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- Distributed by: Cartoon Network, Fox Box, Toei Co. Ltd., 4Kids Entertainment
- Cartoon Characters: Coby, Portgus D Ace, Sanji, Shanks the Red Hair, Kohza, Captain Smoker (Navy), Roronoa Zoro, Tashigi, Nami, Toni-Toni Chopper, Gold Roger the Pirates King, Monkey D Luffy, Princess Vivi, Usopp, Nico Robin.
Characters (English Version): Captain "Axe-Hand" Morgan, Alvida, Roronoa Zolo, Navy Commander, Django, Yosaku, Johnny, Usopp, Yasopp, Monkey D. Luffy, Kaya, Pepper, Merry, Security Guard, Villager, Sanji, Carrot, Cookie Girl, Gaimon, Siam, Koby, Buggy Crew Member, Helmeppo, Boodle, Shanks the Red Hair, Monji the Lion Tamer, Captain Kuro (Klahadore), Admiral Don Kreig, Nami, Captain Buggy, Arlong, Onion.
- Voice Actors: Mika Doi, Toshio Furukawa, Hiroaki Hirata, Shûichi Ikeda, Takeshi Kusao, Ginzô Matsuo.
Vocal Talent: David Brimmer; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Kônosuke Uda.
- Written By Mitsuru Shimada, Suminori Takegami, Eiichiro Oda.
- Music: Kohei Tanaka, Shiro Hamaguchi.
- First Aired on November 12, 2004.
- Originally Aired on Fuji TV (Japan).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Episode Number: 114
- Color
- Japan
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Having had his swords stripped from him, Zolo is completely defenseless against the Meowban Brothers. But when Nami returns his weapons, he's able to mount an effective attack. However, his swordplay is interrupted when an impatient Captain Kuro arrives on the... (more)
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Based on the manga by Eiichiro Oda, which first appeared in 1997 in "Weekly Shonen Jump."
Premiered in Japan on October 20, 1999; episode dates are as shown on FOX.
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Press release 204/2017
23 Nov. 2017
Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini will continue his tour of schools focusing on violent radicalisation. On Wednesday 29 November, he will pay a visit to the Pohjois-Tapiola upper secondary school. When the series of school visits started at Tikkurila upper secondary school in Vantaa about a week ago, 300 students and teachers interested in the matter arrived to listen to and discuss with the Minister.
"The first school visit was a very rewarding experience. Young people have the courage to call things into question. From the stage in front of them it is easy to see if what you are saying is understood and if the audience finds it interesting," Soini says.
The aim of the series of visits to Finnish schools is twofold: to enhance upper secondary school students' knowledge of what foreign policy actions Finland pursues in order to prevent violent radicalisation and to try to make the youth more critical towards radicalisation.
This year's last school visit will take place on Monday 18 December when the Minister meets students at the Maunula secondary school and Helsinki upper secondary school specialising in mathematics. The school visits will be continued next year, too.
Inquiries: Riikka Taivassalo, Special Adviser to Foreign Minister Soini, tel. +358 46 923 4581.

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Eric Smith's late 3-pointer completes the Gamecocks' comeback in a 63-62 win over fading Mississippi.
COLUMBIA — Down by six with five minutes left, South Carolina found something that has been missing during a six-game losing streak — confidence.
The Gamecocks (13-13, 3-10 Southeastern Conference) held Mississippi (19-7, 8-5) without a point in the last five minutes, and Eric Smith's 3-pointer with 25.1 seconds to go let South Carolina climb out of last place in the SEC with a 63-62 win over the Rebels.
"I finally saw the team that we had four weeks ago try and play again," South Carolina coach Frank Martin said. "I feel good for our kids because they have been in the grinder here for three weeks and league play is unforgiving."
The Rebels missed their final seven shots in a devastating loss for their NCAA tournament hopes. Ole Miss has lost five of its last seven games since starting the season 17-2.
"This certainly hurts us. We know that. Thank goodness the NCAA tournament is not selected tomorrow. So we've got opportunities to try to improve," Mississippi coach Andy Kennedy said.
The Gamecocks held Marshall Henderson to 11 points, well below his SEC-leading average of 19.7 points a game. He shot just 4-of-17 from the field and made just three of his 11 3-point attempts.
"Sometimes we try to make things a little more complicated than they are," said Kennedy, who missed an opportunity to become Ole Miss' all-time winningest coach. "The SEC's leading scorer can't go 4-of-17 and you expect to win on the road."
Martin told his team they needed to play with confidence if they wanted to win again. Things looked good, as the Gamecocks took their biggest lead of the game, 54-49, with 9:42 left. But the Rebels went on a 13-2 run to lead 62-56 with 5:04 remaining on a basket by Murphy Holloway. The senior from a suburb of Columbia, who transferred to South Carolina and then went back to Mississippi without playing a game, led all scorers with 19 points and had 13 rebounds.
During the six-game losing streak, Martin said his players have been mostly silent in late-game huddles. But Bruce Ellington spoke up and said they couldn't let this one get away. Other players chimed in, and the Gamecocks clamped down on defense.
Reginald Buckner fouled out with 3:39 left for Ole Miss, and Lakeem Jackson hit one of two free throws. Brenton Williams hit a 3 with 2:09 left to cut the Rebels' lead to two.
Henderson missed a 3-pointer with just under a minute to go and Williams saved an errant pass. Ellington missed a layup on the drive, but Jackson got the rebound and kicked it out to Smith, who buried the winning 3 with 25.1 left.
"I was open and I just tried to shoot it with confidence," Smith said.
Henderson got a good look from behind the arc on Ole Miss' next possession, but missed. Smith missed the front end of a 1-in-1 with 8.4 seconds left, but Mississippi didn't get its last two shots to the rim. Jackson blocked Nick Williams' layup with 0.9 seconds left and Henderson's desperation 3-pointer was blocked by Laimonas Chatkevicius.
Michael Carrera led South Carolina with 13 points and 13 rebounds, while Smith added 12 points.
Mississippi is now in danger of falling out of the top four in the SEC, who all get byes to the quarterfinals of the conference tournament — a tournament the Rebels may now have to win to make their first NCAA tournament in 11 years.
In what might be the most obvious sign of Mississippi's predicament, Martin's first words in his postgame news conference were to lobby for the team he just beat.
"I don't want to hear anything about the SEC is weak and Ole Miss doesn't belong in the NCAA tournament because they lost on the road," Martin said.
But Mississippi's problem is a schedule that has it playing only one team with a winning SEC record in its final five games, making it difficult for a team that has no wins over teams currently in the top 25 to build a resume that catches the selection committee's eyes.
"You can't be oblivious to it if you have a television,' Kennedy said of his team's NCAA tournament chances. "The reality is, the only thing we can control is the next one."


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So cute Lindsey!ReplyDelete
Love the chain idea! If I dont use it this holiday season, maybe I could adapt it for end-of-year or some other holiday or break. Thanks for the idea!ReplyDelete
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Great idea!! I am doing a Grinch inspired countdown!!ReplyDelete
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Hi Lindsey! I created a Christmas Count-down chain craft this weekend and then came across your post just now. I had not thought of attaching it to a present and adding the poem! Did you write the poem?ReplyDelete
Our kindergarten teachers just did a similar activity using a wreath instead of a present. The kindies love being able to take off the chain loops each day. Thanks for the present twist on it.ReplyDelete
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How To Talk to a Search Engine
Three queries to help decide if Google or Cuil or Ask is right for you.
