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Taking time out over the holidays to reflect on the past year has become one of my favorite exercises. It helps to bring recent events into sharper focus and to better anticipate what the new year might hold. On a macro level, certainly the presidential election was the biggest event of 2012. Yet, there's very little left to say about it other than: Let's hope the slim majority of Americans know what they're doing.
On the independent advisory front, the story of the year has to be the non-story of the SRO that didn't happen—yet. While the future of advisor regulation is anything but certain, it seems as if the Pickett's Charge of FINRA trying to envelope RIAs into its regulatory ranks may have reached its high-water mark a bit short of its intended goal, just as Lee's army did in Pennslyvania 150 years ago. It's a turn of events that could afford independent advisors a brighter future than what was once considered the more likely alternative: a slow death at the hands of the FINRA bureaucracy, which has been one of the securities industry's goals at least since FINRA's predecessor, the NASD, tried to capture independent financial planners back in 1985.
FINRA's congressional campaign was dealt a major setback this fall when term limits ended Spencer Bachus' chairmanship of the House Financial Services Committee. Bachus, R-Ala., you may remember, is the sponsor of bill H.R. 4624, which calls for an SRO for RIAs, and he strongly supported FINRA to fill that role. Now, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, who is Bachus' heir-apparent, is rumored to be less than enamored with Bachus' SRO bill, which may not bode well for FINRA.
At the same time, in what (at least to this observer) appears to be an unprecedented act of political savvy, the Coalition for Financial Planning, which comprises the CFP Board, the FPA and NAPFA, is attempting to exploit FINRA's weakened position on the Financial Services Committee. Melanie Waddell, Washington bureau chief for Investment Advisor, originally reported in November that the Coalition is pushing for a bill in the Democratic-controlled Senate that would support the SEC continuing to regulate RIAs, with the authority to collect user fees to fund it (see "To Thwart SRO Bill, Coalition is Pressing for Senate User Fees Bill," AdvisorOne.com). The Coalition's strategy seems to be that presented with a bipartisan Senate SRO bill, the dwindling support for the Bachus bill in the House may evaporate altogether, leaving the SEC in charge of investment advisor regulation.
Of course, regulation by either FINRA or the SEC is a far cry from self-regulation for RIAs. The SEC retains close ties to the securities industry SRO, with many former FINRA executives and staffers filling key roles at the Commission, including outgoing Chairman Mary Schapiro, and Commissioner Elisse Walter, who will fill Schapiro's spot for at least a year. Consequently, despite its mandate to protect financial consumers, the SEC often exhibits a disturbing tilt toward the brokerage business model.
Still, the SEC would be a distinctly better regulator for independent RIAs than FINRA. For one thing, historically at least two of the five SEC commissioners are not openly pro-Wall Street, adding an important balance as the Commission traditionally tries to achieve a consensus on its more important decisions. What's more, for political reasons, the SEC strives to maintain, at a minimum, the semblance of impartiality (I believe the current catchphrase for this is "business model neutrality") in the actions it takes.
During the debate about the reregulation of advisors and brokers initiated by Dodd-Frank, this concept of being "business model neutral" has been used by pro-Wall Street proponents (both in and outside of the Commission) to support a watered-down version of a fiduciary standard for brokers, so as not to impair their ability to conduct business as usual. Ironically, in the discussion of increased regulation for investment advisors, business model neutral has become a two-edged sword: Now it's an argument in support of carefully considering any changes in the regulation of RIAs, many of whom practice in firms that are small businesses, which are very sensitive to any increases in costs, such as additional regulation. As many others have noted, it's very likely that many independent RIA firms would not survive the financial burden of a FINRA-style bureaucratic regulatory structure.
As I mentioned, this isn't the first time the securities industry has tried to gain control of the financial planning and advisory world through FINRA. Years ago, its motivation was the (quite astutely) perceived threat that the fledgling financial planning movement represented a more powerful way to distribute financial products than the traditional brokerage model. Today, the threat is independence.
With brokers breaking away from brokerage firms in droves to form their own RIA firms, Wall Street appears on the verge of panic. This time the threat is far more acute. In years past, the brokerage firms could write off defectors as unsuccessful brokers. In the '80s, the IAFP (the forerunner of the FPA) was known on Wall Street as the International Association of Failed Producers. Not anymore—today's breakaway brokers tend to be top producers with hundreds of millions, if not billions, of client assets under management. To my mind, FINRA's current usurpation of the Dodd-Frank mandated fiduciary standard for brokers and the "harmonization" of advisor regulation to gain control of the independent advisory industry is a transparent attempt to stop these defections by eliminating the independent alternative.
Rather than creating an opportunity for FINRA to finally gain control of independent advice, the Great Recession, which began in 2007, may have simply accelerated the inevitable decline of the retail brokerage model. The resulting, well-documented loss of confidence in Wall Street by the public, combined with increased awareness of the lack of fiduciary protections for brokerage clients, might have finally shifted public sentiment in favor of truly independent financial advice.
As regular readers of this column well know, I have long believed that the ability of brokers to render financial advice without the protections afforded the clients of RIAs was a mistake in the law (created by the "broker exemption" to the Investment Advisor Act of 1940). Perhaps it's wishful thinking on my part, but my hope is that this new realization of how Wall Street works will result in a new structure for the retail financial industry, possibly even a Glass-Steagall type of division that separates firms that create, package or market financial products from firms that deliver financial advisory services to clients.
I realize it's still a long way from here to there, from the slowing of FINRA's "advisory SRO" momentum to the complete separation of retail advice from sales. The fact that Elisse Walter, the most pro-Wall Street commissioner, is SEC chairman, doesn't appear to be a step in that direction. Still, if FINRA is indeed thwarted in its attempt to regulate RIAs in favor of the kinder, gentler SEC with a new mandate to collect fees to upgrade its efforts, that additional momentum might create a tipping point for the first real change in the delivery of financial advice in America in over 70 years.


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You can maintain your cat's overall health in two important ways: 1) schedule an annual preventive visit (including shots and an examination) with your veterinarian and other visits as needed and 2) perform daily home examinations -- petting and health care go hand in glove.
