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End of tenancy issues (No 2)
As the original topic had not been posted on for 90 days it has been locked so I am posting the outcome here. Thank you for all your replies and advice, a few potential issues and pitfalls or the route we chose highlighted.
In the end all ended well. With our help in clearing the house the tenant moved out only a few days after the agreed date and we got the new tenants in after a bit of a rush redecorating.
The tenants problems were down to her incompetence rather than maliciousness on her part, we contacted her daughter who helped sort things out.
By DSS tenant I mean one whose primary source of rent is housing benefit. What had happened is that she had met this boyfriend (1 bed flat on benefit) on facebook. Initially they had been able to use buses to visit each other and to get her to part time work. With the withdrawal of bus services this was no longer possible. She lost her job / earnings and they ended up spending more than they could afford on taxis. She then got into debt. She owes a years water rates, over £500 electric and her mobile phone was cut off. Other Debts to Brighthouse etc.
A few minor repairs (shower hose, stove glass, broken socket, kitchen extractor ducting) a clean and a few walls emulsion painted was all that was required. We agreed a retention of £200 of the deposit for this and parted on good terms.
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This is Dan's new grill. Chris and Martha brought over Beer Brats, cabbage salad and baked beans with turkey. Dan bought all kinds of hot dogs and tofu dogs for me. Suzanne and Neil brought baked beans and Genevieve and Scott brought a broccoli salad. I made Julie's salsa recipe (it was a hit), spice cake, and my Mommy's potato salad and deviled eggs.
We had a mini Easter egg hunt for the kids.
Gabby, Elise, Miles, Joey and Emma are super cute.
Joey found the super surprise egg. It was hiding behind a gnome.
Here I am with some of the special women in my life. Martha, Genevieve and Suzanne are all amazing and beautiful.
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Magseis, a Norwegian geophysical company, has completed its first large-scale survey using a modular ROV-crew.
Magseis said on Thursday that it had recovered the last sensor on the 4D seabed seismic survey in the North Sea.
Magseis CEO, Idar Horstad, added: "This proves the efficiency of our modular-ROV based concept. We believe the concept holds significant potential for our clients in conducting more cost-efficient and flexible 4D surveys. Magseis is now actively marketing the crew across several regions."
Back in December 2016 Magseis won a contract for a full azimuth 4D seabed seismic acquisition survey using the company's proprietary Marine Autonomous Seismic System (MASS) system.
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A new way forward - Some ideas for future generation MMOs - Part 1: Story
*Warning* This is going to be a really long post. I am going to try and divide it into sections and color-highlight for easier skimming. This will be the first in a series so they are not too ridiculously long.
If you read the entire series, I earnestly applaud you!
As always, please leave your comments! Always happy to debate/discuss with my fellow MMORPG.com forumites!
Everyone believes they could be a developer. We all think we have these amazing and impressive ideas, and if only the real developers would listen to us, they'd have a sure fire hit on their hands.
This is likely false. Most of the time, we create ideas that we'd personally love to see implemented, but for a variety of reasons would not actually work in a "real" game or would not be as cool and popular as we may day dream it to be.
It's technologically impossible, not economically viable, or just plain bad-design; these types of posts are more often than not an exercise in futility.
So why do it?
Boredom, free time... no just kidding (kind of) for the most part, it is ALWAYS good to share ideas and have discussions in order to really expand on what could possibly be achieved in a video game.
This is our cocktail napkin, our white board, and our sketch pad... many great games start as an idea scribbled frantically on a note pad or recorded from a half-remembered dream.
These are my mad ranting's, the whims of a man who has played far too many MMO titles for far too many years.
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I was going to write up a lot of basic MMO stuff, but honestly, if ya'll are here reading this you probably already know this information – so instead I'm going to touch in the various parts of a MMO that I feel really are in need of improvement and innovation and offer my own hair-brained ideas as to possible ways to do so that I'd like to see implemented somehow, somewhere, in my magical dream world :) and today we'll start the first post in this series with Story.
1. Story
The Problem-
Story, in various forms, has been tied to the very core of the MMO experience for the entirety of this genre's life span. Story is a core tenant of the RPG model and why? It's an essential part of the Hero's Journey story-telling mechanic at the very heart of all great RPG stories.
