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The Cuban Spy Connection
In September 11, the entire U.S. defense and intelligence establishment was put on high alert. Ships at sea went to "zip lip" status, meaning they ceased radio communications for fear of giving away their location. The Air Force began flying cover over U.S. territory. The uncertainty of the source of the attacks and whether more were coming meant that everyone had to be ready and all measures needed to be taken to maintain security.
However, one security breach wasn't closed for another 10 days, a lapse that puzzled many intelligence community sources. The FBI waited that long before arresting suspected Cuban spy Ana Belen Montes. She was a 45-year-old senior analyst on Cuba for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), a group of more than 7,000 military and civilian employees worldwide who provide foreign military intelligence for the Department of Defense.
In a criminal complaint, the United States accused Montes of being a spy for Cuba. Her spying qualifies as one of the highest-level penetrations in the history of the DIA. On March 19, Montes pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit espionage, a charge that could have carried the death penalty, but in return for leniency, she agreed to cooperate with U.S. authorities. The court hearing revealed that she had spied for Cuba since beginning work at the DIA in 1985. The prosecutor, assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Walutes Jr., reading the original indictment, said, "Montes used her position as an intelligence officer, and subsequently a senior intelligence analyst … to gather writings, documents, materials and information, classified for reasons of national security, for unlawful communication, delivery and transmission to the government of Cuba."
Montes was unavailable for comment after the plea hearing, but her lawyer, Plato Cacheris, told reporters that "she engaged in these activities because of her belief that U.S. policy does not afford Cubans respect, tolerance and understanding. She was motivated by her desire to help the Cuban people, and did not receive any compensation." Cacheris told Cigar Aficionado that "she took the 25 year sentence because if they tried it and we lost, she could have gotten life plus 40 years. The case would have been difficult for us to win." But he went on to say that the government "in order to learn the full extent of her activities, they had to make the deal. Otherwise, we weren't going to let her be debriefed." He declined to speculate further about her motivation.
But what remains clear is that in the wake of September 11, intelligence officials couldn't help but wonder to what extent Montes and other Cuban spies still at large could have compromised the national security of the United States. At the very least, her position in the DIA, and the information she had access to there, finally convinced counter-intelligence agents in the United States that it was too risky to allow her to remain in place at the DIA.
After tailing her beginning in May 2001, federal agents arrested Montes on September 21 in her DIA office at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. Later that day, Walutes, the assistant U.S. Attorney, told the U.S. District Court in Washington that Montes "knowingly compromised national defense information" and claimed that Montes had harmed the United States. The affidavit supporting the complaint and arrest of Montes was filed by Special Agent Steven A. McCoy, a veteran of the FBI's counterintelligence unit and an expert on Cuban espionage. In the final plea agreement, Montes admitted to also revealing the identity of four U.S. agents to the Cuban Government. All four agents, according to U.S. Attorney Roscoe Howard are "alive and safe."
The original affidavit asserts that Montes committed two particularly egregious acts against the national security of the country. First, she had been passing details "about a particular top-secret Special Access Program (SAP) related to the national defense of the United States" to her Cuban handlers, at least one of whom was an official based in New York at Cuba's mission to the United Nations, according to U.S. investigators. SAPs usually have to do with either technical (satellite) or human intelligence gathering operations, to which few people are given access. In this case, as Montes seemed to brag to her Cuban handlers, "[J]ust today the agency made me enter into a program, 'special access top secret.' [First name, last name omitted from this application] and I are the only ones in my office who know about the program."
Second, Montes revealed the identity of a U.S. intelligence officer "who was present in an undercover capacity in Cuba," according to the original affidavit. The Cubans did not arrest the U.S. spy, but Cuban sources explained that the agent was identified and fed bad information. The affidavit seems to confirm that, saying that Cuba was "able to direct its counterintelligence resources" against the U.S. agent. "We were waiting here for him with open arms," the affidavit states, revealing a message from Cuba to Montes that was deleted but recovered from the hard drive of Montes' computer.
Affidavits are usually the most informative documents that ever become public in many spy cases. The government is often not interested in having a full trial, because information that could potentially compromise intelligence activities might have to be presented. That's why, as in the case of FBI mole Robert Hanssen, deals are made that might seem lenient, but they are made to protect ongoing operations. (Hanssen, a senior FBI counterintelligence agent who was arrested for spying for the old Soviet Union, monitored how the United States checked up on suspected Cuban agents and passed along that information to his KGB handlers.)
The public evidence against Montes was based largely on material found during at least two searches by federal agents of her Washington apartment. It included information about "the identities of foreign espionage agents" and "espionage paraphernalia, including devices designed to conceal and transmit national defense and classified intelligence information and material." The agents discovered more than 50 computer diskettes, and later found messages still on the hard drive of Montes' computer that had been "deleted." Among them, the FBI asserted, was a message from Montes' Cuban handlers at the Cuban Intelligence Services, or CuIS, according to the affidavit. The FBI stated that the instructions on the message duplicate the known methods by which Cuban agents have communicated with the CuIS, "by making calls to a pager number from a pay telephone booth and entering a pre-assigned code to convey a particular message." Montes was directed to communicate with beepers in the 917 area code. That's New York—where Cuba's mission to the United Nations is located. The recovered message from the CuIS on Montes' hard drive, according to the affidavit, listed three beeper numbers with codes. The message tells Montes to be cautious using one of the devices, "because this beeper is public, in other words it is known to belong to the Cuban Mission at the UN and we assume there is some control over it. You may use this beeper only in the event you cannot communicate" with the other two secure beepers. FBI agent McCoy explained in the affidavit that "control over it" means the CuIS officer suspects that the FBI "is aware that this beeper number is associated with the Cuban government and is monitoring it in some fashion."
Between May and September of 2001, the FBI "maintained periodic physical surveillance" of Montes. Much of what the evidence reveals has to do with phone calls to the above-mentioned beepers. The surveillance intensified after September 11. On September 14, Montes was observed at the National Zoo making "what telephone records confirmed to be two calls to the same pager number she had called in May, June and August …" On September 15, "Montes made a call to the same pager number 11:12 a.m. that lasted one minute." On September 16, Montes "made a brief telephone call from a payphone in the Metro station at approximately 1:50 p.m., again to the same pager number." Five days later, Montes was picked up.
According to The Washington Post, Van A. Harp, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office, said, "This has been a very important investigation because it does show that our national defense information is still being targeted by the Cuban intelligence service."
"There has not been what is called an 'assessment of damage' of what she [Montes] might have known and been able to compromise by making it available to the Cubans,'' Senator Bob Graham, the Florida Democrat who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, told The Miami Herald. "The offense that she committed is a capital offense,'' Graham added, explaining that Montes might reveal the extent of her activities in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty which appeared to be her motivation in accepting the plea agreement.
There's also a question of how does a young woman raised in Baltimore get to be a spy for Cuba. Ana Belen Montes was born on February 28, 1957, on a U.S. military base in Nurnberg, Germany. Her father was a psychologist on the base; he died more than a year ago. The official details are sketchy, but the family moved back to the United States during Montes' childhood and settled for a time in Baltimore. She graduated from the University of Virginia and attended Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., where she received a master's degree in 1988.
"We're trying to reconstruct who her friends were, and we can't," Riordan Roett, director of Western Hemisphere studies at SAIS, told the Herald. "I took a look at her transcript and she took two of my classes." Roett only vaguely remembered Montes.
"She was not a particularly engaging person," recalls Rand Corp. analyst Edward Gonzalez, professor emeritus at UCLA. "She was not happy. She never smiled." Gonzalez has written studies on Cuba for the U.S. military and intelligence establishment and would often run into Montes at military and professional conferences.
Montes began her career at the DIA as a junior analyst in 1985. She concentrated mainly on matters dealing with Central America. In a published report in late September, her supervisor at the time, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described Montes as introverted. "She was very private," the supervisor said. "She never attended parties. When we had office parties, she might show up for only a little while."
The Defense Intelligence Agency's mission and its charter is to "provide military intelligence to war fighters, defense policymakers and force planners, in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, in support of U.S. military planning and operations and weapon systems acquisition." Perhaps the most serious harm Montes caused came from how she used her position at the DIA to influence the way Cuba was perceived. Montes was described by sources in the intelligence community as "the go-to person on Cuba," and she would routinely brief military officers at the U.S. Southern Command in Miami. As a senior intelligence analyst, she visited Cuba at least twice, most recently in 1998.
