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- Lazarus said...
Another inextractable nail.
John, I may have asked about this in the past, but I hope to see this series expanded into a book.
We tend to always deal with Christianity on its own terms, but when you logically apply to reality that which they ask you to accept the picture is not that pretty for Christianity - as this series is showing.
My one old prof always told us "It's good to have your own argument, but if you can defeat the other side with their own argument you are really winning."
- July 4, 2010 at 3:19 AM
- Anonymous said...
John, I would like to counter your post on behalf of most of the Christians I know:
God actually isn't trying to reach everyone. He has predetermined who will go to heaven and who will not for some absolutely crazy reason. This makes him look like the most morally repulsive being imaginable, but he actually isn't. We humans have corrupted reason, so we just have to trust God. All you have to do is assume God is good, and it follows that he must have a reason. That's a pretty deep insight, so you might want to let it sit in.
I should also note that when God does reach out to people, he does so in ways that make it impossible to observe. For example, when someone converts you can trace it to their upbringing, social movements, personality type, certain events in their life, etc. but really it is the Holy Spirit doing the work. There is also the geographical distribution of different faiths throughout the globe (ie: more Muslims in the Middle East, more Christians in Latin America). This appears to have natural causes, but the real explanation is God's mysterious ways.
So really it is your philosophical close-mindedness that makes you think God doesn't reach out to people anymore. You assume God isn't hiding for unimaginable, mysterious reasons, even though technically it's a possibility.
- July 4, 2010 at 4:24 AM
- GearHedEd said...
Or that God doesn't exist, which is FAR simpler and doesn't rely on an appeal to "mystery" for explanation.
- July 4, 2010 at 3:09 PM
- Paul Rinzler said...
Kev, you just wrote that God's reason [for predetermining who will go to heaven] is "absolutely crazy."
I completely agree with you.
- July 4, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- jwhendy said...
I LOVE this one. I have struggled with this myself. I am in an active Christian men's group despite my continued doubting of Christianity for the last 6mos and came to group one day with a proposition: everyone should just blame Jesus for all of this.
They were a bit surprised, but I really think it's true. Every human is unique and only god, if he exists, knows them better than they know themselves. Therefore only god knows my threshold of belief and has not given me enough to cross it.
My best prayer to pray during these times is simply, 'Jesus, give me something I can't deny.' That's all it would take. I'd much rather believe based on facts and evidence, but if it honestly came down to it, I would believe based on something miraculous like the regrowing of an amputated limb or something else I just couldn't possibly deny, especially something witnessed by others as confirmation.
This really is a frustrating aspect. I didn't really ask for doubt... I just started seeking answers and found natural ones far superior to my former faith. How is this my fault?
It's especially ironic that Christians constantly tout that 'faith is a gift.' I can't demand it or do anything to earn it then, right? So Ken is exactly right: god has simply decided from the beginning who will receive it and who won't.
Lastly, it's even more ironic that on one hand I'm being told by fellow believers that I can't prove Christianity and need to have 'faith seeking understanding' but on the other hand when I voice objections I'm told that I need to read and study more, don't have all the right evidence, need to talk to this theological guru they know, etc.
Which is it,then? Do I need to know more or less? Do I think too much or not enough?
You can't win. This is the true prison of religion. Each of them has built in a device which prevents there ever being a rational rejection. There are a thousand fall backs: lack of an open mind/heart, bitterness, being burned by a church representative, ignorance of the facts, etc. Unfortunately, this keeps the world divided, which is also ironic since every religion hopes everyone becomes members of their religion but none actually encourage exploration.
- July 4, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- Papalinton said...
Hi Kev
You say, .."God actually isn't trying to reach everyone. He has predetermined who will go to heaven and who will not for some absolutely crazy reason."
I say: If it's all been pre-determined why go through life with all the total crap? That's the absolutely crazy aspect of faitheists. Why go through all the pretense throughout your whole life, knowing full well that your fate has been pre-determined. Your response tells me you have absolutely no clue or any evidence for the veracity of the supernatural. The story simply does not add up. In fact that is all it is; a story.
- July 5, 2010 at 4:46 AM
- Anonymous said...
@Hendy I really liked your response. You sound like you are going through what I was going through a year ago. So do you still consider your self a Christian, but just one with doubts? I don't know how closely you have been following Loftus, but have you taken the Outsider test for faith?
@Papalinton No, it certainly does not add up, not one bit :)
- July 6, 2010 at 1:47 AM
- Thin-ice said...
Hendy, keep asking questions based in logic and reality. If you value intellectual integrity over the warmth and comfort of church life (and sometimes that is a hard choice to make), then you will probably join the rest of us who could not support the shaky edifice of christian faith ruling our lives - let me paraphrase Jesus, when he said "like a house built on the sand...".
I think this is one of the weaker "What Must Be The Case..." entries. Christians will respond that the whole point is that god gave his followers the responsibility to win others, probably as a test to see how they would obey Jesus's command, "Go ye into all the world...". God didn't want to make being a christian too easy now, did he?
- July 6, 2010 at 11:57 PM
- jwhendy said...
I would consider myself an agnostic/atheist who wants to continue reading to 1) be confident enough to walk away from his former faith and 2) not have believers try to accuse him of not searching or trying hard enough.
Essentially my belief is gone. Funny enough, when I started to doubt 6 months ago, the best way that occurred to me to test Christianity was to assume it was false and try to prove it to myself. This was before I even heard of John or DC! My nature is that of a researcher. I'm an ENTP (with leanings toward I) and I attack/devour information when I need to make a decision. Buying a house, best digital camera for the money, buying a car, van, guitar, to vaccinate our child or not, whether homeopathy is for real, snopes checks on emails constantly... Stuff like that.
My nature is such that I don't believe based on credentials but on track record. I have suspended belief in personal preference and trust in brands when buying things and so a similar principle was at work with my doubts. I thought that suspending preference toward Christianity and attacking the information would be the most reliable and objective way to see if it was true.