In many ways we are limited in how we can represent this journey, this rise to power and glory in the medium of video games. This is a very key point. Story can be used as a vessel for this journey, and is used most industriously in single player RPG titles.
But how can that apply to MMO titles? You cannot create a wholly unique story for tens of thousands, if not millions of unique players. Generalization and repetition are required, plain and simple. With enough resources and time, you can create great variety within these stories, as Bioware is attempting (and will likely succeed) at doing with SW: TOR, but a totally personalized and unique story, hand crafted by the developers, for each individual player in a MMO is impossible.
So we thus see the great flaw in using Story is a pillar of MMO progression – no matter what you do, how much variety and customization you bring, a developer crafted story will never be truly unique.
To some, it's easy to brush of the ridiculousness of this story and simply go about their play, enjoying what the developers have offered them. But to some of us, we want more. We feel the genre deserves more, that this is NOT at all MMO and is far too RPG.
The Solution-
MMOs need to completely abandon this idea that every player is a special and unique hero.
It's something that I believe it completely tied to the Western / American "everyone is special and a winner" mentality. There already exists a volume of games dedicated to making you, the player the star of the show. Every single-player game, campaigns of FPS titles, pretty much every non-multiplayer related game activity.
I think that gives people PLENTY of good gaming choices for taking on the role of the hero/savior/champion.
The player in a MMO needs to be a cog in the great machine, a part of the story of the world but not the sole focus of it.
As such, quests in their current form need to disappear completely. Why were quests added to MMOs in the first place? To mask the progression grind by giving players something to do, something to read, something to speed up their journey from lowly novice to experienced veteran.
Now, after more than six years of quest driven game play in a multitude of titles, the quests themselves have become the grind due to their complete and total lack of unique story and impact on our characters and the game world.
Guild Wars 2 is trying, offering instead hundreds of events for players to participate in that are chained together with different possible branching paths to have an impact on the world. As great as they sound, at the end of the day, they are still sequential events with a predictable and repeatable effect on the game world. A step in the right direction? Yes, definitely. Truly dynamic? Not even close.
The only way to do a truly unique and dynamic story in a MMO is by creating intelligent enemy and friendly factions, run by a kind of "Overlord" Artificial Intelligence capable of limited decision making based upon the conditions of the game world.
Does this Overlord AI sound like science fiction? It's really not. There already are games like the Left for Dead series that use an intelligent overlord AI (I believe they call it "The Director") to change the conditions of the game play dynamically, on the fly, in response to player actions including what path(s) they take and how skillfully they are performing.
Tabula Rasa and Rift had/have very limited Overlord AI functionality. In TR, the enemy faction of the Bane would attack outposts controlled by friendly NPC factions/players in order to take control of them.
In Rift, the number and severity of Rift spawns as well as invasions, including their targets of attack, is based upon player population in a given area.
While this is all well and good, and creates some level of dynamic story and content, these systems are still only part of the experience that was/is unfortunately coupled with static, developer written, linear quest-driven story lines with no impact on the world.
The first step is to apply a Overlord AI to both enemy and friendly factions, coupled with a TR/UO factions style territorial control system, in order to have the NPCs and monsters active participants in the everchanging story of the game world.
This war between NPC factions should be able to run completely without any input or interaction from players or developers. NPC factions choosing to attack and defend various points in the game world all on their own by analyzing the data available to their decision making engines.
However, forever in a perpetual stale mate with no side ever truly dominating the other without the interaction and involvement of the player population to tip the balance. Like the systems in Rift and L4D, these AI would automatically adjust their tactics and responses based upon player population, involvement, and skill in a particular region.
But that's still not enough. An every changing, ever shifting war for control of the game world between players and their NPC allies and the ever present threat from an enemy faction is a good start, but it still creates a system where players have to then go out and find the action with little to no guidance from the game to say "hey, something cool happening over here, you should go check it out!" which is essentially what standard MMO quests do in the first place.
So the AI needs to be able to create quests/missions on the fly for players to undertake based upon the current conditions in the game world.
What kind of quests do we see in MMOs? Go kill that, go collect this, go here and talk to X, escort Y, go explore/travel to Z. That's about it.
But wouldn't it be more interesting if the assignments of these quests actually had some relevance and an impact on the world? And if they are not just totally randomized Mission Generators like we see in some MMOs.
