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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gaylord Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government accusing the National Weather Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of negligence that led to massive destruction at its luxury hotel in Nashville and damage to the most famous country music venue in the world during flooding in 2010.
The company says it sustained at least $250 million worth of damages caused by flooding at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center and the nearly Grand Ole Opry House.
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The flooding killed 11 people in Nashville.
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This year's recipients of the Foundation for Physical Therapy's Service Awards have advanced the cause of physical therapy research in a variety of ways, from providing funds to fundraising, and from partnering with the Foundation to leading its work.
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Analysts love metrics. Specifically, metrics that can be easily selected, tracked and added, which when aggregated provide the raw data resources to create benchmarks and predict how the audience may behave in the future. To analysts – at first anyway – Social Media seemed God-sent because it allowed direct access to that audience and provided immediate and unfiltered feedback. No longer did we have to run costly focus groups with representative samplings and impose those findings on the whole. We now have access to the entire community and the ability to solicit feedback from the entire group.
So why is measuring Social Media still such a debate?
We've all seen the statistics on the growing number of people that continue to flock to social channels to share their experiences and opinions. According to a JC Williams Study, 91% of those surveyed indicated that customer content is their primary decision criteria. In a similar study, Marketing Sherpa reports 87% trust a friend's recommendation over a critic's review. We all know this; what we don't know is how to effectively quantify its value to the business.
Marketers have begun to map how Social Media influences the sales cycle, yet it's that influence that business executives and marketers struggle with. Blogs, Social Networks, Mobile Check Ins, Product Reviews, etc. all have an impact on the sales cycle. It's been estimated that 1 word-of-mouth conversation has the impact of 200 TV ads but there's an evolving threat to the purchase decision beyond simple social commentary. We are now beginning to understand the importance of the nature of the engagement that consumers have with each other, the product and the brand's employees. These relationships directly (those your customers are engaged in) and indirectly (those that are being observed by others) form an impression that has more influence over the sales cycle than user-generated content.
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Measuring the nature of that influence is what has so many analysts perplexed when it comes to gauging the effectiveness of social media engagement. How do you measure the "nature of influence" on the sales cycle in linear, numerical statistics that executives demand and are accustomed to? Tracking and reporting social activity such as likes, follows, referrals, purchases, etc. does not translate to this new requirement.
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There's one common measurement denominator that many social media marketers have been avoiding but that can solve this dilemma: profit. Measuring anything in a business is meaningless if there's no business, and profit is the lifeblood of a business. So measurement goals must shift from counting metrics such as social activities to monitoring how social engagements are impacting the business' bottom line. Measurement practices must evolve to chart the entire customer lifecycle including the conversations that influence it.
Tracking and scoring the context, frequency, participants and tone of conversations that touch the customer lifecycle – and how the outcome on the business' profit differs when the nature of those influencers change – is key.
We live in an era where our brains are almost literally connected to each other through technology. Decisions are considered and made by the collective. We're currently measuring how that collective makes decision based on the amalgamation of individual experiences but the next frontier in social media measurement is to identify how the nature of influence impacts the bottom line.
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Hey everyone, I'm really excited to finally be able to reveal something I've been working on for the last few weeks. As readers of my blog know, I was a big fan of the sound of the new Aquila Red Series strings, but had broken 2 very quickly. Much discussion on the Ukulele Underground Forums revealed that I wasn't alone and I began a correspondence with Mimmo Peruffo at Aquila in the hopes sharing what I had learned about this new product. Mimmo was great and replaced my broken strings and listened to my concerns.
Then about 2 weeks ago I got a new email from Mimmo asking if I'd be interesting in trying out their new formulation for the Red Strings. Of course I said yes! Two days later I had them in my hands.
Indeed they are "harder" with far less stretch, much more the physical elasticity of a nylon string. They were just slightly darker red, and significantly more "wiry" in feel, though still retaining that papery softness unlike a true nylon or flouro string.
I strung up my Islander immediately.
That great sound that I loved from the original Reds was still there but the string itself had gone to boot camp and toughened up. It needed nothing more then the normal stretch and settled into its note very quickly. I've spent the last 2 weeks playing a LOT of ukulele, multiple jams and ukulele club—I've really wailed on it and it haven't let me down. Once it got through the initial settling-in, it's held note almost perfectly, requiring almost zero adjustment when I play.
I'm extremely impressed with the string and am once again confident in recommending them to others.
I'm going to record a video review soon, but I couldn't wait to break this news.
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Aquila has destroyed the old stock of original Red Strings. Orders from now on will be this new formulation. These will have a small, white label to distinguish them initially while old stock makes it's way off the shelves.
I highly encourage you to get yourself one of the new strings and try it out. Aquila has taken the feedback from the launch strings and made the adjustments necessary to really improve their product. They've also managed the difficult task of not messing up the excellent sound qualities in the process. I think you'll be very happy with them.


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National Tequila Day: July 24th
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Copenhagen festival gets off to turbulent start
The first Copenhagen International Film Festival (Aug 13-20) has had a turbulent few weeks in the lead up to its launch on Wednesday night.
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Paul Grigore Patrulescu and Ciprian Patrulescu Get Jail for Beating the Hell Out of 83 y.o. Lady
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Paul Grigore Patrulescu, 30, and Ciprian Patrulescu, 31, pleaded guilty to felony injury to an elder person and misdemeanor battery before receiving their sentences.
Both men were ordered to serve three years probation and attend the classes, but Paul Patrulescu got 90 days in jail while his brother is to serve 60 days. Their lack of prior convictions no doubt played a part in the relatively light sentences. Without the guilty pleas, they were looking at up to four years in state prison.
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Paul Patrulescu is 6-foot-1 and 275 lbs., Ciprian Patrulescu is 5-foot-11 and 190 lbs. and given the longer jail stretch it was likely Paul who repeated punched the lady in the face for refusing to eat with them. She's 5-foot-1 and 90 pounds.
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Melsahn Basabe will be pulling a Bugs Bunny for Iowa per Big Ten graphic
The Big Ten Network had a bit of a mistake in their graphics package for the Iowa-Penn basketball game on Friday. Though they had five different faces for the Hawkeyes' starting lineup, they listed every player as forward Melsahn Basabe (the real Basabe is on the far left). We know Basabe is a pretty solid…Read More


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Cammaleri fits a need and there are worse deals than this one coming out every minute (5 years 5+ for Orpik!!!!!!!!!, Bolland, Pouloit). People need to chill.
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Jagr on Nichushkin: "Maybe it was his best 3 games I watched, but I said, 'This guy is going to be the best in the world one day.'"...This one stings.
