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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
No Internet
Let me explain. A couple of days ago, I thought that I noticed a slow down of my DSL service. I just shrugged it off as it being overloaded with too many using it at the same time. The speed seemed to fluctuate and if I waited for awhile, I could do what I wanted without much delay. It kept getting worse until yesterday morning just after I got my blog posted.
It took over five minutes just to receive a two sentence email. Then it stopped completely. I called the service number and the technician had me unplug all my computers from the DSL line and he ran some tests. He said that it was the company's lines somewhere between the switching station and my property. He put in a work order and told me it may be up to 24 to 48 hours before it gets fixed.
Well, it came back up to normal last evening, so cross your fingers for me and hope it stays up. It pleased me that they got it up and running so quickly, but this short period of time let me know just how much I use the internet for almost everything. I have become internet dependent. There is no way that I could function with out it. Since I have worked out of my home office for years, the internet was my link to my customers and visa versa. Blogs and my email, oh my, what would I do without them.
I hope the end of the Mayan calendar is not predicting the end of the internet. That would be the end of life as we know it. Dang. . . .
As I am trying to post this blog, the internet is getting very sluggish again. Whatever the problem in the line is, it must not be fixed and must be intermittent. If they did fix it, they didn't do too good of a job. OK, now, let me see if I can post this. . . I may not be able to post another one for awhile nor comment on the blogs I follow. Maybe it will be back to normal in a day or two. Hope so.
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Dizzy, you're a HAM! Communication blackouts are the things that you're suppose to be able to overcome easily! :PReplyDelete
Seriously though, most people are surprised that I have don't have internet (or any payed service beyond basic cell) in my home. Neither my wife nor myself have smart phones, DSL, cable TV or internet, no satellite TV, not even a land line telephone for dial-up. And to be honest, I don't miss it at all. In a world of media overload, it's nice to have a place that is relatively quiet.
I do have a tendency to abuse the data in my office. I make a complete mirror of the Ubuntu software repositories just in case I want to install an app at any point. I check my email using a client which caches all my email for off line use. Even most of my web browsing has been taken up with an RSS feed reader (again, caching).
In the near future I hope to add WinLink2K and PskMail clients to my ham station. I got a bit of equipment for my birthday, and I'm just waiting for the ground to thaw a bit to lay coax and hang wires. Maybe that can be something that you can look into. At the very least it's a fun niche of the hobby.
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2011 at 9:33 AM
I don't have a phone or TV but do have a satellite for internet..take my mouse from my cold dead hand!ReplyDelete
Grant, I hate intermittent problems. Those are the hardest to isolate. The phone company just replaced a port in their switching station with an updated one. They said that they couldn't figure what the problem was and it may happen again.ReplyDelete
Frann, I know what you mean, for sure.
Yep DD, going without internet is not fun at all. Even with a land line now I feel real bummed when the internet goes down. It is 99.01% of my communication with the outside world, but has been known to get me in trouble before. (Especially recently) ;)ReplyDelete
David, I am the same way, use it for almost all of communication and research, etc. Speaking about being known to get you in trouble, have you got that all straightened out with no loss no additional loss to you?ReplyDelete
DD, two of the smaller ones were taken off and the $ put back in my account. The larger one I'll have to call back on after it actually posts.ReplyDelete
Dizz I worked in Houston in the mid 70's,on a power plant out on the old Beaumont hwy as a electrician My working buddy lived in Conroe,He was a ham.He also managed a little one man radio station there in Conroe.He came to work one morning telling me about being on the ham with Arther Godfrey that night.I'm trying to remember his name .You may know him.ReplyDelete
David, so far so good.ReplyDelete
Ted, I never heard anyone mention that he talked to Godfrey, but that doesn't mean that I haven't met him. I would assume that he would be one of the older hams.


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Bord Bia has published its annual Craft Beer and Independent Microbreweries in Ireland report, outlining the continued growth of Irish craft beer.
The report revealed the number of craft breweries in the country, detailing increases in production output, domestic sales and market share, while also indicating that overall growth of the sector slowed in 2017.
Irish craft beer consumption has increased by 12.7% during 2017, despite a 2.1% decline in overall beer consumption. Irish craft beer now accounts for 2.8% of the market, up from 2.5% a year previous. Production of craft beer increased by 10.7%, accounting for 1.9% of overall beer production in Ireland.
The turnover of craft beer producers in 2017 is estimated at €44.3m, up 10.9% from €39.4m in 2016. There are now 75 independent craft breweries in the country, a fivefold increase from 12 in 2012. In total ten new craft breweries entered the market in the year up to mid-2018. However, this increase was offset by five company closures in the same period, along with two further craft brewery closures in 2016. An estimated 522 people work in craft breweries in Ireland on a full and part-time basis.
Although the total output of craft breweries increased from 142,000hl to 157,000hl in 2017, growth has reduced from 2016 and 2015 when production experienced a 31% and 56% increase respectively. Almost 20% of microbreweries experienced a decline in output in 2017, an increase on last year's figure of 1 in 6. The volume of production destined for export is estimated at 19.4% or 37,000hl.
Denise Murphy, Beverage Sector Manager at Bord Bia, said: "While growth in the craft beer industry has slowed, the increase in domestic consumption of Irish craft beer is an encouraging sign of consumer demand for premium and artisanal products. The sector is still in the early stages of development and there is future potential for growth based on the experience of craft brewers internationally and unused capacity in many independent breweries. It's positive to see that nearly three-quarters of those surveyed are either planning to open or have already opened a visitor centre as a way to increase awareness and sales of their products in the future."


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The Gowanus Canal is like having a little piece of New Jersey in Brooklyn.
Wikileaks has a copy of the Mueller Report. For sale.
Billionaire DeVos cuts $18 million from Special Olympics.
Who will portray the miserable Markle father in the impending sitcom?
BernieBros don't know what to make of Pete Buttigieg or how to destroy him. They obviously can't play the misogyny card.
Corner of Bleecker and nowhere
Journalists can't demand transparency from everyone but themselves without falling into self-serving hypocrisy.
Wikileaks advocates transparency but seeks privacy when it's convenient, a performative contradiction.
Syriza are the hoplites of prosperity.
Pundits say Syriza's victory is a defeat for Germany. However, one should never underestimate Ms Merkel. She'll pull her euros out of the fire yet.
The Church of England finally has a female bishop. 481 years in the making.


