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We are pleased to announce the results of the 2015–2017 ACF Board of Directors Election. The results of this year's election show a 19.45% participation rate based on the eligible number of voters which was 15,623. Full Results
The American Culinary Federation Education Foundation (ACFEF) awarded financial scholarships through the Linda Cullen Memorial, Ray and Gertrude Marshall, Balestreri/Cutino and Peter Timmins, CMC, memorial scholarship funds to the following culinary students:
Three high school students also received scholarships through a partnership between the American Academy of Chefs® and the Culinary Institute of America.
Congratulations to all. You can learn more about ACFEF scholarships and how to apply.
We are pleased to announce the results of the 2015–2017 American Academy of Chefs elections for Chair and Vice Chair. Check out the American Academy of Chefs page for the election results.
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It's once again Fabulous Friday here at Dolly Couture, and check out this retro gal! This wedding sounded super fun and hip!
Couple: Robin & Ken
Wedding Date: April 27, 2013
Wedding Theme:
"We had a rockabilly wedding, complete with a classic car, tattoo flash, pinup and greaser stations, a rocking band with an upright bass, and loads of smiling faces."
Dress: Robin wore our Luxor. Robin customized with a net/organdy stand alone petticoat (check out our accessories section) in peacock. She also added a 3/4 length bolero. Robin also had straps made and a custom sash to match her petticoat.
Favorite moment from the wedding:
"A little back story to my favorite moment of my wedding...The day before I met Ken I told my cousin that all I wanted was to meet a nice greaser, who rides a motorcycle and would sing me Elvis songs. Ken is a greaser and rides a motorcycle, and until our wedding day had never sang me an Elvis song. And then he got up, in front of all of our family and friends to sing "Teddy Bear" with the band. It was a wonderful surprise to me, and my definitely my favorite moment."
What made you choose DC?
"When I went to find a wedding dress, I knew I wanted a short dress which is not common, and I knew I wanted a personal experience. The second I stepped into the NYC store, I knew I was not walking out without being an owner of a DC bridal dress."
Advice for future DC brides:
"My advice for future DC brides is to step back and look around and just enjoy the moment. Yvette was amazing to boot. She knew exactly what would look best on me. The dress I bought wasn't even one I had in mind. Once I tried it on, I was in love."
Robin has told me she plans on dying her dress so she can wear it again. Congrats Robin & Ken!

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Curriki is celebrating our 6-year anniversary this week. For 6 years, Curriki has been the leading K-12 global community for teachers, students and parents to create, share, and find free and open learning resources that improve teacher effectiveness and student outcomes. We are pleased to be going strong and we thank you for your support and engagement, whether you just joined this year or have been involved with us for several years.
The name Curriki is derived from the words "curriculum" and "wiki". Here's how our mission is described at Wikipedia:
Curriki's mission is to use technology to help break down economic and geographic barriers that prevent children worldwide from having access to quality education, and thereby to make learning possible for anyone, anywhere in the world. Curriki's model is to develop curricula through community contributors, and to deliver curricula and open educational resources globally. Anyone with access to the Internet can contribute and use the material found on Curriki to teach themselves or others. Since the materials, which include digital textbooks, learning videos, and interactive resources, are provided in open source, they can be adapted as needed to particular requirements inside or outside of the classroom.
Curriki continues to grow rapidly. The number of resources available at Curriki has doubled just in the last 4 years, and is now at 45,000. The number of members has grown to over 300,000, more than tripling in that same period. There have been over 7.5 million unique visitors to the Curriki site! And there are 678 groups within the Curriki family that have established by our members.
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iOS 6 and what it means for jailbreak
Another WWDC keynote has come and gone and with it we've gotten to take a look at what iOS 6 will have to offer iOS users this Fall. If you jailbreak you may already be wondering what iOS 6 will mean for you.
We've been jailbreaking our iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches for years in order to get ahold of certain features that Apple just couldn't or didn't want to give us yet. Every year and with each new iteration of iOS Apple closes that gap. This year was no exception and Apple did give us a few things that we previously could only achieve via jailbreak like FaceTime over the network. But is what we got enough? Will iOS 6 leave just as much of a need to jailbreak?
I think so and here's why.
Themes and a new Home screen
The Home screen on the iPhone and iPad has remained pretty much unchanged for the most part since the conception of iOS. Us here at iMore though maybe it was time for a new Home screen or at least a refresh. iOS 6 will be, at least aesthetically, almost identical to iOS 5 and every iteration of iOS before that minus some minor visual enhancements to menu bars from what we can tell.
If you love the functionality iOS provides but are bored with the same interface and design, you'll still need to jailbreak in order to solve that problem.
One of the biggest requests we always get and something on most people's iOS bucket list is quick reply for messaging. Unfortunately there was no mention of adding a quick-reply feature. If you'd like to be able to have a better handle on messaging and how you interact with it, you'll most likely still need to jailbreak iOS 6 in order to do so.
Notification Center enhancements
iOS 6 does bring some additions to Notification Center that we previously could only get through jailbreaking. One of the largest is the addition of Do Not Disturb.
Do Not Disturb will do something simliar to what LockInfo and IntelliscreenX have done for the jailbreak community for quite some time. You'll be able to tick on Do Not Disturb when you don't want to be bothered by notifications. Your notifications will still come through to your iPhone or iPad but your screen will stay off and no notification sounds will be played.
It appears that this feature will be all or nothing though and you don't have the ability to choose which notifications you want and which you don't want. It'd be nice to see more control and the option to turn off notifications for just games or just phone calls if you'd like.
Siri enhancements
While we would like to see Apple actually open up the Siri API to developers, we kind of figured that wouldn't happen. Apple did, however, make some great enhancements to Siri that may be "good enough" for some. Not only will Siri be coming to the iPad, she will be able to launch apps on her own, send out tweets, and provide restaurant and sports data to you without actually entering a specific app manually.
We will also see features like Eyes Free start to pop up as well as other tweaks and enhancements. Developers can't yet bend Siri to their will but iOS will add the ability to do a lot more with the technology natively.
Better multitasking and gestures
While Apple's new Macbook lines will see new gestures and multitasking actions, there wasn't much said about the iPhone or iPad and whether or not iOS 6 will add any new functionality in that area which probably means there won't be any.
If you enjoy using apps such as Zephyr and have grown used to having more than what Apple's given you stock, you probably won't be too happy without your jailbreak when it comes to gestures.
Mail enhancements
While there wasn't too much added when it comes to native iOS mail, we did get the addition of a VIP inbox that allows you to create custom lists and messages from those people will be filtered into the VIP area of your inbox.
No mention was made of better filters, color coding messages, or, sadly,
multiple e-mail signatures. The latter being something that many users have wanted for a long time now. At this point, it's pretty much a necessity for most if you manage your work, home, and other e-mail accounts from your iPhone and iPad. So if this is something you can't live without, you'll still need to depend on apps such as Mail Enhancer to get the job done.
Update: Some users are reporting that screenshots shown during the keynote do in fact show multiple mail signatures. We'll let you know once we can verify this.
Better folder options
This is another area that could have used some improvements and didn't see any at all. The ability to nest folders inside of folders is something many jailbroken and stock users have been asking for since folders first cropped up in stock iOS. The caps are annoying and the fact that they're different on iPhone and iPad make it hard to organize devices in the same manner. I can fit 20 games inside a folder on my iPad while I can only fit 12 in a folder on my iPhone.
