Cop assault on birthday earns man jail term
A man has been jailed for punching a police officer before attempting to gouge his eye out after his 21st birthday party at the Western Star Hotel.
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Go vegan in 21 days
Consider it an experiment – one in which you are the researcher as well as the test subject. And your body is the lab. In a way, that’s the premise of the online 21-Day Vegan Kickstart program presented by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
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my birthday is february 7th, which falls on a sunday, but i am going to celebrate it saturday the 6th. I want a nice/romantic restaurant/lounge type thing for just me and my boyfriend and then a fun bar to meet up with 3-4 friends, all 21 and over… any recommendations?
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So you’re turning twenty-one and you want to throw a big bash! Just remember that alcohol can be fun, but also very dangerous. Everything should be kept in moderation.
First and foremost, invite friends and family that you know and trust. If you’re planning to get drunk on your birthday, it is best not to have people around who will take advantage of your altered state of mind. Secondly, plan a budget. Even while throwing a big bash, you can still find ways to keep it inexpensive, such as making the party a BYOB: “Bring Your Own Bottle”, starting a collection pool for an alcohol run, or even brew your own beer beforehand.
Music choices will vary from person to person at your party, so you want to make sure that you have a wide selection, or if it fits into your budget, hire a disc jockey. For entertainment, there are many options that you could do. Just try to keep an open and creative mind. For example, a party I once attended, the host had painted Twister circles on the floor tile with water-soluble paint. After fashioning a crude, but effective spinner out of cardboard and paperclips, there was much fun, laughter and amusing photographs.
Since it is a twenty-first birthday party, it is expected that a few drinking games will be played. Beer Pong is an example of one of these types of games. It is a game played on a Ping Pong table with two triangles made up of six cups on either end of the table. Using two beers per side fill the cups. You should also have a cup full of water on each side to use to rinse the ping pong ball should it happen to fall off of the table. The two players of each team, taking turns, each throw a ping pong ball to the other side of the table, trying to get it to land in a cup. If it does, one of the players from the opposing team have to drink the beer from that cup. If both players are successful in landing a cup, their team shoots again. If they can sink their balls into the same cup, the game is over and all of the remaining beer must be consumed by the losing team members. The object of the game is to rid the opponents side of all beer cups. House rules for Beer Pong can vary from house to house, so you can be inventive and make some rules of your own. A good example of a house rule would be: in the event of a shutout, which is when one team makes all cups before the other team makes one, the losing team must strip down to their boxers and run around in the parking lot for one full minute.
The important thing to remember is that 21 is a special birthday, so be sure to have fun, also remember to be safe. Do not drive if you have been drinking.
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Man arrested for underage drinking day before turning 21
WORTHINGTON — Why was a man without a valid license driving after drinking the day before he turned 21? Because he wanted to, he allegedly told the officer who stopped him.
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I’m celebrating my 21st birthday party soon and I need a simple but catchy title for invitations through facebook(Like birthday bash or extravaganza but not that cheesey). The theme is GI Joes and Army Hoes and my apartment (where my party is going to be held) is 604 so maybe include that in it.
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It’s your best friend’s 21st birthday and you know what that means! They can finally go out and drink (legally anyway).
It is their long awaited “first night” of real adult fun (surely they haven’t touched a drop of alcohol until now). So, to celebrate this occasion you have an incredible night planned. Bar hopping and clubbing to all those places you couldn’t get into before!
You also want to celebrate and commemorate this milestone in their illustrious life with a few great 21st birthday gifts. Problem is you are not exactly “drunk” with with the best 21st birthday gift ideas.
Well, I can feel your pain. So, here is a few ideas to get your started shopping for 21st birthday gifts.
Personalized Beer Mugs
These are classic gifts for guys on their 21st. They are something they will keep forever. Really nice personalized beer mugs have their name right on the side. They are inexpensive, widely appreciated and always a hit.
Shot Glasses
What gift could be better? Shot glasses are small enough to put on a shelf and some can be customized with a name, date or even a funny graphic. There’s tons of personalized shot glasses that have really funny sayings and pictures on them that are worth checking out. Even when not in use they can be decorative too. Personalized shot glasses are the best kind to buy.
Bar Tools and Bar Ware
Why not? They are 21 now and they can buy their own booze and liquor. A set of bar ware is a perfect gift idea. Personalize them to make them more unique and to make the gift more meaningful. Even without personalization it is still something they are always going to appreciate. There’s an old saying… give a man a drink, and he can drink for a few minutes, give him bar ware and he can drink for a lifetime!
These are some of the best and most widely appreciated 21st birthday gift ideas. They are fun, appropriate and inexpensive. Most are under $20 (about four beers worth of money).
So, if you are stuck and wondering what to get or where to get them, just bookmark this article! Or, go ahead and buy a few great 21st birthday gifts here.
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Though turning 21 holds little significance in terms of legal rights these days; it is an age that has long been respected as the transition from ‘youth’ to adulthood. In several parts of the world, this milestone age is celebrated with the gift of a key â and in a more innocent time, this would have been the age when young men and women were given their own key to the front door as a symbol of respect and responsibility.
Of course these days it might be bordering on abuse to leave your twenty year old locked out and sitting on the doorstep but you get the idea. These days, we like to think of it is the last significant birthday before the big ‘30′, and if that means having to wait another nine years, then it makes sense that the 21st should be a birthday to remember!