Only way I can really describe what I'm thinking it with examples.
Enemy faction AI decides that a nearby outpost of the Friendly faction AI is high on its list of priorities to launch an attack to capture control of. Enemy faction AI sends out a NPC scouting group to assess enemy strength in the area in order to provide more information for the decision making engine to calculate.
Friendly faction AI sends out a NPC scouting patrol to an area of the game world where its decision making engine tells it that there are likely units from the enemy faction present.
You can cheat a bit here. The AIs would know what each other is doing in order to artificially create scenarios in which to get players involved.
Two sides of NPCs meet up and start fighting each other.
Friendly faction AI creates quests to "assist units under fire" and transmits notification to players in the area. Mission request kind of thing. Either the AI can "push" this quest down to players nearby for them to choose to accept or not, or players can request a mission and the AI will have this objective queued up for them.
Outcome dependent, if enough players agree to quest and head out, have to be time sensitive, rush out and defeat the enemy faction and save the friendly forces then enemy faction responds by sending out a stronger assault force via drop ship or something to try and accomplish its objective.
Failure again and this storyline ends for the moment. Enemy defeats players and friendly AI, enemy sends more troops.
If victory for players, storyline ends with friendly forces saved. If loss, new quest created by friendly AI to "eliminate enemy force that wiped out one of our units" etc.
Players don't choose to help out, or those that do accept fail to save the friendly forces, friendly force is eliminated, friendly AI creates quest to "investigate why our squad isn't checking in – last known coordinates are" etc.
See where I am going with this?
Is it possible? I am not sure. At all.
Individual quests pushed out and/or made available to players based off the current conditions of the area they are in. Population dependent, either solo or cooperative efforts without restriction.
Ad hoc grouping, meaningful interaction with the game world. The same types of limited quest objectives that our technology and game play currently allows for, but with actual impact on the game world and created dynamically for players on the fly based on real in-game conditions.
What do you think?
Imagine the possibilities for a moment.
Massive raid encounters created dynamically on the fly for nearby players. Sieges / defensive stands created for players in response to over-arching territorial control objectives.
Would work both ways too – group of players begin assault on enemy fortification, friendly AI sends in support NPC units and such to assist their efforts. Enemy AI calls in reinforcements to try and stop their base from falling etc.
Scouting / exploration missions created on the fly that know where you haven't been yet, knows what's there waiting for you, and strings into additional objectives for not only you but for everyone on the server in the area.
Assault/defend/patrol/capture etc. quest objectives that actually change the game world. A lasting impact by you, the players. Truly ad hoc grouping / cooperative mechanics as quests will be pushed out/made available to varied number of players based on acceptance rates, population, with AI responding to player involvement with appropriate strength for challenge and fun.
This type of system would have to be paired with a character system that didn't limit players to specific roles or archetypes thus requiring certain roles for proper group cohesion. "Bring the player not the class" if you will.
Also would require a very limited progression curve so that players weren't divided and segregated into "high level" and "low level" zones etc.
Would require a combat system focused on situational awareness and tactics, ad hoc on-the-fly cooperation and coordination, not damage meters and the holy trinity in rigid group roles performing choreographed danced routines.
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York College announced today the list of Dean's List scholars for the Spring 2017 term; 83 students were recognized with this distinction.
To be named to the Dean's List, students must carry 12 or more graded hours and achieve a semester grade point average of at least 3.75 with no incomplete grades and no grade below "C" for the semester.
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A challenge was made and York College alumni rushed to respond. During a special four-day giving challenge, 198 alumni joined together to give $70,164.50 for their alma mater. The majority of these funds will be used to support student scholarships.
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It was a perfect spring day at York College campus on Saturday as over 80 students graduated during the morning's commencement ceremony. Held in the Campbell Student Activity Center, the seats and bleachers were filled with proud parents, excited family members, and eager graduates ready to receive their degrees.
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Mary's Meals is a global movement that sets up school feeding projects in some of the world's poorest communities, where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education.
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Our vision is that every child receives one daily meal in their place of education and that all those who have more than they need, share with those who lack even the most basic things.
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Our mission is to enable people to offer their money, goods, skills, time, or prayer, and through this involvement, provide the most effective help to those suffering the effects of extreme poverty in the world's poorest communities.