I'd like a sense of familiarity and streamlined workflow when switching between the two and the folder issue puts a damper on that. For now, jailbreak apps like Folder Enhancer and Infinifolders will continue to be indispensable for many.
Even though WWDC 2012 brought some nice additions to iOS and we have a lot to look forward to this Fall, I have a feeling many users will also be looking forward to a new jailbreak for iOS 6 just as much. Without the addition of quick reply, better folder functionality, mail enhancements, and some other much needed refinements, jailbreak will probably still be a necessity to many.
We've got tons of time between now and when the official version of iOS 6 drops this Fall. Last year iOS 5 was jailbroken even in its beta stages and jailbreak devs had plenty of time to release beta jailbreak tools for developers to work out the kinks before an official release.
When iOS 6 drops this Fall, how many of you will be waiting for a jailbreak tool before updating? Anybody plan on going stock on iOS 6 and giving up their jailbreak? Let us know!
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Actually, if you look at the photo used in one of the iOS 6 articles (http://www.imore.com/2012/06/11/ios-6-support-iphone-3gs-coming-fall/), there is functionality for different e-mail signatures for different e-mail accounts. "Per account signatures in Mail" appears as a new feature surrounding the iOS 6 logo.
Hmm, I'm installing the beta now, I'll confirm that and update if that's the case. Thanks!
BiteSMS should be the native SMS app...and a kill all for knocking all apps. I'd be much happier.
I was hoping for much more from Apple this time. All the updates could've been implemented at "small" updates of iOS (ex. iOS 5.0 to 5.1 or 5.1 to 5.2 and so on). There is nothing really big here, really worthy for such a big update. And as far as I'm concerned, Siri is just useful and really usable in the US. You know Apple, there are a lot of other countries on Earth, where you sell your phones too.
Anyway, I am disappointed with this slow pace of iOS' evolution. I'm an iPhone owner from 2007 and loved it all this time. But it seems I'm gonna move soon to an Android-powered smartphone.
So nothing new! Just adding Android OS ideas.... What a joke, no wonder why Apple try to delay HTC ONE and Samsung Galaxy S3.
And good luck to you ISheep, jailbreak your sweet IPHONE to match Android OS! That`s what Apple want you to do. So if Android fanyboy root his SGS3 or HTC ONE, your IPHONE has no match to it!
I would say that what iOS 6 mostly means for jailbreak is more difficulties to be achieved. It can be read one of the slides of the keynote "Kernel ASLR", which reading what it means in Wikipedia scares the hell out of me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addressspacelayout_randomization
Care to point that out? I'm running iOS 6. There is no quick reply nor any mention of it in the keynote.
Until I get a quick reply feature, I'll be forever on the jailbreak side of things
I will be Jailbreaking again
It will work on 4 without jailbreak.
Three things I need to before I won't jailbreak are: BiteSMS, Multi-icon Mover and MyWi. Activator and GroupSend are key for me too.
The BiteSMS is more than just about QC and QR. It's about the ability to easily attach contact information from within the program, as well as being able to schedule texts.
Will it be possible to use Siri or Spotlight to disable Wifi?
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Why I broke my Jailbroken 4s for iOS 6 - Allow me to preface. I have jailbroken every iPhone I've ever owned. I love the jailbreak community and the enhancements that came. SBSettings, Kill all apps, BiteSMS, Folder Closer, Five icon dock, etc. We all know it's because of the jailbreak community that we have the new enhancements to "legitimate" versions of iOS. That being said I felt I needed to go and have a nice hot meal at home. For years I've been on the run. Tethered then un-tethered. Wondering if the reason for the occasional lockup or app closure was the fault of my reckless ways. I showed off my jailbreak like a hipster shows off his sleeve of tattoos. "Look man! you just don't understand.... I've seen some sh!t, I've done some things.." So I says to myself.... let's do this. Shed the soul patch my son and become another yes man towing the company line! Here I sit... All up in this iOS 6 and it ain't that bad. I think of Cydia often and Jailbreak will come my way sometime in the future. But for now? My belly be full of mom's delicious cooking. Sometimes a visit home isn't such a bad thing.


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Monday, January 14, 2013
If any of you saw how I picked football winners this past fall you know I stink at this. But here are my sports predictions for 2013.
Ill start with the 2012 BCS National Championship Game on Monday between top ranked Notre Dame and SEC champ Alabama. Im going with the Irish.
Ive been told that I am a baseball guy who knows nothing about football, and that I should leave football to those who spend all their free time watching football. They may have a point, but half the fun is seeing where I go wrong.
I say the Irish defense stymies Bamas offense and Notre Dame wins a low scoring game, 17-13.
In Super Bowl XLVII Im picking Falcons and Seahawks in the NFC title game, given they dont meet earlier in the brackets. As much as I dislike Pete Carroll, hes got that team scoring points. Im loyal to the Falcons but theyve got to win a playoff game first.
In the AFC, I like Baltimore and Denver, though you cant count out New England. I cant pick against Peyton Manning, but I see Baltimore as the dark horse winner.
So Seattle and Baltimore in the Super Bowl and nobody will watch outside Seattle and Baltimore.
There will be no NHL hockey played in 2013 and nobody will care.
I wont watch any college basketball until March, and who can figure out a 64-team tournament bracket that has 70 teams? Picking an NCAA is a crap shoot.
Still, Im a Midwest boy when it comes to basketball and the Butler Bulldogs will find a way to crack the Final Four. So will Duke, and Indiana.
North Carolina will fall early in the tournament.
I like Indiana to win the NCAA national championship but Im not feeling real confident in my choice.
In 2013 the Houston Astros move to the American League West division and will promptly take up residence in the divisional cellar where they will remain for the rest of this decade.
The Los Angeles Angels will not win their division or advance far into the playoffs. The New York Yankees will fade to fourth in the AL East behind Toronto and Tampa. I like Detroit in the AL Central again and to run the gauntlet through the playoffs and the World Series.
In the National League the Cardinals, Giants, Reds and Braves will all make the post season and again the Braves will depart early and St. Louis and San Francisco will battle it out for the NL crown.
I like the Giants repeating because of pitching and the fact that San Francisco is a brutal place for a visiting team to play come late October. Giants repeat as World Series champs.
The SEC will regret raiding the Big 12 and old Southwest Conference because Texas A&M and Johnny Football are going to run through the SEC like Sherman through Atlanta.
I dont care who wins the ACC championship but it wont be Clemson or Georgia Tech. Ill go with Florida State, but Im curious about Notre Dames relationship with the conference.
I see the Aggies and Georgia playing for the SEC championship with the winner meeting Ohio State and Urban Meyer in the BCS Championship game this time next year.
So clip and save and feel free to keep score at home.
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I really like the looks of that gun.....though it does have very little in common with a suomi....would be cool if it used drums.
I really like the looks of that gun.....though it does have very little in common with a suomi....would be cool if it used drums.
It just uses the bolt and barrel out of the Suomi kit. I had also thought about building it so it would take the suomi mags and drums. All you would have to do is put a suomi style magwell on it. On that gun it should be easier to get the suomi style magwell on the gun as you don't have the takedown feature to contend with. I am also going to try and use the original barrel shroud on my sgn-9 build. I got two kits both non matching and I am keeping the best parts for a future Suomi build.
That article will definitely get more guys interested in homebuilding. Much more so than the Sten articles. I was thinking it could also make for an interesting platform for a bolt action single shot or magazine fed carbine design.
