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Post-Brexit EU touring isn't working: join campaign to get touring back on the road and creatives back into work
Support the Carry On Touring campaign for as little as £2
People are being asked to join a pan-European campaign to get touring creatives back on the road post-Brexit, after the Government failed to negotiate EU-wide work permits for touring creatives and their crews.
For as little as £2 people can support the Carry On Touring campaign and pledge their support for musicians, artists, models, authors and their crews, many of whom will not be able to tour Europe under the new rules for visas.
The Carry On Touring campaign started in February 2021 with a petition from freelance video technician Tim Brennan, who is campaigning for a pan European EU visa and work permit waiver to be negotiated for touring creatives to keep tours moving round Europe after Brexit.
The campaign brings together voices from across the touring, cultural and creative industries sectors to secure cross-party support within Parliament to stop people touring Europe from having to obtain separate work visas for each country they visit. Something which is already having a detrimental impact on tours and could strike a catastrophic blow to an industry already battling the challenges of the pandemic.
Carry On Touring supporters include David Knopfler, founding member of Dire Straits, broadcaster Andy Kershaw, music author Sheila Kandra, songwriter Fish and tour manager Chris Markland, who's worked with the likes of Kaiser Chiefs, Rudimental and Meatloaf.
Campaign found Tim Brennan said: "The Government's failure to negotiate an EU-wide permit for touring creatives is already having a devasting impact on the careers of artists and their crews at home and in Europe.
"Everyone one from truck drivers to musicians have been affected and whilst the challenges of covid have masked the gravity of the issue up until now, we're now seeing real problems occur for touring creatives.
"We're working on behalf of these creatives but we need support to keep putting pressure on the Government. So far the Brexit Minister Lord Frost has been very flippant about the issue and has only engaged with us through junior members of his team. Now is the time to stand up for creatives and get tours back on the road."
You can support the Carry On Touring campaign on a pay what you can afford basis and begins at just £2. Any money raised will be used to support the campaign. You can donate to the campaign on the Carry on Touring website.
So far the Carry On Touring campaign has:
Gained 286,794 signatories for Tim Brennan's petition, which was debated in Parliament and brought the post Brexit Creative touring issue into the limelight with the help of some great celebrity support.
Held an EU/UK Summit with hundreds of attendees from across Europe to demonstrate support for creative touring professionals and artists.
Sent an open letter with 1135 signatories to Brexit Minister Lord Frost to demand Government fix the issues touring faces.
Leveraged cross-party support for our campaign and received support from high profile politicians.
Brought together the different parts of the creative industry to speak with one voice, including music, fashion, acting, dance, theatre, advertising & all the support staff that go with them
Engaged with various groups across the EU, including Impala, UNI-MEI, Cross Border Services, Pearle, FIA, Vibelab, to help highlight the issues we face.
Hold / attend regular meetings with various groups within the industry, including, Live!, RHA, C.R.E.W. Coalition, and our own Advisory group.
Pulled together useful information from various sectors of the creative industry into a Info Hub.
Provided a platform for people from across the creative industries to be able to tell us their stories on how they are being affected by the post Brexit touring crisis.
Offer advice for creatives struggling to find the right information necessary to work within the EU27 through various Facebook Forums.
Tim Brennan's petition asks the UK Government to negotiate a free cultural work permit that gives touring professionals visa free travel throughout the 27 EU states for music touring professionals, bands, musicians, artists, TV and sports celebrities that tour the EU to perform shows and events and to secure a Carnet exception for touring equipment. Very clearly Tim's petition chimed a chord with the public and the many UK artists and professionals who tour in the cities and nations across Europe, with over 280,000 signatures that continues to rise. On the back of Tim's petition, the Carry on Touring campaign was established to keep the pressure on Government to go back to the negotiating table.
Carry on Touring is the umbrella campaign which all those who tour – and rely on touring - can support and sit under. It brings together voices from across the touring, cultural and creative industries sectors to secure cross-party support for Tim Brennan's petition and campaign for a return of free EU movement for all touring artists and professionals. The strength of this campaign is that it is inclusive reaching across the sector, industry and political parties. This public facing campaign brings a spectrum of voices together to demonstrate its diversity and demographic.


The ticket to LA is just one dollar.
There's probably no cheaper way right now to jet between San Francisco and Los Angeles than by hopping on a low-fare, double-decker Megabus, which is offering rides for a $1 and free Wi-Fi for a limited time.
Beginning today, the company will run California and Nevada lines to and from: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Riverside, Sacramento, San Jose, along with Reno and Las Vegas. To book a trip, click on www.megabus.com.
You better book fast though. The deal only lasts through Dec. 19.
Megabus used to operate in California about five years ago, but discontinued service due to low ridership. The company is hoping that won't be the case this time.


There can be a wide variety of reasons for a Kali Linux installation to fail. This could include issues such as a corrupt or incomplete ISO download, not enough disk space on the target machine, etc. The following article will give you some pointers on what to look for when your Kali Linux installation has failed. The following is an example of the dreaded "Red Screen", indicating the installation encountered a problem.
Going into the debug logs, you are presented with several ways of transferring the installation log files away from the failed installation. The most convenient way is usually to start a web server on the machine undergoing the installation.
Once you choose this option, a web server is started from which you are able to download or view several installation log files.
Aug 19 23:45:05 base-installer: error: The tar process copying the live system failed (only 152937 out of 286496 files have been copied, last file was ).
Aug 19 23:45:05 main-menu: WARNING **: Menu item 'live-installer' failed.


The MacBook Air has always been a proof of concept for Apple. A product that shows them as one of the world's leading companies in design. A product which boasts such a thin profile. A product so light that you can put it in your bag without knowing it's there. Unfortunately, that phenomenally gorgeous exterior has always been marred by an underpowered interior and other issues such as a lack of ports for peripherals.
For me the MacBook Pro laptop has always been a far more viable option despite the additional weight, and whilst the latest refresh doesn't exactly present us with a flawless product free of issues, it throws up some interesting new form factors and technology. Is this the year of the MacBook Air? I've been using the 13-inch model on and off for a couple of weeks now, so let's take a look as I dish the dirt!
The casing of the new MacBook Air is now milled from one single piece of aluminium, going one step further with the display also included in the housing. This means that the display is not only thinner than it was on the previous model, but it's a lot stronger too.
The new models are actually thinner than the previous generation, thanks in no small part to the incredibly thin display, and they have a more modular look too thanks to a re-design of the housing.
The display doesn't have the flush look that it does on the glossy displays that you can find on the MacBook Pro line-up, which is slightly disappointing; there is still a silver outline to the display rather than the gorgeous, black surrounding that's present on the Pro, but all things considered the Air is one hell of an attractive machine.
When Apple announced the new Air, I was incredibly surprised to see that on paper, the new models look more underpowered than the old ones. The base 11-inch model packs a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, with the 13-inch model coming with a 1.86GHz version of the same CPU as standard. Just to put things in perspective, the older generation came with a 1.86GHz processor as standard as well, so things don't appear to have improved on that front.
In addition to this, you're only given 2GB of DDR3 RAM as standard, although you can upgrade to 4GB. Initially, this put me off the Air a little; why upgrade to a machine that's only as powerful as the last generation? Well, don't let these specs put you off as they did me at first. In use, the 11-inch MacBook Air was quicker than my 13.3″ Macbook Pro with a 2.4GHz CPU and 4GB of RAM. How is this possible? It's all down to the storage.
