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"But when the fulness of the time came," the apostle Paul wrote, "God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons" (Galatians 4:4-5). God-incarnate had come to Earth, bringing the "good news" about the last and final covenant that Heaven would make with man. The series of events that began with the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, and culminated in His death, burial, and resurrection outside Jerusalem approximately thirty-three years later, stirred a whirlwind of controversy in the first century. Twenty centuries later, it still does.
To the Christian, there is little of more importance than the proclamation and defense of the Old Jerusalem Gospel that is able to save men's souls. Christianity did not come into the world with a whimper, but a bang. It was not in the first century, neither is it intended to be in the twentieth, something "done in a corner." Instead, it arrived like a trumpet's clarion call.
Christ spent three-and-a-half years teaching in order to make disciples. When finally He was ready to call them to action, it was not for a quiet retreat into the peaceful, nearby hills. He never intended that they be "holy men" who set themselves apart to spend each hour of every day in serene meditation. Rather, they were to be soldiers—fit for a spiritual battle against forces of evil (Ephesians 6:10-17). Jesus called for action, self-denial, uncompromising love for truth, and zeal coupled with knowledge. His words to those who would follow Him were: "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me" (Mark 8:34). And many did.
The teaching did not stop when Christ left to return to His home in heaven. He had trained others—apostles and disciples—to continue the task He had begun. They were sent to the uttermost parts of the world with the mandate to proclaim the gospel boldly through preaching and teaching (Matthew 28:18-20). This they did daily (Acts 5:42). The result was additional, new disciples. They too, then, were instructed and grounded in the fundamentals of God's Word (Acts 2:42), and sent on their way to teach still others.
The results were extraordinary indeed. In a single day, in a single city, over 3,000 constituted the original church as a result of the teaching they had heard from Christ's apostles (see Acts 2:41). In fact, so effective was this kind of instruction that the enemies of Christianity attempted to prohibit any further public teaching (Acts 4:18; 5:28), yet to no avail. Two millennia later, the theme of the Cross still is alive, vibrant, and forceful. Christianity's central message, the manner in which that message was taught, and the dedication of those into whose hands it had been placed, were too powerful for even its bitterest foes to abate or defeat. That Christianity continues to be taught, and to thrive, is evidence aplenty of this fact.
While it may be true to say that some religions flourish best in secrecy, such is not the case with Christianity. It is intended both to be presented, and to be defended, in the marketplace of ideas. In addition, while some religions eschew open investigation and critical evaluation, Christianity welcomes both. Of all the major religions based upon an individual rather than a mere ideology, it is the only one that claims, and can document, an empty tomb for its Founder.
Furthermore, Christians, unlike adherents to some other religions, do not have an option regarding the distribution and/or dissemination of their faith. The efficacy of God's saving grace—as made possible through His Son, Jesus Christ—is a message that all accountable people need to hear, and one that Christians are commanded to proclaim (John 3:16; Matthew 28:18-20; cf. Ezekiel 33:7-9).
At Caesarea Philippi, situated at the base of Mount Hermon that rises over seven thousand feet above it, Jesus asked His disciples how the public viewed Him. "Who do men say that the Son of man is?," He inquired (Matthew 16:13). The reply of the disciples was: "Some say, John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets" (16:14). But Jesus delved deeper when He asked the disciples: "But who say ye that I am?" (16:15). Ever the impulsive one, Simon Peter quickly answered: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" (16:16). Jesus' response to Peter was this:
Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it (16:17-18).
Jesus had come "in the fulness of time" to bring the one thing that all the Earth's inhabitants needed. From Cain, the first murderer, to the lawless men who eventually would put Him to death on the cross, mankind desperately needed the salvation that the heavenly plan would provide. In writing to the young evangelist Timothy, Paul observed that it had been God's plan to save men through Christ even before the foundation of the world. He wrote of God, "who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal" (2 Timothy 1:9). Through His foreknowledge, God knew that sinful man one day would need redemption from sin. In fact, throughout the history of Israel, God made both promises and prophecies concerning a coming kingdom, and its King. The promise was that from David's seed, God would build a "house" and "kingdom" (2 Samuel 7:11-17—a promise, incidentally, that was reaffirmed in Psalm 132:11, and preached as reality by Peter in Acts 2:29-34 when the church began). Seven hundred years prior to Christ's arrival, the great prophet Isaiah foretold:
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this (Isaiah 9:6-7).
Thus, Christ's exclamation to Peter that the building of His church would be upon a "rock" was nothing more than what the Old Testament prophets had foretold hundreds of years before. Isaiah prophesied: "Therefore, thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste" (Isaiah 28:16). Later, Peter himself—through inspiration, and no doubt with the events of Caesarea Philippi still fresh on his mind—would make reference to this very rock foundation when he wrote about the "living stone, rejected indeed of men.... The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner" (1 Peter 2:4,7). In fact, even Jesus Himself mentioned the "rejected stone" of Old Testament allusion. In Matthew 21:42, Mark 12:10, and Luke 20:17, He made reference to the psalmist's statement about "the stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner" (Psalm 118:22), and applied the rejection of the stone by the builders to the Sanhedrin's rejection and repudiation of Him.
Sadly, some today erroneously teach that Christ's church was established out of desperation, as an "emergency measure" set in motion when the Jews rejected Him as Savior. The basis for such a view is the idea that Jesus presented Himself to the Jewish nation as its Messiah, but was rebuffed—a rejection that came as an unexpected surprise to Him and His Father. Christ's failure to convince the Jews of His rightful place as their King forced Him to have to re-evaluate, and eventually delay, His plans—His intention being to re-establish His kingdom at some distant point in the future. In the meantime, the story goes, He established the church to allay temporarily the complete failure of His mission.
However, such a view ignores the inspired writers' observations that "before times eternal" God had set in motion His plan for man's salvation as His Son's church. [The Greek word ekklesia, translated "church" in the English, denotes God's "called out."] It ignores the Old Testament prophecies that specifically predicted Christ's rejection by the Jews. And, it ignores Christ's own allusions to those prophecies during His earthly ministry. But worst of all, it impeaches the omniscience of both God and His Son by suggesting that they were "caught off guard" by the Jews' rejection of Christ as the Messiah, thus causing Heaven's emissary to have to rethink His plans. What an offensive, and unscriptural, view this is!
Jesus was a man with a mission—and He completed successfully what He had come to accomplish. Deity had come to Earth, taking the form of a servant (Philippians 2:7) to communicate to man the truth (John 8:32) about the lost state in which man now found himself (Romans 3:23; 6:23), and to pay the ransom for man (Matthew 20:28), thereby extricating him from a situation from which he could not extricate himself (Jeremiah 10:23).
When Christ died upon the cross, it was not for any sin that He personally had committed. Though He was tempted in all points like as we are, He did not sin (Hebrews 4:15). When Peter wrote that Jesus "did not sin," he employed a verbal tense which suggests that the Lord never sinned—not even once (1 Peter 2:22). Isaiah repeatedly emphasized the substitutionary nature of the Lord's death when he wrote: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.... Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isaiah 53:5-6). When the prophet declared that our "iniquity" was laid upon the Son of God, he employed a figure of speech known as metonymy (wherein one thing is used to designate another). In this case, the cause is being used for the effect. In other words, God did not actually put our sins upon Christ; He put the penalty of our wrongs upon His Son at Calvary. Yet, in spite of the fact that all sinners deserve to be lost, God provided a way to "escape the judgment of hell" (Matthew 23:33).
Jesus made it clear that He would provide this way of escape through a plan that would result in the establishment of His church—i.e., His body of "the called out." The first messianic prophecy was to be fulfilled: Satan would bruise the Lord's heel, but the Lord would overcome, and bruise Satan's head (Genesis 3:15). Against the building of Christ's church, not even the Gates of Hades could prevail (Matthew 16:18).
Further, there would be one and only one church. Paul wrote that Christ "is the head of the body, the church" (Colossians 1:18). In Ephesians 1:22, he stated concerning Christ that God "gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body." Thus, Paul clearly identified the body as the church. Three chapters later, however, in Ephesians 4:4, Paul stated: "There is one body." Expressed logically, one might reason as follows:
There is one body (Ephesians 4:4).
