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In thinking about ways I'd like to improve in 2008, I discovered that most of them revolve around "time." A good friend of mine long ago claimed the 25th hour of the day should it ever be discovered. (Maybe I can convince him to share it with me if he does find it.) Here are my resolutions for 2008:
- Have a schedule for each day. This one isn't so much a resolution as it is a necessity. I'm taking 20 credit hours this quarter, plus my website/database work to do. I don't think I'll be able to start the day saying "Ok, today I'm going to work on A and B." Instead, I need to say, "Ok, from noon until 1:00, I'm working on my Native American History paper and from 1:00 until 2:00, I'm working on converting the Civil War database." (Obviously that's a very shortened example!)
- Organize my office. (If I had a dime for every year I've said that… ) During my Christmas break, I became increasingly frustrated by losing things in my office. I shudder to think of how much time I've wasted and lost just looking for things. It's not really in that bad of shape (I've seen worse!), but it can definitely be improved. I think the first thing to go will be back issues of periodicals. If I need one, I know of several libraries where I can find them.
- Devote 15 minutes each day to a "fun" project. This is a mental health necessity! Whether it is spending 15 minutes updating my file on WeRelate, finding info for DeafBiographies, or looking for census records of collateral relatives, I want to devote that time to something fun, productive, and fulfilling.
- Make backups on a more regular basis. I do make backups, just not as often as I should 🙂
That's probably enough to keep me busy!
Happy New Year!


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|Santa Barbara > Activity Guide > Santa Barbara Hikes > Cold Spring Trail to Fire Road
Cold Spring
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Trail Head,
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information board. There are two trail heads for Cold Spring Trail.
Start at the east side of the creek where the
wood sign is rather than the
west side where the rusty metal sign is.
Directions to Trail Head
Just south of Santa Barbara on the 101 freeway exit at Olive Mill Road (exit 94A). Turn north toward the mountains and drive up Olive Mill Road until it becomes Hot Springs Road. Continue up Hot Springs Rd until you reach Mountain Drive. The distance from the freeway to Mountain Drive is 1.9 miles. Turn left on Mountain Drive and drive 1.05 miles to where Cold Spring Creek crosses the road. There are parking areas on both sides of the creek. There are also trail heads on both sides of the creek. Don't start on the west side where the rusty Cold Spring Trail sign is. Start on the east side of the creek (the side you came from) where you will see a wood sign marking the trail head. The GPS coordinates of the trail head are 34.456203, -119.653474.
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World's first vegetarian McDonald's to open at Indian holy sites
McDonald's will open outlets serving all-vegetarian menus for the first time at two of India's most-visited pilgrimage sites.
The news came on September 4, the same day that international sandwich chain Subway opened its first all-vegetarian outlet in the Indian state of Punjab.
McDonald's will open near the Golden Temple in Amritsar by mid-2013. Its second vegetarian outlet will be in the small town of Katra in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, at the base of the mountain shrine Vaishno Devi.
A holy site for Sikhs, the Golden Temple hosts thousands of visitors per day from around the world, while Katra welcomes around 8 million pilgrims a year en route to the Hindu shrine.
Both pilgrimage districts are entirely vegetarian. But beef-centric McDonald's won't have it easy despite bending to local dietary customs.
Its outlet in Amritsar will be 200 meters away from the Golden Temple, where free vegetarian meals are served as a part of the pilgrim's experience.
Some Hindus are opposed to the new outlets.
"It's an attempt not only to make money but also to deliberately humiliate Hindus," said S. Gurumurthy to The Daily Telegraph. "It is an organisation associated with cow slaughter."
Gurumurthy is co-convenor of the Hindu nationalist group Swadeshi Jagran Manch, a branch of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), according to the Telegraph. He said in the report the Hindu nationalists are "definitely going to fight" the fast-food giant in its expansion plans.
Also on CNN: The making of Mumbai's fundamental vada pav
India's got beef
McDonald's has been in India since 1996, but only has 271 outlets, compared with more than 1,400 restaurants in China, where it entered the market six years earlier.
It has not been able to push its core product -- beef burgers -- in a country where cows are sacred for Hindus who account for 80 percent of the population.
Pork products are also not sold in McDonald's in India, a move that caters to Muslim requirements.
Instead, McDonald's in India sells a half-vegetarian menu, with chicken as the main source of meat.
The signature items to be served on McDonald's all-vegetarian menu include the McAloo Tikki burger made from spiced potatoes. The sandwich accounts for a quarter of sales in India.
As well, there will be the McVeggie, using a patty of carrots, peas and potatoes, and the McSpicy Paneer filled with Indian cheese.
The fast-food giant has plans to double its outlets in India in the next three years.
In addition to McDonald's and Subway, Domino's Pizza is an international franchise with vegetarian outlets in Mumbai and Gujarat. India is the U.S.-based pizza chain's third-largest overseas market.
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This morning as we come to the Word of God, I want to invite you to open your Bible to Matthew chapter 13...Matthew chapter 13. Jesus was the master teacher and He taught in parables. And I want to draw your attention to one of His most well-known and important parables this morning.
Matthew 13 begins with these words, "On that day, Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea," that's the Sea of Galilee, "and great multitudes gathered to Him so that He got into a boat and sat down and the whole multitude was standing on the beach. And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, 'Behold, the sower went out to sow and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road and the birds came and ate them up. And others fell upon the rocky places where they did not have much soil and immediately they sprang up because they had no depth of soil. But when the sun had risen, they were scorched. And because they had no root, they withered away. And others fell among the thorns, or weeds, and the thorns came up and choked them out. And others fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, some a hundred fold, some sixty and some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.'"
Know thee that at the very moment Jesus was teaching that story He could see a sower sowing, maybe His whole crowd could because the Sea of Galilee is ringed with fields, even today. And were you to go there today, you would see sowers sowing seed in the furrows of their fields if it was that time of year. Jesus is speaking to them in very common language which they understand because it's their daily activity. This is the first of a series of parables Jesus gives to His disciples and He always starts with something they can understand and moves to something they don't understand. He begins with something they see and moves to something they can't see. He starts with something natural and moves to something supernatural. He starts with what is material and moves to what is spiritual. He starts with what is common and moves to what is uncommon. Starts with what is simple and moves to what is profound.
And that's exactly what He did here. They understood sowing, they did it all the time. They were part of an agriculture or agrarian society. They very familiar with the experiences and the activities and the principles and laws of sowing and reaping. What they didn't understand was spiritual truth. And so Jesus began where they were and took them where they've never been. And the language in this story is filled right down to every necessary word with profound spiritual meaning.
Let's go over the story. It starts out in verse 3, "Behold the sower went out to sow." Pretty simple. A farmer whose responsibility was to sow seed in his plowed field went out to do just that. The rows would already been furrowed, plowed and prepared to receive the seed. And he would have hanging over his shoulder a leather pouch loaded with seed and he would literally reach in the leather pouch and take the seed, and this is where the word came from, broadcast it. He measured out his steps very carefully and by experience he knew exactly how long each step should be and he measured out each amount in his hand very carefully so he didn't waste seed and didn't crowd seed and so he distributed it very evenly. Uniformally reaching into the bag and taking the appropriate steps, he broadcast the seed into the furrows. He would go all the way to the end of one furrow, then he would turn and come back down the next and continue that until he had sown all the seed in the prepared field.
Now that sets up the parable, and they were very used to seeing it. As I said, they may have been watching someone doing it even at the moment Jesus spoke. He may have even pointed to such a person. But we notice that the seed could fall in four different places. First of all, in verse 4 He says, "And as he sowed some seeds fell beside the road," or literally on the road. "And the birds came and ate them up."
Now one of the interesting things in Palestine in ancient times was that people traversed the countryside, walking everywhere they went or riding on an animal, and they had to go through the fields. And so fields were basically bordered by beaten paths. You remember in Matthew chapter 12 verse 1 how Jesus and His disciples were walking through the fields. There would usually be long furrows in rather narrow segments and there would be beaten paths around them so that the farmer could have access to all of his fields. And so the people traversing the countryside wouldn't walk through his fields but stay on the paths. Historians tell us they were normally only about three-feet wide so that not an undue amount of land was wasted on pathways. As a result they were uncultivated and Israel is very dry so they were unwatered and they became hard, beaten paths, beaten down by the sun and the wind and the feet of those animals and people who walked on them. Seed falling on that kind of ground couldn't penetrate it. And even though seed had a little point on it that allowed it to burrow its way into the ground, gradually it couldn't penetrate that hard, hard beaten path which would have been like concrete almost. It would just lie there, verse 4 says, until the birds came and ate it.