In the mid-1990s, Montes would have been in a position to pass along "detailed analysis," former White House officials say, of what the United States was considering as a response to the shootdown in 1996 by the Cubans of two small planes belonging to the exile group Brothers to the Rescue. The two aircraft were being used for propaganda activities, dropping leaflets over Cuba.
Montes also participated in creating a 1997 DIA assessment of Cuba's military capacity. The conclusion of the DIA report was that Cuba was too weak since the fall of the Soviet Union to present a significant military threat to the United States. The Pentagon did not completely agree with that assessment as is reflected in a May 1998 letter accompanying the report that then-Defense Secretary William Cohen sent to members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Cohen wrote that while "the direct conventional threat by the Cuban military has decreased, I remain concerned about the use of Cuba as a base for intelligence activities directed against the United States … ."
The conclusion of the Pentagon's revised report, entitled "The Cuban Threat to U.S. National Security" (go to www.defenselink.mil for the entire letter and report), reinforces the notion that Cuba represents little conventional military threat to the United States. But the last line states: "Nonetheless, Cuba has a limited capability to engage in some military and intelligence activities which would be detrimental to U.S. interests and which could pose a danger to U.S. citizens under some circumstances."
Cuba, in the wake of September 11, was quick to dispel any suggestions that it was involved in any hostile actions against the United States. Cuba's foreign minister, Felipe Perez Roque, told reporters that day, "We deeply regret the loss of human life, and our position is of total rejection of this sort of terrorist attack." Perez also said that "any idea of Cuban involvement, I don't think that's even worth referring to. No one could be thinking such a barbarous thing."
President Fidel Castro, in a speech on September 22, said "Cuba … is opposed to terrorism and opposed to war. … Cuba reiterates its willingness to cooperate with every country in the total eradication of terrorism." He went on later in the speech to say, "Whatever happens, the territory of Cuba will never be used for terrorist actions against the American people and we will do everything within our reach to prevent such actions against that people. Today we are expressing our solidarity while urging peace and calmness."
The fact remains, however, that the U.S. Department of State lists Cuba among countries that support terrorism, largely based on accusations that both Basque and Colombian terrorists are allowed to live in the country. And, in a statement released in early March 2002, the Bush administration said that it was investigating Cuba's links to international terrorist groups, as well as exploring the possibility that Cuba had the means to disrupt U.S. military communications. Some intelligence sources have speculated about the possibility that Cuba could have passed sensitive information on to other countries that are considered hostile to the United States, such as Iran and Iraq. And they cite the Montes case as part of an underlying concern that she could have had access to information about U.S. military deployments as the country prepared to attack Afghanistan. In a published report in late September, The Washington Post cited FBI sources that explicitly said that concern was the reason for Montes' arrest. But no official U.S. government source is pointing the finger at Cuba for involvement in any terrorist activities directed at America.
The question still remains: why did Ana Belen Montes become a spy for Cuba? "Most of these people recruit themselves," explains Dr. Jeffrey Richelson, an intelligence expert and senior fellow at the nonprofit National Security Archive and author of numerous books on foreign intelligence gathering, including A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. "I think in her case it's likely that there was an ideological affinity for the Cuban regime. From what I know, she always came down on the softer side of U.S. policy towards Cuba."
That might be explained by what some investigators see in Montes' family history. An account shared by Marcelo Fernandez-Zayas, a Cuban exile and writer of the Web-based "Intelligence Report From Washington," indicates that when Montes was a child, her mother appeared on a radio talk show and expressed sympathetic views of the Castro regime. The response from a handful of Cuban exiles was critical, to say the least. This had to have an effect on the young Ana Belen, Fernandez-Zayas and others speculate. That and her mother's family history of participation in Puerto Rico's socialist party, they add.
Everyone agrees that Montes' motives were not financial. The evidence so far shows no large deposits into her bank account, nor any extravagant spending. Friends say she was very focused on saving for retirement as a "single woman." Other friends say there might have been some romantic connection that led Montes into the arms of the Cubans. One friend recalls that Montes would go out dancing at clubs in the Washington area where Cubans from the Interests Section would go. That, however, seems to go against what most who knew Montes professionally believe. They describe her as "dour" and "not particularly friendly." They argue that the reason Montes became a spy has to be more about ideology and politics.
The other question to which an answer might never come is how U.S. counterintelligence became suspicious enough to start looking at Montes. "There could have been some evidence that the Cubans acted on some information Montes gave them and the U.S. noticed and began looking for a leak," Richelson hypothesizes. "Alternatively, there could have been a penetration of the Cuban [intelligence] services by the U.S. that revealed her existence."
Finally, apart from showing the world once again that U.S. intelligence agencies are highly penetrable, of what real use was Montes to the Cubans?
"It was probably of greater propaganda value to the Cubans in the intelligence area in terms of their status within the rest of the Cuban government," says Richelson, who believes that the damage Montes might have caused doesn't even approach what Robert Hanssen did. Throughout the entire Montes case, the Cuban government, and its representatives in Washington, declined to comment.
Others say the real prize in all this, little diminished by the conviction of Montes, is the influence on attitudes of those in the U.S. political establishment towards Cuba. The bottom line there is that the U.S. embargo is still in effect, but emergency relief was allowed last year by the Bush administration after a hurricane devastated parts of Cuba. How much will change now that the war on terrorism seems likely to expand to other countries is anyone's guess.
The potential that fallout from the Montes case will hurt the Cubans probably depends less on the story she told than the one truth that has pervaded the relationship between Cuba and the United States: whenever either needs a bogeyman, the other is always available.


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The Mipcom TV mart rolls out the red carpet for Canada, the country of honor this year, with focused events and a major talent roster present for Monday's opening night shindig at the Martinez Hotel.
More than 250 Canadian production entities are registered, including some 100 first-timers, with the Pavilion hosting 70-plus Canuck companies. Canada had the fifth largest Mipcom contingent in 2011.
"Canada is one of the world's most vibrant centers of multi-platform content production," said Carolle Brabant, executive director of federal promo agency Telefilm Canada on Thursday. "We are the only country that benefits from bilateral co-production agreements with more than 50 countries, an approach whose value we were among the first to recognize."
Canuck fun kicks off Sunday at MipJunior with two showcases of multi-platform youth content and related discussion.
Monday and Tuesday will see the Fresh TV From Canada showcase, featuring three case-study talks on co-producing, a match-making event, a showcase on Canada's prominence in internationally recognized transmedia, and keynotes from industry honchos.
Red-carpet thesps include Francois Arnaud of "The Borgias," an Ireland-Hungary-Canada co-production; stars of medical drama "Saving Hope"; stars from soon-to-bow U.K.-Canada co-production "Primeval: New World"; Amber Marshall of CBC's "Heartland" (licensed in 115 countries); and David Sutcliffe and Stefanie von Pfetten of hot procedural property "Cracked," which bows on CBC in January with U.S. rights handled by eOne TV's Carrie Stein.
In a pre-Mipcom deal, White Pine Pictures' cop drama series "Cracked" has sold to Astral's Quebec fiction channel Series Plus.
"Cracked" is created by writer Tracey Forbes ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Calum de Hartog.


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Marc Camoletti's popular stage farce Boeing Boeing is watered down and realigned into a Tony Curtis/Jerry Lewis vehicle. Curtis plays an American journalist living in Paris; Lewis is his goonish (but surprisingly restrained) buddy. Partial to stewardesses, Curtis manages to juggle the affections of three luscious flight attendants (Dany Saval, Christiane Schmidtmer, and Suzanna Leigh), whose schedules are such that their visits to Curtis' bachelor pad never overlap. Complications ensue when the Boeing company speeds up its air service, and when Lewis tries to muscle in on Curtis' "racket." The best lines go to Thelma Ritter as Curtis' disapproving housekeeper.