But Christ is the Savior of the body (Ephesians 5:22).
Thus, Christ is the Savior of one body.
Christ is the Savior of one body.
But the body is the church (Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians1:18,24).
Thus, Christ is the Savior of one church.
The body, Christ's church, would be known as "the church of the Lord" (Acts 20:28), "the church of God" (1 Corinthians 1:2; Galatians 1:13), "the house of God" (1 Timothy 3:15), "the household of faith" (Galatians 6:10), and "the kingdom of God" (Acts 28:23, 31). The Lord's people were to bear Christ's name (Acts 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16). The church would be His bride (Revelation 21:2), His wife (Revelation 19:7-8), and His kingdom (Revelation 1:9). Those in it would be victorious over Satan and death forever (1 Corinthians 15:26,54-56; 2 Timothy 1:9-10).
Unfortunately, men sought to alter the divine plan, and to infuse it with their own personal belief systems. Thus, the concept of denominationalism was born. Denominationalism, however, is unknown to, and unauthorized by, the Word of God. A denomination is defined as: "a class or kind having a specific name or value." We speak of various monetary denominations—a five dollar bill, a ten dollar bill, etc. They are all different. The same is true of religious denominations. They are all different.
Denominationalism ignores the singularity and uniqueness of the true church, and establishes various groups teaching conflicting doctrines that are antagonistic both to the Bible and to each other. It also ignores the church's relationship to Christ, described so beautifully in Ephesians 5 where Paul reminded first-century Christians that "the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church" (5:23). The apostle's point was this: In a physical context, the wife is the bride, and the husband is the bridegroom; in a spiritual context, the church is the bride, and Christ is the bridegroom. [John reiterated this in Revelation 21:9.] In Acts, Peter discussed Christ's relationship to His church when he observed that "neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
Denominations are man-made institutions that neither are recognized in, nor sanctioned by, the Word of God. The simple truth of the matter is that John the Baptist—while a marvelous harbinger of the Messiah—did not die to establish the church. Why, then, be a member of a denomination bearing his name? As great a reformer as Martin Luther was, the fact remains that he did not die to establish the church. Why, then, be a member of a denomination bearing his name? The early church's presbyters (i.e., elders, bishops, overseers) did not give their lives on a cross to establish the church. Why, then, be a member of a denomination named after such men? The Bible—although it prophesies the coming of the church and documents its arrival—did not make possible the church. Why, then, be a member of a "Bible church"? Instead, should not Christians seek to be simply a member of the singular church that honors Christ's authority, and that He purchased with His blood? It is His bride; He is its bridegroom. His congregations are called the "churches of Christ" (Romans 16:16).
Those who are true New Testament Christians are those who have done exactly what God has commanded them to do to be saved, in exactly the way God has commanded that it be done. In so doing, they have not "joined" some man-made religious denomination that, like a five-dollar bill is one denomination among many others, is simply one religious group among many others. If the church is the body, and there is only one body, then there is only one church. Further, one does not "join" the church. The Scriptures teach that as a person is saved, God Himself "adds" that person to the one true church (Acts 2:41) that bears His Son's name.
During His earthly ministry, Jesus taught: "All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth" (Matthew 28:18). Having such authority from His Father, He alone possessed the right to be Head of the church, His singular body of believers (Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians 1:18). Recognizing Christ's position as authoritative Head of the church, Paul was constrained to remind Christians: "And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of [by the authority of—BT] the Lord Jesus" (Colossians 3:17).
Christ announced while on Earth that He would build His church (Matthew 16:18). It would be divinely designed (John 10:25; Acts 2:23), blood-bought (Acts 20:28), and Spirit-filled (1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Romans 8:9-10). On Pentecost following the Lord's death, burial, and resurrection, Peter rebuked the Jews for their duplicity in killing God's Son, and convicted them of their sin of murder (Acts 2:22-23). Luke recorded that they were "pricked in their heart" and sought to make restitution and be forgiven (Acts 2:27). On that fateful day, at least 3,000 people were added together by God to constitute Christ's church (Acts 2:41). Later, Luke noted that great fear fell upon the whole church as a result of God's having disciplined sinners within it (Acts 5:11). There is no doubt that the church was established in Christ's generation.
The Bible speaks of the church as Christ's kingdom. Jesus said the time for its coming had been "fulfilled" (Mark 1:15), and that the kingdom was as near as the generation of people to whom He spoke, since some of them would not taste of death before they saw the kingdom of heaven come (Mark 9:1). Paul taught that the church is constituted of saints (1 Corinthians 1:1-2). But when he wrote his epistle to the Colossians (c. A.D. 62), he specifically stated that by that time the saints in the church at Colossae were subjects in "the kingdom of the Son of his love" (Colossians 1:13). If the kingdom had not been established, then Paul erred in saying that the Colossians already were in it. [Those who teach that the church and the kingdom are separate, and that the kingdom has yet to arrive, must contend that there are living on the Earth today some of the very people to whom Jesus spoke nearly 2,000 years ago—since He stated that some who heard Him would not die until the kingdom had come (Mark 9:1).]
The New Testament teaches that the church is composed of individuals purchased with the blood of Christ (Acts 20:28), and that those so purchased were made to be a kingdom (Revelation 1:5-6; 5:9-10). Since the church and the kingdom both are composed of blood-purchased individuals, the church and the kingdom must be the same. And since the Christians that constitute the church were themselves translated into the kingdom, it is conclusive that the church and the kingdom are the same. The establishment of the kingdom coincided with the establishment of the church. Not only did the Lord foretell both the establishment of the kingdom and the church in the His generation, but the New Testament writers spoke of both the church and the kingdom as being in existence during the very generation of His arrival (i.e., the first century).
From the first to the last of His earthly ministry, Jesus admonished those who would be His disciples that they would be both controversial, and persecuted. He warned them:
Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law: and a man's foes shall be they of his own household (Matthew 10:34-36).
Jesus wanted no misunderstanding about the trials and tribulations His followers would endure. He constantly reminded them of such (Matthew 10:16, 39; 16:24; 24:9; John 15:2,18, 20; 16:1-2; 21:18-19). While He desired that men be at peace with men, His primary goal was to bring men to a peaceful, covenant relationship with God. In addressing the Christians at Rome, Paul wrote:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:35,37-39).
Christ alerted His followers to the pressure yet to be brought upon them by other religions (Matthew 10:17), by civil governments (Matthew 10:18), and sadly, by some of their own (2 Thessalonians 3:1ff.). He said: "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake" (Matthew 10:22). History records that Christ's words accurately depicted what was to befall those early saints. As James O. Baird has noted: "In actuality, Christianity was opposed more vigorously than any other religion in the long history of Rome" (1978, p. 29).
Persecution against the church was, and is, rooted in the nature and work of Christ: "But me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil" (John 7:7). The world hated Christ because of the judgment He brought against what the world is, does, and loves. It will hate those in the church who remind it—by word and deed—of this judgment. Jesus lamented: "If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you" (John 15:18). Hatred often results in persecution. The church, if true to its mission, will be opposed. But Jesus also said:
Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you (Matthew 5:11-12).
One thing, however, was beyond doubt. Those saints who remained faithful—even unto death if necessary—would be triumphant (Revelation 2:10). As the great Restorationist, F.G. Allen, so beautifully wrote:
One by one will we lay our armor down at the feet of the Captain of our salvation. One by one will we be laid away by tender hands and aching hearts to rest on the bosom of Jesus. One by one will our ranks be thus thinned, till erelong we shall all pass over to the other side. But our cause will live. Eternal truth shall never perish. God will look down from His habitation on high, watch over it in His providence, and encircle it in the arms of His love. God will raise up others to take our places; and may we transmit the cause to them in its purity! Though dead, we shall thus speak for generations yet to come, and God grant that we shall give no uncertain sound! Then may we from our blissful home on high, watch the growth of the cause we love, till it shall cover the whole earth as the waters cover the face of the great deep (1949, pp. 176-177).