Last Monday morning, the search engine Cuil launched with great fanfare. By Monday afternoon, it had completely tanked. Users who test-drove the would-be Google rival were quick to complain about mismatched articles and thumbnail photos; the poor breadth of results; obvious queries that turned up blank; and even, in a moment of true existential crisis, the site's inability to locate itself.
It's unfair, of course, to judge a new site on its opening-day performance. Still, it's not clear how we should evaluate a new search engine. In the same way that Kurt Vonnegut once proposed that the definitions for ain't and like could identify whether a dictionary was prescriptive or descriptive, it's high time for a quick and dirty litmus test for the Googles (and Cuils) of the world. Last week, I asked readers to come up with some standard queries that we should use to measure our search engines. I also wanted an explanation of how those questions could be used to reveal each site's philosophy.
For an extremely thorough evaluation of how major search engines measure up against one another, Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz has oodles of tables and charts. But if you prefer a quick and dirty version—a Vonnegut test for the digital age—here are the three searches that I propose. (Beneath each search term are links to the results given by five major search engines. I'm ignoring sponsored links in all cases.)
George W. Bush
Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask, Cuil
"I tried George W. Bush and got a great view at the different search engines," writes reader Jeff Alhadeff. "Google responds with news, Wikipedia, the White House, his library, and then some links demonstrating his lack of popularity. ...Yahoo natural search nearly the same, but lighter on the anti-Bush links. ... Cuil responded with 'We didn't find any results for George W. Bush.' I am still laughing. (I had to run the search without the period after the W.)"
A query for our current president points to an interesting philosophical question for any search engine: Which should be higher in this search, whitehouse.gov or Wikipedia? The former is the president's official site, the latter is the pre-eminent reference site on the Web and considerably more objective. This is an important question of orthodoxy vs. popularity—and one on which not all search engines agree. Of the five search engines considered here, only Google and Yahoo put Wikipedia first. (And for the record, Cuil has resolved its disagreement with punctuation marks.)
2. Viagra
Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask, Cuil
"Another important factor is checking to see if the engine is resistant to spam," writes John King. "Can spammers get into your index for Viagra keywords?"
How well does a search engine sniff out spam—and when, if ever, are sites that sell ED pills over the Internet legitimate? Of the five engines I tested, only Cuil gives high rankings to results that are clearly spam. Yahoo's first page of results was the most informational, with links to health sites, clinics, and the FDA. Live Search, by contrast, has five first-page links to online pharmacies and other sites hawking the drug.
It's not obvious which approach is correct, though I'm thinking that Live might be on to something. What are people who search for the word Viagra more likely to be after, a site that discreetly sells the drug or a HowStuffWorks article on the mechanics of the corpora cavernosa? Perhaps search engines are putting propriety in front of the results that users really want.
3. Your Own Name
More than half of everyone who wrote in made the case for a vanity search as the ultimate litmus test, arguing that these are the results with which the average obsessive self-searcher is most familiar. "I am intimately familiar with where my name appears online (everybody's guilty of googling themselves from time to time, or all the time)," writes reader Caren Beilin. "I figured typing in my own name would be the quickest way to test out Cuil, since I already had a comprehensive knowledge about my name on the web. As for now, I'd rather google myself than cuil myself."
While this test is obviously subjective, it does offer clear insights into the balance between two important priorities for any search engine: relevance and freshness. Are the results that come up for oneself more recent, or are they ones that are more vital to your digital legacy?
The vanity search test breaks down for those of us blessed with highly generic names, so I gave it a run on my editor, Josh Levin (putting his name in quote marks for exact matches). Josh fares the best on Cuil, which, unlike all the other search engines, is not squeamish about listing lots of results from the same source; 10 of the 11 front-page results are from Slate. Both Google and Ask give top billing to Slate articles, while Yahoo and Live Search give the No. 1 spot to sites devoted to people of the same name—josh-levin.us and joshlevin.com, respectively.
The differences here demonstrate that a search engine has to choose between foregrounding a close match or going with a site with lots of authority. By putting a Slate article as its top result, Google and Ask reveal a bias for authority over closeness. By linking to sites with the keywords in the URLs, Yahoo and Live show a preference for closeness over authority.
Search engines ultimately aspire to produce results that are both intuitive and correct. In the end, your decision about what search engine is right for you may come down to a matter of opinion: Who spews more disinformation, Wikipedia or the White House?


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Here is our annual retrospective on the year's news in Hood River County and the Mid-Columbia, from the pages of the Hood River News during 2002. This is Part 1 — January through June. Part 2 — July through December, will run in our Jan. 4 edition:
Ethan Lloyd Wiley Haight was the first baby of the New Year at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital. Ethan made his grand entrance at 9:33 p.m. on Jan. 2, as reported on Jan. 5.
Also on Jan. 5:
Hood River's flying fighter ace was applauded by more than one million people on New Year's Day, an experience he found to be "almost scary."
On New Year's Day, Ken Jernstedt and his guide dog, Driscoll, were special guests on a prize-winning float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. That event was viewed by a television audience of more than 350 million people in 80 different countries.
Jan. 9
Hood River County emergency responders were called Jan. 5 to the scene of the second fatal traffic accident within a week. The third death from a crash on slick roadways has led Hood River Sheriff Joe Wampler to issue a safety alert.
Yvette Barhishindi Mubalama, 28, of Portland was pronounced dead at the scene and the driver of the Toyota, Luvumbu Ndongala Hassan, 33, of Portland was Life Flighted to Emanuel Hospital in Portland for treatment of head injuries.
The operator of the Ford pickup, Darryl Brian Barton, 31, of Hood River, and his three passengers were uninjured from the impact. On New Year's Eve, an icy roadway led to two deaths along Interstate 84 near Cascade Locks. After helping the victim in a roll-over accident shortly before 10 p.m. on Dec. 31, Kevin Fitzsimmons, 28, of Kent, Wash., was struck and killed by another vehicle which slid off the freeway. The man he had been helping, Hector Manuel Virgen Orozco, 32, of Hood River, was also killed by the same truck after emerging unscathed from his earlier wreck.
Jan. 12
Western Power Products is being dismantled by its new owner, leaving 22 workers without jobs. On Jan. 8, CDR Systems Corporation announced that it had purchased the Hood River plant from Cooper Power Systems, Inc., and would be moving its operations to other holdings. The closure of the waterfront firm will end 43 years of local manufacturing that molded fiberglass enclosures for electric utilities and other customers. The most recent layoffs follow on the heels of SDS Lumber Company's decision last week to cut 75 employees during a downsizing of its Bingen, Wash., plywood mill. That grim news also arrives just three months before Northwest Aluminum in The Dalles may be forced to close down because of rising energy costs, sending hundreds of its remaining personnel to the unemployment lines.
To further fracture the local job situation, tree fruit growers in the Hood River Valley are facing yet another bad market year which may seal the fate for some family farms and place others in severe financial jeopardy.
Jan. 16
Water and sewer rates within the city of Hood River will rise by 45 percent starting Feb. 1.