Now birds are the unwelcome accompaniment to farmers, as we all know, don't we? That's why farmers put in their fields what is called a scarecrow, right? To scare the crows away because they consume the seed and the crop. And so it was very typical as the sower was sowing that the birds would be waiting for him to turn his back and they would descend and take advantage of the easiest seed to pick up and that was on the beaten path. So they were hovering around the area just waiting for their opportunity. Luke records Jesus telling this same parable and adds that the path also having been trodden down by feet, it was not uncommon for the remaining seed the birds didn't get to be crushed under the feet of the people who were walking there. In any case, it never penetrated the soil, it never produced anything.
The second kind of soil is in verses 5 and 6 and He calls it rocky. And it says, "Others fell upon the rocky places where they did not have much soil." What that means is not that there were stones in the soil, when a farmer wanted to plow a field, he plowed the stones out and however deep the plow went, he got all the stones out of there and the soil was clean from the stones, but in Palestine there are large plates of limestone rock that lie beneath the surface and beneath the plow. And so a farmer doing his best to plow the field never getting down to that hard soil wasn't even aware it was there, those are the stony places. And when seed fell upon those kinds of places, it would burrow down into the ground but it didn't have much soil and immediately they sprang up because they had no depth of soil. You see, what happens is the seed goes down into the soil, it decomposes and that releases its life and in the warmth of the soil and with the moisture that is there, it begins to generate. It sends its roots down, it sends its stump up or its branches up and all of a sudden the roots hit rock bed and can't go anywhere so the force of the energy moves upward and the plant springs up at a more rapid rate than normal, making the farmer assume maybe this is the greatest crop we've ever had...when the fact of the matter is, it isn't because the roots desperately need the water that is down beneath, but they can't penetrate the rock to get it. And so verse 6 says, "When the sun had risen, they were burned and because they had no root they withered away. The moisture that was originally in the plant evaporated in the heat of the sun and when the roots tried to get more moisture, there wasn't any way to go down and get it and the plant burned and died and was unproductive. Farmers in Palestine knew that kind of soil as well as the hard path.
There's a third kind of soil here, you'll see it in verse 7. "Others fell among the weeds or the thorns, and the weeds or thorns came up and choked them out." You know, the farmer would do the best he could to plow that field, and one of the things you do when you plow is try to get all the weeds out. You know just in the operation of your little garden that you have or working in your own yard that if you pull the top off a weed and don't get the bottom, it comes back stronger than ever. And everybody knows that the weeds grow better than anything, at least mine do. And this is the kind of soil that just isn't clean. It's deceptive. It's been cultivated, it looks clean, looks ready but down in that soil are the fibrous roots of weeds ready to spring to life again. And when the moisture hits there and the warm sun comes, the weeds grow and they grow fast and they suck out all the moisture and they suck out all the nourishment that's in the soil and they leave nothing for the fragile young plant and it dies. And if does manage to maybe peek out of the ground, the big broad leaves of the weeds shade it so it can't get the sun it needs for the fertile synthesis that makes it grow. Unless...unless that seed is alone in that soil, unless it's growing alone it can't be fruitful. Those weeds restrict the good seed roots, drink its moisture, veil its sunlight and the good seed dies. Every farmer knew this.
But, that's not the end of the story or it would be a pretty stupid thing to be a farmer, wouldn't it? Verse 8 tells us there is also good soil. "And others fell in the good soil and yielded a crop and the crop in varying degrees, a hundredfold, sixtyfold, thirtyfold." This is good ground. This is deep, soft, rich, clean soil. Oh, it varies from thirtyfold, sixtyfold to a hundredfold because the nutrients in the soil vary from place to place. Because some soil may be more acidic than others, it may mitigate against the greatest possible amount of growth but seed finds entry, finds nourishment, grows to an abundant harvest. And notice the key thing, "It produces a crop...a crop."
Now if you were a farmer in Palestine, a tenfold crop would have been very, very good. A seven-point-five crop would be average. But thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold would have been abnormal, unheard of, astonishing. But the Lord, nonetheless, uses hyperbole here to make a spiritual point. There is the possibility that this seed can find good soil, go in and produce an unimaginable crop.
Now let me just kind of sum it up. The parable is very simple. Some seed falls on the hard path, it can't germinate at all, it's either picked up by birds or crushed under the feet of people who walk there. Some seed falls on rocky soil that allows it to germinate and spring up for a little while but it doesn't have any depth so its roots can't get the water. The sun comes out and burns it and it's dead before it can ever produce anything. And some seed falls on weedy soil and it starts to germinate but everything around it starts to germinate and it's more noxious and more powerful and so it eventually overcomes that good seed and it never bears any fruit either. And then there's the good soil and it bears fruit.
Well Jesus told that simple illustration and then in verse 9 He said, "He who has ears, let him hear." Which is another way of saying, "Do you guys have any idea of what I've just said? Do you know what I'm talking about?" Let me tell you, a parable without an explanation is a riddle. If that's all there was, I don't know what He's illustrating. I don't know what He's talking about. You're going to have to explain that one to me. And we all know that the disciples didn't show an immense amount of astuteness in terms of understanding the words of Jesus which were clear, let alone the ones that weren't. So he explains it. Go down to verse 18.
After a little interlude, telling them how privileged they were to have these explanations which He gave to them and not to the crowds, He says, "Hear then the parable of the sower." Let me tell you what I've just said, let me tell you what I'm trying to say in that story. Let me take you from what is obvious. They're saying, "I understand that, I understand that, Lord. Yeah, I've done that. Oh my family has been in farming for years, we understand that. You know, we do the fishing side of this agrarian business but our friends to the farming, that's exactly right, Lord, we understand all that." Well let Me tell you what I'm just talking about spiritually...He says.
And that opens up to us then this parable. There are only three components here. There is the sower, there is the seed and there is the soil, that's it. There's the sower, the seed, and the soil. Now the parable doesn't say anything at all about the sower. It just says the sower went out to sow. And it doesn't say anything at all about the seed in this parable here. But we can...we can find elsewhere some insight. Go down to verse 37 of this thirteenth chapter of Matthew and in another parable, a parable of sowing wheat and tares you are familiar with, verse 37 says, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man," talking about Jesus Christ. So we can conclude that while you don't necessarily want to borrow all the elements of one parable and put them in another one because they're only illustrations or analogies, we'd be safe to say that if the Lord is the sower in one place, He certainly could be the sower in another place. After all, the good seed comes from Him, doesn't it? That's not a stretch.
So we could conclude then that the one who sows initially is the Lord Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, the One who came into the world and was the first to preach salvation through His name. But we could go beyond that. Jesus was the first to preach salvation through His name, but not the last, was He? Acts 9:15 says about the Apostle Paul, God says he's a chosen vessel unto Me to bear My name. The Apostle Paul was a sower, wasn't he? So are you, so am I if you belong to Christ, if you bear His name.
Now the question is, what is the seed? Well, verse 19, "When anyone hears the Word of the Kingdom." The seed is the Word of the Kingdom. What is that? That's the message about how to get into God's Kingdom, that's what that is. The message about the fact that God is a King over a spiritual Kingdom and that He's inviting people to come into that Kingdom. And that Kingdom involves joy and peace and fulfillment and satisfaction and blessing imaginable, and unimaginable. It involves goodness and grace and mercy and kindness in this life and eternal glory in heaven. That Kingdom involves all of that and you enter that Kingdom by putting your faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. That's the message of the Kingdom. God has a Kingdom and He invites you to leave the kingdom of darkness and enter the Kingdom of His dear Son. And you do that by putting your trust in Christ and you become a member of God's Kingdom and then you're blessed with all spiritual blessing in His Kingdom, including not only what He gives you in this life but what He'll give you in the life to come eternally in the glories of heaven. That's the message of the Kingdom, that's good news, isn't it? That's the seed. Luke 8:11 says this, Luke records this same parable and Luke adds the seed is the Word of God, because the message of the Kingdom is contained in the Word of God, isn't it?
So the sower is anyone who preaches the message. The sower is anyone who sows the seed. First of all it was Jesus, it was the Apostles, it was Paul and now it's us. We are like...we're like a sower and we just drop that precious seed, that's our calling. That's what we do. Anybody who proclaims, anybody who speaks of entrance into God's Kingdom through faith in Jesus Christ is sowing the seed. There's no such thing as synthetic seed, there's just the real stuff. And it was created by God. Did you get that? It was created by God. You can't create a synthetic seed. You have to sow the seed of the Word of God, the message of the Kingdom. The seed was created by God and given to us. Now if it ever is lost, it's impossible through human power, human ingenuity, human skill to produce a new synthetic supply because only God can create a living seed that gives life. And that is the Word of God. Christ is the living seed, listen to this, Christ is the living seed and the Bible is the husk that holds it. The husk that holds the seed is the most precious thing in the world next to the seed it holds. Christ is the most precious thing, and next to Christ the Bible which brings you Christ is the most precious thing, right? Christ is the sower and yet within the husk He's also the seed.