Do a nose-to-tail checkup every time you settle in with your cat for a loving session. Call your veterinarian if you detect any abnormalities during these regular checks. Start with the head. Are your cat's ears clean and pink? Do they give off an unpleasant odor? Have mites appeared as a black, waxy mess inside the ears? Are the eyes bright, clear, focused, and free of discharge? Are the gums pink and the teeth clean? Has tartar appeared along the gum line? Is your cat's breath inoffensive? Don't check a cat's nose to see if it's cold and damp -- contrary to myth, this is not a sign of health.
Proceed to a neck-to-tail inspection. Feel your cat's body for lumps, bumps, puffiness, sores, and any irregularities. Also look for flea dirt (which resembles black pepper and turns red when wet), scratches, and parasites. Be sure to check behind the ears, between the toes, and down the entire length of the tail.
Complete your ritual with a good brushing. Rubber curry brushes are excellent at removing dead skin cells and loose hair. Fine-toothed metal combs are specifically designed to lift fleas out of the coat.
It's important to brush your cat daily to remove as much loose hair as possible. When cats groom themselves, they ingest a great deal of hair, which is often vomited out as hairballs. If your cat brings up hair, talk to your veterinarian to evaluate the situation and find out about hairball remedies.
Keeping your cat's claws clipped is an important part of grooming. If not kept at the proper length, a cat's claws can actually grow into the paw pads, so attend to the claws weekly. If you have never trimmed a cat's claws, have your veterinarian show you how. Briefly, you should snip off just the sharp tip (about an eighth of an inch) of each claw. Do not clip into the pink section of the nail, where a blood vessel and nerve endings reside.
Often, people believe declawing is the only way to address inappropriate scratching. However, it can be a painful procedure for your cat, and it is almost always unnecessary. Cats can be easily trained to scratch only in appropriate areas, such as well-placed scratching posts.
All cat owners should have at least one book on cat care (recommended by their veterinarian) that includes a section on emergency first aid. Home care alone is not appropriate in most cases of serious illness or injury; there are some emergency procedures that could keep your pet relatively comfortable on the way to the veterinarian. Familiarize yourself with emergency procedures before an emergency happens.
Never give your cat any medications, including aspirin, without the advice of your veterinarian. Many common human drugs (like acetaminophen [Tylenol]) are poisonous to cats.
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A 178 page book that looks at the Gadar movement that started out in 1913, exactly 100 years ago. Gadar means mutiny, or revolution. In 1913 when the Gadar Party was formed in Oregon, it was intended as an armed struggle to overthrow the British who were ruling India. Through their mouthpiece, the Gadar newspaper, the Gadarites made their intentions clear. The British was their enemy and their goal was a United States of India.
A 208 page, glossy, all-colour, impactful coffee table format book on the Global Indian Diaspora that takes a look at key issues concerning overseas Indians through the eyes of the GOPIO (Global Organization of People of Indian Origin) and its top officers, life members and chapters. Also a summary of the Little India-s across the world, political stalwarts and Nobel winners of Indian origin.
Located in the south-western Indian Ocean, just 150 km away from Mauritius, this Overseas Department of France is a spectacular volcanic island with about 800,000 people, a third of whom are of Indian origin. The Indian origin people live like Europeans, think like Europeans, but have this deep desire to connect with India, the land of their ancestors. This 48-page magazine throws light on this lesser known place on the planet.


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Arts Extension (ARTX or A)
Batmale Hall (BATL or L)
Bungalow 201 - 716 (BNGL or B)
Cloud Hall (CLOU or C)
Conlan Hall (E)
Creative Arts (ART or A)
Diego Rivera Theatre (City Theatre)
Enviromental Horticulture & Floristry (EH/F)
Louise and Claude Rosenberg Jr. Library / Learning Resource Center (R)
Multi-Use Building (MUB)
Science Hall (SCIE or S)
Smith Hall (SH)
Statler Wing (SW)
Student Health Center (HC)
Student Union (SU)
Visual Arts (VART or V)
Wellness Center (WELL)
Student Services locations
Admissions & Records (Multi-Use Building 188)
Associated Students (Student Union)
Cafeteria & Snack Bar (Smith Hall)
Career Development Center (MUB 101)
Child Development School Lab (B212 & B213)
College Bookstore (Conlan Hall)
Counseling (Conlan Hall 205)
Disabled Students Program & Services
(Rosenberg Library / Learning Resource Center 323)
Extended Opportunity Program & Services (EOPS)
Financial Aid (Multi-Use Building 280)
International Students Adminssions Office
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Re-Entry to Education Program (Smith Hall 106)
Registration/Fee Payment Office (Multi-Use Building 130)
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Testing and Assessment (Conlan Hall 203)
Veterans Services (Cloud Hall 333)
Women's Resource Center (Smith Hall 104)
Public Transportation to Ocean Avenue Campus
MUNI: J-Church, K-Ingleside, M-Ocean View, 8X/8BX Bayshore Express, 29 Sunset, 43 Masonic, 49 Van Ness/Mission, 54 Felton, 88 BART Shuttle
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While I was in Israel earlier this month, I made a quick jaunt to Cairo and the only flight back to Tel Aviv was at midnight. At 2:30 in the morning, I finally arrived at Sarah's doorstep with my over-sized luggage and met for the first time. I felt horrible arriving so late, and had repeatedly asked whether it was OK, and Sarah reassured me that she was accustomed to her husband arriving on flights at all hours of the night.
We didn't say much to one another on this first meeting. Just a few tired smiles, a handshake, and Sarah opened up her home to me. I dragged my suitcase upstairs to and flopped onto the bed she has prepared for me.
The next morning, I awoke to the smell of pita toasting in the oven with za'atar and found a full Israeli breakfast on the table – including salad and labne. Mmm, savory breakfasts.
Over the next few days, Sarah played local tour guide, taking me to see the bell caves and ancient olive press in Beit Guvrin, the shuk in Ramle, and the Ayalon Institute on Kibbutzim Hill — the clandestine ammunition factory in operation from 1945-1948.
In between our sightseeing trips, Sarah and I shared cup after cup of herb-infused tea. While I do make nana (mint) tea back at home, Sarah picks herbs from her front yard and I loved adding white sage and lemongrass to a steaming cup of tea. Between the two of us, we picked her yard dry, leaving only the hanging knotted rope from which her sons swing in front of the house door.
