in a low-yield world has resulted in higher demand for the higher-yielding Kiwi (much to the RBNZ's frustration and dismay).
But with the upbeat U.S. economic outlook, the Fed's December rate hike, as well as projected future rate hikes, bullish pressure on the Kiwi is now expected to ease as investors pull out of New Zealand and the Kiwi in favor of the U.S. and the Greenback.
Oh, make sure to keep an eye on the yen, since the BOJ statement is coming up next week.
The Aussie had a rather mixed performance from Monday to Thursday, but weakened across the board on Friday. There was no clear catalyst, but it's highly likely that the Aussie got pulled down by the 2% drop in iron ore prices on Friday, which market analysts blamed on lower demand from Chinese steel mills.
There's also at least one market analyst who attributed the Aussie's Friday slide to unwinding and/or speculation ahead of today's annual Central Economic Work Conference in China.
Other than those, it's also probable that the Fed's decision to hike rates while communicating more rate hikes in the future also sapped demand for the Aussie in favor of the Greenback. After all, the Aussie is also a higher-yielder like the Kiwi and the Aussie has also benefited from the search for higher yield.
Moreover, "Trading of Australian dollars on the foreign exchange market is, like most other currencies, predominantly against the US dollar," according to the RBA itself. The narrower interest rate differentials due to the Fed's rate hike, and expectations of even narrower differentials in the future therefore helped to push AUD/USD lower, which then weighed down on all Aussie pairs. It just so happens that unlike the Kiwi, Aussie pairs were able to put up more of a fight, until the drop in iron prices on Friday finally made Aussie bulls call it quits.
The pound was the second weakest currency last week, but it recovered and ended up as the second strongest currency this week.
Looking at the chart above, we can see that the pound first got broadly bid up during Monday's morning London session. But as I noted in my London session recap, there were no apparent catalysts, although some market analysts were attributing the pound's rise at the time to preemptive positioning ahead of the top-tier events for the week.
The pound's strength was then sustained during Monday's U.S. session, as well as Tuesday's Asian session, thanks to U.K. Finance Minister Philip Hammond's rhetoric supportive of a transition period to soften the impact of the actual Brexit process.
The pound then got another bullish boost during Tuesday's morning London session, apparently as a reaction to the U.K.'s November CPI coming in at +1.2% year-on-year, which is better-than-expected and the best reading since October 2014 to boot. However, the pound began sliding across the board when the U.S. session rolled around. There were no catalysts, but some market analysts say that it was likely due to unwinding ahead of the FOMC and BOE statements.
After that, the pound then behaved itself before getting bid up again during Wednesday's U.S. session, but ahead of the FOMC statement. Market analysts attributed this to further easing of Brexit-related jitters, thanks to top Brexit Negotiator David Davis' speech before Parliament that he would support a transitional deal "If it is necessary and only if it is necessary." In the same speech, Davis also revealed that Theresa May's government is working on plans for four possible outcomes, but such plans won't be out until February next year.
Getting back on track, Davis' rhetoric apparently allowed the pound to soldier on after that, although GBP/USD got whupped, thanks to the FOMC statement and the resulting Greenback strength. Pound pairs finally retreated across the board come Thursday, though, thanks to the BOE statement.
Forex Gump also has a write-up on the BOE statement, and you can read it here, if you're interested. The main takeaway, however, is that the BOE is maintaining its neutral policy bias, but the chance that the BOE would switch to a hiking bias is now lower because of two main reasons.
To simplify, investors seem wary of investing in the U.K. due to the Brexit hubbub. Fewer investments mean slower GDP growth in 2017 and hiking rates when GDP growth is expected to slow down is not really a smart thing to do. Plus, the pound's recent recovery after the Brexit-induced slump means less inflation overshoot, which is yet another reason against hiking rates.