The latest MacBook Air uses flash storage in favour of a hard drive, but not in the form of a 2.5″ SSD as many may have expected. Instead, Apple has mounted the storage on a card connected to the motherboard, bypassing the SSD casing altogether, as well as the opportunity for users to upgrade at a later date if they wished to.
This does improve performance several times over, though. The speed of the SSD unit in the new MacBook Air is multiples quicker than the hard drive that you'd have found in the previous generation, and you can tell, too! Let me give you a few figures. Booting in to Mac OS X: under 15 seconds. Launching Safari: too fast for me to count. Launching iTunes 10: under a second.
Using this type of connection for storage also seriously reduces the size of the module, and it's just 10% of the size you'd see in a 2.5″ SSD. Space was always a commodity in the 13.3″ model of the MacBook Air, and it's even more crucial now as we have an 11-inch option as well. Most of the space saved from the lack of a SSD has been given to the battery to ensure that this thing will run for as long as possible. If you're using the 11-inch model, you can expect to see around five hours of usage on a charge, with the 13-inch offering a further 2 hours on top of that.
It's apparent that a lot has been learnt from Apple's other products in its line-up that run iOS. One thing I've always liked about the iPad tablet is the ability to put it on standby, come back four days later and still have battery life left to do my thing. This has been taken one step further with the new model of the Macbook Air. After sleeping for an hour, it will go in to a low power state where it can last for as long as a month and still have juice left over when you come back to it. To be able to shut the lid of your laptop with the knowledge that you can come back to it a couple of weeks later and have no trouble carrying on where you left of is pretty amazing, and something that I would love to see in the MacBook Pro's as this technology makes its way across Apple's line of products.
Any Mac OS X loving Steam users out there will be glad to know that the graphics chip inside the Air can hold its own fairly well against the rest of Apple's line-up of portable machines with an integrated NVIDIA GeForce 320M GPU with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with the main memory being utilised in both models. If you want to play some light games and view HD video content on your machine then you shouldn't have a lot of problems in doing so. I was surprised to see that gaming performance on the 11-inch model is actually better than the previous generations 13-inch model thanks to the flash storage.
One area which certainly hasn't been forgotten by Apple is the display. Both models feature a backlit LED display, with the 11-inch model's resolution of 1366 x 768 giving you a far higher pixel density than you'll find on the vast majority of 13-inch laptops on the market. The screen resolution on the 13″ Air is equally impressive at 1440 x 900. If you thought that an 11.6″ screen meant dropping your productivity, think again. With a resolution that high, you can easily run your everyday apps such as Safari and iTunes without worrying about fitting everything on. I've even used Safari with a visible Tweetie window sitting next to it, and I had no problems with content fitting in the window.
Despite the many advantages to the new MacBook Air, there is one feature missing that really does let me down: a backlit keyboard. Before I had a backlit keyboard I couldn't care less about them; when I needed light to type with I'd just tilt my screen down a little. Now I've been using one for well over a year, I couldn't even think about purchasing a laptop that doesn't have one.
Why the backlighting has been removed is anyone's guess, maybe it just took up too much room in the small chassis of the Air. Whatever the actual reason is, I want it back, and want to see it in the next generation.
If there is one thing that seriously hampered the previous generation of MacBook Air it's the sheer lack of ports available. With such a thin shell, there obviously isn't enough space for the number of ports that you'll see on a MacBook Pro, but everyone has peripherals and one USB port simply didn't cut it. If you carried a USB to Ethernet adaptor, you were out of ports. If you carried an external DVD drive, you were out of ports.
Fortunately, Apple has doubled up on the USB port count for both the 11-inch and 13-inch Air. You'll find one next to the Magsafe adaptor on the left hand side of the machine, and one next to the Mini DisplayPort on the right hand side. In many ways, the importance of the Mini DisplayPort is as significant as the additional USB port. You can carry around your 11-inch MacBook Air and hook it up to an external display or projector without any problems.
Not only can you use the Air as a portable machine, you're safe in the knowledge that you can prepare a presentation on it and use it at the office with the projector, or take it round to a friend's house for a movie on the big screen. It's this kind of flexibility that is appreciated when you're working with such a small machine. If you opt for the 13-inch model, you can make good use of the built in SD card reader, too. That's one less USB port needed when you're copying photos across from a camera!
You won't find an Ethernet port or DVD drive for obvious reasons, and there isn't a FireWire port in sight either, although quite frankly I can imagine the vast majority of users living without those ports without any issues. I can't remember the last time I used an Ethernet cable to connect my laptop to the internet, I seldom use the DVD drive, and I haven't any FireWire peripherals to speak of. Of course there are some Pro users that will sorely miss a FireWire port, but the MacBook Air isn't a Pro machine, and doesn't try to be one either.
With FaceTime making the transition from iOS over to Mac OS X, the newly named FaceTime camera is also present above the screen (goodbye iSight, we'll miss you). Apart from the name, you won't notice anything technically different here, just a new name for the same toy.
One thing that I would have loved to see in the new Air is the ability to use a MicroSIM like you can in the iPad. The freedom of having an independent data connection on your machine when you haven't got a WiFi connection is one that I would sorely miss if I traded in the ol' iPad for a MacBook Air; for me, it's the killer feature. If Apple really wants to transition features of the iPad in to its MacBook line, then it needs to start with 3G. Google's done it with the Cr-48, and will continue to do it with every Chrome laptop that hits the market. As far as I'm concerned, Apple needs to jump on board too.
Of course there isn't anything stopping you from getting a USB 3G dongle with that spare USB port that you'll have, or alternatively if you've got mobile phone running Android 2.2 'Froyo' then you could also use wireless tethering, but either option is a bit more awkward than having a built-in connection and will completely kill the whole portability theme you've got going with your new Air.
As with all Apple products, there's always that sense of luxury about what you've just bought. A little addition that makes that £1000 completely worth it. For me, it's the super cool Apple branded USB flash drive that contains Mac OS X so that you don't need to use an external DVD drive or borrow the drive from another computer over your network. Of course, you can install Mac OS X with any standard USB flash drive by following our handy little guide, but the Apple pen drive is just so damn cool!
Taking in to account the number of considerations that have to be made when creating a product such as the MacBook Air, it's incredible to think that so much has been packed in to such a small enclosure. When you use the new Air for the first time, you immediately look past the fact that you're working with a 1.4GHz CPU and just 2GB of RAM as soon as you start to launch applications in under half a bounce on the dock, and boot OS X in under 15 seconds.
It's clear that the new Air once again sets the bar incredibly high for competitors in the ultra portable PC market. With a weight of just 1.06kg on the 11-inch model and 1.32kg on the 13-inch model, you are looking at the definition of ultra-portable. Hopefully, a few of the drawbacks such as the lack of a backlit keyboard will be rectified with the next refresh, and we'll start to see some more powerful processors developed for the machine, too.
The entry level Apple MacBook Air starts at £849 and the 13-inch model will put you back £1099, only £100 more than the entry level MacBook Pro. With competitive pricing and a formidable list of specs, the new Air is certainly a feasible alternative to the MacBook and MacBook Pro, and I can't wait to see what Apple have in store for us next.
Why Apple Should Not Release A 7″ iPad Mini…Ever!


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Vidya Game News – December 8, 2016
By sgreenwell on December 8, 2016 | Leave a comment
– Huge news for Todd Brisket, as the new DuckTales is on the schedule for a Summer 2017 release! Read more at Entertainment Weekly, and listen to our show on the vidya game here!