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Tennessee Church Records
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Online Records[edit | edit source]
- 1816-1995 - Tennessee, Church Records, 1816-1995 - index and images, incomplete
Introduction[edit | edit source]
Church records and the information they provide vary greatly, depending upon the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation such as age; dates of birth, christening, baptism, or death; and marriage information, such as the bride's maiden name and the names of both sets of parents. Records may include other relatives who were witnesses or members of the congregation. The members of some churches were predominantly of one nationality or ethnic group.
Before 1900 the largest religious groups in Tennessee were the Baptist, Christian (Disciples of Christ), Methodist, and Presbyterian churches.[1] The Family History Library has copies of some original church records, as well as published transcripts and histories. An overview of the role of religion in Tennessee is in:
- Norton, Herman A. Religion in Tennessee, 1777–1945. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1981. FHL Book 976.8 K2n WorldCat 7272833
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The Tennessee State Library and Archives has pre-1900 records from 100 churches. An index to these records is:
- Sistler, Byron. Vital Statistics from 19th Century Tennessee Church Records. Nashville, Tennessee: Sistler, 1979. FHL Fiche 6088427,Volume 1, 4, and 6088428 Volume 2, 3, Book 976.8 K29s . The record is arranged alphabetically by surname. Entries may contain birth, marriage, death, and burial dates. The number following each entry refers to a microfilm number listed on the inside cover of the book.
Other sources for information on church records available at the Tennessee State Library and Archives include:
- Guide to Church Records at TSLA: Manuscripts & Books describes what they hold on microfilm, as manuscripts, and as published books. County-by-county, church-by-church listing with description and the the years covered.
- Tennessee Diaries, Memoirs and Church Records in the Manuscript Division, Tennessee State Library and Archives: Listed by County. Nashville, Tenn.: Manuscript Division, 1965. Digital versions of this guide are available at Ancestry ($); and Heritage Quest Online ($).
Some denominations have collected their records in central repositories. You can write to the following addresses to learn where their records are located.
Non-Denominational[edit | edit source]
Baptist[edit | edit source]
Baptist minutes, membership lists, and other records were kept by the clerk of each congregation. Many clerks considered their papers their personal property and upon their deaths their papers often became the property of their descendants. As a result, many early Baptist records were lost or remain unaccounted for. A few clerks passed their records to their successors and the records remained with the church. Some Baptist records have been donated to public libraries or historical and genealogical societies.
The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives is the repository for many Southern Baptist congregations in the South. To request a search of these records, you must have the name and location of the church. The address of the historical library and archive is:
Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives
The Southern Baptist Convention Building
901 Commerce Street #400
Nashville, TN 37203
Telephone: 1-615-244-0344
Baptists published a religious newspaper known as The Tennessee Baptist. Issues from 1835 to 1900 have been reproduced on 4 CDs. To learn more, visit the Baptist History Homepage.
An 1899 directory of Baptist ministers lists biographical details about many ministers born or serving in the state:[3]
- The Ministerial Directory of the Baptist Churches in the United States of America. Oxford, Ohio: Ministerial Directory Co., 1899. Digital version at Google Books.
The following contain brief descriptions of Baptist churches in Tennessee at the end of the 1930s and describe the records that were available then:
- Inventory of the Church Archives of Tennessee: Tennessee Baptist Convention, Nashville Baptist Association. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee Historical Records Survey Project, 1939. FHL film 874326 Item 3; fiche 6046958,set of 2; book 976.8 K2hb .
- Inventory of the Church Archives of Tennessee: Tennessee Baptist Convention, Ocoee Baptist Association. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee Historical Records Survey Project, 1942. FHL Film 874326 item 2; fiche 6046991,set of 4; book 976.8 K2hba .
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)[edit | edit source]
Early church records, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for Tennessee Wards and Branches can be found on film and are located at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The film numbers, for each ward, can be locate through the FamilySearch Catalog . Or by refering to Jaussi, Laureen R., and Gloria D. Chaston. Register of Genealogical Society Call Numbers. 2 vols. Provo, Utah: Genealogy Tree, 1982. FHL book 289.3 J327r. These volumes contain the film numbers for many (but not all) membership and temple record films.
Disciples of Christ[edit | edit source]
Disciples of Christ Historical Society
1101 Nineteenth Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37212-2196
Telephone: 1-866-834-7563 (toll free)
Jewish[edit | edit source]
Jewish Federation of Nashville Middle Tennessee Library and Archives
801 Percy Warner Boulevard, Suite 102
Nashville, TN 37205
Telephone: 1-615-356-3242 x255
Fax: 1-615-352-0056
A description of Jewish organizations and an inventory of their records as of 1941 is:
- Inventory of the Church Archives of Tennessee: Jewish Congregations. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1941. FHL film 874326 Item 5; book976.8 K2hj
Lutheran[edit | edit source]
The repository for Lutheran Church records in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean synods is at:
James R. Crumley, Jr. Archives
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
4201 North Main Street
Columbia, SC 29203
Telephone: 803-786-5150 x234
E-mail: email@example.com
A collection of vital statistics of east Tennessee Lutheran Churches is:
- Daughters of the American Revolution, General James Breckinridge Chapter (Roanoke, Virginia). Marriages, Births and Deaths from Virginia and East Tennessee Lutheran Church in America Records. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971. FHL film 858645 Item 2
- Henkel, Socrates. History of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod. New Market, Virginia, Henkel, 1890. Free digital copy, courtesy: Internet Archive.
Methodist[edit | edit source]
Tennessee is served by three Methodist conferences that oversee the missions and business of the church. The conferences have collected records from churches that have closed. Records of existing congregations are generally still in the churches.
The Holston Conference oversees the eastern third of the state, the Tennessee Conference oversees the middle third, and the Memphis Conference oversees the western third.
Holston Conference
P.O. Box 850
Alcoa, TN 37701
Telephone: 1-866-690-4080
Fax: 1-865-690-3162
The Kelly Library of Emory and Henry College houses the archives of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church:
Kelly Library
Emory and Henry College
P.O. Box 948
30480 Ambrister Drive
Emory VA 24327
Telephone: 1-540-944-6668
Tennessee Conference
520 Commerce Street, Suite 205
Nashville, TN 37203
Telephone: 1-615-263-0518 (call to make an appointment)
Memphis Conference United Methodist Archives
Luther L. Gobbel Library
Lambuth University
705 Lambuth Boulevard
Jackson, TN 38301
Telephone: 1-901-425-3270
Lambuth University Library houses an excellent collection of original Methodist newspapers, such as The Nashville Christian Advocate. Death notices and obituaries for prominent Methodists from all over the region appeared in these newspapers. FHL has acquired abstracts and indexes:
- Smith, Jonathan K.T. Genealogical Abstracts from Reported Deaths, the Louisville and Nashville Christian Advocate and the Nashville Christian Advocate. [1852-1856] Jackson, Tenn.: J.K.T. Smith, 1997. FHL book 976.855/N1 V48sj.
- Smith, Jonathan K.T. Genealogical Abstracts from Reported Deaths, the Nashville Christian Advocate. [1847-1914] 10 vols. [Jackson, Tenn.]: J.K.T. Smith, 1997-2003. book 976.855/N1 V48s 1847-1851; free digital versions at David Donahue Memorial: Tennessee Records Repository.
For a general history of early Methodism in Tennessee, see:
- McFerrin, John B. History of Methodism in Tennessee 1783-1818. 2 vols. Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1869-1871. Digital version of Vol. 1 at Google Books; digital versions of Vol. 2 at Google Books, Internet Archive.
Presbyterian[edit | edit source]
The records of the Presbyterian Churches are kept in the individual congregations. When a congregation wants to have records archived or when a church closes, records are sent to:
Presbyterian Historical Society
425 Lombard Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
Telephone: 1-215-627-1852
Fax: 1-215-627-0509
Records for the Cumberland Presbyterian Church are sent to:
The Historical Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America
The Historical Library and Archives
8207 Traditional Place
Cordova, TN 38016
Telephone: 1-901-276-8602
Fax: 1-901-272-3913
E-mail: email@example.com
These archives collect papers of ministers; and session, trustee, and women's missionary society records. These records may contain baptisms, marriages, and communions of members. The staff at the archives does not do research; however, you can do research in person for a small fee.
