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You can email your questions to ProfessorHammer at firstname.lastname@example.com, or mail to Professor Hammer, c/o CLASSIC TRUCKS Magazine, 1733 Alton Pkwy., Irvine, CA 92606. You'll receive a personal reply! We'll print your name and city unless you request otherwise. Ron Covell has made many DVDs on metalworking processes, and he offers an ongoing series of workshops across the nation covering all aspects of metalworking. Check them out online at www.covell.biz, or call for a current schedule of workshops and their free catalog of DVDs. Phone 800-747-4631, or 831-768-0705. You can send a request by mail to: Covell Creative Metalworking, 106 Airport Blvd. #105, Freedom, CA 95019.
Q. I'm working on a '52 Ford F-1, and I want to shave the handles and install bear claw latches. After I removed the handle, I discovered there is a double thickness of metal inside the door to support the handle. If I cut a piece of metal that's a tight fit in the hole and slowly spot weld it in, will the extra piece of metal cause any waves in the door on a hot day after it's painted, or should I just keep the handles in place?
Also, these doors use dovetails for alignment and I would like to keep them in place. I would appreciate your comment on these two items.
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A. To do the best job, I'd recommend removing the doubler inside the door that reinforces the handle. This is probably held in place with some spot welds, so you'll have to find the welds and drill them out. The advantage of keeping everything the same thickness is that it's easier to get everything smooth and levelled with a hammer and dolly after welding the patch into place, and you can be assured that the patches will stay invisible over the long haul. I'd definitely keep the old dovetails; they help to keep the door in alignment when it's closed.
Q. Ron, I enjoy your articles every month in CLASSIC TRUCKS. I have two of your videos, TIG Welding Basics, and Basic Techniques For Working With Steel. I love them both. I have a Lincoln 225 TIG welder and a very rusty '53 Ford pickup. I am a TIG-welding newbie, so I have several questions:
1. When TIG welding 18-gauge sheetmetal, what are the specific recommendations for tungsten size? (0.040, 1/16 inch, or 1/8 inch?) I'm using Lanthanated tungsten. Is that the best? Cup size? (I'm using a No. 7.) Amperage? Flow rate? Filler rod size and type? (I'm using 1/16-inch ER-70-S2.)
2. Is there a source you can recommend for small sheetmetal plugs to fill in 3/8-inch or 1/2-inch holes I'm drilling with a stepped drill bit? I researched the Whitney Punch, but can't see spending several hundred dollars if someone sells a few hundred plugs for a few bucks.
Thanks for your time.
Jerry Saumier
Grand Rapids, MI
A. I'm glad you enjoy my column and DVDs! Any of the tungsten sizes you list will work, although 1/8 inch is definitely larger than necessary. The advantage of the .040-inch diameter is that it has all the current-carrying capacity you'll need for 18-gauge steel. It will start the arc at a lower amperage, it's marginally less expensive than the other sizes, and it's the easiest to sharpen to a fine point. Ceriated or Lanthanated tungsten is best for all-around use.
The No. 7 cup size is fine-that's what I use for a lot of my welding. For heavy-duty aluminum welding, I sometimes go larger, and for getting into tight places (tubing joints, as an example) I sometimes go smaller, but for general purpose work, the No. 7 is a good bet.
To make a puddle you'll need at least 45 amps (the rule of thumb here is 1 amp for every .001 inch of material thickness, and 18-gauge is about .045 inch). I normally set the machine to about 30 percent more (60 amps or so), and ride the pedal at about two-thirds "throttle". This gives me somewhere to go if I should need a boost of heat. The recommended gas flow is 12 to 14 CFH for steel.
The general principle for choosing filler rod size is to match the material thickness, (for sheetmetal, at least), so .045-inch rod is perfect. I welded my panels for many years with 1/16-inch rod, not knowing smaller sizes were available. What a difference the .045-inch rod makes! A 1/16-inch rod leaves a bead that's way too big!
ER 70 S-2 rod is fine. The next time you buy rod, if ER 70 S-6 is available, it's a little better for welding on metal that may have traces of paint, filler, rust, or corrosion on it. Now, I'm sure you clean your metal very well before welding, don't you? But even so, it's sometimes hard to get the last traces of impurities off of surfaces, and the S-6 rod has more cleaners and deoxidizers in it.
Bob Drake sells plugs kits, www.bobdrake.com. You might also check with some local precision sheetmetal shops. I used to have them made by the hundreds, and it's not terribly expensive.


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TORONTO (AP) Thaddeus Young, Jrue Holiday and Nick Young scored 16 points apiece and the Philadelphia 76ers beat Toronto 93-83 on Saturday night, their fifth victory in six meetings with the Raptors.
Spencer Hawes had 12 points and 11 rebounds, Dorell Wright added 15 points and Philadelphia won its third straight, with all three victories on the road. It's the first time the 76ers have done that since February 2003.
The Sixers, who won 106-100 at Boston on Friday night, knocked off another Atlantic Division opponent thanks to a huge second quarter that saw them turn a six-point deficit into a 19-point lead.
Andrea Bargnani led Toronto with 23 points, while DeMar DeRozan had 19. Jose Calderon had 14 points and 11 assists, but the Raptors lost their third straight.

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vic7767 wrote:1610 is 4:10pm, and 1810 is 6:10pm.
Since you are set up to send commands, you can send the master reset command "7" to clear your schedule as well as all other timers and registers in the MCU.
benjaminchodroff wrote:I ran into problems on Windows 7 64 Bit with my instructions I posted earlier in this thread.
I fixed it by installing the iRobot drivers manually and installing mscomm32.ocx.
Get mscomm32.ocx here: http://www.ocxdump.com/download-ocx-fil ... nload.html
Register it by opening a command prompt in administrator mode, navigate to the ocx file and register it:
regsvr32 MSCOMM32.OCX
Then I went into device manager, found the device that was reporting a missing driver, pointed it at these drivers unzipped into a directory:
I then went into the device under ports in device manager and made sure it was set to the correct rate (115k)
Sorry for the lack of clarity (I didn't take detailed notes), but I hope this helps you. I got it working, don't give up hope! Oh, and I think I had to reboot Windows a few times (and for some reason install multiple drivers...). Good luck.
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Scored Game-Winner In Double Overtime Against Penn
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Charlie Paris scored what to this point is the biggest goal of the season for the Yale men's soccer team on Saturday against Penn. Monday, he was rewarded by being named the Ivy League Player of the Week.
Paris' goal 4 minutes, 37 seconds into the second overtime period lifted the Bulldogs to a crucial 2-1 victory over the Quakers. The win kept Yale in second place in the Ivy League, one point behind Cornell.
The game-winning goal was Paris' second of the league season as he also tallied the winner against Dartmouth.
After playing in only a total of six games in his first three seasons, Paris has emerged as a big scoring threat this fall. He has played in all 14 games and has three goals, which is tied for second on the team.
Paris joins teammates Bobby Thalman (Oct. 3) and Brad Rose (Sept. 19) as Bulldogs to have won Player of the Week honors this season.
Yale returns to action on Saturday at Columbia. Kickoff is slated for 4 p.m.
