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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution has acquired French striker Dimitry Imbongo on a free transfer after coming up through TSV 1860 Munich's system. Imbongo will be officially added to the team pending the receipt of his U.S. P-1 Visa, and will count as an international player on the team's roster.
"Dimitry will give us another option up front and provide us with more depth in our attack," General Manager Michael Burns said. "When he was in training with us last month, he fit in well with our players and now we're looking forward to his arrival back to Foxboro this time on a permanent basis."
Imbongo, 22, joins the Revs after spending the 2011-12 season on loan from 1860 Munich to German third division club SV Darmstadt 98, where he made 13 appearances and had two assists.
He began his professional career with TSV 1860 Munich, moving up from its youth team to its reserve team. He played parts of four seasons (2008-09 to 2011-12) with TSV 1860 Munich II, the reserve side which plays in the lower levels of Germany's professional system.
After making his debut appearance with the reserves in 2009, he made 16 appearances and scored 16 goals while adding one assist in the 2009-10 season. Imbongo followed that with six goals and three assists in 25 appearances in 2010-11. Imbongo also played on 1860 Munich's Under-19 team, making 17 appearances and scoring two goals in 2008-09.
Transaction: New England Revolution (MLS) – Signed F Dimitry Imbongo
Full name: Dimitry Imbongo Boele
Pronunciation: dim-EE-tree im-BONG-go
Position: Forward
Date of Birth: March 28, 1990 (Kinshasa, Congo)
Hometown: Kinshasa, Congo
Height: 6-0
Weight: 160
Previous Club: 1860 Munich II (GER)
Nationality: France
Status: International
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Jennifer Mathis joins Sun City Hilton Head as director of technology and communication. Mathis joins the Community Association after five years as the director of community services for the Association of Landowners of Port Royal Plantation.
She previously worked as manager of operations for the Sea Pines Real Estate Company, vice president of organizational development for VeriSign and quality control manager for Hargray Information Systems International. She has a bachelor's in communication and a master's in management, graduating with honors and distinction.
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(Reuters) - A U.S. Government watchdog on Tuesday pointed to a spoof Star Trek video and use of luxury hotel rooms as examples of lavish spending by the Internal Revenue Service, adding to questions over the taxation agency's credibility after earlier accusations that it unfairly targeted conservative groups for scrutiny.
In a report that the IRS has already acknowledged as pointing out "inappropriate" spending, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration faulted the agency specifically for a 2010 conference in Anaheim, California, that cost $4.1 million.
Some of the funding for the conference came from unused funds originally intended for hiring enforcement employees, the head of the watchdog agency, J. Russell George, said in the report.
"Certain of the IRS's expenses associated with the Anaheim conference do not appear to be a good use of taxpayer funds," George said.
The IRS said in a statement that its spending for travel and training was down 80 percent since 2010 and there had been no conferences like the one in Anaheim for three years.
"Taxpayers should take comfort in knowing that these kinds of expenses are no longer permitted and such a conference would not take place today," it said.
The IRS said costs for large IRS conferences fell to $4.9 million in fiscal year 2012, from $37.6 million in 2010.
In the last month the IRS has had its top executive ousted by President Barack Obama and seen its reputation damaged after allegations that it targeted conservative political activists' applications for tax-exempt status for extra scrutiny.
On Tuesday, conservative political activists told a House of Representatives committee in emotional testimony that their groups were targeted by the IRS over the years.
Excerpts of the inspector general's report had been leaked in recent days. It was due to be discussed at a congressional hearing on Thursday.
The report found that the IRS spent $50,187 on videos for the Anaheim conference, including a Star Trek parody that featured IRS executives portraying characters from the television show in a tax-themed skit.
The IRS had said the purpose of the video was to highlight issues facing the Small Business/Self Employed Division of the agency, according to the report.
The report said high-end hotel suites were occupied by IRS executives at the conference. The division's commissioner, for example, stayed five nights in a suite with a private bedroom, living area, wet bar, and billiard table, it said.
IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel told a congressional panel on Monday he would clean up the agency. At least three congressional committees are investigating the agency, demanding reams of emails, correspondence and other documents.
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Hello. I sure am glad I finally found a live message board, maybe someone knows something about this. Three months ago, I noticed itching on my body, but nothing appeared to be there, I thought it was fleas as I have several cats as pets. Next, when I felt jumping and crawling sensations on my scalp and in my hair, and couldn't get rid of them, I thought it was head lice. When RID wouldn't get rid of them, I went to a doctor and was diagnosed with scabies when I told her how the mites would burrow beneath the skin, itch, and become more active at night. I had some areas on my body that had the hallmark red bumps that scabies causes, so I figured that's what it was. I've used Permethrin in attempts to treat the parasite to no effect. I've tried Permethrin several times, and Ivermectin on two separate occasions, still my entire body is covered with the mites.
Doctors say that what I describe cannot be scabies, scabies doesn't get in the eyes, on the scalp, it causes wounds whereas this isn't rejected by the skin. What's worst is the ability of this mite or worm to conceal itself, as I can no longer even get help from doctors who think I'm imagining this. The parasite mimics skin cells, and sheathes itself in the skin, where it poses as rough dry skin. It is very small, but large enough to be recognized with a magnifying glass. It can alter it's appearance, but generally looks like a translucent to white grain similar in shape to a scabies mite, but it also appears as a worm, yellowish-brown (perhaps trying to blend with my hairs). When agitated, the mite can project a dart from it's body - I believe it "shoots" some kind of thread like fiber from this dart...I don't know what for, very weird.
My right hand is in very bad shape, it is swollen (with the parasite) and the top layer of skin has been removed. This is the hand that I use most often to wipe the crawling bugs off of my skin, and to brush my hair. The mite goes inside the body and affects other organs, the extent of which I'm not sure. I'm experiencing nausea, weakness, loss of coordination and balance, tremors, numbness, muscle and joint aches, weight loss, twitching, nervousness, earache, and alot of eye discomfort. They've affected my vision, and everything appears foggy, or dim, and things seem to blink or flicker. I'm really worried and in agony from the persisting crawling (like an ant) and biting (like a flea), but I can do nothing about it. I've been to every hospital in the area, out of pocket because I have no insurance. Doctors won't take me seriously and I'm afraid that this stuff could be deadly. My grandmother recently contracted it, but she doesn't want to tell anyone for embarrassment. Any help would be great, I'm running out of hope that I'll ever have my life back.
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Be sure to check out the August issue of American Patchwork & Quilting (on newsstands now) for a wonderful profile featuring Me and My Sister Designs! Sisters Barb Groves and Mary Jacobson have been designing fabric and patterns together for over 15 years. I was lucky enough to spend two days photographing their wonderful homes and studios. We had so much fun together that it was hard to even call it "work!" Everything about this duo, from their personalities to the bright and cheerful colors they select for their fabric lines, exudes happiness. In fact, their new fabric line with Moda Fabrics (just introduced at International Quilt Market) is called Happy!
I just love the photo of Mary and Barb, below. It was one of our outtakes on the shoot, and to me it just sums up sisterly love:) When I asked them what is like to work with a sibling, they said that one of things they enjoy is that they can be completely honest with each other because they are sisters. I just love that answer!
After our fun at the photo shoots, Mary, Barb and their husbands took our photo crew out to dinner at a great place called San Tan Flat. If you are ever in the Phoenix area, be sure to stop by for some great food and entertainment. For dessert, we ordered S'mores kits and roasted our marshmallows in open fire pits while enjoying live entertainment. To top off the evening, we looked for scorpions with black lights in Barb's backyard. I had never seen a scorpion before and didn't quite believe them when they told me that they glow when they're underneath a black light. I just had to see it for myself and they were nice enough to indulge me:) After some searching, we finally found three scorpions and guess what…they do glow neon green! Don't ask me how, but it is a pretty cool sight to see.