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Same story as game 1 vs them. Canadians seem to be good AND lucky, which is tough to beat. In general we seem to be average and unlucky.
That takedown by Subban on Elias was a garbage no call. He needs to be put in his place.
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Take the "no name D" water bottle and write "no name O" and hope for the same magic.
My steps forward: plug in that 6 mil cap with Jagr and maybe try to overpay for a young RFA (will plead ignorance on who's still available). Try and patch together a playoff run with some 2-1 1-0 Scheinder and vintage marty's and overall great D..if it doesn't work out then get ready to have a sh!t ton of cap space next offseason.
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Skinner flopped down so bad on that Fayne penalty..It was an interference penalty, but it should have been a diving minor on Skinner as well. Also, I can say from experience, after getting hit with a hard shot all you want to do is hit something/someone. I don't blame Fayne on that one.
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For Kassidy Mathis, graduating from high school and community college at the same time reinforces that she is a self-motivated student.
Mathis will receive her associate in arts college transfer degree from Southwestern Community College May 10, just days before she receives her high school diploma from Smoky Mountain High School. As a dual-enrolled student, Mathis has taken tuition-free college-credit courses in cooperation with SCC.
"I've saved time and money," said Mathis of Sylva. "Plus, it's been a wonderful opportunity for me to learn to manage my time better."
Her friend Shandell Pannell, also of Sylva, wanted to do something different, rather than just regular high school. "I didn't want so many years of college either so dual enrollment was perfect for me," said Pannell, who, like Mathis, will receive her associates in arts degree from SCC in May and her Smoky Mountain High School diploma in June.
"The experience helped prepare me for when I go to Western Carolina University," said Pannell. "I will already know what it is like to take college courses."
Cindy Thompson, SCC's College Access liaison, confirmed that dual enrollment works best for the student who is self motivated, independent and willing to work hard.
Hannah Caplinger of Sylva is a dual-enrollment student. "I'm a pretty independent person and dualenrollment does give you a lot of independence."
"At the same time, this program has given Hannah a sense of community; she really found her niche on SCC's campus," said her mother, Kristen Caplinger.
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"It's the only class I ever took where you can get an A for rock climbing!" said this student who lives in Whittier.
Griffin was able to get all of his general education courses completed so when he transfers to Carson Newman he can concentrate on his major - biochemistry. What transfers with him is a 4.0 grade point average and 35 course hours in the honors program.
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Boland decided on the dual-enrollment route because she has always been an ambitious person. "But I didn't think I was any good at chemistry…then I took Intro to Chemistry, liked it so well I went on take organic and bio chemistry."
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A man killed Sunday night in rollover accident on Interstate-70 had been reported to troopers as a drunk driver just three minutes before he died.
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He was pronounced dead on scene. Officials say alcohol was a factor. The victim in the crash is a Mexican National and state patrol is having a hard time finding his family. He was not wearing a seatbelt.
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Shirou Kotomine (シロウ・コトミネ, Shirō Kotomine?) is the Master of Assassin of Red in the Great Holy Grail War of Fate/Apocrypha and the Ruler-class Servant of the Einzbern Master in the Third Holy Grail War. He later contracts with Caster of Red, Archer of Red, Lancer of Red, Rider of Red, and Caster of Black.
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Shirou's real identity is Amakusa Shirou Tokisada (天草 四郎 時貞, Amakusa Shirō Tokisada?), the teenage leader of the Shimabara Rebellion. Born in the Edo period, he was a boy of miracles who could nearly be called a saint.
The Shimabara RebellionEdit
The rulers of the land, the Matsukura clan had drastically raised the taxes causing famine and overtaxation to the people. This action forced the weak to fall in despair as they were unable to even resist. As they continued to be exploited, the people found salvation in Christianity, the words filled with love that couldn't be defeated by starvation, poverty or despair. However the Matsukura clan tried to take even that from them. For them it was no longer exploitation but it was murder. The people were provoked and they rose up and revolted. They feared of having their right to live taken away overcame their fear of dying in battle. Amongst them was Shirou Tokisada Amakusa, a young boy at the time. Nobody knew whether his presence there was a coincidence or the will of God, but before anyone realized it, Shirou was leading them. Their battle should have no defeat and no victory either. Because by rising up, they were both losers and victors at the same time. All they had left was the power to rise up, however the act of rising up itself was a necessary act. They rose up for the sake of what they believed in—that in itself was important and what they wished for. They believed the sacrifices would be kept to a minimum, and even if several people including themselves became sacrifices, the world wouldn't die, but would instead be reborn.
Shirou brought forth a miracle, he utilized the power of the Counter Force in order for the possibility of victory that should have been impossible. In his own words, he was granted miraculous power granted by God because God will occasionally exercise malice due to good will. Shirou led the defense of Hara Castle, and defeated the strongest of the Shogunate attackers in a series of coordinated defensive surges. Unfortunately, Shirou attained victory. Everyone went wild and became excited over the victory. They clung to Shirou, who had won a battle where victory should have been impossible, as a child of miracles. That foolish purity of theirs troubled the boy. Shirou believed they shouldn't have won. Winning was not an option. He had been caught up in saving lives in the near future and averted his eyes from the bigger picture. They may bite a cornered cat—but after being bitten, the enraged cat would retaliate by slaughtering them.
After his rebellion ultimately failed, Shirou was sentenced to execution by decapitation. Before his death, Shirou felt he was naïve and he witnessed a scene like hell as his comrades were slowly killed off. The decapitated heads of the elderly, men butchered up like experimental animals, babies pierced by spears, girls raped in the pursuit of lust and then thrown away afterwards. He was convinced that the countless lives gathered were not taken away by the enemy but by himself. Shirou without once changing expression, accepted this result with a will of steel and it made him impossible to yield and give up. He merely gazed at this scene of ruin. He revealed no resignation or sorrow and even overcame the pain of his dismembered arms. He accepted that he had lost, the responsibility for his comrades death and his inevitable death. But the one thing he couldn't accept was that everything would fall to ruins after this. He couldn't accept it. After having wasted so many lives, he absolutely could not accept that nothing would be gained as a result.
"So, God. Give me another chance. Next time, I won't lose sight of the bigger picture. I will eliminate all obstacles, enemies and hardships in my way. Next time, I will obtain all the good in the world. A world where everyone is happy, everyone is good, and everyone is perfect. I will exterminate all evil and create a new, pure world."
—Shirou Tokisada Amakusa's last prayer
Differing from the timeline of Fate/stay night's Third Holy Grail War where the Einzbern family summoned the Avenger-class Angra Mainyu, they abuse one of the systems installed in the Greater Grail and brought forth Shirou as a Ruler-class Servant who was meant to be an impartial authority whom regulated the progress of the War.[3] The Einzberns wished to call forth a proper Heroic Spirit befitting of the Ruler class rather than some nameless Eastern hero. However the act of summoning a Ruler was already a severe interference in the normal operating format of the Holy Grail War so he was a compromise with the advantage of his Command Spells.
