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Mehdi Sheikholeslami
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- Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 1986
Major: International Management with concentration in International Accounting
Dissertation: "The Impact of Foreign Currency Translation Method Change On the Accuracy of Financial Analysts' Earnings Forecasts"
- MA, University of Texas at Dallas, 1978
Major: Political Economy
- BS, Shiraz University, Iran, 1972
Major: Public Administration
Professional Certification
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA), 1992
- 2008 to present Professor of Accounting, Bemidji State University. Courses taught: Primarily teach Managerial Analysis and Cost Accounting.
- 1988-2008 Professor of Accounting, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Courses taught: Managerial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Principles of Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis.
- 1985-1988 Associate Professor of Accounting, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Courses taught: Cost Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, and Accounting Seminar.
- 1981-1983 Instructor of Accounting, Dakota State University.
Business Experience
- 1972-1975 Management Analyst, Iran Air, Iran.
Recent Work
Refereed Publications
- "The Importance of Earnings Forecasts, Sales Forecasts, and Cash flow Forecasts to Stock Price Forecasts of Internet Companies," International Business and Economics Research Journal, 2:41-45, 2003
- "EVA, MVA and CEO Compensation," American Business Review, 19:13-17, 2001
- "The Earnings Predictability of Foreign Firms Listed on U.S. Stock Markets, International Journal of Management, 17:512-515, 2000 (with Tim Forster)
- "Financial Management of U.S. Inbound and Outbound Investment: An Empirical Analysis Using Aggregate Data, The International Journal of Business Disciplines, 9:25-34, 1999 (with Richard Helleloid)


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"God's Wife"
The Female Aspect of YAWH
JUDY is the Female Messiah.
JUDY is the Feminine Aspect and Manifestation of THE CHRIST.
Asherah, with her owls.
"We're not going to talk about Judy,
Who do you think that is, there...?
"The legend is, that during that benediction, the Shakhina comes into the sanctuary to bless the congregation; and you don't want to see that because it's so powerful that you could be really seriously injured, or, it could be fatal.
So, that's why you protect yourself by hiding your eyes, y'know, 'Don't look..!'
I survived..."
- Nimoy
"This is the Hebrew Letter 'Shin'...
Very interesting letter in the Hebrew language...
Why you're not supposed to look... came to me much, much later...
Well, I peeked..."
- Leonard Nimoy
"The Ark is more than just an ancient artefact - it's a radio for talking to G*d."
- The very esoteric goyim George Lucas, and the very Talmudic Steven Spielberg, 1981
"I am uncomfortable viz ziss... Jewish ceremony, Monsiuer"
"Would you rather wait until we get to Berlin? And open it for your Furhur there?"
Which of course dodges the question and avoids the point of the previous statement - it's not a Jewish ceremony, it's a Hebrew-Israelite ceremony.
The Vichyssoise, Beloq is dressed in the Temple garb of a Hebrew priest of the Temple of Solomon, charged with the sole duty of keeping the resting place for the Ark in the Holy of Holies and tending and ministering to the needs of The Pressence according to strict ritual procedure and protocols.
Post-Temple Rabbinical Judaism has not priests, only Rabbis ("Teachers").
Rabbinic Judaism was created in Babylon, not Palestine, during the time of the Babylonian Captivity, and the Babylonians (who were studiously pedantic bureaucrats and administrators, much as the Germans are) did not list the Ark of the Covenant amongst their inventory of loot pillaged from the Temple of Solomon during the sack of Jerusalem in the 8th Century BCE.
It wasn't there.
The Cohens had already made off with it.
Using "a radio" to "talk to G*d" and attempting to connect with The Pressence is a highly dubious career move.
The god of the Torah makes no pretensions towards benevolence - you cannot have a "personal relationship" to YAWH, the way some Christians claim to have with Christ.
Talk to Asherah instead.
She handles the household.
Any attempt to make direct contact with The Presence, and It will likely annihilate your soul.
You must balance out the Male and the Female aspects, the Generative and the Destructive aspects of G*d -
Otherwise, He will melt your face.
We went through four Adams before we figured that one out.
...and then there is the Pillar of Fire.
"The legend is, that during that benediction, the Shakhina comes into the sanctuary to bless the congregation; and you don't want to see that because it's so powerful that you could be really seriously injured, or, it could be fatal.
So, that's why you protect yourself by hiding your eyes, y'know, 'Don't look..!'
I survived..."
- Nimoy
- Nimoy
"Yet … Judaism long ago acknowledged the validity of [the] feminine dimension of the Deity.
The two names of God differ grammatically with regard to sexual connotation… The Tetragrammaton (YHVH)…is…feminine; it refers to God as if "He" were in fact "She."
Yet, as we have frequently noted, the Lord is also called ELoHiYM. That name ends with…masculine plural… If human beings are created in God's image, and the single most important thing we know about God is that He is One – why did God create two kinds of people, male and female, after His likeness? …God chose to create two different kinds of people on this earth, not in spite of the fact that He is One, but precisely because God in the deepest sense of the word is really two.
Of course we do not suggest any kind of dualism implying separate identities. Rather, as the very names of God imply, there are two distinct aspects to the Deity. God is both masculine and feminine.
This gender difference is not one of physical attributes but one of emotion and typology. "
Benjamin Blech,
Understanding Judaism,
Cayce Carmel Readings
Cayce Readings On Mt. Carmel
Mt. Carmel Temple
(From the Sleeping Prophet "readings" given between 1939 until 1945.)
"Thus in Carmel - where there were the priests of this (Essene) faith - there were the (temple) maidens chosen who were dedicated to this purpose, this office, this service . . . That was the beginning, that was the foundation of what ye term The Church." (Cayce 5749-6)
Q. "How did Mary and Joseph first come in contact with the Essenes and what was their preparation for the coming of Jesus?"
A. "As indicated, by being dedicated by their parents." (Cayce 254-109)
Q. "How closely was Judy, the head of the Essenes, associated with Jesus in His Palestine sojourn?"
A. "For a portion of the experience the entity Judy was the teacher. How close? So close that the very heart and purposes were proclaimed as to those things that were traditions! For the entity sent Him to Persia, to Egypt, yea to India, that there might be completed the more perfect knowledge of the material ways in the activities of Him who became the Way, the Truth!" (Cayce 1471)
"Ye say that there were those periods when for four hundred years little or nothing had happened in the experience of man as a revelation from the Father, or God, or from the Sources of Light. What was it, then, that made the setting for the place and for the entering in of that consciousness in the earth that you know as the Son of Man, the Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of the Cross? Did the darkness bring the light? Did the wandering away from the thought of such bring the Christ into the earth? Rather, is this idea not a refutation of the common law that is present in spirit, mind, and body; that like begets like? As we asked oft, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? "Isn't it rather that there were those that ye hear little or nothing of in thy studies - the Essenes - who dedicated their lives, their minds, their bodies to a purpose, to a seeking for that which had been to them a promise of old. Were there not individuals - men and women - who dedicated their bodies that they might be channels through which such influences, such a body might come?
Q. What is the correct meaning of the term Essene?
A. Expectancy....There purpose was of the first foundations of the prophets as established, or as understood from the period of the prophets, by Elijah; and propagated and studied through the things begun by Samuel. The movement was not an Egyptian one, though adopted by those in another period, or an earlier period, and made a part of the whole movement. They took Jews and Gentiles alike as members. The Essenes were a group of individuals sincere in their purpose and yet not orthodox as to the rabbis of that particular period....
