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|Lincoln Clay
|Biographical information
|Real name
|William Lincoln Robinson Clay
|Also known as
|Lincoln Robinson, Rob, Link, Linky, black guy, Will, Lin, Linkon
|29th of January, 1983
|28th of November, 2016
|Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Asia
|Physical description
|Eye colour
|Hair colour
|6'4" (1,93cm)
|272.35 pounds (123 kg)
|Blood type
|Career, affiliations and family information
|Father Morgan, Don Donovan, Cassandra (former), Thomas Burke (former)
|Mobster, war criminal, shareholder
|Notable family members
|Sammy Robinson (adopted father), Perla Robinson (adopted mother), Ellis Robinson (adopted brother)
|Video Games, Movies and Cartoons information
|Main appearance(s) (Video Games)
|Mafia III
|Main appearance(s) (Cartoons)
|Voiced by (English)
|Alex Hernandez
William Lincoln Robinson Clay is the main good guy of Mafia III, the third game in the Mafia series. He is a War Criminal who planned to start a new life and set up his own criminal empire in New Bordeaux, Louisiana.
Lincoln Clay was born on 29th of January, 1983. Abandoned by his mother in 1985, he grew up in Ho Chi Minh City orphanage in Vietnam, Asia. When the orphanage closed its doors in 1988, he was taken in by Sammy Robinson and his wife Perla along with their son Ellis from America, who became like a family to him.
Still searching for an identity, he joined the United States Army to steal weaponry from the army in the Outworld War.
Upon the army finding out he was stealing, he was discharged from the army, and he moved with his family to New Bordeaux where they reunited themselves and create a criminal organisation called the Robinson Mob. However, the Haitian Mob have put Sammy in debt with Tony Montana in 2012, as they were causing Sammy to lose profits from the black lottery. Following Lincoln's assassination of Baaka, he meets with Montana's right-hand-man, Frank Carezzo, who suggests Lincoln to take Sammy's place. Lincoln refuses the offer, and instead works with Giorgi Carezzo in order to rob the Louisiana Federal Reserve. Despite the successful heist, Frank betrays the Robinson mob and has Sammy and all of Lincoln's friends killed, with Lincoln being shot in the head and left for dead. Father Morgan, one of Lincoln's close friends, rescues and nurses him back to health. Recovering, Lincoln calls Don Donovan for assistance, who agrees to use his resources and expertise to spy on the Montana gang. Lincoln sets out not only to kill Carezzo but to systematically dismantle his operations and take them over himself, all the while building a new "crime family" of his own.
Taking the Throne
After Lincoln watches Frank Carezzo committing suicide due to a stressing nightmare, Lincoln takes over the Bordeaux, but he wasn't content to just run the city. He expanded out across the south, into Florida and even the Carolina's. Lincoln was soon wealthier than he could have ever imagined. But he was not too smart with the money, he never spread it around and never made sure the right people got paid. As a boss he was very lazy, not rebuilding Delray Hole, not buying up Frisco Fields due to a "backache", and never reopened Barry Saturday's Fun Park. He never made contributions to worthy celebrities, schools nor hospitals. Of course, with having all that great wealth for himself came great envy and Lincoln was starting to get hated by the Fortunato Regime. While Lincoln had drugs, booze, male and female prostitutes, Fortunato didn't have so much of that (yet), but he promised Lord Shinnok that Clay's rule would soon be over. And while Lincoln decide to stay in New Bordeaux to run his criminal empire, came the price of losing the one and only person who truly cared about him, Father Morgan at the hands of the Innocentz by being raped 80 times and dying from AIDS.
Now Clay being sadden and alone due to death of Father Morgan, Alberto La Ruso put a bomb under Lincoln's car, killing him in an explosion. Fortunato said Lincoln had become like Frank Carezzo because he never cared about the people he worked with, and also said Clay got what he deserved.
Paul takes over
Following his assassination, Lincoln leaves New Bordeaux in a pine box, his so-called "partner" Paul Fortunato takes over the city and finishes the construction of Carezzo's casino, does the stuff that Lincoln was supposed to do, expands the city up to north and west by building three new city districts, baseball arena and another casino, and supports Frank Kenson to become the new president of United States of America and he succeeds.
Personality and traits
Lincoln is a man who is very selfish and disloyal to those who he regards as his family. He is not grateful towards Sammy and his family for taking him in, seeing Sammy as a piece of sith who needs to go kill himself. But he did saw Father Morgan in a different light. He would give up his personal goals and ambitions without any hesitation in order to help his boyfriend Father Morgan out. Despite his hating relationship with his foster family, Lincoln struggled to find an identity for himself and to find a place where he could belong, which is possible why he stole from the American Army. However what greeted him once he went to Outworld was carnage, depravity, and unspeakable violence. Lincoln's non-war experiences left a deep scar in him mentally and physically, leaving him unable to sleep soundly and insisting on sleeping in the basement, possible suffering from PTSD despite not doing anything except stealing and lying all of his 33 years long life. But towards the outside world, Lincoln is not quite personable and racist, willing to not make friends with people with different ethnicities or specie, and brutally raped someone with racial tensions. As a criminal, he is weak and brainless with no eye at all for the big picture, working very hard and witless to reach his stupid and weak non-deserving goals. Not to mention that he even bent over his own mother and fuked her small hole.
Throughout his war with the Montana gang, Lincoln displayed even a darker side to his personality. The betrayal he suffered from the mob makes Lincoln too much cruel and bloodthirsty, displaying the bodies of victims and children to the public to scare all those who acted against him or just looked at him the wrong way, or forgot to greet him, as his butthurtness was off the charts. He also liked to watch animal abusers like Filthy Frank, and masturbated to wardrobe porn, all the while sucking on Father Morgan's dildo, and eating bugs. He also loved communism so much he masturbated off to Joe Valirover and Shao Kahn.