So the parable is all about sowing seed. In other words, it's all about presenting the gospel, the good news of how to get into the Kingdom. And that brings us to the main emphasis of the parable which is the soils...the soils. And this is where the thing really begins to make important sense to us.
"When anyone...verse 19...hears the good news about salvation and entrance into the Kingdom and does not get it, comprehend it, grasp it, understand it, the evil one comes, snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road."
All right, now He's going to explain what it means when it falls on the road. Oh...that's the hard-hearted person, that's the stiff-necked person...that's the resistant person...that's the belligerent person. In the words of Proverbs, that's the fool who says in his heart, "Ah there's no God." But would you notice there it tells us what the soil is because it says in verse 19, "that which was sown in his...what?...heart." The soil is the heart. The sower is anyone who presents the seed, The soil is the heart. The basic truth of this parable that Jesus taught is this, the results...listen carefully...the results of the hearing of the gospel always depend on the condition of the soil, not the skill of the sower. It's the character of the hearer that determines the effect of the Word on him. Let me tell you something. If you hear the gospel and the message of Jesus Christ, and you turn your back and walk away, that doesn't say anything about the seed, that just says everything about the soil. That's just a revelation of where your heart is. The soil is the heart. And in this parable you have an unresponsive heart, you have an impulsive heart, you have a preoccupied heart and you have a well-prepared heart.
Well let's look at that first one, that wayside soil. In verse 19, the soil that never was plowed up, the soil that was down around the field beaten hard. The seed was thrown onto the road, hard, it can't absorb it. The seed can't penetrate. Birds fly down, eat the seed and what's left gets trampled.
You know, in one brief little idea there you have the preaching of the gospel, the self-destroying rejection of the gospel, and an opportunity for Satan to move in, in one simple little picture. The analogy is powerful. And there are hearts like this, many, many of them which correspond to that smooth impenetrable hardness of the footpath that crosses that field. And the heart has become a thoroughfare, crossed by the mixed multitude of sins day after day after day. And the fields weren't fenced so those paths lie exposed, they lie unprotected from all the evil stompings of everyone that comes. Never broken up, never softened by conviction, never softened by repentance, never softened by self-searching, the heart grows callous, the terrors of the Lord aren't frightening and the love of the Lord isn't even winsome. The seed is good. The sower's okay. The heart is unplowed.
This reminds me of the people to whom Jesus came. And He threw the seed all over Palestine, didn't He? And He invited them to come into His Kingdom and they were so hard that they executed Him and screamed for His blood.
And Satan comes, He says, and snatches...the evil one is Satan...snatches away the seed. It doesn't just stay there, it's gone...whisst. Satan wants to make sure it never has a chance to penetrate. He snatches it away through the influence of false teachers. He snatches it away to the fear of man. He snatches it away through pride. He snatches it away through doubt. He snatches it away through prejudice. He snatches it away through stubbornness. He snatches it away through procrastination. He snatches it away mostly through the love of iniquity. But he snatches it away.
That's a sad situation. And you have to look at your own heart this morning, are you that hard dry road at the end of the field? Maybe you even come occasionally here and some of us throw the seed, it bounces, disappears. Has your life been hardened by sins that you've constantly tread over your heart so that the powerful, productive seed of God's Word never can penetrate? That's sad. But it's real. I deal with people like that all the time. So do you. You're so exuberant about the gospel, you're so excited about what Christ has done in your life, you're so thrilled about what's going on, what's God has granted to you, you think the next guy you meet is going to love the message. You give it to him and you're running into a brick wall. Right? Don't question the seed, don't even question the sower, the issue is the soil.
Now there's a second kind of soil and it's in verses 20 and 21 and it's this rocky soil, this one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, it's the man who hears the Word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary. And when affliction or persecution arises because of the Word, immediately falls away. This picture is so clear. Here's the person who has shallow faith...on the surface, "Whoa, this is great, I'm in, count me in, where do I sign? I like this, this is wonderful." A joy burst forth. May I encourage you, joy is not the distinguishing factor of true salvation, people get happy about a lot of stuff. Joy is reality to a true Christian, but just exuberant emotional joy, excitement, enthusiasm doesn't necessarily indicate true faith. Warm affection, newly stirred up, somebody coming off of a problem, somebody coming out of a dilemma, coming out of a disaster, coming out of being wounded or hurt by somebody in their life, somebody coming out of some problems that they're facing, looking for a new group, looking to belong, wanting answers, wanting help, reaching up the nearest skyhook and when they're told this is the answer, there's an exuberance. It looks good. And we might even say, "Wow, look at that joy, that person's real." But you can have joy without commitment to the King, the roots are real short. It's not necessarily the deep thoughtful profound joy of a devoted heart, it's just a superficial deal, you know. Remember the people in the parable of Matthew 22, Jesus talked about having a wedding feast for the king, the king's son? Into the wedding feast come all these people and some guy crashes the party without a garment. He didn't wear the wedding garment. And Jesus said, "We pitched him out." The garment represented righteousness, and there are lots of people who want the party without the righteousness.
For whatever reason, I mean, we all deal with this. I've had people that I thought I had led to the understanding of the gospel and I've even met with them and met with them and met with them and tried to disciple them personally and pffist, they're gone. They're gone. I couldn't see the rock down below either, but it was there. And eventually what happened was what looked like life was just a brief spurt but the roots couldn't go anywhere. And when the sun came out, He says, just scorched them, burned them. And what is that? He says in verse 21, "Affliction or persecution because of the Word caused them to fall away." They never counted the cost. They never realized that, you know, to be a Christian could cost you something. To be a Christian could cost you a relationship. It could cause your own family to turn against you. It could cause some friends to turn against you. It could be a real price to pay. There will be a real price to pay. It's the most joyous life there is but it is a cross bearing. And when there was some pressure, the word is pressure here, when there was some pressure put on the individual, thlipsis in the Greek, they couldn't handle it. There was just no real root there. You see, if the law of God has never plowed the stony heart, bruised it small, then you may by receiving the gospel on some temporary superficial sort of soft act think you've obtained your religion very easily, only to find out that when the pressure is on you bail, you're gone. In the heat of the battle, you're AWOL, you're not willing to pay the price. And you can't always tell those people initially, can you? Cause you see the joy and exuberance, it looks fine but when there's a cost and a price, even such a small price, they're gone.
You remember in John chapter 6, Jesus feeding five thousand men plus women and if there's five thousand men, five thousand women, there's got to be twenty thousand kids, so it was a big crowd...big crowd, maybe thirty thousand people and He's...and there's no food and the disciples come and say, "There's no food." And He said, "Yes there is. A little boy over there brought his lunch, go get that little boy and bring him to Me." And he brings the little boy and he's got a little basket and in his basket he's got some fish and bread, pickled fish is what they used to do so they would preserve them, and some little...some little biscuits. He's got thirty thousand people and He's looking at this, and He says, "This is enough, this is fine, this will do." And then it says, "He fed them all," just like this, He made food, just kept passing the food out. Fish that had never swam, never lived, never died, just came into the world pickled. That's how the Lord makes lunch...lunch...there it is. And He feeds all these...maybe thirty-thousand people. Oh man, they were so exuberant, they were so thrilled, they were so excited. You know what happened, don't you? He crossed the sea that night, they showed up on the other side at breakfast. Because in those days, in ancient times, there weren't any fast food places. There was only slow food, really slow food. You know, you had to beat all the stuff and do all the stuff that...nothing was predone. And they all showed up for free breakfast. They thought they were about to launch the greatest welfare state in the history of humanity. Showed up in the morning and they were just pawing all over Him, they're so thrilled at all of this. And He started talking about Himself and He's trying to talk about His Kingdom and by the time you come to the end of the sixth chapter of John, those who once called themselves disciples turned their back and deserted Him, gone. They flourished for a little time, didn't they? But when He started to talk about the cost and the price, and the suffering, they were gone.
But you see, trouble and persecution are very helpful. They do two things. One, they strengthen believers and they manifest non-believers. Trouble and persecution will show you who's real and it will strengthen God's own. After you've suffered a while, Peter said, the Lord will make you perfect. So you're going to have those kind of people. I've experienced it, you've experienced it. It's just going to happen, Jesus told us it's going to happen and it's encouraging to know that so we don't get surprised by it.
Third, there's that weedy ground and in verse 22 He says, "The one on whom seed was sown among the thorns or weeds." Who's that? Well that's the man who hears the Word, you know, with a receptive attitude, but the worry of the world...yeah, he's just into the spirit of the age. Man, he's just into the stuff, you know. He's into it. He's in to his career, he's in to his environment. He's in to his world. He's in to whatever he's in to and that's the dominating deal in his life. And along with that, and probably the compelling reason he's in it is because of riches that are available to him so the combination of the system itself, the world in which he's found himself, and the deceitful allurement of riches choke the Word and it becomes unfruitful.