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The SID Frankfurt Annual Assembly will take place on January 28 at the Town Hall of the City of Frankfurt, Römerberg 27, 60311 Frankfurt, 6-8 pm.
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By: M.S.Yatnatti Editor and Video Journalist Bengaluru : Swachh Bharat cannot be accomplished by toilets alone .When Swachh Bharat was inaugurated it seemed to raise the broom, but resident filth was difficult to dislodge. Rivers remained opaque and, in spite of health warnings, landfills went on smoking.At the same time, undeniably, more toilets were built than ever before. While between 1986 and 1999 about 9.4 million lavatories were constructed, Swachh Bharat, in the past four years alone, built about 49 million more.Yet, reportedly the smell in India remain dirty; piles of garbage, cows gorging on plastic, dirty rivers, filthy drains. Together these comprise health hazards like nothing else. This tells us that Swachh Bharat cannot be accomplished by toilets alone.The unseemly sight of people urinating on roads may be common, but the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) reportedly has fined only five people for the offence since 2017, raising a pittance of Rs 1,300 as penalty.Civic experts and thinkers , however, feel awareness and provision of more toilets are better ways to handle the menace instead of relying on punitive action. We must ensure there are enough toilets. Policies like the notification issued by the commissioner, stating that all petrol pumps should allow the public to use their toilets, don't seem to have been implemented. Benagaluru need "toilet revolution", The BBMP and BWSSB and other officials across theBengaluruneed to upgrade toilets to boost tourism infrastructure with BMTC bus shelters .Instead of charging rental BBMP should provide subsidy to SC ST Entrepreneurs for investing in social infrastructure . Citizens have to brave the sun and wind while they wait to board buses by the roadside. Most bus shelters, wherever they exist, are rusted, roofless and poorly lit, posing a threat to commuters. Two years after BBMP floated tenders to construct 2,212 shelters to replace the old ones, only 169 are ready. The construction of clean toilets is an important part of pushing urban and rural civilization, and more efforts should be made in both cities and rural areas to upgrade toilets, According to World Tourism Organisation, Bengaluruneed to beis among the top cities receiving international tourists in 2017. The toilet revolution has to expand gradually from tourist sites to cover the whole country, from cities to rural areas. JC SWM BBMP is requested to consider "Free to use Public Toilets" proposals under Swachhta Udyami Yojana under PPP submitted by Mr Jyaprakash and Mr Chranjeevi of SC ST Sanghas and Associations .Pay to use public toilets are unjust infringements on our basic human rights as elimination is an important body function that must take place, dime or no dime,".. BBMP must ensure that everyone has access to sanitation which is safe, hygienic, secure and which provides privacy and ensures dignity. According to Amnesty International (AI) and the U.N. General Assembly access to toilets is a human right, as they are "essential to human well-being". These Free to use public toilets for men and woman's at BMTC bus stops schools colleges railway stations metro stations malls and bazaars etc throughout BBMP areas 198 wards will have modern gadgets and turbo charged cleaning systems with own bore well each with ATMS and other shops included in the proposal. Public is free to use Toilets whereas other services will be charged. The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) need to rework its Solid Waste Management contracts documents in respect of public toilets under PPP supporting Swachhta Udyami Yojana and redrafting Garbage alone lifting contracts (excluding Pourakarmikas as they will be paid and employed by BBMP in near future) and monitor them with computers setups with GIS and GPS and CCTV and smart phone surveillance systems in view to support Swachhta Udyami Yojana of the Union Government . The garbage contracts and free to use public toilet contracts should be given to one unit one persons. No bulk contracts to one person who in turn manipulate the entire systems and spoil the system with corrupt practices . National Safai Karamcharis Finance and Development Corporation is implementing the Swachhta Udyami Yojana for rehabilitating safai karamcharis and identifying manual scavengers and their dependents This policy provides financial assistance in the form of loan at concession for building community toilets in PPP mode and procurement of sanitation related vehicles such as jetting machine, vacuum loader, garbage trucks and suction. Up to INR 25 lakhs has been provided for establishing community toilets in PPP mode through this Yojana while up to INR 15 lakhs has been provided for procurement of sanitation related vehicles Individual beneficiaries/ self-help groups, through State Channelizing Agencies (SCAs), in partnership with reputed organizations. Karnatak could have utilized central scheme for the benefit of its citizens and Bangaluru . This Free to use public toilets will have modern gadgets and turbo charged cleaning systems with ATMS and other shops included in the proposal. Public is free to use Toilets whereas other services will be charged. New business models need to be devised as all other models have failed .They are not able to generate utility bills and salary payments to pouarakarmikas to maintain it .Public toilets can be constructed on public private participation basis. BBMP is not just committed to sanctioning funds to construct public toilets in each ward, but also directed the Commissioner to explore the possibility of maintaining the existing toilets on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis on commercially viable proposals . BBMP take up construction of public toilets under PPP. He said that the agencies could be allowed to put up advertisement hoardings and two shops on front side on the toilets and maintain the toilets. The BBMP is obligated to provide toilets as part of social infrastructure in the city as per the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976. As per a survey, he claimed that the city needs at least 25,000 toilets.