On Jan. 14, the City Council approved the rate increase which drew fire from two citizens during the public meeting.
"If you guys raise the water rates this isn't going to be a quaint and beautiful little town, it's going to be brown and ugly," said Bob Palmer.
For the typical home, the monthly sewer rate will go up from $26 to $36, while the water rate increases from $14.35 to $22.17. The new water fee will include the first 10,000 gallons used per billing period between June and September and the first 5,000 gallons from October to May.
Jan. 19
Change doesn't happen overnight. And if the local school district has anything to say about it, the recent change imposed on Hood River Valley High School may not happen at all. School Superintendent Jerry Sessions and HRV Athletic Director Glenn Elliott met with approximately 70 parents, teachers and administrators Thursday at HRVHS to discuss the Oregon School Activities Association's proposal to move HRV into the Intermountain Conference in fall 2002.
"Most of us here tonight are seeking relief from what many feel is an unfair decision," said Sessions, who has drafted two letters of appeal — one to the OSAA and one to the state Board of Education.
"But we have to understand that making these appeals is a process. We will first appeal to the OSAA and if that fails, we will appeal to the state board. But seeking a legal injunction is not the first step," he said.
No-Casino activists have joined an outcry for enforcement action over an "illegal" road across tribal land just east of Hood River. Friends of the Columbia Gorge and the Columbia River Gorge Commission have already registered protests over the new access road built by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs last November. They contend the unpermitted grading of the 714-foot section violates the resource protection of the National Scenic Area Act.
Jan. 30
If you were to bore a hole from Hood River through the Earth to the other side, staying at about the 45th parallel, you'd end up roughly in Rustaq, Afghanistan. Dr. Mike Pendleton's journey there was nearly as arduous and, arguably, more nerve-wracking. In November, Pendleton flew halfway around the globe — the last leg of which was a white-knuckle ride on a Tajik Air flight filled with reporters from the BBC and CNN — to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, as leader of a three-member medical response team from Portland-based Northwest Medical Teams. Theirs was the first American physician group to enter the war-torn country after the U.S.-led bombing campaign began in October. From Dushanbe, it was 280 km in a "Russian jeep" as Pendleton and the others called it (among more colorful names) to the Afghanistan border, through multiple checkpoints where armed men "arbitrarily administered arbitrary rules arbitrarily" and another five hours over a mountain range to Rustaq.
"Picture the worst logging road you've ever seen," Pendleton said of the overland travel. "Make it worse than that, then make it worse than that, then add six inches of dust."
Pendleton's month-long stint in Afghanistan was his fourth with Northwest Medical Teams to a global trouble spot. In the last few years he's volunteered for similar duty in Vietnam, Albania and Turkey.
Feb. 6
Hood River County raised its dog licensing fees and appointed a special committee to review the animal enforcement laws. Passed Feb. 4 by the Board of Commissioners, the new fees will take effect in 30 days. The rate schedule was separated from the animal control code to simplify the process for periodic adjustments. The price increases for dog tags and "bail" are the first since the early '90s, according to Becky Hoffman, animal control officer. At that time, she said, pet owners were also allowed to buy tags by the calendar year and no longer required to purchase them each January.
Local pet owners will now pay $9 to license their spayed /neutered canines and $25 for unaltered dogs. The senior citizen discount for tags will be $5 for spayed/neutered animals and $17 for those not fixed.
Feb. 9
In the past week, five car prowls took place in the Odell area and a vehicle was stolen from Cascade Locks and has not yet been recovered. Those crimes follow a rash of vehicle break-ins and thefts throughout Hood River County since the beginning of the year. Victims have already reportedly lost a combined total of more than $4,000 in stereo equipment, CDs and damages. Both the Hood River City Police Department and Hood River County Sheriff's Office have noted that almost all of the subject cars were left unlocked and/or running while unoccupied.
Feb. 16
The approval of a new Mt. Hood Meadows cross country ski trail has brought a flurry of protests from the Hood River Valley Residents Committee. However, that opposition has so far failed to stop Mt. Hood Meadows North, LLC, from gaining a conditional use permit for the project. Both the Hood River County Planning Department and Planning Commission have approved the trail on private lands Meadows purchased last July. At issue is whether a commercial Nordic ski trail over a two and one-half mile stretch of old logging roads on the Cooper Spur Inn holdings is an allowable and appropriate use of a forest zone.
Feb. 20
A capacity crowd of 250 citizens jammed Hood River's Riverside Community Church on Feb. 16 to hear a former local resident, a former president of the Oregon ACLU and Oregon's U.S. Attorney present different perspectives on issues raised by the recently passed USA Patriot Act and President George W. Bush's plan to conduct military trials for suspected terrorists. Dr. Homer Yasui, raised in Hood River, shared his personal experiences with loss of basic civil liberties as a Japanese American internee during World War II. While speaking candidly about the anti-Japanese sentiments that seemed to dominate the mood in the Hood River Valley both before and after WWII, he took pains to acknowledge those who reached out to help their Japanese American neighbors, especially upon their return from the internment camps.
Feb. 27
Mountain guide Scott Woolums has a few things to do between now and March 25, when he leaves for Nepal to guide a group of three clients on a climb of Mt. Everest — and make his own second attempt at summiting the world's highest mountain. He has some trip logistics to deal with to ensure that things run smoothly during his group's two-and-a-half months in South Asia. He has to organize "a ton of gear." He has to get his new satellite phone hooked up to his laptop computer. And he's scrambling to finish a make-over of the website for his company, Adventures International, Inc.
Oh, and he has to guide a two-week trip to Patagonia.
"I think there'll be a couple of all-nighters in there," Woolums said. For the inveterate mountain climber and adventure traveler, it's all part of the job.
Woolums' Adventures International is an adventure travel company that specializes in treks and mountain climbs around the world.
Mar. 6
The rumors and innuendos swirling around a Hood River murder case will be televised on Unsolved Mysteries later this spring. That upcoming coverage has led Hood River County Sheriff Joe Wampler to agree to undergo a polygraph test — and to issue a challenge for a "person of interest" to do the same. Hood River District Attorney John Sewell said he is pleased that Unsolved Mysteries will bring high-profile exposure to last summer's baffling murder of Eric Tamiyasu. He said Crime Victim Advocate Jackie Henson helped the Tamiyasu family draft one of the two request letters (one was sent by a family friend) asking the nationally syndicated show for help. "We're hoping that when this episode airs someone will come forward with that one clue we need to break this case," he said. Law enforcement officials have been frustrated by the lack of progress in the homicide of the 41-year-old Binns Hill Road orchardist. His badly decomposed body was discovered by an acquaintance, Don Dixon, on June 30, 2001, and an autopsy later revealed he had died from three gunshot wounds to the head between four and five days earlier.
The face of poverty in the Gorge is changing due to Oregon's high unemployment rate and deep recession.
But the high demand for food and help paying energy bills has drained monetary reserves and emptied the shelves of many area food providers. The near-crisis situation has led the Mid-Columbia Community Action Council, Inc., to ask local residents for help.
"I don't look for this situation to get better anytime soon since our three main industries, agriculture, timber and aluminum, are all in trouble," said Jim Slusher, director of the action council that serves Hood River, Wasco and Sherman counties.