I'm kinda torn on following his design or branching off a little. But I guess thats the great thing about home building, you can make what you want. I'm pretty sure I'm going with a bigger tube size than Matthews used and possibly a different recoil system. But we'll see, I've been kinda busy with build #3 Emily.
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Moleman that is a great build. Did you anneal the whole bolt or just a portion? I have heard they are very hard. Others have questioned the safety of an annealed bolt. I guess reheat treating is an option, but I would like to avoid if possible. Does anyone have good pictures of a Suomi mag well and mag lock-up. I was thinking about using Suomi mags/ drum.
Thanks. I annealed the whole bolt and the firing pin bushing after I removed the firing pin. Mine was hard enough that a file wouldn't cut it. You can get carbide drill bits to drill the hardened bolt, but I was planning on just re heat treating the bolt but not making it as hard as it was. I suppose if you didn't temper it enough it would crack or shatter. I"ve been working on the old firing pin and have turned it into a bushing for the new AR15 firing pin. Theres still a little fitting left to do before I put a picture of it up.
I think this particular "public build" (for lack of a better term) will spawn more than its share of interesting variations as guys use what they have and adapt to their own preferences.
I was thinking the same thing, but this might be to much for me at this time since I don't have a lathe. I'll have to think it through before I do anything, I don't want to turn a good part into scrap.I"ve been working on the old firing pin and have turned it into a bushing
I also think there will be a lot of variations, people will just use the article as a rough starting point.
I got the firing pin bushing done today. Here it is fitted to an AR15 firing pin. The firing pin tip hole is .062" and opens up to .108" for the first step of the AR15 pin. The only difficulty I had was I had to use my dremmel to set back the second step (red arrow) on the AR15 pin about .015" in order to get enough firing pin tip protrusion. I did this by turning the fireing pin in my lathe (but a drill would work just as well) and used the dremmel to lightly contouring the shoulder slightly back keeping the radius in the step. After I get the hammer slot done I plan on reharden both the bolt and the firing pin bushing then pressing in the bushing using red loctite and the pin that originally held it in. Then I'll run a drill bit down the firing pin hole to remove the section of the bushing retaining pin that will pass through the firing pin hole.
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Geauga Campus Wayfinding
Directions to Geauga Campus
From downtown Cleveland via I-90:
- I-90 east to State Route 44 (Painesville-Chardon Exit).
- Turn left, south seven miles to Chardon, continuing south about another five miles to State Route 322. (On the corner is a Sunoco Station and Junction Auto Sales.)
- Turn left, east, on State Route 322 and remain on it for about two miles. Take it to Taylor-Wells Road. (There is a sign for the Geauga County Fair Grounds.)
- Turn right, south, on Taylor-Wells Road and follow it to the stop sign. It intersects with Claridon-Troy Road.
- Turn right, south, on Claridon-Troy about one and one-half miles. Kent will be on the left, just before the fairgrounds parking lot. (The campus almost shares the driveway.)
- I-480 east to I-422 east. Continue for 15 miles to State Route 44 (Chardon-Ravenna exit). Turn left off the exit ramp onto Route 44.
- Turn right onto State Route 87. (On the corner are BP and Marathon gas stations.) In a few miles, you'll enter the town of Burton.
- At the traffic circle in the center of town, travel three quarters of the way around, then turn right onto Claridon-Troy Rd.
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Carly Draper enters her fourth season as an assistant coach with the UNH women's soccer program.
Draper, who works with the Wildcat goalkeepers, came to Durham after a two-year stint as a graduate assistant with Loyola (Md.) College, where she also worked with the goalkeepers and received a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership in May 2009.
Draper, a native of Ottawa, Ontario, helped guide the Greyhounds to a 10-6-4 record in 2008, including a 7-0-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference mark that clinched the regular season championship before Loyola fell in the tournament title game. Goalkeeper Brittany Henderson garnered MAAC All-Conference First Team honors with a 5-0-1 record to go along with three shutouts, a 0.40 goals-against average and an .864 save percentage in conference play.
Henderson was even better in 2007, recording eight of her nine wins via shutout while posting a 0.97 GAA and an .854 save percentage that was 28th best in the nation. She posted six shutouts, a 0.24 GAA and a .944 save percentage in conference play en route to being named MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, All-Conference First Team and Tournament MVP. The Greyhounds went 10-6-5, including 5-0-4 in the conference and captured the MAAC Championship, as well as an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament where they faced Virginia in the first round.
Draper was also an assistant coach on the Maryland ODP team, leading the 1993 girls to the regional semifinals in both 2008 and 2009. The team also toured Denmark and Sweden during March 2008.
Draper put together a successful career at St. Lawrence University where she was a four-year letterwinner. She started at goalkeeper for the Saints in all 66 games from 2003-06, earning All-Liberty League Honorable Mention after her junior and senior years.
In 2007, Draper played over 1,600 minutes in goal, posting a 1.24 GAA and an .800 save percentage. The Saints finished with a 9-7-1 record, closing the year with four straight victories.
Over the span of her career, Draper notched 23 shutouts, including six during her senior season, while helping the Saints to a 32-29-5 record.
During the spring of 2007, Draper was an intern coach for the St. Lawrence women's soccer program, assisting the head coach in practice planning and implementation and strength and conditioning.
Draper graduated from St. Lawrence in May 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry and Exercise Science. While at St. Lawrence, she was a recipient of the Andrew and Rosellen Welti Scholarship and earned the Bradley R. Evers Outstanding First-Year Student Award.


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|3700 N. St. Mary's
Brackenridge Park Conservancy
|Sunday-Saturday: 5 a.m. – 11 p.m.
|343.7 acres
|3 pavilions (rentable)
Japanese Tea Garden
San Antonio Zoo
Sunken Garden Theatre
Lambert Beach
Tony "Skipper Martinez" softball field
Trail Map
|Alcohol prohibited
Located just below the headwaters of the San Antonio River, Brackenridge Park and the surrounding area has been a gathering place since prehistoric times. There is evidence of human visitation and occupation extending back at least 11,000 years. Native American artifacts dating as early as 9200 B.C. have been found in the Olmos Basin and near Hildebrand Avenue.
Following the founding of San Antonio in 1718, early Spanish settlers used the San Antonio River as a source of water for hand-dug ditches that irrigated their fields. Two of these ditches—acequias- branched from the river in today's park. The Alamo Madre ditch was built in the 1720s and ran east, carrying water to Mission San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo). This ditch left the river opposite the back to the Witte Museum. The Upper Labor ditch was built about 1776 and watered land west to San Pedro Creek. The dam that diverted water into the ditch was excavated in 1996 just below Hildebrand Avenue. Remnants of the Upper Labor acequia remain visible within the boundaries of the San Antonio Zoo.
This area of San Antonio remained largely undeveloped until the mid-19th century. An unsuccessful attempt was made in 1839 to found the town of Avoca in the area of today's Alamo Heights. It was not until 1852, when the City began disposing of its public lands, that construction began this far north of downtown. That year, the City sold the Headwaters of the San Antonio River to a City alderman, J.R. Sweet who built his home there. A short distance to the south, the City began leasing its hard rock quarry for commercial use. During the Civil War, the Confederacy used land in today's Koehler Park for a tannery to produce leather for military supplies.
