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Teachers or schoolteachers are people who provide education for pupils (children) and students (adults). The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education.
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, Ch. 20, "Failure".
- O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,
I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,
It mends their morals, never mind the pain.
- Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 1.
- 'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue
By female lips and eyes—that is, I mean,
When both the teacher and the taught are young,
As was the case, at least, where I have been;
They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong
They smile still more.
- Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 164.
- Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
- John Cotton Dana. In 1912 Dana, a Newark, New Jersey, librarian, was asked to supply a Latin quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College (now Kean College of New Jersey), Union, New Jersey. Unable to find an appropriate quotation, Dana composed what became the college motto. The New York Times Book Review, March 5, 1967, p. 55.
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.
- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (vol. 1 of The Works of Anatole France), trans. Lafcadio Hearn, part 2, chapter 4, June 6, 1860, p. 198 (1924).
- The function of the teacher, as we have just defined it, is naturally directed toward a twofold object, interior and exterior, depending upon whether it is applied to the truth the teacher meditates upon and contemplates within himself or to the listeners whom he is teaching.
- Étienne Gilson, Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, Introduction
- Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee,
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:
Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 201.
- Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.
- Stanley Hall, Youth: it's education, regimen and hygiene (available at gutenberg.org).
- Magneto: Are you a God-fearing man, Senator? It's such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher. As a bringer of light, wisdom and understanding. You see, l think what you really are afraid of is me. Me and my kind. The brotherhood of mutants. It's not so surprising, really. Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand. Well, don't fear God, Senator, and certainly don't fear me. Not any more.
- X-Men (film) (2000), David Hayter, Tom DeSanto and Bryan Singer
- A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise.
- Hillel the Younger Pirkei Avot 2:5
- If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract - teach him to deduct.
- Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981).
- This fallacy [appeal to authority] is not in itself an error; it is impossible to learn much in today's world without letting somebody else crunch the numbers and offer us explanations. And teachers are sources of necessary information. But how we choose our "authorities" and place a value on such information, is just another skill rarely taught in our education systems. It's little wonder that to most folk, sound bites and talking heads are enough to count as experts. […] Teaching is reinforcing the appeal to authority, where anybody who seems more intelligent than you must ultimately be right. […] We educators must simply role-model critical thinking. […] Educators themselves have to be prepared to show that "evidence" and "answers" are two separate things by firmly believing that, themselves.
- Mike McRae, Australian teacher and guest columnist, "Educating Future Critical Thinkers", Swift, 31 March 2006.
- The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth: and this without a particle of regard to the results to which the exercise of that power may lead, even though it should conduct the pupil to opinions diametrically opposite to those of his teachers. We say this, not because we think opinions unimportant, but because of the immense importance which we attach to them; for in proportion to the degree of intellectual power and love of truth which we succeed in creating, is the certainty that (whatever may happen in any one particular instance) in the aggregate of instances true opinions will be the result; and intellectual power and practical love of truth are alike impossible where the reasoner is shown his conclusions, and informed beforehand that he is expected to arrive at them.
- John Stuart Mill "Civilization," London and Westminster Review (April 1836).
- The schoolmaster is the person who builds up the intelligence of the pupil; the intelligence of the pupil increases in direct proportion to the efforts of the teacher; in other words, he knows just what the master has made him know and understands neither more nor less than the master has made him understand. When an inspector visits a school and questions the pupils he turns to the master, and if he is satisfied says: "Well done, teacher!" For the result is indubitably the work of the master; the discipline by which he has fixed the attention of his pupils, even to the psychical mechanism which has guided him in his teaching, all is due to him. God enters the school as a symbol in the crucifix, but the creator is the teacher.
- Maria Montessori, Spontaneous Activity in Education (available at gutenberg.org).
- "To make oneself interesting artificially," that is, interesting to those who have no interest in us, is indeed a very difficult task; and to arrest the attention hour after hour, and year after year, not of one, but of a multitude of persons who have nothing in common with us, not even years, is indeed a superhuman undertaking. Yet this is the task of the teacher, or, as he would say, his "art": to make this assembly of children whom he has reduced to immobility by discipline follow him with their minds, understand what he says, and learn; an internal action, which he cannot govern, as he governs the position of their bodies, but which he must win by making himself interesting, and by maintaining this interest.
- Maria Montessori, Spontaneous Activity in Education (available at gutenberg.org).
- For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return. In 1940, the average pay of a male teacher was actually 3.6 percent more than what other college-educated men earned. Today it is 60 percent lower. Women teachers now earn 16 percent less than other college-educated women. This bewilders me. [...] There was no Plato without Socrates, and no John Coltrane without Miles Davis.
- Bill Moyers, "America 101", speech at the fiftieth anniversary of the Council of Great City Schools, 27 October 2006, Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 237.
- Ethics could teach us only those purposes and ideals. If the teachers seeks insight into the means by which the aim can be reached, into the facts by which the child can be molded, his way must lead from ethics to psychology. (...) Water flows downhill, anyhow, but to bring the water uphill hydraulic forces are indeed necessary. To overcome nature and instead to prepare for a life of ideals, to inhibit personal desires and instead to learn to serve the higher purposes indeed demands most serious and most systematic efforts. It is the teachers' task to make these efforts with all his best knowledge of mind and body, of social and of cultural values.
- Hugo Munsterberg, Psychology and the Teacher, 1909 (new edition, 2006), p64-65.
- A good teacher does not draw out; he gives out, and what he gives out is love. And by love I mean approval, or if you like, friendliness, good nature. The good teacher not only understands the child: he approves of the child.
- A. S. Neill, The Problem Teacher (1939), p. 11.
- Don't tell us that the only way to teach a child is to spend too much of a year preparing him to fill out a few bubbles on a standardized test; we know that's not true.
- Barrack Obama National Education Association Speech, 2007
- As far as I can see, this is a system that has enriched multiple companies and that pays and fires teachers with a cattle birthing formula, confuses children with talking pineapples, and has the same kind of rules regarding transparency as Brad Pitt had for Fight Club.
- John Oliver [1] Last Week Tonight: Standardized Testing (3 May 2015)
- Mrs. Garrison: Principal Victoria, it is wrong! [she's at the principal's office, her back to the principal's desk.] It is wrong and I simply will not do it! [walks back to the desk] I care about my students, and I will not fill their heads with lies! [pounds the desk for emphasis] I am NOT teaching evolution in my class!!
- Principle Victoria: Mrs. Garrison, evolution is in the school curriculum. We have to teach it.
- Mrs. Garrison: Evolution is a theory! A hare-brained theory that says I'm a monkey! I am not a monkey!! I'm a woman!
- Mr. Macket: M, m'kay. Ya-you realize evolution has been pretty much uhhh... proven.
- Mrs. Garrison: I warn you, Principal Victoria! Those students are not prepared to hear this stuff!
- Principle Victoria: Our students want to learn, Mrs. Garrison, and they're mature enough to handle anything.
- South Park, Go God Go, written by Trey Parker
- Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual
- Gordon Pask (1972) Learning Strategies and Individual Competence p. 221.
- In a democratic state the schoolmaster is afraid of his pupils and flatters them, and the pupils despise both schoolmaster and pedagogues. The young expect the same treatment as the old, and contradict them and quarrel with them. In fact, seniors have to flatter their juniors, in order not to be thought morose old dotards.
- Plato, Republic - 563 BC.
- What's all the noisy jargon of the schools?
- John Pomfret, Reason (1700), line 57.
- Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1709), Part III, line 15.
- To dazzle let the vain design,
To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
- Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (1731-35), Epistle II, line 249.
- Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. A true teacher pushes the students out of the nest to strengthen the wings.
- Amit Ray. Walking the Path of Compassion
- It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
- Kim Stanley Robinson,The Years of Rice and Salt (2002), Book 2, Ch. 5.
- When I am forgotten, as I shall be,
And sleep in dull cold marble,
* * * *
Say, I taught thee.