Given the above two reasons and the corresponding lower probability of a switch to a hiking bias, it's no real wonder why the pound tanked as a result of the BOE statement. After that, the pound continued sinking lower and then began trading sideways before getting bid up again during Friday's U.S. session. There was no clear reason for the pound's broad-based recovery on Friday, though.
Oil benchmarks were able to close out the week with some decent gains as you can see below.
However, the Loonie had a mixed performance, but with more losses than wins this week. What's up with that?
If y'all can still remember, I told y'all last week to keep an eye on how the Vienna meeting with non-OPEC members will unfold, since that will likely affect oil's (and the Loonie's ) price action. Well, that meeting turned out to be a success, which caused oil to surge rather hard. However, Loonie pairs weren't following suit, although the Loonie did get a moderate boost across the board. There was no clear reason for this reluctance to track oil prices.
And most unfortunately for Loonie bulls, many Loonie pairs DID follow suit when oil prices began retreating after the International Energy Agency said that OPEC probably produced 34.2 million barrels per day in November, which is 500,000 more than OPEC's own estimates.
Oil did manage to recover on Friday, though, thanks to higher 2017 oil forecasts from Goldman Sachs and signs that oil producers, especially Russia, were complying with the oil cut deal, according to market analysts being cited by Reuters. That was not enough to save most Loonie pairs, however.
The euro had a mixed performance this week. Not only that, price action on the euro was rather choppy this week, with many pairs trading sideways for most of the week. These imply that forex traders had little interest in the euro and that opposing currency price action was dictating price action on euro pairs.
That didn't seem to have any impact on the euro's price action, though. Anyhow, the other event was Monte dei Paschi's confirmation that the ECB rejected the troubled bank's request for an extension to raise the needed €5 billion in order to avoid getting wound down. However, that news also failed to garner a reaction from the euro.
Like the euro, many Swissy pairs were also trading sideways for most of the week. The only top-tier event for the Swissy this was the SNB's monetary policy decision. But as I noted in Thursday's London session recap, the SNB opted to maintain its current monetary policy while complaining that the Swissy is "still significantly overvalued" and promising (or threatening) that it would "remain active in the foreign exchange market as necessary" in order to "make Swiss franc investments less attractive, thereby easing pressure on the currency." Nothing new, really, so the Swissy barely budged.
The Swissy did finish the week as a net winner, though, but that was arguably due to weakness on the part of the yen, the Kiwi, and the Aussie, as well as the Loonie's quirky price action, rather than on any inherent demand for the Swissy. Heck, the Swissy barely even won out against the euro, another currency that was dormant for most of the week.
Nice! The 42.5% who voted for the Greenback got it right. The 15% who voted for the pound and the 2,5% who voted for the Swissy would have also come out on top. That means that more than half of you probably did pretty well this week. Unfortunately, 5% voted for the Kiwi, 12.5% voted for the yen, and another 5% voted for the Aussie. Hopefully you guys and gals were able to punch out with just a scratch.
Okay, now that you know what the likely drivers were this week, and having taken a look at the forex calendar for next week, which currency do you think will come out on top next week? Vote in the poll below!