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click here for episode one: Debt Due
Anna Man had an office in the administration building and one in the activity building at the Center.
The administration building was located at the entrance of the property and the activity building was located at the main compound. Robert and Drake enter the activity building, passing through the main room to a hallway that leads to Anna's office.
Robert enters the office, announcing, "Anna, Drake is here."
Anna turns toward the entry way door and smiles, "Oh my God! Drake, how are you?"
Drake smiles big and hugs Anna, "I do well; just a little bored with life."
Anna puts her hand on his face tenderly, "I was so sorry to hear about your mother."
Drake takes a slow breath, "Thank you. It was just her time."
Robert breaks into to the conversation, "Drake is a full-time college student and has come looking for a part-time job. I told him we had discussed him working with us part time, teaching the kids the 12 steps. But you wanted to see him before you made up your mind."
Anna shakes her head, "Oh, Drake, you would not believe what's happening. An ex-employee, one of our counselors, who we let go has filed a complaint with the Department of State and Health Services against Ellen. She is accusing Ellen of verbally abusing the clients. So we have to go through an investigation. It is a nightmare. But our short-term problem is that this is leaving us shorthanded, because Ellen can't go into groups while this is happening. I need support for the clinical staff that is doing groups."
Robert, standing behind Anna, frowns and nods at Drake.
Drake offers, "Well, I could…do some…step work with the…. clients, Anna. I have thoughts on what I could do. And it sounds like you could use a little loyalty."
Anna, with her head perched in her right hand, her left hand holding her elbow, looks up suddenly at Drake and says, "Yes, that would be perfect. Loyal you were, Drake. When can you start?"
Drake, a little shocked, replies, "Ahhhh, Monday afternoon. I can only do part-time though, I have classes in the mornings."
Anna smiles, "Great, we'll see you Monday at one." She turns back to her computer and proceeds as if they were no longer there.
Robert and Drake exit the AC offices and step on to the staff-only porch, where they find Mike smoking a cigarette.
Mike looks at Drake and with no emotion says, "Fuck you."
Drake nods, "Michael."
Mike laughs, "How the fuck are you, you evil motherfucker?"
Drake grins, "I was well but now I am here looking at you, so things have made a turn for the worse."
"So, I will be seeing you every day?"
Drake shrugs, "Looks that way."
"I can't fucking believe you are taking the job."
Drake smirks, "I owe the Mans."
Mike, tilting his head slightly back with palms up asks, "Loyalty?"
Drake stares at the stairs leading out to the grounds, "Moral imperative…War."
Mike laughs, "Call of the battle is it?"
Drake says in a distant flat tone, "The call is constant Michael."
Mike frowns, saying, "Its Mike, and I can see you are as positive as ever."
Drake, still staring at the stairs to the ground, says, "Thank you Michael, nice of you to notice."
Mike still, frowning, looks at Robert saying, "That's sarcasm you prick."
Drake walks down the steps saying, "Dude, you need to relax…I'll see ya'll Monday."
Robert shouts at him, "1 pm Drake."
Drake replies without looking, "Yeah, so the Old Lady said."
Mike flustered, "Nobody calls me Michael, except him. You didn't tell him did you?
Robert smiles and answers, "He didn't ask and I didn't tell".
Mike, closing his eyes, raising his left hand to his mouth and laughing, "He is going to blow a fuse, dude. He is so going to quit."
Robert says, "He won't quit, because I already have his agreement."
Mike, still laughing, quietly says, "I take it back, he isn't going to quit, he is going to murder you."
Robert grins saying, "That's nothing, Ellen gets back tomorrow."
Mike bent over laughing says between breaths, "Oh my God, I can't wait till she sees him."