As the third war drew to a close, the Einzberns clearly stood closer than any other to the Greater Grail. Shirou had fought to the death against the Servant Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia had summoned. However Darnic successfully stolen the Greater Grail, the only survivors in Fuyuki City were Shirou and Risei Kotomine. While his Master was killed in action, Shirou remained materialized due to Shirou having come into contact with the Greater Grail and managing to receive flesh. Risei questions about Shirou's future plans, Shirou lied to Risei about giving up on the Greater Grail but he plans to travel around the world. He had joined with the Church thanks to Risei's connections. He adopted Risei's surname, though he remained distant from Risei's own son. Taking up a position in the Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament, there was little information left to be gleamed about him from those who would search for it.
As the Mage's Association decided to seek one Master from the Church in order to have their involvement prove the legitimacy of their cause, Shirou was dispatched by the Church's Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament as one of the Masters of the Red Faction. He gathered with five of the other Masters of the Red Faction, and he used an unknown method to manipulate them into allowing him to control their Servants. He summoned Assassin of Red as his Servant, and she asked him, "Not for naught am I known as the world's oldest poisoner... Are you truly certain that you can wield Queen Semiramis?" He replied to her with, "O Queen of Assyria - in this Great Holy Grail War, I aim not for victory or defeat but for another goal. Will you aid me?" Although initially worried over his strange nature, she eventually came to greatly respect him and decided to aid him without hesitation.
Shirou appears to be a tanned-skinned youth with white hair like silver and with dark ageless eyes. He wears the vestments of a priest and a golden cross around his neck. His vestment is a type of a red holy shroud and he wore a red stole over his cassock. He has an innocent, boyish face showing that he has yet to have aged past twenty years of age. Though incarnated decades ago, Left Hand - Xanadu Matrix has granted him his still youthful appearance. He is eternally seventeen years old despite he is over seventy years old. He hasn't emotionally matured regardless of how much knowledge and experience he has gained.[4] His body is covered in scars and he has two Command Spells on his chest, the seals are very similar to Kirei Kotomine.
In his Servant form, he has long hair tied into a ponytail. His clothing is a mixture of traditional samurai outfit with European influence. He wears a jinbaori style haori with Christianity crosses decorated on them. He wears a tradition umanori hakama with Shin guards which had cloth straps that were used to tie the Shin guards to the lower leg. He wears a collar shirt underneath his Kimono and a Cravat tied around his collar.
Personality Edit
In his lifetime, Shirou walked the path of suffering and despair. He and his comrades fought for their faith and beliefs, and in return, they failed and died. He once hated everything, from God to humans. He claims that he hated humans, not because they had killed him or his comrades, but how humanity easily accepted it as a repeating system in history where life is priceless yet has no value. He finds humanity to be just like Ouroboros, eating themselves in order to grow. Shirou admitted to his failure, his mortality and his guilt. So, he forsook his heart filled with hatred, for the sake of humankind's salvation. He claims he doesn't hate humanity anymore, and that he will save the current six billion people and the people from past and future. He desires to make use of the Holy Grail to fulfill his own ambition. He simply wished the happiness of all mankind, for innate goodness to be found in the heart of all humanity and the annihilation of Angra Mainyu: All the Evils of the World.
Shirou appears to be a benign man with an innocent smile; he is in actuality a manipulator who would destroy his adversary with no hesitation in order to fulfill his own ambition. He is essentially a character who looks light on the outside and has a darker personality inside.[5] Kairi sees him as being overly judicious given his supposed age.
Role Edit
Shirou is sent by the Church to observe the Holy Grail War as the overseer and to participate as one of the Masters of the Red Faction. He takes control of the five puppet Masters, and he and Assassin are the ones present for the summonings of Archer of Red and Rider of Red. Pretending to provisionally act as the mediator for the other Servants, Rider and Archer are wary of their Masters not showing themselves and of his presence. Caster of Red has oppositely taken to calling him Master. Upon the arrival of Kairi Sisigou and the summoning of Saber of Red, he uses one of Assassin's dove familiars to deliver a message requesting a meeting. He calmly introduces himself upon their arrival, but both are not trusting of him. He requests that Saber be materialized, and he is surprised when he cannot tell of her identity with his ability as Ruler.
He has Assassin reveal herself and begins to discuss the situation of the war. Showing the collected parameters of the Black Faction's Servants, he gives his speculation on the likelihood of Lancer of Black being Vlad III. He confirms that Lancer of Red and Rider have the strength to oppose Black Lancer. Though he tries to get Kairi to reveal the name of Saber, Kairi declines and decides to act alone instead of with the group. Though somewhat troubled by the situation, he agrees to provide Kairi with information on the proceedings of the war as the two leave. Disappointed that they felt suspicious and of being unable to see through Secret of Pedigree, Shirou rejects Assassin's idea of sending an agent after them. Dealing with them as allies until the Black Faction's defeat is in their best interest, so he instead moves onto the topic of the completion of Hanging Gardens of Babylon in three days' time.
They are interrupted moments later by the arrival of Caster, chanting a line from Richard III. When Shirou is unable to identify the line, Caster exaggeratedly laments that he cannot believe Shirou hasn't read one of his greatest works, giving him "The Works of William Shakespeare." As discussion with Assassin brings him back to seriousness, he reveals that Berserker of Red has begun a march on the enemy. Shirou is relatively clam compared to Assassin's shock, and immediately has Assassin send orders for Archer to pursue him in an attempt to stop him, though very unlikely. He thinks that trying to stop Berserker with Command Spells would only delay the inevitable now that he has found his target, so he has Archer back him up instead.
Shirou must work as the overseer in keeping the supernatural away from the public eye, so he must follow Berserker's path to deal with onlookers. Berserker does not dematerialize, so he will be kept busy for the two day march. Telling Caster to stay out of trouble, he tries to encourage him by telling him that the coming war will satisfy his love of stories. As Berserker reaches the stronghold, he returns to the other Master and feeds them false information about the nature of the war. Telling them that the Red Faction has only two Servants left and that the escaped Masters have been caught, he urges them to relinquish full control of the Servants to him due to it being no longer necessary for them. They are still unable to accept his proposal, believing it to be too dangerous, so he takes his leave of them. He returns to Assassin, having bet a bottle of wine over an acceptable outcome, so he plans to set other things into motion.