Priests were active in the Carmelian area, where there had been the early teachings established years ago by Elijah, Elisha, Samuel; that taught the mysteries of man and his relationships to those forces as might manifest from within and without. For in those days there were more and more of the leaders of the people in Carmel - the original place where the School of the Prophets was established during Elijah's time and that of Samuel - these were called the Essenes; and those that were students of what ye would call astrology, numerology, phrenology, and those phases of study of the return of individuals - or reincarnation. These led to a proclaiming that a certain period was a cycle; and these had been the studies then of Aristotle, Enos, Mathesa, Judas, and those that were in the care or supervision of the school - as you would term in the present. These having been persecuted by those leaders, Sadducees (who taught) there was no resurrection - or there is no reincarnation, which is what resurrection meant in those periods. Then with those changes that had been as promptings from the positions of the stars - that is the common vision of our solar system and Sun, and those from without the spheres - or as the common name, the North Star - this began the preparation - for the 300 years, as has been given, in this period. In these signs then was the new cycle - the beginning of the Piscean Age, or that position of the Polar Star or North Star as related to the southern clouds. These made for the symbols, as would be the sign used, the manner of the sign's approach and the like. These then were the beginnings and these were those that were a part of the studies during that period.
Then there were again...the approach of that which had been handed down and had been the experiences from the sages of old - that an angel was to speak. As this occurred when there was the choosing of the mate that had - as in only the thought of those so close - been immaculately conceived. These brought to focal point the preparation of the mothers. Then there were those periods when he priest Zacharias, was slain for his repeating of the same in the hearing of those of his own school, these made for those fears that made the necessary preparations for the wedding, the preparation for the birth, for those activities for the preservation of the child; or the flight into Egypt. Hence, there was the continued preparation and dedication of those who might be the channels through which this chosen vessel might enter - through choice - into materiality. Thus in Carmel - where there were the priests of this faith - there were the maidens chosen who were dedicated to this purpose, this office, this service...That was the beginning, that was the foundation of what ye term The Church.
Among them was Mary, the beloved, the chosen one; and she, as had been foretold, was chosen as the channel. Thus she was separated and kept in the closer associations with and in the care or charge of this office...Then, when the days were fulfilled that the prophecy might come that had been given by Isaiah, Malachi, Joel and those of old, she - Mary, espoused to Joseph - a chosen vessel for the office among those of the priests, the sect or group who had separated and dedicated themselves in body, in mind, in spirit for this coming - became with child. There should not be merely the aggrandizement of an earthly or body passion. Each should give their bodies and there is a necessity for training, even as there was a training in that experience of the twelve girls, in the fitness of their bodies, and of their fathers and mothers. In the present this is called eugenics, which is the preparation for the entrance of souls that make the earth better in material and spiritual ways. For God is not mocked; and whatever ye sow that must ye also reap.
Q. How were the maidens selected and by whom?
A. By all those who chose to give those that were perfect in body and in mind for the service...each as a representative of the twelve in the various phases that had been, or that had made up, Israel - or man.
Q. Please describe the training and preparation of the group of maidens?
A. Training as to physical exercise, first; training as to mental exercises as related to chastity, purity, love, patience, endurance. All of these by what would be termed by many in the present as persecutions, but as tests for physical and mental strength; and this under the supervision of those that cared for the nourishments by the protection of the food values. These were the manners and the way they were trained, directed, protected.
Q. "Were they put on a special diet?"
A. "No wine, no fermented drink ever given. Special foods, yes. These were kept balanced according to that which had been first set by Aran and Ra Ta." (Cayce 5749-7)
Q. Could you name some of the twelve maidens?
A. Andra, Sophia, Edithia, Mary, and (one) was in the house of lodgement of the maidens, and third on the stair when the choice was made of Mary.
Q. How long was the preparation in progress before Mary was chosen?
A. Three years.
Q. In what manner was she chosen?
A. As they walked up the steps.
Q. How old was Mary at the time she was chosen?
A. Four, and as ye would call, between twelve and thirteen when designated as the one chosen by the angel on the stair. The Temple steps- or those that led to the altar, were called the Temple steps. These were those upon which the sun shone as it arose of a morning when there were the first periods of the chosen maidens going to the altar for prayer; as well as for the burning of incense. On this day, as they mounted the steps all were bathed in the morning sun; which not only made a beautiful picture but clothed all as in purple and gold. As Mary reached the top step, then there was thunder and lightning, and the angel led the way, taking the child by the hand before the altar. This was the manner of choice, this was the showing of the way; for she led the others of this particular day.
Q. Was this the orthodox Jewish Temple or the Essene Temple?
A. The Essenes, to be sure. Because of the adherence to those visions as proclaimed by Zacharias in the orthodox temple, he was slain even with his hands upon the horns of the alter. Hence, those as were being here protected were in Carmel, while Zacharias was in the temple in Jerusalem.
Q. "Where was the wedding of Mary and Joseph?"
A. "In the Temple there at Carmel."(Cayce 5749-8)
Q. Were Mary and Joseph known to each other socially before the choosing for them to be man and wife?
A. As would be chosen in a Lodge, not as ye would term by visitations, nor as chosen by the sect of the families. Then it was not a choice altogether, as that they were appointed by the leaders of the sect or of the group or of the Lodge or of the Church, for this is the church that is called the Catholic now, and is the closest. These were kept, then, in that way of choice between them, and choice as pointed out by the divine forces.
Q. Please describe the membership of the women in the Essene Brotherhood, telling what privileges and restrictions they had, how they joined the Order, and what their life and work was?
A. This was the beginning of the period where women were considered as equals with the men in their activities, in their abilities to formulate, to live, to be channels. They joined by dedication - usually by their parents. It was a free will thing all the way through, but they were restricted only in the matter of certain foods and certain associations in various periods - which referred to sex, as well as to food and drink. John the Baptist first taught that women who chose, might dedicate their lives to a specific service.
Q. Please describe the process of selection and training of those set aside as holy women such as Mary, Edithia, and others as a possible mother for the Christ. How were they chosen, and what was their life and work while they waited in the Temple?
A. They were first dedicated and then there was the choice of the individual through the growths, as to whether they would be merely channels for general services. For these were chosen for special services at various times; as were the twelve chosen at the time, which may be used as an illustration. Remember, these came down from the periods when the School had begun, you see. When there were the activities in which there were to be the cleansings through which bodies were to become channels for the new race, or the new preparation, these then were restricted, of course, as to certain associations, developments in associations, activities and the like. We are speaking here of the twelve women you see - and all the women from the very beginning who were dedicated as channels for the new race, see? Hence the group we refer to here as the Essenes, which was the outgrowth of the periods of preparations from the teachings of Melchizedek, as propagated by Elijah and Elisha and Samuel. These were set aside for preserving themselves in direct line or choice for the offering of themselves as channels through which there might come the new or divine origin, see? There life and work during such periods of preparation were given to alms, good deeds, missionary activities - as would be termed today.
Essene Personalities
ANNA lived in the promised land preceding and just following the entrance of the Prince of Peace into the earth. And she was a member of an organization which attempted, through the mysteries of the sages, to interpret time and place according to astrology and numerology. Her interpretations were much sought after by the leaders in the group. However, because some individuals were inclined to interpret and apply the knowledge for material benefits, difficulties arose between Anna and the leaders of the Essenes. She was not in the Temple, but she chose the twelve maidens who were to be channels that might know truth so thoroughly that they could be moved by the Holy Spirit. Anna was the waiting maid with Elizabeth and Mary when they were heavy with child. This was during the activities which brought the Prince of Peace, the Christ, Jesus, into the earth. At their meeting when they had both become aware of what was to occur, she blessed them and made the prophecies as to what would be the material experience of each in the earth. She helped the maidens prepare and consecrate their lives during their periods of expectancy. Hence, she was known as a seeress and prophetess.
ELOISE then was in the capacity as one of the holy women who ministered in the Temple service and in the preparation of those who dedicated their lives for individual activity during that sojourn. The entity was then what would be termed in the present in some organizations as a Sister Superior, as an Officer, as it were, in those of the Essenes and their preparations. Hence, we find the entity, then, giving, ministering, encouraging, making for the greater activities; and making for those encouraging experiences oft in the lives of the disciples; coming into contact with the master oft in the ways between Bethany, Galilee, Jerusalem. For, as indicated, the entity kept the School on the way above Emmaus to the way that goeth down toward Jerico and towards the northernmost coast from Jerusalem. The entity blessed many of those who came to seek to know the teachings, the ways, the mysteries, the understandings; for the entity had been trained in the schools of those that were the prophets and prophetesses, and the entity was indeed a prophetess in those experiences - thus gained thruout.