– Cinemassacre (the site of the Angry Video Game Nerd) had a viral video this week, as Mike Matei recreated the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme in Mario Paint. Check out the cool video here!
– Russ Frushtick and Justin McElroy of Polygon have a cool video on the tangled history and development of Super Mario Bros. 2. We also covered SMB2 on a past show, by the way.
– On Polygon and other sites, Crash Bandicoot is coming back in remastered form, for the PS4! Check out our past show on ole Crash here.
– Unfortunately, Konami has sent a cease-and-desist to Dejawolfs, which was developing a remake of Castlevania in the Unreal engine. You can read the story on Siliconera here. And reminder! We covered Castlevania on a past show.
– From Variety, Sega has optioned a bunch of its titles for film and television adaptations, starting with Altered Beast and Streets of Rage. And speaking of Sega selling off its merchandising rights, it has also partnered with Build-A-Bear.
– Nintendo Everything has a translation of a Japanese book about The Legend of Zelda series, which reveals that a sequel to Wind Waker was canned for Twilight Princess.
– Geeks of Doom has a positive review of Art of Atari, a cool book full of Atari art.
– On December 9, 1997, Quake II came out for the PC. It was the online standard for a couple years of deathmatching, until Unreal Tournament and eventually Half-Life came out.
– Persona 4 came out for the PS2 on December 9, 2008. It's a hella good RPG by Atlus, and the fifth installment is due out on April 4, if it's not delayed again.
Posted in: NES, PC, Playstation, Playstation 4, Sega Genesis	| Tagged: Activision, Altered Beast, Atlus, Build-A-Bear, Capcom, Castlevania, Cinemassacre, Crash Bandicoot, Dejawolfs, Disney, DuckTales, Entertainment Weekly, id Software, Konami, Mike Matei, Naughty Dog, Nintendo, Nintendo Everything, Persona 4, Persona 5, Polygon, Quake II, Sega, Silconera, Streets of Rage, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Legend of Zelda, Todd Brisket, Twilight Princess, Wind Waker
Vidya Game News – September 29, 2016
By sgreenwell on September 29, 2016 | Leave a comment
Happy birthday, Nintendo 64!
– GamesIndustry.biz has an awesome, long interview with Rand Miller of Cyan Worlds on Myst, Obduction and releasing a game without a strong publisher. You can read it here, and listen to our show on Myst here!
– Brian Shea at Game Informer has a good piece on how Sega and Nintendo finally made peace over the years, and how Sonic appeared on a Nintendo platform. You can read it here.
– The spiritual successor to River City Ransom, River City: Toyko Rumble, has scooped up a good review from GameSpot. Listen to our show on the original game here.
– The early reviews on Sonic Mania are good so far.
– From The Daily Dot and other sites, the Warcraft movie now has an Honest Trailer out for it. Listen to our review of the game series here!
– PCMag.com has a slideshow on seven Mario games that never made it to the U.S.
– The Nintendo 64 came out for everyone today in 1996. It was kind of a big deal. Past N64 games we've covered: Quest 64, Superman 64, Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye and Star Fox 64.
– By the way, it seems weird, but Pokemon Red and Blue came out in Sept. 28, 1998 – two years AFTER the Nintendo 64 was released.
– A little game called Fallout came out for the PC on Sept. 30, 1997. Amazing, a sequel came out only a year later. Both games had more in common with the X-Com series than the action-RPG Fallout has become, but they were very well-reviewed.
– Tales of Destiny, the second game in that popular series, came out on Sept. 30, 1998 for the PlayStation. In this game from Namco and Wolf Team, you play as Stahn and kill things with a big sword. It's a weird kind of RPG-action game, but well-reviewed and well-received.
– Crash Team Racing, a completely and utterly original kart racing game, came out on Sept. 30, 1999. For more on Crash Bandicoot, check out our episode from a few weeks ago. And if you'd prefer our thoughts on some other racing game, try this episode.
Posted in: Game Boy, Nintendo 64, PC, Playstation, Vidya Games News	| Tagged: Brian Shea, Crash Bandicoot, Crash Team Racing, Cyan Worlds, Game Informer, GamesIndustry.biz, Gamespot, Honest Trailer, Mario, Myst, Namco, Naughty Dog, Nintendo, Obduction, Pokémon, Rand Miller, River City Ransom, River City: Toyko Rumble, Sega, Sonic, Sonic Mania, Sony, Super Mario Kart, Tales of Destiny, The Daily Dot, Warcraft, Wolf Team
Episode 071 – Crash Bandicoot (1996)
By sgreenwell on September 5, 2016 | 5 Comments
This week in Your Parents Basement, we are staring at the ass of a marsupial! From 1996, we're playing Crash Bandicoot by Naughty Dog for the Playstation.
You can manually download this week's blocky pixels podcast here or subscribe to the show via the iTunes store. To manually subscribe, use this link in the device / podcast player of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter, or 'like' us on Facebook.
0:00 – Intro, which features the Down Undah theme from the game.
33:30 – Emails! Why can't we be "fun" and "goofy" like the Nerdist boys?
43:00 – We have two Asks in Ask the Sweet Boys.
49:30 – We are training like hell for next week's game!
– According to Price Charting, the original Crash games have held their value well. The first one goes for $25 for just the game, and $32 if you have the manual. Almost all of the games are at least $12 if you have the manual and box.
– The world of Crash erotica is very disturbing, so click this link with caution. The same warning goes if you run any character from Crash in Google Images.
– Kotaku has covered the Crash Bandicoot remaster, here!
Posted in: Playstation, Podcasts, YPB Volume II	| Tagged: Activision, Butterscoot, Crash Bandicoot, emails, Huell, Kotaku, Luke Plunkett, Naughty Dog, Nerdist, Price Charting, Sony, Steve, Todd, Vivendi
Episode 016 – Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City (1994)
By sgreenwell on August 17, 2015 | 2 Comments
This week in Your Parents Basement, we're throwing down dunks for fire basketball power-ups! From 1994, we're playing the much-forgotten Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City, a SNES-exclusive from Electronic Arts. Today's special guest is Steve's buddy Dale!
You can manually download this week's wonderful podcast here, or subscribe to the show via the iTunes store. To manually subscribe, use this link in the device / podcast player of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter, or 'like' us on Facebook.
0:00 – The intro, which is not The Police, but is from a stage in the game.
1:00 – Todd's not here, man.
46:00 – Emails. There could be foul play involved with this week's show, and not enough video game questions.
60:30 – Snifferoo.
– According to Price Charting, a copy of Chaos in the Windy City costs about $7 for the cart itself. If you want a new copy, or just one with the box and manual, it's around $20 to $40.
– For a play-through of the game, with some commentary, check out this YouTube video. The speed run video is around 44 minutes, and available here.
– There isn't much info on this game available on the web, since it isn't "so bad it's funny" like Shaq Fu. (And hey, reminder – We reviewed that one too!) However, as mentioned on the show, this game was the first one designed by Amy Hennig, who would go on to design and develop some much better games.
GUEST REQUEST
For next week's show, we're covering Smash TV! If you'd like to participate, shoot an email to parentsbasementpodcast@gmail.com. Recording time will be 11 p.m. EST Wednesday.