He asks if the wine, a bottle obtained from an elder of the Eighth Sacrament, is an acceptable prize, but she simply wants it for the "taste of wealth." They muse over the nature of kings, causing Shirou to become amused as it appears to him that it would be more suitable for him to have been the Servant and she the Master. As she jokingly asks if he would like to switch places, he declines while noting her nature as a despot in life, and they repeat their words from her summoning. She mentions that his words at the time were strange enough to want her to search out a person to become her Master instead, but later became greatly interested. They receive notice that Berserker has almost arrived, noting that Rider has also joined them. They also receive notice of Ruler's arrival, of whom Shirou is most cautious. While not hating her, he feels she is one who's existence must be crushed, so he dispatches Lancer of Red to kill her after deciding that Rider would not willingly accept the task.
Other appearancesEdit
In Fate/strange fake, he is mentioned in the opening of Rider narration. It is said that if the Holy Grail War had existed when Shirou lived, he may have even been able to summon his more powerful future self, an icon of heroism.
Shirou Tokisada Amakusa was summoned as a Ruler-class, he was a figure whom had been as close to a 'Saint' as you could possibly find in the Far East, the sainthood of this tragic youth had never been recognized. He possesses two Noble Phantasm, Left Hand - Xanadu Matrix and Right Hand - Evil Eater. Due to the unique nature of his Noble Phantasm, his arms are connected to the Thaumaturgy foundation (魔術基盤, Majutsu Kiban?) which allows him to effectively use any sort of Magecraft with its Almighty Key (万能鍵, Bannō Kagi?).[1] Shirou was neither outstanding in combat nor proficient in Magecraft to the level of a Caster-class Servant, but he continued to win, and survive, in the Third Holy Grail War. He was ever heedful and never gambled, fulfilling his duties even as he thoroughly cemented his defenses. His speed was beyond abnormal, he can easily exceed sixty kilometers per meter as he ran.
As a Ruler class, he gains True Name Discernment (真名看破, Shin Mei Kanpa?) class skill. Status information such as the true identity, Skill and Parameters is automatically revealed when he directly encounters Servant.[1] There are certain limits, Servants with hiding capacity such as Saber of Red's Noble Phantasm Secret of Pedigree can mask out her identity, however it depends on his luck level to bypass this.[1] As he was dispatched by the Church with the duty of being the overseer of this Great Holy Grail War, he possessed the Spirit Board (霊器盤, Reiki Ban?) that was given to the overseer and could perfectly grasp the state of all fourteen Servants. As his "True Name Discernment" skill makes him need to directly encounter Servants to see their status, Shirou must rely on Spirit Board to track down any Servants and learn their identity. It was particular useful when Saber of Black had committed suicide and Shirou suspected something was odd since his name wasn't entirely gone from the board.
While he holds a Magic Resistance (対魔力, Tai-Maryoku?) skill equivalent to a strong Saber-class, he does not cope with the sacraments of the church.[1]
God's resolution (神明議決, Shinmei Giketsu?) is the highest privilege for the Ruler class skill. Normally Ruler-class would possess two Command Spells for each Servants that participated in the Holy Grail War. However as Shirou isn't a participant of the Greater Grail War, this skill has been lost.[1] As he participated as a Master, he only has three command spells for Assassin of Red. While he leads the Red Faction, he made sure that the Red faction Servant don't interact or meet with their respective Master. While he could steal the command spells by cutting their arm but Shirou decided to avoid this method. The reason is that he wants to avoid lying to Lancer of Red who was excel at perceiving deceptions. This is the main reason why he'd manipulated the red faction Masters into his puppet, so they could peacefully hand over the three command spells of their Servants and provide enough Magical Energy until his connection to the Greater Grail. Eventually he obtained their Command Spells, his arm was engraved with eighteen Command Spells of Archer, Lancer, Rider, Berserker, Caster and Assassin.
Revelation (啓示, Keiji?) is a personal skill equivalent to "Instinct". Instinct is a sixth sense regarding battles, but "Revelation" accommodates all matters related to the achievement of a goal (for instance, choosing the most suitable path while traveling). Because there is no basis (so he thinks), it cannot be explained well to others.[1]
Charisma (カリスマ, Karisuma?) is the natural talent to command an army. Although he cannot run a nation, he can share those with his like-minded and strong ties comrades to death. Thanks to his charisma, it is possible to make others believe in the contents of the "Revelations" skills without basis.[1]
Baptism Rite (洗礼咏唱, Senrei Eishō?) is a type of magecraft that changed style into a church form. It is effective on a spiritual body. By linking his two Noble Phantasm, it is even possible to make a Servant go through a sublimation process.[1] His Baptism Rite was extraordinarily powerful that it wasn't possible for a human. He used this chant on the nameless monster, who had once been Lancer of Black and Darnic Prestone Yggdmillennia. The nameless monster very existence was melting away as he began to emit white smoke, the vampire evaporated away right down to the final fragment of himself.
As part of the Church's Assembly of the Eighth Sacrament, Shirou is skilled at using Black Keys (黒鍵, Kuro Kagi?). These were the thrown-type Conceptual Weapons favored by agents of the Church and they were strong enough to purify Dead Apostles but the power of his Black Keys was far too extraordinary and abnormal. The Black Keys were particular useful against the Nameless vampire. He is seen capable of running and throwing four Black Keys without even looking back when he used it to slow down Berserker of Black.
He is an adept swordsman and he wields the enchanted Miike Tenta Mitsuyo when Black Keys aren't effective against his opponents. Shirou's sword technique is average, but he manages to fight extremely well due to his Noble Phantasms.
In the Type-Moon franchise, he was first mentioned in the opening of Rider's narration in Fate/strange fake.