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Ruy Lopez, Classical (C64)
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Bc5
Aleksandar Matanovic 9 games
Thomas Ernst 9 games
Igor Nikolayev 20 games
Boris Gulko 18 games
Boris Spassky 18 games
Ljubojevic vs J Durao, 1974
Lasker vs Steinitz, 1896
Vasiukov vs S Giterman, 1960
Gufeld vs Kavalek, 1962
Mayet vs Anderssen, 1851
R Nezhmetdinov vs Myagmarsuren, 1965
1. W Hanstein vs Von der Lasa ½-½ 49 1839 ? C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
3. W Hanstein vs Von der Lasa ½-½ 68 1841 Berlin C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
4. Saint-Amant vs Cochrane 0-1 23 1842 Casual game C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
5. E Rousseau vs C Stanley ½-½ 60 1845 Rousseau - Stanley Match C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
6. Horwitz vs Kieseritzky 0-1 55 1846 Kieseritsky - Horwitz C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
7. E A Dudley vs B Raphael 1-0 25 1847 Blue Lick tournament C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
8. Bird vs A Simons 1-0 50 1850 London C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
9. Bird vs C F Smith 1-0 21 1850 London C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
10. Mohishunder vs Cochrane 1-0 21 1850 Calcutta C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
11. Mayet vs Anderssen 0-1 15 1851 Berlin C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
14. E Williams vs Loewenthal ½-½ 68 1851 London m5 C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
15. F Greenaway vs Anderssen 1-0 29 1851 Casual game C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
16. E Williams vs Harrwitz 0-1 46 1852 Harrwitz - Williams C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
17. E Williams vs Harrwitz 0-1 94 1852 Harrwitz - Williams 1852/53 C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
18. D Urusov vs Shumov 1-0 42 1853 St Petersburg m C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
19. Szen vs Harrwitz 1-0 23 1853 London C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
20. M Lange vs Dufresne 1-0 30 1853 Berlin - 1e Berliner Schachgesellschaft C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
21. Loewenthal vs Harrwitz 1-0 40 1853 Harrwitz - Loewenthal m C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
22. de Riviere vs E Sheppard 1-0 28 1854 Casual game C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
24. Zytogorski vs R Brien 1-0 54 1855 Kling's Coffee House C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
25. Hannah vs C F Smith ½-½ 36 1855 Casual game C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
Aug-05-05 Swapmeet: <ArturoRivera> I'm no expert, but it looks to me like 5.Nxe5 just wins a pawn, while considerably increasing the pressure on c6. 5...Qg5 seems like an intersting try, but after 6.0-0 I think white is better. Of course 5...dxe4 would just lose immediately to 6.Nxc6.
Aug-05-05 sneaky pete: 3... Bc5 4.c3 d5 was pioneered by Jerzy Konikowski and has been played in numerous correspondence games since around 1970. Schiller and Watson give one refutation (starting 5.Nxe5 Qg5 6.Qa4 ..) in their 1995 "Big book of busts" and another (starting 5.Nxe5 Qg5 6.0-0 ..) in a more recent webpublication ("The open games as white"). I haven't checked the first bust, but the second is no good: 5.Nxe5 Qg5 6.0-0 Qxe5 7.d4 Qe6 8.dxc5 dxe4 9.Re1 Bd7 10.Bg5 .. "Black cannot equalize now. Black's king has great difficulty escaping from the center", but only if black does not play 10... Nge7 11.Nd2 f5 with ... 0-0-0 soon to follow.
Aug-09-05 ArturoRivera: Inspired by Morphy, in your line <.d4 fxe4 6.Bxc6! dxc6(a) 7.Nxe5 Bd6 Qh5+ g6, doesnt white wins a pawn by Nxg6 and black cant take it due tp the rook hanging on h8, and if then Nf6 chasing the queen, white still has a retreat square for the queen in the black's queen diagonal, then, why is it not played?
Dec-14-05 paladin at large: I see that Spassky had good results with the classical defense - is it still considered a viable alternative to the Morphy Defense in the Ruy Lopez at high level play? Thanks in advance.
Dec-29-05 jperr75108: seems somewhat illogical to play into Whites idea of c3, and d4. With white I am usually happy to see this stuff.
Sep-07-06 TheKid: How come the Classical has gone out of style? Even if the grandmasters have analysed it to death, it still must be playable at least under 2200.
Sep-07-06 NateDawg: <TheKid> I once read an interesting theory in "Chess Life" magazine as to why people play certain openings. Grandmasters like to refute openings that "common" people (under 2200 or so) play, or at least find a way to get an advantage. Chess books and magazines cover the openings that Grandmasters play, and amateurs use openings they read about in books and magazines. Therefore, if a popular opening is considered by grandmasters to be sub-optimal, gradually amateurs will stop playing it also.