DUENE was in the earth when the holy women were made heads of the church, or counselors. They were not Deaconesses, nor were they what we call today sisters of mercy or sisters superior. They took the Veil in order that they might better prepare themselves to be channels through which greater blessings might come, and to attain greater abilities for teaching. They separated themselves from their families and homes that they might become channels of blessings to others.
PHILO's experience at that time may become the key to his present sojourn. For when the Master walked in the earth, he was among the Essenes who made the predictions and the preparations for His entering in that period. And he kept the records for the Temple Service where the men and women were taught the law pertaining to material things, and the tenets relating to spiritual matters.
SOPHIA lived in the Promised Land when individuals looked forward to the channels through which the Messiah was expected to come. And she was among the group chosen to present themselves as channels worthy of acceptance. Hence, during both her girlhood and motherhood, she knew many of the people who were active in some way in connection with this definite religious experience.
JOSIE was close to Mary when the selection was indicated by the shadow or the angel on the stair, at that period of consecration in the Temple. This was not the Temple in Jerusalem, but the Temple where those who were consecrated worshipped, or a School - as it might be termed - for those who might be channels. This was part of that group of Essenes who, headed by Judy, made those interpretations of those activities from the Egyptian experience - as the Temple beautiful, and the service of the Temple of Sacrifice. Hence it was in this consecrated place where this selection was made. Then when there was the fulfilling of those periods when Mary was espoused to Joseph and was to give birth to the Savior, the Messiah, the Prince of Peace, the Way, the Truth, the Light, soon after this birth there was the issuing of the orders first by Judy that there should be someone selected to be with the parents during their sojourn in Egypt. Thus the entity Josie was selected or chosen by those of the Brotherhood - sometimes called White Brotherhood in the present - as the handmaid or companion of Mary, Jesus, and Joseph in their flight into Egypt...
The period of sojourn in Egypt was in and about, or close to, what was then Alexandria. Joseph and Mary were not idle, during that period of sojourn, but those records - that had been a part of those activities preserved in portions of the libraries there - were a part of the work that had been designated for the entity. And the interest in same was reported to the Brotherhood in the Judaen country...
Those same records from which the men of the East said and gave, By those records we have seen his star. These pertaining, then, to what you would call today astrological forecasts, as well as those records which had been compiled and gathered by all of those of that period pertaining to the coming of the Messiah. These had been part of the records from those in Carmel, in the early experiences, as of those given by Elijah, who was the forerunner, who was the cousin, who was the baptist. All of these had been a part of the records - pertaining not only to the nature of work of the parents but as to their places of sojourn, and the very characteristics that would indicate these individuals; the nature and the character that would be a part of the experiences of those coming in contact with the young child; as to how the garments worn by the child would heal children. For the body being perfect radiated that which was health, life itself. Just as today, individuals may radiate, by their spiritual selves, health, life, that vibration which is destructive to disease in any form in bodies. These were the characters and natures of things studied by Josie. Hence much of the early education, the early activities, were those prompted or directed by that leader in that particular experience, but were administered by - or in the closer associations by - Josie. Though from the idea of the brotherhood the activities of the entity were no longer necessitated, the entity Josie preferred to remain - and did remain until those periods when there was the sending or administering of the teachings to the young Master, first in Persia and later in India, and then in Egypt again - where there were the completions.
EDITHIA was in the household, and of the lineage, where the men had been set aside for a definite service among the people of that day. This was not in the manner understood today with respect to Israel, but rather that which was understood then by the meaning of the word, "Israel". It referred to those called of God for service among their fellow men. Then the group or sect to which the household of Edithia belonged, had been prepared through study, experience, longing, and desire. And the time had come when there was to be a change in the order of things...And it was to be understood, through the very expression of that Being in earth, that the Law was written in the hearts of men rather than upon tablets of stone, and that the Temple, the Holy of Holies, was to be within. This entity, Edithia, was among the daughters who were chosen to dedicate and consecrate their bodies, their minds, and their service to become a channel. And they were chosen in their early youth.
Hence, the entity's thought and activity at that time was directed to that environment and atmosphere of expectancy and promise. And then the one was chosen, as through a gift from on High. At that time, this entity knew Mary, Martha, those of the households of Cleopas, of Anna, and of Joseph, and those of the Brotherhood of the Order called the Essenes in that particular land...
At that time, there were more and more attempts by those in authority to disband the members of the brotherhood...Edithia was one who aided in those preparations, and was a follower of the Lord during those periods of preparation, and during the persecutions that scattered the individuals chosen for offices...And the day will arrive, even as it arose then, when he who separates himself will become the one that declares to all. Edithia remained with the holy women who acted as mourners for Mark. For the latter had been her companion when she dedicated herself, her abilities, and her body for those services.
Q. Can any more details be given as to the training of the Child?
A. Only those that covered the period from six years to about sixteen which were in keeping with the tenets of the Brotherhood; as well as that training in the Law - which was the Jewish or Mosaic Law in that period. This was read, this was interpreted in accordance with those activities defined and outlined for the parents and the companions of the developing body. Remember and keep in mind, He was normal. He developed normally. Those about him saw those characteristics that may be anyone's who wholly puts the trust in God! And to every parent might it not be said, daily, dedicate thy life that thy offspring may be called of God into service - to the glory of God and to the honor of thy name! Here, after the presentation at the Temple, when there were those questionings among the groups of the leaders, the entity was then sent again into Egypt for only a short period, and then into India, and then into what is now Persia. Hence, in all the ways of the Teachers the entity was trained.
Q. Were there any others besides Josie who were associated with the training or early education of Jesus?
A. Sofa was one of the women educated to service in the Temple...the entity was chosen by - what would be, what is termed in the Qabbalah - the moving of the symbols on the vesture of the priest...to be the attendant or the nurse to the babe when there was the birth then of John...
The Nazarenes of Mount Carmel
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Did YHWH have a wife?The Charm of Biblical Polytheism
Short outline of the presentation
Written sources for the history of ancient Palestine.
The historical axis is diagonal and outlines the main historic epochs.
The lower register attempts to capture (recreate) what used to be called "Biblical history", while the upper section captures some historical and epigraphic artifacts.
Inaccurate biblical archaisations are responsible for a large number of biblical anachronisms: Texts were written and or edited in the Hellenistic period, they reported Early Iron Age events, and pretended to be old by using Iron Age realities.
The Bible cannot be used as a primary source for our understanding of the history of Palestine or the development of religion in this region. Datable historical artifacts and epigraphic documents should be the main source of any serious study of Palestinian religion.
The Biblical self-portrait (Deuteronomistic theological thinking) or religious situation is quite schematic:
The Israelites received a distinct, revealed religion. It was revealed first to the patriarchs and then in a comprehensive way to Moses.
There was a completely foreign, fallen, polytheistic, and magical religion of the indigenous population "the Canaanites" in existence.
Some Israelites succumbed to the lure of Canaanite religion. They corrupted and polluted their unique religion thus initiating the Israelite fallen popular religiosity.
Growing scholarly consensus sees the development of biblical religion in more complexity. All three groups greatly overlap. Polytheistic West Semitic religion was a substrate from which local varieties and ultimately biblical monotheism grew. Traces of this process are discernable in archeology, epigraphy as well as in biblical texts.
Asherah in the West Semitic Pantheon: Biblical texts often couple the Semitic goddess Asherah and the god Baal. Thus, in biblical scholarship Asherah and Baal were considered divine partners until the beginning and occasionally as late as middle of 20th century. With the development of archeology and especially with the discovery and decipherment of the Ugaritic religious texts (discovered in 1920's and dating from 1200 B.C.E.) it became clear this was an obvious misrepresentation. The Goddess Asherah was a partner of the Semitic head of pantheon god El. Baal belonged to very different level of the Canaanite pantheon.
