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Another great interview Seb!
World War II stories, sketches of beautiful women, and a man and his mother at a comic convention; what could be more American? That's how Billy Tucci, creator of SHI, artist on Marvel's HEROES FOR HIRE, and writer/artist for DC's SGT. ROCK: THE LOST BATTALION, rolls. It's always great to talk to Billy, as he is so happy to just talk shop, life, and anything else with fans. A highly energetic and entertaining man, Billy has made 4 of my more recent con experiences memorable. This time, at last month's FX CON, I was finally smart enough to RECORD the conversation..well, part of it, talking to Billy is so much fun, you just can't capture it all!
Anyway, we talked about Sgt. Rock, WWII, Jonah Hex, Shi, and the burden of drawing hot women. Join us, won't you?
SEBASTIAN PICCIONE: Ok, We'll start with SGT. ROCK. For this story, you've been writing and drawing. Did you pitch this on your own, or is this something that DC you asked you about?
BILLY TUCCI: I pitched it on my own. And, it was amidst much raised eyebrows, because I'm known for drawing, you know, women in comic books. But, basically, I gave them the pitch and they really seemed to have liked it a lot. So, they went for it, and again, in the midst of some resistance, I think we've prevailed. I think that we've changed a lot minds. I think a lot of people were surprised; they didn't realize the passion I had for the project. I LOVE Sgt. Rock, as a kid, that's the comics I bought, you know, maybe Batman and Sgt. Rock…and the Our Army at War comics, and things like that. That's what I liked, I liked the war stuff.
SEB: You've definitely proven that there is still room in mainstream comics for more than just Superheroes in tights, or sci-fi, and gotten the war comics back on the agenda.
BILLY: Oh, yeah! You could even see that, because now you have Marvel bringing back Nick Fury for a new series, and that's REALLY encouraging. I think it's cool that it's helped inspire Marvel to bring back their war books. It's nice, people are talking about it, so, apparently they see it. We've got a great team with Mike Marts, he's my editor, we all want to treat it with such great respect, because I am walking in the shoes of greatness. Again, that's why there was some resistance, because it was like, 'who the hell is this guy, to do a character that Joe Kubert and Robert Kanigher made so famous. But, I think they see how much I appreciate it, and that's why I made a departure from Joe's work and went with the hyper-realism. I wanted everything to be exactly right, every nut, every bolt, every weapon…even the uniform is exactly the uniform that the particular units who are fighting in the book were wearing. I interviewed dozens of veterans of the campaign, I visited the actual battle sights. It's really been a labor of love and a dream project for me. I'm going to be really sad when it's over to be honest with you..
SEB: Now, you didn't just do research on this, you actually spoke to vets and you joined up with one of the WWII Reenactment crews and you relived some of the war, to an extent.
BILLY: Oh, yeah! Sure, I went to a giant reenactment in Pennsylvania, this past year. I was a war correspondent. So there's a two day battle, where you have 2,000 World War Two reenactors, with tanks, and artillery, and all this stuff; and for Friday I was a German Correspondent, dressed up like a German soldier, armed with my camera. For the American one, I was an American one, dressed as a GI Correspondent. And it was just great. These guys, they KNOW a lot. These reenactors, really each and every one of them is a historian themselves, and I learned so much from them as well.
SEB: And in a real example of art imitating life, You went and joined the reenactment groups and were a war correspondent, and then within the books, you are the war Correspondent, Kilroy.
BILLY: Yes, and then I became Kilroy, the war correspondent in the book, yeah, I gotta, I mean who else but me, c'mon! [laughs]
SEB: And exactly how long did it take you to decide that your war correspondent caricature should be named Kilroy?
BILLY: It's in a way to let people know of the Kilroy character, who Kilroy was, but people do often ask me, are you THE Kilroy? And I'm like, No, the other one.
SEB: But, either way, Kilroy WAS here! [Laughs]
BILLY: Yup, yup. And that's how he signs his artwork!
SEB: As you've said, you went your own way with the hyper-realism, and Made Rock your own, but you still nailed him so well, that you easily pick him off a page full of soldiers and say, "that's Sgt. Rock." So, how much time did you spend studying Sgt. Rock and the rest of Easy Company?
BILLY: I'm a Sgt. Rock fanatic, so I have LOTS of the old Our Army at War books, and Sgt. Rock when the title changed over to him. I also became friends with Joe Kubert…well, I don't know if he would say that I was HIS friend, but HE'S my friend! [laughs]
But then again, somebody was saying that it's hard to tell some of the characters, because they ARE in uniform. I wanted to make this hyper-realistic, so they WOULD be in uniform, they wouldn't be wearing some the eccentricities that were famous in the Joe Kubert books. It's also I don't have the luxury of making..if you look at some these comic book artists, they draw Batman to have the same face as Superman, and you can just tell the difference from their costumes, so I don't have the luxury of that. And you also want to make them all individuals as well. A few people have griped that it's hard to tell who's who, but for the most part people have agreed that they can tell who's who. But that was also the point of uniform of the American Soldier was to make them all look the same. The German's are a lot easier, because, especially as the war wnet on, their costumes varied greatly.
SEB: The story itself, this isn't just a comic that takes place during World War II, this is an actual historical event, just with Sgt. Rock inserted into it.
BILLY: Yeah, I was putting Sgt Rock, into history, I mean, for legal reasons and also for editorial decisions, you have to change some things, which you do, but for the most part it's all based on actual events that took place in October, 1944 in Eastern France near the German border, and it's basically the Battle of the Lost Battalion, where 275 men were cut off by 7,000 German troops and held out in one of the greatest last stands in history, until they were relieved by the Japanese-American Soldiers in the 442 Regimental Combat team. I mean, you talk about just valor on all parts, it's just extraordinary what these guys went through.
SEB: It's almost the WWII equivalent to the Spartan, Leonidas, and his 300.