Creation and ConceptionEdit
Before Nasu wrote Fate/stay night, he claims he was a big fan of Samurai Resurrection, which involved battles between dead historical figures from around Japan.[6] Shirou Tokisada Amakusa was the major antagonist in Samurai Resurrection who commands the historic dead. The character Shirou Kotomine was planned by Nasu, Takeuchi and Higashide, but the character development was written by Nasu.[5] Ototsugu Konoe explains that he had troubled over designing Shirou in terms of balancing him in various ways but he believes he succeeded well with the final design. He further claims that he is interested in Kotomine's family home life like in this universe.[4]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - STATUS: Ruler, p.016-017
Class: Ruler
Master: None
True name: Shirou Amakusa Tokisada
Gender: Male
Height/Weight: 169cm/59kg
Alignment: Lawful Good
Strength: C
Endurance: C
Agility: B
Magic: A
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: D
Class Skills
■ Magic Resistance: A
■ True Name Discernment: B
■ God's resolution: -
Personal Skills
■ Revelation: A
■ Charisma : C-
■ Baptism Sacrament: B+
Noble Phantasms
■ Right Hand - Evil Eater: Right Arm - Wickedness Predation
Left Hand - Xanadu Matrix: Left Arm - Foundation of Heaven's Blessing
Rank: D
Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
Range: 1 Person
Maximum number of targets: 1 Person
■ 神明議決:-
■ 右腕・悪逆捕食
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - CHARACTER Profile: Shirou Kotomine, p.050-053 [T]
Shirou Kotomine - Real name: Shirou Tokisada Amakusa
- Height: 169cm
- Weight: 59kg
- Blood type: Unknown
- Birthday: Unknown
- Talents: Baptism Rite
- Likes: Humanity
- Dislike: Uncontrollable People
- Image colour: Silver-grey
- Enemy: Jeanne d'Arc, Sieg
Comment from Yuichiro Higashide & Ototsugu Konoe
シロウ・コトミネ - 真名:天草四郎時貞
- 身長:169cm
- 体重:59kg
- 血液型:不明
- 誕生日:不明
- 特技:洗礼咏唱
- 好きなもの:人類
- 苦手なもの:暴走する人間
- イメージカラー:銀灰色
- 天敵:ジャンヌ・ダルク、ジーク
Comment from Yuichiro Higashide & Ototsugu Konoe
- Height: 169cm
- ↑
[] Fate/Apocrypha material - Encyclopedia: Shirou Kotomine [Servant], p.171-172
Shirou Kotomine [Servant]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1
[] Apocrypha material - Shirou Kotomine, p.018-019 [T]
Shirou Kotomine
Talk about Shirou Kotomine
Higashide: The greatest problem child in Apocrypha, Shirou Kotomine. Even though he looks like this, he's over seventy years old, but in the first place, he hasn't emotionally matured regardless of how much knowledge and experience he has gained, so he's an eternal seventeen-year-old. He'll appear in a special form in the fifth volume, so please look forward to it!
Konoe: I had to wrack my brain over how to properly balance him in terms of design in various ways, but I feel that I've mostly succeeded well with the design I ended up with. So, just what is the Kotominesan's family home life like in this universe? I'm really interested in that!
Talk about Shirou Kotomine
- ↑ 5.0 5.1
[] Fate/Apocrypha miscellaneous notes
Summary of unsorted interview notes from various magazines including Comptiq and Newtype:
- The ligh novel was greenlit by Nasu, as supervisor, Higashide as writter and Konoe as illustrator art.
- David, St.George, Kintoki Sakata & Musashibo Benkei were scrapped by Kinoko Nasu's idea.
- Nasu said these servants doesn't fit into plot and they were replaced by four new servants instead.
- Chiron, Avicebron & Achilles were designed by Takeuchi & Nasu, illustrated by Konoe in charge of character design.
- Mordred is the culture of festival achievement thanks from TYPE MOON fanbase.
- Addition of Mordred into F/A was Takeuchi's idea and Nasu agreed.
- Mordred was orginally to be male but Nasu feel that having two male characters look feminine (the other being Astolfo) would be too much.
- However, Mordred as a male was not Nasu's claim of actual fact. In truth, Nasu didn't decided for final Mordred's gender since Fate/Stay Night until Fate/Apocrypha. Which mean Mordred was "genderless" in F/SN.
- After the project of online game was scrapped, Nasu said that all servants are too ridiculous powerful and might bored if the player's powerful servant was facing against other player's powerful servant. It's like a hax.
- The online game was based on Infamous 2's gameplay style.
- Nasu & Takeuchi were laughing about more Saber clone. In fact, Mordred is the real clone of Saber (Artoria), so the wish has come true for those people who still saying about Saber clone.
- Karna is Nasu's favorite servant. Karna's popularity has been skyrocket thanks to Fate/Extra CCC.
- Astolfo is Konoe's favourite servant. He is symbol mascot of Fate/Apocrypha. Higashide can't even tell if this is comfortable or not since Astolfo is dude.
- Yggdmillennia, Sisigou & Kotomine Shirou were planned by Nasu, Takeuchi & Higashide.
- Higashide wrote all Sisigou, Reika & Black camp's character development, while Homunculus, Kotomine Shirou & four new servants's character development was already written by Nasu.
- Nasu said that Shirou is basically a character who look to have "light outside and darker inside" personality. Uncanny different trait from Kirei.
- Homunculus (Sieg) was Nasu & Takeuchi's idea. Nasu wanted introduce male homunculus in Fate series for the first time.
- Takeuchi & Konoe said Homunculus looks cute but dense person.
- Takeuchi stated Homunculus & Jeanne are his new favorite characters, along with Artoria.
- Interviewer mention about why Takeuchi like Homunculus. He reply "It's a secret" due it will trigger the spoiler.
- Jeanne is based on real french student girl according to Takeuchi. She was at same college where Takeuchi studied, before he met someone as model of Arcueid Brunestud's design from Tsukhime come to his mind.
- The difference between Artoria & Jeanne is sex appeal. Which is already explained in TYPE MOON April Fool 2012, where Heroine X (Artoria) in furious when she heard that Jeanne's sex appeal is better than her.
- Tsukihime is Higashide's favorite visual novel.
- Nasu stated homunculus like Mordred can summoned as Heroic Spirit despite not human being.
- The rules of magecraft in Apocrypha universe are same as in Fate/Stay Night & Fate/Zero except that there is no rule of Ruler classes.
- Ruler's duty is protect the Holy Grail and oversee the battle.
- Interviewer asked Nasu & Higashide about why Jeanne hijack Leticia's body rather than ritual summon. Nasu stated it was something broke the rule of HGW and corrupted the system.
- Nasu mention the first servant who hijack human body is Avenger, Angra Mainyu from Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. Who control Emiya Shirou's body and mind since he has no body but void form. The theory that come from Rin Tohsaka was correct.
- Roa from Tsukihime was also can hijack the human body (Ciel & Tohno SHIKI) but reincarnation soul while he was in Akasha.
- Nasu & Higashide admit it was silly idea in the first place. But they wanted Jeanne to have some disadvantages/weakness for herself due she was powerful servant and might kinda "boring" if she summoned as spirit form. (Avoid fan calling her a mary sue).
- Which mean any servant can hijack the human body while in critical condition but it's rarely.
- Karna's background story has been altered in comparison to his original myth in Mahabrarat. This means, Karna is Nasu!Karna, not Myth!Karna which we know.
- The rule of summoning Ruler is who can guide the war during in his/her past and a sainthood(?) as specific condition. Only one Ruler class is summoned in one war. The this system works in Apocrypha universe only.
- St.George was remove because of this. Karna, however he refuse refer himself a saint and a killing machine who can kill God, summoned as Lancer class instead.