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On cars, old, new and future; science & technology; vintage airplanes, computer flight simulation of them; Sherlockiana; our English language; travel; and other stuff
PLENTY OF countries around the world are questioning fossil-fuel mobility. Yesterday, we looked at proposed gasoline and diesel bans, of one sort or another, in the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, and India. Today, the news is from France, Britain, and automaker Volvo, with something of a reality check on it all. (The U.S. is an outlier in this matter, worthy of discussion another day.)
Automotive News, July 11 and 17, 2017, is a primary source, together with others obtained though Internet sleuthing.
"France Plans to End Sales of Gas and Diesel Cars by 2040" is by Jack Ewing in The New York Times, July 6, 2017. Ewing notes, "The country will also stop issuing new oil and gas exploration permits this year, and stop using coal to produce electricity by 2022." Also, France has a goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2050.
These French goals are challenging. "France to 'Ban All Petrol and Diesel Vehicles by 2040,' by Henry Samuel in The Telegraph, July 6, 2017, discusses this: "Diesel and gasoline vehicles represented about 95.2 percent of French new car fleets in the first half of the year, while electric vehicles hold 1.2 percent of the market. Hybrid cars make up about 3.5 percent."
The New York Times, July 26, 2017, carries a story "Britain to Ban New Diesel and Gas Cars by 2040" by Stephen Castle. He reports Britain's plans are to "match a similar pledge made this month by France, and are part of a growing global push to curb emissions and fight climate change."
Castle also notes, "But the shift to electric vehicles will be a gradual one, and the target set by Britain is less ambitious than some of the efforts elsewhere." Norway is one of his cited examples; India is the other.
These and other EV buzz depend on the matter of definition. For example, Volvo has said it will build nothing but "electrified" vehicles starting in 2019 (what's essentially early tomorrow in automaker parlance). However, electrified vehicles include a lot more than pure battery or fuel-cell EVs. It includes plug-in, traditional, and mild hybrids, all of which still burn fossil fuels.
Automotive News, July 17, 2017, offers an Opinion piece by auto strategist Joern Buss: "Does Volvo's Move Suggest an Irreversible Shift to EVs?" Briefly, matters are more nuanced.
And in an Automotive News Comment, July 10, 2017, publisher Keith Crain discusses "Volvo's Very Huge Decision." He notes, "Volvo once owned the safety segment. Now it's trying to own the electrified-vehicle position. We wish them luck."
On July 26, 2017, CNN Money's Alanna Petroff quotes automaker market-intelligence specialist Al Bedwell on government proposals: "It's really unclear. These are political statements. Until we get more details, it's really hard to understand what the implications are."
The CNN Money report also has a video with senior automotive reporter Peter Valdes-Dapena describing how pure EVs fit into this array of electrified vehicles.
Valdes-Dapena says, "when car companies like Volvo or entire countries talk about selling electrified vehicles, they're really talking about all this stuff. Don't think they're going all electric; they're probably not."
I conclude with paraphrasing a quote attributed to Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani: The stone age didn't end because of government edict. It ended because bronze was a superior material. ds
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The Lady Natalya is a skilled and well trained lady-in-waiting. Unfortunately, she was taught to be too deferential for her position. I didn't expect you to get this unless you are very familiar with aristocracy. We will see how this plays out in the future. This is a revelation that shows the depth of the research in the writing, but that is largely unimportant right now. This will become a clearer revelation in the future. What I want the reader to see is the care and patience of Aksinya. The reader may only see this in retrospect to these incidents.
Aksinya and Natalya ate a light supper in Aksinya's bedroom. Natalya would not sit, and in spite of Aksinya's protests, ate hers in the bathroom. Aksinya did convince her to leave the door open so they could converse. They dressed for travel. Asmodeus brought a wardrobe out of the magnificent chest so Aksinya could choose the clothing for Natalya to adjust.
Aksinya gave a flitting smile, "Why don't you find my small trunk, and we shall transfer the clothing I wish the Lady Natalya to work on. That will make it much more convenient for us all."
Asmodeus stared suspiciously at her for a moment, but brought out the trunk and Aksinya's sewing case but not the jewelry box. After he left, Aksinya, with Natalya's help, chose from among Aksinya's mother's gowns. They packed some into the trunk and put one in the sewing case.
When the glass panes in Aksinya's window turned completely dark, a rap came on the door, "It is I, Asmodeus."
Aksinya waited a moment before she replied, "You may enter."
The demon came in and glanced around, "You are both ready?"
Aksinya nodded and Lady Natalya parroted her. Aksinya pointed at the packed trunk and her sewing case. Asmodeus held the trunk under his arm and carried the sewing case.
The demon gestured with the case, "Very well, follow me."
Aksinya stood and Natalya placed the long mink coat over her shoulders. She tied the clasp at Aksinya's throat. Then Natalya pulled the heavy woolen cloak Aksinya had given her over her own shoulders. She closed her eyes and buried her nose in the collar for just a moment, then she tied the clasp.
Asmodeus led them out the back door of the inn. There he placed the trunk and the sewing case into his great chest and lifted it onto his shoulders. He headed into the darkness. Natalya gave a gasp each time she saw something come in or out of the amazing chest. And though Aksinya had seen it happen so many times, she was a little surprised herself at it.
The Lady Natalya whispered, "It is like Koschei's chest. Does he also keep your soul in it for you, countess?"
Aksinya glanced at Natalya, "I am simply mortal, and not at all like Koschei."
Natalya followed Aksinya into the frozen darkness. In spite of Natalya's reference to Koschei, Aksinya believed the Lady Natalya saw the demon as a handsome courtier and certainly not as he really appeared. At least she thought her lady-in-waiting did. Aksinya controlled herself from taking a peek at his current appearance.
The important part here is the sewing chest and the clothing. Aksinya is making her own plans to protect herself and Natalya. You don't know what she is up to, but you might guess.


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Hi Guys, With G being the prospective team Leader at Team INEOS, there is a strong chance that he may well win his second Tour De France. That would be a very good reason to celebrate. Regardless of whether G wins, we have been thinking it is time for a social event and what better reason than to celebrate the winner of the Tour, whoever that is.
This being the case, CJ has offered the services of the Castle Hotel in Neath as a venue the idea being that we meet at 2:30pm for drinks and watch the final competitive stage on Saturday the 27Th July. TV coverage is due to finish between 4:00 and 5:30 PM. To make the afternoon a social occasion, The Castle will provide "Light Bites" for all club and family members that wish to attend.
In order that we can have an idea of numbers to cater for, can you let me know if you and or your partners would like to attend.


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He has the ability to hide, and only show himself whenever he feels like it. He used to be the King of Kapama, ruling his territory on the Reserve with an iron fist. Demanding respect at every turn. Unfortunately, as time went on he got older and by getting older he got weaker and slower. He is a father to many lions on Kapama, but in one of his litters, there were three males. As the months passed by his 3 sons grew bigger and stronger. When they entered their prime they decided to form a collision.
A collision is when male's lions decide to work together. This makes them stronger as a unit. Then the day arrived when he couldn't keep them in check anymore and they overpowered him. In a fight with his three male sons to try and keep his power over the territory, he lost his right eye in the battle of his life. Unfortunately, they were just too strong for him and he lost his title and was forced to move away far down the reserve keeping his distance from them.
These days he keeps to himself in the very south of the reserve. But when you are lucky to see him, you immediately get the sense of his power, even if he is an old male lion.
Walking down the road demanding respect, all his battle scares tells the epic tales of his life. His immediately recognisable and extremely dark mane states his dominance and you can't help but feel his power, even still. He never shy's away from photos, always giving us great opportunities to take the ultimate shot of him. In fact, sometimes I think he loves to have his photo taken and almost seems to pose for the camera.
On one afternoon we left Buffalo Camp for our game drive and we got extremely lucky. He spotted him walking down the road with such a sense of pride.
When you succeed in finding him the reward is well worth it! Long live our one-eyed king!
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Ways To Grow Maintain And Operate Any Experiential Marketing Agency
When you have a grasp on how to carefully take chances with your agency, you're open to making substantial amounts of money as an entrepreneur. You cannot avoid doing enough research before officially starting up your experiential agency. When you run a profitable company, it means that you'll need to arrange things with care and have an idea of what area you need to focus on the most. These suggestions and recommendations can help in your quest to build your experiential agency.
At all times you will need to have a positive outlook when dealing with the public, whether you are the owner or staff of an agency. Your aim as an employee should be making the customers comfortable when they come to you. As an experiential agency owner, you need to ensure your employers receive adequate customer service training. When you provide superior customer service, people will spread the word about your experiential agency and bring new people to your experiential agency.
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|Pain Olympics
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- "This is the Pain Olympics"
- — Dan Joyce
This was a stunt involving all the Sanchez boys and was featured in the second series of Dirty Sanchez.
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- Racing tracks
- Pins
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Pain Olympics before it was cool Edit
- "It's only pins, only pins, only pins"
- — Pritchard before the stunt
The race began with all the boys trying to crawl over the pins with their hands. However knowing how painful it is, Pritchard and Dainton decided to roll over the pins. Pancho tried the same as Dainton and Pritchard but it didn't work. Currently Pritchard was in the lead with Dan second and the other two in last. Pritchard managed to win but now it left the other three. After a while Pancho was near enough towards the finishing line and decided to walk on the pins, Dan had almost given up and Dainton was close to finishing.
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Pritchard was first, Pancho came second, Dainton third and Dan last. All the boys had a lot of pins sticking out of them.
Gallery of pain Edit
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- The "pain olympics" also refers to an internet hoax, that became a phenomenon.


