![]() He is seen working at a desk while Mei plays outside and spending time with his daughters before their bedtime. Although their father is often away working at the university or visiting their mother in the hospital, he is by no means an absentee father. This is only somewhat accurate in Mei and Satsuki's relationship with their father. A husband’s proper field of endeavor is the company” (101). According to Peter Tasker, “Japanese children are accustomed to never seeing their father on the weekdays, and only for short periods at weekends. ![]() Mei and Satsuki's father demonstrates both typical and atypical characteristics of a traditional Japanese father. Also, the various cleaning and garden tasks that Satsuki and Mei often had the help of Nanny to complete would have also normally been the main responsibility of the mother to complete. This is a task that would normally fall to the mother. One such illustration is when Satsuki prepares breakfast and lunch for her father and Mei before she leaves for school. This is illustrated several times throughout the movie. In the absence of her mother, it is then Satsuki's job to take over household tasks with Nanny's help. The husband is helpless in housekeeping tasks, such as doing the laundry, cooking, cleaning, and child rearing” (52). The mother's absence is significant because “at home, the husband depends upon the wife for domestic care. This is true in Totoro, as Mei and Satsuki's mother is hospitalized with an unnamed illness. According to Takie Sugiyama Lebra, “the mother is characterized as having suffered hardships” (154). One of the most significant things to point out in My Neighbor Totoro is that the mother is absent from the home. Bake neko are mentioned in several Ghibli movies. It is based on the Japanese superstition that if a cat grows old enough, it gains magical shape-changing powers, and is called a bake neko. Catbus ( ネコバス, Neko basu) A cat with hollow insides, serving as a bus for Totoros. "Granny" or "Nanny" ( お祖母ちゃん, Obaachan) Kanta's grandmother, who sometimes takes care of the girls. This character resembles Miyazaki in his fondness for cartoons and airplanes. Kanta Ōgaki ( 大垣寛太, Ōgaki Kanta) A preteen boy of their village, ambivalent towards Satsuki. These names do not appear in the movie itself, but are used in ancillary materials. There are two similar, smaller creatures in the movie, also referred to as totoro the big grey Totoro is named "Ō-Totoro", or "Miminzuku", the middle is "Chū-Totoro", or "Zuku", and the smallest is " Chibi-Totoro", or "Mini". Totoro is Mei's mispronunciation of torōru, the Japanese pronunciation of troll as a loanword. Totoro ( トトロ) A grey and white, friendly forest spirit, whose appearance is a combination of an owl, a cat, and a tanuki and is at least three meters tall. When Miyazaki was a young boy, his mother had tuberculosis. Yasuko Kusakabe ( 草壁靖子, Kusakabe Yasuko) The girls' mother, recovering from an unnamed illness (confirmed by Miyazaki as being tuberculosis ) at Shichikokuyama Hospital, which is noted for its tuberculosis treatment program. Tatsuo Kusakabe ( 草壁タツオ, Kusakabe Tatsuo) The girls' father, who works in the archaeology and anthropology departments of a Tokyo university. The widely-distributed promotional image for the movie of a girl standing next to Totoro at a bus stop reflects the earlier conception with a single child. Her name deliberately echoes her sister's, May being the fifth month, reflecting the fact that the story originally featured one girl, who was then divided into an older and younger sister. Mei Kusakabe ( 草壁メイ, Kusakabe Mei) Satsuki's sister who is around four years old. Satsuki is the traditional name of the fifth month of the Japanese calendar, the equivalent of the English May. The movie ends with the girls delivering an ear of corn to their mother.Ĭharacters Satsuki Kusakabe ( 草壁サツキ, Kusakabe Satsuki) A girl around ten years old. When Mei leaves in her attempt to save her hospitalized mother, she and Satsuki take a ride on the cat-bus. Satsuki, Mei and their father live in the field, where Mei discovers a giant creature living in the forest near the house. ![]()
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![]() Fearing at first that this demonic form was a manifestation of his own evil side, he soon realized that he had bonded with some wholly separate entity. One night after Crash's death, Johnny found himself transformed into a skeletal being with a flaming skull. John didn't realize it, but the entity he summoned was actually Mephisto. His studies ultimately led to a spell that supposedly could summon Satan himself. Lost, John turned to the occult in search of answers. When Crash revealed he was dying of cancer, he asked Johnny to take over the show, but Johnny refused. Ghost Rider’s costume includes his signature black biker jacket, black pants, and black boots, all accented with silver spikes and chains wrapping his right arm and torso. The son of Barton Blaze and Naomi Kale, Johnny spent his early years in the Quentin Carnival, where his parents starred in a stunt show with Craig "Crash" Simpson. The Ghost Rider 1/6 scale diorama is fully sculpted, inspired by promotional character artwork to recreate his distinct Marvel Gamerverse style. John Blaze was born into a world of motorcycle grease and cheering crowds.