[EDITOR'S NOTE: In the March 1998 issue of Reason & Revelation ("In Defense Of...God's Plan of Salvation"), I addressed the biblical requirements for entrance into Christ's church. Space limitations precluded such a discussion in this article.]
Allen, F.G. (1949), "The Principles and Objects of the Current Reformation," Foundation Facts and Primary Principles, ed. G.C. Brewer (Kansas City, MO: Old Paths Book Club).
Baird, James O. (1978), "The Trials and Tribulations of the Church from the Beginning," The Future of the Church, ed. William Woodson (Henderson, TN: Freed-Hardeman College).


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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Tea Lowers Cancer Risk...Or Not
Hang around here long enough and you'll find that every now and then I go off on a mild rant about tea's alleged health benefits. If you're new here, I'll reiterate my position (like you care). I don't doubt that tea actually has some health benefits, of which I'm glad to be a beneficiary. I also don't doubt that there are a lot of dubious claims about these benefits being floated in the interests of selling more tea. Whatever.
Something caught my attention recently as I opened my latest round of emailed news alerts regarding the search term tea. One link led a story in the British press with the headline, "Five cups of green tea a day lowers cancer risk." The very next link led to a story in the British press with the headline, "New study casts doubt on green tea's anti-cancer properties." Whatever.
As I've suggested before, it might not be doing our health much good to be spending so much time worrying about our health.
Here's the link to article one, which appeared in the Telegraph. Article two appeared in the Tea News.
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I'm not in total agreement here. I tend to view tea as a wonder elixir that can work a health miracle in a person's life. However, tea must be paired with other factors that are also important. For instance, to lose weight drinking tea you also need to cut calories. 'Nuff said. --Teaternity
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I'm the exact same way, though I have no doubt that there are positives, tea is not the end all be all of health. People are all about the antioxidants, which you can get in almost anything (even french fries!). Jason, I 100% agree with you on the weight loss ideal as well.
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Who Does Facebook Think You Are?
Almost the entire world is on Facebook. All of these people logging on makes Facebook a great place to advertise. They try to find ads just for you. So, what do the ads Facebook picks for you say about who they think you are?
While looking through your newsfeed, you will see more than your friend's status updates. Pictures of lunch, political opinions, song lyrics, and everything that people post on Facebook is broken up with advertisements.
In the scroll area of the news feed or following you down the page hanging out on the side, ads are everywhere on Facebook. Keep in mind, all of these ads were chosen for you.
Facebook and Google collect data about you from what you post, like, search for, and look at. They take all of this information and chose advertisements they think will be specific and unique to you. What you would buy or spend time on are determined by a computer program.
So, who does this program think you are?
I starting to think about this the other day. When checking my Facebook, a cute dress caught my eye. I glanced at the ad for just a few seconds and decided I do not need to buy yet another dress. But, I couldn't stop thinking about it.
Even when I completely closed down the browser and walked away, I was still thinking about how Facebook had found a dress that I would pick out for myself. Did they really know what I want? Do they really know who I am?
So, I did some research. I started paying attention to the ads they were choosing for me. The ads that I would like because they fit into my life, choices, and style. What I found was funny and a little depressing.,
Just earlier, I noticed that three ads kept circling around. They were the only ads Facebook would give me, no matter how many times I hit refresh or came back from a new website. These three ads were obviously what Facebook thought I would like. They kept trying to force these businesses on me. They were wrong.
The first advertisement I clicked on was called, Zulily. Oh, what cute dresses. Wait, what is that about? Why are all of these maternity? Wait, wait. I am not a mom, nor am I pregnant!
Facebook led me to a website with an introduction that reads, "Daily deals for moms, babies, and kids."
I am far too old to be considered a kid or a baby, so Facebook must assume I am a mom. Thanks Facebook. Now, there is nothing wrong with being a baby, kid, or mom. I am just not any of these things. It made me wonder, "Why does Facebook think I would like or need maternity clothes?" Obviously they know nothing about what would be the biggest part of my life. But, what else do they think "fits" me.
Ad number two was from New Balance. Okay, Facebook you are a little closer with this one. I used to be very much about running. I wanted to give them credit for this one. They had found something that I would actually be interested in, but they were wrong again. I have not run a full mile in a long while now.
They were close with that one, but he next would just be insulting. As I just admitted, I haven't been running or working out a lot lately. When Facebook suggested over and over again that I join Weight Watchers, I felt a bit hurt. Thanks Facebook for the fat joke. I really appreciate you telling me to hit the road in some New Balances and work off some weight the help of new tennis shoes and Weight Watchers. Thanks very much.
All of a sudden I was completely offended. Facebook had no idea who I was. The person they believed me to be was a new mom looking to lose some of that baby weight. Again, there is nothing wrong with women in that situation. THEY ARE NOT ME. So what if I may look like a woman looking to lose some baby weight without the baby. I don't need Facebook telling me to trim down.
After a few more minutes of internal freak out, I calmed down to a realization. Facebook has no idea who we are. Even though we post some of the most intimate things about our selves, share our every meal and feeling, and give the world access to all of our info and pictures; Facebook can't even begin to know us really.
I am curious, though. What does Facebook say about YOU? Look through your ads, follow their link, and see who Facebook things you are. You might be surprised or, like me, get a little butt hurt about it.


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"You are what you eat," you've heard it a million times. More and more, what we eat demands more attention from us. In a world full of additives, chemicals, genetic engineering, etc. our food is not always what we think it is. Fortunately there are numerous ways we can make sure we keep our children, families, friends and ourselves healthy and safe. Together we can all thrive!
Your ideas and actions can help someone starting out on the path you are already on! Or if you are just starting out, reaching out to someone may help you learn from their experiences. Feel free to ask and to share!
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Campground operators in Texas say they've had a good summer camping season, fueled by travelers as well as increasing business activity.
"All over Texas, our members are telling us their year-to-date business levels have surpassed last year's figures," said Brian Schaeffer, executive director and CEO of the Texas Association of Campground Owners (TACO).
Gwen Craig, co-owner of Rayford Crossing RV Resort in Spring, in the Woodlands area north of Houston, is a case in point.
"We had our best summer ever," she said. "Lots of people just vacationing, lots of people selling houses, building new ones. Lots of people moving to the area. Lots and lots of new RVers."
Allan Hughes of Traders Village RV Park in Grand Prairie attributed the improvement in part to milder summer weather.
"Last summer was brutal," he said, noting that northern Texas suffered 71 days in a row of 100 degree plus days. This summer, however, the weather was much better. So much nicer, in fact, that Hughes saw more tent campers than normal this year.
People also weren't as affected by fuel prices. "We didn't have that as an issue," Hughes said.
Joe Moore, general manager of The Vineyards Campground and Cabins in Grapevine, near the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, said he was surprised by the strength of the 2012 camping season.
"We're seeing a 10 percent to 15 percent increase over last year's revenues," he said, with RV sites increasing by 10 percent while revenue from the park's new park model cabin rentals increased by 15 percent.
Moore added that advance reservations for cabins at The Vineyards remain strong. "We're very strong over the next three or four months. We have a lot of requests or long-term stays at the campground, more so than in the past. We're hoping it stays strong."
Some Vineyards campers, in fact, are booking their sites nearly a year in advance. "We only have a handful of reservations left for July 4th next year," Moore said.
Weather was also improved in the Texas Hill Country, where campgrounds catered to tubing, rafting and kayaking enthusiasts.
"We had the best summer we've ever had," said Doug Shearer of Parkview Riverside RV Park in Concan, which opened in March 2001.
He attributed the strong business levels to the abundance of water. "The river was in the best shape we've had in about five years," he said.
Based in Crowley, TACO publishes and distributes the Texas RV Travel & Camping Guide each year.


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Selected as Party of the Day on April 14th!
Zzzebra 33rd Birthday Slumber Party
Party Recap
I decided to throw myself a slumber party for my 33rd birthday and of course the crazy party planner took over! I found some cool zebra print dishes and decided to use them for the party. I paired the zebra print with purple and green and loved it. I looked high and low for items that would create a fun, youthful and yet elegant atmosphere for the party. My guests' ages ranged from early 20's to early 40's so I really wanted an event that would be fun and energetic for the younger crowd and nostalgic for the older girls. Keeping that in mind I tried to design each room with a slightly different mood.