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Well, the world certainly has been awakened to The Passion of the Christ, hasn't it? This film that has dominated the public discourse for the last number of months has exposed millions of people to the account of the suffering, death and even the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's really a remarkable phenomenon to see so many newscasters and media pundits and politicians and entertainers and just about everybody else with the name of Jesus on their lips all the time. It's amazing.
In fact, it's reached such proportions that I received a phone call, not long ago, from a magazine that does not usually call me, G.Q. Gentlemen's Quarterly fashion magazine. And I wondered when I went about to return the call what in the world they could possibly want with me, and so did everybody else. And I finally was connected with the writer who said, "In May we're doing a special issue of G.Q.and it's going to feature the most popular men in America and we have finally come to the conclusion after our research as to who it is and it is Jesus. And you were suggested to us as someone who could tell us about Him." (Applause)
I said, "I can do that." (Laughter) And so for about an hour and a half I did. I don't know who else they will talk to and how it will all come out, but Jesus has somehow jumped the barrier into the popular culture, hasn't He?
Now there's an upside to that, and there's a downside. Over familiarity with the popular cultural Jesus is not necessarily a good thing, it's going to call on us to be very clear about the Jesus of Scripture as opposed to the popular Jesus of everybody's imagination and preference. And just a few days ago, sitting in the back of the worship center was an entire film crew here and they filmed me for about an hour and twenty minutes, or so. This was from one of the networks, I think they said HBO network and they were doing a documentary and wanted to interview me on this person Jesus in the Christian gospel and how it might relates to anti-Semitism in the world.
You know, it's pretty amazing how extensive the dialogue about Jesus has become. And while I'm sure all these representations are not going to be what we would want them to be, and while I would confess that there are elements of the film that are not necessarily biblical, it provides for us a dramatic opportunity when everybody is talking about to Jesus to step in and say, "Here's the real message, here's the real story," and the film does depict accurately the suffering and the death and even the resurrection of Jesus Christ and makes very clear because the first words that go across the screen are, "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities," it makes it very clear why He died. But just watching the movie, you might conclude that He died for everybody's sins and therefore everybody's okay. On the other hand, the film does leave a lot of questions unanswered. Two Jewish people that I know saw the film, one of them was this documentary film maker and he said, "As soon as I saw the film I went out and bought a New Testament and read the four gospels." That's the second one I heard say that to me. That's good because the question is...how could this happen? How could they do this to Him? How did it happen? What's it about? And how does it apply to me? And that's why we put out a new edition of The Murder of Jesuswith a new cover, borrowing the imagery of the film and the sub-title, "You've seen The Passion of the Christ,now discover what it means to you." Because you've got to get beyond the visual image to the Word of God which explains to us the cross.
And I thought this morning, just to help you, I would do a commentary on the cross. But I'm just going to repeat a commentary for you that is given by someone else. The most powerful commentary ever given on the cross came from God and I want you to open your Bible to Matthew chapter 27 and I'm going to show you God's commentary on the cross, and He gave it at the very time it happened. There were things going on from an earthly perspective in the death of Jesus Christ that they are certainly featured in the film. You see the agonizing torture of Jesus from His scourging on through His crucifixion. But many people suffered that way and there may have been many thousands of people who suffered even more physical pain than Jesus did because they lasted longer on the cross. The sufferings of Jesus physically were not unique, even the Apostle Paul was scourged five times by the Jews and beaten three times with rods. And there was nothing redemptive about those sufferings of Paul. There's something more going on here than a suffering man. Jesus cannot become the hero of the oppressed. He cannot become the hero of the abused. He cannot become the hero of those who are under the threatening power of the establishment. There's a lot more going on there than that. And while I think it's instructive for us to see the physical suffering so that we can understand what was going on in the scourging and the crucifixion, many people have suffered like that.
In order to really understand what's going on there, you've got to go the commentary that God gave while it was happening, and it is found in Matthew 27, starting in verse 45. And I want to read down to verse 52.
"Now from the sixth hour, darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?' And some of those who were standing there when they heard it began saying, 'This man is calling for Elijah.' And immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave Him a drink. But the rest of them said, 'Let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him.' And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom and the earth shook, and the rocks were split, and the tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many."
Amazing series of events, right? Just a few verses, this massive supernatural commentary by God on the cross is given to us. Six miracles occurred in those verses I read you, six miracles, six supernatural events.
Number one, supernatural darkness. Verse 45, "Now from the sixth hour darkness fell on all the land until the ninth hour." When Christ was born, Luke 2:9 to 11 says there was great light that dawned. Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, in the anticipation of the arrival of the Messiah says, "The Sunrise from on high shall visit us to shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death." When Jesus came, the light went on, the light of God, the glorious light of the gospel shining in the face of Jesus Christ. Jesus even said in John 8:12, "I am the light of the world, whoever believes in Me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life." "He urged men to come to the light...John 12:35 and 36...while the light was still there."
Our Lord was then light. He was identified with light. He was the light to the Gentiles, that is to the world. But at His death there is darkness from the sixth hour until the ninth hour. The Jews begin to measure their day from 6 A.M., the sixth hour is noon. From noon to three it was dark. Mark 15:25 says, "He was crucified at the third hour," 9 A.M. So the first three hours He was hanging there visible, naked before the watching people in the light. Those three hours passed. Soldiers had nailed Him there. They had placed the sign over His head. He is suspended there in the horrific indignity as the passers-by, the soldiers, the curious, the religious leaders watch and mock and insult Him. During that three hours He only broke the silence three times. Once He said to the soldiers, of the soldiers to the Father, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." The second time He spoke to a penitent thief at His side and said, "Verily, this day you will be with Me in paradise." Once more He broke the three-hour silence looking down at Mary and John, He said to His mother, "Woman, behold your son," pointing to John. And to John, "Behold your mother," thus giving her into the care of John. In the light He said three things. All three of them were demonstrations of mercy, mercy toward the soldiers, mercy toward the thief, mercy toward Mary. Each was a revelation of the light of His grace, the shining beauty of His compassion.
But as the second three hours began, at noon when the sun had reached its apex, its zenith in the bright mideastern sky, an astounding miracle took place. And the Bible just says without any fanfare, "There was darkness and it fell upon all the land." Land is ge, transliterated g-e, earth. Darkness fell on all the earth. The earth was already half dark and there's no reason to think that it didn't become totally dark. There was a Roman historian named Flagon who mentioned this darkness. Tertullian also wrote to some pagans mentioning this darkness and saying, "Which wonder is related in your own annals and is preserved in your own archives to this day?" So there are historical records of this strange darkness occurring at this place at that time and as far as we can tell, spreading to other cultures.
God had interfered on other occasions. You remember in Joshua chapter 10 the sun stood still? Do you remember in 2 Kings the sun moved backwards on...the shadow moved backwards from the sun on the sundial? And those seem to have affected the whole earth, no reason to think this didn't as well. On the other hand, there was a time, at least one time, when God blackened only a certain area and that was in Exodus chapter 10 during the plagues in Egypt.