The example that "Chess Life" gives is the Marshall Variation of the French and Sicilian Defenses, which many people have never even heard of. It goes 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. ♘c3 c5 or 1. e4 c5 2. ♘f3 e6 3. d4 d5. The Sicilian variation was played 33 times in this database, the French variation, 25. This opening apparently used to be quite popular, but, as the Grandmasters ceased to like it for its dullness and simplification, it all but disappeared from the chess world.
The reason that grandmasters do not especially like the Classical Ruy Lopez for Black is (I think) for two main reasons: one, it has been discovered that it is best to play ...a6 and ...♘f6 first, and two, the bishop at c5 is exposed and subject to counterattack by ♘a4 or ♙c3 followed by ♙d4.
A more common variation with ...♗c5 nowadays is the Neo-Arkhangelsk, the main line of which goes 1. e4 e5 ♘f3 ♘c6 3. ♗b5 a6 4. ♗a4 ♘f6 5. 0-0 b5 6. ♗b3 ♗c5. Black will continue with ...♗b7, while White will usually put a pawn at d4, supported by one at c3.
Sep-18-06 TheKid: Interesting point. The lure of fashion snares everyone it seems.
Apr-24-08
whiteshark: Opening of the day: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...
As for the line <4...f5 5.d4 fxe4 6.Bxc6! dxc6 7.Nxe5 Bd6 Qh5+ g6 9.Qe2! Qh4 10.Nd2> A Davies vs Speelman, 1988 I think you have to look for good other 4th moves seriously.
Aug-01-08 WarmasterKron: Other 4th moves? How about 4...Qf6!?:
NN (1374) - Kron (1450)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. c3 Qf6 5. O-O Nge7 6. d3 h6 7. Re1 d6 8. Bc4 O-O 9. Nbd2 Be6 10. Bxe6 fxe6 11. b3 g5 12. Bb2 g4 13. b4 Bb6 14. b5 Nd8 15. Nc4 gxf3 16. Qxf3 Bxf2+ 17. Kxf2 Qh4+ 18. g3 Rxf3+ 19. Kxf3 Qf6+ 20. Kg2 d5 21. Ref1 Qg5 22. h4 Qh5 23. exd5 exd5 0-1
IM Andrew Martin called it the "If it's good enough for Capa" variation, in reference to R Lopez Martinez vs Capablanca, 1911
Feb-04-09 blacksburg: <IM Andrew Martin called it the "If it's good enough for Capa" variation>
you gotta be careful with capa and the opening....
Janowski vs Capablanca, 1916
Feb-04-09 blacksburg: also, is this opening "respectable"? it's either this or the berlin, i'm sick of the exchange variation...
Feb-04-09 blacksburg: ok nevermind, i don't like this line...
Feb-19-09 chessman95: I don't know this line very well, so what I usually do is play 4.Nxe5(!?) and if black recaptures with the knight then I fork with d4, and if Black plays Bxf2+ then I take the bishop and have even material, the bishop pair, and an exposed king.
Nov-30-11
Penguincw: Opening of the Day
Ruy Lopez, Classical
1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5 ♗c5
GrahamClayton: Here is an interesting variation:
[Event "Dutch championship"]
[Site "Amsterdam, NED"]
[White "Carl Wemmers"]
[Black "Ivan Sokolov"]
1. e4 e5 2. ♘f3 ♘c6 3. ♗b5 ♗c5 4. c3 ♘f6 5. d4 exd4 6. e5 ♘e4 7. O-O a6 8. ♗a4 dxc3 9. ♕d5 cxb2 10. ♗xb2 ♗xf2+ 11. ♔h1 ♘c5 12. e6 ♘xe6 13. ♖xf2 O-O
Who do you prefer - White's development and attacking chances, or Black's extra pawns for the piece?
Oct-25-15 zanzibar: <GrahamC> According to Stockfish White is better, the eval being +0.94/20.
But it looks like Black has the easier game, finding the right moves for White is more exacting.