The Presbyterian Church in Tennessee is coordinated by the Louisville Presbyterian Seminary. The library of the seminary does not collect records of any congregation, but it does have ministerial directories with information on many ministers. The staff of the library can direct you to congregations in the state where records are. Direct your inquiries to:
Louisville Presbyterian Seminary
1044 Alta Vista Road
Louisville, KY 40205
Telephone: 1-502-895-3411; 1-800-264-1839 (toll free)
Fax: 1-502-895-1096
For a history of early Tennessee Presbyterians, see:
- McDonnold, Benjamin Wilburn. History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Second Edition, Nashville, Tennessee: Board of Publication of Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1888. FHL film 369750; book 976 K2m.
A collection of genealogical abstracts of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee is:
- Eddlemon, Sherida K. Genealogical Abstracts of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church: 1836 and Beyond. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage, 1995. WorldCat 33036632FHL book 976 K2es.
- Boisen, Anton T., A Rural Survey in Tennessee. New York: Redfield Borther, Inc., 1912. Free digital copy, courtesy: Internet Archive.
- Alexander, John Edministon A Brief History of the Synod of Tennessee, from 1817 to 1887. MacCalla and Company, 1890. Free digital copy, courtesy: Google Books.
Roman Catholic[edit | edit source]
Records of existing Catholic parishes are generally kept in the individual churches, though copies of sacramental records are sent to the appropriate diocese. Sacramental records include baptisms and confirmations. They may contain names of godparents or information about marriages or burials.
The diocesan archives also have some school records. Requests for genealogical searches must be submitted in writing. To receive death information, you must include proof of your relationship to the deceased. The state of Tennessee is served by three Catholic dioceses.
The Diocese of Knoxville serves East Tennessee (Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Cumberland, Fentress, Greene, Hamblen, Hamilton, Hancock, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, Marion, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Pickett, Polk, Rhea, Roane, Scott, Sequatchie, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, Washington counties).[4]
- Diocese of Knoxville
805 Northshore Drive Southwest
Knoxville, TN 37919
Telephone: 865-584-3307
Fax: 865-584-7538
The Diocese of Nashville serves Middle Tennessee (Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Macon, Maury, Montgomery, Moore, Overton, Perry, Putnam, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Van Buren, Wayne, White, Williamson, Wilson counties).[4]
- Diocese of Nashville
The Catholic Center
2400 Twenty-first Avenue, South
Nashville, TN 37212-5387
Telephone: 1-615-383-6393
Fax: 1-615-292-8411
The Diocese of Memphis serves West Tennessee (Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale, McNairy, Madison, Obion, Shelby, Tipton, Weakley counties).[4]
- Diocese of Memphis
The Catholic Center
5825 Shelby Oaks Drive
Memphis, TN 38134-7316
Telephone: 1-901-373-1200
Fax: 1-901-373-1269
The dioceses of Tennessee are part of region five, with the archdiocese at:
- Archdiocese of Louisville
P.O. Box 1073
Louisville, KY 40201-1073
Telephone: 1-502-585-3291
See Also[edit | edit source]
- Moore, John Trotwood and Austin P. Foster, editors. Tennessee: The Volunteer State, 1769-1923, 4 vols. Nashville: S.J.Clarke Publishing Co., 1923. [5]. This indexed four-volume set includes church information and Tennessee history in addition to three volumes of biographies.
- "Religion," inTennessee: A Guide to the State. Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Tennessee. American Guide Series. (No Place: New Deal Network, 1996) Original published: Tennessee: State of Tennessee. Department of Conservation, Division of Information, 1939. Available online. This chapter briefly describes the history of Tennessee's most common religions.
See the Tennessee Archives and Libraries article for facilities with regional collections which might include church histories and records. For more information on church records, see the United States Church Records article. The Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog lists more sources under:
External Links[edit | edit source]
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Tennessee Church Records, courtesy: Tennessee Genealogy.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ William Chamberlin Hunt and United States Bureau of the Census, Religious Bodies: 1906 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910), Vol. 1:354-357. Digital version at Google Books.
- ↑ Ruth E. Browning, Name Index to the Christian Messenger at http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/resources/index/index.html
- ↑ Davis points out that not all ministers participated, see: Robert S. Davis, "Some Baptist Ministers of South Carolina at the Turn of the Century," The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Winter 2004):13-22. FHL Book 975.7 B2sc v. 32
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Map of the Roman Catholic Dioceses in the United States of America, Office of Catholic Schools Diocese of Columbus, accessed 3 Nov 2010.
- ↑ FHL Book 976.8 D3m v. 1-4


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Delocated star and creator Jon Glaser has been a fixture of the comedy community for well over a decade: He started at Chicago's Second City; joined the now-storied writing staff of The Dana Carvey Show, alongside Louis C.K., Robert Carlock, and other greats; and went on to write for Late Night with Conan O' Brien for a half-decade. But this year is shaping up to be his biggest yet. In the past two months alone he's had roles on Girls (as Hannah's former-addict neighbor Laird) and Parks and Recreation (as the show's only villain, Councilman Jamm). And although his Adult Swim program is coming to an end March 7, it had a good three-year run. With all this going on, Vulture enlisted Eugene Mirman (Glaser's friend and repeat Delocated guest star) to check in on his fellow comic. Herewith, a slightly condensed version of their conversation, including a glimpse at Glaser's future as the improv king of Cancun.
Eugene Mirman: Um. All right. Well, I guess we just do this, right?
Jon Glaser: I guess so. What's your first question?
When's the first time you were like, I'm a comic and I'm fucking because I'm a comic?
How dare you, Eugene.
Okay: How do you feel about Delocated coming to a close?
Very bittersweet, of course. Certainly it was so much fun, and it's a bummer not to get to do any more [episodes], because it's enjoyable. But, you know, no complaints: It was a great run. They treated us very well. I got to make this weird, fun show and do it for three seasons, so can't really complain about that.
And they gave you a final episode.
Exactly. It wasn't "Oh! It's canceled, thanks." We got to make this finale episode, which I think turned out great. That's pretty awesome.
What made you want to do it as a Bourne Identity, amnesia revenge journey? What made you want to do that?
There were a bunch of ideas for a season four, had we gotten to do it. And then when we found out the show was not coming back, and we were doing this finale episode … so we were just trying to focus on what ideas might be the best or most enjoyable for the finale. It felt pretty organic and connected to what could have happened. Not that logic ever really matters on Delocated. We did a whole episode based on Face Off being real.
It does feel like a very natural, great conclusion. Like it's funny that it's so ridiculous, but you're like, Oh, that's how that would end.
[Honking in the background.] Oh my God, can you hear all that fucking honking? I'm trying to figure out who's doing the honking. Oh man.
I'm assuming where you are it's probably John Turturro honking at Steve Buscemi.
[Laughs.] "John Turturro and Steve Buscemi Engage in Honk Feud … "
The Park Slope Eagle reports.
[Both laugh.]
Let's talk about Girls. I just saw that episode. How was it doing that? How did that come about?
I just auditioned and got lucky enough to get it. They actually changed the role a little bit after I auditioned. It was originally just this dad and then it became a junkie. It was a dad who did drugs and dealt drugs and then it became …
A junkie that was recovering and lived downstairs.
Correct. It was a very good time. I really like that show a lot. Lena's great. All the producers, everyone was just cool and they were very nice to me. It's a very cool set.
Is it a set or is it on location?
It was a set that looks like an apartment. I don't think they would care about saying that.
It would be really funny if a show with constant frank nudity was like, Whatever you do, don't tell people we're on an actual set. A show that was that open about everything was like, We don't want people to know it's a fake café.
It all looks like that's a real apartment, but it's not. The drug store was an actual drug store. And then the artist's loft, that was not a set, that was on someone's actual big, beautiful apartment.
Are you in any more upcoming episodes?
I'm in one more.
Nice. That was shot for this season?
How did the part on Parks and Rec come about?
I got offered the role. I didn't have to audition. That was pretty cool. It came out of nowhere, and I just ended up doing a whole bunch. I actually just got back from being in L.A. for five weeks, doing a few more episodes. Thankfully my family came out. Otherwise it would have been a lot harder to be away.
Amy Poehler you've known for years. Did you start doing improv together? You know her from New York or Chicago?
