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Friday was fairly uneventful. Up early, laundry (breaking the no chores rule), paper, gym, lunch date with friends, shopping (hello Semi-Annual Sale), overdue pedicure, spent the rest of the day on email then made dinner. I've established a semi-routine, and as the novelty wears off and the weather improves I'll start pre-planning my day to really maximize it.
But I'm also realizing it's OK to shift a weekend task or two into Friday. I really needed to do laundry, and was done with it by 10am. Day wasn't lost. Besides walking to and from lunch, I didn't do any outdoor activities, but Sunday morning I ran along the river, and Monday (a holiday!) went for a great hike in the woods.
The more important thing is what's starting to happen on the other days — the work days. Maybe it's also because I'm eating better and exercising more that I'm slowly starting to feel better about myself, but I'm definitely sensing a…calm starting to insinuate itself into days 1-4.
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Over drinks on Saturday night, I admitted to my companion feeling slight twinges of guilt over not working on Friday.
"Because I'm not working when other people are."
"But you're working on yourself."
Good point. Why feel bad about doing something for myself? Friday I ran 3 miles (outside!), read the paper, went to the doctor, took myself out to lunch, and watched a movie I'd missed several months back.
Empowerment in, guilt out.
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I have a doctor's appointment today, right smack dab in the middle of the day. When I made it I was still working Fridays so the intention was to go to the appointment (a good 45 minutes from my office) then take the rest of the day off. Now that I have the whole day off I'm annoyed it's going to take up my entire afternoon.
That said, I do still have the morning, so time to review my self-imposed rules on how to spend the 5th day:
- Don't treat it like Saturday
This means no sleeping in, no being hungover, no chores, no lounging in PJs all day. I've already bent this rule, but I knew today would be sort of a wash on account of the doctor's appointment.
- Go to the gym
When you don't have to go to work there's really no excuse not to go to the gym. Especially when it's across the street from your house.
- Do something outside
I spend 4 days a week cooped up in my office staring at a computer screen. Spending the 5th day cooped up in my apartment staring at a computer screen isn't any better. Even though the weather isn't ideal now, getting outside is a really important part of this.
Off to the gym…
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For many Americans, Wednesday is "hump day", but when you work 4 days a week hump "day" is technically Tuesday night, which I spent relaxing on the couch watching TV. Today begins the second half of my first 4-day week — two more days to cram in a week's worth of work.
I also spent some of last night figuring out a new blogging platform. I'm using WordPress for this blog, in the spirit of challenging myself to learn something new. My other blogs are hosted on Blogger, a basic but very functional platform owned by Google that integrates nicely into their suite of web-based products.
But why stick with what I know!
Granted, I'm using the web-based hosted version of WordPress (WordPress.com), just dipping my toes and not diving into downloading and manually configuring what is essentially a very powerful CMS. For now.
Expect the look/feel and functionality to evolve over the weeks (months?) to come (or however long I keep this up.) I typically obsess over every little detail being perfect before putting something out there, but screw that. There will be mistakes and changes and a lot of making it up as I go along. This is a work in progress happening in real time.
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Preparing to go to work yesterday, the first day back from the holiday, I played over and over in my mind how to explain to people what I was doing. Why I was doing it. Why I had to do it.
Being direct is always the best way to go, and when I told my staff I was met with wide eyes and smiles. I don't really know what sort of reaction I expected but their sincere "Good for you!" was a nice way to start the week.


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On January 20, 1978 Scotsman Gerry Rafferty released City to City, an album that would eventually knock the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack from the top of the U.S. charts. Most people bought it for "Baker Street", a US #2/UK#3 hit most famous for its saxophone solo by session player Raphael Ravenscroft.
One Saturday I rode my bike off my boarding school campus, illegally crossing the state line into Millerton, New York , four miles away, to pick up a cassette copy at Oblong Books and Music.
City to City kept me company for many, many days, becoming one of the soundtracks of my teenage years. Its wistfulness and melancholy were an apt mood setter.
Rafferty made a fortune from the album but he wasn't interested in stardom. He would spend most of his life in hiding, eventually drinking himself to death.
Even in his mother's womb, Gerry Rafferty must have expected the worst. This Scotsman entitled his melancholy 1971 solo album Can I Have My Money Back? (the answer was "No!"). And when Stealers Wheel, the group he subsequently formed with Joe Egan, became an overnight success with the hit single "Stuck in the Middle with You," only to lapse into morning-after obscurity, he probably said, "I told you so." On City to City, his first LP in three years, Rafferty sticks grimly to his guns. Not only does he use the same producer (Hugh Murphy) and several of the same musicians, but a similar un-self-pitying fatalism pervades the record.
However, there is a slight but significant change for the better that makes City to City as eloquently consoling as the spirituals Rafferty echoes in "Whatever's Written in Your Heart." Indeed, there's a prayerful quality to the entire LP, a quality reminiscent of the dim dawn after a dark night of the soul. "The Ark" begins as a Highland death march, complete with doleful bagpipes, but swells into a stirring hymn to love. And, after etching a relationship stalemated by the inability of two lovers to express their feelings, the somber "Whatever's Written in Your Heart" (whose only instruments are a piano and a hushed sythesizer) concludes with a coda of vocal harmonies that sing of sublime forgiveness. Hope, in almost all these songs, lurks on the horizon. And when it springs fully into view -- as on "City to City," with its rollicking train tempo, and on the jaunty "Mattie's Rag" -- the music almost burbles with anticipation.
A miraculously homogeneous album -- except for the breakthrough sax refrain on "Baker Street," neither voice nor instrument ruffles the flow of hard-won axioms and sensible hooks. Very nice, I mean it -- if yin and yang is your meat, this beats Percy Faith a mile. But Fleetwood Mac it ain't.


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The Explosive Barrel is an environment object that can be seen all throughout every map of the game. These objects can take damage from any source, either from the Tenno or their enemies.
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Exploded barrels will do damage to enemies, players, and other objects, including nearby crates or Sensor Bars.
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That was a hard one to answer, because Football, i like NFL over NCAA, but Basketball, I like NCAA over NBA. Voted pro because the majority of everything else is pro granted there arent as many NCAA Baseball or Hockey games shown on TV out here.
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I enjoy college football slightly more than NFL, and enjoy NBA significantly more than college hoops.
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I'm honored to have been recognized by addictionunscripted.com as one of their top 25 recovery bloggers!
AddictionUnscripted seeks to destroy the stigma that shames addicts and their loved ones into silence, by providing both a platform and publication to normalize the stories of brokenness that derive from addiction.
