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The 18th birthday party is a very significant birthday for teenagers. Turning 18 years of age is very special and marks a developmental milestone in people's lives. Turning 18 is more relevant in the United States, where 18 years old marks a legal adult.
Because the significance of turning 18 years old is so great, the 18th birthday party celebrations are just as grandiose.
If you are having a simple 18th birthday party, buying a simple invitation card will -
However, if you want a more elaborate and descriptive invitation card, you can have them printed however you want.
A great idea for a 18th birthday party invitation card is to print the birthday person's favorite poem inside the card, along with the formal invitation. If you want to send out more personalized invitations you can make the invites yourself. If the guest list of the18th birthday party is small, making the invitation cards yourself will save money and can be more creative. You can paste your photographs inside and add your favorite quotations too.
Party Themes: Once the invitations are sent, you can think of how you can organize and plan your 18th birthday party. A themed 18th birthday party is a very popular option in which the focus of the entire party is around a central theme. There are many kinds of themes for the 18th birthday party: hippie, childhood, leaving for college, Star Wars, 1960s, pajamas, come as you are, fancy dress, Halloween costume, horror theme, diva, car theme, movie stars theme, etc.
Significance of the Party: Any birthday is very special, but the 18th birthday party is very special for parents because nothing like the 18th birthday party makes them realize that their child is grown up. The 18th birthday party has great sentimental value because many people have left school and are preparing to go to college. They will be leaving their home, friends and family and go somewhere distant to pursue their education, which signifies a great change.
Party Food and Drinks: The food at the 18th birthday party can be anything from Mexican tortillas and fajitas to Chinese noodles and wantons to Italian pizzas and pastas. Whatever it may be, the food should be what the birthday boy/girl and their friends will love. However, since 18 is not the legal drinking age in most countries, the drinks at the party will have to be non alcoholic. You can make creative mocktails instead of alcoholic cocktails as the party drinks.
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�Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.� ~Jean Paul Richter~ The eighteenth birthday is one of the greatest developmental milestones in one's life. The age of eighteen is a very significant and special age. In many cultures, the 18th birthday is considered an unofficial age of maturity. Eighteen is the age when you slowly begin to transform from a teenager into a young adult.
The 18th Birthday Party Ideas brings upon one of the last years as a teenager and is the harbinger of responsibility. However, this does not at all mean that it's all serious and boring from now on! The eighteenth birthday also opens gateways to a lot of fun activities, many of which have never been indulged before.
In many countries, being eighteen officially allows you to do many things which were prohibited and prior to that age. At eighteen years of age, many American and European boys and girls can vote in their country and obtain an official driver's license. Since the eighteenth birthday is such a significant event in most people's lives, the celebration should also be a memorable one with 18th Birthday Ideas. So how about throwing a magnificent eighteenth birthday party? You need to plan ahead to generate great 18th birthday party ideas for the party.
This is the moment many people have been waiting for, to get their hands behind the steering wheel of a car and not be afraid of getting caught! One of the best eighteenth birthday gifts is being presented with a brand new car. For all those who cannot afford such luxurious gifts, an amazing 18th birthday party idea is to have a car themed party. The central focus of the party is cars. To achieve this theme, you can transform your house into a cute garage. The furniture can go through a temporary make over. The sofas and chairs can be -
Instead of regular serving dishes, food can be served in car-shaped containers. Because the life of the party is in the music and dancing, you can add some sparkle to your party by replacing a disco ball with a giant rear view mirror. To measure the success of your party, you can place a horn at the exit and tell your guests to show their appreciation by honking it when they leave.
The only bummer at 18th birthday parties is the lack of alcohol because 21 is the legal age for drinking in the United States and many other countries. One of the best 18th birthday party ideas can be serving mocktails and non alcoholic beverages at your party. You can quench your friends' thirst by serving cool non-alcoholic beers, root beers and energy drinks. For a funky twist, create cool mocktails by blending cool fruit and soda mixes or simply imitate your favorite cocktails and remove the alcoholic content from it. Colorful and delicious fruit punches served in large glass bowls are one of the most essential party drinks.
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." said Abraham Lincoln. Eighteen is often the age when many girls and boys leave for college, making the age one of the most special birthdays and possibly one of the last spent at home. If you want a quiet affair to capture every special moment, the 18th birthday can be spent in the comfort of your home with family members and a few close friends. However, many young adults may choose a big birthday bash before they leave. To capture unforgettable memories of the eighteenth birthday bash, craft a scrapbook for an excellent 18th birthday party idea! The scrapbook must be passed among all the guest so that they can write down their favorite moments and memories of the birthday boy/girl. Years later when the decorations and music fade from memory, you will still be able to relive the celebration of your youth through this 18th birthday scrapbook


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In a propaganda salvo by al-Qaida aimed at undercutting the enthusiasm of Muslims worldwide about the U.S. presidential election, Osama bin...
WASHINGTON — In a propaganda salvo by al-Qaida aimed at undercutting the enthusiasm of Muslims worldwide about the U.S. presidential election, Osama bin Laden's top deputy condemned President-elect Obama as a "house Negro" who would continue a campaign against Islam that al-Qaida's leaders said was begun by President Bush.
Appealing to the "weak and oppressed" around the world, the al-Qaida deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, said in a video released Wednesday that the "new face" of America only masked a "heart full of hate."
For years, the terrorist network sought to fuel anti-Americanism with prolific audio and video recordings vilifying Bush as the leading U.S. "crusader" against Muslim nations.
The election of Obama, a black man whose father was from a Muslim family and who spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, has muddied al-Qaida's message.
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The al-Qaida leader described the victory by Obama, who has called for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, as the American people's "admission of defeat in Iraq." But he warned Obama that the United States risked a reprise of the Soviet Union's failures in Afghanistan if the president-elect followed through on pledges to deploy thousands more troops to that country to carry on the fight against al-Qaida and its Taliban allies.
And in a blunt personal attack on the president-elect, al-Zawahri painted Obama as a hypocrite and traitor to his race, comparing him unfavorably with "honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, a 1960s Black Muslim leader.
The Obama transition office declined to comment on the message.
The 11-minute, 23-second video featured an audio message by al-Zawahri, played over a still image of the al-Qaida No. 2.