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Well, we are "Global Postcard Sales" after all. The home page tries to say we know we're not the largest postcard site, though that hasn't stopped a few people from reminding us anyway that we're not. Even so, the word "global" has certain connotations and responsibilities, right?
We did a (quick) internet search to try to find an interactive map that we could copy-and-paste here. This one was supposed to be for countries we have visited, but being ever-resourceful and innovative, we decided instead to show you countries where we have maybe only one, or certainly no postcards for sale. The tiny map doesn't show the myriad of small islands we also clicked. Spratlys, anyone?
So that leads to: what, if anything, are we going to do about it? Note the focus on Africa, even though the map makes Greenland and Iran dominate. One way to rectify the situation is to pack our bags and take the world's most expensive holiday, touching down in each place and heading for the nearest bookstore. That's not going to happen. Another way is to buy from other sites, at retail. That's cheaper, and practical, and even justifiable if we position this activity as purely a hobby. But happily, we do sell cards, though we are trying not to list them at unrealistic prices. (More about that in the next Blog entry.) So buying at retail will solve the problem but we'll lose money doing it.
We think--now with more than 180 countries and not counting individual US states--that we are honestly global. For the past two years, we worked to bring South America into the fold. We guess, now, it should be Africa's turn. If you have boxes of old postcards from African countries and you don't want them any more, let us know. We'll make a deal.
Bye on this odd election day in Hong Kong ...
Once upon a time, you would check into a hotel or motel--no reservation needed, just look for the "Vacancy" sign to be lit--and right there along with the Gideon Bible, or at the very least at the front desk, there would be postcards of the property. Now, just try asking at the front desk and see what they say!
We have lots of hotel cards, and logically they fall into one of three categories: (1) out of business, (2) still there, but taken over, or (3) still there under the original name. One of the small pleasures of running this website, and having Google and TripAdvisor at hand, is that we can check not only the status of the property but also what people are saying about it. Trust us that a place has to be really, REALLY bad to get three stars or less on TripAdvisor, but we are not so unfriendly as to go into that sort of detail. Our code words for "think twice before staying there" are: "this place gets mixed reviews".
We know instantly if a specific hotel is out of business when an offer to help us rent a room isn't one of the first two or three listings in a Google search. Instead we see other postcards from the competition. The unintended consequence of this of course is to let us know what those cards would cost. The good news? We undercut the prices.
A surprising number of places have sold out to the big chains, been renovated, and while the address might be the same as before, the structure definitely isn't. We often suggest--but nobody takes us up on it--that hotel managers buy a card of their hotel from decades back, frame it, and just put it on the wall in their office. Ah. They don't want to live in the pre-WiFi past. But we don't mind.
And this picture? Hong Kong's old Peak Hotel, burned down in 1938. The next time you're up to Victoria Peak as a tourist, you might be standing more or less where Room 108 used to be. Who knows?
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Foods get recalled for an assortment of (sometimes odd) reasons – but because they may contain pieces of golf balls? CNN reported Sunday that McCains announced a recall over the weekend of several brands of hash brown potatoes because, as the company put it, "they may contain extraneous golf ball materials" – from balls (or pieces thereof) grabbed along with the spuds during the harvesting process.
It's not uncommon for farm land to be re-purposed for other uses, but it says something – what, we're not sure! – when a golf course's greens are replaced by fields of brown potatoes. If, in fact, that's what happened in this instance. Or perhaps someone was randomly firing golf balls into a potato field.