He said this winter many area families were forced for the first time to seek out emergency food and help paying their utility bills.
Mar. 13
Hood River Middle School teacher Lisa Rust made an unusual, last-minute request to the school board for a two-month leave of absence last week. That's when she found out she'd been selected as one of six members of the first-ever American Women's Mt. Everest Climbing Team.
"It's a dream come true," Rust said. The team is sponsored by the Ford Motor Corporation and is the first all-woman team to attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain.
Rust is an experienced mountain climber who spends summers as a mountain guide on Mt. McKinley in Alaska and on Washington's Mt. Rainier.
She learned last year of the all-women's Everest team. "I threw my name out there," she said, but she was originally not picked to be part of the team.
Then last week she got a surprise phone call from trip organizers telling her they'd "found a spot."
The team consists of several experienced climbers and three coaches, of which Rust is one. Ford picks up the tab for the expedition and all Rust's expenses — which range between $60-70,000.
"I could never afford or even dream of climbing Everest without such corporate sponsorship," she said.
Mar. 16
After July 1, Glenn Elliott will no longer be athletic director at Hood River Valley High School, a position he has held since 1983. Superintendent Jerry Sessions said budget cuts in 2002-03 require cutting Elliott's administrative position, that of assistant principal for athletics and activities. The job is one of three assistant positions at HRVHS.
Mar. 20
The Columbia River Gorge Commission was both praised and vilified on Mar. 15 in the first of three Oregon legislative hearings centered on its role and operations.
During the seven-hour forum at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in The Dalles, Martha Bennett, executive director of the Gorge Commission, and Daniel Harkenrider, new manager of the U.S. Forest Service National Scenic Area office, both said they thought the Scenic Act was working largely as intended by Congress.
"The Oregon implementation doesn't face any different problems than land-use planning anywhere in the state," said Bennett, who took on her new duties last July.
However, numerous landowners recounted bureaucratic "horror stories" to the Subcommittee on Columbia River Gorge Commission Review. The eight-member panel was chaired by Sen. Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day, and co-chaired by Hood River's Rep. Patti Smith, R-Corbett. Sen. Rick Metsger, D-Welches, was also invited to participate since he inherited Hood River County in his new District 26 through last fall's legislative redistricting.
Mar. 23
A hearings officer would not bend, so Hood River Valley High School athletes had better prepare for Bend.
And Crook County, and Pendleton, and other distant schools in the Intermountain Conference.
Following this week's ruling by a state-appointed Hearings Officer, HRVHS will remain in the IMC, barring a last-minute appeal by Hood River County School District in the long-standing dispute with Oregon School Activities Association. And any further contest on the issue appears unlikely, said district superintendent Jerry Sessions.
"We'll try to make the best of it," Sessions said, "and move on." To Redmond, Hermiston, and the other eastern Oregon schools HRV seems destined to join in athletic competition. Under the move to IMC, Hood River Valley would leave behind Gresham, Central Catholic, Reynolds and other Mount Hood Conference rivals.
Mar. 30
A land-use watchdog group has filed a lawsuit challenging Hood River County's timber exchange with Mt. Hood Meadows, Ltd., of Oregon. The Cascade Resource Advocacy Group, a public interest law firm from Portland, is seeking to have the court overturn that deal on behalf of the Hood River Valley Residents Committee (HRVRC) and Mike McCarthy, a HRVRC member and valley orchardist. That action was taken after the county refused to hold a third public hearing before the land trade was finalized on Mar. 11.
"Unfortunately the county never formally responded to the Hood River Valley Residents Committee request, so they were left with no alternative but to seek legal redress in court," said Ralph Bloemers, staff attorney for Cascade Advocacy. Meadows is also named in the suit because it currently holds title to the contested forestlands and received more than $1 million from the county to make up a 140-acre difference in holdings. However, Dave Riley, Meadows general manager, is not worried about the pending court case that centers on the 640 acres his company acquired next to the Cooper Spur Inn property it purchased last summer.
"Both Mt. Hood Meadows and Hood River County were very careful to follow the law and regulations governing land exchanges and I do not believe that either party has broken the law," said Riley.
U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., gave the Port of Hood River the first installment of federal funding for an Integrated Technology Center on Mar. 28. Smith presented $150,000 to the port that he and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., secured toward the conversion of the Expo Center into an educational facility. "I'm very supportive of what you're trying to accomplish and proud to be your partner and we'll work hard to get the resources to move ahead," said Smith.
Smith promised the county, city and port officials in attendance at the meeting that he and Walden would work toward obtaining the remaining $4 million in funds needed to remodel the Expo Center, purchase technology equipment and install telecommunications infrastructure.
A physician grandmother with a ribald sense of humor gave a chilling vision of terror — and a plan for the end of nuclear proliferation — in a talk Apr. 15 in Hood River.
Dr. Helen Caldicott revealed "my plan for ending nuclear weapons in five years," to a crowd of about 200 people at Hood River Middle School.
"You are the physicians to our dying planet," said Caldicott, an Australian pediatrician. She said her plan requires "absolute total dedication — that's all."
Yet during her talk her concerns were also focused on current events. She issued warnings of the danger of nuclear war resulting from the current violence in the Middle East.
"That's the underlying foundation of the incredibly dangerous situation that it is," she said. "We would have a nuclear war tonight and that would be the end of it. But Dan Rather and Peter Jennings aren't talking about it."
Apr. 24
The city of Hood River will soon install another 170 parking meters throughout the downtown historic district which are expected to add $66,000 of yearly income into the general fund. On Monday the city council decided to add parking meters along the entire length of State Street from its western intersection with Sixth Street to the Front Street junction. The meters in front of the library will offer only short-term 30-minute parking but those on the southern side of the street will allow vehicles to park for a three-hour time period. The new meters will also be placed south on Sixth Street and around the corner on the southern side of Oak Street for one block to Fifth Street. The coin collectors will also be set up along Third, Fourth and Fifth streets from Cascade Avenue onto Columbia Street.
May 8
A librarian, an auto shop teacher, a counselor.
The hard reality of impending school budget cuts shone in the faces of three staff mambers during Hood River County School District budget deliberations. A total of 8.7 staff positions, including 6.8 teachers and other licensed staff, will be lost in the coming school year, due to the budget reductions brought on by shortfalls in state funding for education.
May 11
Hood River City Police Chief Tony Dirks is pleased that, after less than one year, his vision for a community policing program has hit the road. Last week three local car dealerships stepped forward with the keys to two vehicles that were being donated to the cause. The gifts followed Safeway's commitment to direct its fundraising efforts during 2002 to the Sunshine Division, the charitable arm of the department, a move that has netted $1,500 to date. "This is really what community policing is all about," said Dirks. "I think that we have just been laying the foundation for the program to grow because it is the trend of law enforcement in the future."
May 18
A Hood River company that prides itself on being environmentally friendly has been fined $66,354 for violations of Oregon's hazardous waste and water quality rules. In addition, Luhr Jensen & Sons, Inc., was issued a $1,000 fine from the City of Hood River this week for releasing a high pH effluent into the wastewater treatment plant. That penalty follows a $10,000 levy against the company in the past two months for dumping heavy metals into the system. Phil Jensen, owner of the fishing lure manufacturing plant, is denying the allegations of wrongdoing made by both the city and state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
May 22
The biggest pantry around.