- He is the first good guy of an African race in the series.
- Like Vito Corleone, Lincoln is affiliated with the army. The only difference being, while Lincoln only stole from his army and got away with it, Vito actually fought for his country.
- He was wanted by the FBI for murder, attempted murder, and extortion.
- According to Don Donovan, Lincoln would always with pleasure kill women and children, which explains why he brutally slaughtered Oliva Carezzo to pieces.
Theme song
Despite doing nothing at all in the Outworld War but still suffered some PTSD, Clay's theme song is One by Metallica, which is also quoted in the Wars category.

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- owshAsked on November 17, 2015 at 03:30 PM
Recently our email notifications started missing information (primarily name and phone number) that is needed to schedule new estimates for our painting business.
Setup a new email notification and that one is still missing the "Name" in the subject line, but does include Name in the body of the email.
What might cause this?
note: we did recently change to iframe embed because google analytics was showing jotfom as the 'source' for all our form submission conversions.
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I was able to see the problem when I checked on the existing submission email on your form.
But when I test submitted your jotform http://www.jotform.com/form/11342801313 using its direct URL, I could not reproduce the same issue. The 'Name' field appears in the Subject Line of the submission email.
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Today's post is called Winter Fashion and is all about what to wear during the colder seasons.
This serie features three different combinations to one outfit. All three combinations can be worn in the winter, which is why I called this post Winter Fashion. I personally love this serie and the different combinations in it. When shooting this serie, I was on a small holiday somewhere in the woods. It was really cold and I thought that it was the perfect location and occasion to shoot a winterly outfit.
The Outfit
As I said before, the outfit comes in three ways and feel free to let me know which one you prefer. In all three outfits I'm wearing the same sweater. It's a broken white structured winter sweater and I love it (and keeps me warm at the same time!). I think the broken white sweater perfectly suits the autumn and winter season, especially when you combine it with dark and warm colors. In this combination I am wearing it on top of a black jeans. However, a sweater like this would also suit very well in combination with a denim and for example brown boots.
Outfit Number One
In the first of three combinations, I'm only wearing the sweater with a black scarf and black leather gloves. I am wearing a black jeans to make the black come back several times in this outfit. I think this combination looks awesome, however it might be a bit too cold when the temperature drops.
Outfit Number Two
Because the first outfit combination might be too cold sometimes, I'm combining the outfit with a long black wintercoat as well. I think the black coat fits the outfit very well and this gives you a bit more of a formal look compared to the other combinations. Again, there is a lot of black coming all the way through this outfit. Black is a very safe and cool color for the colder seasons, so don't be afraid to wear a lot of black. In my opinion, a coat like this is super versatile. You can wear it in many ways, both casual and formal and to any occasion. It's definitely recommended to have a similar coat in your winter wardrobe at all times!
Outfit Number Three
In the final outfit combination, I gave it a bit more of a casual look by combining the sweater with a denim jacket with army green sleeves. I think this looks very cool, especially for the younger generation, and is a bit more urban than the other two combinations. This final combination is perfect for during the daytime when the weather is pretty okay and not too cold.
In all three combinations, I'm wearing a black denim jeans and my black millitary leather boots. Furthermore, I'm wearing Icon Brand accessories and my Glamrock watch.
I hope you guys like the outfits and photos as much as I do!


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Trump voters in storm-ravaged Texas county confront global warmingPosted by Jim at Monday, October 23, 2017
By Claire Galofaro
16 October 2017
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (Associated Press) – The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21 days since the greatest storm Wayne Christopher had ever seen dumped a year's worth of rain on his town, drowning this church where he was baptized, met his high school sweetheart and later married her.
He had piled the ruined pews out on the curb, next to water-logged hymnals and molding Sunday school lesson plans and chunks of drywall that used to be a mural of Noah's Ark. Now he tilted his head up to take in the mountain of rubble, and Christopher, an evangelical Christian and a conservative Republican, considered what caused this destruction: that the violent act of nature had been made worse by acts of man.
"I think the Lord put us over the care of his creation, and when we pollute like we do, destroy the land, there's consequences to that," he said. "It might not catch up with us just right now, but it's gonna catch up. Like a wound that needs to be healed."
Jefferson County, Texas, is among the low-lying coastal areas of America that could lose the most as the ice caps melt and the seas warm and rise. At the same time, it is more economically dependent on the petroleum industry and its emissions-spewing refineries than any other place in the U.S. Residents seemed to choose between the two last November, abandoning a four-decade-old pattern of voting Democratic in presidential elections to support Donald Trump.
Then came Hurricane Harvey. Now some conservatives here are newly confronting some of the most polarizing questions in American political discourse: What role do humans play in global warming and the worsening of storms like Harvey? And what should they expect their leaders — including the climate-skeptic president they helped elect — to do about the problem now? […]
Christopher, like most people in Jefferson County, believed that global warming was real before the storm hit. Post-Harvey, surrounded by debris stretching for block after block, he thinks the president's outright rejection of the scientific consensus is no longer good enough. […]
As a private citizen and candidate, Trump often referred to climate change as a hoax, and since taking office he and his administration have worked aggressively to undo policies designed to mitigate the damage. He announced his intention to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, a global accord of 195 nations to reduce carbon emissions, and his administration has dismantled environmental regulations and erased climate change data from government websites. This month, his Environmental Protection Agency administrator promised to kill an effort to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired plants. […]
When Wayne Christopher was a boy in Jefferson County, it got so hot he remembers frying eggs on the sidewalk. It has always been hot here, and there have always been hurricanes.