Khirbet El Qom inscription: In the 1960's a series of drawings and inscriptions were found in the tomb located between Hebron and Lachish. Paleography (an art of dating of writings) pointed to the late 8th century. Inscriptions were faint, broken, and difficult to interpret. At the time of discovery this find did not attract much attention.
One inscription was accompanied with a blessing (magical) hand of protection and was accompanied with a written apotropaic (protective) blessing for the entombed. The blessing was made in the name of YHWH and (his) Asherah/Asheratah.
Kuntillet Ajrud discovery: In 1970's another intriguing discovery was made in east Sinai in a place called Kuntillet Ajrud. Several drawings and inscriptions were found in the ruins of what is often described as an ancient caravanserai (a rest house for caravans), dating around late 9th early 8th century BCE. The writings again mentioned YHWH and (his) Asherah. The inscriptions and drawings were on the remnants of two large clay storing jars and on some broken plaster.
Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions: There is a lengthy scholarly discussion as to whether and how the inscription should be interpreted; that is, together with the drawings or independently. One matter is certain: People (associated with royalty) bearing Israelite "Yahwistic" names are blessing and are being blessed by YHWH and Asherah. In addition, and also interestingly, YHWH is being portrayed not as a universal deity but as localized deity, associated with geographic places and sanctuaries (YHWH of Timna and YHWH of Samaria)
Asherah in disguise: Here is another presence of the goddess Asherah in the Bible. This time the goddess is disguised as a personified Wisdom. This translation highlights the original features of a divine partner of creation. This poem represents at least partly creation as cosmogony (divine procreation of the world). I am providing slightly different tanslation (with some explanation) and more discussion of this text in this blog entry "Lady Wisdom")
Short summary:
El and Asherah were the original ruling divine couple of the West Semites.
After the god YHWH was assimilated (theologically merged) with El, he also "inherited" goddess Asherah as a divine consort. For period of time, YHWH and Asherah existed and were worshiped as divine couple. In the process of monotheization of Jewish religion in Persian and especially in Hellenistic period, different techniques were used to eliminate this important goddess: direct negation and deletion from texts; re-labeling of the original practices as heterodox and illegitimate; attempted secularization of the goddess as just a cultic object, or as the personification of Wisdom; and highlighting archaic androgynous aspects of the most senior deity also played some role.
Yahweh and Asherah
by Ronald L. Ecker
from the book 'And Adam Knew Eve'
from Hodge&Braddoc Website
YAHWEH - "Thy Maker Is Thine Husband"
The Hebrew God Yahweh is conceived of biblically as a male deity, with the covenant relationship between him and Israel often portrayed as that of a marriage between husband and wife.
(The other name by which the deity is most often referred to in the Hebrew Bible is Elohim [translated "God"], an originally plural form meaning "gods." "The LORD" in English versions translates Yahweh--the assumed pronunciation of YHWH [a name of uncertain meaning], there being no vowels in the original Hebrew text.)
The perception of God as masculine is of course not surprising in a patriarchal or male-ruled society. As noted by Susan Ackerman, there are some feminizations of Yahweh in Isaiah (e.g., "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you" [66:13]; see also 42:14 and 49:15).
But then Isaiah also refers to kings as "nursing fathers" (49:23) and to daughters who "shalt suck the breasts of kings" (60:16), words that cannot be taken literally. In any case, Yahweh outside of some Isaianic imagery is masculine in the Hebrew Bible.
In the New Testament, "God" translates the Greek Theos, with God remaining a male deity. Thus Jesus regularly uses the word Father (Greek Pater, in Jesus' Aramaic Abba) for God (e.g., Matt. 6:8-9; Mark 14:36; Luke 10:21; John 17:1; see also Paul's use in Rom. 8:15 and Gal. 4:6).
In the New Testament, "God" translates the Greek Theos, with God remaining a male deity. Thus Jesus regularly uses the word Father (Greek Pater, in Jesus' Aramaic Abba) for God (e.g., Matt. 6:8-9; Mark 14:36; Luke 10:21; John 17:1; see also Paul's use in Rom. 8:15 and Gal. 4:6).
Elaine Pagels points out that some Christian Gnostics thought of the divine in both masculine and feminine terms, with Jesus referring to the Holy Spirit as his Mother in the Gospel of Thomas and in the Gospel to the Hebrews, and with the Apocryphon of John describing the Trinity as Father, Mother, and Son.
As Pagels notes, however, such views were suppressed as heretical, with none of the Gnostic texts included in the New Testament canon. (The Nag Hammadi Library)
There is archeological evidence that at least some ancient Hebrews perceived of Yahweh as having a consort or female companion. This could be the origin of the mysterious Lady Wisdom found in Proverbs and the Apocrypha. (She is in some of the Gnostic texts as well.)
There is archeological evidence that at least some ancient Hebrews perceived of Yahweh as having a consort or female companion. This could be the origin of the mysterious Lady Wisdom found in Proverbs and the Apocrypha. (She is in some of the Gnostic texts as well.)
Wisdom (Hebrew hokma, a feminine noun) is personified in Proverbs not only as a woman but as a preexistent entity with Yahweh.
"The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way," says Lady Wisdom, "before his works of old,... and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him"(Prov. 8:22,30).
It was through Wisdom that Yahweh "founded the earth" (3:19), she is "a tree of life" to those who lay hold of her (3:18), and she offers to reward all who seek her:
"I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me" (8:17).
In the Apocrypha, Lady Wisdom is identified with the Torah or biblical law (Sirach 24:23; Baruch 4:1). In the New Testament, the preexistent Word (Greek Logos) at the beginning of the Gospel of John is reminiscent of Wisdom, and in 1 Cor. 1:24 Paul calls Christ "the wisdom of God" (Greek Theou Sophia).
The metaphor of Yahweh and the Hebrew people as husband and wife is found first in the book of Hosea, and continues in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. It is a troubled marriage, for despite Yahweh's "love toward the children of Israel," they "look to other gods" (Hos. 3:1).
The metaphor of Yahweh and the Hebrew people as husband and wife is found first in the book of Hosea, and continues in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. It is a troubled marriage, for despite Yahweh's "love toward the children of Israel," they "look to other gods" (Hos. 3:1).
The wife's infidelity is thus a metaphor for the Israelite people's idolatry.
"Thy maker is thine husband," Isaiah tells Israel, yet she beds down with others (Isa. 54:5; 57:7-8)."Turn, O backsliding children," Yahweh pleads in Jeremiah (3:14), "for I am married unto you."
At one point Yahweh divorces Israel for her adultery, only to have "her treacherous sister Judah" commit adultery also (Jer. 3:8). Ezekiel 23 allegorizes Samaria and Jerusalem, the Israelite and Judahite capitals, as two sisters with a host of foreign lovers while both are married to Yahweh.
Particularly disturbing to feminist commentators are the biblical passages that describe Yahweh's brutal punishment of the women who symbolize Israel's unfaithfulness. As noted by Kathleen M. O'Connor, the portrayal of physical abuse by the divine in such passages implicitly condones such behavior in humans. Yahweh strips "the virgin daughter of Babylon" in Isa. 47:1-4, and helps the Babylonians rape Jerusalem in Jer. 13:26.
Particularly disturbing to feminist commentators are the biblical passages that describe Yahweh's brutal punishment of the women who symbolize Israel's unfaithfulness. As noted by Kathleen M. O'Connor, the portrayal of physical abuse by the divine in such passages implicitly condones such behavior in humans. Yahweh strips "the virgin daughter of Babylon" in Isa. 47:1-4, and helps the Babylonians rape Jerusalem in Jer. 13:26.
In Lamentations, Yahweh trods "the virgin" Jerusalem "as in a winepress" (1:15), and in Ezekiel he tells his wife Oholibah (Jerusalem),
"I will raise up thy lovers against thee," and they will "strip thee out of thy clothes"; they will take away not only "thy sons and thy daughters" but "thy nose and thine ears," and "thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee"(23:22-27)
Needless to say, the thought behind these metaphors of Yahweh the husband physically abusing his wife presents a challenge to modern biblical interpreters. Through such imagery "the Bible," writes Sharon H. Ringe in The Women's Bible Commentary,
"seems to bless the harm and abuse with which women live and sometimes die."