- William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act III, scene 2, line 433.
- We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 4, line 67.
- Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,
Fit to instruct her youth. * * *
* * * To cunning men
I will be very kind, and liberal
To mine own children in good bringing up.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 1, line 94.
- I do present you with a man of mine,
Cunning in music and the mathematics,
To instruct her fully in those sciences.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act II, scene 1, line 55.
- He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
- George Bernard Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists", appendix 2 to Man and Superman, in his Selected Plays with Prefaces (1948), vol. 3, p. 733.
- To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.
- Louis Sullivan, architect, mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, "Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings".
- Genkai: Whoever wins this fight is the one I teach, and it would be wrong to interfere with the selection. I'm getting old now. My powers have to be carried forward even if they must stay for awhile in the hands of the wicked.
- Yoshihiro Togashi Yu Yu Hakusho Yusuke vs.Rando: 99 Attacks
- The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
- Alexandra K. Trenfor, in a widely used internet quote.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations[edit]
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 779-80.
- We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
- What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature made you fools.
- Robert Burns, Epistle to J. L.——k.
- He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living.
- Thomas Carlyle, Essays, Schiller.
- You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
- Quoted by Jos. Chamberlain, at Greenock (Oct., 1903).
- Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind,
And, while they captivate, inform the mind.
- William Cowper, Hope, line 770.
- The sounding jargon of the schools.
- William Cowper, Truth, line 367.
- The twig is so easily bended
I have banished the rule and the rod:
I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,
They have taught me the goodness of God;
My heart is the dungeon of darkness,
Where I shut them for breaking a rule;
My frown is sufficient correction;
My love is the law of the school.
- Charles M. Dickinson, The Children.
- There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Of Spiritual Laws.
- Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
- James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, Education.
- A boy is better unborn than untaught.
- Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears
Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:
Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,
His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.
Supreme he sits; before the awful frown
That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;
Not more submissive Israel heard and saw
At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The School Boy.
- Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam.
- Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
- Horace, Carmina, IV. 4. 33.
- Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice magister
Ire viam qua monstret eques.
- The trainer trains the docile horse to turn, with his sensitive neck, whichever way the rider indicates.
- Horace, Epistles, Book I. 2. 64. ("Quam" for "qua in some texts).
- If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
- Isocrates, Ad Dæmonicum. Inscribed in golden letters over his school, according to Roger Ascham, in his Schoolmaster.
- Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
- Job, XII. 8.
- Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.
- John Lyly, Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit, Of the Education of Youth.
- Adde, quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes
Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos.
- To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.
- Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, II. 9. 47.
- Fas est ab hoste doceri.
- It is lawful to be taught by an enemy.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, IV. 428.
- All jargon of the schools.
- Matthew Prior, An Ode on Exodus III. 14. "I am that I am".
- I am not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead—ahead of myself as well as of you.
- Bernard Shaw, Getting Married.
- A little bench of heedless bishops here,
And there a chancellor in embryo.
- William Shenstone, The School Mistress, Stanza 28.
- Whoe'er excels in what we prize,
Appears a hero in our eyes;
Each girl, when pleased with what is taught,
Will have the teacher in her thought.
* * * * *
A blockhead with melodious voice,
In boarding-schools may have his choice.
- Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa, line 733.
- Better fed than taught.
- John Taylor, Jack a Lent.
- Domi habuit unde disceret.
- He need not go away from home for instruction.
- Terence, Adelphi, III. 3. 60.
- Delightful task! to rear the tender Thought,
To teach the young Idea how to shoot,
To pour the fresh Instruction o'er the Mind,
To breathe the enlivening Spirit, and to fix
The generous
urpose in the glowing breast.
- James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 1,150.
The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904)[edit]
- Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 221.
- A man's scholarship may be perfect, his character admirable, and yet, for want of the power to control subordinates and govern boys, he may be wholly unfit for a schoolmaster.
- Sir R. Matins, V.-C, Hayman v. Governors of Rugby School (1874), L. R. 18 Eq. Ca. 85.
- An original thinker and able teacher very soon attracts a large class and vice versa.
- Lord Watson, Caird v. Sime (1887), 57 L. J. P. C. 9.
- Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage, a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, speech (Jan. 28, 1828).
- A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.
- Sir John Romilly, Att.-Gen. v. Warden, &c. of Louth School (1852), 14 Beav. 206.


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Risei Kotomine
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|Nasuverse character
|Risei Kotomine
|Japanese name:
|Appears in:
| Fate/Apocrypha
|Japanese VA:
|Masashi Hirose
|English VA:
|Michael Donovan
|Character type:
|December 29[1]
|179 cm[1]
|88 kg[1]
|Blood type:
|Faith, abstinence[1]
|Preaching, Chinese Martial Arts[1]
|Natural enemy:
|Ryuunosuke Uryuu[1]
|Image Color:
|Oxidized silver[1]
Family members
Risei Kotomine (言峰璃正, Kotomine Risei?) is a priest in the Church. He is the father of Kirei Kotomine and the supervisor of the Third Holy Grail War and Fourth Holy Grail War of Fate/Zero.
As a monk, he tried to reach enlightenment through asceticism and hardships. He treated his task of recovering holy relics from around the world as a pilgrim's ordeal.[2]
When the Church first interfered with the ritual in Fuyuki during the Third Holy Grail War in the 1930s, held on the eve of World War II. They sent Risei who was not far from his twenties and he was in charged with the role of supervisor. While there, he became friends with the then-current head of the Tohsaka family and has maintained deep ties with the Tohsaka ever since.[2]
His son Kirei Kotomine was born on the 28th December 1967 and thanks to his pious worship, Kirei was gifted with Magic Circuits from the divine sacrament.[3] Because of Risei, Kirei had been working diligently as an Executor-in-training since an early age.[4] He is responsible for teaching bajiquan to Kirei, his skill far outstrips his son.[2]
He is 80 years old during in Fourth Holy Grail War, despite his advanced age, his physique is still very muscular like Mas Oyama. Risei's face resembles like an older Steven Seagal.[5] Risei has the same eyebrows and mussed mullet as his son, joked as being the Kotomine clan Sorcery Trait. He gives of the appearance of an old soldier better suited to wearing a samurai costume in the Warring States era than a priest's cassock. Even with his cleft chin that makes him look like a character from Ninja Scroll, he "feels like a genuine Japanese person."[1]
He is a close associate with Tokiomi Tohsaka, Risei actively supports him and conspires to ensure that Tokiomi will obtain the Holy Grail in the war, despite the fact that as a member of the Church, he should be ensuring only someone who is worthy of the a powerful artifact like the Grail should be obtaining it.
While he is proud of his son, who has demonstrated himself to be a perfect heir, Risei fails to understand Kirei in any sense. He believes that his son, who has recently lost his wife of two years, may be able to find some purpose in life again by aiding Tokiomi during the Holy Grail War.
Risei sympathizes Shirou Kotomine as he had devoted his entire life to the Lord, only to found tragedy in his end. When he learnt that Shirou wants to find something new for himself, Risei would be willing to sacrifice everything. Risei was never one to mourn over loss of wealth and willingly to provide Shirou with social status and funding. However Shirou lied to Risei about giving up on pursuing the Greater Grail and ironically he also did not understand his foster son true nature.
Both Risei and Tokiomi, upon discovering that Kirei's command mantra had appeared three years before the start of the war, both came to believe that Kirei was destined to provide Tokiomi with an additional Servant and associated command spells for the upcoming war. Without informing Kirei as to the true nature of the mark that appeared, they transfer Kirei from the Church to the Mages Association as Tokiomi's pupil. Neither man reveals to Kirei that he can also obtain the Holy Grail, instead telling the young man that he is performing a mission for the Church.
He was involved with Tokiomi's plan to stage Assassin's death so that the other Masters perceive Kirei and Assassin had been defeated, and allowed the dozens of remaining Assassins to move freely without suspicion. He pretended to provide Kirei a place of refuge while Kirei provide support in the shadows.