BILLY: Yeah, it's very much like that. There was no retreat, no surrender; and wouldn't you knoiw it, once they were relieved they were fine, they could have held out indefinitely. All they had to do was be resupplied. So, they were resupplied, but by the air, from the 405th Fighter Squadron. There's another interesting story that only 8 planes out of the entire 9th Air Force, which is all the Air Force in Europe at the time --you had the 8th Air Force in England, but on the continent it's the 9th – but, every plane was grounded except for 8 volunteer pilots who flew in this horrible snow, rain, and freezing wind to drop supplies to the Lost Battalion in P-47 Thunderbolts.
SEB: Now, this is a 6 issue series, number 5 is out, and 6 hits in June, but you were talking earlier about the chance that another mini or an ongoing could be after this?
BILLY: Oh, God, I hope so. My dream is to pitch them, and we'll see if they'll go for it, to do a monthly Sgt. Rock, in a similar vein to the JONAH HEX books.
SEB: Speaking of JONAH HEX, I saw you at MEGACON, and in one of the DC Panels a fan had suggested that you work with Jimmy [Palmiotti] on an issue of Jonah Hex, and Jimmy seemed all for it, has any more come out of that, or is that still just something to work out?
BILLY: Oh, no, that's pretty much a done deal. I just have to finish the Sgt. Rock book, and then I'll probably just jump right on that. I'll also be writing some other things for DC. You heard one of my pitches that I don't want to tell anybody yet, but..
SEB: It's our secret…
BILLY: Yeah, [laughs] well, they seem to like it, so hopefully, you know? But, my priority is to finish this last issue of Rock, because I'm really pouring myself out on every page. Again, this is a true labor of love for me, so I want to do the best I can for them, because they've given me a chance to do my dream book.
SEB: And you were saying that this was such a departure from what everybody expects from you, and even that secret pitch that you were just talking about is yet another complete reversal [laughs]from where you were just going, so are there a whole bunch of other sides that you want to get out there now?
BILLY: Definitely, because it's weird how people judge you and how they think that if you've achieved some form of success for drawing women they don't think that you can draw men. I mean, look at someone like Michael Golden who's famous for drawing the most beautiful women or Adam Hughes, and they've both done some great men drawings. Not that I'm putting myself in the same league as Adam Hughes or Michael Golden, =. I'm just saying that people should remember that there's no reason why you can't do both.
SEB: And speaking of drawing women, one of the things that helped start it all was your creation, SHI. What's going on with SHI?
BILLY: I have to start my new SHI series, which I'm hoping to have the first issue out for the SAN DIEGO COMIC CON. We have a film deal with Mimi Gitlin, who's our producer, Kevin Bernhardt and I are writing the second draft of the script. I'll be working on that when I'm done with Rock. It's really cool. A lot of it stays the same with the comic, but then there are some really cool new elements, as if I had created SHI today, as opposed to 15 years ago.
SEB: So, not so much a reboot or reimagining, as it is just tweaking it to work into a more modern setting, rather than reinventing the 1990s?
BILLY: Yeah, you know just to sort of change some aspects to it. But, it's good! I think it's pretty cool.
SEB: Alright, that's definitely a lot to look forward to, and I know you've got like 28 commissions to finish, most of which are to draw women [laughs] 'cause even as you're fighting to get out of the stereotype of guy-who-draws-women, you're still him.
BILLY: [laughs] Yeah, but you know, after a year of drawing almost nothing but men, and military men, it's nice to get back out and draw a chick, if you will.
SEB: It's like the artist equivalent of I just finished my tour with all these guys, now I'd like to see some women?
BILLY: Yeah, yeah! [laughs]
SEB: Well, thanks for talking to me, and I look forward to seeing all of it.
BILLY: Mr. P., as always, great seeing ya! Thank you.
SEB: Billy, Thank you!
ISSUE 6, the finale to SGT. ROCK: THE LOST BATTALION is due to hit the stands June 24th.
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great interview! billy tucci is an awesome dude. i've been lucky enough to run into him at pretty much every con i've ever attended. he's hands down one of the nicest and most energetic individuals you'll meet at a con. super cool guy.
Thanks, Chief.
Josh, you're absolutely right. He's a panic to hang with at cons, because he's like a kid in a candy store.
Before the interview, I'm sitting with him at his booth, he's got a crowd of people around him, and we're all talking about this and that. In mid sentence, Billy JUMPS up out his seat, hands waving in the air and shouts at the top of his lungs "ROCKETEER!!"
It turns out, 2 rows over, a guy in a homemade (but really rather cool) Rocketeer costume is walking around, and Billy just loved it.
"Living Robert Venditti's Plan B!"
Rocketeer was the BOMB! plus Jenn Connely was a hottie back in the day.


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Turkey deploys forces to northern Iraq without Iraqi permission
Protesters burn a Turkish national flag during a demonstration against the Turkish military presence in Iraq, at Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, Iraq (Reuters)
This week's snapshot focuses on the current diplomatic standoff between Turkey and Iraq after Ankara deployed military forces into northern Iraq without permission from the Baghdad government. Iraqi leadership has called upon international entities such as NATO and the United Nations to pressure Turkey into pulling the troops out of Iraq.