Posted in: Podcasts, SNES, YPB Volume I	| Tagged: Amy Hennig, Butterscoot, Chaos in the Windy City, Dale, Electronic Arts, emails, Huell, Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City, Naughty Dog, Nintendo, Price Charting, Scooterbutt, Shaq Fu, Steve, Todd, Uncharted

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I am trying to publish a form with a very large number of cascading select records (over 12,000) and receive this error when I attempt to publish. I have all the records in the choices tab because apparently there is a bug in the external_choices functionality that does not display/record integer values properly. See attached. Note that the form has the same name as the error code. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Recall that a couple of weeks ago I posed the question of integers being displayed with 1 decimal point when I used an external select. You responded that it was a known bug, so I went back to the regular select. Did I understand your response to that correctly?
Yes, you understood my response correctly on that.
To work around both, you can change the number values in excel to numbers stored as text - this essentially presets the values to look like what the application expects.
I did this with your survey- to do on other surveys, use the TEXT(<cell>, "0.0") Excel function to format the the number as text, copy it as values to change from a function to text, and then copy over the original values.


VIP unlocks at VIP Lv. 1.
All buildings require gold to be upgraded, but you will receive gold from quest completions on them.
Town Hall Level 02: Shop added to your town. Cottage #2 added.
Town Hall Level 05: World & Local View Unlocked.
Town Hall Level 11: Tech Center added to your town. Bless & Tavern becomes available in Train Center.
Town Hall Level 12: Market added to your town.
Town Hall Level 36: You will use Battle Orders if you lose the battle.
Town Hall Level 40: Daily Quests become available.
Town Hall Level 41: Merchant Guild added to your town.
Town Hall Level 41: You may send out trade caravans.
Town Hall Level 45: Bank added to your town.
Town Hall Level 82: Smelting forge added to your town.
Town Hall Level 85: 2nd Training Ground.
Collect Taxes, Promotion and follower(s).
Tax collection is one way of building up your gold reserves. You will get the basic 12 tax collections per day but you may also recieve bonus tax collections from Seasons and from Government Decisions. The amount of tax you collect depends ony a number of things as follows.
The amount of Cottages and their level, Magistrate level, Area Prosperity, Citizens Loyalty and Alliance Tax Tech Level. Your Citizens Loyalty will drop 1 point for every tax collection you make. During tax collections, you will some times be given a chance to recieve extra gold or to raise your citizens loyalty by making a Government Decision. This is in the form of a question and 2 possible answers. One of the answers will give you extra gold and the other will raise your citizens loyalty by 6 to 9 points. One or two of these will also give a bonus tax collection as well as gold or loyalty.
Promotions are achieved by gaining Prestige. They will give you larger salaries which can be collected once per day. They also give extra hero slots on certain levels. For a complete guide to promotions, go to the Prestiege Page.
The Armoury is where you recruit or draft troops. If you look at your info panel top left, you will see Troops ?????/????? this shows the troops you have and the maximum troops you can recruit. You need to keep an eye on this and recruit more troops as it goes down. You will need grain to recruit troops. If you let it get too low, you will go into battle without your full troop numbers and it could result in a loss for you and maybe even your team mates if your attacking MPA's. Providing you keep this topped up, your trops will be added to your hero automatically.
Drafting Troops allows you to recruit a small number of troops without using grain. Recruiting troops only adds troops to the hero's in the current default formation.
Smelting Forge is added when your town hall reaches level 82, your smelting forge must also be level 82 before you can begin forging. There is also a forging level, this can only be upgraded by upgrading your Alchemist level to level 82+. Level 83 Alchemist and Forge will allow you to forge at level 2 once you have gained enough forging experience, so its important to keep your Alchemist and forge level upgraded enough to allow for the next forging level to take place.
This is where your hero training is done. If you enter the training grounds you will see the upgrade button and 3 other buttons, Train, Bless and Tavern.
Clicking the training button will open the following screen.
At the top right you will see Training Slots: ?/?. This is the amount of heroes currently in training / and the maximum heroes you can train at one time. On the left are your currently recruited heroes. The amount of heroes you can recruit at one time will depend on your Promotion level(Rank).Top right you will see the currently selected hero's information. The hero's name and current level are at the top. Below this the current amount of troops this hero commands and / the maximum amount of troops the hero can command.
Use the Armoury to recruit troops if these two numbers do not match to make sure you go into battle with the full compliment of troops. Below this your hero's Stats/Attributes. P: is the hero's Physical strength, T: is the hero's Technique strength and M: is the hero's Magic strength. Below this is your hero's Rank. Hero Ranks are the same as item levels. At hero level 1, the heros rank will be Bronze 1. The only exception to this is if your hero has been Reincarnated. Below this is your hero's Technique, but not all heros have a Technique. If you position the mouse button over the hero's technique, it will give information on that particular technique. Below the hero's portrait is the Hero Speciality, in this case Adepts. Positioning your mouse over this will give you infomation on their particular Speciality.
You will see 3 buttons next to the hero's information, Release, Add Slot and Training.
The Release button allows you to release the selected hero, doing this frees up a hero spot and sends your released hero back to the hero recruiting area and allows you to recruit another hero to train or fight. You do not lose the released hero but you will have to pay the hire cost to put him/her back in your recruited line up.
The Add slot button allows you to purchase a hero slot using Celest. The amount of slots you can purchase is limited.
Depending on your VIP level there are a number of training option to choose from, which will determine the amount of time your hero trains for. Select the one you want to use and click Start Training. Training will start on your currently selected hero. You will then see another panel with further options to speed up training. Image to follow.
A second training ground is added at TH level 85. This second training ground will increase the amount of experience your heros get per hour. When both training grounds are at the same level the experience gained is doubled.
Again depending on your VIP level, you will see a number of options to speed up your hero training.
Technology Center(TC) This is where you will upgrade all the Technologies your hero's, troops and city uses. More technologies are added as they and your TC get upgraded.
When you open the shop you will see the upgrade button and 4 other buttons, Purchase, Enhance, Storage and Treasure Hunt.
Clicking the purchase button will take you into the shop where you will see whats on offer to you.
This is where you may pay gold & hunt for mounts or cloaks. The more skilled the hunter the better grade items can be found.
The free hunt can be done once per day.


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House: Can Democrats Dodge the Carpetbagger Label in 2018?
Democrats' chances of retaking the House in 2018 depend on the success or failure of candidates like Elissa Slotkin. At 41, she has compiled the kind of impressive national security resume her party craves: she served three tours in Iraq as an Arabic-proficient CIA analyst, then rose to Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense under the Obama administration, handling sensitive matters ranging from ISIS to Russia and Iran.
But the third-generation Michigander sports one obvious liability in her bid to unseat GOP Rep. Mike Bishop (MI-08): despite growing up in a well-known meatpacking family on a farm in rural Holly, she hasn't been registered to vote in Michigan until she moved back full-time in February.
All over the map, Democrats are counting on political outsiders - veterans, national security experts, and startup executives - to capitalize on discontent with "DC politics as usual" and President Trump. But in many cases, these candidates' educations and professional successes have taken them far away from the humble hometowns they are now seeking to reconnect with, giving Republicans an opening to portray them as out-of-touch elites.
In the polarized Trump era, elite pedigrees are a more acute challenge for Democrats than ever - and Slotkin, a Cornell graduate, isn't alone. In California's rural 10th CD, Democrat Josh Harder stresses his Central Valley upbringing, but downplays his senior role at a San Francisco venture capital firm. And Democrat/Rhodes Scholar Andy Kim grew up in New Jersey's 3rd CD, but didn't live there when he was an ISIS adviser in the Obama White House.