Some think this was wrong and I have been told by a close believing friend that him finding out I did that without me talking about it in our men's group was like finding out I had an argument with my wife and then coming back a month later to say we were divorced. I thought it was slightly different than that... I actually had quite a bit of faith in god when making this decision as I recall wondering 1) how he could be mad at me for seeking the truth and 2) how I could wind up anywhere by back to him given that he is the author of all truth.
Six months later I'm lacking any intellectual reasons for belief but want to read the necessary apologetics to do my due diligence just to be sure. It's definitely difficult in limbo land, though. I lack any belief but emotionally find it hard to 'make the call' until I'm sure. I set Christmas as my deadline. If I don't find anything convincing enough or god doesn't respond to my prayer to simply 'give me something I can't deny' (that's all it would take), then I am walking away.
- July 7, 2010 at 12:21 AM
- Emory said...
@Hendy: We are in a similar position except my decision is already final...no xmas deadline involved. For me the decision was simple once I read the Bible. It is so ironic that we had a theme at church 3 years ago: "If you want to get to heaven, read the Bible in 2007". Well, it backfired on them. There were many deal breakers, but here is one particular example. It is quite clear and evident that people are born with distinct sexual preference. Now, how is it the fault of that person if they "sin" and therefore go to hell? It took me a while to break free of the mental bonds of eternal fire in hell, but now that I have I feel so much better. Well, it will be better if I can ever get thru to my family that religion is just a delusion. Right now I have to hear my 6 year old girls (twins) say that they're smarter than me (because they've been taught that only a fool says there is no god!). I'll get thru to them eventually I hope.
- July 7, 2010 at 9:55 AM
- jwhendy said...
I can relate to that. My wife is a believer and I have a 2 yr. old and on the way. I'm not sure how to move forward. I am sensitive to wanting to create a loving and calm environment for my children but also want them to be critical thinkers and not believers just because they were raised believing something. My wife obviously wants to raise them as Christians. I would almost just go along with it except for fear that at later ages they won't actually be able to separate themselves from it enough to see if they really believe it.
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At the Northeast Regional on Sunday, the Crimson collected five medals and 13 top-10 finishes. Kaneshige captured gold, Vaggo and Ryjik claimed silver, while Woo and Kiefer earned bronze.
At the 2012 NCAA Championship, the men garnered six All-American honors, while the women tallied two. Harvard took sixth place, as the team title is awarded as a coed team.
Badger finished in sixth place in the 2012 NCAA Championship, earning second-team All-American honors in the epee, while Raynis took 18th in the same weapon. Ryjik and Kaneshige received an All-American honorable mention after placing 12th in the sabre and foil, respectively. Arzoian took 18th in the sabre.
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"I'm just tired of losing," said Peavy, who set a personal White Sox high with 11 strikeouts and reached double digits for the 31st time in his career, while not issuing a walk. "My fifth day has been a rough one here the last month or so."
"I've pitched my whole life with not a whole lot of run support, so this is nothing new," Peavy said. "At the same time, on your fifth day, you want to win. I told you all from the get-go I don't care how it has to happen.
"We just haven't found a way to get it done this last month and a half. We've thrown some good games in there and it hasn't been enough, and today we had no chance after I gave up a couple, as good as those guys were."
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The csNavigationPlugin is a simple way to handle navigation in your applications.
csNavigationPlugin works with Symfony 1.2.
The csNavigationPlugin is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Install the plugin:
$ symfony plugin-install http://plugins.symfony-project.com/csNavigationPlugin
$ symfony cc
Enable the module csNavigation in settings.yml:
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Set up your site navigation in navigation.yml:
navigation: Home: ~route: @homepage item1: ~route: @item1 child1: @child1 child2: home/child2 item2: ~route: @item2 child3: ~route: @child3 grandchild1: ~route: @grandchild1 ~protected: on google: http://www.google.com Foo: #multiple navigation roots is supported Bar: @bar
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Include the navigation helper in your view/layout
<?php use_helper('Navigation') ?>
use the helper function to include your tree (in the layout for instance):
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specify level and/or iteration (default iteration is 2):
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Include the navigation helper in your view/layout
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If you want to customize the breadcrumb, you can override the generated breadcrumb by calling the csBreadcrumbs singleton in your action
//module/actions/actions.class.php csBreadcrumbs::getInstance()->addItem('My Item', '@route'); //Renders home > My Item csBreadcrumbs::getInstance()->addItem('Another Item'); //Renders home > My Item > Another Item
The last item in the list is never a link, so your breadcrumbs can be easily stacked in your modules
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$menu = Doctrine::getTable('csNavigationMenu')->getMenu('Administration'); $breadcrumb = new csBreadcrumbs($menu) // OR: $breadcrumb = new csBreadcrumbs('Administration'); $breadcrumb->getItems();
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settings: database: driven: off # imports the above yaml file into the database locked: off # locks the provided yaml file from editting in the database branch: item2 # the branch attribute locks everything outside the branch indicated expanding: default: on level: 2
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It was convenient how Transpacific Yacht Club scheduled its 42nd biennial race from Los Angeles to Hawaii this summer because it fit right into Scott Piper's plans. "This is part of the third circumnavigation," he said. Piper's Pipe Dream IX from Coral Gables, Fla. is one of three J/160s and eight J Boats overall. Read more here...
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After a shaky start, Newport Ocean Sailing Association's (NOSA) 53rd Newport to Ensenada Race turned out to be a pleasant and relatively quick trip. The 441 boat fleet didn't threaten the all time record (675 boats in 1983), nor was the old Pyewacket 1998 monohull course record in danger. Read more here...
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Opinion: Bernanke Blinks
Assistant editorial page editor James Freeman on the Federal Reserve Chairman's decision to maintain a $85 billion-a-month bond-buying program. Photo credit: Associated Press.