I remember one time years ago, a man came to our church...was one of the leading producers of pornographic films in this area. And he confessed Christ, was really an exciting time for us at that moment to hear this testimony, and I brought him after he had given his testimony of faith in Christ and come to the church for a few weeks, he wanted to be baptized. I had the privilege of baptizing him. Now if you've made a fortune as a producer of pornographic films, it's a little hard to send out your resume to get your next job. He couldn't make any money. It wasn't long before he was back doing what he did. It was the deceitfulness of riches. It was the system he was in. He never really had let it go, had he? Maybe out of panic or fear of what he was doing, he wanted to grab on to God because he knew what the consequences of that kind of thing could be, I don't know. We've all seen that happen. So it all appears good, even maybe a certain sense of desperation. But there's other stuff in there that's never really been cleaned. It isn't that you have to clean it, it's just that God has to pull it out and bring you to a place of repentance for it. This is the double-minded man who's not going to receive anything from God, James said. He's trying to serve God and money, the deceitfulness of riches.
Well fortunately there's much to be learned by this. This is a very profound story. I don't know who you are this morning, but maybe you're that hard sell. On the one hand, maybe you're that short spurt guy, or lady, and you've made a profession of faith in Christ outwardly but the pressure's on and you're bailing out, you're going to walk away. I hope that's not the case. Or maybe you're that person who's gone to Christ, you're gone to hearing the gospel, but you're really into the system. You've got your life style and you've got it just the way you want it and you've got the path in which you can make the things you want to make, the world is important to you, you want to gain the things the world has to offer. You have to remember what James said, if you're the friend of the world, you're the enemy of God. And if you love the world, the love of the Father is not in you. It doesn't mean that we are totally isolated from the society around us, it's the question of what we are...what we long for. It's a question of what our passion is, what our priority is. I mean, I want to drive a car that runs. I don't need to have a hole in my suit or my shoe. I like to sit in a comfortable chair if I have an option. And I think God has given us all things richly to enjoy. But it's one thing to understand those as gifts to God...from God and embrace them as evidences of His blessing, it's something else to pursue them as the god of your life.
Now, you see, let's talk a little more about these weeds. Salvation occurs in a heart where the things of the world have been plowed up. You see, your heart can only hold so much, you know, the ground is limited as to its capability and the weeds drain the soil of its nourishment, its nutrition, its water and the good seed can't survive. And by the way, the good seed is not native to your soul, weeds are. They used to be in there. They live there. But the good seed is alien to you and it has to be protected and cared for and cherished...but the weeds, they're at home. And as long as weeds live, listen to this, they grow. You keep pulling off the top, they'll get stronger on the bottom. And eventually these weeds or thorns will tear and lacerate and the good seed can't flourish.
The last category of soil is the hopeful part of all of this, verse 23, "And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the Word, man or woman, who hears the Word and understands it, gets it, and bears...what?...produces a crop, bears fruit thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold"...or in reverse it's written there. This is the fruitful hearer, understands the Word. Mark 4 commenting on the same parable says, "Accepts the Word." Luke 8:16 commenting on the same parable says, "Holds the Word." That's it, he hears it, he accepts it, he holds it, he takes the gospel in, there's genuine repentance, there's a genuine plowing of the Spirit of God in his heart, plowing out those noxious weeds of his former life, there's some deep soil it can reach down, not a rock bed of selfish resistance and he produces fruit. Now not every Christian produces the same amount of fruit. There...there are different conditions in the soil that cause different levels of fruitfulness in the crop. And the same thing is true of our spiritual lives. We all bear some fruit. Some bear just some fruit, some bear more fruit, some bear much fruit, but we all bear fruit...we all bear fruit. That's the distinguishing mark of believers.
What is fruit? Well Hebrews says the fruit of your lips praise to God. You were bearing fruit this morning when you were singing, not from your mouth but from your heart through your mouth, right? Were you praising God this morning? Were you giving Him the fruit of your lips? Was your heart lifted up and were you thrilled to sing the words you sang? That's fruit. And Paul said the first fruits of Achaia, the first people I led to Christ in Achaia are fruit. And Paul wrote to the Philippians and the Colossians about the fruit of righteousness. And Paul wrote to the Galatians about the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control, so we have action fruit and attitude fruit. And that all is produced in your life. And it differs from person to person by the fact that there's a different level of devotion and some cases perhaps different capacity by God's design. But there's fruit.
Now let me draw this to its conclusion. Here's what I wanted to say...all of that to say this, friend, there's no discussion here of the sower, anybody will do. There's no discussion here of the seed, the seed is the Word of God, the gospel, okay? The only issue here is the soil. Now can I encourage you? The issue is not the skill of the sower, it's the state of the soil. Let's assume that this farmer who was farming that day and maybe doing his sowing while Jesus was teaching this had a little five-year-old son. And his little five-year-old son wanted to be like his daddy so his daddy made him a little leather pouch to put it around his shoulder and put some seed in it so his little son is going along a furrow somewhere behind him. And he's sticking his little fat hand, which is mostly hand and not much finger, as you know, and it's hard to get a handful of anything. Every time I give my grandkids a handful of M & M's, there's about two in the middle and about 15 spilling out all over everywhere else. So this guy's got a little fat hand and he's dipping it into his little pouch and he's learning how to do it like his daddy does. The problem is, he throws it in his own hair, down his shirt, down his father's back, everywhere. He's not good at it, he's just learning. You want to know something? When the seed hits the good soil, it didn't matter if it was thrown by his father or him. Did you get that? It's not the skill of the sower, it's the state of the soil.
Can I make a suggestion to you? The more seed you throw the more likely you are to hit good soil. Don't go through your life with one seed saying, "I'm waiting to see where this baby goes." Start throwing seed in every direction and you're more likely to hit good soil. That's what we're here to do, do you understand that? You say, "I thought we were here to praise God." No, we can go to heaven and we can do it right up there, perfect. "I thought we were here to live righteous lives." Well we're having a tough time with that one, we better get up there and real righteousness is going to occur. He says there's only one reason to leave us here, the only thing we can do here that we can't do there, the only thing we can do here better than we can do there, the only thing we can do here and can't do there is to throw seed. Just throw seed. A friend of mine was walking across the street in Los Angeles one day and the signal changed and there was a big policeman in the middle of the intersection and he had a, you know, a stick on one hand and a hip and a gun on the other...he had these sunglasses that are mirrors and can't see. You always think those people are looking at you, don't you? Always. He walks up to this big guy standing there in the middle of the intersection, he says, just as he got off the curb, my friend said, "I thought to myself, you know, I ought to tell that guy about Christ." And then he talked to himself, "That's ridiculous, that must be me talking, that's ridiculous." I only have 45 seconds. Then he said, "No that can't be me, I'd never think of that, it must be the Lord prompting my heart." so he walked up to this guy in the 45 seconds he had to go across the street and he said, "Sir, I...I just want to ask you if you know that Jesus Christ died for your sins?" The guy looked down at him and said...silence, and then said, "That's exactly what I've been thinking about. How did you know that?" Look I don't know where that good soil is but it's there. And there's nothing more wonderful than being the sower when it hits the good soil. That's what we do, folks, that's what we do.
And the dear disciples needed to know this because they were going to get rejected big time, right? They were going to get martyred in the process of sowing the seed. What kind of courage do you have? It's unlikely you'll get crucified. It's unlikely you'll get burned at the stake. It's unlikely you'll thrown in a prison or exiled to an island in the Mediterranean although that doesn't sound too bad. It's unlikely that any of those kinds of things would happen to you, isn't it? How much courage do you have to throw seed? You throw seed, ask God to plow soil. You can't plow soil either, God plows soil. Pray that God will bring you across prepared soil. And if you're that hard soil or you're that rocky soul, or you're that weedy soil, listen...you ask God to plow your heart so you can receive the transforming saving message of the gospel that Christ died for your sins and rose again that you might have eternal life and in believing in Him you can enter in to His Kingdom. Let's pray together.
We thank You, our Father, for this wonderful time of worship. We thank You for Your Word which is so powerful and so penetrating. We thank You for the dear friends who have come to gather with us. We thank You for bringing all these guests from all over the world, these wonderful young men from back in West Virginia. We thank You, Father, for just bringing us all together. We know this is...it's like it was said of Esther, who knows but Thou art come to the Kingdom for just such a time as this. Things don't happen as accidents, You have a wonderful unfolding plan and we're just so blessed to see it work. Most of all, we thank You for Jesus Christ, we thank You for the fact that He died on a cross bearing our sins in His own body on the cross. We thank You that He became sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. We thank You that there is eternal life in Him, forgiveness of all our sin, the riches and fullness of life now and forever. This is the seed, may we be faithful in sowing it. And, O God, may You graciously, mercifully plow the hearts of many so that they may receive the good seed and bear much fruit to Your glory and Your honor. Amen.