It was provided by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant Web sites, and drew extensively on archival footage of Malcolm X. Much of the message juxtaposes a still picture of Obama wearing a yarmulke during a visit to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem with a photo of Malcolm X kneeling in prayer at a mosque.
The video shows Malcolm X speaking about the docile "house Negro," who he said "always looked out for his master," and the "field Negro," who was abused by whites and was more rebellious. The video also insulted two prominent black diplomats, the former and current secretaries of state, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
The video by al-Zawahri, an Egyptian physician, contains no specific warning of an attack against the United States. But the al-Qaida leader tells his followers that America "continues to be the same as ever, so we must continue to harm it, in order for it to come to its senses."
U.S. officials said they believed the video was authentic.
U.S. anti-terrorism officials and other experts dismissed it as a desperate tactic by a terrorist group that suffered a defeat in the global war of ideas with Obama's election.
Jeremy Binnie, an analyst with Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center, said al-Zawahri's message suggests al-Qaida leaders are worried "that Obama could be effective in rebuilding America's image."
Ronald Walters, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, said he wondered whether al-Qaida was responding to the aggressive tone of Obama's campaign pledges to go after the terrorist network and capture or kill bin Laden.
Walters said if the tape was an attempt to reach black Americans or the Third World, it was "ham-handed" and futile.
"You're talking about someone who looks like the rest of the world, and that's got to be threatening to them," he said, referring to Obama. "On 9/11, al-Qaida didn't make any racial distinctions in who it killed, and people remember that."
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Striking for the first time beyond Pakistan's tribal areas, a pilotless U.S. aircraft fired missiles at a village well inside Pakistani territory Wednesday, killing five foreign extremists, a Pakistani intelligence official and local residents said.
The attack appeared to represent a widening of the U.S. campaign aimed at killing al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, who use safe havens in Pakistan as a springboard for attacks against NATO and U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
The Pakistani government did not immediately comment. The strike was aimed at a residential compound in Indi Khel, an intelligence official said.
Two of the extremists killed were Arabs and three were Uzbeks, the official said. Four civilians were wounded.
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The so-called "golden parachutes" have been at issue for many months.
Mayor Tony Benavides' contracts promised his department heads money for comp time, vacation time, and sick time that some on city council thought was inappropriate.
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Those 6 will wait while Bernero has the city attorney look at the issue once again. (It's been reviewed at least twice by lawyers.) His chief of staff says some payouts are due, they agree, but they think the payouts are too rich, according to the city charter..
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text: Russell M Davies: On the structure of time Russell M Davies 28 May 10 by Russell M Davies This article was taken from the June issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing onlineI write these columns monthly, around the eighth of every month. And always, without fail, they catch me by surprise. I've stuck them in my Google Calendar. I have reminders on my phone. I get a kindly email from Wired a few days ahead of the deadline. I can even watch Warren Ellis on Twitter, kvetching about his own deadline. And yet, still, every time a new one's due I find myself shocked and surprised. (Hours to deadline: three) I also write a column for a weekly magazine. Every Sunday night I sit down and bash it out, no problem.I think the explanation is simple: weeks make sense to us, months just don't. Months are a natural accident, a side effect of planetary interaction and as gnarled and irregular as a tree-stump. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter; we need to make up rhymes to figure out just how many days they have. Years, months, days -- these are planetary phenomena, instructions we follow.Try to resist them and jetlag will slay us and the harvest will fail. Where as weeks are a human invention, a cultural creation up there with the wheel and the crossword. Weeks are in service of humanity; regular and solid, they don't care about the comings and goings of celestial rocks, they're imposed on the world for our convenience. Weeks are the four-on the- floor kick-drum of eternity.And that magical seven-day formula has seen off all sorts of other temporal recipes: Soviet stabs at five- or six-day weeks, the various Decimal calendars, the Hermetic Lunar Week, the Javanese Pasaran Cycle, the Etruscans and their Nundinal system, even the Celtic style based on eight days and nine nights. All are beaten under the wheels of the mighty seven-day juggernaut. It just seems to sit right in our heads. (Weeks to my actuarially predicted demise: 1,996)Which may explain the mini-phenomenon of the "Weeknote". Started on the blog of design company BERG a few months back, Weeknotes detailed what they were up to that week, what had been going well, what hadn't. They were just blog entries, updated weekly, nothing more remarkable than that. Except they struck a little chord with people -- and other companies and individuals started doing the same thing.They seem to have a pattern and rhythm that people like. A few paragraphs about what you're up to. No need for big insights or revelations, just a bit of sharing and perhaps a moment of reflection. They fit neatly into that globally distributed culture of small creative businesses and people. Individuals and small companies such as these need to share to learn and to find like-minded partners and employees -- the Weeknote matches the rhythms of their work, and the blog and RSS are the perfect way to deliver it.Twitter's too fast, too ephemeral to document these kinds of projects -- the weekly blog post is exactly right. It's even kicked some long-time bloggers back into the blogging habit. The weekly pulse and simple formula unblocks the blocked and gets people writing. The content's not thrilling -- it's not going to get anyone a book deal. But it's precisely what you need to hear if you're doing similar work.It helps to see that other people struggle with deadlines and clients, that big projects can fall apart and still get put back together, that finance is taxing but that this or that software package can help. Above all, it's nice to realise that everyone else is also just making it up. (Weeknotes from around the world: weeknotes.com)Come to think of it, Weeknotes are exactly what should get someone a book deal. The collective wisdom of the noters distilled and edited would make one of the few worthwhile business books: people in interesting businesses and professions talking about working life as it's actually lived, real problems in real time. That would be worth reading. (current listening: "Venceremos" by Working Week) But, of course, as soon as there's a pulse, we want to syncopate. We create temporal structures and then we mess with them. The 80s clearly started in about 1982. Eric Hobsbawm's Long Nineteenth Century ran from 1789 to 1914, his Short Twentieth Century went from there to 1991. And though we move to the tight rhythm of a drum-machine, we relax to the loose tempos of a real drummer. Weeknotes are great, and the week a splendidly useful cultural construct, but let's not get dogmatic. We all look forward to a short week and a long weekend. Edited by George Barrow Latest on wired.co.uk


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I'll keep this short and sweet. If you're here you've probably already read all the reasons why this could be bad or good for Crow and the Royals -- service time, work with McClure, his bad season in 2010, etc. Bottom line for me is that if this signals the end of Crow as a starter, than it's not a good move at all. I'm not so much concerned about service time or whatever because pitchers get hurt, and getting six healthy years out of a pitcher is a good thing. It's a factor, but not a huge one, not one that will keep me from putting the best team on the field. I absolutely believe Crow is one of the best relievers the Royals have right now.