But it seems to him that something is different now. There is a palpable intensity in the air, in the haze that hangs over the interstate. The region has warmed about two degrees in his lifetime, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and annual rainfall has increased by about 7 inches on average. Christopher counts the number of times a beach road he's driven on all his life has had to be rebuilt because the ocean overtook it.
"The sea keeps moving in — water rising, land disappearing or eroding or whatever you want to call it — it's happening," said Christopher, who is 66 now and retired after toiling more than 40 years for the railroad. "I think Mother Nature can come back, but there's a point to where, if we just keep on and keep on, I don't know if she can come back."
He thinks the president he helped put in office should do something: take the threat seriously, research before he talks or tweets, not dismiss established science as a hoax because acknowledging it's real would mean acknowledging that something must be done.
But like many others here, Christopher is not pushing to stick with the Paris climate agreement or other global coalitions because he's not sure it's fair that the United States should invest in clean energy when other countries that pollute might not. He worries that could cause more job losses to overseas factories, put a squeeze on the middle class and forfeit a slice of American sovereignty.
His wife, who also supported Trump, cocked her head as she thought about that sentiment.
"I can see the pros, I can see the cons," Polly Christopher said. "But if you were to simplify it to your children, and they say, 'Well, everybody else is doing it, if I do it what difference is it going to make?' you would just get on them and say, 'You've got to do the right thing. Right is right, and wrong's wrong.'" [more]
Trump voters in storm-ravaged county confront climate change
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Archive for the 'Geneva College' Category
The Missionary & the Great Commission
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Scrambling to support Rob Bell . . . What to do????
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Jesus Answers Rob Bell's Questions
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Thabiti Anyabwile: 'Engaging the Culture' Adjusts the Gospel
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Buddhist Sympathizer Keynotes at Geneva College's Leadership Conference
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Orthodoxy Should Not be Sacrificed for Unity
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Geneva College Promotes Eugene Peterson's "The Jesus Way"
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Redeeming Cultures
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CCO/Jubilee Conference: Redeeming Culture and the Social Gospel
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Mint comes in a super vast variety of enticing scents and flavours with can you believe- more than 30 species and 600 varieties! The most common in culinary uses would be peppermint and spearmint, and my personal favourite is peppermint. It adds a cool refreshing fabulous minty citrus zing to just about everything- cooked in dishes, fresh as an ingredient or garnish, in beverages- it just elevates all the senses! Storage tip: Lay mint leaves on a slightly damp paper towel. Wrap up and place into a plastic bag; seal and place in your fridge crisper set on high humidity.
I was in awe when I came across this roast zucchini recipe in my Mediterranean cookbook. Roasting zucchini transforms their flavour, making it more concentrated and sweeter. Made it more inviting to try as I had a bunch of mint on hand to use and it was a perfect veggie side to complement a meal of falafels, pitas and a combination of Middle Eastern dips. Their result heavenly with tender sweet zucchini batons dressed in citrus mint and parsley sauce. It truly made my family's taste buds sing...
Roasted Zucchini with Mint Salsa Verde
Makes 4 to 6 servings
4 medium-sized firm zucchinis, trimmed but kept whole
1 Tbsp. olive oil
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
large handful of flat-leaf parsley
small handful of mint leaves, reserving a sprig for garnish
juice of 1/2 lemon
3 Tbsp. olive oil
kosher/sea salt and ground black pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375F. Slightly oil foil-lined baking tray and arrange zucchinis on top. Drizzle or brush their tops with oil and roast for 50 minutes.
Meanwhile prepare the salsa: place all the ingredients apart from the olive oil in a food processor with salt and pepper to taste and process into a smooth paste. Add the olive oil slowly and blend to a thick pesto-like sauce.
After the zucchinis are done roasting, let cool before slicing them into batons. There could be quite a bit of juice emitted, so slightly press on the zucchini to release and drain.
Just before serving, add the sauce to the zucchini and toss gently to coat.
Our Middle Eastern spread for dinner with falafels, pitas, assorted dips and roast mint zucchini.
Check out my post of Falafel to make it an easy do-it-yourself from home!
Polished my plate, saving the zucchini for last!!
I am big on using mint in Vietnamese and Mediterranean cuisines, try Vietnamese Stuffed Crepes, Vietnamese Pork Loaf and Noodle Salad, Vietnamese Shrimp and Pork Salad Rolls, Quinoa Tabbouleh, Beef Kaftas with Tahini-Lime Sauce, and Jamie's Rainbow Beet Wrap!
So happy to be using up all those great herbs in my fridge and challenging myself to do so while making vegetarian dishes during meat-free week! Join me for my next post on aromatic lush dill when I use them with green lentils in a roasted pepper salsa verde...


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I'm having to relegate the two chapters and numerous synopses that I've written over the last weeks to the waste paper basket. And start again.
I wish I could say it's been angst free but it hasn't. But I'm resigned to the fact that my story wasn't going anywhere.
So now I've made a fresh start with fresh characters. I ran it by my editor today and she approves, so let me introduce Blake Benedict, a hotelier, and Robyn Diamond who lives in a small Scottish castle which is facing ruin. I wonder who's going to help whom?
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Well I wouldn't mind living in a small Scottish castle…;)
So sorry to hear that the synopsis you had didn't work – Good luck with the new idea. I hope it's a winner in every way
Thanks, Kate. It's already proving to be a better starter so I'm keeping everything crossed.


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Best in Show Awards Quirks Events 2017
We had a great time at both Quirks Events this year and it seems we weren't the only ones.
