Dacha look down upon as reflecting the nouveau-riche tastes of their owners—and feature ostentatious items such as marble statues, fountains and exotic plants. Some have state-of-the-art sporting facilities such as an indoor swimming pool, multiple tennis courts and stables for race horses. A few privately owned estates even have small forests and lakes. Wealthy Russians have also bought up many of the tsarist-era dachas of the aristocracy, and Soviet-era dachas of artists and intellectuals. Types of houses or gardens similar to the "dacha": Dacha A dacha () is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of Russian
The Clear Word College Press of Southern Adventist University and sold in Church-owned Adventist Book Centers. Though "The Clear Word" is not officially endorsed by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, it is now being printed by the Review and Herald Publishing Association. Blanco originally wrote "The Clear Word" as a devotional exercise for himself. After friends and family saw what he did, they encouraged him to publish it. The New Testament part was first published and readers widely received and encouraged him to continue paraphrasing the whole Bible. It is considered a free paraphrase of the Bible: In the preface Blanco explains precisely what