If Crow is eventually moved into a starting role, then this will all be forgotten. If not, I will be pretty disappointed that we don't get to see how he does.


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Britain's second fastest ever marathon runner eyes new challenges
Mara Yamauchi has today announced the end of her elite career, though stresses that she won't be giving up running altogether.
After becoming Britain's second fastest ever marathon runner and competing in both the Beijing and London Olympic Games, the 39-year-old has decided that the time is right to move on to new challenges.
"I have achieved my childhood dream of becoming an Olympian and enjoyed many years training and competing as an elite athlete," she explained. "To be able to do what you love as your job is a rare and special privilege and I am very grateful to all the people who have enabled me to do that.
"I have now decided that it's time to leave elite competition behind and instead I will run for enjoyment and to stay healthy."
Touching on the Olympic legacy, Yamauchi expressed how she hopes to use her experiences to help others take as much from running as she has.
"Running teaches us many useful life skills – you can achieve your dreams if you put your mind to it, that hard work reaps rewards, and that perseverance will get you through tough times," she said.
"I hope I can share my experience of learning through running, with people from all walks of life. Now that building a legacy from the 2012 London Olympics is fresh in our minds, it's more important than ever to embrace sport and the valuable contribution it makes to our lives."
Yamauchi was a frequent competitor in the Virgin London Marathon, competing six times, and finishing runner-up in 2009 behind German Irina Mikitenko in a time of 2:23:12.
She regards finishing 6th in the Beijing Olympics and winning the 2008 Osaka Marathon as the most memorable moments of her career but says the most enjoyable thing was just going out training with friends.
Yamauchi will return to her previous employment at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, but stresses she will remain active in the running world.
"I am looking forward to the next stage of my life, and to being able to do things which you can't do as an elite athlete. Although I will return to work, I hope to stay involved in the running world as much as I can."


text: Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky By Gretchen G. Horlacher No cover image Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky By Gretchen G. Horlacher Read preview Synopsis A pioneer of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky marked a significant turn in compositional method. He broke free from traditional styles and contemporary trends in the early part of the twentieth century to achieve an entirely new and truly modern aesthetic. Striking a remarkable concurrence of stasis and discontinuity, Stravinsky crafted large-scale compositions out of short repeating melodies, juxtaposed these primary motives with contrasting and varying fragments, and layered onfixed ostinati which repeated at their own rates throughout the piece. Previous scholarship on Stravinsky focuses on the disparate and independent nature of such textures, conceiving them as separated and deadlocked, unable to escape their repetitions, and having no goal. This connects Stravinsky'sprocedures with the more radical music of subsequent composers for whom disconnection has served as a primary aesthetic. Yet, from the perspective of his later works, the static and discontinuous depictions of Stravinsky's music seem incomplete and perhaps even simplistic. The "building blocks" of his novel textures often consist of tunes with identifiable intervallic shapes, goal pitches, and defining durational patterns-organizations that engender continuity and connection. In other words, although its basic materials are combined into new, often dissonant and usually repetitive textures, those materialsstill originate in, and depend upon, traditional concepts of melody, harmony, and pulsation. Presenting an innovative analytical model for Stravinsky's compositions, Building Blocks seeks a fuller perspective, and enables a fresh, insightful approach to this music and the theoretical constructs behind it. Author Gretchen Horlacher portrays the whole of Stravinsky's repertoire as radical or modern not because it eschews continuity and connection, but because it places them in relation to their opposites: the music holds our interest because undeniable references towardcontinuity are dynamically coordinated (rather than subsumed) with stasis and discontinuity. From this vantage point, Stravinsky's music becomes a commentary on the nature of time: the music draws into relation the tension between time as it is punctuated by fixed reference and as it flows from one event toanother. It is quintessentially modern because of its inherent emphasis on multiple vantage points. A sensitive and sophisticated approach to the work of this iconic composer, Building Blocks will appeal to students and scholars of Stravinsky and his music, scholars of musical modernism and twentieth century music, and to a more limited extent, to performers-particularly conductors, pianists, and orchestral instrumentalists. Related books and articles Books Journals Magazines Newspapers Encyclopedia Igor Stravinsky: The Man and His Music By Alexandre Tansman; Therese Bleefield; Charles Bleefield G. P. Putnams Sons, 1949 Read preview Overview The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky By Jonathan Cross Cambridge University Press, 2003 Read preview Overview Stravinsky Retrospectives By Ethan Haimo; Paul Johnson University of Nebraska Press, 1987 Read preview Overview John Adams's Nixon in China: Musical Analysis, Historical and Political Perspectives By Lintott, Robert Notes, Vol. 69, No. 3, March 2013 PRPEER-REVIEWED PERIODICAL Peer-reviewed publications on Questia are publications containing articles which were subject to evaluation for accuracy and substance by professional peers of the article's author(s). Read preview Overview Traditional and Innovative Methods of Teaching Forms and Musical Analysis By Vlahopol, Gabriela Review of Artistic Education, No. 9/10, 2015 PRPEER-REVIEWED PERIODICAL Peer-reviewed publications on Questia are publications containing articles which were subject to evaluation for accuracy and substance by professional peers of the article's author(s). 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So remembering that I'm a total newbie, what types of things are there to dip?
So remembering that I'm a total newbie, what types of things are there to dip?
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ok.....there are several choices. You can go all out and get The Big Night Out. This includes everything.
You start off with a cheese fondue. There are several choices. You then dip granny smith apples, cauliflower, carrots and lots of different types of bread. They will bring as much of the dippers as you need.
There is a salad offering next. There are usually four or so choices.
Next comes the meat. The meat is raw and you dip into the broth that you choose. It also comes with potatoes, broccoli, squash and mushrooms. They will refill the veggies.
Lastly is the best part of all! The chocolate fondue. There are lots of choices for the type of chocolate. You then get brownies, cheesecake, marshmallows, strawberries, bananas, rice kripsie bites, and I am forgetting something to dip. I tell you I don't much care for chocolate but I could lick the pot clean!!!