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Hi, Is there an ice rink schedule? We would be interested in figure skating hours for the public. We have a cottage on Muskelunge Lake and are up in Tomahawk most weekends. I understand there is a strong hockey program and an indoor rink.
Cathy Zimmermann < email@example.com >
Marshfield , WI USA - Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 08:11:16 (EST)
Thsi message is directed to all the people in Tomahawk who I have never met. Be patient, I'll get there yet and get the net. Hello especially to Miss Laurie Baumann, who used to reside in LacduFlambeau around 1980. Miss you terribly.
T. Thompson < email@example.com >
USA - Wednesday, October 09, 2002 at 14:52:02 (EST)
Was here about 3 years ago, and dropped a message about Kwahamot '75. I know I missed the big 25 reunion, and didn't see anything listed about it, or future. If they are planning anything for 28 or 30, I would appreciate contact information. Beging way down here in Texas, I miss the northwoods, and would love to give my wife of 25 years, any reason to visit (move) back to the Tomahawk area. Just read on the leader front page about the improvements to the school. Maybe that's reason enough. Anyone from class of 75 or 76, I would appreciate a Hi Ya'll. Thanks.
C Folz < email@example.com >
Spring Branch, TX USA - Friday, October 04, 2002 at 12:52:16 (EST)
sorry about this but hope mike stays with the gang next year
carrie < email@example.com >
tomahawk, wi USA - Thursday, September 19, 2002 at 09:30:41 (EST)
I just wanted to thank the Brell's on harley weekend they stayed with me and they were great. Also Bruce and Rene. You are all welcome to stay next year. hope you liked your first harley event
carrie < firstname.lastname@example.com >
tomahawk, wi USA - Thursday, September 19, 2002 at 09:28:29 (EST)
howdy to all the Ball/Seavey relatives in Tomahawk. Had a blast this summer...can't imagine being away from the northwoods for 9 years...won't let that happen again! Keep in touch!
colleen post < email@example.com >
fort worth, tx USA - Tuesday, September 17, 2002 at 14:26:36 (EST)
help, looking for pic's of the "women in motion" fundraiser in tomahawk
chris < email@example.com >
woodruff, wi USA - Monday, August 26, 2002 at 15:52:28 (EST)
Hi everyone. I wrote the book, "I'm Living Your Dream Life: The Story of a Northwoods Resort Owner." I just want to thank the Northwoods Community for all your support and good wishes. The release of this book enabled me to meet so many fellow resort and business owners in our beautiful Northwoods. Thank you so much for your comments and your stories! I'm in Tucson (had to get the kids in school) but will be back in the Northwoods for our big disc golf tournament over Labor Day weekend. Stop by and say, "hello!"
Michele Cozzens
Tucson, AZ USA - Tuesday, August 20, 2002 at 17:05:57 (EST)
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mugu < mugu @white.com >
USA - Sunday, August 18, 2002 at 14:13:16 (EST)
Hello Northwoods Wisconsin!!! I've had the pleasure taking countless family vacations in Tomahawk where we stayed at Duck Point Resort. I have way to many memories of Tomahawk to list. But, One memory of my vacations is one that I'll never forget and it isn't a place but a Soft Drink called Sunbow Soda. It came in many flavors.( Mine including Sassabrilla) We always use to get it at the Nelson's grocery store in Tomahawk. Does anyone know if they still make it and or know where to get information about it.? Thanks!!!
Loraine Fenske < email@example.com >
Willowbrook, IL USA - Thursday, August 15, 2002 at 15:17:28 (EST)
I was jsut in tomahwak with my family an we have been going there for 30 years for 1 week. it is soo great, we stay right off of lake alice an its beatiful. i am 13 an i just cought a 40 1/2in. 15lb northern an it was huge!! chuck is gonna stuff it an i know he will do a great job, if you want to stuff a fish go there! i will be in the tomahwkleader tuesday!!
jeremy brongiel < email@example.com >
midlothian, il USA - Sunday, August 11, 2002 at 01:20:15 (EST)
As one of the authors to a book called Postcards of Tomahawk I invite you to enjoy viewing and purchasing this book from the Tomahawk Historical Society.There are 167 postcards dating as far back as 1895. The purchase of the book helps to raise funds for the Historical Society. This book can be found at the Society museums as well as various stores in town.
Dan Durand < email@example.com >
Oak Creek, WI USA - Saturday, August 10, 2002 at 23:07:34 (EST)
Hello from St. Louis! We think of Tomahawk and our friends a lot. Hope to get up there for a visit soon.
The Falcone Family < email@example.com >
St. Louis, MO USA - Thursday, August 01, 2002 at 22:16:41 (EST)
Hi, I am french and I spent a year in Tomahawk from August 10th 2001 to July 8th 2002 with the Theiler's family. I just wanted to thank my host family, the schoolboard and the community. I had a great year and met great people that I will never forget and who have a special place in my thought. I also want to say hi to all the people I know in Tomahawk. I hope to come back soon in what I call my second home. Lucie Hi! I'm the daughter of Grant LeRoy Graeber Jr., and grand-daughter to Jenny Graeber (who still resides in Tomahawk). I just wanted to say "Hello," and wish you all a happy summer from Orlando!
Megan Hunter < firstname.lastname@example.com >
Orlando, FL USA - Wednesday, July 17, 2002 at 12:58:02 (EST)
Bonjour de FRANCE, Through our daughter Lucie's mails, and the reading of the Tomahawk Leader on Internet, we had a small idea of what Tomahawk is like. In May, we had the chance to go to Lucie's graduation at THS and so to discover Tomahawk and its inhabitants. The landscape is beautiful with lakes and woods. We would like to thank the Theiler family and all the nice people we met during our stay in Tomahawk. It was a wonderful week, and it will stay in our memories. MERCI POUR TOUT.
Sylvie & Jean-Paul Lapierre < firstname.lastname@example.com >
Paris, FRANCE - Monday, July 01, 2002 at 17:29:29 (EST)
Hi! to everyone in Tomahawk. Class of "69" Send an email if you have a chance.
Don Jarvis < firstname.lastname@example.com >
Stoughton, WI USA - Monday, July 01, 2002 at 15:49:00 (EST)
GREENVILLE, OH USA - Monday, July 01, 2002 at 10:31:58 (EST)
does anyone know a female student whose last name was either Weber or weaver that may have attended THS around 1948. Please contact me if you have any info. Thanks. firstname.lastname@example.com
Jennie < email@example.com >
wausau, wi USA - Thursday, June 27, 2002 at 14:35:49 (EST)
GREEN BAY, WI USA - Thursday, June 20, 2002 at 00:09:56 (EST)
I would like to say hi to my friend and her family. Hi Lizette and Larry. Hope to hear from you soon. Michelle
IOLA, WI USA - Sunday, June 09, 2002 at 21:58:04 (EST)
CLASS OF 1992! If you have not heard from me concerning the reunion that means I am still looking for you! It's coming up fast. You need to make a reservation with me for the dinner. Please e-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions.
Kari < email@example.com >
Tomahawk, USA - Friday, June 07, 2002 at 16:11:26 (EST)
Cheers from Nunavut in Arctic Canada
Phil <firstname.lastname@example.com >
Nunavut, Canada - Friday, June 07, 2002 at 12:08:26 (EST)
Well I still havent heard from anyone from the class of 86 oh well such is life . Doesnt matter to me either way anyway cuz to me up there is just my stomping ground anyway.
Bruce Roman < email@example.com >
Clinton, WI USA - Wednesday, June 05, 2002 at 21:54:23 (EST)
Mary Muckerheide was very fortunate to have the friendship and care of people in the Tomahawk community. At our family gatherings Mary's main topic of conversation was often about her EMS, Fire Dept, Lady Bugs and Tomahawk Leader "Family". She loved the Tomahawk community and at her funeral yesterday it was clear the people of Tomahawk loved and cared for her as well. I would just like to say Thank You to everyone in the Tomahawk area who were a part of Mary's "family in the northwoods". You meant alot to her and provided a beautiful ceremony for her final farewell June 1, 2002. I know she is smiling from up above. I know this because Mary Muckerheide was my Godmother, Aunt and friend. (I knew her all my life as Aunt Mamie) Thank you again. And, when you mention her at the Community Awards Ceremony tonight please know that her greatest award has been the love and respect from each of you who knew her.
Dave Barwick < email@example.com >
Madison, WI USA - Sunday, June 02, 2002 at 13:32:23 (EST)
In the late 70s I could not wait to leave Tomahawk,today I can not wait to move back.To all who no me there,I MISS YOU ALL.I have mist so much over the years.When I visit Tomahawk I can,t believe how much it has changed. The faces and places all look so different.Some day I will return to the town where no matter how long I,m away I will allways call home.
bob cis < email@example.com >
kenosha, wi USA - Saturday, June 01, 2002 at 22:27:47 (EST)
Just wanted to say hi to all the Class of 86 and say that i really miss the everything up there would love to stay in contact with everyone up there cuz to me we all were like a big family up there .