![]() ![]() (Though, RIP Switch Lite users in this case) I found the same feeling with FE Warriors and Hyrule Warriors DE (though I was able to adjust to HW in handheld since I feel that was optimized a lot better: probably due to HW running pretty good on New 3DS, though the OG performance was inexcusable there too) Like, docking this game makes the game mostly 60FPS, so once you play in that way it's pretty hard to play in any other sense. Yeah it works, and sometimes they're optimized super duper well, but othertimes it makes no sense or is done so poorly that it's just unviable to play if you have access to literally any other version. The problem with switch ports and really most bad ports in general, is that they take games meant for 60FPS in mind, and just cut the frames in half for the heck of it. Likewise, Kingdom Hearts I/II were made with 30FPS in mind, so playing those in 30 is perfectly OK, even though modern versions have 60FPS as the norm and they do feel so much better in that form. I know some who can never ever go back to N64 OOT after playing 3D, while some like me can appreciate both versions for what they are. Like, OOT on N64 doesn't even hit 20 frames most of the time, and modders found that overclocking that game to run at 30 destroys the physics, so the 3D remake was pretty much a big major upgrade for that alone, since it did a 30fps boost properly. ![]() Hell, if a new game is made with 30FPS in mind, then it's still fine IMO, with 60FPS upgrades being a bonus rather than a necessity. It's not really like that though? Like, the main reason 30FPS was fine back then (and still now, in some cases), is because a lot of those games were made with 30FPS in mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Moses was born, his mother put him in an ark and placed it in the river. ![]() She is also known as The Pharaoh's wife, not daughter, in The Qur'an. In the Hadith, Bithiah is known as Asiya, one of four of "the best of women". The Midrash in Exodus Rabbah 18:3 also records that she was not affected by The 10 Plagues and her son was the only firstborn of Egypt to survive the final plague. She is mentioned in I Chronicles 4:18, as being the wife of Mered from the tribe of Judah, who is identified in The Midrash as being Caleb, one of the 12 spies. The Midrash also portrays her as a pious and devoted woman, who would bathe in The Nile to cleanse herself of the impurity of idolatrous Egypt. It relates in Leviticus Rabbah 1:3 of how God said He will take her in and call her Yah's daughter which is what “Bithiah“ meant because she took in a child not her own and called him her son "Moses" is thought to be derived from "child" in Egyptian. The Midrash identifies the two as the same person, and says she received her name, literally "daughter of Yah", because of her compassion and pity in saving the infant Moses. A daughter of Pharaoh named Bithiah is mentioned in I Chronicles 4:18. In the book of Exodus the daughter of Pharaoh who rescued Moses is not named. She was married to a Greek prince and they settled in Scotland. A Scottish legend tells about a daughter of a Pharaoh named Scota, who refused to persecute the Israelites and was banished at the time of the Exodus. Her children were Miriam, Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. Bithiah left Egypt with Moses when he ran away after killing an Egyptian slavedriver. In Jewish tradition, she was exiled by The Pharaoh for bringing Moses The Levite into the house of Pharaoh and claiming him as her own child. The Bible and Midrash both assert that she was the mother of Moses, having drawn him from The Nile and bestowed upon him his name, which in Hebrew meant "drawn out". Rabbinic interpretation Midrash of her Hebrew name states that since she took Moses in as her son though she did not give birth to him, so does God adopt her as his own daughter, naming her Batyah. Although the name of her father is not stated in Exodus, it is specified he was a Pharaoh. Bithiah was an Egyptian princess and the daughter of a Pharaoh according to The Old Testament. ![]() ![]() ![]() His “personal free comprehension” of events that are mostly skimmed over by the Qu’ran itself – there’s a blur of perpetually squabbling tribesmen – will be demanding viewing for anyone not versed in Islamic history. ![]() Majidi chronicles the first ripples of this revolutionary wave in a handsome, pre-CGI-era epic style. We do hear him speak – although as first lines go, “The weather smells pleasant here” is no “Shit, I’m still only in Saigon.”īut it would be a distortion to get too hung up on the representation question, given what an evocative and engrossing account of Islam’s gestation Majidi has mustered: in effect, Muhammad’s origin story.