As Risei conspires with Tokiomi, they eventually come to see that Caster and his Master prove to be too erratic and threaten Tokiomi's chances of winning the war. To this end, they arrange for Risei to offer additional command spells to the Master who manages to defeat Caster and his Master.
After Caster's defeat, Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi approached Risei to obtain additional command spells. After Risei reluctantly gives what Lord El-Melloi has come for, the Master shoots Risei and leaves him to die in order to implicate Kiritsugu Emiya as the murderer. As he dies, Risei leaves behind a message containing a secret password that will provide his son with all the remaining command spells Risei could give out. Kirei arrives to find his father dead and his father's final parting gift, and comes to the conclusion that Risei died trying to protect him. Though Kirei sheds tears realizing his father cared about him till the end, he finds himself feeling the same feelings he felt when his wife died - the desire to have seen them die.
Risei has already passed away by the time the Great Holy Grail War has started. Fate/Apocrypha briefly mentions Risei's involvement in the Third Holy Grail War, however it differs to the timeline of Fate/stay night. After Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia stole the Greater Grail, there were only two survivors on the field of battle. Risei stood next to the Einzbern's servant, the Ruler-class Amakusa Shirou Tokisada. Risei knew Shirou's true identity and he spoke to him in a way befitting his name. Risei questions Shirou's plan after the war and although he is clearly greater in both age and stature, he was quite nervous in front of Shirou. Shirou considers going on a journey when he remembers Risei mentioning about his journey in order to find enlightenment. Risei delighted from his reply, he offered to help Shirou. Risei adopted Shirou and the boy gained a new identity. True to his words, he traveled the world as the foster child of Risei. With the help of Risei, Shirou obtained a place within the Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament.[6]
Other appearancesEdit
According to Kirei in the Fate scenario of Fate/stay night, his father died trying to protect him.
Risei is a practitioner of bajiquan, but he does not utilize it actively in order to kill targets like his son engaging Dead Apostles. He is not an Executor, so he uses it as a form of self-discipline and meditation. He only trains with the goal of being able to fight rather than with the goal of being able to kill, so Kirei uses it in gruesome battles more often than him.[2]
He, as the supervisor of the Holy Grail War, has a large number of Command Spells recollected from the previous Holy Grail Wars as the inheritance of the Masters who lost their Servants before the final battle. All Command Seals not used in time are entrusted to him and left to his judgement as the one presiding over the Fourth Holy Grail War.
While their existence can already be called a kind of miracle possessing enormous power, they are still a form of exhaustible physical enchantment. This allows them to be transplanted or transferred through incantations. He is able to reserve Command Seals to anyone based upon his own judgement, allowing Masters renew more control over their Servants. The process only requires him to trace the faded marks of the used Command Seals and transfer his own to replace them. The process doesn't come with any pain like receiving them from the Grail, and it only takes a few minutes to complete.
The Command Spells managed by the supervisor are protected by holy prayers and may only be transferred through his permission, so it not possible to seize them through the use of thaumaturgy. Even after Risei's death, Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi is unable to take them. Only those who know the secret holy words, "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth——" from John 4:24, are able to utilize them. Risei leaves the letters "jn424" transcribed in blood, so that it looks to be a secret message of unknown meaning to those not of the Christian faith. Kirei is able to identify it immediately, and upon speaking it, they are transferred one by one while accompanied by dull pain.
His original design concept was "an older Steven Seagal".[2]
- In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Risei was ranked 166th.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9
[] Fate/Zero material - Characters: Kotomine Risei, p.076-077
Risei Kotomine
Height: 179cm
Weight: 88kg
Blood type: B
Birthday: December 29
Image color: Oxidized silver
Talents: Preaching, Chinese Martial Arts
Things he likes: Faith, abstinence
Things he hates: Hedonists
Worst enemy: Ryuunosuke Uryuu
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Takeuchi: Drawing muscles is fun. He's Kotomine's honored father, so his eyebrows and his mussed mullet are in the same style. Is it a Kotomine clan Sorcery Trait?
Urobuchi: For some reason, he seems like an old soldier who would not be out of place even if he time slipped to the Warring States Era. This guy would absolutely look better in something like a samurai costume than in a priest's cassock
Takeuchi: That's right. For some reason, he feels like a genuine Japanese person, but... No, even with his perfectly cleft chin.
Urobuchi: Because it looks like something from Ninja Scroll, characters with cleft chins are completely okay!
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[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Kotomine Risei [Person's name], p.096
Risei Kotomine [Person's name]
Kotomine Kirei's father. A priest in the Holy Church's Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament.
When the Church first interfered with the ritual in Fuyuki during the Third Holy Grail War, he was charged with the role of supervisor. While there, he became friends with the then-current head of the Tohsaka family (Tokiomi's father), and has maintained deep ties with the Tohsaka ever since.
As a monk, he tried to reach enlightenment through asceticism, and he treated his task of recovering holy relics from around the world as a pilgrim's ordeal. He is a master of baji quan, and as the person responsible for teaching it to Kirei, his skill far outstrips his son's. As for precisely what kind of monster he is, well, just look at his burly, Mas Oyama-like physique and let your imagination run wild. His original design concept was "an older Steven Seagal".
However, Risei trained his fists solely for the sake of self-discipline and his search for truth. As he was never an "executor", he has no knowledge of killing arts that focus on the act of battle itself. Consequently, when it comes to things like trading blows with Dead Apostles, his son Kirei is much more accomplished. And of course, he isn't a magus, so superhuman magical martial arts like Kirei's are totally out of the question too.
Nevertheless, Kirei was probably acutely aware that as far as "orthodox baji quan" goes, his father was a better fighter than he was. What the old man had sought after all his life had been a realm beyond mere "killing arts", and through his long and outstanding career he had finally reached it.
It's too bad that he was unceremoniously removed from the stage by a single bullet before this inspiring history could even be hinted at in the story proper.
He must have been quite a sight back when he was young, during the Third Holy Grail War. Yes, definitely.
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[] TYPE-MOON Fes. Official Pamphlet 10th Anniversary Q & A Booklet:
Q: Kirei's wife Ortensia is covered with wounds in the design draft, is it because she has a body similar to Caren's? Also, Command Spells appeared on Kirei due to the fact that he somehow possesses Magic Circuits despite being born in a non-magus lineage. Does this mean Caren also has Magic Circuits?
Q: Kirei's wife Ortensia is covered with wounds in the design draft, is it because she has a body similar to Caren's? Also, Command Spells appeared on Kirei due to the fact that he somehow possesses Magic Circuits despite being born in a non-magus lineage. Does this mean Caren also has Magic Circuits?
A: Kirei's wife is an albino, and is immunodeficient. As a result, she can die from even a tiny wound, thus her body appears tattered. What Caren inherited is the aspect of "prone to be plagued by illnesses". This is truly an ordeal given by God.
About the Magic Circuits, a normal person rarely acquires Magic Circuits. You can consider such cases sudden mutations. However, Kirei is not of this type. Kirei's Circuits were a gift from the divine sacrament, rewarding his father Risei's years of pious worship. Kirei was born with "the right to recreate the miracles in the divine sacrament". This "right", in other words, was the Magic Circuits. Caren did not inherit the Circuits.
魔術回路ですが、これは一般人にも稀に待って生まれる人がいます。突然变異と思ってください。綺礼はその類 ではありませんが、父・離正が長年の信仰によって得た秘蹟の恩恵で、" 秘蹟を再現する資格"をまって生まれました。秘蹟を再現する資格、なんで言ってますが、ようは魔術回路です 。カレンには受け継がれていません。
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[] TYPE-MOON Fes. Official Pamphlet 10th Anniversary Q & A Booklet:
Q: Regarding Kotomine Kirei's life, could you disclose more details?