The brutality seems hardly ameliorated by Yahweh's assurances to his mutilated wife of a brighter tomorrow, for they make God sound like the stereotypical wife beater who minimizes what he has done and promises not to do it again:
"In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee... Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel,... and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry"(Isa. 54:8; Jer. 31:4).
ASHERAH - The Lord God's Lady?
The goddess Asherah was the consort of El ("god"), the supreme god of Canaan and father of the popular Baal.
In the Bible her name often appears as ha asherah, meaning "the" asherah. In such instances the reference is not to the goddess but to a symbol of her, an object (in the plural asherim) that was apparently a sacred pole, tree, or group of trees (hence the translation "groves") at Israelite sanctuaries or "high places" as well as by altars of Baal. The erecting of asherim was among the "evil" deeds of kings like Ahab and Manasseh, and cutting the things down was a regular chore of "right" kings like Hezekiah and Josiah.
The presence of Asherah or her symbol at places where Yahweh, the biblical God of the Hebrews, was worshipped raises the question of whether the Canaanite goddess was considered also to be the consort of Yahweh.
We know from references to,
- "the sons of God" (Gen. 6:1-4; Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7)
- "the host of heaven" (1 Kings 22:19)
- "angels" (Gen. 19:1; Ps. 103:20)
- God's statement "Let us make man in our image" (Gen. 1:26),
...that Yahweh was not alone in his heaven.
We know also that Yahweh supplanted the Canaanite El to the extent that God'sother names in the Hebrew Bible include El, El Elyon ("God Most High"), El Shaddai ("God Almighty"), and the (originally) plural form Elohim (as in Gen. 1:1).
But did Yahweh take El's woman too?
The answer may well be found, appropriately enough, in some graffiti, inscriptions dating from the eighth century B.C.E., found on walls and storage jars at two sites, Khirbet el-Kom and Kuntillet Ajrud, in Israel. (See Dever'sRecent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research.)
The answer may well be found, appropriately enough, in some graffiti, inscriptions dating from the eighth century B.C.E., found on walls and storage jars at two sites, Khirbet el-Kom and Kuntillet Ajrud, in Israel. (See Dever'sRecent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research.)
The graffiti includes blessings such as,
"I bless you by Yahweh of Samaria and by his asherah," and "I bless you by Yahweh of Teiman and by his asherah."
Does this mean by Yahweh and by his goddess? Or is it saying "by Yahweh and by his sacred pole"?
All we may safely assume at this point has been well put by the French epigrapher Andre Lemaire:
"Whatever an asherah is, Yahweh had one!"


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Freedom of Information isn't Free
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
May 26, 2013
How much did taxpayers pay to rebuild, purchase and demolish those buildings on 1st Avenue and 1st Street SW in Cedar Rapids, Iowa? Too much! But, the only way that the people who paid for it can find out about it is by obtaining public information.
How many people think that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) means free information? You would think that freedom of information would mean free information but it doesn't; it only means you're free to ask for the information and pay for said information.
That's right, if you want any real information you will have to pay for it!
The equivalency of the Federal's FOIA is the State of Iowa and City of Cedar Rapids' "Open Records" law and ordinance, respectively.
But, just how "open" are these records?
Lisa Kuzela:
Lisa Kuzela was the Vice Chair of the Local Option Sales Tax Oversight Committee (L.O.S.T.) when she asked for pertinent public information regarding where some of the funds from the L.O.S.T. account had been appropriated.
Kuzela asked for a list of the homes purchased with the L.O.S.T. funds and was told that it would "cost her $110 for six hours of time to compile the data".
They then used the excuse that it was a "privacy issue," even though the same requested information for properties purchased with FEMA and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds had already been publicly listed. So, why not make available those purchased with L.O.S.T? There was never any justification for their excuses.
Don't take my word for it go check it out yourself!
Click here for information about The City of Cedar Rapids Greenway Area Address List.
Click here for information about The City of Cedar Rapids Construction Area Address List.
Assistant City Manager, Sandi Fowler, discusses Fees for Public Information
Kuzela is often charged for information requests from the City. On top of the research hourly fees, she is charged for scans – yes, scans! She is charged twenty-five cents per page to scan even though there is no ink or paper!
This clearly violates Iowa's Open Records Law, State Code 22.3(2): "The fee for the copying service as determined by the lawful custodian shall not exceed the actual cost of providing the service. Actual costs shall include only those expenses directly attributable to supervising the examination of and making and providing copies of public records. "
Kuzela states "when I pointed this out to the City, they said that the reason they have to charge the same for a scan as a hard copy is that the machine counts the scan the same as a copy. I told them I've never heard of such a thing and no one should have to pay for something when there's no expense for it. However, I've gone along with this absurdity and been paying $0.25 per scanned page so I could get the information."
If a citizen cares enough to request information they should not be charged for it if they are not requesting a hard copy of said information!
Kuzela goes on to say that within the past week, "they suddenly claim that the documents are off-site, so if I want the information, I have to pay them the time to go to another location to retrieve the documents at $20 per hour. This is over and above their hourly fee for the time it takes to scan (even though we have automatic feeders, now). This, too, is in addition to $0.25 per page to scan."
What is wrong with the efficiency of our city if this information isn't readily available – especially in the day of digital? Who are these people working for if they can charge taxpayers for public information – especially at a higher cost simply because they haven't been well-organized in storing it?!
Aren't we already paying them to do their job, and isn't this part of their job? This all just sounds absurd to me!
But, it even gets worse!
Kuzela explains that "even though they're emailing me the information (and therefore no supervising of staff is necessary while I review the information), they are now also saying that I have to pay a fee for 'supervising the examination.' So, does that mean I have to pay for an employee to supervise another? They haven't responded to this question."
I'm simply not buying that in this day and age when everything is digital that they don't have this information scanned already and easily accessible! It's obvious that the goal here is not to help the taxpayers get information, so they can oversee how their money's being spent, but to prevent it. The City continually comes up with different excuses to make it as costly as possible in order to deter Kuzela from obtaining public information.
Click here for a link to Lisa Kuzela's fundraising page.
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A scold's bridle, sometimes called a branks, was a punishment device for women, also used as a mild form of torture. It was an iron muzzle or cage for the head with an iron curb-plate projecting into the mouth and pressing down on top of the tongue. The "curb-plate" was frequently studded with spikes, so that if the tongue remained lying calmly in place, it inflicted a minimum of pain.And if you spoke, well, heaven help you. The scold's bridle was mostly used in England and Scotland; in German and Austria, the shrew's fiddle was used as a yoke to lock around the neck and hold the hands of a woman considered to be bickering too much. Wearing any of these devices would be accompanied by public shaming (some versions of the bridle feature a bell on the top, to get onlookers' attention) and the calling of names, labeling women as shrill, scolds, gossips and worse. "By condemning the expressive woman, these names enjoin her sisters to silence," wrote Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Today, you'll hear this expressed in more subtle ways, as in those instances when people say that women talk more than men do, when in fact they speak almost identical numbers of words in a day. (See more myths about women and public speaking here.)
And that's just a sampling. Women in history have been bound, gagged, imprisoned, dunked and drowned for public speaking. Read chapter 4 of Jamieson's Eloquence in an Electronic Age for a good, focused review of the history of women's speaking--and why it is so short. Or as she says: "History has many themes. One of them is that women should be quiet."
In Women's History Month, what does this bit of history make you think about women and public speaking--and your own speaking?
(Photo of a 16th century Scottish brank or scold's bridle, made of iron. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland.)
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As we celebrate Thanksgiving, a holiday that traces its roots to that first Thanksgiving, a feast that owed homage to the old English custom of Harvest Home, we often forget what Pilgrims truly are.