The City's post-Civil War growth brought new residents and an increased demand for residential and business construction. A visitor to San Antonio, William Loyd, discovered that the rock quarry produced limestone needed to manufacture Portland Cement, a valuable building supply. Loyd entered into partnership with local chemist George Kalteyer to found Alamo Roman and Portland Cement Company. The company leased the City's quarry until 1908, building its manufacturing plant just west of the River. Nearby, a very different type of business operated—Ilka Nursery—one of San Antonio's early wholesale and retail outlets for plant materials.
In 1866, George W. Brackenridge moved to San Antonio from Austin, and three years later, his mother, Isabella Brackenridge, purchased the old Sweet property at the Head of the River. The City attempted to re-purchase the headwaters to protect its water supply, but a disagreement over price caused the deal to collapse. Brackenridge then began to purchase additional waterfront property and leased some of his land to J.B. LaCoste who developed a privately-owned waterworks to serve the growing population. Remnants of this early water system are still found in the park including the old pumphouse at Lambert Beach. LaCoste's operation was not financially successful, and by 1883, Brackenridge, who had accepted stock in lieu of rent, owned the waterworks. He extended the system, building a reservoir at the top of a hill to the east in today's Botanical Gardens, and constructing new raceways, pumping stations.
By the early 1890s, George Brackenridge succeeded in drilling artesian wells to meet the City's growing water needs. The old waterworks system became obsolete, the water table dropped and the springs that fed the River at Brackenridge's beloved home dried up. Though Brackenridge continued to own the waterworks until 1906, he donated 199 acres to the City in 1899 for use as a public park.
San Antonians were settling as far north as Alamo Heights by the turn-of-the 20th century and commuted to the area by a street railway system that ran up Broadway, then called River Avenue. On Sunday afternoons, city dwellers traveled to the Head of the River for relaxation and recreation. Brackenridge's gift of wooded land along the River attracted visitors almost immediately, though it did not officially open for over a year.
The City Parks Commissioner, Ludwig Mahncke, was given the task of improving the land, and he lost no time. As a close friend of Brackenridge, he enjoyed the donor's full cooperation and support. Mahncke designed a series of drives totaling seven miles that wound through the trees and along the river, converging at the north end of the park. By 1902, there was a fenced deer preserve and enclosures for buffalo and elk. Animals were pastured along River Avenue near today's Lions Field, and were fed with hay raised in an adjacent pasture. Though successful and popular, Mahncke resigned in 1906 after a political dispute with Mayor Bryan Callaghan, a bitter enemy of his friend George Brackenridge. Mahncke died within several months and was honored by his friends who dedicated a monument to him that stands today in Mahncke Park.
George Brackenridge continued to donate land to enlarge the park. His gifts included Mahncke Park, which he asked to be named in honor of his friend Ludwig, as well as property comprising the today's golf driving range (formerly the polo field). The park was further enlarged through the generosity of other donors. In 1915, Emma Koehler donated property west of the River where the Confederate tannery had been located. She dedicated the park to her deceased husband, Otto, who had owned the Pearl Brewery, and insisted that alcohol be permitted in the park. (By contrast, Brackenridge had prohibited consumption of alcohol in "his" park.) Two years later, Bexar County donated ten acres to the City to establish Davis Park just west of the river and south of Mulberry Street in honor of County Judge James R. Davis.
Mrs. Koehler's gift was made seven years after the Alamo Roman and Portland Cement Company vacated the old quarry, and it coincided with the appointment of Ray Lambert as City Parks Commissioner. Ray Lambert's appointment began a new era for Brackenridge Park. Lambert inherited a parks system that was underfunded and growing quickly. He immediately asked for almost a threefold increase in budget (to $60,000), and earmarked much of this increase for the further development of Brackenridge Park.
One of Lambert's earliest actions was to establish a zoological garden within the park. Twelve acres of the old tannery site were reserved for the Brackenridge Park Zoological Garden, and the Scientific Society of San Antonio developed plans for a facility that incorporated the River and old quarry walls. The zoo was immediately adjacent to the land that Emma Koehler gave to the City the following year.
Another of Lambert's early, major projects was the construction of a public golf course in the park. A public course had been advocated by golf enthusiasts for many years as a tourist attraction for the City. (There were three other courses in San Antonio at that time, all private.) In October 1915, within a year of Lambert taking office, it was reported that the 18-hole Brackenridge Park golf course was under construction. Noted course designer A.W. Tillinghast of Philadelphia laid out the Brackenridge course to take advantage of the meanders of the river, and though it was constructed on one side of the waterway, golfers crossed the river at several points. A clubhouse was also proposed, as well as a swimming hole "so that after the game the players may enjoy a plunge in the delightful waters of the San Antonio River."
Lambert continued to develop Brackenridge Park into the city's premier recreational area, and in November 1922, Commissioners advertised for bids to construct a clubhouse at the golf links designed by noted local architect Ralph Cameron. (Together with Emmett Jackson and George Willis, Cameron designed the Municipal Auditorium.) The building was completed in early 1923. The clubhouse replaced an earlier 2-story building on the site constructed as the Jockey Club. The club and its adjoining race track functioned in the 1890s into the early 20th century. Club members viewed bicycle and horse races from the building's broad verandas, and non-members sat in adjacent grandstands.
Shortly after construction of the golf course, the City Federation of Women's Clubs petitioned the City to purchase land west of the course along Broadway. The property had been retained by Brackenridge and was sold with his waterworks holdings in 1906 to out-of-town interests. In 1916, Ray Lambert prevailed on the City to purchase the land, and the local Lions Club constructed one of the city's early playgrounds on the site.
Lambert's vision for the park also included the Eleanor Brackenridge playground, named for George Brackenridge's sister, which he developed adjacent to today's Joske Pavilion. Across the River from the playground, Lambert developed a "swimming beach" with a gravel bottom where San Antonians sought relief from the heat. Nearby, the local Rotary Club conducted donkey rides that were popular with local children. The "donkey barn" was constructed to store hay that supplied both the donkeys and zoo animals.
Ray Lambert's greatest dream was to convert the abandoned quarry on the western edge of the park into a lily pond. In 1917, he set out to accomplish his goal using prison labor and meager resources. Local residents donated exotic plants, and the "Japanese garden" as the area was called, was hailed in national publications as a unique attraction. The surrounding buildings, remnants of the cement works' operations, were converted into a craft village. South of the Japanese garden, Lambert created the Texas Star Garden formed in the shape of the state emblem using rocks and flowers.
As the park became more popular, the Lambert's early swimming beach (today named in his honor) was reconstructed in 1924 as a concrete-lined pool with rustic stone dressing rooms. Lambert continued to beautify the area by relocating the old St. Mary's Street bridge to the park in 1925, and constructing the Joske Pavilion in 1926. These were Lambert's last accomplishments in the park. He died suddenly from pneumonia in 1927.
Ray Lambert had succeeded in making Brackenridge Park a leading attraction for residents and visitors, and after his death, new community facilities continued to be constructed in the park. The Witte Museum was built at the northeastern edge of the park in 1926, and in 1930, the San Antonio Civic Opera Company built an open air theater immediately south of the Japanese gardens. In 1949, the Tuesday Musical Club, the oldest women's music club in Texas, built its club house near the Japanese gardens.