The list of the Top 25 Recovery Bloggers is full of great names that I personally love to read and share with you. It's humbling to be included among the likes of Sasha Tozzi, UnPickled and Hip Sobriety among others. Sharing the stories of our struggles and victories isn't easy but it weaves us all together and creates the support network that is vital to our continued success. Take the time to visit the bloggers on this list and let them know how important their work is to you as well.
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The site is open to all women in recovery, and features beneficial tools such as a reading room, recovery coach profiles, retreat information, yoga insight, and written pieces about topics such as gratitude and emotional reflections. Any woman who visits the She Recovers site will gain valuable insight into the world of recovery.
Robin Bright's goal in creating That Sober Life was to bring encouragement and hope to the recovery community through collective stories and personal reflections.
The site shares testimonies of those who have battled addiction, as well as reflections of those who have been affected by addiction. Robin has included her own daughter's personal experience of living with a mother who is addicted to drugs and alcohol. The site advocates harm reduction as it relates to Opioid abuse and is active in promoting the life-saving benefits of the prescription drug, Narcon, a heroin overdose antidote.
Magz Shores, the writer behind Sober Courage, falsely believed that alcohol gave her courage and bravery. In her blog, Sober Courage, Magz provides a wide variety of resources and tools on how to stay sober and how to maintain sobriety through difficult events, times, and relationships. She hosts an assortment of features including her "Friday Night Pep-Talks" which were born out of Magz belief that Friday nights are some of the loneliest and most difficult times in early sobriety.
Melissa Johnson began My Truth Starts Here with a purpose to find and uncover her authentic self. She is very open about her experience being a sober mom and journals about what it was like to have her own children taken out of her care and put into a foster home. She writes about her past relapses and the lessons she learned from each of them.
Melissa is a very honest writer and shows an immense amount of bravery in discussing all the details of her past. Her voice provides hope to other families and mothers who are struggling with addiction.
Carly Benson, the woman behind Miracles Are Brewing, describes herself as "a recovered addict turned Christian, writer, believer of miracles and habit-busting, life change activist aspiring to motivate others as a sobriety and life coach."
Carly offers her readers a unique perspective on her life and how she lives as a sober woman. She's vivacious and vibrant and works to ensure her words are authentic and real. Her articles feature titles like "Sober is the New Cool" and "I'm Sober, not Boring."
The Unruffled is probably one of the most unique recovery blogs I have ever come across. It is a site devoted to unleashing your creative power.
Sondra Primeaux created The Unruffled in the hopes that the reader will:
"consume some art, ingest some words, and devour some impressions that may serve as a catalyst for your own creative start in your recovery."
Sondra is a beautiful writer and posts unique content that includes posts about Michelle Obama, tarot cards, freak flags, and "How To's" on creating unique art and clothing, such as magical unicorn headbands and dreamcatchers.
Jean McCarthy began her blog on the first day of her sobriety and has been writing ever since. Her site shares her own personal struggles, but also offers insightful and useful information on navigating through a sober life.
Her blog has touched the hearts of thousands of people and Jean is active in offering new content and refreshing revelations about sobriety.
Daniel Maurer, the man behind Transformation is Real, is a published and respected author, a dynamic speaker and recovery advocate, and a mentor to a number of sober bloggers. He says:
"Writing is the only art where the canvas stands ready for the brush and the paint – in the mind of your reader"
Daniel writers and shares about transformation and provides hope to the countless number of readers who still suffer in their own addictions. He is an advocate for change and brings a genuine and relatable voice to the recovery space. Transformation is Real gives you real stories of change from real people.
Holly Whitaker of Hip Sobriety works to change the conversation about sobriety, addiction, and alcohol abuse. When Holly went to a doctor to get treatment for her alcohol addiction, the doctor gave her two options – go to a 12 step meeting or go to treatment. In Holly's words, she says,
"I wanted a modern, affordable, beautiful, accessible, empowering, self-directed recovery that reflected who I was as an individual – and that didn't exist. So I created what I wished for -recovery as I would have it."
She introduces the reader to a variety of holistic tools that helped her in her own recovery, including rituals and processes such as meditation, nutrition, Kundalini yoga, breathwork, dancing, anger-release techniques, EFT, mantras and relationship-building tools. Her approach to addiction treatment is empowering, holistic, fluid and unique. She is a fresh and diverse voice that advocates for a different conversation on addiction. Holly believes that sobriety allows us to awaken to our best selves and it is actually our greatest gift.
Nancy Carr is the writer of Last Call, a raw and honest memoir about her alcoholism and cocaine addiction. Her blog is dedicated to bringing awareness about alcoholism, addiction, and recovery. She decided to start blogging when she discovered the amazing online recovery community that included a variety of recovery resources.
Nancy blogs about her life, which includes recovery, alcoholism, the beach, being sober in a non-sober world, her dog, Lucy, and her sober husband. She shares her recovery insights and also writes a majority of helpful lists about recovery and sobriety. Nancy is a well-known voice in the recovery space as she openly shares her struggles and her successes as they relate to her own sobriety.
Laura Silverman of The Sobriety Collective has created a blog revolving around community and connection with other sober folk. In her own words, Laura says her
"vision for the collective is to have a living, breathing community of awesome SOBER people, making contributions in music, film, writing, fashion, technology, beauty, business, comedy, photography/art, philanthropy, education, fitness, wherever/whatever/whoever YOU are."
The Sobriety Collective features Recovery Profiles, Sober Stock, and a number of entertaining and interesting articles written by Laura on all subjects grounded in her personal recovery and her mental health. Her Link Love section contains some of the best resources in finding other sober writers, non-profits, activists, and other mental health and recovery websites.
Mark Goodson is about as sincere and genuine as they come. His writing offers honest reflections of his own personal experiences in addiction and recovery. He is a talented and skilled writer and his site is constantly updated with new content. He also writes poetry and recently published a beautiful piece about the Orlando Massacre. Mark finds ordinary life to be a miracle, thus his title "The Miracle of the Mundane."
Aaron Lee Perry is a creative genius. He has so many projects going on, it's difficult to even fully describe all he does. His work is beautiful. He is an illustrator, a writer, a clothing designer, a painter, and a design master. Along with all the incredible collections of art on his website, Aaron writes about his own sobriety. He highlights his daily thoughts which include topics like fatherhood, self-doubt, fear, failure, and the appreciation of his life in sobriety.