When a small band of colonists gathered around a table to celebrate a successful harvest and survival, it was not because their experience had been so good or life was so sweet. In the time since their arrival, the Pilgrims had suffered disease, starvation and great hardships. Had it not been for the intervention of the Wampanoag tribe of Native Americans, the Pilgrims might all have perished and the colony faded into history. As we celebrate our own Thanksgiving, a modern holiday that traces its roots to that first Thanksgiving, a feast that owed homage to the old English custom of Harvest Home, we often forget what Pilgrims truly are.
We think about sober, serious settlers dressed in stark black and white. Too often we forget what the word "pilgrim" means -- someone who journeys far, often someone who travels to reach a holy place or for religious reasons. We forget that this group of settlers contained people who had left England earlier in search of religious freedom and freedom from persecution. We also forget what we may have learned in history class that aboard the Mayflower, there were two groups of colonists, Saints and Strangers. The Saints were those who were religious, the Strangers those who simply sought a better life in the New World. It was not until the Mayflower sighted land that the two groups hammered out the Mayflower Compact, joining the two groups into one, called Pilgrims.
Although that November day in 1621 may be the "first Thanksgiving," it was not the only such observance in the early colonial period. It was not until 1817 that the first state, New York, set aside an official day of Thanksgiving. Although many other states followed suit, there was no national day of Thanksgiving until President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed such a day in 1863, during the Civil War. Each American president since Lincoln has issued a Presidential proclamation for Thanksgiving. It has become a national holiday that Americans of all creeds come together to celebrate.
We all celebrate Thanksgiving in our own ways, some with traditional feasts of turkey and dressing, pumpkin pies and gravy. Others celebrate with other meats, ham, lobster, chicken, pork or a good roast beef. Some may mark the day with party trays and pizzas. There are families who dine at a favorite restaurant for Thanksgiving. As Americans, we mark the day with church services, with the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and with football. Some gather for family reunions while others mark the day in small numbers but with no less joy. There are those who travel to favorite vacation destinations to mark the day and those who begin planning their holiday shopping. Although I am not among them, there are families who decorate for Christmas on or even before Thanksgiving.
As Americans prepare to gather around the family table for a feast this year, our nation is facing some of the bleakest economic times in recent memory. Many families are dealing with downsizing, budget cuts that have trimmed all the extras from life, things like magazine subscriptions, cable television, and cell phones considered near necessities a short time ago.
Across the nation, people are dealing with the loss of homes, jobs, pay cuts and cutbacks. It might seem like these days are a time for sorrow and not thanksgiving. Americans are worried about their homes, their jobs, and how they will be able to pay the bills or buy groceries. With these concerns stacked atop the other stresses of daily life, many of us feel crunched or burdened.
That is why it is more important than ever to celebrate Thanksgiving, to gather together with our own traditions to give thanks for all that is good in our lives, the intangible, never changing things that truly important: family, faith, and friends. In this way, we join with the original Pilgrims as they gathered to enjoy a feast quite different that ours but with the same spirit of true thanksgiving at the table.
Neosho Daily News


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EDIT: Made some clarifications for non-holy paladins who might be reading this. I have this bad habit of assuming our lingo makes sense to everyone. I'll dig up the focus macro when I get home tonight, for those who might want it.
When my guild first came upon our friend Valithria, I got into an argument with a few people. I wanted to place my Beacon of Light on Valithria and spam heal whoever happened to be in range.
(My reasoning for that, though, was mistaken: it seemed like my heals wouldn't transfer to a beaconed raid member, but would transfer from a raid member to a beaconed Valithria. Either my sense of observation failed me or this was a bug that was hotfixed, because my heals now transfer, regardless of who is beaconed.)
I can't remember exactly why they didn't want us pallies beaconing the boss. The only argument I accepted was that I wasn't sure if the heals transferred from Beacon would be affected by Guardian Spirit. (I still need to test that.) Still, is a buff that up for 10 seconds every minute worth worrying about? After all, I could just switch to the boss during those 10 seconds.
After the raid, we looked up the stats of guilds who had successfully killed Valithria. This was right when the fight first opened, before the duration of Emerald Vigor (you know, THE buff, the orb buff) and of the Twisted Nightmare had been increased and certainly before the 5% buff had been put in. So there weren't many guilds who'd won the fight yet.
At that time, all the paladins who had successfully completed the fight had been direct healing the boss.
From then on, I've been Beaconing a tank and direct healing the boss. I'm sure the outside healer appreciated the gesture. (As a side note, I also don't shy away from spending a global cooldown on a well-placed Hand of Protection.)
However, after reading more and more about the fight, I'm now noticing that the trend is actually to Beacon Valithria. Beacon Valithria and heal a target within 8 yards of her (most likely yourslef) to take advantage of the juicy Glyph of Holy Light procs that would splash extra heals onto her. Since I'm always hot on the latest trends, I pulled up the Holy Paladin rankings on WoL for Normal modes 10 man and 25 man.
As you can see for yourself, it's unanimous, Beaconing Valithria is the way to go.
While I was at it, I looked up the heroic rankings on the fight and, again, all the holy paladins are using Beacon on Valithria.
Of course, "just because everyone is doing it" doesn't mean that it's the only or the best way, but the Glyph of Seal of the Light splash is worthwhile – 10% of a 20k to 60k heal is SEXY. The constant extra heals from the Glyph on the boss can make a pretty big difference, according to some of the stats I pulled up, it can account for up to 40% a paladin's effective heals. It's not as helpful to the raid healers as beaconning a tank, but this is really a question of communicating with them and seeing if they need the help.
Other tidbits about the fight
In case anyone reading this is interested, here's some other tips and tidbits about the fight.
– On 25 man, we run with 7 healers, 3 enter the Dream (two pallys and a druid), 4 heal outside. The guilds ranked on WoL use 5 or 6 healers, total.
– On 10 man, we run with 3 healers, 2 enter the Dream (we've done it twice, first time it was pally and shaman, second time it was pally and holy,I think, priest). It seems like the fight can easily be done with 2 healers, a pally entering the Dream and the other healer staying outside.
– As a paladin, use your spell power trickets, your Libram of Veracity, Glyph of Seal of Light (and unlike me, don't forget to switch your seal to Seal of Light).
– Pop your cooldowns! First at the beginning of the fight, then right after the Dream, if they're available.
– Pick a portal as soon as they spawn and stand near it.
– Putting an icon over the healers taking portals helps avoid "portal stealing".
– Flying around the Dream world in a tight group and having everyone gather the buff from the popped orbs is ideal, but doesn't work well for my guild. If you're like us, assign each healer a region to avoid "orb stealing". (Example: I take the left side, our druid takes the back and our pally takes the right.)
– Wait until the end of your last Dream phase (ie. the moment where you have the most stacks) and hit Lay on Hands. Squeal with glee. (The squealing part is very important.)
– I've read on Plus Heal that Crusader Aura helps you move faster in the Dream. I have yet to try it, but it seems interesting.
The standard, cookie-cutter approach to this fight is to Beacon Valithria and spam heal yourself or someone near Valithria to really milk your Glyph of Holy Light.
That said, I had been cluelessly Beaconning a tank and spamming Valithria the whole time and, from a healing perspective, since the buff and hotfixes, it's still loldragonhealing.
Still, from now on, I'll be putting my Beacon on Valithria.