You can also go for just cheese, chocolate or cheese and chocolate. They also have a HUGE wine list.
The Big Night Out is roughly $100 per couple without tip or alcohol. Well worth every penny imo.
Be sure to make a reservation for the Melting Pot. The one here at Dr. Phillips is wicked popular and I've never seen them be able to accommodate walk ins.
We always get the court bouillion to cook the vegetables and meat. You can get hot oil. The meat selections are up to you for the most part. We like the choice that features quite a bit of seafood, but there is poultry (chicken and duck) and red meat.
The potatoes are a bit of a pain, other than that we like everything.
It takes time, clearly so plan on a leisurely (romantic!) dinner. The cheese fondue that comes before the main fondue will keep you from starving to death as you cook your main course.
It's great fun.
Texas de Brazil has just come out with a new card that you purchase ($50 or so, closer to $60) that will provide you with 12 dinners at half price. Might be worth looking into if you want to go more than once.
Sometimes you can find really decent coupons too. It's a meat lover's paradise so the undiscounted cost doesn't seem exhorbitant given all the meat.
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Sweater Jacket
Lion Brand® Wool-Ease
Thick & Quick
Pattern Number: 1198 This country casual sweater jacket will keep you warm all season long. Brown leather buttons add to this coat's country charm.
SKILL LEVEL: Easy (Level 2)
SIZE: Small, Medium, Large, 1X, 2X, 3X
Finished chest 42 (46, 50, 56, 62, 66)inches. Length 26 (27, 27 1/2, 28, 28, 28)inches.
Note: Pattern is written for smallest size with changes for larger sizes in parentheses. When only one number is given, it applies to all sizes. To follow pattern more easily, circle all numbers pertaining to your size before beginning.
CORRECTIONS: (applied Jun 24, 2004)
Shape neck Bind off 6 sts at beg of next WS row (neck edge), then 2 sts at beg of next WS row 1 (1, 2, 1, 2, 2) times. Dec 1 st at neck edge on next 2 (3, 2, 2, 1, 2) WS rows - 14 ( 15, 16, 19, 21, 22) sts.The above is only a summary of corrections; the corrected pattern text is below (if free) or shipped upon completion of order (if purchased)
640-194 Wool-Ease Thick & Quick Yarn: Denim Twist
Mixed denim blue and black
Quantity needed: 7 Skeins
Estimated Price: $ 66.43
Alternative Quantity: (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
Lion Brand Knitting Needles- Size 13 [9 mm]
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Lion Brand Split Ring Stitch Markers
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9 sts = 4" (10 cm). BE SURE TO CHECK YOUR GAUGE. When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be sufficient. The needle or hook size called for in the pattern is based on what the designer used, but it is not unusual for gauge to vary from person to person. If it takes you fewer stitches and rows to make your swatch, try using a smaller size hook or needles; if more stitches and rows, try a larger size hook or needles. Making a Gauge Swatch
Exact gauges is not imporant to this project.
ssk (slip, slip, knit): Slip the next 2 sts as if to knit, one at a time, to the right needle; insert the left needle into the fronts of these 2 sts and knit them tog.
PATTERN STITCHES Twisted Garter: St Knit every st through back loop across row.
St st Knit on RS, purl on WS.
Make Left Front before Right Front to determine buttonhole placement, if desired.
Each front (Left and Right) is worked in one piece to bottom of pocket slant, then divided for pocket shaping and insertion.
Pocket lining is joined to side front and worked to height of top of pocket slant.
Pocket slant shaping is worked on center front sts.
At top of pocket slant, pieces are joined and remainder of each front is worked in one piece.
Cast on 49 (53, 57, 63, 69, 74) sts.
Work in Twisted Garter St for 6 rows (3 ridges).
Change to St st.
Work until piece measures 16 (17, 17, 17, 17, 17)" from beg, ending with a WS row.
Shape armholes: Bind off 2 (2, 2, 3, 3, 3) sts at beg of next 2 rows.
Dec 1 st each end of next row, 0 (0, 0, 1, 1, 1) st at each end of next 0 (0, 0, 2, 2, 2) rows - 43 (47, 51, 53, 59, 64) sts.
Work even until armholes measure 9 1/2 (10, 10 1/2, 11, 11, 11)".
Shape shoulders: Bind off 7 (7, 8, 9, 10, 11) sts at beg of next 2 rows, 7 (8, 8, 8, 10, 11) sts at beg of next 2 rows.
Bind off rem 15 (17, 19, 19, 19, 20) sts.
POCKET LININGS (make 2)
Cast on 14 sts.
Work in St st for 5", ending with a RS row.
Place sts on a holder.
Cast on 27 (29, 31, 34, 37, 39) sts, placing a marker before last 5 sts for button band.
Work in Twisted Garter St for 6 rows (3 ridges).
Keeping 5 sts at Left Front opening edge (last 5 sts on RS rows; first 5 sts on WS rows) in Twisted Garter St for button band and rem sts in St st, work until piece measures 7" from beg, ending with a RS row.
Pocket opening Next row(WS): Work to last 5 (7, 9, 11, 13, 13) sts, turn, leaving unworked sts on a holder (these are side front sts to be joined with pocket lining later).
Pocket slant shaping: Next row (RS) Ssk (pocket edge), work to end of row.
Next row (WS): Work to last 2 sts, p2tog.
Rep last 2 rows until 11 sts have been dec'd, ending with a RS row.
Leave these sts on holder or spare needle until side front is worked.
Join pocket opening with pocket lining: Next row(WS) P across pocket lining sts to last 2 sts, *p 1 pocket lining st tog with 1 sweater body st, keeping pocket lining st on top of body st* rep from * to *with next st, then p across rem sweater body sts.
Work even on sweater side body/pocket lining sts to match length of pocket opening, ending with a RS row.
Next row: Join pocket opening with pocket lining P across center front (with shaped pocket opening) to last st, work this last st tog (p2tog) with first st of pocket lining/sweater side body piece, p across rem pocket lining/sweater side body sts.
(Note Sweater front is now rejoined and balance of Left Front is worked in one piece.) Work even as established until piece measures 16 (17, 17, 17, 17, 17)" from beg, ending with a WS row.