I knew her from Chicago. Although, not that well in Chicago. But we did do a bit of work together in Chicago. Then I got to know her a lot better in New York when those guys, the UCB, moved here and started doing their shows and opened their theater. I've known her a while. One of the writers, Dan Goor, we overlapped very briefly at Conan. And Mike Schur, one of the show's creators, I know a little bit from when he was an SNL writer and I met him here in New York. I know Aziz. I know Nick Offerman a little bit. I know Aubrey Plaza from working on this really fun web series for ESPN called "Mayne Street."
What's it like being one of the last fifteen comics left in New York City?
It's very strange.
That's one of my questions.
It's weird. I mean, I bumped into Michael Showalter on the subway and we were having that discussion and came up with the funny idea of some type of show or web series about the last remaining few people in New York like me, him, you, H. Jon Benjamin. Even some people we have talked about have already moved to L.A. in the last few months.
We had a funny idea for a show called Stayin Put!
I hope Showtime is listening right now.
I'm essentially pitching this through this article, in hopes that someone will read it and go, Oh that sounds funny. I think it would truly be hilarious. We've been kind of talking about it for months. Like: Is this funny? Should we do this? It seems so dumb and funny to me. It would be about whoever's left in New York.
That's funny. Let's see who's reading this that buys it.
That's the new way to pitch shows: do an interview and discuss ideas, and it gets printed somewhere and someone either buys it or steals it.
I want to do a documentary of going to Russia. So somebody read this and give me, I guess, somewhere between half a million and 1 million dollars. I just pitched the budget. I don't know anything about production, but I think that sounds reasonable to me.
Well, I was going to pitch a show called Living in Cancun, where my family moves to Cancun. And then I open an improv theater down there. And it's like, How does this guy who's trying to be an actor and a comedian — how does he make it work it Cancun? So the show would move me from New York to Cancun, we get this condo, and then they just sort of see me like, How does he do it? Does he fly back and forth from Cancun to L.A. doing auditions? But also auditioning for things in Cancun? There's actually a show called Chiquitas which is sort of like Girls but it's in Cancun. It follows these twentysomethings in Cancun.
And to try to be a writer in Cancun.
And then there's a sort of similar Parks and Rec show in Cancun, and I've gotten a role on that. And I just try to get shows based on the shows that I've already done.
I have actually a similar show to Delocated but it takes place in Nice, France. So hopefully someone will move me there and buy that.
Hopefully some weirdo billionaire will read this and go, You know what, he was probably kidding but I'm going to call him on it and see if he actually will do it. I'll pay for him to live in Cancun. Even if someone came to me and said that, I couldn't imagine saying yes. Because then we're just in Cancun — no friends, we're just there by ourselves.
Yeah, you'd have to make friends in the improv community.
First, I'd have to make the improv community, then become friends with some of those people. I guess I'd become like Sammy Hagar, right?
Did he create a community of rockers?
Didn't he open Cabo Wabo? Isn't that like a tequila place or something like that? In Cabo St. Lucas?
I think it's easier to open a tequila place in Mexico than an improv theater?
I disagree, and I'm going to take you up on that challenge. If Sam called it Cabo Wabo, I'll call mine the Cancun Saloon. Cabo Wabo you got some competish: Jon Glaser's Cancun Saloon.
[Laughs.] Seven nights of improv.
Man, oh man. Cancun Saloon! And I'll come back to America and do my all-star band called Chicken Leg or whatever that band was he did.
Who was in that? Roy Orbison and Slash … I can't remember. [Both laugh.] What if Chicken Leg and the Traveling Wilburys
formed a more super band?
[Laughs.] Chicken Wilburys. The Traveling Chickenburys. What was that band called? Chicken Hawk?
There definitely was Chicken leg. I think you're right.
Chicken Leg? Man, oh man. [Editor's note: Sammy Hagar's band was called Chickenfoot.]
I think it was mostly guitars.
Cancun Saloon will just be me and Benjamin and Todd Barry.
The thing is there's probably already a place called that.
Called what? Cancun Saloon?
I bet that's already a place. If you Googled it, we'd be like, Oh, we just provided 45 minutes of free Cancun Saloon advertising.
I'm doing it … right now.
It's going to be a place, but it's going to be a place in San Diego.
Cancun Saloon. Restaurant in Hamer, South Carolina. Cancun Saloon, Hamer and in all caps CLOSED. Yelpers report this place has closed.
I guess you do have a shot then.


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Sergio R. Rodriguez, the Republican candidate for mayor, was sued by New York State in 2008 for nonpayment of college expenses.
Rodriguez paid the overdue bill last year, just months before he announced his candidacy for mayor, and now admits he made a mistake in not addressing the issue sooner.
"I dropped the ball," he said. "I neglected to pay."
Rodriguez's legal fight with the state began when he failed to pay $4,800 in overdue expenses at Empire State College. The suit was filed in Albany County by then-Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the current governor.
The state sued him in March of 2008, and more than four years passed before Rodriguez satisfied the $6,365 judgment against him. The judgment included interest and court costs.
"It's basically a student loan I neglected to pay," he said.
Rodriguez said the dispute is rooted in two Empire State College courses he enrolled in but did not attend. He admits that he failed to withdraw from the courses and that he was ultimately responsible for the unpaid expenses.
"I'm not disputing that," he said. "I'm responsible."
Court papers connected with the State Supreme Court suit indicate that the Attorney General's Office looked into Rodriguez's military status as part of the case, but it's not clear why.
A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said he could not comment because of privacy policies.
Rodriguez, a Marine veteran, said he was not aware of any link between his military service and the 2008 lawsuit regarding his enrollment at Empire State College.
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8 Days til Opening Day Contest: Guess how many HR
If you read this blog regularly during the baseball season, you often only read about my glove work and snagging. That's only part of what I love about baseball. I also love hitting. Ever since I was little I loved hitting, I would often go to an empty field and hit off of a tee or throw balls up and hit them just to practice my swing and try to hit balls over fences. Hitting home runs is something I've always enjoyed.
Today was a rather nice day in the Pittsburgh area, so Amy, Olivia and I headed to a park.
I brought along my bat and 17 baseballs to practice my home run swing and try and hit some deep flies. I did ok in the first round until I tweaked my back because my front foot slid while I was swinging, thanks to a ridiculously wet infield.
I was still able to swing ok with just a little discomfort, so I decided to continue with my hitting.
The field that I hit at is a large space where three little league fields converge. I moved to the right field corner of this field to hit with the intent of hitting the balls over the backstop and dugout opposite me on the third baseline:
This was the view that I was looking at:
I stationed Amy ( who was holding our daughter Olivia) on the hill up above the dugout. I made sure that she was about 400 feet away or so and out of the range of getting drilled with a baseball. I then asked her to film me hitting my 17 baseballs.
This is the view from the fence that I was trying to hit it over. I stood at the base of the right field score board.
I measured the distance to be 275 feet from where I was standing to the backstop.
The contest is this: Guess, by posting a comment, how many baseballs (0-17) I hit over the fence on the fly for home runs.
Let's give you some biographical info so that you can make your best educated guess.
Height: 6'4″
Weight: 240 pounds
Bench press max: 285 pounds (I've been working on this all winter)
Bat Length: 33 inches
Bat Weight: 30 ounces
*Bat is BBCor standard.
If you need to see my swing, you can watch a video in this blog entry.
So, how many of the 17 balls ended up being home runs? Post your guess!
Contest overview:
-One guess per person
-There can be more than one winner.
-Guesses should be a number between 0-17.
-At the end of the contest, I will post a youtube video for you to watch the results – it's under 5 minutes long.
-The winners will be contacted by me via email, so make sure the email you use when leaving a comment is current.
-If you won and you don't get an email, check your spam folder.
So what will you win?
You'll get an unopened pack of vintage baseball cards from 1985-1995, AND a Dave Matthews Band DVD. The DVD is not a copy, its an actual pressed DVD! Why? Because I love Dave Matthews Band too, not just baseball.
Leave a comment to enter!
Good luck and thanks for reading!
Here's the video: Remember, whoever guessed it dead on wins, if not, the next closest guess wins:
Count 'em up! (You may want to make it full screen, I'm like a spec off in the distance)
I realize now it's a little tough to tell. I hit 12 out of 17 for homers. Connor picked 13, Casey Ward 11, so you both win! Check your email.