We cooked together, I taking the lead on pancakes for dinner one evening and herb and arugula salad. Taking Sarah's lead, after washing the arugula, I threw the water onto the yard — not atypical for Israel where there is a currently a drought (of course, I was not complaining about the warm sunny weather!). Sarah made pizza (including dough from scratch), arugula pesto, chicken soup, some braised meat that I missed out on trying. Most meals were accompanied by her home cured olives.
On my last day, we stopped by a grocery store and I bought some fresh pita, still warm, for my long airplane ride home.
Back in my apartment, I froze the remaining pitot to savor some of the flavors of my trip for a little bit longer. But, recalling Sarah's comment a few days earlier while preparing pizza that the dough was a simple recipe and could be used for pita, I was inspired to make my own pita. I have made it twice since I returned and it is infinitely better than anything you can buy here.
Adapted from Janna Gur's The Book of New Israeli Food and Joan Nathan's The Food of Israel Today.
These pitot are the closest I have found to the ones you get in Israel, fluffy and perfect with hummus, for mopping up leftover salad dressing, or filled with chocolate spread. The trick to forming the pockets is baking in a very hot oven on a baking stone (or, if my case, on hot cookie sheets) and refraining from opening the oven during baking.
Makes 8-10 pitot.
– 2 1/4 t yeast
– 1 1/2 C warm water
– 1 T sugar
– 4 C flour (I used all-purpose)
– 1-2 T olive oil
– 1 t salt
Make the dough. Dissolve yeast in 1 C of the warm water with sugar. Allow to bubble up (takes ~ 10 minutes). Add to flour, olive oil, and salt in bowl of mixer. Knead with dough hook for 10 minutes. Add additional water, tablespoon by tablespoon, until dough forms a slightly sticky ball.
First rising. Pour a little olive oil into a large bowl. Roll the ball of dough in the oil until coated. Cover the bowl with a damp kitchen towel and let dough rise until doubled (1.5 – 2 hours). I punch the dough down a few times during the rising.
Shape bread. Most recipes call for you to split the dough into 8-10 portions to roll out individually. But I prefer to easier method of rolling out all the dough and using a bowl to cut out 5-6 inch rounds. You can bake the scraps or re-roll them (this time I rolled the scraps into 3 individual pitot with not-so-round results).
Second rising and preheat oven. Allow the pitot to rise a second time for ~10 minutes. I do this on top of the oven as it preheats to 500º F. Heat cookie trays in the oven while preheating.
Bake. Pull a hot cookie tray out of the oven and quickly transfer half of the pitot onto it and return to the oven. Bake until all pitot have puffed to form pockets, 3-6 minutes. Repeat with remaining pitot.
Store. Pitot go stale pretty quickly, so the best way to store them is in in a bag in the freezer. You can reheat them for 20 seconds in the microwave after spritzing with a little water.


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The idea behind the Power Pendants is similar to our
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but the charge is much deeper and when activated by the end user - it will not only boost the vibration rate
and create a set of variables based on your bio-signature (it's like a direct telephone line upstairs), but it will
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The charge is at the molecular level, so it's very strong and stable. Now combined with the Lemurian Crystals Network!
To activate it for the full potential - hold it in your receiving (usually left) hand, close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and let the subtle energy from the pendant enter your body. You may feel a slight tingling sensation or feeling of warmth spreading throughout your body, you may feel light-headed for a while, but it will pas as soon as your body's bio-signature matches the energy signature of the pendant.
Please note that I will need your picture for custom charges, digital format is fine. Just send it to the e-mail address of the confirmation e-mail.
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As I send this post out into the world, I'm sure most of you are getting ready for the weekend. I like to think that if weekend were a Jewish holiday, Thursday night would be "erev weekend" – the night before the weekend begins and the time to start celebrating.
But, I'm not here to talk about the beginning of the weekend or Friday night dinner. Today, we're talking about the end of the weekend ritual. The Sunday search through the fridge, quick look on the web, consultation with a towering stack of cookbooks followed by a flurry of knives and cutting boards and pots and pans.
Soup is almost always on the agenda these days as the temperature drops below freezing and I am oh so thankful that I have an indoor parking garage.
For the past two weeks, the weekend end ritual fell on a Monday. A Monday! Twice in a row!
Last Monday, I came home to an empty fridge after hours and hours of flying back from Vienna. A quick trip to the store with an idea or two in mind, and a beautiful parsnip parsley soup emerged (thanks Jess).
This Monday was the end of another particularly joyously long weekend. After waking up late, I settled on my sofa with a steaming cup of coffee, some toast spread with cheese that tastes better than butter, a pile of cookbooks, and my laptop.
The rummaging turned up a few pounds of butternut squash, already cleaned and peeled and begging to be used. On the door of the fridge, a bouquet of cilantro in a glass of water. In a mason jar, preserved lemons that I made a few weeks ago, awaiting their debut. In the freezer, broth made last month from a couple of roasted chickens.
The flipping through pages, both virtual and real, turned up a hearty squash soup with a kick (you know how I like a kick).
The hearty would come from beans.
The kick from Middle Eastern spice.
Deciding to hibernate for the day, I made everything the slow, (almost) no shortcuts, from scratch way. I soaked and boiled and cooked and roasted and processed and blended.
The soup warmed the apartment and filled it with the scent of delicious.
Happy erev weekend!
Butternut squash and cannellini soup with chermoula
This soup is a mesh of a few difference recipes I found. The idea for using cannellini beans came from Bon Appetit. The spice mixture is based on Maroud Lahlou's red chermoula (Moroccan spice paste)and Yotam Ottolenghi's ultimate winter couscous.
This soup is a whole day affair, at least the way I made it with dried beans, oven-roasted squash, and chermoula. But don't be daunted. There are a few shortcuts you can take that should give you a very good soup in around an hour tops. First, use canned beans – you'll just need to saute the onion and garlic in the soup pot before adding the rest of the ingredients. Second, don't roast the squash. Third, skip the chermoula spice paste and just add half the amount of each of the spices directly to the soup with the squash.