A Cook Political Report review of competitive House elections in 2014 and 2016 found that just two of 17 non-incumbent Democrats with Ivy League degrees won their races (12 percent), compared to 16 of 67 non-Ivy League graduates (24 percent). The two Ivy League winners: Rep. Seth Moulton (MA-06), better known for his service in the Marines, and Rep. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05), who ran against a deeply flawed GOP incumbent.
In a Monday interview with the Cook Political Report, Slotkin was down-to-earth, blunt - even occasionally salty - about her own party's challenges and realistic about the lines of attack her opponents will use against her. She plans to contrast her service in Iraq with Bishop's lengthy political career. And in her rollout video, she emotionally discusses returning to Michigan often to care for her late mother after she was diagnosed with cancer.
Michigan's 8th CD, which President Trump won by seven points, is exactly the kind of "reach" district Democrats need to win the majority. But Slotkin's success hinges on whether voters will see her as "one of them."
The largest city in Michigan's 8th CD is Lansing, home to plenty of liberal-leaning state government workers and Michigan State University in East Lansing. But most of the 8th CD's voters live in the outer Detroit suburbs of Livingston and Oakland counties, which lean Republican. It sports the second-highest percentage of college graduates in Michigan, but by no means is it exclusively upscale.
Slotkin brings a fascinating family background to the race. Her great-grandfather, meatpacker Sam Slotkin, founded Hygrade Foods and her grandfather, Hugo Slotkin, invented the original Ball Park franks sold at Tigers Stadium. Bypassing the meat business, Elissa Slotkin earned a degree in rural sociology at Cornell, learned Swahili and Arabic, worked in Kenya and Israel and attended grad school at Columbia before being recruited by the CIA after 9/11.
Michigan's 8th CD has embraced candidates with security profiles before: between 2000 and 2014, it elected Republican Mike Rogers, a former FBI special agent who had fought organized crime in Chicago. But Rogers had been elected to the state senate twice before getting elected to Congress. Slotkin starts out with a lot of enthusiasm from donors and Democratic strategists in DC but is building a Michigan political base from scratch.
In fact, there is no guarantee that Slotkin will clear the Democratic primary field. Michigan's primary isn't until next August and it's still possible that a Lansing-based liberal activist candidate with stronger ties to Michigan State could emerge. Slotkin doesn't come across as a dove on foreign policy and is hesitant to criticize free trade deals. That could put her at odds with voters who vaulted Bernie Sanders to a surprise primary win last year.
If Slotkin does make it to the general, Democrats are optimistic Bishop's lengthy record - dating back to his Lansing years as majority leader of the state senate - hasn't yet been fully litigated. Even a few Republicans acknowledge Bishop cuts an insider figure and can come across as confrontational. But Democrats' 2016 recruit, former child actor Melissa Gilbert, dropped out late in the game and her successor on the ballot never got much traction.
In 2018, we may find out whether Michigan voters are more in the mood for Slotkin's resume or that of musician Kid Rock, whose house is eight miles from Slotkin's family farm. But recent wave elections have told us that when voters are angry with the incumbent president or the status quo, they are much more willing to overlook challengers' flaws and weak district ties. That's why the race in Michigan's 8th CD could be such an interesting bellwether.


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The project features 12,000 SF office space with adjacent retail space of 1,500 SF for future tenants. Use of various materials such as stone, wood siding, aluminum windows and composite wood panels create a modern ranch building with a warm feel. Modern interior is filled with natural light from two clerestory window towers. Interior has multiple meeting rooms, executive offices, perimeter offices with large exterior windows and open office space for quick team meetings. The main lobby has high wood ceilings with wood and upholstered walls to create a grand, yet welcoming experience.


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Kiribati Islands, Pacific Ocean
The tiny islands that make up the island nation of Kiribati are scattered over five million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean. Located on the Equator southeast of Hawaii, the 33 islands of Kiribati are coral atolls surrounded by extensive coral reefs. It is the reefs, not the land, that make the islands visible in this image, acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite on December 20, 2003. The white shells that form the reef reflect light back to the satellite. Through the shallow ocean water, the reflected light is a vibrant turquoise.
Kiribati officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati), is a sovereign state in the central Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is just over 110,000 (2015), more than half of whom live on Tarawa atoll. The state comprises 32 atolls and one raised coral island, Banaba. They have a total land area of 800 square kilometres (310 sq mi) and are dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres (1.3 million square miles).
Their spread straddles both the equator and the 180th meridian, although the International Date Line goes round Kiribati and swings far to the east, almost reaching the 150°W meridian. This brings the Line Islands into the same day as the Kiribati Islands. Kiribati's easternmost islands, the southern Line Islands, south of Hawaii, have the most advanced time on Earth: UTC+14 hours.
Kiribati became independent from the United Kingdom in 1979. The capital, South Tarawa, which is now the most populated area, consists of a number of islets, connected by a series of causeways. These comprise about half the area of Tarawa Atoll.
Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC


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A Shantotto Prophecy d'Etat
We've done it! Final Fantasy XI is over, and we have three small scenarios to talk about. Special thank you to Mog's Mixtape for the remix!
Shantoto Ascension
SHantotto starts beign up to no good and trys to open up a new dimension as an experiment, but she makes a mistake in her calculations and a giant explosion goes off.
Enter Domina Shantotto. She's like the evil half of shantotto, who brings along Tarutaru clones to take over Vanadiel.
Forming a new Shantotto empire, Nooborious is sent on a quest to power up 6 protocrystals accross the land. After the quest he's sent to assassinate Aldo. After a fight with Aldo, Nooborious explains the situation and Aldo gets to work.
They find out Shantotto is being held in Ro'Mave, and when they reach her find her to be an unusually kind Shantotto. Appearently in the accident Shantotto was split in two. One being the nice shantotto and the other being Domina.
Much like Agent Smith, Domina Shantotto's next move is to make everyone in Vanadiel her clone. Even after Nooborious defeats her, she lets out the curse. What happens then makes little sense, but the real Shantotto comes back after going to an alternate Vanadiel, and the two become huge Kaiju Shantottos and have an epic fight, which results in the real Shantotto lifting the curse.
A Moogle Kupo D'etat
The adventurer's moogle (the one in Nooborious's Moogle house) runs into some moogle mafia troubles when he's informed that he's been kicked out of the Mog House Management Union. Following an investigation, Mog gets trapped in a rent-a-room in Jueno, and Nooborious has to get ingredients together to give to Shantotto in order to free him.
Dom Kupeliaure, the Moogle "Union" boss, informs Moogle that he has to pay a large fee. Desperate, Mog asks Nooborious to find his "secret savings". But even that turns out not to be enough money, due to some bullshit interrest.
It gets even worse when they kidnap his girlfreind for ransom (which makes Moogle loose his property to goblins), and when a cat burgler, Nanaa Mihgo, is sent to "teach him a lesson", Nooborious has to swoop in to protect him.
Moogle at last is once again decieved when he is invited to Castle Zvahl to be taken care of. It turns out another Moogle named Riko is in on a scheme with Dom to bulldose the moogle properties to make way for luxury apartments. Nooborious fights his way through the entanglement, defeating Riko and his henchmen, and knocking an evil gem from Dom's belly that was appearently making him do bad things.
Moogle goes home, and all is well.
A Crystaline Prophecy
When a giant Crystal randomly appears in the sky over Vanadiel everyone begins to hear the song of legend. When is subsequently dissapears though, only Aldo, Verena, and Nooborious have any rememberence of the event at all.