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... I ... I ... Ch eight taught about to bring in the way he did in June ... and you stand by your guidance that will be appropriate to still expects it will be appropriate to dial down asset purchases by the end of this year ... as of June ... um we had made meaningful ... progress ... in labor market ... conditions ... and the committee ... thought that was the time to begin talking about how ... the eventual ... wind down of the program would ... take place in hell would be tied ... the evolution of economic variables ... been ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel that was Federal Reserve chairman Ben burn Anqi yesterday money so I can translate that ... economic speak steady Anqi tested ... basically what he's saying is ... easy money ... it's still here ... you wanna go issued at federal government will guess what the Federal Reserve is can they continue to finance ... stock market share like that the NAV assistant editorial page editor James Freeman here to tell us more ... I in chains so stocks run-up II but gold's ... also went out so there's a lot of fears Wells enthusiasm out there hadn't you read yesterday's decision you know I I think you have to read it has a personal was strange and a little disturbing because of this Fed has spent several months of telegraphing that they're going to start to step back from this money printing and buying up assets ... the markets of every Everett is wondered how we get out of this once you've ... built the Fed's balance sheet from less than a trillion of before the financial crisis to roughly four times that ... having a star on winding it when you think you're in the stimulus is no longer needed and so ... everybody was expecting he'll trimmed by ten or fifteen billion dollars of ... it this time and of ... the faith everyone out ... of this is good news for stocks because of ... more of liquidity in the economy but that you have to wonder when did these of stimulus measures and the Nunzio oh it's also good news for the federal government to listen in chains because ... is long is it the Fed continues to find this debt ... well what's to stop the politicians throwing ... the ball with exactly a exactly mean the bigger risk than inflation I think people have wondered ... about when you print all that money in the in ok you pull it back later will we see inflation some point but clearly what's happening is he is enabling the government to finance a very heavy debt load for very little money were paying about ... two hundred plus billion the year ... to finance a ... sixteen seventeen trillion dollar debt so ... it's a very reasonable terms but it doesn't take a lot of imagination to think onesie eventually does what those rates rise or the market dictates it ... very quickly ... it could be a bigger bill than Medicare interviewed bigger bill than to ... the defense of very soon so ... he he's really not just put off the day that the Fed stops but put off the day that the politicians have to be responsive Kay Singin' in a couple of risks possible inflation in the future ... the risk that you let the federal government keep issuing all of this debt ... what about the risk that does this distortion Aries your interest rates the fact that people are making decisions based on ... the yield curve that is ... I don't know what to make of it it's an artificial Yield curve over when the credit is priced in this economy the Fed has been the dominant force in the markets for a long time now and I think that's not healthy you'd like to think that the innovation businesses people do many things making things is what drives our economy and eight in overtime will learn that is the case but ... we've just come through the financial crisis ... and it happened because Washington ... along with some of over exuberant people the markets pushed lots of money into housing they picked one sector ... have the government incentives ... we we saw how that ended but distortion you talk about what are they doing at once the Fed doing now ... is buying two assets ... government debt ... and housing mortgages and that's it ... they're they're picking these two segments of the economy and driving investment in a I think we've learned that it is unclear cannons and tear spots and James lesson thirty seconds left ... how can the Fed argue ... that we are in the scene bad place that we were right after the financial crisis because it's the same pot FTC's Friday we had ... not one bit too late for five years ago the eye and made a lot of sense to throw liquidity out there to make sure banks can operate to make sure they have enough to land when there's a crisis but ... to make assuming that gold will handle on them it sounds like a ... and ... with the words were this will lead to a note on the things that that surrounds who knows what they're doing that while the risks are really big assisting editorial page editor James Freeman ... thank you so much for being ... an expert


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I've never been a fully blonde Asian. So maybe I'm not the best judge of what it is to be fully blonde. But to my non-blonde eye, what Katherine Heigl is working here looks many shades of wrong. Could be the lighting, sure. But there's something oddly brassy happening here. And it's no better here Full Story


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For over 40 years, Earth Day has sent a powerful message: that each of us has both the capacity and the duty to support the environment that sustains us. This is certainly a message that dedicated conservationists can get behind, but what about everyday people with busy lives, kids to raise and jobs to keep? For many, Earth Day has become a day of celebration rather than an urgent call to join a movement.
Earth Day Network, the organization behind Earth Day, cites the impressive statistic that 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world. Participants plant trees, clean streams and resolve to recycle more. In schools around the world, students spend several weeks learning about the planet and how they can make a difference.
What really matters, though, is what people do the day after Earth Day — and for the 363 days after that. Earth Day was born out of a desire to do something. In 1970, 20 million individuals from all walks of life united to protest the deterioration of the environment, and the results included the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act. Why can't Earth Day 2013 be the start of this same kind of sea change?
My colleague Sylvia Earle, a renowned oceanographer whom Time Magazine called a "Hero for the Planet," has said that the next 10 years may be more important than the last 10,000 in determining the fate of our oceans. She may as well be talking about the fate of humans. It may not be the planet that needs saving so much as we do.
These are things we deserve: a safe place to live, access to healthy food, safe air and clean water, and the opportunity to contribute to a better world. Like every parent, I want my son to live in a world that benefits from the positive actions we take today. I want him to be as optimistic as I was when I came of age and to be able to see some of the natural treasures I've been lucky enough to experience. What parent doesn't?
At the National Aquarium, we aim to inspire our guests, members and other audiences to take conservation action. Everything we do must lead to this outcome. As individuals and as communities, we need to demand clean water and air. We need to stop supporting a disposable society. We need to stop letting convenience trump conscience.
To the chagrin of many in this great state, recent legislation to decrease plastic consumption and minimize plastic pollution in Maryland failed to pass the General Assembly. Though legislation would have helped, as it has in other states, we don't need to pass laws to do the right thing.
Let me offer a few ideas: Refuse single-use bags, cups and other items. Get canvas grocery bags and reuse them. Recycle everything you can. Buy local produce. Make quality of life one of your purchasing considerations as you buy anything from a cup of coffee to a new car. Will you always be able to afford the best choice for the environment? Maybe not, but if you do it as often as you can, you'll be a more responsible consumer — and it will feel good.