Shape armhole: Maintaining pat, bind off 2 (2, 2, 3, 3, 3) sts at beg of next RS row, then dec 1 st at beg of next RS row, then 0 (0, 0, 1, 1, 1) st at beg of next RS row - 24 (26, 28, 29, 32, 34) sts.
Work even until piece measures 24 (25, 26, 26, 26, 26)" from beg, ending with a RS row.
Shape neck: Bind off 6 sts at beg of next WS row (neck edge), then 2 sts at beg of next WS row 1 (1, 2,1, 2, 2) times.
Dec 1 st at neck edge on next 2 (3, 2, 2, 1, 2) WS rows – 14 ( 15, 16, 19, 21, 22) sts.
Work even until piece measures same as Back to shoulders.
Shape shoulder: Bind off 7 (7, 8, 9, 10, 11) sts at beg of next RS row, then 7 (8, 8, 8, 10, 11) sts at beg of next RS row.
Place markers for 6 buttons evenly spaced on Left Front button band, with the first one 3" from cast-on edge and the last one 1" below neck edge.
Work to match Left Front until 6 rows (3 ridges) of Twisted Garter St have been completed.
Keeping 5 sts at Right Front opening edge (first 5 sts on RS rows, last 5 sts on WS rows) in Twisted Garter St for buttonhole band and rem sts in St st, work until piece measures 7" from beg, ending with a WS row; AT THE SAME TIME, working buttonholes opposite markers on 5 Twisted Garter Sts (work 2 sts in Twisted Garter St, yarn over needle, k2togtbl, k 1 st in Twisted Garter St).
Pocket opening: Next row (RS) Work to last 5 (7, 9, 11, 13, 13) sts, turn leaving unworked sts on a holder.
Next row (WS): P2tog, work to end of row.
Next row (RS): Work to last 2 sts, k2tog.
Rep last 2 rows until 11 sts have been dec'd.
Cont to match Left Front, rev shaping and working buttonholes on marked rows.
Cast on 24 (24, 24, 27, 27, 27) sts.
Work in Twisted Garter St for 6 rows (3 ridges).
Work in St st, inc 1 st each end every 4 rows 6 (6, 6, 7, 8, 10) times, every 6 rows 4 (5, 5, 5, 5, 5) times - 44 (46, 46, 51, 53, 57) sts.
Work even until sleeve measures 20" from beg or desired length to underarm.
Shape cap:Bind off 2 (2, 2, 3, 3, 3) sts at beg of next 2 rows.
Dec 1 st each end of next row, then every other row 0 (0, 0, 1, 1, 1) time.
Bind off rem sts.
Sew shoulder seams.
Collar: With RS facing, beg in center of buttonhole band, pick up approximately 38 (40, 44, 44, 46, 48) sts around neck edge.
Work in Twisted Garter St for 18 rows (9 ridges), inc 1 st each end every other row 8 times.
Work even, if necessary, until collar is 4 1/2" or desired length.
Bind off loosely.
Sew in sleeves.
Sew side and sleeve seams.
Pocket trim: With RS facing, pick up and k 13 sts across pocket opening.
Working in Twisted Garter St, work 1 row, then bind off loosely.
Tack ends of pocket trim to cardigan, neatly.
Sew pocket linings to inside of Left and Right Fronts.
Weave in all ends.
Sew on buttons.
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cont = continu(e)(s)(ing)
dec = decreas(e)(s)(ing)
inc = increas(e)(s)(ing)
k = knit
p = purl
rem = remain(s)(ing)
rep = repeat(s)(ing)
rev = revers(e)(ing)
RS = right side
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tog = together
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Dem boys seh…Bar Rat like Nicodemus
Nicodemus was a thief who came by night. Bar Rat bring in a Chinese company like Nicodemus fuh do wuk pun de airport. Nobody didn't know. De man done arrange money fuh de project, done arrange de contractor and he done decide when de project gun done.
But de people in this country never hear a word. Is Jamaica mek de people know and even then Bar Rat get vex. He tell dem Chinese that dem shouldn't seh nutten. And de only way dem boys know this is when dem call Jamaica fuh get a photo. De PRO tell dem that de Chinee tell she how she talk too much and that Guyana vex.
Now dem boys want fuh know how Bar Rat can tek de people money, spend it and don't tell dem nutten. When anybody else do that is straight to jail dem does go. It call larceny by clerk or servant. But Bar Rat above de law.
Is thing like this does mek dem boys believe that he does thief. Is only thieves does do things squeak-easy. Guyanese woulda see dem Chinee coming in and think that dem come fuh wuk at New Thriving or in some cook shop.
But dem same people already get de wuk permit from Henry de Yellow who tek over de wuk from de PS at Home Affairs.
But de secrecy ain't done deh. People coming fuh start up de Marriott. When de Grenada people talk, Bar Rat get vex wid dem. Up to now he can't tell people who doing de wuk and Brassy, like a Judas, hiding.
Dem boys believe that wha really happening is that some people thief a lot of money and dem now investing it because it ain't got value sitting in a bank. And it nuff that even if dem lose that dem still got a fat cushion.
Talk half.
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There was some confusion regarding the notice that went to residents saying it was a public hearing but further in to the letter saying that public comment was, in fact, closed. Some residents showed up to comment
but no comments were requested from council.
The city council also approved some resolutions cleaning up some accounting with several companies who had transferred ownership and a request to clean up some old plats regarding an alley that cut through the current 4th Street Gym. An ordinance was passed correcting the mistakenly zoned addition to the city limits.


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@Hemmy: If he's the new Stoner he won't be spoiling much of the party for the other top guys...2 WC in 5 years or so? Plenty of WC's for the other guys left. Now if he is the new Rossi on the other hand...