- The Greater Grail force summon the servant as Ruler when met the condition completed.
- If Jeanne is summoned in different universe without rules of Ruler, her class will be obviously Saber. She still will be summoned as Ruler if the mishap of war affected the result in different universe.
- Jeanne was first mention in Kara no Kyoukai's light novel reference: Mikiya Kokutou mentions her when he was discussing about Heroic Spirits who utilized the power of the Counter Force.
- While the design for Jeanne wasn't made during the production of the Fate/Zero novels, the design was completed around the time of the anime adaptation.
- ↑ TYPE-MOON History


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It's not unusual for teens to spend their summers at camp. But Jacob Baldwin and Carah Austin have done something different — they've been running their own camps to address very different needs in their communities.
This year, Jacob, 16, of Carmel, started Operation Safeguard, a disaster-preparedness camp. It grew out of his involvement with Project K.I.D., a national project that creates play areas for children involved in disasters.
By comparison, Carah, 16, of Whiteland, is a camp veteran. This is the fourth summer for her History Makers of the Future camp, a daylong program for elementary students to experience the rich history of Madison, Ind.
Both Jacob and Carah were 2009 Power of Children award winners, recognized by The Children's Museum of Indianapolis for their service to others, and they have put a lot of thought into their camps. Jacob came across Project K.I.D. several years ago when he was looking for inspiration for his Eagle Scout project. "I was hoping to do something more than just the generic project," he explained. "I like to be effective in the community and work where there actually is a need."
Jacob was introduced to Lenore Ealy of Carmel, who co-founded Project K.I.D. after Hurricane Katrina when she saw that emergency responders had no plan for caring for children whose parents were busy either helping emergency crews or finding resources for their own families. "Dr. Ealy is one of two women who went down to the south looking to help and they discovered that FEMA and most other large disaster response organizations don't pay any special attention to children of disasters," he said.
For his Scout project, Jacob created a portable "play care" center to cordon off a safe area for children. But he remained involved in Project K.I.D., wanting to find a way to involve more children in disaster preparedness.
"I had the idea to do something really big that gets youth involved, a challenge of some kind or just some kind of big event that really gets the word out and maybe has a high impact," he said.
For Carah, the inspiration for History Makers started first with Find a Book a Home, a book collection project she founded to thank King's Daughters' Hospital in Madison for helping her battle spinal meningitis when she was young. "History Makers kind of branched off that because I wanted to continue to help the little kids with their educations."
While both camps were initiated by teens, they differ in many ways. Operation Safeguard is a weeklong camp in Indianapolis designed to train middle- and high-school students to be prepared to respond to disasters in their communities. History Makers is a one-day camp to help incoming fourth-graders in Whiteland learn more about state history, as the state Department of Education requires.
For History Makers, Carah and about 10 other mentors take 60 students to Madison to visit many of its well-preserved historic sites. The students are selected by their third-grade teachers, who determine who would most benefit from the trip, which starts early on a June morning.
But preparations start long before that. Carah spends much of the year before planning the itinerary, finding corporate sponsors and donors to cover expenses, and recruiting other teens and adults to serve as guides and mentors. In Madison, the kids are split up into smaller groups and visit numerous historic sites and engage in a full day of activities. "They seem to have a good time, and I know I have a good time," she said. "I know a lot of them are a lot more confident now because they got chosen for the program, and it really helped them get a head start on their Indiana history."
While Operation Safeguard stayed in one place, it kept campers busy, too. Based on the Be Ready Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., it involved training from emergency workers. But Jacob also added a community relations component so that campers could "pay it forward."
Thoughout the week, campers were taught to set goals and then to come up with plans to prepare their own communities for disaster in some way, such as by disseminating first-aid kits. Jacob said one eighth-grader came up with a stellar plan: "to find the $25,000 or so that it would cost to do another Operation Safeguard."
Like Carah, Jacob had to find funds and support for his camp. Park Tudor donated facilities, and the state Division of Homeland Security, Marion County Emergency Management Agency and The Children's Museum also contributed.
Both Carah and Jacob say that they have gained a lot from their projects.
Carah says she has better personal skills because of History Makers. "It's definitely helped me with planning things and becoming more organized," she said. She also said that her involvement has convinced her that she wants to work with kids, possibly as a pediatrician.
Jacob also benefited from his project. He said his communications skills have improved, primarily due to his efforts to get donations. Additionally, he said it's put him in touch with people he admires. "I've met some of the role models of my life," he said.
But the biggest satisfaction is helping to prepare younger children for the challenges that lay ahead, whether in schoolwork or life, they agreed.
"It was rewarding that the partners and I have been able to inspire the kids to really believe that they could make a difference," Jacob said.
Contributing to this story were Matthew Stubbs, 17, assistant editor, Nyssa Qiao, 10, reporter.
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Eagles flirting with wrong side of history
Following Saturday's 55-14 loss at East Carolina, Southern Miss fell to 0-6 this season and has now lost 18 straight games, which is the longest active losing streak in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Only 16 times has a Division I program ever lost 20 or more games in a row.
Northwestern lost 34 straight from 1979-82. Virginia (28), Kansas State (28), New Mexico State (27) and Eastern Michigan (27) round out the top five. Temple (2004-06), TCU (1974-75) and Florida State (1972-74) each lost 20 consecutive games.
Mullens sees increased playing time
True freshman quarterback Nick Mullens' playing time in Saturday's loss to East Carolina may have come when the game was out of reach, but Southern Miss coach Todd Monken said after the game that the plan was for the Hoover, Ala., native to play more, regardless of the situation.
The 6-foot-1, 188-pounder played well at times, completing 9 of 17 passes for 97 yards and two touchdowns. Mullens also threw an interception, but the spike in playing time could be a sign of things to come. He also had five rushes for 14 yards Saturday.
Defense? What defense?
Prior to the season, the Southern Miss defense was touted as the strength of the team. And it has played well in a few games this year.
But two weeks ago against one of the worst teams statistically in the country, FIU, the Golden Eagle defense gave up 24 points to a team that hadn't scored more than 13 all season.
And on Saturday, East Carolina racked up 55 on Southern Miss defense, gaining 476 yards on offense in the process. It's the third time the Golden Eagles have given up at least that many yards to an opponent.