While you're at it, get outside and help take back your planet. This is the season for tree plantings and spring cleanups. Whether you contribute your time at a rally or cleaning up a park in your own neighborhood, there's power in your actions.
Today, I will be observing Earth Day by working alongside many dedicated staff and volunteers at the National Aquarium as we educate our guests on how they, too, can make better choices for our environment every day.
Come tomorrow, we'll still be at it, and we'll continue the good fight every day thereafter. Together, we can and must inspire a renewed spirit so that when we talk about Earth Day, we applaud the sea changes taking effect today, not 40 years ago.
In the end, Earth Day is a celebration — and it's a movement. Will you join us?
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It's almost exactly 12 years since Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt confirmed their split. It was summer 2001. They called it an Oscar curse. Less than a year later, in April 2002, Benjamin married Talisa Soto. Their first child was born a few months after. Julia of course went on to A Low Vera and sniped at Benjamin about not having to be around her buzzy life anymore. Full Story
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My maternal 3rd-great granduncle, Nelson J. LAMBERTSON, married on this date in 1858 in Reilly Township, Butler County, Ohio to Eliza Jane JOHNSON. Nelson was the son of John and Sarah A. (WILLSON) LAMBERTSON, and the older brother of my Carey W. LAMBERTSON. Eliza's parentage is unknown. Nelson was born April 4, 1838 in Stillwell Corner, Butler County, New Jersey. Eliza was born December 1837 in Ohio. They had 5 children and lived in Darke and Butler County, Ohio. Eliza died July 6, 1899. Nelson died October 3, 1929 at the National Military Home, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio.
My paternal grandaunt, Bertha Alberta LeMASTER, was born on this date in 1892 in Jay County, Indiana. Bertha was the daughter of Luman Cooper and Barbara Isabel (WEHRLY) LeMASTERS, and the older sister of my Ord Wehrly LeMASTER. Bertha married June 10, 1911 in Jay County, Indiana to Russell J. HERCULES, son of James Bolton and Martha J. (MULLENUX) HERCULES. Russell was born January 28, 1890 in Burkettsville, Ohio. They raised 4 children in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. Russell died April 30, 1966 in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. Bertha died December 31, 1961 in Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana.
My maternal 2nd-great grandaunt, Catherine E. LEMASTERS, was born on this date in 1840 in Shelby County, Ohio. Catherine was the daughter of Luman Walker and Nancy (YOUNG) LEMASTERS, and the older sister of my Luman Walker LEMASTERS Jr. Catherine married February 3, 1861 in Jay County, Indiana to John P. WEHRLY, son of Johannes and Barbara (PETRY) WEHRLY. John was born 1838 in Preble County, Ohio. They raised 8 children in Jay County, Indiana. John died 1910 in Jay County, Indiana. Catherine died 1911 in Jay County, Indiana. Both are buried in the Salamonia Cemetery, Jay County, Indiana.


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Help save the Jensen Formal Garden in Chicago's Humboldt Park!
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The Jens Jensen Legacy Project educates and informs the public about the legacy and vision of Jens Jensen.
More than 100 years ago, Danish immigrant Jens Jensen (1860 – 1951) arrived in America and contributed to the Midwest's physical and cultural landscape in an enduring way.
Jensen revered and celebrated the area's indigenous scenery by creating the Prairie style of landscape architecture and leading a movement to conserve natural areas. Jensen's impressions of the prairie region were conveyed poetically through his use of indigenous plants, natural-looking waterways, layered stonework, meadows and sun-openings.
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I'm a professional real estate investor and wholesaler of property in Memphis, TN. My niche is finding distressed, undervalued real estate and selling it to other investors, landlords, and rehabbers for a profit. The investors who purchase property from me are typically buy-and-hold landlords who are looking to purchase property for cash flow. I'm acting as a wholesaler and selling them "deals" that "cash flow" to build their wealth by increasing their "cash cow" portfolio. Memphis is a great market to buy property in because of the great cash flow! I've set up a website called MemphisCashCow.com and I wanna brand this name and business as the premier site for finding DEEPLY discounted properties. I want investors to come to my site and see it as a place to purchase investment property for their "Cash Cow" portfolios.
Anyone who lands on the site as a result of doing a Google search for Memphis Investment Property. It could be local investors or out-of-state (or out-of-country) investor buyers. I'm targeting ANYONE who is interested in BUYING houses at a DISCOUNT. To qualify further, our best buyers come from out of state. These are investor-buyers in other cities (or countries) who've heard about Memphis as a great market to buy property in. They then do a search on line for 'Memphis Investment Property' (or real estate) and find my site. They're looking for deals on discounted properties that will rent well and produce great cash flow and passive income for their investment portfolio. It is NOT a new niche, there are several competitors in my area (MemphisInvest.com, MemphisInvestmentProperties.net, InvestorNation.com, and MemphisCashFlow.com to name a few). I need something "catchy" that will attract future visitors to the "MemphisCashCow.com" brand and plant the idea in their head(s) that this site is the place to find the best deals in DEEPLY discounted investment property. The target audience could be local or out-of-state investors, landlords, rehabbers looking for handyman specials, or other wholesalers with their own clients they're looking to sell property to.
I need a "catchy" logo that will set me apart from my competitors. That's it! Some of my main competitors are: (1) MemphisInvest.com, (2) MemphisInvestmentProperties.net, (3) InvestorNation.com, (4) MemphisCashFlow.com.
Since my site is MemphisCashCow.com... I'm envisioning a logo that literally has a cow with cash coming out of it like a Piggy Bank! I'd like the cow to be brown and the cash dollars to be green (obviously). These colors will also match the color scheme of the logo for my main company- Veldman and Brown Home Solutions. So, colors HAVE to be: brown, green, and tan.
Also, since my city is Memphis, maybe include something unique to Memphis the city.. such as: The Pyramid, the "double hump" bridge over the Mississippi River connecting Memphis to Arkansas, etc. Something unique to Memphis.