A statement on the FDA website says: "McCain Foods USA, Inc. announced today it is voluntarily recalling retail, frozen hash brown products that may be contaminated with extraneous golf ball materials, that despite our stringent supply standards may have been inadvertently harvested with potatoes used to make this product. Consumption of these products may pose a choking hazard or other physical injury to the mouth.
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Communication and social interaction is at the core of all learning for our students at the East SILC. Staff are committed to ensuring all students achieve the very best progress in their speech, language and communication needs. Communication and social skills needs can directly impact on our students' self-esteem, confidence, emotional well-being, friendships and relationships. Improved communication and social skills will support our students to become independent, confident, and active members of their community.
Speech and Language therapy at the East SILC
Our Speech and Language Therapy team provide a specialised service delivered as an integral part of students' education. Recognising the importance of communication across the curriculum we employ our own full-time Speech and Language therapist, Ellie Colman. This is in addition to the speech and language therapy services provided by the NHS team, who work at John Jamieson and our partnership sites. Our therapists provide assessment, monitoring and evaluation of our students speech, language and communication needs. This involves liaising closely with families, school staff, and the wider multidiscplinary team.
Our therapists will provide general advice and specific strategies to support and develop communication, as well as contributing to progress reviews and Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs). An individual or group programme will be implemented where needed. Therapists provide ongoing mentoring and training to the staff team, parent workshops, and evaluations of the whole school environment. This is to ensure students can be supported in a holistic manner across the curriculum and school day, and in their home environments. The NHS therapy team also provide assessment and management of dysphagia (swallowing difficulties), and eating and drinking needs. You can find out more about the work carried out within school on the other website pages.
Please speak to the school Speech and Language therapist to find out if your child/young person is accessing Speech and Language therapy. If they are not currently being seen by one of our SaLTs and you have concerns about their speech, language and communication needs you can complete and return the referral form below.
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Dunloy won the under 16 shield final, but not in the way everyone who attended the game expected.
The game was abandoned after a Ballycastle player had to leave the fieled after her mother was taken to hospital. The decision was then taken to abandon the game at half time, but award the trophy to Dunloy.
This was a game dominated by Dunloy who flew out of the traps with an early point from Seaan Elliott from a 65, and when he cut inside and hit his first goal of the game in the 2nd minute Dunloy were well on top.
Dunloy were working well and in the 4th minute Declan Smyth passed outside to Anton McGrath who raced through before picking off a great point from play.
Ballycastle were defending with every part of their body and in the seventh minute they were again caught out at the back, and conceded a free which was sent over the bar by Seaan Elliott.
Dunloy now aided by the slight breeze began to take a stranglehold on the game with their defence standing tall with Cathair Henderson, Ryan McGarry and Eoin McMullan working well.
Ballycastle's attacks were few and far between and all to often they were crowded out or hooked as they attempted to play the ball. In the 12th minute Ronan Molloy finished off a fine three man move with a point from a very acute angle and Dunloy were ahead 1-6 to 1-0.
Ballycastle worked hard and pushed forward with Ryan Hill winning his side a 45yd free which was tapped over the bar by Conor Boyd but again Dunloy cut a path through their defence and won a penalty. With a minute of injury time played Ryan Hill made a brilliant run forward and picked off the point to leave the half time score Dunloy 3-7 Ballycastle 1-3.
With the game thus abandoned the trophy was awarded to Dunloy and best wishes to the players mother who hopefully will make a full recovery.
Dunloy: Seaan Elliott 3-5 Ronan Molloy 0-1, Anton McGrath 0-1; Ballycastle: Seamus McAuley 1-0, Conor Boyd 0-2, Ryan Hill 0-1


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January 1, 2014
Managing "cloud risk" is a critical task for today's CIOs. Find out how you can minimize the risk of a hybrid cloud environment, and validate the integrity of your organization's end-to-end business processes at a rate to keep pace with software changes. Read this article to learn more about risk, how to avoid it, and the benefits of business process validation, including:
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For companies that use SAP solutions, the cloud offers a host of possibilities, including faster deployment of new technologies, more affordability, and improved sustainability of technology platforms in a fast-changing environment. And SAP customers are seizing this opportunity, with more than 33 million users using SAP cloud-based applications.