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There aren't too many addictive Passover treats. On Chanukah I love my doughnuts and on Shavuot, I am a slave to my cheesecake, scooping up a spoonful every time I pass the fridge. Most families have a special Rosh Hashanah apple cake or strudel that they couldn't live without. On Passover, we slog through the holiday, making the culinary best of things, but we are perfectly happy to say goodbye to our Passover foods the second the holiday is over.
This year I am calling for the end of the hunger games. All year long I preach that there is no reason why parve desserts have to be inferior to dairy desserts. Now I am telling you that with the right Passover treats, you can have a smile on your face for eight days and you won't feel like killing anyone.
Last year I gave you Passover granola, which I keep in baggies in my purse throughout the holiday, eating handfuls and leaving a trail of crumbs everywhere I go. This year I offer up raspberry honey marshmallows that are pretty, sweet, gluten-free and highly addictive.
I am not the only one who appreciates the need for a unique treat on Passover. I discovered a pastry chef in New York City who has the same idea. In addition Ram Caterers of New york runs a kosher for Passover program at Miami's Fountainbleu Hotel and offers Passover whoopie pies, cupcakes jelly doughnuts and their own versions of Ring Dings and Devil Dogs. This past week, I really should have been home in Maryland scrubbing, shopping and preparing for Passover. Instead, I was in New York City for the annual International Association of Culinary Professional (IACP) conference, which started sweetly with a walking pastry and chocolate tour of lower Manhattan and ended with my asking Martha Stewart about Passover desserts on her TV show.
At first I thought the tour would feature exclusively chocolate Easter eggs. Two pastry shops were already offering Passover desserts, albeit ones not certified kosher for Passover. I am always looking for ideas to bring to the kosher community. Jacques Torres had several flavors of chocolate covered matzoh, including one containing chili powder called "Wicked", a nod to the wicked son we read about in the Haggadah.
The next place we visited was Francois Payard who personally gave us a tour of his bakery. One of his chefs was working on nothing other than Passover cookies. He was piping an almond cookie batter onto sheets in a fleur de lys shape. When I asked Francois about his chocolate-covered matzohs, he handed me his Passover specialty: two graham cracker-sized matzohs with caramel between them that was enrobed in chocolate. Whenever anyone mentions caramel matzoh, I am always reminded of Marcy Goldman's famous caramel matzoh crunch that has been a staple in my house for 20 years. My friend, and fellow Jewish cookbook author, Tina Wasserman, says that in her family it is the Passover equivalent of a highly addictive drug. Francois's version was equally sinful, but as it is dairy, it is kind of cheating. Watch for another Passover posting next week when I will try to post my own parve version of Passover caramel matzoh sandwiches (working title, suggestions welcome).
Let the sweet games begin. Happy Passover!
Raspberry Honey Marshmallows
Makes at least 35 1- 1 ½ inch marshmallows
Prep time 20 minutes; they need to sit overnight
The first time I ever
saw homemade marshmallows was in Paris in 2008 and I could not believe the variety of flavors offered including olive oil, basil and vanilla, and coffee. The trend started coming here a year or two later and then finally to the kosher world. The biggest challenge was finding a substitute for corn syrup which featured prominently in every marshmallow recipe I found. I decided to try honey instead and was surprised that it actually worked. You should taste the raspberries before you puree them and add confectioner's sugar to adjust the flavor to your taste. You can also make them with strawberry purée.
3 envelopes unflavored gelatin powder
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup honey
¼ teaspoon salt
12 ounces fresh raspberries
½ cup plus 4 tablespoons confectioner's sugar, divided
Place the gelatin powder in the bowl of a stand mixer. Pour ½ cup cold water over the powder and let sit for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, place the raspberries and two or more (depending on tartness of the berries) tablespoons of confectioner's sugar into the bowl of a food processor and process until completely puréed, scraping down the bowl several times. Strain into another bowl and set aside.
Place the sugar, honey, salt and ¼ cup water into a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil and then cook until the mixture reaches 250°F, using a candy thermometer to check the exact temperature. Use the wire whisk attachment on the mixer and turn on to low speed, starting to mix the gelatin. While the mixer is going, slowly pour the hot mixture down the side of the bowl into the gelatin, not onto the wire whisk where it will get stuck. When it is all poured in, turn the speed up to medium high for 12 full minutes until the mixture gets very thick and fills up the mixing bowl. Meanwhile cover a 9 X 13 inch pan with a piece of parchment paper large enough to cover the bottom and go up all the sides. Using a sieve, dust the bottom on the pan with ¼ cup confectioner's sugar.
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Take a large piece of parchment and use a sieve to dust half of another ¼ cup confectioner's sugar to cover the parchment. Use the parchment edges to life the marshmallow out of the pan and onto the sugar-coated parchment. Use scissors, a pizza wheel or sharp knife to cut into squares or any shape or use cookie cutters to cut out fun shapes (eat the scraps). Place the remaining confectioner's sugar into a bowl and dust every cut marshmallow to coat all sides with sugar. Use the sieve to shake off excess. Store in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks. May be frozen.


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BOISE — A bill designed to protect Idaho wineries and grape growers from unintended consequences license issues has been introduced in the Idaho Senate.
The bill would allow the harvest and production of winegrapes, as well as bottling operations, to continue even if a winery were to have its license suspended, revoked or not renewed for any reason.
Under current Idaho law, all of a winery's manufacturing, bottling and sales and distribution operations must be halted in such cases.
The proposed update to Idaho law only deals with a winery's manufacturing and bottling operations and not to its sales and distribution operations.
"An Idaho winery has a lot of different moving parts," Idaho Wine Commission Legislative Educator Roger Batt told members of the Senate State Affairs Committee, which unanimously voted to print the bill. "When you shut down a winery, you also shut down the farming and bottling portions of that operation."
Batt said the legislation is important because if the bottling and manufacturing operations of a winery are shut down, "then the farming contracts that the winery has with the producers basically are void and nobody gets paid."
He said there have been two recent incidents where a winery's license was not renewed because the owner moved to another residence and didn't get their license renewal notices through the mail in time. In both cases, all operations were shut down for a period of time.
Luckily, he added, that didn't happen during harvest time.
If it did, "It would be extremely detrimental to that winery because you could lose a partial amount or maybe all of your crop for that production year," he said. "That would set the winery back so much that in the case of small wineries, it would probably close them down permanently."
The legislation was proposed by the wine commission, which represents wine producers and grape growers in Idaho.
IWC Executive Director Moya Shatz-Dolsby said the change to Idaho law is crucial to protect the state's fast-growing wine industry.
If a winery's manufacturing and bottling operations did cease because a license wasn't renewed in time, "It could really put a damper on a winery's operations; it would be devastating," she said. "The wine is a living thing; you can't just not do anything with it for weeks or months until you get your license back."


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The following is adapted from my upcoming book, The View From Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, which will be published by Henry Holt in the fall. This excerpt is a little long for a blog—but very short for a book.
An Environmentalist Looks at the Supreme Court's Corporate Money "Decision"
Carl Safina
The modern environmental movement originated as a response to unregulated pollution. But more important than its origin, even more important than the movement itself, is when and where that origin was possible. Environmental movements arose not in the most polluted places on Earth, but in the most democratic, including the United States, Canada, and western Europe. The growth of environmental activity elsewhere often paralleled the overthrow of authoritarian and military regimes and the rise of democracies. When Vaclav Havel became president of a newly democratic Czechoslovakia in 1990, he lamented to the Czech people, "We have laid waste to our soil and the rivers and forests… and we have the worst environment in the whole of Europe today." The previous repressive regime's suppression of citizen groups, the press, universities, and other potential sources of objection allowed it to pollute with impunity while people stood powerless. Nature is most abused where human rights are most abused. A country serves justice, or it doesn't. When it doesn't, it poisons air, water, and soul alike. When it does, the environment becomes a key toward unlocking justice—but free people must hold those keys.
Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, community, education, family, health, economy, easing poverty—these comprise one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from—compassion.