Suddenly a young boy named aldo (yes, the same name as the other aldo) freezes time and informs Nooborious that the crystal has chosen him for something, and Nooborious then sets off to gather a bunch of shit to the crystal at Quifim island.
It turns out that the Crystal is really there to destroy the world with its song and is growing more and more powerful. The real Aldo, Big Aldo finds out that there's a counter-verse that can be sung (still don't know if figurative or litteral), that can make the crystal lose its power.
Fucking with the will of the crystal pissess off some orthodox Mandragoras, and you have to fight them off.
So it turns out that Young Aldo is the son of Big Aldo's sister, Emiline (the girl in the openning video), and Aldo is hell-bent on saving her from the ill-will of the Crystal.
Nooborious and Big Aldo go on a quest to find her, and the siblings are momentarily reunited, but all is not as it seems. Soon Emiline dissapears due to the seed crystal, and Young Aldo informs them that he and his mother were both dreams by Emiline so powerful they that appeared to be real....... Anyway, Nooborious and Aldo have to go up Delfucks tower, gather the necessary Seed Crystal peices, and then stop the Seed Crystal once and for all.
In the end it turns out that despite the visions of people he witnessed, the real Emiline is alive and will somwhere in Vanadiel, going by the name Mathilde. And that's good enough for him.
Direct download: UFF_128_CrystalineProfessybyShantottoofakupodeita_mixdown.mp3
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Join us for another sexual episode of Final Fantasy Unlimited. Will the chocobo horde stomp the life out of our friends? Will the Magun thaw? Find out!
Direct download: Commentary_FFU_Ep11_mixdown.mp3
This time, we review the newest of the Final Fantasy XV films; Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV.
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV is a 2016 computer animated fantasy anime film directed by Takeshi Nozue, written by Takashi Hasegawa, and produced by good ole Hajime Tabata. The film was developed by Visual Works, Square Enix's CGI studio. The film is obviously connected to the Fabula Nova Crystallis subseries, and is meant to get everyone ready for Final Fantasy XV. Kingsglaive was created as part of the multimedia rollout of Final Fantasy XV. The film began production in 2014 by the same team that brought us Advent Children. Kingsglaive uses discarded stuff from the original story, while creating a separate experience and plot. Square Enix brought in multiple external studios into complete the project in time.
Plot/Setting
The story takes place on the world of Eos. This planet is divided into multiple nations that each once held magical crystals. Sound familiar?! The kingdom of Lucis is currently the only nation that still has a crystal. They use it to defend themselves via a gigantic magic barrier. The crystal holds special powers, ie magic, and is only accessible through the Ring of the Lucii, which is passed down from monarch to monarch. Recently, the militaristic empire of Niflheim has been conquering nearby nations, and is currently at war with Lucis. Lucis is protected by the Kingsglaive, an elite unit that uses the royal family's magic powers. Kingsglaive starts out with King Regis accepting terms of peace from Niflheam. Regis must cede the territories around the crown city Insomnia to Niflheim, and marry prince Noctis to Lunafreya, the former princess of Tenebrae. Another place that we have no context of… lol.
REMIX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsPNQQQSVKc
Direct download: Kingsglaive_Final_Fantasy_XV_mixdown.mp3
Genji Armor in Final Fantasy
This week, Joe teaches us about Genji. Who was this man, and what is his significance in the series? We also discuss the recently announced Stormblood expansion to Final Fantasy XIV. We discuss our thoughts on the trailer, and discuss what a Red mage would do in the game. We also discuss a little about our upcoming games, and announce that we have stopped the Shantottification. Enjoy the Grind!
Direct download: UFF_126_Genji_Equipment_mixdown.mp3
Rhapsodies of Vana'diel
We've done it! We finished Rhapsodies of Vana'diel, and will be putting FF XI behind us..... Or will we?!?!?!!? Find out soon!
Rhapsodies of Vana'diel
Rhapsodies of Vana'diel is the final expansion/add on for Final Fantasy XI. It was released in thirds: part one in May 2015, part two in August 2015, and part three in November of 2015. The game was designed by producer Akihko Matsui, and the extremely memorable final themesong was composed by longtime FFXI mixmaster Naoshi Mizuta. Rhapsodies was meant to be a sending off for Final Fantasy XI, as well as a big thank you to players for their years of service within the game.
Rhapsodies begins with our heroine, Iroha, visiting the great crystal and voicing her need to visit Reisenjima to warn her master… We then meet up with captain Gilgamesh, who claims that he found a woman on a rowboat who cried out Elhusk. Since, at this point, Elhusk was in a relationship with Lion, he had no choice but to investigate. This is where we formally meet Iroha, who claims to be our future scullion or something, and wants to stop the Emptiness from consuming Vana'diel. Iroha dissolves, and the Reisen Shrine orb we're holding brings us to the mothercrystals Holla, Dem, and Mea.
A vortex appears, and a monster with it, in Quifim Island. We impale the beast, and enter the vortex. And then we see him. The masked man…. Dun Dun DUNNN!!! We enter an alternate Zi'Tah where the Emptiness totally won, and swallowed life. Lions spirit takes form, and she adds herself to the Reisen Shrine orb. Once the shadow lord is defeated in the original storyline, we are able to go through Reisenjima's gates.
About a year later, when we finally jumped back into the game, we meet up with the man in the mask, who has Siren fight Elhusk. Elhusk, being the stout warrior that he is, defeats siren while barely taking damage. Siren is released from the masked man's thrall, and let's us know that Iroha will reappear again. Then we have a bit of a world tour, getting Tenzen and Prishe to add their powers to the Reisen Shrine Orb. We then move to visit another past girlfriend, Nashmeria, who informs us of the masked man using power from the future to open these portals. The masked man breaks into the Walahra temple, and tries to siphon the Astral Candescence's power, but is stopped. We head to the Alzadaal Undersea Ruins.
Phoenix reaches out to Alexander, requesting some of his power to help sustain Iroha's existence. He obliges, and we then head to meet up with Cait Sith, who confirms that the future we saw earlier where the emptiness had consumed everything wasn't a forbidden one, thus Atomos cannot consume it. Cait Sith then suggests we get in touch with Altana to protect Iroha.
We then meet up with yet another past sweetheart, Lilisette. She heard that Elhusk had become a god, so she adds her light to the Reisen Shrine orb, and vows to find a way to contact Altana. The masked man stole away Atomos' power, and took off. We then meet up with Iroha, who is a complete BEAST now, by the way. Iroha claims that Siren and herself are abominations to the world. We of course reassure her that she's the bomb, but she never listens. We then train, and head to Ugilappeh to speak to Grav'iton Berrisaci, who informs us that we must pass through a mothercrystal to cross into the realm of the gods. We then meet up with Selh'teus and some baddies, who are trapped in the crystal.
Siren shows up again, and helps Iroha, and Siren Prime, try to banish all who do not belong. Tenzen stops the show, since he doesn't want Iroha to leave. She's pretty mad about this, but whatever. We meet up with Dr Shantotto, who gives us Koru-Moru's magic doll to point us in the right direction. We head to Escha - Ru'An and encounter our old friend Balamor, who has stolen Selh'teus's crystal energy, and wants to create a world of his own. He goes super sayan, and we whoop his ass. Selh'teus then reveals his plan to become the new mothercrystal. Then the big reveal: The dark man is Elhusks future dark side, created to fight the darkness, but failed. Elhusk defeats bizarro Elhusk, and sends him off Boromir style.