EDIT: For those who like macros, this is a focus/cast Beacon one from the Plus Heal paladin forum:
/tar Valithria
/cast [target=focus] Beacon of Light


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Jay Boy Adams to perform at Texas Theatre
The Sweetwater Texas Theatre Acquisition & Renovation (STTAR) board of directors announces "Live on Stage at the Texas", a live music performance on the original stage of the Texas Theatre, on Saturday, March 12, with Jay Boy Adams. Built in the early 1930's, the Texas Theatre was originally built as a live-performance hall, complete with stage, orchestra pit, dressing rooms, proscenium arch, and a balcony. However, upon the Theatre's completion and opening in 1935, vaudeville was on the way out and "talkies" were in. A movie screen was hung in front of the arch and stage, and the Texas became Sweetwater's longest-in-operation movie theatre. As a struggling small-town theatre in the mid-2000s, the Texas ceased operation and the building became for sale. In 2008 a small group of Sweetwater residents quickly became interested in purchasing and restoring the Texas Theatre which led to the formation of the Sweetwater Texas Theatre Acquisition & Renovation (STTAR) not-for-profit organization with an active board of directors. This board immediately began the acquisition process and upon completion of same, rolled up their sleeves to start cleaning up the facility, raising funds, and started outside renovations with a new paint job on the façade and removing, refurbishing and reinstalling the neon Texas sign. In the spring of 2010, 3M Palace Theatres in Colorado City entered into an agreement with STTAR, and began showing movies in the upstairs old balcony portion known as the Texas II. With new heating and air-conditioning installed in fall 2010, the Texas II is currently showing first-run movies on the weekends in downtown Sweetwater. In the main auditorium, the screen has come down, the stage cleaned and made ready, and the Jay Boy Adams show on March 12 will be the first significant live music performance on the theatre's original stage in over 70 years. Jay Boy Adams is a native of West Texas, having grown up in Colorado City where his career as a singer, songwriter and guitarist took root. Upon graduation from Colorado High School, Adams enrolled at North Texas State University in Denton, where he shared an English class with Don Henley (of the Eagles) and traded guitar licks with fellow student Gary Nicholson, later to become a hit songwriter, in-demand session player and producer in Nashville. But school soon took a back seat to music after Adams headed into Dallas one night to hear Texas guitar legend Bugs Henderson, who remains one of his prime influences and musical heroes. Leaving college at the end of the year, he landed in Houston, where he played in a band called Hayseed, started writing songs, and first met Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), who was then playing with the pioneering Texas psychedelic band The Moving Sidewalks. Adams also performed solo acoustic at the Sand Mountain Coffeehouse, where he got to know such Texas singer-songwriter legends as Jerry Jeff Walker, B.W. Stevenson and Willis Alan Ramsey.In March 1972, a friend secured Adams a slot opening for ZZ Top in Lubbock, where he caught the ear of the band's visionary manager Bill Ham. That summer, after enrolling back in college at Texas Tech, Adams got a call from Ham asking if he'd open another ZZ Top show at the sold-out Municipal Auditorium in Dallas. Ham invited Adams to open for ZZ Top again the next weekend in Atlanta, and he soon signed on as the band's regular opening act and a guitar tech for Gibbons and bassist Dusty Hill (eventually leaving college again after studying English and music and playing in the school's lab band). Over the next four years Adams added backing musicians to his act and by 1976 had signed with Atlantic Records.A dyed-in-the-wool Texan, Adams was one of the hardest working acts on the American tour circuit in the late 1970s following the release of his self-titled debut album on Atlantic Records in 1977, marked by his gift for storytelling in song and its mix of blues, country, rock and folk. Spending some 200 to 250 days a year on the road, Adams shared concert bills with such acts as ZZ Top, The Allman Brothers Band, Joe Cocker, Jackson Browne, Marshall Tucker Band, Bonnie Raitt, The Kinks and many others. But by 1982, the grind of the road and pursuing his musical ambitions had taken their toll. Adams was also intent on doing his best at another important personal aspiration: being a good father and husband. So he put his guitar down, left the road and quit music. "When I walked away, I walked away," says Adams.Over the next 15 or so years, Adams largely stayed away from music clubs and concerts, being a family man, and running his business Roadhouse Transportation (which today boasts some 25 custom touring coaches it leases to such blue-ribbon musical acts as Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion, Sting, George Strait, Santana, Dave Matthews and many others as well as The Dallas Cowboys and numerous private clients). He gathered his band back together once in 1986 to play the Cattle Baron's Ball in Lubbock, sharing the bill with Reba McEntire, and also played a two-night weekend stand at the Lubbock club Fat Dawg's with a friend's group. But that was it. Adams moved his family to a ranch in the Texas Hill Country and his bus business to the nearby town of Comfort. And then his wife Mary persuaded him to go one evening see one of her favorite artists, Lee Roy Parnell, play a show in San Antonio. "I never dreamed that he was going to ask me to get up and play with him," Adams recalls. "Because if I did, I wouldn't have gone to the show." But once he hit the stage, the fire to create music returned.New songs began percolating as Adams was further encouraged to get back into musical action by his longtime friend and associate J.W. Williams of Lone Wolf Productions (Ham's management company) who then invited Jay Boy and his band to join George Strait's national Country Music Festival tour in 1999. He also toured Europe as a special guest in The Texas Tornados. Around the same time, a young Texas music artist named Pat Green showed up at Roadhouse Transportation looking to lease a bus. Impressed by Green and the success he had forged in the Lone Star State, Adams signed on to manage him. The two most public acts of his life are his years as a pioneering roots-rock recording and touring artist from 1977 to 1982, and then returning to music a quarter century later with his acclaimed Top 5 Americana chart album The Shoe Box in 2007. The Shoe Box featured 10 new Adams songs as well as three numbers he wrote in the 1970s and his renditions of Jesse Winchester's "Showman's Life" and the traditional gospel chestnut "John the Revelator." It spent a number of weeks at #3 on the Americana Music chart, where it enjoyed a 30-week run and was ranked #7 of all 2007 releases. The Shoe Box also yielded three Top 10 singles on the Texas Music Chart, where the album charted for nearly two years. Also impressed with the album was superstar Stephen Stills. "I've been listening to The Shoe Box, and I love it," he said. "Jay Boy Adams is a great musician and a storyteller in the true Texas tradition." Stills asked Adams to open his national tour performing solo acoustic and join him on stage every night to play some songs together. The second act of his musical career "has exceeded all my wildest expectations," says Adams. "It is more about the music than ever for me now, and I'm doing it for the fun of it. I think I've been a really lucky individual to be able to do what I've done and now return to music," he concludes. "Musically and creatively, I still have a lot left in me. It's just the tip of the iceberg. And I'm really having a great time."Plan now to attend this exciting event, enjoy the music of Jay Boy Adams, and help us make the Texas Theatre a West Texas landmark and performance hall. Tickets are on sale now at JavaJax, 325 Oak Street, Sweetwater or by phone (credit card purchase) at 325-933-4382. Seating is available as follows - $30 for VIP seats (first six rows, reserved seating, limited number, includes after-show reception "backstage" at JavaJax), $20 and $15 general admission seating. BYOB allowed, small coolers, no glass (additional minimal cooler fee). Show benefits the Texas Theatre (STTAR) renovation efforts (501(c)3not-for-profit corporation).


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Georgia is a fantastic combination of nature and history. The country is dotted with lovely churches, quaint towns and ancient monasteries. Georgia was the first country to embrace Christianity in the middle ages. There are Christian monasteries built in deep caves in the Caucasus Mountains as well.
Georgians are laidback and hospitable, with a strong love of nature, art and architecture and food. The country has been invaded by the Persians in the middle ages and the Russians more recently and many other cultures in between. Georgia's culture therefore is an amalgam of multiple cultures. The country is renowned for its natural beauty, its wines and its art and architecture.
Georgia is an emerging free market, having been bound to the Soviet Union's economy for decades. Since the mid-2000s, Georgian economy is growing thanks to the reforms set in place by the peaceful Rose Revolution. Georgia is considered the least corrupt nation in the Black Sea region, as it outperforms its neighbors without resorting to corruption.
Georgia's main exports are copper ores and concentrates, ferroalloys, hazelnut, medicaments, nitrogen fertilizers, wine, crude oil, mineral waters, non-denatured ethyl alcohol and spirits. Since the country gained independence, unemployment has been a persistent, though gradually reducing problem in Georgia. About half of Georgia's population lives in rural areas, making their livelihood through farming. Georgia's currency is the Georgian lari, denoted by GEL; 1 lari equals 0.42 US dollars.