Here's the game in its entirety:
[Event "NED Team Ch"]
[Site "Amsterdam NED"]
[White "Wemmers, Xander"]
[Black "Sokolov, I"]
[ECO "C64i"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.e5 Ne4 7.O-O a6 8. Ba4 dxc3 9.Qd5 cxb2 10.Bxb2 Bxf2+ 11.Kh1 Nc5 12.e6 Nxe6 13.Rxf2 O-O 14.Nbd2 Ne7 15.Qh5 Ng6 16.Bb3 Nef4 17.Qf5 d5 18.Qc2 b6 19.Ne5 c5 20. Nxg6 Nxg6 21.Raf1 Be6 22.Nf3 f6 23.Qd2 Qd7 24.Re1 Bf7 25.Rfe2 d4 26. Re4 Rae8 27.h4 Rxe4 28.Rxe4 Bxb3 29.axb3 Qd5 30.Qc2 Ne5 31.Nd2 h5 32. Qd1 Nd3 33.Kg1 Qf5 34.Qb1 Qf2+ 0-1
Oct-25-15 zanzibar: The move 7...a6 is only played ~3.4% of the time according to <MillBase>.
Instead, 7...d5 seems ML (main line).
In fact, here's the Cordel (Classical) ML according to popularity, till move 12:
<1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.e5 Ne4 7.O-O d5 8.exd6 O-O 9.dxc7 Qxc7 10.cxd4 Nxd4 11.Nxd4 Qb6>
(White to move)
It's striking how well Black does in actual games, the tree from here being:
Move ECO Frequency Score AvElo Perf AvYear %Draws
1: Be3 3: 37.5% 33.3% 2480 1987 67%
2: Bd3 3: 37.5% 33.3% 1986 0%
3: Nc3 1: 12.5% 50.0% 2525 1976 100%
4: Qe2 1: 12.5% 0.0% 1970 0%
TOTAL: 8:100.0% 31.2% 1983 38%
Both Stockfish and Critter suggest the TN 12.Qc2 as the move here, although it hasn't been played in <MillBase>.
I have one walkthrough with Stockfish where White's rook gets pinned (R+P for B+N) on f2 for 23 moves as both sides maneuver for advantage before the bishop finally captures the rook.
Oct-25-15 zanzibar: It's a little too bad <CG> doesn't do some of the simple math to track a player's score with the opening, e.g.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...(C64)+as+Black+
Spassky seems to have had incredible success with this line, only losing one game with Black.
perfidious: <zed> It is unfortunate that a lot of the fun for Black in the Cordel Gambit is taken out of things by the line used in the game pointed out above by <whiteshark>.
Instead of 7.Nxe5, believe I played 7.Nfd2 against Curdo at the Jim Bulger Memorial in 1985 and was hoping for 7....Bd6 8.fxe5 e3, as played in R Lau vs A Bastian, 1983. Do not recall how the game actually went, though it was a fairly short draw.
Oct-26-15 zanzibar: <perf> are you talking about the Cordel Gambit with 4...f5?
I was referring to the straight-lace version with 4...Nf6 (which van der Sterren says "is a more solid alternative" than 4...f5).
perfidious: <zed> Indeed I am; much more in Curdo's style than 4....Nf6.
Oct-26-15 zanzibar: <perf> - figures Curdo would play the gambit. I'll have to look at it a little deeper.
The tree stats don't show such a big difference in scoring at move 4 branch, 4...Nf6 scores 57.9% vs 4...f5 scoring 56.9%:
1: Nf6 C64h 421: 41.4% 57.9% 2416 2391 1984 32%
2: f5 C64f 275: 27.0% 56.9% 2355 2361 1984 23%
3: Nge7 C64d 100: 9.8% 65.5% 2344 2274 1972 37%
4: Qf6 C64e 82: 8.0% 57.9% 2361 2342 1974 23%
5: d5 50: 4.9% 67.0% 2344 1985 18%
TOTAL: 1015:100.0% 59.3% 2387 2357 1981 28%
I'll have to look into it, but I think with best/conservative play Black really does get some incredible scoring. In other words, I'm not sure how White improves on the line I showed in my first post.
perfidious: <zed> Curdo and I played numerous times in those days: we had already enjoyed a 130-move game in a Modern Steinitz at the 1983 Queen City Open, then twice in '85, I played Curdo's own speciality 5.d4 against his Modern Steinitz and managed +1 -1.