What is it that caused this darkness? Well some have suggested it was a local sirocco, or was some local heavy clouds obscuring the sun. But if you look at the very language here in verse 45, darkness fell ekleipo, eclipse. This is not an eclipse in the sense that we use the word scientifically, or technically since that would have been impossible. And the reason it would have been impossible is that Passover is in the middle of the month and the month always began with a new moon so that by now the moon was full. If the moon is full, it's on the opposite side of the earth from the sun, it can't therefore eclipse the sun. So this is not some natural phenomena. In fact, the word itself means to fail utterly. And what happened was the sun went out, supernatural darkness, there is no natural explanation. And God made it happen in the middle of the day. The Babylonian Talmud...in the Babylonian Talmud the rabbis used to say that the sun failing would be a bad sign for the world only to be expected at times of great calamity. Well here was one, in fact here was the ultimate one.
And the question could be asked...why did God do this supernatural miracle? God who turned on the lights at creation has every right to turn them off. Was...was...it was nature, or was God throwing a veil over the sufferings of Christ? Was this an act of sympathy to cover the horror of His dying? Was this some kind of divine protest so that men couldn't see what they had done? What was God really saying about the cross with the darkness?
Well you don't have to think too long to come to an answer. Darkness in the Scripture is a symbol of judgment...judgment, black darkness characterizes hell. Darkness characterizes Mount Sinai when God comes down. Isaiah writes of the darkness of judgment. Joel writes of it. Amos writes of it. Zephaniah writes of it. Jesus speaks of it. God's salvation is always seen as light. God's judgment is always seen as darkness. And God was saying by the darkness that the cross was a place of judgment. This is not...this is not an indication of a judgment to come in the future, this is a judgment in itself right then and there. And God only judges one thing, what is it? Sin. God turned out the lights because this was a judgment on sin. And yet, the One receiving the judgment was sinless, a Lamb without blemish and without spot, holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners, Hebrews 7:26 says. "In all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin," Hebrews 4. Second Corinthians 5, "Him who knew no sin."
What is happening there then is a judgment on sin being borne by an innocent sacrifice. Well in some ways that's not anything new, isn't that what the Old Testament sacrificial system pictured, a judgment on sin in the death of an innocent sacrifice? Isaiah 53 verse 4, "Surly our griefs He Himself bore and our sorrows He carried, yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. He was pierced through for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The chastening for our well being fell on Him and by His scourging we are healed. The Lord caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him." It further says, "The Lord was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief, rendering Him a guilt offering He will bear their iniquities and justify many." Paul put it this way. Romans 4:25, "He was delivered for our offenses." First Corinthians 15:3, "He died for our sins." First Peter 2:24, "Who in His own self bore our sins in His body on the tree." First Peter 3:18, "He died the just for the unjust." "He who knew no sin became sin for us." First John 4:10, "God sent His Son to be the atonement for our sins." Galatians 3, He was made a curse for us." And in Matthew 20:28 it says, "He came to give His life a ransom for many."
What was going on there? The wrath of God. To once and for all end the discussion of who killed Jesus, God did. God did it. It was by the determinant plan and counsel of God. It was God who was pleased to crush Him. God did it.
There were secondary causes. The Jews, the Romans, but the primary cause was God. Jesus was being judged by the wrath of God and God was pouring out His full fury on Him as He bore all the guilt of all the people who would ever believe. Hebrews 2:9, "He tasted death for everyone." The darkness then tells us God's wrath was being unleashed. That's the first miracle by which God comments on the cross. Sin was really being judged there. Jesus was not dying as an example, He was not dying as a martyr to a noble cause. He was not dying as a good man who shows us how we ought to take our convictions to death. He was dying as a sacrifice for sin and the supernatural darkness shows that God was making that clear.
There is a second miracle. This obviously has no easy or no possible human explanation. We can sort of walk around the edges of it. Verse 46, "And about the ninth hour, three o'clock in the afternoon, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?'"
As the darkness came to an end, as the darkness reached three o'clock from noon, the life of Jesus is almost at an end. The fury of God is almost spent. Judgment is almost over. But Jesus can contain the pain no longer and it's not the pain of nails and it's not the pain of a crown, and it's not the pain of wounds of scourges rubbing against a ragged wooden beam, it is the pain of separation from the Father. That's the second miracle. Jesus cried out with a loud voice, literally He screamed.
You should remember this. Jesus was scourged and was beaten and the film, no doubt, depicts something of the reality of it. Jesus did have to carry that cross which would have weighed 200 pounds plus up a hill. Jesus then nailed on that cross, losing more blood, suspended on that cross having difficulty breathing as His body sagged and collapsed His lungs, pushing Himself up to catch a breath by the wounds on His feet, ever reason to think that He would be an exhausted person. And at this particular point, however, He cries loudly, screaming. He has been enduring six hours on the cross, after all the rest that He had already endured, immeasurable agony. And yet has the strength to be at full voice and to cry out with a loud voice clearly with the words, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" And we are reminded again that this was a man who while human was sinless and so His physical capacities were not diminished by the things that diminish our physical capacities, namely the curse. There's a power in His physicality that we wouldn't even understand, even more than those before the Flood who lived for 900 years because of the vitality that they enjoyed even in their humanity. Well this is one untouched by sin, unquestionably strong beyond anyone's imagination. In fact, one could conclude that since the wages of sin is death and Adam was told that in the day you eat of the fruit and sin you will die, Jesus never having sinned had a body that never needed to die. They couldn't kill His body if they wanted to. And with great strength, He cries out where the real agony comes from, and it doesn't come from the physical pain, the real agony comes from His soul, the realization, the reality, the agony that He is separated from His Father. "Eli, Eli, My God, My God," that's Hebrew, El, Elohimis God. Mark uses the Aramaic, Eloi, Eloi. Lama, Sabachthaniis Aramaic which is the popular language. "Why have You forsaken Me?" And by the way, Psalm 22:1 says that verbatim. In Psalm 22:1, David by the Holy Spirit gave a prophecy of what the Messiah would say on the cross. Psalm 22:1, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" This cry of Jesus demonstrates the real pain, the real agony. I think in the film there was an effort made to depict this in the garden. I don't think Jesus in the garden was agonizing over the physical pain that He was about to suffer, He was agonizing over the reality of the sin-bearing and feeling the wrath of God because He knew exactly why He came...He came to be a ransom for many which means He had to come and die in their place, and He knew He would feel the fury of God's wrath.
This is a reverse miracle. This is a supernatural separation, impossible and yet it happened. And while Jesus was not separated from the Father by nature, He was separated from the Father by fellowship.
As a sinful child does not cease to be the essence of his father, but by his sin loses the intimate fellowship with his father, so Christ did not cease to be God but lost the intimacy of fellowship with His Father which He had eternally known. He had never been anything but loved by His Father. In fact, it was His Father's perfect love for Him that caused the Father to put the whole redemptive plan in motion and elect people and then set history in place to redeem those people, ultimately to gather them into glory in order that He might bring a bride to His Son as a gift of His love. It was the Father's perfect love for the Son that made it all happen. And now, having been loved by His Father perfectly for all eternity, He is treated as if His Father hates Him and His Father turns His back on Him. Why does He do that? Because He's of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look upon iniquity, Habakkuk 1:12 and 13.
Now verse 47, "Some of those who were standing there when they heard it began saying, 'This man is calling for Elijah.'" That is not an honest statement. They didn't mistake what He said. They know the difference between Eloi, Eloi,and Elijah. And He spoke loudly and clearly. This is mockery. This was their little pun. They knew exactly what He was saying but in mock, in jest, malicious sarcasm they said, "Oh, He's calling for Elijah."