Q: Regarding Kotomine Kirei's life, could you disclose more details? Such as at what age did he graduate from the seminary, and at what age did he become an Executor.
A: Because of his father, Risei, Kotomine had been working diligently as an Executor-in-training since an early age. He entered the seminary at the age of 22. In the same year, he received a second baptism to graduate from a trainee to a full Executor who could operate independently. However, while performing his duty of judging heretics, he married. Kotomine voluntarily left his position in the seminary, and abandoned the path of becoming an official priest. After the death of his wife, he worked for the Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament, concentrating on training as an Executor. At the age of 28, he lost his father Risei, and was given the position of a priest, albeit unofficially.
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[] ALL OVER/Zero - Fate/Zero Exchange of Questions and Answers, p.025
Questions 17: How come papa Risei is Seagal? [T]
Questions 17: How come papa Risei is Seagal? [ Chiyoda · Akane-chan ]
Nasu: Thinking about it from another perspective, he is Seagal because he is papa Risei.
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[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Kotomine Risei [Person's name], p.167
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In one house a family had heard strange noises in the basement and started obsessing over a videotape they'd made there. They'd taken to leaving the camcorder running when they departed the house, and they played us the result.
A series of pings and pongs sounded out, echoey and vague. I spent a couple hours in that basement and heard the same noises emanating from the ducts of their air conditioning system, which they turned off whenever they left the house.
"Mystery" solved.
Almost six months after we first met, Gentile accepted that I hadn't become another Will Storr. "You didn't have any dramatic experience, nothing that overcame your rational mind," he said. "If you kept coming out, you would."
There were certainly tantalizing moments along the way. In Central Pennsylvania Gentile turned on his recorder, held up two fingers and asked, "How many fingers am I holding up?"
The response sounded for all the world like "two." It didn't sound like "three," "four" or "fzzzpt." I'll give him that. But we listen for what we're supposed to hear.
So without complete, intelligible sentences, electronic voice phenomenon seems unlikely to offer proof of anything. And Lou Gentile will be dismissed by most people as a man with a broken tape recorder. But sometimes the sounds he captures are beyond dispute.
It's 3 a.m. Gentile has just finished with another group of clients. I'm ready to go home.
His own dark eyes flutter with weariness, but Gentile wants more than anything to drive to the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg, and he still has the energy to overcome a couple of wrong turns and get us there before sunrise.
The park is closed. But Gentile never met a trespassing law worth honoring, so he leans into the turns on the narrow park roads and presses on, unyielding, toward his next spirit encounter.
When he parks, I'm tempted to stay in the car and sleep. But I follow him out of the car. And even though I'm nearly dead on my feet, producing ghostly EVP with my every utterance, I watch, transfixed, as he starts hauling his heavy body, hand over hand, up a massive rock formation known as the Devil's Den.
Here Union soldiers positioned themselves to ambush Confederate brigades.
"C'mon," says Gentile, motioning me to follow him. So I do. For a moment I linger behind him, watching him seemingly dance over the rocks above me. I already knew he was big, but from this perspective, maybe 15 feet below him, he looks like a bear. As I finally draw even with him, he wedges his body through a small opening between two stones. He barely seems to fit, and I hear him exhale with the effort as he finally crosses through to the other side.
"Come on," he says.
His body hidden from me, his voice emanates from the rocks.
I thrust myself through the opening--my hands touching stones that have grown impossibly smooth over the years, as if they've been polished clean--and find myself in an impressive hollow of rock, a den, maybe 10 feet long, narrowing to 3 feet wide.
Gentile's hair needs a vigorous combing. His sweatpants and sweatshirt have taken on the wasted, ragged look of pajamas worn by someone with a long-term illness. "Beginning of EVP No. 1," he says. "May 7, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the Devil's Den."
It's morning now. The sun is officially up. And I'm trespassing on federal property with a man who has walked up to the very edge of human experience and cast his gaze outward, hoping to get a message back, hoping to confirm the afterlife, hoping to communicate with the dead, and in so doing has united himself with the many millions of people who've made their own attempts--in church pews and on death beds, in funeral homes and on beaches, dispersing ashes and shoveling dirt--to reach into the thin air outside human experience and find something solid rise to meet their fingers.
Out of breath as he leans between two slabs of rock, his feet braced against a sharp slab of stone, Gentile asks his rounds of questions. But in response we receive nothing remotely intelligible. And all around us--the park, the world, is coming to life.
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Shortly after midnight on August 1st, many eyes were on Minnesota as the first gay couples legally tied the knot in the state. Al Giraud and Jeff Isaacson were the first in Hennepin County to apply for a marriage license, and the second pair to wed at Minneapolis City Hall.
"Al with this ring, I wed you, and pledge to you my unconditional love, now and forever," Isaacson said, while putting a silver wedding band on Giraud's finger.
It is safe to say, thousands of people got to see Giraud and Isaacson stand in front of Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, as he officiated this headline-making same-sex wedding.
"This is my husband, Jeff," Giraud said, after the ceremony.
"It's going to take a while to get used to saying that. After years of conditioning to say partner. Husband's going to be hard," Isaacson said.
Exchanging rings out in the open on City Hall's marble steps, it would appear the men are a couple of gay rights activists. In reality, they are just a couple - more comfortable hanging out on their Minneapolis apartment balcony; talking about sports.
"I've become more of a Vikings fan, a Twins fan, a Wild fan. We bicker more about the players and our opinions about them," Giraud said.
"Our friends would hear our discussions back and forth and think we were fighting all the time. It's like no, we're just talking," Isaacson said.
Isaacson, a Minnesota native, first spoke to Giraud 11 years ago in Florida, while they were both watching a Tampa Bay Buccaneers Football game.
"It was pretty much an instant connection," Isaacson said.
A few days later, they went on their first date.
"And the rest is history," Isaacson said.
The road to present day, however, has not been as easy as it would have been if Giraud and Isaacson were a straight couple. Though they technically had a wedding eight years ago, a committment ceremony in Florida, their Minnesota nuptials are their first legally recognized 'I do's'.
Brady: How important is this actual ceremony? Why get married?
Al: Well, the marriage, why get married is an easy answer. There's 515 rights in Minnesota that opposite sex couples get, that we haven't had the privilege of. By marriage, we are entitled to those rights. That's important to us.
It may help them and others save tens of thousands of dollars. They can get Social Security payments for their spouse, after he or she dies; they don't have to report the cost of health insurance premiums for their spouse as taxable income; and they can get exemptions from the estate tax and other credits and advantages.
"Families have changed even before gay families were out in the open," Giraud said.
Gay marriage opponents have argued allowing a man to marry a man, or a woman to marry a woman, will impact "traditionally" married individuals. Giraud and Isaacson's sister-in-law said, that is true, but not negative.
"When I was shopping for shoes and things, everybody was, 'oh congratulations and we're so excited for them! I was excited to tell them, my two brothers-in-law are getting married," Michelle said, with a smile, beaming from ear to ear.
Michele, a Sioux Falls native, and her husband, John, had no hesitation when it came time to sign the marriage license for the newlyweds.
"I guess I never really thought of it as a big deal to do that. I think what it's going to do is, it's going to show we've accepted it. What it does is just gives a little bit of an idea that if we can accept it as a heterosexual couple, others can as well. Hopefully that will be the case," John Isaacson said.
These men never expected to be role models, or all of this attention. However, when they were able to stand up in front of their loved ones and get married, they hope they stood up for everyone who still cannot.
"50 years from now, hopefully, we'll be at a point where someone may not even know or may not even care there was a first. Right now, we probably wouldn't know who the first interracial couple is," Isaacson said.
The future brings many unknowns, including whether or not they want to be dads. Going forward, though, they hope others will look past the term gay wedding, and instead see a very real marriage.
"We have different strengths and different positive qualities we bring to the table and we compliment each other. Yes, we do balance each other out," Isaacson said.