I use preserved lemons here. You can buy them jarred or make them from scratch. To make then from scratch, quarter lemons (regular or meyers) and layer them in a jar with tons of salt. Make sure the lemons are really tightly packed and have enough juice and salt to completely fill the jar. Let the jar sit in a cabinet for about a week and then transfer to the fridge for three weeks. Every few days, flip the jar upside down to mix everything around. Once the lemon rinds soften, they're ready to use. When you want to add them to something, discard the pulp and only use the peel.
For the beans:
– 1 1/2 C dried cannellini beans or 4 C canned cannellini beans
– 1 bay leaf
– 1 onion
– 4 garlic cloves
– kosher salt
For the chermoula spice paste:
– 1/2 of a preserved lemon (~2 T chopped rind)
– 4 cloves garlic (~2 t chopped)
– 1 T cumin
– 2 t sweet paprika
– 1/2 t hot paprika
– 1/4 t cinnamon
– small bunch fresh cilantro (~2 T chopped)
– 2 T harissa
– 6 T crushed tomatoes
For the soup:
– 2 large butternut squashes (about 3 – 4 pounds total)
– olive oil
– 2 T cumin
– kosher salt
– 4 C chicken or vegetable broth
Make the beans. I used Michael Ruhlman's instructions as a guideline.
Boil and soak. Pick through the dried beans and remove any rocks or discolored beans. Bring to a boil 3 parts cold water with 1 part dried beans (so, 4.5 C water, 1.5 C beans) and the bay leaf. Boil for 10 minutes and then turn off heat. Soak for an hour. Remove bay leaf, drain beans, rinse out pot, and add back the beans.
Simmer. Rough chop one onion, sliver 4 cloves of garlic, and add them to the beans. Fill the pot one inch over the beans with cold water (for this amount of beans, I used 6 cups of water). Simmer for 1 – 2 more hours. When you can smell the beans and they're almost tender enough (after 1.5 hour in my case), generously salt. By generously I mean a good palmful or two. The water should taste as salty as the ocean (similar to pasta water). Continue to cook until tender – you should be able to bite into them with almost no resistance. If the beans start to get mushy, it's not a big deal because you'll be pureeing the soup soon anyway.
Drain. Drain the cooked beans and onion and then add them back to the pot.
Make the chermoula.
Prep. Remove the preserved lemon peel from the flesh (slide your finger under the peel and the flesh should pop out pretty easily. Chop the lemon peel finely. Chop garlic.
Process. Put all the spices, cilantro, harissa, and tomatoes into a food processor (a mini one will do just fine). Pulse until everything comes together into a bright red paste. Add salt to taste.
Make the soup.
Prep. Preheat oven to 450°F. Peel, seed, and chop squash into evenly sized chunks — the bigger the cubes, the longer they will take to roast; I typically cut into 3/4 – 1 inch chunks.
Roast. Cover cookie sheet with parchment. Spread squash out in single layer, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with cumin and salt, and shake around in the pan. Roast for 15-20 minutes, shaking the pan mid-way through to make sure the squash cooks evenly. The squash is ready when it's nicely browned and yields easily with a fork.
Simmer. Add squash to the pot with the beans in it. Add half the chermoula or spices now and mix everything together. Pour in 4 C broth and simmer for 15-20 minutes until the broth (without any squash or beans) has a nice flavor.
Puree. Use an immersion blender to puree the soup.
Serve. Garnish with a nice scoop of chermoula, some cilantro, and a few very thin slivers of preserved lemons.
Or … make it the easy way.
Saute. In a large pot, heat the olive oil until it glistens. Saute garlic and onion.
Add. Add half the amount of each ingredient in the chermoula spice paste directly to the pan and mix with the garlic and onion.
Add more. Add beans (drained and rinsed) and cubed butternut squash.
One more addition. Pour in broth.
Simmer. Bring the soup to a boil and then drop down to a simmer until the squash is tender.
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Our previous discussion of the Roy and Hattie [–?–] Teague family centered upon their entry in the 1930 US census. Today, we're going to follow up on two items from our to-do list: Find a marriage record for this couple, and check the Vital Statistics register for their deaths. We're looking first in the records created and maintained within Rabun Co., GA, where the couple lived in 1930.
The Probate Court in Clayton has bound volumes of marriage records from about 1820 through the present day. Each volume has the dates it covers listed on the spine. By skimming the spines of each volume, I found that Marriage Record F covers 28 December 1921 through 9 April 1932. The index to this volume was arranged by the groom's surname. Under the "T" section, I found an entry for a Ray Teague indexed as being recorded on page 102.1 Checking page 102, I found the following:2
This record seems to fit our family. "Ray" Teague and Hattie James obtained a license to marry on 15 June 1924 in Rabun County (license obtained by the oath of the groom), and were married the next day, 16 June 1924, by M. H. James, a Justice of the Peace. In spite of the lack of other identifying information (witnesses, ages, residences, etc.), we can conclude that this is almost certainly our couple based on the names (Roy Teague and Hattie), the location (within Rabun County), and the date of the marriage.
Returning to our 1930 US census entry, we can also tentatively conclude that Hattie was the mother of Roy's three children. This is a tentative conclusion only; we will reserve the right to change that conclusion if we find contradictory information, such as a divorce record for this couple between 1924 and 1930 and a subsequent marriage by Roy to another woman named Hattie. For the moment, however, we're going to treat those three youngsters as if they were the children of both Roy and Hattie.
One final thing before we move on: Roy and Hattie were married by M. H. James, JP. **His name should go on a separate piece of paper labeled "Associates" along with the date and the reason for the association** The fact that Hattie was married by a person surnamed James can't be a complete coincidence. Also, we may need to know with whom Roy and Hattie associated later on, something we will discuss as we move through more difficult genealogical problems.
While I was at the Probate Court, I decided to look through the Vital Statistics registers to see what information I could find on this family.3 I found the names of several other possible children, which we will discuss in a future post. I could not find an entry amongst the deaths for a Hattie Teague, but I did find two entries for Roy Teague, one for Jack Roy Teague (died in Clayton on 13 November 1963), and another for Roy S. Teague (died in Clayton on 7 June 1969).4 Even though the 1930 US census gave Roy's middle initial as "S.", we should follow up on the other Roy Teague, just in case.