Kristi Coulter is an incredibly talented writer. There is no doubt about it. Her blog Off-Dry is a relevant and relatable story of what it's like for a woman maintaining sobriety in a world that's full of non-sober people and booze filled events. Kristy is witty, clever, and unique. Each piece is titled with her day count and expresses her current feelings at that time in her sobriety. She's written incredible pieces about "killing the yes" and her most recent piece is a progressive, modern-day online alcoholism self-assessment quiz for today's woman.
Olivia Penelle is the writer behind the incredible blog, Liv's Recovery Kitchen. Olivia is a nutrition and recovery advocate. Although the foundation of Liv's recovery is grounded in a 12- step fellowship, she believes in a holistic and fluid approach to recovery.
Liv discovered that nutrition and exercise were vital aspects to her recovery. Her blog features three sections: interviews with prominent figures in the recovery and nutrition space, personal recipes, and her own written reflections about recovery.
Laura McKowen is a beautiful and compelling writer. I've described her words as "heaven on a page." Her writing offers unique and insightful tips on navigating a life of sobriety. Laura describes herself as a mama, writer, light-seeker, and recovery warrior.
She believes that
"We desperately need each other's most honest stories-to know that we are not alone, to learn how to move through life, and to remember who we are."
Laura is a truth-teller – vulnerable, real, authentic, insightful, reflective and powerful. Her work truly is adventures in truth-telling.
Kelly Fitzgerald AKA The Sober Senorita describes herself as a reformed party girl. She is an advocate for women in sobriety and believes that "sobriety is self-love." Her articles are always personal, but they offer a wide variety of useful tips in how to live a sober life.
She's fun, expressive, and shows how you can live a life beyond your wildest dreams in sobriety. Kelly writes for various other publications, including The Huffington Post, where she has her own blog!
The Recovery Revolution is one of the most visual appealing sites you will come across in the recovery space. But, that's not even the best thing about it. Chris Aguirre has created a community of people in recovery that are now connected. He has truly started A Recovery Revolution.
There are a variety of different creative and educational resources, including perspectives, insights, reflections, artwork, comical relief, and recovery revelations. His site features some of the best names, voices, artists, and writers in the recovery world and it's constantly evolving. And while this isn't a list of top podcasts, you can't mention The Recovery Revolution without mentioning the highly acclaimed podcast that Chris runs every Wednesday night with his friends Jeff and Matt. The Recovery Revolution continues to be a space to watch (and listen).
Poetry is not a lost art and Zach Nelson's work proves this. Zach's poetry is hosted on Daniel Maurer's site, Transformation is Real, but it's quickly gaining traction through the social media realms.
His visuals are colorful and striking, but his words can move you to tears. The poems are short, and usually only five lines at most, but he can say so much, with so little. And this is the best thing about poetry, and Zach's work. How five little lines can define your entire life.
Tammi Salas's blogs are some of the most visual appealing pieces I've ever read and witnessed. She's not only a talented writer, but a beautiful artist. The majority of her content is devoted to highlighting each month of her sobriety. When Tammi was first getting sober, she looked for resources that provided the feelings around each milestone of sobriety.
She created her blog in the hopes of providing others an insight into the feelings and experiences that are associated with each month of her sobriety. Tammi's work highlights her artistic skills, but also takes you through her real, intense, personal, and vulnerable feelings as it relates to her sobriety.
Cristina Ferri is a grateful sober unicorn. Cristina created her blog with a mission to inspire others to be mindful, kind, and courageous in their journey through recovery. Her blog expresses some of her deepest emotions and she is about as genuine and transparent as they come.
The Sober Unicorn is also a non-profit organization that raises money to provide newly sober people with products that they may need in order to transition into a new life of sobriety.
Beth Leipholtz proves that you can get sober at any age. Beth got sober at 20 years old. She writes about her ever evolving sober life, the pitfalls of sobriety, how she avoids relapse, her experience in dating sober, and general reflections on the life of a 20-something year old.
Her site features a variety of stories related to her sobriety, but it also takes you into a real-life account of her own life and her own personal experiences in what it's like to be an adult.
Annie Grace is the writer behind This Naked Mind. Her book, with the same title, highlights a new approach, involving the process of Liminal thinking, that focuses on understanding how we construct and change our beliefs in order to help gain freedom from alcohol. As opposed to teaching you how to be sober, Annie Grace shows you how the desire to drink can be removed.
She advocates that the focus is not on staying sober, but on living a life of freedom and joy. On her blog, Annie focuses on answering commonly asked questions related to alcohol, as well as offering a wide variety of "How To" articles as they relate to living an alcohol free life.
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Getting used to running with a GPS, but I'm now spending more time pouring over the details of the run and looking at the route on various mapping programmes than I am actually running!
I'm also trying to keep on feeding the old JB7 with as many of my CDs as I can. I'm pretty much sticking to my self imposed "rule" of one from the deep recesses of the collection for every old favourite. And the system seems to be working and throwing up some gems.
Found an old Benny Goodman compilation lurking away at the back of a drawer. I remember buying it and being disappointed... I'd thought it was a 1966 recording when I got it, but I was a bit disappointed when I got it home and studied the sleeve notes that it was actually just a compilation of 40's and 50's releases that had been "cleaned up" and augmented by a couple of re-recordings from 66 of his most famous tunes.


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This week we begin the final book of Torah, Devarim, the words of Moshe as he spoke them to the Israelites before he died and they went into the land. Devarim is different than the rest of Torah in the kind of literature it is. The other books of Torah are either narrative material, stories told by an unnamed third person who we know as Moshe, and legal material, communicated by G-d to Moshe, which he then wrote down. Devarim, is neither. It is a collection of speeches given by Moshe, an epitaph for a man whose tomb is unknown, final words given to a nation about to experience the fulfillment of G-d�s desires for them.
Our first parasha is a speech recounting some of the journeys of Israel. It is, however, a very selective list. The exodus, Mt. Sinai, the Mishkan being set up; none of these are even mentioned. Only a few things are mentioned, the command to leave Sinai, the journey to Canaan, the debacle of the spies, the fact they wandered in the desert and the command to leave the wilderness for Canaan along with some of their relations with the nations surrounding Canaan. Moshe picked these events for a specific reason to convey a message. What is it?
There are parallel statements found in v. 1:6-7 and 2:2-3. The first is the command for the Israelites to leave Sinai to go to the promised land and the second is for the new generation to leave the mountain to go to the promised land. The consequence of the first was the sin of the spies, they refused the land and ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. G-d gave them the command to take the land and they refused. A new generation was now on their way to attempt the same feat. Moshe is speaking to them a clear warning not to repeat the mistakes of their fathers who died in the desert.