I like the way MemphisCashFlow.com has done their logo with the symbol to the left and the lettering for their company to the right. I think something similar would suffice- i.e. cash cow symbol on the left, then the name "Memphis Cash Cow" to the right with "Memphis" on top and "Cash Cow" underneath. I've included a sample Word document with some crude drawings to try and depict what I'm envisioning.
Other than that, you are free to be as creative as possible... SURPRISE ME! I DO want a brown cow and green dollar bills. Please keep in mind the symbolism- CASH COW
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Kelvin Gastelum is real. He exists. He's a presence in this UFC.
By: Chuck Mindenhall, MMA Fighting
"Perhaps the scariest part of Kelvin Gastelum's quiet ruining of expectations is that he's only 22 years old. The soft-spoken Arizona fighter that some fans have begun calling 'Mini Cain' was barely drinking age when he shut down the boogeyman of The Ultimate Fighter 17 house, Uriah Hall.
"People saw it more as Hall grossly underperforming than Gastelum 'shocking the world.' Since then he very quietly dropped to welterweight, where he's gone 2-0. Brian Melancon, who looked so good in knocking out Seth Baczynski at UFC 162, couldn't last half a round with Gastelum not quite two months later. Then Rick Story, who at one point was nudging his way into title contention, ended up on the wrong end of the scorecards against him at UFC 171."


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Italy's Senate rushed to pass laws that clear the way for establishing a new government in a bid to restore confidence in Europe?s second-biggest debtor. The new administration may be led by former EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti, - a man markets appear to trust.
This morning?s headline on Italy?s leading financial newspaper, Il Sore 24 Ore, read simply ?Hurry Up.?
With Italy in the eye of Europe?s financial storm, investors want a quick solution. So indications that Prime Minister Berlusconi may step aside within days and give his backing to a national unity government, was a rare piece of good news for the markets, which reversed their two-day losing streak.
Economist Nicola Borri of the International University of Social Studies in Rome, says Italy?s politicians need to act fast.
?First thing is, we need to implement the structural reforms that will be able to increase the growth rate of our economy," said Borri. "Our problem is a long term problem - the fact that we are not growing, and if we do not grow we are not going to be able in the future to pay our debt, and that is what markets fear.?
Italy?s 10-year bond yields, effectively the interest rate the country must pay on loans, stabilized around seven percent, still barely sustainable.
Rome also paid less to sell one-year treasury bills than many had predicted. The markets? short-term fear, says Borri, is political instability.
?Right now our political arena is crazy," he said. "We all know that Berlusconi has ?almost? resigned, we do not know what is going to happen after, if we are going to have elections, if we are going to have a grand coalition government, so we need more clarity on that.?
One man has emerged who might lead such a coalition government, former European Union Competition Commissioner Mario Monti - the current favorite to take over as a so-called ?technocrat? leader to steer Italy into calmer waters.
Analyst Nicola Borri says Monti is a respected economist who should have a calming effect.
?Markets know what he has in mind," said Borri. "He has in mind I would say two or three big reforms that I would say most economists agree Italy desperately needs, but it seems neither the left nor the center-left nor the right or the center-right are able to implement.?
Analysts say that political deadlock will have to be loosened for Italy?s long-term stability.
Silvio Berlusconi retains considerable support for both his style of governance and character.
?Berlusconi is the captain if the ship and the left party wants to sink the ship," said Alessandro Stuart, assistant to the head of the Rome cabinet which is led by Berlusconi?s party. "What they do not realize is that we are all on the same ship because they have never worked like us normal people. Without a captain like Berlusconi Italy cannot move forward.?
But with Berlusconi already vowing to step down, analysts say Italy must act quickly to appoint a successor if the country is to be saved from Europe?s debt storm.


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"It was very important to me," declares Mel Brooks, "that every film and everything that I did had a modicum of bad taste, or else it wasn't me. I was naturally vulgar and I didn't want to waste it, so I used it in my comedy." As it turns out, Brooks didn't just have a flair for hilarious jokes of questionable taste – he has a genius for it, and one he mined for decades.
From a stint behind the scenes as a writer on Sid Caesar's pioneering 1950s TV sketch comedy "Your Show of Shows" through his 1960s comedy act with Carl Reiner, a string of taboo-tweaking movie genre spoofs like "The Producers," "Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein" and "Spaceballs" through the 70s, 80s and 90s, to reinventing his by-then trademark naughty silliness for Broadway in the 2000s, Brooks' penchant for highbrow use of lowbrow gags is celebrated in PBS's prestigious "American Masters" series.
Airing May 20, "Mel Brooks: Make a Noise" explores every aspect of the writer/director/producer's storied 60-year career – or more aptly, his love affair with showbiz (Brooks is one of the rare few to have been awarded Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony trophies). Brooks himself is rarely given to indulge his industry's extremely frequent victory laps – "I mean, why waste time doing that when you can write another song or you could write another movie," he says of the PBS celebration, "but it's nice once in a while to just relax and revel in some of the nice things you've done."
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The documentary features a plethora of clips from every facet of Brooks' career, along with interviews with colleagues collaborators like Reiner, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman, Joan Rivers and Tracey Ullman – but the wealth and depth of Brooks' prolific output coalesced into a clearer vision of the entertainer.
"What emerged was what a singular voice he is in comedy," says "Make a Noise" filmmaker Robert Trachtenberg, "because as I did the research, and as I started to talk to people, I quickly realized that from his generation, his concerns were not the concerns of any of his contemporaries. He wasn't concerned with mother-in-law jokes. He wasn't concerned with my-boss-is-so-horrible jokes. He wasn't concerned with I-came-home-and-the-kids-were-blah-blah-blah jokes. He was thinking on a whole other plane that incorporated history and literature and religion."