The Probate Court also maintains copies of The Clayton Tribune (the paper of record at that time for Rabun County) so I pulled the relevant bound volumes and searched for obituaries of the two Roys.5 Sure enough, the 21 November 1963 and 12 June 1969 issues of the Tribune carried notices of these two mens' deaths. I could not obtain good copies of these obituaries, so below is the information I extracted from each one.
From 21 November 1963:6 John R. Teague, 61 of Clayton, died Wednesday "after a short illness." He was a native of Oconee Co., SC, but spent most of his life in Rabun County. He was the son of the late Manly and Laura Teague, and was survived by his widow, Amy Darnell Teague; three daughters, Mrs. June Kilby of Clayton, Mrs. Ruth Holbrooks of Douglasville [GA], and Mrs. Millie Crane of Seneca, SC; one sister, Mrs. Glenn Lee of Clayton; and 6 grandchildren. Services were at R. E. Cannon Funeral Home on Thursday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. M. R. Elrod officiating. Burial was at "Hail" Ridge Cemetery near Clayton.
This doesn't sound like "our" Roy Teague. John was probably born in SC; Roy was born in GA. John's widow was named as Amy Darnell; Roy's wife was Hattie James. Of course, we can't yet conclude that John R. Teague and Roy S. Teague were not the same men based on the scarce records we have at the moment. We can conclude that this man was probably the same man as the Jack Roy Teague whose death was indexed in the Vital Statistics register (Jack is a nickname for John, and the death dates were the same).
Roy S. Teague's 12 June 1969 obituary was both illuminating and frustrating.7 He was 69 and a resident of Warwoman Road at the time of his death, which occurred Saturday at the Ridgecrest Medical Center in Clayton (*Are these records private?*). He was a native and lifelong resident of Clayton, an auto mechanic, and of the Baptist faith. Survivors include three sons, Jack Teague of Clarkston, Michigan, Ray Teague of Pontiac, Michigan, and Dewey Teague of Titusville, Florida; three daughters, Mrs. Roosevelt Coffey and Mrs. Red Dixon, both of Clayton, and Mrs. Sherman Martindale of Van Buren, Arkansas; 11 grandchildren; two brothers, Louie Teague of Clayton and Grady Teague of Pontiac, Michigan; two half-brothers, Ulyus Teague of Rabun Gap [GA] and Melvin Teague of Canton, NC; three sisters, Mrs. Faye Barron and Mrs. Lucy P. Ramey of Clayton, and Mrs. Felton Sullivan of Tallulah Falls [GA]. Services were held Monday at 2 p.m. at R. E. Cannon Funeral Home with Revs. Crawford Carnes, Short Lunsford, and Baptist Layman Lloyd Hunter officiating. Burial was at Pickett Cemetery.
In spite of the lack of given names for the daughters and there being no mention of a wife (living or deceased), several items mentioned in the 1930 US census and this obituary are the same:8
- The Roy enumerated in 1930 was born in Georgia, as were his parents; the Roy mentioned in the obituary was a native and lifelong resident of Clayton.
- Both men were about the same age, the 1930 Roy having been born about 1901, and the Obituary Roy having been born about 1900.
- Both men were auto mechanics.
- Obituary Roy had brothers named Louie, Grady, Ulyus, and Melvin, and sisters named Faye and Lucy; 1930 Roy lived next door to a family including individuals named Louie, Faye, and Lucy, all of whom were of an age to be his siblings.
This obituary and the 1930 census entry seem to refer to the same man.
*We should note these items on our to-do list as a follow up to the obituary: Check Pickett Cemetery in Clayton for Roy's burial spot. Check funeral home records. Compile a list of known information on Roy's children to use as a reference against new records. What church did Roy attend? What happened to Hattie between 1930 and 1969? (Death/divorce?) Look through several issues of the newspaper prior to the obituary and just after it to look for additional information, such as hospital news, thanks from the family, etc.*
Also note that three men performed the services for Roy S. Teague, two ministers and a Baptist lay preacher. *Researching the ministers may lead to the discovery of which church Roy attended, thus shortening our search for that information.* The third man, Lloyd Hunter, married R. E. Cannon's daughter and assumed responsibility for the funeral home many years ago. *Mr. Hunter is still living and may be a good source of information on this family.*
**The names of all three men should also be placed on the Associates list for future reference.**
While our research was not as fruitful as one would hope, we did find Hattie's maiden name, and we found a possible obituary for Roy which could be very useful in the future.
That's it for this post. Until next time, happy hunting!
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1. The little "o" and the little "a" are often written in a similar manner, leading to names like "Ray" and "Roy" being confused with one another in handwritten manuscripts. This is important to remember when searching indexes and records, especially transcribed and published ones.
2. Rabun County Marriage Record F 1921 – 1932: 102. Probate Court, Clayton, Georgia.
3. When researching, we should make notes on the nature of the records we're using. In particular, we should note the range and scope of the record and any peculiarities, such as the way the information within it is arranged, the nature of the handwriting used, and so forth. In this case, I remarked in my notes, "Unpaginated. Births indexed on the left page, deaths on the right. Entries written as they [births and deaths] occurred. Volume A covers 1919 – 1980. Volume B covers 1957 – 1960 or about. No parents' names for deaths. Only father's name for births. Includes cause of death [for deaths]." I also noted that the tab was worn off the "T" section; even though I did not make a specific note to this effect, I can tell from the tab notation that the index was arranged with all the A surnames grouped together, and so forth. All of these notes will help me interpret the information gathered from these volumes.
4. Vital Statistics Index A Rabun County: 10th page, T section. Probate Court, Clayton, Georgia.
5. The Clayton Tribune was at that time generally published on Thursdays. Knowing this helps to work out dates mentioned in each issue.
6. John R. Teague obituary, The Clayton Tribune, Clayton, Georgia, 21 November 1963, page 4, column 3.
7. Roy S. Teague obituary, The Clayton Tribune, Clayton, Georgia, 12 June 1969, page 1, column 6.
8. Roy S. Teague household, 1930 U. S. census, Rabun County, Georgia, population schedule, Clayton Militia District 587, ED 121-10, SD 3, sheet 2B, dwelling 27, family 28; National Archives micropublication T626, roll 381. Lina S. Teague household, 1930 U. S. census, Rabun County, Georgia, population schedule, Clayton Militia District 587, ED 121-10, SD 3, sheet 2B, dwelling 28, family 29; National Archives micropublication T626, roll 381.