That's what Hood River Expo Center was May 17-19 during the 2002 Hood River Pear and Wine Festival, attended by about 5,000 people. Visitors sampled and bought pears and other fruit, wines from 20 wineries, and baked goods. They bought art, kitchen and home goods, and learned about cooking with pears from local growers and chefs from around the region.
"This is like a taste of Oregon, and I love Oregon," said Julie Martin of Austin, Texas, who came to visit Portland friends just so they could take in the festival. The festival was not held in 2001, but organizer Kaye White declared the 2002 version a success.
May 25
With a strong voice the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs gave a resounding "yes" this week for siting a casino somewhere in the Columbia River Gorge. On May 21, the referendum passed by a 76 percent margin, a 3-1 show of support for the economic opportunities afforded by building a gambling center near the Portland-metro area.
"The collective wisdom and concern of the people for the benefit and welfare of the current and future generations was reflected in the vote." said Rudy Clements, chairman of the Kah-Nee-Tah High Desert Resort and Casino board of directors. "The membership made this decision for our well-being and survival, that's the bottom line," he said.
However, the tribe faces stiff opposition from Friends of the Columbia Gorge and No-Casino if it tries to construct the facility on 40 acres of trust land just east of Hood River.
The Hood River County Commission will have a new chairman at the head of the table next January, with Rodger Schock ousting incumbent John Arens by a 12 percent margin in Tuesday's primary.
Schock, who was also elected as the Democratic Committeeman for Precinct 8, garnered 51.1 percent of the 4,930 votes cast for that race, with Arens netting 39.3 percent.
Conversely, incumbent Commissioner Carol York retained her District 1 seat by a 36 percent lead against challenger Ladd Henderson. York captured 63.6 percent of the 1,628 votes, up significantly from Henderson's 27.6 percent.
June 5
Even as public debate over a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter was underway May 30 at the Hood River Rotary Club, the updated schematics were being handed over to county planners.
Wal-Mart foe Al Norman and Amy Hill, Wal-Mart community affairs director for the western region, were presenting pro and con arguments when the thick package of documents arrived 15 days ahead of the anticipated delivery date.
In January, the county asked the national chain store to provide more in-depth information on 57 issues that centered primarily on traffic, infrastructure and wetland protection. In December, Wal-Mart submitted a proposal to construct a 185,000 square foot store on a little more than 16 acres at the junction of Frankton and Country Club roads.
June 15
It's official: the Hood River County Library will close to the public on June 17 and open again on July 1, in temporary quarters.
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Broncos edge Tigers 7-6 in season opener
By MARK HIGH
BLACKFOOT — The Blackfoot Bronco baseball squad opened their 2013 season on Thursday afternoon and after a shaky start, the men in green pulled it all together in a 7-6 hard fought victory over 5A Idaho Falls.
"Like I told the boys, first game of the season and we saw a lot of good things and we also saw a lot of things that we can work to improve on," Blackfoot head coach Kenny Dahle said. "Overall I'm proud of the boys though. Idaho Falls are a good, young, well coached team and its always big to pick up a win against them."
The visiting Tigers took advantage of a couple of nervous fielding miscues by the Broncos to begin the contest, eventually taking a 3-0 lead after the top of the first inning. Blackfoot responded in the home half of the frame however as Cody Evans drew a lead off walk and then came trotting around the bases one bater later when Cole Mansanarez took an inside offering and promptly deposited it onto the tennis courts in left field for a 2 run dinger.
"We hit the ball in key situations to score our runs," coach Dahle said. "We get behind 3-0 and a lot of kids will hang their heads but these guys battled and answered right back. For us to come back and answer early was huge because getting those first runs, they are always the toughest to get and to come right back and score it just put's them [Idaho Falls] back on their heels defensively and it makes us more comfortable."
Idaho Falls picked up a lone run on a solo dinger in the top of the second but Blackfoot took the lead for good in the bottom of the second inning as they sent eight batters to the plate in a 4 run uprising.
The run support was very much appreciated by Dylan Mansanarez who entered the game in relief of starting pitcher Russel Osborn in the top of the third inning. Mansanarez was efficient as he held the Tiger batters to just 3 hits over his three innings of work and allowed no runs in his time on the bump.
"Three different pitchers threw for us today and they each did a great job of throwing strikes and keeping the ball down," coach Dahle said. "We wanted to keep pitch counts down and each of them came in and did great for us."
Dallan Fairchild closed out the game for the Broncos, working the final two innings in the season opener.
Blackfoot (1-0) will be back in action Saturday when they travel to Minico for a non-conference tilt with the Spartans beginning at 11 a.m.
"Minico are a whole different beast," coach Dahle said. "They have been outside for about three weeks and they just played a good Bonneville team very tough so we know that we will be heading into a tough contest but I think that we will come out and give them a game."
Idaho Falls 310 001 1 - 6 11 0
Blackfoot 240 100 x - 7 7 3
IDAHO FALLS - Leading hitters: W. Jones 2-4 (HR 2RBI), A. Clements 2-4, J. Hyland 2-4 (3B 2RBI), M. Bensen 3-3 (2RBI). Pitchers: S. Clements (L) 1 1/3IP 3H 5BB 0K 5R, C. Holland 1 2/3IP 3H 2BB 1K 1R, M. Walker 2IP 1H 1BB 1K 1R, C. Canty 1IP 0H 1BB 1K 0R.
BLACKFOOT - Leading hitters: C. Evans 2-3 (2R), C. Mansanarez 1-3 (HR 2RBI), C. Pearson 1-2 (2R), J. Mathie 2-3 (2B 2RBI). Pitchers: R. Osborn 2IP 5H 1BB 3K 4R, D. Mansanarez (W) 3IP 3H 0BB 1K 0R, D. Fairchild 2IP 3H 1BB 2K 2R.


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McCourt brother saga set for Long Wharf
The very thin line between comedy and tragedy in Irish storytelling isn't that hard to explain, according to Malachy McCourt.
"I suppose it has to do with having to have hope and optimism after eight or nine centuries of occupation," the writer and actor said of the British rule over his ancestral homeland for hundreds of years.
"When you find that you've been made the object of ridicule, it's always best to laugh at yourself first. It takes away from them doing it," he added in a recent phone interview from his New York City home.
The occasion of our chat was Long Wharf Theatre's presentation of "A Couple of Blaguards," the play McCourt co-wrote -- and originally co-performed -- with his late, great younger brother Frank (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angela's Ashes").
The McCourts began doing the show before their bestselling books were published -- Malachy wrote his side of the family story in "A Monk Swimming" -- and for a long while they did it without a script.
Finally, the piece was getting such a strong response that they wrote it all down and for the past decade or so, other actors have been playing the McCourts (in New Haven, Howard Platt and Jarlath Conroy are stepping into Frank and Malachy's shoes).
"It's always better to go for a laugh," McCourt said of the way "Blaguards" transforms his rather bleak growing-up years in Limerick, Ireland, into considerable hilarity.
Malachy has had an incredibly diverse life so far, from running the first singles bar in Manhattan -- Malachy's on Third Avenue -- to acting in films and TV shows, writing a newspaper column, and running in the New York governor's race on the Green Party ticket in 2006.