Why would they say that? Because He had claimed to be the Messiah and Malachi 4, the last couple of verses in the whole Old Testament, you know how it ends? Do you know how the Old Testament ends? It ends with these words, "Behold, I'm going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord." Before the Lord comes in judgment, before the Lord comes to set up His Kingdom, Elijah is going to come. The Jews believed that Elijah would be the partner of the returning Messiah to set up the Kingdom. Then when Messiah came, Elijah would come. And so they're mocking, "And you're the Messiah, you must be calling for Elijah." Scorn, dripping scorn. "Ha, ha, ha." How fearfully did men manifest their hatred to the lovely Son of God, hanging there dying for their sins? They mocked Him as a ridiculous claimant to be the Messiah asking for Elijah.
It was at this point that Jesus said something else. He broke the silence again. He said, "I thirst," as recorded in John 19:28 and 29, "I thirst." Matthew doesn't record that but Matthew records the response. Verse 48, "And immediately one of them ran and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave him a drink." Jesus said, "I thirst." Earlier, according to Luke 23:36 and 37, they had offered Him a drink. So this is the second time, but this time He asks, His thirst is great. One of them, probably a soldier who had the oxos, it's called, the sour wine, the cheap wine mixed with water that they used to quench their thirst in that hot part of the world. And they also gave it to their tortured victims as some moderate means of mercy. In some ways, however, giving it prolonged death and lengthened agony. The reed was a stalk from a hyssop plant, maybe about eighteen inches, which tells us that the cross was probably not very high. Sometimes you see crosses, they look like they're way, way up. The feet might have been nearly to the ground, maybe a little up from the ground so 18 inches so that you could reach up and give to one a drink. It's an imperfect tense indicating that he was giving Him a drink. That is, it indicates the time involved. This is the small expression of mercy and only one of them did it. The rest of them, verse 49 says, said, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him." More mockery. They just were having a big time of sarcasm and scorn. "Where is His associate? He's the Messiah, Elijah's got to be around here somewhere, let's see if he'll show up." They're gloating over the fact that He cannot possibly be the Messiah, the whole thing is a ridiculous joke. Look at Him, He is beyond all saving. He is dying. It is over.
Now going back to verse 46, back to what He originally said, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" What does that tell us about the cross? If darkness demonstrates wrath, God's separation demonstrates holiness...holiness. This is the miracle in which God comments that holiness is at work. Wrath is at work but so is holiness. Holiness is the issue of separation. The word "holy" means separate. On the one hand, God pours out His wrath in judgment on sin. At the same time that God is pouring out His wrath in judgment on sin, He turns His back protecting His perfect holiness. He had to turn away from His own Son when He made Him sin for us. The lesson here is that this is a holy moment that guilty sinners cut off, separated from God, are being atoned for by this man hanging on that cross. God had to forsake, to abandon, "Why have You abandoned Me?" He had to abandon Jesus at that point because He is holy and Jesus had become the guilt offering. The gulf then was placed between the Father and the Son and Jesus hungering for the Father's beloved communion and knowing Himself to be innocent asks why. And that's the why of holiness as well. Why am I not fit to fellowship with You? And the answer is that for that moment God treated Jesus as if He had personally committed every sin ever committed by every person who would ever believe. And so the point, you see, of the separation is to show that Jesus did indeed become sin. That's why the Father turned His back. He was the real substitute for sinners.
There's a third miracle and it appears in verse 50. This is, as the others, absolutely supernatural. Verse 50, "And Jesus cried out again," there's that strength, "with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.." krazo, He screamed with a loud voice, still strong. And what did He say? John 19:30 says what He said. He said, "It is finished." Didn't say, "I am finished," He said, "It is finished." And then according to Luke 23:46 He said, "Into Thy hands I commend My spirit." The Father had turned at that point. The Father had turned. The wrath was over and He can see again, as it were, the Father's face, commits Himself to the Father having accomplished redemption. He yielded up His spirit. He could not die at the hands of men. The Jews couldn't kill Him. The Romans couldn't kill Him. Nobody could kill Him. He voluntarily gave His life. He said, "No man takes My life from Me," John 10, "I lay it down by Myself." He yielded up the spirit. That is incredible. You can't do that. Nobody can do that. I can't say, "I send my spirit into the presence of God, watch my body fall over dead." I can't end my life by speaking it. And in the Greek it says He dismissed His spirit. "Go now." And His real self, His eternal self left that body that slumped on the cross and ascended into the embrace of His Father. This is miraculous.
What does it tell us? It tells us that He voluntarily gave His life. That He did it because He loved us. He was laying down His life for His sheep. He was, as 1 Timothy 2:6 says, giving Himself a ransom, or Titus 2:14, "He gave Himself for us." Or Isaiah 53:12, "He poured out His soul unto death." And what you see there is in this miracle the Father is saying the Son did it willingly, the Son did it voluntarily out of obedience to His Father and love for us. He loved us and gave Himself for us.
What do you see at the cross? The greatest act of divine wrath, the greatest expression of divine holiness. And the greatest act of divine love, the Lord Jesus giving up His life for us. There's a fourth miracle here in which God comments again. Verse 51, "And behold!," exclamation point, it's like "Wow!" in our language, "the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom." Stop at that point.
At the moment that Jesus gave up His spirit, at the moment supernaturally, literally He left that human body, at that moment the great veil, the great curtain that separated the holy place from the Holy of Holies was ripped from top to bottom. The naos, the sanctuary, the place where only the high priest could go once a year, and if anybody else went in there they would have the threat of death at the hands of God, and even the high priest couldn't go until he had prepared himself through appropriate ceremonies to go into the place, and he bells all over his robe in case he went in in any kind of an unholy fashion, he would have died, they would have stopped hearing the bells and somebody would have gone under and pulled him out. This holy place represented the presence of God where no man had a right to go, where no unholy person could go, but Jesus having died on the cross, the Holy of Holies is ripped wide open and access to the very throne of God is made available. Men who were shut out of God's presence would be shut out of God's presence for all time had not Christ paid for their sins and ripped open the way into the Holy of Holies. At that moment there was no longer Aaronic priesthood, no longer any Levitical priesthood, no longer any temple, no longer any sacrifices, nothing ever a part of that system in the temple had any future. And within a few years, 70 A.D., to put a punctuation mark on that, the Romans came in and obliterated the temple and it's never been rebuilt. And the sacrificial system has never been restored.
And by the way, this happened at three o'clock in the afternoon and that place would have been filled with hundreds of thousands of people, jammed with priests who were nothing more than butchers neck deep in blood, slaughtering one Passover lamb after another for everybody who was celebrating the Passover. There are numbers that indicate they would slaughter as many as a quarter of a million at a Passover. And in one moment there was no more priesthood, no more sacrifices, no more offering, no more Holy of Holies, no more holy place and no more temple. That corrupted den of thieves had seen its last day. The Old Covenant was for certain abrogated and the temple would soon be trampled by Gentiles. Top to bottom? Couldn't have been done by men. High, ornate, inaccessible and God tore it from the top all the way down. In Hebrews 10, among other places in Hebrews, there is a wonderful statement in which we read, "Since therefore...verse 19...brethren, we have confidence to enter the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is His flesh, by His flesh He opened up the way into the very presence of God."