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JumpStart Inc., the Northeast Ohio venture development organization that accelerates the growth of innovative early-stage businesses and ideas, today announced the close of an equity investment commitment of $380,000 in Freedom Meditech, Inc., a developer of a proprietary non-invasive ocular glucose measurement device for people with diabetes. The company's device is based, in part, on patented technology developed at the University of Toledo. The JumpStart investment is part of an undisclosed total amount of Series A financing that is anticipated to allow the company to complete current pre-clinical studies and create a second generation prototype for use in a pilot human clinical study. The company had previously secured just under $1 million in angel and bridge financing for initial proof of human concept studies and other engineering, legal, patent, regulatory and general operating expenditures. Freedom Meditech is focused on developing a device similar in form factor to binoculars that would utilize the company's proprietary technology to non-invasively measure glucose levels in the aqueous humor of the eye – an area which has demonstrated a high correlation to glucose levels in blood and throughout the body. The company's patented algorithms and novel product design are intended to correct for the effects of various confounding factors that previously hindered the ability to obtain an accurate glucose measurement in the eye. Based on data generated from preliminary studies, the company has been able to demonstrate that its first generation prototype is highly accurate at even low levels of glucose concentration - a capability that has historically posed a challenge to other technological approaches pursued by various companies in the field. The results of initial studies were featured in Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics magazine in 2006 and earned the company an invitation to present at the October 2007 Diabetes Technology Meeting in San Francisco, CA. JumpStart Entrepreneur-in-Residence Kevin Mendelsohn, who will be working with Freedom Meditech, has great expectations for the company. "While there are many companies competing to develop a non-invasive blood glucose monitor, the current standard is still the finger prick method, which has obvious user compliance and convenience drawbacks that lead to poor disease management," Mendelsohn said. "Freedom Meditech's technology has the promise to solve a critical unmet medical need and improve the standard of living for millions of patients throughout the world." Freedom Meditech's Chief Executive Officer, Craig Misrach began developing the business plan for the company while he was a graduate student at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. "JumpStart's extensive life science investment portfolio, early-stage business development support, and industry and capital connections were all key factors in our decision to welcome them to our current investor base," said Misrach. "JumpStart also provides an excellent financing complement to our extensive list of Ohio-based operational collaborators." Freedom Meditech maintains business and research and development relationships with The University of Toledo, Battelle, MAGNET, researchers at the Cole Eye Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, BioEnterprise, LNE Group, BioOhio, and several other medical device commercialization experts across the country. This is JumpStart's 43rd investment in its 32nd company. Other healthcare companies in JumpStart's portfolio include AcelleRx Therapeutics, AnalizaDx, CardioInsight Technologies, CerviLenz, Inc., Great Lakes Pharmaceuticals, Synapse Biomedical and Telerad Express.
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Classic rock legends John Kay and Steppenwolf will headline the festival on June 20 during Bike Night.
On June 21, Detroit's own Kimmie Horn and the Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Choir, recently featured on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," will kick off the entertainment on the Michigan Lottery Stage.
On June 22, Detroit's Third New Hope Baptist Church will present a gospel showcase featuring Greg C. Bowman, the Whitfield Group and the UAW Choir. Following the showcase, the Faith Community Choir will open up for the groundbreaking gospel duo Mary Mary featuring chart-topping sisters Erica Campbell and Tina Campbell.
This year's local stages feature a stellar lineup of homegrown artists. On the Soaring Eagle Music Stage, festival favorites Larry Lee & Back in the Day band, Random Family and Chunky Funk will join newcomers the Lightning Bugs and Candice Sosa and many more for a mix of rock, pop, blues and indie rock throughout the weekend. The Chevrolet Music Stage will feature the star-bound rock band Kaleido, along with the Infatuations, the Reefermen, Notorious and a number of alternative, country, funk and soul bands.
New this year, the Conservancy will offer VIP tickets for the Michigan Lottery National Stage. Limited tickets will be available for purchase beginning Monday from www.RiverDays.com/Music. The VIP tickets cost $25 for Friday and $30 for Saturday or Sunday.
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There are silly-but-satisfying celebrity feuds, such as the recent Charlie Sheen versus Rihanna brouhaha. And then there are real-deal, Hatfield-and-McCoy-type star wars that involve - um, death threats.
Enter Jerry Lewis versus Joan Rivers. Seems that once upon a time, Rivers made Lewis very, very mad. He revealed all to Maria Menounos during a SiriusXM Town Hall:
"Joan attacked me in the press. All she said was, 'Jerry Lewis has to be thankful that he has the telethon, because it helps his career.' And then she went on and was even a little more salty. So I wrote her a note that night. I said, 'Dear Ms. Rivers, we've never met, and I'm looking forward to keeping it that way.' "
He also offered to have someone beat the stuffing out of her.
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The American Film Institute's celebration of Jane Fonda was like a who's who of Hollywood women.
Meryl Streep, Sally Field, Sandra Bullock, Lily Tomlin and Cameron Diaz were among the actresses saluting the 76-year-old Oscar winner, who accepted AFI's 42nd Life Achievement Award on Thursday at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre.
Guests at the private ceremony - set to air on TNT on June 14 - lauded Fonda for her political activism and dedication to gender equality, which she translated to the screen in such films as 1978's "Coming Home," 1979's "The China Syndrome," and 1980's "9 to 5."
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■ Melanie Griffith, 56, has filed for divorce from 53-year-old Antonio Banderas after 18 years of marriage, according to TMZ. Meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez, 44, and Casper Smart, 27, have called it quits after nearly 2½ years of dating.
■ After six seasons in a full-length TV series, "Private Practice," Taye Diggs likes the 10-episode run of his new TNT show, "Murder in the First." "We shot it all in three months," he says. "Murder" premieres at 10 p.m. Monday.
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Formula One News » Italian GP: Team and driver quotes – Friday practice Posted on 07/09/2012
Views from the pit lane after the opening day action at Monza, venue for the Italian Grand Prix, the 13th round in the 2012 FIA F1 World Championship.
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Sebastian Vettel
"I think overall we are not as quick as we would like to be, so there's still work to do. I think we are more competitive in race trim, but we aren't where we want to be yet in terms of true pace. We ran through our entire programme so we got a lot of information to go through and learn from."
Mark Webber
"We're working hard, but we're not there yet. We were a bit more competitive on the longer runs in practice today. We're not normally the Friday World Champions, so we'll do some work now for tomorrow. We often find a good step ahead of qualifying."
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Jenson Button
"Monza is so different from anywhere else we drive. The straightline speeds are incredibly high in fact there are four points around the track where we hit 200mph [322km/h]. It's been satisfying to get some dry running under our belts today, because we were able to gather a lot of useful information. We tried a few different directions with set-up this afternoon and some were better than others but we'll decide what works best before FP3 tomorrow and we'll make the necessary tweaks to get the balance right. I'm pretty comfortable with the car; you always want more, but we've done a reasonably good job today. Looking at the data, there are quite a few teams out there that look quick too: it's very close and that's going to make it an interesting race."
Lewis Hamilton
"Monza is a beautiful circuit and the whole place has such great history you really feel it as soon as you drive through the gates. And, of course, it's an absolutely stunning place on which to drive the speeds are incredible and, when you get the flow right, it feels simply amazing. It's very, very quick. It's somewhat deceptive, too: a map of the track makes it look quite simple, but it's actually incredibly technical. It's also bumpy, which means it's incredibly difficult to nail those final thousandths on a quick lap. And that's really what today has been all about: we're trying to fine-tune the balance and find the tiniest amounts of time. It's extremely tight. Overall, today has been quite productive, and everything has gone smoothly. Hopefully, we're not in a bad position, although there are still things we can improve on the car for tomorrow."