Bruce Roman < firstname.lastname@example.com >
Clinton, Wi USA - Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 22:37:53 (EST)
Does anyone know Gordon Benson?
Sheila Benson < email@example.com >
Tampa, Fl USA - Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 09:59:55 (EST)
Attention Class of 1992! We are still trying to find the following people: Jenine Clements, Cris Hanson, Val Hanson, Steve Humphrey, Jennifer Klade, Dan Kohout, Charlie Ledee old friends Steve or Gary Zernach. We were neighbors for 6 years before I moved to KC. I saw a photo on the website of Derek and figured he was a son of one of them. If anyone has a number or e-mail address or they could pass along mine that would be appreciated.
Bob Gillett < email@example.com >
Kansas City, mo USA - Wednesday, May 08, 2002 at 02:38:48 (EST)
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Atlanta Falcon Michael Turner Arrested for DUI
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta Falcons running back Michael Turner has been arrested for drunken driving and speeding in metro Atlanta just hours after he scored a touchdown in the team's win over the Denver Broncos.
Gwinnett County jail records show 30-year-old Turner was booked just after 5 a.m. Tuesday. He was released two hours later on $2,179 bond.
Lt. Sean Smith of the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office says the traffic citation given to Turner shows he was pulled over for driving 97 mph in a 65 mph speed zone.
Turner scored Atlanta's first touchdown Monday night in the Falcon's 27-21 win over Denver.
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Owner & Governor
Mr. E. Stanley Kroenke became owner of the Colorado Avalanche on July 6, 2000. In the team's first season under his ownership, the Avalanche won the Presidents' Trophy and the Stanley Cup.
Since taking control of the Avalanche, Denver Nuggets and Pepsi Center, Mr. Kroenke has been widely recognized as one of the most respected owners in professional sports, as well as a strong and committed leader throughout the community.
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KSE's dedication to success has been evidenced by the consistent playoff runs of its teams. The Avalanche has made the playoffs in 12 of its 14 seasons in Denver and defeated the New Jersey Devils in June 2001 to win the Stanley Cup, the second in franchise history (1996). The Avalanche won a record nine consecutive division titles from 1994-95 to 2002-03 and sold out 487 consecutive home games from 1995 to 2006, the longest recorded streak in NHL history.
The Nuggets returned to prominence with a remarkable turnaround under Mr. Kroenke's leadership and are one of only four NBA teams to make the playoffs in each of the past seven seasons. The Mammoth has been a playoff participant in seven of its eight seasons and won the NLL championship in 2006.
In February 2007, Mr. Kroenke purchased a significant stake in Arsenal FC. He owns more than 29 percent of London's storied football club. The initial investment came months after KSE and the Colorado Rapids formed a landmark marketing and strategic partnership with the famed Barclays Premier League club. The relationship has been further strengthened by the completion of KSE's acquisition of 50 percent shareholding in Arsenal Broadband Limited. In September 2008, Mr. Kroenke was appointed to the Arsenal board as a non-executive director.
In August 2010, National Football League owners unanimously approved Mr. Kroenke's bid to become principal owner of the St. Louis Rams. A native Missourian, Mr. Kroenke played a vital role in bringing the NFL back to St. Louis in 1995. Prior to becoming the majority owner of the Rams, he was the minority owner of the team. With his real estate development expertise, Mr. Kroenke was instrumental in the building of Rams Park, now known as the Russell Training Center.
Under Mr. Kroenke's direction, KSE completed three of the company's most ambitious projects to date. On April 7, 2007 KSE opened the largest soccer-specific complex in the world, Dick's Sporting Goods Park. The state-of-the-art sports facility on more than 160 acres in Commerce City, Colo. and seats 18,000 fans for field sports and up to 27,000 for concerts. The award-winning field at Dick's Sporting Goods Park has been heralded as "one of the finest pitches in the world" by numerous international players and coaches who have played at the complex. In November 2008, the stadium hosted Colorado's first-ever World Cup qualifier between USA and Guatemala.
Dick's Sporting Goods Park also includes 24 surrounding playing fields for youth and adult recreational sports such as soccer, lacrosse and rugby. The complex anchors the 917-acre Prairie Gateway site that is a public-private partnership between KSE and Commerce City. The site is host to the Commerce City municipal hall, retail facilities, offices for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and a visitors' center for the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge. The project has created hundreds of jobs in the community and is expected to generate thousands more as the growth continues.
Altitude Sports & Entertainment, a 24-hour regional television network began operation in September 2004, becoming the new television home for the Avalanche and Nuggets. Altitude also features other professional, collegiate and high school sporting events, as well as outdoors and lifestyle programming, entertainment and community interest coverage throughout the Rocky Mountain West.
TicketHorse (now Altitude Tickets) became the official and exclusive ticket provider for both primary and secondary ticket sales for all KSE properties in July 2009. Altitude Tickets is committed to the highest standards of service to buyers and sellers ticketing millions of consumers throughout Colorado.
One of KSE's primary focuses has been the Colorado community and civic causes. More than $15.5 million in contributions have been made to Colorado charities through Kroenke Sports Charities and the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche Community Funds.
Kroenke Sports & Entertainment purchased the Paramount Theatre, a historic landmark in downtown Denver, in July 2002. The venerable theatre remains a vibrant, multi-event facility where Denver residents and visitors enjoy a wide variety of entertainment ranging from classic concerts to family shows, dance productions, comedic performances and charitable events each year. Pepsi Center and the Paramount Theatre are home to more than 250 events annually including world renowned concerts such as Madonna, Celine Dion, U2 and Lady Gaga.
Peak Entertainment, LLC, a joint venture of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment and AEG Live Rocky Mountains opened 1STBANK Center together in March 2010. The multi-use arena accommodates up to 6,500 people for a mixture of events located in Broomfield, CO.
Mr. Kroenke's enthusiasm and vision ensure that Denver will continue to be the top entertainment destination in the Rocky Mountain region for generations to come. Local media outlets have consistently named Mr. Kroenke one of the most significant people in the Denver arts and entertainment community, saying "No other person entertains more people more often."
In August of 2008, Pepsi Center played host to the Democratic National Convention. Tens of thousands of delegates, journalists, volunteers and patrons descended on Denver and the Pepsi Center for the Convention. The landmark event ranks as one of the most important in KSE and Colorado history. Millions of people around the world watched the Convention, which city officials estimated boosted the local economy by nearly $270 million.
Mr. Kroenke is chairman and owner of The Kroenke Group, a private real estate investment and development company with properties located throughout the United States and Canada. Over the past two decades, he has built a reputation as one of the nation's leading real estate developers. One of the largest ranch property owners in North America, Mr. Kroenke's ownership stakes also includes the Screaming Eagle and Jonata vineyards.
Mr. Kroenke's current and former board and trustee memberships include Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Central Bank Holding Company, Boone County National Bank, Community Investments Partnership of St. Louis, the College of the Ozarks, and the Missouri Basketball Hall of Fame. He is a member of St. Louis' Civic Progress, which provides support and leadership for various community improvements that promote economic development, education and quality of life. In February 2009, Mr. Kroenke was enshrined into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.
Mr. Kroenke holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Missouri. He and his wife, Ann, have a daughter, Whitney, an award-winning documentary film producer; and a son, Josh, Governor of the Colorado Avalanche and Governor and President of the Denver Nuggets.


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The Colts will be without safety LaRon Landry (ankle) and outside linebacker Bjoern Werner (foot) for Monday's game at San Diego, coach Chuck Pagano said Saturday, according to multiple media reports, including one from Craig Kelley of Colts.com.
Landry notched 26 tackles in the Colts' first two regular-season games but has not played since. Second-year pro Delano Howell has filled for Landry.
The Colts' 2013 first-round pick, Werner has recorded five tackles in four games as a reserve.
While Landry and Werner will be out, fullback Stanley Havili (foot), defensive end Ricky Jean Francois (groin) and outside linebacker Erik Walden (elbow) are expected to play, Kelley reported.


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David Campbell awakened around noon on Dec. 17 to find his Swanee Shores home filled with heavy, black smoke.
"I saw the smoke and got my babies out," he said, the day after the fire that destroyed the place he's called home on Williamstown Lake for the last nine years.
Not wanting to leave the family's two boxers inside, he opened the door and was greeted with flames that singed his face and hat.
"The firefighters told me if I hadn't opened the door, they might have saved a few more things," Campbell said.
He managed to grab his wife's rings and a bag of Christmas gifts, but that's all the family was able to salvage.
The dogs died in the fire.
When the Williamstown Fire Department arrived on the scene, Chief Les Whalen said the home was about 75 percent destroyed.
Swanee Shores, a private gravel road, was ice and snow covered. Whalen said the department, which was also assisted by the Dry Ridge Fire Department, didn't have trouble getting to the fire but did need help from the city, county and Republic Services to get about six vehicles unstuck after the fire.
