Shumi

Although each installment of the Final Fantasy series is generally set in a different fictional world with separate storylines, there are several commonalities when it comes to character design, as certain design themes repeat themselves, as well as specific character names and classes. Within the main series, Yoshitaka Amano was the character designer for Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI, Tetsuya Nomura was the character designer for Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIII, Toshiyuki Itahana was the character designer for Final Fantasy IX, and Akihiko Yoshida was the character designer for Final Fantasy XII.

The series has often featured male characters with slightly effeminate characteristics, as well as female characters with slightly tomboyish, but still feminine, characteristics. This trend has generally increased as the series evolved. These characters are usually teenagers, which some critics have interpreted as an effort on the part of the designers to ensure the players identify with them. At the same time, female characters have been increasingly designed to wear very revealing outfits. Square Enix has stated that a more rugged looking hero had been considered for Final Fantasy XII but had ultimately been scrapped in favor of Vaan, another effeminate protagonist. The developers cited scenaristic reasons and target demographic considerations to explain their choice. For Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix settled on a female main character, described as a "female version of Cloud from FFVII." This aspect of Final Fantasy can also be seen in Sora, the protagonist of Kingdom Hearts, a crossover series featuring Final Fantasy and Disney characters.

The Christmas Waltz

Frosted windowpanes
Candles gleaming inside
Painted candy canes on the tree
Santa's on his way
He's filled his sleigh with things
Things for you and for me
It's that time of year
When the world falls in love
Every song you hear seems to say
"Merry Christmas
May your new year's dreams come true"
And this song of mine
In three quarter time
Wishes you and yours
The same thing, too
It's that time of year
When the world falls in love
Every song you hear
Seems to say
"Merry Christmas
May your new year dreams come true"
And this song of mine
In three quarter time
Wishes you and yours

photo: AP / Felipe Dana

Municipal workers sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus at the Imbiribeira neighborhood in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016.

Brazil Scientists Seek to Unravel Mystery of Zika Twins

Edit Voa News 07 May 2016

Scientists struggling to unravel the mysteries of a Zika epidemic in Brazil hope they can learn from cases of women giving birth to twins in which only one child is afflicted by the microcephaly birth defect associated with the virus ... "When I found out one of them had microcephaly, the ground fell out from beneath me," the 25-year-old said as she sat on the sofa of her home in the city of Santos ... "I thank God for giving her to me......

photo: AP / Mary Schwalm, File

In this Aug. 19, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate businessman Donald Trump speaks in Derry, N.H. Trump has until Sept. 30 to pledge to rule out a third-party run if he intends to appear on the South Carolina primary ballot.

RNC Chairman Says Trump "Trying" To Rein In Craziness Surrounding His Campaign

Edit WorldNews.com 06 May 2016

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is asking citizens to see past all the showmanship and craziness surrounding Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign and realize the New York entrepreneur is “trying,” CBS News reported Friday. "He's trying. Honestly, he's trying.” – RNC Chairman Reince Priebus speaking about Donald Trump ... ....

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In this Thursday, May 5, 2016 photo provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Alberta, the charred remains of a bus sit on the side of a road in Fort McMurray, Alberta. More than 80,000 people have left Fort McMurray, in the heart of Canada's oil sands as a wildfire that has devastated the area exploded in size.

Officials fear massive Canada wildfire could double in size

Edit Fox News 07 May 2016

Canadian officials fear a massive wildfire could double in size by the end of Saturday as they continue to evacuate residents of fire-ravaged Fort McMurray from work camps north of Alberta's oil sands city ... ....

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Lauryn Hill June 21, 2014 @ Sound Academy (Toronto)

Lauryn Hill finally returns for Munhall concert Wednesday

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 07 May 2016

With very short notice, Lauryn Hill will play her first Pittsburgh show in 17 years at Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall in Munhall at 8 p.m. May 11 ... ....

photo: US Navy / PM1 Richard J. Brunson

Persian Gulf (December 12, 2004) - Hundreds of oil tankers each year receive their payload from Iraq’s Al Basrah Oil Terminal (ABOT).

Oil tanker washes up on Liberia beach with no crew or lifeboats

Edit The Guardian 06 May 2016

Speculation rife about piracy or fire on board Tamaya 1, registered in Panama, who last known position was on 21 April near Gambia and Senegal. @alanyuhas. An abandoned oil tanker has washed up on the shores of Liberia in west Africa, prompting an investigation – and speculation over the fate of the ship’s crew ... map ... The ship was en route to the Senegalese port of Dakar, according to the site ... ....

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Summer play-time for all!

Edit DNA India 06 May 2016

-->. Make The HIVE your summer playground this weekend, as you let yourself footloose at the 18th edition of the HIVE Community Festival at Khar ... The big idea ... A doodling workshop by psychotherapist Karishma Bajaj, a messy art workshop by Florence-based artist Shumi and a Paint without Brushes workshop by artist Deepti Kilje will keep you focused on the present ... Busking at The HIVE ... Not just art and culture ... Shraddha Shirodkar. ....

Labor's tax inquiry to ask if regulators are 'soft' on tax avoidance

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 20 Apr 2016

... who was one of more than 300 journalists involved in the ICIJ investigation, Tax Justice Network Australia director Mark Zirnsak, and from academics including University of Sydney Business School senior lecturer Shumi Akhtar and University of Technology accounting professor Roman Lanis....

South by Southwest Draws Music World to Austin, Texas

Edit Voa News 18 Mar 2016

Greg Flakus. AUSTIN, TEXAS—. The South by Southwest extravaganza taking place in Austin, Texas, this week began in 1987 as a local music festival with 700 participants, mainly from the region. Today, it is the world’s largest music festival of its kind, with more than 2,000 performers and nearly 30,000 people attending ... Diversity, world music ... Singer Shumi says the band members incorporate traditional music with elements of rock ... ....