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12/9/12 JACKSON, PERRY was arrested for DUI and driving on a suspended license on Lighthouse/Hoffman. Welch
12/9/12 Victim reports being battered at 724 Abrego Street. Mosqueda
12/9/12 SCHMIIDT, YVONNE was arrested for providing a false name during a traffic stop. Additional charges of Driving While Suspended and Possession of Methamphetamine. Brogdon
12/9/12 BERWICK, JOHN was arrested for battery resulting in serious bodily injury in the 400 block of Alvarado Street. Mosqueda
12/9/12 SCHMIDT, YVONNE was arrested for an outstanding felony warrant while in custody for case No. 12-5962. Brogdon
12/9/12 Domestic dispute. Olney
12/9/12 RODRIGUEZ, CHRISTINE was arrested for delaying / obstructing a police investigation at 400 Cannery Row. O'Neill
12/9/12 Victim in the 500 block of Larkin St. reported suspect to have broken the passenger side mirror of her vehicle. Vanetti
12/9/12 Welfare contact. Galin
12/9/12 Injury traffic collision at the intersection of Del Monte and the Navy Gate. Oelfke
12/9/12 Domestic dispute. Vanetti
12/9/12 Interrupted residential burglary reported in the 1600 block of Via Isola, investigation continues. Kopp
12/9/12 GUICE, STEPHEN was cited for driving on a suspended license for DUI at Franklin/Washington. Holley
12/9/12 [JUVENILE 1] and [JUVENILE 2] were cited and released for shoplifting while at Del Monte Shopping Center. Oelfke
12/9/12 Victim reported a violation of a criminal protective order to have occurred via telephone. Calvert
12/9/12 MPD documented suspicious circumstances in the 600 block of Spencer St. Calvert
12/9/12 Victim reported the rear license plate stolen from her vehicle while it was parked at the Del Monte Shopping Center or possibly while in Carmel. Brogdon
12/9/12 Victim in the 1100 block of Second St. reported a burglary to her residence. Related to case No. 12-5984. Welch
12/9/12 HUO, XIAOXIA was arrested for domestic battery in the 2000 block Del Monte Ave. Ruttschow
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The Indiana State Police meth investigation team Wednesday again responded to a possible meth lab in Bluffton, after a caller reported smelling the substance near a shed at 705 Cedar Road in the Mobile Manor mobile home park.
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Posted By Barry Ritholtz On January 24, 2013 @ 4:30 pm In Financial Press | Comments Disabled
My afternoon reads:
• 10 Secrets About Wall Street's New Top Cop (The Fiscal Times [1]) see also Obama sends tough prosecutor to police Wall Street (MarketWatch [2])
• Irrational Pessimism Eats Away at Apple Stock (The Fiscal Times [3])
• Buffett pulls ahead in wager against hedge funds (Fortune [4])
• The looming currency war (Reuters [5]) see also Japan spurs talk of currency war (CNNMoney [6])
• Microsoft Holds More Than Meets the Eye (WSJ [7])
• Debt-to-GDP and Misdiagnosing a Bubble Economy's Ills (Iacono Research [8])
• How Fed Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zero (Bloomberg [9]) see also Economists Give Abenomics Early Thumbs Up (Japan Realtime [10])
• Tax-Boost Bark Is Worse Than Bite (WSJ [11])
• Will you leave your job to join the sharing economy? (Venture Beat [12])
• Aetna CEO: We Use Google to Track Flu Outbreaks (PC Mag [13])
What are you reading?
The Most Important Graph on the Deficit
Source: Next New Deal [15]
Article printed from The Big Picture: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog
URL to article: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/01/10-thursday-pm-reads-50/
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[1] The Fiscal Times: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/01/24/10-Secrets-About-Wall-Streets-New-Top-Cop.aspx#page1
[2] MarketWatch: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sec-pick-sends-a-message-to-wall-street-2013-01-24
[3] The Fiscal Times: http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/01/24/Irrational-Pessimism-Eats-Away-at-Apple-Stock.aspx#page1
[4] Fortune: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/24/buffett-hedge-fund-bet/
[5] Reuters: http://blogs.reuters.com/nicholas-wapshott/2013/01/23/the-looming-currency-war/
[6] CNNMoney: http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/23/investing/japan-currency-war/index.html?iid=Lead
[7] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323854904578260173162093966.html
[8] Iacono Research: http://iaconoresearch.com/2013/01/24/debt-to-gdp-and-misdiagnosing-a-bubble-economys-ills/
[9] Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-23/how-fed-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-zero.html
[10] Japan Realtime: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2013/01/23/economists-give-abenomics-early-thumbs-up/
[11] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323854904578261893562996244.html
[12] Venture Beat: http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/21/will-you-leave-your-job-to-join-the-sharing-economy/
[13] PC Mag: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414629,00.asp
[14] Image: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/receipts.jpg
[15] Next New Deal: http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/most-important-graph-deficit
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3 Social Media Tools That Help Marketers Save Time
How much of your day is spent on recurring social media activities?
Are small tasks taking up too much of your time?
When you know where tools can help you most, you can decide which tools best suit your needs.
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Not every task is created equal. It would be so helpful to have an organizational tool that lets you work more efficiently and effectively, wouldn't it?
HootSuite, Sprout Social and SocialFlow are all tools that fill the bill. They help you streamline some of the more basic items on your daily list so you can have more time to spend on your growing to-do list.
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Managing your social media accounts can be a time- and resource-intensive endeavor.
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Are you looking for ways to use social media to advance your cause?
Non-profits have many of the same opportunities in social media as for-profit businesses—it's just a matter of altering the strategy.
Non-profits can focus their social efforts to drive awareness, share their story, cultivate donor relationships and open up two-way communication with advocates in ways never before possible.
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If you're running social media efforts for your business, there's a pretty good chance you've at least tried a free monitoring tool like TweetDeck.
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United Way's Ex-Leaders
Published: April 4, 1992
William Aramony
Mr. Aramony, who retired as president of the United Way in February, was born in Jewett City, Conn., on July 27, 1927. He attended Clark University in Worcester, Mass., from 1946 to 1949. He received a master of arts degree in social work at Boston College in 1951.
He was employed by several local community service organizations around the country from 1958 to 1970, when he became president of United Way of America. Thomas J. Merlo
Mr. Merlo, who was relieved of his duties as chief financial officer of United Way of America in February 1992, met Mr. Aramony in the 1960's when he was a volunteer at United Way in Miami, which Mr. Aramony ran at the time. The 61-year-old certified public accountant lives in Boca Raton, Fla. He served on the board and as treasurer of Professional Travel Systems, one of the companies created by United Way of America.
He also served on the board and was treasurer of another spinoff, Sales Service/America, but resigned on Feb. 4 under pressure after revelations about his legal and financial difficulties in Florida. United Way of America paid Mr. Merlo $211,000 in 1990, $40,000 more than his predecessor. Stephen J. Paulachak
Mr. Paulachak, 46, joined United Way of America in 1971 to help the accounting department make a smooth transition from the New York office to a new Washington office. He was chief financial officer of United Way of America from 1979 to 1983, after which Mr. Aramony named him senior vice president for special initiatives. He has been on the boards and held offices in four spinoffs, Charities Funds Transfer, Gifts in Kind, Partnership Umbrella and Professional Travel Systems.