We then get a sweet vision showing all of those we've beaten down. Then we head to the Reisenjima Sanctorum. Reisenjima is revealed to be the site of our last stand, and an ethereal shield is erected to save it from the void. In deciding to gather light, Elhusk creates bizarro Elhusk, who gathers darkness. We then head to Adoulin, seeking Arciela's advice. Balamor has been travelling many different worlds, but many were swallowed by emptiness. He is pretty stoked on the Reisen Shrine orb, though, and gives us some of himself just to see things unfold. We head to the Hall of the Gods, where it's revealed that darkness will descend when the five mothercrystals shatter, and rejoining them will bring Paradise, yet end Vana'diel.
Selh'teus then offers Elhusk the power of the crystal in order to become a god. We then fight an ascended form of Promathia, a dragon named Sempurne. Elhusk crushes this scrub, and meets up with bizarrro Elhusk. The time to fight is now. The darkness sends out a ton of those Sin Scale things at the beginning of X, and all of our favorite characters wreck their faces and drive the darkness back for now. Then comes the most frustrating quest in the game…. Panopt hunting…
We are tasked with killing 11 of these fuckers, and being the stalwart hero he is, Elhusk also decided to take on the king of the panopts in a gruelling, twenty minute fight. With the panopts dead, order has been restored to the lifestream, allowing Selh'teus to regain his powers. We then meet up with Altana, who asks Bizarro Elhusk and Elhusk to fight to the death. Bizarro Elhusk is revealed to be Metus, but it's no matter. Elhusk triumphs. Everyone is super stoked, but then the Cloud of Darkness begins corrupting the mothercrystal. We can't really destroy the thing though, and the Phoenix Blade leads us to a stone circle in La Theine, where the Gods enter the material plane. We then pack our Reisen Shrine orb with the powers of Alexander, Odin, Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh, Titan, Garuda, Leviathan, Atomos, Cait Sith, Diabolos, Fenrir, and Bahamut. We head for the Sanctorium for the final fight. All of our previous expansions heroines trust forms are auto summoned fight tooth and nail to stymie the advance of the Claws of Darkness. We then get a fucking ballin cutscene where Iroha is given all the power of the Shrine Orb, and Phoenix is restored to full power. This causes the Cloud of Darkness to manifest in physical form, and now we commence the final fight. Which was a BITCH! Special shoutout to Abbu for helping us out. Elhusk's body couldn't survive the clas, and must find respite in the mothercrystal. The only way his light will shine in this world again will be through a chorus of life, crying out through time and space; The Rhapsodies of Vana'diel. Iroha donates her hair to us, which is good since I'm totally losing mine, and disappears once again. Then the final song picks up, and we hear the Rhapsody to rival Queen's.
The expansion is so very much a thank you to fans, that Mizuta came up with the idea of asking players to contribute to the final song. Indeed, the voices that ring out during the final cutscene of the game are none other than adventurers from Vana'diel! How fucking cool is that?! Square Enix had a page dedicated to fan submissions of "la la la's". There is a zip file of the music, a vocal sample, and the music sheet. They requested that users submit the file along with their character name, so they could get the recognition. It was available to active players and unsubscribed ones alike. Unfortunately, the voices of Nooborious and Elhusk are not among those singing the rhapsody.
The Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVZgBk7_jTM
Direct download: UFF_125_rhapsodiesofvanadiel_mixdown.mp3
Seekers of Adoulin
This week, we review the second to last expansion to Final Fantasy XI:Seekers of Adoulin. Enjoy!
Released March 27th in 2013, Seekers of Adoulin was the last full expansion for FFXI.
It featured many new areas in FFXI, all surrounding the Nation of Adoulin and the outlying Ulbuka Territory, and added jobs the jobs Geomancer and Rune Fencer.
Gameplay-wise Adoulin added a lot of things such as Colonization, Coalition Assignments, Reives, Skirmish and Delve.
The music was written entirely by Naoshi Mizuta, who created 9 new tracks for the expansion.
The nation of Adoulin, which has been locked off for a long time, opens it doors to adventurers in order to settle the Ulbukan hinterland. On the way to the new nation, Nooborious meets a young woman named Arciela (our new expansion heroine). She tells Noobrious to register as a pioneer with the Pioneers' Coalition, and the expansion begins.
Talk about the Impermatures and Adoulin Reives.
It turns out Arcelia the sister of the Grand Chancellor of Adoulin and a descendant of the former royal line, which means nothing yet.
The Pioneers' Coalition tells Nooborious to uncover the secrets of the leafkin (a race of leafy beings), and meets with Teodor, a mysterious man clad in black who says that the sword carried by Arciela is the key to meeting the leader of the leafkin (known as the Otharsyne, the sword had been passed down the royal line and represents the will of the Founder King). Teodor explains that after King August (the founder guy) subjugated Ulbuka years ago, he made a promise to never tread upon the land. The Otharsyne it turns out, could allow the king to defy the pact he had made.
In an attempt to borrow the sword, for, you know, stuff…. the Adventurer finds Arciela and she decides to go looking for the leafkin in the Yorcia Weald where they had been seen before. There, they meet Rosulatia (the mega-leafkin) who explains that danger is coming to Ulbuka.
It turns out that the world tree "Yggdrasil" had existed in ancient times on the continent of Rhazowa and that a second tree had been planted by King August in Ulbuka. However, when the Orcish Empire fucked up the world tree in Rhazowa, its connection with the tree in Ulbuka was spoiled.
When Arciela asks how they can help, Rosulatia replies that they should ask the king, and gifts a pome to the Adventurer.
After this, we get some scenes of civil war between the factions that oppose adoulin expansion, and those who are for it. Luckily the group that is about to kill Arcelia is stopped just in time (the fight in the waterways).
During a council meeting, it's explained by Arcelia that Councelor Ygnas had turned into a leafkin who can no longer communicate with humans (Cid in FF9). However, a pome that the Adventurer receives from Rosulatia allows Ygnas to speak directly into the Adventurer's mind… For reasons, I guess.
So they try to cure Ygnas with an Exorsist named Ingrid, but that doesn't work. Soon Ygnas's voice fades from Nooborious's head, but not before Ygnas warns him of terrible things coming to the land.
Suddenly a girl named Nyline comes wandering through the woods as if possessed, and it turns out she had started acting that way after her father gave her a random stone. When she randomly takes off, Noobrious has to find her. She passes out and little fairy things escape from her stone.
Suddenly another girl disappears, Arcelia, who was apparently attacked by some tiger. Luckily, she's fine, and the Tiger is actually protecting her. It turns out that a jealous Ingrid (the exorcist) attacked her and used a soul syphon to take her soul. Ingrid flees, but is saved by Nooborious. Embarrassed by her behaviour, Ingrid releases the soul and is quickly forgiven.
Days later, after a few more people disappear in the woods, Arcelia tells Nooborious that she believes that they should go to the summit of Mt. Kamihr to talk to a dragon there.
The dragon's name is Sajj'aka, who explains that seals on the pass are beginning to awaken, and that "Hades" will return.
Our heroes try to get a new world tree sapling to plant in the labyrinth that holds Hades, and after some annoying quests with some dragon scales and the search for Leafallia, the tree is successfully planted.
After some more chaos in Adoulin, with a major leader who went missing now dead, the Rala Waterways are disrupted and the seal to King August's grave was destroyed.
Unfortunately this guarantees two things. First, Hades will return. And Second, this fucking asshole Balamore (who seems like Hades right-hand-man) shows up like a more twisted Kefka, who you fight to get information about Hades from.