Whalen said the fire started from a heater and was possibly knocked over by one of the dogs.
The Campbell's and their three children, ages 4, 6 and 9 are staying with relatives.
The day of the fire was their daughter, Zoe's 9th birthday.
""I'm just glad we made it out," Becky Campbell said.
Family members are planning a benefit for the Campbell family from 2 to 8 p.m. Dec. 26.
Williamstown firefighters were also called to another fire later in the day on Sunset Drive. Whalen said the fire was contained to the kitchen of the residence.
• Dec. 26
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• American Legion, Williamstown
• For information call 824-4900
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When I was in school I used to take a perverse pleasure in sick days. A sore throat and a stuffy nose were much preferred over a long day of math, geography and social studies classes. And my mom was always home to pamper me, cook chicken soup and bring me doses of foul-tasting cough medicine.
It was like a little mini-vacation in the middle of the week. Of course one of my siblings invariably brought assignments I'd missed so I didn't really get out of any work.
I got over the attraction of staying home sick when I got to high school and started to play sports. We had this rule that if you missed classes you couldn't play in games or practice that day so I stuffed my pocket with handkerchiefs and cough drops and dutifully climbed on the bus.
I've taken relatively few sick days since I've been gainfully employed. I've found they're simply not worth the trouble. And just as sure as my brother or sister would bring my homework when I was in school, I can be certain that the day I get back to my desk following a sick day it will be piled high with notes I need to turn into stories; reports I need to write; and calls I need to return. And then there are the gazillion emails that stack up like fall leaves in a fence corner.
Unfortunately, I had to take two days last week. I feared the flu. It started out innocently enough. I had taken a nice walk on Sunday afternoon — a crisp, pleasant day and sunny, for a change. I returned, called my mother in South Carolina to see how she was, and settled down on the sofa to read, attempt the Sunday crossword puzzle, and perhaps nap for a few minutes.
The tickle started in the back of my throat. By dinner time, the tickle was not fun; it was sore and I began to feel a puffiness around my eyes that reminded me that I used to contract sinus infections about twice a year.
My wife checked my forehead with her cool palm and proclaimed me fever free. I took some sort of over-the-counter cold medicine and went to bed. By morning my sinuses felt like someone had clogged them up with broken glass. My ticklish throat was nothing to laugh about. I felt awful.
I called my doctor. "Don't come," the receptionist said. "We're booked solid." She also mentioned that if I did not already have the flu, sitting in their reception room might be enough to give it to me.
I visited my local pharmacist, and bought some more over-the-counter stuff, a bit of Gatorade, some crackers and cough drops. I napped the rest of the day. No appetite. No energy. No work, although I did check e-mail to keep it from accumulating to impossible depths.
By the time Pat got home from work the fever had set in, only a slight one, but enough to add to the misery and give me a headache. By bedtime it had escalated. By morning it was gone. But the sinus still hurt, the head still ached and the energy level was a degree or two below lethargy.
I spent another day on the sofa, except for the hour or so it took to rake out my e-mail box and to alert the Farm Press people responsible for me that I would be useless again.
Wednesday I was better, or at least better enough to get back to some semblance of work. I faced the daunting task of making up in one day what I had failed to get done in two. Amazing what one can do when deadlines approach.
A week later, I'm about caught up. I still have a nasty cough and stopped-up head, but I'm fairly certain I have not had the flu and 100 percent certain I don't want to do this again anytime soon. If it's all the same, I'd just as soon be working.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — One is big on the word "big." The other comes across as a New Age professor given to such pronouncements as "We feel naked without our smartphone."
Facebook Inc FB, +1.20% Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and Google Inc. GOOG, -0.47% Chief Executive Larry Page each just completed the quarterly ritual of presenting the state of his company to Wall Street.
"I've always believed that computers should do the hard work so you can get on with the things that matter in life — living, learning and loving," Page told analysts on a Jan. 22 call. "So it's exciting to see our progress with Google."
A week later, when it was Facebook's time to report results, Zuckerberg told analysts: "2012 was a big year for us. We made this big transition where now there are more people using Facebook on mobile every day than on desktops." He said the word "big" about a dozen times.
Views differ on who has more confidence-inspiring communication skills. Because earnings calls are "meticulously scripted," it's hard for executives to "come across as authentic and engaging," said Kelly Decker, executive vice president at Decker Communications, a San Francisco firm that coaches communications for top executives.
"When you can't see facial expression, the subtlety of vocal tone is critical at both the conscious an unconscious level," she added. "Analysts, investors, shareholders and consumers will judge their confidence in the numbers by subtle cues."
Page, who is 39, has been in a high-profile leadership position longer, so his communications skills have naturally won more upbeat reviews from analysts and experts interviewed by MarketWatch.
But Zuckerberg, 28, is seen as having improved despite being in the spotlight for a relatively short time.
"If we had to make an opinion, Page's commentary left us with slightly more confidence in his leadership, but Zuckerberg gave more details about actual plans," Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told MarketWatch.
Ben Decker, chief executive of Decker Communications, also gave Page a higher grade. "Zuckerberg has higher energy, which is very positive, yet sounds read and scripted so takes away from some believability," he told MarketWatch. "Page doesn't have the energy, most likely due to his voice challenge, but does sound more sincere."
Page has been handicapped by a lingering problem with his voice that was still evident in the last call. Piper Jaffray's Douglas Clinton said Page's voice is "not an issue in terms of getting his message across, but you wonder what he's battling that lasts that long."
'Zuck, while not terribly articulate, speaks more plainly, while Page has acquired the vocabulary of the M.B.A./CEO type.'
Despite his strained voice, Page was clearly the more convincing CEO, Kelly Decker said. "Page brilliantly uses such concrete examples of Google's products and technology that we can 'see' it, providing the route to credibility that signals confidence to investors," she commented.
She recalled the part in the Google chief's presentation when he explained the benefits of Google voice search by using the example of a driver of a car that's low on fuel.
"Here in your car — sadly it's still a car you have to drive and it's not electric — and you're running out of gas," Page said on the call. "Just pick up your phone and ask Google for directions to the nearest gas station, and you'll be on your way immediately. It's a great example of how we can take the hassle right out of your life."
Page, Decker added. "connects emotionally" by using phrases like "things that matter in life … living, learning and loving." His cadence also is "effective, as when he paused to stress such key points as '"take the hassle right out of our life'" — a speaking style that she suggested makes him sound "insightful and thoughtful."
On the other hand, Decker said Zuckerberg "falls into abstractions like 'speed, stability, user experience' as opposed to presenting concrete examples that allow people to see what improved speed really means." His "cadence is at a breakneck speed so that even his key points do not sink in with the listener."
Yet Decker noted that Zuckerberg "is able to convey tremendous energy in his voice, a marked improvement from his monotone delivery that plagued him initially."
Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies Inc. says Zuckerberg's communications skills have come a long way over the last 18 months. Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter gave him higher marks than Page, saying Zuckerberg was "surprisingly polished, articulate and focused."
"As far as 'who did better,' [it was] Zuckerberg, no question," he told MarketWatch. "Who is able to inspire more confidence? Zuckerberg. Page sounded like he is ready to squander billions at the drop of a hat if the acquisition would advance the evolution of electric cars that can park themselves. Zuckerberg sounds like he's building something."
Bajarin also gave Zuckerberg points for his heavy focus on Facebook's mobile business, which is "resonating well with investors."
Who gets mobile
That's likely because the nascent mobile-ad market is expanding fast and is where many expect Google and Facebook to wage their biggest battles.
To wit, "mobile" was another word Zuckerberg used repeatedly on his earnings call. He even declared: "There is no argument, Facebook is a mobile company."
These pronouncements, according to Crawford Del Prete of IDC, come across as unconvincing. Zuckerberg, he said, "has a strong vision, but in many ways you have to believe rather than be led by his words, at times."
He added: "Over time these will seem less jarring and more credible, through execution and trial and error."
Munster of Piper Jaffray noted that while Zuckerberg "described a transition to mobile," Page simply alluded to a transition, which "seems to imply that mobile is more natural for Google and they are going to keep getting better at it."
Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates sees the two CEOs' individual strengths can also be their weakness, and vice versa. He agreed that Page seems more polished than Zuckerberg.
"Zuck, while not terribly articulate, speaks more plainly," Kay remarked, "while Page has acquired the vocabulary of the M.B.A./CEO type. Smooth isn't necessarily good. Direct and ingenuous can build trust.
"Zuck sounds a lot like what he is: a software engineer and still a kid," he continued. "He uses pronouns with no antecedents and is vague at times, which can make him seem deceitful. But he gets the value of social networking and I think he's sincere in his belief in his vision."