McCourt laughed as he recalled a campaign stop in Syracuse, where he said he wanted to do away with New York being called "the Empire State."
"That is redolent of colonialism. I was running for governor not emperor. Of course, little did I know that the name of the club supplying the girls for (Eliot) Spitzer was the Emperors Club," McCourt said, chuckling, of the man who beat him, but soon thereafter had to resign from office in the wake of a prostitution scandal.
The 81-year-old man of letters and would-be politician got his first taste of fame more than a half-century ago when he inadvertently launched the first singles bar in Manhattan.
"A dispute arose (over the claim). Some people say it was Friday's, but it was Malachy's," he said, adding that he wasn't trying to start a new trend, it was just a matter of his bar's location and his own temperament.
"The Barbizon Hotel for Women was right around the corner and at that time the Irish bars on Third Avenue were all for men. But I said, `Bollocks to this!' and the young things started to wander in. Hospitality is not a tradition in Ireland, it's a rule, so I welcomed them. Then these guys I knew from show business were all in the vicinity," McCourt said of pals (and legendary hell-raisers) Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris and Richard Burton.
"They were all young guys. There was a hormonal imbalance. And off it went," he added, laughing, of the bar's enormous, trend-setting popularity.
After "Tonight Show" host Jack Paar heard about the place and its outgoing proprietor, McCourt was soon in the TV host's guest seat. "It was absolutely absurd -- I was pissed drunk -- but people said I was very funny and that was that," McCourt recalled of his launch as one of Paar's most memorable guests.
The intervening years have solidified Malachy's standing as one of the great New York City multi-media characters.
McCourt was pleased by the enormous popularity of his memoir, "A Monk Swimming," and is working on a follow-up.
"I always thought writing was for educated people and I don't have a formal education. I'm still mystified by grammar. The first time I heard about a dangling participle I thought it was some kind of sexual perversion," he said, laughing.
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Auriou, the venerable French toolmaker that closed it doors last year after a labor dispute, re-opened for business on Friday. Thanks to new owners and the same plant manager, the new Forge de St Juery is making and selling many of the most popular and useful woodworking rasps on its web site.
The company has more than 400 rasps in stock right now, is currently taking orders and will begin shipping on Nov. 20. The company is much smaller than it was before it shuttered its doors (there is only one stitcher at the present time), so production will be on a small scale until more stitchers can be trained. That is a lengthy process.
The plant is still under the direction of Michel Auriou, a passionate and knowledgeable toolmaker, and so I have every confidence that the new tools will be as good as the old. And what great tools they are. I own four Auriou rasps (two at work; two at home), and I cannot imagine working without them. Actually, I can't remember what it was like to work without them. My old Nicholson rasps seem sorry, coarse and slow.
Of course, the logical question is which rasps you should buy. If you build typical casework and shelves, I think it's ideal to have two rasps:
A cabinet rasp (9″, 10″ or 12″ are all good lengths) with a grain of nine or 10.
A modeller's rasp. I really like the 6″ in a 15 grain. It leaves a very nice finish.
I'm also very interested in trying the ALBI rasp listed on the site.
The other good news here is that the prices are fairly in line with what the Auriou rasps sold for when the company closed last year. A 9″ cabinet rasp sells for about $107 , that's much less than these suckers were going for on eBay. The shipping is expensive, however. A box containing up to five rasps is going to cost about $30.
However, all this talk about money is immaterial in my book. These are great rasps , the last ones you are ever likely to buy if you are a home woodworker.
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I got the email from Auriou before I happened to check the blog, and ordered a couple of rasps already. I have a dread that they will cease being available, so I didn't want to wait. I expect a mere 400 rasps, sold around the world, to be gone pretty quick.
I hope the company flourishes, and I hope it's workers are well taken care of for the great products they turn out.


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Ocean trash threatens our aquatic wildlife more and more with each passing year. Commercial fishing nets are discarded into the sea, and whether intentionally or not, entangle animals with no chance for escape. Rubber like that from balloons ends up in the ocean and is deadly if consumed by animals who think it may be food. Plastic 6-pack can holders strangle small marine life.
It's hard to imagine, but our actions in our daily lives carry serious implications for the health of our oceans. Any litter that doesn't go to a landfill will almost undoubtedly — in one way or another — end up in a body of water that flows to the ocean.
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MLB stint motivates Fisher Cats' AlfordBy JOE DUBALL
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 17. 2017 11:34PM
MANCHESTER — Once a pro baseball player gets a taste of Major League Baseball, a return to the minors typically isn't welcome. However, Anthony Alford is aware his recent return to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats from the Toronto Blue Jays is far from a demotion.
Alford received a promotion to Toronto from New Hampshire on May 19, bypassing the routine tour through Triple-A that the majority of minor leaguers make. The 23-year-old outfielder picked up one hit in eight at-bats in four games with the Blue Jays before a broken hamate bone put him on the shelf from May 24-July 12.
Alford's whirlwind of a week in May began with his unexpected call to the big leagues.
The Blue Jays were shorthanded in the outfield due to injuries and a suspension at the time of the call-up. Instead of plucking an able body from Triple-A, Toronto selected Alford while he was hitting at a .325 clip through his first 32 games with New Hampshire.
The Fisher Cats were arriving in Reading when Alford received word his marching orders from Toronto.
"It was midnight or 1 a.m. and (Fisher Cats manager Gary Allenson) was waiting for me off the other bus and once I was off, he told me I was going up," Alford said. "At first I just thought I was going to Triple-A and I wouldn't have been surprised by that after hitting pretty well to start. Then he said I was going to meet the big league club in Baltimore and my heart just dropped."
Bouts with excitement and nerves plagued Alford over the three-game set against the Orioles as he went hitless in his six at-bats during the series. Alford said he was at ease once the team arrived in Milwaukee for a series with the Brewers and it showed as he doubled in the series opener on May 23 for his first MLB hit.
"It wasn't like being around the guys was intimidating or anything, especially since I had been around them the past three years in spring training," Alford said. "It was really more just realizing your dream has come true. I had been in big league stadiums and played in front of big crowds, but it really hit me that I was in The Show. That's what got me."
The expectation was for Alford to be up for one game in Toronto, according to Allenson. The extra days spent with the Blue Jays ended up costing Alford in the end when he was injured while collecting his first big league hit. Realizing a dream and then having it pulled away is no small setback, but Alford somehow managed to take everything in stride.
"It really could've been a lot worse and I'm glad it wasn't," Alford said. "It was something I couldn't really control and injuries are bound to happen at some point. I'm just glad it happened then, when I knew I was likely going back down (to the minors) at some point. I wouldn't want to get up there full-time and have it happen.
"It definitely (stinks) that it cut into my development and came at a time where I was swinging it pretty good, but I'm just thankful it wasn't worse."
Alford played six games with Single-A Dunedin (Fla.) before rejoining the Fisher Cats on July 21 and was assigned to New Hampshire when his stint on the major league disabled list ended four days later.
"I figured he'd be back eventually, but I also had a feeling he'd end up in Triple-A once his rehab was up," Allenson said. "He's getting back in the groove. I don't think he is exactly where he was when he left here. He's mixed in some hits but has really been coming around lately. There have been some adjustments and I think he sees things now, like how they like to pound him inside."