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Smoke rises after airstrikes by U.S.-led coalition warplanes as Iraqi security forces advance their positions in the southern neighborhoods of Fallujah to retake the city from Islamic State militants, Iraq, Sunday, June 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Osama Sami
Iraq said Monday it had launched an investigation into possible human rights abuses against civilians fleeing the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah as an aid group said more than 4,000 more people had left the city over the weekend.
Iraqi government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said some fighters suspected of violating human rights during the three-week-old operation to retake the city have been arrested over the past few days and are under investigation.
He did not provide details on whether the fighters are from the army or government-sanctioned paramilitary forces, which are mainly made up of Shiite militias.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi "issued arrest warrants against some suspects who took part in the operation a few days ago," al-Hadithi said. "The Prime Minister is closely following the investigation and we are still awaiting the results."
Local Sunni officials and human rights groups have accused Shiite militias of arresting, torturing and killing Sunnis who fled Fallujah and its outskirts.
The governor of Anbar province, where Fallujah is located, told a press conference on Sunday that 49 civilians were killed and 643 others have gone missing. Suhaib Al-Rawi described them as displaced persons from Fallujah who reached areas controlled by the paramilitary forces.
The spokesman for Iraq\'s paramilitary forces, Karim al-Nouri, confirmed the arrest of one fighter for alleged human rights violations, but did not provide further details. He said the accusations of abuse by paramilitary forces were "mere lies aimed at distracting attention from victories on the ground."
He said that all displaced people detained by paramilitary forces for security screening were handed over to authorities.
Last week, the U.N. human rights chief said there were "credible reports" that Iraqis fleeing Fallujah were facing physical abuse as they escaped the city held by Islamic State militants.
An estimated 50,000 civilians remain trapped inside Fallujah, located about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad. Their presence, along with roadside bombs, has slowed down the Iraqi forces\' operation to recapture the city.
Fallujah has been under IS control for over two years and is the last major city in western Iraq still held by the extremist group. The militants have threatened anyone who attempts to flee with death and last week reportedly shot at a group of civilians attempting to flee across the Euphrates River.
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A delegation of eminent lawyers and activists, including Prashant Bhushan, Harsh Mander, Yogendra Yadav, Anjali Bhardwaj and others, accompanied Mrs. Dangwimsai Pul (wife of late Mr. Kalikho Pul) to hand deliver Mrs Pul's letter to Vice President of India Hamid Ansari at his official residence on February 28. The letter sought an independent enquiry by a Special Investigation Team, to probe the allegations contained in the former CM's suicide diary. Text:
You must be aware that my husband Late Kalikho Pul who was the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh from 19th February to 13th July 2016 committed suicide on 9th August 2016. At the time of discovery of his body hanging from a ceiling fan in the official CM's bungalow, 10 copies of a 60-page suicide note (each copy signed in original on every page by him) and dated 8th August 2016 was found. This note titled "Mere Vichaar" briefly details his life history and thereafter shows his anguish about the corrupt state of affairs in politics and in the judiciary in the country. He details several allegations of corruption against politicians and judges from his personal knowledge. In particular, the note contains allegations of corruption against the sitting Chief Justice of India and the next Judge in superiority in the Supreme Court and also against the present President of India.