The main point of a democracy—protecting the best interests of the many from the greed of a few—is accomplished by having "the many" run the government. The social contract is that people voluntarily give some rights to a citizen-run government that serves social order and the public interest. That was the idea.
But the body politic has a parasitic infestation that bleeds us weak. Just look at the multinational corporations, corporate lobbying, and the resulting taxpayer subsidies that flow.
Political institutions can't correct these economic forces—or even stop feeding corporations with public money—because they've been captured by them. Each year globally, governments pay $700 billion in subsidies that help pay people to over-pump groundwater, over-cut forests, over-fish oceans, and overuse fuel. The world taxes itself to pay for its own destruction. That's the worst kind of socialism, brought to us by the worst kind of capitalists.
Modern corporations were essentially illegal at the founding of the United States. (The colonists had had enough of British corporations.) In the new country, corporations could form, raise public capital, and share profits with stockholders only for specified activities that benefited the public, such as constructing roads or canals. Corporate licenses were temporary. Corporations were forbidden from attempting to influence elections, law-making, public policy, and civic life. Imagine.
But from the beginning, corporate-minded men chafed for power, prompting Thomas Jefferson to write in 1816, "I hope we shall… crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
For the first century after the American Revolution, legislators maintained control of the corporate chartering process. Then they essentially lost it as series of court decisions established corporate "rights" and corporate "personhood." These have been catastrophic for democracy, with planetary implications.
We didn't need the U.S. Supreme Court to tell us that corporations have the same rights of "free speech" as real persons. Of course they do—much freer in fact than normal humans, since they can buy air time and advertising, dose candidates with fairy dust, and mobilize paid persuaders in quantities out of the orbit of the budget of any real real person. Corporations have free speech. Normal humans, not so much.
Our problems are not the inevitable price of progress. They are the eventual cost of stupidity, ideology, superstition, greed—the list is short. The problems spawned, vast. They're intractable, but not because we lack know-how. Intractable because we can't find the sense that informs the will.
The 1980s saw the democratization of greed. That avuncular Trojan Horse of corporate greed, Ronald Reagan, helped replace the ethic of "all for one and one for all" with "all for me," immortalized by the movie Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, who says: "Greed is good. Greed works. Greed is right." Be greedy and feel good about yourself. Everyone wanted to feel good about themselves, so a generation embraced greed.
Bill Clinton got seduced by de-regulation's easy feel-good, as did the unmentionable administrations that bookended his. The only problem was, the regulations they all deregulated were built up over a century for a very good reason: the public needs to defend itself against greedy excess.
All in all, deregulation dealt a devastating blow to the social contract and the idea that we're all in America together, with both feet. The divisive partisanship, the scream-radio freak-show, and the fiscal recklessness that followed were an inevitable result of the lost discipline and the lost sense of common-cause. And by the time everyone realized their pockets had been fleeced, the fleecers had fled, beyond law, beyond regulation—beyond national borders. But not everyone lost out; you glimpse a winning ticket, for example, every time you read the words, "Made in China."
Corporations have swept real economic and political power away from most governments. Of the hundred wealthiest countries and corporations listed together, more than half are corporations. Exxon Mobil is richer than 180 countries—and there are only about 195 countries. Without the responsibilities or costs of nationhood, corporations can innovate and produce at unprecedented speed and scale. Yet they can also undertake acts of enormous social and environmental destruction and report a profit.
The behavior of corporations arises from their wide freedom of action and their limited liability for harms caused. Further, shareholders "own" and profit by the corporation, but "limited liability" means shareholders can lose no more than the money invested; they aren't held responsible for anything the corporation does. If they were, stockholders might know what companies they "own" and why. They might demand corporate responsibility. They might invest more carefully. But because they're not, they don't. Further, if a corporation can make a larger profit by wrecking a community, the law says it must.
Perhaps the most famous case in corporate law was decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan in 1919 when Henry Ford got sued by the Dodge brothers (yes, those Dodge brothers) Ford wanted to plow profits back into the company and its employees. "My ambition is to employ still more men," Ford had been quoted as saying, "to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this we are putting the greatest share of our profits back in the business." The judges posed a short question: what is a corporation for? The judges answered themselves by saying corporations are "primarily for the profit of the stockholders" Not for employees or communities. Corporate managers—regardless of personal scruples or desire to 'do good'—are forced to put profits always first.
The profit-maximization imperative creates continuous pressure to dump waste in the public commons, and to shift the resulting costs to the public through subsidies, tax-funded pollution clean-ups and such. Where dumping waste is illegal, corporations may be fined for violations. Such fines often become "a cost of doing business," while shareholders know corporations never get sent to jail, and that some are "too big (to be allowed) to fail." To the extent governmental regulations get annoying, corporate appetites engulf those too, backing and basically installing cooperative elected officials, then stoking themselves with subsidies, and then coercing the removal of regulatory "barriers" (formerly: "public protections").
In real life as we know it, the profit-maximization imperative means that any company seeking to act responsibly incurs a competitive disadvantage. The implications are generally a cascade of catastrophes, because it means, essentially, that all the money in the world is under pressure to act irresponsibly. Any other impulse must buck that tide.
Now, the Supreme Court has sent America a new blast of partisan hot air that has caused corporate money to burst the century-old levees that had so tenuously restrained it within such imperfect channels. Who does not fear this? It is hard to see how democracy won't be catastrophically flooded, and the voices of real people utterly drowned, in the oncoming deluge of corporate cash.


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Native Mascots and Imagery: An Ethical Discussion
Indian Country Today
The Adrian College Institute for Ethics, in Adrian, Michigan, will hold a forum titled Native American Mascots and Imagery: An Ethical Discussion today, April 23, at 7:00 p.m. in Dawson Auditorium on the campus of the college.
Recently, two area school districts were named in a recent Michigan Department of Civil Rights suit regarding Native American mascot and imagery usage. The action raises the stakes of the controversy beyond the local communities. According to a press release, the forum is intended to encourage discussion and clarify this challenging issue. Panelists on both sides of the discussion will be represented. Invited panelists include a representative from the Michigan Civil Rights Department, the Leh-Nah-Weh Native American Organization, the NAACP and community members from both Tecumseh and Clinton, Michigan, home to the school districts named in the Department of Civil Right's suit.
This moderated forum will focus on open, free and honest discussion of the ethical dimensions of the issue. Topics include: What defines discrimination? What is the relationship to usage of mascots/imagery with county identity? What does it mean to "honor" Native Americans? In what way do mascots/imagery honor or dishonor them? There will be time after the discussion for questions from the audience.
This forum will be co-sponsored by the Institute for Ethics and the Adrian College Institute for Education. For additional information, contact Dr. Fritz Detwiler at email@example.com.


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Psychic Stalking
Posted 14 June 2006 - 01:39 PM
I had never heard of this and I haven't heard of it since losing touch with my friend. Now that time has passed, I find myself thinking about that episode and wondering ...is this possible? Could her friend REALLY have been harrassing her and her boyfriend psychically? Or do you think it was more than likely spells she was casting? Or a combination of the two? Psychic powers AND Black Magic spells? This is all very new to me and hard for me to understand. It seems so bizarre.
My friend was a very level-headed and nice person. I doubt she was lying to me but could it have been just paranoia?
Posted 14 June 2006 - 01:46 PM
Posted 14 June 2006 - 02:43 PM
IMHExperience, it's really not to hard to do shielding or to set up wards that almost anything negative will just bounce off of. It takes more energy to send off something negative than it does to send off something positive. Anything that would do harm is harder to deal with the energy bouncing back to the sender.
I know a Native American shaman who has AOL CDs (you know, the ones with "UMTEEN hours FREE")
hanging in the windows and from some of the trees in his yard. He uses the reflective surfaces to baffle the negative vibes from the neighborhood. (I'd call it "Environmental art" or "Installation art" )
Posted 14 June 2006 - 02:52 PM
I dream I'm this adventurer. This daredevil, a madman. The Doctor, I'm called. And last night, I dreamt that you were there. As my companion.
He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And... he's wonderful
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause-of-effect...but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly...timey-wimey...stuff.
Posted 14 June 2006 - 02:55 PM
Making the boyfriend ill is possible...I know, I've done it before.
I accidentally scared the out a boyfriend I was mad at: I was home watching TV and FUMING at him in my mind.