News summary of events during the week of 07DEC15 – 14DEC15
- 07DEC: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sent a letter to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, promising not to "deploy more troops to Bashika until your concerns about the matter are eased." (Xinhua)
- 08DEC: Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi asked NATO to press Turkey to pull troops from northern Iraq. (Reuters)
- 09DEC: A brief Turkish military statement said the raids "destroyed" targets of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in four areas of northern Iraq, including the Qandil mountains on the Iraq-Iran border where the PKK's leadership is based. (AP)
- 09DEC: Turkey called on its citizens to leave all areas of Iraq excluding Iraqi Kurdistan due to increased security risks. (AFP)
- 09DEC: Turkey's prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu defended the country's deployment of additional forces to Iraq, saying it was an "act of solidarity" with Iraq's fight against the Islamic State group. (AP)
- 11DEC: Iraq's prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, called for the immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops from northern Iraq in a national address, insisting no foreign forces are needed to fight the Islamic State group in his country. (AP)
- 12DEC: Several thousand protesters, most of them members of Shiite paramilitary forces, gathered in central Baghdad to demand the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Iraq. (AFP)
- 12DEC: Iraq's UN Ambassador Mohammed al-Hakim lodged a complaint with the UN Security council about the unrequested presence of Turkish troops on Iraqi soil, officials confirmed. (DPA)
- 12DEC: Russian FM Lavrov spoke by phone with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari to discuss the "unlawful incursion" of Turkish troops in northern Iraq. (Reuters)
- 13DEC: Iraq said that it would adhere to political options to end the crisis with Turkey, stressing it would not to allow breaches of its sovereignty. (Xinhua)
- 14DEC: Some of the several hundred Turkish troops stationed in a camp outside the jihadist-controlled Iraqi city of Mosul have been withdrawn. (AFP)
Sample of Twitter handles tweeting about Turkey deploys forces to northern Iraq
- @KenRoth – Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
- @markmackinnon – Mark MacKinnon, Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail (Canada).
- @FranTownsend – Fran Townsend, Former Homeland Security & Counterterrorism Advisor to President Bush '03-'08, CNN National Security Analyst '08-'15, EVP MacAndrews & Forbes '10-present
- @glcarlstrom – Gregg Carlstrom, Journalist, for The Times (London) and The Economist, previously based in Doha with al Jazeera (English), and in Cairo.
- @LizSly – Liz Sly, Washington Post Beirut bureau chief covering Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and beyond.
Sample of Third Party Validators regarding Turkey deploys forces to northern Iraq
Walter Russell Mead, Distinguished Scholar in American Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson Institute, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest
"And Turkey is sending a message: Forget your 'authority,' we're taking matters into our own hands. Ankara's good relationship with the Iraqi Kurds (the 'good' Kurds, from a Turkish point of view—for now) should help with that, because it's hard to see who will eject them from Iraqi Kurdistan. But they're in a precarious international legal situation, which gives the Russians, Iranians, and Iraqis options."
- "Turkey Squares Off Against Russia, Iraq," The American Interest, 08DEC15
Metehan Demir, Turkish journalist and expert on military affairs for Turkish Daily News and Hurriyet, recipient of the 2003 Chevening Scholarship by the British Royal Academy of Defense, joint Masters from King's College London
"Baghdad is very well aware of the crisis between Turkey and Russia…and might seek to invite Russian troops in that area to open similar camps to help them. And it means Turkish troops and Russian troops might come face to face."
- "Turkey Refuses to Withdraw Troops from Iraq," Voice of America, 07DEC15
Harith al-Qarawee, Iraq researcher at Brandeis University
"For Maliki and his allies in the Shia paramilitary groups, this was an opportunity to consolidate their Shia constituency…[It was also a chance to show that Abadi and his allies] cannot match their powerful reaction to the Turkish intervention."
- "Baghdad protest against Turkey reveals Iraqi divisions," AP, 12DEC15
Cengiz Candar, Columnist for Al-Monitor's 'Turkey Pulse', author of seven books in the Turkish language
"Thanks to Turkish efforts, Osama al-Nujaifi has been elected as the speaker of the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad with Kurdish support, while his brother Atheel was governor of Ninevah province from 2009 until this year, albeit of a truncated province after IS took Mosul.
With this in mind, it should not be difficult to look for and find a rationale in Turkey's latest move involving Mosul."
- "Are Turkey and Iran reviving a 16th century conflict?," Al-Monitor, 10DEC15
Patrick Marin, Research Assistant at the Institute for the Study of War
"PM Abadi is facing intense pressure from other Shi'a political parties and Iranian-backed militias on account of [US Special Operations Forces and Turkish] deployments. Some Shi'a parties asserted that the CoR, not the Prime Minister should approve foreign deployments. The Badr Organization raised the possibility of a no-condence vote in PM Abadi. These measures will restrict PM Abadi's ability to engage the U.S.-led coalition, the intended eect of Iranian-led forces in Iraq that seek to align Iraq with the Russian-Iranian coalition."
- "Iraq Situation Report: December 3 – 7, 2015," ISW, 07DEC15
Sample of open source research conducted by TRG analysts related to Turkey deploys forces to northern Iraq
1. Iraqi prime minister calls for withdrawal of Turkish troops
Media: Associated Press
Byline: N/A
Date: 11 December 2015
Iraq's Prime Minister issued a formal request Friday for the Foreign Ministry to submit a complaint to the United Nations about the presence of Turkish troops near the IS-held city of Mosul, as Iraq's top Shiite cleric admonished Turkey during a sermon in Karbala.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked the UN Security Council to "shoulder its responsibilities," and order the withdrawal of the Turkish troops stationed in the country's north at a military base near Mosul.
2.Top Iraq Shiite cleric criticises Turkish deployment
Media: Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Byline: N/A
Date: 11 December 2015
Baghdad, Dec 11, 2015 (AFP) – Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday criticised the deployment of Turkish troops and tanks to the country's north without Baghdad's approval.
Baghdad has demanded that Ankara remove the newly-deployed forces, which were sent to a base near the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, but Turkey has pushed for them to stay
3. Turkish PM talks to U.S. VP Biden over Iraq soldiers row: prime ministry sources
Media: Reuters
Byline: Jonny Hogg and Ercan Gurses
Date: 10 December 2015
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey's Prime Minister on Thursday evening told U.S. Vice President Joe Biden by telephone that Turkey respects Iraq's sovereignty, amid a row over Turkish troops deployed in Iraqi territory, prime ministry sources said.
U.S. officials requested the call, the sources said, in which Davutoglu emphasized that Ankara stands alongside Baghdad in its struggle against Islamic State. A letter expressing these sentiments was also being delivered to the Iraqi PM by a high level Turkish delegation.
4. Turkey: No plans to pull out troops stationed in Iraq
Media: Associated Press
Byline: N/A
Date: 10 December 2015
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey has no intention of pulling out troops that are stationed in Iraq as part of a training mission to help combat the Islamic State group.