įraming events around a decade after his initial revelation, with his nascent band of followers under threat of eradication from pagan Meccans, most of the film is an extended flashback to the prophet’s childhood and early adolescence – revolving around his mother Aminah (Mina Sadati), grandfather Adbul-Muttalib (Alireza Shoja Nouri) and uncle Abu Talib (Mehdi Pakdel).Ī sequence of extraordinary events – beginning with a vast flock of birds driving off a horde of elephant-riding Abyssinians just prior to his birth – suggest that far from a very naughty boy, this might be the messiah they have on their hands. We first glimpse Muhammad as an adult from behind, shrouded totally in white, then there are snatches of romping baby legs, or Steadicam shots shadowing the boy prophet’s keffiyeh-swathed head, never without a faint Jedi aura. But Majidi’s lavish $40m film is nothing if not well-intentioned, and what we do see – courtesy of Apocalypse Now DoP Vittorio Storaro, always verges on the symbolic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then wait for the other two enemies in this area to walk by so you can take them out with your bow. You can also wait in the nearest bush and take out the enemy as he gets close to you. Use the bottle to distract the enemies ahead. If you don't already have a bottle in-hand, go up the platform to the right (before the area with the enemies) and grab the bottle at the top. Scramble into the closest bush, then move from bush to bush as you draw closer to the foes ahead. Go up the rusted structure ahead, then drop down into the next area. Keep going through the middle of the structure to find another salvage box on the right. There's another salvage box in front of the building grab the stuff inside. Keep going until you get to the structure on the left. When the other soldier comes to check things out, kill him as well. You can use the bottle in front of their position to distract them, or you can use your bow to kill one and get the attention of the other while you hide in a bush. Look at the object on the stump, them watch for the Trinity enemy ahead as you keep going down the path. Keep going down the path to the dead man near the tree stump. Use the zip line beside the fire, then turn around when you land to find an object hidden in the snow. ![]() Here's everything you need to know about missions in the Soviet Installation. Once you make it to the Soviet Installation, the game gives you a wealth of side missions that you can complete, as well as a host of main story things to get through. ![]() ![]() ![]() How should airports be designed to handle luggage and passenger flow? How should traffic lights be organized and timed to maximize traffic flow? What is the optimal design of an electrical grid or a communications network? What organization, machines, processes, and work flows will maximize quality, minimize costs, and maximize output? Optimizing manufacturing processes must be closely integrated with optimization of the related supply chain and distribution system. What’s the optimal way to manage the flow of raw materials, components, and supplies from various vendors to the manufacturer, under conditions of varying and uncertain demand? What is the optimal mix of brands, sizes, and facings to increase category sales? Will optimization of one category negatively affect other categories? How can product categories be optimized without hurting overall store sales? Retailers often strive to maximize sales within each category. There are many categories of products within a retail store. What is the optimal mix of merchandise in a given store to maximize sales or profits? How should this optimal mix vary across different types of geographic areas and demographic groups? How should this product mix vary throughout the business cycle? What are the optimal marketing elements to support the optimal merchandise mix? What type of store design will maximize consumer visits, time spent in store, or sales? What elements of store design are most important to consumers, and what arrangements of these elements are optimal? How should store design vary to maximize appeal to a particular demographic target or for a given location? What product mix corresponds to and supports the optimal store design? Which markets offer the greatest potential for new retail outlets? What store density maximizes sales revenue or profits? What’s the interaction between advertising investments and number of retail units? What sections of a metropolitan area offer the greatest potential for new retail units? What specific retail locations will yield the greatest return on investment? What deployment of retail units minimizes supply chain and distribution