So, that's a small peek into the behind-the-scenes fun I had with Me and My Sister Designs. I hope you enjoy their complete profile story and quilt Color Your World in our August issue of American Patchwork & Quilting. Below are a few more outtakes from the photo shoot. Our crew had a lot of fun posing with these cut-out boards (leftovers from Barb and Mary's 2009 booth at quilt market). Personally, I think our photographer Jason looks fabulous with long hair and a one-piece swimming suit!
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Thursday, April 04, 2013
How do you take your tea? Russian Revels and their Tea Horse tea
Although I like my coffee - a lot - I've been drinking more tea again recently. My tea-loving friends are to blame - first KAFO sent me nine jars of their just t's Black Label No X teas to try (I'm still in love with their Luxury Earl Grey tea that I used to me those dainty Earl Grey cookies). Then a Tallinn-born and London-based food blogger Katrina of The Gastronomical Me mentioned that she and her food-loving friend Karina have created a tea blend.
Tea blend? I knew that film stars, singers, models and such like always end up creating their own perfume, but apparently that's so old-fashioned. Nowadays you blend your own tea :D
Karina and Katrina together run a supper club in London, called The Russian Revels, hosting Russian feasts with Slavic generosity, Soviet attitude and British humour. These two Russians joined forces with London-based tea club Tea Horse and came up with their own tea blend, called "Russian Revels". The tea was included in the March 2013 taster box:
"A bright Ceylon Uva black tea is blended with lemon and cloves for a refreshing and lightly spicy infusion. Enjoy black, with a splash of milk or a slice of fresh lemon for an extra citrus zing."
I know I spent seven years in bonnie Scotland, but never got used to drinking tea with milk. Instead I've been enjoying this tea for almost daily now, always with a slice of lemon, like instructed. Lovely - the cloves add a surprisingly mellow, yet distinct flavour - nothing chai-like at all.
If you're based in the UK and if you like your tea, you may want to give the Tea Horse's subscription a go.
Disclaimer: I was sent the 75 g packet of tea for free by aforementioned Karina. Thank you!
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- Katrina @ The Gastronomical Me said...
brilliant. so...what did you think of the tea? we've asked them to put quite a lot of clove, what did you think about that?
I've recently cooked a Georgian pheasant dish with the named tea. Can't say I could taste this very tea:) but there was something smoky about the dish. will try to post soon...
ps love the tea glass. where did you get it?:)
- 11:41 pm, April 04, 2013
Nice post and picture as always. I have the same question about the beautiful tea glass.And I think, I will try the tea subscription, too.
- 11:15 am, April 06, 2013
- Pille said...
Katrina & Anon. - the beautiful tea glass is from the Finnish Iittala, the series is called Tsaikka and it's designed by the late Timo Sarpaneva:
RE: the taste of tea, Katrina - I was a bit afraid of the "pumpkin spice" clove, but found it surprisingly mellow and not over-powering at all. Very pleasant!
- 11:26 am, April 06, 2013
Thank you! I love everything from iittala, but never saw this glass. Best regards, Anja.
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- Pille said...
Anja, you are most welcome.
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The Canucks struck (relative) gold a few years ago with the signing of little-known forward Tanner Glass from the Florida system. Are there any other under-the-radar free agents out there for the Canucks to take a look at this summer?
Troy Bodie
Bodie is 28, and he spent last season exclusively in the AHL. He has 107 games of NHL experience to his name (11 points in 141 PIM). He's 6-4 and 220 pounds, too. At this point, what you see with Bodie (more of an AHLer than NHLer) is what you will get.
I'm not even sure he's an upgrade on Tom Sestito. But as a cheap depth option, he could be worth a look on a two-way contract. He played 50 games with Carolina in 2010-11. His possession numbers that season were actually kinda decent, too.
Anthony Stewart
A full decade after many Canucks fans were furious that the team selected Ohio State forward Ryan Kesler over him at the NHL Draft, Stewart is a free agent. He never developed into the power forward scoring star that he was expected to – Stewart never managed to turn three consecutive 30+ goal seasons in the OHL into much of anything at the NHL level.
However, he did have a 14-goal, 39-point season with Atlanta back in 2010-11, so there is some proven offensive production there. In 262 career NHL games, he has 27 goals and 71 points. Stewart had 20 points in 77 games for the Hurricanes before the lockout, and he had seven points in 30 games for Manchester (AHL) this past season.
He struggled possession-wise in 2011-12 with the Hurricanes. Even with easy minutes (weak competition, lots of offensive zone starts), he had the third worst Corsi Relative rating on the team. Some advanced stat analysts call him the league's "worst regular player."
Like Bodie, Stewart is 28 years old – what you see is very likely what you will get – and that's a guy who isn't a clear cut NHL player. On a two-way deal, he could be a worthwhile risk to take. He's big and strong, although he isn't necessarily known for his grit or toughness. It would also be funny because he'd troll Pass it to Bulis something fierce.
Mike Santorelli
The Vancouver native has bounced around the hockey world over the past few years after scoring 20 goals for the Panthers back in 2010-11. Santorelli is a pure offensive player – he won't give you much in other areas. He played in 34 NHL games in 2013, recording only two goals and four points. He did the opposite of what most people do, going from Florida to Winnipeg to finish his year.
Santorelli may be a guy who goes over to Europe a la former Canuck Jeff Tambellini. His underlying numbers during that 20 goal season were pretty good. As a two-way signing, he could be a solid injury fill-in for the top six or top-nine forward group.
Nick Johnson
Johnson spent four full seasons in the Pittsburgh organization before leaving for an NHL opportunity. In his best AHL campaign, he scored 20 goals in 48 games (2010-11). He played 77 games with the Wild the next season, recording eight goals and 26 points.
He's a very responsible two-way player. Not gritty or tough in the slightest (not a knock on him, but that isn't his game), he bounced back and forth between Portland and Phoenix last season. In 104 career NHL games, he has 14 goals.
He actually played pretty tough minutes with the Wild back in 2011-12, and he did OK for himself, too. The Canucks probably want to go bigger and tougher in the bottom six, but Johnson is a versatile player who won't hurt you at even strength (and he has a lot ore offensive ability than most other depth options that will be on the open market in a few weeks).
JT Wyman
Wyman will likely leave the Tampa Bay organization this summer, as the Lightning are knee-deep in NHL ready young forwards. He was originally picked 100th overall back in 2004 by Montreal, and he was a long-time teammate of Nick Johnson at Dartmouth.
Wyman is big and he plays a gritty game on the right side. In 76 games with Syracuse in 2012-13, he scored 13 goals and finished with 38 points (and only 34 PIM). He's learned his role over the past few years, and he may be worth taking a look at this summer because of that:
Wyman spent his first three full years adding a sharp edge to his game in the AHL, becoming the type of valued role player who could win the big faceoff, kill the key penalty and protect a last-shift lead like it was a baby ostrich egg. After forcefully planting himself on each rung of the ladder, he broke through with 40 games in Tampa Bay last year.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Marilyn Conover Interview, Part 4
LP: Can you recall what year it was when you and your husband [Hendrick Conover] moved to New York?
LP: Ok, so that's around the same time you got the Reader's Digest job that I have...
MC: Oh, it's in there some place. Yes! I remember I was doing one of the illustrations on a packing box in my studio. So yeah, that was '61, '62.
LP: Marilyn, I'm glad I found you and I really, really appreciate you taking the time to tell me all these details...
MC: Well bless your heart. They were a wonderful bunch; Joyce Ballantyne was a darling, Gil Elvgren was a darling, I mean we used to be up at their houses all the time. He was a sweetheart but they all drank like crazy.
MC: Oh my god... but generous - at thirty five he was taking everybody in the studio to lunches at one of the jazzy restaurants all the time. I mean he lived like a little chubby king and he had these little chubby hands of his and he'd paint these beautiful girls!
LP: (Laughing) Wow!
MC: And you say his originals are now going for two hundred -- I hope to god his two boys reaped some reward from that - no, I bet they belong to the, uh...
LP: Brown & Bigelow? The calendar company?
MC: Oh my god. And his kids are probably just making an average living. And they [Elvgren's originals] sell for up to three hundred thousand?
LP: Yeah, he's one of the most collected pin-up artists in the world now. There are several giant, heavy coffee table books of his pin-ups now, and every year they reprint them on all kinds of calendars and other merchandise.
MC: And that crappy work to look at?! To be buying and hanging those paintings?! Where would you put them? In your bar? In your bathroom?!
LP: Well, there's a lot of interest and affection in a nostalgic way for that era. I mean that's part of the reason I like it. I admire the quality of the work that was done back then.
MC: What is the point of your obsession? I mean what are you doing with it? Just to do it?
LP: I do it because I discovered there were all these people like yourself who came before me in this profession who did amazing work but are largely forgotten and I just didn't think that was right. I thought it was a shame that people like myself who were graduating out of art school had never heard of Al Parker or Joe Bowler or any of these artists.
MC: Joe Bowler was another guy who did just incredible work.
LP: Oh yeah.
MC:I knew him as well, in New York.
(Below, Joe Bowler illustration, Saturday Evening Post, 1962)
LP: Yeah, well, so I figured, if I hadn't heard of these guys then I knew for a fact most of my peers wouldn't have heard of them either and... I wanted to correct that. I wanted to make sure that all the people like you and all these others -
MC: Well what are you gonna do, write a book?
LP: No, no, I write about it every day on the internet, on my blog.
MC: Well good luck honey. And what do you do for a living? You're an illustrator?
LP: I'm an illustrator, yeah. I do finished illustration and storyboards. Now I do mostly storyboards because there's not that huge of a market for finished illustration anymore.
MC: No there isn't. There isn't. You look in your magazines and you don't see illustration anymore.
LP: No. No, most of us who are able to make a pretty good living at it now do what's broadly called "concept art." Every sort of artwork you can imagine for the preparatory stage of something else, whether it's an ad or a movie or a video game... all that stuff has to be visualized before they do the final version of it.
MC: I see. Well bless your heart. Well good luck with all you're doing and um... I don't think I could be of much help anymore. I think I told you everything. Unless you have something very specific you can call me. But I don't want to go back there. Ugh. You have no idea how funny I feel physically right now. Ugh.
LP: Really? I'm sorry...
MC: No! Isn't that funny? Because it brought up those difficult years - I mean for me. It was the pressure - I mean, with all those competitors, you had to be good. You had to be. And the cream of it was, at that time illustrators were working for Time magazine, doing covers and that I was very proud of. I was separated by then and worked alone so much that when my first cover - you wouldn't even know him - the energy czar from the '60s - it was my first Time cover. And I even got called by one of the older illustrators to tell me what he thought of the integrity of the painting and "blah, blah, blah," you know.
MC: So one day I just got on the train from Westport and went in to New York and walked all around Grand Central Station and saw my painting on every newsstand. I just thought, "I'll be damned." And I didn't really feel anything... because of all the difficulties I'd been through. And I looked around and I just thought, "well, there it is, that's that." And I just got on the train and went back home.
LP: Wow... that was William Simon.
MC: How'd you know?
LP: I just looked it up on the internet. I just typed your name into Google Image Search and one of the first images that came up was that Time magazine cover.
MC: You mean you can see the picture?
LP: Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. It's got a bright orange background...
MC: And there was also one when Patty Hearst went missing - I did the Patty Hearst...
LP: Oh, well I'll search for that one as well.
MC: ...and then the other one was the gal who wrote... oh my god, she wrote one of the big books at the time... oh well, it doesn't make any difference.
[Marilyn was thinking of Colleen McCullough, author of The Thornbirds. I was unable to locate a scan or photo of that cover ~ L]
MC: Well, honey, if you need anything specific, if you think I can help, I'd be happy to. Ok?
LP: Thank you so much, Marilyn. You have a great day.
MC: Ok, you too, bye bye.
* The original paintings from Marilyn Conover's three Time magazine covers were donated by the publisher to the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery.
Thanks to Heritage Auctions for allowing me to use some of the Gil Elvgren scans from their site in today's post.
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Wow--what a terrific interview series this was. Fascinating to read Marilyn's thoughts and feelings about it all. Thank you, Leif!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing this Leif- Great to get a little slice of what the industry was all about back in the heyday.ReplyDelete
This has been a great, heartbreaking series. The biggest surprise of all is that she waited UNTIL THE END to ask you what you were going to do with all of this. "Write a book???" That's terrific.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comments, guys. It's been fun to listen to Marilyn on the recording again after so much time has passed, and to share our discussion with you. I hope the emphasis I included on certain words gave a sense of her tone of voice. She had a very animated way of speaking. She kinda scared me, actually... ;^)ReplyDelete
Leif, thank you for giving your audience insight into these artists. If not for you, their stories would never be told, and that's a shame.ReplyDelete
I love all of your interviews, Leif. They are historical treasures. But I think I enjoyed this one the most. Honest and real. I think Marilyn probably has a book in her! Thank you so much and keep them coming!ReplyDelete
Thanks for your encouragement, guys - I plan to keep at it for a long time to come. :^)ReplyDelete
I agree with the other commenters, Leif. Marilyn was a real pistol and it was fun to read her unvarnished opinions-- Thank you for recording them, I'm glad you printed them verbatim, rather than smoothing her out.ReplyDelete
To quote Marilyn, "Good luck honey."
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I am sad to hear that art graduates aren't given the opportunity in school to learn the history of American illustration. I am so grateful that yourself and others are archiving the golden era of illustration on line. I grew up with these illustrators work in our magazines and hand rendered art in daily newspaper advertising. I saw the change happen from hand rendered to computer generated art. I miss it. Maryilyn and her peers were incredible artists. This interview was a real gift. A really incredible interview. Thank you. BettyReplyDelete
I hadn't read this until now, because Conover was one of those illustrators whose work I just did not like, and after reading your interview, I think I know why. She was competent, no question, but her work seems rote to me. She adopted all the mannerisms of the 60s-70s — the fake texture in gesso, the non-spontaneous alla prima strokes, the patterned backgrounds, the 'perfect family' tropes — without giving us the feeling that these people were actually enjoying themselves, or the products advertised. And I think that's because she evidently didn't enjoy doing the work at all. Perhaps that's because she felt her husband should have been better, or her hours were too long, or she chafed against the art direction, but for whatever reason, her heart wasn't in it. That's why she could see her work all over Grand Central Station and feel nothing. And why her reminiscence of the era held so little sense of reward from doing the art itself. Whereas it's self-evident that her heroes — Gannam, Fuchs, and Elvgren — loved what they were doing. — Roger ReedReplyDelete
As much as I greatly respect Roger Reed, I think he's wrong in his assumption that Conover didn't enjoy doing her work at all. Doing the work is one thing, the industry and the competition at the time is something else entirely. If anything, I think her heart was in the work, not the business.ReplyDelete


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YMCA of the USA, UnitedHealth Group Collaboration Offers New Model for Chronic Disease Prevention
UnitedHealth Group to reimburse YMCAs for offering program proven to cut diabetes risk
CHICAGO, IL, April 14, 2010—YMCA of the USA, the nation's leading non-profit service organization dedicated to healthy living, and UnitedHealth Group, a diversified health and well-being company, today announced a partnership to reduce the burden of diabetes in the United States. In this first of its kind collaboration, UnitedHealth Group will reimburse YMCAs offering the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program.
Currently, about 24 million Americans are living with diabetes and another 57 million have pre-diabetes. The YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program is designed especially for people at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Delivered in a group setting, it has been proven to cut participants' chances of developing the disease by more than half.
This partnership marks the first time a health services company will reimburse a community-based organization for delivering a prevention program such as this.
"Improving the nation's health and well-being is part of the YMCA's charitable mission. Over the past several years we have worked to redefine the YMCA experience to better support those who struggle to maintain a healthy lifestyle," said Neil Nicoll, president and CEO of YMCA of the USA. "We are thrilled to work with UnitedHealth Group and be part of a new paradigm in healthcare that is focused on prevention. YMCAs are at work in nearly 10,000 communities nationwide, so we are uniquely positioned to take this program to such scale that it can have a real impact on the lives of people at risk for diabetes, as well as their families."
The YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program is based on the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which showed that with lifestyle changes and modest weight reduction, a person with pre-diabetes can prevent or delay the onset of the disease by 58 percent.
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine were able to replicate the successful results of the Diabetes Prevention Program in conjunction with the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis. Unlike the NIH's program, which was conducted with individuals one-on-one, the YMCA's program is conducted in a group setting.
The research conducted by the Indiana University researchers also proved that the YMCA could effectively deliver a group program for about 75 percent less than the cost of the original Diabetes Prevention Program. This research also highlighted the YMCA's ability to deliver the program nationally.
The YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program is being offered as part of UnitedHealth Group's Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance. YMCAs will receive reimbursement for each participant who is referred through the Alliance, with performance-based metrics built in that provide for a higher reimbursement when the desired weight loss is achieved.
"Teaming up with YMCA of the USA and other partners to create the Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance reinforces our commitment to helping stem the rising tide of diabetes and obesity that is already having devastating consequences for individuals, families and our country," said Stephen Hemsley, president and CEO of UnitedHealth Group. "By combining our national health care resources with the YMCA's presence in local communities, we can expand access to this clinically proven program for a much larger group of people at risk for diabetes."
In addition to partnering with UnitedHealth Group, YMCA of the USA is also working with CDC and elected officials championing prevention in Congress to bring the program to more communities and develop a national program to recognize proven diabetes prevention programs like the YMCA's.
"The YMCA's work in diabetes prevention makes it a leader in developing local responses to critical health needs," says Dr. Ann Albright, director of CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation. "CDC's national partnership with the YMCA shows that by joining together to turn research into real-world solutions, government, the nonprofit sector and business can improve America's health and reduce the risk for diabetes. CDC is committed to preventing diabetes, and we look forward to working with YMCA of the USA and UnitedHealth in this important effort."
YMCA of the USA's work with UnitedHealth Group will begin with seven YMCAs – Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind.; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.; and Phoenix, Ariz. – and will expand throughout 2010 and beyond.
In these communities, the YMCA is committed to making the program available to everyone who meets program criteria, regardless of an individual's insurance coverage. In addition, as evidence of UnitedHealth Group's commitment to solving the nation's diabetes crisis, the company is making the program available to other insurance companies and employer groups that are not its health insurance customers.
The goals of the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program are to help people with pre-diabetes achieve and maintain weight loss of at least 7 percent by eating healthy and increasing physical activity to 150 minutes per week. A trained lifestyle coach works with a group of participants for 16 core sessions to help them change their lifestyles. After these sessions, participants meet monthly for up to a year for added support in maintaining their progress.
"Lifestyle changes, like the ones promoted in this program, can help stop diabetes before it develops. And that in turn could help stop the disease's devastating complications such as blindness, amputation and heart disease," commented Richard Bergenstal, MD, President, Medicine & Science, American Diabetes Association. "Insurance coverage for these programs is a crucial step in getting more people to participate and achieve these results."
This announcement comes on the heels of the historic health care reform legislation, which included a bi-partisan bill by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., authorizing CDC to train and recognize community-based diabetes prevention programs like those being offered by the YMCA.
"We owe great thanks to champions such as Senators Franken and Lugar, as well as Senator Harkin, for their efforts to improve the health of all Americans by bringing an unprecedented focus on prevention to health care reform efforts," Nicoll said. "This is truly a game changer for people at high risk for developing diabetes and for the way health care is delivered in this country."
In addition to its commitment to the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program, UnitedHealth Group is also pledging a $2.25 million, three-year grant to support YMCA of the USA's healthy living efforts.
About YMCA of the USA
YMCA of the USA is the national resource office for the nation's 2,687 YMCAs, which serve 21 million people each year, including more than 9 million children under the age of 18. YMCAs respond to critical social needs by drawing on their collective strength as one of America's largest not-for-profit community service organizations. Through a variety of programs and services focused on the holistic development of children and youth, family strengthening, and health and well-being for all, YMCAs unite men, women and children of all ages, faiths, backgrounds, abilities and income levels. From urban areas to small towns, YMCAs have proudly served America's communities for nearly 160 years by building healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Visit ymca.net to find your local YMCA.
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RBC joined millions of people and organizations around the world to support Earth Day on April 22. "RBC is committed to reducing our environmental footprint, and Earth Day is a great way to raise awareness and remind us that we all have a role to play as stewards of the environment," said Sandra Odendahl, director of Corporate Sustainability at RBC.
To celebrate Earth Day 2012, RBC launched a number of activities across the organization to raise awareness and provide staff with opportunities to get involved and make a difference. Below are a few examples:
Over 6,700 staff participated in our enterprise-wide RBC Environment Challenge. This four week employee engagement program gave staff the opportunity to earn "green points" by undertaking activities at work that have an environmental benefit or by committing to learn more about RBC's array of green initiatives. A few of the Challenge highlights included:
The Challenge was accompanied by an interactive website where staff could track their green points, post comments, create teams and access additional environmental information.
We also launched an employee environmental e-learning course. Employees could learn more about global environmental issues, the business case for environmental sustainability, the RBC Environmental Blueprint and how they could support RBC's environmental objectives. Over 2,200 employees completed the RBC and the Environment e-learning course as of the end of May 2012.
RBC and the Environment e-learning course included professional narration, video and imagery to enhance the user's experience.
RBC partnered with Global Electric Electronic Processing (GEEP) to offer a three-day electronic waste collection campaign at 10 major office towers in Canada, home to more than 10,000 employees. Employees had the opportunity to bring a wide variety of electronic items for responsible disposal including home computers, monitors, laptops, printers, faxes, copiers, phones, answering machines, video and audio equipment and televisions. The campaign collected over 6,800 kilograms of electronic items that were either refurbished and sold in other markets or dismantled and recycled with emphasis on the responsible disposal of any hazardous materials.
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Our associate pastor, Ben, found 4 baby rabbits in his front yard the other day. He and Jeremy put them in the backyard of the empty house next door to try to keep the dogs and cats away from them. Jeremy took Luke and I down to see them later in the day and discovered that a dog had gotten at least one of them, and we couldn't find the other 3. To make a long story short, we found 1 of them and brought it home. I called a wildlife rehabilitation specialist who told me this bunny was old enough to be on its own, so we waited until dark and released it outside of the city a little bit. It was so cute! Luke, of course, was in love with it. He named it Cutie. Here are a few pictures of Luke and Cutie before Cutie's return to the great outdoors.
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Actor Steve Martin is no stranger to bluegrass. A banjo player since he was 17, Martin has performed with the legendary Earl Scruggs, received a Grammy for his 2009 debut music album, "The Crow," and stood on the stage at Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium to accept the entertainer of the year award from the Bluegrass Music Association for the 2011 release "Rare Bird Alert."
But even Martin is astonished at what he and collaborator Edie Brickell have created with the new album "Love Has Come for You."
"I knew there was some kind of story [in the music], but I couldn't see it," Martin says by phone from New York. "What she did with it was remarkable."
The story of "Love Has Come for You" began with simple party chatter: Martin, a longtime friend with Brickell and her husband, Paul Simon, mentioned that he had a couple of songs that might lend themselves to lyrics. Brickell, best known for her 1988 New Bohemians hit "What I Am," agreed to give it a try.
The music on the actor's popular bluegrass albums, often accompanied by the Steep Canyon Rangers combo, is typically an instrumental showcase for Martin's sophisticated five-string banjo work. But these new songs were different, Martin says.
"I have a theory that the sound of the banjo, as I have always heard it, is narrative. These tunes were evocative of something," Martin recalls. "I had no vivid story in mind, but it was all very moody."
Martin says one of the first songs he sent to Brickell was a spare, plucky melody (later augmented by piano and strings) that became the album's opening song, "When You Get to Asheville," which Brickell turned into an aching love letter from a woman left behind. When Martin heard the first two lines, he knew it was a relationship that would take his songs in a special direction.
"The song came back, and there were the opening lines: 'When you get to Asheville, send me an email …' and I thought, 'This is great, we're not writing phony songs about working in a coal mine or things that would be extraneous to most listeners. We're writing in the present,' " Martin says.
The back-and-forth composing continued at a rapid pace, sometimes a song a day, says Martin, who describes opening Brickell's email responses "like Christmas Day."
For her part, Brickell remembers an almost effortless writing process.
"I would sing along to the melody, and the lyrics would come all at once. Then, I'd pull out my iPhone and record it," she says in a publicity statement. "With most of the songs, it was so easy. I'd just hear the tune, and there were all these images and pictures, and all you had to do was pull the lyrics out of the air."
The result is an album of beautifully rendered post cards from small-town America (Martin points out that he and Brickell are both Texas natives), filled with family suppers, stray dogs and close friendships, but also a haunting loneliness and the dark emotions brought on by alcoholism, suicide and various forms of abuse. Brickell layers the joy and pain in a delivery remarkably free of sentiment, assigning each song's heroine a complicated mix of power and resignation.
Typical is the song "Love Has Come For You" (with its elusive double-entendre title), about a woman whose affair with "that man from the bank" yields a son that family members try to shame her into giving up. But as she holds him, "She heard the quiet angels sing, 'Love, love, love has come for you.'"
Brickell says she drew on the stories of her youth: "I grew up around a real matriarchal society. My grandmother was one of 11, and she and her sisters were always at the house playing cards and casually gossiping and telling all these colorful stories of scandals and tragedies about 'down home' — Paris, Texas. There's a lot of that in these songs."
Martin supports the 13 stories on "Love Has Come for You" — most under three minutes long with Martin providing only brief background vocals — with a spare, economical approach to playing that puts the lyrics in the forefront. It was both a service to the songs and a personal challenge, Martin says.
"Most people associate bluegrass banjo with playing 90 miles per hour, filling every passage with notes," he says. "Sometimes, it's hard to convince yourself that it's OK to leave notes out. But once you accept that — I've talked to many other players about this, like Tony Trischka and Vince Gill and Earl Scruggs — some songs benefit by letting air and space in. I really believe in that."
Martin, Brickell and the Steep Canyon Rangers will offer plenty of new music when they perform Friday night at the Kravis Center, but there will be more to the show than that. Divided in two with a short intermission, Martin performs with the Rangers, and then they are all joined by Brickell. While Martin has long since put away the arrow-through-the-head gimmickry, he says there will be laughs.
"There will be lots of comedy, lots of banter," he says. "It's not just a concert. I like to put on a real show."
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers perform with Edie Brickell
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach
Cost: $35-$105
Contact: 800-572-8471 or Kravis.org
Photo: Mark Seliger
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I was leafing through the September 29th issue of Rolling Stone Magazine yesterday when I happened upon the article, "Meet SuperHeavy, Mick Jagger's Wild New Crew" by Neil Strauss. I was invigorated by what I discovered about Dave Stewart's vision realized.
SuperHeavy is a collaboration starring (Left to Right) Damian "Gong" Marley, Dave Stewart (Co-Producer), Mick Jagger, A. R. Rahman (He scored the smash film Slumdog Millionaire) and Joss Stone.
I gave the CD SuperHeavy an extended listen on Spotify this morning. I love what I heard and felt. The melting pot of rhythms, ideas, cultures, and raw energy works cohesively. The 18 months these artists have spent working on this recording is a testament to their belief in each other and the music they are turning out.
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Alfresco Takes Open Source ECM Momentum Into Europe
Releases Findings from Industry's Largest Open Source Community Research Initiative – The Open Source Barometer
LONDON – July 5th, 2007 – Alfresco Software Inc., the first and leading provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that it has officially launched operations in Europe, having witnessed significant traction in the US since its launch there in 2005. Counting more than 300 paying customers, 12,000 active installations and over 600,000 downloads, Alfresco brings real project experience to customers looking for a flexible alternative to traditional proprietary systems. Alfresco also today revealed the findings of its first "Open Source Barometer", a community research initiative aimed at providing on overview of open source adoption trends around the world.
Alfresco is lead by some of the industry's most experienced and respected campaigners:
- John Powell, CEO, former COO, Business Objects
- John Newton, CTO, co-founder of Documentum
- Dr. Ian Howells, CMO, former VP Marketing SeeBeyond
- Kevin Cochrane, VP Web Content Management, former VP Web Content Management, Interwoven
- Matt Asay, VP Business Development, Founder and Organizer of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)
Alfresco launches into the UK having completed a number of successful local customer implementations for both public and private sector organizations such as Reed Managed Services plc, Swansea Housing Association, The MOD Defence Academy and Amnesty International. These customers, amongst many others, are already benefiting from Alfresco's open standards approach to enterprise content management – technology that is five times faster and 10 times cheaper than its traditional proprietary counterparts.
"With such strong ties to Europe, we're clearly very pleased to be officially opening operations here, especially on the back on the success we're seeing over in the US," commented John Powell, CEO, Alfresco. "European adoption of open source is growing rapidly and Alfresco's proposition has already become a default choice on CIO shortlists. The enterprise content management drivers are evolving constantly and Alfresco is perfectly positioned to help customers meet these challenges head on without getting weighed down by proprietary vendor lock-in."
Having polled its 15,000 community members, Alfresco today also announced findings from its first "Open Source Barometer", a biannual research initiative aimed at informing the industry of open source adoption trends. With over 10,000 responses from around the world, the research is thought to be the largest of its kind and resulted in some interesting conclusions. Community members were asked to report their usage of operating systems, application servers, databases and portals, whether open source or proprietary.
According to the figures, the top five open source adopters by country (biggest first) are the US, France, Spain, Germany and Italy, with the UK only managing 6th place. While large enterprises in the US are driving open source adoption in their search for increased value, continental Europe's lead over the UK is a direct reflection of respective government open source initiatives – initiatives that are not actively encouraged by government in the UK.
"We're incredibly lucky to have such an active community and the response we've received regarding the Open Source Barometer has been overwhelming," said Dr. Ian Howells, CMO, Alfresco.
Finally, adding to its existing roster of 100 partners, Alfresco also recently signed agreements with systems integrators Buserdi, OA Solutions and Kraai to its North and South American partner network, and Knowings, Smile, Smartup, Sollan, Amexio, NSI, Mediamine, and IECS to its partner network in Europe.
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America Founded a Christian Nation? You Bet!
The United States of America was founded by Christians as a Christian nation.
No, it was not and is not a theocracy. We do not have an official state church or an official state religion. In fact, the same Constitutional amendment which guarantees our freedom of religious expression also forbids an official state religion or church:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
But our country was undoubtedly founded by Christians. A few of the founders such as Benjamin Franklin and possibly Thomas Jefferson were not Christians, but even they were well grounded in the Bible and generally adhered to the moral and philosophical wisdom of Christianity.
From the colonial charters which almost universally cited the glory of God and the advancement of Christianity as their motivation, to the Declaration of Independence which cites "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" and our Creator as the source of our rights and appeals "to the Supreme Judge of the world" and declares "a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence," to the U.S. Constitution whichacknowledges the Christian worldview and even the Christian day of worship, our nation was founded on Christian principles so clearly that it cannot be rationally denied.
I will not take the time to convey here and now any more of the mountain of evidence that America was founded on the Christian worldview, but if you have any doubt whatsoever, I suggest you read extensivelyhere and here. I would also suggest you read "Democracy in America," the unabridged version. If you ever doubted America's Christian character, you will be amazed.
For now, though, the video below shows Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) on the floor of the US House.Congressman Forbes asks the questions "Did America ever consider itself a Judeo-Christian nation?" and "If America was once a Judeo-Christian nation, when did it cease to be?" on the floor of the US House.
The speech came in response to President Barack Obama's April 6 speech in Turkey where he said that "we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Jewish nation…"
This is a transcript of the speech:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, on April 6th of this year, the President of the United States traveled halfway around the globe, and in the nation of Turkey, essentially proclaimed that the United States was not a Judeo-Christian nation.I don't challenge his right to do that or dispute the fact that it is what he believes, but I wish he had asked and answered two questions when he did that. The first question was whether or not we ever considered ourselves a Judeo-Christian nation, and the second one was, if we did, what was the moment in time where we ceased to be so? If asked the first question, Mr. Speaker, you would find that the very first act of the first congress in the United States was to bring in a minister and have congress led in prayer, and afterwards read four chapters out of the bible. A few years later, when we unanimously declared our independence, we made certain that the rights in there were given to us by our creator. When the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783, it ended the revolutionary war and birthed this nation. The signers of that document made clear that it began with this phrase, "in the name of the most holy and undivided trinity."When our constitution was signed, the signers made sure that they punctuated the end of it by saying, "in the year of our lord, 1787", and 100 years later in the supreme court case of Holy Trinity Church vs. United States, the Supreme Court indicated, after recounting the long history of faith in this country, that we were a Christian nation. President George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan, all disagreed with the President's comments, and indicated how the bible and Judeo-Christian principles were so important to this nation. Franklin Roosevelt even led this nation in a six-minute prayer before the invasion of perhaps the greatest battle in history, in the Invasion of Normandy, and asked for God's protection. After that war, congress came together and said, "Where are we going to put our trust?" It wasn't in our weapons systems, or our economy, or our great decisions here. It was in God we trust, which is emboldened directly behind you. So, if in fact we were a nation that was birthed on those Judeo-Christian principles, what was that moment in time when we ceased to so be?It wasn't when a small group of people succeeded in taking prayer out of our schools, or when they tried to cover up the word referencing God on the Washington Monument. Or, when they tried to stop our veterans from having flag-folding ceremonies at their funerals on a voluntary basis because they mentioned God, or even when they tried in the new visitor's center to change the national motto, and to refuse to put "in God we trust" in there. No, Mr. Speaker, it wasn't any of those times because they can rip that word off of all of our buildings and still those Judeo-Christian principles are so interwoven in a tapestry of freedom and liberty, that to begin to unravel one is to unravel the other.That's why we have filed the Spiritual Heritage Resolution, to help reaffirm that great history of faith that we have in this nation and to say to those individual's who have yielded to the temptation of concluding that we are no longer a Judeo-Christian nation, to come back. To come back and look at those great principles that birthed this nation, and sustain us today. We believe if they do, they will conclude as President Eisenhower did and later Gerald Ford repeated, that "without God, there could be no American form of government. Nor, an American way of life." Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic expression of Americanism. Thus the founding fathers of America sought and thus with God's help, it will continue to be.Mr. Speaker, I yield back.
So as we celebrate the 233rd birthday of our great nation, this great gift of God to Americans and to all mankind, let us not forget to thank the One to whom we owe all.


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| (小南, Konan)
|Appears in
|Anime, Manga, Movie
|February 20
16,940 cm
169.4 m
555.774 ft
6,669.291 in
45.3 kg
99.869 lb
|Blood type
|Village Head
|Ame Orphans
This article, Konan, is an article only to be used by Jashin.
Konan (小南, Konan) was a kunoichi from Amegakure and a member of Akatsuki. She was partnered with Nagato, and was the only member to call him by his name. After Nagato's death, she defected from the organisation and became the leader of Amegakure after her fight with Obito Uchiha.
When she was young, Konan's family was killed during the Second Shinobi World War, and she was left to fend for herself. Some time later, Yahiko found her, and the two worked together to survive. Not long after that, Konan went for a walk and found a young, dying Nagato and his dog, Chibi. She rescued him and brought him back to their hideout. Gradually the three became best friends. They eventually encountered the Sannin, who gave them some food. Konan impressed them by making an elaborate flower out of the paper wrappers left behind as a sign of gratitude. When Orochimaru suggested to kill them so they would not have to suffer the horrors of war, Jiraiya instead opted to stay and teach the three how to look after themselves.
After Jiraiya taught them ninjutsu and was confident they could take care of themselves, he left them on their own. Before leaving, Jiraiya tells Konan that she will be very beautiful when she grows up and to come and see him when she turns eighteen. During their time with Jiraiya, he made a defence system (seeing as that the hideout they all shared at the time was vulnerable to being targeted for enemy attacks) composed of four planks, each with one red side and one white (the white side also had a frog picture on it), attached to a part of a wall of the hideout they shared at the time with a string and a nail, each one above one of their names, which he called "Hop-In" planks. Nagato's, Yahiko's and Konan's were one wall and Jiraiya's was on a wall opposite. The purpose of the planks were that when they were in the hideout, they turn their planks to the red side and they leave, they flip their plank to the white side, so when a plank's on the red side and the person's not in the hideout, it means they could have been captured by the enemy and when a plank's on the white side and it appears that the person's in the hideout, it could mean that an enemy has transformed into said person and has infiltrated the hideout, along with a trapdoor hidden among the floorboards leading to an hidden room and emergency escape route he left just in case.
Over time, the three formed the Akatsuki and became renowned for their strength and effectiveness, with news of their actions even reaching Jiraiya. When their group became too big, they were forced to find another hideout, and leave their current one where they once lived with Jiraiya. When they were about to leave and flip over their "Hop-In" planks, a ninja squad attacked the hideout creating an explosion which resulted in a hole in the roof which they used to infiltrate the hideout. Yahiko (after Konan flipped her plank and just before he was about to flip his), noticed the attack in time and used the escape route just before ninja entered the hideout. It is also implied that over time Konan began to develop romantic feelings for Nagato.
At some point in time, the orphans encountered Obito Uchiha who proclaimed that he was Madara Uchiha and Zetsu. She listened on in the background as Tobi told them his motives for approaching them and later walked away from the pair as Yahiko was wary of them.
Hanzō, the then leader of Ame, feared that Akatsuki would overthrow him. As such, he and Konohagakure's Danzō Shimura deceived the group into meeting with them about an allegiance for peace. When Nagato and Yahiko went to meet with them, they kidnapped Konan and ordered Nagato to kill Yahiko in exchange for her life. Konan cried out for them to flee without her, but they refused to leave her behind. Although Nagato was paralysed in shock by the order, Yahiko stabbed himself with the kunai in Nagato's hand. Nagato saved Konan afterwards, who would thereafter accompany him wherever he went.
Konan was smart, stoic, calm, and level-headed (much like her partner, Nagato, was). As a child, she was bright, compassionate, and relatively cheerful, in comparison to Yahiko's tough attitude and Nagato's sensitivity. However, the traumatic events since then have led her to become a very serious person, and she never spoke during Akatsuki meetings. Nevertheless, she has always placed the safety of her team-mates above her own. Konan had romantic feelings towards Nagato, which were reciprocated.
She did seem to be more empathetic than most other Akatsuki members, as she appeared sad whenever she was reminded of her past. She also expressed a great deal of loyalty and courtesy to Pain, doing his bidding without question, looking out for his well-being and always having complete faith in his abilities. She acted as an intermediary between Pain and Ame, the villagers having given her the title "God's Angel", because with her paper wings activated, she resembles one.
She had the ability to read Pain's emotions without him facially expressing them, presumably as a result of having known him for so long. As soon as Tobi ordered Pain to capture the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, she could tell right away that there was something about the order that very much upset her emotionally deadened partner.
After Nagato's sacrifice, Konan becomes fiercely adamant to protect Naruto Uzumaki, the person Nagato entrusted his mission of world peace to, even going as far as to proclaim all of Ame's loyalty to him. She was equally fierce in defending Nagato's remains from Tobi going as far as to prepare herself for suicidal attacks against him if it meant protecting Nagato and Naruto from him.
Konan was a relatively tall woman that had blue hair, amber eyes with lavender eye shadow, and a labret piercing. Konan's eyelashes are shown to be a diagonal line at the bottom corner of her eyes, but in the anime, they are shown to be distinctive lines. She has worn a large light blue paper flower in her hair since she was a child. Her facial expression was usually neutral, though usually protested or looked worried when Nagato performed a technique that would debilitate him. She wore the Akatsuki cloak and her Akatsuki ring on her right middle finger, the kanji on it meaning "white" (白, bya). She also wore orange nail polish. Although she never removed her Akatsuki mantle, it was revealed that underneath it. She wore a revealing navy blue robe, with a large hemline on the front, and exposed her arms, her back, the lateral part of her breast, and her belly, with her navel being surrounded by four more piercings; instead of the standard sandals and leg-warmers, she wore a pair of blue pants that also functioned as her shoes, with white high heels, inverting the organisation's standard colour scheme.
As a child, Konan was seen wearing an array of simple clothing. When living with Jiraiya, she was seen wearing a karate top and skirt bottom, with a pouch she wore at the front of her outfit to carry her paper. When Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato began to make Akatsuki, Konan wore a black cloak with purple stockings and high heels, as well as a mid section guard similar to that of Samui and an Ame headband, that being the only time period Konan's been seen wearing one.
Konan was an S-rank kunoichi and her skills were held in high regard by her partner, Pain. She also had an amazing natural talent for origami and after training with Jiraiya, was able to form paper weapons infused with her chakra. As an adult, she was highly praised by her former teacher Jiraiya for her prowess. During their battle, Tobi highly underestimated Konan's abilities, leading him to lose his right arm and half of his mask in the process.
Paper Ninjutsu
Even as a child, Konan has shown a natural talent for origami and had even developed it into her main ninjutsu. She has created a unique transformation technique called Dance of the Shikigami, which can turn her entire body and clothing into thousands of sheets of paper, which she can control at will and form into any shape or colour. To travel long distances, she can fold them into butterflies or planes for powered flight, and to attack, she hardens the sheets to the point when it is as hard as steel and folds them into arrows, spears, and shuriken. She can also restrain opponents by blanketing them in sheets, thus restricting their movement and asphyxiating them. Befitting (and likely inspiring) her title as Angel (天使, Tenshi), the papers can also form large wings for further weaponry, though she is capable of hovering without them. She could also make chakram-like weapons to attack foes and in the anime is skilled enough to make two and control them with great ease using them to corner her targets from opposing ends.
Despite being made of paper, Jiraiya's Fire Release: Flame Bullet, which was empowered by oil, didn't even damage her. The power of the paper attacks could even overpower a fire attack. Konan is susceptible to oil-based attacks that prevent her paper from unfolding. Although she is not hampered to the same extent by water, as shown when Pain had his [[nw|Giant Crustacean|summon}} use Water Release: Wild Bubble Wave on her to wash the oil off, as well as her use of it in her home village where it always rains. Konan can make Paper Clones that she could use to fight in her place. She could hide Explosive tags in them so that they would explode, and catch an enemy off guard. Konan's ultimate technique is the Paper Ocean Technique, which can split a large lake. The technique contained six hundred billion explosive tags that would explode for a full ten minutes, which forced Tobi to use Izanagi to survive since his intangibility only lasts for five minutes.
Konan has been shown to be able to produce and fold enough paper to mimic environmental surroundings, allowing her and those of her choosing to hide in places one normally wouldn't be able to. Konan's favoured origami form are flowers; she wears one in her hair, gives a bouquet to Naruto as a sign of peace, and covers the bodies of Yahiko and Nagato in them.
Konan had a very keen intellect as she was able to quickly understand the process and reason behind the hop in, hop out system Jiraiya had created for them and years later would study Tobi's space-time techniques, accurately deciphering how they worked and then did countless simulations in order to find the perfect way to kill him. Even Tobi expressed surprise that he was forced to rely on the forbidden Izanagi to survive her final assault at the cost of his left eye.
Part I
Sasuke Retrieval Arc
At the end of Part I, Konan made a cameo appearance as a silhouette during an Akatsuki gathering where they discussed Orochimaru's taking of Sasuke Uchiha, as well as the capturing of the Nine-Tails and the furthering of their plans.
Part II
She was present alongside the other Akatsuki members during most of their meetings. She is a quiet and taciturn person by nature, and didn't say a word during the meetings and sealing rituals. However, her silhouette was shown when Pain mentioned the reason for her affiliation with Akatsuki.
Kazekage Rescue Arc
Konan along with the other Akatsuki appeared whilst extracting Shukaku from Gaara.
Hidan and Kakuzu Arc
Konan was seen during the sealing the Two-Tails from Yugito.
Itachi Pursuit Arc
Konan appeared when she told her partner, Nagato, that Tobi had arrived. After Tobi left, she knew that something that the latter said had upset Nagato. When Jiraiya infiltrated Amegakure, Pain stopped the rain and had Konan scour the village in search of him by splitting into numerous paper butterflies. After locating the intruder, she informed Pain and then engaged him in battle until Pain could arrive. She attacked Jiraiya with a swarm of paper and created a paper spear, but the Sannin noticed the attack and deflected it using his Toad Fire Technique, driving her back. Jiraiya recognised her and complimented her on her power and beauty, commenting that she had become "one hell of a woman".
As they fought, Jiraiya countered her paper techniques with an oil-based attack and immobilised her with his elongated hair, but she was saved when Pain appeared to wash the oil away. She regrouped with him after he had killed Jiraiya.
Tsuchigumo Kinjutsu Arc
After Utakata was captured, Konan, along with the other Akatsuki members extracted the Six-Tails from him.
Invasion of Pain Arc
Konan later accompanied Pain during his attack on Konoha. When they arrived, they swiftly eliminated a patrol of Konoha-nin, with Pain giving Konan orders to spare no-one. She was shown asking the Konoha shinobi if they knew the whereabouts of Naruto Uzumaki as they were trapped in her paper. The shinobi were saved by the Aburame clan's kikaichū.
In the anime, she then engaged in a short battle against Shino, his father, and few other Aburame clan members. After Shino stated he would not go easy on her, he sent his swarm of bugs to surround her. Konan blew the bugs away with ease with a paper explosion, disappearing in the process. The Aburame members looked up to find that Konan had created dozens of Paper Clones, which then jumped down for their assault. The kikaichū were then sent to attack the paper clones, but Konan had hidden explosive tags within them and they exploded on contact. Through the fire caused by the explosions, the real Konan was seen walking towards Shino and his clan members, doused in water. Shino's father commented on her power and quick thinking, using "her natural weakness as an advantage" and warned Shino to be careful.
Konan was called back shortly after she started to battle them, only to discover Pain had decided to use one of his most dangerous techniques. Concerned for his health, she begged him to stop using the technique, to no avail. Pain clearly had his mind made up, and continued to use the technique on a massive scale.
After consulting with Pain about the use of his technique, she was shown departing, stating she would look after him from now on. She then dispersed her Paper Clone and remained with Nagato for the rest of the invasion, constantly asking that he not overexert himself. When Naruto later found their location, she attempted to keep him from Nagato, but Nagato told her to step aside. She did as he asked, and listened to their conversation, but remained concerned about Nagato's condition. When Naruto led Nagato to having a change of heart and he decided to revive the people of Konoha, Konan realised that doing so would cost him his life. Knowing she couldn't stop him, however, she only marveled at Naruto's ability to change others.
When all of the Konoha ninja were revived, Konan, like Nagato, entrusted the task of finding peace to Naruto. She wrapped Nagato and the Deva Path dead bodies in her paper to take them with her to Amegakure. When asked by Naruto if she would return to Akatsuki, she said that she was through with the organisation, as Nagato and Yahiko had meant everything to her, and now she and her village would help Naruto accomplish their dream of bringing peace to the world. She gave him a bouquet of paper flowers to symbolize a truce and wished that they would become "flowers of hope that never die" for him.
Confining the Jinchūriki Arc
Tobi infiltrates Amegakure and is immediately confronted by Konan. He asks her where to find Nagato's corpse so that he can take his Rinnegan. She refuses to tell him, instead informing him that she has been waiting for him and intends to personally stop him.
Before they begin fighting, Tobi asks why she and Nagato would betray Akatsuki. Konan replied that Naruto was the embodiment of light that gave everyone the flower of hope.
She attacked Tobi with Paper Shuriken but they passed right through his intangible body. She then enveloped him in her dissipated paper form mixed with explosive tags, planning to kill them both. Tobi saves them by warping most of the explosion away, at the cost of his right arm and having a part of his mask broken. Tobi applauds her determination, to which Konan responds by vowing to destroy him, the "darkness" where flowers can do nothing but wilt and die.
Konan then divides the lake, revealing an abyss of paper and as Tobi helplessly falls into it, she detonates the six hundred billion explosive tags that she had placed there that would last over a period of ten minutes, longer than the five-minute period that Tobi can remain intangible for.
When the explosions ceased, Konan collapsed, exhausted, but believed the battle won. At the same time, some of the paper flowers at Nagato and Yahiko's shrine fall apart. Tobi, however, quickly appeared behind her and stabbed her with a pipe, revealing that he had survived her assault with Izanagi at the cost of his left eye.
Konan freed herself, and prepared to attack again, but before she did so, the endless rains over Ame stopped for the first time, surprising both Konan and Tobi. Seeing this as a sign of Nagato's will, Konan proclaimed that she would be a support that held up the bridge that lead to peace.
Taking up the mantle of "darkness" that crushes the light, Tobi grabbed her by the throat, dispelling an attack she had been preparing and places her under a genjutsu to force her to reveal Nagato's location. He added that she will die when the illusion ends.
In the anime, Konan was able to attack Tobi just before he grabbed her by the throat. Her attack, however, was unable to stop him.
Konan's body was left floating in the water. One of her blood-soaked sheets of paper is blown to the Ame Orphans' old hideout and came to rest on her "Hop-In" card, signifying a promise that the three had made to return there one day before leaving.
Creation and Conception
In Naruto Hiden: Sha no Sho Character Official Data Book, Masashi Kishimoto revealed that he'd always planned for Konan to be the only female member of Akatsuki, and, for that reason, gave her quite a revealing design. He jokingly comments that "she's obscene, but she still wears clothes, although her Akatsuki mantle covers it up, and she turns into paper right away". In the concept artwork, her navel is also shown to be pierced.
- Konan's name means "little south".
- Even though she was an Akatsuki member, Konan (like Nagato) was never a missing-nin, since their faction achieved victory in the Amegakure civil wars.
- Konan shares her birthday and blood type with Yahiko.
- Studio Pierrot's Settei sheets of Konan shows that she was 160 cm when Jiraiya left Amegakure.
- According to the databook(s):
- Konan's hobbies were origami and flower pressing.
- Konan's favourite food was flame-broiled fish, while she disliked karaage.
- She would fight anyone who opposes "God".
- Konan's favourite word was "Order" (秩序, chitsujo).
- Konan had completed 341 official missions in total: 0 D-rank, 65 C-rank, 161 B-rank, 85 A-rank and 30 S-rank.
- (To Yahiko and Nagato) "Yahiko and Nagato… I will be the support that holds both our bridges up!"[1]
- (To Jiraiya) "You have no idea what happened to us after you left, sensei."
- (To Jiraiya) "I have received the will of god and I must kill you."
- (To Jiraiya) "That time, you should have listened to what Orochimaru said, but you saved us instead. Now, it's too late as we act to make his plans a reality."
- (To Naruto) "Nagato believed in you, so I believe in you, too."
- (To Naruto) "This time… I hope for you these will be flowers of hope that never die."
- (To Tobi) "I knew you'd come find me eventually. I've been waiting for my chance to destroy you."
- (To Tobi about Naruto) "He is light personified. That's why everyone he meets… carries the flower called hope!"
- (To Tobi) "Yahiko founded the Akatsuki. The red clouds on these robes we wear… represent the wars that rained blood upon Amegakure. You merely jumped in our bandwagon. These robes are our legacy, not yours. The Rinnegan is something that Amegakure shinobi Nagato awakened on his own, and it does not belong to you! His eyes are this nation and village's greatest treasure!!"
- (To Tobi) "One question… Madara. Do you understand why we betrayed you? Because you are darkness, a world without light where flowers can only wither and die!"
- (To Tobi) "Yahiko and Nagato did what they wanted to do. They were never your pawns! No matter what happened to them, they both fought for their own ideals! And that's why their will has been passed down! I won't let you ruin it!"
- (To Tobi) "Yahiko and Nagato's will hasn't vanished from this world! I believe in Naruto too! He… He will become the bridge that leads us to peace and I will be a support holding the bridge up!"
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Walnut/Distributed Computing/Partial Ordering Of Sent Messages
From Erights
Partial Ordering Of Sent Messages
The above example moves the carRcvr around repeatedly and then asks for the amount of fuel remaining. This displays another important property of eventual sends: if object A sends several messages via a single reference to object B, it is guaranteed that those messages will arrive and be processed in the order of sending. This is only a partial ordering, however. From B's point of view, there are no guarantees that the messages from A will not be interspersed with messages from C, D, etc. Also, from A's point of view, there are no guarantees that, if A sends messages to both B and C, the message to B will arrive before (or after) the message to C, regardless of the order in which A initiates the messages. Furthermore, if A happens to have 2 different references to B (such as 2 promises that both will eventually resolve to B), the guarantee only applies to messages being sent down one reference.
Despite those uncertainties, however, in the example the partial ordering is sufficient to guarantee that fuelPromise will resolve to the quantity of fuel remaining after all three of the moveTo() operations have occurred. It also guarantees that those moveTo()s will have been performed in the specified sequence.
On first introduction, it is hard to fully appreciate the relationship between partial ordering and when-catch delayed activation. Here is a more sophisticated example.
# E syntax def cars := [car1,car2,car3] for each in cars { def nameVow := each <- getName() def moveVow := each <- moveTo(3,4) when (nameVow, moveVow) -> { println(`Car $nameVow has arrived`) } catch e {println("A car did not make it")} } println ("Cars have been told to move, but no print of any arrivals has yet occurred")
In this example, getName and moveTo messages are sent to all the cars in the list in rapid-fire succession, never waiting for any answers to get back. The "Cars have been told to move" message at the bottom is guaranteed to print before any "has arrived" messages print. We cannot predict which of the 3 cars will arrive first, second, or third. It all depends on where they are running, how slow the connections are, how loaded the processors are. We cannot even predict which will receive the moveTo message first: though the program is guaranteed to fire off the message to car1 first, the processor upon which car1 executes might be several thousand miles away across the Internet, across a dozen bottlenecked routers. And car2 could be running on a computer two feet away, a short hop down an Ethernet connection. In that case car2 would probably be first to receive its message, and be first to actually arrive, and be the first to return its resolution so the arrival message could print--all three of those events being independent, and the first car to do one is not necessarily the first car to do the next.
Meanwhile, it is guaranteed that each car will get the getName message before it gets the moveTo message. It is not guaranteed that the nameVow will resolve to an answer before the moveVow has resolved, so you must use a multi-vow when-catch to use the name inside the when body with confidence. And if the moveTo promise is broken, which activates the catch clause, we do not know the resolution of the name--it could have fulfilled before the moveTo promise broke, or the name promise could be waiting (and on the verge of being broken or fulfilled) as well. We could use the E isBroken() function described later if we wanted to try to print the name of the car in the catch clause in those situations where the name was fulfilled though the moveTo was broken.
Also it is worth noting that the moveTo method, when used in an eventual send, returns a promise even though the moveTo method is of type "void" (i.e., "does not return a value"). This promise, if fulfilled, will always become the uninteresting value of null...but as shown in this example, sometimes it is valuable to know that fulfillment has occurred, or that fulfillment has failed, even if you do not care what the fulfilled value may be.
Sometimes you want to ensure that car1 arrives before car2, and car2 before car3. In a simple problem you could use nested when-catches, described later. In this example, where you don't necessarily know how many cars there are, you would use the recursive when-while pattern or the sendValve utility, both described at the end of the chapter.