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The online interactive experience will coincide with Dogwoof's UK release of Carol Morley's documentary.
Film4 is launching on online interactive campaign to coincide with the release of Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life, which tells the true story of 38-year-old Joyce Vincent whose skeleton was discovered three years after she died in her bedsit in London.
Interactive agency Hide&Seek has created the digital commission, which will also be accompanied by a mobile touring installatation which will be accessible on iPads at venues where the film is playing, including Manchester Cornerhouse, Sheffield Showroom and Stratford Picturehouse.
The film was a hit when it world premiered at the recent BFI London Film Festival.
dreamsofyourlife.com launches on December 1.
- Title: Dreams of a Life
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Deluxe Holiday Homes is one of the first and largest holiday homes management company in Dubai, UAE and one of the fastest growing ones. As a result, career opportunities continue to become available. We need the best in the industry to join our company and help us to continue to develop and deliver excellent hospitality services to our guests and property owners!
Deluxe Holiday Homes is the market leader, offering Dubai vacation homes to guests from the GCC, Europe, Americas, Russia and CIS countries and around the world. We also enjoy a dynamic sales and service environment that's designed to continually strive and seek improvement. Most of all, this constant quest for excellence extends to each of our team. Each team member displays a dedication to enhance and improve the customers experience. We value honesty, integrity and diligence, so we also perform a full examination on every applicant.
To apply for one of the career opportunities described below. Please send your resume, together with all relevant information requested to the email, or the address shown against each position.
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- Responsible for all credit card transactions
- Handle all invoices, security deposit dispositions input into computer daily
- Input all rents and electrical payments and billings
- Assist with renewals as needed
- Responsible for communicating with guests on late fees
- Assist in maintaining general files and an organized office at all times
- Reconciles and balances accounts
- Computes, types and mails monthly statements to customers
- Compiles reports to show statistics such as cash receipts and expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, profit and loss and other items pertinent to operation of property
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Much like with cognac, blending is at the heart of this mezcal. Utilizing four different wild and rare species of agave the blender is looking to heighten the drinking experience by keying up certain strengths and balancing out any shortcomings this mezcal might have. Cirial adds spice and earthiness while Tobalá adds body and sweetness. Lumbre brightens and Tobasiche provides depth and herbal characteristics.
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"An earthy but playful mezcal with notes of minerals, acetone, lemon, wet dirt, gentle smoke and pineapple. Next the taste of salt, Granny Smith apple, terra cotta, minerals, parsley and celery coat the tongue. This mezcal is not particularly smoky but it is fresh like sea-air and begs to be sipped."


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Avoid Citrus Fruits
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Avoid Onions and Garlic
While onions and garlic add flavor to meals and are believed to provide health benefits such as removing toxins from the blood, the downside to these tasty root vegetables is that they are known to trigger acid reflux symptoms in certain individuals. Limiting intake of onions and garlic or temporarily eliminating them from the diet may help to minimize or prevent acid reflux symptoms.
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Similar to citrus fruits, tomatoes are highly acidic and believed to worsen symptoms of acid reflux. Adjusting the diet and eliminating tomatoes and tomato-based foods such as chili and spaghetti sauce can help reduce symptoms.
Avoid Chocolate
While chocolate is delicious and often the perfect treat to top off a meal, one of its ingredients is a known trigger of acid reflux. Methylxanthine is a component of chocolate that creates a relaxing sensation in the lower esophageal sphincter muscle, which in turn can lead to acid reflux.
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Inheritance Tax has traditionally been viewed as a tax just for the exact wealthy. It is a form of tax which is payable on an estate when a person dies. It is not the same as estate tax, which is imposed on the total value of a person's estate when that person dies. Avoiding inheritance tax is getting difficult, because of tremendous increase in property rates. There aren't any New Jersey Inheritance Tax.
Michigan's estate tax process is usually known as a pick up" tax. Texas's estate tax process is usually known as a pick up" tax. Taking advantage of the assorted exemptions outlined above is the best method to get this done, though you might need to look for financial advice prior to making any decisions. You may even wind up getting tax losses and deductions instead of taxable income! The rate depends on the association between the descendent and the inheritor. The effective rate is so low because, to start with, the tax is simply owed on such an area of the estate over the exclusion. The Unified Credit is utilized to eliminate or lower somebody's tax liability.
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A separate yearly exclusion applies to every individual to whom you make a present. The yearly gift tax exclusion applies to every man receiving a present. Then, an individual would subtract each one of the exemptions and deductions which are available.
Should you be a beneficiary under a Will you should ensure that you're aware of all of the taxation implications in your inheritance. Second, your spouse can grow to be a citizen. Should you be in inheriting from somebody who died after 1985, there are special rules about the records which need to be keep so as to safeguard any probable investments which you might have. It's important to keep in mind that if making a massive gift it must be in excess of the nil rate band to profit from any possible decrease in the possible tax due as a consequence of the taper relief. Two reasons aren't tax-related. For the large part, the reply is no.
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It's a crossing of a known variety of the family blue and our High Level. Her homogeneity does not arrive to 100% cause her component blue, though the result has been spectacular: a plant with a similar structure like the mother, but with robust stem, with big and rather hard bud, with incredible quantity of brilliant and sticky resin, and a powerful effect predominantly from the mother, with indica parent souvenirs. Her flavour is exquisitely fruity, with a touch between orange and peach, very special. A delight for the palate.
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Fame is a funny thing. There are lotttsss of people who want it, few people who actually have it, and even fewer people who do have it in droves and never really wanted it in the first place. According to Robert Pattinson, he's one of those who had exactly zero interest in swimming in the metaphorical fishbowl that is celebrity, but so it is.
Seven years after he rose to super-stardom by way of his Edward Cullen-ness in "The Twilight Saga," though, things are finally starting to settle down for him. And he thinks it has a little something to with all of us learning to take a chill pill whenever he's around.
Pattinson spoke to Cosmopolitan Germany (via Robsessed) and recounted the exact moment he realized he was a someone -- by Hollywood standards.
"It was six months before the second 'Twilight' movie came out," he remembered. He'd been invited to an L.A. club and "the doorman just looked at me and said, 'It's OK, you can go in.' I was like 'What?' Up until then I never was let into clubs that easily."
Entry perks or nah, RPattz still wasn't ever out to reach the international heartthrob status that he has.
"I never wanted to become famous," he told the mag. "I'm satisfied with small things. The more famous I became, the more I wanted to hide out. The hype was irritating to me."
The "climax" of Robsession, he explained, was when he was at a "New Moon" fan event in Munich in 2009 and "3000 fans were cheering when I was answering a question." Confirmed.
But a good bit of time has passed since then, and since "Twilight" fans aren't ageless vampires, Rob says we've all learned to turn the volume down just enough to make his life easier.
"It's much better now," said Pattinson. "The 'Twilight' fans got older and it's a lot more relaxed now."
But he still has one little protip for fans who see him out and about (probably in his dead giveaway beanie and sunglasses look): Fangless or not, he totally might be ready to bite your head off if you ask him for some selfie time.
"I don't like to draw attention to myself, but I can't walk around without being recognized," he said. "If people would say a quick 'hello,' it would be fine, but every second person wants to do a selfie. That means I always have to be in a good mood."