Turkey has stationed troops near Mosul since last year, but the arrival of additional troops last week sparked an uproar in Baghdad, forcing Turkey to halt the new deployment.
5.Turkey defends additional troop deployment in Iraq
Media: Associated Press
Byline: N/A
Date: 09 December 2015
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday defended the country's deployment of additional forces to Iraq last week, saying it was an "act of solidarity" with Iraq's fight against the Islamic State group.
Turkey has stationed troops at a base outside Mosul since last year as part of a training mission coordinated with the Iraqi government in Baghdad. The arrival of additional Turkish forces last week, however, sparked uproar in the Iraqi capital.

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RUFC - Roberts to stay
Rotherham United have extended the contract of midfielder, Gary Roberts.
The former Yeovil Town and Crewe Alexandra player originally signed in November for a month but has impressed Millers Manager, Ronnie Moore enough for the club to extend his contract until the end of the season.
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Rittz Talks Features and Album Art on 'Top of the Line'
As for the features, the list isn't long, but it does bring the retro flavor he was going for on the album.
Of course, I got Tech and Krizz. I got Devin The Dude, which is one of my favorite rappers of all time. Like, I grew up listening to him. A lot of my rhyme patterns, mellow style – a lot of my music is based off his influence. So, having him on my track is fucking crazy.
I also got Mike Posner as always. He hit me up with some dope shit. I got E-40 on that record as well, which is another OG in the game that I've been wanting to work with for years. I always try to work with legends in the game, and it happened on this album.
It was also my first time where I felt like I could add an artist from my hometown. Cheeto Gambine is on my album. I was able to look out and he looked out for me, putting a verse on there. I'm excited about that.
He mentioned the producers on Top of the Line were mostly Seven, of course, and Heartbeatz, who also talked with Strange Music about his experience producing for this album. Matic Lee worked on a few tracks also. Matic produced "LAF" and "Misery Loves Company" for Rittz's previous albums.
Rittz also relates about how people don't pay attention to the album booklet anymore. So, just as the fans don't care to pay attention to the packaging he didn't also. It use to be a big a part of the album, but now no one cares. He stated that he remembered when Guns N' Roses first showed tities in their booklet. That's the past though like his cares for what goes into the packaging. It's a shame as I also remember looing through my CD booklets back in the day and even now a days.
The Rittz interview ends with a little insight into the album cover art. He tells us the artist and his goal to step away from him posing with a car like he's done in the past and go for something that looks retro in order to reflect the theme for Top of the Line.
I wanted the album cover to look retro because of the theme I was going for. Plus, I've been standing by a car for two albums now. I could do that all day, I love album covers with cars and shit. I wanted something that was retro and it just showcased me. When you see it, there's my face – loud and clear. It's classic.
Shout out to David Graham who painted me. He actually painted me and did some real artwork on it. I wanted it to look cool with a classic feel – something that's timeless.
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New Hampshire Rep: Young People Aren't Worth Minimum Wage
Written by Brian Stewart, a Campus Progress blogger
One New Hampshire lawmaker verbally insulted thousands of hardworking young Americans in a recent statement, saying they aren't worth the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
State Rep. Carol McGuire made the comment in a statement that called a minimum wage requirement "discriminatory" and argues that young people would take $5 per hour work if offered.
"It's very discriminatory, particularly for young people. They're not worth the minimum," the Republican legislator said.
The pre-tax annual salary of a person working 40 hours per week at $7.25 per hour is roughly $15,000. Drop that to $5 an hour and the pre-tax yearly income falls to $10,000.
McGuire is an advocate of overturning all minimum wage legislation and allowing business to compensate employees on their own terms. She sponsored the legislation that ultimately repealed New Hampshire's minimum wage law—an effort Democratic Gov. John Lynch attempted to veto. Republicans also defeated a Democrat-sponsored bill to up the state's minimum wage by 75 cents per hour—a hike that would mean an extra $30 a week for New Hampshire's 4,000 lowest-wage employees.
Republican House Speaker William O'Brien called the minimum wage a "job-killing regulation" and took his own jab at young Americans:
"Minimum wage jobs are often filled by younger workers with no job skills," he told the Associated Press, arguing that a higher minimum wage would "take an axe to the bottom rung of the career ladder and deny many of those entry-level workers the chance to develop the job skills to have success later in life."
As ThinkProgress' Lee Fang notes, the $7.25 federal minimum wage is already low — the minimum wage in the 1960s was more than $9 an hour when adjusted to 2006 dollars.
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McGuire's accusation that "young people" are "not worth the minimum" is a slap in the face to youth around the country who work minimum jobs to support their families, save for college, or are forced to survive without the privileges of inherited wealth or their parents' income.
This post was originally published by Campus Progress.
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Putland shows Ashes potential in SA win
South Australia coach Darren Berry says Gary Putland could be a contender for the 2013 Ashes tour after the left-arm swing bowler claimed 12-92 to bowl the Redbacks to a rare Sheffield Shield win at the MCG.
South Australia's second Shield triumph of the season, a nine-wicket victory with two sessions to spare on Monday's final day of play, came after the Bushrangers resumed on 6-86 and were bowled out for 132.
Chasing just 36 to win, the Redbacks scored 1-36 off seven overs for the loss of first-innings century-maker Phil Hughes (eight).
Putland picked up 5-28 off 25 overs in Victoria's second innings after his 7-64 in the first dig.
"Two wins in the last three games, it's starting to turn in the right direction," Berry said of a side who were without a victory last season.
Berry says Putland's ability to bowl inswingers to the right-handers is crucial.
"He's take six five-fors in 15 Shield matches. He is a serious bowler," Berry said.
"Gary Putland would be an ideal Ashes bowler.
"If an opening comes and that's what I'm going to be pushing with him, and it's not just based on this game.
"They're extraordinary figures, 12-92 off 61 overs. It's an unbelievable effort.
"He should be (talked about) in the same vein as Jackson Bird and Josh Hazlewood.
"He's gone under the radar a little bit but a couple of performances like that and I'm sure they (selectors) will be taking notice."
