Considering I have had sitting under my sofa for some months now a brand-new (and not inexpensive!) scrapbook still in its box, along with various sheets of special scrapbooking papers, vellums and stickers - all purchased with the best intentions of taking up a new hobby that hasn't yet come to fruition! - I was interested to read the article below on the Evolution of Scrapbooking. It jolted my memory (and my conscience) about those eagerly-purchased and quickly-abandoned makings for my own project, which was planned to be a kind of travel scrapbook for various places I've visited - whether the photographic results of a walk round the local villages or something more exotic.

Okay, so I guess I now know what I'll be doing this weekend! LOL

Camping can be one of the best experiences. Take a walk on the wild side, wake up to fantastic panoramas, smell the bacon cooking and inhale the fresh air.

It all sounds so good.

However, when camping goes wrong, it usually REALLY goes wrong.

City dwellers should stay on the tarmac. Country folk should stay in the country.

The Author of This Liberated Article Is: Carl Zimmerman ARTICLE SUMMARY: Description of two campgrounds that have beautiful views of the varied landscapes found in Tonto National Forest in Arizona. Accessibility IS an Issue LPR Takes Seriously. This Article is Text Reader Friendly Easy Copy and Paste the Entire Article Camping With Beautiful Views of the Desert, Lake and Mountains in Tonto National Forest

Tonto National Forest has almost 3,000,000 acres and is the largest of the six National Forests in Arizona. Landscapes range from Saguaro cactus deserts to lakes and pine-forested mountains. Elevations range from 1,400 feet in the Sonoran Desert to 7,400 feet in the Mogollon Rim. Much of the area is covered by cacti (primarily giant Saguaro). The cactus colonies merge with bushes, chaparral and grasslands above 4,000 feet, while the higher hills to the north support varied woodland habitats including juniper, mixed fir and ponderosa pine. Besides desert and mountains, Tonto National Forest contains lakes/reservoirs, river valleys, canyons and flat plains. It also contains eight separate national wilderness areas with limited access. The land in these wilderness areas is generally steep and rough, without many trails, and has harsh weather for most of the year. To the southwest, Tonto National Forest is bordered by the edge of the Superstition Wilderness and New River Mountains. To the north, it's bordered by three other National Forests - Prescott, Coconino and Apache National Forests. And to the east, it's bordered by the Fort Apache and San Carlos Indian Reservations. The northern boundary is defined by the Mogollon Rim, ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 feet, that forms the southern edge of the great Colorado Plateau, which stretches for over 100 miles across central Arizona. Two campgrounds that have beautiful views of just a few of the diverse landscapes of Tonto National Forest are Tortilla and Cholla campgrounds. While both of these campgrounds are located in beautiful desert areas, Tortilla campground has beautiful views of the bluffs and mountains of the Superstition Wilderness and Cholla campground overlooks Theodore Roosevelt Lake. Tortilla campground is on a ridge along Tortilla Creek next to Apache Trail Scenic Byway. With 77 RV and tent camp sites in the middle of a beautiful desert landscape, you would think that this campground, like so many National Forest campgrounds, would not provide any sort of RV hook up. Well, surprisingly, all sites have water and sewer hook up - a much appreciated desert campground amenity! In addition to the beautiful views of the native desert vegetation, at an elevation of 1,870 feet, the campground has excellent views of the rugged bluffs in the Superstition Wilderness from most camp sites. Getting to Tortilla campground via The Apache Trail, or AZ 88 as it is officially known, also provides magnificent views of the Superstition Mountains and Wilderness. Desert vegetation provides good separation between camp sites at Tortilla. Cholla campground, like Tortilla, is surrounded by desert vegetation. It overlooks Roosevelt Lake, with many sites having direct but distant views of the lake. Beware that because the campground is a distance away from the lake, if the water is low, you may not be able to see it. Water levels are dependent on the weather and the need for water in Phoenix. This campground is at an elevation of 2,200 feet and is much larger than Tortilla with 206 RV and tent camp sites. No hook ups are available at this campground. Roosevelt Lake is the one of the largest in the state and like other lakes in this area, summer water temperatures can exceed 90 degrees F. The last few years has seen a dramatic reduction in the water level, largely due to the need to maintain supply to the other lakes on the Salt River downstream. Nevertheless, there are still plenty of boating and swimming opportunities for much of the year. Tortilla and Cholla campgrounds are like two oases in the desert for campers looking for campgrounds with beautiful views of a few of the varied natural landscapes of Tonto National Forest. Camping with beautiful views of desert landscapes, a lake and rugged mountainous terrain of the Superstitious Wilderness Area is just a small part of what Arizona's largest national forest has to offer.

Article Republished From: Liberated Press Releases and Other FREE Information a web site that DOESN'T use Google Adsense text links in or around articles. Author Resource:- Carl Zimmerman is dedicated to finding campgrounds with beautiful views. For more information, visit http://www.campingwithaview.com/NF/AZ/TontoNF.htm for Tonto National Forest and visit http://www.campingwithaview.com/NF/NF.htm for all National Forests campgrounds with beautiful views.