Shifting enterprise applications to the cloud enables companies to gain instant benefits, with fast access to new technology in a simpler, more cost-efficient landscape. However, it also carries a unique set of challenges, particularly if your cloud strategy is a hybrid approach — some combination of individual cloud applications, cloud services from multiple sources, hosted solutions on a private cloud, or public cloud applications — which is the most likely scenario for large enterprises.
These challenges introduce "cloud risk," and managing this risk is a critical task for today's CIOs.
While cloud-based systems help companies quickly deploy new technology and updates, they also take some amount of control out of your hands. For instance, your company may have less say in the timing of software changes and where those software changes occur. You may not even be informed of these changes.
This introduces risk into cloud environments because software changes that are not monitored and checked can disrupt mission-critical business processes. For example, an undetected software glitch in a hybrid environment can keep customers from placing orders or prevent your warehouses from processing shipments, which can be disastrous for business operations.
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Over the decades, the car industry has worked hard to make vehicles for every person, every need and every desire. That's good, because it means you and I can go out and buy something that's exactly right for us.
However, there are some companies which seem to have ignored every bit of market research placed in front of them, resulting in cars built for a demographic that doesn't appear to exist.
They're not necessarily bad cars. It's just a mystery why they were even put into production in the first place. Baffled by this, here are six of the 'best'.
This car/SUV/want-to-be-4x4/coupé simply has no idea what it is, what it's trying to be or what it's competing against. In fact, BMW call it a 'Sports Utility Coupé' – possibly the best automotive oxymoron ever.
The X6 really doesn't look like anything else – but not in a good way. The only thing it can be likened to is a child's crayon-scribed interpretation of a big car – it's just a shame the real thing lacks the vibrancy of Crayola's colour range.
As a plus, it has four-wheel-drive to offset its questionable looks (if you buy the right specification), but the system isn't very good when faced with rough terrain – by BMW's own admission. The V8 version is stupendously fast, and it handles well too. There's even an 'M' version should you have more noughts at the end of your back balance than brain cells and plenty of small change knocking around to cover the mammoth cost of keeping it in tax, fuel and car insurance.
Renault Avantime
I'm actually a fan of the Renault Avantime. It had so many great ideas it should be have been a success. It was filled with leather and comfort and had amazing pillarless doors and acres of space – even if the handling and engines left something to be desired.
In reality though, it was always destined to fail because at the core of it, it was an Espace coupé, and the car-buying public needed that like a fish needs a top hat.
But the Avantime wasn't built to be a success. It was built to show it could be built, which almost makes its pointlessness forgivable.
Ford Fusion
From 2002 to 2012 Ford offered this odd, pointless, really-not-very-good car to the public – 10 whole years. They really should have known better.
There wasn't really any reason for the Ford Fusion to exist. If you'd have walked into a Ford dealership and you'd see the award winning Fiesta, Focus and C-Max, three utterly brilliant cars which, between them, could match the wants and needs of anyone who thought the Fusion was the car for them. Then you'd see this in the corner, wincing and cowering in the shadows.
It had no noteworthy advantages over the Fiesta or Focus. It didn't drive well, it was utterly hideous to look at (that aesthetic didn't change in a decade) and it lost money on the used market faster than a bucket with a hole in it. Come on Ford, tell us. Was it a bet? Or did you forget to turn the production line off for ten years?
Mercedes R-Class
Seriously, what it is? Why does it exist? Just look at it - it's such an odd, ungainly, offensive-looking car.
Mercedes initially brought the R-Class to the world's attention during the 2001 Detroit Auto Show as a concept. Nobody noticed. So, four years later in 2005, Mercedes did what you should always do with a concept that was met with universal indifference…they put it into production.
It's still being sold today, though who's buying it remains a mystery. Poor reviews, poor sales and reliability issues should have been enough to kill the R-Class off a long time ago, but that's clearly not the case. In fact, there's even a 500bhp, 6.2 litre V8 AMG version- quite possibly the epitome of pointless motoring.
Audi A5 Sportback
Now this one is truly baffling. The A5 in coupé form is great car. It's well-built, drives brilliantly and looks good. The A4 and A6, which sit either side of it in the range are also excellent. Well done Audi.
But an A5 with four doors? It makes no sense whatsoever. There can't be that many buyers out there who need a car that's just teeny tiny bit bigger than an A4, but a few centimetres shorter than an A6.