The Inquest Report in Case No. 14 of 2016 made under Section 174 of CrPC by Itanagar Police Station has inter-alia acknowledged that the Additional District Magistrate had seized during examination of place of occurrence of suicide, inter-alia, "Note containing page 1-60 in four (4) sets signed by late Kalikho Pul with caption in Hindi 'मेरे विचार'." The said Report concludes that, "Investigation reveals that on 09/08/2016 at between 0500 hrs to 0900 hrs Lt. Kalikho Pul committed suicide by hanging on the ceiling fan at Pranayama room of HCM Bungalow." The following observations are made during the investigation process:
He was under depression after his removal from the CM post.
His act of writing his biography is also pointing towards his intention…" (Copy enclosed)
Given the gravity of the allegations contained in the note and the fact that many of them are from his personal knowledge and that a suicide note is treated like a dying declaration, this matter needs to be seriously investigated by a credible investigation team. However, since it also involves the Chief Justice and another sitting Judge of the Supreme Court, to protect the independence of the judiciary, it should not be investigated by any investigative body controlled by the Government.
It was to protect the independence of the judiciary that the Supreme Court in Veeraswami's case said that any allegations against the sitting judges of the higher judiciary can only be investigated by an investigating authority after obtaining the prior permission of the Chief Justice of India. The operative part of the said judgment is reproduced below:
"60…….We therefore, direct that no criminal case shall be registered under Section 154, Cr. P. C. against Judge of the High Court, Chief Justice of High Court or Judge of the Supreme Court unless the Chief Justice of India is consulted in the matter. Due regard must be given by the Government to the opinion expressed by the Chief Justice. If the Chief Justice is of opinion that it is not a fit case for proceeding under the Act, the case shall not be registered. If the Chief Justice of India himself is the person against whom the allegations of criminal misconduct are received the Government shall consult any other Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court. There shall be similar consultation at the stage of examining the question of granting sanction for prosecution and it shall be necessary and appropriate that the question of sanction be guided by and in accordance with the advice of the Chief Justice of India. Accordingly, the directions shall go to the Government."
The judgment says that in case there are allegations against the Chief Justice, the President will consult other judges. This, in terms of the spirit of the judgment, would mean the judge/judges next in seniority.
Since in this case the allegations are also against the sitting Chief Justice and the sitting President of India, I am therefore addressing this request to you to exercise the authority which normally the President would have exercised in terms of the Veeraswami's judgment which also held:
"12….The President, therefore, being the authority competent to appoint and to remove a Judge, of course in accordance with the procedure envisaged in Article 124, clauses (4) and (5) of the Constitution, may be deemed to be the authority to grant sanction for prosecution of a Judge under the provisions of Section 6(1)(c) in respect of the offences provided in section 5(1)(e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. In order to adequately protect a Judge from frivolous prosecution and unnecessary harassment the President will consult the Chief Justice of India who will consider all the materials placed before him and tender his advice to the President for giving sanction to launch prosecution or for filing FIR against the Judge concerned after being satisfied in the matter. The President shall act in accordance with advice given by the Chief Justice of India If the Chief Justice of India. If the chief Justices of opinion that it is not a fit case for grant of sanction for prosecution of the Judge concerned the President shall not accord sanction to prosecute the Judge; This will save the Judge concerned from unnecessary harassment as well as from frivolous prosecution against him as suggested by my learned brother Shetty, J. in his judgment. Similarly, in the case of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court the President shall consult such of the Judges of the Supreme Court as he may deem fit and proper and the President shall act in accordance with the advice given to him by the Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court."
"45…In this view, the President can be considered as the authority to grant sanction for prosecution of a Judge since the order of the President for the removal of a Judge is mandatory."
"54. The emphasis on this point should not appear superfluous. Prof. Jackson says "Misbehaviour by a Judge, whether it takes place on the bench or off the bench, undermines public confidence in the administration of justice, and also damages public respect for the law of the land; if nothing is seen to be done about it, the damage goes unrepaired. This must be so when the judge commits a serious criminal offence and remains in office". (Jackson's Machinery of Justice by J.R. Spencer, 8th edn. pp. 369-70)."