Martin Whitmarsh, Team principal
"There's always a special magic in the air when the Formula 1 circus arrives in Monza – and today felt no different. Managing the perfect trade-off between drag and downforce is always a tricky balancing act here, and, while we've still to perfect the set-up we'll choose to run for the remainder of the weekend, we're pleased with the good progress we've made so far, and the useful amount of data we've successfully gathered. Inevitably, our focus now turns to that data, and processing it in order to make the wisest changes for tomorrow. Both Lewis and Jenson were pleased with their cars, but it's satisfying that both also feel they can extract more from the package. Nevertheless, we're mindful that the competition is snapping at our heels, and that there are a number of teams which could emerge tomorrow as favourites for victory.
"Additionally, moving away from what happened on track here today, and speaking more generally, it's worth noting that Jenson's victory in Belgium was our second win on the trot, Lewis having triumphed in Hungary. That's satisfying for a number of reasons – first because, in achieving that feat, we became the first team to have won two grands prix successively so far this season, and, second, because we accomplished that milestone on two circuits, Hungaroring and Spa-Francorchamps, whose comparative downforce set-up characteristics differ very markedly. So it would appear that our car is not only quick, but also quick on a wide variety of circuits. And that augurs well not only for our prospects of victory here at super-fast Monza, where you may be well sure we'll be aiming for a hat-trick of successive wins, but also for the remainder of the season."
Scuderia Ferrari
Fernando Alonso
"Today almost everything happened, with various mechanical problems and we did not manage to test everything we wanted, but all the parts that failed can be changed and thanks to Felipe we have all the information we need to do well in qualifying and the race. Even if today was complicated, it was still positive: it's good that everything happened today, because we must try and avoid any problems tomorrow and Sunday. I am optimistic about the car balance, which we did not have to change between FP1 and 2. I expect we will see different strategies in qualifying because there seems to be very little difference between the Medium and Hard tyres. In the race we will have to use both and so in the end it balances out. Compared to Spa, here we are on the pace, maybe we have a bit more downforce and make up a bit of time at the two Lesmos and the second chicane, while we are losing out in the first sector with the two long straights. We will analyse these details this evening and tomorrow we will try and improve also in terms of top speed, which was probably our weak point today."
Felipe Massa
"A very positive day because I managed to make the most of the track time, completing all the programme we had planned for this Friday. I did a lot of laps on both types of tyre, in the morning and the afternoon, including a long run to evaluate the handling as well as possible. At the moment, there doesn't seem to be much difference between the two compounds in terms of performance, as we could also see from the other drivers' times, but we will have to see how it goes tomorrow, because the difference could become greater as the track conditions improve, which will be an important factor for qualifying and the race. I am also pleased with my lap times, as I was always up there with the quickest cars in both sessions. We will be trying to improve the car set-up still further tomorrow, but I am confident for the rest of the weekend. I am very pleased to be here in Monza in front of our fans and I really hope that this positive day is the right start to get a great result for them!"
Pat Fry, Technical Director
"The mechanics definitely did not have time to get bored today! We had various reliability problems on Fernando's car that meant he was unable to get through his planned programme. It's very unusual for us to have three problems in three separate areas – engine, brakes and gearbox – on the same day, therefore we will have to look very closely at what happened, to ensure it doesn't happen again. As far as the gearbox and engine are concerned, they were units we were not planning to use in the race, so we will not incur any penalties tomorrow. For his part, Felipe managed to do a lot of kilometres and gathered important data for the team, both on the different aerodynamic configurations and on the behaviour of the two compounds – Hard and Medium – which Pirelli has chosen for this race. From what we could see, the field is very close and adopting the right level of aero downforce will be a key factor in qualifying and the race. As for the tyres, it's hard to say from what we saw today which performs better: we still have an hour of free practice tomorrow to learn more."
Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team
Nico Rosberg
"That was definitely a better start for us than in Spa. We were able to complete a lot of laps today and it seems that we have a good pace on high and low fuel levels. As always, it's difficult to say where we are compared to the others but I hope we can score some good points this weekend. It was great fun to drive on this amazing track, and I always like the special atmosphere here. Yesterday I went out on the old Monza track with a scooter which is great to see."
Michael Schumacher
"I am quite happy with the practice sessions as we achieved a lot of reasonable work with regards to long runs which was our main focus today. We have a different aero package for Monza which seems to work well so it seems to be looking better than in the last races. During the sessions, we made progress as well so I am curious to have a look at the data we collected and learn the full picture. It's always nice to be back in Monza as I am still so warmly welcomed by all the tifosi. As I said earlier, I would like to say thank you for that and hope we can put on a good show tomorrow and in the race on Sunday."
Ross Brawn, Team Principal
"We've had a pretty good day and both Nico and Michael were reasonably happy with the balance of the car by the end of the second session this afternoon. We completed our planned programme, and have all the information and data that we needed on the different tyres and fuel levels, so now we will have a look and make our plans for tomorrow."
Norbert Haug
"A positive start to the weekend on this traditional high-speed track. Nico and Michael posted consistent lap times during their long runs in race trim on both Pirelli tyres. We seem to have a reasonable base to work from tomorrow."
Lotus F1 Team
Kimi Räikkönen
"It was an okay day. We tried a few different things with no issues and I'm happy with the car. Our long run pace was not too bad and we weren't too far away from the fastest lap set today either. There aren't many corners here, but running with low downforce means the grip is not as good under braking and cornering through the chicanes. It's not easy to get the perfect lap here but maybe we can improve tomorrow; we shall see."
Jerome d'Ambrosio
"Today went pretty well overall and it feels good to be back in the car. It's not an easy task stepping in at the last minute; there's a lot to take in and with a low downforce track like Monza it can be quite tricky to find the limit, but we completed a busy schedule and put in a lot of laps which is a good start. It's difficult to say where we are right now, but we made steady progress between the two sessions and my aim for tomorrow is to take another step forwards and see where we go from there. So far so good."
Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director.
"It's nice to have a straight-forward Friday with dry running ; it's our first for a while ! The lower downforce here means we focused on the various compromises ; getting the car to work in the corners, balancing the need for a soft car to ride the kerbs versus a stiff car to enable high speed change of direction and so on. We feel we've made good progress with the running we've had. Jérôme has done a great job ; chipping away at the time difference between him and Kimi without any problems while absorbing all the procedures and information we've thrown at him."
Sahara Force India
Paul di Resta
"A pretty standard afternoon session for me and I seemed to get in the groove quite quickly. The preparation we had done in the simulator was useful and the baseline set-up was not very far away from where we needed to be. We improved the car with each run so there's plenty of data to go through tonight to improve our performance before qualifying."
Nico Hulkenberg
"It was nice to have a dry and straightforward Friday for a change so that we could get through our programme and complete some long runs. Overall we look in reasonable shape, although I'm not totally happy with the set-up yet. We learned a lot about the tyres and both the hard and medium are working well here. The other big decision to make tonight is what downforce levels we will use over the weekend."
Jules Bianchi
"I'm very happy with how things went today. I felt very comfortable in the car and had the confidence to really push and make the most of the programme. There was a lot of traffic on my first run, but the other two runs were better and I was able to complete some good timed laps. The team asked me to run some different aero levels to get a feel for the car and we made some small improvements between the runs. So I feel very positive and I want to thank the team once again for the chance to drive the car."
Jakob Andreasen, Chief Engineer
"A productive day of practice, which has given us all the data we need heading into the weekend. There are still some balance improvements to be made, but the set-up programme ran smoothly and there were no issues with the cars. We ran Jules this morning and he did an excellent job evaluating the downforce levels and working on the baseline set-up. In the afternoon our focus moved towards longer runs to give us the tyre data and to help determine our approach for the rest of the weekend. We will go through the data tonight and then focus on qualifying performance tomorrow morning."
Sauber F1 Team
Sergio Perez
"The first free practice went alright and also in the second session we almost completed our programme, but I had to stop a few minutes early when the team called me in for some checks. Overall so far I have the feeling we are a bit behind expectations here. We lose quite some time on the straights and now have to find a good aero and set-up compromise. We definitely want to fight for the top ten in qualifying tomorrow."