Putland boasts 19 wickets at 16.84 in three Shield games this season.
Berry says Hughes must be awfully close to a Test recall after his 158 lifted him to the top of Shield cricket's runscoring list.
"If Hughes plays I think he can bat anywhere in the top six," Berry said confidently.
South Australia celebrated their first Shield win at the MCG since 1998, doubling their points tally to 12 from six games.
Victoria remain second on 20 points.
Bushrangers and Australia A allrounder John Hastings posted scores of 80 and 13 claimed 5-66 in South Australia's first innings to also keep his name in front of Test selectors.
Victoria assistant coach Simon Helmot said the Bushrangers had some major batting flaws to address after their top order collapsed to 5-83 in the first innings and 6-41 in the second dig.
Helmot also said Victoria's bowlers were unable to match Putland's ability to build pressure.
"We probably missed an Andrew McDonald-type in this game who could just hold up an end," Helmot said of Victoria's injured allrounder.
"Our inability to execute consistently and be precise enough with the ball was glaringly obvious."
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2. I have a bug pokemon, even two! Ninjask and Heracross
3. I'll try Absol, thanks ;]
1. I'm AGGRO!
2. I have a bug pokemon, even two! Ninjask and Heracross
3. I'll try Absol, thanks ;]
Well, Wallace is now the new problem.
Wailord is a non-issue, and by sacrificing Altaria to Hyper Beam, Gyarados is as well.
Then there's Whishcash: I have nothing that can easily take it out so it's more along the lines of just getting lucky, but generally he leaves a dent in my mons.
And finally there's Milotic. It's faster then everything I have, so it will generally kill them with either Surf or Ice Beam, unless it's Azumaril. So the plan thus far has just been to Toxic with Crobat and switch to Azu. Uuuuunfortunately, she always gets into the red before it dies, meaning Full Restore a palooza. Just how many does he have?
I think things could go smoother had I had a grass pokemon, or at least have the Giga Drain TM. Sadly all I have is Solarbeam, which only Altaria can use. :\
Oh well, just keep trying I suppose. May have to take a loss, it looks like...
I've defeated Juan yesterday. It was a piece of cake, because I've baton passed 3 swords dances and 3 speed boosts to Heracross . Now I'm training my pokemon to receive their good attacks, that means:
Swampert - Earthquake
Heracross - Megahorn
Absol - Perish song (to finish the last pokemon)
Now I'm thinking about my last empty slot. What should I catch?
So far, I'm training my Pokemon in Victory Road, and with a challenge....I won't be using Flash in the deeper levels of the cave. *laughs maniacally*
So far, Muku, my Blaziken, is still level 63, Teru, my Mightyena, Level 49, and Sharpedo, Level 39. @_@
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Emerald: currently trying to breed a good adamant cubone so that i can teach it fire punch, then send it over to Diamond. hoping for 1 with good atk and spd IV's, but so far i've only managed 1 with average sp def, 1 with good spd, and 1 with flawless hp. also trying to get enough BP for the fire punch move in the 1st place, lol, so have been working through the battle factory (think it's my best bet for actually winning any BP at all- i suck at all the rest, lol! >.<)- just need 24 more points! ^^
In emerald i am currently resetting for a Jolly torchic and it's taking forever!!.After i get him/her i will go exploring and catch a taillow and a ralts with good natures, hopefully i will catch pokerus this time.
<3 CHARIZARD FAN FOR LIFE!! <3Torchic//Tailow//Shroomish//Aron//Ralts//Spheal
still traing it gets annyoying after awhile and aggro try breloom
Sapphire: Well I decided to reset my game, so I could Pal-Park all of the legendaries into my Pearl game. I just defeated Wallace, but I got bored and I haven't touched it in a couple of weeks. Need to beat the Elite Four, so I can Pal-Park Latias.
Emerald: Breeding for a Flawless Special Attack/Speed, Natural Cure, Modest Staryu for Battle Frontier.
So I beat Wallace last night.
I chose Latios, and went to the Battle Frontier. Caught the Sudowoodo & Smeargle. Then I went to the fossil maniac's cave for a Ditto and the Lileep fossil.
I just tried to get Groudon. He, uh, he killed himself with Struggle. Just wouldn't stay in the damn ball. May have to reteach Altaria Sing...
I doubt I'll be doing the Battle Frontier. It just doesn't interest me at all.
Oh, I've decided to beat the League with 5 pokemon Ninjask will help me a lot with his Baton passes on Crobat/Heracross/Swampert, depending on the situation. (heracross will be extremely useful, because it has Endure-reversal combo, it can pair with speed boosts and swords dances)
So I'm going to beat the league with 5 pokemon;]
...Still can't beat Wallace. D:
I went to the Sky Pillar to hopefully catch Rayquaza. *knows the cracks in the Pillar from the manga so she's well prepared*
Though I can't catch it in any ball I use srsly wtf. I'll try again later, if something happens.
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I've defeated Wallace :] The whole league was very easy (except Drake's Salamence). I'm lovin baton passing
I've traded my lvl 100s from Fire red to Emerald. Traded Bagon to Fire red. Caught Latios (BRAVE NATURE FTW) and traded it to my Fire red.
I'm currently catching legendaries and earning battle points.
Transfered some Pokemon from Emerald to Diamond yesterday. The reason was that I needed 2 Earthquake TMs on Diamond and I have more than 20 ones on Emerald.
September Blue, Thy sorrows be forgotten
October Auburn, Let this season pass
November Gray, Restore with thy rain
December White, Thy beauty ever last
I got the Ability Symbol from Anabel this weekend and I'll say that it was one heck of a trip. Overly liberal abuse of Toxic from Blissey allowed me to win. Alakazam did at most 60 damage to her, Entei could land at most 400 with a critical Fire Blast after two Calm Minds, and I got lucky on Snorlax waiting until the 2nd turn to use Belly Drum, allowing Toxic damage to kill him as I switched to my last Pokemon. I'm growing quite fond of Toxic now.