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Sufferers will get up every morning, go to work, come home and cook dinner - all the same things people do every day - but all the while feeling desperately sad. They may also feel hopelessness, fatigue, low self-esteem, poor concentration, and will avoid going out socially. It's much more common than you might think - up to six per cent of the population has dysthymia. This may not sound like a lot but it means that in a room of 100 people, as many as six of them could be regularly experiencing depressive symptoms but never seeking treatment. It is massively underdiagnosed as a result, but people who experience these symptoms can benefit hugely from professional help. Treatment involves cognitive behavioural therapy and, often, anti-depressants. Cognitive behavioural therapy will address the thought processes that cause depression, which helps people combat the cause of their feelings. Anti-depressants are often necessary because people who experience low mood and depression are more likely to develop more severe symptoms as a result, causing what is termed 'double depression' which has a more severe effect on the person than those who experience depression without first having low mood and depression. There are a number of ways that people can try and improve their mood: • Get enough sleep - lack of sleep can have a very negative affect on mood • Eat properly - a good diet that is nutritionally balanced will help ensure the body is properly fuelled to cope with any changes • Exercise regularly - exercise releases endorphins which help improve feelings of happiness. It will also help get people in better shape physically, which can help reduce feelings of self-worthlessness • Avoid alcohol and drugs - when we are feeling low alcohol can act as a depressant, making us feel sluggish, sad and melancholy Keeping a record of thoughts and feelings can also be a real help when it comes to identifying patterns and behaviours. For example, people might find that their condition gets worse when they haven't exercised for three days or more, or after a night out. Anyone who feels they might have low mood and depression should seek medical help. It's important to recognise that it won't go away on its own - it is not simply feeling sad - but that there can be a light at the end of the tunnel, and that light comes through accessing experienced help.]]> Watch Out for the January Blues tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2400634 2013-01-03T19:00:00-05:00 2013-03-05T05:12:01-05:00 Marian Dwyer http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-dwyer/ For many, the season of goodwill will have been a far cry from the ideal of family gatherings overflowing with gifts and laughter and will instead have been a period haunted by disappointment, anxiety, sadness, depression or even suicidal thoughts. The last thing someone suffering from depression may feel is optimistic about the New Year but depression is treatable with appropriate interventions and support. Many people generally struggle with depression and anxiety during the darkest months of the year. Christmas just adds extra stress. The festive season is accompanied by a variety of stressors, including alcohol, changed sleep rhythms, increased financial burdens, and family conflicts. Losses during the year, be it the death of a loved one or economic setbacks, are also experienced more acutely during this time. With the added financial problems that arise when the bills arrive in January, it is little wonder that this is the most likely time of the year to experience depression. Feelings of detachment, numbness or loss can make the symptoms of depression worse. For people who are on their own, January can be the loneliest time of the year. A sense of isolation can be felt much more acutely when the rest of the population appears to have spent the last four weeks celebrating and having a good time. It is important for individuals to acknowledge the difficulties during this period and seek professional help with severe 'January blues' when needed. However, staying active and not isolated, reducing alcohol consumption and being aware and mindful of difficult family dynamics can lessen the blues. For those worried about a friend's, relative's or even their own mental health, here is a checklist of signs and symptoms to look out for. A depressed patient will report at least five of the following symptoms for longer than a two week period: Depressed mood, nearly every day during most of the day Diminished interest or pleasure in almost all activities Significant weight loss, weight gain, or change in appetite Too much or too little sleep Agitation or lethargic Fatigue or loss of energy Feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt Impaired ability to concentrate or indecisiveness Thoughts of death or suicide However, psychological treatments for depression are many and varied. They range from the emotional support provided by the regular opportunity to talk about feelings to a professional, right through to specialised forms of psychotherapy such as cognitive behavioral therapy. There are also a few simple steps that could help alleviate depression or minimise the risk of mental health issues arising this January: Beware of drinking to excess. Remember that alcohol is a depressant and can worsen the symptoms of depression. If you are worried about being alone, find out what is going on in your local community or join a local volunteer group. See whether there is a good day or time to visit friends or relatives if you crave company. Sharing your feelings with others, such as friends and family members can help you identify and work through any emotional challenges you may be experiencing. Having a reliable network of social support can help combat the feelings of isolation that often accompany depression. Regular physical activity has been shown to have antidepressant effects in people with mild to moderate depression. Do not be afraid to seek professional help. At a time when depression is affecting more and more people, it is important that the medical profession acts quickly to identify and treat the illness, thereby empowering the sufferer to address the issues and challenges facing them and move ahead with their lives. Those looking for advice on how to cope with stress can find further information here.]]> Three Steps to a Cooler, Calmer You, This Anger Awareness Week tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.2217310 2012-11-30T08:23:19-05:00 2013-01-30T05:12:01-05:00 Marian Dwyer http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-dwyer/ Yet despite its strong physical effect on the body, anger remains one of the most poorly handled emotions, with many people prone either to bury it or to lash out. Today marks the start of National Anger Awareness Week (1st December - 7th December) which aims to spread awareness of anger and its underlying issues. Anger is not a behaviour as many may think; it is an emotion that we feel and the way we release that emotion shows how we cope with anger. Everyone experiences anger at some point, and yet many people struggle to deal with it. But if you handle it well, dealing with your anger can actually improve your overall health and wellbeing. When we get angry it stimulates our body's adrenaline responses; our body's way of helping us to cope with certain situations. In these situations we often feel the need to fight or run away - often called a 'fight or flight' response. When we get angry, the 'fight' response comes into play. Many of us struggle to deal with anger. It's not uncommon to over-react when something riles you, or to under-react and bury that anger for fear of creating friction. If you struggle to deal with anger then a simple three-step guide, or 'traffic light' system, will help you to put some practical mechanisms in place to ensure you recognise the situations which are making you angry, so that you do not over-react or under-react to the problem. Stage 1 (Red): Take time out to acknowledge and recognise what it is that is making you angry and notice the times when you are angry. There may be simple warning signs for example, a faster heart rate, shortness of breath and / or perspiration. Stage2 (Amber): Give yourself time to pause and think. This will create a balance which will help you to react appropriately. Consider whether you want to remove yourself from the situation and take a few deep breaths before reacting. Stage 3 (Green): This is about learning to communicate the problem. Due to the way that some tend to release their anger, many people believe anger to be a behaviour. It's not. Anger is an emotion and the way that people behave is their reaction to that emotion. Lashing out or being aggressive is an example of a strong reaction or a person over-reacting to a situation. Learning to listen to the other person's response and trying to understand their point of view can be a way of coping with this emotion and being able to process it in a balanced way. An underlying issue in managing your anger is to maintain the balance between over-reacting and under-reacting to a problem. If you are prone to over-reacting, you may find yourself getting too angry, too quickly, or too often, sometimes this can be over quite small things, and you may also feel that you are unable to let go of your anger. Under-reacting will find you suppressing anger which could have negative consequences in the long term. For example, if something happens to annoy or upset you in the future, you may feel extremely angry and respond more aggressively than is appropriate to the new situation. If you believe that a family member, friend or partner is suffering with anger and is unable to deal with it themselves it can be very difficult to see them experiencing these problems and to know how to respond. Angry people can be quite difficult to reason with, so it is often best to give them the time and space that they need in order to calm down. Once calm, it may be useful to talk about the triggers which cause them to be angry and even encourage them to seek help from a counsellor or therapist. Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has created a Don't Panic! scheme designed to provide people with succinct and easily accessible information about anger. Their audio guide, 'Dealing with Anger' is available here and has been put together by consultant clinical psychologist, Dr Dan Barnard. It includes key tips and advice on how to cope with anger.]]> December Named the Most Stressful Month for UK Employees tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.2211810 2012-11-29T11:18:12-05:00 2013-01-29T05:12:02-05:00 Marian Dwyer http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-dwyer/ The pressure to deliver a month's work in a matter of weeks combined with less people in the office due to a myriad of Christmas parties, left over holiday days and official bank holidays, are all expected to takes its toll as the festive season gets into full swing. In fact, December is the month when the biggest increase in work related stress is reported. Work related stress is defined by the Health and Safety Executive as "the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them," and triggers include, workload, deadlines, having to take on other people's work, having to work long hours. According to the Health & Safety Executive, stress is now the biggest cause of working days lost through injury or ill-health, with an estimated 10.4 million lost days each year. According to the CIPD Absence Survey 2011, stress is the most common cause of long-term absence from work in the UK and costs the UK economy more than £26 billion. In fact, depression and issues from work are one of the main causes of stress reported by patients in a doctor's surgery. The number of people being admitted to NHS hospitals as a result of stress is also on the rise, with data released in September by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (Hscic) revealing that the number of people treated at hospitals in England, as a result of stress, has risen by seven per cent in the last year. With working people, aged 18 to 60, identified as being under too much emotional and mental pressure, both employers and employees need to do more to tackle stress in work place, with the symptoms tackled sooner rather than later to avoid a number of stress-related health problems amongst the UK's workforce. A recent Stressed Out survey by the Samaritans, found: "People's jobs are the single biggest cause of stress... with over a third (36 per cent) of Britons citing it as one of their biggest stressors." It is estimated that around 10.4 million working days* were lost over the last 12 months due to work-related stress, depression or anxiety illnesses, accounting for the majority of days lost due to work-related ill health. Stress related illnesses are thought to affect around 430,000 people in Great Britain, with each person taking an average of 24 days sick leave. Stress affects most working people at some point in their lives; it is when it exceeds a person's ability to cope, over a long period of time that it can have a severe effect. Stress is ultimately a response to pressure. Pressure is part and parcel of all work and helps to keep workers and managers motivated. It is excessive or uncontrolled pressure which can lead to stress which undermines performance. This is costly to employers and above all can make people ill. To some degree pressure can be beneficial, when it inspires motivation and commitment, but excessive pressure becomes stress which is harmful and can lead to major illness, even death. There is no such thing as 'good' stress. Studies have shown that the first step in tackling stress is to become aware that it is a problem for you. The next stage is to make a plan to take control of the causes and effects of stress. Some top tips for dealing with stress include: 1. Holiday - try to plan at least one each year with a change in activities and surrounding. 2. Open up - if your relationship is part of the problem. Communication is very important. 3. Work - is that the problem? What are your options? Could you retrain? What aspects are stressful? Could you delegate? Could you get more support? 4. Try to concentrate on the present. Don't dwell on the past or future worries. 5. Own up to yourself that you are feeling stressed - half the battle is admitting it! 6. Be realistic about what you can achieve. Don't take too much on. 7. Eat a balanced diet. Eat slowly and sit down, allowing at least half an hour for each meal. 8. Action plan - try to write down the problems in your life that may be causing stress, and as many possible solutions as you can. Make a plan to deal with each problem. 9. Time management - plan your time, doing one thing at a time and building in breaks. Don't make too many changes at once in your life. 10. Set priorities - if you could only do one thing, what would it be? 11. Talk things over with a friend or family member or someone else you can trust and share your feelings with. 12. Relaxation or leisure time each day is important. Try new ways to relax such as aromatherapy, reflexology or yoga. Relaxation exercises are described more fully below. 13. Exercise regularly - at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise on five or more occasions per week is excellent for stress control. Walking is good - appreciate the countryside. 14. Say no and don't feel guilty. 15. Seek professional help if you have tried these things and still your stress is a problem. Those looking for advice on how to cope with stress can find further information at http://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/IAPT/Pages/Resources.aspx]]>


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The ideas that evolved from Darwin's thought have shaped my thinking for more than 35 years, and a decade later, writing Engines of Creation, I relied on the generality of evolutionary principles as an anchor point for surveying the future of technology. Today, in my home, "Uncle Charles says…" means "Evolutionary principles say…"
In joining the festive blogging on this Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of his birth, I'd like to describe a way of thinking about the origin of genetic information, a perspective that quantifies the stream of information that shaped our genomes over the billion years (and more) before us. This may, in a small way, help to counter some of the disinformation (and honest confusion) around Darwin's ideas.
Information from the genetic guessing game:
About one bit per life
The gene pool of a species contains information about both organisms and their environment; for an animal species, information about protein stability, catalysis, and hemodynamics; about how to feed, evade, and reproduce. Each individual organism born into the world is like a question that genes ask of the environment, a question about fitness, and the answers can be thought of as numbers representing reproductive success. And like the answers in the game of 20 Questions, each answer conveys information that affects future guesses.
How much information does this convey? For a sexual, diploid organism, the environment responds with answers of 0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and so on; over time, in a finite world, the mean value near of these numbers must be close to one. The recipient of this data is not an organism, nor a genome, but the gene pool of a species, and the information conveyed could be encoded as a string of numbers, one number per organism-life. The Shannon entropy — the information content — of a string like this looks to me to be not much more than 1 bit per number (and there's a redundancy associated with two parents sharing a success). Roughly speaking, one life adds one bit to the stream of raw data from which statistical patterns of adaptive quality emerge.