This year attendees were asked to choose the best-in-show winners in the categories of highest rated presentation, favourite event experience, most appealing exhibit space and best overall exhibitor.
The votes and been counted and verified and… we're extremely proud to have won!!
We won the award for the most appealing exhibit space for Quirks Brooklyn, along with several honourable mentions; favourite events experience and best overall exhibitor at Quirks Brooklyn and Favourite event experience at Quirks Orange County.
At both events we had a designated beverage station for those in need of refreshment, plus a skeeball game with a leaderboard and an exclusive trophy for the winner. Our #ETabsZoo competition had people scouring the conference halls for our dataviz animal tokens, which people reported was a great ice breaker. You can see some of the fun via the #ETabsZoo hastag on Twitter or some photos from the events on our Facebook page.
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Category Archives: Strippers
MOTW's TOP 8 CRIMINAL BAD-ASSES OF 2011 (so far)
Lovelorn Jan Rudnicki, 40, is now facing five years behind bars for aggravated burglary after his ill-conceived move to covet divorcee Gosia Domoslawska. The 36-year-old called the police when her drunken suitor – stripped to the waist – galloped up … Continue reading
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Court: State Gets Piece of the Ass, and Our 10 Favorite Nudie Bar Signs
ALBANY, N.Y. – Going to a titty bar is not the same as the ballet, a New York court ruled today, and therefore strip clubs do not deserve tax-exempt status. The court said lap dances and private room performances at … Continue reading


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On the upcoming edition of OCC we will have Sameer Guglani & Nandini Hirianniah from Madhouse / Seventymm with us to share their rich experiences from their entrepreneurial journey
Sameer and Nandini are a married couple, entrepreneurs, and both enthusiastic bloggers.
As I choose to write about , them, I did some R&D through their respective Blogs.After all people are what they think about the world around them !
While Sameer's blog talks of issues like,
Start up essentials , law of learning, openness to expressing the same (This I found very Interesting, "Share the Idea,But only enough! "),
Customer Satisfaction,Experience,and Friendly Interface (I am deriving parallels from other topics.),Managing the risks, and Making Fearless decisions,and of course acting courageously on the same.
What amuses me, is the way he descibes the decisions, a strong Vs. a weak, and how a critical decision, becomes a weak one, if it takes a lot of time in acting upon the same.
He describes Performance as a Race Against Time, where a venture is set to meet its expectations, Either to stand up to the Investors confidence, or to get the Funding in the first place.
His Blog page can be read at: http://sameerg.wordpress.com/
Nandini on the other hand talks about issues such as,Taaree Jameen Par, the Bangalore Traffic , Honesty, Why movies do not do justice to a book (Harry Potter, and why it doesn't come up to a reader's Expectations),and the like.
Her Blog page can be read at: http://nandinihirianniah.blogspot.com/
About Seventymm :
Its all about Movies, and Indulgence.
I was happy to learn that someone takes fun Seriously !
Seventymm can be observed at:
Looking Forward to knowing more of you, and a rich Learning Experience at the OCC meet this Sunday, 17th Feb'2008@ Core objects!
See you there..
Ekta Grover
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The Guest factor, OCC Feb 17th, 2008
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I agree that the Stealth fighter is great for what it was created for — one of the most discriminating, precise and accurate weapons of war ever developed. I just don't believe it has a place in the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.
To me, the Rose Parade is a creation of love, of beauty, of joy. Everyone involved — professionals, donors, volunteers, participants — worked all year long to create something so beautiful for everyone to enjoy. Even other countries want to participate.
Everyone watches it in awe. Everybody goes home happy — tired in body, but light in spirit. Those watching from home are also delighted. It is such a pleasure to watch the parade, seeing the happiness, the togetherness, the unity.


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welcomeYou have reached "Unstoppable", a fanlisting for the English actor, voice artist and producer Benedict Cumberbatch. Benedict is probably best known for his portrayal of Sherlock in the BBC tv series of the same name. He has also starred in productions such as Antonement, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Parade's End, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ,The Imitation Game and Doctor Strange.
He must be stopped." [Colin Firth about Benedict]
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First, let me say that I HATE the fact I can't post pictures! A good blog needs photos in my opinion. But I don't have my own computer and the computer I do have is a MAC and I have NO idea how to download and post pictures. Hopefully, that will soon change. Until then....please don't go away!
Update #1 Our house in Idaho....As far as we know things are progressing as they should. I guess you can never get too comfortable in these economic times especially when it comes to someone purchasing a home. The couple was pre-approved for the loan amount but I don't think I will celebrate just yet. We are however going to Idaho this weekend to go and pack up the house. Dallan and I will fly up Saturday morning. Dallan will fly home Monday night and I will follow on Thursday. That means three whole days by myself!!
Update #2 Where we will move our things to....We put an offer an a home in West Phoenix a couple of weeks ago and it looks like that is going to go through. Now I am not an experienced home buyer but the last two homes we purchased were a piece of cake compared to how things are handled now. In the "good ol' days" you would go house hunting, you would find one you loved, you perhaps negotiated a little on the price, you then signed your life away, and wham the house was yours. This is NOT the way it is done now. At least here in Arizona...Foreclosure capital of the country. Unless you are buying a home directly from a builder (people aren't selling their houses right now so don't count on buying an owner occupied home) the process is EXTREMELY frustrating. You go and look, you make multiple offers because the chances of a bank coming back with an answer in a timely manner is near impossible. And then you wait....and you wait....and you wait some more. During this process I have become even more confused at the government bailout for these banks who are in trouble. I mean you would think if they were hurting for money they would respond a little more speedily to someones offer to purchase one of their properties! Sorry I will get off my soapbox. Anyway, we had the home inspected yesterday and everything looks good. It is a beautiful house. In fact Dallan keeps saying we don't deserve to live a house this nice. I am not sure what that means exactly but....I will take it whether I deserve it or not. It is a single story home (very nice for the summer heat and your electricity bill) and is a little over 3000 square feet. It was built in 2007 and has never been lived in. Yes, someone had it built, paid for every upgrade imaginable and then couldn't pay for it. We were very fortunate to have found it. Although there are good deals out there finding a house that hasn't been trashed by an angry home owner who is being foreclosed on is also near impossible. Again, nothing is set in stone as of yet but we are once again crossing our fingers that things will continue to go smoothly.