As Texas neared its Centennial year, various cities competed to host the State's official celebration. San Antonio organizers proposed that a grand fair be held just west of the open air theater. The proposed site was at the southwestern edge of Brackenridge Park in an area formerly known as San Jacinto Park. (This park, that was apparently never fully developed, encompassed the western portion of the rock quarry where Trinity University was later constructed.) Though San Antonio failed to win the right to hold the Centennial celebration, several local projects were funded. These included $62,000 to construct a memorial to improve the open air theater and designate it as a memorial to the "heroes of the Texas Revolution." Centennial funds were also used to construct Pioneer Hall adjacent to the Witte Museum as a museum to commemorate Texas' early trail drivers.
Depression-era programs were used to fund some of the projects not selected to commemorate the Centennial. One such project was a proposed public stadium. When federal funding became available through the Works Projects Administration, it was announced in 1939 that a "school athletic stadium" would be constructed using a combination of federal and school district funding. Depression-era programs also assured the completion of smaller projects in Brackenridge Park including erosion control, retaining walls along the river, and construction of various zoo buildings.
The only major changes to Brackenridge Park since 1940 are those brought about by the alignment of Highway 281 during the 1960s. The golf course was reconfigured at that time, and two small parcels were cut off from Park at its southwestern edge The San Antonio flood control tunnel inlet was constructed on one of those parcels. New concession facilities were built, the zoo expanded, and pavilions reconstructed. Commercial facilities were built at the edges of the park where it intersects major thoroughfares. Still, Brackenridge Park remains remarkably unchanged in layout and design, and retains a rich array of historical fabric to be preserved and interpreted for future generations.
History written by Maria Pfeiffer
Special Projects Officer
San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department
In 1915, Ray Lambert, San Antonio's newly elected Commissioner of Parks and Sanitation, focused his attention on improving the northern area of Brackenridge Park. Adjacent to the old Water Works pumphouse, Lambert built a playground and swimming beach. A corrugated iron bathhouse for women and children was constructed and the river bottom was improved by removing mud and laying gravel.
The bathing beach was an instant success and the newspaper reported that the daily dip is the thing. Lambert made plans to enlarge the beach and in 1925, permanent swimming pools for adults and babies were completed, along with dressing rooms designed by architect Emmett Jackson.
The beach area was further improved in the 1920s when the old iron truss bridge that crossed the river downtown at St. Mary's Street was moved to the park and Joske Memorial Pavilion was constructed (also designed by Emmett Jackson). Ray Lambert completed these projects shortly before his death in December 1927. Though the pool has been closed to swimmers for almost 50 years, it still carries Lambert's name as a reminder of his enduring vision for Brackenridge Park.
The Reptile Garden in Brackenridge Park was established in the early 1930s during the Depression. An unemployed herpetologist, W.C. "Bill" Bevan, arrived in San Antonio and found his way to the museum where he was retained to do odd jobs. On learning of his profession, the museum's director, Ellen Schulz Quillin, suggested that he give snake demonstrations in front of the museum in exchange for donations. He preferred, however, to construct a reptile garden.
Mrs. Quillin took the reptile garden proposal to the City of San Antonio which declined to finance the $750 project. Mayor C.K. Quin , however, gave permission to house snakes in Brackenridge Park in a "safe" enclosure. The all-woman Witte Museum board embraced the proposal, envisioning a money-making project that would sustain the museum during the Depression. Using donated materials and labor, the original reptile garden was constructed of wood planks, barbed wire, and old sheet metal roofing. The published history of the Witte Museum states that this was the first such facility in the United States.
The garden opened on June 8, 1933, and was stocked with rattlesnakes captured on surrounding ranches and bought for 15 cents a pound, alligators purchased at 50 cents a foot, and turtles. Opening night was sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor welcomed visitors. The following day, over 800 people paid 10 cents to view this new curiosity, and within one week, the garden had paid for itself.
Officially known as the Reptile Garden and Research Bureau, the facility attracted both a general family audience and scientists from throughout the world involved in snake bite research. A variety of events drew crowds to the garden including rattlesnake milking, turtle races, and weekly rattlesnake fries. These activities contributed revenue that kept the museum open throughout the Depression.
The reptile garden's success assured the construction in 1934 of a new, more permanent facility built of limestone with a red tile roof. In its first ten years of operation, Ellen Quillin estimated that 750,000 people visited the Reptile Garden. A drought in the late 1940s created a scarcity of snakes, and the garden's focus shifted to alligators. The last rattlesnake fry was held on September 14, 1950. The garden continued to be a popular attraction and was managed from 1952 until 1975 by George Kimbrell who collected and displayed alligators and crocodiles. The Reptile Garden closed when Kimbrell retired to Arkansas in 1975, taking his collection with him.<<BACK


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Hmm, nuts are nice so long as they're accompanied by a caramel or chocolate syrup. Why do so many threads here turn into food discussions?
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Hmm, nuts are nice so long as they're accompanied by a caramel or chocolate syrup. Why do so many threads here turn into food discussions?
I'm more of a peanut butter sauce person for my sundaes. nom nom nom
I would give anything to be able to buy or make the peanut butter sauce Friendly's uses. A Reese's Pieces super sundae is still the only reason to go into that place. And their waffle fries loaded with cheese, bacon, and sour cream. So good.
I love their peanut butter sauce, too. It's been a while since I've made it but I think this is the recipe I've used in the past that was a pretty good copycat. I had to hide the recipe as it would be too tempting!
1 cup peanut butter chips
1/3 cup milk
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
Melt 1 cup REESE'S Peanut Butter Chips with milk and whipping cream in medium saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth.
Stir in 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
Cool to room temperature
Also found this one.
I dig you Fred. It's hard for me to read some of the light colored and or small font on my PC, I can't even try on my phone. I rarely log on with my phone as it's PITA to do so.
I once tried to thank a post and somehow, accidentally instead opted to ignore myself. That's just another example of the pitfalls of participating here via phone. Anyhow, I know where you are coming from with the small and or light colored fonts.
BTW Fred, I'd like to tell you that you are a good sport and that I like melted toffee on my sundaes.


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Atheist "DagoodS" wrote in one of my comboxes (note: in context, he was speaking rhetorically, but this doesn't imply that he doesn't think Twain and Lincoln were atheists):
Imagine I told you that I hold the atheists Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain in high regard. Now THERE was a fine pair of atheists! . . . When I think of atheism it is the Lincolns and Twains, I see. Not the hordes of also-rans that fail to demonstrate true atheism.
Even the list of notable "'heroic' non-believers" that DagoodS directs us to, recognizes distinctions as to belief in God (it notes, for example, that Jefferson was a deist and Paine possibly one, and exercises subtlety and restraint in its very title), but DagoodS shows no such precision of category.
Abraham Lincoln was an atheist? That's news to me. To the contrary, he is considered by many historians the most religious president ever. Who was he praying to repeatedly during the Civil War? Why is it that he developed his second inaugural address around the notion of divine providence? How can you have a guiding providence if there isn't anyone there to oversee it?
This sort of historical revisionism (even up to the denial of Jesus' existence) is one of the more ludicrous elements of atheism. "DagoodS" an intelligent man. How could he actually fall for the nonsense that Lincoln was an atheist?
I agree that he was by no means an orthodox Christian, nor even any sort of Christian even in a watered-down, insipid liberal Protestant sense, but that is still far different from an atheist (as theists come in many varieties). We must have sensible definition of terms. "Atheist" means no God at all. Even a web page at infidel.org, devoted to the issue, states:
In regard to a Supreme Being he entertained at times Agnostic and even Atheistic opinions. During the later years of his life, however, he professed a sort of Deistic belief, but be did not accept the Christian or anthropomorphic conception of a Deity.Exactly. This isn't Christianity, but it isn't atheism, either. "DagoodS" affirmed that he was an atheist. The same exact silliness is applied to Thomas Jefferson, who was neither an atheist nor a deist (strictly speaking), but rather, a Unitarian (as he referred to himself at least twice in personal letters). Jefferson talked about providence, too, just as Lincoln and also Franklin did.