In order to encourage them, he recounts some of their military victories. He is saying to them, �Look how you handled these nations and the deliverance G-d has wrought for you, Canaan will be no more difficult�. Moshe wanted to give them a warning but also to encourage them to go into the land, that is was possible, that the first attempt was foiled not because G-d was unable to accomplish it but because the people disobeyed. If they learned from their fathers and obeyed the command of G-d, they would posses the land.
We too should learn these lessons (I Cor 10:1-13). We know that obedience to Torah is what funnels blessings and power into our lives, coupled with our union with the Messiah in the New Covenant. And we know that G-d is a G-d of grace, that just as He did not give up on the nation of Israel but disciplined them as son and then put them in a position to bless them as He had promised, so we are disciplined when we fail, not to disqualify us from blessing but to allow G-d to move us back into a position from which He can fulfill His desires for us, for goodness and for Shalom. We may, as Israel did, make foolish mistakes, but the only true fool is the one who learns nothing from them. As the saying goes, those who don�t know history are doomed to repeat it. We need to remember Israel's history and our own and learn from the mistakes and build on the victories. Our road to maturity and effectiveness as the people of G-d will go much quicker if we do.
Devarim is generally understood to be Moshe�s �farewell speech� to the people of Israel before they entered the land under Joshua. He begins this speech by recounting a little history, the majority of which is a rehash of the story about the spies. Why does he begin with this? If you remember the final Parashot of Bamidbar, the tribes of Reuven and Gad made the request to stay on the other side of the Jordan and not go into the land. Moshe at that time reacted swiftly and harshly with the charge that they could influence their brethren to repeat the sin of the spies and they would wander the desert for forty more years, or worse. He is reminding them at this point that they had better remember what happened last time they stood in this place so they don�t repeat their father�s sin.
There are some important lessons to be learned in this recounting and the contrast between Calev, who was not even a descendant of Avraham and was wholeheartedly faithful, and the other spies and the people who were influenced by their report. One of the very important ones is that sin has consequences. These people had a command to go and possess the land and they refused. G-d had men in place to encourage them, to convince them not to sin, not to rebel. They did not listen so judgement was pronounced and then they repented. The judgement was too hard for them and they decided it was better to do what G-d said. But it was too late. Often Christians will say that all you need to do is say you�re sorry and G-d forgives and life can go on as it had. That is not the picture the scriptures give of repentance. Repentance involves much more that just saying your �sorry�. But our concern here is that sin has consequences and they may be very long lasting and all the �I�m sorry�s� in the world won�t change it. If one decides to have an affair and contracts AIDS, all the repentance in the world won�t change it. If a leader falls due to serious sin, that leader needs to step down for a long time after repentance. We tend to minimize the consequences and the time for �rehab� but those consequences are there because G-d put them there and we all need to respect them for the good of us all.
The reason being that we are all responsible for each other. Calev and Joshua were faithful but although they were not condemned to die in the desert as were all the other men over twenty, they still had to spend the next four decades of their life wandering in the wilderness waiting for the punishment to be played out. Daniel and his companions were not idolaters yet they were carried off to Babylon as slaves. The first century followers of Yahushua suffered at the hands of Rome during the rebellion and the destruction of Yerushalyim. The community of Israel is a whole �organism�, a whole �body� as Sha�ul put it. When there are people in Israel who do not adhere to the covenant, when there are individuals who engage in sin, as did Achan, everyone in the community is affected. We are all responsible to each other, we are all chained together and when one falls, we are all drug down to some degree. We do pay for the sins of the community to some degree which is why we must take our job of encouraging all the people of Israel to righteousness very seriously.
Sin is a serious thing and we need to treat it as seriously as G-d does. We need to accept our consequences as we work to make sure we don�t fall and make those consequences necessary. The community of G-d should be a righteous community, a holy community of integrity and spiritual power. We should all follow the example of Calev who followed YHVH wholeheartedly and sought to keep his brethren on the straight and narrow as well. But if we think we can sin and repent without consequences we deceive ourselves and work towards our own destruction.
A new book of the Torah begins this week. This book is unlike the previous books of Torah in many ways. It has been called Moshe�s farewell address. It is the Torah in his own words with some additional commandments that will guide them in living in the land. They were about to enter a new situation. Up until this point the had relied on the obvious presence of G-d and the miracles to sustain them. They had been isolated from the rest of the world. Once in the land they would not have the pillar of cloud and fire to guide them, they would be sowing and harvesting for their food, they would be surrounded by idolatry and hostile enemies. They would not have a man like Moshe leading them. Moshe needed to prepare them.
Notice the opening of the book, these are the words that Moshe spoke. In our previous books we had the words that YHVH spoke to Moshe and now we have Moshe speaking about what he has heard and seen. This would be the prophetic model from this point on. And the first thing that he does is recount their history to this point. We may wonder why.
The ninth of Av falls right around the time we begin Devarim. This is the day the first and second temple were destroyed, the last resistance to Rome was crushed, the deadline to leave Spain when the inquisition started and traditionally the day the spies turned the people back from the land. Even World War One, which led to the humiliation of Germany and the rise of Hitler began on the ninth of Av.
There is an intimate connection between the events of the ninth of Av and Devarim. Moshe recounts the history of Israel up to this point for a reason, he wants them to remember. Remember what? The key word is �Eichah� (How) found in 1:9 of our parasha and the opening of Lamentations, read on the ninth of Av. The same root with different vowel points is found in Gen 3:9 where G-d seeks out the man�where are you? The connection is that when tragedy falls, when bad things happen, G-d says �where are you...how did you let this happen?� Often it is we who shout it to G-d but most of the time the misfortune that befalls us is the result of our own making, our own sin and disobedience. Israel fells into idolatry and the result was the destruction of the temple. They refused to go into the land and they stayed in the desert. Adam and Eve ate the fruit and the fall resulted. Each time G-d�s heart was saddened and he asked, �how could you let this happen?�
The question is meant to illicit a specific response and that is repentance. We are to remember the covenant, remember our failures and then change so it does not happen again. Moshe was warning the people of Israel by cataloguing their journey, using the place names as gentle reminders of sin and failure to help them remember so they would not fall into the same traps again. Rav Sha�ul said that the lessons of Israel are ones we need to take to heart, we are to learn from their mistakes. We need to remember so we stay close to the covenant and the G-d who made it so he never has to shake his head at us and wonder �what happened�.