The Venue
Choosing the right venue for a 21st birthday may well be the most difficult part to organise, unless of course you’re Prince William and you can get a family discount on Windsor Castle. The venue of a great party will always include room to eat, room to dance and plenty of room to stack up all those wonderful 21st birthday gifts you can expect to receive. It doesn’t matter if it’s your own house or your own private Island, getting the right look with a few decorations is vital. If you want to impress with someone’s 21st birthday gifts then why not make the party boy or girl the focus of the decorations too with a ‘Lichenstein Style Pop Art Print’?
The Guests
Unless there are a few major celebrities at the party then it’s unlikely that the glossy magazines will be making any offers to take the photographs. However, that’s not to say that you can’t invite the likes of George Clooney or Keira Knightley anyway; it’s perfectly believable that they simply couldn’t attend because they’re busy shooting their latest movie though they send their best wishes of course! Why not indulge in some 21st birthday gifts that really embrace the glamour of Hollywood with a ‘Personalised Film Star Calendar’ or even a ‘Personalised Hollywood Walk of Fame Star’?
The Outfit
Parties are always a great excuse to buy a new sparkly outfit and make yourself look gorgeous so why not treat your host with some 21st birthday gifts that will really see them start their adult life looking their absolute best? You could always treat them to a day at a health spa before the party starts, or perhaps even give them a gift pack that entitles them to a makeover with a professional stylist. These 21st birthday gifts will make anyone look like the real belle of the ball. For those fully fledged men, a pair of dazzling cufflinks not only makes for long-lasting 21st birthday gifts; they’ll certainly put the pizzazz into any birthday party outfit.
The Entertainment
It isn’t a real party if there isn’t a bit of music for the guests to sing and dance to; though what type of music is played is really a matter of personal taste. We all know that music changes throughout the decades but it is those songs from our childhood that tend to hold the fondest memories. For some truly unique 21st birthday gifts you can turn their favourite music or a record with special significance into a work of art. ‘Your Special Record, any UK Number 1′, is a mounted plaque that honours any record of your choice; whether it is the song that was at number one on someone’s birthday, or whether it’s just an old time favourite, these 21st birthday gifts will really get the party started.
The Catering
You can always expect there to be a few bottles of champagne at any great party, and they can make for some favourite 21st birthday gifts. If you want your 21st birthday gifts to stand out amongst the rest, then opt for a personalised bottle of champagne where the label is tailored to display the name of the recipient. You could also invest in a 21 year old bottle of Armagnac that can be opened straight away or kept aside for that next big party.
The Hangover
Don’t let the hangover interfere with what should be a party to remember forever. Though there are a number of hangover cures you could try, nothing ever beats a good cup of tea, and the most thoughtful of guests could incorporate this into their 21st birthday gifts. How about the ‘Bespoke Blends Personalised Tea’ which is professionally blended to represent the birthday boy or girl? Present it to them in their own personalised mug and they’ll think it’s still their birthday.
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As of mid-April, Mr. McLurkin and his colleagues had built six new robot ants in two marathon sessions; he eventually hopes to have 21, which would be the largest robotic community in the world to date. Each has a pair of tiny treads powered by a battery and two motors taken from vibrating beepers. The robots are guided away from objects they hit and toward illumination sources by antennae and light sensors, and411462-442 they also have mandibles powered by a third motor to pick up bits of “food”-quarter-inch balls of crumpled brass. Each micro-robot is named after one of Mr. McLurkin’s female friends or relatives (Cleo is one of his grandmothers), since all worker ants are female, he explained.
Turning into the Hudson, the race concluded with a 13-mile straightaway to the finish at the Battery on the southern tip of Manhattan. Sidelnik was bothered by symptoms of hypothermia and high waves created by a speedboat race, and Klugman closed the gap. The New York Times reported that Klugman edged out Sidelnik at the finish.
The dime-sized prototype contains 34 reservoirs, each the size of a pinprick and capable of holding about 25 nanoliters of chemical in solid, liquid, or gel form. “But there’s room for over 1,000 reservoirs, potentially thousands more if you make [the reservoirs] smaller,” said Dr. Langer, the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. He added that “the BATTERY FOR 432306-001 reservoirs and microchips could both be made much larger or smaller, depending on the desired application.”
The work, which appears in the June 6 online issue of Nature, was led by Rudolf Jaenisch, a member of the Whitehead Institute and a professor of biology at MIT. His colleagues on the work are from Whitehead, MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, the BATTERY COMPAQ 432306-001 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Harvard Medical School.
High blood pressure is a common risk factor for heart attacks, strokes and aneurysms, so diagnosing and monitoring it are critically important. However, getting reliable blood pressure readings is not always easy.
Researchers from Cambridge University and MIT will collaborate with students, industrial partners and other organizations to explore the challenges of a networked wireless world. The Pervasive Computing Community will work on issues involved in letting computer users be genuinely “nomadic” and to be able to access information everywhere. Researchers will also work on developing new computer vision and speech processing technologies that will make it easier for people to interact with computers.
Visits to the doctor’s office can provoke anxiety that distorts blood pressure readings, and even when accurate, such visits provide only one-time snapshots of the patient’s condition. To overcome these obstacles, MIT engineers have built a wearable blood pressure sensor that can provide continuous, 24-hour monitoring.
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