Brooks says his humor wasn't fueled by any childhood angst or inner turmoil – he just loved making people laugh, something Melvin James Kaminsky (his real name) learned as a 16-year-old standup comic working in the Catskills. "I used to go out on stage and say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, relax – you're in for a memorable night of comedy.' I swear to God, I'd say that. 'I am really good – you don't have to worry. You're going to be thoroughly, happily entertained, and you'll wish that the evening never ended. That's how good this is going to be. So don't worry! Don't murmur anymore about "Who is this guy?" And I was really insanely confident. I had no reason to be, but I just felt it."
Eventually he found his way onto the nigh-legendary writing staff for "Your Show of Shows" – a pantheon of future comedy rainmakers that included Reiner, brothers Neil and Danny Simon, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin and later a young Woody Allen – and Brooks happily toiled away out of the spotlight. "I had an incredibly talented vehicle for my comedy, for my passion, and that was Sid Caesar," he explains. "Nobody was as brilliant and as funny as Sid Caesar, so I put my ego aside, and I just wrote my heart out for him. And he always delivered… I learned a great deal from Sid."
The now classic "2000 Year Old Man" routines – originally derived from improvised skits he and Reiner would do for friends at parties – made Brooks a star, with their comedy albums topping the charts and their live performances a staple of variety TV shows in the early '60s – they became icons of cool for pre-hippie coffee house crowd. "It really was a fantastic run," chuckled Brooks. "I really bathed in it. I loved being with Carl on stage and playing the 2,000 Year Old Man. Believe it or not, I did the least work and got the most return in terms of the laughs, because Carl was the architect. That was the most successful character we created, but he did most of the work. The genius of that is Carl Reiner figuring out what our place was in entertainment."


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Mobile video has begun to accumulate scale, and has also turned out to be one of the few types of mobile content — along with games — that monetizes reliably and drives premium ad rates.
That's reflected in the much higher prices that mobile publishers can command for mobile video ads, compared to standard mobile formats like banners. eMarketer estimates mobile video will account for $520 million in ad spending in the U.S. this year, or 13% of the digital video ad market.
In a recent report, BI Intelligence breaks down the mobile video ecosystem, analyzing the behavior and devices behind the growth in consumption, and examining the demographics and behavior of mobile video consumers.
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- Video is one of the main reasons people use tablets: Two video-related activities — playing videos and sharing them — are among the top ten favorite things to do for tablet users. For smartphone users, neither activity cracks the top-10 list.
- Tablet owners are far more likely than the average U.S. consumer: to disconnect their pay TV subscriptions: and use alternative streaming and download services like Hulu, Apple TV, iTunes, Netflix, and Google TV.
- Tablet users tend to have higher conversion rates than those on smartphones. This has already been borne out in the context of search ads and e-commerce, and the touchable surfaces and larger screens suggest that tablet video ads would enjoy the same benefit.
- Among younger viewers in the U.S., millennials aged 14 to 23: tablets are nearly as popular for watching TV shows as Blu-rays or DVDs. Twenty-five percent of respondents in this age group say they watch TV shows on tablets everyday or weekly, compared to 24 percent who do so on DVD or Blu-ray,
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Is he your type?
Channing Tatum's GQ spread this month in time for this starring role in GI Joe scheduled for release in August. Looks like a horrible movie. And since Sienna Miller is a PR disaster, they need to push out Channing or "Chan" as he likes to be called that much harder. Taking his shirt off is a good start.
As for the article… there really isn't much to it. Except the part about his diet. Even Channing Tatum has to eat plain chicken for weeks and weeks before a photo shoot. I have one coming up next week. And I am so not ready. Ugh.
Obviously Chan's diet worked. He's ripped. And maybe brushed a little. But still ripped.
You likey?
I can see why you would.
But he doesn't do it for me. Too beefcakey for my flavour. In the Ryan Reynolds mold. And I don't like his lips. They seem very dry. But they're selling him as a down home Alabama boy who hasn't yet let the fame game get to his head and just married the "love of his life". I'll buy it for now.
Remember when Jenna Dewan dated Justin Timberlake?
Channing Tatum – upgrade or downgrade?
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Carmel Mayor Jason Burnett suggested this week that California American Water"s proposed desalination project has the clear edge over alternative proposals.
But he said company officials still must agree to requested improvements in financing and governance to gain support from the Peninsula mayors" water authority.
"I want to keep an open mind until the water authority makes a decision, but the Cal Am project is clearly the project that"s furthest along and we"re working on improving that project," Burnett said. "Cal Am"s project can be better, and some aspects of it are not good enough yet."
Cal Am spokeswoman Catherine Bowie said company officials are continuing to engage the mayors in talks about financing and governance, and said they "feel the discussions are going very well."
"We appreciate the efforts of the (authority) to lower costs to our customers and involve local leaders," Bowie said, "and are hopeful our discussions will result in broader support for our proposal."
Burnett, the authority"s vice president, has taken a lead role on local consideration of competing desal proposals. He said Cal Am would still need to agree to the authority"s public governance proposal and five key financing principles — including acceptance of a public contribution, perhaps a surcharge on water bills, designed to lower overall costs by an estimated $124 million — before the authority could formally recommend Cal Am"s project to the state Public Utilities Commission next month.
Otherwise, he said, the authority would be forced to demand that the PUC require Cal Am to include the financing and governance proposals.
Burnett said he doesn"t believe public ownership of the desal plant would offer any additional benefits beyond the financing and governance demands.
Burnett said he believes a deal with Cal Am is imminent on a public governance structure, which also earned support from the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District and the county Water Resources Agency. However, he said a controversial confidentiality clause proposed by Cal Am is unworkable.
The authority"s proposal calls for forming an oversight committee with varying degrees of input on virtually every aspect of Cal Am"s project, and the two sides are trying to work out exactly how much control the committee would have.
Divide over financing
Negotiations over project financing, on the other hand, may be further away from a conclusion, as the two sides appear to be at odds over key elements.
Burnett said Cal Am President Rob MacLean indicated he supported the authority"s proposals but the company"s board did not agree. As a result, Burnett said his request for the proposals to be included in the company"s supplemental testimony filed with the PUC last week was not granted.