In this parasha Moshe recounts some of their journey, the places they�ve been, the wars they fought, the sins they committed. I so doing, he mentions three groups of people, the Moabites, the Ammonites and the descendants of Esav. Each of these had a possession within what we may refer to as the �extended� boundaries of the �promised land�, the boundaries that go from the Nile to the Euphrates. The children of Esav are somewhat understandable, they too were descendants of Avraham. But the children of Lot were not. Yet Moshe records their history much as he recorded Israel�s. �...YHVH destroyed them (Zamzumin) before them (Ammonites)... just as he did for the the children of Esav...�(Deut 2:21-22) God was going to drive out the Canaanites the same way, yet this was not a unique action just for the children of Avraham, Yitzak and Ya�akov. YHVH was performing miraculous deliverance's against great odds (giants) for the children of Lot and Esav as well.
This small passage brings a truth to light that is purposefully overlooked or at least neglected, something Y�shua went to great pains to rectify. The truth is that God has positive relationships with people groups outside of the direct descendants of Jacob or even Avraham. He does miracles for them as our parasha suggests, he communicates with them as he did Melchizedek, Abimelech, Balaam and Naaman, he makes promises to them as he did Egypt and Assyria in prophesy (Isa 19) and blessings to Nebuchadnezzar and Darius and the Ninevites. We have often asked the question, why did YHVH choose Avraham? The bible gives no definitive answer. His life after being chosen is exemplary with a few hitches and there is much lauding of him that goes on in Biblical and extrabiblical sources but no reason he was chosen. Could it be because he was not the only one? Has God chosen others, like Abimelech for example, to be righteous leaders of peoples? Could it be that because all these other peoples passed from the scene without a written record like the Bible that we know only of God�s intimacy with the people of Israel and only incidentally of His work among other peoples? Have the descendants of Jacob learned to claim an exclusivity that was not found in the pages of Tenach?
Y�shua seemed to think so. He said that the people of Nineveh (who never converted to Judaism upon repentance) would condemn his generation. That Tyre and Sidon, even Sodom and Gomorrah would have been more righteous if given the opportunity than his generation. And he was talking to Pharisees, the pious ones, the predecessors of the Rabbis. He said there were many in Israel who had leprosy in Elisha�s day but he chose to heal Naaman. He may have cocentrated on the lost sheep of Israel but he did not let them forget that there were plenty of other people YHVH cared about in the world that did not have their heritage, a heratige which meant little if God could make descendants of Avraham out of the rocks! God is not concerned only with the descendants of Avraham, they are not the only ones who are going to be �saved�, they are not the only one�s God has intimate relationship with. We are all made in his image, we all possess a spark of His infinite nature. No one�s lineage can give one more or less of that image or that spark. God is not discriminatory, it only appears that way because we read the Bible with assumptions passed on to us by the Jews themselves, assumptions commandeered by Christians and accepted by all western style religions. Jews claim they are the only chosen people, Christians say the claim was passed on to them, they are the new Israel and the Muslims make the same claim. You and I are already made in His image, we have a connection to Him that already exists and just needs to be revealed. We don�t need to become something to be made in the image of God, we already are. We don�t have to join some group to find Him, the Kingdom is within us.
I have been involved with or researched most forms of �Messianic� religion over the last decade and they all suffer from this problem. The Jewish people did not learn exclusivity until after the Babylonian captivity. Since that time they have developed the idea that they are the only chosen one�s of God and if one is not part of their group, however they define it (a big problem all by itself!), one cannot be saved or even know God. Y�shua�s community had this problem and they resolved that one did not have to become a Jew (as if some operation could change your parentage!) or practice pharisaic Judaism to be saved/know God. This lesson was quickly forgotten. Christians arose and claimed the mantle of �God�s chosen people� and the lie that God only chooses one certain group out of all the people of the world was perpetuated, now by the Jews and the Christians. Most Messianics try to believe both, there being some advantage to being a descendant of Avraham but the Christians are the real chosen ones. Nazarenes believe that the Jews are the only chosen ones and therefore one has to be or become a Jew even in Messiah to be one of the chosen. Two House proponents believe they have a hidden lineage that connects them with Avraham and thus they put themselves in the �descendants of Avraham are the only chosen ones� category. All this does is allow men to set themselves up as gatekeepers to heaven and set up their religious criteria for entrance. We do not need any gatekeeper but Messiah who said repent, the kingdom of God was at hand, in fact inside of us. I do not need a priest, pastor, rabbi or teacher to give me what I already have. The kingdom, the principles of the Torah, the revelation of God are all inside, covered over by the stony heart of pride, self and knowledge. Remove those things and the child of God will be revealed in each of us no matter who we are, where we are from or who our parents are.
Before Moshe begins his farewell speech to the nation, there is an innocuous little geographic statement that sets the tone for the rest of the speech. �...eleven days from Horeb, by way of Mt. Sier to Kadesh-Barnea.� (1:2) They were on the edge of the land, an eleven day journey from Horeb or Sinai, the mountain of God where they had met YHVH and received the first instructions of the Torah. Eleven days...it had taken them forty years to reach this point. He follows this with a litany of the failures of the previous generation. They complained, they disobeyed, they rejected the land, it was their fault he was not going into the land. Why was this necessary, why did Moshe need to repeat the failures of the previous generation?
As it is often said, you only go around once. We come into this life created in the image of the creator, and in that we are all the same. We have different physical and mental abilities and deficiencies, we are born into differing economic, social and religious situations. The generation that came out of Egypt had the worst of circumstances. Individually and corporately they were slaves, isolated from the rest of the world in ignorance and hopelessness. Yet within each man and woman is the desire for freedom, the innate understanding that such a situation is not just, that there is something better. Moshe had it as one born in Pharaoh�s household but so did Aaron and some of the elders and even younger men like Joshua. It was these who could see thier potential and were willing to follow Moshe to see that potential realized.
With the initial exodus, the people were jubilant. Their slavery was over. They were going to a great land and would become a great nation. But as soon as difficulties arose and they realized that this new situation was unlike what they had know and their old worldview was not going to work, instead of adjusting their living and thinking, they wanted to go back. Even though slavery was the antithesis of the freedom they were heading to, even though it suppressed their natural inclination and regimented their lives and thoughts in a way that kept them from ever becoming anything, it was familiar and comfortable. They preferred it. Moshe knew the hold it would have, I�m sure there were times he wished he could have returned as well. Moshe, however, had burnt his bridges when he killed the Egyptian taskmaster. He burnt Israel�s bridges through the plagues, making them odious to the Egyptians and finally putting a geographic barrier, the Red Sea, in their path of return. They would be forced to adjust or perish. After a year of incessant rebellion culminating in the spy incident, they chose to perish. This new generation must not repeat their mistakes.