So the miracle of the ripping of the veil in the temple was another element of God's commentary on the cross in which God made it abundantly clear that the way is now open into My presence through the blood of Jesus Christ. Supernatural darkness, separation, self-giving death, tearing of the veil, and now a fifth miracle. It's described there in verse 51 as an earthquake, "And the earth shook and the rocks were split."
Devastating earthquake. And God in the Old Testament often did things through earthquakes, as you well know. There are a number of indications of that in the Old Testament. And they always show God in His fury shaking the earth in judgment. And this shaking at the very death of Christ was a preview of coming attractions, folks. It was a preview of what was to come. If you were to go back, numbers of Old Testament passages would be adequate for you to read about this. The one that perhaps sums it up best is the twenty-fourth chapter of Isaiah, verse 19. Isaiah looks into the future at the day of the Lord, the time of judgment when the Lord lays the earth waste, when He devastates it, when He distorts its surface. And down in verse 19 of that chapter it says, "The earth is broken asunder, the earth is split through, the earth is shaken violently, the earth reels to and fro like a drunkard, totters like a shack for its transgression is heavy upon it. It will fall, never to rise again. So it will happen in that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven on high and the kings of the earth on earth and they will be gathered together like prisoners in the dungeon and be confined in prison and be punished." And it goes on to talk about the Lord setting up His Kingdom and reigning all gloriously forever. That's looking at the future.
You know what this was, this...this earthquake that came and this splitting of the rocks? It was simply an illustration of what was going to come. By the very death of Jesus Christ, He had verified, He had affirmed that one day He will come back as Judge. He will set His feet on the Mount of Olives. He will split the Mount of Olives wide. He will establish a great valley. He will judge the nations. He will set up His Kingdom. After that thousand-year reign, He will destroy the entire universe, as we know it, and replace it with a new heaven and a new earth. All of that devastation will lead to paradise regained. And here God affirms the reality of that future. The Christ is indeed the King of the earth. He may at that moment look like a victim, but God sends that fury, sends that earthquake, fractures the rocks and gives a taste of the fact that Christ who at that moment had bruised Satan's head, crushed it literally, will come back one day to take the earth and destroy it and the elements eventually would melt with fervent heat and in its place would be a new heaven and a new earth which He would create, which righteousness would prevail forever.
In fact, the writer of Hebrews sees it. Hebrews 12:25, "See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking...you better listen to the gospel preacher. For if those who didn't escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised saying, 'Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but the heavens.'" And he goes on to say, "Our God is a consuming fire." He shook it at the death of Christ as a warning that some day He's going to shake the entire universe and shake it right out of existence. Wow, what a comment. While everybody thinks this is the end of Christ, while everybody thinks He's dying as some helpless victim, the fact of the matter is in that moment there is warning evidence that He having accomplished the perfect work of redemption is exalted by the Father as King and Lord and will come back to judge and to destroy.
There's one final miracle. When the rocks were split, verse 52 says, "The tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many."
This final resurrection, the sixth one, is a capstone miracle. Graves opened up. Now an earthquake can open graves, but it couldn't raise the dead. There's no...there's no physical phenomena to explain this. Many bodies, somata(?)of the saints that slept were raised, came out of the graves. Slept referring to death, used mainly of death in the New Testament, it was a real resurrection, a resurrection of bodies, glorified bodies. This is...what is this? What does this signify? The final resurrection, the final, glorious resurrection. They were not spiritual, they were actual physical bodies. They were bodies coming out of the grave. Their souls were there, their somawas there, but they actually had bodies, bodily resurrection. This is a preview again of an actual, literal opening of the grave and the resurrection of the dead. Bodies coming out of the grave, spirits coming down from heaven joined those bodies and three days later they went in to Jerusalem. They had to wait three days in order that Christ would be the firstfruits of the resurrection. That's 1 Corinthians 15:20.
This is amazing testimony God is giving. What is God saying? By darkness He is saying this is an expression of wrath against sin. By separation He is saying, "I am holy and this is holy judgment." By the self-sacrifice of Christ, the miracle of literally giving up His life, we see God's love and mercy and grace manifest in the incarnate one and His willing sacrifice. By the tearing of the veil we see the opening of heaven's gates and the throne room of God and the welcome of God to those who come into His presence through Christ. In the earthquake we see the coming promise of a new universe with blessing forever. And in the resurrection we see the hope of our resurrection, the subduing of death and literal, physical living in the glories of the new world in the presence of our risen Christ.
All of that is God's commentary on the cross before you ever get to any of the epistles. But how wonderfully do the epistles in the rest of the New Testament enrich our understanding of what God supernaturally said there without uttering a word. Bow with me in prayer.
Do you see it? Do you believe it? It doesn't do any good for Jesus to die if you don't repent of your sin and ask Him to forgive you and become your Lord and Redeemer. It doesn't do any good for Him to die if you don't turn from your wicked ways and realize that you cannot save yourself, you are an unworthy and wretched sinner. And the only hope that you will ever enter into heaven comes by faith in Jesus Christ and faith in Him alone apart from any work or any religious ceremony. If you have any doubt or question in your mind about your relationship to the living God, this would be the time to repent of sin, ask to be forgiven and to confess Jesus Christ as your Lord and Redeemer.
Those of us who have received this glorious salvation, this is our time for a fresh and a new thanks. Father, we thank You for what You've shown us again in the glory of the cross. And we commit these truths to every heart that they might work their work by Your Spirit in Christ's name. Amen.
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The difference between the price of Brent crude oil, the standard used around the world, and West Texas Intermediate crude oil, used primarily in the United States, just hit $25 per barrel.
That is the highest spread between the two oil contracts in over a year, and it's not far away from all-time highs.
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The fall in WTI crude today may seem counterintuitive given the news of violence emanating from Israel and Gaza.
Stifel Nicolaus strategist Dave Lutz says in a short note that he thinks this spread widening is reflecting "a full rotation into Brent," and that that expiry of the WTI spot contract today is weighing on WTI crude prices as well.
So, why is a barrel of Brent crude currently worth $25 more than a barrel of WTI?
The spread has widened in recent years as supply-specific issues in the United States have weighed on the price of WTI crude.
As a result, the importance of the Brent crude price has risen on the world stage, as it better reflects the state of global oil markets.
Now, the spread between the two contracts has an added driver: unrest in the Middle East, and specifically the developing conflict between Israel and Gaza.
This added effect can be seen in the chart below, especially in the past few days:
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Lutz concludes with a warning: "Don't be fooled by WTI getting hit–we have risk building FAST on escalating conflict."
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Pond in the Morning
Measures: 74 x 74 cm
Technique: Oil on canvas
Depository: Leopold Museum, Vienna
Klimt spends the summer of 1899 in Golling near Salzburg together with relatives and members of the Flöge family. This is he place where this painting was accomplished. It is he first quadratic landscape Klimt painted. Only in the early morning hours the light on the pond reflects the shore on the water surface. The painting was first exhibited at the seventh exhibition in the Secession in Vienna in 1900.Das Schloss Kammer ist ein Wasserburg (Gebäude)|Wasserschloss
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Gomel oblast is situated in the south-east of Belarus and borders on Bryansk oblast of Russia as well as Kiev, Chernigov and Zhitomir oblasts of Ukraine.