The nation of Georgia has been invaded and occupied by multiple cultures over time. The country was unified in the 8th to 9th century, under the reign of the Bagrationi dynasty. In 1490, Georgia was fragmented into several petty kingdoms and principalities. This is when they were invaded by the Persians, who ruled for centuries till Georgia was annexed by the Russian Empire in 1801.
Georgia then became part of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic from 1922 to 1936, after which the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was formed. This went on till the Soviet Union was dissolved, though Russia still had a hold over Georgia, till 1991, when it finally became independent. Tensions continued with Russia, but Georgia gradually grew into a streamlined, successful economy, with multiple mineral exports to different countries. Georgia is also making a healthy entry into tourism lately, and hopes to convert tourism into a major industry.
The Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea cut Georgia off from the rest of the world, resulting in a microclimate of hot and humid summers and mild winters. It's always colder near the northern mountain peaks, but the weather is balmy by the Black Sea.
By Plane: Many airlines fly to Georgia's capital city, Tbilisi from a number of European, North American and Asian cities. There's Georgian Airways, Vienna with Austrian Airlines, Warsaw (LOT Airlines), Kiev (Georgian Airways), Munich (Lufthansa), Athens (Georgian Airways), Riga (airBaltic), Istanbul (Turkish Airlines), Prague (Czech Airlines). FlyDubai serves Tbilisi several times a week from Dubai as well.
By Bus or By Car: You can take direct bus services from Istanbul to Tbilisi. You can also enter Georgia by car from any European country. Note that if you're not the owner of the car, you need to carry a Power of Attorney to use the car from the car's owner.
By Train: You can also travel to Tbilisi via train from Baku, Azerbaijan, though there'll be many stops before you get to your final destination.
By Boat: You can avail boat services to Batumi and Poti from Istanbul and Odessa.
Georgia is comprised of several cities, towns and villages. Some of these are hard to get to, as they are nestled in the Caucasus Mountains, and the journey make take several days or hours to get to them.
Tbilisi: Capital and the biggest city of Georgia, the city is a veritable showcase of Georgian culture, history, and architecture. Hike up to the Narikala Fortress for a beautiful view over the city.
Mestia: It is a mountain paradise, inhabited by the Svans people, who are related to the Georgians. Highlight – the old Svan towers which have been around for centuries.
Telavi: Inhabited since the Bronze Age, is the capital of the Eastern region of Kakheti. Telavi borders the Alazani Valley, home to many of Georgia's fine wines.
Stepantsminda: A true mountain fairytale in the Greater Caucasus, home to the Gergeti Trinity Church, which is located high up in the mountains.
Mtskheta: Located at the confluence of two rivers, Mtskheta is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. This city is now the center of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Georgian cuisine is a mix of various cuisines belonging to the various cultures that ruled this country. There is a noted use of walnuts in almost every dish in Georgia. Sauces and gravies are very popular, and almost anything can be served in a sauce containing egg and garlic. The markets are full of organically grown fruits and vegetables. There are plenty of street food stalls, cafes and small restaurants that dot every city in Georgia.
The Georgians favor herbs such as tarragon, flat parsley, dill and coriander with their food. They usually combine these herbs with walnuts and garlic in their sauces and fillings. Georgian Drinks
Georgians enjoy religious and cultural celebrations very much. This is when Georgian towns come alive, with everyone participating in the festivities.
There's not much nightlife in cities other than the capital city of Tbilisi. Georgians love to party at Tbilisi's clubs and nightlife hotspots, most of which are found in Rustaveli Avenue.
Theater: Georgian dancers put on classy productions at the Rustaveli Georgian Drama Theatre in Tbilisi. Most evenings, culture lovers can be found at this theater, which churns out a lot of quality Shakespeare productions.
Folk Theatre: The Georgian Folk Theater Nabadi plays host to incredible folk performances based on the country's history, culture and traditions.
Bars and Nightclubs: Tbilisi has several bars and nightclubs, primed for exciting tourist experiences. Many of them have amazing acoustic systems which play music all night.
Other Nightlife Options: The Kafe Literaturuli café is frequented by book lovers and avid readers. The Paliashvili Opera & Ballet Theatre puts on performances that offer a unique insight into Georgia's performing arts. Other cultural nightspots the Georgia National Music Center, Marjanishvili Theatre and Jazz Club Non Stop for magical cultural evenings.
Though there are shopping malls in Georgia, the best shopping is to be had at flea markets and open markets. Here are a few shopping avenues:
Rayna Tours organizes several tours and excursions into Georgia's cities and towns, for sightseeing and cultural experiences. Tours are available to check out the best vantage points that offer the most majestic of views of the surrounding regions. Here are some of the tours and excursions that you might find interesting:
Georgia - Ride The Caucasus, a trek across the mountainous regions by horse, guided by professionals. This tour will involve several participants, and all food and drink amenities will be taken care of.
Custom-tailored Journey through Georgia: This tour is tailored according to the participants' needs and involves a visit to the top sights of Georgia, including scenic sightseeing.
Treasures of The Caucasus: This is a tour of the Caucuses Mountains, to explore natural cave systems and monasteries built in the mountains.
Wine-tasting Tour: This tour takes participants to the vineyards of Sighnaghi for a unique Georgian wine-tasting experience. Many great Georgian wines will be on discounted sales for our tour participants to purchase.
May, June and September are the three best months to visit Georgia. During these months, the weather is mild – it's neither too hot nor humid or too cold. Midsummer is hot and humid in the lowlands, though the mountain ranges will be cooler and drier. Be sure to pack a sturdy pair of boots if you plan on trekking into the mountains. May, June and September are the perfect months for outdoor activities in Georgia.
The month of spring is mild, full of growing things with the snow melting away. Both the days and evenings are quite pleasant during this season. Georgia experiences frequent rainfall during spring, so you might want to prepare for this eventuality. Spring is probably the most scenic time in Georgia, for this is when nature sparkles with freshness.


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Chelsea Handler has never been one to hold her tongue, but her bosses may be asking her to do just that after the Chelsea Lately host made jokes about Today's Matt Lauer.
After Today's Al Roker admitted to pooping his pants while at the White House, Handler made a joke on her E! late-night show that raised some brows at NBC. "This isn't the first time a Today show cast member was in the news about this sensitive subject. For year, it was common knowledge that Matt Layer spent every morning sh--ing all over Ann Curry."
Al Roker: I pooped in my pants at the White House
The New York Post reports that the brass at Comcast, which owns both NBC and E!, warned the show's writers "to lay off Matt," a source told them. "They don't want them making more fun of Matt and the Ann Curry situation right now." Since Curry's exit from Today, reports surfaced that Lauer was behind her firing.
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Children in CFCA's Hope for a Family sponsorship program in India get new notebooks for the school year. Read about the CFCA livelihood program that makes these books.
It's back-to-school time for children in the U.S. Meanwhile, CFCA sponsored children in India have already been in school since June!
Larry Livingston, CFCA director of church relations, has created a fun exercise in our quarterly Youth eLesson to help young people reflect on hope and the upcoming school year.
It is a simple crossword puzzle, but the answer to every clue begins with one of the four letters that spell hope.
If you have young children or work with them, we encourage you to let them work on this puzzle alone or in teams. Give them a set amount of time to do as many as they can.
When they've finished, lead a discussion on the words in the puzzle. Ask each person to choose four words ñ one for each of the four letters in hope ñ and invite them to make those four words part of their personal ìroad mapî for the coming year.
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I'm trying to encrypt a string when you enter a phrase into the program. The following code compiles with no errors but it doesn't change the a when its there to "00". The phrase is printed out again telling me that the if statement is working but its not replacing it and I have no idea how to fix this. This is just a fun project for me but this is really frustrating me...
input.getUserInput(choice); if (input.input.equals("1")) { pdphrase = input.getUserInput(dphrase); if (pdphrase.contains("a")) { pdphrase.replaceAll("a", "00"); System.out.println(pdphrase); } }
P.S. dphrase means decrypted phrase and pdphrase means post decryption phrase.