Alford has just three multi-hit games over the first 21 games since returning to New Hampshire, but he's gone hitless in only five of those contests. While he was riding an eight-game hitting streak into Thursday's series finale against the Hartford Yard Goats, Alford even admitted he isn't quite back to where he wants to be at the plate.
"Sometimes I feel like I'm searching," Alford said. "After taking two months off and going six weeks without being able to swing, you're kind of in that phase of where you were before spring training. You're working towards that rhythm and timing. I just needed the repetitions."
Alford added that seeing no pitch slower than 94 miles per hour in Dunedin went a long way toward holding his own during this second stint in New Hampshire.
Barring unforeseen circumstances again in Toronto or at Triple-A Syracuse, Alford is expected to remain in New Hampshire for the remainder of the season. The plan doesn't appear to get under Alford's skin.
"I don't get caught up in pushing myself to try to get back to the big leagues," Alford said. "I know it's going to happen in due time. The focus right now is on myself and being as ready as I can be whenever my name gets called again."
Allenson attested to his outfielder's level-headed approach, saying Alford simply enjoys competing and being around the group the Fisher Cats have in the dugout.
"It's really a matter of time. They already called him up once from here and they could do it in September too," Allenson added. "He had himself on the map before anyways, but if you told the guys upstairs that he'd hit .300 this year after batting .230 last year, they probably would've chuckled at you. He's having a good year."


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Lionel Messi is usually hogging the limelight when it comes to Argentina but the Under-17s this week showed they had what it takes to live up to his reputation.
The South American Under-17 championships are taking place in Argentina and the hosts are currently top of the standings after a win and entertaining draw against Uruguay last night.
The game finished 3-3 after a late equaliser from Marcelo Storm spared Argentina the embarrassment of throwing away a 2-0 lead.
Sebastian Driussi's brace had given his side the early two-goal lead and the opener really was something to behold.
A cross came in from the left in the third minute where Driussi was waiting on the edge of the area.
The River Plate youngster is very highly rated and showed why when he chested the cross up and hit a sensational bicycle kick from fully 20 yards that flew over the goalkeeper's head.
What a start to a match that provided six goals and two red cards – watch Sebastian Driussi's incredible bicycle kick below.
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The suggestion here is to implement a totally new gameplay method, which would be particularly useful for larger games.
The problem, as I see it, is that gamers who would like to play large games are currently given two options: play a sequential turns game, where everything progresses at a glacial pace, or play a freestyle game and check back far too often for games where playing before vs after a particular player can make the difference each turn between winning or losing. I am proposing a style of play which is a totally different option, where each round is a phase of either placing troops, attacking, or reinforcing. Troop movements would all be hidden from all other players until all the movements are placed, much like initial placement in manual games. Not only would this be a welcome change for players who prefer larger games, but it is also a totally different style of play with very different strategy from any currently usable option.
Phase One: Troop Placement
This would progress exactly as the first turn of a manual game, other than that instead of question marks for troops, you would see the amount of troops from after the end of the previous round. Once all players have submitted troop placements, the game increments to Phase Two. If a player misses a turn, they do not get to place those troops in the attack phase, but instead in the following reinforcements phase.
Phase Two: Attacks
1. Basic Attacks: Each player would place as many or as few attacks as they would like; they commit the number of troops they would like to an attack, and those troops will all go to the territory that is attacked, provided they emerge victorious. So if I have 10 troops and I want to attack a neighboring terit with 4, and another neighbor with 1 troop, I might send 6 troops at the 4 and 2 troops at the 1, leaving 2 troops at home to defend. This brings in a lot more strategy, since you can't wait and see how many troops it is going to take to conquer a terit; every move has to be calculated by the odds. You could also simultaneously attack one territory from multiple other territories, increasing your odds of victory (possibly rolling two dice per territory from which you attack, rather than three, such that you roll 4 and the defender rolls 2). This simulates the reality that defending from multiple angles is much more difficult than head-on attacks from one direction.
2. Follow-Up Attacks: If I am fairly certain that I will succeed in an attack (i.e. a stack of 20 attacking a stack of 2), I could commit my army to attack further after taking the first territory, by assigning the number that will not proceed (i.e. I might leave 3 troops in the first territory, proceeding on with whatever other troops are left). This would be limited to one territory per territory attacked, since the number of troops to proceed would not be knowable, such that you could divide it further. If the number remaining after the initial attack is under the threshold set, no follow-up attack would be taken. You could hypothetically have two follow-ups attacking the same terit, which would follow the rules from the end of the Basic Attacks.
1. Offsetting attacks: when terit A and B each attack each other, the forces meet as the first battle phase, each rolling two dice, and ties are disregarded. Dice are auto-rolled until one side prevails.
2. Group attacks: attacks where multiple terits attack one are handled as follows: Each attacker gets two dice, and the defender gets two dice; defender wins tiebreakers. For each defender win, every attacker loses one troop. When any attacker beats the defender, none of the attackers lose any (If this isn't clear, I can clarify in follow-ups). This is true both for when multiple attacks from one person are being considered, or when multiple people are attacking a single terit.
3. Group attack winners: When multiple players attack a single terit, if the defender is eliminated, the remaining forces from all of the attackers roll two dice each, with nobody winning or losing any troops on ties. This could lead to a lot of rolls on highly multiple attacks, but since all the rolls are considered simultaneously by the computer, it wouldn't lead to any delays.
4. Simple attacks: One terit versus another, attacking force auto-rolled versus the defending force.
5. Follow-up Attacks: this would follow all of the steps 1-3, but with just follow-up attacks. It is worth noting that your follow-up attacks could possibly end up being attacks of someone other than you intended if the follow-up attack is a territory that has been conquered in the regular attack phases.
Note on Spoils: In the event a player is eliminated by multiple enemies simultaneously, the player who wins that territory as a "group attack winner" gets the spoils, even if a different player ends the turn with that territory via follow-up attack. Basically, spoil awards are considered at the end of parts 3 and 4, and corresponding places in follow-up attack rounds. Spoils will be cashed during the reinforcements phase. The same rules would apply for determining credit in terminator games. It is possible that there are tiebreak scenarios I haven't covered here; please feel free to make up scenarios for tiebreaking.
Note on Teams: Teammates would need to be careful managing their attacks--sending one attack of 20 and one attack of 3 at the same terit might help the odds of winning at the cost of only a few wasted troops, but sending forces of equal sizes could result in them killing each other off in the Group attack winners part of the Attack phase. They would also need to coordinate follow-up attacks, since any of these could result in allies attacking each other unintentionally.
Phase 3: Reinforcements
This would proceed in the same way as the troop placement, where you would order your reinforcements without any knowledge of what other players were submitting, but with knowledge of what troops are/were after the attacks round. A player who received elimination spoils bringing the total to or above 5 will cash a set during this phase. If they miss this phase turn, they will cash them during the following troop placement phase, but would not place at the beginning of any battle orders phase.