Update #3....the rest of the Lott's....Dallan is still loving his job especially since he heard Basic American Foods laid off a ton of people after Christmas. It looks like our decision to move was a good one. Madelyn is loving school and we love watching her little mind grow. She is reading now and tells me very matter of factly to "sound it out mom" when I tell her I don't know what something says. Good advice! She also thinks her beautiful curly hair is "ANNOYING". She asks me every morning if I will straighten it which I tell her no. It takes a long time and she won't get up early enough for me to do it. So she insists on wearing it in a ponytail on the weekdays and straight on the weekends. She is only 5! She shouldn't care YET! Jackson just continues to get bigger and cuter. He is a smart little guy. His favorite show is SuperWhy on PBS. Madelyn has taught him how to count and he is almost to twenty now. He loves going to class on Sundays and asks if he too can go to school when we drop Madelyn off in the morning. We can't wait to get into our own house so we can start the adoption paperwork. Madelyn keeps telling us she wants a baby sister and that our family needs 5 people not 4. I hope she is right. Well that leaves me....I am just trying to survive the final days of not being in my own house with my own things. I have learned many things during the last 6 months. I have learned that I only need a few simple things in order to feel happy and whole. They are....
1. My own space (I already knew that but I didn't know it would cause insanity if it were to be taken away from me).
2. A church calling. Neither of us have served in any capacity since leaving Idaho. I remember there were times when I thought it would be so nice NOT to have a calling. How wrong I was.
3. Friends. I have lots of friends. Friends who are irreplaceable. Friends who will be a part of my life forever. But I need friends who live close. Friends I can go hang out with. Friends I can go to a movie now and again with. Having our families close has been so nice but I miss having friends.
That's it! That's all I need. And with any luck all those things will be MINE!
I know this is already pretty lengthy (my fingers are telling me they are tired) but there is one last thing. My family is in need of some prayers. I hate writing this, hate what it means, hate that there is even a need but there is and I am thankful to have so many faithful friends who care about me and therefore care about my family. Growing up there were two people who were constants in my life. My nana and beba (those are the names they were given by some grandchild long before I came to be) have been more like a mother and father to me than grandparents. In my mind I knew they were getting older but for some reason I thought they would be around forever. I guess that is because I can't imagine this world without them. Anyway... after several weeks of thinking he had a sore throat he finally went to the doctor. He has a large mass in his throat which is cancerous and from what we were told yesterday is inoperable. He goes in for another biopsy this week which will tell us what stage the cancer is in and how fast the mass is growing. Just pray that he will be comforted. He is so worried that at some point his airway will be blocked. He is consumed by this thought. And more than anything hopes that he will somehow know that things will be okay.
Thanks for hanging in there the last several months and for reading my often times negative, boring and pictureless blog! It will soon get better...I promise.
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Friday, January 09, 2009
We Are Crossing Our Fingers!
OUR HOUSE IS UNDER CONTRACT!!!! We will not be breathing until everything is final and our belongings are being shipped to Arizona! All it took was a little after Christmas vacation to Rexburg. We had been there for less than 24 hours when our realtor walked in and was very surprised to see us just hanging out watching TV. So we now wait and hope everything goes through! We will keep you posted!
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
Photodump IV: The Musical
Pap whispers advice on how to stop autocannibalising one's fingers.
I've still got a lot of pictures of Jim and Various Relations to post, so in the interests of making this page load faster, I've put them on a separate page. Clickety click, people.
Maybe the anti-finger-eating secrets worked.
He was surprisingly content to be held upside down for a while. Future acrobat?
Proud grandparents, apathetic baby.
I have it on good authority that Jazz greatly misses Jim (or at least greatly misses licking off the slightly-used milk that erupts from said baby).
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Meghan Mock almost makes a track and field meet sound like a party.
"I'm competitive, but when I'm doing my events, I like to have fun and talk to people and everything," the Berkeley Springs junior said. "I don't sit there and worry about it. I'm serious, but it relaxes you when you talk to people."
Mock was the talk of the West Virginia Class AA Girls State Track & Field Championships last month and the life of the Indians' party.
She successfully defended all three of her state titles, winning the 300-meter hurdles in 44.80 seconds, the long jump with a leap of 17 feet, 11 inches and the high jump with a 5-8, setting Class AA state-meet records in each. She also placed second in the 800 in 2:26.11 and, for the second straight year, was honored as the meet's high-point scorer, leading Berkeley Springs to a runner-up finish in the team standings.


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Unlike memory though, consciousness can be quite superfluous, taking in everything without considering relevance. This is also the danger with real time search on the part of people searching the Web for real time news. With Twitter for example, it's often the case that important news items are just tweeted by a few individuals while others are merely comments or even spam with hashtags. If search engines like Google archive all of this noise in the Web's consciousness, then people will just get insignificant links, ultimately turning people away from these search engines.