At his upper flat across town, he AND HIS flatmates heard me call to him from the hallway, they called me in a panic to make sure I was ok. We made up shortly after that.
Edited by trin, 14 June 2006 - 02:55 PM.
Posted 14 June 2006 - 09:14 PM
I believe anything is possible.
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Posted 15 June 2006 - 04:26 AM
What she is referring to is psychic attack. This is very possible and does happen. I would suggest to tell your friend if she has anything that this woman gave her she should throw it out immediately. Those that practice the black arts can "charm" certain items to the point where they can watch what another person is doing. They can also conjure "imp" like creatures to toment others. They can also cast spells against people.
It would be a good idea for this woman to rid herself of anything this woman may have touched. If this woman does indeed practice the black arts I would stay away from her. Those people are pure evil in the sense that they think they can control others. They do possess the power to put ppl under psychic attack as well.
Life is like a roll of toilet paper; the closer it gets to the end the quicker it goes!
"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others" said the Wizard of Oz to the Tin Man.
Posted 15 June 2006 - 05:35 AM
This is a subject I do not like to speak of, but................
What she is referring to is psychic attack. This is very possible and does happen. I would suggest to tell your friend if she has anything that this woman gave her she should throw it out immediately. Those that practice the black arts can "charm" certain items to the point where they can watch what another person is doing. They can also conjure "imp" like creatures to toment others. They can also cast spells against people.
It would be a good idea for this woman to rid herself of anything this woman may have touched. If this woman does indeed practice the black arts I would stay away from her. Those people are pure evil in the sense that they think they can control others. They do possess the power to put ppl under psychic attack as well.
Thank you, Amethyst. I'll put this subject to rest now.
Posted 16 June 2006 - 09:29 PM
I would also try a cleansing...couldn't hurt to rid their surroundings of any negative residue. Salt...candles...anything to clear the air around them...
Posted 17 June 2006 - 03:12 PM
As far as psychic stalking I don't see why someone would bother, but I'm sure it's possible. There are some wierd people out there.
Posted 17 June 2006 - 06:44 PM
Saying this kind of person is taking wicca to the black side is like saying a satan worshipper is really a Christian they just take the beliefs to the black side. A satan worshipper is no more a Christian than these people messing with dark magic are wiccan.
These people are out there but they cannot call themselves wiccan. Wicca is not just working with magic. It is a belief system. If someone is working with dark magic and harming others then they are going against the entire belief system and cannot possibly be wiccan.
Any such person who calls themselves wiccan is either a liar or an idiot who has no idea what they're actually doing.
Posted 17 June 2006 - 08:50 PM
Posted 19 June 2006 - 04:56 AM
I find that few people take Wicca seriously. I used to be one, though I still follow most of the principles, and whenever someone found that out they'd be like "OMG!!! levitate me!!! or "Oh no, you're not gonna curse me are you??" Then of course i'd chuckle a bit and tell them they watch too much Charmed/Harry Potter.
Posted 19 June 2006 - 05:05 AM
I had one friend who was so confused by it all and I tried to be nice and educate her but she wouldn't shake the idea that I was going to curse her. It didn't matter how many times i tried to explain that isn't what the faith is about. She was terrified of a broom!! I keep a broom on a hook just inside my front door. Engraved into the handle, in the theban alphabet, is the wiccan rede. I tried to explain the wiccan rede is similar to the "do unto others as you'd have them do unto you" idea. But she was certain it was a curse.
So, I'm somewhat sensitive about the whole thing. I really get irritated when I hear about dark wiccans or wiccans who go around placing curses. Ugh! It makes no sense!!! I just wish people would learn more before they come to conclusions.
Posted 20 June 2006 - 11:50 AM
I consider myself to be Wiccan, but I am eclectic and do not believe everything exactly as it is presented, (but I mostly do). Some who say they are Wiccan, are actually into WitchCraft, and I do not think these are always the same, which can create much chaos and confusion for people new to The Craft and to Wicca. For instance, whether it be of Wiccan origin or of the Craft, the blessing, "May you never Hunger, May you never Thirst" could be interpreted as a death curse. Thoughts are things that carry energy and they can harm or heal.....What a person believes can easily become who they are. I guess I am saying, "be careful about these things and protect yourself legally, physically and magickally (or supernaturally, if you prefer). To that I wish to add only this; "Control your thoughts or someone else will." and "Don't believe everything you think!!!"
Posted 20 June 2006 - 02:22 PM
Posted 21 June 2006 - 06:47 AM
Here is one thing that I've always believed. No one can put a curse on you, and have it do you any harm, if you don't believe they can. They can scream curses at you until their blue in the face, but if you don't put stock into it, it won't harm you. Just my two cents :-).
Something to consider is this:
What if my belief is stronger than your disbelief?
Not that I would ever be stupid enough to try to curse someone, but it is something to think about.
Posted 21 June 2006 - 08:46 AM
Casting a spell on someone isn't easy to do. You must know what you are doing. Taking a spell someone else has writen will not work for you. A spell to be cast must come from the caster. Though playing with the Dark side comes at a price. If the spell back fires the the caster will find them selfs in a lot of trouble. You can not control the Dark side no matter what you think. A true pagan will tell you that using magic is very dangerous. It is only used for protection.
Posted 21 June 2006 - 09:02 AM
Posted 22 June 2006 - 09:17 AM
I agree with that. When I used to be Wiccan I found the inclusion of spellcasting quite ridiculous. It takes an emormous amount of concentration and puropose to get the spell to yield the results you want. And when you have these skills, you're so in tune with yourself that you don't even need spells anymore.
If you have truely learned a lesson from spellcasting then perhaps, it is not so ridiculous.
Not everyone is so intuned with themselves and the universe. The amount of time and effort involved is a way to focus one's own personal energy into the Spell. One lesson or (Wiccan Mystery, if you prefer) is that "you only get what you earn." Whatever you wish is not going to happen unless you are willing to put in the time and hard work necessary for a thing to manifest. When you finally understand that everything is magick, then you may wish to ponder if you are the recipient of a well-cast spell or the spellcaster him/herself. Another lesson in spell-casting is learning that if you don't have what the spell calls for, you use what you have.
I respect your opinion on spell-casting, but I totally disagree that it is ridiculous!!!


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Nearly 35 years ago, Chevy Chase became the first of many breakout stars on a breakout ensemble show – "Saturday Night Live" – leaving after a year of pratfalls and delivering the fake news to make movies.
It wasn't a bad run – "Foul Play," "Fletch" and the "Vacation" flicks offset less memorable fare like "Cops and Robbersons." But by the early 1990s, Chase had pretty much run his big-screen course, his stab at a late night talk show ended in quick disaster, and his name – unfairly, really – became a synonym for washed up.
Instead of the fall of Chevy Chase, we're now witnessing the rebirth: He's once again the breakout star of a breakout ensemble show, the quirky NBC comedy "Community."
Chase plays Pierce Hawthorne, the 60-something, oft-married, once-successful, now-clueless aging baby boomer trying to find a place among the rest of the misfits at a dysfunctional community college.
We get to see Pierce shouting at his cell phone, falling out of his seat, tripping over drums, and lumbering around stoned in a Beastmaster costume, as he offers misplaced advice.
Chase's character, which makes use of his long-dormant gifts for glibness and physical humor, isn't all that unlike Clark Griswold as a grandfather – an affable, if cranky, would-be sage only pretending to know where he's going and what he's doing.
Chase, as Us Magazine reported last week, is set to revive the Griswold character alongside his "Vacation" wife, Beverly D'Angelo, albeit in a HomeAway commercial set to air during the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, there's talk both could at least make a cameo in a movie sequel that's in development.
Suddenly it's cool to be Chevy Chase again – he played (or voiced) himself on a recent episode of "Family Guy" with Dan Aykroyd, spoofing their "Spies Like Us" days, and did a guest stint on "Chuck" last season.
In the most recent "Community," Chase's Pierce sits in the seat favored by Jeff (Joel McHale), the star of the show, and proceeds to imitate the self-centered character.
The bit got laughs, and signaled that whatever he's been through, even if he's not at the top of the credits, he's still Chevy Chase – and you're not.
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