Kamui Kobayashi
"It was a bit of a difficult day. I didn't do enough running to decide on the settings and the downforce level. In the morning it was business as usual and also my first run in the second session was okay. But then, after we had made some changes, the car was bouncing an awful lot. I nearly spun on the straight. However, we identified the problem but could not fix it during the session. I think we have quite a lot of work to do tomorrow."
Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering
"The morning's session was okay. We were focusing on aerodynamics as you always do in Monza because of the special low downforce configuration. We did comparisons of rear wings and other parts. In the afternoon Kamui's session finished early because we had experienced a problem which we could not solve during the session. Actually after this we are not confident to continue with the planned programme and want to have a closer look at everything now. On Sergio's car we discovered something wrong on the data shortly before the end of the second free practice and decided to call him in as well."
Scuderia Toro Rosso
Daniel Ricciardo
"You come to Monza with a special low downforce package and the car always feels a bit different, moving around more and you are reaching very high speeds, so in terms of balance, it's hard to be happy here compared to circuits where you run much higher downforce. Therefore you need to change your approach a bit. However, we are still looking for some more speed and even if we have to accept it might not be perfect, I do believe there is room for improvement for the rest of the weekend. We made a couple of changes between the sessions, but we don't yet have a clear picture of where we are at the moment. It's nice to see so many people from our factory in Faenza here to support us."
Jean-Eric Vergne
"This is my first time at Monza in a Formula 1 car and it definitely feels fast! I have been getting used to running with very little downforce and we still have some work to do to try and improve our performance level. The team did a good job today in terms of working through a packed test programme and now it's a case of studying the data, trying to work out the best car set-up for qualifying and for the race. I have to say that driving for an Italian team at Monza in front of such a big crowd, including many of our people from the factory added something special to the experience."
Laurent Mekies, Chief Engineer
"As always in Monza, like all the other teams, we have brought a one-off aero package for the STR7 and our first job this morning was to assess the new front and rear wings. After that, we looked at various set-up options, aimed at optimising the car in this low downforce configuration. We are not yet happy with the way the car has been performing around here and we will have to study the data overnight to see if we can get a bit more out of the package. Both drivers had very long runs in race configuration towards the end of the session and in terms of car reliability, it was a good day, allowing us to work through all our planned programme."
Williams F1
Pastor Maldonado
"It was a productive day as we were trying some different configurations, especially with the aero levels. We completed everything we set out to do in the programme. There is still more speed to come and so tomorrow we will continue working to improve, so I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do."
Bruno Senna
"It was a difficult session. After not running in the morning I had a lot to do this afternoon, but we've been trying different things and I think we can find a good path. Hopefully the car will be even better tomorrow and we can iron out some of the technical details to improve for qualifying."
Valtteri Bottas
"We got lot of running today with the dry weather so it was great to get that under our belt. The track is brilliant as it's an old school circuit and very quick. The morning session was productive and we worked through all the tests we had planned."
Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer
"We have a lot data to dissect and interpret tonight from today's two sessions to ensure that we optimise the car for the race without compromising qualifying. We managed to get through the entire test programme, despite a hydraulic problem on Pastor's car which prematurely stopped his FP1 session. The mechanics reacted very quickly and we managed to get the car ready for the start of FP2."
Caterham F1 Team
Heikki Kovalainen
"A much better Friday than we've had for a while. Right from the installation lap the car balance felt better and we're clearly more competitive here than we have been anywhere since Valencia. It's difficult to understand where the improvement has come from – the cars are in a very different configuration than Spa, Hungary, Hockenheim or Silverstone but that doesn't explain the difference in the feeling and the performance. We need to get a better understanding of why we're better here and then make sure we can translate that into being more competitive at every type of track. It's a positive feeling for everybody. Spa was not acceptable, that's clear, and when we don't really understand why we weren't competitive it's more difficult to sort out, but coming here we're back to the base level of performance we should have and now we need to build on that.!
Vitaly Petrov
"I think we are moving in the right direction and it's been a much better day for us than we had last week, or for a few races now. We ran both cars in different aero configurations so we could generate as much data as possible and the laptimes look pretty good. That gives us a lot to work on tonight, to prepare for quali and the race and it's good to see us getting back to where we want to be. After the ups and downs we've seen so far this year I don't want to make any predictions about where we'll end up on Sunday, or in Singapore or any of the races to come, but I think that if we carry on like we have today we'll be looking much better. That's a good feeling, for me and the team, and hopefully the similar weather conditions we'll have on track tomorrow will suit us so we can have another positive day."
HRT Formula 1 Team
Pedro de la Rosa
"Today we enjoyed two clean sessions that enabled us to try out different aero configurations and complete a comparison of tyre compounds and a long stint towards the end in preparation for the race. We faced no problems and were able to complete all the tests as planned. We can still improve the car for tomorrow ahead of qualifying but we've set a good base for the race."
Narain Karthikeyan
"We focused on testing different car set-ups and the car worked well with all of them. The shame is that we had to stop before the end because of an issue with the exhausts. It was a precautionary measure more than anything else and it will be fixed for tomorrow. But the best thing about the day was that I found a rhythm quickly and that the car performed well."
Ma Qing Hua
"It was an extraordinary experience and I'm happy with my performance. From the start I felt comfortable in the car and working with the team, and I accomplished all the targets we set ourselves. We started with quite a long stint on hard tyres and then we made changes to the set-up as I adapted to the F112. It was an important step for me, but also for motorsport in China since it's a very young sport there but with a great potential."
Luis Pérez-Sala, Team Principal
"I'm happy because Ma has taken another step in his development programme as a Formula 1 driver and he had a satisfactory debut. He did what was asked of him and showed clear progression, with no mistakes, to finish the session under the 107%. Pedro also improved throughout the day and we cut down the distance to pole position, which proves we're performing well. Narain found his rhythm immediately in FP2 but a problem with the exhausts forced us to stop before the end as a precautionary measure"
Marussia F1 Team
Timo Glock
"First of all it's good to have stable weather conditions in Monza because this track is quite unique and we needed to do a lot of preparation work. We got through the programme quite well and evaluated the aero level of our rear wing options for here. We did a lot of back to back work with our Canada specification and our latest components seem the clear way to go, which again proves out our development direction. Overall the car felt okay and no problems with the long runs so far; the times were quite consistent. I'm happy with FP1 and FP2. A bit of fine-tuning perhaps but, in general, a good start and we will see what we can do from here now."
Charles Pic
"A very busy day for us today, perhaps even more so than usual as we had to follow a very comprehensive programme across the two cars to arrive at a good way to proceed from here. We tried lots of different things this morning so that in the break we could analyse the information and decide on a direction. This track is not easy to set the car up for and it involves a few compromises, but I think we have worked well to establish a good starting point. There is still more work to be done based on what we have learned here this afternoon and some things we can do to continue to improve the car."
John Booth, Team Principal
"A very different Friday to the last one, as the weather has remained consistently hot and sunny and we have forged our way through quite a comprehensive programme designed to give us as many answers as possible to the numerous set-up questions posed by this track. It's a little bit of a conundrum for us, bearing in mind that we have struggled in low downforce trim before. Nonetheless, we are pleased with the start we have made and cautiously optimistic that we have ended Friday here in a more favourable position than we perhaps envisaged. That is down to the steps we have taken to try to overcome our low downforce woes since Montreal and also the very calm and disciplined approach of our engineers and their drivers. Fingers crossed we can continue this positive start."
Paul Hembery
"Despite the typically warm conditions in Monza our tyres performed very well, with the hard compound in particular delivering almost as much performance as the medium, with greater durability. We might see different approaches tomorrow, and some drivers could even try a one-stop strategy for the race: the winning tactic in Belgium a week ago, which used the same compounds. Although there are many places in Monza that put a lot of energy through the tyres, the overall wear rate has been very good today, which allowed a number of the drivers to set their fastest times later on in their runs. We saw some very long runs on both compounds so we should see flat-out racing from start to finish on Sunday – which is what our home race at Monza is most famous for. For the first time in a while we look set for a completely dry weekend, which should allow the teams to start the race with plenty of relevant data."