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Hannah Miley has spent more than a decade at the top in swimming, with 36 international medals to her name including six golds.
It has been a decade since the first of those gold medals, across in Turkey at the LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships in 2009.
Recently turned 20, and with a couple of World short course medals to her name, Miley was clearly a talented medley swimmer but still had to prove she could finish on the top step of the podium in a major competition.
In Istanbul, she added a bronze medal to her collection in the 200m individual medley on the opening day of competition.
However, the 400m medley has always been her specialty, and that event on the final day would decide whether it had been a successful competition or not.
In a hugely competitive field that featured the likes of future Olympic gold-medallist Mereia Belmonte and 200m medley silver medallist Francesca Segat, Miley proved the class of the field.
The Scot finished in 4:25.66, nearly two seconds clear of Belmonte in silver, with Hungary's Zsuzsanna Jakabos clinching bronze ahead of Segat.
Miley has since gone on to repeat the feat at the 2012 European Short Course Championships, and this December, has a chance to bring up a hat-trick of titles ten years after her first.


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Well, I'm actually just finished with a project. This is the The Silver Needle's Secret Needle Night pattern for October 2014 titled One Happy Cat. I was working on it the evening we went to Houston and had to kill some time at Denny's.
It is a counted cross stitch piece on burlap with and velvet and ribbon threads. It is soft and whimsical; I love it!


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– Saft, world leader in the design, development and manufacture of high technology batteries for industry, has been awarded a major contract by the Brazilian power utility CEB (Companhia Energetica de Brasilia) to design, manufacture and supply maintenance-free nickel backup battery systems for all 34 distribution substations serving Brasilia, the country's capital city. The Saft Uptimax batteries are replacing the existing lead-acid batteries at the CEB substations to provide a significant increase in reliability and availability while reducing battery maintenance and replacement costs.
Brasilia is the Federal Capital of Brazil and the seat of government for the country's Federal District. CEB controls electric power distribution, generation and transmission assets covering an area of over 5,280 square kilometers, providing service to over 990,000 clients and nearly 2.9 million residents.
The substation backup batteries play a critical role for CEB by ensuring a continuous 125 V supply to support all the auxiliary loads such as switchgear, automation and protection circuits for up to 10 hours if there is an interruption to the main power supply. Previously, the substations have been fitted with lead-acid batteries. However, this is a particularly demanding application with ambient temperatures reaching + 35°C that contribute to the risk of unpredictable, premature battery failure.
To ensure total reliability of its backup systems CEB has now implemented a one-year program to replace the batteries at all 34 of its distribution substations with Saft Uptimax batteries. These batteries feature Saft's latest development in nickel pocket plate technology that delivers maintenance-free operation with a long, completely predictable service life even at elevated temperatures.
"Ensuring continuity of customer supply is a mission critical aspect of CEB's power distribution business. That's why we have made the decision to purchase nickel backup batteries for the first time in our company history", said Arthur Franklin, Substations maintenance manager of CEB. "This switch to Saft batteries gives us renewed confidence that our substation backup systems will always perform as required, whenever they are called upon."
Each CEB substation will be fitted with two battery banks, so Saft is supplying a total of 68 Uptimax systems comprising 96 cells ranging in capacity from 100 to 170 Ah. The one-year contract reinforces Saft's presence in Brazil's developing utilities market. The first systems were delivered to CEB in June 2016.
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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) employees will have more money in their pocket to spend next year because their company has announced an average of 3.5 percent pay raise across the board.
Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC) announced the pay raise in a news release posted on its website on Dec. 1, which also stated that the pay raise had been moved up to November this year. Therefore, the raise was included in the salaries they received on Nov. 30, the company said.
THSRC said the company's revenues for the first three quarters of this year totaled NT$33.671 billion (US$1.122 billion), which is a 5.14 percent increase year-over-year, and that the net profit before tax is NT$5.653 billion, representing 14.27 percent growth compared to NT$4.947 billion over the same period last year.
The company said its board of directors not only decided to put more money in their employees' pocket next year, but also decided to make it effective as early as November.


