By Craig Hlavaty Published 12:29 pm CDT, Monday, October 8, 2018 PHOTOS: Texas from way up above Jay B. Sauceda, better known as one of the brain and CEO behind the popular Texas Humor web store, has a new book out. "A Mile Above Texas" is about what we look like from the wings of a single-engine Cessna thousands of feet in the air. >>>See more of Sauceda's photographic handiwork... less PHOTOS: Texas from way up above Jay B. Sauceda, better known as one of the brain and CEO behind the popular Texas Humor web store, has a new book out. "A Mile Above Texas" is about what we look like from ... more Photo: Jay B. Sauceda Released by University of Texas Press on Oct. 3, the 200-page photo book comes with 142 aerial photos that Sauceda took in 2015. In all he would take over 44,000 images over a nearly 4,000-mile odyssey, logging 36 hours in the air and stopping at 12 … [Read more...] about “A Mile Above Texas” gives God’s point of view of the Lone Star State
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Pikes Pick: No Sunday morning drive in Garden of the Gods
TV tonightWhen the third and final season of “Versailles” begins, Louis XIV welcomes a defeated royal relative to the palace but with unforeseen personal consequences. 8 p.m., OvationChuck Barney, Tribune News ServiceMotorless Morning returns to Garden of the Gods Park, 1805 N. 30th St., from 5 a.m. to noon Sunday. Walkers, runners, climbers and bikers can experience the region’s signature park without car traffic. It’s always free and open to the public, but for these seven hours it’s not open to your vehicle. A shuttle will run from the main parking lot to the central garden. Hosted by Colorado Springs Park, Recreation & Cultural Services and Garden of the Gods. Info: goo.gl/CJ2xm7 … [Read more...] about Pikes Pick: No Sunday morning drive in Garden of the Gods
Amid record visitation, Garden of the Gods shuttles poised to run next summer
Garden of the Gods is on pace for another record-breaking year of visitation. And after a summer in which a dirt parking lot was made and a complimentary shuttle service was tried, Colorado Springs parks officials and advocates expect the crowd-managing ploy to continue.This year through Sept. 30, the Visitor and Nature Center tallied 1.07 million guests. That’s up 62,000 from the same period last year and is expected to surpass the 1.2 million record, also set last year. The city uses those counts as the best indicator of how many people visited the actual Garden, one of the nation’s most famed free attractions.But summer congestion wasn't as severe as usual, to the relief of observers making decisions for the city’s crown jewel. Judging from data and anecdotal evidence, the recommendation by Volpe National Transportation Systems Center worked. The 400 extra parking spaces in the field beside the park’s main entrance, plus the two 14-passenger buses that … [Read more...] about Amid record visitation, Garden of the Gods shuttles poised to run next summer
‘God Was on Vacation’: A Visit With a Long-Lost Cousin in Romania Is a Holocaust Lesson
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Subscribe Log In Personal Journeys Iancu Zuckerman is 95 and the host of a classical music show in Bucharest. But in 1941 he was marched through the streets of Iasi, a center of anti-Semitism. The specters are still there. Herastrau Park in Bucharest opened in 1936, just five years before Romania joined its German allies in invading the Soviet Union. Credit Credit Susan Wright for The New York Times Supported by ByEdward Zuckerman Oct. 4, 2018 I had thought I was the last male Zuckerman in our family. Zuckerman is a fairly common Jewish name (see The only remaining Zuckermans I knew of were myself, my sister and my two daughters (see?). “Zuckerman” means sugar man, marking us as descendants of a sugar beet peddler; so Windsors we’re not, nor Rockefellers, nor Kardashians. But even Then cousin Motti in Israel (last name Klinger) told me about cousin Iancu … [Read more...] about ‘God Was on Vacation’: A Visit With a Long-Lost Cousin in Romania Is a Holocaust Lesson
Einstein’s ‘God letter’ to go on sale for $1mn
Viet Nam News NEW YORK — A handwritten letter from Albert Einstein about his thoughts on God, religion and his search for meaning is to go on sale in New York, valued at up to $1.5 million, Christie’s said Wednesday. Written a year before the legendary physicist died in 1955, his name synonymous with genius, Einstein writes in German from Princeton, New Jersey to German philosopher Eric Gutkind. "The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends," writes the physicist, best known for his theory of relativity. "No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this." The one-and-a-half-page letter will go on sale on December 4, estimated by Christie’s to fetch between US$1 million and $1.5 million. The letter was previously offered at auction in 2008, bought by a private collector for $404,000, Christie’s said. "It is one of the … [Read more...] about Einstein’s ‘God letter’ to go on sale for $1mn