I've also just started breeding Seviper with an old Eevee so I can pass Crunch and flawless Speed to a Sceptile I plan to use as a sweeper. He's mostly for taking on Gold Tucker, but I think I can find other uses for him as well. I'm thinking about making a Palace team in the near future to make getting the Gold symbol there a bit easier. The Vaporeon I bred might be useful there, but if I do I need to replace Baton Pass.
I'll figure something out soon.
recently restarted on Emerald, after migrating all my old pokemon over to Diamond, and ive just checked my new team and am a lil creeped out...
Shroomish - Naughty
Ralts - Naughty
Beautifly - Relaxed
Taillow - Relaxed
Zigzagoon - Modest
Mudkip - Modest
Purely coincidental! And my team is in that order as well haha, because im training them (fairly) equally before i beat Roxanne! Thinking of getting them up to Lv 15 before i tackle her, so it will be a nice breeze through. Zigzagoon is doing a nice job of picking up items for me as well, bless his lil heart! Might actually train him properly this game, not sure yet...
recently restarted on Emerald, after migrating all my old pokemon over to Diamond, and ive just checked my new team and am a lil creeped out...
Shroomish - Naughty
Ralts - Naughty
Beautifly - Relaxed
Taillow - Relaxed
Zigzagoon - Modest
Mudkip - Modest
Purely coincidental! And my team is in that order as well haha, because im training them (fairly) equally before i beat Roxanne! Thinking of getting them up to Lv 15 before i tackle her, so it will be a nice breeze through. Zigzagoon is doing a nice job of picking up items for me as well, bless his lil heart! Might actually train him properly this game, not sure yet...
Defeated 2 Frontier Brains - Lucy and Brandon. Lucy was hard :/ But my Metagross just pwned Brandon (Regirock and Registeel 2HKO, Regice OHKO with Meteor mash, without boosts).
Now I'm hunting for Feebas.
Sapphire: Still haven't touched it. Really need to do it so I can migrate the Regis, Kyogre, Rayquaza, and Latias.
Emerald: Just got absolutely owned by Counter. Was facing Dome Ace Tucker and it was my Swampert vs. his and I use EQ and he uses Counter. I use Ice Beam and he uses Surf, Swampy dies. I send out Metagross, and use EQ. He counters and finishes me off with Surf. X_X I'm working on getting a Starmie. Need another Battle Frontier member. Any ideas? I have Special Attack Starmie and Agility Metagross.
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Badges: 0
Kalos Pokedex: 0/0
Current Location: None
Current Goal: Shiny Hunting (X) | Collecting Badges (Y) | SR Cartridge (AS) | Making A Living Pokedex (OR)
X Safari: Crawdaunt, Mighteyena, and Liepard
Living Dex Status: Kanto (151/151) | Johto (100/100) | Hoenn (135/135) | Sinnoh (64/107) | Unova (110/156) | Kalos (61/70)
Current Shiny Hunt
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last week i saw a shiny girafari in the safari zone,sadly it flees after nine turns. i also saw a shiny whismur although horribly for WHATEVER REASONS MY GAME FROZE ON IT.
first i defeated brawly. next i sent aqua packing from slateport. i also just caught an oddish to deal with my rivals marshtomp and a minun. im now lvling up the oddish to be close to rest of team
combusken lvl 21
aron lvl 20
zubat lvl 20
oddish lvl 16
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Trying to get the Battle Factory's silver symbol, it's the last one I need before I get the Lansat berry, then I'll try getting gold. I'm also changing the moves on the pokemon I'm using for battle frontier, and I'm training my Ho-oh for compatetive battle.
Now the proud owner of a non-hacked, legit Ho-oh.
I'm ****** off. I met a shiny crobat in battle pyramid =_= Curse it please... >.<
Well, my old Battle Frontier team was Charizard, a special Sceptile, and Gyarados. I managed to beat Lucy, I first sent out Gyarados w/ Persim Berry. Her Seviper used Swagger, but thanks to my Persim berry it turned out for the better. Then my Gyarados used Earthquake, Seviper fainted, then she sent out Shuckle. I used Earthquake, she used Toxic, IT MISSED!!!! I had Gyarados Earthquake again, and Shuckle tried using Toxic and it missed again!!! I used Earthquake once more, and then Shuckle fainted. Next she sent out Milotic and I though, "oh crap". But two Earthquakes from Gyarados took care of her.
Now I'm working on a new, better, Battle Frontier team. Recently I completed the Hoenn dex for the 3rd time on Emerald (while keeping the Johto starters on Ruby version). Now I had access to Chikorita, Cyndaquil, and Totodile, which was great since I had all three Johto starters. My next Battle Frontier team is Alakazam(special), Salamence(mixed), and Feraligatr(undecided).
As for me, I've got myself a male Seviper with flawless Speed sitting in a box. I'm now trying to get a Modest female Treecko with flawless Special Attack to breed with the Seviper, but I'm having really bad luck with that so far. Six batches in and only 2 females, one Hasty with flawless and one Modest without. Oh well, I'll try some more later.
Finally got Groudon yesterday, and caught Kyogre (yay Netball. And I got it first go around, too), Registeel (only took three resets!), & Regirock (Second easiest) today.
Will go for Regice & Rayquaza tomorrow, me thinks. Not looking forward to Sky Pillar, though :\
Oh and I gave the Battle Factory a round, it's nice. Not nice enough to keep going through it another 2 times for the symbol (nor any of the other facilities, for that matter).


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Valletta: The three-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) begins here on Friday.
The meeting comes days ahead of the Paris Climate Conference (COP21). A special session will be dedicated to climate change, reports Xinhua news agency.
A key topic for the meeting will be violent extremism and radicalism. Commonwealth leaders will focus on ways Commonwealth countries can work together to defeat terrorist groups.
The Commonwealth brings together 53 countries with a combined population of 2.2 billion.
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These are some thoughts I tweeted last night before and after the Eurogroup decision on Greece:
1) What is the elephant in the Eurogroup presser room? GDP growth!