The A5's initial selling point was the fact it was a full-size coupé with a bit of style and an even bigger slice of practicality - it must have cost millions to design, develop, refine and green-light the four-door A5, and for what?
Fiat 500L
Okay, so the jury is still out on this one due to it being brand-new. That said, it has plenty of potential to prove to be pointless.
Fiat have been around for a long time, but they've never really been at the top of the tree in the UK when it comes to sales. That all changed in 2008 though, with the introduction of the retro-themed 500. It was – and still is – a hit. Think of Fiat in the UK, and you think of the 500. So, with that car coming up for its fifth birthday, you'd think logic would dictate a facelift of some kind, but no - Fiat have come up with the 500L.
It's supposed to be a bigger 500, but in reality it's nothing of the sort. Instead, it's just an odd, fat lovechild of the Panda and the 500. And therein lays the pointlessness of this thing. If you want a 500, buy a 500. If you can't fit yourself and your life in a 500, buy a Panda.
This 500L is such an odd answer to a question that wasn't really there. It might be a hit in Europe, with its optional espresso maker (no, really) but in the UK? Perhaps not. With the L, Fiat are going after the MINI Countryman set...and fans of that particular car are few and far between.


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Top 10 tips for choosing your first race
Running races is an integral part of being a runner, that's not to say you have to run them but they are a great motivator. If I hadn't of entered that 3k fun run all those years ago I may never have discovered my love of running and I would never have continued to up … Continue reading
Why EVEN you should get proper trainers fitted (Part 1)
My first pair of running shoes were bought off the shelf about ten years ago in Sports Direct, the two main criteria for selection being Price (below £40) Must look like running shoes An improvement on my fashionable but ineffective sporty looking shoes They cost me £35 in fact and if I remember rightly they … Continue reading
What the hell are Chia seeds?
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Brighton Marathon 2014
At 7am yesterday morning I made the mile and a bit journeyuphill through Brighton to Preston Park for the start of the Brighton Marathon 2014. The streets were empty bar a few stragglers from the previous evenings festivities, the only sound was the seagulls which had kept me awake for most of the night. I … Continue reading
Why every FAT person should run a Marathon
As you read this post I am somewhere along the route of a 26.2 mile race on the south coast of England, I am running a marathon. The Brighton Marathon. However, I am not a marathon runner in the normal sense of the word. I do not have a running coach, or a sponsor or … Continue reading
Update on my Back
Apologies in advance, I have consumed a can of red stripe and 3 brandy and diet cokes, so can not vouch for the quality or cohesion of this post. So my last post was about that stupid doctor who told me I was too fat to run a marathon. Granted I had gone to see … Continue reading
Training for a marathon does NOT make you thin
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Why I chose to run a marathon
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Tent Stakes (spiral ?)
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- unjonharley
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I used 12" nails for most everything this year and it worked great. They're $.50 each at Home Depot ($1 at Lowes for some reason) and have a rust-resistant coating. They go in and out easy with a regular hammer. They're much lighter and easier to haul out than rebar, even if you need 3 of them to replace one rebar stake.
- Kinetik V
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I'm no longer a fan of spiral tent stakes. I snapped several this year holding down tarps while under moderate wind loads. On the other hand I had several of the 12 inch nails Dork mentioned and they didn't give me any trouble. So...next year I won't be bringing any spiral tent stakes
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Hello Forum.
I have a modest stack of imported Breath of Fire books. I thought I'd share some scans. They can be a bit difficult to find, so maybe not everyone here has seen them.
These are from the Breath of Fire IV novelization. It looks to be officially licensed, there's a Capcom copyright on the front flap. The Wiki says it was published by Enterbrain, but the back of my book has a Famitsu Bunko logo.
http://bof.wikia.com/wiki/Breath_of_Fir ... _no_Ryuu_-
Shame, I hardly know any Japanese so I can't actually read it. It's a slim little book, kind of hard to believe they managed to fit the whole story into it.
Oh well, at least the cover looks really nice.
I have a link for Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0GSV_ ... sp=sharing
Anybody else on here have some cool BOF books?
EDIT 2! Photobucket doesn't seem to be working so well for me anymore. Old photobucket images have been replaced with a new attachment image.


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