The total area is 40,400 km², i.e. one fifth of the country's territory. The oblast comprises 21 regions and 4 Gomel districts, 17 towns, 18 townships and 2,608 villages.
The climate is temperate continental with warm summers and mild winters. The average temperature in January is 6 ºC below zero and 18 above zero in July. The average annual wind velocity is about three meters per second. The annual precipitation varies between 550-660 millimeters.
Oscillating between 191- 209 days the Gomel oblast vegetation period is one of the longest in the country. The climate is favorable for cultivation of sugar-beet, corn, early-season varieties of grape.
The largest navigable rivers are the Dnepr, Sozh, Berezina, Pripyat. There are many lakes in the oblast as well.
One third of the territory is covered with forests.
Natural conditions in Gomel oblast provide pretty favorable environment for development of all spheres of human activities. The flat relief promotes development of towns, farming, manufacture and transport connections.


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Mr. West of the blog West in New England challenged us to "find a poem by a local poet, famous or obscure, from the region one of your ancestors lived in" and post it on our blogs. He points out that "In the mid-to-late 19th century every region of America boasted of one or more poets whose works reflected local history and folklore."
He'll publish all the submitted links on Thanksgiving Day on his blog under Great American Local Poem Genealogy Challenge.
I LOVE this challenge because it shows another resource available to help us paint pictures of our ancestors' lives. It's the details between the dates that make them come alive in our hearts and in our minds. Thank you, Mr. West, for sharing your passion, your ideas, and your time to bring this together!
The poem I chose depicts a battle in which my 6th great grandfather, Jedediah Elderkin, was a main component. He was a Colonel during the American Revolution and signed the Connecticut Ratification of the U.S. Constitution. He was also a prominent lawyer and businessman in the little town of Windham, Connecticut. To this day residents know his name. The poem explains why...
The following poem was found within the pages of: Payne, Brigham. "The Bull-Frog Fight." The Story of Bacchus, and Centennial Souvenir. Hartford, CT: A. F. Brooks, 1876. 84-91. Print.
[ The verses following were published in the " Boston Museum" in 1851, and it is supposedly written by a native of Windham.]
A direful story must I tell,
Should I at length relate
What once a luckless town befell
In " wooden nutmeg " state.
'Twas in the days of old King George,
The Dutchman, who did reign
O'er England, and her colonies,
And islands in the main.
The Frenchmen, in those troublous times,
With Indian tribes did strive
To shoot, and scalp, and tomahawk,
And burn our sires alive.
And many a village was burned down,
And many a shot and scar
To our forefathers oft was given
In the French and Indian War.
But the direst fray in all that war
To shake King George's crown,
Was when the BULL-FROGS marched by night
Against old Windham town.
These bull-frogs lived a mile away,
Beyond the eastern hill,
Within a rich and slimy pond
That feeds an ancient mill.
And there, at night, their concerts loud
Rolled up from stump and bog,
As bass and treble swelled the throat
Of bull and heifer frog.
But " on a time " the greedy sun
Had drunk their lakelet dry ;
The reckless mill had drained it out,
With grinding corn and rye.
And they but met an angry glare,
When they reproached the sun ;
Their bitter tears moved not a mill
Nor broke its heart of stone.
The drinking sun and mill had drained
A domain wide and rich
And dissipation, not their own
Brought the frogs to a narrow ditch.
Nature a living owed to them
'Twas very plain and yet
They watched in vain for clouds to come,
And liquidate the debt.
They often gasped and prayed for rain,
And she did oft refuse,
And each dark eve conviction brought
That she grudged them their dews.
At length, one night, when human kind
In sleep had settled down,
They had Shetucket rolling on,
Beyond old Windham town.
The murmur of that rushing stream,
Borne on the western wind,
Filled them with frenzy, and they left
Their native pond behind.
They sallied forth, a mighty host,
They swarmed upon the hill
Beneath whose front the village lay,
In slumbers deep and still.
And now Shetucket's gurgling roar
Came freshly from the wood,
And maddened them with strong desire
To leap into the flood.
They piped, and screamed, and bellowed forth,
In accents loud and deep,
Their frantic joy, and like the ghost
Of Banquo, " murdered sleep."
The villagers whose rest was slain
By this advancing crew,
Awaked from horrid dreams, in fear
That they'd be murdered too.
For ne'er did angry foemen raise
So loud and fierce a din
Nor Scotch, nor Dutch, nor mad Malay,
Nor ancient Philistine.
The frightful sounds were now like yells
From painted savage grim,
And now more terrible than that
Like Cromwell's battle hymn.
Then forth the people rushed, to hear
Those noises rend the air ;
And some resolved to meet the foe,
Some, refuge sought in prayer.
Some thought the judgment day at hand ;
But their fears were banished quite,
By a funny black, who 'clared 'twas strange
That that day should come in the night.
And soon were gathered on the green,
Old Windham's valiant sons,
Some armed with pitchforks, rakes, or scythes,
And some with rusty guns.
And there, in hurried council met,
They trembled and stood still,
To listen to the cruel foe
Who thundered from the hill.
The fiendish jargon that so loud
From throats discordant rung,
They doubted not conveyed fierce threats
In French or Indian tongue.
But how their warmest blood was chilled,
To hear -the foe demand
The lives of their best citizens
Much noted in the land.
How quaked their very souls with dread,
As, mid the grievous din,
The foe, remorseless, bellowed forth
The name of " ELDERKIN."
Their very hearts within them died,
When, as the host drew nigher,
They heard resound, in guttural notes,
The name of " COLONEL DYER "
But fiery Mars inspired a few,
Who stalwart were in frame,
To meet the enemy in fight,
His insolence to tame.
They girded on their armor strong,
They charged their guns with lead ;
Their friends gave them the parting word,
And mourned o'er them as dead.
And then this gallant company
Marched boldly up the hill,
Resolved to quell the raging foe
His fevered blood to spill.
They reached the spot from whence was heard
The fearful hue and cry,
And, though no murderous foe was seen,
They let their powder fly.
Ensconced behind a granite wall,
They poured a leaden rain
From blunderbuss and rusty gun,
At random o'er the plain.
But strange to tell, the stupid foe,
Returned no answering fire ;
They only bellowed louder still
The name of Colonel Dyer !
And when another volley spoke,
And cut through thick and thin,
They bawled more loudly than before
The name of Elderkin !
The courage of the Windham men
Now rose exceeding high,
And so they blazed away till dawn
Lit up the eastern sky.
The enemy dared not assail
This valiant band at all,
But screamed and groaned and shouted still,
Behind the granite wall.
"Pe-ung," "pe-ung," "go-row," "go-row,
"Chug," "chug," "peep," "peep," and "tretet"
"Cease firing, boys," the Captain said,
"The dogs desire a treaty."
Our heroes rested on their arms,
Till morning's light revealed,
The bodies of the prostrate frogs
Stretched out upon the field.