2) Reminder: The best way to bring down any debt/GDP ratio is GDP growth. Not rocket science, is it, except for the Euro austerians!
3) The Euro crisis is now in its 4th season! So is Fringe, but it's its final season (for Fringe).
4) If Greece had 1 cent (Ok, maybe 1 euro) for every time int'l media have mentioned Greece in connection to crisis 3 yrs now, it would have no debt by now!
5) In 2004, I wrote an article "after 2004, what?". Tonight I ask, after tonight, what? Greece always needs a real growth model, above all. As again I wrote before, in 2004, Greece needs to make exporting its new national sport.
6) Greece has been extremely loyal to the EU Single Market and the WTO. But alas mostly on the imports side! Needs growth and exports.
7) Greece has a great econ model. It's called Tourism. And assets such a climate. No sense being "Wall St yuppie" in "Jamaica" imho
8) Whether with euro or drachma, Greek economy has to grow. And that means more industry and much much more tourism revenues! And exports.
9) It also needs to develop the companies that will produce products that will replace imports, trade balance is one of the keys to GR growth.
10) Now, and always, Greece needs a growth model that fits it, not imports of models or parts of models from Ireland, Finland, Germany etc! The same applies to every country/economy imho.
11) For Greece, PIIGS and others to achieve growth, a key issue is: What will the Euro exchange rate v-a-v USD, Yuan etc be like 2012-2020/22
12) Romney-Ryan lost and now there seems to be accord on Greece. Seems the world moves in right direction after all!


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Melbourne, Australia, Jan 17: Australia has named an unchanged 12-man squad for the fourth and final cricket test against India at Adelaide from Jan. 24 as it pursues a series sweep.
Spinner Nathan Lyon has retained his place in the squad and is expected to play in spin-friendly conditions at the Adelaide Oval, displacing either Peter Siddle or fellow-paceman Mitchell Starc in Australia's starting XI.
"A spin bowler has always been a priority in test matches at Adelaide Oval and it is very likely that Nathan Lyon will replace one of the other bowlers in the final XI for the fourth Test," chairman of selectors John Inverarity said.
Siddle has played in all five of Australia's tests so far this summer — against New Zealand and India — and may be rested after Australia clinched the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in the third test Sunday.
The Australian selectors are aware of the dangers of a heavy workload on fast bowlers after injuries this season to Mitchell Johnson, Patrick Cummins and more recently James Pattinson.
"The fact the Australians were able to dismiss India in only 60 and 63 overs in Perth and the extra two rest days because the test finished early has meant that there is reduced concern about excessive workloads for the fast bowlers.
Starc said he was hopeful of retaining his place for the Adelaide test. The 21-year-old left armer took four wickets in the third test at Perth and told reporters he was keen for another crack at the Indian batting lineup.
"We'll go down to Adelaide and have a look at the pitch down there and, if all goes well, (I'll) have a spot in the XI," Starc said.
"Any game you get to play for Australia is a pretty special moment. I'm just enjoying any chance I get and hopefully I can play a few back-to-back."
Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin and top-order batsman Shaun Marsh have both been retained despite recent batting slumps. Starc said he backed Haddin to quickly recover his best form.
"As we saw in the first (Twenty20) game he played for the (Sydney) Sixers, he was right on the money there, hit 70 for us and pretty much won the game for us," Starc said.
Australia squad: David Warner, Ed Cowan, Shaun Marsh, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke (captain), Mike Hussey, Brad Haddin, Ryan Harris, Ben Hilfenhaus, Nathan Lyon, Peter Siddle, Mitch Starc.


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It is a good idea to calibrate your thermometer once a year, to ensure that it is still giving a good reading. Test it with boiling water, and also with ice water. A small amount of variance is acceptable, since the boiling point of water will differ depending on your altitude, but if the thermometer's reading in boiling water is far away from 212F or the reading when exposed to ice is significantly different to 32F then there is a problem.
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The Imps headed into this clash with promotion-chasing Bury knowing that a win would secure their Football League status. Calum Fuller reports.
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March has been a month of success for the Imps, but the untimely death of Keith Alexander has cast a shadow over the month. Bradley King gives you an overview of March.
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We couple a one-dimensional energy balance climate model with heat transportation across latitudes, with an economic growth model. We derive temperature and damage distributions across locations and optimal taxes on fossil fuels which, in contrast to zero-dimensional Integrated Assessment Models, account for cross latitude externalities. We analyse the impact of welfare weights on the spatial structure of optimal carbon taxes and identify conditions under which these taxes are spatially nonhomogeneous and are lower in latitudes with relatively lower per capita income populations. We show the way that heat transportation affects local economic variables and taxes, and locate sufficient conditions for optimal mitigation policies to have rapid ramp-up initially and then decrease over time.
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In the 11th-annual poll of NBA general managers by nba.com (full version is linked here), you might have to wonder if anyone in the league is paying much attention to the Rockets for this season.
Houston got a few scant mentions:
Most surprising move of the offseason: Houston's decision to amnesty Luis Scola was in the also-receiving votes category although to be fair the Knicks' decision not to match Jeremy Lin's offer sheet by Houston came in at No. 3 behind Steve Nash signing with the Lakers and the Dwight Howard trade.
Which rookie is most athletic: Terrence Jones made the also-receiving votes list.
Which rookie is most likely to be a sleeper success: Jones snuck in at No. 6 and Donatas Motiejunas made the also-receiving votes list.
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In a move which will be a blow for Adobe's subscription software system, a computer security firm has uncovered data it says belongs to some 152 million Adobe Systems user accounts.
According to the Verge this means that a breach reported a month ago is far bigger than Adobe has so far revealed and is one of the largest on record. All this is happening while Adobe is hoping to make a killing selling its software on the cloud, something which depends on a reputation for some brilliant security.
LastPass, a password security firm, said that it has found email addresses, encrypted passwords and password hints stored in clear text from Adobe user accounts on a dodgy hacker site.