Lincoln is quoted in the same web page:
If God be a just God, all will be saved or none (Manford's Magazine).Atheist ignorance and overzealousness on these topics never ends. It is said that philosopher David Hume was an atheist. He was not (I wrote a paper about that and even once amazed a former Christian-turned-atheist philosophy professor at the University of Michigan with this "bombshell" information). Hume accepted one form of the teleological (design) argument for God and never once, it is said, denied that God (of some sort: more like a deist God) existed in his personal letters.
Voltaire and Paine are regarded as atheists. They were not, either. They both believed in God in some sense, but criticized organized religion. The same infidel.org web page states:
The clergy parade Lincoln's recognitions of a Supreme Being as a triumphant refutation of the claim that he was an Infidel. Yet, at the same time, they do not hesitate to denounce as Infidels, Paine and Voltaire, when they know, or ought to know, that two more profound and reverential believers in God never lived and wrote than Paine and Voltaire.Here (from a web page documenting Lincoln's theism) is a proclamation of fasting and prayer by Lincoln, from March 30, 1863. Either he is lying through his teeth or he is no atheist:
If Infidelity and Atheism were synonymous terms it would be difficult to maintain that Lincoln, during the last years of his life at least, was an Infidel. But Infidelity and Atheism are not synonymous terms. An Atheist is an Infidel, but an Infidel is not necessarily an Atheist.
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, and to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in Holy Scripture, and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And, insomuch [sic] as we know that by His divine law nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisement in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.Was Lincoln also shamelessly lying in his second inaugural address of 4 March, 1865, about a month before he was murdered?:
The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of "God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?The following is a statement Lincoln made to General Dan Sickles, who participated in the battle of Gettysburg:
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled up by the bondsman's 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another draw with the sword, as was said 3000 years ago, so still must it be said, 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Well, I will tell you how it was. In the pinch of the campaign up there (at Gettysburg) when everybody seemed panic stricken and nobody could tell what was going to happen, oppressed by the gravity of our affairs, I went to my room one day and locked the door and got down on my knees before Almighty God and prayed to Him mightily for victory at Gettysburg. I told Him that this war was His war, and our cause His cause, but we could not stand another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville . . . And after that, I don't know how it was, and I cannot explain it, but soon a sweet comfort crept into my soul. The feeling came that God had taken the whole business into His own hands and that things would go right at Gettysburg and that is why I had no fears about you.Perhaps this proves the truth of the statement, "there are no atheists in foxholes"? Did Lincoln cease to be an atheist the day after Gettysburg, pick it up again for nearly two years, till his second inauguration, and then promptly resume his belief in God in time for that classic speech?
(July 5, 1863)
He even mentioned the Holy Spirit, for heaven's sake, in one of his proclamations (a most politically incorrect and non-secularistic, non-atheistic thing to do indeed):
I invite the people of the United states (on Aug 6) . . . to invoke the influence of His Holy Spirit . . . to guide the counsels of the government with wisdom adequate to so great a national emergency, and to visit with tender care and consolation throughout the length and breadth of our land all those who, through the vicissitudes of marches, voyages, battles, and sieges have been brought to suffer in mind, body, or estate, and finally to lead the whole nation through the paths of repentance and submission to the Divine will back to the perfect enjoyment of union and internal peace.And there is his proclamation of the holiday of Thanksgiving:
(July 15, 1863)
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they (gifts of God) should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.Obviously, if Lincoln were truly an atheist during his presidency, then he was an inveterate liar. Since atheists who claim him as one of their own want to make out that he was of such high character (and I fully agree), then this doesn't fit in with that picture. Therefore, we must conclude that if he was a truthful man to an extraordinary degree, this is inconsistent with a picture of him lying repeatedly about belief in God in his public speeches.
(October 3, 1863)
Therefore, one can only reasonably, plausibly conclude that he believed in God. He was not merely a deist but a theist (so it seems from the references to providence), albeit in a sub-Christian manner. Neither deism nor theism is compatible with atheism. So he was not an atheist, and atheists zealous for a known, respected figurehead and hero ought to revise their language to recognize this.
What about Mark Twain? Well, listen to the opinion of Cliff Walker of Positive Atheism magazine. Asked by a professor of English, Harold K. Bush, whether Twain was an atheist, he replied (dated 1 August 2000):
No. (Understand that to me, an atheist is someone who simply lacks a god-belief - for whatever reason - and that I go along with Charles Bradlaugh and the rest who would call an infant an atheist, since a-theism means without theism).William Phipps, takes a similar perspective, but coming from a Christian standpoint, and arguing positively for some sort of "Christian" Mark Twain, in his semi-humorously-titled article, "Mark Twain, the Calvinist" (Theology Today, Vol. 51, No. 3 - October 1994):
Part of the time he sure seemed like an atheist (such as the poem "Contract with Mrs. T. K. Beecher") but other times he seemed like a theist or at least one who embraced the supernatural.
Then again, some people change, and others waver. The subject of God and the supernatural is no easy deal, and I don't blame anyone for being unsure. I try not to categorize someone as atheist or theist unless they consistently use the term (or unless I am in direct dialogue with that person).
Ingersoll called himself an agnostic and an infidel, and I'll buy that. This gives me something to work on. Paine was clearly a Deist, as was Jefferson.
But Twain was Twain, and who can really explain him? I like him because he merely described his opinions; I don't remember him attaching a label to himself (but I could be wrong).
I've certainly not been the same throughout my life. I first called myself an "atheist" in a courtroom in 1988, and the second time I called myself an "atheist" was shortly before I started putting together the predecessor to this magazine. I was, at one time, a Christian; at another time, I lived with the Hare Krishnas; at still another time, I'd have been glad to read your Tarot.
Because I've always had a passion for religion and religious beliefs, and because Twain has had such a profound influence upon me during just about every phase of my life, I'd be interested in any studies of his religious views. If you have a book or article, I'd be interested in reading it. If you could dash off a few notes laying out your case or, better yet, showing both sides of Twain, I'd be more than happy to print it . . .
I have read the old American Atheists article that calls him "two-faced" when it comes to his religious views. (It's around somewhere; I'll find it and post it eventually, but am reluctant to post or reprint it because of its tone.) But I think this charge is unfair, considering that religious claims elicit such complex reactions in most people - particularly complex and open-minded people such as Twain. Sure he wavered, but I cannot go so far as to describe him as being two-faced about it. Part of my goal here is to encourage compassion when confronted with others' religious beliefs, and Twain, of all people, cannot be sized up in three or four pages - if he can be sized up at all!