The main room was the girly lounge. This area featured the dessert table:
Vanilla meringues
Black and white sixlets
Purple and green chocolate covered sunflower seeds
Sour apple candy sticks
Dark chocolate caramels
Lemon sugar eye mask cookies by Firefly Confections
Cherry Bon Bon cookies (green ones)
Brownie hugs
Chocolate slumber party girl cupcakes
Grape rock candy
Cake pops
Chocolate dipped cookies with regular and chocolate milk
It also had a beauty bar with makeup, nail polish, manicure tools, lotions and hair tools. Finally I created a lounge area by the couch with floor pillows and a padded floor rug in front of a roaring fire with gossip magazines to read.
The second area was the kitchen and dining areas. I created a make your own pizza table and set the dining table for everyone to sit and enjoy their food and snacks.
The last area was the game room. I had this area set up with "Dance, dance revolution" and "Guitar Hero" for the guests to play with or against each other. This room also had a roaring fire and either side of the fire was the food table and bar. Above the fire was where I set up the favors for all of the girls. I also decided to have all purple and green drinks featured:
Grape and lime jello shots
Purple people eaters
Apple martinis
Scooby snacks
and water with custom labels
Post of the party on EEAD: http://eeadesign.blogspot.com/2011/02/event-recap-zzzebra-33rd-birthday.html
Party Highlights
Lots of goodies on a full dessert table
Activities / Games
Beauty bar, drinking games, Guitar Hero and DDR
Best Moment
Spending an evening with my girlfriends and getting to act like kids instead of taking care of them =)
What People Ate
Make your own pizza station and a dessert table
What People Drank
Green and purple alcohol!
Funniest Moment
Trying to take shots out of a ice shot glass before it melted.
Party Helpers
A Blissful Nest
Thanks for the help with coming up some of the printables Rebekah!http://www.ablissfulnest.com
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Shaunna T wrote:
Great party! Loved the theme!
Isabel R wrote:
Great idea! adult slumber party!? woo hoo! :D
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This is the original Chirashi poster for the 1983
cinema release of this film. This is version A.
Chirashi are 10 x 7 mini posters printed on high quality paper. Usually only available to promote an upcoming film or when the film is actually showing.
A long time collectors item in Japan these are now becoming increasingly popular overseas.
Check out some of the others I have posted previously and watch out for others as I have hundreds of these and some quite rare ones. All shipped directly from Japan.
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I have former world-champion disc-golfer, Frisbee pioneer, Carlsbad resident John Kirkland on the phone. Kirkland, 67, says, "I was there at the very beginning and I'm still doing it seven days a week.
"When I came on the scene there was no scene. Now, every college has an Ultimate team and there's 2500 disc-golf courses around the planet. It's growing like crazy. I won the world championships in disc golf in '76. I'm a multi-time champion in many sports. Set world records in distance, maximum time aloft, won the overall...
"...Floridian who went to MIT. I started the MIT [Frisbee] team. I was doing half times for the basketball team and did some Celtics halftimes. I thought, This is the perfect venue, I get to show off, I'm indoor, there's no wind. Wouldn't it be cool if I could do this all the time? Then, I thought, The Globetrotters, wow, that would be perfect. So, I pitched them, flew my partner and myself into Chicago, gave them a demo, and they said, 'Man, we've got to have you guys.' So we did 200 cities in 180 days.
I break in, "You must have been a big deal at MIT."
Kirkland laughs. "I was the only athlete. I'm sitting here looking at my MIT Athletic Association special achievement award, national Frisbee champion 1974. They only had two athletes when I was there. Me and a wrestler named Erland van Lidth de Jeude.
"I toured with the Globetrotters and played Frisbee all over the world. Then, in '76, when I graduated, I moved to California. That's where all the best Frisbee players were. Wham-O was in California.
"Frisbee really took off in the mid-'70s. The Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) was formed in '76, '77. I lived in Del Mar for a couple years, went to Santa Barbara for ten years, moved around playing Frisbee. My wife and I played Frisbee. Then we had kids and now they play Frisbee."
Hmm... I notice the crack in my coffee cup has gotten bigger. When did that happen? I move the cup away from my computer monitor with one hand, go to PDGA.com with the other. It's a pro, very PGA kind of website. Screams "Corporate" at you. There are World Championships, Tour Majors, the National Tour. There are A-tier events, B-tier events. C-tier events, and X-tier events. Not forgetting PDGA women's disc golf. We have Hall of Fame. We have PDGA shirts, headwear, birdie bags, PDGA patches, playing cards, stickers, not forgetting 200-plus golf-disc options ranging from 140g to 200g in weight, and a large selection of colors to brighten four types of discs (long-range driver, fairway driver, mid-range, putt, and approach). There are complete player stats, records, and history. Everything is slick, smooth, and the prize money is minuscule.
I say, "I'm looking at the Avery Jenkins [2009 world champion] profile. His 2013 winnings are $7000 plus. This year he's won $1072. I know he's running endorsements and clinics on the side, but to be a world champion and make seven grand is a little thin."
Kirkland says, "Disc golf is sort of like what ball golf was in the late '30s and early '40s. You were doing it because you liked doing it."
"Can you make a living at it?"
Kirkland says, "There's some money to be had. The best player is a guy named Paul McBeth. They call him 'McBeast.' He's won the last two world championships. He's the highest-rated player ever. He's a prototype of the new breed."
I click over to McBeth's page. "He's played five tournaments so far, made $6582, on track to earn $20,000 for the year."
Kirkland says, "Find the figures from last year. [McBeth earned $42,303 in 2013.] What that doesn't count is how much Innova [a disc manufacturer] is paying him."
"How many players are making $50,000 to $100,000, in total, off of everything they do? Just give me a guess."
"Two or three." Kirkland says, "You can't make money at this sport, that's not why you do it.... There is a tour, you play different golf courses, extremely good athletes are playing at a very high level."
"How big is the disc-golf tour?"
"There's probably 50 to 100 guys. There are a whole lot of competitive Frisbee players both amateur and professional, but when you're talking about a tour, there's probably a cadre of 50 people who go around and make it to every single tournament.
"I swear Frisbee golf follows ball golf in all respects. They're really hoping it will follow in terms of remuneration."
More from SDReader
- More stories by Patrick Daugherty
- Throwing Frisbee in Alaska — Oct. 3, 2012
- What Do You Know? — May 6, 2009
- Best of 2001: Best Frisbee Fun — Dec. 27, 2001
- Scoobies under the Shoe Tree — Feb. 17, 2000
- College-educated Goaltimate players are serious — July 15, 1999
Its called Disc Golf... Thank you for this midly insulting article about a sport trying to grow its numbers. You havent helped the sport at all. I guess its a good thing no one reads the Reader so it wont really matter. I only stopped because of Pauls photo. He's an amazing Disc golfer with impecible form and accuracy. Blow this article out your ass.


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BEIJING – Communities across China have been celebrating and promoting International Women's Day by holding women-only competitions in flower-arranging, cooking, aerobics and singing.
In Chinese politics, whose annual, highly ceremonial conclave is underway in Beijing, there appears less to celebrate. Female success stories abound in the worlds of business and sports, and China's second female astronaut will lift off this summer, but women struggle to achieve the highest political positions.
"China is still a sexist country, dominated by men, and women are discriminated against, which started back in ancient times," said Wang Hongwei, a women's studies expert at South China Normal University in Guangzhou. "Prejudice and misunderstanding toward female politicians and officials are widespread in China, although the number and percentage of female officials are still small."
At this year's session of the National People's Congress (NPC), the rubber-stamp legislature that serves China's ruling Communist Party, women make up 23.4% of the almost 3,000 hand-picked deputies, a 2.1% increase over 2012, reported the state-run Xinhua news agency. That marks the first time the female ratio has met or exceeded a non-compulsory guideline quota, set in 2007, of at least 22%, yet the lack of real progress is highlighted by the fact the new NPC figure only slightly exceeds the ratio achieved back in the mid-1970s.