Adobe last week admitted attackers had stolen data on more than 38 million customer accounts, on top of the theft of information on nearly three million accounts that it disclosed nearly a month earlier.
All this is well short of the 152 million figure, which would seem to indicate the bad guys have most of Adobe's client list and passwords.
Now Adobe has confirmed that LastPass had found records stolen from its datacentre but downplayed the significance of the security firm's findings.
Adobe said that it was inaccurate to say 152 million customer accounts had been compromised because the database attacked was a backup system about to be decommissioned.
Records include some 25 million records containing invalid email addresses, 18 million with invalid passwords. The spokesman said that a huge percentage of the accounts were fictitious, having been set up for one-time use so that their creators could get free software.
Adobe said that it had told some 38 million active Adobe ID users and is now contacting holders of inactive accounts.
However LastPass Chief Executive Joe Siegrist was more scathing. He said that Adobe failed to use best practices for securing the stolen passwords.
The passwords in the database were not protected with a technique known as "salting," which means adding a secret code to every password after it is scrambled and before it is stored. This stops encrypted versions of the same password looking identical.
Siegrist could spot the most frequently used password in the group, which was used 1.9 million times. The database has 108 million email addresses with passwords shared in multiple accounts.
If the 152 million figure is correct, then it breaks all records. The The largest cyber breach previously reported was a 2009 attack on Heartland Payment Systems in which more than 130 million credit card numbers were stolen.


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2018 Important Stage 1 Dates
> July 6, 2018 Application Deadline
> October 2018 Notification of Finalists
> November 13, 2018 Finalist Interviews
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> January 1, 2019 Funding Begins
Application Guidelines
Application materials should be submitted to the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for arrival at our offices by 4:00 pm (ET) on July 6, 2018. Along with the original full proposal (one hard copy), applicants must submit a USB flash drive of all the required materials. Please see application submission instructions for detailed directives.
The pages should be in the following sequence and numbered consecutively:
Prior to the application deadline, electronically submit the Innovation Award Pre-Application Form.
1. A hard copy of the Application cover sheet (co-applicant cover sheet) with all required signatures. These signatures can be either ink or electronic, or a mix of the two. Download Cover Sheet Form or Download Co-applicant Cover Sheet Form.
Save the cover sheet onto the USB flash drive as a PDF. Please, do not scan. (We use a program that extracts information off the cover sheet, and it will not work if the cover sheet is scanned.) If you are not using electronic signatures, you may leave the signatures blank on the PDF, but please ensure that all other required information is on the form.
2. The applicant's NIH biosketch, including a full bibliography of all published works. (The applicants biosketch may be longer than the NIH 5-page limit based on the length of the full bibliography.) Bold three peer-reviewed publications (published or in press) that demonstrate the applicant's capacity for innovation and ability to achieve the goals set forth in the proposed research.
3. A complete list of other sources of research support with dollar amounts for each grant/award (including start-up package, if applicable) and confirmation that there is no scientific overlap with the proposed research.
4. The research proposal, including figures, tables and legends, is limited to four pages of single spaced, 12-point type with at least 0.5 inch margins. No preliminary data are expected; any description of such data (including figures) should be included in the four-page proposal. A list of references is not included in the 4-page limit.
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- an explanation of how the proposed idea and/or approach is innovative and bold yet achievable.
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Applicants must have three reference letters from senior scientists emailed or faxed directly to the Foundation using the referee's own letterhead. Referees must submit their letters by email (email@example.com) OR fax (917.591.4780) on or before the application deadline (July 6). Do not follow up with a hard copy. For referees who are writing letters on behalf of more than one candidate, please submit each letter separately.
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:47:20 +0200, Erik Wilde <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: ... > while i am not a huge fan of the current draft, i think the idea of > representing locations as URIs is a good and obvious one. > > one scenario: i am traveling and would like to avoid leaving an exact > GPS location trail. so i set my mobile device to say that i am in (and > this is completely made up) geo:usgs.gov/states/CA and all i am saying > with that is that i am in california. privacy-wise, this lets me choose > how much i want to disclose, and it still allows me to get localized > results. Indeed. Most of the work I have done on geo systems has been in the context of global travel - the applications are far more tied to "who lives here, and what are the top 10 sights or events in this city that are interesting to me than they are to the "where is the nearest open bart" level of detail. So the scheme I came up with (which is now reasonably common amongst at least the FOAF world) is "nearest airport". This is easily represented as a particular HTTP-based namespace, and it is quite trivial to set up a system that for a given airport actually returns useful data in some form or other - indeed people have been doing this for years. It's a scheme where the user essentially identifies a fairly vague piece of information, that happens to make sense to a large number of people and things they are interested in, although for example it's not straightforwardly obvious how to make a neat user interface for something that has maps as its underlying premise of how people think about location. Interestingly, many years later, this is pretty much the concept underlying dopplr.com, which includes a bunch of people who have thought hard for many years about this kind of issue. Places like the Geowanking list have hosted discussions along these lines for 5 years, and they were often old ideas then: http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking > i don't want to engage in detailed discussions around how such a scheme > could or should be designed, who is responsible for managing the > "namespaces", and how all of that would fit into a more location-aware > web (or at least that should go into a different thread). but i would be > interested in feedback about that scenario, and how exactly this idea of > "privacy-friendly locations" could be supported. I think that there needs to be a fairly rich concept of "position". I often (but not always) tell the entire world where I am in terms of nearest airport. I am loath to tell more than a small handful of people any more detail. Basically, there are a number of useful schemes - I am not often personally interested in one based on "states" (by which I mean political boundaries on a scale of tens to hundreds of km across with some falling outside that range), but there are plenty of use cases for such a thing. Likewise there are plenty of locations which are based on defined physical things in the world - although often the edges are quite fuzzy. Just some old ideas getting an airing... Cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera 9.5: http://snapshot.opera.comReceived on Wednesday, 25 June 2008 22:15:58 UTC
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A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of Dinis' father, Bodor, is released from prison and moves in with them. Dinis and his brother Bodor are far from happy over this intrusion of their family life.
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