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With the Sea Shepherd's latest campaign, Operation Waltzing Matilda, now over in the Southern Ocean, fans of the organization are looking forward to seeing an in-depth recap of the action on this year's Whale Wars series. For those, however, that want a taste of what to expect, one fan has put together a 22-minute long video with all of this year's greatest moments. It comes from both the Sea Shepherd and The Institute of Cetacean Research film clips uploaded during the campaign.
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Catholic school teachers march in Launceston over pay and conditions dispute
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- July 01, 2014
TEACHERS and staff from Catholic schools have marched in Launceston as part of a continuing dispute over pay and conditions.
Taking part today were about 150 staff from St Patrick's College and primary schools including St Thomas More's, Our Lady of Mercy Deloraine, St Finn Barr's, Sacred Heart Launceston, Star of the Sea George Town, and Larmenier.
Staff marched down Cameron St to Albert Hall as part of the four-hour stoppage.
Independent Education Union assistant secretary Angela Briant said the action was unprecedented.
"The point is for employers to understand the strong feeling so they come back to the table,'' she said.
One of the major sticking points is employers being able to cut back the number of weeks support staff, including teacher assistants, worked each year.
"Many of the teachers were supporting their colleagues,'' Ms Briant said.
Teachers and staff will march in Hobart tomorrow and Burnie on Thursday.
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John R.Wilson of Daisy Dell Posted at 6:07 PM July 01, 2014
There are so many school-age kids running amok on noisy ag-bikes and quad bikes, Peter (3.21). It didn't occur to me that they've all been wagging school, until now. Cheers ...
Peter James of Hobart Posted at 3:21 PM July 01, 2014
Just a little thing called "fact checking" Mr Wilson. I know, it's not something you're familiar with, but hey - give it a try! You might like it :)
John R.Wilson of Daisy Dell Posted at 3:13 PM July 01, 2014
Not on school holidays? Gosh, I must have got that wrong, Peter James (2.36). Thank goodness you're there to correct me ...


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If there's one word that best describes Tyler Hoover, it's "swoll."
Slang for "buff" or "muscular," the word represents dedication to the weight room and is mostly applied to jocks.
The word perfectly suits Hoover, a self-described "meathead." The sixth-year defensive tackle refuses to take himself seriously, using terms such as swoll to poke fun at himself and make his teammates chuckle.
Hoover anchors the middle of the Michigan State defensive line, providing a big, veteran presence on one of the best defenses in the nation. The Novi, Michigan native has witnessed first-hand the ascent of Spartan football in the Mark Dantonio era. Enrolling at MSU in January of 2008, Dantonio's second year, Hoover has been there for the triumphs and tribulations along the way.
This year has been one of the best for Hoover. He's been onboard for the team's Rose Bowl run and steered the Spartans in the right direction with his stellar play. In 10 starts this season, Hoover has 30 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and four sacks.
Hoover recently spoke with Hondo S. Carpenter, Sr. about his final game in an MSU jersey, his relationship with first-year defensive line coach Ron Burton and, of course, being swoll.
In a world of me first athletes Hoover is the exact opposite. He still plays football with a smile and realizes how fortunate he is to do it. Hondo recently said of Hoover, "In all of my years covering sports, Hoover is one of the top five best human beings that I have covered. A product of an amazing family, you forget how great he is on the gridiron, because of how amazing he is as a young man. I love that my son wears his jersey and idolizes him. Hoover is one of the good guys."
When Ron Burton was hired in February to replace former defensive line coach Ted Gill, a few critics expressed doubts about the transition. But fans' fears were quickly alleviated, as Burton became a perfect coach for an experienced and talented defensive line.
Burton brings a sense of energy and excitement every day, which earned the respect of his new players. Burton doesn't act like a 21-year coaching veteran; he's an enthusiastic teacher of the game. Hoover was immediately impressed.
"The character of that guy: he's an amazing person," Hoover said. "To have a role model, even if it was just for a year, like him is amazing. The amount of energy, the amount of love he puts into everything. You should see him when he comes into meetings, he's nailing on the table, he's the most pumped guy every day. To be hyped up about every single day of your work and thing you do is amazing."
Burton's coaching methods work, too. His defensive line has helped shut down the run for much of the season, as the Spartans currently rank first in the nation with 80.8 yards per game allowed on the ground.
So what's Burton's secret?
"He's great on technique, but with the coaching, it's repetitive," Hoover said. "If you don't get it the first time, he says, 'No, we're going back and we're going to do that again until you get it.' That's what he's taught me: it's that repetition. It takes constant, every day work to actually master a technique."
As a result, Burton has formed close relationships with many of his players. He has become a father figure for some, including Hoover.
"It's a relationship I'll have for the rest of my life," Hoover said. "That's what it comes down to. I'll know him for the rest of my life. I'll talk to him for the rest of my life. If I have any kind of situation I'm going through, he's one man I can call."
But in between serious meetings and intense practices, Hoover finds a way to enjoy himself. With his fun-loving personality, Hoover loves to keep things light, especially in practice.
"How we practice is a grind. We go live, we tackle each other, and we get after it. Some guys will be, 'Man, this is tough,' but I'm always laughing," Hoover said. "No joke, every play I'm smiling and laughing. I think when they hear me laughing and goofing off, even on a serious play, it's good be reminded that's it's just a game."
Unfortunately for the Spartan Nation, Hoover's time in East Lansing is dwindling. The sixth-year senior has just one game left in his Spartan career. His journey has had its ups and downs. Hoover missed the 2008 and 2011 seasons due to injury, but on the positive end has seen Michigan State beat Michigan five out of six times.
As far as goodbyes go, few compare to playing in the Granddaddy of Them All: the Rose Bowl.
The Spartans will face a great test in Hoover's final time in Green and White on Jan. 1. Led by senior running back Tyler Gaffney, Stanford has a bruising ground game that can run over the stoutest of defenses. But the Spartans are ready for the challenge. Hoover wouldn't have it any other way in his last game.
"It's amazing. You look at them, and they're from the Pac-12, but they're just like a Big Ten team," Hoover said. "They run power, they run inside zone, they come downhill. You'll actually see them get in a four-point stance with offensive linemen. They'll use their young offensive linemen as tight ends, it's amazing.
"It's going to be the frickin' bloodbath of the century. That's what we're waiting for and that's what our defense loves. We want a tough competition."