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Like many designers, I have friends who regularly take part in design awards and competitions, and one thing that makes me really sad is to see people begging others for votes – to win a design award. It happens to me many times that I receive an email that says, please vote for my design; it has been "shortlisted" and is open for "public voting".Experience: Recently, I received an email from a friend who was "shortlisted" in the Some Decoration Magazine's Design Awards, he is a great designer and he does great furniture designs, but still he needs me to vote for him. For him, he says, my vote would help him win the grand award (which is true), but in reality, the "viral" scheme exists so that the award program webpage can get more hits.I did vote. I did see this Decoration Magazine Design Awards' webpage, I created an impression for the this Decoration Magazine, and I am now receiving their newsletters because I had to register to vote. 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Our initial aim was to have more people know about the competition, and to do so, we "shortlisted" some entries and asked participants to invite their friends to vote for these "shortlisted works". It was very successful from a marketing point of view, within a single day after we go for public voting, we had tens of thousands people pouring to the website. If you don't know what it means economically, it translates to thousands of euros worth of CPC advertising. However, it was a failure for us, because our aim was to let more people "know about the competition", our aim was to "create interaction", and "added visibility for other entries" not some dummy "hits".A common thing we noticed first, was that people did not voted for others' works, let alone check them, they rather voted for who sent them the invitation to vote in the first place. 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Now, to argue in favor of the afore mentioned Famous Design Awards, you would say, "having public voting is good, as it allows and creates opportunity for others' designs to be checked", and my response is this: With great statistical significance, we can say that it is "scientifically proven" that invited voters from one designer, do not check other designers works for most of the time, unless, you improve the page.Therefore, we changed the voting page, in which we put all the designs together, and from what I see, this worked better, as at least, those "begged - invited" visitors, can now see also what others also did. This helped us to decrease the bias for beg-voting, but still, scientifically speaking, more than 85% of the votes would still go to the person who invited their friends to vote. If you let people vote multiple times, this value will decrease further, going to around 75%.Therefore, we have several conclusions, first of all, design awards that ask the participants to "beg for votes" should not be considered awards, they are "sweepstakes" i.e. advertising for the organizer. Second, public voting, decreases the prestige of an award or competition, thus should be avoided where possible. Third, all public voting does it to create "new hits" on your website, but these "hits" are useless as the new visitors do not interact, they just click "vote" and leave (unless, they are forced to register newsletters etc, which is a terrible practice").Finally, it is sad but true that "public voting" can create significant viral traffic, increasing the website traffic by hundreds of folds, for a brief amount of time, and is good, if your aim is to advertise more. If run in a carefully and planned manner by incorporating the following principles, the system will work better: 1. All designs in one page (and vote for the best slogan should be incorporated), 2. Require minimum number of votes from each visitor, 3. limit vote of a single user technically to avoid cheating, 4. Publicly advertise the voting page, so it is not just friends of friends who are voting. 5. Hide the names of people, so you do not know which design belongs to who. (in any ways some of the designers will cheat by sending a photo of their designs..). 6. Do not compare apples and bananas (explained below).Supporting evidence for the six requirements stated above, do not come from design issues, as designers rarely discuss it, so we get these insights from non-design fields, such as the public science; i.e. voting theories and economics. The conclusions above are based on the insights below, I just preferred to arrange this article in this way to make it easier to read, and to sparkle questions about why that would be the case, here is why:1. All designs should be in one page together with vote-for the best slogan: because this can be considered "voter education", which has been proven in political science studies to decrease the effects of "vote buying" (or vote begging in our case) which results in a more competitive, fair competition where better designs get more votes. [Vincente, 296]. This is further supported by our field experience where we see a more "normal standard distribution" when the voters are able to see alternative designs to vote for.2. Require a minimum number of votes for each visitor: Simple reasoning, because if you let the voters just pick one, they will just pick the design of their friends, and you cannot catch their "real preferences", to catch the real preferences, you must force the votes to vote at least two designs, where the second design could be considered either the "best" in the competition or the "second best" if his friends' design is good. It is true that some people will choose some random designs, but they would vote the best they like. By doing so, we would be utilizing partial Condorcet voting and Borda Count methodologies which are ways to choose candidates in sports events. [Johnson, 15]3. Limit vote of a single user to avoid cheating – field experience and observation. If you let people vote as many times as they want, the designer could easily vote for himself hundreds of times, and some could even hire clickers to click as many times as required. On the other hand, scientifically-speaking, consider the political elections, why do you think that people are marked or registered (be it digitally or manually) after voting, that is because they will cheat in case there is not a mechanism to prevent it. For internet based voting, there are many papers written on the subject, all to prevent that votes are cast fairly, especially when a big prize is involved, security will be essential. [Parakh, 8]. 4. Publicly advertise the page to make sure that a wide audience votes, this is of course to decrease any biases that are created by vote-beggers' friends voting on their friends' designs; a person, who comes up to the page without a participants' invitation to vote for a particular design will vote sincerely. The base concept is based on "voter turnout", i.e. number of stakeholders that cast their votes would increase fairness of the voting scheme. [Birch, 3]5. Hide the names of people, so you do now know which design belongs to who: This is especially important to reduce the tendency of designers' friends to vote for them, and also to decrease voting biases towards other famous designers who are involved. Some competitions even list CV's or number of awards these designers won, and this create a bias on voters that should be decreased to increase the quality of voting process. [Taylor & Yildirim, 4]6. Do not compare bananas and apples, this is perhaps the worst thing, as you see design competitions where you could compare (vote for) produced works or concepts, furniture or vehicles, graphics and interiors etc, this simply does not work, as bananas and apples are different. If public voting would be used, this should only be in a niche competition, or the voting must be category-specific. Democratic considerations and future work: One could and perhaps should ask the question, shall we allow "random" population to vote for designs? From one point of view, as economic viability of a project, the random i.e. general population's preferences could be considered sound; as they are the customers who would buy the voted designs, but we should understand that the votes of the general population would be based on mostly several elements: 1. The presentation of the work, 2. Aesthetic appeal of the work, 3. The conceived value of the work (which should be removed by not mentioning the designers name). Thus, opening an award into public voting, turns a design competition into a "beauty pageant" that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of the participating works, while jury voting ensures that in-depth design thinking such as engineering, sustainability or ergonomics are considered and accounted for.Exerpt:Like many designers, I have friends who regularly take part in design awards and competitions, and one thing that makes me really sad is to see people begging others for votes – to win a design award. It happens to me many times that I receive an email that says, please vote for my design; it has been "shortlisted" and is open for "public voting".Experience: Recently, I received an email from a friend who was "shortlisted" in the Some Decoration Magazine's Design Awards, he is a..