Burnett said that was a disappointment, but expressed optimism that a deal could still be worked out by next month.
In its Jan. 11 supplemental testimony filing, Cal Am indicated it is still negotiating with the authority and its public agency partners on a "potentially acceptable compromise" involving financing and governance, but rejected Burnett"s preferred "net present value" method for calculating the project"s cost.
Burnett defended the use of that method, saying it is the current federal government standard for a fair comparison of project costs. He criticized MacLean and other company officials" suggestion that the project"s interest rate would average about 4 percent overall, and suggested Cal Am was "playing with the numbers."
"We will continue to advocate for the most transparent way of calculating the project cost," Burnett said.
Burnett and Monterey Mayor Chuck Della Sala, the authority"s president, have been in talks with Cal Am for months about the suggested improvements, and there has been some criticism that the authority appears to have already decided to back Cal Am"s bid while appearing open to alternative proposals.
Burnett made his comments a week after the authority outlined its strategy for deciding which of three alternative projects to formally recommend to the PUC in late February, and a few weeks before the authority officially makes its choice.
Evaluating projects
Last week, the authority released a proposed evaluation matrix that it sent to its own technical advisory committee, the water management district and its desal project consultant, Carlsbad-based Separation Processes Inc., for use in developing a final recommendation.
The matrix includes sections for evaluating the projects" capital and operating costs, interest rate, financing, access to low-interest state loans, permitting and schedule, technical feasibility, legal issues, and ownership and management.
The authority has already spent about $87,000 on consultants, including $73,000 for SPI, to do comparison analyses of the three desal projects: Cal Am"s proposed plant north of Marina and two others in Moss Landing.
In its final report, SPI found that Cal Am"s project would be considerably more expensive to build than the other two, although it would be the quickest to be completed and the only one capable of meeting the Jan. 1, 2017, state deadline for a major reduction in pumping from the Carmel River.
However, those assumptions were based on data already months old when the report was released last month, and Cal Am officials have acknowledged that its project now won"t be finished until December 2017 at the earliest because of delays related to a slant test well for the desal plant"s source water. Cal Am officials also say they believe their desal plant"s cost will actually be cheaper than the alternatives when factoring in lower power and financing costs.
In addition, the authority and the water management district are sharing the $25,000 cost of another consultant charged with conducting a detailed financial analysis of the three proposals.
Burnett said the authority would likely aim for choosing a project to recommend by the end of this month, perhaps in a special meeting, to allow enough time for its consultants and other representatives to prepare expert testimony by the Feb. 22 deadline.
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Clinical Factors of Tinnitus Influence Perceived Loudness and Annoyance
Editor: There is huge variability in how people perceive tinnitus and in how much it affects their lives. German scientists have recently complete a study that relates perceived annoyance to loudness. Here's the information.
Clinical characteristics of tinnitus such as duration, consistency and other factors influence the way individuals perceive loudness and annoyance associated with the condition, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Tinnitus, a ringing, buzzing or whistling sound in one or both ears occurring without outside stimulus, can be acute or chronic, constant or intermittent. Tinnitus can be due to a medical disease or of unknown origin. According to background information in the article, some patients describe their tinnitus to be louder than most or all environmental sounds and 1 percent to 5 percent report that tinnitus is so troublesome that it interferes with sleep or has led to disability and reduced quality of life.
Wolfgang Hiller, Ph.D., University of Mainz, Germany, and Gerhard Goebel, M.D., from Roseneck Center of Behavioral Medicine, Prien, Germany, analyzed data from a mail survey composed of two parts: a questionnaire to assess perceived annoyance and a comprehensive screening questionnaire that grades loudness. The total of 4,995 individuals who responded had an average age of 56 years and was 42 percent female and 58 percent male.
A total of 4,971 individuals accurately completed the loudness survey. Of these, 407 (8.2 percent) rated their condition as grade I (weak degree of tinnitus loudness), 2,964 (59.6 percent) as grade II (medium degree of tinnitus loudness) and 1,600 (32.2 percent) as grade III (strong degree of tinnitus loudness). Annoyance scores were available for 4,982 people of whom 1,957 (39.2 percent) were categorized as mildly distressed, 1,189 (23.9 percent) as severely distressed and 637 (12.8 percent) as most severely distressed. Most of those with grade I conditions reported mild tinnitus distress, those with grade II conditions were split and approximately two-thirds of those in grade III reported having severe or very severe distress, indicating a moderate correlation between loudness and annoyance.
"In particular, higher levels of severity were found in men, older adults, binaural [in both ears] and centrally perceived tinnitus, increase in tinnitus intensity since onset, sensitivity to loud external noise, continuous tinnitus (as opposed to intermittent tinnitus) and the coexistence of hearing loss, vertigo and hyperacusis [abnormal sensitivity to sounds]," the authors note. However, other factors had an inconsistent influence on loudness and annoyance. The share of individuals who experienced an increase in tinnitus loudness since onset was 35 percent whereas there was no clear increase in tinnitus annoyance in years since onset. The authors believe it is possible that habituation and acceptance of tinnitus increase over time, which is likely to lead to reduced annoyance.
"Although it has been shown that personal distress due to tinnitus is to some degree dependent on primarily psychological factors such as cognitive appraisal or differences in coping behavior, the role of physical, audiologic and medical properties of tinnitus should not be underestimated," the authors conclude. "We need studies that investigate the determinants of tinnitus loudness and annoyance to understand more deeply how patients react to their tinnitus and which factors contribute to the long-term maintenance of distress."


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The promoters of Michael Jackson's ill-fated comeback concerts watched the singer waste away and should have reached out to his family for help, the superstar's mother tearfully told a jury on Monday.
Clutching a tissue and hanging her head at times, Katherine Jackson said she didn't know the extent of her son's weakness until after the start of her trial against AEG Live LLC.