Every man and woman has the same option the Israelites did. No reasonably healthy person with basic mental capabilities could start off in a worse situation than the Israelites in Egypt. It may take time but each person has the ability to go on the journey to realize their potential as a being created in God�s image. We may seem to be far away from setting out or we may console ourselves with the idea that we can achieve our potential while we remain in Egypt (or Babylon). We can do theological gymnastics and reduce our expectations like the fundamentalist Christian who says that miracles and the like were only for a particular time. We live our lives in comfort and think that we have the best we can attain. Or even if we know that there is so much more and that we are only scratching the surface of spiritual potential, we do not know what we should do or, if we have an idea, we are not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve it.
Y�shua said that it profits a man nothing if he gains the world and loses his soul; that no one who loves his life will save it, only the one that loses it; that no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is worthy of the kingdom; that anyone who loves his family more than him is not worthy. Our examples are the pearl merchant who sold all he had for the most perfect pearl and the merchant who found a treasure and sold all he had to acquire the field and the treasure. There are only two types of people in this world. Those who are stagnant and those who are moving. The stagnant ones may remain so because they�ve convinced themselves this is their best or because they fear the unknown or because they lack the discipline to succeed. Those that are moving are those who have left their physical and theological Babylon, have burned their bridges and are on the journey to Zion, physically and spiritually, two things that are really the same.


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War never again: Art Show fundraiser
Saturday 19 May, 3pm
Rod Quantock will open the exhibition at Steps Art Gallery, 62 Lygon St., Carlton.
All proceeds will go to the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and the Victorian Branch of the Medical Association for Prevention of War.
The exhibition will include works by Michael Leunig, Arthur Boyd, Polly Body, Lyn Nichols, John Wolsley, Fiona Murphy, Sean Murphy, Jeff Raglus, Terry Denton, First Dog on the Moon, Kathleen McCann, Sheila Dixon Nungarayi, Peter Rosson, Jiri Tibor Novak, Bill Kelly, Ceci Cairns, Ben Laycock, Lyn Hovey, John Nicholson, Dawn Robinson, Rachel Joy, Tom Civil, Jessie Boylan, Pam Debenham and many more impressive artists.
Works include painting, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography, sculpture, and even furniture.
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Sterling was established in 1996 as an alternative to the traditional mutual fund dealer. Today, we are one of Canada's premier independent dealers currently at 300 associates and support staff in all 10 provinces (Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador).
As part of the Sterling Independent Financial Network, our advisors enjoy the benefits of having access to best in class financial products and services with the support of an innovative, advisor-oriented dealer that is committed to service excellence. Sterling was founded under three governing principles that remain firmly in place today.
With the use of advanced proprietary technology and our industry leading compensation model and services, Sterling endeavours to make it easier for advisors to do business while assisting them in running a more efficient and profitable practice.
Our back office staff is cross-trained, thus creating a fully integrated and efficient environment, allowing us to adapt and respond quickly to market and regulatory changes.
We are 100% privately owned, allowing us to foster a culture of creativity and entrepreneurialism while minimizing the bureaucracy that comes with many larger organizations.
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Schoolchildren are being detained for alleged acts of treason and prisoners "are being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape" in the wake of the failed military coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to lawyers and a human rights organization.
Moreover, the Erdogan government, also in response to the July 15 coup attempt, has reportedly issued arrest warrants for 42 journalists as part of a purge that appears to be based on political affiliation.
Critics have accused the Turkish leader of using the abortive coup to execute an indiscriminate crackdown on dissent.
Human rights group Amnesty International reports:
Amnesty International has credible reports that Turkish police in Ankara and Istanbul are holding detainees in stress positions for up to 48 hours, denying them food, water and medical treatment, and verbally abusing and threatening them. In the worst cases some have been subjected to severe beatings and torture, including rape…
Detainees are being arbitrarily held, including in informal places of detention. They have been denied access to lawyers and family members and have not been properly informed of the charges against them, undermining their right to a fair trial.
Schoolchildren, between 14 and 17 years old, can be found among the detainees.
The Sun reports:
A total of 62 students at Kuleli Military school, the oldest such establishment in Istanbul, were collared by Turkish authorities.
Before the coup attempt last week, the pupils, aged between 14 and 17, were made to dress up in camouflage and were handed guns with empty magazines, according to their lawyers.
The children have been taken to prison and not allowed to speak to their parents as they were accused of treason against the Turkish State…
The incarcerated kids families and lawyers fear their sons could be denied a fair trial due to mass purges in Turkey's judiciary and anti coup protesters hunger for vengeance.
Amnesty International notes that more than 10,000 people have been detained following the failed coup attempt.
The organization's Europe director John Dalhuisen declared:
Reports of abuse including beatings and rape in detention are extremely alarming, especially given the scale of detentions that we have seen in the past week. The grim details that we have documented are just a snapshot of the abuses that might be happening in places of detention.
It is absolutely imperative that the Turkish authorities halt these abhorrent practices and allow international monitors to visit all these detainees in the places they are being held…
Despite chilling images and videos of torture that have been widely broadcast across the country, the government has remained conspicuously silent on the abuse. Failing to condemn ill-treatment or torture in these circumstances is tantamount to condoning it.
Erdogan and his supporters in parliament have imposed a three-month state of emergency that reportedly started Friday, as U.S. President Barack Obama warned the Erdogan government against "overreaction."
The state of emergency has allowed Erdogan to prolong detention times from four to a maximum of 30 days and issue decrees to tighten his grip on Turkey.
Amnesty International learned about the conditions prisoners were being held in by the Erdogan government from lawyers, doctors and a person on duty in a detention facility.
It reports:
The organization heard multiple reports of detainees being held in unofficial locations such as sports centers and a [horse] stable…
Two lawyers in Ankara working on behalf of detainees told Amnesty International that detainees said they witnessed senior military officers in detention being raped with a truncheon or finger by police officers…
[One] interviewee heard one police doctor on duty say: 'Let him die. We will say he came to us dead.'