Delicately balanced between Scandinavia proper and mainland Europe, Denmark is a difficult country to pin down. In many ways it shares the characteristics of both regions: it's an EU member, and has prices and drinking laws that are broadly in line with those in the rest of Europe. But Denmark's social policies and its style of government are distinctly Scandinavian: social benefits and the standard of living are high, and its politics are very much that of consensus.

Exploring Denmark

• Copenhagen • Funen • Jutland

Skagen
Situated at the northern tip of Jutland, Skagen is famous for its fantastic light and windswept, heather-clad landscape, which drew the group known as the Skagen artists here in the late nineteenth century.

Kronborg
Watch out for the ghost of Hamlet's father as you walk the ramparts of Helsingør's Kronborg slot (castle), the model for Shakespeare's Elsinore.

Ribe
The marshlands surrounding picturesque Ribe in southern Jutlland have inhibited industrial development, leaving one of Denmark's oldest towns virtually unchanged since medieval times.

The Roskilde Festival
The Roskilde Festival, held on the last weekend in June, is one of the largest open-air rock festivals in Europe, attracting more than 90,000 people and featuring many big names.

Christiania
Christiania, Copenhagen's former military barracks squatted by hippies in the Sixties and declared a "free city", is still a haven for the counter-culture - it has galleries, concerts, bars and some of the best restaurants in the city.

Århus
Århus is Denmark's second city, and it's often regarded as the cultural capital. It's small enough to get to know easily but has plenty of pretty medieval streets, old churches, museums, cafés and bars to fill your days and nights.

Odense
Odense, capital of the island of Funen, was the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen and composer Carl Nielsen - and its old streets of half-timbered houses harbour an unexpectedly lively nightlife.

Here are some great recipes downloaded from the Project Gutenburg web site:

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BRITTLE

• 1 ½ cups of sugar,
• 2/3 a cup of water,
• ½ a cup of glucose (pure corn syrup),
• 2 level tablespoonfuls of butter,
• ½ a pound of raw shelled peanuts,
• 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract,
• 1 level teaspoonful of soda,
• 1 tablespoonful of cold water,
• ½ a pound or more of cooking chocolate

Put the sugar, water and glucose over the fire; stir till the sugar is dissolved; wash down the sides of the saucepan with a cloth or the fingers dipped in cold water, cover and let boil three or four minutes, then uncover and let cook to 275° F. (when a little is cooled and chewed it clings but does not stick to the teeth) add the butter and peanuts and stir constantly until the peanuts are nicely browned (or are of the color of well roasted peanuts). Dissolve the soda in the cold water, add the vanilla and the soda and stir vigorously. When the candy is through foaming, turn it onto a warm and well-oiled marble or platter. As soon as it has cooled a little on the edges, take hold of it at the edge and pull out as thin as possible. Loosen it from the receptacle at the center by running a spatula under it, then turn the whole sheet upside down, and again pull as thin as possible. Break into small pieces and when cold coat with "Dot" Chocolate prepared as in previous recipes. Half of a roasted peanut may be set upon each piece as coated. Note that the peanuts used in the brittle are raw. The small Spanish peanuts are the best for this purpose. After the peanuts are shelled, cover them with boiling water, let boil up once, then skim out and push off the skin, when they are ready to use.

CHOCOLATE POP CORN BALLS

• 1 ½ cups of sugar,
• 1/3 a cup of glucose,
• 2/3 a cup of water,
• 1/3 a cup of molasses,
• 3 tablespoonfuls of butter,
• 3 squares of cooking chocolate
• 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract,
• About 4 quarts of popped corn, well salted.

Set the sugar, glucose and water over the fire, stir until the sugar is melted, then wash down the sides of the saucepan, cover and let boil three or four minutes, then remove the cover and let cook without stirring to the hard ball degree; add the molasses and butter and stir constantly until brittle in cold water; remove from the fire and, as soon as the bubbling ceases, add the chocolate, melted over hot water, and the vanilla; stir, to mix the chocolate evenly through the candy, then pour onto the popped corn, mixing the two together meanwhile. With buttered hands lightly roll the mixture into small balls. Press the mixture together only just enough to hold it in shape. Discard all the hard kernels in the corn. Have the corn warm and in a warm bowl.

CHOCOLATE MOLASSES KISSES

• 2 cups of coffee A sugar,
• 1/3 a cup of glucose, (pure corn syrup),
• 2/3 a cup of water,
• 1 cup of molasses,
• 2 tablespoonfuls of butter,
• ¼ a teaspoonful of salt,
• 4 ounces of good quality cooking chocolate,
• 1 tablespoonful of vanilla extract, or
• 1 teaspoonful of essence of peppermint.

Put all the ingredients, save the salt, chocolate and flavoring, over the fire; let boil rapidly to 260°F., or until brittle when tested in cold water. During the last of the cooking the candy must be stirred constantly. Pour onto an oiled platter or marble; pour the chocolate, melted over hot water, above the candy; as the candy cools on the edges, with a spatula or the fingers, turn the edges towards the center; continue this until the candy is cold enough to pull; pull over a hook until cold; add the flavoring, a little at a time, during the pulling, cut in short lengths and wrap in waxed paper.