The number of female Communist Party members also stands around 23%. More significantly, ever since the party took power in 1949 no woman has sat at its top table, the Politburo Standing Committee, whose latest, seven- man incarnation was announced in November.
In the wider Politburo, only two of 25 members are female. China still places ahead of the United States in the Inter-Parliamentary Union's global ranking of women in parliament, although, at 64, China's position has slipped in recent decades as other nations have boosted women's participation in politics.
China has no female politicians of such prominence and rank as the three female, former U.S. secretaries of State, and little likelihood of gaining any when government posts are announced next week to conclude a once-a-decade leadership change.
"I would be happy to see one or two aggressive female officials like Hillary Clinton in China in the future, but only if they are elected through democratic and transparent procedures," said Wang. "I think it may take a long time."
The lack of transparency in selecting officials in China means many Chinese suspect women are chosen not for their talent but for good relations with their superiors, she said. A female official is often selected "to help her male boss, but if she's too aggressive, she may threaten her boss's position. Only the obedient ones could survive in China," Wang said.
One small sign of the equality challenge ahead is the Chinese character for "female" that is listed after the names of women attending the legislature or party meetings. As the majority and norm, male delegates do not have "male" listed after their names. Being singled out as an exception grates with some female deputies.
"We should get rid of adding 'female'; it will happen one day," said Li Suyan, 47, an eye surgeon and first-time NPC deputy.
More women in politics will improve China's governance "as women pay more attention to detail in tackling problems, and address issues in a different way to men," she said inside the Stalinist Great Hall of the People.
For now, the NPC hardly resembles a hotbed of either feminism or enlightened male attitudes.
"I don't think there's a problem" with female representation, said Wu Peiliang, 55, an agricultural official, and man, who was unaware Thursday of the male/female ratio and of Women's Day, which was Friday.
"I've never thought about the ratio," admitted Xu Ming, 56, another male deputy.
Jiangsu accountant Yu Ruiyu, 53, an accountant and female deputy, said she is satisfied with 23%, but would welcome any rise. If a strong enough candidate emerges, China will have a female top leader, like the newly elected South Korean president, but Yu declined to suggest a timetable.
"China is still a patriarchal society, where men are the backbone force spurring social development," said Hu Mei, 54, a film and TV director, and female deputy. "I'm not a feminist, I'm quite traditional," and pay little attention to issues of female representation, she said. "But in the future, there may be no need to write 'female'," after deputy names.
Outside on Tiananmen Square, tourist Zhang Nan, 35, hoped female NPC deputies could reach 50%, but said she had no expectation that China's people could one day vote for their legislators, and other political offices.
"As long as they serve the people and get things done, then I don't care how our leaders are chosen."
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We are finally looking at a dry spell weatherwise for the next several days.
The forecast is for clear weather (started yesterday) that should last through the coming week. PALS and UAVSAR had flights yesterday and today. Tomorrow (Sunday) there will be no flights, and then we plan to fly on Monday and then every third day or so following the 2-3 day flight schedule we originally planned. Over the week we should get a good sampling of the dry-down with both airborne and in situ observations across the experiment domain, modulated by the soil texture and vegetation differences between the fields.
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Google launched a new cloud-based music and video service Tuesday, but it may not be enough to compete with Apple's digital behemoth.
As tablets and other mobile devices get more popular, the Techmate team wonders if it's a fad or the end of the PC.
Fortune's Michael Copeland says the new iPad has enough features to keep it ahead of other tablets like the Motorola Xoom.
Hewlett-Packard's WebOS gives it flexibility to get away from Microsoft's Windows operating system on its products.
Hewlett-Packard unveils its upcoming webOS tablets and says the software will soon run on its PCs as well.
The movie rental company has focused on cheaper, older films for its streaming catalog to keep costs down.
Motorola's Atrix stole the show at CES this year, while T-Pain's mic and weight-loss body shakers left attendees going "huh?"
In the battle for the hearts and minds of the Techmate crew this Christmas, Apple wins while Cisco's Umi flops.
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Choose the Best Monitor for CAD18 Mar, 2010 By: Ron LaFon
CAD 101: Arm yourself with these solid fundamentals as you set out to find the consumer- or professional-grade LCD display that's right for you.
Editor's note: For an updated look at this topic, see "How to Choose a Monitor for CAD" (Cadalyst, Spring 2013).
Your onscreen display is your window to your work every day, so selecting the right monitor is an important decision for CAD-related work. Although the common wisdom about large monitors and CAD going together holds a lot of truth, there's more to making the right selection than size alone. This article serves as a guide to help you find your path through the labyrinth of features, sizes, and options. I use these basic procedures each time I purchase a new display.
Size and Resolution
Large monitors make sense for CAD use. They require less panning and zooming — and display detail work more effectively — because more of a design shows on the screen at one time, allowing the portion being drawn to be shown in the context of the overall design.
Screen size. In general, 19" monitors are considered entry-level equipment for CAD and design work, and 21" or larger panels are deemed suitable for general work. The larger your monitor, the larger the content will display — an important consideration if your eyesight is not perfect. Bigger screens also provide larger views of segments of drawings, which is extremely useful when working with highly detailed designs.
Resolution. This measurement indicates the number of pixels per inch on your screen and determines the overall sharpness of your display. The larger the LCD panel, the higher the resolution it will have, typically. For example, my 24" LCD display has a default resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 pixels at a sync rate of 60 Hz. Most 27" monitors have this same high resolution, but the larger screen size means text and graphics details will be slightly larger and thus easier to see on screen. Modifying a display's default resolution is possible but usually results in a loss of image quality, and has the potential to distort the onscreen display of the objects you're designing.
Sync rate. Currently available LCD displays typically default to a sync rate of 60 Hz, which is enough to prevent flicker for most people.
Response time. In the simplest terms, response time for LCDs indicates the time required for the display to refresh a video image. The lower the number, the better — and note that this is not a configurable setting. Typical response times on today's LCD monitors are more than 5 ms, which is comparable to the refresh rates of older CRT displays. For smooth rotations, panning, and animations, you'll need a display that has a response time of 5 ms or less to avoid jerky onscreen movements, which I call "visual stutter." This is very important for CAD and other graphics-intensive applications in which users frequently zoom, pan, and rotate complex models in drawings and animations.
Antireflective coating. The quality of antireflective coating on the display surface is important: Glare not only makes it difficult to see the content on your screen, it also can adversely affect eyesight over time. All displays come with antireflective coating, but the quality of these coatings varies widely. Do your homework and ask questions to be sure you don't sacrifice quality in this area.
Features: Professional vs. Consumer Models
Do you need a more expensive professional-grade monitor for CAD work, or can you make do with a less-expensive consumer model? In general, professional-grade displays have faster response times, more contrast, better color rendition, and the latest technology, all features that combine to produce superior display results. But with these added features — many of which are nice to have but not be essential for most users — comes a higher price tag.
Must-have features include controls for adjusting the onscreen display, such as brightness and contrast, as well as some means of selecting which input the display is using. Nice-to-have features include an intelligently designed menu system; control buttons that, when touched, show the buttons' function on the screen; ambient-light sensors that adjust your display according to the available room light; and USB ports on the panel. For me, USB ports on the panel are a must-have, as I use them constantly to plug in devices such as external hard drives. Luxury features for me are sound bars, cowls to reduce extraneous light, and color-correction probes. But every user has a different list of musts. If you're doing color-critical work such as visualization, for example, cowls and color-correction probes might be essential features. Prioritizing features will also depend upon your budget.
Connectivity Options
High-quality monitors typically have the following connections: DisplayPort (the up-and-coming standard), DVD (typically one or two ports), HD component video, HDMI, S-Video, composites, and VGA. Most users are unlikely to use all these connections, so be sure you have the most common ones for your display.
Because DisplayPort connections are an emerging standard, it's probably wise to select them as well.