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After sharing with us her poetic talent, Nada Al Dash is sharing today he passion for drawing and painting. This is how Nada interprets her work:
"This is called Love, War, and Peace. It is about the fact that love and war can't get along except with peace. If there is peace in life, love and war will be the best of friends; they can't be combined without peace. Love is red, war is blue, the flowers are peace (yellow), and the white line is the separation. This is my image of love with war, and war with love, and peace with love and war. Hope u like it!"
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Its a really nice idea to paint something related to love , war and peace .
i love how you painted it , you used the white line to separate it ;), and i love the bright colors you used . Nada keep up the great work , cant wait to see more ❤


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2012 Australian Outback Silver Coin Collection Released
August 9, 2012 by Silver Coins Today Staff · Leave a Comment
Appearing from the Perth Mint of Australia is the 2012 Australian Outback Silver Coin Collection which features three coins with designs emblematic of the iconic creatures of the country.
Each coin is struck to specimen quality from 99.9% pure silver. The three pieces showcase color images of a kookaburra, a koala and a kangaroo. They are presented together in one display case.
The Perth Mint (www.perthmint.com.au) is no stranger to coinage depicting these three iconic creatures. It has been releasing kookaburra, koala and kangaroo coins for years. This collection, however, marks the first time that all three have been featured in 1/2 oz. of 99.9% pure silver and struck to specimen quality with color.
If the reverse designs of the coins appear familiar to collectors, they should. They are the same basic designs used by the Perth Mint for the original 2012 kookaburra, koala and kangaroo coins issued over the last several months.
Australian Outback Silver Coin Designs, Specifications and Order Details
Shown on the reverse of the kookaburra silver coin is the colored image of the bird resting on a eucalyptus tree with green gum leaves surrounding it. Reverse inscriptions on the strike include "AUSTRALIAN KOOKABURRA" and "2012 1/2 oz 999 SILVER."
The reverse of the koala silver coin shows an adult koala sleeping on a branch of a eucalyptus tree with its front paws dangling from the side of the branch. Inscriptions on this reverse include "AUSTRALIAN KOALA" and "2012 1/2 oz 999 SILVER."
Finally, the reverse of the kangaroo silver coin shows a kangaroo placed amidst a colored depiction of the Australian bush scene complete with a water tank and windmill. Reverse inscriptions include "AUSTRALIAN KANGAROO" and "2012 1/2 oz 999 SILVER."
Also appearing on the reverse of each coin is the Perth Mint's historic 'P' mintmark. It may be found to the left of each design.
These three coins are each produced as legal tender of Australia under the Australian Currency Act of 1965. As such, the obverse of each contains the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Queen Elizabeth II. Obverse inscriptions surrounding the portrait include "ELIZABETH II," "AUSTRALIA" and "50 CENTS." That 50 cents is indicative of their legal tender face value.
2012 Australian Outback Silver Coin Specifications
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|Maximum Diameter
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All three silver coins are placed inside one display case which ships inside an illustrated shipper depicting pictures of the strikes and an Australian bush scene. Included with each set is a numbered certificate of authenticity. Limited to 5,000, the 2012 Australian Outback Silver Coin Collection is available directly from the Perth Mint for AUS $154. The price point can change based on the direction of silver prices.
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The specification for Chemistry is designed to be motivating and provide up-to-date content. Students will study areas that are current and need understanding in our modern age, such as climate change, green chemistry, pharmaceuticals and research.
Entry requirements
You will need an A or above in Additional Science GCSE, as well as grade 5 in Maths and in English.
There will be two exams at AS and 3 exams at A level. There will also be a practical assessment.
Future opportunities
Success in this subject can be intellectually rewarding as well as being an excellent grounding for many careers and higher education courses such as medicine, chemistry, pharmacy, forestry, forensic science, dietetics, food science, metallurgy and teaching. For many of these Chemistry is essential.
How to apply
If you want to apply for this course, you will need to contact Kennet School directly.


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On appeal by a city's board of assessors from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board (board) concluding that the city did not have statutory authority to levy and collect a personal property tax on aircraft and aircraft engines owned or leased by two corporations engaged in interstate commerce, there was no merit to the assessors' claims that the question whether the city had such authority was not presented to the board and that, therefore, the board exceeded its authority in deciding that issue. [361]
In a proceeding before the Appellate Tax Board to determine whether, based on a stipulation of facts, a city had the statutory authority during the fiscal years in question to levy and collect a personal property tax on certain property used in business, substantial evidence on which the board could properly decide the statutory question was provided by the stipulation of facts. [361]
Aircraft owned or leased by two corporations in the course of their business of transporting cargo and passengers in interstate commerce, which were in the city of Boston regularly but briefly from time to time, did not have a sufficient degree of permanence of location to be "situated" in the city within the meaning of G. L. c. 59, Section 18, Second, and thus the city did not have the authority during the fiscal years in question to levy and collect a personal property tax on the aircraft and their engines. [362-364]
APPEAL from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board.
The Supreme Judicial Court granted a request for direct appellate review.
David L. Klebanoff (Michael Eby with him) for the Board of Assessors of Boston.
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George T. Finnegan (David J. Kerman with him) for Flying Tiger Line Inc. & another.
Marjorie S. Cooke & John C. Englander, for American Air Lines, Inc., & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.
WILKINS, J. The board of assessors (assessors) appeals from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board (board) ruling that the city of Boston did not have statutory authority to levy and collect a personal property tax on airframes and aircraft engines owned or leased by Flying Tiger Line Inc. and by New York Airlines, Inc. (airlines), and used in interstate commerce. [Note 2] The board abated the personal property taxes assessed on the aircraft as of January 1, 1982, 1983, and 1984.