"They watched him waste away," she said after her attorney cited several emails from top workers preparing for the "This Is It" shows. The messages described her son's condition as deteriorating and cited his inability to rehearse.
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"They could have called me," Katherine Jackson, 83, said. "He was asking me for his father. My grandson told me that his daddy was nervous and scared."
Her comments came under questioning from her attorney, Brian Panish.
Moments earlier, an attorney for AEG Live had questioned why the Jackson family matriarch — if her purpose for filing the lawsuit was to find out the truth about her son's death, as she had testified — hadn't read through thousands of pages of deposition testimony, or asked her grandchildren about what happened in her son's rented mansion before his June 2009 death.
She later said that while she could have asked her grandchildren about some issues, she didn't want to bring it up with them.
She also said that she didn't see a photograph of her son shot six days before her his death until after the trial started.
Katherine Jackson at first didn't seem to want to look at the photo, which has been repeatedly displayed during the trial and shows her son wearing a T-shirt, his arms thin and bones visible in his upper chest.
Katherine Jackson claims AEG Live failed to properly investigate Dr. Conrad Murray, who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter for giving the singer an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.
AEG defense attorney Marvin S. Putnam told jurors during opening statements in the negligence lawsuit in April that the case centered on personal responsibility — specifically Michael Jackson's decision to ask Murray to administer propofol as a sleep aid while he prepared for his shows.
AEG Live denies it hired the doctor or bears any responsibility for Jackson's death.
Katherine Jackson said she believes AEG Live hired Murray, not her son. She said she never heard of the cardiologist until her son died, and indicated that she felt Murray bore responsibility for her son's death.
"Even though he asked for it, he could have said no," she said of Murray.
Putnam also asked Katherine Jackson about her son's payments to her over the years. She said he directly paid many of the expenses on her home and would occasionally give her cash as a gift.
Saying she didn't keep track of the payments, Katherine Jackson appeared to being annoyed at the questions.
"What does this have to do with the death of my son," she asked Putnam.
The attorney also asked her about conversations she had with her son about prescription drug use.
She said she asked him about it when he lived in Las Vegas and he denied he was abusing prescription medications.
"I'm a mother, quite naturally he denied it," she said. "He wouldn't want me to think that."
She said she wasn't surprised by his denial and likened the situation to a child who'd disobeyed his mother while playing outdoors.
Putnam said Jackson was a 50-year-old man at the time of his death. "He's still my child," Katherine Jackson said. "He'd still want me to hold his respect."
She said she was aware her son took medications for pain in his back and scalp after he sustained injuries over his career. She said she never saw signs that her son was abusing medications, including when she and several of her children went to the singer's Neverland Ranch in 2002 for an intervention.
Her son was fine but upset that they thought he had a problem, she said.


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Burn Injury Alters the Intestinal Microbiome and Increases Gut Permeability and Bacterial Translocation.
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Sepsis remains one of the leading causes of death in burn patients who survive the initial insult of injury. Disruption of the intestinal epithelial barrier has been shown after burn injury; this can lead to the translocation ...


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officeart needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 27 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
Man in the Arena
I am looking to have an inspirational print designed that contains an image of a gladiator and the Theodore Roosevelt quote listed below. The print will end up matted, under glass with a thick wood frame.
My goal with this project is to have a print created that is almost the opposite of something you might find on successories.com. Successories tend to have large crisp photos with limited text. I would like this product to have a rich, warm, textured, heavy feel with less emphasis on the image and more on the text. The image might catch the viewer attention and draw him in to read the quote.
Entrepreneurs and small business owners. Basically someone who would appreciate the following quote.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
Size: Final product will be printed on paper 12.5" by 22.5". There will need to be approx a 1" margin to secure the matte. I am open to size suggestions.
Space: Image in the top 1/3 or 1/4 with the quote using the balance of the space.
Font: Some form of calligraphy. Easy to read from a reasonable distance.
Background: Antique or aged feel, perhaps appearance as if written on a scroll.
Gladiator image: I would like this image to embody the quote. This is the area I struggle with the most and need your creative vision. I have an image in my head of a gladiator standing alone or in an arena, spent from battle, but not defeated. This image could be in all black or contain color. The figure could have very little detail using posture and body language to tell the story. Possibly a lone figure or a sole gladiator in a packed arena with a faceless crowd. The image may almost have an oil painted appearance to it.


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Hello everyone,
I have been looking into getting Italian citizenship for years now, and I find the laws so very frustrating. I love Italy, speak Italian, studied the history, go there every year, have friends and family there, basically leave my heart there each time I leave, and I always thought I was eligible for citizenship but it seems sadly I am not.
My father immigrated with his family in 1952 to Canada at age 9. He got Canadian citizenship soon thereafter (maybe 1952 or 1953) and therefore lost his Italian citizenship. My grandparents got it (and lost their Italian one) in 1960 I was told (when my dad was 17). The lady at the consulate says that the line was broken, but if my dad had been age 18+ when my grandparents lost their Italian citizenship, then it wouldn't have counted as being broken?? Is this true? To me that seems backwards.
If it is true, then I would have to reside in Italy for 3 years. How does this work? I can't work there, so I could study and it would count? But would I be allowed to leave the country in these 3 years or woudl that cause complications? I don't really have 3 years to spend there without working Now I wish I had done my university there, had I known..
We also still own my grandparents house in Italy if this helps with anything such as residency..
Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you:)


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The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences and Noodlehaus-produced live action Assassin's Creed III teaser trailer above kicks off a promotion for the 16th annual D.I.C.E. awards, which goes live on February 7th.
Can you imagine scouting the battlefield as a general of sorts, gauging your success/loss rates and spotting this proficient killer, eyes clearly on you? This is why you need puppies on the battlefield. So you can just hold one up like Simba and peace washes over everyone and then you sit down together and watch YouTube videos of more puppies. Yeah, never send me to war.
In the meantime, check out the nominees for the upcoming awards show here. And you can prepare to watch the show at 10pm Eastern on Machinima.