Multiple-Monitor Setups
Some CAD users prefer a multiplemonitor setup. The increased screen real estate of side-by-side monitors means you can display twice as much of the drawing at one time, or design on one monitor while using the other to display menus, text screens, or even e-mail.
The display area of these configurations is limited by the size, resolution, and ultimately, the number of monitors. You can mix both the type (CRT or LCD) and the size of the monitors, with the operating system managing the resolution of each independently.
You'll need either a video card that supports two discrete outputs (dual-head) or two separate graphics cards. Depending on your motherboard, you might be able to use the graphics card on the motherboard plus an additional graphics card. The drawbacks of a multiple-monitor setup are the extra cost and system complexity.
An alternative to a double-monitor setup is Eizo Nanao's FlexScan SX3031W, a 29.8" wide-screen monitor. Its picture-by-picture function divides the screen into equal halves, each 1200 x 1600, with no center bezel. Input from two different computers (such as a Windows and a Mac) can be displayed, making it possible to work on two tasks simultaneously without having to toggle back and forth between inputs.
Prices for good-quality LCD displays range from approximately $125 to $2,000, depending upon the panel's size, features, and stand flexibility. In general, consumer-level displays cost less than $900; the more capable professional models go into the upper price ranges. Can you get by with a $125 consumer-grade monitor for CAD work, or do you need a professional model? The answer depends on the complexity of the work you do and your personal requirements. An inexpensive model that has good resolution and response time might fit the bill for 2D drafting. For digital-content creation (DCC), you might require a high-end display for its color accuracy, potentially greater color depth, and its ability to use color correction hardware to fine-tune the color.
By all means, look for sales. Office supply superstores such as Staples and Office Depot often sell high-quality monitors at bargain prices — watch web sites and local ads, and sign up for rewards programs to receive special offers and coupons that can reduce those prices even further. Also consider refurbished monitors available directly from Dell (www.dell.com/outlet) or HP (www.hp.com/sbso/buspurchase_
refurbished_computing.html). Refurbished displays are checked and certified by the vendor; however, they do come with shorter warranties (typically 90 days to one year).
Warranty Coverage
Typical warranty coverage for LCD displays is three years for parts, labor, and backlight. From time to time, you'll find a vendor that offers longer coverage. After three years, you can expect to replace the backlight for your display.
Personal Preferences
When shopping for monitors, don't overlook personal preferences. Like televisions, some monitors will produce pictures that are more pleasing to your eye than others. Some will seem more suitable for your desktop setup. Monitor size preference can be personal as well. For example, I prefer to sit relatively
close to my monitor, so the 30" display that's coveted by many is simply too large for me. My 24" display is just the right size — whether working in a CAD drawing or in a Microsoft Word document with two full pages side by side. I can work with a 19" display if I must, but I find it hampers productivity because of the extra panning and zooming it necessitates.
I am more than happy with my current Dell display, so I'm hoping it lasts a long time. When the time comes to make a change, I'll probably look for the same size panel and the same highly adjustable stand — another personal preference — and perhaps 30-bit color if it is reasonably priced by that time.
Current and Future Trends
Current and emerging trends in LCD displays include DisplayPort connectors, faster sync rates, and variable contrast ranges. New monitors from NEC feature what the company calls X-Light Pro technology, which maintains consistent light output for the useful life of the display and corrects for short-term fluctuations. These new NEC displays also incorporate ColorComp technology to reduce uniformity imperfections by compensating for color and luminance across the screen area.
In the near future, we're likely to see designs that are increasingly thin and energy efficient. We've already begun to see 30-bit color displays on the market, which offer a staggering one billion colors onscreen, compared with the 16.8 million colors possible with typical displays. In addition to more vivid and realistic colors, these displays also create less banding and color reduction artifacts. HP has introduced a notebook with a 30-bit screen.
These displays are likely to become increasingly prevalent as prices drop. Not long ago, a high-end, production-level monitor could sell for as much as $10,000; today, an HP DreamColor LP24808zx 30-bit display is selling for $1,999, down from $3,299 earlier this year.
Caring for Displays
Once you invest in a large LCD display, be sure to calibrate it regularly to ensure it continues to deliver the best possible image quality. The best calibration tool I've found is DisplayMate (www.displaymate.com), which I use for testing all monitors that come through Cadalyst Labs. For 32-bit Windows systems, you can use the USB version and avoid the need to install software.
Cleaning your new LCD monitor is simple and inexpensive. Get a microfiber cloth, such as those used to clean optical equipment, moisten it very slightly with plain or distilled water, and wipe your screen. Never spray liquid directly on the display (it can leak into the housing), and don't use glass cleaner or paper towels (the chemicals in cleaner can etch the display, and paper towels can leave scratches on its surface).
See for Yourself
Although you may enjoy the convenience of shopping online, it's more difficult to determine which models produce a picture that's pleasing to your eye and have a design that fits your desktop. Whenever possible, buy your LCD monitor locally so you can see and test the display and controls for yourself. By viewing a display in person, you also have an opportunity to compare it head-to-head with similar displays that you might be considering.


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Spectacular Bridges Around the World
They're a means to an end: bridges are fundamentally a way to get from point A to point B. But as designs get bigger and bolder, bridges have also become destinations in their own right—as highlighted by the strong ranking of bridges in T+L's survey of the top new landmarks.
France's Millau Viaduct bridge, unveiled in 2004, was a survey favorite for its daring beauty—stretching more than 8,000 feet across a gorge 1,132 feet below. It also inspires travelers to stop for a photo-op, including T+L community member avs8819, whose image of the bridge gleaming on a sunny afternoon made it into this slideshow of readers' beautiful bridge photos.
While the Millau Viaduct bridge has become a near-instant icon, no tribute to these spanning structures would be complete without the Brooklyn Bridge, whose masterful combination of stone archways and steel cables—juxtaposed against the Manhattan skyline—makes for absolutely breathtaking photos.
The Ponte Vecchio in Florence rivals the Brooklyn Bridge as one of the world's most photographed; it draws travelers not only for its medieval good looks but for its jam-packed boutiques selling primarily gold and silver jewelry. No shopaholic will just cross this bridge over the Arno River nonchalantly—and it's a rare tourist who leaves without a few shots of the bridge and the surrounding hills and cypress trees.
Of course, here, too, in America, we have historic covered bridges that can stir feelings of nostalgia for a time we never actually experienced. Our slideshow includes one such wooden bridge in New Hampshire, captured in autumn against a vibrant backdrop of red and gold leaves. Vietnam also puts its own spin on covered bridges, going for bright colors and ornate tiling and figurines.
See for yourself by clicking through these reader photos of beautiful bridges from around the globe.


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The Schwinn Spinner Pro is designed to closely simulate the feel and aerobic qualities of road cycling without the associated distractions. Its unique design, with fixed gearing and a high inertia flywheel, produces a smooth, intense workout. By combining true road-racing geometry with high quality cycling componentry, you can cycle at far higher RPMs (revolutions per minute). Cycling at higher cadences and at varying resistance levels develops cardio-vascular fitness, leg strength, concentration and balance.
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Cabrales Cheese
Asturias cheese
Also known as Quesu Cabrales or Cabraliego, this is one of the most important blue cheeses in the world. It is made with cow's milk or with goat and sheep's milk, which is more highly valued.
Its name comes from the Asturian town where it has been made since time immemorial. With a strong flavour and penetrating smell, it is a fatty cheese, with a natural rind, produced normally with a mix of raw cow's, goat's and sheep's milk. It is aged in natural mountain caves at a temperature of between 8º and 12º for between two and four months. These conditions favour the penicillium mould, which creates the characteristic bluish-green streaks. In addition to being eaten alone, it is highly valued as a base for sauces and for accompanying many haute cuisine dishes. It has been protected by a Denomination of Origin since 1981.
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Informacje o produkcie
- Rodzaj produktu: Others
- Sezon: Primary production is in spring and summer, but it is also made throughout the rest of the year.
- Pochodzenie: The production area comprises the Cabrales Council and some towns in the Upper Peñamerella region, both areas located at the foot of the Picos de Europa mountains, in the eastern part of the Principality of Asturias. All of the milk used comes exclusively from farms in the area controlled by the Control Board.