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Yellow UBikes at the Mansfield Library1 August 2013 by Chris Vance
The Mansfield Library has partnered with ASUM Transportation Office to offer extended hours for checkout of 2 day Yellow UBikes for students. The bikes will be housed conveniently on the east side of the parking structure next to the Library. Students can check out a bike by getting a key at the Mansfield Library Information Center. ASUM Transportation Staff will continue to maintain the bikes. The library will be up and "rolling" August 1st with this new service
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GWA will disconnect delinquent customers
Guam Waterworks Authority is continuing its disconnection campaign, according to a GWA statement. "All water customers in arrears of 30 days or more are requested to go directly to the Tumon office and pay their bill in full," said Doris Young, Utilities Services Administrator. For more information contact GWA's customer service line at 647-7800/1. The GWA Tumon office is open from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Bordallo mourns Cunningham death
Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo released the following statement regarding the death of Guam musical legend Joe "Uncle Tote" Cunningham, a popular musician and radio host: "I join the people of Guam in mourning the passing of Joe 'Uncle Tote' Cunningham. Uncle Tote was a legendary musician and songwriter on Guam, and his passion for the Chamorro language and culture was evident in his music. I offer my condolences to Uncle Tote's family, loved ones and many friends during this difficult time. He will be missed." Bordallo is running for re-election.


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A couple years back I experienced an unpleasant period of time where I learned that looks can be deceiving... and seemingly lovely and fun people can turn out to be toxic, pathetic bags of douche. Having been locked into and dragged through a couple of different quagmires, and finally reaching the other end, I've spent the last 6 months trying to readjust to the new "normal" of life. This is a life freer of the negativity, stress, drama (real and manufactured), confrontation, and nightmares, however this is also a life laced with the underlying stench of the quagmire experience.
In other words... there are residual effects on my behavior after those experiences, and my initial reaction to a given situation can be more reactive than is most likely necessary. The most prominent example of this is what I call my "bullshit meter" - this internal meter is, more often than not, on a hair-trigger sensitivity level these days. If I detect a whiff of "this person is full of shit", "this person is selfish", or the worst... "this person is being passive-aggressive"... red flags fly in my mind and my patience drops to zero.
In some instances this isn't that bad of a thing. I most definitely stand up for myself far better than I did 4 or so years ago, but on the other hand I don't really enjoy the anger that bubbles up as an accompaniment to the recognition of bullshit. Ideally I would like to be able to simply see it for what it is and deal with it accordingly, minus the rise in blood pressure. So I have spent the last 6 months or so thinking about this quite a lot, and I have been working on ways to mentally step out of a given situation, take a few deep breaths, and determine the best course of action. I ask myself, "is this situation worth my time and effort to engage in? Will anything positive come out of this? Or do I just add another mark to the 'bullshit' column and remove myself from further hassle?"
Through conversations with good friends, I have refocused my energies on more positive philosophies. One such wonderful philosophy is this:
"We do our best, and then we let it go."
There is only so much of yourself you can offer to any given situation, and at some point beyond that it is no longer in your hands, nor in your control. I cannot count how many times in the last year that I have taken a deep breath, let it out slowly, and repeated those words to myself. The difficulty is in recognizing the point in which to remove your white-knuckled grip from the current position, realize you truly have done all that you can and all that could be expected of you... then let it go and hope for the best.
In a recent discussion, the idea of "forgive and forget" was brought up to me. Maybe that would help me feel better, if I could "just forgive and forget."
Even before the quagmires I was never a fan of this philosophy. For one thing, if we "forget" everything, are we not doomed to repeat it? I don't want to hold grudges by any means, but there is a limit to how often one can (for example) be an hour late to dinner, and if everyone just forgets about it all the time then they are doomed to have cold soup every time they invite Her Tardiness. Forgive the lateness if you feel like it, but rather than forget about it maybe remember that they are always late and pad the invitation for next time. Learn from history.
Additionally, forgiveness to me equates to "I understand why you did it, and I'm OK with that, let's hug it out and grab some coffee." If you truly feel OK about it then great... but there are things in this world which are simply unforgivable.
That's not to say I don't seek to understand where the other individual is coming from. In fact I am probably curious to a fault in that I will mull things over and ask repeated questions in an effort to understand exactly why someone said the thing they said, or did the thing they did. Once I comprehend the why, then I reach that crossroads of decision; to continue to put effort into this situation to find a solution, or take another path. In either case, my goal is to comprehend and move on.
Life becomes far happier when you are able to wash off the stench of quagmires and distance yourself from the toxicity and negativity that others produce.


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Joe Lee of Rankin County released his latest novel Thursday under his Dogwood Press publishing label. "Last Chance Texaco" is the fourth in a series set in the fictional town of Oakdale, situated a few hours northeast of Jackson.
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Grand Rapids
Plan Commission: 6 p.m. Monday, Municipal Building.
Ambulance Board: 7 p.m. Thursday, Municipal Building.
Town of Plover
Town Board: 6 p.m. Monday, Town Hall. Agenda includes: presentation by Singh & Associates; potential water and sewer project for Highway 39 business district.
Wood County
Public Safety Committee: 1 p.m. Monday, Room 108, City Hall, Marshfield.
North Central Community Action Program Executive Board of Directors: 6 p.m. Monday, S&S Cafe, 313 Main St., Mosinee.
Aging and Disability Resource Center of Central Wisconsin Finance Committee: 8:30 a.m. Thursday, 1000 Lakeview Drive, Wausau.
Aging and Disability Resource Center of Central Wisconsin Board: 9 a.m. Thursday, 1000 Lakeview Drive, Wausau.
Village of Rudolph
Village Board: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Village Hall. Agenda includes: review requests from Rudolph River Rovers to use village land for snowmobile trails; review and adopt contract with south Wood County Humane Society; discuss hiring of new village employee; review and act to amend the village of Rudolph fee schedule; and update from MSA on sewer project.
Ways and Means Committee: 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Council Chambers, City Hall.
Common Council: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Council Chambers, City Hall. Agenda includes: Treasurer's report; citizen's forum; Community Foundation check presentation for Senior Center; committee reports; Business after hours; library personnel issues; audit bill list; alcohol and operator's license applications; donations; seminars; conferences; equipment; meetings; 2014 Wisconsin Rapids Area Visitors Guide; gas discounts; carpet cleaner; Heart of Wisconsin request; water issues and updates; deny water adjustment for property on Fourth Street; monthly water and sewer billings in 2014; delinquent water and sewer bills; village of Port Edwards newsletter; 2013 road project; MSA update; wastewater treatment and other grant applications; topper for Water Department pickup; traffic code amendment; 2014 South Wood County Humane Society Contract; municipal court software training; hire EMTs; ambulance remodel project; Fire Department grants; swift water rescue training; Community Center equipment purchase; donate use of Community Center for pool tournament; update grant program; city creation projects; and monthly reports.
Town Board: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Fire Department Building; Agenda includes: Special meeting of electors to adopt the 2013 tax levy to be paid in 2013, to approve the total 2014 highway expenditures and to approve wages for garbage; adjourn special meeting and begin regular meeting; review financial report; building permits; oath of office; bank coverage; approve the 2014 budget; road work and condition update; Fire Department report; cemetery update; library update; review of tax letter for residents.
Town Board: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Municipal Building. Agenda includes: Meeting of residents to set 2013 tax levy payable in 2014; clerk and treasurer reports; South Wood County Humane Society contract; exempt treasurer from obtaining bond to collect taxes; resolution opposing Senate Bill 349; Chopper Farms Sand Mine; road report; current bills; and public input.