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Cyber G.ho.st. breaks down real world walls
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by lestro
According to the New York Times, there is a team of Palestinian and Israeli coders who are working together on creating a new web-based personal computer that will allow people to log in to their own virtual harddrives from any internet connection.
Despite the differences between their people and the walls put up to stop them, the programmers are working toward a common vision and goal.
They trade ideas through a video hookup that connects the West Bank office with one in Israel in the first joint technology venture of its kind between Israelis and Palestinians.
"Start with the optimistic parts, Mustafa," Gilad Parann-Nissany, an Israeli who is vice president for research and development, jokes with a Palestinian colleague who is giving a progress report. Both conference rooms break into laughter.
The goal of G.ho.st is not as lofty as peace, although its founders and employees do hope to encourage it. Instead G.ho.st wants to give users a free, Web-based virtual computer that lets them access their desktop and files from any computer with an Internet connection. G.ho.st, pronounced "ghost," is short for Global Hosted Operating System.
"Ghosts go through walls," said Zvi Schreiber, the company's British-born Israeli chief executive, by way of explanation…
There are 35 Palestinian programmers and 13 Israelis and they are only 35 miles apart, but it's what you might call a long 35 miles.
The stretch of road separating the offices is broken up by checkpoints, watch towers and a barrier made of chain-link fence and, in some areas, soaring concrete walls, built by Israel with the stated goal of preventing the entry of Palestinian suicide bombers.
That's a serious wall.
There's a Robert Frost poem that is often-quoted but rarely understood called "Mending Wall". The line most people pull out, especially when discussing issues like national borders, is:
Good fences make good neighbors
The problem is that the point of the poem is exactly the opposite.
The poem is a lament about going out each spring and rebuilding the wall along the property with his neighbor. It has to be done every year because "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, it wants it down." But it is also the only time he and the neighbor come into contact and they keep the wall between them the entire time.
Frost wonders why they do this year after year. Why do they go through the work of mending this wall?
It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
But because spring puts the mischief in him, Frost goes further, asking the neighbor "why" (and Frost italicizes it). He continues pushing:
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
The neighbor has none of it, however and continues his own ways "in darkness" as it seems to Frost because he won't break free from his "father's advice" which no longer serves a purpose.
It used to be that we told people to tear down walls. Now we want to build one of our own and we support our allies doing the same to protect themselves. But we forget that governments often overreact and go BIG when something catches them off guard (remember when Mayor Quimby created the Bear Patrol after a bear wanders through town and frightens everyone? Interestingly, that also turned into an episode about immigration policy) and in building a wall we don't ask who we give offense by keeping them out.
Trying to keep someone out only guarantees they are going to feel even more persecuted and try even harder to get in. Walls are old ways. And they don't work. We know they don't work. Hell, earlier this year the Palestinians tore down a wall at the Egyptian border and relatively peacefully crossed into Egypt, did their shopping and went home.
So, of course, the Egyptians rebuilt the wall.
Now across a border on the Gaza Strip, one of the world's most notorious turf wars, a group is getting past the old was and working together on a very forward-thinking project.
"We are doing something across cultures and across two sides of a tough conflict," Dr. Schreiber said. "I was prepared for the possibility that it might be difficult, but it hasn't been."
Just another example of technology and ideas subverting borders.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
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to the United States. He drove to Fort Benton where he joined the United States Army. He had abandoned his horse and buggy at some wayside place.
Needless to say the unusual happenings, topped by Gordon's disappearance, caused much stir in the district. Murder was sus pected and an air of mystery prevailed around the Daw farm. Gordon was reportedly seen near Estevan and then north of Brandon. These reports proved untrue and it appeared that Gordon had completely disappeared. No evidence could be found to confirm people's suspicions and interest began to wane. Unexpectedly, news came from North Dakota that a Canadian buggy, with a bullet hole in the top curtain and blood on the floor, had been found. This created new interest and a thorough search was made of the ravine and farm. The old well was discovered and finally the bodies of the dog, Smith, and Daw. When this condemning evidence was brought to light, a large reward was offered for Gordon's capture. The excitement abated, however, when the report was circulated that he had fled to Mexico.
The Boissevain town constable, Ed. Allan, was not satisfied to drop the case. Knowing that the Chicago papers had a large Western circulation, he had a photograph of Gordon, along with information regarding the murder and the reward offered for his capture, inserted in this paper.
Gordon's luck was running out. A soldier from Fort Benton obtained one of the Chicago papers and recognized Gordon. When questioned about the murder Gordon claimed he had fought with a man in Canada and had fled without knowing whether or not he had killed him. Gordon was terrified and slipping away in the night, he fled back to Canada. He made his way to Vancouver where he joined a regiment bound for South Africa to take part in the Boer War.
The soldier at Fort Benton reported his suspicions to the authorities who immediately instigated a search. A description of Gordon was wired to Vancouver where he was recognized by his military photograph. Meanwhile Gordon was on a transcontinental flier under military orders bound for Halifax and overseas.
Word was wired ahead to Halifax and he was apprehended just as he was mounting the gangplank of a ship bound for South Africa. Gordon was brought back to Brandon where he was tried and convicted of murder. He was hanged and buried in Brandon jail yard.
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a bit about Michael
What are you working on these days?
A personal "journal" of music attempting to document the trajectory and evolution of a relationship, but in a very vague and conceptual way. Even stranger is that there are no words, just music. It might be the most honest work i've ever done. I can't seem to finish it though. I think i'm waiting for that final spark.
What drives you mad these days?
The presidential election. It all seems so dire and hopeless.
What makes you happy?
Walking or biking around Brooklyn in the summertime.
When was the last time you cried?
I was watching a documentary about autistic adults in love relationships. There was a really moving scene at one point that featured a marriage proposal. I immediately started balling my eyes out, but they were tears of joy.
What's your latest musical obsession?
The album Piano Nights by Bohren & Der Club of Gore. Perfect music to chill to on a hot summer night. Lately, i've also been into this artist named Ian William Craig, who is a classically trained opera singer, but he utilizes his voice in unique and interesting ways to create music that is both deeply emotive yet experimental.
What was the last movie you watched? Was it any good?
The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos. The movie was brilliant and very strange, but it was also an absurd love story, which is always the best kind.
When it's time for a new wardrobe, where do you go?
My go-to is the J.Crew Men's Shop on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. They have a well curated selection from their catalog at this location, and I also take a bit of enjoyment from having to ride an elevator to get to the shop. Makes me feel like a sophisticated businessman.
What's your go-to café in New-York City?
I would have to say my favorite cafe in the city is Fortunato Brothers in Williamsburg. It is an old-school Italian cafe & bakery that has the best cannoli, strongest espresso, and a cat named Rocco, who if you are lucky, will jump in your lap and let you pet him.
What's your favorite street or neighborhood to wander through?
Prospect Park.
What's the thing you LOVE to do in New-York City but never actually do?
I wish I attended more local music shows like I used to when I first arrived in New York.
Who's your hero (dead or alive) and where would you take them to show them a good time?
Brian Eno. I would love to sit and have a chat with him about music, philosophy, New York in the 70's and 80's, everything really. I'd just love to pick his brain. I'd probably take him to Fortunato Brothers as i've been known to spend hours there talking with friends over coffee and pastries.
If it's been raining outside for days and you're sick of staying in – where would you go?
If I had to leave the house but wanted shelter from the rain, I would probably catch a film at any of the many great cinemas the city has to offer.
What's that place in New-York City you feel like only you know about?
A place that I feel is a bit of a secret or at least not very well-known is the Dream House. It is an unassuming space located in a floor of a high-rise in Manhattan. Upon entering, you are bombarded by neon pink hues of light and constant ambient drones percolating from various speakers situated throughout the space. It is a special place to me because the environment and resultant headspace that I enter into when i'm there is such a drastic dichotomy from the bustle of the city just outside its windows.
If tomorrow was your last day in New-York City before you left for good, how and where would you spend it?
I'd spend the day wandering around Brooklyn, trying to revisit all my old neighborhoods. Then at night, my friends and I would congregate on a stoop, drinking 40s until morning.
Given the choice, mayor of which neighborhood would you be?
Bed-Stuy. I'm about to move to this neighborhood, and to me, it has the total feel of my home borough, Brooklyn.
What's the spot in New-York City you wouldn't be caught dead in?
Times Square!
You've just received the best news ever. Where would you go to celebrate and with whom?
I'd gather up my friends and hit up a nice dive bar and possibly do some karaoke.
What's the thing you love doing that isn't work, relationship or family related?
Biking around Brooklyn, working on music, seeing a film, or checking out a new bar or restaurant that I haven't been to. I've been living in New York for almost ten years, and i'm still discovering new things all the time.
When you feel like a night out, what's your go-to place and why?
It really depends on the occasion. On a typical night, or if I want to unwind from my workday, I like to enjoy a good cocktail, so I may go to Leyenda or Clover Club in Carroll Gardens, where i've had some of the best cocktails.