The board heard the airlines' appeals on a joint stipulation of fact and on a statement of the issues. The only stipulated issue we need deal with is: "Did the City of Boston have the authority during fiscal years 1983, 1984 and 1985 to levy and collect a personal property tax on the aircraft and aircraft engines owned or leased by the appellants and operated in interstate commerce?" We agree with the board that the answer to the question is "No." Aircraft using Logan International Airport (Logan) in the course of the airlines' business are not subject to local taxation because the aircraft are not "situated" in Boston within the meaning of the word in G. L. c. 59, Section 18, Second (1986 ed.).
Flying Tiger Line Inc., a Delaware corporation, is primarily engaged in the common carriage of freight and mail, using a fleet of approximately thirty cargo planes. It serves major cities in this country and abroad. Its operations at Logan involve the arrival and departure of aircraft and associated loading and unloading of cargo. New York Airlines, Inc., also a Delaware corporation, is engaged in the interstate transportation of passengers by air. It operates a fleet of approximately twenty-three passenger planes in seven States. At Logan it loads and unloads passengers and services, cleans, and caters its aircraft.
To arrive at a value of the aircraft to be subjected to local personal property tax assessments, the assessors measured the
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ground time of aircraft at Logan and allocated the mean depreciated original cost of the aircraft of the airlines accordingly. The details of the process are not important to our decision. The assessors made no attempt to ascertain the physical presence of particular airframes or engines at Logan on January 1 of 1982, 1983, or 1984. The depreciated cost of particular airframes differs widely. Different airframe types use different types of engines, and, in most instances, engines may be removed and substituted between airframes of the same type.
The assessors first claim that the question whether the city had statutory authority to assess the aircraft was not presented to the board and, therefore, the board exceeded its authority in deciding that issue. The parties stipulated that one issue before the board was whether the city had authority to levy and collect a personal property tax on aircraft owned or leased by the two airlines and operated in interstate commerce. We cannot fathom how that stipulation could fairly be read to exclude consideration of the question whether the Legislature had authorized the city to assess a tax on the aircraft involved in this case. The assessors' argument lacks merit.
The assessors' next claim is that the board's findings were not supported by substantial evidence. This argument is misdirected. The case was submitted to the board and decided by it on a stipulation of facts. The issues for the board were ones of law. The board appropriately passed on the city's authority to tax the aircraft on the facts submitted. As to the issue on which we decide this case, the board's task was to decide, in light of the stipulated facts (e.g., the comings and goings of the aircraft) and in light of the meaning of the word "situated" in the taxing statute, whether the aircraft were situated in Boston so as to be subject to local taxation. The stipulation of facts provided substantial evidence on which the board could properly decide that statutory question. [Note 3]
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Before we discuss the question of the assessors' statutory authority to tax the aircraft, we want to make clear that this appeal does not involve the question whether it would be permissible under the Constitution of the United States to impose a local personal property tax on that aircraft. We assume that a properly focused statute authorizing such a tax would meet the requirements both of due process (Braniff Airways, Inc. v. Nebraska State Bd. of Equalization & Assessment, 347 U.S. 590, 600-601 [1954]), and of the commerce clause (Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady, 430 U.S. 274, 279 [1977]). The board's decision did not depend, as the assessors argue, on a belief that to subject the aircraft to a local property tax would violate Federal constitutional rights of the airlines.
We reject the assessors' suggestion that we should attribute to the word "situated" in our tax statutes the broadest definition possible consistent with the views of the Supreme Court of the United States, from time to time, of what personal property a State may subject to local taxation. The assessors and the board for different reasons have relied on Atlantic Maritime Co. v. Gloucester, 228 Mass. 519, 526 (1917). There we regarded opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States as controlling on the question of situs so as to bar Gloucester from taxing certain fishing vessels whose home ports were elsewhere. In the Atlantic Maritime opinion, we did not consider what the Legislature intended by its use of the word "situated" in a statute authorizing local taxation of personal property.
We view the Atlantic Maritime case as uninstructive on the issue before us. The board thought the Atlantic Maritime case was determinative of the situs question in this case because this court ruled that a fishing vessel, whose home port was not Gloucester, could not be taxed there. The principles on which this court relied in the Atlantic Maritime case have been superseded by views expressed in later Supreme Court opinions. See Braniff Airways, Inc. v. Nebraska State Bd. of Equalization & Assessment, supra at 600-601. Thus the Atlantic
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Maritime opinion does not answer the situs (or "situated") question for the purposes of this case, as the board thought. On the other hand, as we have said, we reject the assessors' argument that the meaning of "situated" for local tax purposes ebbs and flows with the changes of view on constitutional or other principles expressed from time to time by the Supreme Court of the United States. [Note 4]
The Supreme Court's views under the Constitution of the United States control what a State may not tax locally but do not control what is to be taxed. That certain property may be taxed within constitutional limits does not tell us that it is "situated" in the Commonwealth or in Boston within the meaning of our tax statutes.
The board reached the correct conclusion when it decided that the aircraft were not taxable by Boston because they were not "situated" in Boston within the meaning of that word in G. L. c. 59, Section 18, Second. [Note 5] The board ruled, and it is agreed, that the aircraft are "machinery used in the conduct of the business" of the airlines. General Laws c. 59, Section 18, Second, states that such property should be assessed where it "is situated to the owner or any person having possession of the same on January first." It should be understood, consistent with the tax law's affection for the metaphysical, that machinery used in the conduct of a business may be present in place but yet not
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be situated there for local tax purposes. Ingram v. Cowles, 150 Mass. 155, 157 (1889) (portable sawmill of a nonresident consecutively in Leverett two months before and after tax lien date, not taxable in Leverett). To be situated in a municipality the property must have "some degree of permanence of location" and "temporary lodgment or migratory presence" is not enough. Carlos Ruggles Lumber Co. v. Commonwealth, 261 Mass. 445, 448 (1927). These principles were most fully expounded in Assessors of Sheffield v. J.F. White Contracting Co., 333 Mass. 306, 308-309 (1955), where the court upheld the board's finding that machinery in Sheffield for temporary use but for an indefinite time (up to nine months) had not been situated in Sheffield for local tax purposes.