At least 300 of the detainees showed signs of having been beaten. Some detainees had visible bruises, cuts, or broken bones. Around 40 were so badly injured they could not walk. Two were unable to stand. One woman who was also detained in a separate facility there had bruising on her face and torso…
Higher-ranking military officers were reportedly treated the worst. The coup attempt was led by segments of the Turkish military, which considers itself the guardian of the country's secular constitution.
Amnesty International condemned the treatment of prisoners and journalists in the wake of the coup attempt.
The human rights group notes:
Amnesty International also learned that the [Turkish] authorities arbitrarily blocked access to news websites in the days following the coup attempt as well as revoking the licenses of other media houses. Dozens of individual journalists have also had their press cards cancelled.


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There are hundreds of web developers out there. The only thing that consumes your time is finding and choosing a developer that will fit to your job description. But if you ever find a suitable one, then that's the best decision you have ever made! In the long run, you will see that taking this big step will eventually save you money and aggravation.
Hiring a web developer for your business is a great investment. Even though there are a lot of website templates available online, a professional one will create a site that's custom designed and with added functionality. Moreover, you're website will run smooth without being bogged downy by website coding and design.
How are you going to look for the best web developer? Here are seven characteristics that he or she must possess.
1. Being a great listener.
The most essential characteristic of being a great web developer is having the ability to listen and understand your needs. Great developers have the capability to figure out or capture what you're talking about even you don't. They must know the right questions to ask in order to dig deeper in the things that you want and need.
2. Respecting your ideas.
A professional and good developer must welcome the ideas that you have. The best ones are those who encourage you to share your ideas with them. If possible, they want you to integrate with them until the final design is made. In addition to that, they can explain to why a certain idea didn't work without having to belittle or embarrass you.
3. Good communication.
Together with the ability to listen, they should also have the ability to communicate well! They should be intelligent enough to make you understand all the web terminology and technologies in layman's term.
4. Should be well versed in Internet and other web technologies.
An excellent web developer is known to be knowledgeable about all the technologies about the web. Moreover, he must have the right tools needed to build a great website. Examples of his skills must include designing layouts in CSS, developing graphics for the web, maintaining websites, working with multimedia and well-versed in coding in HTML.
5. Using technology to achieve specific goals.
There is a fine line between being proficient on the latest web technologies and knowing when and where to use them. With that, they should be wise to know what kind of techniques and technologies are appropriate for a certain site.
6. Keeping the business goals in mind as well as design goals.
There are a lot of designers out there who know how to make stunning websites. However, the best ones are those capable to creating both attractive and effective websites. They would always remember that your site is just a billboard for their design; this is something that you need to showcase your work or product.
7. Have organized and clear development process
The best designers have already produced many sites and have developed a process that can continue over time. Since they can already see the pitfalls, they know what steps to take to avoid these.
Never underestimate your website as this is one tool that could help promote your company. With that, you need to have the best web developers in the world to design a site that is engaging, enticing and easy to use.


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In 2011, the University of Michigan spearheaded a unique program called the Sustainable Lab Recognition Program to instill sustainability into teaching and research laboratories across the campus. Five years into the program, the university has been successful in engaging nearly 200 labs. The state of Michigan adopted this program conceptually and introduced it to other higher education institutions and organizations through a series of workshops. Participating labs embrace best lab practices in order to practice or implement green chemistry, energy and utilities conservation, recycling, and behavioral changes in their operations.
While there are many measurable benefits from this program, the university also encountered some barriers and challenges. This presentation will take a closer look at the metrics captured and discuss both the accomplishments and challenges of the program.
After viewing this presentation, attendees will:
Sign up to view the webinar recording.
Webinar attendees and those who view the recording can earn one Professional Development Hour (PDH) for professional engineers or one Learning Unit (LU) from the American Institute of Architects for registered architects.
Contact I2SL after the webinar if you would like to receive a credit for your participation.
Dr. Sudhakar Reddy has many years of experience in green chemistry and sustainability. He has developed many green methods in analytical chemistry to measure target chemicals. Based on a green method developed by Dr. Reddy's group, Dionex has redesigned their Accelerated Solvent Extractor to measure polychlorinated biphenyls in the air. He received several awards to recognize his contributions towards sustainability. Dr. Reddy has published 30 papers and delivered invited talks on lab safety and sustainability.


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One way you can support our community is to prayerfully consider making a gift pursuant to our Annual Appeal. To learn more, click here.
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If your securities have appreciated, perhaps now is a good time to consider donating stock.
We are deeply grateful to all those who support our mission and specifically our fundraising efforts with the spiritual gift of their prayers. Thank you for your interest in our mission and your desire to assist us. May God reward your generosity!
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Compatibility of QuickBooks with Mac
There were some users who had been nurturing a notion that compatibility of QuickBooks with Mac was not satisfactory. But, the good news is that Intuit has been updating Quickbooks periodically. So, if you learn about the software through QuickBooks made easy, you will find that its updated version, with some welcome additions, is compatible with Mac also.
The updated version of this software comes with enhanced features. Once you go through its features by learning it with the help of Quickbooks made easy, you may certainly appreciate these features and also agree that this version can be very useful and can ideally handle the financial matters of your business.
Similarity with Windows version
The new version of QuickBooks for Mac has a lot of similarities with the Windows version. With the flowchart interface of QuickBooks for Mac, you can organize all the tasks of your business. Tasks are grouped logically and some of the examples of these groupings are vendors and customers, employees, and company. Likewise, tasks related to banking are grouped separately. To elaborate further, the whole process of the Vendor section may consist of creating a purchase order for the items that are available in your inventory, adding the items to the inventory through the Receive-Inventory Button when they arrive and finally, paying the bill using a button called Enter-Bills-Against-Inventory.
Shifting to QuickBooks
You may have been using QuickBooks earlier or may be using it for the first time. Whatever may be your experience with this software, you can easily move your business information from where it is now to QuickBooks. But, you should educate yourself fully for which you can use QuickBooks made easy. There is an import option using which you can retrieve the data on a CSV file or on your Mac's Address-Book-app for adding them to the software. You also have another feature for attaching documents with the help of which you can link your existing documents to your vendors and customers. You can link these documents to invoices also.
Further, you have the feature of free integration with the Payment Network of Intuit. This means that you can make payments without using a check. After you create your account, you can give links to the invoices for which payments have to be made. The payments made get posted to the bank account the subsequent day. Fees for these transactions are much less than the usual credit card transaction fees. With the help of QuickBooks, all the transactions are downloaded and then, internal reconciliation takes place also.