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Do you find it hard to lead? Are you anti-management? If so, you are probably a middle manager in a university, according to a report from the Higher Education Policy Institute on modernising human resource management.
This tier of management rarely sees managing staff as part of their job, acting as a form of "cloud cover" preventing change, according to the report Mission Critical .
While senior management took HR seriously, the story changed beyond the "top table".
"However clear the vision from top management, the frustration voiced by HR heads was of what one described as 'a thick layer of cloud below'," the report says.
"The recurring description of middle management was of staff in positions of leadership who did not find it easy to lead and whose loyalties often lie primarily with their subject or their teams; and of a highly resilient anti-management culture - even among managers."
William Archer, the report's author and former head of education practice at Barkers Norman Broadbent, said: "This layer of cloud prevents communication across the university, making it hard for senior management to communicate effectively and making staff suspicious of them."
He said that the development, training and support of managers was crucial.
Based on interviews with HR and university heads in 44 research-led and teaching-led universities, the report also describes HR departments as engaged in a "new world war for talent".
"The consensus was that the ability to attract and recruit the right people was now 'the basis for future competitive advantage', and so core to the university's success," the report says.
Typical annual recruitment advertising ranged from £200,000 to £1 million. "Online recruitment is now used extensively and job boards are seen as a highly effective low-cost medium," it says.
More than 80 per cent of universities said they used head-hunters to attract senior staff. "Such is the demand that one research-led university had appointed an in-house head-hunter, hired from an external firm," the report says.
The report, which was sponsored by The Times Higher , adds that there is a shortage of HR professionals. "The scale of expansion in HR departments means that finding staff continues to be an issue," Mr Archer said.
The report found that HR departments in universities compared favourably with the best in the private sector.
But at a seminar to outline the findings, Paul Mackney, general secretary of lecturers' union Natfhe, said most departments had ignored issues such as discrimination against women and black staff.
"I don't think higher education is close to the best HR and, if it is, the rest of the country should be very worried," he said.


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UPDATE: Lodi Police say 24-year-old Jaime Mora turned himself in Friday.
See our original story from Sept. 9 below.
LODI -- Two men were shot and killed outside of a Lodi convenience store early Sunday morning.
Neighbors grew worried about the violence happening so close to home. But the sound of gunfire is nothing new for neighbor Juan Garcia.
"It's not surprising anymore, honestly, which is sad," Garcia told FOX40.
However, it's never been this close to his Lodi home.
"We came outside, me and my wife, and we actually saw them doing CPR to one of the victims in the middle of the parking lot," Garcia said.
Two men were shot and killed in a parking lot in the area of South Cherokee Lane near East Lodi Avenue around 2 a.m.
"That was scary to see, especially so close to home, you know," Garcia said.
Police say a 35-year-old man and a 21-year-old man were involved in some sort of argument with at least one other person.
Both men were then shot and killed.
Two men were shot and killed outside of this Lodi convenience store at the intersection of Cherokee and Lodi Ave early this morning. This marks 8 homicides in the city so far this year, a major increase from the 1 homicide all last year @FOX40 pic.twitter.com/7kyG11yXeG
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"From the initial scene we can tell right now that they weren't shooting at each other," said Lodi Police Officer William Hinton. "They weren't involved in anything with each other. But that motive is still not known."
On Monday, the police department identified the victims as Gerardo Maldonado De Santiago, 35, of Lodi and Brian Soto, 21, of Stockton.
A gun that may have been used in the shooting was found at a nearby business, according to police.
Police are looking at surveillance footage from nearby businesses but have not yet released any suspect descriptions.
This marks the eighth homicide of the year. That is up from just one homicide all of last year and five the year before.
"We've lived here about seven, eight years and it has been getting worse," Garcia said. "It wasn't always like this in this area."
But police say they're doing everything in their power to keep neighbors safe.
"So it is a little high but I think this is still a safe community and we're still doing everything we can to keep it that way," Hinton told FOX40.
If you know anything about what happened you're asked to call the Lodi Police Department.