Many people think Mark Twain was among the cultured despisers of religion and that he became increasingly cynical about both God and humans as he grew older. If being a Christian includes believing in the infallibility of the Bible, the immutability of the species, holy wars, and literal hellfire, then Twain was indeed not religious, not a Christian, and not a Calvinist. But on looking further, both at his life and his writings, one can see that Twain was deeply sensitive to the sovereignty of God and the weakness of those made in the divine likeness. While Twain rejected passages of the Bible that he regarded as absurd and morally repulsive, he was ever a feisty Christian. He wrote: "All that is great and good in our particular civilization came straight from the hand of Jesus Christ."Likewise, David Tomlinson, in a review of a collection of writings by Twain on biblical themes, posits a "pseudo-Calvinist" Mark Twain:
. . . Calvinism enabled Twain to discern more keenly the two sides of human nature. "Everyone is a moon and has a dark side," he quipped. 4 The chasm between the ideal and actual provided the incongruity on which much of Twain's humor was based. His religion also gave him a compulsion to ridicule the human propensity for self-righteousness. Biographer Edward Wagenknecht writes: "Unchristian conduct on the part of professing Christians was always shocking to Mark Twain. . . . He thinks, he jokes in terms of Calvinism . . . (which) had sunk into the very marrow of his bones." 5
During the four decades that Twain lived in Hartford he regularly attended the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, where Joseph Twichell was the pastor. It was mainly because of his close friendship with Twichell that Twain settled in Connecticut's capital and built a house near Twichell. 6 Twain called his church the "Church of the Holy Speculators" because many of its members worked for the insurance companies centered in Hartford. Calvinist Twichell found Twain's creed as a mature writer acceptable: "I believe in God the Almighty. . . . I think the goodness, the justice, and the mercy of God are manifested in His works."
. . . In the nineteenth century, people on both sides of the Atlantic seemed especially prone to divorce the performance of faith from the profession of faith. Twain described counterfeit worship this way:
He (God) pronounced his work "good.". . . Daily we pour out freshlets of disapproval, dispraise, censure, passionate resentment, upon a considerable portion of the work-but not with our mouths. No, it is our acts that betray us, not our words. . . . For ages we have taught ourselves to believe that when we bide a disapproving fact, burying it under a mountain of complimentary lies, He is not aware of it, does not notice it, perceives only the compliments, and is deceived. But is it really so? . . . Is it not a daring affront to the Supreme Intelligence to believe such a thing? Does any of us inordinately praise a mother's whole family to her face, indiscriminately, and in that same movement slap one of her children? Would not that act turn our inflamed eulogy into nonsense? 15Twain did not regard holiness as an enemy of hilarity, and he even ranked humor as one of God's chief attributes. 16 Accordingly, as one made in the divine image, Twain said, "I am God's fool." 17 He regarded laughter, conveyed by his fictional and non-fictional writings, as the most effective way of dealing with human foibles. While seriously trusting in God, he laughed at lesser commitments to Bible and sect-and the world laughed with him. Finding much pretense and little Christian substance in the character of his New England contemporary, Mary Baker Eddy, he devoted a book to an examination of the founder of Christian Science.
. . . Albert Paine, who lived with Twain while composing his official biography, commented: "Mark Twain's God was of colossal proportions-so vast, indeed, that the constellated stars were but molecules in His veins." 19 Witness to this belief is Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, Twain's rollicking treatment of the traditional provincial and literal notions of heaven. His God is too grand to be comprehended by the puny cosmic conceptions of earthlings. Twain had this to say about "the authentic Creator of the real universe:" "Let us now consider . . . that God of unthinkable grandeur and majesty, by comparison with whom all the other gods whose myriads infest the feeble imaginations of men are as a swarm of gnats scattered and lost in the infinitudes of the empty sky." 20
Two of Twain's three children, as well as his wife, preceded him in death. Those personal tragedies prompted this jotting on divine suffering:
When I think of the suffering which I see around me, and how it wrings my heart; and then remember what a drop in the ocean this is, compared with the measureless Atlantics of misery which God has to see every day, my resentment is roused against those thoughtless people who are so glib to glorify God, yet never to have a word of pity for Him. 21Although never certified as a cleric, Twain fulfilled his childhood ambition. Near the end of his life, he wrote: "I have always preached. . . . If the humor came of its own accord and uninvited I have allowed it a place in my sermon, but I was not writing the sermon for the sake of the humor." 22
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The curious thing is Twain's attitude toward Biblical literalism. As an adult, he associated with the minister Joseph Twichell and a set of people who would not have viewed Biblical literature as literal truth. They would have seen it as representing the beliefs of those who did the writing of the Biblical books. The imperfections of the God of "Genesis," then, should not be attributed to God but to those who wrote about him. What the nineteenth-century sophisticates believed was never what Twain himself could take to heart, however. He had been raised in the Biblical literalism of the small Hannibal churches, and no fancy theological explanations would relieve him of the burden that the literalism he learned there imposed.This sounds to me like no atheist at all. Rather, it sounds exactly like a troubled, irreverent (and irreverently funny) but ultimately "pious" theist no longer "orthodox" in a Protestant or Catholic sense, but profoundly, deeply influenced by Calvinism and Christianity in general. In other words, he is basically in this respect a wise, funny version of Abraham Lincoln. But neither man was an atheist.


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Sisley Paris At-A-Glance
Strengths: Most of the sunscreens offer sufficient UVA protection; a unique lip balm; impressive foundations; good loose powder, blush, and eyeshadows; their most expensive mascara provides beautifully defined results.
Weaknesses: Exceedingly expensive, and the prices are not justified; several products contain irritating plant extracts or fragrant oils, most of which have no substantiated proof of benefit for skin; no AHA or BHA products; no products to address acne or oily skin (at least without causing irritation); jar packaging; poor concealer; standard eyeliner and brow options (at Sisley's prices, they should raise the bar); mostly average lipsticks.
Here are some of the more far-fetched claims this company makes, with my responses in parentheses. "The Botanical Floral Mist can help skin sustain the effects of the sun." (No way, it doesn't even contain appreciable amounts of antioxidants.) Another claim is that their All Day All Year moisturizer, which carries a paltry SPF 8 rating, blocks "90% of UVA and UVB rays for 8 hours." Another is that their sunscreen products protect skin while allowing a tan to develop "gently and gradually." (We guess they don't know or won't acknowledge that any amount of a tan is a sign of skin damage and isn't the least bit healthy.)
The company also claims that all of their products are subject to strict research to measure their efficacy, but of course, the results of the "research" are not available to the public, and Sisley's counter personnel are quick to rebuff any questions about the validity of their claims. That's not surprising, as there is no way most of the claims can be legitimately proven and, for the most part, Sisley salespeople are accustomed to well-heeled women simply believing everything they have to say about the products, pricing be damned.
What is perhaps most distressing is that the Sisley formulations are some of the most embarrassingly ordinary and insultingly overpriced we've seen. We can emphatically state that there is nothing in these products you can't find at the drugstore from lines such as Nivea, Pond's, Neutrogena, Dove, and Olay. Actually, those lines have products with far more interesting formulations than this one does. For those who prefer shopping in upscale department stores where Sisley resides, there are several other companies at the counters in those lofty areas that offer far better products than Sisley. For example, Chanel's skin-care products are assuredly expensive, but at least some of their formulas approach state-of-the-art. The Lauder-owned lines seem cheap in comparison to Sisley, yet most of the Lauder products are far more advanced and formulated with current skin-care research in mind.
You may indeed find some Sisley products to love, but those who cannot afford this line needn't worry for a second that their wrinkles are not getting the crème de la crème. In fact, most of Sisley's skin care is the equivalent of a plain doughnut, with empty calories, and nothing worth savoring.
Note: All Sisley products contain fragrance, and we mean a lot of fragrance, unless otherwise noted.
For more information about Sisley Paris, call (914) 251-0032 or visit www.sisley-cosmetics.com.