So the monsters have increased (FF1), noxious gasses are seeping out of the forests, and now our heroes must go to the depths of Adoulin to stop Hades.
Teodore, who came from Hades's world challenges Noobriousious to a fight, looses, and reveals that Hades and him came from another world where Hades was able to use his lust for power to basically become a god, before being sealed in Adoulin.
After a fight with some crazy people popping in and out of different dimensions, our heroes defeat Hades, and Arcelia takes the throne of Adoulin.
Since seekers of Adoulin, FInal Fantasy XI began experiencing some serious nerfing, which was meant to get in new players for the game, and allowed it to compete more with casual MMORPGs such as World of Warcraft. Unfortunately, this had the unintended consequence of making people who were especially fond of the challenge aspect of 11 leave the game and complain to us about the changes to the game on Twitch.
For a few years, players thought that Seekers would be the final expansion, but a partial expansion, one that concludes the FF11 saga would soon come in the form of Rhapsodies of Vanadiel.
REMIX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiKGP9HYHQ&index=2&list=PL9e0-I9ArbZAV-vvdK-KFN2-Q5zgIGrLV
Direct download: UFF_124_Adoulin_mixdown.mp3


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Tajmahal has always allured me. I can't forget the fullmoon night of 1965, when I got its first glimpse the whole profile emerging from darkness with the moonlight gradually increasing. I have not missed any chance to visit it. Every time it has been fascinating. Here is a story that appeared in 'Outlook', but I wish to share it though in brief.
When finished, Shah Jahan visited Taj only twice. His own burial was not grand-he was taken quietly by two men by boat and laid beside Mumtaz.
The French physician Francois Bernier wrote in his 'Voyages' wayback in 1699, "I decidedly think that this monument deserves much more to be numbered among the wonders of the world than the pyramids of Egypt, those unshapen masses which when I had seen them twice yielded me no satisfaction." And Bernier also mentions that he went to see the Taj with a merchant from France "who, like myself, did not tire of looking at it".
However, Austrian art historian Ebba Koch has some revealing facts about it in her new book, The Complete Taj Mahal.
The emperor brought Mumtaz's body from Berhanpur where she was originally buried to the site of Taj. She was buried for a third time in her final resting place, nearly 12 years later when the Taj was completed. And what was the real passion? It perhaps, was Shah Jahan's ambition to go down in history as the world's best builder. His biography, Padshahnama-written by a series of carefully chosen historians-goes into extraordinary detail about the emperor's broken heart, including how his beard turned white overnight. But that did not stop the emperor from marrying twice after her. Both these later wives-Akbarabadi Mahal and Fatehbadi Begum-ended up sharing not only the emperor's heart but also Mumtaz Mahal in Taj too.
Shah Jahan set about constructing Taj, Koch says, with utmost deliberation.
Just the selection of the site, for instance, took him nearly six months.
The emperor got enshrined through the daily meetings with his team of architects the classical symmetry in Taj.
Shah Jahan also took great pains to ensure that his Taj would last forever. Contemporary sources have recorded how wooden wells were sunk into the ground to replace the sand with gravel and concrete to reinforce the foundations of the building. He succeeded in erecting a building that could withstand earthquakes and floods that conservationists today are awestruck at its extraordinary stability.
And then the white marble used creates the ultimate impression of its magnificance.. Koch says she stood at the gate of the Taj and took photographs every hour to document the change of light. She understood the feeling that it aroused in Bernier that he could look at it without ever tiring. "It was meant to make a powerful impression at any point of the day," says Koch.
But, Koch's vote for Taj as the top wonder of the world is because of its seamless fusion of many different architectural traditions.
1.There is the Hindu concept adapted from the vaastu shastras of using only two colours: brahmanical white and Kshatriya red. "With this Shah Jahan was declaring that the Mughals were the new Brahmins and kshatriyas of India," Koch says.
2.Then there's the European pietra dura work that surpasses in its ingenious crafting the original from Italy.
3.And, of course, the Islamic elements are also there.
This incredible fusion of so many styles has given birth to innumerable claims about its origins: the early myths about how the architect was an Italian goldsmith named Geronimo Veroneo and how in the eighteenth century a Brahmin priest in Suraj Mal's court suggested converting the Taj into a temple, not to speak of P.N. Oak's more recent claim that the tomb is really Tejo-Mahalaya, a Shiva temple.
But the most startling revelation Koch has unearthed is a caravenserai- four open-air squares, where travellers could pitch their tents and unhitch their animals-edged with shopping arcades. "I don't think there is a monument anywhere in the world of its age or even later which had these tourist facilities." The idea was to finance the upkeep of the Taj with the revenue from the shops and provide shelter for travellers who would come to admire his masterpiece. When Shah Jahan decided to build a monument of love, it's anyone's guess who he really had in mind: Mumtaz Mahal or the tourists of the 21st century, or ever after.
Taj Mahal is a finalist among 21 other sites in the biggest global poll ever, spanning seven years and 20 million voters to pick the world's New Seven Wonders. The Swiss non-profit organisation, New7Wonders launched the campaign in 2000. The final result will come only in next July in Lisbon. Will Taj be among New Seven Wonders? Will Indians and Taj lovers allover the world, make it find a place?


The list — which includes 59 new emojis, as well as variants for a total of 230 options — emphasizes inclusivity. People will soon be able to create a "holding hands" emoji to reflect their own relationship, selecting for the skin color and gender identity of each individual. Other options include emojis showing a hearing aid, prosthetic limbs, sign language, a cane or a wheelchair.
The Unicode Consortium sets the standards for emoji compatibility, allowing the symbols to translate across the internet. Then companies like Apple and Google have to design emojis and incorporate the code into their operating systems, Greg Welch, a board member for Unicode, said in an interview on Wednesday. New emojis typically come to cellphones in September or October, Unicode said in the announcement.
A representative for Google said on Wednesday that it hoped to release the new emoji designs soon.
The latest update continues a trend toward greater emoji diversity, which began in earnest a few years ago when a range of skin tones was introduced. In 2017, Apple introduced a hijab emoji.
"You see people are asking for curly hair or skin tone and bald and hijab," said Jennifer 8. Lee, who serves on Unicode's emoji subcommittee and helped found Emojination, a grass-roots effort to make emojis more inclusive.
"You are talking about marriages and starting families," he said in an interview on Wednesday, adding that he had heard from people who could not find a wedding cake topper that reflected their relationship and chose to use black and white chess pieces instead.
Guide dogs are an integral part of life for many blind people, so much so that they often sign emails from "so-and-so and their dog," Ms. Davidson said.
But some people prefer to keep their dog's name private, so that other people don't use the dog's name and distract it from its work, Ms. Davidson said. Using a guide dog image, she said, would be a way to include the dog in conversations without sharing specifics.
For Ms. Davidson, using emojis does not come naturally, she said, because she was born blind and does not know what some facial expressions look like. But she said she might make an exception for the chance to include an emoji of her 9-year-old yellow lab, Lawson.


Set along the banks of the Ventura River, the culturally diverse Westside bubbles with artsy creative energy. In the early mission days, some of Ventura's first settlers built homes here. Later the area became an important agricultural hub and industrial zone.
Today, revitalization projects are enabling the Westside to once again shine. Dozens of artists have established studios and galleries in the neighborhood. Murals and art installations are found along its streets and along the Ventura River (Bike) Trail. The Westside is also home to one of Ventura's most renowned educational and cultural institutions, Brook's Institute.