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The Monetary Regimes And The Inflation Developments In The Central And Eastern European Countries
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- Yifan Hu, 2003. "Empirical Investigations of Inflation Targeting," Working Paper Series WP03-6, Peterson Institute for International Economics.
- Scott Roger & Mark R. Stone, 2005. "On Target? the International Experience with Achieving Inflation Targets," IMF Working Papers 05/163, International Monetary Fund.
- Adam Geršl & Tomáš Holub, 2006.
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- Tomas Holub, 2004. "Foreign Exchange Interventions Under Inflation Targeting: The Czech Experience," Research and Policy Notes 2004/01, Czech National Bank.
- Holub, Tomáš, 2004. "Foreign exchange interventions under inflation targeting: the Czech Experience," Research Notes 17, Deutsche Bank Research.
- Guy Debelle & Miguel A Savastano & Paul R Masson & Sunil Sharma, 1998. "Inflation Targeting as a Framework for Monetary Policy," IMF Economic Issues 15, International Monetary Fund.
- Jakub Borowski & Michal Brzoza- Brzezina & Piotr Szpunar, 2003. "Exchange Rate Regimes and Poland's Participation in ERM II," Macroeconomics 0302002, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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LIMA — On a spring Sunday afternoon at the turn of the century the Crescents and the Alliance team took the field for a highly anticipated game between two of Lima's top amateur baseball teams. The game, apparently, was not as impressive as the sentence a reporter wrote to describe it in the May 21, 1900, edition of the Lima Times-Democrat.
"The base ball game at Faurot's park yesterday afternoon was an interesting contest if prolonged and vicious slugging of the pig skin sphere accompanied by poor fielding, scrub pitching and wild throwing could make it so," wrote the reporter, at that point just getting warmed up, "but the spectators who were in attendance evidently did not consider that kind of a contest an interesting one, for after three home runs and two three-base hits had been 'smashed' out by the Crescents in the second half of the second inning, the seats in the grand stand and bleachers were awfully lonesome."
Despite all that, the reporter concluded: "Well, the game was the source of a lot of fun but no one knows what the score was because nobody stayed."
Baseball had been the source of a lot of fun since its infancy. In August 1875, the year before the first professional league, the National League, was formed, the Allen County Democrat provided its readers with a tutorial on a few "base ball technicalities." The field, the newspaper explained, was "the pasture where the leather-hunting" was performed while bases were "salt bags scattered around the field for the players to jump on" and nine was "the number of roosters in knee breeches that constitute a base ball deck."
Teams popped up everywhere. In the late 1870s there were the Quicksteps of Honey Run and the Rattlers of Gomer, the Red Hots of Elida and Clippers of Vaughnsville, the Osceolas of Lafayette and the Antelopes of Van Wert.
By 1896, the year the Crescents were formed, Lima was home to a minor league team. On July 27, 1894, the Times-Democrat reveled in the team's victory over a squad from Cincinnati. "The Limas played their usual good game," the newspaper wrote, adding that a Lima player named Cox was injured late in the game when "a fly was knocked over the fence into the woods, and Cox ran after and tried to dive under the fence, not seeing the barbed wire stretched across it." Lee Faurot, the nephew of Lima industrialist Benjamin Faurot, was the winning pitcher that day. Faurot played in the minor leagues for several years as well as for the Crescents. In 1932 he was elected mayor of Lima.
Barbed wire fences weren't the only peril faced by the Lima minor league team. Local ministers intent on seeing Sunday "blue laws" enforced occasionally would bring games to a halt. On Sept. 7, 1894, the Times-Democrat reported, "W.G. Smith, pastor of Main Street Presbyterian church, who caused the arrest of manager Enoch Somers of the ball team … appeared before Mayor (James) Smiley again Sunday and swore out affidavits charging catcher Paul Hines and center fielder James Feral, of the ball team, with violating state law by playing base ball on Sunday."
Adding to the team's woes was a fire at the end of August that destroyed much of the seating at Faurot's ball park, the team's home field. The fire was believed to have been started by a group of boys, "a crowd of whom have inhabited the grand stand almost every day this summer, playing cards and smoking," the Times-Democrat wrote Aug. 28, 1894.
Although the stands were rebuilt for the 1895 season, the fans didn't come. The team, which included a teen-aged Roger Bresnahan from Toledo who would play nearly two decades in the Major leagues, struggled. Particularly galling to local fans was the team's struggles against the Findlay team.
As the 1896 season dawned, prospects for a team in Lima appeared dim. "The lovers of base ball in Lima are asking whether or not the game of base ball will be played in Lima this year," the Times-Democrat wrote April 21, 1896.
Lima would have a minor league team in 1896, and a league of its own as well. "A movement has been started by Sleuth Huffman, the local base ball enthusiast and others, toward organizing a city league, consisting of four local base ball clubs, to play a series of games during the season. The four teams will probably be Sleuth Huffman's team (the Crescents), the Marquettes, the Shamrocks and the High School team," the Times-Democrat wrote on May 19, 1896.
The new league debuted on Decoration Day and "and surpassed the expectations of everyone who went to see the game," the Times-Democrat reported June 2, 1896, adding that "the game was superior in many respects to the games that Somers' aggregation (the Lima minor league team) used to attempt to place before the base ball enthusiasts." On July 14, 1896, with Faurot on the mound and Frank Sealts catching, the Crescents defeated the Shamrocks before "a good sized crowd of base ball enthusiasts."
Despite the promising start the city league soon faltered only to be revived in 1900, with both the Shamrocks and Crescents reorganizing. "This season may be a lively one for the local base ball fans in spite of the fact that no semi-professional (minor league) has yet been or seem probable of organizing," the Times-Democrat wrote April 6, 1900. "There are already three strong local amateur teams in the field and the old city league may be reorganized before the pig skin bounces across the diamond."
The Crescents were reorganized by Sturge Sealts and had a heavy Sealts' flavor. E. Sealts and M. Sealts were infielders, Roy Sealts patrolled the outfield and Frank Sealts, who had a brief professional career, handled catching duties. Frank Sealts, who was praised by the Times-Democrat for eschewing tobacco and alcohol, became a prominent local businessman. He dropped dead of a heart attack at the age of 41 on the first day of rabbit hunting season in November 1930.
The league again disbanded after several years before again reforming in the early 1920s. In 1928, the Crescents claimed the amateur championship of Ohio.
"Lima Crescents will take the field for the eighth straight year when they meet the strong McGuffey nine at that place Sunday afternoon," the Lima News reported May 17, 1931. "The club has always ranked high in baseball circles in this district and the team this season will be out to better all previous records."
The Crescents took the field for the final time in July 1933. After failing to field nine players for a game on July 12, 1933, the News announced on July 20, 1933, that the "Crescents baseball club of the Lima Twilight League has dropped from the circuit."
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