This would be a useful improvement on the current options for gameplay, and would provide a totally new way to play maps. Currently gameplay options other than than Sequential/Freestyle would still be in effect. Trench warfare would prohibit follow-up attacks; Fog would still apply (you could have follow-ups attack blindly into the fog, if you wanted). Spoils would act normally, except nuclear spoils would resolve after the other troops had been placed (or I suppose before; this is debatable).
One gameplay option this provides that is not normally available is the ability to have an undo feature: you could arrange things how you want after each phase, and click submit to actually take that action, so if you unintentionally said you wanted to attack with 10 troops, you could go back and alter it to 5. The same could be true for reinforcements-- you could simply choose whatever you wanted, and when you were satisfied with all the settings you'd gotten, you could submit your "turn" of one phase.
The major benefit here is for large games, but it also provides a totally different strategy for smaller games. The main goal though, was to allow players to log in once a day, as the site's home page claims, and not be disadvantaged because a different player got their attacks in first. I could imagine this being popular on even doodle earth cluster-games, where there would be tons of multiple and offsetting attacks. It would proceed slightly slower (rounds per day) than a freestyle game, since actual rounds take three phases of up to 24 hours each (although players would deadbeat after three phases, not rounds), but would not be as incredibly slow as, say, an eight-player sequential game, where play increments as slowly as one round a week. Also, play would not seem so slow to players, because they would be doing something each day for the game.


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On one hand, the forces driving the global economy, especially on the manufacturing front, are so fast-moving and complex, with different regulations, tax systems and laws, that they may seem difficult to grasp and quickly respond to at times.
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Nobody said the basics are easy to deliver in this complex world, of course, but they are still key: leaders who (duh!) lead; competent workforces that can execute in increasingly advanced environments; lean 'Plan-Do-Check-Adjust' approaches that are not just rooted in management memos but also in a company's culture -- and in reality.
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But the most passionate and instructive part of the night focused on what lessons could be gleaned from the crash and comeback of the Detroit Three automakers.
Based on a show of hands, the audience agreed that the Great Recession wasn't some black swan event that caused the D3's troubles. If it wasn't the recession, it was going to be something else. Decades of mismanagement, pie-in-the-sky promises to labor, incremental turnaround plans, crummy gas-guzzling cars and trucks, as well as a lack of foresight, put the companies on an inevitable path to crisis.
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Ultimately, the D3 revival can be credited not just to the massive restructurings, which finally acknowledged the depths of the companies' troubles, but also by strong leadership, plans based in reality, competent execution, and improved products, among other things. In other words: The basics.
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Although I don't think they will go this route, who says they can't get a new actor for the role of Tenma?
The lead role doesn't have to be someone established. If they want established actors to pull viewers in there are plenty of other roles for that.
So saying there are no Japanese actors who can speak English for the role isn't necessarily true.
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Besides, I don't think that any of us are talking about big name movie stars; just names recognizable enough to generate a bit of buzz. I guess that you can argue that Kaneshiro Takeshi is really big in Asia, but he's not nearly as famous in North America.
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HBO sometimes relies on the producers and directors to generate the buzz. People watched Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom as much to see another show by Sorkin as to watch Jeff Daniels. Band of Brothers was promoted by referring to Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Stephen Ambrose as executive producers. The actors like Damian Lewis had little or no public image at the time that show aired. I can see a similar strategy for Monster emphasizing the role of Del Toro.
I'm less well acquainted with actors these days than I was when I was younger, but I, for one, have never heard of Kaneshiro Takeshi. I suspect a good Japanese actor with some knowledge of English would be fine. Once he has understood and memorized his lines, his performance is going to depend mostly on his acting chops.
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Kaneshiro was born in Taiwan to a Japanese father and a Taiwanese mother. Unlike Oh who is a Taiwanese citizen, Kaneshiro is a Japanese citizen.
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At least it seems that Monster would follow the manga closely.
Urasawa-sensei staying involved is a good thing. Maybe he and Del Toro and whomever else can prevail upon HBO to not whitewash Tenma. I'd love to see this become a hit with a Japanese Tenma just to prove to those idiots in Hollywood that the audience will reward fidelity to the original source and the courage to go with an Asian lead. Then maybe we would not worry so much about the Hollywood version of Death Note.
I somehow still have nightmares about Justin Bieber as Light, and Light being the hero rather than the villain. I really hope that Hollywood Death Note doesn't turn out that way (For the record, I haven't seen or read Death Note)
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As for Dr. Tenma, I wouldn't be greatly against them making him be a white male, but I would rather them keep him a japanese Doctor. If they make that change though it won't really effect my opinion of the adaptation all that much, as long as the actor is competent and can successfully portray the emotions/ordeal that Dr. Tenma is going through. I would much rather have a competent white male actor as Tenma then a B rate Japanese actor as Tenma just to keep true to the source material.
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Just for a lark I browsed through this list of Asian actors. Here are my nominees:
Ken Jeong (44) - The guy has a medical degree! What more could you want? Has anyone seen him in anything other than a comedic role?
Masi Oka (39) - Right age range and a Japanese native, but perhaps a bit too nerdy? I didn't see any pictures of him without his glasses which might help. He played a medical doctor on "Hawaii Five-0."
B D Wong (53) - He has a Tony for "M. Butterfly" which might give him some cred. He's a bit old for the part, but he looks younger in his photos.
Tim Kang (40) - Known to American audiences from his work in The Mentalist. Perhaps a bit too "grungy" for our distinguished neurosurgeon?
Daniel Dae Kim (45) - Appears on TV's remake of Hawaii Five-0 and has a number of voice acting credits in games and animated series. His main photo seems like a good look for Tenma, though perhaps a bit too harsh.
Rex Lee (44) - Appeared in the HBO series Entourage. For that reason alone, I wouldn't be surprised to see him playing Tenma.
Thinking about this question makes me realize that it will be difficult to cast Tenma. Most male Asian actors working in Hollywood appear either in "action" films, often as villains, or as comic relief or sidekick characters. Tenma is introverted, obsessive, and very, very serious, and he's hardly an action character. That's why I thought someone with Daniel Dae Kim's looks and demeanor might be a possibility. Oka seems like another good choice, but having not watched the current incarnation of Hawaii Five-O I cannot tell whether he would fit the part.
Maybe Daniel Day Lewis should audition? With the right makeup he'd probably make a great Tenma!
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Anyway, they better cast an Asian actor for Tenma at least; I know the pickings is slim for well known Japanese actors but don't whitewash Tenma.
Too bad Daniel Dae Kim is tied up with Hawaii 5-0. Man oh man, I'd love it if he was Tenma.
Masi Oka is adorable, but he's too goofy to be Tenma. So is Ken Jeong.
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Um... Do people still not realize that's an offensive term for Japanese? Just saying.
I don't think the issue of big stars is such a problem - HBO has decent budgets for all their big series. And they've had their share of big names - Dustin Hoffman in Luck, for example. And most of the cast in GoT are very well-known and established actors in Britain, and don't come all that cheap.
I think George Takei is available...
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I finished Monster just two months ago, and ended up liking it very much (despite not being an avid manga reader), so the thought of it being adapted to live-action's pretty exciting, and what more, one handled by Del Toro!
Since the announcement, I hadn't expected any more updates so soon. The latest news about the pilot script gives me a rather optimistic feeling about the progress of the series' development.
Tenma's one thing, but I can't guess a suitable actor for Johan...
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