Sisley Paris Makeup
Sisley's makeup is a bit more straightforward than its skin care, at least in terms of exaggerated claims. However, the shockingly high prices are still intact. It would be nice if the prices were even a little justifiable, especially for their best products (the makeup has improved in a few key areas since its last review), but that is simply not the case. I wouldn't encourage you to consider any item in this list, unless you like to overspend for results that range from average to great (with the best products easily being replaced by considerably less-expensive options). You'll come across a lot of claims for the plant extracts in Sisley's makeup, but their contribution is minor compared to the standard, efficacious cosmetic ingredients comprising the bulk of the formulas. If you absolutely must devote a portion of your cosmetics budget to Sisley makeup, at least the reviews should prove helpful and allow you to focus on the best that this overpriced makeup collection has to offer.
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At this point of last year's Masters week, the area between holes 10 and 18, near the fairway bunker on No. 10, was just a patch of trees.
It couldn't even be described as a good shortcut between the two holes because of a steep grade and slippery pine straw.
Then Bubba Watson came along, and now the spot is a Masters landmark.
The shot Watson, a lefthander, hit to win the 2012 Masters on the second sudden-death playoff hole at No. 10 – named Camellia – was officially a 155-yard wedge shot from right of the fairway, but anyone who watched that Sunday knows it was so much more than that.
Patrons reaching the Augusta National on Monday found out just how much more.
Watson was pinned back in the trees, in a place where even the best golfers would be stretching their imaginations to expect a result anywhere near the green.
Andrew Cuthbert of Auburn, N.Y., was at the course for the first time on Monday and was amazed at how far the shot bent to the right to reach its landing place about 15 feet from the hole.
"It's not something a normal golfer can do," Cuthbert said. "He hooked it 50 yards with a wedge?"
Official estimates have pegged the shot as a 40-yard lefthanded hook, but that's still more than most golfers can expect to do on purpose. Pete Mahoney of St. Louis, Mo., said he was more than capable of having his shot hook that far unintentionally, but not on purpose.
"I'm blown away because it's not that far from the green," Mahoney said, also on his first trip to Augusta National.
The shot gave Watson two putts to beat Louis Oosthuizen, who had his own spectacular shot when he made an albatross or double-eagle on the Par-5 second hole earlier in the day. Despite the pressure of the situation, Watson put his ball in the hole with his second putt to earn the green jacket and seal his place in history.
Now, patrons flock to the spot where Watson joined the legends of the game that have won the Masters. Along with Cuthbery and Mahoney, Doug and Joanne Latham of Bellevue, Iowa, had decided they wanted to take a look at the spot, if they could find it.
With a little help, they found the place they were looking for and were just as impressed as they thought they'd be.
"This is Bubba's shot," Doug said. "It's an unmakeable shot, but he made it."
And just how should the Augusta National commemorate the memorable moment?
The Lathams suggested a medallion embedded in the ground. Another patron said that "something pink" would be appropriate because of Watson's signature pink driver.
Even fellow golfers are expecting there to be a mark of sorts at the location of Bubba's shot.
"I'd still like to see where he hit that shot from," Matt Kuchar said. "I don't know if there's any sort of ... I don't imagine there being a plaque, but there must be a thousand divots from the place, probably dug a hole with all of the people trying to replicate the shot."
With such a marker, the area would surely need a name at a course that has Rae's Creek, Amen Corner, Eisenhower's Tree and other named drawing points. This place, where dozens of patrons gathered Monday to recreate the shot, assess its difficulty and just be in awe of Watson's creativity in the face of pressure, could use such a designation.
One suggestion Monday was "Bubba's Valley," which Mahoney quickly edited to "Bubba's Alley."
No matter what you call it, even after a year has gone by, golf fans haven't forgotten how incredible the shot to win the 2012 Masters was.
"It's awesome," Cuthbert said, putting the shot in the same class with a legendary shot Phil Mickelson hit from the trees off of No. 13 in 2010. "This is right there with it."
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Good artical. I have been wanting to do this. Thank you.
How to create HTML email signatures on your iPhone and iPad
If you've got an iPhone and iPad, you most likely have all your mail accounts linked to it through the Mail app. Not only can you create multiple email signatures for each account, you can also add HTML links such as links to a website or email address. This is a great way to give people you email access to useful information without them having to ask for it.
- Send yourself an email message from your computer or device that already has HTML signatures set up on it. It can be just a blank email with your signature.
- Open the email in the Mail app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Press and hold down on the signature in order to bring up the selection tool. Move the anchors so you have the entire signature highlighted.
- Tap on Copy.
- Press the Home button to return to your Home screen.
- Launch the Settings app.
- Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
- Tap on Signature under the Mail section.
- Tap on the account you'd like to add the signature to if you have signatures set up per account.
- Tap in the signature field to bring up the selection tool again.
- Tap Paste in the popup menu.
- Shake your iPhone and tap Undo in order to remove any automatic formatting iOS may have done. This will bring back any colors or other HTML content that may not have shown up in the original paste.
That's all there is to it! Just be sure to check spacing after pasting since sometimes that doesn't copy over correctly. Once you're happy with the way your signature looks like, you're done!
Note: Originally published, January 2013. Updated, July 2014.
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How to create HTML email signatures on your iPhone and iPad
I've been wondering how this works, thanks!
I like the post, and love that now in iOS 6 you can do HTML signatures!
But.... Did you know.... You can create an HTML link in your signature to would auto dial you on FaceTime, or Skype?
For instance, in my email signature, I have the below
Simon Hardy | Mobile Security Architect | FishNet Security | +44 (x) xxxxx xxxxxx | +1 (xxx) xxx xxxx | FaceTime | Skype | LinkedIn
When someone gets my email, they see that FaceTime, Skype, and LinkedIn are all HTML links, and when they click them they will either dial me on FaceTime (if they click it from an iPhone, iPad or Mac), dial me on Skype (if they are on a device with Skype installed) or will take them to my LinkedIn profile.
It's really easy to do this...
For a FaceTime link, all you need to do is set the URL of the word you want in your signature to this...
Where "YourAppleID" is either an email address or phone number that someone can FaceTime you on.
Skype is just as easy....
For a Skype link, all you need to do is set the URL of the word you want in your signature to this...
Where "YourSkypeID" is Skype username where someone can call you on.
Not sure if this will help anyone, but I've found it really useful and folks seem to enjoy to ease of use!
That works fine for hyperlinks themselves but does anyone know
A) how to include a picture associated with the link
B) how to get iphone to retain such in INCOMING signatures when replying or forwarding. At the moment, I see the images as email attachments no longer embedded / referenced by hyperlinks
You should insert the image into the html signature using web url e.g.:
<img src="http://..." />
Then it will appear in any mail you'll send
Or, you could just download the 'Sigs' app from the App Store.
Have had this for some time on my work email
I have my name set up as a mailing link and the word "iphone" in "Sent from my iPhone" that is the tel: link
Did not know about the automatic formatting, will have to adjust that.
Also I use this signature in outlook sometimes when I want to justify a short reply to an email ;)
A photo of the Texas Instruments logo would make it perfect.
Sent from the iMore App
perfect! SO helpful, thank you :)
I tried this and it doesn't work for me. It looks perfect when I paste it but reverts to plain text once I close it and go back in to look at the signature. I've tried it with and without "Shake to Undo" and get the same results.
If I send an email from my PC to my phone it displays correctly. Any ideas?