Yet another health scare hits the headlines. This time it's "beer bellies" or middle age spread that has attracted attention. Strange thing is; most newspapers reporting the new research also carry plenty of dieting ads in or around the report.

There's nothing new in manipulating or spinning news to promote products or political policies.

Beer Belly it's Natural Thing

As the years go by a person's metabolism slows and they need fewer calories. However, their calorie intake often stays the same as it's always been or even increases while their levels of activity generally decrease. The result is often a 'beer belly'. It's the place where fat likes to settle first and the last place it wants to leave.

Getting a Beer Belly has often nothing to do with the amount of beer consumed. As people get older, their body changes and their daily routine become less active.

Middle age spread is also a description for the beer belly shape.

There is little scientific evidence that beer drinkers are more prone to abdominal obesity, despite it being known colloquially as beer belly, beer gut, or pot belly.

The Beer Belly Study

It's not how much a person weighs, but where they gain their weight that could increase their risk of a heart attack or stroke. That’s according to a new study from the University of Texas and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Investigators obtained data from the Dallas Heart Study, a large, multiethnic urban population of patients who successfully completed electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT) to detect coronary artery calcium and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect aortic plaque. They found that the likelihood of coronary calcification grew in direct proportion to increases in the WHR. In multivariate analysis, after adjustment for standard risk factors, prevalent coronary artery calcium was more frequent in the fifth vs first quintile of WHR. Those with the largest WHR were nearly twice as likely to have calcium deposits in their coronary arteries as those with the smallest WHR. There was no independent positive association observed for BMI or waist circumference.

Well, so, now you know...

You get old, you get fatter, you get health problems... how fecking unusual!

Just what can you print on a T-shirt?

Is this political correctness gone MAD?

Today, the BBC published an article about a man risking a fine for having an "offensive" slogan on his T-shirt.

It reads, "Who the f**k is MICK JAGGER?"

He thought it was a bit of a laugh, but Peterborough City Council failed see the funny side of the T-shirt.

Note: Even I "starred out some letters" maybe, I think it's offensive...

It seems the "JAGGER" T-shirt was originally bought in Los Angeles, where the local cops seem to be OK with the statement.

The BBC got an opinion from a criminal solicitor; "It is not necessary for someone to have made an official complaint for the police to act, they just have to think it might offend a hypothetical third party".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6944008.stm

This got me thinking.

There is nothing inherently offensive about any word it just depends on the context and company.

On August 10, 1519, five ships [Trinidad (major ship), San Antonio, Concepcion, Victoria, and Santiago] under Magellan's command left Seville and travelled from the Guadalquivir River to Sanlucar de Barrameda at the mouth of the rivers, where they remained more than five weeks.

The Guadalquivir River is the only great navigable river in Spain. Currently it is navigable up as far as Seville.

This was probably the equivalent of blasting off for the 1969 Moon Landing; a venture into the unknown.

He discovered a passage around the bottom part of the Americas that crossed into the "other" side of the known world at that time.

Jackatsea sailed 'round the horn in probably the biggest, most safe and luxurious cruise liner in the world (today). Believe me, the weather is, changeable.

The skill and courage of those sailors from ages past beggars belief.

Magellan didn't make it. Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan against Philippine natives on April 27, 1521.

Apparently, he was slain by a mob of natives wielding bamboo spears and big knives while he was performing a rearguard action that ultimately allowed his crew to escape back to their ships and continue the voyage.

Some history books continue to record Magellan as the first person to sail around the world. However, on September 6, 1522, Juan Sebastián Elcano (captain) and the remaining crew of Magellan's voyage and the last ship of the fleet, Victoria, arrived in Spain, almost exactly three years after leaving.

So, the CREW of the Victoria should really be credited with the first circumnavigation the globe.

I hope this answers your question.

Addons...

During my research for an answer to a recent question about Foot and Mouth Disease, I found some interesting related information.

The new question is:

What does Bovine Scatology (BS) mean and when did Mad Cow Disease start?

Scatology: The scientific study and analysis of faeces, for physiologic and diagnostic purposes.

Bovine: The biological subfamily Bovinae (or bovines) includes a diverse group of about 24 species of medium-sized to large ungulates, including domestic cattle, Bison, the Water Buffalo, the Yak, and the four-horned and spiral-horned antelopes.

General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander-in-Chief, Central Command - 1st Gulf War. When Norman uttered the phrase "Bovine Scatology" in relation to a rumour story, many press reporters were puzzled by the expression. Then one Brit reporter whispered, "Ho, he means Bull Shit".

Strictly speaking, Norman could have meant "Bison Shit" or "Yak Shit" but somehow; I doubt it would have had the same impact and derisen the original statement intended.

Bovine Scatology is the polite and public way of saying Bull Shit when referring to something said or information of dubious quality.

The expression can also be used to describe a person's attributes:

"He/She is full of BS". This would indicate the person is not entirely trustworthy. Gordie Brown and his crew of clowns are often referred to in this manner.

A very famous army expression that dates back many hundreds of years:

"Bull Shit baffles brains"

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease is a story rich in Bovine Scatology.