Nevertheless, the Google CEO is "slicker." While Page tends to use loftier, more profound language, Kay argued, "I can't tell whether he really believes the New Age stuff, or whether it's just California-speak and not to be taken seriously."


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The corner where my bus stops never looks and sounds the same way twice.
Now that's it's warmer, people fill every space: laughter, footsteps, horns, music. The light poles wear banners; the signs flash and pipe at all hours. Dogs wait by newstands next to bikes. Beggars sit in doorways and shake plastic cups half-full of coins at people as they shop to and fro. Whole families walk abreast with their strollers and toddlers small feet try to match the grownup stride.
A few steps around the corner, the sound and air change. The cascade of city fades in the same way the sound of water recedes as you walk away from the fall.
The whole exit from bus to sidewalk to alley to street takes moments and by the time I'm almost at my door, it's the sound of tree leaves in the wind I hear and I see trembling red roses spilling over my neighbor's fence just as I turn for my door.
Maybe the little grey filters in my brain via fingertip are looking for a key in my pocket because they do not see anything different at home.
As I unlock the door, the tumblers release and the handle turns and my eyes fall left.
And what to my wondering eyes appear?
Mystery yarn!
During the night my friend Rachel tried to call me (phone off) and ring me (buzzer broken) and just decided to on the spot deliver! (Insert happy feet dancing here…)
WHOA! Thank you so much! It is glorious!
There was a label with the word Ruban and the fiber info so I've been digging. BUT there were several European yarns called RUBAN, even a RUBANNE from Anny Blatt.
It means TAPE in French.
So maybe the label indicates type of yarn instead of actual name.
This one has a wonderful mix of fibers; the label reads as 45% cotton, 45% viscose & 10% linen so it isn't the one from Phildar but maybe the one from Pingoin ;)
By inspection, I think it is DK gauge butofcourse, will swatch to be sure and it is a very lovely heather of natural tones you would find on a sunwashed beach.
I love Summer!


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UAE. Growth of the UAE's non-oil private sector eased in February, with business conditions improving at the weakest pace since September last year. The sector's slowdown was largely reflective of a marked easing in output growth, alongside softer job creation.
Weaker growth weighed on business confidence, which registered at a six-month low after falling sharply since the start of 2018. That said, demand conditions remained strong during February, as indicated by steep new order growth and the third consecutive month of rising new export business.
The survey, sponsored by Emirates NBD and produced by IHS Markit, contains original data collected from a monthly survey of business conditions in the UAE non-oil private sector.
Commenting on the UAE PMI® survey, Khatija Haque, Head of MENA Research at Emirates NBD, said: "The February PMI survey shows a solid rate of growth in the UAE's non-oil private sector, although it was slower than we've seen in recent months. The key components of the survey point to strong domestic demand but firms were notably more cautious than they were in January about the prospects for output growth over the coming 12 months."
Key Findings
- Headline PMI falls to five month low of 55.1, from 56.8 in January
- Marked slowdown in output growth
- Inflows of new business remain strong
The headline seasonally adjusted Emirates NBD UAE Purchasing Managers' Index™ (PMI®) – a composite indicator designed to give an accurate overview of operating conditions in the non-oil private sector economy – eased to 55.1 during February, from 56.8 in January. The reading signalled the slowest improvement in business conditions for five months, matching that registered in September last year. That said, the rate of expansion remained sharp overall and above the long-run average.
Output growth in the non-oil private sector eased to a nine-month low during February. The rate of expansion remained sharp overall, however, and broadly in line with the series' historical average. Some firms noted that strong demand led to higher output requirements.
Non-oil private sector firms reported an uptick in new business in the latest survey. The rate of growth accelerated since January and was sharp overall. Furthermore, February's expansion was slightly above the average seen over course of 2017.
Supporting the improvement in domestic demand, new orders from abroad continued to rise for the third month running. That said, the rate of growth was only slight overall.
Job creation continued in the non-oil private sector, thereby extending the current sequence of employment growth to 22 months. That said, the rate of growth eased to its slowest since June 2017 and was subdued in the context of historical data.
In terms of cost pressures, input price inflation eased since the preceding survey. Despite the rate of inflation being solid overall during February, it fell below the long-run average. Meanwhile, output charges returned to decline in February's survey. According to anecdotal evidence, the reduction in cost pressures allowed firms to reduce prices to stimulate client demand.
Business confidence among non-oil private sector firms in the UAE deteriorated sharply since January. The overall level of optimism was also well below the historical average.
Photo Caption: Khatija Haque, Head of MENA Research at Emirates NBD
The Emirates NBD UAE Purchasing Managers' Index is based on data compiled from monthly replies to questionnaires sent to purchasing executives in approximately 400 private sector companies, which have been carefully selected to accurately represent the true structure of the United Arab Emirates non-oil economy, including manufacturing, services, construction and retail. The panel is stratified by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) group, based on industry contribution to GDP.
Survey responses reflect the change, if any, in the current month compared to the previous month based on data collected mid-month. For each of the indicators the 'Report' shows the percentage reporting each response, the net difference between the number of higher/better responses and lower/worse responses, and the 'diffusion' index. This index is the sum of the positive responses plus a half of those responding 'the same'.
The Purchasing Managers' Index™ (PMI®) is a composite index based on five of the individual indexes with the following weights: New Orders - 0.3, Output - 0.25, Employment - 0.2, Suppliers' Delivery Times - 0.15, Stock of Items Purchased - 0.1, with the Delivery Times index inverted so that it moves in a comparable direction.
Diffusion indexes have the properties of leading indicators and are convenient summary measures showing the prevailing direction of change. An index reading above 50 indicates an overall increase in that variable, below 50 an overall decrease. IHS Markit do not revise underlying survey data after first publication, but seasonal adjustment factors may be revised from time to time as appropriate which will affect the seasonally adjusted data series.
About Emirates NBD
Emirates NBD is a leading banking Group in the region. As at 31st December 2017, total assets were AED 470.4 Billion, (equivalent to approx. USD 128 Billion). The Group has a significant retail banking franchise in the UAE and is a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with over 90 per cent of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of its branches. The bank was declared the Most Innovative Financial Services Organization of the Year at the 2017 BAI Global Innovation Awards.
The bank currently has 230 branches and 1040 ATMs and SDMs in the UAE and overseas and a large social media following, being the only bank in the Middle East ranked among the top 20 in the 'Power 100 Social Media Rankings', compiled by The Financial Brand. It is a major player in the UAE corporate and retail banking arena and has strong Islamic Banking, Global Markets & Treasury, Investment Banking, Private Banking, Asset Management and Brokerage operations.
The Group has operations in the UAE, Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom and representative offices in China and Indonesia.
The Group is an active participant and supporter of the UAE's main development and community initiatives, in close alignment with the UAE government's strategies, including financial literacy and advocacy for inclusion of People with Disabilities under its #Together Limitless platform. Emirates NBD Group is an official premier partner of EXPO 2020.
For more information, please visit: www.emiratesnbd.com
About IHS Markit
IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and expertise to forge solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The company delivers next-generation information, analytics and solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. IHS Markit has more than 50,000 key business and government customers, including 85 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and the world's leading financial institutions. Headquartered in London, IHS Markit is committed to sustainable, profitable growth.
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|Meet the Gibson Family, in this photo they eagerly anticipate Eli's birth.
I complain to my family, friends... my readers too.
But this is something different. Any parent knows what I mean. For instance, when I am laying in a dark hospital room, weeping in pain and despair, the one light in my heart and soul is knowing that my children are healthy and safe. The suffering of a parent who has an ill child... that is something worse even than actually physically suffering themselves.
I have tried to write an article, with pay-pal links to Jen's blog so that we could all rally around her like so many have rallied around me in my tough times... but for some reason, I have had a block.
I cannot find the right words to compile to explain why my political readers should stop and care about this infant we've never met. But dammit, you should.
|This is Baby Eli and his big sister. What a pair of troopers.
The fact is that my fear is nothing but grief for a whole family who loves this boy very much. My fear comes from wishing, like his mother must with every fiber of her being, that I could wave my wand and give this infant a healthy body for his beautiful soul to reside in. My fear comes from the unknown, from not understanding my own purpose, let alone the purpose of the suffering of such a child. The fact is.. this is something none of us can understand, justify or fix. Prayers are all we have and on this occasion, I pray for peace and understanding.
Of course, praying for peace is nice, but it doesn't make it come to be. If praying were enough... well, we know how different this world would be. It's time... no it is past time, to take action for little Eli and his family.
The financial strain of this illness and tragedy is huge. The struggle of this sick child is enough. This family should not bear the burden of financial strife at this time too.
I cannot hug this mom from my many hundreds of miles away. I cannot bring her children hot meals. I cannot sit up with her sick baby while she sleeps. I cannot make sure her husband has lunch at work. I can only offer my voice, and the knowledge of my fine readership. I am certain that you will hear this story and want to help. Here is a link. Donate freely.