- Polecany napój: Cabrales cheese, eaten alone, with bread or with meat dishes and sauces, is excellent with dry 'generoso' wines, young fruity white wines, non-crianza red wines and, of course, with Asturian cider.
- Przepisy: Entrecôte with cabrales
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- Energy: High
- Cholesterol: High
- Uwagi: Rich in lipides and calcium.


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Million Dollar Rug
Anna Arutyunova
Art Dubai, the largest art fair in Middle East, has closed on 24th of March. Anna Arutyunova, art-critic and art market specialist from Moscow, visited it. She tells Arterritory readers about the most interesting and significant projects and tendencies she has learned about.
The art fair Art-Dubai for the first time took place in 2006. It was invented by John Martin, art dealer and gallery owner from London, and entrepreneur Benedict Floyd for Western art dealers and gallery owners looking for new customers in the Middle East on the wave of unprecedented economic growth. Local wealthy people were eager to invest in contemporary and classic art, however, their ardency got chilled by global financial crisis, but not stopped whatsoever. Thus, in January opening dates for Saadiyat Island Guggenheim Museum and Louvre (2015 and 2017 respectively) were announced in Abu Dhabi. These dates were postponed several times, and there were even doubts growing over the 'cultural' building to ever be finished due to its scale (the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim Museum after Frank Gehry Project is 42 000 square metres large). Though, less massive projects seem to be developing well. Two art museums are functioning successfully in Doha: Cai Guo-Qiang's exhibition is currently taking place in Mathaf (Arab Museum of Modern Art), and exposition 'Gifts of the Sultan' has just opened in MIA (Museum of Islamic Art). Clusters of modern art galleries are also forming in Dubai, and Sharjah Biennial is getting ready for the opening in March 2013 (Yuko Hasegawa, chief curator of Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, recently was selected to curate it).
In past years Art Dubai has also turned into the region's important centre of modern art. Since 2010 it is run by Antonia Carver, who has joined Bidoun Magazine, Middle East art oriented magazine, published in New York, and Bidoun art centre. She overtook management of this rapidly developing dynamic entity. It attracts both independent curators and those of the museums, as well as art dealers from around the globe. 'This art fair is rooted in Middle East and Eastern Asia; however, it has to serve as the reflection of the global nature of art' says Antonia Carver. She points that her main goal is to turn the fair into the meeting place for Eastern and Western experts. So far, she is succeeding. This year 75 galleries featured Art Dubai, and their contribution answered most diverse cultural, religious and political tastes.
Mohammad Ehsai. He is The Merciful. Oil on canvas, 202 x 347cm. 2007
Sponsorship helped create versatile non-commercial program that is an attribute of any advanced art fair. As a part of Art Week, timed to coincide with Art Dubai, there were performances, special projects, presidential grants for artists and curators, the small design fair, as well as the young art fair named Sikka, and also a forum on art media (featuring art curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist, novelist Douglas Coupland, LACMA director Michael Govan and art collector Sultan Sooud al Qassemi). Abraaj Capital Company, which lends great financial support to the fair, has at some point created media rush around art market of Middle East: in 2008 Company purchased the work of Mohammed Ehsai for its corporate collection. The huge canvas with green bands on black background forming the name of the painting 'He is The Merciful' in Arabic ligature, was purchased for record-breaking 1.2 million dollars with 100-150 000 estimated.
Marked by West
Since 2006 number of galleries in Dubai has reached 40. They are mostly located in two parts of the city: representational and expensive ones at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and young and dynamic ones in Al Quoz area that lives in the permanent building state. Some, like Ayyam Gallery, are running two offices: their DIFC gallery presents Othman Moussa and his oil canvas, which give both conceptually and formally restrained comment on consequences of the Arab spring; meahwhile, in Al Quoz area works from Khalem and Hisham Samawi private gallery are on view, among them Oleg Dou's sterile photos and photographic documentation of bloody scenes from the Day of Ashura (traditionally it is celebrated by public self-torture). Ayyam Gallery occupies one of the biggest stands at the fair and demonstrates works of artists from Lebanon, Syria and other countries of the region. Gallery owners plan to open offices in London and New York soon.
Othman Moussa. The Empty Throne. Oil on Canvas. 150 X 180 cm. 2010
Among other high rollers there are such galleries as The Third Line, Green Art Gallery and Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde (IVDE). They all have been distinguished by councils of the most important Western fairs, and soon are heading their direction. In May The Third Line will participate in Frieze art fair in New York. At Art Dubai it presented works of young artists from Iran and Iraq (who all live and work in USA). Amir Fallah is the author of bright colourful collages with meaningful names (for instance "First One to Trust, Last One to Live"). Hayv Kahraman, who arcquired her art education in Italy, paints on wood or cotton. She depicts female puppet figures hung on strings doing everyday jobs, like ironing, piling up the cloth or simply looking in the mirror. Two other galleries of Dubai, who work exclusively with artists from Middle East, have passed the selection for Statement section at Art Basel, the most prestigious art fair in the world.
Amir H. Fallah. Ruler of the Repeating Pattern. Acrylic oil ink pencil and collage on paper mounted to canvas, 183 x 152 cm. 2011
Hayv Kahraman. Threading My Mustache. Oil on wooden panel, 112 x 87 cm. 2010
Checking out the environment
Local galleries don't have any trouble choosing works for Art Dubai – the entire fair is local collectors and local culture oriented: participants are even given a notice not to present works that can be misinterpreted. On the walls, there is a whole lot of variations on Arabic ligature, also collages, glitter and works based on acknowledging traditions of Arab world. There are especially many fantasies about rug weaving. For example, Athr Gallery, the only gallery from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, presents rugs in all possible ways: Ibrahim Abu Mismar created rug from copper, Ayman Yossri Daydban shows a sort of rug weaved from paper tissues, and Nasser Al Salem printed his calligraphic patterns on fabric. Western galleries are easier going in the sense of choice. Some of them never orient their expositions to their local visitors. Thus, Goodman Gallery, South Africa, has organized William Kentridge exhibition. According to gallery owner, artist's works enjoyed great success at past Art Dubai, and during this year's fair preview members of the ruling family have shown interest towards several items (the fair itself is run under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum). There is a rug – huge 4.5х4.5 meters mohair rug that looks like a wefted collage with recognizable figures from films and drawings of William Kentridge.
Khosrow Hassanzadeh. Seven Dome. Mixed Golden Dome Ceramic. 500 x 300 cm. 2010
Three important Western galleries first featuring Art Dubai, have brought diversity to their expositions to the most. The Pace has filled their stand with works of artists representing every city the gallery has office at. Since The Pace runs offices in London, New York and Beijing, there are works of Zhang Huan, Tara Donovan and Turner prize awarded Keith Tyson. Gallery Arndt, Berlin, has similar multicultural exposition: there is a huge five metres high paved dome created by Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh, as well as bright canvas of Indian painter Jitish Kallat, and works of one of German contemporary art exponents, co-establisher of group ZERO, Heinz Mack. However, the most impressive stand belongs to Galerie Perrotin, the French art market heavyweight. It is presented by commercially top-ranked artists: Wim Delvoye, Bharti Kehr, Farhad Moshiri, Takashi Murakami and French duo Kolkoz. Their works definitely are an attribute of the perfect contemporary art collection in any part of the world.
Almagul Menlibayeva. Foxy Charms. Lambda print mounted on alu-dibond, 71 x 107 cm. 2010
However, some of the Western galleries stick to different policy. Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, has brought only artists associated with Arab world, even if they don't form the base of the gallery's range. There is, for example, Nicky Nodjoumi, who moved to New York after revolution in Iran, and Almagul Menlibayeva with her series of performances and photo stories taken in the steppes of Kazakhstan. 'Why show works that don't make sure they catch the eye of the purchaser?' says gallery owner, who brings artists from Middle East and Central Asia to Art Dubai for the third time.


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Protection against exposure to hazardous chemicals27 February 2013
by eub2 -- last modified 27 February 2013
The European Commission has proposed to better protect workers from risks linked to exposure to chemicals at the workplace.