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Hwy #18 heading west will eventually take you to St. Andrews West. It is not in Glengarry but rather in Stormont. I include it in Touring Glengarry because the people would move back and forth between St. Andrews Catholic Church and St. Raphael's. It is in the marriage records of the individuals in the Drouin Collection of Catholic records which is online at Ancestry and also Family History Library.
When I first saw St. Andrews Catholic Church I was driving up Hwy #138 to Dunvegan and came up over this rise and there it was right before me. WOW! The following photograph is the closest I can get to what I saw that first time.
St. Andrews West is north of Cornwall on Hwy #138 when it intersects with Hwy #18. The church is on the southwest corner of this intersection.
Quinn's Inn is on the northeast corner of this intersection. I had dinner at Quinn's. There is parking in back. You then walk through the doors in the back. Quinn's was busy the night I was there. It is a restaurant but different. It was a big room where the tables were but it was more like an old pub would have been like. The hosts were a man and woman and they were the one's serving us. They were having a special on prime rib. My dinner was $20.00. http://www.quinnsinn.ca/
There was a reason I was visiting Quinn's. It was because of John Sandfield MacDonald the first Premier of Ontario. My grandfather was named Ronald Sandfield McDonald. His brother Angus, named a son Lorne Sandfield McDonald. Now, my dad's sister Miriam said the name was given in honor by my great-grandfather Archibald McDonell. She writes in her notes:
I cannot ignore this use of the name Sandfield. Even though Miriam thought it was to honor the Premier maybe there is a connection. So far I have not figured it out. I think I have to dig more into John Sandfield's background. His marriage and children are easy to find online but I believe I will have to go back further into this man's family to see if there is a connection.
There are two cemeteries. The one on Hwy #138 is newer with an older section to the north. There is a big field between it and the church.
The Old Burying Ground is right across from Quinn's on the northwest corner. Just watch as you cross for this intersection is very busy and there are many trucks taking Hwy #138 both north and south.
I was losing the light and it is almost impossible to get the whole church into a photograph the spire is so tall.
In this Old Burying Ground is the tombstone of John Sandfield MacDonald. If you look close enough at the photograph above you can find it and more.
Not to far from him is the tombstone of Simon Fraser, the man who went west and found the Fraser River, which I just recently saw on my trip to British Columbia. I am somewhat fascinated with explorers and Simon Fraser has been one of them.
St. Andrews West water tower.
I took many photographs of the two cemeteries and will upload them when I finish posting about this trip. I am almost done.
UPDATE 7/9/2012: Here are two links to additional photographs of the Old Burial Ground and the newer cemetery in St. Andrew's West, Ontario. I started in the southern part from the western side to the eastern (highway) of the larger cemetery south of the church and proceeded north to the older part of the cemetery by the field and then the church. The Old Burial Ground is not photographed in any particular order and is not complete.
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First, the guidelines ...
As with all of my other giveaways, all you need to do is leave me a comment. No need to follow me, or become a Facebook fan (not that I have a page), tweet, blog about my giveaway, jump through fiery hoops, cast evil spells, bend over backwards and stick your finger up your nose, etc. etc. I can certainly understand why other bloggers do those types of things, but I like to keep my giveaways easy & straightforward. Just say hi. Tell me what you like about my blog. Things I've made that you love. And maybe even what you'd like to see me do next.
Good ol' Random.org will be the one picking the winners. It's a tough job. I don't envy him (her?)
Entries will close no earlier than midnight on Sunday night, April 25th, EST. Wait, if it's midnight, does that mean it's Monday morning? No matter. It might be a bit later. Regardless, you have a few days to enter, so get to it! I'll announce the winners sometime on Monday.
OK, OK ... enough with the fine print. On to the prize parade!
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My first winner will win a full fat quarter set of one of the colorways of Modern Meadow, the latest line of quilting fabric by designer Joel Dewberry and donated by Joel & his lovely wife Laurie. (See, I told you it was good!)
Regular readers of my blog know that I'm a huge fans of all of Joel's collections, and this one might just be the best yet ... though you have to go a long way to beat Chestnut Hill in my book. Go visit Joel & Laurie at their blog and tell them that I said "hi"!
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Fellow quilter and Bee Inspired member Deb Robertson has graciously offered to make a beautiful homemade giant pincushion for one of my readers. Who wouldn't love this beauty gracing his or her sewing table? Deb blogs at Works in Progress... and I'm sure she'd love some visitors!
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OK, check this out. Another winner will receive this prize pack from Lark Books, containing three (that's right -- three! Not one, but THREE!) of their most inspirational books. The set includes Pretty Little Mini Quilts, Pretty Little Pillows, and Quilts, Baby ... ALL of which are currently on my Amazon Wish List. It's kind of cruel to be giving away so much stuff that I SO want to keep ...
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Dolores, who blogs at deeroo designs, is offering up this GORGEOUS mini quilt that she made herself. Isn't is amazing? I could see this hanging up in an entryway, or a sunroom, or a kitchen, or ... anywhere, really! I can't think of a space that wouldn't be brightened up by this piece of art. Go tell Dee I said "hello" ... she loves to collect new blog followers (and rub it in my face!) : )
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OK, hold on to your seats. My blog/Flickr/swap pal Kerri is offering an AMAZING prize -- a bundle of four half-yard cuts from her super-cute Etsy shop, Sew Deerly Loved. Kerri's shop specializes in the whimsical -- woodland friends, Heather Ross / Munki designs, and lots and lots (and lots) of aqua and red. If you love all of those things (& who doesn't?), then you should already be shopping at Kerri's store.
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Ruth is a spunky young quilter who blogs about her crafty adventures in my hometown of New York City. She's a breath of fresh air and she's also a Twitter pal of mine. Follow her here.