Carton keeps up her form (EAA - European Athletic Association)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jan 2016

(Source. EAA - European Athletic Association). Louise Carton maintained her brilliant consistency in the Joker+CrossCup on Sunday, even though she could not make it her third individual win of the series ... He ran 29.08 as Ethiopian Dame Tasame, who is based in Belgium, took victory in a thrilling finish in 28.27 from Kenya's David Bett (28.32) and fellow Ethiopian Shumi Teshome (28.32) ... Original Document ... (noodl. 31809683) ....

UAE nurseries assigned new code of conduct

Edit The National 10 Jan 2016

The Ministry of Social Affairs has introduced a code of conduct for nurseries to improve standards. The code will apply to public and private nurseries and include training sessions for teachers and supervisors as well as a warning and fining system. The regulations are expected to improve standards by focusing on professionalism among employees, said Moza Al Shumi, head of the Children's Department at the Ministry of Social Affairs ... ....

Website Opened for Newly Released Day Planners "Echizen Foolscap Japanese Traditional Paper FUKUNO COCOCHI": Old But New, Pursuing Handiness & Traditional Japanese Beauty - Product of Collaboration between Echizen Washi (Japanese Traditional Paper) & Kyoto Nishijin Tatsumura Art Fabrics -

Edit PR Newswire 20 Nov 2015

FUKUI, Japan, Nov. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Kadobun Co., Ltd ... (Photo. http.//prw.kyodonews.jp/opn/release/201511205803/) ... The product was covered by a number of media outlets, such as Nihon Keizai Shimbun (a leading Japanese economic daily), Shumi no Bungu Bako (Pencil Cases of Hobby), and Fujin Gaho (Women's Pictorial Magazine). . Tatsumura Textile Co., Ltd ... Baccarat, a French glassware maker, collaborated with Tatsumura Textiles ... ....

EBL and LFMEAB sign MoU (Eastern Bank Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Nov 2015

(Source. Eastern Bank Ltd) Khurshed Alam, Head of SME of Eastern Bank Ltd and Md ... Hassan O Rashid, Acting Managing Director of Eastern Bank and Kazi Roushon Ara Shumi, Executive Director of LFMEAB were present among others on the occasion ... Hassan O Rashid, Acting Managing Director of Eastern Bank, Kazi Roushon Ara Shumi, Executive Director of LFMEAB were present among others on the occasion ... i ... Environment Friendly Green Technology; iv....

Unreported World: The Girl Who Lost Her Face review – moving, compelling and enraging

Edit The Guardian 24 Oct 2015

Photojournalist Giles Duley visits an acid attack survivors’ clinic in Bangladesh to meet Shumi, who was disfigured by her fiance then cast out by her family ... Eighteen-year-old Shumi Akhtar hasn’t left her hospital room since she arrived eight months ago ... One of Shumi’s aides was burned when she was eight after her family had turned down a request by a 40-year-old man to marry her....

UCO Oklahoma A+ Schools Model Adopted in South Africa (University of Central Oklahoma)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Oct 2015

(Source. University of Central Oklahoma). Oct. 23, 2015. Media Contact ... (end). Editor's Note ... Cutline 1 ... Pictured from left (front) AA+ Director Anya Morris and Zizipho Matiwane, (middle) Karen Stewart, Ntombizanele Dike, Earnestine Deane, Veronica Nicholas, Sue Kaplan, and (back) Cynthia Sigudla, Marilyn Petersen Sanders, Shumi Chomibe, Kauther Ibrahim, OKA+ Fellow Cindy Scarberry, Reviva Schermbrucker, OKA+ Program Director Rosalynn Wade....

Friday’s best TV: Unreported World; Concerto – A Beethoven Journey; Psychedelic Britannia

Edit The Guardian 23 Oct 2015

Investigation into acid attacks on women in Bangladesh; Leif Ove Andsnes devotes four years exclusively to Beethoven; a look back at the heyday of the hippies. Plus. Channel 5 gets conspiratorial. Unreported World. 7.30pm, Channel 4. In Bangladesh, acid attacks on women are on the rise ... Eighteen-year-old Shumi has been in a survivors’ clinic for nine months. her ex attacked her when she turned down his marriage proposal ... 7.30pm, BBC4 ... ....

Meet Bangladesh's Teenage Surf Girls

Edit Topix 22 Oct 2015

They lead double lives. Born into poverty in the Bangladeshi district of Cox's Bazar, Johanara, Aisha, Shumi, Rifa, Suma, Shobe Majaraz, Mayasha and Nargis wake up early each morning to go to work hawking snacks and handcrafted jewelry on their local beach down in the southern reaches of the country, along the Bay of Bengal ... ....

Course records the main target in Lisbon (IAAF - International Association of Athletics Federations)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Oct 2015

(Source. IAAF - International Association of Athletics Federations) ... For the half marathon, organisers have assembled a field containing more than 10 runners with personal bests faster than 1.00.00 ... Bernard Koech leads the entries ... Bahrain's Shumi Dechasa, who finished fifth in the marathon at this year's World Championships, will contest his first half marathon since winning the Arab title over the distance in April this year ... (noodl....

REVOLT TV & Versus Evil Announce Partnership To Promote Hip Hop Opera "Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma" Multi-platform launch campaign planned for new video game.

Edit PR Newswire 01 Sep 2015

NEW YORK, Sept ... Afro Samurai 2 ... Beginning shortly after his historic battle with Afro at Mount Shumi, Kuma must regain his strength, humanity and sanity as he sets out on a path of redemption and bloody revenge for the death of all those he loved. Volume 1 of the video game's series will be available for digital download on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation®4 later this September. For more information about Afro Samurai 2 ... ....