In particular, the Commission has proposed to amend five existing EU health and safety Directives on protection of workers from exposure to harmful chemicals to align them with the latest rules on classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals (Regulation (EC) 1272/2008). The proposal now goes to the European Parliament and the EU's Council of Ministers for adoption.
The Commission says the proposal would ensure that manufacturers and suppliers of chemical substances and mixtures would have to provide harmonised labelling information on hazard classification, alerting the user to the presence of hazardous chemicals, the need to avoid exposure and the associated risks. Employers use this information when carrying out workplace risk assessments. This allows employers to put in place appropriate risk management measures to protect workers' health and safety, such as process enclosure, ventilation systems and the use of personal protective equipment. Every day millions of EU workers are potentially exposed to hazardous chemicals in a wide range of employment sectors including manufacturing and service industries, agriculture, health care and education.
The proposal has been the subject of two rounds of consultation of employer and trade union representatives at EU level as well as discussions in the Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work (ACSHW).
The classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures regulation, Regulation (EC) 1272/2008, implements the United Nations Globally Harmonised System for the harmonised classification of hazardous chemicals. It foresees the information to users about the related health hazards by means of harmonised communication elements, like pictograms and hazard and precautionary statements on packaging labels, and safety data sheets. It entered into force in January 2009.
The five Occupational Safety and Health Directives that would be amended by this proposal (92/58/EEC, 92/85/EEC, 94/33/EC, 98/24/EC and 2004/37/EC) all currently refer to existing EU chemical classification and labelling legislation that will be repealed on 1 June 2015 in accordance with Regulation (EC) 1272/2008.
Source: European Commission


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Something strange has been happening in the past few years. Suddenly females, minorities, gays, and the mentally challenged are playing video games, and demanding to have their likeness appear in every game that comes out. I know, right?
If you are unable to sense the sarcasm in the previous paragraph, I'm sorry, and I feel bad for you.
Let me start by saying, I'm old. Well old comparatively to most of you. And I distinctly recall as a child, and a teenager, and even in college and beyond, that most girls I knew, played video games. And not like casually. Like they really enjoyed playing them. My sisters played them, My neighbors played them. Maybe in some more backwater parts of the country, girls weren't playing games as much, but not where I grew up. Same thing goes for my Asian friends, my African-American friends, the kids I knew in wheelchairs, or in home schooling, the homeless kid I knew (j/k) yadda, yadda, yadda.... you get the point.
With that said, I remember those people enjoying those games. I also remember that about 90% of the NES/SNES/Genesis/etc libraries featured male leads. White male leads, straight white male leads, straight white male mentally stable leads.
And you know how all of those people I knew reacted to that? They had fun playing the games they thought were fun. And ignoring the ones they didn't. But you know what was even funnier about a lot of those games? The leads weren't even humans! Or gendered. Like who's driving the car in Spy Hunter? What about the crew of J.A.C.K.A.L.? What about that Marble in Marble Madness? Which way does it swing? Does it really matter?
Modern games try so hard to be cinematic, therefore it's understandable that equal representation is desired. Hell, it SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS been that way. But let's take a moment really quickly to take a look at the recent history of games that came out with not only "female leads", but "STRONG and interesting female leads".
Just off the top of my head: Mirror's Edge, Transistor, Remember Me, AssCreed: Liberation, Beyond: Two Souls, Gone Home (I think?), Beyond Good and Evil, Alice: Madness Returns, Syberia, Tomb Raider, The Last of Us DLC, Walking Dead: Season 2.
Of all of those games, only Tomb Raider and the Last of Us DLC sold very well.
What does this tell you? It tells me that when developers DO try to introduce interesting female leads, we the gamers aren't buying those games. When we don't buy their games, they won't try to make more in the same demographic. This is just business economics 101. Period.
So if you want to see more diversity, support the games that attempt to be more diverse. Show the industry with your wallets, not your twitter tantrums, what you want.
Now, on the topic of shaming developers like Ubisoft for debuting games, and daring not to feature more diverse characters... Your change IS coming. But you can't act like a child, and cry and whine every time some developer doesn't fall down to their knees, and cater to your every whim.
Does it suck that AssCreedU, doesn't feature a female avatar in the Co-Op campaign? Yeah, it kind of does. Would it make sense in the context of the game's mechanics for it to feature one? No, no it wouldn't. Every player is controlling Arno, the currently completely mysterious main character of this particular title. So with that in mind, why would you play as a female character, when all of the other co-op players are also controlling Arno in their own games?
I'd love to play as a Charlotte Corday-esque main character, but Ubisoft went another direction. And that's totally ok. As long as they aren't portraying females negatively in the game, what's the big deal?
And come on give the guys a break! They brought us Jade from Beyond Good and Evil, and Aveline! Arguably two of the most interesting female leads in gaming history. Let them make their games... Damn. Don't tell them that you aren't going to buy their shit, because it isn't exactly what you want. Rent the game, play the game, and decide if you like it. Then buy it if you want, or don't.
Besides, I'd rather see a game built from scratch with a good female lead, than to buckle under public pressure and shoehorn her into an already, mostly finished narrative, meant for a completely different person. And no you can't tell me that Arno's character would be the same if he were a she. Because a male in France, would grow up a completely different person, than a female would, no matter what social status or station they were in. They would have to rewrite the entire script.
But enough about this whole Ubisoft silliness. You know who would be a fantastic lead character in a game?
Nellie "Ultimate Bad Ass" Bly!
Just look at her! Ready for action!
I could write her whole bio here, but instead I'll just link you to it. She was an amazing female investigative journalist in the 19th Century. A good 30 or so years prior to the suffrage movement in the 1920's. She exposed the inhumane conditions of woman's asylums in New England by going undercover as a patient, and she was also the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in under 80 days (beating Jules Verne's record lol). Think of all the different types of games that could be built around her story!
She's only one of a whole history full of amazing females to base characters on. Ada Lovelace, Catherine The Great, Rani Lakshmibai, Ching Shih, Queen Boudica, Tomoe Gozen, so many more!
And on a slightly related, but different topic; why on earth hasn't their been a female focused game development studio yet? I mean a studio that is founded by a group of women, but not necessarily staffed "only" with women. That focuses on making stories featuring strong, interesting, female, and other underrepresented types of characters? I smell a kickstarter. Surely this would go over like the coming of a new age in video games?
I dunno, I have no idea why i spent so long writing this. I think I just wanted to stop replying to individual commentators, and then it just went out of control. Well at least now I have something to link to anytime the topic comes up. lol.
Now if you'll excuse me, I am on Episode 7 in Remember Me, and after I finish that, I've got; Beyond: Two Souls waiting to be started.
As always, I welcome your civil debate, and discussion in the comments.
P.S. I just finished Remember Me, it made me cry a little. And that is a good thing.


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Alumni Awards
In the early 1970's, Alumni Council members expressed both surprise and satisfaction in the variety of careers represented among the alumni. The Council and Dr. William Summerscales initiated the Distinguished Alumni Awards Program to broadcast this breadth and variety.
Teachers College's 90,000 graduates include leading educators, psychologists, administrators, and other professionals. The Alumni Council honors the College's most extraordinary alumni each year with the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Early Career Award. In 2010, TC President Susan Fuhrman added the President's Medal of Excellence as an additional way for the College to recognize exemplary alumni.


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Friends are useful for all kinds of reasons—borrowing notes, stealing French fries, justifying Netflix binges. They can also be the kick you need to get (and stay) fit. Working out with a friend means accountability, and research suggests that accountability is key if you're looking to build a workout habit for real. What's better than working out with a friend? Making them a part of your workout, of course. So grab someone you know, or even someone you don't, and join Chris Winfield, our trainer, for a workout that works for two.
"My favorite part of working out with a friend is that we can both motivate each other to be stronger than our excuses!"
—Bailey Donelly, second-year student, Framingham State University, Massachusetts
The warm-up
Kick-start your workout with these dynamic upper- and lower-body moves.
The workout
Get close with a friend to build strength and camaraderie in our three-move partner circuit.
The cool-down
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