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Meet Allie, who blogs at Strandz, runs a longarm quilting service, and has an awesome Etsy shop. One lucky winner will win Allie's donation of her longarm quilting services, including an all-over design up to a twin size quilt.
Again, as I write this I am left wondering ... am I eligible to win my own giveaway prizes??! Lord knows I have a TON of quilt tops waiting to be finished! OK, OK ... I'll leave this one for one of you.
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Do you know Jackie from Canton Village Quilt Works? I'll bet you do! It seems that everyone knows Jackie. She is a prolific creater, longarm quilter, business owner, multimedia maven, and all-around amazing woman. She's also a huge supporter of the online quilting community and has always been a big supporter of mine, from day one. I can always count on Jackie for a nice, thoughtful comment every time I post here.
Jackie has generously offered to donate an elusive Kona Cotton Roll Up to my birthday celebration. Thanks for all you do, Jackie!
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I am sure you can relate to Cindy. Cindy, who blogs at cindyquilts, is overrun with scraps and doesn't know what to do. Here's a great solution -- donate some scraps to one of my winners. What's that you say? 100 3"x3" squares? And some 5" squares to boot? I am sure one of my readers can create something BEAUTIFUL with that much fabric.
Thanks, Cindy!
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Sarah from the Missouri Star Quilt Company wanted to help out and offered up some charm packs from the shop. "Great", I said, "I would love to give away a charm pack. How generous of you!" And Sarah said, "No, I said SOME charm packs. How do 6 sound?" (OK, I'm paraphrasing ...)
Nevertheless, TWO lucky winners will each win 3 charm packs ... one each from the following Westminster fabric lines: Jennifer Paganelli's Dance With Me, Valori Wells' Del Hi, and Dena Designs' Monaco.
Gah! Now you can see why I am thinking to myself, "what if I just keep all of these prizes and just disappear from the bloggy world forever? Would anyone chase after me??" But of course, I could never do that to you guys ....
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I first met Terri of Sew Fantastic on the Flickr swap circuit, where she has always made beautiful things. She also sells beautiful things in her fantastic Etsy shop. Lucky for us, Terri has offered up two of her popular (& functional!) Mini Shopper notepad clutches. Furthermore, Terri is offering ALL of you 15% discount off of all purchases in her shop (not including shipping) until my giveaway winners are announced. Just enter promo code QUILTDAD2YEARS when making your purchase.
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"Are you Catholic or Christian?".
When I was staying with some friends out of state over a weekend, I was trying to explain to them why I was trying to find an Orthodox church that wasn't too far out of their way. They offered to take me to their church, and I respectfully declined. They retorted, "But we're not like other Pentecostals; we're Church of God." It was hopeless trying to explain that it didn't matter to me what their religion was. Fortunately, we found an Orthodox church just a couple of blocks from theirs. Unfortunately, it didn't have a Liturgy that week, so I went to their church. I brought a book with me and read in the back. Thankfully they didn't have communion at their church. I really didn't want to go there.
i think it's disrespectful to attend someone's church service and sit there reading. why did you bother to go then?
Being a Church of God pastor, I am interested in what you thought of the service. I realize you read but surely you did pick up on some of what went on. Just wondering.
I must admit this troubled me a bit too. I think it would be a better testimony to respectfully observe the service-after all these people are Christians too. I'm not sure reading in the lobby is going to create a good impression of Orthodox Christianity on your friends-if anything it'll only put up barriers. I would feel hurt if my non-orthodox friends would stand out in the narthex, or out on the steps reading a book while service is going on. "Do unto others..."
I do believe that even poor examples can serve a purpose: if nothing else, they can tell you what not to do. It's all too easy to say, "These people are so stupid; I can't believe they don't know any better." Much more difficult is to understand where you yourself have gone wrong. All of us have done inane things, often believing that we were doing what is right. Spiritual blindness takes many forms, and it afflicts all of us.
When I was discussing being baptized Orthodox instead of Roman Catholic (I was in 10th grade, and she was a lapsed Catholic), my mom said, "But Will, you're not Greek," to which I responded, "Mom, you're not Roman."
Off of what Myrrh said, I remember I was in the process of doing a prostration during Lent when my dad walked into my room. He almost had a heart attack and yelled, "What the hell are you doing?!"
This was the only experience I've had with the Church of God, but I suspect this was one renegade pastor dealing with giantism and egotism, and not indicative of the larger Church of God denomination.
I apologize that this troubled you. I'm no saint, and I don't pretend to believe that everything I did was correct. But I do believe that even poor examples can serve a purpose: if nothing else, they can tell you what not to do. It's all too easy to say, "These people are so stupid; I can't believe they don't know any better." Much more difficult is to understand where you yourself have gone wrong. All of us have done inane things, often believing that we were doing what is right. Spiritual blindness takes many forms, and it afflicts all of us.
"If your priest is married, is his wife a nun?"
Regarding reading a book in the back of a church, I've noticed a few times that visitors will read their Bibles throughout the entire Liturgy, out of protest or piety I cannot say. I suspected they were reluctant Protestants dragged into our church kind of against their will.
My brother did this on Sunday when he attended with me. His twin refused blessed bread when people offered because it was a closed communion. I had to explain that the blessed bread is OK, just not anything in the chalice. But that is a pretty understandable misunderstanding.
This last week my friends invited me to go to the mall. I was hesitant because I thought they'd spend the whole time playing Magic: the Gathering at this one nerdy store. I asked my dad for advice and he asked me why I didn't want to play Magic. "Is it against your religion or something?"
I would love to hear what some of the most innane questions you all have been asked by others about your faith.When I told my mother about attending an Orthodox church;"Is the church alive?"I was raised Pentacostal, so if one disagreed with the church, or it wasn't amusing and exciting enough-it was "dead." And as such the "Holy Ghost" wouldn't go there.
Once I was asked for ID to prove who I was.I offered the ID I was given for such circumstances.I then had to prove I was the person to whom that ID referred. I was detained for about six hours while this debacle went on.Unfortunately for me, they ended up believing their own paperwork, as from the outset I explained to them I would have been quite happy if they had settled on another identity for me.Biggest disappointment of my life: finding out I am exactly who the bureaucrats had decided I was.My life has been exactly the same ever since.
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