"55. …The proved 'misbehaviour' which is the basis for removal of a Judge under clause (4) of Article 124 of the Constitution may also in certain cases involve an offence of criminal misconduct under Section 5(1) of the Act. But that is no ground for withholding criminal prosecution till the Judge is removed by Parliament as suggested by counsel for the appellant. One is the power of Parliament and the other is the jurisdiction of a criminal court. Both are mutually exclusive."
"56. …. But we know of no law providing protection for Judges from criminal prosecution. Article 361(2) confers immunity from criminal prosecution only to the President and Governors of States and to no others. Even that immunity has been limited during their term of office. The Judges are liable to be dealt with just the same way as any other person in respect of criminal offence. It is only in taking of bribes or with regard to the offence of corruption the sanction for criminal prosecution is required."
I am, therefore, requesting you to consult other judges in terms of Veeraswami's judgment and permit filing of an FIR against the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India and Hon'ble Justice Dipak Misra. If these allegations are not credibly investigated, a serious cloud of suspicion will continue to remain over the politicians and judges whose names are mentioned in the suicide note. This would be most unfortunate for our democracy as well as for the judiciary. A credible investigation in this matter can only be done by an SIT constituted by 3/5 judges next in seniority to the judges named in the note.
I, therefore, request you to consult those judges and also request them to name an appropriate SIT which can credibly investigate these allegations.
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    proposed_related_abstract = Nested('AbstractSchema', only=_basic_abstract_fields)
    proposed_contrib_type = Nested(contribution_type_schema_basic, attribute='proposed_contribution_type')
    proposed_tracks = Nested(track_schema_basic, many=True)
    ratings = Nested(AbstractReviewRatingSchema, many=True)

    class Meta:
        model = AbstractReview
        fields = ('id', 'track', 'user', 'comment', 'created_dt', 'modified_dt',
                  'proposed_action', 'proposed_contrib_type', 'proposed_related_abstract', 'proposed_tracks',
                  'ratings')

class AbstractPersonLinkSchema(mm.SQLAlchemyAutoSchema):
    class Meta:
        model = AbstractPersonLink
        fields = ('id', 'person_id', 'email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'title', 'affiliation', 'address', 'phone',
                  'is_speaker', 'author_type')

class AbstractSchema(mm.SQLAlchemyAutoSchema):
    submitter = Nested(UserSchema)
    judge = Nested(UserSchema)
    modified_by = Nested(UserSchema)
    duplicate_of = Nested(lambda: AbstractSchema, only=_basic_abstract_fields)
    merged_into = Nested(lambda: AbstractSchema, only=_basic_abstract_fields)
    submitted_contrib_type = Nested(contribution_type_schema_basic)
    accepted_contrib_type = Nested(contribution_type_schema_basic)
    accepted_track = Nested(track_schema_basic)
    submitted_for_tracks = Nested(track_schema_basic, many=True)
    reviewed_for_tracks = Nested(track_schema_basic, many=True)
    persons = Nested(AbstractPersonLinkSchema, attribute='person_links', many=True)
    custom_fields = Nested(ContributionFieldValueSchema, attribute='field_values', many=True)
    score = Float()
    comments = Nested(AbstractCommentSchema, many=True)
    reviews = Nested(AbstractReviewSchema, many=True)

    class Meta:
        model = Abstract
        fields = ('id', 'friendly_id',
                  'title', 'content',
                  'submitted_dt', 'modified_dt', 'judgment_dt',
                  'state',
                  'submitter', 'modified_by', 'judge',
                  'submission_comment', 'judgment_comment',
                  'submitted_contrib_type', 'accepted_contrib_type',
                  'accepted_track', 'submitted_for_tracks', 'reviewed_for_tracks',
                  'duplicate_of', 'merged_into',
                  'persons', 'custom_fields',
                  'score', 'comments', 'reviews')

abstracts_schema = AbstractSchema(many=True)
abstract_review_questions_schema = AbstractReviewQuestionSchema(many=True)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub