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Jiraiya (自来也, Jiraiya) was one of Konohagakure's legendary Sannin. He was also known as the Toad Sage (蝦蟇仙人, Gama Sennin) because of his special affinity for toads. Famed as a hermit and pervert of stupendous skill, Jiraiya travelled the world in search of knowledge that would help his friends, the various novels he wrote, and, posthumously, the world in its entirety – knowledge that would be passed on to his godson and final student, Naruto Uzumaki.
As a child, Jiraiya and his then-team-mates Orochimaru and Tsunade, were students of the Third Hokage. Jiraiya's relationship with his team practically mirrored that of the future Team 7, with Jiraiya being quite similar to Naruto, being the clumsy and reckless member of the team. At various times, he would try to impress Tsunade, only to embarrass himself.[8] Jiraiya, at some point in time, discovered the residence of the toads. This happened, in the anime, when still the Third's student; after seeing the Third perform the Summoning Technique, Jiraiya tried to use it himself. Since he did not have a contract, Jiraiya was reversed summoned to Mount Myōboku.[9] There, he learned to have a natural affinity for their variety of ninjutsu techniques. He was also trained in senjutsu. After leaving the Third's tutelage, he travelled the world, where he was later called upon by the Great Toad Sage who made a prophecy concerning Jiraiya: that he would someday choose whether one of his students saved or destroyed the world.
During the Second Shinobi World War, Jiraiya and his former team-mates fought Hanzō, the leader of Amegakure. Hanzō was so impressed that they could survive in a fight with him, that he bestowed upon them the title of Konoha's "Legendary Three Ninja" (伝説の三忍, Densetsu no Sannin), and that they accept the title in exchange for letting them live. Once the battle was over, Jiraiya and his team-mates encountered three young orphans from Amegakure. While Orochimaru suggested they kill them to spare them the cruelty of the world, Jiraiya decided to look after them for a while and teach them ninjutsu. During the time he spent with them, Jiraiya grew close to the three children, and even wrote a book that was inspired by one of them, Nagato. Eventually, he left them so that they could pursue their own goals. Although news of their exploits reached him from time to time, he thought they had died during an undisclosed incident.
Jiraiya later became the teacher of Minato Namikaze and two other unknown genin. Jiraiya took particular interest in Minato, taking him as an apprentice, and among other things teaching him the Summoning Technique and senjutsu. At some point, he also told Minato about the prophecy the Great Toad Sage had given him, believing that Minato could be the Child of the Prophecy.
Later, Jiraiya's first book, The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi, failed to be a best-seller. Minato, now the Fourth Hokage (Jiraiya refusing the position after Orochimaru was passed over), thought the book was excellent, and praised Jiraiya, saying that the protagonist resembled him greatly. It was then that Minato revealed that he and Kushina Uzumaki, who was pregnant at the time, wanted to raise their child to be a great shinobi, like the one in the book, and for that reason they decided to name him "Naruto", after the main character. Jiraiya jokingly pointed out that it would make him Naruto's godfather, and asked if they were sure that they would want that. Minato replied that Jiraiya was a good example for them all and that he could not think of a finer shinobi than him.[10]
In the anime, sometime after becoming a jōnin, Jiraiya encountered the leader of the Nadeshiko Village after he trespassed into her village to do "research" for his next novel. After he escaped, she pursued him and challenged him to a duel for his hand in marriage. This match was, however, postponed, as neither party was making headway against the other. Jiraiya promised that their students instead should one day seek each other out and fight if the two never met again.[11]
Years later, when Orochimaru betrayed Konoha and left the village, Jiraiya pursued him, trying to convince his friend to come back (similar to Naruto's efforts to bring Sasuke home). Orochimaru refused, and attacked Jiraiya. While he tried to find a reason for Orochimaru's defection, Jiraiya eventually realised that his friend wasn't coming back. Feeling that he was responsible for Orochimaru's escape, Jiraiya left Konoha so he could follow Orochimaru's movements, as well as those of "Akatsuki", an organisation which Orochimaru had eventually joined. In doing so, Jiraiya was unable to fulfil the Third's wishes of him taking on the role of Hokage, feeling that tracking down Orochimaru was more important.
Although he left Konoha for many years, Jiraiya was still loyal to his village. When Konoha found itself in need of a new Hokage after the Third Hokage's death, Jiraiya volunteered to look for Tsunade so that she could be the Fifth Hokage, after turning down the position himself. His reason for refusing the position was, among other things, that he felt unworthy to take the role, since he had failed to save either of the previous Hokage from dying, or stop Orochimaru from turning traitor, as well as him having to conduct more "research". After he found Tsunade, and began to suspect that she might be helping Orochimaru, he made it clear that he would kill her if she betrayed the village, a proof of his loyalty to Konoha. However, once it became clear that Tsunade was still loyal to Konoha, and later accepted the title of Hokage, Jiraiya served as her most trusted adviser, loyal confidant, and a spy into the dealings of Akatsuki and Konoha's enemies.
Jiraiya was a self-proclaimed super-pervert with no equal (although he meant it as a joke),[12] and a frequent voyeur, going so far as to create the Transparent Escape Technique, to allow him to spy on naked women without being caught (doing "research" as he called it, even as a child). He never actually hid his perversion, and even seemed proud of it, as seen when he told the Third Hokage about it when he was still a child. Despite this, Jiraiya disliked being referred to as the Perverted Hermit (エロ仙人, Ero-sennin, English TV: Pervy Sage) by Naruto in front of others.
Jiraiya's perversion had been used against him on occasions, as seen when Naruto got Jiraiya to start training him after a simple display of the Sexy Technique (though Naruto hit a roadblock when Jiraiya wanted him to use the technique around him when training). When two Akatsuki members tried to distract Jiraiya, they used a hypnotised woman to catch his eye and keep him busy. While their effort initially succeeded, Jiraiya eventually saw through their plot, due solely to the fact that women did not typically express interest in him. His peeping habits had also caused him great injury on one occasion; when caught spying on Tsunade in his younger years, she proceeded to break both of his arms, six of his ribs, and ruptured a number of organs as punishment. As a result of such injuries, Jiraiya now retained a rather healthy fear towards his former team-mate, and usually attempted to suppress his perverted ways when in Tsunade's presence. Despite these perverted tendencies, Jiraiya was in love with Tsunade nonetheless and even as he died, he lamented the fact that he was never able to win her heart. However, despite his one-sided affections for his team-mate, Jiraiya didn't let his feelings cloud his judgment and resolutely stated that he wouldn't hesitate to kill Tsunade should she betray Konoha and help Orochimaru.
Some time after leaving Konoha, Jiraiya became the author of a series of adult novels called Icha Icha. The novels were based on his personal experiences in love, that he retold in a comical way. In a filler episode of the anime, Naruto ghost-wrote one of Jiraiya's Icha Icha novels. The book was found to be very popular. This indicates that either Naruto is capable of writing on the same level as Jiraiya, or that Jiraiya's writing abilities were no better than those of a child. Tsunade seemed to suspect that the latter was true, as she noted that a report he wrote as a child, accompanied by crude crayon illustrations, was poorly written. The popularity of the Icha Icha series seemed to have paid off well, as Jiraiya's cheque book revealed that he was fairly wealthy. Despite his wealth, Jiraiya was not above taking Naruto's money and spending it on sake and women. Jiraiya frequently disappeared when Naruto attempted to make him pay.
Jiraiya had also been known to show off, even during a fight. This showing off typically included traditional kabuki poses accompanied by dramatic self-introductions, keeping with his hermit theme, even when he was a child.[13] He became annoyed if he was interrupted for whatever reason while trying to strike a pose, which happened frequently. His summon Gama however was the only toad he ever summoned that posed along with him. Although he was generally light-hearted and gregarious, Jiraiya could be very serious in a demanding situation, such as fighting Orochimaru, and later, Pain. He was also quite perceptive, as demonstrated when he watched Naruto try to walk over the surface of shallow water; Jiraiya quickly discerned that there was something within Naruto that was disrupting the chakra's circulation through his body.
Despite Jiraiya's eccentric behaviour and prowess as a shinobi, he was a strong believer in peace; his hope being to one day end the hatred that plagued the ninja world. Jiraiya also held a great deal of faith in the next generation, and saw them as the solution to this hate.
Jiraiya was a tall man with waist-length, spiky white hair usually tied back into a pony tail, with two shoulder-length bangs that framed both sides of his face. He also had red lines that ran down from his eyes and wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for "oil" (油, abura), which denotes his affiliation with Mount Myōboku. He also had a noticeable wart on the left side of his nose. Jiraiya wore a green short shirt kimono and matching pants; under which he wore mesh armour that showed out of the sleeves and legs of his outfit. His outfit was completed with hand guards, a simple black belt, traditional Japanese geta (wooden sandals), a red haori with two simple yellow circles on each side, and a scroll on his back. He also had a tattoo in his left palm which resembles one that Gama has in his as well.[14]
Jiraiya was also seen sporting different attires. As a child, he wore pale grey robes with a design of red flames on the edges, with a green ribbon showing a curled gold design tied in a loose bow around his waist. In childhood, the length of the red lines that ran down his eyes extended to just over half his face, but became longer in time. Underneath it, he wore the standard black mesh shirt with red lining, and wore puffy black pants that are tighter around the ankles as well as black sandals to go with the outfit. During the Second Great Shinobi War against Hanzō, he wore the wartime variant of Konoha's flak jacket and its standard forehead protector. He was also shown wearing what appeared to be a rubber frog suit during a flash back to when he was training the Ame Orphans.
A late bloomer, Jiraiya developed from being untalented as a child to one of the Legendary Sannin by adulthood, even offered twice to be Hokage.[15][16] He was noted as the only shinobi who could defeat Orochimaru during the Konoha Crush,[17] and indeed, he fought evenly with the latter while both were handicapped. Even Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki, both S-rank shinobi, feared their best efforts against Jiraiya in battle would end in a stalemate, even with reinforcements.[18] He also survived a rampage from Naruto's "Version 2" state, resealing the Nine-Tails' chakra afterwards.[19] Jiraiya's overall prowess was praised highly by other highly skilled ninja,[10][20][21][22] some of whom trained under his tutelage and became village leaders in later life.
Chakra and Physical Prowess
Jiraiya had high amounts of strong chakra. Even when drugged, he could still create a swamp that sank and immobilised one of Orochimaru's massive snakes (two in the anime). Jiraiya also had considerable chakra control, able to form the Rasengan with one hand, or two at once as well as displaying each of the technique's stages. He could even use the Finger Carving Seal despite being stabbed multiple times by the Six Paths of Pain's Chakra Disruption Blades.
While not his specialty, Jiraiya was proficient in taijutsu, being able to match Orochimaru while both were handicapped.[23] He could also stop some of the individual dogs that split from the Giant Multi-Headed Dog with some kicks. Jiraiya's physical strength, while nowhere near Tsunade's, was such that he could push Naruto over a cliff several metres away with only one finger.[24] In the anime, he was shown strong enough to lift a massive boulder and throw a large snake a great distance as a child.[25] Jiraiya was also durable enough to withstand a direct kick to the face from Might Guy,[26] and getting ploughed through several steel pipes by Nagato's Giant Ox without much damage.[27]
Jiraiya could grow and sharpen his hair for offensive or defensive uses, and learned the Rasengan from Minato. A specialist in infiltration and espionage, Jiraiya developed techniques such as the Transparent Escape Technique to aid him in such missions (although he mainly uses it to help him spy on women). He could also use barrier ninjutsu, using one that could detect all movements within a wide radius, or a toad-themed variant that could trap enemies. Although Jiraiya knew how to recognise and counter genjutsu, he was not skilled at using it.
Nature Transformation
Jiraiya could utilise multiple elements including Fire, Earth, Water, and Wind Release, as well as Yin and Yang Release.[4] Even on low chakra, he could use Earth Release to create deep swamps that can immobilise opponents as large as Orochimaru's gigantic snakes or as strong as the Human Path.[28][29] His proficiency in Fire Release is great enough to unleash oil-enhanced blasts of flame. With the help of Gamabunta, he could produce a large torrent of fire that filled an entire valley. In Sage Mode, he could create a lake of burning oil with the help of Fukasaku and Shima. His vast knowledge of ninjutsu allowed him to teach Nagato all five chakra natures (albeit it was a feat made possible by Nagato's Rinnegan).
Toad Techniques
Known as the "Toad Sage", Jiraiya possessed several toad-related techniques, many of which dealt with summoning toads. His high skill allowed him to summon Gamabunta, or the nearly indestructible œsophagus of a great, fire-breathing toad that could be remotely controlled. Like other toads, Jiraiya even gained the ability to spit oil from his mouth. For spying and infiltration, Jiraiya had the Toad Flatness — Shadow Manipulation Technique, which allowed him to hide himself as a shadow, and even attach to another ninja's shadow to control them. He could also hide in the belly of a small toad, which could enter most areas undetected.
Jiraiya was well-versed in fūinjutsu, as he quickly deduced the workings of the seal placed on Naruto's stomach upon meeting him. He also recognised and removed the Five Elements Seal that Orochimaru had placed on Naruto's stomach. In addition, Jiraiya could utilise the Fire Sealing Method to contain even Itachi's Amaterasu within a scroll for future study. He later created a method of suppressing the Nine-Tails' influence over Naruto, which activates by simply coming into contact with Naruto's body.
With his high chakra reserves, Jiraiya learned the Mount Myōboku teachings of senjutsu, ultimately becoming able to enter Sage Mode. Due to his incomplete mastery of the form, Jiraiya became more toad-like in appearance, with longer marks along the sides of his face, a goatee, a larger nose with warts, webbed hands and feet and sharp teeth. He disliked this form since it made him unappealing to girls. With his enhanced strength and speed, Jiraiya could blind the Human Path with a single kick, as well as leap down from a high vantage point to form an attack, before his sandals — which had fallen before he jumped — had even reached the ground.[30] He could use stronger versions of his techniques, and also mastered the Frog Kata fighting style.[31]
As one must remain absolutely still to gather natural energy, Jiraiya would summon Shima and Fukasaku and have them fuse to his body to absorb the energy for him. In addition to maintaining Jiraiya's natural energy while he fought, they added their own abilities to aid him, using powerful techniques such as the Sage Art: Goemon and helping him perform genjutsu.[32] Jiraiya often used his appearance to his advantage, changing his legs to frog legs to increase his jumping power, or enlarging his fist for greater striking power.
While he would normally come off as goofy, Jiraiya had repeatedly shown himself to be a shrewd man. His intelligence enabled him to track Orochimaru and Akatsuki through the years, and he headed his own spy network all over the Five Great Shinobi Countries for this purpose. He was very knowledgeable in various techniques, able to quickly recognise them and know how to counter them. He was also a capable teacher, as even Itachi acknowledged Naruto's growth under Jiraiya's tutelage for two-and-a-half years. Jiraiya was also very skilled in information gathering, as he would constantly relay any important intelligence he acquired to his allies. He also possessed tremendous memory, as he managed to relay a coded message regarding to Pain's identity by the usage of the Icha Icha Tactics book pages, remembering the first word on those pages.
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Part I
Chūnin Exams
Having spent years gathering information on Orochimaru and Akatsuki, and having considered the possibility they were after Naruto with the goal of obtaining the Nine-Tails, Jiraiya returned to Konoha with the goal of preparing Naruto for the upcoming threat. Jiraiya first met Naruto Uzumaki while he was doing a "research" at the hot springs in Konoha. After Jiraiya knocked out Ebisu for catching him in the act, Naruto demanded that Jiraiya become his trainer in Ebisu's place. He refused, until Naruto used his Sexy Technique. When they started training, Jiraiya removed Orochimaru's Five Elements Seal from Naruto's stomach, which allowed him to tap into the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's chakra. To teach him how to take advantage of the Nine-Tails' reserves, Jiraiya taught Naruto how to use the Summoning Technique, but was met with very poor results. To this end, Jiraiya decided to force Naruto to use the Nine-Tails' chakra by pushing him off a cliff, as he learned that it only comes whenever his life is in risk . Naruto survived the fall by summoning Gamabunta.
Konoha Crush
When Orochimaru began his invasion of Konoha, Jiraiya summoned Gamahiro to stop Orochimaru's snakes. He later mourned the Third Hokage's death, but decided not to attend the funeral.
Search for Tsunade
With the Third's death, the village elders, Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, requested that Jiraiya become the next Hokage, which he quickly turned down. Instead, he volunteered to search for his former team-mate, Tsunade, asking only that he be allowed to take Naruto with him.
Just a day after setting off, however, Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki of Akatsuki tried to kidnap Naruto. To do so, they used genjutsu on a woman to distract Jiraiya while they captured Naruto. Jiraiya saw through the trick, and intercepted Itachi and Kisame, who decided they did not want to get involved in a fight with one of the Sannin. When they tried to escape, Jiraiya used Summoning: Toad Mouth Bind to trap Itachi and Kisame. Nobody had ever managed to escape that technique before, but Itachi used Amaterasu to burn through the walls and escaped. After that, Naruto and Jiraiya resumed their search for Tsunade, Jiraiya teaching Naruto the Rasengan along the way to keep him occupied.
Orochimaru found Tsunade before Jiraiya did, and asked that she heal his arms. When Jiraiya eventually found her as well, he suspected that they were in contact, and threatened Tsunade not to help Orochimaru. In response, Tsunade drugged his sake when they went to a bar, making it difficult for him to move or use chakra. After he discovered that this was so he wouldn't interfere in her attempt to kill Orochimaru, Jiraiya came to help her. In his drugged state, he struggled to fight Orochimaru, but was able to recover to the point that he could summon Gamabunta to fight Orochimaru's Manda. The healthy Tsunade proved too much for Orochimaru and Manda, defeating the two and causing them to flee. Tsunade then accepted her post as the Fifth Hokage, and they returned to Konoha.
Sasuke Recovery Mission
After Naruto failed to stop Sasuke Uchiha from defecting to Orochimaru at the end of Part I, Jiraiya encouraged him to give up on Sasuke, remembering his own experiences with Orochimaru. Naruto refused, prompting Jiraiya to take him away for two-and-a-half years of training, to make him strong enough to bring Sasuke back, and to protect himself from Akatsuki.
Land of Rice Fields Investigation Mission
Jiraiya appeared in a few episodes and was a major character in the Land of Rice Fields Investigation Mission, in which he travelled with Naruto and Sakura in search of Orochimaru's hideout. The trio were unable to locate Sasuke, but managed to free the Fūma clan from Orochimaru's control. He later appeared in Please, Mr. Postman!, and was present in Departure to take Naruto away for his training.
Gutsy Master and Student: The Training
Jiraiya and Naruto have left Konoha to begin their three-year journey. As they walk, they talk about Naruto's need to overcome Sasuke's Sharingan. During a genjutsu practice, Naruto tries to disrupt his inner chakra flow, but instead, creates a wave of chakra around him thus hitting Gamariki in the physical world. To overcome this part of the training, Jiraiya takes Naruto to the Genjutsu Tree Village. After realising that the village was taken over by a man named Kandachi, Naruto and Jiraiya decide to liberate the village. As the final battle with Kandachi continued, Jiraiya and Naruto got trapped in the Conch King's Water Release Genjutsu: Mystic Fog Prison but later managed to escape thanks to Tanishi's Chilli Pepper Bomb. At the end of the battle, Naruto defeats Kandachi with his Big Ball Rasengan.
In Naruto's Footsteps: The Friends' Paths
Over the course of training, Jiraiya begins training Naruto to gain better control of the Nine-Tails' chakra, soon helping Naruto to master wielding the demon cloak up to two tails. Feeling he was ready to take it to the next level, Jiraiya had Gerotora tweak the seal enough for additional charka to be unleashed. The Nine-Tails, however, took advantage of this and was able to overwhelm Naruto by producing four tails, causing him to slip into a "Version 2" state, which allowed the Nine-Tails to go on a rampage in his body. Jiraiya was narrowly able to reseal the fox's chakra, to which his passive methods of saving Naruto led to Jiraiya being severely injured.[33]
Part II
Kazekage Rescue Mission
Jiraiya and Naruto return after two and half years of training and goes to Tsunade about how much progress Naruto has made. He later meets up with Kakashi with information about Akatsuki and gives him a seal to Naruto's transformation. Before Naruto's departure to retrieve Gaara, Jiraiya warns Naruto to refrain from using his inner power.
Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission
After taking Naruto back to Konoha, Jiraiya went off to search for information on Akatsuki. Jiraiya would soon return to inform Kakashi and Yamato about Naruto's four-tailed form, a form so powerful that it nearly killed Jiraiya before he managed to stop it. It was later revealed that Jiraiya himself released it (not expecting Naruto's loss of control) with a special key passed down from the Fourth Hokage, capable of unlocking Naruto's seal.
Three-Tails' Appearance
Main article: Three-Tails' Appearance
In the anime, Jiraiya returned to Konoha to congratulate Naruto on defeating Akatsuki's Kakuzu and Deidara. In order to keep Naruto from participating in Team 7's new Sasuke-related mission, Jiraiya offered to train him again, and took Naruto to Yugakure. Jiraiya and Naruto also had a discussion over the meaning of 'home': "Wherever someone is thinking of you, that is the place you can return to." In light of Naruto's need to learn some high-ranked, long-distance techniques, Jiraiya introduced Naruto to the concept of synchronised, cooperation ninjutsu and began by demonstrating a synchronised technique, the Water Release: Water Gun technique, in collaboration with Gamariki.
When Naruto and Gamariki proved unable to synchronise, due to their conflicting personalities, Jiraiya confronted Naruto with the fact that, unless he can work with a summoned toad, a cooperation ninjutsu would stay out of his reach. Naruto compensated by summoning toads that he did get along with, and, after giving up on trying to work with Gamariki, finally began on working on a synchronised technique with Gamatatsu, while Gamakichi guided the process.
Jiraiya openly applauded Naruto's progress, and expressed how pleased he was at his dedication to his goals and beliefs. After receiving a message about Akatsuki, Jiraiya was forced to leave Naruto to continue training by himself, though not before convincing Tsunade to let Naruto go on the mission.
Itachi Pursuit Mission
His meeting with Tsunade and Shizune, is cut short when Naruto and Sakura enter the office. Surprised that his master had returned to the village, Naruto informs him that he finally mastered the cooperation ninjutsu with Gamakichi and Gamatatsu, impressing him. After discussing on how to capture Itachi Uchiha, Jiraiya and Tsunade got to the front gate to see the Eight Man Squad off.
Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant
After Deidara's death, Jiraiya informed Tsunade that he had found the location of the Akatsuki leader, somewhere in Amegakure. After a chat with Tsunade, revealing much of Naruto's history, amongst others who his parents were, he left to infiltrate Amegakure and see what he could find out. He captured two Rain villagers while there, and sent one to Konoha to be interrogated. After hearing that the Akatsuki leader, Pain, killed Hanzō in battle, Jiraiya decided to leave the key to the Nine-Tails' seal to Naruto, before going out to see what else he could learn.
Jiraiya eventually found Konan, and after incapacitating her with his oil, questioned what happened to her, Yahiko, and Nagato. Suddenly Pain appeared and Jiraiya recognised him as his former student, Nagato, because of his Rinnegan. Fearing that his student would destroy the world, as was warned against in the prophecy, Jiraiya tried to kill Pain. After summoning Gamaken to protect him from various summons, he entered Sage Mode, and summoned Shima and Fukasaku to help him, but had difficulty with the battle when Pain summoned additional bodies (the Preta Path and the Human Path). Although they were able to defeat three of Pain's bodies with a powerful genjutsu, Jiraiya was handicapped when Pain's Asura Path ambushed Jiraiya and somehow severed his left arm. The Asura Path was joined by the other five paths, with the first three having been reanimated. Doing the most that he could without his arm, Jiraiya managed to kill and capture the Animal Path, and ordered Shima to leave and take it to Konoha, before heading out one last time to see if he could figure out the secret behind Pain.
Jiraiya was able to discover that all of Pain's bodies belonged to ninja he once knew, amongst them being his old student, Yahiko, functioning as Pain's Deva Path. With this information, Jiraiya was able to discover the truth, but his throat was crushed by the Asura Path and he was pinned down to the ground by the other paths, leaving him unable to tell Fukasaku what he had learned.[34] As his life waned, he mused over his death, calling it unworthy compared to the Hokage and flashed back to his life and his failures, failing to win Tsunade's heart, failing to stop Orochimaru from leaving Konoha, and failing to protect both his master Hiruzen and his student Minato Namikaze. But when he remembered how Minato called his book a success and decided to name his son after the book's protagonist, Jiraiya realised that it was he who named him Naruto.
Seeing that the student's way should also be the teacher's way, Jiraiya realised that Naruto, not Nagato, was the child foretold of in the prophecy. Knowing that Naruto would someday save the world, he forced himself back to life and inscribed a coded message into Fukasaku's back and sent him to Naruto. When the Asura Path saw the coded message on Fukasaku, he attacked him with a rocket hand, destroying the rock Jiraiya was lying on, making him fall into the water. As Jiraiya died, he compared himself to the "Frog at the bottom of the well… Drifts off into the Great Ocean", calling it a more honourable death and realised that he needed a title for his next book. Finding the title "Tale of Naruto Uzumaki" perfect, Jiraiya died with a smile while sinking into the watery depths of the battlefield.[35]
Despite his death, Jiraiya still had a great impact on the events that would later unfold, profoundly through his final student, Naruto Uzumaki. With the message that he left on Fukasaku's back, Konoha was able to successfully decipher the mechanics behind Nagato's Six Paths of Pain. Naruto, who used the time Jiraiya had bought him to master Sage Mode, was able to defeat the Paths and confront Nagato directly. Reminding him of their master's nindō and desire for peace, Naruto was able to redeem Nagato, who gave his life to resurrect all those he had killed in his attack on the village. Konan, also touched by Naruto's dedication, decided to support him in memory of Yahiko, Nagato and Jiraiya.
Some time after, Naruto created a memorial to Jiraiya in the forest near Konoha, adorned with symbols of Jiraiya's life: A rock with the kanji for 'teacher' (師, shi), Jiraiya's first novel The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi, and Konan's bouquet of "never-dying flowers of hope". After Tsunade was incapacitated following Pain's attack, the village found itself in need of a new Hokage. The Fire Daimyō stated that, if he were still alive, he would have preferred Jiraiya for the postition.
In the beginning stages of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Kabuto revealed that he attempted to retrieve Jiraiya's body to bring him back via Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation, but it was far too deep in the ocean for him to reach without being crushed by the water pressure. However, he noted that Tobi should still have enough DNA on the Six Paths of Pain's weapons, but was refused on the basis that resurrecting Jiraiya was too much of a gambit.[36] Nagato, who had also been reincarnated, claimed that he was the failed middle chapter of a trilogy that started with the "perfect" Jiraiya and encouraged Naruto to become an ending so great it would erase his failures. Tsunade and Orochimaru would work together once again during the course of the war, with Tsunade noting that, had Orochimaru changed sooner, Jiraiya would still be alive. Orochimaru reasoned that it was better for Jiraiya to have died instead of changing because of him.[37]
When the sacrifices made for him were belittled by Obito, Naruto responded that he thought of Jiraiya as a hero. Later defeated by Naruto and reflecting on Nagato's betrayal of him, Obito came to the conclusion that with the two as the disciples of Jiraiya, the Sannin was the one who defeated him, in a sense.[38]
In Other Media
Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
Jiraiya had a brief appearance in the flashback when Naruto was thinking about his friends.
Naruto Shippūden the Movie: Bonds
Most of Jiraiya's appearances were more spiritual than actually appearing. When Naruto was sent on a mission without Kakashi or Yamato, Jiraiya gave Naruto, through Sakura, a small package. After Naruto transformed into his four-tailed form, the package was revealed to be a small seal charm, to force Naruto back to normal. Jiraiya then appeared again as a hallucination, pushing Naruto to fight on. In the end, Jiraiya finally made a physical appearance by saving his apprentice and Amaru from certain death by summoning Gamabunta to cushion their fall.
Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire
Jiraiya met with a group of Sunagakure shinobi and talked with Gaara. Later, he took a message from Gaara to a ravine, where Suna and Konoha forces were ready to battle. He stayed there and talked to Tsunade after Suna withdrew from the war.
Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Lost Tower
Jiraiya called Minato aside to show him he learned to perform the Rasengan. Unfazed, Minato simply congratulated him and left, much to Jiraiya's confusion.
Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie
In the Genjutsu World, Jiraiya died trying to procure the Red Moon Scroll which the Great Toad Sage foretold will help defeat the Masked Man.
Video Games
Jiraiya is a playable character in the following video games:
Live Action
Live Spectacle Naruto
Main article: Live Spectacle Naruto Yoshiaki Umegaki plays as Jiraiya in this stage play adaption.
Creation and Conception
Jiraiya is named after the character of the same name from a Japanese folklore "The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya" (児雷也豪傑物語, Jiraiya Gōketsu Monogatari). The Jiraiya in this story is vastly different than his manga counterpart in terms of personality and relationships, however both individuals excelled in summoning a giant toad (the toad itself was sometimes called "Jiraiya") and toad magic. In that story, Jiraiya and Tsunade were a married couple. There, his name is written as "児雷也" meaning "Young Thunder", which in turn comes from the name Garaiya (我来也, Literally meaning: I came) from the Chinese story Kaishi (諧史). As the character was about to die, he made a reference to the story.
Masashi Kishimoto originally planned to draw Jiraiya with a different design, and with a different style of hair. He also intended for Jiraiya to summon toads that were of a similar size to humans. However, this idea was deemed a failure. During an interview, he commented that, of the student-teacher relationships in Naruto, Jiraiya and Naruto's is the one he likes the most.
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- The name "Jiraiya" (自来也) roughly translated means "I came".
- Jiraiya shares the same blood type with his former team-mates, Tsunade and Orochimaru, as well as his former apprentices, Naruto Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze.
- Despite no canonic source ranking him, in the anime, he was revealed to be a jōnin.[39]
- Studio Pierrot's Settei sheets of Jiraiya show that he was 153 cm when he was part of Hiruzen's genin team, they also show that his sandals add 7 cm on to his height.
- According to the databook(s):
- Jiraiya's hobby was sneaking a peek into a Women's Bathing House.
- Jiraiya wished to fight Naruto Uzumaki.
- His favourite food was garlic pickled with Japanese basil and karaage-fried chicken, while his least favourites were kiwifruit and gratin.
- Jiraiya completed 1,839 official missions in total: 58 D-rank, 345 C-rank, 684 B-rank, 614 A-rank, 138 S-rank. With this rating of mission completion by Jiraiya, he has the most completed missions of all characters in the entire Naruto series.
- Jiraiya's favourite phrase was "Free and uninhibited" (自由奔放, Jiyū Honpō).
- Jiraiya is tied with Itachi Uchiha as having the highest stats total in the databook.
- Jiraiya's last words were based off of a Japanese proverb 'I no naka no kawazu taikai o shirazu' which translates literally to 'A frog in a well does not know the great ocean'.
- Although Jiraiya is always seen using his trademark horned forehead protector with the kanji for 'Oil' (油, abura), he is briefly seen using the standard Konoha's forehead protector during a flashback with Kakashi regarding's Tsunade bust size.[40]
- It's unknown if this was a continuity error made by Kishimoto, since old Jiraiya always uses his horned forehead protector, and only used Konoha's when he was young.
- All of Jiraiya's main students in the Naruto series (Minato Namikaze, Yahiko (albeit from a certain point of view), Nagato, Konan, and Naruto Uzumaki) became leaders of their village.
- Next to Naruto, Jiraiya was revealed to be Masashi Kishimoto's favourite character at the 2015 New York City Comic Con.
- (To Tsunade) "Yo! I'm Jiraiya! You can send me the love letter later!"[41]
- (To Nagato) "When people get hurt, they learn to hate… when people hurt others, they become hated and racked with guilt. But knowing that pain allows people to be kind. Pain allows people to grow… and how you grow is up to you."[42]
- (To Naruto) "I'm not a pervert… I'm a super pervert!"[43]
- (To Orochimaru) "You're wrong, that's not what makes a shinobi. You never did get it, a real ninja is one who endures no matter what gets thrown at him… Let me explain something to you, there is only one thing that matters if you are a shinobi, and it isn't the number of techniques you possess. All you do need, is the guts to never give up."[44]
- (To Naruto) "Even I can tell that hatred is spreading. I wanted to do something about it … but I don't know what … but I believe… that someday the day will come when people truly understand one another!! If I can't find the answer, it will be up to you to do it!!"[45]
- (To Naruto) "They say wherever someone is still thinking of you, that place is your home."[46]
- (To Naruto) "I think we all have to acknowledge you. Gamatatsu, Gamakichi, Sakura, Tsunade… and I… we all admit you've worked really hard. But I wonder what's pushing you forward."[47]
- (To Tsunade) "Now my job is to help the next generation, and set a good example for them. And for that I'll gladly lay down my life, and I'll be smiling the whole time. It's what makes us old guys cool, you see."[48]
- (To Naruto) "Never go back on your word… and never give up. That's your ninja way… and as your mentor… I have no business whining! Because… the student's ninja way should be the master's too! Isn't that so, Naruto?!"[49]
- (Last words) "The true measure of a shinobi is not how he lives but how he dies. It's not what they do in life, but what they did before dying that proves their worth. Thinking back of it, my story is one full of failures. Tsunade rejected me every time. I couldn't save my friend, I failed to protect my student… and my teacher. Compared with the Hokage who came before me, my accomplishments have all been petty and insignificant. I wanted to die like them…" [50]
- (Last words) "There, that ending… was a little better. The frog at the bottom of the well drifts off into the great ocean. Heh heh… yep… pretty damn honourable… pretty damn honourable… I guess it's time to put down my pen. Right… I need a title for the next book… let's see… Ah, got it… "The Tale of Naruto Uzumaki"… perfect."[35]
- ↑ First Databook, pages 73-74
- ↑ Second Databook, pages 92-96
- ↑ Third Databook, pages 90-94
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Fourth Databook, page 168
- ↑ Naruto chapter 91, page 2
- ↑ Naruto chapter 166, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 91, page 3
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 361
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 127
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 382, pages 8-11
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 235
- ↑ Chapter 91, page 11
- ↑ Naruto episode 127
- ↑ Chapter 91, page 3
- ↑ Chapter 140, page 10
- ↑ Chapter 366, page 13
- ↑ Chapter 91, pages 19-20
- ↑ Chapter 144, page 9
- ↑ Chapter 291, pages 10-11
- ↑ Chapter 383, page 13
- ↑ Chapter 407, page 15
- ↑ Chapter 505, page 3
- ↑ Naruto episode 95
- ↑ Chapter 94, pages 17-19
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 127
- ↑ Chapter 148, page 12
- ↑ Chapter 375, page 13-14
- ↑ Chapter 166
- ↑ Chapter 378
- ↑ Chapter 377, pages 11-12
- ↑ Fourth Databook
- ↑ Chapter 378
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 409
- ↑ Chapter 381, pages 16-17
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 Chapter 383, pages 6-8
- ↑ Chapter 520, page 13
- ↑ Chapter 635, page 9
- ↑ Chapter 656, page 10
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 235
- ↑ Chapter 406, pages 8-9
- ↑ Chapter 405, page 17
- ↑ Chapter 446, page 7
- ↑ Chapter 91, page 9
- ↑ Chapter 166, pages 17-18
- ↑ Chapter 436, pages 12-13
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 91
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 93
- ↑ Chapter 366, page 13
- ↑ Chapter 382, pages 15-16
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Researcher Wins Army Research Office Grant to Enhance Wireless Security in the Battlefield
In order to address serious concerns facing the security of wireless communications in the battlefield, Dr. Yingying Chen of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded a three-year grant from the Army Research Office (ARO) for innovative research on mobile wireless security. Mobile nodes operating outside supporting infrastructure—for instance soldiers or vehicles performing mission-critical tactical tasks in hostile battlefield environments—provide significant challenges to secure communication.
Dr. Yingying Chen
Dr. Chen has formulated new methods of authentication that can generate secret keys based on hard-to-falsify physical properties, potentially ensuring secure wireless communication for the armed forces. The processes can also be applied to civilian uses, allowing members of an organization to work securely even when they are outside the bounds of that organization's supporting infrastructure.
"With the rapid advancement of wireless technologies, over-the-air communication has played a crucial role in supporting numerous military and civilian applications," says Dr. Michael Bruno, Dean of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science. "Technologies that can guarantee the security of wireless transmissions in remote surroundings would go a long way toward ensuring the effectiveness of military missions and the safety of the servicemen and women who carry them out."
Wireless transmitters and receivers need to be able to assure secure and reliable data delivery in order to enable proper response to scenarios that threaten the availability of wireless communications. However, effective user authentication and secure communication for ad hoc networks in the battlefield remain challenging due to the lack of specialized security devices. Mobile nodes must collaborate in order to provide secure data exchange, and the establishment of keys in this manner is vulnerable to eavesdropping.
Dr. Chen has proposed the establishment of a holistic framework that allows communicating nodes to make inferences of physical properties of a network transmission to enhance wireless security. In networking, the physical layer defines the parameters for sending raw bits in a network—what medium is used, the electrical connectors, the frequencies for transmission, etc. Since wireless transmissions travel through the air rather than the more controlled environment within a wire, physical layer properties in wireless communication vary over time and include a degree of randomness from the environment. The use of these physical properties for authentication is an attractive option because it would eliminate the need for supporting encryption infrastructure by supplementing properties that have already been implemented rather than creating a new system.
"As wireless communications become increasingly prevalent in our society, Dr. Chen stands at the forefront of wireless technology security researchers who are scrutinizing and adapting information security for the future," says Dr. Yu-Dong Yao, Director of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "
Dr. Yingying (Jennifer) Chen co-authored the book Securing Emerging Wireless Systems in 2009 and published over 70 journal articles and referred conference papers. She is the director of Data Analysis and Information Security (DAISY) Lab at Stevens. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award 2010 and Google Research Award 2010. She was honored with a New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Innovators Award 2012. Her research has been reported in numerous media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, Inside Science, NPR, and CNET.
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First-person shooter "re-imagining" of classic sci-fi series confirmed; BioShock 2 dev house 2K Marin at the helm.
First-person shooter "re-imagining" of classic sci-fi series confirmed; BioShock 2 dev house 2K Marin at the helm.
3D artist's resume indicates 2K Games was working on installment in sci-fi series as early as January 2007; less substantial speculation has storied strategy studio working on second new entry. ...
Original BioShock studio hiring veteran designers to work on "unannounced" action title; is it an X-COM spin-off, a SWAT sequel, or something else entirely?
2K Boston frontman Ken Levine talks about how BioShock 2 ended up at 2K Marin, his upcoming mystery project, and how his studio literally went underwater.
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For reasons "above my pay grade", we're developing an issue/project tracking system where I work (similar to Trac, FogBugz, etc). The managers want a useful tool to be able to track the overall health of the project (e.g. How much time left, how are we performing vs estimates) and one of the features that has been requested is some type of critical path support and visualization.
The logic explained to me is that they want to be sure that at least the most important pieces of the project are currently being worked on. The initial idea was that we would create task-based dependencies. My understanding of project management tells me that this kind of granular approach is unnecessary - having milestones with specific deadlines/dependencies is much more useful.
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Whisk together all of the spices in a small bowl. Thoroughly rub the spices on all sides of the meat. Store leftover spice rub in an airtight container.
Place on one rack of your smoker. Place one chimney worth of unlit coals in the coal ring. Add two chunks of mesquite then add one chimney worth of lit coals on top. Place two chunks of apple wood on top of the lit coals. Reassemble the smoker. Fill the water bowl with cold water. Smoke for 3 1/2 hours keeping the temperature between 225-275. Optional: brown on the grill or under a broiler briefly. Allow to sit 5 minutes prior to slicing.


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COLUMBIA — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over a massive security breach at South Carolina's tax collection agency, ruling that the suit hadn't gone far enough to prove that government officials were negligent in their care of taxpayers' records.
In an order obtained by The Associated Press, Circuit Judge G. Thomas Cooper Jr. said the lawsuit had failed to prove that Gov. Nikki Haley and other government officials had harmed the public by conspiring to keep news of the hacking secret. The order also said the lawsuit couldn't show that anyone had been harmed because of the breach.
"There is no injury that the Court can currently remedy, as no actual harm has been alleged," Cooper wrote.
Former state Sen. John Hawkins filed the lawsuit last year after officials announced that a cyber-thief had hacked into the state revenue agency's servers, taking unencrypted data from more than 6 million residents and businesses in the nation's largest hacking of a state agency.
Hawkins accused agencies of failing to protect taxpayers and conspiring to keep news of the hacking from the public. The data was extracted Sept. 13 — the last of several system intrusions since August. Jim Etter, who resigned as revenue director at the end of last year, has said state officials didn't learn of the breach until Oct. 10, when the U.S. Secret Service informed state law enforcement.
Hawkins said he didn't know yet whether he would appeal the ruling but said he would keep fighting the issue.
"Obviously, we're disappointed, but this is an evolving area of the law," the former Spartanburg Republican said. "Hacking is a relatively new phenomenon. Areas of the law have not caught up yet to the real meaning of what hacking is in this new era we live in."
Hawkins said he disagreed with the judge that there were no damages to taxpayers. Hawkins said the people whose information was stolen had already suffered irreparable harm.
"It could be a situation where the law has not caught up to technology," he said.
Haley spokesman Rob Godfrey said the governor would keep finding ways to safeguard South Carolinians' information against any future problems.
"Since the cyberattack, the governor's focus has never been on blaming anyone other than the criminal who attacked South Carolina, but on providing taxpayers with the best possible protection going forward," Godfrey said. "That's where it will remain."
The Revenue Department has been approved for a $20 million loan from the state's insurance reserve fund to pay for the government's hacking response. The largest chunk of that — $12 million — has been paid to the credit bureau Experian, which is providing a year's worth of state-funded credit monitoring to any taxpayers who sign up by the end of March. Proposed legislation would extend that state-paid credit monitoring up to a decade.
Legislative panels have been investigating the breach. Last month, the revenue department's former chief information officer accepted partial responsibility for the cyber-theft, questioning why his staff didn't catch it and telling a House panel that he knew nothing about the hacking when he was forced to resign Sept. 21.
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Donors and recipients in four-way "domino" kidney transplant meet for first time
Participants in a unique series of kidney transplants at UC Davis Medical Center met for the first time in March. From left to right are Eduard Samuylik, Lyudmila Bratan, Shawn Klein, Alan Klein, Armando Morales, Sandra Morales and Maribel Butts.
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Donors and recipients who participated in a four-way "domino" kidney transplant at UC Davis Medical Center had the opportunity to meet one another for the first time at a celebration held in March on the Sacramento campus of UC Davis.
The transplant surgeries were made possible using a revolutionary approach known as paired exchange – an option for recipients whose donors have incompatible blood or tissue types. The incompatible donor-recipient pairs are matched with other pairs, and they exchange donors.
"I've been on the waiting list for five years. … You saved my life and I just have to say thank you."
— Patient Maribel Butts to her kidney donor, Sandra Morales
Seven of the eight participants, whose surgeries occurred over a 36-hour period Feb. 22-23, returned to UC Davis to attend the celebration. The process of coordinating their exchanges involved more than 30 health-care professionals, including surgeons, nephrologists, anesthesiologists, operating room staff, nurses and a strong network of administrative support personnel.
The reunion presented donors, recipients, friends, family members and the transplant team with the chance to meet and share their stories, their experiences and, most importantly, their gratitude.
Becoming a living kidney donor
Living donation is the process of removing a kidney from a healthy individual in order to transplant it into a related or unrelated person with kidney failure. Often described as "the gift of life," organ donations free recipients from dialysis and allow them to enjoy longer, fuller lives. All potential living donors are screened and evaluated following a process established by the national United Network for Organ Sharing, which ensures the donor's well being and willingness to donate. For more information about becoming a living donor, visit the UC Davis Transplant Center website.
Sandra (donor) and Armando (recipient) Morales attended with several of their children and grandchildren; Alan (donor) and Shawn Klein (recipient), the only siblings who participated in the transplants, attended together; and Lyudmila Bratan (donor) and her husband Eduard Samuylik (recipient) attended with their two children. The room was packed with friends, staff and cameras from Sacramento television stations, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
Maribel Butts (far right) expresses her gratitude to Sandra Morales for her kidney donation.
When Maribel Butts met her donor, Sandra Morales, she was overcome with emotion.
"I've been on the waiting list for five years," Butts said, speaking through her tears. "You saved my life and I just have to say thank you."
Armando Morales, who received a kidney from Alan Klein, gave his donor a big hug and a grateful smile. When Shawn Klein met Luda Bratan, the shyness of strangers meeting for the first time melted away with a meaningful embrace and a few tears. Eduard Samuylik could not meet his donor, who chose to remain anonymous, but it was the generosity of this altruistic donor that made the multiple transplants possible.
"I understand why my donor wants to remain anonymous," he said through happy tears. "But I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for saving my life."
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Underscoring its desire to keep U.S. aircraft carriers from the Persian Gulf, a senior Iranian military commander today announced his possible plan to ambush the American fleet.
Chalk this one up to more bluster, or part of a mounting back and forth rhetoric headed nowhere good, either way — Tehran plans to rely on its subs.
Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army's Self-Sufficiency Jihad, Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri told FARS that Iran has the finest electric diesel submarines in the world, and that while the U.S. has focused on Tehran's "astonishing surface capabilities," it has forgotten about the underwater threat.
Amiri said he plans to slip his fleet of subs onto the Persian Gulf floor and "fire missiles and torpedoes simultaneously."
Iran claims to have 17 Ghadir diesel electric subs in its fleet, and four have been photographed together, so the threat is not entirely without merit.
The Ghadir is incapable of holding a commando crew, and despite scant details it may be well-equipped to follow through on this most recent threat.
Earlier this month Iran demanded the U.S. remove its carriers from the Gulf after the John C. Stennis passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian Army Commander Major General Ataollah Salehi said "We advise, warn and recommend [the U.S. Navy] not to return this carrier to its previous location in the Persian Gulf."
"We are not in the habit of repeating the warning and we warn only once," Salehi said, without mentioning the Stennis.
In a related update: FARS reports that President Obama is calling for direct talks with Iran and communicated this desire through a secret letter to the Islamic Republic's supreme leader.
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KÃ, the latest creation from Cirque du Soleil, premiered in February 2005, in the unprecedented performance space, the KÃ Theatre at MGM Grand. Featuring 80 performers from around the world, KÃ combines martial arts, acrobatics, puppetry, interactive video projections and pyrotechnics to tell the epic saga of Imperial Twins - a boy and a girl - who embark on an adventurous journey to fulfill their destinies.
KÃ is created and directed by acclaimed theatre and film director Robert Lepage. Lepage ('Bluebeard's Castle,' 'The Far Side of the Moon') describes the story as 'the coming of age of a young man and a young woman through their encounters with love, conflict and the duality of KÃ, the fire that can unite or separate, destroy or illuminate.' The Twins' journeys take them through a succession of challenging landscapes and ever-changing performance spaces that conjure an entire empire on stage.
The Brother and Sister are the son and daughter of the Emperor and Empress. They live in luxurious, safe surroundings in a time of peace. The Royal Barge carries the Twins to the festivities as they play on the deck. They are entertained by the court with martial arts demonstration of strength and agility, including Wushu, Chinese Opera, and Brazilian Capoeira. The Twins display their musical ability with a light-hearted duet on flute. But the tranquility of their existence is about to be disrupted. They come under attack by bands of marauding Archers and Spearmen, directed by the Chief Archer under the influence of the ambitious Counselor and his Son.
As their world disintegrates and the life they knew collapses around them, the Twins are separated and must strike out on their own on an arduous journey of self-discovery that will test their determination and skills as martial artists.
The Brother is accompanied by the Court Jester, and the Sister by their Nurse, but both must learn to stand up for themselves. The Spearmen try to impress the Chief Archer's Daughter with their dynamic leaps from pillar to pillar just as the Twin Brother and Court Jester stumble into the scene. The ensuing clash has the Spearmen leaping up to 18 feet between the pillars as both sides display their martial arts and acrobatic skills. The Court Jester is defeated and the Twin Brother is captured, but not before catching the eye of the Chief Archer's Daughter.
Danger lies in wait for them at every turn. The Archers and Spearmen are hunting them down relentlessly. The ever-changing terrain they pass through is full of hazards. Even the weather seems bent on their destruction. But as their quest takes them through a succession of challenging landscapes, from a comical seashore through perilous mountains, to iridescent primeval forests and muddy fields, they also encounter brave people who will risk everything to help them, and they even find love in the most unexpected places.
In the culmination of their extraordinary journeys, the Twins are joined by the Firefly Boy and the Forest People for the final battle against the evil Archers and Spearmen, led by the Counselor and his son. The aerial perspective of the battle highlights the adversaries as they soar through the air, traveling up to 50 feet, and move perpendicular to the ground.
The show's title, KÃ, is inspired by the ancient Egyptian belief in the 'ka,' an invisible spiritual duplicate of the body that accompanies every human being throughout this life and into the next.
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There's no such thing as a hypoallergenic dog breed, although some individual dogs may cause fewer allergy symptoms than others.
Many people think that pet allergies are caused by a dog's or cat's fur, but the real source of pet allergies is often a protein that's in the saliva and urine of dogs and cats. This protein sticks to the dead, dried flakes (dander) from your pet's skin.
Some dog breeds are marketed as hypoallergenic because they don't shed fur or they shed very little. Because these dogs don't shed, the allergy-causing dander that sticks to their fur doesn't get released into the air or onto the floor as much as with a shedding dog. But while you may have less dog hair with a nonshedding dog, no dog breed is hypoallergenic.
If you're allergic to dogs, but still want to have one, consider the following tips to reduce your allergy symptoms:
James T C Li, M.D., Ph.D.
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Willingham helps Twins extend streak to four
Snaps tie with three-run double in seventh; Diamond earns first win
CHICAGO -- It may be early yet, but if the Twins are going to do something to reverse their recent misfortunes against the rival White Sox, their first steps of 2013 have been in the right direction.
Minnesota, 4-14 last season against Chicago, got the biggest hit of the weekend from Josh Willingham in the seventh inning Sunday and another solid starting pitching performance en route to a 5-3 win and a quick series sweep at U.S. Cellular Field.
The Twins have won four in a row overall, are standing above .500 (8-7) on the young season and head back home with first place in the contentious American League Central virtually up for grabs.
"We're having fun with it and I think we're probably taking it a little easier right now and taking it one game at a time and having a little fun with it, too," said starting and winning pitcher Scott Diamond.
"I'd put us up against anybody right now. I think we're playing pretty confidently. As long as we can execute our pitches and continue to work, I think we're gonna be better than everybody thinks we are."
Diamond and White Sox starter Gavin Floyd were both excellent as the two teams combined for just four hits through five innings. But with the game later tied at 2, Willingham delivered the decisive blow that neither team could find for much of the weekend.
After Matt Lindstrom and Donnie Veal loaded the bases and surrendered the tying run in the process, right-hander Jesse Crain was brought in to face the right-handed Willingham. Crain left the first pitch -- an 86-mph slider -- over the plate, and Willingham was ready for it.
"I was looking for something out over the plate and looking to be aggressive," he said. "That was basically it, and I got something over the plate and hit it well."
The hit negated two costly defensive miscues -- one by Willingham, who misplayed Alejandro De Aza's fly ball in the fourth, and the other by Diamond, who threw the ball away on De Aza's drag bunt in the sixth -- that led to Chicago runs. Adam Dunn also homered in the seventh off Josh Roenicke to snap an 0-for-31 skid and cut the lead to 5-3. But Willingham, Diamond and the Twins had done enough damage by then. Glen Perkins recorded his second save in as many days and fifth of the year.
"It wasn't anything special. Nothing we aren't used to," White Sox outfielder Dewayne Wise said of Diamond. "To the lefties, I know he was throwing the cutter away. Every once in a while he would come inside with a changeup or curve ball. But for the most part, he just pitched on both sides of the plate and this kept us off balance all day."
Diamond, who scattered two runs (one earned) and four hits over six innings while striking out five, is now 6-3 with a 3.29 ERA in 11 career road starts with in the division. Eight of the 11 have been quality starts. He did so on Sunday with extended rest because of a handful of rainouts this week.
"Eight days is a little long," Diamond said. "It kinda takes me back to my college days a little bit. But it's really no excuse. I was able to throw a couple bullpens during the time and was able to get work in."
It all led to Minnesota's first series victory at U.S. Cellular Field since July 7-10, 2011. The two teams split the season series that year after the Twins went a combined 25-11 against the Sox in the AL Central title years of 2009 and 2010.
"It's only two games," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "If this was August and we had a lead on these guys, I'd love it. But it's early. We've seen a lot of things happen at this ballpark. We've had some success, but we've also been whacked here pretty good."


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Hi Folks,I live in the Netherlands and going to Denmark over the weekend (distance: 800 km, up North). I use the Arducopter v3.0 firmware, and it hovers quite well at home.The magnetic declination as…Continue
Tags: User, Group, ArduCopter, (Multicopter), 2.x
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Hi All,I have been pursuing a research project at a company (in Netherlands) where I need to occasionally fly waypoints outdoors. The task is an autonomous flight within line-of-sight and and some…Continue
Tags: Regulation, Quadcopters
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Hi All,I took a flight today with my giant copter, I found 2 of the motors were not responsive.I tried to spin the motors using simple motor spin test using CLI test in Mission Planner.'Hear' the…Continue
Tags: RC, equipment, 2.X, Arducopter, Planner
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I Quote from APM 2.x release notes:"We've tested it (APM 2.x) for months, including lots of flying, and it…Continue
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so what are your interests?
So being in The Netherlands, where do you buy your propellers for the arducopter? Mine are a bit damaged after a rough fall, so I need replacements. It will still fly but it's just not that stable.
Hi Coen,
You can purchase it from amazon.de (search for 'propeller 10x4.7' in the search box). Apart from that you can buy it from hobbyking.com (EU warehouse), www.buildyourowndrone.co.uk (same as Arducopter props) are available there. Ebay.nl or ebay.co.uk are also good options, btw!
You do not need to order it from 3DRobotics, USA (it is way too expensive from there, esp. due to shipping). I never order small parts from them. For screws, other hardware items I order from farnell or hobbytronics.co.uk
Btw, where do you live in NL?
Thanks Shyam for your comments. Here are some flow diagrams of (stabilize)/(altitude hold) modes. I have downloaded them earlier but they will give you a good idea about the controller. Hope this will provide you a kick start to understand the basic working of PID controllers. Please find the flow diagrams of the controllers attached!.
Hi Shyam,
The batteries I used are wired as 4S4P. They are panasonic 18650B 3.7V
Li-Ion Batteries.
The total pack voltage is about 14V, and total AMP capacity is about 12A.
So it's wires 4 batteries in series for 3.7V x 4. And then those 4 packs
wired in parallel, for 12A.
Negative ---|
|--- Positive +14V 12A
I request your advice about the issues below:
1) I want to import all sensor data of apm board (gps, magnetometer...) to matlab/simulink and send trajectory data(a set of 3 axis coordinates of target nodes in order)
2) I want to get speed transfer function of motors real time in order to get PID parameters via matlab/simulink(i know that we can tune PID parameters via mission planner soft. but i want to learn about this method)
Which method is useful for the purposes above:
-mission planner soft-matlab connection via serial port
-apm 2.6 and arduimo ide connection via xbee-usb and then arduino ide and matlab connection via serial port. Thank you.
Hi Shyam,
I saw that you tried to save the logs of the APM by SD card. Did you achieve this?
Best regards
2. Is it possible for me to use these data to be taken as input to MATLAB as variables?
Thank you!


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Bert and Ernie Celebrate Gay Marriage
The New Yorker marked the Supreme Court ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act with a cover painting of two beloved Sesame Street characters getting unusually affectionate.
Next week's cover is a painting of Bert and Ernie cuddling on a couch while watching the nine Supreme Court justices on television. The artwork is titled, "Moment of Joy."
"It's amazing to witness how attitudes on gay rights have evolved in my lifetime," artist Jack Hunter, the artist told The New Yorker. The magazine said Hunter submitted the unsolicited artwork via Tumblr.
"This is great for our kids, a moment we can all celebrate," he told the magazine.
In 2011 the Sesame Workshop addressed questions about the sexual orientation of Bert and Ernie in a Facebook posting.
"Bert and Ernie are best friends," the statement read. "They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation."
So that settles that.
I always thought the point of Sesame Street was to teach kids to get along - not to get it on.
And Lord only knows who Elmo is tickling.


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Stefan Radev-Gulfstream G550 Visions Edition Airplane Interior Design and Exterior Graphics
At Design Interviews
Interview with Stefan Radev : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Stefan Radev : Private jet transportation is in many ways underlined by individualism. It has a lot in common with sail or motor yachting, where the spirit of travelling in style, on a global scale is present. This romantic way of travelling the globe for recreation or business is carried on in modern private jet transportation, but with the advantages of speed and long range. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Stefan Radev : Premium luxury is the standard for the whole interior of the Gulfstream G550 Visions Edition. The G550 is a multi-million dollar air plane, where not at last the pilots operating this aircraft should also feel sitting in and operating an exclusive private jet. Gulfstream´s "PlaneView" cockpit standards are being developed further, where the avionics are integrated into a seamless overall light layout. Thinking about sustainability in the area of the aeroplane transportation is something rare to come by, but a step forward was set here by using bamboo wood elements and common consumer electronics to control the inner environment. These common electronics like iPad, iPhone, iPod are also a substitute of the paper documents, charts and maps in the cockpit area. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Stefan Radev : I hope to have been able to point the attention in this design field a bit more to sustainability if even this is not a typical sustainability area. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Stefan Radev : In the course of 4 months I designed the whole interior having keeping an eye on the details and the interior as a whole. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Stefan Radev : The interior design of an aeroplane is among my target projects I always wanted to work on. This way employing past design experience and widening my horizon. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Stefan Radev : Currently it exists as a conceptual project but of course I am open to collaborate with those who are willing to realize it. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Stefan Radev : I worked on this design project as an individual. No one else was involved in the design process. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Stefan Radev : The target customer are personal aviation service providers. Aviation companies that offer businesses and private person individual aviation services. This is why the layout of the interior cabin is thought to be compatible for business or leisure travelling. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Stefan Radev : Embodying a design language in a throughout premium experience, from the cockpit to the passenger area. The whole interior consists of design elements that make it feel like it is all one, there is no stylistic brake between cockpit and passenger area. Further, adding a sustainable aspect to the project by using bamboo wood and common consumer electronics (like iPad, iPhone & iPod), is essential as this is almost not present in aeroplane interior design. For example in the cockpit area the iPad is replacing the paper documents, maps and charts, also controls some of the electronic equipment. The same iPad is used meanwhile in the cabin by the passengers for entertainment and to control the inner environment (like light, air conditioning). .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Stefan Radev : I worked on this design project as an individual. No one else was involved in the design process. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Stefan Radev : All aspects of this interior design are based on existing technology and methods of production. For example the iPad mounts are existing products, produced by "Flight Display Systems". .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Stefan Radev : The challenge in this design concept lies in translating Gulfstream´s updated design philosophy into the G550 airplane model. Oval shaped windows are one of the symbols of a Gulfstream aircraft and are there to allow more natural light into the cabin. It is this "signature element" that is taken here as main theme and translated into the cockpit, through to the executive passenger area and the exterior graphics. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Stefan Radev : The project was published in February 2011 in international design Forums/Blogs. Like YANKO Design, TUVIE etc. After receiving a lot of positive feedback around the design field in the world wide web it was a logical step to compete with the design concept for an international design award like A`Design Award. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Stefan Radev : As a product designer I have a years long multidisciplinary design experience in different fields of product design, like consumer and industrial goods. It is my nature to search for new challenges where I feel the opportunity to bring my previous knowledge and experience and expand it through experimenting in this specific concept design project. .
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Tous lecteurs! Sous la mer is an illustrated, simple non-fiction book and is an ideal early reference book for children able to read simple sentences in French. This title is from the Niveau 2 (level 2) series.
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