costs? What is the optimal number of warehouses, trucks and routes to minimize out-of-stocks, or minimize distribution costs or maximize delivery speeds? Where should the warehouses be located? What are the most efficient delivery routes? What size should the trucks be? How should the products be packaged and palletized for most efficient shipping? Computer science technologies and software development capabilities are often critical components in successful operations research projects. ![]() ![]() The ultimate goal is to create a mathematical model that simulates real-world processes and systems so that optimal solutions can be found. The basic tools of operations research are probability theory, Monte Carlo methods, stochastic processes, queuing models, transportation models, network models, game theory, linear and nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, Markov decision processes, input-output analysis, choice modeling, econometric modeling, and other mathematical techniques and algorithms. Operations research (or operational research, as it's called in Europe) refers to scientific methods (statistical and mathematical modeling, experiments, simulation, and optimization) applied to the solution of complex business problems. The terms Operations Research and Management Science tend to be used synonymously. Operations research is about deriving optimal solutions to maximize sales or profits and/or to minimize costs, losses, or risks. ![]() ![]() ![]() With such an advanced approach, you can proactively, rapidly, and cost-effectively improve your design and design productivity.įigure 1. Multisim integrates with National Instruments measurement technology within a single design platform, so you can effectively use simulation and real measurements to more accurately characterize performance. You can use design validation in the earliest stages of the design flow to reduce errors and prototype iterations. With this unique design platform, you can take advantage of advanced features within the easy-to-use and graphical Multisim environment. Multisim design integrated with LabVIEW test Correlate simulated and real measurements Automate Multisim simulation in LabVIEW Intuitive and easy-to-use capture environment Dynamic visualization of design behavior Interactive circuit simulation and industry-standard analysis capabilities Database of more than 16,000įlexible design environment for intuitive layout Efficient control of parts and copper placement Ability to export to industry-standard formats (Gerber, DXF) Integration throughout the design flow, from design simulation to prototype validation, can ensure your success. As engineering schedules shorten, and budgets tighten, you need to be able to use powerful design tools to quickly prototype error-free circuits. You can improve productivity by using this completely streamlined design flow to quickly define and prototype your circuit designs. Integrated Design and Test Platform with NI Multisim, Ultiboard, and LabVIEW NI Circuit Design Suite Multisim and UltiboardĬombining the powerful design capabilities of NI Multisim capture and simulation software, the flexible routing of NI Ultiboard software, and the industry-leading graphical programming of NI LabVIEW software, the NI Circuit Design Suite provides an innovative platform that integrates the design and test of board-level circuits (Figure 1). For user manuals and dimensional drawings, visit the product page resources tab on ni.com. ![]() ![]() Word of the tournament came through all forms of the media, and fans from far and wide gathered to witness the white-hot preliminary battles. With the decision to hold the tournament, fighters began to gather at various venues for the preliminary matches and approached the tournament with various motives, some came to test their abilities while others entered for wealth and fame. The fad reached all over the globe and in no time KOF '97 came into being. ![]() A few months after, the event triggered a fighting craze and various large corporations, expressing interest in the fad, offered to sponsor subsequent tournaments, leading to a demand for an eagerly awaited KOF '97. In spite of this incident, however, the KOF '96 tournament was an overwhelming commercial success. The incident itself and the subsequent accident it caused were officially reported as the result of terrorist activity by an unknown group, but the details concerning the identity, motives, and subsequent whereabouts of the terrorists remained a mystery. "KOF '96 tournament drew to a close with an incident that occurred right after the tournament's end." ![]() The official story given by SNK is as follows:
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