Too much information!
Considering all this, is the information content of a mammalian genome large, or hard to explain? Consider the numbers.
Since the beginning of biological time, there has been a gene pool in existence that evolved to become our own. How many organism-lives, how many bits of information, has the environment input to that evolving gene pool? Pick your own numbers if you please, but here is a set that gives the general idea: Across a billion years and a billion generations of sometimes fishy existence, a population with million organisms would experience 1015 organism-lives, yielding 1015 bits.
The information content of a mammalian gene pool is roughly the same as that of a genome. Taking the human genome as a baseline (and rounding down to correct for redundancy), the information content is about 109 bits.
In short, the raw information flowing from the environment to our gene pool has been vastly more than the information it has retained, larger by a factor of perhaps a million. Even allowing for great inefficiency, this information input seems, and was, enough.
In an essay on "The Information Challenge", Richard Dawkins discusses the information content of a genome, and remarks that
Mutation is not an increase in true information content, rather the reverse, for mutation, in the Shannon analogy, contributes to increasing the prior uncertainty. But now we come to natural selection, which reduces the "prior uncertainty" and therefore, in Shannon's sense, contributes information to the gene pool.
I've outlined one way to estimate the the quantity of this information, in its raw, input form; if a reader will direct me to a source to cite, I'd be grateful.
I thank Darius Bacon for providing a link to a work that includes an analysis of this and several related topics: Chapter 19 of Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by David MacKay of (yes!) Darwin College, Cambridge. See the comments for an extended discussion.
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I copied these from somewhere else so I don't know if they are all true.
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
-People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
-Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
-Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
-John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-Most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
Post some weird facts that you know.
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They're taken out of circulation at that time, I believe.
-An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
-The average clock's snooze function lasts nine minutes.
-One of every seven people in the United States is Hispanic.
-The success rate of A.A. is estimated to be 5%.
-Forty percent of women experience nocturnal orgasms.
-A.A.A., the American Auto Association, has more members than any other organization in the U.S.
-Just 0.546% of men in the U.S. are named Scott. (I think that's bullshit)
-Ancient Latin and Aramaic are related to every modern language, but not to one another.
-Orchids release a chemical that intoxicates bees.
-It would take 288 years for one person to spend one night in every hotel room in Las Vegas.
-The average person wears a pair of pants for 22.6 months before getting rid of them.
-About one out of four injuries by athletes involve the wrist and hand.
-The world's cleanest air is in Tasmania.
-Over the course of their lifetime, the average person will own 11 pieces of luggage.
-The average sink contains 3.2 unwashed dishes.
-The world's chickens lay around 400,000,000,000 eggs each year.
-Popeye is 34 years old and weighs 158 pounds.
-A rattling noise in a car engine indicate 19 different mechanical problems.
-The male northern fur seal can have as many as 100 mates per season.
-Sunbeams that shine down through the clouds are called "crepuscular" rays.
-The common mousetrap was invented by the same guy who invented the machine gunHiram Maxim.
-In champagne bottles, the dent in the bottom is called the"kick" or "punt."
-The average age of a new grandparent in the U.S. is 47.
-Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet.
-Mail carriers in Great Britain report fewer dog bites than mail carriers in any other country.
-Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.
-The rhesus monkey is the only animal that can be taught to hum a tune.
-"Jolly green," "ashes," "Indian boy," and "laughing grass" are all street terms for marijuana.
-Frogs use their eyeballs to push food down their throat.
-The average American eats 46 slices of pizza a year.
-The average man spends about 3,500 hours of his life shaving, removing about 30 feet of whiskers.
-Alaska could hold the 21 smallest states.
-At age 12, an African named Ernest Loftus made his first entry in his diary and continued, every single day, for 91 years.
-There are 24 flowers on each Oreo cookie.
-Americans eat 12 billion bananas each year.
-The Pentagon has 284 restrooms.
-One billion seconds is about 32 years.
-The black lines on a basketball are called the "channels."
-The average bank robbery yields just $4,400 for the criminal.
-Napoleon had an enema every day.
-Americans have sex 132 times per year, on average. (I've got a lot of catching up to do)
-Since the United Nations was founded in 1945, there have been 140 wars.
-It costs .81 cents to mint a penny.
-The average person speaks 125 to 150 words per minute.
-Shaggy from Scooby-Doo's real name is Norville Rogers. His home address is 224 Maple Street, Coolsville.
-Hares and rabbits never mate with each other.
-The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That's the equivalent of a human jumping the length of a football field.
-There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun.
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the jetty there is a very popular place to fish.
I'm taking my wife and some friends camping at South Beach, the middle of next month, and wanted to know if anyone has had any sucess surf fishing there.
the jetty there is a very popular place to fish.
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Thanks for the response. I've done LOTS of fishing from the jetty, I've just never tried surf fishing there by the campground.
I would hazard a guess that you could fish for surf perch out there, but I've only ever stayed at the campground, never any fishing at those times for me.
It's been a long while since I've actually been on So. Beach, but I think it's a bit shallow. It'll produce, but not as quickly as some other beaches might.
~Isaac - http://yakfish.isaac-online.com
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oh yes !! all you need are worms and waders - try not to get swept out to sea - it is not a casting contest - they are in less than 6" of water sometimes - look for seals in the surf chasing them - they are a schooling fish - they are great eating - rig like this - lead at the bottom of your rig -
and 2 leaders spaced about 12" apart - 3 oz - 5oz. of lead - I used to fish for them all the time untill I became obsessed with salmon and steel - the way the salmon runs are going I may have to revisit that fishery -
Great! I'll have to give it a try. What size/type of hook would you recomend?
#2 snells or baitholders are what i usually use
~Isaac - http://yakfish.isaac-online.com
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what kind of worms? I used to use sand or sea worms back east but don't know if that's what we use out here or if people mean earthworms.
I believe Cchinook means regular old nightcrawlers, or earthworms. You could also try mussels, clam necks, shrimp, sand crab, mole crab... I have had them bite at everything (I could see tiny perch, or what I thought was perch, nipping at it) like powerbait, small bass grubs, small squid jigs, bare shiny hooks, salmon eggs, crab legs, other bits of fish (sculpin) and so on... One guy was using a perfect halibut steak! :shock:
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