With QuickBooks, you can link scanned receipts and other documents to customers and vendors. Documents can be linked to employees also. Relevant documents and estimates as well as invoices can be linked with each other. This helps you to find the documents easily. When you are able to get all the associated documents together, your tasks are greatly simplified. But, for using the software in the right manner, you must learn it using QuickBooks made easy.
Grace is an expert associated with http://www.onpointsoftwaretraining.com , a leading software training firm that offers tutorials like: quickbooks made easy.


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The north east is a remarkable region, with gorgeous wet rain forests on the Blue Tier and a scenic drive away - pristine white sandy beaches in Tasmania's warmest climate zone.
Figure 1: Blue Tier Rainforest
In the early days, tin mining supported the region - at one time Tasmania made 20% of the world's tin. Mining declined, as forestry has too, resulting in towns like Derby and Weldborough becoming ghost towns.
Figure 2: Racers in the World MTB Enduro Series were treated to the very best of Tassy's trails
The Dorset and Break of Day Councils were faced with the challenge of developing a whole new industry for large parts of their region - for the sake of the towns and people living there - but also for the longer term economic viability of the councils themselves.
The councils came up with a plan to transform the fortunes of area by putting the wild forests and alpine ecosystems to a new use. They would create a really high quality network of mountain bike trails in the Blue Tier Forest Reserve, with trails starting from Derby and Weldborough to help stimulate the region.
They had a plan but Dorset and Break of Day councils are small, they couldn't raise the whole project cost themselves from rates paid by their small communities. So the councils applied for and won a $2.5 million grant from the Commonwealth Government. The councils funded the remainder of the $3.1 million required for the trails, trail signage, bike wash area, toilets and showers and managed the project.
The first group of trails in Derby was opened in February 2015. In October 2016 Weldborough's Blue Tier Descent trail opened, and in 2017 more trails were added to Derby. You can find out more about the trails like the recently opened Blue Tier Descent at https://www.ridebluederby.com.au
Figure 3: One of the twisting "bermed" turns used extensively by track builders World Trails
Coverage in mountain bike magazines, mountain bike races on the trails, tourism promotions and word of mouth – have all brought many riders to the trails. Derby hosted Round 2 of the 2017 mountain bike Enduro World Series in May 8 and 9, this was the first time the World Series had been held in Australia. The Enduro website had this to say-
"This wild and remote island off the Southern Coast of Australia will offer riders a real adventure as they explore the famous trails around Derby in the North East of the island. The area has become synonymous with world class mountain biking in recent years, and riders will get to experience everything from fern forests to granite slabs as they take in the stunning views on offer."
Tired, hungry, thirsty, dirty riders and their machines will have needs! In the space of two years many local small businesses were created, filling the once empty street front of Derby with new life. On a visit to Derby now you will see the main street crowded with cafes, a gourmet pizza shop, a mountain bike shop, mountain bike rental, mountain bike shuttle services, and many houses for rent as mountain bike friendly accommodation. Cafes and pubs in the region favour stocking craft beers made in the local area, of which there are a number! Behind the scenes an army of locals are cleaning and servicing the rental accommodation.
The Blue Derby Trail Network is a major destination for adventure seeking mountain bikers. Already the Blue Derby trails have been a game changer for north east and with 46km of new downhill track planned to the Bay of Fires, and a network of new trails south of St Helens, the opportunities for growth should keep inspiring riders to visit, and local communities to create businesses and jobs – making them richer, if a little muddier!


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Queen Elizabeth II personally replied to a series of Christmas cards sent by Andrew Simes and his grandfather during a period that began with her accession in 1952, up until present day, according to a Facebook post by Mr. Simes.
In the post, Mr. Simes explains that his grandfather met the queen in Izmir, Turkey, in 1972. At the time, she recognized his name and personally thanked him for the 20 years of Christmas cards he had sent up to that point.
"So it's you who keeps sending me those lovely Christmas cards," she said.
Andrew Simes guesses that because the cards came with a Turkish return address, they stood out in the queen's mind. She then wrote to Simes' grandfather on his 100th birthday. Sadly, he passed away in 2011 at the age of 102.
Simes then took up his grandfather's tradition and sent Queen Elizabeth a Christmas card in 2011, after his grandfather had passed on. Then, in January 2012, he received mail with a Buckingham Palace return address. Perhaps wondering if there was anything wrong with the card — it was a monarch he was writing to, after all — Simes read the queen's beautiful words.
"When I received a letter from a different Simes this Christmas, I instructed my office to research your grandfather's whereabouts. Therefore it is with much sadness, I have learned of his passing and extend my condolences to you and your family."
"I couldn't fight back the tears then," Simes writes, "nor can I fight them back every time I remember this story of two people who left a lifelong impression on each other."
Mr. Simes states that he continues to send the queen a Christmas card each year.
Queen Elizabeth was proclaimed sovereign in declarations throughout the British Commonwealth on February 6, 1952, upon the death of her father, King George VI. Each year, except for one, during her reign as monarch, Queen Elizabeth has addressed the Commonwealth over the radio, as reported by the British Monarchy.
King George V made the first Royal Christmas Broadcast in 1932. The idea for the broadcast was reported to have come from Sir John Reith, who is described as the "visionary" founding member of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Made from Sandringham, the first Christmas address required cables to be run from the royal country retreat to the BBC control room, where they could then be transmitted on the "wireless."
The first Christmas address read by King George V was written by Rudyard Kipling and was heard on shortwave bands in Commonwealth nations around the globe, including India, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Kenya. George V made annual Christmas broadcasts until his death in 1936.
There were no royal broadcasts in 1936 or 1938. In 1937, King George VI read the Royal Christmas Broadcast, and again in 1939, and each year after, until his death in 1952. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the monarchy felt that the Christmas address helped to reassure people who were justifiably frightened.
"A new year is at hand. We cannot tell what it will bring. If it brings peace, how thankful we shall all be. If it brings us continued struggle we shall remain undaunted," the 1939 address by King George VI read.
Queen Elizabeth has addressed the nation and world at Christmastime each year since her accession, except in 1969 when a scheduling conflict with a Christmas-airing of a documentary featuring the monarchy caused its cancellation. Britons were so upset that the queen reportedly wrote a letter addressing the lack of a Christmas address and promising a return in 1970. Queen Elizabeth has addressed the Commonwealth each Christmas since then.
Traditionally held at 3 p.m., the broadcast is described as being a "chronicle" of events that have affected the queen throughout the year, as well as being a chance to reflect upon national, global, and personal events, perhaps such as receiving Christmas cards from members of the Simes family for over 50 years.
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