But when they saw their waste of shot
And fright had been in vain,
Some made a solemn vow that they
Would ne'er bear arms again.
And they all returned with wiser heads
To the heart of Windham town ;
While the remnant of the
frogs went home,
And soon the rains came down.
And at this day when evening shades
Envelope brakes and bogs,
The tenants of that pond rehearse
The battle of the frogs.
And to this day, each Windhamite
Unto his little son
Relates how on a summer's night,
The BULL-FROG FIGHT was won.
This tale is true, and years far hence
It must be current still,
For bull-frogs two are pictured on
Each current Windham bill.*
*See bills of all denominations on the Windham (Conn.) Bank.


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The Hope College Symphonette will present its first full-length performance of the school year on Friday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
After a very successful European Tour in May, with two outstanding reviews from the Munich newspapers, the Symphonette will perform works of Gilbert & Sullivan, Della Joio and Schubert. The program will open with the "Overture to the Pirates of Penzance," by Gilbert & Sullivan. The second work on the program will be "Choreography" for String Orchestra by American composer Norman Della Joio. The program will conclude with the "Symphony No. 2" by Franz Schubert.
Organized in 1953, the Symphonette is selected each year from the larger college symphony orchestra. It was one of only four orchestras from around the country invited to perform during the 2007 National Conference of the American String Teachers Association, chosen from a pool of more than 100 college orchestras that had applied for the honor.
The Symphonette is directed by Richard Piippo of the Hope music faculty, who is director of orchestral activities and an associate professor of cello/chamber music at the college. Piippo has taught at Hope since 1999.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Spooky Colorado: Where the Spirits Go to Party!
By Stephen Hartshorne
GoNOMAD Associate Editor
Just got back from the "Spooky Colorado" tour of the state's most haunted locations, including the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, made famous by Stephen King in his novel, The Shining.
While some spirits haunt places where they've been trapped by acts of violence and passion, many spirits return to places where they had a good time and felt at home while they were alive.
I think that's why there's so much paranormal activity in Colorado. It's one of the most beautiful places in the world, and it's also healthy, happy and hip!
Around the turn of the last century, many thousands of people who were suffering from tuberculosis and other diseases came to Colorado in search of a cure, and most of them found one.
Take F.O. (Freelan Oscar) Stanley, co-inventor of the Stanley Steamer, who came to Colorado with his wife Flora in 1903 on the advice of his doctor. He was 53 years old and suffering from consumption, as it was then called. He recovered completely and lived to the ripe old age of 91!
For me it was also a chance to commune with intrepid solo woman traveler Isabella Bird, who passed through the state in 1876 and wrote A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, one of my favorite books.
Manitou Springs
Our tour began in Manitou Springs, a lovely little town near Colorado Springs tucked in a box canyon at the base of Pike's Peak. The place was sacred to the Native Americans of the area because of the mineral springs that bubble up from underground aquifers. Because it is sheltered by the surrounding mountains, Manitou Springs gets a lot less snow than many nearby towns and the weather is very mild, for the Rockies.
Here we stayed at Onaledge, which is one of a trio of spooky B&Bs operated by Maureen 'Moe' Hance, the other two being Red Crags and Rock Ledge. Red Crags is the oldest of the three, and it was built by Dr. William Bell, who founded Manitou Springs as a health resort back in 1874. Theodore Roosevelt was a frequent visitor around the turn of the century because he liked to hunt bighorn sheep on Pike's Peak.
Onaledge has been the site of a lot of paranormal activity over the years, and a television crew that went there to investigate picked up numerous voices on their EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) devices (watch the video).
One member of our party felt the presence of a spirit that crawled into bed with her, but up on the highly-haunted third floor, I didn't see or hear anything. That may be because I'm a "brick" — someone who can't perceive paranormal activity.
Still, there are so many stories of certain familiar spirits making themselves known again and again. One woman fled the room I stayed in after hearing five different voices, and Moe says the housekeeper won't go in there alone.
She also suggested we look at our photographs for 'orbs.' Apparently, they have appeared in many people's photos. They say spirits appear as orbs when photographed with a flash. I didn't find any in my pictures from Onaledge, but two of them appeared later in a shot of the ballroom at the Stanley Hotel.
Emma Crawford and the Coffin Races
Manitou Springs is a friendly town with the Rockies springing up all around it, and it's the site of the famous coffin races which take place every year in October.
These races are held in honor of Emma Crawford, who came to town in the 1880s to 'take the waters' because she was suffering from TB. She came to love the area, especially Red Mountain, which rises steeply from the north end of the canyon.
Even though she was gravely ill, she snuck off one day and climbed Red Mountain, leaving her red scarf tied to a tree to prove her accomplishment. She also asked her fiance to see that she was buried there.
She seemed to be recovering, but unfortunately, she relapsed and died, and her fiance kept his promise, enlisting 12 sturdy friends to carry her remains to the summit. Emma's remains were relocated to the other side of the summit when a railroad was built to the top in 1912.
Years later, in 1929, heavy rains and erosion caused her coffin to come sliding down the mountain, and her remains were found at the base, along with the silver handles of the casket. The remains were reinterred in the local cemetery, and the community holds the coffin races every year in her memory, as well as a reenactment of her wake.
Fifty teams compete in the main event, with four 'pallbearers' pushing a racing coffin made to exact specifications and containing one passenger, known as the "Emma," down the main street of town. There's also a separate event for area fire departments.
Some enter the event for fun, but many compete very seriously. The town makes a festival of it, with a parade, sidewalks sales and lots of fun events.
The Oxford Hotel
Our next stop was the historic Oxford Hotel in Denver, built in 1891, right next to Union Station, where all the tycoons gathered to smoke cigars back in the day. A visit to the Oxford is a trip to the Gilded Age when Denver was a booming mining town.
The magnificent architecture of Frank E. Edbrooke, the antique furnishings, and an extraordinary collection of Western art give the hotel a museum-like quality — a bit of living history. The hotel's art collection includes works by by John Dare Howland, John Fery, Charles Partridge Adams and numerous other artists.
But if you're a single male, you probably don't want to stay in Room 320. You might get a little more history than you bargained for. Numerous male guests have reported having their arms pulled and the bedclothes torn off the bed.
It was in this room in 1898 that a young woman named Florence Montague shot and killed her lover before turning the gun on herself. He was married — she didn't mind that so much — but then he cheated on her, and that was too much to bear.
The bartenders at the Cruise Martini Bar at the Hotel also tell of a man in an old postal uniform who comes in and orders a beer and drinks it and then leaves muttering something about getting the gifts to the children.
Turns out there was a postal worker in the 1930s who was delivering Christmas presents to Central City about 35 miles away. When he never arrived, people thought he had sold the gifts and kept the money.
In the spring they found his decomposed remains alongside the children's presents. Spooky!
Lunch at a Former Mortuary
We had lunch at a fantastic restaurant in Denver's LoHi District called Linger. Talk about hip! It's located in an old mortuary; there's a terrace on the roof with great views of the city and an RV serves as a bar.
But the real highlight is the menu: braised goat tacos, red lentil dahl, watermelon & mozzarella Caprese, Wagyu beef sliders, sweet potato waffle fries — this is my kind of place!