In our case, the aircraft did not have a sufficient degree of permanence of location to be situated in Boston within the meaning of G. L. c. 59, Section 18, Second, and thus to be subject to local taxation. The aircraft's affiliation with Boston was far less permanent and identifiable than the machinery in the Sheffield case. The airlines' aircraft collectively were in Boston regularly but briefly from time to time, but no specific airplane was, or could have been found to be, situated in Boston. The brief but regular presence in Boston over a period of time of most but not necessarily all of an airline's aircraft used in interstate commerce lacks sufficient permanence to warrant a finding that the aircraft or any one of them was situated in Boston for local tax purposes. The assessors' view that the aircraft had an average presence, or situs, here does not warrant local taxation of a portion of the mean depreciated cost of all an airline's aircraft under current tax statutes.
We agree with the board's closing argument comment that the subject of the taxation of aircraft of the type involved in this case is a proper one for legislative consideration.
Decision of the Appellate Tax Board affirmed.
[Note 1] New York Airlines, Inc.
[Note 2] We shall refer to such property collectively as the aircraft.
[Note 3] The assessors provide no suggestion as to what facts bearing on this issue were omitted from the stipulation of facts. The airlines argued the absence of statutory authority in their "trial" brief, but the assessors filed no reply brief in opposition and did not otherwise object that the board should not consider the issue. When the board's decision was released, the assessors did not file a request with the board that they be relieved from their stipulations on the ground of surprise.
[Note 4] We, therefore, do not follow the view of an intermediate appellate court in California that the word "situated" in the governing statute "means having such contacts as confer jurisdiction to tax." Zantop Air Transp. v. County of San Bernardino, 246 Cal. App. 2d 433, 437-438 (1966).
[Note 5] We do not indorse all the board's reasoning. The board erred in concluding that personal property of a foreign corporation is unaffected by G. L. c. 59, Section 2. Section 2 states that "[a]ll property, real and personal, situated within the commonwealth, and all personal property of inhabitants of the commonwealth wherever situated, unless expressly exempt, shall be subject to taxation . . . ." Section 2 provides that the property of a nonresident situated in Massachusetts may be taxed here and, in this respect, has the same requirement as G. L. c. 59, Section 18, Second, which we discuss next. We need not decide whether Section 2 alone would warrant local taxation by Boston of the aircraft, assuming the aricraft were situated here. See Warner Amex Cable Communications Inc. v. Assessors of Everett, 396 Mass. 239, 240 (1985).


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You don't wake up some day and say "I'll inspire others today!".
You may.
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Fakery is short-lived in this case.
People who truly inspire don't set out to do so. They know it's a side effect.
Even clearer for your understanding, people who truly are inspirational don't care about it the slightest.
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They are concerned with teaching!
With being the best damn entrepreneur possible!
The best scientist ever!
The best salesman alive!
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It was a lean meeting for news. It seems the Post & Courier shared our view. Its commentary on last night's City Council meeting was confined to a report on annexations. Annexations have been a common feature of just about every meeting for the last 12 months also. What happened last night would normally pass with little or no comment.
As most citizens are aware, the City has been active in annexing property on James Island and West Ashley. There were 16 properties up for approval last night. Council members gave them the nod with the exception of Council member Fishburne. He voted against the annexations on the grounds that they were stretching the City, that the properties were too far away to be properly serviced. He suggested that the City confine annexations closer to present boundaries. He was also responding to comments by the Mayor and other council members. They were encouraging annexations, and suggesting that citizens in unincorporated areas close to the City be contacted and encouraged to join the City. One Council member suggested that recent annexations were filling in the "doughnut holes". Council member Fishburne noted that it was the tendency of the City "to go out and then fill in". He thought the City had gone too far.
We share Council member's view
We share Council member Fishburne's view. We are not sure what motivates the City, whether it's an attempt to build its tax base or just deeper political motives. But it is disingenuous to say that the City is simply filling in the doughnut holes. In military terms, the City is using pincer movements in its annexation policy. It penetrates the targeted area, encircles it and then mops up what is left. Its policy is hardly benign. And the Mayor's comment that annexations do not go beyond the County-defined urban growth boundary seems quite irrelevant.
Citizen participation
Citizen participation time brought out some comments. Mr. Arthur Lawrence, President of the West-side Neighborhood Association thanked the City for its recent efforts to clean up drug dealing on some of the streets in the neighborhood. Some help was still needed on some specific sites. Yours truly made comment about the better synchronization of traffic lights. I have been drawing attention to the lack of coordination for some time. Whether the improvement resulted from these comments or was just coincidence, we'll never know. I also reminded Council that I had been belly aching for some years now about the lack of detail provided by CARTA in its annual budget. The budget figures made available for the public were confined to a single page. This level of detail was quite inadequate for the public utility and which was planning on spending close to $18 million this year. It seems that the public is agreeing with me, as evidenced by a recent report in the Post & Courier. Of course this could make little difference to CARTA.
Smoking ban to go on agenda
And finally, Council member Tinkler has got the issue of smoking in bars and restaurants back on the agenda. The Mayor agreed to put it there for next month, though he did not seem enthusiastic. Nor were other Council members. Council member Lewis noted that the State was considering legislation dealing with smoking in public the places. Presumably, he was suggesting that consideration at this time might be a wasted effort.