For dessert we had strawberry rhubarb crepes, salted butterscotch pineapple pudding with lemongrass cotton candy, and chocolate peanut butter pudding — mmmm…
The building used to house Olingers Mortuary, but they've changed the neon sign to read "Eatuary." You can even have a Dead Guy Ale.
Touring Boulder with Banjo Billy
From there it was on to Boulder, affectionately known by Coloradans as "seven square miles surrounded by reality." It has a reputation similar to Berkley, California, or the People's Republic of Cambridge, Massachusetts. I think it has something to do with being a university town.
At the city's storied Hotel Boulderado, we met up with Banjo Billy and his tour bus, which looks like a hillbilly cabin. Inside it's furnished with really comfortable upholstered armchairs, and because he's registered as a limousine, you can drink beer on the tour!
Billy has history, crime and ghost tours. We took the ghost tour, naturally, and it was very well researched and well presented, from the overzealous 40-year-old boy scout who answers the telephone after hours at scout headquarters to the manager of the Boulder Theater who accidentally hanged himself while adjusting the lights.
It was a kick to drive around town in the comfort of our hillbilly living room. After a visit to the Hotel Boulderado and it's famous Catacombs Bar, it was off to Colorado's most famous spooky place: the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, which inspired Stephen King's book, The Shining, and the famous Stanley Kubrick film.
The Stanley Hotel
When F.O. Stanley came to Colorado in 1903, he and his wife Flora fell in love with Estes Park, one of the most beautiful places on earth, and here they built the magnificent Stanley Hotel. John Philip Sousa performed at the opening of the hotel in 1909, and the guests included Theodore Roosevelt, J.C. Penney, Harvey Firestone and the Emperor of Japan.
F.O. and Flora, who had no children, held special events for the children of Estes Park, and let them ride at their stables, and in some cases even paid their college tuition.
They had a fleet of Stanley Steamers that transported thousands of guests through the narrow passes into this secluded mountain valley where, by all accounts, a good time was had by all for many wonderful years. No wonder so many spirits have come back.
Ghost hunters from all over the world have come to the Stanley, and have found very high levels of paranormal activity, particularly in the concert hall.
Stephen King stayed here in 1982, in Room 217, and had a nightmare about his three-year-old son being chased through the corridors. This formed the inspiration for his terrifying book, The Shining.
The staff, including Madame Vera, the resident psychic, speak of numerous familiar spirits, including Mrs. Stanley, who is identified with the fragrance of roses and likes to play the piano in the concert hall, Billy, one of the fun-loving children on the fourth floor, and Elizabeth Wilson, a former housekeeper who literally climbs into bed with unmarried couples and pushes them apart.
And they don't make the slightest effort to convince you that these spirits exist. The spirits are clearly a fact of life for them.
One of my fellow travel writers told Madame Vera about a spirit who was, how to put this, overly friendly. Then she smelled roses. Madame Vera rolled her eyes — apparently, there's a spirit who is known for this kind of thing — and she said, "That was Mrs. Stanley. She saved you."
Many people have heard humming, singing and sighing in the concert hall, which is thought to be a young woman named Lucy. The building fell into disuse for a time in the 1970s, and Lucy, who seems to have been a runaway, was squatting in a room in the basement when she passed away.
We took the evening ghost tour of the concert hall with our guide Rob Kittler, and I got a photo of two ghostly orbs. Apparently, spirits travel in orbs, like Glinda the Good in the Wizard of Oz. And I heard a ghost speak — very distinctly — through this EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) device.
You can hear a lot of indistinct sounds from these devices which sound like different words to different people, like playing Beatle records backwards, but as we were sitting in Lucy's room in the basement of the Concert Hall, just as a little mouse scurried by in the corridor, we heard a voice say, quite unmistakably, "a mouse."
In the morning I woke up early and full of energy — the mountain air does that — and I heard a very weird sound outside my window, something like a flugelhorn. It was a male elk bugling. I went out to take some photos of the morning sun.
Isabella Bird, back in 1876, wrote of Long's Peak: "It is one of the noblest of mountains, but in one's imagination it becomes invested with a personality. The thunder becomes its voice and the lightning does it homage.
"Other summits blush under the morning kiss of the sun and turn pale the next moment. Long's Peak detains the first sunlight and holds it round its head for an hour at least, till it pleases to change from rosy red to deep blue."
After breakfast, we had a chance to meet with Madame Vera, who has been doing consultations in Estes Park for 25 years. She had an office in town, and when it was destroyed by fire, the Stanley invited her to use a room there.
She answers questions people have about their love life or their business, connects with loved ones and helps clients with unexplained mysteries.
She said she first learned she had unusual powers of perception when she went to a funeral with her father as a little girl. She actually saw the spirit of the deceased appear and object to the presence of one of the guests as if to say, "What's that guy doing here? He's not my friend!"
Madame Vera says she likes the pleasant side of psychic consultations — people's love lives or their fortunes — and refuses to be drawn into the spooky or macabre. "I don't do ugly," she says.
She says it's pretty easy to make the spirits mind their manners. You can snap your fingers or clap your hands and give them sharp commands. Or just call Mrs. Stanley, and she'll make them behave.
The scenic splendor, the grandeur of the hotel, the clear, invigorating air, the elk grazing on the front lawn, the graciousness of the Stanleys and their spirit guests — Estes Park more than lives up to its reputation.
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Our next stop was another hip college town, Fort Collins, in the foothills of the Rockies. Built on orders from President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to guard army payrolls being transported up the Cache La Poudre River, the city is home to Colorado State University with some 30,000 students.
The city also has nine breweries which you can visit on their Foam on the Range tour. These breweries produce 70 percent of Colorado's craft beer, some of which we sampled at Coopersmith's Pub and Brewing before checking into the historic Armstrong Hotel, which was restored and reopened in 2004 by the Levinger family.
Wandering along the wide pedestrian-friendly boulevards in the center of town, I was struck by how much great public art was on display, and by the diversity of the pedestrians — everything from cowboy hats to blue hair and multiple piercings. The city is full of interesting shops, restaurants, cafes, antique stores, museums, and theaters.
We toured the haunted spots of Fort Collins, appropriately enough, in a hearse provided by Fort Collins Ghost Tours, and our guide, Shane Sheriean was dressed up as an undertaker.
We learned all about lynchings, murderers, adulterers, murderous adulterers, and all kinds of spooky doings, including a haunted fraternity house at Colorado State.
We dined at Austin's American Grill, where I enjoyed a superb buffalo meatloaf, and then Sheriean took us on a walking tour of the downtown area. We visited the yard of the city's old courthouse where James Howe was lynched in 1888 after brutally murdering his young wife Eva.
"Much as lynch law is to be deplored in the abstract," the local newspaper opined, "yet there are times, or at least, seem to be, when the checking of crime can be accomplished in no other way." The murder and lynching also prompted the citizens to form an organization to prevent domestic violence.
We also went to the site of the old Linden Hotel, now occupied by Nature's Own, a science and nature store, where there have been sightings of the proverbial hooker with a heart of gold — a female spirit that appears only to children.
I had a wonderful time on my Spooky Colorado tour, but the spooks were only part of the fun. I also really enjoyed the spectacular scenic splendor of the place, the friendliness, and hospitality of the people and the warm and welcoming communities.
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